The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 6-25-26 | Mavs draft Morez Johnson Jr. and Jim Knox with Japan and Sweden fans

Episode Date: June 25, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneTeam Sweden vs. Team Japan at AT&T Stadium called for one man: Jim Knox. We throw it out to Knoxy on the prowl as fans began to make their way to Texas Live for the match. Then we discuss the Mavs selection in Round 1 of the 2026 NBA Draft: Morez Johnson Jr., who played for new coach, Dusty May, at Michigan. Finally, it's a big Viewer Mail bag and let's call Chappy on his birthday (00:00) - Open: With Jim Knox from Texas Live (13:24) - Dan's trip to Fort Worth (26:37) - Sports: Mavs select Morez Johnson Jr. (50:48) - Buster Posey raked over the coals (01:08:06) - Big Thursday Viewer Mail Bag (01:43:34) - News: What's up with pugs? (02:00:20) - VM birthdays/Today in History (02:34:35) - Closing remarks: Calling Chappy on his birthday ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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leave him alone, who calls me boss, uh, at the Fox 4 building, that's where we are. We're inside Fox 4. Catch us on Fox 4 plus. Uh, I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jake. I'm Blake Jones. Fudy CK. Very happy Clayton. And, uh, yes, we are here. We are excited. We're not at the World Cup Media Center, but we are covering the World Cup today. We will have live World Cup coverage throughout the program. We, in anticipation of the big match tonight, the big, it's a match, right?

Mm-hmm. It's a match. It's a pitch. It's, uh, it's at 6 p.m. That part doesn't change. It is in Dallas. It is Sweden. We had our buddies from Sweden.

over last week and they are taking on Japan Samurai Blue Japan Would you like to go to our field correspondent? Well, that's the thing If Japan is in the area

And there are Japanese fans in the area We will send it out to The Dumb Zone's own Jim Knox Jim Knox is At What do you call it? Texas Live. Did you bring him?

Texas Live. Look at him right there out in front of the stadium. He's got fans from Sweden. Outside Texas Live, Global Life Field. And Dan and Jake, check this out. The goats have arrived. The goats, the Sweden fans have a baby goat. Two of them.

They got a little hat on it. A little pink hat. They got a little pink cowboy hat on a tiny baby goat and a stroller. Who's the owner of the goats? This is incredible. They don't even know. They just kind of wheeled them up. Okay.

So, Knox, it's not packed. He's got maybe 1520 fans and then just some goats. Yeah. This is pretty good. All right. Big techs over here. Yeah. Of course, he had to get a cowboy hat in Fort Worth.

Okay. What do you think? Sweden, Japan and I. We will probably lose the game, but hopefully with not too many goals. So we can qualify us one of the best thirds. That's a way to bring the country. Confidence. Okay, tell me, you guys got the town when? A few days ago. What do you think about Texas? Dallas.

We love this place. We love the American people and we love the Mexicans. They're very, yeah. You love the Mexicans. Okay, so not very good. The guy likes so much about the Mexicans. They're pouring and are very like peaceful people. We love them. Where'd you get the cowboy hat? We went to Fort Worth. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Do you ride any ponies, horses, anything? No, much beer. Only beer. What about the goat?

What's the deal with the goat? You're going to put away some beers. You're like seven hours before game time or so. We ready to drink, boys? All right, let's say to the chant in the stands tonight to get the Swedes going. Let's hear it, guys. What do we got? Cannapur, Cannapur.

Cannapur, cana, cana, poor. There we go. We got a last tan and Jake. I love it. Thank you, Jim. I love it. Thank you, Jim Knox. So the guy he's talking to looks like actor Alexander Scarsguard,

plus about 100 pounds. Yeah, there we go. All right, beer on us. Let's go. All right. There we go. There's Jim Knox. We will continue sending it out to Jim Knox in the field throughout today's show.

Okay. There is, the report is there's thousands of Sweden, fans will be marching through Arlington ahead of their match against Japan tonight. So organizers have said they will gather around 1 o'clock near the former Rangers Stadium. The march starts at 3.30 p.m. and it will go for an hour. So we will then compare this march against the Rangers parade and see which is better organized and what looks more impressive on television. but hear me out

if organizations take notes is there a chance that the Rangers replicated like that they say that looked cool and if they ever went again

they do something different there's no way they'll run it back if they ever went again right you can't just run that exact the same one no no

you can't do it and if this is a template for them right here I'm sorry I'm slightly distracted by the goats like I was hoping

to Google this and it would say yes of course the Sweden goats no baby yeah I got nothing. I think those people might have just, did they bring them over? Just had a goat? They had two baby goats in a stroller in little Sweden. So it's not the legendary Swedish go?

Oh my gosh, not the goat. It sounded. Huh. It just happened. They just happened to have a goat. Okay. That's fine. Why not? Yes, Jim Knox will report all day. I'm worried about the Sweden, though. Just because we got, we drew Ivan Barton for the ref. I mean, come on. We all. We all know. It's an Ivan Barton game. So clearly FIFA did this to, uh, they wanted to boost the ratings. You know what soccer story we did not do earlier in the dub C? Uh, there was a, they have video review people not just for fouls, but also for if you make racist hand signs. For real? Yes. And, uh, there was a referee. Wait, in what league? In the World Cup. Oh, he said dub C. What we doing?

Yeah, we're okay with that? All right. I don't know. All right. I just want to point it out. I was like, what happened? Okay. Everybody just let that fly?

I was trying to figure out what he meant. Yeah, there was a referee. And during the game, they called down some guy, like a concussion spotter. They have a racism spotter. And he's like, hey, he made a hand sign, a white power hand sign. They have a racism spotter. I'm obviously, I'm certainly butchering this story to some extent, but they have people up top and this guy got

put on probation for doing a little CJ Nikkowski symbol while he was refing a game okay so yeah just tell us if we need to go back out there we can go back out there for one let's check back in I'm I want to set the scene and I Jim Knox is World Cup coverage brought to us by

Game Day men south gameday.com whenever we send it out to Jim Knox those guys don't look Japanese they're wearing Japan jerseys Oh, that's, you're exactly right. Jake and Dan, these guys are the fake Japanese fans. These guys are the real Japanese fans. Okay, yeah, you can. I spotted them out just instantly when they came in talking English just, how did you become a fake Japanese fan?

It became, I think, four years ago. I used to live in Japan, so that's why I'm supporting to them. Gotcha. Okay. So you know. You're up to date and all the chance. Oh, of course. Did they send out a manual to be a Japanese soccer fan? This is what you got to do? I read it. Took me an hour.

Now I'm fluent. Okay, got you. Say still. We're going to give you a test. Now let's bring in the real Japanese fan. All right, where are you from? I'm from Osaka. Yes, that's what we like.

There we go. Yeah. And when did you get to town? Huh? Yesterday. Yesterday. Yesterday. Yeah.

From Osaka. from San Francisco and Dallas. Ah, long flight. Yes, yes. Have you had any Texas food yet? Barbecue, anything? No. No?

Yeah. I ate lunch at San Francisco only. Last night, I drink. You got to go to barbecue. Only three beer. What's that? Terry Black, Tilly Black's barbecue? Terry Black's barbecue?

Barbecue? Yeah, yeah. It was good. It was good. Yeah, it was good. Yeah. Yeah. It was freaking good.

What are you looking for tonight's game? I got great news. Guys, y'all can listen to this. Talking to the Swedes, they have no confidence. They said they're going to actually lose this game. They're hoping to stay close. Okay. How do you feel about that?

I like that. I like that, you know. No confidence. Okay. All right, give us the Japanese. You got your horn going? Give us what you guys are going to do. tonight in the stands when you guys score a goal.

Oh, what's going on doing the game? How are you going to chant? Oh, here we go. All right. Nezbo, need, oh, hey, hey, hey, hey. All right, let's get it back. This is kind of very uplifting, very uplifted. Yeah.

How do we get it back? How do we know when? Yeah, there we go. Japanese. Who's controlling that? Thank you, Jim Knox. Thank you, Jim Knox. We'll send it back out to you every 15 minutes or so.

What's our key for next time we do that where we get it back and we don't wait? What do you mean? Like if we want to get it back, we should be the ones to control that. I don't know. Just do what we did. Okay. Just bail out. Yeah, anyway, we'll be checking in with him every 10 or 15 minutes or so throughout the show, see what he's got.

I can tell you he's definitely got testosterone. We should definitely tag the... Yeah, yeah. Every update for Jim Knox is Game Day, men's health, gameday.com. Mention the Dumbzone for 10% off TRT for life. Before we get into sports, I just wanted to tell you a little kind of a weekend checky thing,

but it's more of a business Wednesday check. Thank you, Sean Kernan. He is my financial guy. He has set me up. He can set you up as well. You want to know what a 529 is? He's your guy. He's your guy.

Sean Kernan at Dallas Financial Planner.net. Brought us business Wednesday, and I went to the doctor. I had to go to a doctor in Fort Worth. And so I wanted to tell you a couple things about that. One, why in every waiting room? It's like me and one other guy in there. There's like a really old guy. and then he's like, he grabbed me.

He made me feel good because he's like, don't ever get old. So that made me feel, oh, thanks, man. He goes, you never stop going to these doctors once you get old. Like, he's like, I'm at the doctor every day. He just started talking to me. Do you think you'll ever turn into that? I don't know. I don't know.

I'm a little more communicative and talkative than I was before, but I don't know. I mean, you know my dad. My dad's that guy. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. Like, was your dad? that guy when he was 25? I kind of feel like he was.

Okay, then maybe I won't. Anyway, that's not the... The point is of being in the waiting room, when do we decide that we need to blast HG TV in there? Can I roll it back a step further and say, when did we decide we needed a TV? That's right. Look, how about what if we had nothing?

And now I'm just... I'm trying to find the volume. Right. There's no physical button for volume. I'm running my hand across the back of the TV. Right. Microwaves should take notice. And then I was going through the conversation in my head about can I turn this down?

