The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 6-18-26 | Jamie Vardy documentary with our new friends from Sweden

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneJake spills a secret about what he's been doing with his free time the past couple months, somebody compared James Woods to Ted Williams, and we're joined by a group in from Sweden for the World Cup (00:00) - Open: Jake has been doing this behind our backs (20:54) - Sports: James Wood vs. Ted Williams (40:25) - Today in Twitter: Cincinnati was aware of Sorsby's account (01:02:30) - Big Thursday Viewer Mail Bag (01:37:13) - News: Londoner Pub welcomes Fire Marshall (01:51:35) - Untold: Jamie Vardy (02:04:04) - VM birthdays/Today in History (02:33:13) - Closing Remarks: Our new Swedish friends ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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you won't regret it our pros are the nicest we've got the best prices at flooring direct hello friends happy Thursday today we are not in the game day men's health studio that's in downtown

Dallas the fox 4 building game day dot on Zone.com. But we are broadcasting live to tape from high top my garage. The Dragon Den of Inequality. The CEO and the HR director are here as well.

I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jay Kim. I'm Blake Jones. Who do you see K? I also see T.C. around here. And then three dudes. It's a sausage fest in here. Led by Stephen Grantham. Right? Yep.

You're the leader? The self-proclaimed leader of these three people? Self-proclaimed leader. The American, yeah. You're the American? I'm the American. I'm the D.F. from Dallas. These are my boys in town for the World Cup.

We went to England, Croatia, yesterday. Was it awesome? It was awesome, for sure. It looked awesome. Yeah, it was super cool. Yeah. And where are these guys from? They are from Sweden.

Oh, both? Yes. Do they want to grab the mic? Got one there? Yeah. We're from Sweden, flew in, four flights, a bunch of hours. Far flights? I mean, back and forth.

Okay. And, yeah, he's definitely our leader because our English is too poor, so we need someone to kind of lead us through this wilderness. How do you guys know each other? How did you meet? Max and I studied abroad in an... exchange semester in Hong Kong. Heck yeah. Yeah.

That was 2010, right when the stadium opens up, actually. Nice. Have you guys been to international games elsewhere together before? You went in Hong Kong, I guess? Yeah, this is our third World Cup. Oh, hell yeah. No big deal. Whatever.

We went to the one in Brazil. Nice. Went like four games or three games. And then we went to the one in Russia. I think I went to like nine nine eight or nine games yeah so that was like a three-week thing love it it was sick what's the the cost in Russia compared to the cost here can you throw that mic near him at least probably spend the same amount of money for three days here as we did three weeks in Russia oh really yeah yeah it's crazy for three beers in

the stadium yeah ridiculous yeah At the Russia games, they had these beer holders when you were ordering beer. You could, like the holders had four at a time, and you could easily put four in your hands, so you could carry 16 beers at a time pretty easily. So stocking up before the half was pretty efficient. And, yeah, the beers were super, they were super cheap, like 16 beers to one AT&T Stadium beer. What was one AT&T Stadium beer these days? $20.

Yeah. $20 bucks for one beer. Man. We're not stacking it up, but they solved it quite nicely with having the quarters instead, so you have many more breaks to go and get the beers instead. So you guys like the quarter break? I hear some complaining about that. You don't need the cooling brakes because it's basically air-conditioned,

but they should just call it what it is, beer brakes. Yeah. Commercial break. It's money. for TV, yeah. It's money. Money all over the place. But I've just seen complaining about that.

You've tainted the beautiful game. This is not how God intended. Yeah, and I could see that, but I still think that... Football to be. What are they? I mean, I still think 22, 22 and a half, whatever it is, uninterrupted. That's pretty good. Oh, yeah.

No, I don't care. I like progress. We had to kill all the Indians. You know, to get the World Cup here eventually. Sure. It's true. that's true all right i'd like to hear more from them at the end of the show okay yeah for some closing remarks that is what we do um anything else that you want to do before we kind of jump into

things um let's see oh yeah we have a couple things so what was the the trip home like for blake on tuesday from broken boat did you go to your your water heaven i did not and what were you going to do you were going to drive from brokenbow oklahoma where um i was going to drive to garland county arkansas just outside of hot springs to see where mountain valley water is sourced garland county i pay taxes in garland county oh that's where the property is it's it's weird it's like a three dollar tax bill for this piece of property but the uh annual it's like also three hundred the HOA or something. So I just pay $300 a year for this tiny piece of crappy land that I'll never go to.

One day. Unless, yeah, if the coasts are, you know, if hurricanes and floods and everything takes everything else away. Or the Indians try to take it back. I got this great piece of land. It's high land, you know, on top of a hill. It's like a baseball fan going to Cooperstown, right? It's a landmark in the water. Yeah.

Or I want to see the game. live or something. I don't know. I wanted a shirt. I wanted to get a few bottles to take home. I'm a big fan of the product. I mean, people go to breweries, right? You travel hell. When I went overseas, you go to the Heineken spot when you're in Amsterdam. So you wanted to go see where they make this water. I did. And this was going to be the closest I was going to be in some time. And so when I looked it up the night before, it was like two hours, 15 minutes to get there, which I thought I could easily get there in under two. So if I left the show around 2.30, that puts me there at 4.30, then I got 30 minutes for fun activities before they shut down.

Fun activities at the water plant is what he's telling you. So we have a water sponsor here, of course, How Water. And to my knowledge, Howe Water has never been wrapped up in a class action lawsuit, the way that Spring Valley has, Mount Valley Spring Water has, with their allegations of unsafe contaminants, false advertising. Then you allege that it was like the purest water, no micropastics. I never said that. I said I enjoyed the water.

Brahma form suggests the use of undisclosed chlorine-based water treatment. That contradicts with the company's claim that the water has no additive. So basically your hero took steroids. One, and two, this information was sent to me by Travis, at community, of course. Why is he trying to take me down? Because of your weird, I won't get in the water stance. He went and looked at, he went and looked the water that we were in the other day. No way.

is where they source your water when they do it right. The spring is the exact same source. It's about 40 miles away. I was in the water that you drink. So when you are in the shower, do you ever think like, damn, I want to drink this water? No, it's for the shower. I like drinking sourced, filtered water.

I don't want to get in it. It's beautiful, clean water, and it's there for you. And you're also Mountain Valley Spring Water is a sham. It would taste great. The other thing that I want to, wanted to tell you guys about was TC, TC Grable Mike. So let's see how to put this. Maybe six or seven months ago, maybe about a year ago.

Six, seven boys. I started thinking about ways we could try to grow the show. I mean, I guess you're always thinking about it. And just, I don't know, shit I could do to, like, you know, you always want to learn Spanish. You want to learn piano. You want to learn whatever. So back in January, I started going to improv class. I started going once a week every week for three hours.

January, February, March, and it's like a 20-person deal. It's like a class. So there's two levels of it. You go to this class. Do we believe this, Blake, or are we setting up a bit? I believe it. Okay. And then I...

Just out of nowhere. He'll do this. But it's a skill I've always wanted to. to kind of learn. But he'll usually tell us. It was like a skill I wanted to learn. But also there's like the thing of we, we, I started working at the ticket when I was 18. So I've had absolutely no exposure really to the world beyond that.

I mean, I write, right. So those people I think sometimes don't know where I come from. But in general, everything I've ever done has been within the ticket sphere. So I was like, all right, I want to go try this. And I really enjoyed it. and I talked to a friend of ours, a couple of friend of ours, who had done some of this stuff like Brent Crable has done this, a few of our friends.

And so the next thing I did after that was I signed up for a sketch writing class at the same place. It's called stomping ground over in like the design district. At that point, I told T.C. Like, hey, I've been doing it pro for like three months. And there's the sketch writing class they offer because that's what I really want to try to like mess around with it's writing. That's what I basically always this boils down to to me, right? So I told him, we signed up

for it together. So we did that for like the last eight weeks or so. And it's like a writing class. You write monologues and stuff like this. It's super, super fun. And then the part that I didn't tell him was concurrently with that,

I took the level one stand-up class. And I've done a couple open mics now, including one like last night. Oh, wow. Yeah. And where? Last night I did it at DCC where we're going to do our... How has nobody informed me of these? Because there's nobody at a weeknight open mic other than the one I did before was like a bar. So who is it just the people that are doing the open mic generally? For the most part. Yeah. But it depends on, you know, now I know where they are. Like I've been in this class. If one of them has a new girlfriend, if she's been around for a couple months,

she's done. But if one of them has a new girlfriend. But so basically, like, I just started thinking like, okay, you know, and don't, this is, these guys are here on a weird day. We don't usually just talk about ourselves like this. But in my head, I'm like, I listen to a lot of stuff that comes from our market. And I'm like, we just got to figure out how to get this in front of more people. It's just when it's good, it's very, very good. And so I'm like, well, I just need to get in front of more people. That was part of it.

And then the other thing, too, was like, I just want to figure out where my stuff slots among people who consider themselves like funny and funny writer. I didn't do theater in high school because I was convinced myself I could play sports, right? I played football every year of my life, five to 18, and now until 40. What I should have probably been doing was this, because it's the only thing, really, that I've ever done. And you can ask TC, he's the same way that when we show up, we're the best people there. Like, I mean, it's not like the other people in our class, like they've come a long way, but subjectively or from my view. You've also worked in a creative job for your whole life. But I didn't know how that would translate to like people who.

And are these all young 20 year old, 20-ish? No, improv is, dude, and I cannot recommend improv enough. Doesn't matter what you do for a job. Does not, I mean, improv is a bigger, it's 20, maybe 20 people. And it is. Do you do yes and? I mean, it's the whole. That's the whole mantra.

But the thing with improv is there's nothing you have to, obviously, right? There's no homework. Yeah. But you do have to, like, be silly as fuck. Like, it's like having a kid. You know, that's the thing. I realize it's just like talking to a three or a seven-year-old. Like, you're going around a circle.

It's gay, gay, gay. Yeah. And I love it. I fucking love it, dude. So much so that I was like, I'm going to keep doing this. Man, he might be opening for Akash next year. And kind of see where it goes. I didn't think I would hear that in Texas.

I'm gay, but I love it. I love it, dude. I love it. No, I mean, you meet people that... I mean, it's a different world, dude, for sure, right? Like, you know, I don't think that we're going to meet a lot of fans of our shows in these classes, but maybe people who go to shows. And one of them I did.

I did one in Fort Worth at a bar last week. And when I was leaving this guy, two dudes stopped me, and they were like, what did you say the name when the show was? and they were really like the only two dudes laughing. But that's the thing, right? You take these classes and they're like, hey, you know, I don't know if that really, you know, what you're looking to do, but that's not going to work in front of a lot of people.

And I'm like, I'm not worried about those people. I'm not trying to get a white audience here. Your secret life is cooler now than it used to be. Yeah. Yeah. So like it's 6.30 to 9.30 or 7 to 10, two nights a week. and then you got to write. Damn, dude.

You got to write sketches. We have, we've had to, it wraps up this weekend, like the sketch performance thing. It's like a one-person play. Do you want us to show up? Where are you going to be? Where are you performing? You told them at the wrong time. I don't care.

I would have waited until next week. It doesn't matter. Your final exam is this week? No, I mean, we're going to be, I'm actually going to be out of town when the real one is, like, the stand-up one. Because it's next weekend and we are leaving. but it's fun. So what's a, what is it like just to show up to an open mic? I can't tell you because I took a class and wrote my fucking dick off for a month before I showed up anyway.

But I mean you show up, what do they do? You just sign up. Yeah, put your name on the list. Now, that's the thing. And you eventually get up there? That is the confidence. Well, there's an order. And that'll be released.

Some of them, you know, there's a link, there's a, like a spreadsheet that you can get access to. that has all the mics and the links and how to sign up. Like, they try to keep it kind of, I guess. On the down low? Like, it's on a Facebook page you have to get admitted to, so it ain't that hard. But some of them you just show up, some of them you put your name down. It's like karaoke kind of? I guess.

I just want to. Yeah. But there is an order way ahead of time. But the reason that I think I was prepared was not, I mean, you know me, dude. Like, if I'm going to do something, it may fail, but it's not going to be because I didn't, like, try to exhaust all. options, right? I'm reading books before I had kids. So does it help?

I don't know. But the main thing was, like, I took these classes, so I had figured out some joke formats how to do it. But the main thing was the guy who taught it who's awesome was like, you're going to show up and a lot of people are not going to have even thought about what it would be like to take this class. They're just going to get up there and talk. And that's what happens.

The stand up? Yeah. Yeah. Well, we ran into that a little bit. So just by having jokes, just by having jokes, you're already on. You're ahead of the game. For like 75% of people. Do you want to play Sean's right now?

I don't think we have the full. That's not who I was talking about. But we could. I think I might have actually found it the other day. It may have been. But that's what most people do. They just go up there and talk. It's really weird.

Maybe because most you don't understand what goes into it sometimes, and that's why it's so great, right? You watch stand-up comedy and you think, you might even think that's kind of easy doing the radio show, right? It's all kind of, you're just talking. Yeah. You're just getting up there. And I know a guy at my office who's really funny. You should do stand-up, dude. You're funny at the office.

Just go up there. It's just making people laugh. You're making people laugh right now. You do it all the time. Doesn't stop most people. But I met a lot of people who at the beginning of the classes I was in, I would not have thought could get to where they were. So it can help you even if, you know, I don't like register you as like, hey, this person's hilarious.

There's a lot of value in it. And the improv thing for sure. Public speaker, whatever. Dating, hell. That's awesome. Why did you choose this moment to release this to the public? Because I did one last night and it was my second one. And I wanted to, it's basically over.

Okay. Like I knew I was leaving town next week. You're going on tour now. Yes. That's right. I learned Japanese and I'm going with college mic. Dude, this is your bit. High school mic.

This is your bit. T.C. just said it. What? You have to go to an open mic in Hawaii. That would be so much fun. Yeah. You're in Hawaii, just anywhere you are. It would be weird if I hadn't already looked.

Do they have it or no? They have it, of course. That guy that came to the GSE, that he told, I haven't told it. That guy stood there and told me for 15 minutes about how he does stand-up. No, the guy who wanted to do stand-up at the summer event. Yeah, yeah. He works at the morning news, I think. Oh, I didn't know that.

