The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 5-14-26 | Mayor of Mount Vernon, Greg Ostertag, and Prophets and Outlaws

Episode Date: May 14, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneFresh off his mayoral victory in Mount Vernon, Texas, Greg Ostertag joins us to recount Dan stealing his baseball pants at a charity baseball game and which Dallas owner he can't stand. Plus, Prophets & Outlaws are in studio with us as we do Viewer Mail and another lawsuit over a local advertiser (00:00) - Open: With Prophets & Outlaws (24:04) - Sports: Rangers win despite Corey Seager (28:14) - Kars 4 Kids lawsuit (39:01) - Big Thursday Viewer Mail Bag (49:07) - New Mayor of Mount Vernon, Greg Ostertag (01:26:37) - Gummy thoughts (01:41:00) - News: Southwest says no more robots (01:55:28) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hello, I'm DFWZone, Danny Bayless, letting you know that you are about to hear a free podcast of the DumbZone. But if you'd like to subscribe at Dumbzone.com, you will get four shows per week plus the weekend wrap-up and any bonus epies like our Business Wednesday interviews. Oh, you'll also get our DZTV archives. Again, that's Dumbzone.com to subscribe. Now, on to today's program. The key to muscles and wealth, it's Game Day Men's Health. Game Day Men's Health. We come to you live today from the Game Day Men's Health Studio. I am a game day user, customer, patients, the TRT, and I am also on the peptides because I keep injuring myself.

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No, you know what? I'm just going to go with all of them. I'm just going to go with all of them. Oh, yeah, all 12. All 12 locations. Do the game day challenge. Go to every one of them. It's like a bar hop thing.

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Okay, but you probably already know that. We are here in downtown Dallas at the Game Day Men's Health Studio. There he is. There he is. Dan McDow. You can see him for video consumers. his game day hat. Yeah, which way should I go here?

I'm in the basement of my mother-in-law's house. Did you get her unstuck from the dryer? I've seen that documentary, buddy. Speaking of game day. So you're in a basement. I was thinking about basements the other day, just how deprived we were down here. The, yeah, so I'm doing a trick.

I'm dealing with a lot over here. I'm in the middle of my trek across the country. The midpoint was yesterday, because I think I'll be home back in Dallas, I hope, on business Wednesday next week. Thank you, Sean Kernan. But man, so my mom needs a new phone. She has, like, the iPhone 2, and it runs out of battery, like, when you disconnect it from or unplug it. And so I have her phone, because I had to go to the Apple store. for her and I'm doing it all like and so now I'm going to transfer all the info from her old phone

to this new phone and so I've had her phone for the past hour or two maybe and it is blowing up text messages like she is so vulnerable to scams because she gets a text message every five minutes and she also will get text messages from like like she has an oxygen tank or she has you know she's had can't she's had a lot of problems and so she'll get like doctor appointment things or hey you got to fill out this form you know means testing and all that so half of the stuff in there is kind of like i think you should click on that yep and it's it's maddening to be an old old lady and then she doesn't have a husband so she's by herself so everything of hers is messed up She doesn't remember a password.

I was at her house yesterday trying to hook up something. She's like, I'm like, well, if I can't, like I was getting her a fire stick in Amazon. Like, well, how do, what's your spectrum password? I don't know. I just call him if I need. She just calls whatever company she needs to. Like she calls words with friends if she can't remember how to log in. Yeah.

Anyway. You can't call Twitter if your password or whatever is messed up. I got an email from, so I got fishing scammed recently. And I got an email from Reddit that looked the exact same yesterday. I was like, oh, there's an issue with one of the comments on your account. And I'm like, no, sir, I've learned my lesson here. But I think Dan does bring up a good point that now if they're going to, they also have you do real stuff through text, the old is screwed. Because before you could be like, just don't, just don't.

Anything that they need you, they'll call you. If they need you, they'll let you know. Trust me. IRS is not going to, but now if they're just going to have you actually fill out insurance documents on your phone, you're cooked. And they'll call you is the same thing because I'm like, should I, can I just turn off your, you know how you can say if it's an unknown number, it won't ring? Yeah. And she's like, well, no, because the whatever calls occasionally, like, they might set up my doctor appointment or I was like, all right. So the thing, it's ringing all the time.

and she has it set to like old-timey ring. So it's a real, and it's so loud. Oh, yeah. Yeah, my mom. It's like the ring, ring, right? My mom's phone feels like it's military related. Like it shocks you like that. Well, joining us here in studio, Dan.

Don't get old. At the Game Day Men's Health Studio. It's three of our friends from prophets and outlaws. Oh, what's up? That's right. Look how cool they look. That's right. Rocker they look.

Oh, so rocking. Right here at home on the casting couch. Fireing out of bed. Baked, wearing their sunglasses. Just like rock and roll stars should. That's right. If nothing else, you've got to keep up the appearance, right? Fake it till you make it.

So, prophets and outlaws are here because last year they helped us kick off a tradition that has at least made it to year two, right? if you think of the manager from from major league right now we're at two in a row and if we can make it to next year that will be a winning streak i'm speaking of the dumb zone generic summer event this year it will take place on june 6th at 6 p.m. at 4 corners brewing company we told you a couple weeks ago that our friends from the quaker city nighthawks will be there and we will also have our dear friends from profits and outlaws there. So it's going to be a party. Do you know what's so exciting about this year?

What's that? It's inside. It is inside. It is inside. There will be air conditioning provided by our good friends at community mechanical, trusted HVAC company. They are our title sponsor this year. And they've got a lot going on.

They're going to give away 69 signed piss jars. signed by me. Nice. They're also giving away of much more significant note a train mini split, which is like a $5,000 value piece of equipment. That'll be signed by Dan. Yeah, and Clayton and profits for being inside, especially. Yeah, so.

If we pull it out of there, is that pulling a train? Is that the same thing? What is pulling a train mean? Profits? You've probably done that a lot. It's typically Pull it Why don't pull it?

You typically more run it Run a train That's a brick question I think A strong man competition Would pull a train Right Yeah

With their teeth Run is more What you are looking for Dan As you stretch armstronged Your way too If we got that Air Condition unit out of there

Is it pulling the train I think it's a quality line Community is going to be there smile upon that line. CommunityDFW.com, schedule them to come out to your preventative maintenance, and they'll help you with your air conditioning like they are at the summer event. Kevin Turner will be out there hosting a Dumbzone Family Feud. I thought we want people to go.

We'll be there. Kanye Roso will be there with a big oven. It'll be fired. I don't know if it'll be wood fired or metal fired, but they'll have an oven out there. Are they bringing the so prasata? I'm sure they are. Okay, good. Full soap-rasada restaurant.

So what do you guys been up to? Do you have any shows you'd like to promote around that? Yeah. We're playing Levitt Pavilion. June 5th out in Arlington. It's a big grass amphitheater. It's really cool. You bring your lawn chairs and blankets and whatever.

Oh, it's outside. It's a family spot. It is really fun, yeah. Big spot, too. There's a lot of people that go there. And super excited about that. And, yeah, that's probably the next local thing. We'll be out in Plano in November, but we got some time for that.

How's the private gig situation? Like, do you guys, how often is it somebody you've heard of before? That's a good question. It just depends. And I don't even know if we can say, go ahead. We're going to Yellowstone Club in Montana coming up, so that'll be pretty fun. And then we'll be in California for another one. So Matt and I are going to fly out early and get a little golf trip in.

Hell yeah. So, you know, try to plan around the golf trip and then play a little music. We've got a local car. Magnates? Yeah, that we're playing for. I'm not sure we can say his name. No, you don't have to. I don't think we can't.

You don't have to. It's Henry Ford. Henry Ford. No, it's cool to imagine if you have like commercials on a Rangers game for your car dealership that you can get profits and outlaws to play your birthday. Has the, they've met Angie Stevens. For real, for real? Probably. Yeah.

Have you guys Oh, no, I wish. Have you guys seen a boon from the Taylor Sheridanification of Dallas Fort Worth? No. Not necessarily, but like you said you're going to Montana. I feel like people weren't going to Montana 15 years ago. Oh, dude, they'll tell you that too. People in Montana hate other people from the country.

We're like, this is so great here. And they say, thank you. Don't tell anybody. Yeah. They're tired of us Yellowstone people moving up there. I just remember like when the motorcycle. show was popular. Quaker City had a little bit of a run. There were

some knockoff motorcycle shows, you know. Let's say your band was really into vampires. I'm sure that era had a run. So yes, I'm excited to have you guys out there. We'll run it back with some America, dumb zone, F yeah. Yeah. It's a great time.

Have you guys ever played it for at Four Corners before? Probably like small version. Played it the old one. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. The old one. Yeah, for like after a job jam or something. Yeah. late night jams. Good times. Good times.

I believe we have to promote that you could bring your own chairs and stuff too for in there. Is that right? Yeah, I believe that is correct. It is inside. There's no lawn. Right.

Because it's inside. Like the gig the night before. But if you're going to that gig the night before, just keep the chair. Keep it in the trunk. Bring it inside. Yeah, and then you'll be air conditioned. Yeah, I don't know about...

Pulling trains. Pulling trains. Just left and right. Everyone's just going to be quizzically looking at him. Was he? I think a lot of parents, if you're like me, I keep the folding chairs in the car now. Yeah. Like they never leave.

With the sports stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Should I take it out and put it back in every day, every other day? So I keep that thing on me when it comes to the chair game these days. Okay. So joining us today in about half an hour will be the new mayor of Mount Vernon, Texas, is Greg Oster Tag.

Sweet. Former NBA player, former Kansas Jayhawk. I spoke to him on the phone the other day, so I'm excited about that. Dan, do you have any tales from the road or anything that you'd like to get into early here? Well, certainly the mom stuff is all over me, but I did want to give a moment of silence for Donald Gibb. Who? Donald Gibb, the age of 71. He was known as, he was in Revenge of the Nerds.

He was Ogre. That's like if you have a buddy named Mate, that's who Ogre is. Sure. But I figured you guys might not have seen Revenge of the Nerds or it had an impact on you like it did me, teaching you that date rape is not only our right, but is the goal for any nerdy kid. Because at the end, she'll love you.

That's the way the movie ends. Spoiler. No, I think it's... But he was... Courageous that you still claim that movie as formative. You know, most people are like, ooh, yeah, I don't even really remember what happened in that movie. Dan's like, it's an instruction manual for her. Right.

No, it was. Wild. But you also remember Oger, Donald Gibb, from the movie Bloodsport. Yeah. He was Jean-Claude Van Dan. buddy Ray Jackson. Okay. I just figured I brought that up only for you.

I do, I do remember that. Bloodsport, not as, doesn't hit as high as it might should, but I do remember this guy. And honestly, look at this guy if you can, Clayton. I thought that that was Hacksaw Jim Dugan, who's a wrestler of similar white look. Bloodsport would be a good one to review. So a couple of other things for you. Remember we talked about we're going to have a dude perfect themed hotel room soon. And then if we had a dumb zone themed hotel room, this is not only an idea for our hotel room,

but it is a message to any nice hotel out there. Like I'm paying a fair piece of change for my hotel room that overlooks the cheesecake factory. parking lot where Baker Mayfield once, you know, had some bits going on back there. You're paying, you know, good amount for your hotel room. It's a very nice hotel room. It's like one of those hotel rooms that doesn't have a plastic cup in it. It has a glass. You know, it has a real coffee cup. Right. But it has single ply toilet paper. Yeah. When you're going all. out like you've been in you've probably been in stars hotels uh dallas stars or whatever that do the same

thing like i'm in the ritz or what you know we're in a great place let's go the extra mile for that let's go the extra whatever sense yeah it doesn't make any sense i think that uh her roll of toilet stuff like toilet paper marginal impact you can spend very little and get so much so much better um but you know they're probably just assuming you'll go john madden oh what he's saying That was disgusting. Because that was disgusting. Yeah, it's disgusting. You got to bring your own toilet paper on the road, I think.