Because I've had it in other waiting rooms. Where I ask and she's like, well, there's other people in here. I'm like, so wait, this is the old like, all right, this, I'm claiming right now this is bothering me. you're saying it could potentially bother the other people in the waiting room if I turned it down. Hey, Blake, have you ever asked them to turn down or turn up the volume on the TV in a waiting room? No. Turn it down. I love it.

I've never seen anybody do it. Did you ask him to flip it over to? Did you ever see? At CNBC or anything? I think the old guy was, at first he was sitting next to his, I think he brought his wife there. So they took his wife. She was very skinny, but she was in one of the fat chairs. Do you notice in waiting rooms?

Now they have a fat chair. I guess I have. It's a double chair. Interesting. It's as long as two chairs together. Do you think when they just make it one chair? When you're that age and you're driving your wife to appointments every day, you still get to issue ass, grass or cash.

Yeah, maybe. Doubted. So I'm going home. I was in down, back kind of probably near Chisholm Trailie where you used to live. And so I, well, I had to get a little dinner on the way home, so I stopped by, I made a run for the border. As you know, I'm really, 2026 has been my Taco Bell resurgence. Big time. Like I've gotten back into it.

I need to look at my app. Maybe it was getting the app. They know what they're doing. Yeah. I love hearing that little bell once you click your order. Anyway, so I had to kind of drive through Fort Worth a little bit. And then once you're at that Taco Bell, you just, instead, let's go to 35W. We'll go north to get home.

But we have to drive through Fort Worth. And like there's just such immense traffic. It was around 5 o'clock, of course. But it's, it was so crawling. Number one, I wish I had a Jake P.jar. Thank you. I did not have one with me, and I really had to go in every little bump and pothole. It's like, oh, like hold it, hold it, hold it.

What if I take another bite of this CrunchRab Supreme? Maybe that'll help. Oh, eating while having to pee. Mm-mm. Don't like it. It's a space issue. But, so now I get up to the highway, and it's like, here's the highway entrance, and you could just see it's more of the, I could move at an inch per minute. Or over here. Now over here, though, says toll tag, $7.15.

And I'm like, I feel like, so my analogy is kids and when they move out of your house. So nature has a way of making kids become assholes when they're teenagers. And oftentimes, it really occurs with the mother and daughter you would see. I'm not sure how the boys thing works out. but it's like when you have your little babies and they're eight, they're 10, they're 12, you're like, oh, I could never imagine living without this person. And it would make you almost cry, literal tears, if you thought of them leaving home and going off to college or something. But they become such little jerks when they're in high school that it's like a nature thing to when they go to college.

You're like, ah, that's great. They're now out of the house. Yeah. But so nature prime me. in that I was so frustrated with my driving and I'm trying to learn patience but it's not working. You saw me the other day.

I sped by you. It wasn't working. Then I'm like $7.15. I don't know the figure on there you could put that I wouldn't go on this tollway. And now the tollway is even backed up. Like it's even double-lane, but I'm not going to full speed limit.

But I'm looking over there and it looks like I'm going a million miles an hour. and I'm thinking this is I'm thinking this is the closest I will ever get to feeling like Jerry Jones when he's on his helicopter and he's flying over all the traffic and he lands at the stadium and he's just laughing at all the traffic

You're actually upset it doesn't cost more like why are all these pories up here with me? I would pay way more. I would definitely have paid. I don't know how much it would have had to have been. But like at that moment and I had to be, and I had been so frustrated, I've been gone, and it's like, okay, I just got to get home. What if it said $20?

Would I have said no? I don't know. I can't say that I would have. The thing that frustrates me... Certainly if you could have transported me, I would have paid like $100. And I know that there are other instances of this in the Metroplex, but this is the one we deal with the most, because there are times when it says $21. Like, if you're on $8.20, I don't know how...

I don't know. Like, you can justify it if you're going to the doctor in Fort Worth and you don't go to Fort Worth every day. Like one day, you're like, okay, one time I'm going to do this. Right, but there are people... But what if you work? Yeah, I don't know. Because 820... It's 820 right there. What's that part? 121 or 114... What is it? 183 in bedford. Airport freeway to... It's always double digits. So, my frustration... Who's doing this every day? And this is where my spectrum-y thing comes in and I really, really have to figure out how to cope with it every day in their negative ways and positive ways. But

I would actually be more okay paying if my brain just understood who what am I paying for who am I paying where does this money go does it improve the roads is this private public like to me I have a hard time existing just thinking through I don't know anything about this transaction and I know that doesn't matter because you're just going to pay it why does it matter but I I feel like I'll pay 20 does this go into like transparency well I just feel like it's complicated so Um, okay, I drove to Fort Worth yesterday too. Can I tell you a very quick story before we do sports? Because I know we have a lot. Uh, so I'm leaving town in two days. We've been staying at my mom's. And last night, my wife had, uh, friend dinner. And my parents got home from work at like 6.30 or 7. And they're like, we'll watch the kids if you want to go do something. and there is i'm not going to beat you guys down with stories about this too much but there's like an open mic list that you can sign up for and a guy that i took that class with sent like the group

chat text and said hey there's an open mic at this coffee shop i go to they'll give you five minutes if you want to go that guy is married to a woman but he is bisexual that's only kind of important but I didn't really look up where the coffee shop was. I was just like, I have time tonight. I'm going to sign up for this open mic. I'm going to try to get five minutes because I'm going to be out of town for a while. I want to do this while I have time. And so I went there and it's like off Cedar Springs in Oakland.

It's like a really artsy, really gay coffee shop. So all your materials out the window. And I, as I was parking was like this will. What's the deal with homos? It'll be interesting. Isn't it great things that are back? I got a things that are back list. And I walked in and...

I can say... I was out of... There was probably 25, 30 people there. There was one, like, straight white guy. It was me. And I walked in and was like, okay, first thing I noticed, this is not a comedy only open mic. So, they're going to be people with a guitar. Slamp poetry.

With a poetry reading. With all manner. And then I walked in and I'm like, they're setting everything up. And I said to my buddy, I was like, you've obviously been here. And this guy knows, like, I'm not a homophobe. I'm not a racist. But I got like jokes. And he was like, you're fine.

He's also English. He's like, you're fine. You're fine. This place, you're going to be great. The first lady went up and did like two Sarah McLaughlin type songs. And then I was like, I'm fucking out of here. and as I was like opening the door they called my name I'm just going to have to do this and I did it and it was the most uncomfortable I've ever been in my life and it was great I had fun doing it what was the reception like I got the I got laughs I think it was funnier I think it went better than I felt while I was up there because I was pissing down my leg there is an idea that you should make eye contact with somebody and I was able to do that for a little bit but then some of the jokes that I didn't want to be looking at that person when I made them.

So tricky. And I just did it. And it was exhilarating. I got the rush out of it I wanted. But then it was only like 8.15 because they called me up really early. And, you know, I was up. I'm wired. My parents have my kids.

I pulled the list back up. And there was an open mic in downtown Fort Worth. That you could sign up for at 9 o'clock. All this space and freedom he has. So I drove over there and I went and did that I had at this point I'm like there were some things that I didn't love about what I did. Have you ever done two shows in one night? No, but I was like, I have time. This is what I want to do.

So you're doing the same act. Yeah, but there were just a couple things I didn't. But that's great learning. So the biggest thing was the ending sucked. And I realized like just because this feels like an ending, they laughed at other parts. Just make those the ending. Like you can't have the. the ending just suck, even if it feels like.

So I just, I was like, I want to try this a different way. And I want to try it in Fort Worth, which I've already learned in a month is different. And I went, interesting. Flipped it all the way. And it's Dallas. There's going to be some places in Dallas that are not like where I was. But I mean, I was in the teeth of it. And so I went over there.

Did you write a Bible verse on your hat? I don't more on that in sports in a second. But I went over there. And now, dude, this is like a comedy club. and there were sign-up sheet. There were like 20 people to sign. There might have been like 35, 40 people in this room. It was not just comics.

And I was nervous as hell. And I did it. And it went way better. And it was way more fun. And I was done. Two shows and one night the first time. It was fun. I got the juice I needed.

How late did you have to go on there? Not 11. Okay. So, I mean, I was home 1145, 1130. Damn, man. Your life is so... I don't know. It's weird. It's all... It's so different. Sports will be brought to us by poncho. Pancho outdoors.com.

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Okay, let's send it out before every 15 minutes or so during the show. We want to send it out to Jim Knox, who is standing by as he is out at Texas Live, where crowds are gathering in anticipation of tonight's Japan versus Sweden battle. I always love the reveal. I've been talking to a lot of people. And they are saying Japan, except this Sweden slash USA guy, how this comes? about you used to play in Sweden? I did. I played in the

Doncia Cup, which is the world's largest Youth World Cup, been around for many years. And yeah, I learned to love Sweden, and that's why I'm here. And you're going tonight. Yes. You're already starting off. You guys have the drinks and everything going well. So

tonight, you're predicting what? I'm predicting Sweden takes it home. 3-2. 3-2. 3-2. Wow. Jim. Jim, ask him if he's ever been to a, ask him if he's ever been to a midsummer event. We move over to the Japan table. As you see, the tourists hit town yesterday.

Look how excited they are, Dan. Jay. Already Japanese are putting off some drinks down. Damn, dude. Those are huge beers. They used to sock there on Japan time. Yeah. What do you think?

Very good. Okay, anybody have any bargains to you? Yeah. Oh, wow. I just learned Japanese teens are getting the same terrible haircut that American teens are. Oh, yeah. Have you seen Zion? Zion, sir?

Zion Suzuki? No. All right, tonight. Right. Oh, yeah. This is the bleach. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

All right, this one's a little rough. Can he hear us? We did get that. Tears. Cheers. Nice. Good day, mate, indeed. That's perfect.

And that's great. Jim Knox knows what he's doing, man. So, yeah, if there's anybody that's like 200 years old, he'll find. you as well. What do they play? Yeah, when is that game? He's in Fort Worth at the doctor's office. Oh, yeah, I like that.

So, Mavs draft. I want to start there, or you want to start with? Yeah, yeah. That's a good spot. I mean, we didn't do a ton on the coach. When's a press conference? Is it today? A draft press conference or a coach press conference?