He was involved with Sarah writing that article somehow. Yeah. Well, he had told me that when he travels for work, he just finds a mic. And I've heard of other people who are, like, sober who do this. Because it's just all about juice. So by saying that it means they didn't used to be. They used to be hardcore. Correct.

Correct. Or, maybe not, actually. A release, it's something. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, I think it's awesome. Like, it's ballsy. I'm afraid of stand-up.

I think it's very, very difficult. You shouldn't be. Trust me. You're a one-percenter already talent-wise in that game. You just have to figure out how to write the jokes. It's literally math, dude. It's like they hand you, I mean, obviously there's some art to it, but you already have the art part down.

They hand you like a times table almost, and you just figure it out. Like, where does this slot? Where does this slide? Just go up there and tell the presumptuous eight-year-old joke and watch the laughs roll in. Just the wave of awesome roll over me. Speaking of just being math, isn't that the case with fair lease.org? Fair lease, that's the way it's just math as far as some people are concerned. Like our guy Travis at Community Mechanical, we'll mention him again.

He's somehow managed to worm his way into every live spot that we do because he, got all his trucks for his business at Fairlease.org. So many that they're like, this is great. They kind of open up a business wing, so a commercial wing, because he found out they were leasing from, was it D&M leasing? It was. And he said, well, as soon as we're out of our D&M lease, we'll look at what you got.

And Fairle's said, well, let's take a look at it all right now. And it turns out it was such a good deal that they could buy them out of their D&M lease, hook them up with Fair lease. I guess they are owned by the credit union so they can get all the financing through. They don't have to go through a bank. There is no middleman. And the savings are passed on to Travis and you. And you. You don't have to be Travis.

You don't have to be Brandon Aubrey. You can just be any old listener. And you can call 972-705-4815. And ask for Connor or Nick. The website is fairlease.org. You can tell them the dumb zone sent you however you get there, fairlease.org. Fair lease, when you don't know what to do about a car. Because car stuff is hard.

You don't need a dealership, baby. It's good to tell you guys about that. I'm nervous. Oh, yeah, I like that. Hey, what's a slur for what you people are called in Sweden? Like, what would I call white guys? on your act? You what I mean?

Like, slurred to call us? Yeah. I don't know, man. Meatbon. Well, can you get me a water out of there and toss me? I was going to try to address you properly by your slur. And you know what? Hold on.

They're the ones who write the slurs. That's why I haven't said anything for six months. I wanted to get through the whole, like, process before every single thing that anything that I. Who are you working on your act? 100%. Oh, hey, funny man. He's already holstered a couple.

It's a couple. Okay. I just, and that fit, though, you're like, what's a slur for, you're right. For Swedish people. But, yeah. You can't have slurs for the people that write all the slurs, right? The whitest people in the world.

Listen, next in this series of me talking to you about this, and we'll need T.C. probably for that one, too, is just the whole water. Again, I hinted at it, but it's a different world. We're, uh, at the start of these classes, they might as well sit down and just stare a tractor beam right through me or me and T.C. and be like, why don't you be careful about what you say, Chief? Yeah, they won was... They could tell?

Well, they just look at you and they're like, do you suck dick? And I'm like, not yet. They're like, well, then you can't say that. And I'm like, well, I don't feel like that's how that should work. There's a lot of assumptions being made here. Grab me one of the blue ones, Euro-Tresh. Clearly we have bottles we can use and ones we can't.

Yeah. Well, we're running low on how water. They won a class was just kind of reviewing the 2016 DNC platform. Yeah. I'm looking over at DC like, all right, bud, what do we got? My parents were divorced. Highest tenet of comedy is like, you can't offend, right?

Well. No, it was all reasonable. I'm sure that there's people that do come in there being like, finally, my chance to say the N-word in a fun setting. It is gnarly. Some people let do let rip in a way where you're like, whoa. And after that, there was no time that we made a joke. No.

No. It was all fine. Well, that's great. Hey, to start sports, I have some audio. Let's go. Because a part of America 250, the Ocho is running some pretty wild competitions. When you say America 250, just the general idea that it's 2026? Yeah.

Okay. Haven't you seen those deals? You can get chicken nuggets at a good price? I have seen some deal. Well, I've been, the Ocho has taken some freedom here to show some competitions that I don't think are really suitable for TV. Because I came across the 2020, you know, I'm not going to say it, I'm just going to play it. Yep. This was on my TV the other night.

Moving on in our competition, Hunter Seagrest, also known as Chewy. He brings in his mouth and his blowing abilities here at the championship. he's pumped up there he go oh a little spit five inches and half his bum on his nose so good performance there by hunter moving out to our next contestant amber cheplick Remind ESPN. Wow. She's happy and she's riding on that crowd bringing her in. You know, it's good.

No hat, no whiskers here, so she's looking to perform big here. Yeah, it looks freshly shaving. That's awesome, Amber. See what she's got on her first blow here. She's taking her time. I like the breakdown, concentrating and taking your time. There it is. Oh, wow.

Yeah, she's taking this competition by Storm. Amber gets an eight-inch blow right there. This is eight-inch on her first blow. I think she's even a little bit surprised. Got some on the upper lip. Yeah. It's hard to blow a bit when you're smiling, but she managed it without a hitch.

Okay. Again, I don't think that's suitable for TV. No, this is... But I guess if you can fight on the White House lawn, you can show this on the Ocho. Okay. Let's pull the curtain back here. Let's just move on.

No, hold on. They actually did a bubble-blowing competition on ESPN for the sole purpose of generating innuendo and dirty sounds. That's ridiculous. No. I don't think that would happen. Not Disney. Think about how stupid that is, though.

And you know why? And T.C. tell me if this is something that's popular on TikTok. from the files of the ticket did it first. I've recently become aware that there's like a popular trend on TikTok that's just stitched together basically NFL dirty sounds. And it's hot chicks like laughing over it. And it's just audio that we've pulled over the years for the last 20 years. And it's just stitched together and some dumb bitch is like giggling over it.

And it's got 100,000 such and such. So you're alleging this is things that sound dirty that probably were intended to be. Yes, which makes it not, I mean, obviously what he did is funny with the beep, but in its original form. There's no way they would do that. If you can't blow, you got to go. Michaela Cooper, also known as the Lil M. She'll right up to the stage with the whole outfit, sunglasses, hat, camera, all the things you're not supposed to use during blowing. If you can get the bar enough from your face, you might be okay there, Frank.

So she looks like she's done this before, but let's see what tricks she brings to the table. Trying to keep that hat out of her vision. Here we go with the first blow. Ooh, a nice there, Frank. It's stuck on the glasses, but they let her pull it off. That can be kind of dangerous. I take them off for the second blow. This is the dumbest thing.

Got eight inches on that first blow. Okay. That second one looks like that one was identical on the sunglasses. Because they have found a more disgusting, sounding guy to narrate this. And I know the other guy's on Zoom where they couldn't get him there. How low rent. They had post game. My first round, I got nine and a half inches, I think, is what it ended up being.

That's the biggest I've blown that people were measuring. So stupid. That must be on purpose, no? Yeah. No way. No way. All right. Where do you want to go?

ESPN would not do that. There's World Cup. There's Sorsby. There's Coup follow-up. I want to lead with something weird that I saw in Craig Calcateras. Newsletter. A little newsletter this morning. Cool.

This was certainly not the main story in there, but this stood out to me. And it just made me think about the difference in Major League Baseball today. and his thought on it was this is a reminder that hitting today is harder than ever and then when I searched this little topic just to see if verify the truth of the whole thing it was a Reddit thread yesterday too because it was as of last night's game James Wood's wood he is on the nationals did you see this Blake

So he's 23 years old He's played basically two full seasons Because kind of a half season in his rookie year Played a full season last year And then we're about halfway through this year He has 310 major league games He has now faced More pitchers in his career than Ted Williams did

Ted Williams had 9,7992 career plate appearances. Yeah. James Woods has 1,300. So 9,700 to 1,300, they each have faced the same amount of different pitchers. And that's why, and this is like getting off into the weeds a little bit, but that's why I've always liked era-adjusted statistics, and particularly the ones that have a plus-minus, right?

So if you have a 110 on this stat, then you were 10% better than league average. You have a 90, you're 10% below. And that does a lot of the heavy lifting, but it cannot account for this, you know? It can't account necessarily for muscles. Like it can account for the changes in scoring and then your output, but within this, I don't think you think about how much harder it is to hit off of a guy now than it was back then. Well, it's interesting a little bit because we all then just now,

it's third time through a lineup, right, in a certain game. But that also is it not graded, is it not a gradient where the second time is also? Yeah, oh, yeah. Okay. Right. Third time through the lineup is in our vernacular because that's generally when people will get pulled because there's a pretty significant drop. Right. That first to second is not as significant or else we'd probably have way more, you know, guys just being yanked after two or three innings.

but what is the thought on if you face a batter so many times why is it that the advantage goes then to the batter? Because I think the thought is that during a single game, we can understand that. The pitcher gets tired, right? The batter, every at bat, they're not, they don't swing the bat against every, you know, every at bat. But the pitcher pitches every at bat.

So he's getting worn down the third time through. So obviously I've faced him. I see him more. I'm figuring him out this game. I'm going to do better within this one game. This stat then is at least alleging if the headline is hitting today is harder than ever, it's kind of alleging that the more a pitcher badder sees a pitcher that the better it is for the batter. because today's day, a batter doesn't see the pitcher as often.

Is that, do we believe that? Do you believe that, baseball Blake? Yeah, initially, yes, but then I was just trying to think back to the Maddox documentary where he... Like Tony Gwynne? Or the Bagwell thing. Like, you know you're going to face these guys again. Maybe you don't do this early or you do. But, yeah, he's setting it up for a future meeting, not.

just a future meeting in this game. Yeah, but on face value, yeah, seeing your reliever come in and throw 99, and that's the only time you see them. I would imagine that's going to be hard to hit him the first time. Yeah. But Ted Williams... Yes, if you're only going to run into a guy a couple times ever, you don't have a book on him. Yeah, Ted Williams seen the same guy 200 times.

But that picture doesn't necessarily have a book on you either. Right, which is why I don't want to make a blanket. It's going to be easier. But I would lean towards... Yeah, I would probably rather see the same picture over and over rather than different ones. And now it's not just that, you know, the number of pictures you see in a time span maybe times four or five, but they're throwing way different stuff. I mean, I don't know.

I assume that Ted Williams saw a little bit of movement, but not a ton. No, I think video helps a lot. Because, I mean, they know your weaknesses, you know, within a few ad bats. And so, yeah, they know your weak spots and pitchers know how to it. attack you, whereas back then, hell, I don't know. Yeah, you never, like, these things are always, they're out there, they're happening. It must be, there must be a million people you could pick to pull a stat out like this. But it's weird that that just happened last night, that, you know, now it stands out.

The, who was it? Udana's Haslam? Didn't they come up with something where if he ended up averaging, I don't know, 10 points a game or like he was going to be the fifth all-time leading score, something weird. By qualifying. Something, some weird, yeah, the stat thing. It's like, wait, actually.

Or who's the guy? Is it Frank Gore? That finishes like more, you know, rushing yards than, you know, Jim Brown and Franco Harris and all this kind of stuff. And you're like, uh, Frank Gore? Anyway. I don't like the raw stats. That's my little.

odd note then so let's get to some of your the sports that you wanted to bring up because i do have two sports topics that Ethan Strauss would pounce on that is my headline go for the things that i have i'd like to hear that oh would you okay one is um it's pretty quick but it's the san francisco giants pitchers not falling in line for pride night yeah and it is is my thought like I'm totally on board with the pride stuff love rainbows and think everybody should put anything in their mouth they want and then we could do innuendos about it on you know whatever but it is interesting that why can't you have a pride like they'll have certain nights that they don't have to dress up the players for though like if the players are just ancillary

to it let me say that if they had pride night and didn't tell them to wear this rainbow uniform, would those players still write Bible verses on their hat? They might, I guess. If it was just going on in the stadium. Yeah, because I don't know. It would make more sense to me that they would only do it in response to that. Like, that they wouldn't be that fired up.

Like, who gives a shit? Last night was Albertson's night tonight. You know, as long as it's not on my hat, not on my jersey, I don't care. Yeah. But I just wonder if, I don't know, everything's a message. Yeah, but at the same time, I mean, you know, it's just the fader, right? Like, you want more visibility to the event. So you put it on the hat.

If you don't put it on the hat, then, you know, fewer people know it's Pride Night. I don't think it's about the fader. I think it's about the money fader. Like, we could sell some of these hats. That's why, right? Yeah, that's probably true. It isn't like, I really want people to know about this event. Like, yeah, the San Francisco Giants, the people are going to know about your...

But is selling that many gay hats worth pissing everyone off? And, like, I would hope you'd have some sort of intentions of actually helping the community or awareness or something. Because I just don't think it's worth... How many gay hats are you selling enough to have the bullpen pissing and moaning for a week? Is it worth it? That doesn't seem... I don't know. It doesn't seem to make sense to me.

Yeah, I don't know. I did see one of the guys who had the most impassioned defense of their Pride Night was our new friend Mike Krucow, I think is how you say his name. Ace announcer? No, he's their announcer. San Francisco Giants. Yeah, he's the author of one of our new favorite drops. I don't know.

Player now. Time to drop trial. Oh, okay. Yeah. Didn't expect that from an old grizzled ball player, but. What is he? He's supporting, he's like Pride Night's great? Yeah.

Okay, well, that's, he's also a Coupe who works for the team. He said, I think he criticized the player, sure. We can play it. Go ahead. Yeah, I haven't heard it, actually. I just saw this story. Oh, this is too long. It's too long.

He just says he was disappointed with the response from the players. Make an AI one where he's like, what's wrong with shoving a eight-incher down your thing? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, the Rangers are obviously in the crosshairs of this every single time this comes up. And Greg F. and Abbott was tweeting about it last week. Like, hey, the Rangers don't have Pride Night and I'm proud of that. It just, I don't know. Oh, he did?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, in honor. That was after the tweet he had of him dunking a basketball in a wheelchair. Here's an honor of Pride Night. So known around the neighborhood has blown Manowski. As he brings his up here, he's ready. It's pretty sweet. His name is Romanosky.