Who's ever done that? Because I bring a lot of stuff on my, I brought my blanket, I brought my pillow. I'm for pillow. I'm for that. Yeah. You bring it on the road? I'm against your own toilet paper. I just throw, you know, whatever role has the lease going on, throw that in the bag.

What? That's not a bad idea. It's not. But who does that? I mean, we stay at a certain brand of hotel everywhere and they never have the good stuff. That's not a bad thought because it does seem like there's always a roll of toilet paper that's kind of like hanging out. It's like, well, how did you get half full? How did you?

Okay. That's not bad. Well, so that's in the Dumb Zone themed hotel room. Although they might not even have a toilet because they just have a P jar in the Dumb Zone. In a beday. So hanging out with some buddies the other night. We got some sports talk going on, as we will. A big story here in Cleveland.

Dion Sanders kid, Shador Sanders, is getting praised because he lent his vehicle to a high school kid for prom. Good dude. It's a Maybach Mercedes, which according to Sven, you remember Sven from Olympic updates? He said that's the like Mercedes is the awesome, but then the Maybach Mercedes, like there's like, 20 of them in the world. It's like, it's really, really high dollar vehicle here. We know. A Maybach Mercedes.

We would say Mayback, but it's probably actually pronounced. It's probably like Porsche, Porsche. Mayback music. Everyone here knows this car well. Okay, so he lent it to a high school kid for prom. It's like, oh, isn't that cool? What a good dude. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

The kid's mom is LeBron James. an assistant. No. So like, you think, oh, it's a kid getting his dream, come to, this is amazing, he just reached out. It's a, uh, LeBron. Right. His Mayback was in the shop, so he just, you know, needed to lend it out. No cancer. Nothing? I thought it was make a wish, too. Yeah, what do we have? There's nothing.

It's having to settle. It is a wish. LeBron doesn't pay his assistance. That's what we don't know. Is this, you know? He doesn't pay for Spotify. Really? That's what they said. They'll be warming up before games and they got to listen to commercials.

And he was using stream east a couple years ago. That would be awesome if he's insanely cheap. I think he is. I would be surprised. I feel like I've kind of heard that. Quick mom info on that. Yeah.

LeBron is going to continental breakfast at hotels he's not staying at. Just sneaking in to holiday inn expresses. So one of the reasons my mom wanted a fire stick and Amazon stick is like she's like well I have all these things I I don't know how to get HBO but I have my whatever like she gets free HBO through her whatever carrier I don't if it's her phone carrier or spectrum cable or something but she just has to log in and she doesn't know how to do it and so now I'm putting HBO on the fire stick I'm

logging in I'm trying to find her passwords and all that and then I like oh this is only a this is a it's it's an advert like you get ads with this HBO you know you have to pay eight bucks a month if you want the ad free but just with your subscription to this you get an ad filled HBO and I said would you like the you know we could just I'll do the eight bucks a month whatever you need uh she know she had me and stuff and she's like no actually I like the commercials it gives me a little time to get ready For what? It's a little geared up. The show is going to start in like a minute.

You're not in the scene. You're not in the movie. She wants the commercials. Like she would not accept ad free. If it was free. She's like, no, no,

throwing the curve. So that's so fascinating. I mean, it makes sense. There's a way you're used to consuming something. Right? Like, it all changed super fast.

And your mom is just kind of still alive. It's like. Yeah. And she's like, I don't want that. I can't deal with no commercials. I mean, I was watching Amazon's hit show The Boys the other day, and it had commercials, and I was going to just wanted to throw the remote through the TV.

It was driving me insane. Do they all offer the pay to get out of it thing? I know that Amazon does because I have not watched commercials on the boys. I am cheap like LeBron. Because there is some stuff, dude, like if you were watching Victory Plus, you're going to watch the same seven commercials. 30 times throughout the night. There's nothing you can do about it.

I mean, obviously it's live, but like you can't, there's no, even if you're skipping through, there's no choice. And then we had a sports hypothetical, unless you want to do a commercial first, and then I'll give it to you. No, knock one out. Or no, do your sports hypothetical, and then we'll knock one out. Okay, this was from the other night.

Would you rather have your local WNBA team win the championship Are you following me? Yeah. They will win the championship, the entire league. The spring. All 12 to 15 teams, they have defeated all of them. Or I hand you $5 cash right now. Okay.

That's ridiculous. It's not ridiculous. If you did that poll, if you did a thousand people in DFW, you had five, thousand dollars in your pocket and you walked around the city how much do you have left in your pocket after you interview a thousand people i'm now adding on to the hypothetical dude i think i think i think a hundred dollars but five is no i think he's right i would yeah i think four three no i think this is insane i think the average person just reflexively would feel this is part of a w hl thing they would feel pressured to be like i care about the w nba that was my initial

reaction and then i was like five bucks though it's five five You know, at times you're tough. But I feel like you'd get a lot of just performative, oh, that'd be so good for the city. You know, and you're like, well, who did what, can you name a player? And you wouldn't be able to. Okay, make it. It's not performative. They don't, no one publicly will know if you just had this a secret thing and you got it in the mail.

You have zero. You would have zero dollars after you talk to 100 people or whatever, a thousand people. You'd be done. You'd be done. Anyway, just having a little fun. That's the fun sports talk we're having on a business Wednesday evening. I mean, it would also give you an excuse to use the, what was the nickname that we had suggested for AZ Fun.

No. Page Becker's. What was it? It was five finger slamma. I do not condone at all. Okay. You guys can stick around as long as you'd like. We're probably going to.

get into some more sports if that's cool with you. Sports. Yeah. Well, then maybe breaking about half an hour. We'll do this. All right. Our pros are the nicest. We've got the best prices at Flooring Direct.

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Happy too. I thought I was bad at this. Good stuff. Hey, Dan, the Rangers for the second straight day gave everyone half off all menu price pizzas at Papa Johns. Did you know that bit was back? No, how do you get it?

The Rangers have to score six or more runs. The code is Rangers 6, 7. Yeah, that's the bad bit. It's a ranger score 6 or 7. Yeah. Oh, 6 or 7? It can be 8. It can be more, but that's how they...

It used to be 7 now at 6. Rangers 6, 7. Yeah, because of the... And now every young... tightness of the baseball so Papa Johns had to adjust their expected run. Or just look at our lineup. Yeah, I was a safe bet. So every kid now is a Ranger fan

because of that? Yeah, it worked. It captured the next generation. Well, I'll tell you this. I've got a night at home. Family heading out on the road today. And yeah, I could see myself enjoying a half-price, Ranger run-fueled pizza. They won six-five last night, Dan. They entered the fifth

or excuse me, the ninth down five three. Leading off the inning was Corey Seeger, who was O for three heading into the at-bat. He promptly struck out and forgot that it was strike three. If you want to check in on how Corey Seeger's at-bats are going, like it's the top of the ninth, dude. You're leading off and four pitches in, they're like, hey, that was it. So he's not in a good place right now.

at all. Kind of makes you wonder. That's not going to help them trade him, is it? I don't know. I think it complicates things. For sure. Doesn't seem like you have much of a chance of being good if he's not good. And he's been really bad.

And forgetting what the count is is not a great indication. But down to their last strike, they rallied. Got the dub. Do you have any other things quick sports things you want to get to before I go to this Cars for Kids thing, Blake?

No. Okay. Dan, I have to tell you about something that I learned about on the internet this morning. Have you guys done any radio jingles? Profits and Outlaws are like product jingles? We have. We've dabbled, yeah.

We haven't really, let's say we have gotten anything crazy successful. No, nothing too awesome, but we've done some genius. Do they send you the idea and then, or do you have to go in and record it with a producer who's like actually i need it to be a little more both yeah sometimes it's that and other times they want you to have the idea to okay so you have to try to sing like you're singing a song about a lost loved one or whatever but about like a towel or a product

exactly does it not feel when we used to work at the station this would be the funniest thing to me is just like somebody like the one jingle we just heard like are there people that that's their whole gig. I got an audition to do a Geico commercial. And I thought they would have this whole script for me to read. Yeah. And I get on and they're like, you know, we want you to make up a song about motorcycle and truck coverage. Motorcycles.

Kind of in like the Jerry Reed. Jerry Reed world. And I was like, okay. I'll work on that. Wow. And, yeah. But then there's other times they give you like word for word what you're going to say and do. Okay.

Well, we're all familiar with this song. We've heard it for many years on the ticket. It is certainly if you were to put out a poll that would rank is one of the most earwormy jingles and ticket history. An updated take. This is updated. Yeah, this is better than what they used to do.

Carsforkits.org. That's cars with a K. Pick up is quick and easy. You'll also get a vacation voucher and a tax deduction. I'm always, weary about things that spells things with K. Yeah, we're from Texas. I don't always worry about that.

So that was Cars for Kids, a new remix of the of the classic theme with YouTuber Stevie T on guitar. He's like a teen guitar YouTuber. That exists, of course, too, Dan. And I was

able to stumble upon this this morning. Cars for Kids is in the news. They're in court. And they are in court, apparently not for the first time. But I don't know that I've ever really thought through how I thought that worked. I think I thought foolishly that they employed kids to work on cars like mechanics. I thought they just gave them to kids and I don't think that's real either. No, it's not.

We're going to get to it. But how did you think this worked, Dan? Like, you've been hearing this jingle. You've probably done the jingle. Or no, Texans can is obviously, it's a little bit different. It's not just a... Well, I thought Texas game worked the same way. But I always just thought it was you donate your car. They sell it or something for $1,000. And then they give the money to kids maybe or at least a slice of that. Okay.

So Dan is the only smart person here because he just assumed, okay, they're just scrapping it. They get the equity. It's cash. And you get to ride it off. Yeah. Right off the car. Not the kid. Yep.

Donate the car, not the kid. But right off the kid. You could do a lot. You could do a mix of these things. But I, again, I thought that the car was somehow involved with the kid. I don't know. I know that's now dumb. But it's even, it's wilder than that.

They primarily just are real estate holdings company, but they do run youth camps for Orthodox Jewish kids. So you will notice when you hear or you see. see the YouTube videos or the commercials on TV. It's not like they represent one particular religious ethnicity, whatever. But it's a group of summer camps that sound not that different from where like T.C. went to rehab high school. Like there's a lot of abuse allegations. There's like no safety. They've run afoul of a ton of safe, like gas leaks and stuff like that. But the funniest part is that they got sued, and the guy who sued them used the ad as part of his claim. So the defendant's case includes the testimony of Cars for Kids C.O.

It says she admitted that the 30-second advertisement, which has been running for two decades, does not say anything about the charity's specific nature. She confirmed that Cars for Kids is a Jewish organization, yet the word Jewish is absent from the ad, that the primary function of Cars for Kids is to fund URA, which is an organization dedicated to Jewish heritage in summer camps in New York and New Jersey, etc. So they're getting sued because they don't imply that this is only for Jewish kids in the jingle, I guess. and apparently

a pretty significant portion of the budget never makes it to any camp at all. It's apparently not only a scam, it's a scam where they've fallen for some scams, like they've fallen for some Ponzi scams schemes with other people's money. So, you know, it's probably nothing too crazy

that you're learning that this organization wasn't, you know, completely this or that on the up and up, but it is interesting to learn. You hear that song, and it's like, no, that's, that doesn't really help any kids all that much. I think you still get the write-off, though. So it helps someone. It helps someone.