I kind of feel like they'll just do, they'll do a big one maybe all of it i don't know but look they hired a guy uh that when i was writing my article dmagazine dot com slash sports i couldn't find him on like any odds list from that week at all now they usually only go to like the top ten and you know brian winhorse had in his article dusty may the guy they hired his head coach uh you know some rumblings around john shy or duke and and Dusty May at Michigan, but everyone in the league expects Dallas to elevate one of these top assistants

and go that route. That was like three days before they hired him. So we know nothing. You know, I think even if you're a casual Mavs fan, you probably figured out over the years, like Wodge didn't know anything about the Mavs. Mark Stein did. Tim McMahon did.

There's reporters they would call on and talk to and leak things to, and they like these type of players and they like these type of coaches and that is all gone. Like who's the MAVs insider now? Yeah. They don't have one yet?

No, I mean, you might as well. Because all Tim's contacts have disappeared. I mean, I'm sure they've still got people. Schmitz has been Mike Schmitz, who they hired as a GM worked at ESPN for a long time. So I'm sure Tim's got connects there. But it's different, you know, and it's hard because if you were able to think of

never having drafted Luca and like Cuban just sold the team to the Adelson's and you never even really met Dumont but he's like ah what do I do and they're like well you need to hire a GM and he hired Maasai blah blah blah this would be great you would be interested in how the Mavericks have morphed into an Eastern conference team

because you know I mean that just barely exists anymore but for a long time you know you kind of had conference identities and the Mavericks always felt like a Supreme Western Conference team. They were heavily Euro, they shot the ball, Pace, you know, Phoenix,

even going back to like the Lakers and the Pistons are Celtics, right? There's just always been that sort of thing and as the GM of the Raptors, Maasai was, that was an Eastern Conference ass team. You know, they

busted ass. They drafted long mother effers and they didn't play a particularly appealing brand of basketball, but they won a lot of games. And I don't know a ton about Dusty May. I mean, I know him as a 20-year college coach. I know they won a national championship.

But, I mean, three years ago, the guy was at UAB, right? It was much smaller school because he got some of the guys from there to go with him to Michigan. So if I were to say, does he fit with Maasai? I have no idea. But I know that Cuban was not about to hire a college. coach like that. And I don't also then if you get into the pick,

Merez Johnson, who they took out of Michigan two days after hiring his head coach, Merez Johnson goes at nine to Dallas. He was projected to go in the top half of the first round. Most boards had him like 12 to 16. But there were three Michigan players

projected to go in the top half of the first round and he was thought as the one that was going to go third. And he went first. He went first. Now, tightly clustered. The projection was like 8, 10, 12, 9, 11, 14. So it wasn't like he was going to go 25th. He went a couple slots ahead of where he thought. But if you're going to draft a guy that you think is a little bit less talented than his teammates, but he's the intangibles guy. The only way it makes sense to do that is if you just hired his coach. I mean, Nobody's going to know that. To have his coach say, actually, this guy was more valuable. Yeah.

I mean, so people are like, how much the Dusty may have influence on the draft? You know, if the guy that went at eight is there at nine, would they have taken him? I mean, it's impossible to know, but you've got a guy that the rest of the... From what I heard went like most mocks were thinking. Yeah. The guards and fall. This was the first odd pick that... Yeah.

And if you're going to have an odd pick away from what the... intelligentsia and the consensus and everyone thinks, then the best way to do that is to have the guy that knows the guy the best. That makes perfect sense to me. It doesn't mean it couldn't fail, right? But the logic is sound. And I went and listened to a podcast where Dusty May, who sounds like Joey McGuire, talked about all three of the guys.

And in hindsight, I feel like it was obvious which one of the three he liked. but now I know that, obviously. But he speaks about him, Merez Johnson, like he's Draymond. He also got upset when Mara went to the Thunder and then when he'll see him a lot. That was a little bit of a weird clip because the clip Blake is talking about. Dusty May smashes his hand down when a day Mara was a pick later, a big man out of Spain and Michigan. He went to Oklahoma City.

I think that's the pick Dallas helped him get, if I don't remember. in any case he slams his hand down but then he says hell yeah if you watch the full clip so i think he was actually really excited that his guy got drafted and i also think he's legitimately kind of nuts like i tweeted i think this guy's kind of crazy and somebody said no no no you have it wrong he's excited for his player i'm like no no no you have it wrong or we're both right i think this guy's crazy and he was excited like Now, it's a unique case because he came out of coaching that guy a week ago. But it's hard to imagine other NBA coaches, like, slam.

And they're, like, they're all very concerned about how cool they look. College coaches are doing, like, the Dusty May research I did, I was reminded of the, like, Michigan State game this year, where he went out and set on the bench by himself in front of the student section, like before the team came out, before the arena came out, so that they could all yell at him because, like... The pictures are pretty awesome. It's very memeable.

Like, he's out there just, like, looking at his... He's doing it for the picture. Oh, yeah, he's sitting there, and there's just a hundred kids behind him yelling at him. And he's like, I just wanted them to get it all out and yell at me while they had a chance, and they're not contributed to the win. And he's, the guy's high, strong, dude. That's what I'm saying. Most NBA coaches at this point are much more, you know...

Chill. Was he about to get... Was there going to be sanctions against the... Michigan, have you heard that? I've heard it. Knoxie's got some Swedish men in dresses. I want him to ask about midsummer.

That's a theme on the show. So the dick emboldes. Let's dresses. I love it. All right, Jim. We send it back out to Texas Live. Ladies and gentlemen, here again is Jim Knox. Oh, look at this attractive lady. Oh, guys. Found a couple good-looking girls.

Last four, I'm sorry. Inga from Sweden in the house. Look at this. And boy, those Sweden, they're putting them down right now, Dan and Jake. When did you guys get to town? Yesterday morning? Yeah. How you like Texas so far?

Fantastic. The food, the drinks, the people, everything, it's fantastic. Okay, I understand you guys have a big rally coming up across the street, the Global Life Park. Yes. Old Rangers Stadium. You ever heard of the Rangers baseball team? Yeah.

It's not a small stadium, is it? Yeah. How'd the hairdoers come? about. I don't know how to answer that question, actually. Kind of look like Willie Nelson. Tell him that might be illegal in Texas. Does the carpet?

So what do you think tonight? Match. We're going to win. Hey. Really? Yeah, we're going to win with two now. We're not really confident, but we're going to win. Not confident, but you're going to win two nil.

What do you think? Yeah, absolutely. Sounds convincing. God, that guy's terrifying looking. Where'd you get those? In Nashville. Oh, Nashville before Texas. There we go.

All right, like it there. All right, what's the cheers in the stands tonight? We go score a goal. What's going to happen? All right. Knox's got the wig now. I like this. Oh, yeah, let's see that.

All right. Why are they dressed like that? Enjoy the day. Because they're Swedish. Kick off six hours away. There we go. Thank you, Jim. There's Jim Knox.

Covering the World Cup for us out at Texas Live where excitement is building for the Japan versus Sweden. Just to tell people what we just saw if you can't see it. I mean, Jim is talking to two very attractive, like, Swedish women dressed in traditional Swedish wear. And next to them, their boyfriends are wearing, or husbands are wearing the same thing. Yeah. With their man boobs, flogne, uh, pippy longstop. And all these Swedish dudes are giant. Like all every guy he's talked to is six, five and huge bearded.

Yes, it may not be legal to dress to your opposite gender to which you were assigned at birth in Texas. At least in Arlington. The, uh, so CBS, I was just reading a CBS sports article about NBA draft winners and losers. And their biggest loser was the Mavericks, failing to help Cooper Flag with low upside Mores Johnson pick. Just says he was one of the biggest winners of the Combine. He measured bigger than expected with massive length, well-rounded athleticism.

And he did reaffirm the shooting gains we saw this year. a two-way rebounder, a versatile defender. He can not only guard ball screens in multiple ways, but be switchable inside and out. Not a creator. Not projecting as being more than a complementary piece offensively. He has a total of 12 three-pointers in two seasons. Not a primary shot blocker. Grade C-plus, the lowest grade that they gave to any draft pick this year.

And to an extent that's all fair. I mean, he went 12 of 35 from 3 last year. He didn't take really any the year before. Maybe a handful missed him, but whatever. They let him start shooting him towards the end of the year. He went like 120 for 150 at the line, which is a pretty good indicator of future touch going 78, 80% from the stripe. But I don't understand why people do this stuff.

Like, if you met a chick and you're super convinced that you're, she's great, but there's one thing she doesn't do, don't marry her thinking you can convince her to do it. Like, accept it as is. He's probably never going to be like a reliable outside shooter. He's certainly not a guy you're thinking can get his own stuff off the bounce. But to me, what they did is took a much higher, a higher floor player with a higher certainty of being good and useful than a higher ceiling player.

with a lower floor and a lower chance of being useful. And in the case of the former, that those chances were boosted by taking his coach, or hiring his coach. And I also think that an NBA conversation that wears on me a little bit is, is that guy a two? Is that guy a three?

Can he be a one? These things are entirely dependent on what is above and below the player. So to me, if you're Cooper Flag, not every one, every team has a best player, not everybody has a real one. And if you've got one of the real ones, then having a bunch of threes and fours that are good, really good at what they do, I think that can work. You know, and I think if you look at in Toronto, what Maasai ran into problems with as a GM was just getting a bunch of these guys and nobody great. Okay, so you mean threes and four, not like forward and guard. I don't truly mean three and fours. But actually, it sometimes ends up being that way because they take a lot of guys who were just long, they defend.

But they end up as three. Their ideology up there for a long time was we're going to draft motherfucking dogs that are long. They rebound. And there was a quote that Dusty May had in that interview I referenced where he said, you know, we weren't feeling great about the grain plan. we'd say we got res they don't we ain't getting punk tonight like he's that guy so to me if you've got that guy and your one is great then having a bunch of those guys is fine you already have the kawai leonard part but you can't just have a bunch of those guys yeah so to me it it makes sense but i also understand the criticism um i guess it kind of depends on where you think the mavericks are

and how close they are to being good there's a lot of talk about derrick lively who I still have. I know that it's hard to watch him because it's going to make you think of Luca, but I fell very in love with him to a point where I don't really care about PJ Washington or Daniel Gafford beyond like I'd like them to have nice careers, I guess. They were cool. But I want to watch Derek lively play for the rest of his career. He's a fun guy.