They call him Blomenowski. He's got his blowing face on. I like that. He's serious. Checks over the crowd. Gets a lot more chewing in. Your thoughts, sir, Josh. Well, he knows his son's watching in the crowd, Frank.

And his son's going to follow in his father's footsteps. So he's got to put on a good show here today. Can't be outperformed by his son. It's a son and father opportunity here. Dumbest thing ever. All right, what else? Well, since I do mention, I'll get to my other topic that Ethan Strauss would pounce on, but I did mention that Mike Krukow or whoever you mentioned was,

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Frames that look great, they got sunglasses, prescription sunglasses. I know that's the route you went. You do it online, you can go get it done in the store. Great glasses, great price, and a nice little dumb zone discount for you at Warbyparker.com slash dumbzone. The only thing I wanted to add to the coop debate, which does appear to be fizzling despite my efforts, We're throwing stuff back out there. Yeah, I hope we don't need a reset, but Jake and Chuck Cooperstein have been arguing on Twitter.

I think it sucks. For one of those guys, that's not a really odd thing. He loves to argue with anybody about sports, but he did respond to one of the Dumb Zones' tweets, which was Jake saying, hey, it sucks that the Mavs and Stars are moving out of downtown Dallas. Yeah, and listen, I realized. Splitting it up.

Perhaps there's an inevitability to a lot of this, but the Mavs and Stars had both been threatening to break up for a long time. Midnight deals happen. Things happen. If Cuban were still in charge, I still think that it has a much greater chance these two teams end up working something out. And I'm saying he's not allowed to acknowledge that. Chuck Cooperstein is not allowed.

Correct. He came to us. I responded. I was reminded of something because, on maybe Tuesday's show, we were talking about somebody on the list of 100. This term came up. The list of 100. I might have remembered it is 50, but I'm not an author of the list.

But I said, we'll get back to that, and I never did. The reason why I come at Coop from a little sideways disposition early is the first time I ever met him in person, I was Bad Radio's producer. And Coop's always been pretty nice to me to the extent, you know, Coop's a nice person to anyone. He's kind of just a, you know, dry fella. The first time I met him, he came up and he was like, you work with Bob and Dan? And I was like, yeah, and he was like, the damn redoubt guy's an idiot. He just started ripping Dan, like, to me.

Now, obviously, I'd rather you do that than I guess, like, talk shit. But it was weird. And I was just like, you know what? Don't like that. People don't forget. And so to me, I've always just been like, you know, I don't, I don't know. And I told Dan, you know, if I've been in 50 fights in my life, those were, there were 200 I wanted to get into. But the 50 I got into, or one of my boys were like, you should go fuck that guy up.

So Blake sent me the text. I'm sorry. He's like, hey, look, Cooper replied to this. And at that point, it was like, all right, well. You feel like Blake was forcing you to do that? I feel like he wanted me to. I didn't mean like that. I'm like, all right, here's a guy who's been an asshole to Dan.

Now Blake's saying, look, dude, he's kind of messing with you a little bit here. And I thought, all right, well, and the list of 100 is, go ahead. Oh, I mean, Bob would, Bob coined it, I think. He did. It was people that thought they should be hosting with Bob. That there was a list of about 100 people in DFW sports guys that looked at Dan. And because they are. Because they were sports guys in DFW in 1999.

They are sports guys in DFW, but not necessarily entertainers, not necessarily people who knew how to do radio shows, but people who knew how to prepare a bunch of stats and talk and slick their hair back. And they listened to Dan and were like, what the fuck is going on? How is this happening? I should be there and not him. Yeah, and they carried it like that. You know, oh, Bob, Bob, you know, we respect Bob, but, you know, Dan, which whatever.

Do you want me to start writing the list and see if we actually get to them? Well, I mean, you can start. And many of these people are now our friends. I never cared because. Rick Renner was probably on the list of 100 folks. You know who doesn't care? The guy that is on there. Of course.

Why would that guy care? I know. But. In theory, I guess some do. I just to anyone who looked at my behavior and was like, well, it's a little aggressive. I just, you know. Okay. So there is a backstory.

He didn't draw a picture. of your wife on a napkin. But if he did, that guy's probably on the list too. There is no doubt. He might be patient zero. Right there. And then on the Sorsby front,

right there. There's three. Great pull. This won't take us long. So on Texas Tech, their departed quarterback's attorney went on the fan and said that, hey, Cincinnati knew he was gambling. They're the ones who you should be talking.

And that, like, made news, but that had been reported. So I don't know why Cincinnati's not getting more heat for this, but this came out back in, like, March or April. So, wait, they knew when they got him from Indiana. Correct. Okay. Well, I think it was that Cincinnati got an alert that he had started a fan. end dual account. Prize picks or something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, prize picks. And they talked with them and told him to knock it off and that was the extent of it. And then I think the lawyer is trying to spin that as, well, they got this alert. They should have been watching them. Yeah. That seems like a bit of a lawyer argument. And whose lawyers is this? Sorsby's.

Okay. Saying that at Cincinnati, they got an alert. So he was still, you know, running and gun and then are trying to. And then. What is the point of him saying that then? Well. To try to say Texas Tech, not bad? Layoff Texas Tech, who's giving us like $4 million?

That's definitely what he's saying. Yeah. Clawback. A lot of people did hit me up about Texas Tech's recovery center. And to the extent that I said anything about this, I was definitely wrong. And I guess colleges do this now. Like I do DM me a couple people. If you get to a point where you want help as an ad-a-a-all-a-all-a-comple-re people, if you want help

as an addict in college now, you can get it. Like, they have, like, basically mini rehab. Are there people who go to tech that aren't alcoholics? See, that's what I was going to say is, like, the reason I qualified as an alcoholic because I was 37, 30, I mean, years before, but when I was in my 20s, I was drinking the same amount as everyone else, and it was like, it was kind of... Right, at that age, though, what is alcoholic?

Right. Yeah, I... If we could take one... night off. Like, we would effort to take Sunday night off. Like, let's just not. NFL's on, though. Let's not go out Sunday night.

Can we do that, guys? Let's have a pact. And then we'd be out Sunday night. Yeah. And they know how to get your... Dollar, Wells. It was their fault. Right.

So, they do have... I mean, I used to think that about my kids. Because when I'd go home to visit for Thanksgiving or whatever, I mean, I'm spending time with my mom or family or whatever until... what, eight or nine at night, and then I'll just go out every night. And I'd be back home at one or two in the morning, hammered. Yeah. But that's what we did every night.

And my kids do not do that. Well, it's a good thing. That's a good thing. And it's a good thing if it's seen, that's true. If it's seen as like something that actually can be viewed as an addiction earlier, because definitely, I mean, in college, I probably, you could have figured it out then. But a lot of people are. like, hey, this is a real thing, and they didn't just have it because he was the quarterback.

They have an addiction center there. Like, do you know, don't you kind of diminish when somebody says, hey, I'm an alcoholic. I stopped drinking when I was 20. Don't you like, really? No, I do not. Okay, I always did. And if I did, I would not say it out loud to you. Did you used to?

I have no comment on this matter. Okay, I just saying what I used to. And what I used to is say, I can't believe those assholes are letting their baby cry on this plane. Yeah. And then now, after having a kid, you know, it's like, oh, I really feel bad for those people and that kid. Because there's all these 20-year-olds thinking like I used to that they're the assholes. Punch them. Yeah.

So this came, this came to mind for me pretty early on in the Sorsby thing. but, you know, I'm tech-adjacent by way of marriage and friends, so I feel like the tech fan accounts are a big part of my Twitter experience. One of the main ones pulled a major why Hillary lost this week. Do you have the image, Clayton? They had a, the name of their site was gambling gauchos. And they have decided that in the wake of this serious, serious matters, that they need to change the name of their website.

They'll be changing it to the Matador mailbag. Wait, why? However, given the recent Brendan Sorsby situation and the proliferation of sports betting among young people in our society, it is obvious that gambling has serious negative externalities for many. Out of sensitivity for these concerns. Sensitivity.

We will be rebranding. It's a fucking blog. This is not, what are we talking about? I think the word externalities using it. Oh, my goodness. Look for Shottie. Shottie will hit us with externalities at some point. We can't control those.

Wait, that last line is fake, right? Oh, then maybe I got it ballside. It says presented by Draft Kings. It does. Oh. So this whole thing is fake? Good. I don't know.

I'm glad to stick it with gambling gauchos. I was horrified for a second. If it is a sports betting blog, then they probably do have a sponsor. It's not necessarily a sports gambling blog. I did get ball sack, didn't I? Yeah, it says presented by draft games. Good. Good.

I'll take it. What is real? What is real? Man, I don't know. Have you seen how they got Freddie the World Cup guy? That's all, there's something going on there, man. It ain't good. It's a plant.

Wait, who's that? The German guy, Freddie. He's like real popular on Twitter right now. The guy who's like loving Buckees. Yeah, yeah. There's something. Traveling at, like Alabama. Pablo Torre got,

Pablo and Adam Freeland did an episode about it. I didn't watch the entire episode, but I believe that was definitely ball sacking as well. Did they not get to the, I didn't watch any of it. Wait, who's, wait. I didn't watch any of it. Adam Friedland's doing a World Cup podcast,

not his World Cup podcast. He had Pablo Tori on to do an investigation into the fan, but the investigation is like. Is fake. Yeah, it's making him look like he's a, it makes him look. Pablo Tori shouldn't do that. Oh, I just saw it and was like, what the fuck? Right?

If you're known as, like, does 60 minutes ever come out and do a fake fit and go, we're just doing a fake thing? Like, if you're known as the guy who actually does real investigation, should you come out and do a ball sack investigation? Well, that's funny if you do. It's funny if you do. Is it? Well, I just.

That makes me even say what's real more. Okay. Well, these guys are real. They're really here. But I do. I'm just suspect of all of all the accounts I see. I'm like, who the fuck is paying for this? Like, I want to believe this is real.

There's a second blow. Not as good as the first one. 3.5 inches. And Amber Chefleck with her last blow here. That one comes in at four inches. My grandfather gave me my first thing when I was just four years old. In hindsight, I kind of wished he hadn't chewed. at first, but hey, it got me where I am now.

Moving on to our next contestant here. What are we doing? If there was a real competition, wouldn't it just be good to know? About the grandfather thing? Just about who's the best. Yeah. Well, they do have races. I don't know if that...

Jesus. Not, you know, not the made-up race. We could get into viewer mail with some World Cup mail. Well, let me do my last sports topic that Ethan Strauss would pounce on. It is the story of a Caitlin Clark's signature shoe, which they have announced will be released October 1st. She'll start wearing it. You're a big WMBA guy, right? You probably know this, Blake.

Oh, yeah. But it is the story that the fact is this is five years after Nike first signed Caitlin Clark. Yeah, it's a fail. Now, she is still a household name, and probably for the general population, the only player that they could name in the NBA? Would you say over 50% of the generic population can only name, or if they can name one player, it is Caitlin Clark. Correct. That's what I will say. Yeah.

I'd be interested if she's ever made it to my mom's ears somehow. 100%. But if my mom right now could tell me, if. I said, who is the famous WNBA player? She would know that. Call her up. I'm going to say 100%. And I would love to call her up.

I would absolutely love. Want to give it a ring? I see if she'll answer. Yeah. Okay. I would like to know what she thinks about the World Cup. Do it while I'm doing this story then. Do I have her number?

I think so. Oh, I got it. Most dudes. It is Father's Day coming up. A few guys there. A busy time for Dan. Anyway, Sonny Vicaro, you know, he's the guy who signed Michael Jordan and Nike. Yeah, a little guy.

He's 86 now, and he said, this Caitlin Clark thing is one of the biggest failures I've ever seen. He says she was bigger than Jordan in some ways because she was already a known commodity when she entered the WNBA. The public had grabbed on to her like no one else. she's more than just a basketball player it makes no sense and why would Ethan Strauss pounce on this well maybe this is a WHL

because it doesn't make sense so we try to make sense we try to figure out why why is Nike doing this very progressive company they do want to be seen as woke and just available that's fine right

but to the extent too of is it because of some kind of pressure that they felt from some factions of the WNBA that Asia Wilson didn't even have a signature shoe, so they had to get Asia Wilson's signature shoe out first. And that is the, what, the multi-time WNBA MVP. Consensus is best player in the WNBA. It doesn't seem to have the RIS.

doesn't seem to have, you know, it's a big man type player. Yeah. Doesn't fire it from half court. Because that was, when Ethan wrote that article, what a lot of people said is like, yeah, they didn't make a shoe for Tim Duncan either. Yeah.

This is not a player that people are that excited about buying their shoes. But I do think that this is a concern that all of us had in the mid-90s when they introduced the WNBA. These are the kinds of things that they tend to get hung up on. Dude, it sucks, but it feels, I mean, but the thing is, dudes do it too. And I try not to think that this is just a female problem. Dude, do it, but it's like, also money usually talks. Money just like, hey, sorry, dude.

You got some hurt feelings here, but look, this is now LeBron James. That's true. I thought you were the next one. But this rookie, and they had a LeBron's signature shoe out by Christmas of his rookie year. Damn. Yeah. And everybody bought them. I remember the lines.

I would have bought the Caitlin Clark shoe for, right? If it was out that year. Like, it's Caitlin Clark. It's, uh... It definitely feels like it slots in with Nike's and Ethan's overall thing on Nike, that they just got really tangled up in trying to be everything for everybody all the time. They need to get some rapacious capitalists in charge. I mean, look, they put that ad up at the time.

the Boston Marathon recently right and got, no pun intended, walk back on it. Because they put like not for walkers, not for walkers, or walkers not welcome. Walker's tolerated. What about the disabled? It's like, it's a race. Right. It's a, it's a, Jesus Christ, that's the thing.