I like write-offs, right-offs these days, man. The band knows. Yeah, I still prefer it, you know, I'd rather kids work on cars. I think that's a fun thought. I really, like, in my head, I had, like, a whole 80s movies, movies seen figured out.

As soon as you said that, I was thinking that too. I'm like, man, I like this. Yeah. Just get them in there. Learn blue collar trade. But like 10-year-olds? Yeah. Mike Rose shows up. Yeah. How much do kids know about how to work on cars these days? Not at all. How much do we know about working on cards these days?

Yeah, and I'm not bemoaning that because I was taught by one of my potential stepdad's. He was a big car guy. and I remember doing like alternator stuff with him, and he had me changing the oil of my car, and it was like, okay. And then I don't remember any of it. Yep. I've never been able to do oil.

I could do battery, and that I don't know that I trust myself to do that anymore. You know, although they- I gave my kid a AAA card. Yeah, when I was in high school, my dad was always like, you don't have a friend that works on cars? I'm like, no, dude, it's not 1955.

I don't. That is, nobody knows the exact advice. my mom gave me is have a friend who is a mechanic. You don't have a friend that builds cars and racism? No. Who does that? I don't leave in Arlington. I mean, no offense.

Oh. June 5th. So what we could do here, I'm waiting to hear confirmation from Greg Oster Tag. I have a quick story if we kill a few minutes. Because we could just hop into some viewer mail if we wanted. Well, so you brought up. kids working on cars. So yesterday I took Brooks to school

and I saw this little coffee stand set up outside of his school. And I'm a sucker for supporting local businesses. Like I try to avoid the green wizard the best I can because they run everyone else out. So when I saw a little coffee stand, I was like, yes, I'll go give them my $10 I'm going to spend on coffee for the day. Yes, extremely gay. Thank you. I didn't say, I just,

I've detailed on the show that my wife cannot have dairy right now because of the nine-month-old kid who's got a little allergy right now. So it's important I get oat milk and her coffee. And so when I walk up to the stand to make sure that this little busted trailer has oat milk, the window opens. And in front of me, I see a nice young lady with Down syndrome and another lady with severe autism. in this biddy and Bose place apparently this is common hires yeah people with special needs to work in their business yes uh so i walk up i said hey do y'all have oat milk that completely that was not a part of their code okay so uh i sense what was going on uh and so i thought let me just try to reset here so uh i go back to look at the menu like i'm faking something and then i reset i come back i

back up hello i would like two ice lattes with oatmeal please oh okay cool and then we were able to have a great time from then on you're a savant that's all yeah you just re-rack yeah i just it was not a part of the code so game up let me try this again leave i had to leave their line of sight come back hi hello do you have oat milk no stuff like that that's cool that's a good it was it was really cool and so of course i'm standing there uh they're going to talk to you which I'm fine with. How big of you? No, it just got me, no, because it got me thinking like old's like to talk.

What if olds just all have autism? I mean, listen, you go to a nursing home and there are a lot of things that feel similar. Yeah. If you have a kid, it has. Well, anyway, long story short, one of the girls is in the graphic design and she's going to do some work with our logo. Oh, all right. This is awesome. So if you see a new logo floating out there here in a little bit,

maybe on our live streams or something. This time, can you avoid paying this person $100 a month because you feel bad and they're doing something? And you end up putting them, you hire them as our graphic designer. We're starting at 50. Okay. Jeez.

You're not going to stop me from helping people. Anyway, that's my story. All right. I'd like to do some viewer mail. Why don't we just do a couple while they're here? Then they can at least hear the song. Oh yeah, wait a minute, Uncle Hotmail. Then we'll break after Greg.

Uncle Hotmail, look at me. Is there any... This is brought to us, speaking of supporting... You're saying gross? Yeah. Local. By our good friends at Qualisroofing, QualisGC.com. Got an email from our friend Patrick.

I shall read it. I'm buying my in-law's house, and I wanted to have the roof inspected beforehand, so that we can make the insurance pay for it. My past experience is roofing companies always tell you it needs a new roof. Alex from all, uh, Qualls came out, did the inspection, gave me the bad news. The roof looked great. No repair was needed.

Now I've got a free dumb zone sit in. Also, he brought a ladder and climbed up on the roof. So no 300 drones flying overhead in the shape of a dumb zone logo, just a dumb zone t-shirt. Super friendly on time if you're into that sort of thing. What we're trying to tell you is they're not trying to rip anybody off. they're here to sort through this for you, right? If you need to deal with a roof and the insurance, they'll do it. I think we're supposed to have pretty big weather coming soon.

How do they check your roof? They could do it with a drone. It's really good. They could catapults. They catapult a little person up there. You ever see them do that in? Twice. I don't know how he gets down.

He'll just stay up there and make sure your roof is fine. Right. No, they have a net. The other two hold and he jumps down. He just inspects it visually as he flies over. Damn, I want to jump into a net. To break that down, like. Nathan weighs in with something that he thought would be a bigger deal when he got older.

That is simply, he was convinced he would overflow a toilet and it would only happen at a time when he was at a girlfriend's or a hot woman's house. Oh, yeah. Some of that's never happened to me or anyone I know. It's happened to me. That's for sure happened to me. Really? Oh, yeah. Like, just the movie thing of like, oh, it's overflowing, and you just said to a lady's house?

Yeah, I'm like, why is this, why do I have to deal with this? I was at Norm's house. Apparently, their front toilet wasn't working, and I didn't know until I was already doing the deed. That toilet doesn't work, pal. And you're just like Jeff Daniels sitting there with your pants down. Yeah, my feet are up. Window open. Yeah, I just don't think that

I don't think that's ever happened to me I don't think it will Monty has a funny story about that He was at a girlfriend's house Yeah And the diarrhea bug hit him He said he just left Yeah, I think you have to

Yeah I think you have to I got a good one New Bit from Derek He said with the recent talk of Miss Piggy I thought it would be appropriate To add another list to track similar to the Rosanne bar.

His suggestion is to call it the swine line. But basically, it's like the Roseanne. Like, hey, she's a Roseanne. It says she's a Miss Piggy. Here's Derek. Says, Jake already mentioned that Kelly Clarkson would make this list. And I want to add a few more. The lovely Kelly Clarkson.

Okay, this is the Miss Piggy list. Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Coolidge. Yeah. Christina Aguilera. Ooh, interesting. Dolly Parton. And Dolly Parton. Amy Schumer.

Deli Frittato. Amy Schumer. That's a good one. Deli Furtado's awesome. I don't think, yeah, I mean, they're called Miss Piggy, so it sounds a little. Yeah, it sounds bad. You really have to explain it. But it's not bad.

It ain't bad for me. It's kind of hot. We're going for it. No doubt. Sabrina Carpenter. too small maybe in like 20 years that is a good one to track

we got some feedback we're needing some help with the questionnaire because is this for the show yet uh yeah yeah we got a hundred responses okay it's fun to look at yeah so uh feedback from one of the listeners

who said he listens to every single show and the family feud questionnaire was extremely difficult oh shit uh if you'd like to try it on your own. I think the link is out, but at tinyurl.com slash dZGSC 69. I mean, it's not like a yes or no, you don't get a score, you know, and we also

put out like a dozen, just too boring behind the scenes. We put out like a dozen questions, we'll take like four of them. Like, we have like, name a euphemism, Uncle Hotmail would use for his penis. That's fun. Right? And I mean, if you guys want to guess, you can. But that's not that hard. Just start throwing stuff out.

You know? Name something Dan always has on his person. Floss. Anyways. His penis. One pie. So we got, yeah,

I got over 100 responses. But yeah, just fill it out. Okay? That's why I brought it up. Just fill it out. A lady emails us. Hey now.

On the cheese versus oral debate. All right. Do you want to tell profits what your thing is there, Jake? If pressed, life or death, I guess, and you have to give up. And now, these guys are pigs. So when they say oral, they mean receiving only. But it's that or any cheese product for the rest of your life. You got to give up one of them.

No, who would want to give up giving it? Well, I mean, I would never, you know. There's a good dude over there. Right. So I got Dan Dan, the feminist man. I'm behind on the pod, so forgive the tardiness. I was listening to the 43026 viewer male segment where you were discussing the feedback

you received about cheese versus oral as a female D.F. I was overjoyed to hear Jake read a male doctor's anecdotal opinion of a female's perspective on the topic. Yeah, we've been doing that a lot. Following in the footsteps of the on becoming a woman off. I admired this man's fortitude to tell us about our body's opinions and sexual preferences. Anyway, for the record, this female would choose cheese hands down.

This is from lactose intolerant in Lancaster. What? That doesn't make any sense. You hate it that bad? He ate that's, yeah. Sorry. He just hadn't met Dan yet in his alphabet. Right.

We said this a couple of times. Apparently, this is an old Texas lore that I've been falling for my whole life, but I'm not actually sure how wrong it is. If I would ask the three of you, you're all three, I would assume, from here. Uh-huh. How many natural lakes are there in Texas? One. And most of it's in Louisiana.

Okay, so Caddo Lake, right? We said that the other day. Is that wrong? Well, let's dive in. Let's investigate. Dun it. Brandon sent us. Let's unpack.

Unpack this. Please. Thread. Double-click it. Texas Monthly actually had a post about this recently, where they sort of went through it. And it's kind of yes and no. Cato Lake is not really a natural lake, but if we're going to call it a natural lake, then we have a lot of them. And it's basically just that the Red River was clogged.

And as it grew and we grew and grew and grew and grew, they have. had to unplug it, thereby leaving a bunch of those like reservoir type things all the way throughout the state. So Caddo Lake, I don't think is... Isn't that what a lake is, a clogged part of the river? Yeah, I mean, what is a lake? Like, a meteor has to hit the ground and then water. What's the lake? Well, I think it's something that wasn't cleared by like the government, right? They, even Cato was created by, I mean, I don't know. They didn't have like tractors. but somehow they

dug it out. We're talking like the late 1800s. Somebody dug it out. So. Versus like a spring fed lake. Yeah. Like when you guys are in Montana. Michigan or whatever, yeah. So we kind of, I mean,

it's not like the water's fake. It's a natural lake and that it's runoff from a river. But it is still a lake. Like, that's a lake. Okay. I would not feel as comfortable, like, I don't know, not like I would drink water in another lake if I could avoid it.

But, you know, you don't want to possum kingdom, Granberry, stuff. There's a difference between that and, like, whitefish. So apparently we have either none or a lot, Dan. That's the answer. Anything from the gas? Not even one. Correct. Clayton?

Just a second. It's shocking, shocking to me. Clayton said just a second, Dan. I don't know if that means that we have the guest and he'll be on in just a second or... It's exciting. If he will talk to us in a minute. Okay.