And I think people are forgetting how good he was when he was healthy, but he's never healthy. So I don't actually think this says a whole lot of bad. him at all. I think this is just... It's interesting. They took a guy that they think can make Cooper Flags life easier. And this, like Dusty May, is a pick that the Cuban-Dony regime would have never made, ever. Not at that spot.

Well, and it's... At that spot is the key here, right? If he was projected, he could be the 17th pick in the draft, but you're very upset that he was picked ninth and you're very upset and you didn't know any of the players two weeks ago. Like, it seems interesting. If it's a Dremont, obviously, you redraft and Dremont is going to be picked way higher. But the Dremont analogy is also interesting in that Dremont is an outlier. He's an anomaly.

For a guy with his skill set, there's something else that makes him what he is. And let me tell you, what I thought you were going to say is there's a lot of revisionist history almost Tom Brady style on Dremont. Like they could have drafted him earlier. They tried to keep him on the bench for a long time. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's very bad. But also, yeah.

But the thing is, is that they, if you, let's use Bam Atabio. He went 14th in 2017. All the measurables look similar. Bam Atabio, Montrez, Harrell. Those guys that end up hitting in the late first or in the second, if you 90% knew that they would turn into that, you would draft them at nine. You probably wouldn't draft them at two or three still.

But if you could guarantee I'm getting the guy who can be that role and the best way I can think of to get close to guarantee it is to hire his coach, who probably overrates his own player, but who cares? What does it matter if a coach overrates their own player? They're already the one who figured out how to make them good.

That's not, that doesn't bother me. So. No, it's interesting that he, He's at the helm and he can really tell you these are the three guys, this is the guy I valued the most. Yeah, him in? Yeah. And it also helps to draft the guy to do what he's good at. You know, it's hard for the top three guys here carry a team.

That's hard. But if you're asking this guy to block and play defense, or, you know, get rebounds and play defense, then yeah. He can slide into that. I got another NBA story I want to touch on. Brought to us by Ridge Wallet. Ridge Wallet is one of our advertisers. You can go to ridge.com slash dumbzone. That'll get you 40% off.

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interesting interesting to me I don't really know what he offers a front office I do know that it's a great bit for Tim Bond Temps

just because it is the if a media member can get hired to work for a team because that's always the bridge that's the thing

between media and like it's you kind of know you just don't know but if he goes and works for the team is terrible and he gets fired in two years, people are going to fall all over themselves to have Tim Bond Temps right for them and be on, you know, ESPN is going to hire him back for more than he was making now.

Because now he's Tim Bond Temps who has been in the room. Yeah, and I think that's not entirely foolish, right? Like he will have, his perspective and information will have changed. I don't see how it's, to me it makes more sense than hiring agents. and agents get hired all the time. The media guy? Agents, which one do you think works harder? Probably the media guy to justify that he's...

Right, but if you're going to talk about the... From what I have... The agents just have connections and... And they can hook you up with the right party and whatever. And I'm not saying the agents don't work, but in my experience, the people who work in management for sports teams are working 80, 90 hour a week jobs. that happens in media with regularity.

And Agent A, he's not showing up and grinding through all that tape like that. At least in my, to me it doesn't seem like it. So to me it always made more sense that you hire these guys, hire nerds. You know, and Bontemps was a little bit of an analytics guy over the years. I mean, he wasn't a straight quant, but good for him. But also you need the guy that can look at all the numbers and unnerdify it. Yes. Deliver a message to the coach and the players that,

here's what these numbers mean. That's what they're used to doing. And they've known all the coaches. Like, the coaches already respect these guys. They already think of them as, as peers. You know, once you've been in media for a long time, they're not adversarial with you. I'll miss him fighting with Windhorst. I love that podcast. I do too. Very few sports podcasts, like, actually let people, I mean, I don't think, they fight. They fight when they need to fight. You don't hear that often. in anymore. I enjoy it. You know what? There is another NBA story I want to touch on. It is more evergreeny, and I know we want to get to this other audio that you have. Yeah, we'll save.

So let's see if we have time to get to that because we have viewer mail today. Good lot. Okay, so we've been sort of following the story of the San Francisco Giants Pride Night fiasco from afar. They had some players that wore hats. with messages, Bible verses written on them. Another guy just wore the, didn't wear the Pride Knight hat. Yeah, that's the whole thing. The Giants declared Pride Night, and here are these special hats the players will wear. They have rainbow logo on them.

And three relievers, or two relievers put Bible verses on their hat. And one just wore the regular hat. Yeah. And then. So from there. It became a story as things like this will. J.D. Vance chimed in. and the Department of Justice said they would like to get involved.

It's totally normal. The Giants, for their part, were they received, I believe, a letter from MLB, and this was public saying, hey, like, the Giants are at fault for not communicating this to these players. Like, they didn't have to wear this, and this needed to be known. So this is really spinning out of control for the Giants. For obvious reasons, they're in a community that this is a big part of their fan base.

Like in Texas, it makes sense to me why the Rangers, if they wanted to say it's a financial decision, we just don't think this matters to our fan base. I understand it. For the Giants, I've always been curious. Are there really that many gay baseball fans in San Francisco? After following this story, the answer is unequivocally yes. This is a big deal, and it will hurt their bottom line. So, go ahead.

Although I did hear Ethan say one thing on this, and you know where Ethan's going to stand right away. Ethan Strauss, we like his podcast. Don't always agree with what he has to say, but he was saying his thing that he thought was funny about this whole thing was that the way the local media jumped on it in that by, in reporting that by writing these Bible verses on the two players doing that and this becoming a thing, this has really hurt the local gay community. Like they're hurting about this. And his thing is like, okay, really? That seems a bit too far. Are there gay couples at home like sobbing?

They just kind of feel it in their heart. Or is it like, okay, these few guys did this clearly. This day and age, that's going to be a thing. Hard to speak for them, but in my view. I like speaking for other groups. groups that I know. In my view, most people, if they're gay, have been through much, much worse. Than a player, yeah.

Let's think of the Jasper story. Yeah. And just living in fear or something. I don't think they had. But so we couple that with their trade for Raphael Devers is going very poorly. Their record since they acquired the star from the Red Sox last year is terrible. Devers played third in Boston. They wanted him play first.

He didn't want to. Yeah. It's not been as smooth landing for him. I don't know a ton about it, but I know that I've seen the numbers and they're awful. And they tried to pinch run for him the other day and they have a rookie manager. And he waved off the runner. He like had a meltdown. The overworked Twitter joke is, oh, I thought you didn't want to be at first base.

I like it. So that happens while this other thing is going on, right? Okay. So now yesterday, we're going to make general manager Buster Posey available to the media. In the dugout there, you love this. You got the gathered media. He's sitting on the bench wearing his quarter zip. And he's going to get this out of the way right out of the gate.

Okay, I'll start. And then we can go to questions. I'd like to recognize that the organization has shared its response to Pride Night. and I understand that there's strong feelings on this topic. Shake voice? Yeah, oh yeah. Already. This is Buster Posey, which I didn't expect, honestly.

He gets pretty shook here. ...inization has shared its response to Pride Night, and I understand that there's strong feelings on this topic. There's differing perspectives and out of respect to everybody involved. It's not something that I'm going to revisit. I understand that some fans are upset and frustrated, and I can promise you this is something that we've talked about a lot internally, and we'll continue to do so. You know, our focus is on the team right now, the upcoming draft, the trade deadline, and

trying to win games. So anybody that has baseball questions, I'm happy to take baseball questions from, you know. Mr. Huffie Devers yesterday on Sunday. Okay, so you can hear, I want to break this down. Female reporter says yesterday the commissioner, she's going to start. But there's also this Raphael Devers thing, okay? So this other guy at first I thought he's shaman this thing. But so I want you to hear the question.

He asks this knowing that they're going to get back to it. And you can tell when he asks, he doesn't even really care. Rafi Devers yesterday on Sunday did something that could be considered without accountability, without respect to the manager, maybe without even respect to you. What was your reaction on what he did and what will you do with him or going forward? Yeah, you could tell he's frustrated. I mean, look. All right, so we're going to let him answer that question for about a minute.

Favorite teammates. And so we're, you know, we're all prone to have missteps at times. Buster, you were a member of this organization for a long time, and every year there's been a night to honor the gay community. Did you object to those nights when you were a player? And also did you or anyone from the organization talk to Tony, talk to the players, and explain... That's the manager. The importance of this demographic to your business, the importance of this evening for... the fans.

I mentioned that I'm not going to revisit it. So if you want to ask baseball questions, I'll answer baseball questions. Okay. Now you can tell, though, that the blood is in the water. She's like, really? Because once that happens... I like his initial thing, though, I wrote it down. He said, out of respect to everybody involved, I'm not going to address it further.

Like, I love... Wow. Can you do that? Thank you. Can I use that? I just... I respect you too much to have to do this. but like with anything

Look honey I cheated on you I respect you too much Out of respect to all parties though That's the last I'm going to talk about it So can you get dinner ready now So he He's in trouble now

Because when the media All it really takes is like one person To be like oh shit all right Is the commissioner Did the day community about any of this or no Again If you want to go baseball questions I made my statement on it

I'll answer baseball questions But do you have no response to the commissioner saying inadequate and unclear communication I'll answer baseball questions. Is Devers playing time? Devers playing time? Is that he said? Is he playing tonight? How much of a Tony Robo film is?