That's the thing. This is so W.HL. You try to be too, too much for everyone. And this is not an Ethan article. This is in ESPN today. And it does point out that Nike, since 2021 their stock is down 70% a loss of $200 billion in valuation

it's off nearly 50% since Nike first signed Caitlin Clark and yeah their revenue fell $5.1 billion which is 10% of their revenue last year not good

not good they have laid off 2,000 employees since January this year. Those are the ones they were paying. Thank you. Yeah. Oh, and they just point out this isn't Nike related necessarily, but is WNBA related that, remember, they did hold,

Caitlin Clark didn't make the Olympic team that year. Another. Well, it's all merit and she wasn't one of the 12th. Yeah. Like the men put Christian Leitner on the Olympic team. It was marketing. It was winning, but it was also marketing. And I feel like the WNBA has just failed in every marketing attempt that they could.

Like, they're almost experiencing their best moment of success despite themselves. But it's weird. Think about this, though. What would their moment be if Caitlin Clark did not ever show up on the scene? It probably, despite the fact that the game is better now than it's ever been, it probably worse than her to get through them. Middle school.

No. But I don't want to argue that. But to the point that like Blake has been saying of like it reminds him more of like basketball that it's an aesthetically pleasing game. Basically what you're saying is that it just is more old school and not driven by money. Which I do agree is screwing them. And it does feel catty. But they're doing like a old like no, you got to earn.

it. You don't deserve that. You didn't earn it. Chris and Leightner should not have been on the dream team. In retrospect, we look back at it and we're like... Yeah, but they were like best player in college basketball if he ends up becoming a Hall of Famer like in the NBA like we expected to. True, but like you said, it was a money move. Yeah, it was a marketing move, yeah. Correct. It was not a basketball move. So the WNBA, oddly here, is the ones trying to

at least shroud this and like, no, you have to earn your stripes to get on the Olympic team to get a shoe. But. Well, that's where, that's where history has changed. If you think, hey, back in the old days, they were just doing things, but they weren't. Why do you think, you know, Joe Namath ended up on the New York Jets? Sure. They, they forced that.

They, you know, they knew they had marketing in their mind. Nike's move here is very weird. They lost a ton of money doing this. A ton of money. And, but I'm going to get some of those. shoes October 1st this year. I want to play like Caitlin Clark.

You could never. I want to go to a wings game. You could never. Don't threaten me. Today, Viewer Mail, brought to us by Community Mechanical. Somehow Travis even jumps into his spots. But CommunityDFW.com.

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What did they do at your house? What did you do in your house? You got preventive maintenance over there? They put a train system in mine. Oh, really? Yeah. I'm going to stop it. It's hard.

It's hard to stop a train. No, my old unit exploded on a Friday afternoon, and they had a new one in Monday morning. Damn, took care of me. They are the best. At least give them a chance. We've had so many, like, groups of listeners, or listeners tell us, like, my wife,

like, you just got them in the bidding process. And I don't even tell them you're getting a sit-in. Did they say it like Borat? My wife. H-back. I'm going to do a World Cup one to start out. Because we were, you know, kind of, issuing the generalities.

Usually it seems like it's bad for the host cities and countries and areas. And this guy wrote a paper on this, like the economic impact of... Oh. Yeah. Okay. I'm interested. Ryan.

He said the immediate economic impact helps poor country short term because FIFA provides funding for infrastructure, which also creates jobs, unless it's cutter where it creates slaves. Developed countries... Developed countries are actually better suited because the infrastructure already exists so they don't get the funding because it's not

needed we see money going to famous local places like joe t's places like that the problem is they take the funding fifa gives to poor countries and project that which isn't realistic the impact of the poor countries is they get the funding to build it but not maintain it the jobs leave people people go back to broke all the shit breaks down in the end everyone lies but places like the US do benefit more than places like the more downtrodden because of the business impact. Basically, there is a small, you know, you're seeing a ton of stories and businesses booming in DFW at this place or that place. But the problem is if you're doing it in Russia, like, and then you leave, there's nothing

left after that. You don't, there's no infrastructure that remains. So the cost is. But if you have to build a stadium. And the cost eats that up. Then that stadium will be unused afterward. But if you can just use what's already there. Yeah.

Yeah. So, and I, you know, I do think it, there is a positive economic impact to it. It's just probably overstated. Did you read it all about the Cape Verde goalie? I'm sure you did. So Cape Verde is a country that exists. I learned that four days ago. Right.

by thinking of myself as a person who knows a decent amount about the world. Is it Cape Verde? Is it Verde? Only I've heard someone say it. Verde? Yeah, okay. I mean, it looks like Verde, but I thought I heard on CNN. And you might have also been listening to people say these words differently all over the world, right?

Yeah. Like sometimes somebody's got an English accent, they might say. But, yes, I understood. I was supposed to be really excited that they had like a zero-zero-zero tie, right? Well, yeah. And, I mean, you don't have to look too far to find any sort of. betting conspiracies. But the one that's not a conspiracy,

a dude bet a million bucks to win like 999,000, right? And lost. Spain win. Oh, wow. Yeah, lost it. But no, Cape Verde's goalie, which just seemed, I mean, blanked them since the reason they won. The coach found him on LinkedIn.

He was working at a bank. He was a mortgage advisor like 10 years ago. He's 40 now, I think, right? But he also had on their hobbies? Yeah, I think, no, I mean, you probably listed your whole, yeah, that he had played for Ireland, I think, is U-19 at one point. So their team is just so spare and they have so few people in the country. That you're looking for people who are... They're advertising for...

...qualified to be... Yet somehow they made the hallowed... field of 48, 36, how many... He's really upset about the 48 thing. Well, how does this country get in then, with a guy they just found at the bank? Well, that's the beauty of the World Cup. That's the beauty of the World Cup.

Yeah, Dan. That you don't have to actually know how to play soccer to be in the World Cup. Well, wasn't that, like, U.S. hockey back in the days when it was, like, no professionals, and then you won, and it was this whole amazing story? Then you won't shut up about it. Yeah, that's all I talk about.

I love it. He's right. It is true. The guy on the U.S. team that we were talking about, who's from England, we were talking about that a few days ago. And you're like, yeah, he kind of was born here, but left pretty early. So that story is the guy that scored all the goals for us. That story is they were, I think, going to board an airplane to go back home. but the mother, you're nodding.

Do you know the story? Yeah. The mother, like, went into labor right then? Yeah, she was way too pregnant to board a plane. They were traveling on third trimester. So she had. Like, they made her give birth here. Right.

That's crazy. So it's birthright. Then they took a newborn baby, flew it right to England. So it wasn't like they were here till he was four. And that... Got the soil. That is why we have... this kick-ass player.

But the point I'm trying to make to you, just so you know as you watch it. No, no, no, to that is we're not the only ones doing that. I feel like I used to watch soccer and think that because America was like a lower-tier team, that we were the only one like diaspora picking. Everybody does it. So it doesn't, it still feels, I like watching America in the World Cup because they are an underdog. There's very few sports you're going to watch America and they're going to be like legitimate

in underdogs, right? Yeah. So I like, that's why I don't want to, I don't want you to take that from me. Do you like rooting for England, though? Absolutely not. Okay. Because that was a cool scene yesterday.

Oh. No, it wasn't. No? No? I mean, I think it's cool from the standpoint of like, I like seeing people have a good time. I know the Londoner got overwhelmed. Like, if the Nazis were having a big party,

you'd be like, I just love seeing people have a good time. He's Irish. So we're putting England with Nazis. Many would. I would love the benevolent hand of the Nazis in charge of Ireland for the last 600 years. Yeah, no, I'm not excited about England winning. I'm excited about people having a good time, and it looks like, it just looks fun. I kind of want to go now.

You should. To a World Cup game? Yeah, what is it? Sunday's like, what, Saudi Arabia is here? Is that not here? Sweden. You should have go to the next game. Is it Sunday?

It's Saturday, I think. Sweden versus Japan. Interesting. And y'all are leaving? Yeah. It's midsummer in Sweden. I saw that movie. You guys are going to burn one of your ex-boyfriends?

What does midsummer in Sweden mean? The movie, Mid-Summer. Oh. You burn your ex-boyfriend. Okay. Spoiler. T.C. I was going to wash that on the plane. Now you're ruined it, Twitter.

Are Swedish ladies really hot? Well, with the risk of my wife listening to this at some point, I am not going to be able to answer that. Boy, is she Swedish? Well, it must be... She's Russian. Oh. Russian.

A couple of Brunson emails. Anyone else want to swallow a pistol right now? As you all have noted, revisionist history would suggest resigning Brunson is a no- It wasn't obvious at the time with the information we had. I believe the right choice was made then, given the circumstances. That said, seeing him reach the peak before our beautiful boy guts me to the core. I don't know where we go from here, and I don't know what to do.

I worry he's going to be a what-if guy, all because that MFer sent him away. That's all I got. I'm sad. I'm angry. I miss our team from Robert. Yeah. I miss our team. Like that was I was thinking just how wild it is that I experienced 20 years of Mav's free agency and trades and listening to Mike

Reiner say nobody wants to come here they'll never be able to get anybody come here because where do they go? They're going to go to New York and L.A. Nobody wants to come to the Mavericks. And they drafted in one draft two players who are MVP-level championship winner caliber

players who they they said, why don't you head to New York or L.A.? The irony. The irony. All right. Got a gummy thought. This can be brought to us by Early Bird CBD. We're Sweden on like THC.

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And I just thought of killer. How do I make a gin and tonic? Genitonic. But maybe there's something more to it with the CBD drops. This one, okay, it ends with a gummy thought, but it starts with a follow-up on albinos. That's been a topic lately. Do you know what that is?

You mean like the very white people? Yeah. I just don't know how universal these terms are, you know? Usually that's just them. Jason says, let's see. albino talk from Thursday, June 11th. When I went to UNT in the early 90s, I worked with two albinos. They were actually identical twins.

Oh, yeah. Also, they were black. Dang. So they were always... I mean, doesn't this show that race is a construct? You can't have an albino black person. It does show that, yes. To some extent. Anyway, they were identical twins black.

They were always the center of a test. attention and drew lots of looks. They both had full albino features and were I truly identical in every way that I was aware of. I'm not sure what an albino feature is besides the whiteness. Is there something like... Like the... Yeah, the eyes.

Red eyes, piquish eyes and like your... I feel like your hair is kind of a... your eyebrow hair is white-ish. I don't know. Okay. Here's his gummy thought. He says this is a possible gummy-thought. thought, this is offered to me by my post-rehab son.

So, okay. We're getting an age here. He says, is Baker Mayfield the Tom Brady of Johnny Mansell's? Like he's actually good? That's pretty good. I think he absolutely. That's pretty good. The Tom Brady of Johnny Manzels.

Sorsby's got his work cut out for him. Always punt in the most predictable down and distance from Jason. I love that. Baker Mayfield is the Tom Brady of Johnny Menzelles. I'm going to run through a couple quick ones here. This is from Travis. Travis tells us diesel actually used to be cheaper. Did you know that? So you were not wrong about that. I think you said like, yeah, I feel like I remember it was cheap. Diesel was cheaper until like 2004. Well, Uncle Gary is the cheap guy.

Yeah. And that's why I just assumed. He says, he had a diesel vehicle. And he used to complain that it went, got started, got going slow. but I thought the whole reason was, yeah, but we're saving so much money. They were. And diesel fuel. Now I drive and diesel is like a dollar more per gallon.

He says diesel prices substantially higher during war season. So they're more, and which we've been in for like 20 years now. So that kind of makes sense. He also says they have two types. I'm sure Clayton knows this. They are clear and red dyed diesel, Clayton. This seems like... Farm diesel.

Farm diesel. He says that if you put the wrong one in your farm truck, you will be fined. He says they will find, quote, the living fuck out of you. I don't know the degree to which, but apparently this is like a real thing. Yeah, because you don't pay tax on farm diesel. And there it is, Dan. What they do is all taxes. All the money. Everything taxes. Yeah, watch for the dipstick because the, we'll drive around and dip your tank. and if it comes up red, you're in big trouble. Zach has one on just European versus American sports environments, and I don't think this is fake because it's an email.

But as an NBA fan, I remember it all goes back to Dirk. But forever, the stereotype was like Europeans aren't going to be able to, they're not going to be able to handle the American pressure, the American crowd. And I think over like the last 10 years with YouTube and with us learning more about Luca and the, you see that these people in basketball games overseas are insane. They're lighting off flares, right? Like, there's guns sometimes.

Like, in Latin America especially, it's pretty out there. And his point was just, like, it feels like we're kind of past that, but it just makes you think how ridiculous it was for the 80s, the 90s, the 2000s, when we're like, are they going to be able to handle about these kids at Wisconsin who played a 6 p.m. game like in Illinois or something.

Like, no, dude, this is a war-torn country. They play sports in that. They're not worried about over here. But it feels like most of that stuff's gone away now. I have a pretty fun story on that because they were pouring our drinks at the AT&T Stadium into cups, and that's really common in Europe. and just had to ask him, like, do you always do this?

When it's a football game as well? No, no way. And we tried to do it the first soccer game we had here, but people were just throwing the bottles into the stadium, so we had to stop with that because of the soccer fans. Yeah, it's different. I think it's significant in a way. I got an anchor word from Shane in Collieville.

But here's the thing. I need you to do a fill in the blank, Dan. Blank and span. Spick You don't really hear it too many... In what... It's SPIC in this context, but do you ever...

Not in a derogatory? Right. In fact, well, you don't hear that derogatory anymore, right? It never... When the last time you heard that, you uttered as a... A slur?

In fact, have you ever? You probably have. Oh, that was a popular one when I was a kid. No, when I was a kid. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, I just didn't know. That WB were the two big ones.

But I think that it's probably removed spick and span from my vocabulary. Is that why that we don't hear, you don't hear of spick and span anymore? No, you don't. My mom used to say it. Shink in the armor used to be a thing. And now one guy writes in an ESPN headline and all of a sudden it's... Right. You just can't do it for Linsanity.

Anchor word from Corey hermetically? Sealed. Sealed. All right. I've got a few copious. Amount. Birth with an E, B-E-R-T-H. B-E-R-T-H.