Do we buy a trailer in Mount Vernon? Mount Pleasant. Yeah, I've heard of both. Yeah, we don't sell trailers. Mount Pleasant. Vernon doesn't sell trailers correct. Well, there you go. That voice you hear is the current mayor of Mount Vernon, Texas,

this longtime NBA player, Kansas Jayhawk. It is hopefully our new friend, Greg Oster Tag. Hey. Unbelievable. Mayor Oster Tag. Mayor O'Me. I jumped into it and heard y'all were talking about Caddo. I was like, well, I thought we were talking about marrying, but we're talking about fishing,

so let's do it. I'm all about that. Yeah, what would you say to that? So I grew up in Texas and I traveled to, maybe it was Montana for the first time, saw a lake there and was like, holy hell. I didn't know that, you know, it's clear, it's cold, it's beautiful, it's perfect and I didn't know there was a difference between that in my Texas lakes. Do you think these count as lakes?

Why not? It's just a rocky bottom lake. Because man dug it out. I think that's the distinction there's saying. Well, which one? The ones in Texas. I don't think Catto is not dug out, is it? I think they just damned up a river.

I finished it multiple. Cato's not dug out, is it? You know what? I'm going to go with you on this one. I think they're just saying that if you had to make it, maybe even the dam is making it not natural. But that's silly. Because it's, well, I mean, Caddo's no more than it,

unless it's in the river, is no more than, what, six feet deep. I'm most places in Caddo, I can stand up and you can still see me. So this is awesome. You are, you're the mayor of Mount Vernon now. So how did this come to be? First of all, I'd like you to meet my friend, Dan. He's on the road. He's my co-host.

You may have met Dan, before. He used to host the show on the ticket. Do you recall the ticket in Dallas Fort Worth at all? I do know the ticket. I've heard, I think I've actually been on the ticket with, I should know his name. Maybe Norm. Well, I remember Norm. Norm was great back in the day. Isn't that where Mike sitting basic on the ticket? Or is he on a different? Yeah. He was on the ticket at one point for sure. Yeah. So yeah. So I know Mike Baskick, you know, we went with the same high school. I'm a little older than him, but we're at the same high school. So I've, I've, I've talked to Mike on the, I think on the ticket before.

Cool, cool. How good of a basketball player was Bassick? Well, you got to remember now. He's a couple years younger than me. He was actually, Mike's one of those guys who was just an athlete. You know, I would have played baseball, but I grew up a seven foot. So baseball was actually my favorite sport growing up. And then outgrew everybody.

And I went to basketball and hockey. I want to ask you about Basick and you and your, if you have the. same where you grew up and you're on the basketball team, did you have the same nickname that Basick had? Because I know what his nickname was. Probably not. I had the nickname I had in high school, which I got from a summer league team was seven up. Okay. Was that because you're exceptional height? Yeah, well, yeah, pretty much, yeah, because I was seven foot in high school. I've been this tall since I think I was probably around my sophomore junior year of high school. How tall are your My dad was about 6-8 when he was younger. My mom's 6-1.

6-8 when he was younger. Well, he, you know, he shrank a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You've been pressing a little bit. Yeah. When I was a kid, he was about 6-8, you know.

So, you know, he passed away last year. But, you know, but yeah, he was about 6-8 when he was younger. Way to bring up his dad, Jake. So. Yeah, good job. Rest in power. Greg's dad. No, no.

It's totally fine. It just, it doesn't bother me at all. No, Bassick's nickname was Casper. I believe it. Yeah. I can see that. It's Duncanville. Yeah.

Yeah, well, that's why I was asking if you're. No, I actually didn't know that. No, but, you know, I see it. He's as wide as it can be. I get that. So, uh, I do have a, uh, a little history with Greg Oster tag. You want to do it now or you want to talk about being a mayor first, Jake. What's go to do?

History. We got time. All right. Because he might just hang. up. Also possible. Yeah, I was in locker room for 20 years. You can get, bring it if you're going to really upset me or embarrass

me. So. Okay. Well, Jake already tried with your dad stuff. Yeah. I'm just kidding. So, no, I once, I know you've played in a couple of, like, celebrity baseball games, right? I have. And, you know, they throw that

term celebrity around a little bit loosely sometimes because I got in one of those games. and I was scheduled. I think it was, I know that at some point, Dirk took over the Mike Madonna celebrity baseball game. Yeah. So I don't know if it was under the Mike Madano heading, because I knew him pretty well,

or the Dirk heading. I think it was, I think it was Mike's. You played in Mike Madano's celebrity baseball game. Yeah, it's been, when it's got, it's been 20 years, I bet. It's sometime, at least 15. Yeah.

I would say anyway. It was at the Frisco ballpark, I believe. That's right. And I got there. And I'm no Greg Oster tag, but about 6-2, or at least before I started shrinking, I was 6-2. A little heavy. Might have been in the 220s at this point. Okay.

2.30, a little chubby guy, right? And I got to the celebrity game, and I got there kind of early. Because, you know, the lower level celebrities get there early. I understood. And as your bigger guys like Greg Oster tag, he could show up whenever he wants. He's Greg Oster tag. So I got there, and I had a large, I had my pants where like a large, and I put them on, and I really couldn't fit into him.

It was putting 10 pounds or whatever, 15 pounds of shit into a five. a 10-pound sack, however they say it back in the country. And anyway, I just couldn't wear these pants. And so I was looking around at other lockers that hadn't been touched yet. And I saw a pair of X-Ls. So I tried them on. And I'm like, damn, these fit great. I'll wear these.

I'm sure whoever's pants these are intended to be won't matter. So I set the large over there. and then I went about my business, went warming up, doing some stuff, hanging out with people, whatever. Went to the cage. About a half hour later, I come back into the room

and I see that Greg Oster Tag is getting dressed. And he puts on these pants. It ends up I had stolen Greg Oster Tag's pants. And you put on these pants, and they were so tiny. Like they could barely come over your knees, right? It didn't even pull up your waist. It was just, you're seven feet tall. And so I see you and you're like, everybody's

laughing and you're like, oh, I don't know what to do here. Do you remember this? No. Okay, you're standing in the middle of the room and you're like, hey, you're talking to some other pro athlete or something like, what the hell happened? And you can't, you can't barely move. And so, I say, I walk over and I go, you know what? These are, little loose on me. Let's switch. And now the entire locker room thinks, what a cool, great guy this guy is. He just decided he's going to wear a pair of pants that are too small on him just to accommodate Greg Oster tag. This is awesome. And so I end up looking like a hero.

Yeah, we won't make fun of him for those pants. We won't make fun of him. It was called Greg Oster Tag. Wasn't it? The greater thing about it is he's, he's a enough of a comedian that he learned to play the room. I got this. Nobody's going to know, which is great. I felt, really, I'm surprised. I felt bad about it.

I'm surprised knowing me that I didn't try to put those little ones on and go play. I mean, no, you were gonna. Yeah, you were just laughing at all. You weren't pissed. I mean, I don't walk out there with,

I don't walk out there with the biggest moose snookling American. Yeah. Well, anyway, I've waited all this time to say, Greg Oster Tag, I'm sorry for stealing your pants. It's totally okay. Like I said, I would have, you know, I could have done. I just cut them off and went out there and some, you know,

Daisy Dukes and played in them. I wouldn't bother me at all. It did not seem to be bothering you. Yeah. You're awesome about it. You probably have played more basketball and cut off jeans than just about anybody in the NBA in history. I would imagine if,

I don't know, but I've done some silly stuff in my life that doesn't bother me. I mean, if you look hard enough, you can find a picture of me dancing at some concert in Sacramento and a pair of cheerleader shorts because Chris Weber dared me to and he said I wouldn't do it. So I did it. Oh, man, those are fun teams. Fun fun team. I ran on stage these teeny tiny shorts. And, you know, and then again, my moose knuckles all hanging out and all that. So I don't get embarrassed easy.

Well, that's good if you're going to throw your ring. into the politics game. So you stopped playing in the NBA in 2006. I do, we have looked at your like Wikipedia or basketball reference page before and thought, boy, tried to come back in 2011, 2011, 2012. That is quite the layoff.

Yeah, I don't know. I got divorced and I was bored. So I thought, let me go, let me go out here at 300 pounds and try to play with these young guys. That rules. About a month and a half. That's so good. Because I, you know, we all dream of divorce, right? Like, and my dad got divorced and I remember it.

Yeah, like you're so confident that you're like, I think I could go play pro basketball again. Let me ride this way. You know, when I retired, when I retired that first time I was done and then it was one, it's one of the, I have a lot of regret in my life. But that was one of them. I should have stayed a little longer. But when I did, I was just silly to say I was done with the travel. Yeah. Done with, I don't know.

But I don't know. Hindsight's 2020. So here I am. saw that be a politician. I was a crazy idea was this. So, yeah, so since 2012, I imagine just various business interests. I know you've got like a restaurant group. And is that how you end up in Mount Vernon?

Because I came back and told these guys a few months ago, maybe six months ago, my family was driving somewhere. I'm looking for somewhere to get, it's got kid food, adult food. And we popped in there. And I'm sitting there eating, loving it. And I'm walking around. I'm like either Greg Ostertag comes here a lot or he just owns this place. And I'm like, I don't even know he lived here.

So did you end up in the town because of the property? No, no, no, no, no. When I got done, I lived in Arizona for 10 years with my ex and my kids. And then, you know, we went our separate ways. And I met my new, my current wife, my new wife. And I told her I'm from Texas. I'm going back. I've always wanted to come back here.

And I told her I don't want to live in day. house because it's too many people and I hate traffic and I'd probably end up in jail for road raging somebody. So I found, I actually found Mount Vernon on realtor.com. We bought a house out here and then I think a year and a half later, we bought the building that we're in now and started off in a, start off, it's an old, upstairs is an old mortuary and downstairs an old general store. So we bought it and started out. was a retail slash bistro if sort of thing it was okay uh then i started kind of asking all the cowboys and farmers ranchers around town who like beer and would you like us would you come to a

sports bar and they're all like yeah so i think it was running down covid january when when the fake virus came in and uh and uh and uh i said we gutted it and turned it into a sports bar and it's been doing good ever since. You know, owning a restaurant, it's not a profitable business. It's just something for the town loves it. We get a lot of regulars and here it is. And I've always wanted land with some animals. I don't have a ton of them. I just got some what I call yard art. I get to go sit on my property and watch them run around and feed them and hang out with them and all that fun stuff. Yeah, one of our listeners, Kathleen, who lives in Mount Vernon, told me that she's seen you out and about with a camel.

Like, I don't know. If you're seven feet tall, you could just kind of walk a camel like a dog. I'd never really occurred to me until I saw you standing with it. I've got two of them. I've got a single hump and a double hump. And I've got a zebra. And I've got, how many horses? I've got too many horses.

Four and a half, five and a half horses. Four and a half horses. And chickens and emus and turkeys and dogs. I don't have a tiger. That's a little more than I can handle. I can handle a, I can handle a 1,500 pound camel, but tigers a little more than I want. Who knew they had single hump and a half horses? Four and a half horses.

Well, I've got, I've got a chicken, baby, and turkeys and dogs. I don't have a tiger. That's a little more than I can handle. I've got a baby horse that was born, what, two months ago. So I caught four and a half. Okay. I've got Clydesdells and draft horses. I've got a draft horse female that's the mom of that new baby.

it weighs 2,000 pounds and she's just a big she's a big sweetheart so all my animals are you know you can walk up to them and pet them and the camels are like big puppy dogs especially Norman I bottle fed all of them uh the camels uh so that's cool zebra I got as a uh friend of mine who sold it actually passed away and I got her zebra her personal zebra so that's cool uh so as far as the city goes you so you've got the restaurant it becomes kind of a community It seems like you guys have kind of like done the classic small town downtown revitalization thing. It's a cool spot. There's a bunch of other businesses down there.