Is Devers playing time? I believe so, yeah. But sir, why do you want to only answer baseball questions? There are some very important matters that the public is debating outside this organization. Pause it for a second. I'm going to have to side with the media here because he's the, GM. He's not the, the manager can get away with that. Hey, talk to my boss. The GM we get to that. He's involved, his hands are, like, he's a, I always thought it was weird that

the GM does have this kind of power, but I remember reading about certain GMs who'd be walking through the ball, but like, I don't like that thing on the scoreboard. They just take it off. Like, yeah, he, he has the power over everything. So yes, he is the person. He's, yeah. Oh, yeah, I don't like what he said. I'm going to can him right now. He could fire anybody. He could do anything. He's the GM. He is the one to speak to this issue. Yeah. And I, you know, I don't know if I had an opinion on Buster Posey before this other than really fun player because if you're whatever, badass guy. That's probably why he got hired as the GM. It's a favorite, but he comes off. Not public relations. No, but he just comes off. Dan's right. If you want to engage in all that other

stuff, it comes with the dinner. And he comes off looking like a baby here. matters that the public is debating outside this organization. I'm going to answer baseball questions. Yeah. Do you feel it's not your job as baseball, president baseball operations? I mean, is this something we should be talking to Larry about? Guys. Okay.

My bad. Is he just president of baseball and he's not? No, no, no. No, I think. I thought he was the GM. Okay. No, I think he is. I think they're talking about maybe there's a president of.

Okay. Go ahead. That's a great question by her, though, to try to make it a personal thing. Like who do we talk to here? We got to talk to somebody. Yeah. Do you feel like it's not your job? You know.

I'm trying to look at what the rules are here. So they've got who's Larry Bayer? I don't know. They've got a bunch of different. Zach Manassian is the GM. Works alongside President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey. Okay. And then Larry is someone else.

He is the CEO. But she's saying like, all right, let's get to it. So when he at, when the reporter says, who should we talk to, the voice you're going to hear, and they're all the same folks, it's 27-year-old to 33-year-old PR guy who, look, I know some of them and they're good dudes, but I also met a lot of them. And they're all the same type of person to an extent. and they're in this job because they are not alphas. However, they ask them to be alphas in this job, and it's very funny.

Like, every guy you see in this job, you're not like, oh, shit, immediately commands respect. He's someone who likely spent some time with their head in a toilet or a locker. And now they're being asked to control this situation, and it's always funny. Hey, guys. Right, this is not Tad. Oh, no, no, no, no. This is not Rich Dowry. This is not like, get or, right.

This is this dude's making 40, whatever, you know, this is, he'll be gone in three years. Yeah. Guys, you just need to keep it. All right, I'm right, a little more. I mean, is this something we should be talking to Larry about? Guys, you just need to keep it baseball related or.

Well, you guys have made this baseball related because you have pride night. You allowed players onto the field that MLB said should not have had writing on their caps, violated MOL. rules. Them MLB said that you guys didn't communicate with the players properly that they didn't have to wear the hat. So there's been no response about that. We get it. Buster made a statement. If you guys have any baseball questions, you can answer those or we're going to be done. Buster, how is the leadership with this team in terms of internal with the clubhouse and the front

office? We pretty much move on from there. they try to weave it back in a couple times like what's your message to the fans the weasley little guy though is the best oh my god the guy guys guys trying to protect alexander of etchkin at one point when you were dressed as a knight or whatever or 1920s reporter guys you know and i i do feel for him because they're carrying out orders but they always do it in such a squirly little but i mean i also think buster posey the anus is on him a little bit to not He played the World Series. He's looking over this dude who makes 50K to throw you a lifesaver.

Zach Manassian, by the way. Step up a little bit. 41 years old. Oh, I remember hearing about him. He had worked for the Brewers for 14 years. Yeah. Worked as special advisor. So we're pro Zach for that reason.

Also, he grew up in a Major League clubhouse, beginning at age 5. worked as a bat boy slash clubhouse attendant for his father, Zach Sr., who is the longtime clubhouse manager with the Texas Rangers. Hell yeah. That's a good story.

His brother is the GM of the Los Angeles Angels. And his other brother is the director of equipment and clubhouse services for the Braves. I think that is a cool nepotism story. He is the godson of Tommy Lasorda. Jeez. It's nepotism, but if you're moving up, right? Like the story where we were heard...

Like you're doing better than your dad? Yeah, yeah. Maybe you were going to do this in viewer mail, but we were laughing at shoddy because of the Rick Burkhead security guard thing the other day where he made a free throw. It's Rex Burkhead's dad. That's cool. Wait.

Really? Yeah. Like your dad's a security guy. It's not like his dad. It was a millionaire, but his dad's a security guard bringing the kid to the facility every day and that kid becomes an NFL player. I think that's cooler than like Ken Griffey. All right.

Also, go ahead. Knoxie's got some stuff. All right. Game Day Men's Health brings us our Jim Knox reports as he is out near the ballpark, near Jerry World, near Dallas Stadium to cover the World Cup. Japan is in town. And then all of a sudden, Jim Knox shows up. Jim Knox, go ahead. Yes.

And I'm going to get some questions from you, Dan, and Jake on this. But hey, before we get to this, I heard you mention Zach Manassium. You know, I was in the clubhouse. That's when I was doing some reporting stories. And those guys, Zach and Perry, they were shining shoes. And Zach Sr. was putting them to work. They would do everything. Then they went into the video department.

Now look at them now. They're GMs. And you got one in San Francisco, the other with California Angels. And Zach's really doing well in San Francisco, huh? Absolutely. Very cool. That's amazing. All right.

Now, here we go. Devers trade. Speaking of California, We got the Duran family in from California. And we got another couple of Japanese fans in the house all the way in from where? Oh, yesterday. There we go. Love that place.

Yes. Okay. So, Kathy, come in here. Duran family, you guys decided you're going to come here from California. You didn't know who is going to root for. Now you're room for who? Japan. Why Japan?

Well, good question. Yeah. Playing good soccer and we're all here for the love of the game. Okay. So you guys are huge fans. You came here with the family, bought the ticket. How much tickets go for? Oh, around 1,500 to 2,000, 2,500? That's not bad. You in the nose, please? That's not bad. Okay, no. Close.

Okay. Hey, at least you're in. That's right. At least you in. So you met your husband, who also was a soccer coach in Mexico. He was on a beach as a lifeguard activity guy. You were at the beach from Sacramento going to Mexico. Damn. And now you guys are married, got three kids, right? Exactly. We met in Cancun 32 years ago, and we spent six hours together.

I was flying out. The World Cup was going to be in San Francisco. And he said, hey, I'm going to come visit you for the World Cup. And that's the main reason we stayed together. And later, here we are 32 years later with three adult children, and we're here to support Japan. There we go. She married the hot instructor. What a voice.

Great. If everybody signs up to be a lifeguard activity guy over in Cancun, Mexico on the beach. I recommend it. That's right. I highly recommend it. I have to tell you. That's the best job. After this, where are you going? After this game, you guys going where? After this game, we're going to go back to, we're going to go to Mexico City. We're going to watch another game from Mexico. That's the four games that they're going to play in Mexico. You guys are traveling around this summer, just checking out World Cup games, right?

That is correct. That is correct. We were in 2018 in Russia. And now we're here in the United States and we're going to jump to Mexico. Man, what a family. Skip Cotter. This is all what you signed up for. This is a great. I signed up and thank God for soccer. Also, the grand family, Jake, and Dan, they're already started drinking.

We want to put that to notes, so they're getting ready for the game. So questions, anybody, any questions there? We're good for now. We're good for them. Questions in Japanese. We're good for now. Okay, quite, okay. Questions?

Okay, good. All right, well, yeah, we'll send it back out to Jim Knox in a little bit. Thank you, Jim Knox. Thanks, guys. Appreciate you. Who's out there with Japanese people. I do want to know what happened to the tank top. All right, well, we'll ask them next time.

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Viewer mail, I start with Sam who says I was browsing the Sosh reading hot opinions and looking at tities so the usual But I came across this tweet I needed to share It's a you have a picture of this I believe, Clayton You can see who is the author of this tweet It is Lisa Ann. The goat.

The porn star. What is she right? I'm in deep for the past year. I'm hooked on sardines. The glass skin is so real. I could tell a difference when I take a week off. I eat them two to three times a week. Don't be afraid.

So you share the same palette as a woman who swallowed a lot of other stuff in her. She's like, wow, this is familiar. It is so good. salty type taste. Sam says keep cranking hog and chase that money. You don't have to worry about that, Sam. I mean, you've got a glow, but if you told me I could have the same glow for eating bait out of a can, I would decline. I agree that it's working for you.

I also think every time I open up a can of cat food, I imagine. I imagine that's how you eat dinner. It's like, me, and I'll peel my little. I do. I mean, look, you're healthy, so we'll take it. Got a couple, or at least one movie trope, a dear uncle stink sniffer. Ladduses. Growing up, it seemed like every team movie had a kid sneaking out of their room using a lattice.

So I can only under, I didn't know what a lattice is. Is this the, it's like a ladder, but it's squares. Yeah. Along the side, you could get Ivy to grow up it or something. That's what it's for. Yeah. It's like wood with hatch cross. Or climbing a lattice late night to see a girl. Dude, I can confidently say I've never seen one in person.

The entire TV show, was it? Clarissa explains it all was, and there might have been others. It was a plot device in half the TV shows I watched. Our character is entering. The ladder has hit the window. Yeah, yeah. I just thought. They didn't have a lattice. I thought that was normal. Blake from Coppell here also says I have a WHL. It is in the picture form there.

It's in our thing, Clayton, if you could put it up there. It's my apartment complex community is holding a sensory sensitive Fourth of July event. So it's called a century sensitive Fourth of July celebration, an alternative to fireworks. So we all know people, right, who they don't like going to fire. because they don't like the whatever. Three-year-olds. Okay. Well, you say that.

Dogs. You say that, and I seriously doubt that any of the people that I'm about to mention will be headed over to the pillow room for the Fourth of July celebration. But a lot of veterans don't like fireworks. Yeah, a little PTSD. Do you give them a break, at least? But I think they would still say this is WHO. They probably would.

I'm just telling you. They'll just say, hey, I'll just sit out. They'll just internalize. I don't need a sensory sensitive thing. For sure. And that's why we respect them. I wonder, is that just about the sound then? It's not about like if you just had a cool drone fireworks display, drone 4th of July display?