The problem is, isn't that playoff, though? Oh, yeah. I think play-off, and in my head it makes sense that playoff would be B-I, because it's like, look, I was birthed into the playoffs. You're right. But it's E. I'll scratch that off. You know, speaking of wide, there's a wide driving home the other day from Broken Bow.

there's what is the I can't remember the sign on it but they got a truck in the front a truck in the back but then they're like bringing a house wide load so wide load or whatever sorry ruined word but the truck in the front was kind

they were kind of like being assholes about their presence on the road I thought and I thought they should have been just a little more accommodating to those around like they really they're like hey man it's as if they're just they're mad at everyone else for trying to drive normal. Yeah.

Because hey man, we're driving this. Can't you see it's a wide load? Can't you see you shouldn't be driving a house on this effing two-lane road with construct? There's cones all over the place. Five o'clock in the afternoon. You had to go this route. Anyway. Yeah, I don't know how they get away with it.

Curvature. Of the earth? Of the earth. Spine. And chalk. Full? Yeah. Okay.

Well, a couple of those work. A couple of those work. W.H.L. and a movie trope. W.H.L. hydration breaks in the World Cup. This is from a person named Hammer, not from me. We've already ruled those acceptable by Swedish and capitalist rule.

Movie trope. Sliding a piece of paper across the table with a dollar amount on. I love that one, though. He says, I'm sure that's how your contract negotiations win at the ticket. Man, has that ever happened? You just look at the number. Oh, my God. And then let me ask you this, Jake, your guy who might be able to comment on this.

Walking into a bar and saying beer or whiskey and not specifying any brand. No, nobody does that. I mean, you might be like, I'll take a shot of well whiskey. I'll take your well. Okay, but so you're indicating then. I want the brand, you know. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I think. I think you're probably one beer one. Beer is the weird one. Beer nobody says, I'll have one beer. Give me a beer. That's not, you don't make that order at the bar. Maybe the Old West. Rick. Oh, in Sweden we actually have, people do that in Sweden. You actually just go into a bar and say, I want a big strong.

That's directly translated. So a big strong. It's just like whatever beer they have on tap. Okay. It's like the standard beer. Okay. I wish I could use that. I think one of your strong. Rick is our resident police officer.

And we were talking recently about one of the things that ended up on my things I want list. And it's some variation of this. He says, I'm a cop specifically I investigate missing runaway kids, which invariably leads to human trafficking, a bunch of effed up stuff. I can absolutely 100% assure you that get an opportunity to lean into someone nose to nose, look them right in the eye, and say, I wasn't asking. Is every bit as badass as you imagine it? It's like having a thousand peptide shots to the heart, like catching a Super Bowl touchdown.

He's like, you have to find a way to work it in somehow. But you just know cops are getting zesty with it. Like, you remember Frank in court, our attorney, totally normal guy, they flip the lights on. No, Mr. Catlin. Just leans in. But yeah, Rick, who emails with me a lot, He also knew he was dealing from a position of strength at that point.

So does the cop. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's kind of an important part of that. You ask a question, you kind of start talking, because they interrupt and you say, listen, I wouldn't ask it. Because the only place you could do that is if it's your kid. Yeah. Or maybe your employee or something.

But try doing it to your boss. I got a few tropes and then a playground thing. This from Thad, whenever a homicide investigator or PI, bring some a giant box of paperwork, drinks to fit the scotch, tape stuff up to the wall, then passes out drunk. When he wakes up in the middle of the night, blurry eye looks at his work, he then discovers the solution. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Trust me, I've tried it. I think you just set the mic down. Slept with a textbook under your pillow? I definitely did that. The fact that you can kick in a door. Yeah, try it. So many dudes have.

found that out. Me included the wrong way. Or, yeah, putting your shoulder into a door. You'll probably break your shoulder. And then, shooting a lock. Those are from Todd. Then my playground thing is dogs choking on chicken bones. Oh, you can't give it. Don't give that bone to the dog.

Ours for some reason was pork. My mom was always like, we can't give ribs. Don't give pork to the dog. It was like gum. She'd be like, it'll stay in their dog in their belly for 15 years. Oh, the bones are fragile. It'll scratch their throat on the way. What is a dog?

Yeah, I don't... What are we talking about? It happened to Meaty in Robin Big. Oh, no. They had to take it to the hospital. I had to cut out the chicken bones. Rob's... Rob's dog died?

No, it lived, but it choked on chicken bone. Paul brings something up from a couple weeks ago. I just have a couple more. We were complaining about, like, why do people side with the owners rather than the players just as a matter of rule when these labor disputes happen. Paul wanted to point out my hypocrisy because

I remember when you two forced that album onto all of our phones? Really Apple forced that album onto all of our phones. But we all hate YouTube. We all hate you too. And I certainly, every time I look at them, I'm like, get this off my phone. They just took a check.

Now, it was probably a pretty, pretty big one. Yeah. But it's a good point. As an artist, I would have refused that check. Now that's, yeah, you're more of a pure, purist there. That's who I am. And then I have a, my last one is just a couple quick updates.

Told you guys a few weeks ago that my buddy from Portland was in town, and he told me that the big issue facing the city council in Portland was, they were trying to get the dish foie gras band in Portland which is duck that they force feed and then eat the liver of

Is it similar to veal? Same principle Yeah They force it Fatten it up We're being real mean Extra mean to the animal That we're going to put a spike

through its head Yeah So You gotta be nice to the animal While it's alive And then you can go ahead And eat it Don't you understand?

So apparently there were only Like four or five rest in Portland that even served it. Uh-huh. But last week, they did by a seven five vote to ban foie gras in Portland. After protests, marches, a guy emailed me and said that he actually works for the Omni, the Omni Hotel and Restaurant Group. And he has had to deal with something that he sent me the Instagram page for,

that is called the Duck Alliance. All right. DA. Like Michael James? It's just like, here's their posts. It's just, uh, they protests people eating duck. And the Omni like stopped serving duck at some, look, there's a post. Omni drops point raw.

Yeah. So, just getting good things done in Blue Cities, you know? Well, I was going to say, though, I'm making people's lives better. Yeah. Probably if you said to me, you know, you know. Should that exist? Probably not. But again, like I said, you're just going to kill these other animals, too.

Yeah. You know, this chicken stays at the Ritz farm, though. And this chick, whatever. Beak massage. Yeah, they're all like. Put a little robe on it. And then we're just killing them and eating them. And that's what you're choosing to accept and to each their own.

So, but are all these, when you want to change this. menu item. Are you like an activist? Like you could, like, could you put all your efforts towards raising the minimum wage? Or towards just something that would actually help lots of people? Or are they saying, I really just, I want to do something so I need to look for something that I can realistically pull off? And I'll bet you I could get a few restaurants in town to change one menu item that not a lot

of people order anyway. Interesting. It is a win. Just a huge waste of time. To your point, I was once eating at a restaurant in Seattle and overheard the conversation at another table that one of their co-workers was a Muslim man who had immigrated to Washington State. And he wanted to just buy a goat that he would then slaughter and eat. He was just going to prepare a goat at his house.

So he drove out to a Washington farm and bought a goat. And then he's going to put it in his trunk. And the farmer's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We can't be mean to the goat. Transport him in the trunk of a sedan. He's like, I'm taking him to kill him. Like, I just don't want the blood all over my car right here. Like, what are we doing?

I do think, based on my travels, that animal cruelty is a very Western concept for the most part. Oh, my gosh. But, yeah, what I've seen. I mean, if you travel enough, like, yeah, I think. and really if you're eating the animal, I don't know. I don't think you should. I think you should do fun stuff with them, you know? Relay races.

And then eat them. Yeah. Bubblegum blowing contest. Like we're going to do with these dogs. Any more? Main vaneage. Mainage. Vainage.

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Jesus, we are a proud team, Mr. Cartman. We have no wish to be associated with people who actively do nothing. It makes it feel like a joke. Guys, guys! We have total respect for you. When we named our company Washington Redskins, it was out of deep appreciation for your team and your people. You're listening to The Dumb Zone.

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Right? We're taking a week off. Birth of a nation. Is that what you're going to do? We're going to watch it every day? I bought it many years ago. It's still in the cellophane. Because I thought it's a word that, like, it should be a movie reviewed, right?

Like, you've heard this is the most racist guy ever, right? In a very racist movie. That was, like, really popular in 1910 or, I don't know, do they make movies in 1910, 1920? Whatever they started making movies. This guy was like, cool, movies. I got something. First thing I'll do.

I got to tell you about how cool, you know, white people are. And then the Swedish guys are like, hell yeah, let's watch it. So we'll be there next Friday. Yeah, all that had nothing to do, Gaston. Gaston. Gaston. I don't want to wait until next week to do this. So from Brian Gray, voracious.

Reader. There you go. and a couple of other things just talking chance in the break with our our Swedish friends here I heard one during because we just don't do them well here

Oh chant Not You said chance And I'm like Chants Od odds of what Okay You know you see it in European soccer

You see it in Latin American soccer But I mean even in like When you see baseball in Asia They're big on chanting. We're just not really here. The Spurs tried this one during... No, that's not the one. They tried to do one that was like with Vamos.

I like that one. Have you not heard of T.C.? It's like, how does it go? I don't know, but what about LSU? They do chance. It's got good chance. LSU does have suck that Tiger D.B. But that's like college football is about the only one.

You just don't see it in basketball. You should go to girls' softball games. They see, they have it right. They chant. Well, the dugouts are chanting, though. I don't know if the fans are. They have it right. Hold on.

Now go. Okay. Go ahead. Say it again, please. Sorry, it's not about just, you know, doing one chant or two chants in a game. It's if you go to a game in Europe, or not all countries, but some of them, people will chant for 90 minutes nonstop with, like, a drum. in the background so it's like you barely watch the game you're just there for the chance

how do you how do you memorize all the chant like is there get-togethers where i mean if you also like one leader of the of the fan section who is like guiding everyone else okay it's like the guy start do they have the wave in europe yeah no no we won't do the waves no no one does the wave it's kind of gay okay i love the wave it's completely different fans here's the That was when I was trying to think of. Oh, I were trying to go. They were doing that at Austin FCs. Yeah.

Yeah. It sounds cool. I don't know why it doesn't, I don't know why it doesn't take hold more here. In the States. Moving on to our next contestant here. here. Mother Fyzer. Got to talk to

Paige about her vigorous training program for blowing. She walks around the neighborhood late at night blowing

the key is to stay focused and blow away. Yeah, she looks confident today, Frank. Let's see what she's got in her.

She looks over at the judge and the MC and she's ready to blow her first nothing to constrictor no hats, no sunglasses, What are we doing?

The love beads. This one looks real good so far, Josh. Oh, good mouth for him. I think we're looking at a winner right here, Frank. She's got a whole lungful in that . Excellent performance. 9.5 sucked it back in after the blow. Okay.

No sticky face. What a great blow right there. No sticky face. Paige. She's pretty satisfied. Yeah, when you can inhale the . Afterwards, you know you've done something good. And when you keep it off your face,

That's also a plus. What is this? Why? In their world, no sticky face is a plus. Disgusting. Here's Jake with the dumb so news. That just means you missed. In front of company. What?

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Like seriously, the Cowboys make, Blake has to dress up to go do his cowboy radio stuff. And he wears a poncho shirt under his suit jacket. And everybody's like, that's awesome. That looks perfect. You could wear it on the news. Like if you were a news reporter for Fox 4, let's say. And you had to go cover a story where a lady said she was not a prostitute. I'm not a prostitute.

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Yeah, where's Qualis roofing and all this, too? Yeah. We've been doing a lot of flying, but I've been outside. I've been out of town. About 30 minutes before Sunday's game, Netherlands versus Japan. What's the penalty? And did they get pulled over? How do we, how do we?

Like, you're violating. Well, so they say that they say that they, they located and found the pilot of this one. There's a 33-year-old dude. It always seems impossible, right? To find them. Like, I think that they can, like, know the signature, like, through computers, be able to tell which drone and who's it registered to.

But the idea of, like, I'm going to drive around and see who's holding a controller. So the model of drone he was using has a feature that, I guess, alerts them when they're in, restricted airspace so he yeah okay and then he had to acknowledge that before operating the drone so like they're saying you knew you were this was not an accident it was telling you you're within the radius he's like all right i'm sorry what is what do you get do that is i'm sorry good enough you know what do you get more than ethan couch got stop letting that be you're he got nothing these are these are warnings Pretty much. But it's happening.

How are drones big in Europe? Yeah, they're big everywhere. Okay. I know. I know there's some parts of the world where they're like, they've been big for a while. Like Iraq? Yeah. I think they did a lot of the R&D over there.

I don't think it's as much of a hobby here. Did you get sent that video a million times? Yeah. I kind of want to watch it on the show. Wait, what? Is it the Ukraine one? No, Louisiana. Oh.

I'm looking at this one of these Ukrainian drones getting shot down. Oh, no. We had a huddle of Louisiana bros without shirts on. One of them fired a BB gun at a police drone and then got arrested for it. Sounds like my boys. I thought this was America. They cop walked up. He's like, you know what you were doing?

No, I mean, shooting at a drone? Yeah, that's my drone. Yeah. Yeah. I just didn't really care at all. Dude, wait till they start. Are they marked? Yeah.

Do you identify yourself? You read me where all rights? Wait, wait till they start trying to have little funerals for them. And then making us happen to, like, the news will be like, droney. Little Elms drone. They retired it yesterday. And they'll have a little ceremony and make us act like we care about it. And I promise you, if somebody, me, takes one out with a gun, they're going to act like you killed a dog.

Because they're going to have AI, like, real learning, and it will have feelings. Right. That's the thing, just like that chicken that you killed and weren't real nice to before you killed it. One of the drones goes rogue, you know. He's ducking I-A-D. You made that duck eat the... Yeah, they're going to make it illegal to overfeed drones. So they make the duck eat the salmon, and then they're like, it's salmon-stuffed duck.

Like, that's kind of a good idea. I don't think that's what stuffed means. Oh. So... I told you I'm on my silicon vans. gallery watch. And Erlick's, one of his dietary things, is he's a pesca, a pescatarian, so he only eats fish that eats other fish.

This is really funny. So England beat Croatia 4-2 at Dallas Stadium. That's right. These guys keep saying AT&T, and I'm upset. For the president of FIFA, who is that? I used to know it. Like, Seth? There's a new guy.