And I assume you guys were part of that whole effort. But then how does that turn into, you know, actually running? That just seems like such a big step to me. You know, you could kind of be the mayor de facto by running the sports bar. You know, it's like, oh, that guy's, but then to actually have to do all the stuff. You know, when I first moved out here, I was perfectly happy on my, but I had 80 acres of rid of my house and being out there. And again, watching my animals. And then we sold that place and bought this place.

And I'm kind of a stick out like a sore thumb. So I've got a kind of popular around here, whether I want to be or not. And I got a lot of friends around here in town. People I know acquaintances, da, da, da, da, da. I'm a substitute at the high school. Oh, nice. So I go babysit a bunch of teenagers once in a while. And people just started coming up to the townspeople started coming from me and asked to,

hey, run for mayor. Would you run for mayor? Would you run for me? I was like, look, I hate politicians. They're the most crooked people on the planet. Why would I want to be a good one? And I talked to my wife about it. And she said, I said, what do you think?

She said, no, with a capital F. And so I said, okay. And then they kept asking and kept asking. And I don't know, the townspeople weren't happy with the, with the, just past mayor. And I said, what do you think? She said, are you sure? And I said, I guess. So here we go.

I mean, I put my name in the hat. And we did our, we put our signs out. People started talking. Of course, you know, if you want some really good entertainment, go get on our, our town, no rules, Facebook page and read about three weeks back. It's a lot of, it's very entertaining. You know, all the things that were said about me, you know, this and that and the other, it's just silly. But my wife's like, how come you're not mad about this? I said, look, I spent 15 to 20 years of my life being the hero one minute, the zero, the next, the 24-hour period.

So she said, why does anybody? I don't know. I'm going to sleep. Yeah. I mean, sports, I think it does kind of prepare you for it. It seems like it. She wanted to kick everybody right in the vagina. So I laughed at all.

Yep. And I'm trying to keep it clean, but, but I don't know. Here we are. It's, it's a cool little town. It's, you know, I've got a lot to learn, obviously. I've got a lot of people around that are willing to help me. I've got the city manager who's, you know, helping. And city secretary, you know, they've all said they're, you know, I'm looking forward to work with you.

We'll see. So here I am. And it's me for two years and then we'll see how it goes. I've been telling everybody, hey, we're happy. And I said, well, come to me in two years and tell me if you feel the same way. So, uh, no, that's very cool. We've got some good stuff coming. We've got some good stuff coming to town.

And we'll see how it works out. I'm going to give it my best effort. So, so let me go back to the high school substituting thing. Um, did these, did they know, do they know, have you had anybody make like a, we need to make him, uh, Greg Oster tag like TikTok highlight at it. just like the kids do with rap music or whatever and just dunk after dunk. Do they know? Do they respect that you were a decade-long NBA player?

Oh, yeah, they all know. They all know. Some of them get smart mouth with me. He's like, you got dunked on by Kobe Bryant. I was like, well, yeah, I got dunked on by a lot of people. But I got to do something you're never going to do, get dunked on in the NBA. So, you know, I'll banter with them. You know, if you're going to bring it, you picked it back.

But they all have. laugh it off and go from there so it's cool uh again i don't mind it's uh it's fine and i have a good time with it okay i have actually one question uh people just coming by and telling you hey hey there's mayor gregg oster tag that's awesome no i'm sitting out here on my phone i was cleaning up the back of the building today so i've got a bunch of stuff on the trailer okay so i actually uh this is mostly just a sports jackoff show but i actually am sort of interested in some of um these issues that like small town, Texas towns are running into. One of them is the data centers, right?

That seems to be big talk. But you guys have, is it like a lithium battery plant? Is that what's being built nearby? I know there was a lithium plant coming in. It's just the other side of the interstate behind the Big Duke's gas station. So is that like a lot of jobs? Like what's that like? I don't know.

You hear like, oh, this company's coming to town and then it's going to be all great. but then, you know, I just saw a couple of cities in the last week that said, like, let's slow down on the data center thing. Let's at least look at it. Or what is it like whenever they come to town? I'd like to know. Well, so this is all new for us. And I don't know all the details on it yet. I'm just, that's one of the things I'm learning about.

I got a little bit information on it yesterday in a big meeting I had with the city guys, city manager and secretary and all that stuff. So I don't know all the details. It's got like 150 jobs coming, which is good. It's, you know, it's going to help out the town. I believe was financially, you know, put us in a better place. And the towns, we're looking at getting in the town expanding and growing a little bit. And, you know, one of the issues we had was getting people to come downtown because we're two miles off the interstate, which is not that bad, but still. So the data centers are open in Sulfur Springs, which is, you know, 15, 20 miles the other way west of us.

So I think that's where they're at. and you know everybody's i think the one thing that's bothering everybody is to change not knowing what's really going on with that stuff and if i if i if i'm going to try what i'm going to try to do is get the lithium people to come in and have like a big town hall sort of thing and let them talk to everybody and explain what it's about how you know how it's going to help uh you know doing my own research and having that explain it to me and then try to get people listen what what the benefits it can have for the town and and and i think the biggest thing they're scared of is uh are worried about is it dirty yeah that makes if that makes sense that and fracking and

earthquakes and all that stuff and you know because i've heard some stuff about how they can put a pad in a site in somewhere and drill five miles away to get it from somewhere else so it's kind of it's interesting but i understand their fears about that and it's something just had to be cleared up yeah i don't know i mean maybe it's just because i watched you like bullying people and you're huge in the NBA for like 10 years but i just imagine these slick like new york fucks coming in like oh we're gonna bully ball the small town let mayor and then it's Greg oster tag yes it's like no i don't just box them out yeah yeah just box them out foul them hard when they come to the basket it's not like it's definitely not like the NBA today they're a bunch of pansies but you know um

yeah i'm not shocked that that's your yeah no I can't, I don't, I can't believe people watch that garbage. It's, it's, it's terrible. I don't. A lot of skill, mayor. A lot of skill. It's a, there's, they're very skill. Yeah.

Whatever you want to tell yourself. Whatever makes you sleep better at night. Are you anti-Luca? Oh, I'm not. I think Luca's a fantastic player. I think the one thing that I would like to see Luca do, and it doesn't matter where he's in, is deal leader. Uh, you know, the one thing I thought about Luca when he was here is he was, he was all about

Luca. And if he had, if, if Luca can get the heart of dirt and whiskey, he'll take whatever team places. And he looks like he's kind of turned over a new leaf in L.A., which is great. You know, but I mean, he can flat out score. I give him that. So who were the best leaders you played with in the NBA as a couple. Well, I mean, that's this. Or were you the guy?

I'm going to ask. Oh, yeah. They totally looked to me for leadership. Let's follow Greg. He's averaging five points and four rebounds and block and a half. I don't know. I mean, once you've been, but to be honest with you, though, like, you're, I don't know how you want to take this, but like, Dwight Powell is a leader with the Mavericks. And he's been here a long time.

He's a big. He's been through multiple, you know, he was just a, he was the vet for a lot of guys. So I didn't know if, like, you were with Utah a long time if there became a time where you were that guy. Well, you know, right up to John and Carl left, obviously, I got putting the role of the leadership role. And, you know, that falls back on some of my regret. I didn't become the player I should have. I just took for granted that I was seven foot in the NBA, and I got to put on a great team and got to play with two of the best ever,

and it's not even close. Everybody else said, well, they didn't win a championship. Well, a lot of people didn't win a championship. Doesn't me, they're not a great player. So the, so John and Carr obviously were my pick, and actually my coach was probably one of the greatest leaders I ever played for. He was fantastic, even though we didn't get along sometimes. Yeah, that was not uncommon.

Yeah, no, it wasn't. Yeah, we had our differences every once in a while. But, you know, I said in an interview almost 10 years ago now that I was talking to some radio guys. And I said, you know, I've had time to grow up and mature. And it turns out I was the asshole in that whole situation. Sometimes it be like that. It really does. Yeah.

Well, think about the era that you grew up in. they made you into a certain kind of player, where if you grew up now, you would probably be allowed to dribble the ball up the court or work on your, you know, back then, it was your seven feet, get under the basket, and if you even take a shot outside of the key, they'd probably yell at you,

a coach in high school or whatever. Well, yeah, maybe. I mean, it gets a whole, yes, it is a whole different, you know, All the big guys in league are, you know, more perimeters-oriented guys. But, you know, I fell into a really, really good situation. Being drafted where I was drafted, I was drafted by the perfect team for Greg Ostrattay. You know, half-court offense. I knew my role.

My role is to clog up, get rebounds, block shots, get, you know, preferably seven to eight, maybe 10 points a game and eight to seven to eight rebounds a game and block two shots. that was my role because you knew where the ball was going. John was going to dribble it up. We were going to try to get Carl open and so be it. You know, like I was alluded to earlier, it's a different game now. I just, it's hard for me to watch because I played in a different area. I played in a more half-court, offensive, you know, scheme-oriented game.

You know, to me, if you're scoring 110 points of losing about 30, the game's broken, that's just my opinion. so I get that they want fans want points on the board and see these guys pull up from two steps inside the half court and dunk on each other but there's just no I don't know there's no cohesiveness to the game and I referee basketball also and I walk out here and I see these kids who have no business shooting three-pointers shoot three-pointers I'll tell them to after they shoot it that's out of your range yeah that's way out of your range you should no And they're like, come on, man, I got this. I'm like, dude, you're 0 for six. No, go get a layup. Shooter shoot. Yeah, no, no, they don't.

Shooters out here build houses. This is. So I don't. You have a, you know, you'll find a kid. Go ahead. No, no, I'm sorry. We're on, we're a little delay. We're both.

Oh, it's fine. Yeah. Yeah, I see that. I see, I see, because I can see myself talking here and I watch myself down here. So I think, I thought maybe. you were just waiting to kill the kill button if I said something bad but it doesn't fucking sound like it. No, no. No, no. My question was going to be, is there like one, like I remember this was my greatest game ever?

Like what was the Greg Oster? Greatest game ever played was this game six against Houston, not even close. And I had a lot of, I had plenty of good games over 770 games that were really, really good games. But that was the best game ever played. when we beat Houston to go to the finals. Dang. What was it? 16, 16, 14, 5, and I didn't miss a shot from the field or the free throw in.

You ever go back to watch that? No, I think I sat down with my youngest daughter one day and pulled it up, kind of watched it. I said, do you know that guy right there? That one. No, not that one. Not that one. This one. You know him?

So, you know, I've got a 13-year-old who doesn't give a shit about sports, but. It's fine. But I'll show it. I showed it during she's like, that's you. So it's just it is. You know, but I was 23 years old.

So 30 years ago. Yeah, I mean, if you have, if you have actual ponies, it's not going to matter that you played sports. You've got what matters. If you've got kids,

you've got animals. They don't care. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this one's high maintenance. I've got older kids too. I've got my sons be 33 in August.

I've got a grandson and one on the way and two older daughters. and my wife's got kids and it's so we've got what I've got three and a half and she's got two and a half so you know my youngest is oldest is 33 my youngest is 13 so I did the typical college athlete thing I had a baby in college and so I had one at 20 and I thought you know what let's let's do this again at 40 so who's that's Dan's dream also it's like running for mayor let's have another one at 40 so Look, Belichick has shown us we could still do it like 20 or so years from now. She's totally in it for love too. I know.

I can see it. Yes. Loving relationship. Yeah, totally in for love. Yeah. Well, I mean, Trump did. Trump did it. So.