If those songs are not like right over your head because, you know, they're pretty loud then too. But where we were, when we've seen the drone shows in North Richmond Hills, you can hear them, but it's nothing like a fireworks type volume. It is Pride Month. Andy has one for us. So he goes to a spin class. That's, I guess, not the whole email. Gay, oh.

They had a pride ride. What does that mean? Very proud gay instructor, decorated our bikes with rainbow flags. Oh. Chinese fans, not like soccer fans, but, you know, those like fans. Balloons, class full of gay-themed music and some preaching from the instructor. All very fun and positive. The Pride Month clearly meant a lot to him and we were all very supportive.

At the end of the class, he says we can take a flag with us. Wanting to be supportive, I take my flag as instructed. I take my flag and head to the sauna in the locker room. So gay or not gay walking into the locker room full of naked men holding a rainbow flag. I'd say this is just ally ship fully. Yeah, I'm on board. Yeah. I do it all the time.

That's good stuff. Walk around with a flag. like your wrestler, but you have the gay pride flag on your back. How has that not been a wrestler? Or has there been like a gay wrestler? Well, they've had like, and this is more of a Clayton thing, but I'll just tell you, there was like a, what I now know was like a lightly trans wrestler when I was a kid. I'm speaking, of course, of gold dust, who made me feel.

It was ambiguous. Like, yeah, it was like. Androgynous. Yeah, that's. but kind of in the middle and very sexual. Go ahead, Clayton. No. Go ahead.

That's good. I've got one from Avery because we were talking about how we're overbuttoned. That was Jake's claim a few years ago. Too many buttons on the washing machine on the dryer. Oh, okay. And specifically the microwave. And this one's from Avery who said they got a microwave back in the day when he was a kid, early 80s. Like every appliance back then, it would break and his dad would try.

try to fix it. Well, it broke to the point where like none of the buttons worked. So he said his dad rigged it up to where there was a switch on and off. And you just timed it with your watch. Yeah. And I think this is actually somewhat probably stylish now. Like the minimalist stuff. You see little micro, kid phones that they make now. I think we just got one of those, by the way. We were on a waiting list. it's uh i can't remember the brand name but my daughter and like seven or eight of her friends got them you're on a waiting list that's how big of a deal is yes they did they were out of production

so you can talk to anyone else who has the phone oh and it's a home phone like it i'm sure it runs on wifi but it's courted you know will evans has a gay not gay says uh we can all agree it's S.G. to order a custom NFL jersey of your favorite team with your own last name on the back. My question is this. I have several NFL jerseys of Mike Evans and Lee Evans, former Bill's receiver, because I bought them because I share the same last name. Is that gay or not gay? It's who are the players? Mike Evans. Mike Evans. Lee Evans. That's pretty cool if it's Mike Evans. Right? So I had a couple Sean Kemp jerseys growing up, but if Sean Kemp, or Brad Davis.

I had an O-Dowell. That's cool. Yeah. And then he says, P.S., has Blake bought his ticket for the Lindsay Sterling show this summer? Of course. Okay. So that means we understand why he can't do something else, because he says the Lindsay Sterling show is July 25th.

We did know that Blake was out that night. Jake gave me a list of dates, and I told him when I was available. Now, it is a 5 p.m. show, and we'll be done by 6. 30. Lindsay goes late. You know that? What's what I'm saying? She probably goes on late.

Oh. Like my wife's high school reunion is that night. But we're, you know, it's a comedy show. They don't run long. Have you not seen the tailgate scene at a Lindsay Sterling concert? Yeah. I do have an update on that that we should have handled off the air, but maybe we'll just tell people tomorrow. So hold off on buying tickets.

Just save your calendar date. Save the date. Yeah. Words ruined by Dan, this from Truitt. committee. Oh my God. What size are we talking? This is from our good friend Chicago.

I'm just going to call you, Chris. I was listening to Dan's story about his wife not knowing what Juneteenth was. And this weekend, one of my friends told me his wife thought Juneteenth was the anniversary of George Floyd's death. Ouch. All right. It is kind of when Juneteenth started getting a little more play, though. Yeah. Like Juneteenth.com or whoever runs Juneteenth, Big Juneteenth.

Google searches. Yeah. Like, it's when Christopher Reeve got tossed off the horse. The, you know, the organization that fights spinal injuries is like, oh, wow. This is a gift from above. And that's what Big Juneteenth is like, nobody knows who we are or else kind of sitting there. Should we close up? I don't know. Zach, yeah, you're right.

But I still remain amazed anybody who's been in Texas for 10 years, much less 30. Zach has a set me straight thing here because I'm pretty cavalier about losing my stuff. The attitude, and I don't lose it, that's the thing. It doesn't ever get acknowledged. But

I lost a whole car. My car was stolen. The idea is if I lose something, it's really going to be minimal impact on me. It's really not that big of a pain in the ass. It's not like it used to be. And Zach emailed me and said, you should not put your phone in the same category as your wallet at all. Because if someone who knows what to do with your phone steals it, you're fucked. And my thing is always, I don't think anybody knows what to do with a stolen phone.

and his point is if someone like his he's got stolen on bourbon street by he thinks a guy who had offered him a bump and the next thing he knew it was like an hour later and he didn't have his phone and they had um he said phone encryption and security is not for these kind of pros before 2 a.m. that night every single account linked on my phone was change every banking credit card app compromise maxed out locked out of my apple id Gmail every every social media app. Couldn't cancel my cards because they needed two-factor authentication by sending an email

or a text, but I had no access to either. Beating. I was also... I was out of town and had no identification, so I couldn't get a burner phone with my own number because I didn't have a driver's license. I also compromised my friend's life lock since that was on the phone as well. Oh, his friend's phone got stolen too.

You know, the service that's supposed to prevent these things from happening. He says, moral of the story, bring an extra ID on vacation, and never have your banking info saved on your phone. Dang. Is that like Apple Pay? I mean...

No, maybe just a note. Is it a password? I mean, if you open your bank app and then you have the password saved and you kind of click. Yeah, and I mean, I think I'm slick now because mine has to send me a text to do it. Yeah. But if they've got your phone, that guy's like, oh, okay. Tough. Got a couple of gummy thoughts, and they're brought to us by...

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The gummies are great, but also those drops for the summertime. Max in Denver says I finally hit the age. This is a gummy thought. Finally hit the age where I get freaked out by kids ages. I'm a coach, and this incoming high school freshman class was born post-Dirk title. Wow. Or for Jake to quant—well, does he have this right? For Jake, they were six years old whenever Marlon Humphrey conducted his Twitter social experiment.

Who is he thinking of? I mean, he could be thinking of— It's not Marlon Humphrey, right? No, the Bell Kid from Ole Miss. I thought Marlon Humphrey had a Twitter bit. Marshall Henderson. Marshall Henderson. Marlon Humphrey might have, but I don't, that one I don't immediately remember.

And then Dustin, our business attorney, says during the pandemic, we're all, this gummy thought, we're all told to wash our hands for 20 seconds to make sure the soap had time to do its work. He goes, Gummy thought. When I'm washing dishes, I don't usually leave the soap on there for 20 seconds, I don't think. So is my dish soap not doing anything? Do I just have dirty dishes in the cupboard? I think that's a great question. I think most of that stuff is made up, but I think that's a good question.

I got a gummy thought for you. This actually popped back into my head. Something we were talking about earlier. Do people who are a little bit heavier get massages? Clayton, have you ever gotten a massage? Negative. I don't even understand why this is a question. It's ridiculous.

My dad used to get him all the time. He was a big guy. You don't see it often. You don't see it often. When you're at the massage place? Yeah. You're saying they're just ripped. Yeah.

Ladies too. I mean, not like exclusively. Big giant fat ladies are not in there getting massages. And it made me wonder like is there something too, like is it as effective? Right. So you're saying fat people shouldn't get massages because the fat is blocking their muscles, which you're supposed to be massaging? I think you need to change the tone. I never said,

hey, I'm saying. I can work backwards here. My buddy, Big Jim, remember Big Jim? I'm asking the question. Big Jim used to go to the happy ending one. Doesn't really count. Awesome. But.

I love that for him. Oh, I love it for him too, but it's not quite. He's the one told me. He's like, yeah, man, just hold a 20 in your hand. A 20. That's it. It's 25 years ago. It's the bonus, though.

It's the bonus. No, you pay for the massage. That's like the indicator he's saying. Then you kind of, he's like, then they make you go in here with just a towel on, but ball up a table on. 20 and put it in your hand. Dude, if you, when it comes down to it, you can hand her this.

Have you not seen, somehow Twitter added something where they're translating tweets from all over the world, like more automatically now. And so you get to see like Asian culture, whatever, whatever culture.

You get to see Asian bots. Well, there's, I mean, maybe, but just some account with, it just looks like any listener of ours, but in Japan and the guy's like, what a great, walk home from work, stopped at my favorite

pub, had a pint, saw my favorite handjob girl, got relief and made it home by time for soccer. So, like, it's talked about no different than a regular massage, I guess. Interesting, your favorite hand job girl.

Like, he just matter-of-factly. There's some skill involved, I'd feel like. But when Clayton was worried about having to do the convention center today. You were going to be probably fairly sore. I threw my back out bowling and

broken bow, so I've been dealing with that for a couple of days, so that's part of the reason why I was excited. I got a couple follow-ups. The first is the Shoddy picture in there. Shottie, a big World Cup guy. Jake, you knew this was coming. I'm sorry. I've got to do it now. He was in the suite.

He was wearing his kit tucked into his white jeans. It's really bad, man. It's really bad. The hat's really bad. White jeans, huh? He's wearing those stupid, like, $2,000 Italian tennis shoes. Yeah. And his little USA shirt tucked into his wings. Like, people make fun of how Mike McDaniel dresses, but Mike McDaniel looks a thousand times cooler than this guy. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. He's an Instagram man. That's what he is. He's a nerd. Uh, follow up of the, uh, Lego guy.

we were wondering why he got 45 years in prison. He had a standoff with police and shot at them. Okay. First of all. Peter says here it's not because he stole the Millennium Falcon. I don't know that standoff automatically implies that they fired at them. Are we sure? This is viewer mail and this is what the viewer said.