Gianni Infantino. Yeah. Yeah. So the Londoner over at Mockingbird Station was overrun. The videos from inside, a lot of fun. Looks like what I remember going to European bars during the World Cup is like. But they were at double capacity. The fire marshal shut them down.

Boy, you know he's having a field day now. They said they tried to fire marshal. The fire marshal. This is his World Cup. If you met the fire marshal. Wonder what Jimmy thinks of the fire marshal. Yeah. Like, do they vote for him?

How does he become fire marshal? I would love it. The fire marshal, yeah, was just the vote of the firefighters. Well, I know this. The mayor of fire marshal. I know that when Momdani got elected, whoever he put in charge. But that was the chief, though. Okay, that's different.

Because whoever he put in charge, immediately people were like, there's not a real firefighter. I think it was a lady. Trans. Something. But I don't know, the marshal. What color is she? Now, can I say this, too?

Just as I'm watching this video from inside the Londoner at Mockingbird Station, a very nice part of town, right? And there's residences there, high in shopping. The inside of this bar is total. him. Like, dude's shirts off on top of the table, on the bar, glasses breaking.

The Londoner said, like, hey, we tried to, we tried. If I'm the fire marshal, I'm just like, I'm driving by it, looking in, and just going, all right, it's probably all right. I would think, probably got it. But, you know, liability, I don't know. But I'm just

fire. What are the odds, though? And this is where people will yell at me, but I'm just wondering, in the event that it was Congo's celebration. Are you saying they shut that thing down? Well, they shut it down either way, but it looks like they were kind of,

based on the, when I was watching the news, it was a very scram. Get on out of here. You boys are in. I mean, dude, this was like people were breaking glass. It was a, it was mayhem. I love it, but.

You're assigning potential. One wonders. Hypothetical racism. You know, I don't know. I don't, and see, maybe that's not even worth the trouble, right? I thought you wanted to believe in society and leave your door unlocked and leave your wallet laying there. Like, shouldn't everything, let's view things through a positive lens. He had another freak out about my wallet, T.C.

I heard it, yeah. Yeah. If you call that a freakout, I'm mildly concerned for your financial well-being. You were a little bit freaking out. Which is tied in with mine, in a way. I think having the same wallet, he hasn't lost his wallet. That's such a strong card to play. play. Thank you.

Yeah, but it's also like kind of a, hey, I'm functioning. Because I can tell you, hasn't had the same set of keys for that long. We don't highlight that part near as much. But the two times I've lost my wallet in the past 20 years, one, it was taken from my car, so it's not, I didn't leave it in a bad spot. And the other one, my toddler lost it. But he can just, like, leave it in the middle of Beltline and get it back.

It's a weird lot. But like I'm saying, it's the, yes. No, it's proof of a system that functions properly. Well, why, you know what? I think you're a pussy for making your kid wear a bike helmet. Because when I was a kid, I never wore a bike helmet. Look, here I am. Here I am.

But there was a bunch of news reports about how it was a problem. Other people lose their wallet, not me. I don't see many news reports about that. I don't feel that there's an epidemic that needs to be prevented. Cigarettes were bad for you. So we said, hey, it looks like people are dying. We'll put restrictions on them. Well, there's not news reports on people just being really stupid.

Another moron left his wallet in the middle of the bowling alley yesterday and somehow got it stolen. We throw it now to Lori Brown. Davidson, Pendry. I just in my head wonder, what would someone do with that wallet? Like, what do you think I have? Where would this go? A credit card? And what do they do with it?

Do you carry cash? Go buy an Xbox. Now, if you were to ask my mom, they would take your social security number. They would instantly like... How? There's a lot of concern about identity theft. The card's not in there.

You give me a wallet. I'm getting high tonight. I'll tell you that much. But not on my money. Oh, absolutely. On the bank's money. Don't you feel like that's going to be a huge beating for you to have to replace all those credit cards?

I don't. Your license. I really don't think it's a huge beating at all. Then you've never replaced any of those things. It's terrible. Croker or a word card. He hasn't because he's never long. this wallet. Whenever I get a new credit card, that's a crisis.

Now, I've lost the credit card a zillion times. Because you just leave the credit card at the bar. And it's terrible. It's not. It's really not. You know, I'm reminded actually of something. I'm actually reminded of something. Someone, Colin and Friscoe sent me a text this morning. And he said, yesterday, I pissed in my piss jar for the first time. That's nice. and he was like, wow, so free, truly just can't believe it took me this long to get here. You're saying people will come to your side.

You've had one thing that has kind of worked out in your favor in life. And you're like, so everything else will too. No, he's saying that we'll come around on just leaving your wallet all willy-nilly. I think if you tried it, you'd realize. But he's changing the subject, too. What we're doing here is focusing on one thing. He's saying, but this other thing I do in my life is good. And like that one degenerate doesn't prove anything.

He also should be in jail for using a piss job. No, no. I'm with him. There you go. And he's just saying in due time we'll all be with him on everything. And hopefully with him is in like H-block. You remember the widely assistant principle that looks exactly like Blake? Faces two new charges for solicitation of a minor. The one that bought lingerie for the girl?

And alcohol. Well. What are the new charges? They're... They're tacky to lingerie. No, they're just adding on. They're adding on more kids. They're adding on more charges.

32 years old. It lives in Wiley. Just like you. Second victim. So let us know what you find out. What do you mean? I don't know this. man.

Okay. Is that the person that you've seen in a news story that looks the most like you ever? Yeah. It is. Yeah. The guy has the Blake coach stash and everything. And we have World Cup history was made today. As we had, Dan, are you prepared to make a call to your daughters?

We have the first all-American, all-female crew, official. officiating a game in Atlanta today. Officiating? Yeah. Okay. What did you think they were playing in the midst tournament? Well, no, you said crew, I thought, announcing? Okay, the officials.

Who's playing in the game? South Africa and Chechia. Okay. So it's kind of a spare game? They're not giving them. Absolutely not. Okay. There's a zero percent chance.

In America, we let women be referees, but we don't let them do the playoffs. I wish that that were wholly a joke, but it is not. We realize some things are too important to sacrifice them. You can be a line judge. Yeah, that's fine. That's right. The dumb zone news.

Like and subscribe. Happy birthday. Thank you. Hey. Well, okay. What? Want to do something else? Well, I had some.

Let's do something else. Maybe I'll save it. I do have that Jamie Vardy doc ready. He can always do this. Moving on in our competition, Hunter Seagrest, also known as Chewy. He brings in his mouth and his blowing abilities here at the championship. He's pumped up. There he go.

A little spit. Five inches and half his bum on his nose. So a good performance there by Hunter. Okay. I'm just going to tell you about this documentary real quick because we've got soccer bros here. Oh, yeah, okay, yeah, let's do that. So we remember when it happened. We were working with Bob.

You told me to watch it, right? Yeah, when Lester City won the Premier League. And everybody's trying to explain it to us and contextualize it to us. And it's impossible. It's impossible. 5,000 to one odds when they won. So without even knowing about the promotion, relegation, their star, Jamie Vardy's story. Just the fact that a team with 5,000 to 1, it's the longest odds, not for any.

team who's won it is the longest odds for any team entering the Premier League season ever and they won like they had just been promoted so the story kind of uh the the documentary kind of traces his story traces it's about an hour and a half it's on netflix and the thing about this guy that stuck out to me obviously he's a full-on like british you know he's a street lad like he's a he's a he's a drunk. He fights. He didn't come up in the academy system. Jamie Vardy. Yeah. By the age of about 12 or 13, he was told, you're not big enough to play. So he went on his way and just kept playing basically as the Esteban, who's a listener of

ours who sent this to me. He's like, this is like if a dude from your flag football team ended up in the NFL. And there are some dudes who come out where I play who are like they were played in college and bounced around the UFL or whatever. But then they ended up on like the Cowboys as their best player. So it's, he's funny because he's brash. He's over the top. He's super English just trash, like self-identifies. But the thing to me that jumps out about him is, unlike with most athletes who are just constantly, like everyone doubted me.

and I always knew I could do it. I just always knew there was something in me that was different. Like, I'm just built different. This whole documentary, Jamie Vardi, is basically having to be convinced that he's any good at sports. And I think it makes him a really, like Kobe, you know, is, oh, I'm just a killer. I've just always known.

Jamie Vardy's like, yeah, fuck it. We were just telling him all the time, you know, you've got something you can make it. But he was just so blasey about it. Yeah, all right, yeah. Yeah, thanks for that, Brett. We're having a beer. I don't quite think he grasped.

that he got the special talent that needed to be thought about and progressed upon i was never ever thinking something more serious with football could could happen so he's like 17 18 he's a 5, 6 7 years away from leading a team to the premier league title and at that age he was like i don't know i'm not really i think soccer's over it's not just that he thought that and made it's that he thought that and then led them to the most unlikely title. You know, even guys in college now, if you ask any of them, they're like, I'm going to the league. I'm going to the league and I'm going to win a title.

They always say that's just such an important part of it. Gotta have the dog. Project it. You need to visualize it. You need to just true belief in yourself is like half the battle. Well, this is like most of us. So imagine the battle this guy had. Yeah.

Sad time for Rose when we lost him, but I think it came at right time for him to take that opportunity. So he moved up to a better team. They were a bigger club. The stadium was, it was a stadium. It was definitely a step up. It was never on my mind about going higher or anything like that. Again, over and over. He's like, I just never thought about it. The normal path to the Premier League had been through an academy. So to make that jump from non-league to the top of the pyramid is an unthinkable mountain. Everest, we are oxygen. But we knew we could. We could could do it. I'd already been told two years before that that football weren't for me, so it was more

of the same. Just enjoying myself. So that's kind of his mindset that you learn is like that basically everybody all along is like, you're not going to make it, you're not any good. He's like, fuck it, I'll get drunk and have fun. And have fun. But to be fair, he continued to do it when he went pro. I mean, he would smoke cigarettes like at half time and

you know, get fucked up in the evening before a game and come hung over to, and still score like three goals or whatever, right? So that's like, I think that's really what was the beauty of Jamie Bardi because he didn't give a shit about anything. He just played football. He's the John Daly of... Yeah, Michael Irvin was a little like that too and just that like he was... Yeah, but when he showed up to practice, he's there, you know?

Yeah, they don't make it sound like he was lazy. I mean, he was working a factory job. like eight to five hammering and then having to go play ninth tier soccer. So he's not lazy. It's just that he really likes the party. He was Manzel. Manzo. Yeah.

You guys all have a friend probably who doesn't give a shit about anything, right? I mean, that's him. Yeah, he's got that. And he's got a look in his eye too. You can tell. And he plays like that. So it's a cool story. He eventually meets a lady, has kids, settles down a little bit.

But he still, you know, there's one other part I wanted to play for you. He got in a little bit of controversy. Because, again, this happened very fast. He went from a non-pro league to a barely pro league to the Premier League very quickly. And it was like the first non-academy player to sign a million dollar a year or a million pound a year deal. So is the Leicester City story and the Jamie Vardy's, like are they parallels? Yeah. Did he join them when they were below them?

the Premier League? Correct. Okay. Yeah. So he was instrumental in getting them up. Yeah, they were, if they were up, they were about to get relegated. But he kept his hot streak or whatever. And he broke the consecutive goal streak in the Premier League.

Games? Yeah. He's in the record books, not just like a chippy player. So he gets famous super fast. And he's got this wife and she's kind of, you know, Instagram-y-looking wife. but they're in a casino together. And this is like at the part of his life where he's kind of tried to chill out.

He's got kids, but then he gets in a fight. Came out in full force that night. At a casino. And said a few things that he shouldn't have said. He got in a fight. Yeah, he's drunk at a casino. His wife is there. A bunch of his friends are there.

And there's a surveillance camera. There's somebody messing with him, but you can't really see. I remember being sat in bed one night and we get a phone call saying, the security cameras had been provided to the media. They're running a racism story. Shit, like, what have I done here? Used a term that I didn't think was offensive.

I thought it was just an abbreviation of Japan. I had no idea how sensitive. Yeah. He's like, listen, man, I don't know, because you can see the guy kind of walks by and he's like,

he goes, walk on, Jep. Like, he just tells him, walk on your Jep. He's like, I don't know,

I die in D. It was just an abbreviation of Japan. Yeah. And it got me in a bit of trouble. You're like, racist, what? I,

No, that's not me. You were cut with a bite, to be fair, weren't they? Yeah. Because it's not him. He's not loud at all. He's not doing it. No, he's nothing loud. Oh, you know, but there is like another minute of people.

It is kind of interesting because he actually says that they sent him to sensitivity training, which we've been talking about. And he's like, I fucking learned a lot. Like, he clearly grew, he's like, I grew up on the streets. I didn't know, like, you know, I know there's a couple words you don't say. Yeah. He's like, but I got famous all of a sudden. and he's like, and they're like, you can't. Yeah.

He's like, I didn't know any of this stuff was offensive. Him the whole time, and then people started listening to him. Yeah, but it's super interesting, you know. And I've probably not done the story justice as like a, not even a fan, but it's a, I don't think that there's anything comparable in American sports. 5,000 to 1, the promotion or relegation element of it, the disparity in the cost of the roster of the teams that they're being. It's like 10 to 1.

Like we talk about like the Yankees. What's the biggest underdog we can have in American sports in the last? It would have to be something in baseball, right? One of those teams like the Rockies or something. You're saying that one? Yet Premier League there isn't a playoffs, right? Right. And in fact.

So it's even kind of more. Yeah, it's more unlikely. Legit. Yeah. When they won. Because, yeah, a baseball team can get hot in a 162 games. game season and then go to the, yeah, that's true. In a couple of short series.

So I don't even know. And this wasn't even that, you know, all of the other teams were bad. They were just really, really good. They won their games by like 3-0. Yeah, and he got, he got suspended, I think, for this. So it wasn't with a crappy style of play that they, you know, some teams do that. I bet the only comparable thing would be like, I don't even know, I wasn't alive during this, but BYU winning college football, like college football is 100 teams.

Yeah. And so the one that's usually 90th can win. win? Yeah, BYU, though. Were they strength of schedule? No, there's still a lot of debate about whether they were that good, right? This one, I mean, there's no debate, as he said. Because these guys are all playing each other.