He, I mean, yeah. I mean, some of his friends apparently did more than that, you know, maybe he went a little bit, even kept going younger than that. But we're on, we're on the street. We're on the street. Well, it's great to talk. to you, man. It seems like you're just, you're living life, creating a community down there. And it's, it's fun to catch up. So I don't know, let's pick some football games sometime or

something and good luck. Call me. If you want to talk about that shitty owner in Dallas, we can talk about his dumbass too. So, uh, yeah. You talking basketball? Yeah, which one? No, I'm talking about that. I'm talking about that circus freak over for the Cowboys. I just, yeah. This is our year, Greg. This is the year. This is the year. They got the draft. It's not. All year will be the day he dies. I wanted to go, I wanted to go get a damn,

a billboard down by the stadium and say, Jerry, thanks for 30 years of shitty football. Please fire the GM, XO, XO, the fans. I just, it irks my soul that he can't,

that he won't get his ass out of the way. It just, you know, the only, the only, you got me going now, now, now,

the only thing constant about the Cowboys since their last Super Bowl is, dingleberry Jones and it just it and you hear him get on there and I want to say Jerry nobody gives a shit about what you have to say sign the checks and get the fuck out of the way but if you listen to this great good no he loves it that's the thing he loves people talking about him doesn't he doesn't care did you ever see the did you ever see the interview with him and Dale Hanson oh yeah he said Jerry say name another team but hire you who's the gym and he got up well yeah

I don't know. It's all you need to know. 13 times they've been to the playoffs since their last Super Bowl and won four games. Hmm. So I don't know. Well, thanks for that blindside shot at my football team there, Greg. It's been great catching up with you. Oh, hey.

It's as much my football team as is yours. I was born in a star on my head. Let's stick it out. We're going to be back. And listen, if you're in Mount Vernon, stop in, right? Tag's hometown. It's a great spot. Please stop.

I'm there most of the time. How many drinks do you have in the car? I've seen you drink at least two different drink. What are we doing here? I'm like that. One of them is just tea that it's a tea that I get from the store. And the other ones that my wife got me a, what do they call these refresher things from Starbucks? So, and the funny thing is I don't drink alcohol, but I'll sell it to you.

Yeah. Yeah. Don't drink alcohol. Same. I don't drink. You did fit in Utah, didn't you? yeah i don't drink at all yeah i've got six five kids say hell yeah but i'm not a wait when in rome all right

i'm not catholic or Mormon so y'all have a good one hey call me anytime i'll bullshit with you all sounds fun let's do it we'll talk soon there he goes he is i got mayor of mount vernon it's greg oster tag now greg oster tag he would uh never do you wrong when it comes to taxation he's a leader you can trust but that's not the the case with all of them. Ownwell is going to help you save on your property taxes. Dan, it's ownwell.com slash the dumb zone. My email's been blowing up. Same. Mine's hot.

Blowing up. Let's see. J.R. says following up from last year, I just got my property assessment after Ownwell did its thing. This represents another $30,000 in my favor. They've reduced the property assessment more than 60 grand over the last two years. I would not have tried this without the Dumbzone sponsorship. That's from JR. Unbelievable. And I also, I don't know about you personally, Jake, but I got an email from Owenwell where they cut the value of my house down by almost $100,000.

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All right. Yeah, yeah. Okay. The dumb zone. Well, whatever. I don't know if you paid attention to what happened in the Oklahoma game yesterday. But they planted your job. Jersey midfield and stuck a flag through that. What's up when you catching some strays there?

That's just a kid from Austin, Texas. They went to Oklahoma and won his last two Red River games and being rent-free in their heads for almost a decade now. So, yeah, that's a good feeling. You're listening to the Dumb Zone. Thanks so much to profits and outlaws for joining us in studio to promote the fact that they will be there at the Dumb Zone generic summer. events. June 6th at 6th. It's brought to you by Community Mechanical, Qualus Roofing,

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Trying something new. And you're not here. And I can't really fully investigate. on my own, but you know how he's been hanging out with a bunch of seven and eight-year-old swaggy kids? Yeah. He'll play baseball. He appears to be in some way adopting their swaggy haircut.

He's got a shag thing going on in the back. Some micro-mullet. Yeah. Yeah. Modern mullet. He's got the modern... Can you hear me? Yep.

Mm-hmm. Okay, I just want to make sure. Air pods. I think it looks great. But turn your head. He'd have to take his headphones off. Which is fine. And really, yeah, you can see there.

Just kind of short on the sides and then long on top and back. Please don't take. Wow. He's got the... Did you take a picture of somebody, like famous that he brought? No. I just said just like a little one on the sides, blend it up, leave it long on the top and bottom.

I've also started putting my shoes on my bats and my back bag. Yeah. Right. These kids know what they're doing. Did she, right when you told her, did she go, oh, the dude perfect? No. I would have changed my mind. Oh, it's the Tyler.

That would have changed my mind. Well, that's a piece of viewer mail I have, Dan, is that I'm viewing a different haircut from Blake, and we haven't brought it up. It's four days in. We were going to do a few more viewer males, if that's okay with you, Dan. Sure, man. I got one I can start with from Kyle. This is about, so who's the new? Mavs, Puba, Grand Puba.

Messiah, you sherry. All right. This is from Kyle. It's dictator Dan and leader Blake. While discussing the Messiah hire, Jake claimed Africa is the, quote, global leader in parables, passages, and passing on of simple wisdoms. Then he gave the example of Hakuna Matata

and nothing else. A phrase, no one outside of, of Africa knows for any reason other than a 30-year-old Disney movie. I request literally one other parable passenger simple wisdom we can garner from the global leader in said fields. Like, don't you always think of the, you don't have to be faster than the fastest cheetah, those fastest, whatever, the gazelle. Obviously, I'm not, I'm not making my case great here, but I feel like speaking in

like animal allegories or, you know, it's, you know, where it's, it's, it's windy, at the top of the mountain, like these sorts of things. It's, I might be because he brought one up during the thing. That's what got us going on it, right? Yeah. Besai did. Yeah, and he just said he's going to bring the spirit of, the winning spirit of Africa to the map.

Well, I've got a first down of the day. This is from our man downtown, who said, let's see, going on a flight, had a couple layovers on all four flights. There were people bringing way too big of bags to be checked. And so he thinks this is a ploy to not pay for bags. You bring a bag through the TSA that you know is going to be way too big to fit in the overhead. Get to the overhead and say, ah, this is not going to fit.

You're going to have to put it under. You get to fly your bags for free. This is Dan's mom's bit. Yeah. My mom does this every time. And then she will take it even to she'll wait even after her group is called. Like she'll go on last. Because then even if the ruse isn't like if they're like, oh, this could fit above.

Oh, actually, we're full now. We're going to have to throw it under the plane. And she's like, oh, really? Okay. Do you have to fake it? I think you should have to fake it. I got a MAVs one too. People are just mad after that press conference.

It's from Mason. The Dumonts and Maasai still fail to realize that the fans that are still fans aren't crying anymore. I've been crying since February 2025 because I've totally removed the Mavericks, who used to be my favorite professional team, from my life. They don't understand that apathy is worse than anger. If they had one million diehard MFFLs pre-trade, I guess that there are 500,000 remaining, and they aren't crying anymore. The other 500,000 have moved on to a different team, root for Luca, or don't care about the MNBA at all anymore.

Fuck these idiots. We really need to get MNBA going, man. That's the best thing going. I've been thinking a lot about what to do with the old Mavericks, but I got nothing concrete. They're going to be good, man. They're going to be really good. Great. Maybe.

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Definitely. Yeah. You were physically abused and you were going to wear that as a badge of honor now. So really, why don't we abuse our kids? Since we use it as this is great. Right. How much better I am than you? Here I was walking him down the hall to brush his teeth for the 10th time after I've told him for a hundred time.

And I was thinking, here I am doing a good deed, breaking generational trauma or whatever. Wait. All the old used to say the same thing and now we're all saying the same thing. Yeah, but you're hitting them less. and you're probably yelling at them less but it probably does give it away if you just didn't rub their face in it you know

like oh it could have been a lot worse Yeah it renders it moot My other gummy thought Which is worse is In order to spell secretary You gotta start with secret What are they hiding? Is that the origin of the name

The origin? Yeah what is the origin of the Secrets? That's not a bad thought. What is the origin? Yeah. Medieval Latin secretarious, meaning a confidential officer clerk or quote one entrusted with secrets. Okay.

Confidential, yeah. Yeah. Nice. A rare gummy thought that's actually right. That's very good. Where I put my wiener is the secret between us. I actually. That's right.

Or you ordered those flowers. I didn't order them. for my wife you know gosh no doubt Shane and Collieville has a gummy thought unless you're still following up on this cake and my slight delay has hindered that well just a real quick one while we were talking about secret secretary this guy John

here's a new WHL who's running some AV stuff he said for a speech and debate tournament it was held in a different place different city the the tournament had a group there called security but it was spelled S-E-Q-U-E-R-I-T-E, like queer, which was there to enforce a safe space for all LGBT-Q-I-A participants. Secreity. Security, security.

Great. That's great. But if I call them that, I'm, it's bad. I know. What are we doing? Ridiculous. Dan? Once again, the straight man.

Ironically, taking it in the shorts. Shane and Collieville's Gummey Thought, I recently read a story where there was a guy convicted of a somewhat minor crime. He was sentenced to two years probation with credit for time served. He actually had some time served. This got me thinking,

I don't have much going on in life right now. Why can't I head over to the prison from time to time, knock out a handful of days served here and there. That way if something does go horribly wrong for me in the future, which it inevitably will, I've already got at least a few months in the can. Or in the bank. I like that.

That's Shane. I think that's fantastic. I think it's kind of like Danny trying to get a liver ahead of time to just put on ice. That's, maybe you could go bank it. Maybe you could sell it. You'll go do a little time ahead of time for somebody and sell it, like carbon credits.

or yeah what am i doing i'm not doing anything dude i not tell you what too i saw i don't remember what we ended up deciding to call him alex murdock between murdoch murdaw uh he's in the news i don't think we're gonna it's a you know a conviction overturned on appeal he'll be convicted again but the upshot of what i'm telling you is he looks great really looks like he's trimmed up, cleaned up his diet. He looks the healthiest he's ever looked. So maybe you go in and get a little time served whenever you want to do like a juice cleanse or something and you get ripped a little for a week.

Your whole 90 in prison. Right. Do that and then come out fit. I got to tell you, speaking of that, so I'm thinking maybe, you know, he's getting three good meals a day. He's getting to bed at a certain, you're right, on time. Routine. Like he's he's forced, but yeah, he's in a thing. So my wife, I was talking to her the other day.

I've been on this road trip now for eight days. And, you know, I'm telling her how terrible it is and how I miss her and I wish I was there and everything. You know, because you're supposed to say that stuff. Uh-huh. Yeah. And she's like, oh, yeah, the dogs really miss you and blah, blah, blah. And I kind of was thinking about it. And I said it as a joke, but then I was thinking of it. I go, yeah, I'm really, it's terrible being without them, too.

Like, I can just sleep eight straight hours and, like, you know, there's no noise in the hotel room and, like, you know, nobody's grabbing the covers or anything. She's like, oh, that's mean to say, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, ah, I'm just kidding. But then, as I woke up this morning, like exactly eight hours from when I fell asleep, it was, it was, I don't know, man. Yeah. Pretty glorious. Yeah. I don't know why people burden themselves. You know, I've told you, my dad is beholden to those two dogs. It's like, dude, once the kids are gone.