And then my last follow up is from Ryan from I-Butler, because we were talking about why can't cars have transition windshields? Yeah. For like when you walk outside and your glasses suddenly get dark. Uh-huh. Yeah. He says a lot of words that I don't understand, but basically it's activated by UV and it would take a couple minutes to light and darken, which would be a safety issue in tunnels, parking garages, or rapidly changing light.

Figure it out. We just sent, we just sent. That's right, Ryan from Hy-Buddler. We sent grapes to space to figure out how wine will grow. He said there are newer electrochromic films that, darken or light and that some boeings are using. So maybe it's a coming along. And he says that technology has been at CES.

It's just we're not there yet. But it's coming. I like to figure it out. A couple piece of audio attached to these emails. This is from Matt, who says, I submit to you that the gendered lines between run the ball guy and bitchy reality star are far blurrier, blurrier than you may assume. So basically, his wife hates the Dumb Zone podcast.

He says she has mostly out of stubbornness because I love it, but there's also mild distaste for phrases like absolute milksheds and Dan Dan the pussy man. He says, I drunkenly called her out one night to be open-minded because the show is objectively funny. So she challenged him to endure one of her lady podcasts. Ouch. so she'll have to listen to one of ours and he'll listen to hers so he was listening he says he found something that sounded like run the ball guy this is from something called the giggly squad

the co-host is hannah burner she has seven million collective followers on her socials and uh this is what she had to say I wouldn't have the ball. You know what I have started doing? If we're in a situation and I'm holding the door for you because I just walked out of the door or like you're coming, whatever, anything like that, if you don't say thank you to me, I'm saying you're welcome. Like this little stuff like that like really pisses me off. Like today I was walking out of a door and I like held it for the lady like coming. You need to hear more?

But I like had a... We got the analogy here, right, Blake? So like, are you waiting? Yeah. So you know how they always say it's like, it's not what you said, it's how you said it? Well... Holy hell, I feel that. Well, the message is the same, though.

How do you talk like this for two hours and have seven million followers? The thing is, is that run the ball guy often does marry Karen. This is not a... This social phenomenon makes sense to me. One more piece of audio. Like she doesn't talk like that at work, right? Man, one time. They all kind of switch.

One time. She's choosing to talk like that. When I answered the phone for my mom's business, I might have told you all this story before, but it was all day, right? And people talk to... What's up? No, dude, that's the point of the story. And I was, yeah, it was like, this is like 21 to 25. What do you want?

But I had phone voice. You know, I had phone voice. I developed it. And one time, this girl, it's a good friend of my wife's, like, I knew her from. from high school, and she called our business from her business and her phone voice. And we talked for like two minutes. And I was like, yo, Liz. And she's like, Jake?

He was like, okay, yeah. We were both. So you know, when you talk about like black people at work code switching and having to do it. Like we both, everybody has a phone voice. So no, she doesn't talk like this all the time. There's no way. This is another follow up. Might be her natural voice, though.

Do you remember the other day I played you? our weekend wrap-up and Henry seen Supes-Caj threw an F-bomb out there. Yep. So Hunter in Duncanville says, Hi, Daniel.

Please do yourself a favor and listen to Henry Crush on the February 14th wrap-up. Oh, no. The first 30 seconds is all you need. So I went back to the February 14th weekend wrap-up. And let's see,

what Henry had to say. Intern Henry does that. Go! Uh, yeah, motherfuckers. I'm spending Valentine's Day with the... Played again. You have to know, the weekend wrap-up is... Ah.

It's art. It is the weekend... It's if you don't have time during the week sometimes, it's for subscribers only. So, uh, Patreon.com, slash the dumbzone or you have dumbzone.com. Two different platforms carry our subscription. So we put together a little montage of just, or, you know, best segments of the week.

You didn't have time to listen this week, but here, you can get a couple of hours of just the top segments. Yep. And then you want it to like, whatever the weekend wrap, but it's supposed to reflect, this is our show. It's an extension of our show, so it will be like, like our show. That's the theory, right? Yeah. And it's kind of like, get right to it. You can put your own personal spin on it a little.

Yeah. But you want it to be within that framework. As if I'm on their show. When you did the top 10 for the ticket, it's like, well, I work for the ticket, slide a little thing in here and there. But basically, you know, my job is to get to number one and play the Muser's clip. Yeah. What did Fernando want played today? So anyway, yeah, so now, again, so this is February 14th.

February 14th. Uh, yeah, motherfuckas, I'm spending Valentine's Day with the DZ fam. This means I would say love is in the air, but that would probably make me gay unless there's a dirty blonde with a fat ass. What is he doing? What is he doing? Crushing. No, he's not. He's crushing.

He is defaming our product. He does not talk like that. What's that? He doesn't talk like that. He might. He might, yeah, he might. He just doesn't talk like that to you. He might phone talk to us.

Yeah. When he's with his boys, he's like, check out that fat. That fucking ass. Yo. If you exist, you know, I'm taking application. So just putting that out there. Listen, I mean, there's really no better place you could be today, if I'm being honest. You know, like, if you're one of those single gents out there, you could be.

spending money you don't have to impress people who already sleep with you. You could pretend a couple gas station roses is the trick to her heart. It's probably not, by the way. Oh. Though you can be scrolling through Instagram, just pissed off to the core, because some relationship that's going to die in a month looks fruitful. I have the solution. Okay.

This is so corny. All in love with the dumb zone. At least he's self-aware. Yeah. I don't know. Oh, that's a lot of fun. And that's Vera mail for today. You're going to do one last check-in?

Let's check in with Jim Knox out at the... Gameday.com.com, Texas Live. Oh, wow. He's got a big crowd now. Yeah. Things are really heating up outside the... Yeah, exactly right, Dan. Go ahead.

And Jake, we got Dragon Ballsies now in the house. Look at these guys. These guys are fired up. Dragon Ball Z. man tonight what's your prediction today's game three two nippon oh wow you got it like that over here we got more ingus in the house they have multiplied oh wow they've got more huge men dressed for they've been drinking since six a a guy in the right's about to pass out

and sweet the world's sweeten three what yeah yeah wow that's a pretty good one All right, you guys have been in the town. How long have you been in Dallas? How long? How long? Two days. What do you like best about Dallas? Okay, good.

All right. Good complexion there. Look at these guys. Paint it up. What do we call this? The Joker look? The Joker look? Why?

Yeah. Bama de Nippon. Japan for that. Japan. The flag. The flag. The flag. All right.

I like, get these guys up front. All right. Who's got, who's got my shirts? Where's the shirt guy? All right. He's from Mexico.

These are dumb zone shirts. Handing out to you guys. We had tank tops made for Jim. Dumb zone in the house. There you go. Take the shirts. We'll see him at tonight's team. We love you're

TV Big Tom's in church There we go Can I say We're good night Yeah We love you Zlatan We love you Zlatan

Yes Stathan Nibhneem Let's go Let's go Let's have a good game tonight Yeah

Hell yeah Go check it done Finishing strong out here at Texas Law He wants it. He said. He wants to go, Inga.

He thinks it's dragon ballsy. That's awesome. He keeps... That's excellent. Good deal. All right, that's great. Let's take a break. Tampa Bay continues to lead at 9 to 8.

Jim Knox. Thank you, Josh, in the upper home run porch right here with about 75 youngsters from China, along with mixed in with a few Americans. You see, a few weeks ago these Americans went over to China to teach some of these Chinese youngsters. English, when returned, they have come back to America's field, taking in their very first baseball game. Jake, what do you think so far?

It's very funny and very interesting. It's a new game for us, and we love it very much. What's so funny about it? It's new things. We like the new things. The young people like the new things. Whatever that is, we'll go with it. Thank you, Dave.

Welcome to AmeriQuest Field, everybody. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. We have PLE tomorrow. Our last show, we're going to take a week off. There's going to be content, though, and I'm thinking about putting out some written content as well. Now, I'm just thinking. Written the quill? You do everything Jake does.

It doesn't mean I'm going to write an article. It just might mean I'm going to send some written stuff out. Okay. Like, I just feel like we need to give content next week. Yeah, I'm going to have something. In some way. PLE, though, tomorrow is at Conneroso on Gaston Avenue. So we invite you out there for that.

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Could have used their pizza for sure. It's a fact. So we want to ask another little thing that we're looking for. I'm just going to mention this one here. I don't want to ask for all these things at once, but I'm glad you wrote this down, Blake. It reminds me to If you have access to a football field

that you would allow us to drive a car onto that field Not donuts No no no just very calmly And then we'd drive it right off In lieu of a bit And On that field with the car

Very possibly Will be one of if not the greatest kicker in NFL history. We need to record some bits. With Yon Stennerud. It could be Yon Stenorut. This kicker has a whole foot as well. Both feet are whole.

The point is, if you have, like, if you're coach or whatever. Right. And I know it sounds. If it was on the side, like side of the city, the metroplex, like, Grapevine-ish or Cali-ville, like that side, it'd be a lot better. we would probably travel anywhere we had to. Yeah, and it sounds crazy, but you think about like, can we get him to travel?

They do photo shoots like this all the time. Yeah, I mean, he drives to the star, so he'll travel. And it's not, most of these fields are not grass, so you can drive a car on there easily. Yeah, but it's just like we figured somebody to yell at us if we just started doing it without permission. Man, I can't tell you how many football fields are getting out of. Do go everywhere, so who knows? Yeah, so if you have a football field access. Fair, we'll start there.

We want to do that. Could it be a soccer field, too? I think I'm doing a soccer bed. That doesn't exist. Okay. Where do you think you are, boy? Well, we're in the, Brandon Aubrey grew up playing soccer here. Brandon Aubrey was playing on football fields after we were done with them.

Oh, okay. Or there's infield dirt. Yeah, soccer field? Soccer field. Would you like to do news? Let me make sure there's nothing else, right? So we're not checking in back out there. Okay, yeah.