But it was cool, but also weird if you're an American because they won the league not playing. Like, they drew the day before. Wait, what do you mean? So they got to draw in their final match. And the next day, Varty had everyone over to his house to watch. I think Chelsea and someone else, and by proxy of them losing, they won the league. So they won that moment.

Were they drinking then? They were. That's kind of anti-climactic, I think, if you're used to the playoff atmosphere. But it's a great watch. And yeah, he's a wild dude. No doubt about it. Some long shots. The 99 Rams were about 1,000 to win the Super Bowl.

they did. The Pistons in 0-3-04 were 1,500 to 1. And the biggest one in all of American sports, the Miami Marlins and, well, Florida Marlins in 2003 were 7,500 to 1. Wow. Okay, if I would have thought about it, that one would have stuck out to me, Josh Beckett, Pudge. Cabrera. So anyways, untold, Netflix. That's my soccer coverage. But I think that Marlins one does kind of highlight Dan's point of, like, did they win that many games that year? just got hot in the playoffs, right?

I bet. Well, what was there, the odds you're giving are probably start of season. Start of season, yes. Yeah, pre-season. Yeah. Okay. Juan Pierre. That's a name.

Man. That just fueled our, do you want to be the Marlins or the Braves' argument? Because the Braves went to the playoffs every year. The Marlins did once every 10 years, but then they would win the World Series every time they went. Viewer mail birthdays, this will be brought to us by Meg Prime. Meg Prime is your payment platform solution. If you have questions about what this is, you can go to MegprimePay.com, but if you have big purchases to make it just a payment platform, it gives you reward.

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My leaders are the MNBA. Do they have like ladies' Premier League? MNBA. Yeah. They do have a women's soccer Premier League? We have that here. So they definitely got it here. We have an American, a pro-American.

In WSL. We see it on Victory Plus. Yeah, no, I don't doubt that we make women's leagues so that people stop yelling. I didn't know if they did it over there, too. Oh, well. Do anybody care? They have a World Cup, so. I mean, no one cared like 10 years ago.

I mean, some people are starting to care now. They're, like, pumping a lot of money into the female Premier League. I haven't watched it, but I hear people do. Yeah. It's what the new Ted Lasso is about. For real? Yeah. Wow.

We should have seen that coming. Wow. Another reason not to watch Ted Lasso? I literally don't think if I bit over and put someone's pee-pee in my butt that I could think of something. No, I'm not a Ted Lasso guy. I bet soccer people generally don't love it, right? What are we going to say? Yeah.

So you know, Slatan, Slotny Braymovich? The guy did the head butt? Yeah. No, no, no, no. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, no, that's a Zadon. Yeah. Yeah, but I looked up...

Slottingy, he played for L.A. Galaxy a couple years ago. He's a Swedish legend striker. So there was like this debate after some prize awards for this year's best player because the women were not getting the equal stuff. I think the guys got like a car or something like that and the girls got a bike. But Slata just saved it. Yeah, but I can sign the bike, so then it would be more worth anyways.

He just thought the debate was stupid because, like, yeah. So that's, yeah. They got a Peloton for Christmas. You guys know Ulf Dahlon? You know who he is? Me? Hell yeah. Those guys.

Stars at one point. Oh, stars as well, of course. Sorry, I forgot where we were. Anyway, thanks Sean Kernan, Business Wednesday. birthday. My leaders of the MNBA, committing eight errors in one play. God, I'm on a horrible run. I might have committed eight ball sacks by now.

And Blake's pictures of Angelo on his phone. That's from Omar. PS, from Omar. As a Mexican D.F. I was obviously excited for the World Cup, but not anticipating the rest of the USA to really care about it. But I've been pleasantly surprised with the buzz and hype around the game. and gatherings have been taking place,

just wanted to say, it's not too late for the dumb zone boys to hop on the bandwagon and join the fun. You know what? I wonder if we should do any World Cup-related broadcasts. I don't think you have the guts. I wonder if we should do something like next Thursday. Where?

See if we can put something together. Just because of Omar's email. What if we brought a guest? who's used to interviewing people from around the world? What if? These are interesting ideas that we should look into. Stay tuned. To get into the box with us.

We. I am here with Max, Sweden. Oh, wait. Before I move to today in history. Moving out to our next contestant. Oh, my God. How is the board? Also known as Miss.

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she was fined $100. She never paid the penalty. Typical. I don't, I mean, I don't understand how that's even allowed to happen. Like, how do you break the law? Like, doesn't she go up there and say, I want to vote? And they say, no, you're not allowed. I mean, you can't make your own vote.

I don't get it. Maybe she went with mustache and disguise, Mansell. Perhaps. On this day in 1971, Southwest Airlines began operations. with only flights between Dallas and San Antonio or Dallas and Houston. That's it. They would always, always, always let you pick your own seat, bags fly free, custom service. Not anymore.

That was the bullet train of the air. We just got to get to Houston quick. All right. I got a whole airline for you. God, man. You could take anything on the plane. There's no security. I saw something the other day.

I don't really know how this stuff was. works. I wonder, could you just 1971? What was security like? Well, were you to try to get what on? Just whatever. Oh, yeah, it was easy money.

But I saw this thing the other day. And I don't know how these things take place, but it was on a Southwest flight. It was the band The Plain White Tees. Not a fan, but they were around. What was their song? Hey there, Delilah. That's it.

Hey, Adela. Blake's be honest Ringtone Is that ever your ringtone No but they just got up and started playing on a plane No they caused a fight with me and my high school girlfriend Because she knew that I would never love her The way that plain white T's loved Delilah

God damn Because I admitted I would never write a song for you Yeah I mean you know I think history is proven her out Oh yeah yeah No she was right Let me tell you something, though, if I'm on, if I'm at 35,000 feet and hey there, Delilah breaks out, Al-Qaeda is going to be the least of your worries. On this day in 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America's first woman in space.

But they only let her do regular season space. Yep. Yeah. On this day in 1991, San Francisco giant pitcher Dave Drevecki, he didn't write anything on his cap. His left arm was amputated, though, when he threw a 3-2 fastball that never let go of the ball. He threw the ball, and his arm just traveled with it right over the bottom part of his own. I don't believe you. They didn't video games back then, so.

It sounds like a Kevin Neeland. But he did have cancer. Damn, man. I didn't know until I met Monty. He's doing well. Dave DeVecchi, still alive, walking around just without an arm. Since 1991.

He's probably lived on this earth longer without an arm than with one. Think of it. Good for him, man. On this day in the year 2000, Tiger Woods wins the U.S. Open by 15 shots. You guys golfers? A little bit.

A little bit. Is it popular there? Yeah, I think it's pretty popular. You know my favorite Father's Day activity. Just watching the back nine. Ludwig's from there, right? Ludwig Oberg? Yeah.

Is it Father's Day this Sunday? Yeah. All right. I've already... You want to watch golf together? No, what I want to do is not fight with my wife about it. You're the father. About Father's Day?

Yeah. Oh, does she want to make a big... No, it's just like, I just... Why do we have to have any... She just want to give you more sex? I just, babe. Tired. On this day in 2014, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled that the Washington Redskins' name was disparaging of Native Americans

and should be stripped of trademark protection. Do you believe we had that one so long? We had a team. But wasn't that also a South Park episode? Yes, it was. Now we're culturally together here. On this day in 2017, Diana Tarasi scored 19 points to break the W. WNBA career scoring record.

I thought you were going to say single game record. Then she met with Mike Vrable at a hotel and Diana Rossini. Oh, that's a different lady. I got a hot take, though. I mean, if it's one night, I'm not positive. I'm not taking the big lady. Who's the big lady? Diana Tarasi.

Over Diana Rusini? I need the scout. I need a scout. I haven't done my homework. I mean, she's not conventionally what you'd think of is like, oh, this is a super attractive woman. But Diana Rossini's just too small. She's just too small.

She's a little mean, though. Now you're picking up what I'm putting down, though, right? I don't think you're right. No, I don't think so either. I'm not saying Diana Tarasi is mean. I'm saying Rossi. She's kind of like a little Italian means. She's just Jersey mean.

She's fraud. She's fine. She's harmless. On this day in 2018, Donald Trump, the president at the time, announced he was directing the Pentagon to create the Space Force. Hell yeah. And then they did. And on this day in 2023, they have to get college football. Like, that needs to be, we need to talk about the protection.

They need a college so they can have a team. Yeah. An academy. Kevin Kelly is the coach. Yeah. We need to talk about the updates to the bill tomorrow. Book that or remind me that Blake. I do like the feel that those teams represent.

Like we talked about this. It's bad that Air Force is a running team. A running, yes. They need to be the ultimate. They never punt all that kind of stuff. Yeah. They just don't know marketing like we do. And on this day in 2020, a submarine, a submarine operated by the American Tourism and Expeditions Company called Ocean Gate.

I was going to go view the wreck of the Titanic. And then it, like, exploded. Imploded, I think they say. Imploded. It did not explode. And the stepson of the billionaire that was down there on the sub, was, like, tweeting at porn stars. He's like a 37-year-old guy. He went to a blink concert the next night?

He went to a Blink 182 reunion show the next night. He was like, Dad's stuck on a sub, still trying to cope. He was, like, tweeting porn stars, trying to get reaction. It was like, I think your dad is currently being, like, liquefied. Stepdad, I mean, I guess. One famous wedding on this date, Blake, in 1989, The Marriage of John Wayne Bobbitt and Lorena Gallo That make it over there?

You know who John Wayne Bobbitt is? I have no idea who those people are. Damn, I was hoping. What do you know about John Wayne Bobbitt, Blake? The same amount as my Swedish friends back there. It was the only thing we talked about from like age five to age 10. It was up there.

Which was? I don't actually remember where this took place in the country, but he was a man who in a fight with his wife, she cut off his penis. Clean off. Because he got drunk and passed out after. I think maybe he was... He probably was physically abused her.

Yeah, maybe he was like raping her. But she then drove away with it and threw it into a field. That was a big part of the story. That's where Jake on his radio show the next day was like, can you rape your wife? 214. Yeah, and so they reattached it. And he later did porn.

What do you guys know? Did you ever hear any... Urban Legends about Rod Stewart? No? Okay. Just testing out how far varies... Our chat would like to know if you guys find the Swedish chef

on the Muppets offensive. No, but it's not very funny, though, is it? I agree. All of the Muppets at all. No? No, okay. But not offensive. No, I don't know.

Just not funny. No, not very offensive. Okay. Maybe some people do, but... Yeah. So it's June 18th, this day in Dumb Zone history. On this day in 2021, we had KG on for the first time. Oh, I was thinking Kyle Gas.

Blossomed into a very nice relationship. He taught us about gardening. And the sweeper. He taught me a drill, too, that I use quite often. The whole bit on KG was the Rangers sucked. They had no pitching. And we were just looking at their stuff during, like, spring training. I was like, who the hell is this?

Their opening day starter is some guy named Kyle Gibson. Dude, you don't... This is off the air. Yeah, then on the air, we're acting like we're really into the Rangers. We've got KG going on the bump tonight. Just making fun of it. The fact... And then we ended up being great friends with him.

He's a great dude. He is a great dude. And I apologize for 2020 me. Yeah. To KG. Two years ago is when you got the Wonder Woman poster for Father's Day. which I believe your wife found in the trash and decided to save it and give it to you

I think it was this trash at school The school was thrown it away She saw it and thought of you She's like, I know who loves Wonder Woman And then in 2020 we had a guy named Ken Scott on Jake, do you remember this? He was, he played, well, it was in the costume Oh, he was Raffy

Yeah He played Raphael, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle That was pretty cool It was a big moment for me. And then Jake says, this is, again, 2020, we're over buttoned. I don't know. And your bit was like, look at your dishwasher. Look at all these settings.

You just push go. I go. Okay. Same with the laundry. Who's pressing poultry? Do I need that button? Yeah, on the microwave? Yeah.

Isn't everybody just doing quick 30, quick minute on, maybe? Like, who's in there? Like, this feels like more of a three power. I got to do this on the Quick30 thing too, yeah, because I had a problem with our... The Airbnb. The Airbnb one, yeah. How about I could just type 30 start. Do I need to have, like, if I just hit the button one, oh, it's on now.

Whoa, oh, wait. I wanted it to be a minute and a half, but I hit the button one, and it's because this is quick start. So now I've got to figure it and hit each button to figure out what is the time on each button. Yeah, I was right. Over buttoned. And look at your clothes washer. Right. Like fucking Bill 9.

How about normal? Just that. What does permanent press mean? That feels like a serious commitment. Anyone. I have no idea, dude. Like, if I put it on permanent press, you know what? Let's do the, let's do the, uh...

This is why you did it. Let's put 10 shirts. Okay, yeah. There's no chance. Like, let's do the permanent press challenge and then you have to pick. Delicates. Which one was this washing? with.

I don't even know. Would you buy a microwave that was one button if I start selling this? I swear to God I would. It sounds nice, right? And if you wanted to add 30 more, you hit it again. That one's not bad. That's it. Yeah.

But I don't mind like one through nine and then those each indicate. I can type in the time that I actually want. That's, uh, anyways. Other birthdays today. Del Harris is 89. That's right Remarkably white hair He is on the list of

Still Alive Definitely wouldn't have had it And on the list of NBA coaches Who Most Resemble Leslie Nealton It's a very short list Jerry Sloan Matt Moore is 37

Cowboys The pitcher Oh, Ray's I'm going to say once beat Was a Ranger for a minute, right? Once beat the Rangers in a playoff game? Am I high? Yeah, he was a Ranger.

He was a Ranger for a minute. But the Shine was kind of often by then. He seemed like he was going to win at least six So Youngs with the race. Yeah, it happened fast. Romeo Crennell, 78. Do you ever head coached the Browns? He had to it, right? It feels like he did.

Okay. Evan Mobley is 25. Dan. Current Cavalier. Sandy Alamar Jr. is 60. That is a former Ranger. 46 games in 2005. Almost certainly on the Kim Spinn list.

Sandy Elmer Jr.? He's not the one that said that the ump's dead kid should have died, right? Yes, he? Roberto. Yeah. Oh. Totally different. Okay, my bad.