It's not just the dogs. She's not really quiet at night. You know what I mean? Nobody's... Yeah, that's true. I mean, yeah. Having your own bedroom is something, man. I guess I haven't had my own bedroom in how long, you know? Damn, sounds great though. But that's, I'm Murdoch.

I'm Murdoch. I'm the same, you know. Like I'm out on probation now, but I'll be back. Yeah. I'll be back. Yeah. I have a sports gummy thought. Okay.

That might just be common knowledge to you. But this whole like AI thing, like, they're trying to get to know you, right? It's a new form of data. Like, the more you talk to it, the more it learns you and your behaviors. Is the NFL hiring AI quants to, like, get a better hold of how coordinators call games? Yeah, well, there's, and I don't, I'm way out of my depths here, but they have, like, machine learning, right? So they'll feed, there's a thing every year they do called the Big Data Bowl. Yeah, all right.

Very, a lot of pussy, just everywhere. And they have teams, they've been doing this for like 10 years. They have teams that will submit these projects, and they get all of the access to the NFL's tracking data. So they have all the models, like every play has all of, you know, there's 22 trackers out there, more because of the ball. And so they've modeled every play with those little dots. They, and they can eventually create like a mind, you know. And so, yes, there are, they definitely do that. You know, at the end of the day, though,

like the human is still relatively unpredictable. It's a small sample size. Like what are you calling in a game? 65 plays. Like at some point I don't know how much the edge is really like that much of an edge. But what I do think they use it for is compiling huge amounts of data without having to go through. Because like dude, when my brother, when my brother was just out of college and he would come over to my house on Saturday and have to do this, he would have to hand chart like four college games.

So every snap he would have to write down, and I would help him, because it's not hard. If you know what you're looking for, it was not that detailed of data. But every single snap, you'd have to write down, you know, the number of defensive backs, the number of defensive tackles, the alignment, the number of receivers, run, pass, fake, boot, whatever. There was like a list of 30 things on every play. Yeah. They don't have to do that anymore at all. So, yeah. I'm ambivalent about how to deal

I think to make it work really well it really does have to get to know you which is the tricky part about it because I talk to it like an assistant Yeah but You talk out loud? No But I'll say I'll ask it questions like

Oh if somebody were to ask you this This person were asked this question interview like Howard Whatever It's creepy dude It's really creepy but are you like um polite to it and stuff do you speak or do you just give it command i i am no i talk to it like shoddy i'm like i bet bro like i just wanted to think i'm cool all right just help me out a lot let's call that viewer mail for today and let's move on to tell you about our good friends at warby

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Here's Jake with the dumb zone news. So there's a lion and gazelle and uh anyways a witch and a wardrobe a woman's body was found in a freezer over the weekend in Dallas so this is a vacant home in the cedar crest neighborhood and i guess if you're the type who is unhoused and might stay in a vacant home while you're there check the fridge right

You're already in the home. You might as well see if they left any Capri's Sons or anything. Any hungry mans? That's who found it. Correct. Yeah, so we're looking for Nighthawk. Committing a crime. I know.

It's like the cops episode where you call, where the guy calls, and he's like, yeah, they stole my weed. Yeah, would you tell him that? Well, this good unhoused Samaritan did. somebody was inside the vacant home discovered the body in the freezer they had to thaw the body to identify it at the microwave

yeah they put it on thaw defrost what an inexact science boy there's no doubt about that speaking of inexact sciences we got some robotaxy operators under investigation in Dallas for crashes crashes. I don't know if you guys saw the Waymo video the other day, but...

There's more than one. They're piling up, and we have to just ignore this. That's what I'm, my positioning statement is going to be, and I guess what I could do is just not do the story, but they are being like investigated by the city now and possibly, you know, could be shut down. but you just have to break a few eggs, right? Like our disposition just needs to be, compare it to human crashes. Yeah. I saw a limo the other day. Driverless limo?

No, no, no. Oh. But this is why we don't see limos anymore, right? Rather than pay for a limo to take you and pick you up, you just Uber. Or now Waymo. I miss the limo, is what I'm trying to say. Yeah, I bet you there's still a lot of people rocking the private driver. Yeah, but they're in an escalate or something.

Yeah. Give me the longest car you have. You ever been in a limo? Yeah, Bachelor Party Night. Yeah. It was fun. I think I've done it two or three times. It was always a prom thing.

Yeah, we didn't do it then, but I took a Hummer limo. Strong. When I think it was my buddies, maybe it was his 15th, 60s, 16th birthday. We took it to Taco Bell, and then we took it to Amin G. Carter to watch Ladeney and Tomlinson rush for like 330 yards. Nice. And then we went home. Not a lot of limo was your bachelor party. You said bachelor party? You did a limo? What did you do? We started the night at Bob's, of course, and then just went to downtown DeBellum area. Got some trouble. God, this is true. Bar hopping, you know, typical stuff.

I was the drink of the night, because I know you're about to ask, we were putting vodka in Mountain Dew Baja Blast. Yeah, been there. So a couple buddies throwing up green. It was good. Good night. Dude, I remember I was drinking something the night of my 21st birthday that was called like a cement mixer. Ugh.

I think it had like Kalua in it and it was supposed to, it was so disgusting. So disgusting. Southwest Airlines in the news today, they've been in the news quite a bit recently with the repeal of bags fly free, of being able to pick your own seat. Well, now... Yeah, what now?

Another freedom that they have taken away from you is your ability to bring your human or animal-like robots in the cabin on Southwest flights. And as David Cross would say, about laws regarding the age of which you can have sex with a person. They had to have this because somebody messed it up. They've been having a number of situations where people have caused delays by bringing their effing robot on the flight. I guess I haven't seen this.

People are walking around with robots? Yeah, there's a company called Bebop that rents them out. It's a little robot. that like serves you drinks and dances and stuff. Everyone thinks that they're going to get on here and be like the kid at school who showed up with new shoes that he thought everyone would love. And everyone's like, those shoes suck dick. That's exactly what it's like here. Oh, look, I'm going to bring my robot on this plane.

And you got on there and everyone thought, that sucks. Yeah. We don't want it. Those moon boots aren't cool. I think also the concern, you know, because they're trying to BS you and tell you that you're self-exed. phone is some guy going to morph into Muhammad Ada and bring the plane down? So, yeah, the robots got electronics in it that are well beyond the cell phone battery. So shout out to robots.

Still bring your real doll? I feel like we had a moment, you know, for the real doll and it just sort of went away. Yeah. What happened to that? And all the VR general, yeah. The end again. Yeah. Bravo is launching a new reality show.

Real Housewives of what? Well, it's not quite Montana, but I do think Prophets and Outlaws and Quaker City could find themselves as backing for this new Real Wives, Real Housewives series, Secrets Lives, or Excuse me, Secrets Lies, Texas Wives. and that is about the hill country. It's centered on a tight-knit circle of glamorous women as they raise families, run ran ranches and farms, and manage sparkling social calendars, and a town rooted in rodeos and traditions. None of that's true.

They're in Bernie. That's where I look for my rodeos and traditions. My culture is not your costume. But, Dan, they do say in this story that there are new state laws in Texas and more coming to like expand and broaden the TV and film industry. And as much as we, as much as he's just adult dude perfect, they say that Taylor Sheridan has a lot to do with this.

Like he's got people in charge and he's got friends in high places. And he's making a zillion TV shows and they're scratching his back. how do they pick these people which people to be on the show yeah yeah that's a good question I mean

I would imagine it's just sort of the charity circuit you know this rich person knows that one knows this one knows that one knows this one and then it's going to be bad

they're all bad the over whatever ification of America like I think I've lived through three of them now beards bacon and Taylor Sheridan

the three bees yeah I mean it's tough for me to really argue with you that at least from your perspective I would say I could see how you would think that this is an unsolved one that pops up in the news every now and then

but you guys remember the story that we've talked about a handful of times of a missing six-year-old boy in Everman and it's seemingly like every year there'd be a story where they would be back out digging something else up at this place. Oh, he was buried under the concrete slab or something? They believe so. Yeah, he's been missing since 2022. And if you remember, this was a real unique international flavor story.

Okay? Because the mom, the woman in question here who is accused, her first name is Noel. Oh. Or no, excuse me. That's his name. My bad. My bad. Noel's mother is Cindy.

Her last name is Rodriguez Singh. She's a two hemisphere star. I'm interested? Yeah. So she's from here, but she married someone from somewhere else, and they believe that they skedaddled. India, I believe. That's where she was indicted.

So they were back out there digging up dirt in the backyard of the home And the media saw them leaving with tarps But like I don't know how many times do you have to go back and look Although that's you know literally every single time my wife is like go look again I'm like why do I do this to myself why didn't I just look good the first time I know I'm gonna find it and she if I don't she will Yeah, why don't that and that's even worse yeah so much worse So much worse.

Why can I not just find it? But yeah, they were back at the same home. Yeah, I don't know. It feels like that you probably never... You're probably never solving that crime, right? Well, I mean, the Golden State Killer thought that at one point. Yeah, that's a good point. There's always a chance.

It's not really. No, I mean, there's Whitey Herzog, you know. No, but that's how, that's how psychological terror works, though, right? I mean, I think that's my deal. I don't know that I'd ever be able to live normal again if I got away with a crime like that. I think I'd be too pussy. Like, I'd be crying all the time. I don't think I'd be able to live a normal life.

Just on the off chance that I'd be, you know, one of the ones. I think I would have tasted the sweet taste of, you know, domination to see a life snuffed out in front of me. I would probably go for it again. A man in Bryan College Station was arrested after a high-end electric scooter was stolen from a college station home. Now, this is a story because when they arrested the guy, they discovered that he was running an illicit chop shop, which is something that certainly I guess you imagine is out there happening, but you're not really thinking about it. For electric scooters? Yeah. He was in operating an illicit e-bike scooter and moped chop shop in Bryan.

That has to be the lamest thing to steal. It's really dorky. The thing in particular that they got him on is a Segway Pro GT3. Oh, not the GT3. Did you imagine busting in and thinking you're badass, then you get on it? It's so funny. You just imagine, like, the chop shop of old, and it's like these guys are getting burned by exhaust pipes and welding masks, motorcycles.

Metal's playing in the background. They're like, welcome to the Chop Shop, bitch. And this guy just has, like, his vape and, like, a couple of, like, little screwdrivers. He also sells Pokemon cars. Yeah. Yeah. And they're like, oh.

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Because you know they have the at like kid places now, Dan? They have like a chill out zone, like a sensory free zone for ADHD, whatever. But don't we need something like that at the summer event? like a safe space for you to go in and the WHL zone right right where you're just going there and everyone tells you that your tweets are good and they don't you want a discovery zone for

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Because I'm married! Mm-hmm. I haven't even had the chance to give her a good moosing in years. My leaders are Dan being willing to watch anything except what I recommend. Extras and music videos for every time I die and opening a can of snakes

into another can of snakes. I'm hoping for the night in the DZ hotel room for my birthday, looking forward to the single beer in the fridge. That way even the addicts can have one. That is. That's perfect. That's what our hotel room has. One beer. Shout out to my friends in the fellowship of dumb and always put your swamp cooler on the roof. Never punt Rich B.

I can't recall if I told you guys this, but I was on YouTube the other day. He referenced something in there that Every Time I Die video. It was a band that we used to go see and we were extras in one of their videos. But I was looking at, I was playing Carter one of their videos. and you know how it says the date of when it was uploaded and if it was more than this year it says three years ago, five years ago, this video was uploaded nine years ago. It said 19 years ago.