So Roberto said that and spit on an ump? It was the same. Same exchange? Yeah. Oh, okay. Which would you rather? Someone stood on you or made fun of your dead child? Make fun of my dead child.

There's no germs in that. What's it going to do? Like that spit could give me an amoeba. I spit on a guy one time and he kicked the shit out of me. That's what I'm saying. It seems to be a very... That's what I'm saying. I don't want to be spit on.

I think in Sweden that's classified as assault. It should be. Yeah. Andre Scalaraga is 65. Big Cat. Also a Ranger. Another lot of teams. Former Ranger, 72 games in 2000.

2001. Antonio Gates is 46. He didn't always play football. Really? What else did he play? No one knows. I think it was a badminton tennis? Bruce Smith is 63. Bills.

78. Paul McCartney is 84. Speaking of the Swedish chef. To me, they sound the same. He does have a sing-songy. Isabella Rossellini is 74. Richard Madden is 40. Who's that?

Isabella. Isabella Rosalini was in... What's that movie? Blue Velvet. Oh, what a film. Funny. Richard Madden is Rob Stark in Game of Thrones. Red wedding.

Yeah, had to pick the nurse, didn't you? Rapper birthdays. Trippy Red is 27. Blake, I think. Yeah, I think he's in the Cuddyverse. Oh, Kid Cuddy, big player in the Sonic franchise. Yeah. Not just songs, he's in it.

Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, I've heard his songs, and Brooks is in a sonic phase. Silk the Shocker, 51. A little more my speed. A little more my speed. Blake Shelton is 49? Is Silk? Is Master P make him say, uh, or is it Silk the Shocker?

It's just Master P, right? Also, no way on Diana Tarasi, dude. I'm a freak fool. Willa Holland is an actress. Willa Holland. Silk the Shocker is on Make-M-Say-On. Okay, good. She's 35.

She was in Gossip Girl. Missed that boat entirely. And really just worked her way up. She's from a small... Oh, actually, her stepdad is Brian De Palma. Oh, my bad. And our dumb's-on birthday of the day. Oh, hold on.

I think Blake Shelton turned 50. 50? Did I get that wrong? Yeah, I think so. Man, this guy's up my ass. Dude, how's this guy? I like fact-checking me. Get it right. I want to get it right.

Should we have done all of them? And why did you know that? I do listen to a lot of country music. Okay. Wow. He's like on a... Sweden likes country music? Do you think it was a downgrade when he left Miranda Lambert for Gwen Stefani?

Oh, I'm not that into... He's not that guy. I'm also still a dude. Dude, not some... I was crazy. So basically what we do, actually next week, four of July,

his birthday is 1st of July, mine is 3rd. So every year we have the big, great party when we just bring over everyone for barbecues. Nice. Have like an America party. And listening to country music,

and obviously... It's a Saturday now, so it's going to be happy birthday America all day. Country music Saturday. We're going to get these balloons 250. 250s.

I might have to book of flight to Stockholm. Yeah. That's a city, Dan. Now, that's the only one I could give you, but... Yeah, you're right. I know that one. Oh, Dumb's on birthday the day.

He's 51. Usually the sports birthdays lead us, but I had to give this to Jeff Saturday. Jeff Saturday. Damn, dude. That really happened, man. That's right. How can anybody not be into sports?

Like, that story alone. Yep, Luca got traded, that guy got a head coaching gig, things happened. Good times. Born on this day now dead, Uday Hussein. And another rapper birthday, takeoff. Yeah. He loved tortillas with the eggs and the cheese and the strips. Omigos, okay, yeah.

Pretty good. We like what we see today. Dead on this day is still dead. Take off a period in Atlanta, I would say at least twice. So you've interfaced with him. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Okay.

Willie Mays. XXXTentatian. Again, Blake. Commercial for Venmo. Larry Dobie died on this day. Good friend of Eddie Robinson. Nancy Marchand, who played Tony Sopranos' mom. Oh, God, terrifying.

Do you remember early use of, like, AI or whatever? I thought that was impressive. The next year, she died in the off-season, and the next year they used some clips that they had filmed the year before, but they... Interesting. No, I didn't know that. It looked really weird.

They did that in Fast and Furious when Paul Walker died. That was great. They did use his brother, too. They're putting it back in theaters, the original one. I was just thinking about it this morning. The first, first one? Uh-huh. Well, we've done it in the theater before.

We have. And we need to do that. We need to do point break. We need to get back to our roots. They're 100% right. Like, how great was it watching that movie in a theater in 2020? I said how great. Did I stutter?

Where do the Rock and Van Diesel stand right now, though? Don't we have another one coming back? I mean, the last one ended on a cliffhanger, and the studio has since been really kind of a bitch about how much information they're giving out about whether or not it will be produced. It's not filming. But I think the feud is over.

The feud is over. It's just whether or not they want to spend a billion dollars to make this movie. And finally, dead on the stay still dead. Eddie Goodell. Oh, no. He was only 3'7. He died at the age of 36.

He died. Wealthy. Respected. Not only poor, but he was poor even before this incident. But he was beat up by muggers and died from the injuries. What kind of mugger? I know. And that's what happened on that.

On this day in history. He, yes. He was. Panelists. Not good. Closing remarks are brought to us by Frankl and Frankel. personal injury attorneys. Let's say you're visiting from a faraway land

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now you're watching right what do you mean by that I'm saying if he the problem was it was a little guy but if there were two little guys fighting a big guy like I've been trying to get you guys okay we're watching the mugging

right but now he's got a buddy with him you'd watch that fight I'm probably watching Eddie Goodell fight anybody but I see what you're saying don't don't dress up the the clown. I mean, when you were talking to me during the UFC fight,

did you got, okay, so you guys are in from Sweden, did you happen to see the UFC fight on the White House lawn? No, when was that? Oh, you didn't see that? No, I mean, I've heard about it happening for like half year, but I kind of missed it. Okay. It was Sunday evening.

Anyway, so we have closing remarks. Who handles that? All of you? Maybe Steve. Sure. Stephen? Yeah. What is your bit?

Where are you from? So I'm from here. I'm from Dallas. I listen to the ticket since the 1900s of my dad. That's cool to say. I've never heard anybody do that before. You worked there since the 1900s. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, I, getting summer off from school, I was excited to be able to listen to Bob and Dan radio show. So that was cool. Back in the teenage days. But yeah, I haven't lived in Dallas in a while, but I had to come back for World Cup. I had to bring some friends. And I had to see the dumb zone because I'm a D.F.

So that's my bit. That's why I'm here. I love it. When are you going back? Tonight. Okay. Where do you live again? Charleston, South Carolina.

Do they live on your block in Charleston? How do you know them? I've studied. abroad. We covered that. Yeah. Hong Kong Exchange semester. And we've been to a couple of other World Cups before.

So what do you do in Charleston? Just like healthcare consulting. It's not interesting. Okay. What took you there? My wife lives there and she has a better job than me. So I moved there for love. Well, it sounds like you didn't move there for money.

You just claim that she had a better job and that's why you move there. Yeah. That's why you're married. So what do you guys think of... Married for money. Married for money. Mood for love. There you go.

Have you been to the States before this trip? Yeah, a bunch of times. Okay. Have you been to DFW this area before? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Like, yeah, once.

Okay. Do you like Texas? I love Texas, actually. I think it's super cool. I like the South more than, you know, the North of the U.S. because, you know, food. It's a little bit too warm for me right now, actually. Yeah.

But Texas is super cool. Okay. You like Mexican food? Love Mexican food. What's up? Sweden. What's the weather like there? Summer is great.

Winter is shit. Like super, super cold? I mean, global warming has made it less cold. All right. See? Look for the positive. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, we have a lot of snow. People, you know, skate through the rivers on the city, in the city, you know, and stuff like that. Skate to work.

Yeah, people do that when there's ice. Have you ever cross-country skied? I mean, yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I do this race 90 kilometers or 60 miles, I guess. Wow. Like in the path of the ancestors is a former first Swedish king who allegedly skis. that so it's a big happening in Sweden every year.

Are we socialists there? What is the economic? Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah? What is that? Why are we excited about it? It's a good system. Yeah, socialism is the shit.

It's awesome. Because of free health care, free education, I fucking love it. For me and my children. You guys don't get it, right? Oh, no. We're big fans, but it's not a... I feel like the health care would be a great bit. Not, not...

It's different. No, we do not receive it. It's not free. Of course. Obviously, it sounds like a super socialist when you say it's true. You have much higher taxes. So it's just you and me paying for it because we actually have wages. Right.

We have high taxes. I think that, like, I would not say that Sweden is the ultimate system. And I wouldn't want to have it as the US has it either. Like, it's two extremes in a way, I would say. So some kind of middle way. Because it's not a coincidence that Sweden has the most sick days in the world. Well, it's because you get paid anyways if you're sick. It's not because we're unhealthier than Americans.

Do you have kids? Yeah. What's your leave for a father? Yeah, yeah. You get paternally leave? Yeah, yeah. It's like six months, seven months, something like that. I can spread out during the course of the first couple of years in his life.

So it's awesome. We're going to have three weeks this summer with him when the daycare is closed. So that's awesome. Daycare free? I mean, like you said, not free. It's not free, but they have a cap on it, so it's kind of subsidized. It's not difficult to get into daycare. It's not difficult. It's super cheap.

Can you say it turns that, please? It's like $100 per month, so it's like almost free. It's cheaper to put your kid in daycare than have the dogs in a dog care. In a kennel. Yeah, no, like the day care, because that actually happened, like, all of this, both pandemic babies, And many people got dogs as well when they were working from home. So they have pandemic dogs as well. And then when they're going to go back to work, this market exploded for daycare of dogs.

But that's not subsidized. So it's actually much more expensive to have your dogs in daycare than kids. How was the pandemic? Because that seemed to be a very political issue here. Yeah, the pandemic was okay in Sweden. I mean, nothing. There were no lockdowns. You know, we were all going.

I mean, Swedes got really angry. when they started to close the bars at 10 instead of, you know, 12 or whatever it was before. So the pandemic was pretty chill in Sweden. I think Sweden also is like the perfect culture for pandemics because we don't touch each other. We're like very, like, we're very like antisocial people. Stay away from each other. You know, don't, yeah. This whole place sounds great.

Yeah, I was going to say, Dan is. No, you get health care. Like, you grow old. I'm not going to worry about. You're in ski club in high school. so you're already ready to... So do you... How do we greet each other?

Do we shake hands? Do we bow? What do we do? I would say shake hands. We do touch each other there. Yeah, yeah. It's more that we prefer our solitude as well. I think that best comparison in states, in a way, would be like Alaskans, I guess.

We're like a version of them. Yeah, okay. So we just like our forests and... You like solitude? You like drinking? Yeah, exactly. And you like... How often do you do you do...

You don't have to have fun only because you're drinking. Right. I've always wanted to go there. Did they have any like 24-hour daytime or nighttime? Do you deal with that? I went to Iceland. So that's actually the point of midsummer. That's what you're saying.

That's in a couple of days. That's why we have to be home to our families. But that's supposed to be. I'm not sure if it actually is. Wait, why we have to be home to our families? It's like a big holiday. Because it's like the biggest holiday. It's like New Year's Eve type thing.

It's like our Fourth of July. Basically, what it is is that you, like you and your kids go out to this field and then there's like a big, like if you Google it, you'll see this like a big dick, basically, that you dance around out of like flowers and shit. It's supposed to symbolize fertility, I believe. And it's also kind of the longest day of the year.

So there's like basically, no night. So people get fucked up and they have really fun. So it's a big... Sounds amazing. Yeah, it's super fun. There's no killing and stuff like that, like in the movie, typically. So it's...

It's... To represent fertility, does that mean you go home and start making babies? Yes, there's a representation of March kids in Sweden. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. That makes sense. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. And actually, if you look at the actual pole kind of thing, it's like dick and balls penetrating Mother Earth. It really is. It is, literally. So it's not like, it's pretty obvious. It's like pretty obvious if you know it. And then all the kids just dance around it.

When you know the background, it's just, it's almost like that we'll be listening to the whole show today as well. Okay. That's awesome. And what did you think? About Midsummer. About the show today. I mean, you got this decent time today?

The parts I understood were super cool. But there were a lot of stuff I did not understand. But, you know, I'm not from here. So, you know, we talk about, like, baseball names and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm a little confused. But the parts I understood were super fun. We appreciate you guys being here. Have you been over there, Stephen?

To Sweden. Yeah. Yeah, I went to one of their birthday bashes once. I went to his wedding. It was super fun. They were both in the summertime, really long day. I haven't been there for a winter. Wasn't particularly planning on it.

You never know. I feel like I want to go now. Oh my gosh, yeah. It is fun. It is super cool. Could we hang out if I go there? Would you... Yeah?

Would we hook up? Yeah, we'll get you drunk. There you go. All right, well, I'll bring some of our CBD, our THC CBD for you and we can exchange stuff. Don't say that out publicly. They will... It's parody. Do you get arrested?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, Pott is illegal there. Yeah, yeah, it's illegal. I thought Sweden was cool. What happened? How was that? You're not going to come anymore now.

No, well. You heard that. I mean, it was ASAP, Rocky. Oh, yeah. Yes, that's in prison. Trump had to get him out. Yeah, he was in, like, in jail for, like, two months or something, yeah. But Swedish jail, that sounds great, right?

The chef's over there. Is it kind of like our shittier hotels? Yeah. It's like a day's in. It's like a nice motel. Yeah. They're like pool tables, football fields and stuff like that. So, like, if you get sent to prison, you're not fearing being raped?

No. That's a big deal. No, you probably don't get raped. Unless you want to get raped, I don't know. Right, no. You can't want to get raped. Like, it depends if you dress like that. You kind of do.

Actually, the other day, I was driving past the prison with my kid, and he was like, oh, look at this very nice school. It's actually, we have, like, two less of prison places now. So now they actually started talking about maybe we need to place two felons in the same cell. Otherwise you have the right to like own cell. Oh, wow. They have property rights. And you have like three or four different choices for eats, for meals as well every day.

Like your pescatarian friend would do awesome there. Dan, you're sad, dude. You read? If you're going to do crime, do it in Sweden. All right. Good times. Adios, mofo. We got to go before this becomes a zoo.

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