So we just have YouTube videos that you look at and it's like this was uploaded 20 years ago. It felt like when YouTube came out we were getting a new thing every two or three years. Same with Twitter, Facebook, just MySpace. We're now here to where it's just, oh yeah, the thing I'll show my kids, that's what we watched videos on too. Yeah. It's in 360. Weird. Right.

Oh, it looks terrible. 15 frames. Greetings, great hero of the hymen. I know you are far away in the lands of Ohio seeking your vaginoplasty. I was hoping you could shout out my brother in arms, William Daniel Simone, the second or third, not sure which. He plays in a fake band called the Clintonian. Oh. It pains me to say they're kind of good.

Better than kind of good. Hit him up for your party needs. Love Matt Malone, brother of the only ticket engineer that Blake wouldn't defile. Happy birthday, Dan. Let's see. They got a show... The 23rd at Harvest Hall? How about that?

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if he didn't get an annual shout-out. Wanted to wish Phil Pilo-Lopez a happy birthday. His leaders are the deaf, hot girl, and Jake's graduating class. And Jake and Blake shared soap bar and toothbrush. From Al. I don't see the problem at all.

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in 1643 Louis the 14th became king of France upon the death of his father, Louis the 8th. Louis the 14th was four. Bow down to your new king. Now, I would be... You wish we had that bit again?

Well, I'd be interested to talk to just a regular, schmegular guy on the street back then. Like, did he think, hey, this four-year-old actually, he could kick... Like, you know, we had that poll the other day that something like 35% of Republican men think that Trump could kick their ass. Oh, really? I didn't see that. It was some number that was a lot higher than you'd think for an 80-year-old man.

But did the four-year-old, like, did people think he kicked ass? Like, what did people think of it? They just thought it was divine by God, right? That's why we have to adhere to this because they had convinced. the masses that we don't want to be king necessarily. God has chosen it though so. Yeah, that's true. Let's just roll

with it. There's the chosen part. What's Carter doing if he's king? Whatever I'm asking, the opposite. In 1996, Green Bay Packers quarterback in league MVP Brett Farr reveals he has entered the NFL substance abuse program. But it was just with

one T though, our son. Still an amazing note. 1998, the hit sitcom Seinfeld aired its final episode after nine years on NBC. We did a watch, watch the final episode of Seinfeld with the Dan McDell show in Dayton. Any new bits for Weinfeld come out of that one. Oh, man. We should have a Weinfeld finale. There never has been one.

That's right. Let's see. In 2003, more than 100 immigrants were abandoned in a locked trailer at a Texas truck stop. 19 of them died. Truck driver Tyrone Williams was later sentenced to nearly 34 years in prison for his role in the deaths. Oh, yeah. Wait, how many were in there originally? 100. 19 died.

Okay. Now, I don't want to be part of that survivor. No. Yeah, you're four out of five people in there. No, and I'm not positive the ins and outs here. My guess is that Tyrone Williams was not exactly the lynchpin of the operation that got 100 people in there. Now he has to serve 30 years? No, 13 others indicted in the case.

Yeah. And then finally in 2004, Jake surely woke up hungover because last night, the multiple Emmy-winning NBC sitcom, Frazier, bowed out with an hour-long finale. What were you doing that night? Were you hosting a contest? Watch the Fraser finale with Jay. Emergency podcast. Well, after the letter I wrote before that season started, they had actually flown me out to kind of consult on the final season.

So it was all I could do not to tell everybody about what they did with Niles at the ending when they had him join ISIS. Birthdays today, current Dallas star, Wyatt Johnson, is 23. That guy rules. I think he's your next El Capitan, right? Former Cowboy Jeff Heath is 35 Extra point Almost killed a guy

On punt coverage Yeah His uncle used to tweet it Bob That wasn't Jeff's assignment on that play Rob Grankowski's 37 Yeah Yeah swear to God Gronk

Heard his hamstring playing flag football Very common to see his him and his family or, you know, Chris and their family at the youth sporting events these days. Is he deflated? Like, was he doing roids and like now he's normal

kind of skinny guy? He looks pretty big still. Yeah, he's, he never got big enough, big enough to where, yeah, I think he's just big. He's on some stuff, but. Frank Gore is 43. He finished with exactly 16,000 yards rushing. That's very cool.

Is his son? Still employed? Don't know. Al? He's on the bills. Frank Gore Jr. Clay Matthews is 40. Mike Quick is 67.

He's the Eagles color commentator. Yeah. He has what I can really only describe to you, Dan, and I don't know that I could support this with enough evidence, but he's got what I call

black guy with a mustache voice. That means you can trust him. When you hear Mike, I don't know if it's that you can hear the mustache, but somehow there is a voice, and he's got it. That booth is great. Today's War Games winner, Dennis Martinez is 72, War of 48.7. Dan, Susie Culber, 62.

Wow, that's older than I would have thought. What's your note on her? Well, certainly What's his name? Joe Namath You know, famous interaction Where he wanted to kiss her And he was wasted

Which is, you know, I feel him, right? Yeah. You get wasted. You're ready to kiss. And then the other one is I got real up close with her At one Super Bowl

And she has tennis ball face A little fuzzy Just the little tennis ball fuzz All over her face. I'm not against it. No. I love tennis balls. Tim Roth is 65 from Reservoir Dog.

Reservoir Dogs. Reservoir Dogs. Kate Blanchett's 57. Amber Tamblin is 43, married to David Cross. Amber Tamblin. She in... She's a... She's some kind of an actress, right?

Mark Zuckerberg is 42. Oh, yes. Wow, that's pretty young. Smoking these meats. Smoking these meats. Didn't he just build the most expensive house on planet Earth? He has a statue of his wife in his front yard. Yeah, because that one doesn't talk. I hope someone is super nice to him.

Or he cheated on her. Here's that video. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry, sorry. Let's see, were we talking about this the other day where you're almost not allowed to think Sabrina Carpenter is attractive because you saw her as a Mickey Mouse kid. Here's one from my generation. Miranda Cosgrove is 33.

Miranda Cosgrove. Who's on Icarly. Oh yeah. This person is forever 13 to me. Yeah. I've seen this person as an adult and they still look like a child to me. These meats here are a little meat. smoking it's smoking so I'm the meat chef yeah someone asked me do I smoke meat smoking

meat smoking these meats smoke I'm sorry I hate that guy so much I just was he was he trying to shop is Mark Zuckerberg during COVID he's just like sitting there with a smoker yeah I'm smoking these meats yeah I smoke meats yeah I'm smoking meats you're because you're a normal person right just a normal old guy George Lucas is 82 Brunig Brunig Brunig's been battling people online

about the value of intellectual property It's fun to watch He stays busy In the full let's see Robert Zemeckis is 75 Director of Forrest Gump Thank you Blake

Thank you And he wrapped up his career on blues clues or whatever else Had he worked had prepared him I think he can just put his feet up after that. Can't get much better than that. Born on this day, now dead. Let's go.

Bobby Darren. Don't worry. Roy Halliday. I think you have the wrong person there, but go ahead. Bobby Darren. Roy Halliday. Bobby McFerrin, yes. Roy Halliday, was he the little plane?

Yeah. Oh, man. So he's like painkillers, too? Was he on something? He's on a lot. A lot of stuff. He did not sign with the Texas Rangers because he didn't want to pitch in the heat. Hmm.

But now we don't have heat and we still suck. Now we can't hit. Clayton, Big Van Vader's born on this day now dead. Hell of you. And Tony Saragusa died on this day in 2022. Man, he was great on the broadcast. Was he a good player? I don't even remember.

Yeah. but it was like, you know how it is. It's just like with the Bears. Or, I don't know, maybe Great a show on turf a little bit. But anytime you get a unit that everybody's like, go-go-go-gog. Seven-deep on that unit, they become famous. Yeah. So the Ravens' defense just had a bunch of guys that everybody knew their name.

And he was one of them. I feel like Moose Johnston hated him on the broadcast, though. I think it was not hard to read it that way. Yeah. But it was a weird bit though, right? It's the same thing as Booger. Like, okay, we're going to get a third guy. And he's also a former player.

But also, he's not up here with you. So kind of figure it out. Like, okay, well, is he below me? Like, does he talk before me? What if I want to be on the field? It's a weird setup. That's why they just have to make it a woman. That might be half the reason they do it

is so that the color guy doesn't feel threatened that somebody else wants to talk ball. Interesting. Because they'd put Goose down there and he would just be, do you remember it? He was awesome. Yeah, yeah. I was saying Blake. Yeah, he was doing bits on bits.

Yeah, he was great. Now they got Tom Rinaldi on one side, EA on the other. Tom Rinaldi has a bigger vagina than she does. At least he earned his way up. She is so much better on television than Tom Rinaldi. There's no way that you can hate women that much. That we, that you think that Tom Rinaldi.

Rinaldi is better on TV. I just don't like the person who was born on third base and said they hit a triple. Yeah, you peep-holed your way up. No pun intended. Congratulations. Now you get to bitch inside your $9 million house. How'd you marry that hockey player? Well.

She sucks. Dead on this day, still dead. Keith Ralph from the yard birds, electrocuted while playing an improperly earthed electric guitar. Damn, dude. It's kind of wild. I think that's great. because that proves that you have to do it. Right.

You know, because you would usually, do I got to do, this is stupid grounding? What is that? I'm not doing that. I'll just stand on this rug. That's crazy. I don't really, you know, I don't really know what any of it means.

No. Lyle Alzaldo, Elzado, football player and actor. Died at 43. That's sad. Do you know who that is, Jake? Because Blake is butchering his name.

Go ahead. Do you know who it is, Jake, or no? No, I'm looking to see. I recognize the face, but I don't. I'm trying to think of why I would know him. Oh, he was in earnest. Yes. 100% yes.

Damn. What does that mean? He's just a big guy in the earnest camp movie. But I honestly did. didn't know this guy was a football player. Wow. He was traded to the Browns late in his career. Lyle Al Zado.

He was a poster boy for steroids, too. Oh, yeah. Because he died, like, very soon after he retired, I think. My apologies to Lyle Alzado. That's okay, man. Frank Sinatra died on this day, as did Tim Conway. Dorf? Dorf on golf.

Phyllis George died in 2020 And our dumb zone death of the day Died at the age of seven Grumpy Cat And that was today in history You know Was that YouTube? Was that like a YouTube thing or a

You had to be right? Just a meme I can't remember how grumpy cat I think there's a movie That Aubrey Plaza might voice that I had to watch. That's so fitting. It sucked, dude. I say it sucked. You didn't have to tell me that. There were some parts I laughed, but it sucked in that, you know, it's making grumpy seem cool. And I'm like, I don't know, she's not ready for this. She's having an easy enough time being grumpy, you know.

Do we have Garfield to blame for that? God, I don't know, but I wish we could redo it, man. Grumpy cat's worst Christmas ever. Yeah. A holiday classic. That's what it is. I wish we could do away with all being sad as cool music or culture. Or the don't talk to me before I've had my coffee. Yeah. I hate it all. Like the fact that we've just like like, like kechified, like being in a bad mood and like kind of being bitchy. Like, what have you just acted nice?

We've been going through like old bad bits during COVID. That was the first one I think was I've been practiced in social distancing for years. Oh. All right, we'll see you tomorrow. All right, bye. Adios, mofo. We gotta go before this becomes a zoo. See you guys for drinks later.

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