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uh big purchases with it you get rewards sims here's jay with the dumb zone news speaking of broken bow uh i'm going to say that that is in our coverage area for the purposes of this stuff story. A civil lawsuit in court up in broken bow this week alleges that a former manager who had the meats at Arby's spat on a customer's food. Are you all afraid of that? While knowingly having an oral herpes outbreak. Ouch. The customer later tested positive.

Oh, no. Arby's, we've got the herpes. Okay, explain how we know. What do you mean? Like, so did this customer got herpes and said, wait, I haven't had any interactions that would allow me to get herpes? Let me now retrace all my steps. Well, the only thing I've done in the past couple days is I ordered a roast beef sandwich at Arbys. Let me go.

There are scant details in the story about. Subpoena their video coverage. As far as like, there's scant details as far as like how they, if they knew each other. I would figure if they did, there would be some level of details in here. But she must have seen the spit. It's a lady? It's not only a lady. What?

It's a lady that, and listen, I, this is why Clayton and I vibes so well. Broken Bow, Nine. I'm a fat guy who looks like this, right? But it says that she ate one of the. sandwiches as she pulled out of the parking lot. Done it. I do it ever. I haven't eaten fast food at home. Gosh, she keeps getting honored.

Unless they delivered it, right? Tell me more. So she ate the one, then brought the remaining food home and shared it with her husband and mother-in-law, who she's caring for on hospice. So that's an important note to the story here. Mom is also. And she said that... I'd give her the spit sandwich.

She said she... Hey, your mother-in-law? You would think. This was a drive-thru thing. How did she make the employee mad in the drive-thru? Doesn't say. Doesn't say, but she was... I need more details.

You can look the woman up. She's not as bad as you'd think. Okay. Amanda Hendix. She's 38 years old. It's probably Hendricks in a typo, but... Yeah. For Broken Bow, bro.

You know. This story may have been... updated since I saved it before Business Wednesday, but we're going to just press on without any updates. An animal rescue shelter earlier this... Amanda's the one who spit. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I don't have any...

We thought she was the victim. Okay. Then I don't have a photo of the woman who was woofing down roast beef, pulling out of a broken boat parking lot. Amanda looks like she lives in broken bow. But probably cleans up. Okay, there's an update here. There's an escaped... It's all fake.

There's an escaped giraffe in Texas. None of it's fake at all. Is it a full-sized giraffe? Full-sized giraffe? Like, how would you... Full-size. Well, three years old, but they say that it's... Yeah.

Feels like it'd be easy to find it. There's a $5,000 reward. It's loose in the hill country. It escaped from some private, exotic game ranch. Its name is Gracie, Blake. a name. Why? She was recently captured on a game camera west of where,

I'm not what it matters to us, but near where she escaped from. Are you familiar with the world of game cameras, Dan? They rule. No. Does it alert you that, hey, there's deer out there. Yeah, and just that all of those properties are well covered with video. I mean, it's possibly cheating, but nothing is as much cheating. cheating is what Jay Cutler was doing. He was literally double-tapping deer from his living room.

Like killing bucks from the mounted rifle that was automated. Do you think it would be cool if we bred giraffes enough that we could just have a hunting thing here in Texas? Like there's a thousand acres over here. I would say that what you just said in my ideal economic populace, that's the word I'm using now, like, social world, we would breed those animals and we would hunt them for money to support society. Like every animal that we could kill and feel

good about, we would. And we would breed them and people would pay huge money and we would strip away any sort of fucking Minneapolis dentist bullshit that holds us up. Like, I don't care. It's an animal. If killing the animal can help the human

cause, we should multiply the animals and kill as many of them as we can. I mean, we do now for food. But for some reason. You're saying for sport. For sport. Okay. Would that be a fun sport to kill a giraffe?

Oh my God. But why stop there? But you have to just use a lasso. And I imagine there, I think you should have to do something, you know? Can you ride a giraffe? Feels like it'd be really tough. Like the slope would fall off the back, you know? People have tried it.

Oh. And I'm sure people have tried it. done it. We've tried to ride everything. One time when I was in high school, we had, I've told you y'all this story, but in the suburbs in North Texas, at least where we were, there's like this weird thing where you

don't live in the country, but someone in the suburbs has like 10 acres just plopped down in the middle of your suburb and has horses. They were there first. They were there first. And across the street from my junior high, which was a normal suburb, nobody had land.

My friend's family, owned a farm. And they had a pond and his family was also from Canada. And they would go out of town for like two weeks at a time. And we would just throw, they would, like huge, huge parties over there. And they had people like your neighbors, they would pay to leave their horses there. So they would pay to leave their horses. And some of those horses were miniature horses.

Okay. And I knew this guy who was like a giant. giant, Royd freak. Giant, I mean, he looked like a gorilla. And the image of him

just pissed drunk at 6 a.m. one morning, we've been up all night trying to bear back a miniature horse. Like, no saddle,

obviously. You have that on video? Probably somewhere, honestly. It's one of the funniest things like, somebody trying to ride because the horse is so small

you're not going to get hurt. So like a big horse, you would never do that. It's like, now might the horse get hurt? possibly. Okay, not a lot of concern about that. None. Yeah.

None. Our favorite local deputy, Johnson County Sheriff Adam King, is in trial or in court this week, testifying. He is the one who was very horny and was changing schedules and telling women about what he used to do when women wore white pants to work in the 80s. He has a mustache that looks real, Dan. Oh, yeah? Yeah. I mean, you look like...

Do I look like a guy that might... Well, maybe not the creepy part, but certainly deputy sheriff in a rural county. So... I keep forgetting about this mustache, too, man. Went to the doctor yesterday. Oh, no. Totally forgot. I was, like, chatting up a nurse as I walked in.

It was great. Like, I could tell she really got my vibe. And then I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. Oh, damn it. Like she is laughing at me You don't know that though She might be feeling it You look like a fire chief

I can tell you this You don't look like you do this Yeah And that's good Yeah I got a pod So this is This is what's happening in his trial He of course was accused of

Like when the woman stopped I think some of them were actually Hooked up with him But when they stopped coming to his office He would cut their hours When they stopped going to lunch he would fire them or he would change their schedule or he would move their department. What's the point of having the power of making the schedule if I can't bang a couple of my underlings?

Yeah. Against the... I thought this is America. Like, he would, you know, mention their financial situations. Like, I don't think you can afford to have your hours cut, can you? And during the cross-exam... They didn't explicitly say that to us, but that's a contract negotiation tactic. And they are just...

We've got a family here. Kind of running these people like, You know, weren't there any other things you did at work that could have possibly been the reason he'd cut your hours? Let's go through your whole work history here. Looks like you had a little side job. Was that? Yeah. Was that totally allowed double dipping, huh?

So, like, that was allowed because she was banging her, and she's like, yeah, you can go ahead and get out. That's funny, but that's probably what it is. Six Flags Over Texas made an announcement the other day that, I don't know, it's kind of like when you're waiting on a plane. Do you feel better or worse if they're like, we're going to go ahead and have to delay this as we take an extra run through some of the mechanical issue? We just want to be extra sure here. Because they have a massive record-breaking roller coaster that they're trying to open, and they have pushed back the opening. Oh, why? They need to check it out more further testing.

They have not yet set a new opening date. Like, they had one, and now they've made it. The dummy keeps falling out? Yeah, I keep losing the head. They're like, we keep having the same Texas giant problem. But it's, yeah. What if it had, like, it was going to have one death every five years, but does that increase the thrill? I don't know, man.

I got to ask the question. Point Blake. Dad, will you go on roller coasters with me last night? Fucking, of course I will, bud. What do you think? Why would I not? But you don't want to. You're just sweating on the inside.

Well, and I saw, I think roller coaster I'm re-warming up to, like being nice to people. But once the kids are both of size and age, then they'll just run on together, you know. Good point. I don't consider that. But the thing that I'll never do, no matter how much my kids pressure me, and it's because I saw another video of it going poorly yesterday, it's the swing thing. I'm not hanging up there. Just sitting in the bucket. They're freezing. left and right. I love the swing thing. Oh, bro. The one I won't do is the one where you get in and it straps like over your shoulders and it just

sends you a million feet in the air. Oh, the sand just drops. I don't mind that. I've seen too many people fall out of that. Fall out which way? I've seen too many boobs fall out of that. Really? That one doesn't bother me because it just feels very, hey, it's A to B.

There's not a lot going on here. Yeah, if you slip out of that thing, though, you're dead. I did used to. worry about flying out. Like, I would look at, you know, when you're a little kid and you're, I was built like Kermit. And I would look like, dude, I don't feel like these are made for me. Like, I can wiggle around, you know?

Have you ever been hit by vomit? No, I've heard of that, but no. You have? No, it was my, or somebody I was with, we were at the fair on that thing that spins around and then you stick to the back. Yeah. You stick to the wall on the floor. drops. Like, I love that one.

Me too. But I guess somebody vomited in there. And if you vomit in there, everybody gets hit. That's insane. Just a sprinkler. And then our final story, somewhat of a sympathetic figure here, especially given what's going on in my house right now. But it is an animal story, so some people are going to be upset. A woman in El Paso, 26 years old, was arrested, charged with cruelty to non-lifestock animals. There's a delineation? Yes.

One of them you get tax reasons for, so they make you take care of it. I swear that's all it is. So somebody had called in a welfare check saying, hey, I think there's a dog at this house that's not doing well. So they show up and they find a six-year-old pug that was severely underweight. They identified the 26-year-old woman as the owner. So they asked her about it. She tells investigators that the dog has been sick for over two weeks and that she, quote, wishes he would just pass away already.

Boy, that sounds like you. Six. You know, a long way to go. Well, he's sick, you know, obviously. She says she doesn't have the, she didn't seek out care, but just the quote of, I just wish he would pass away already. She's just looking at the dog going, I was just so tired of it.

Yeah, man. I had, again, I had buddies with pugs. They were a pug family. Their parents had him, and then they got them. And they happened to be a house where, you know, famously I would not drive drunk, but sleep at your house when you didn't want me to. And I would sleep at their house like half the time that I would pass out. And around about 4 a.m., dude, if you're in a puck.

And I was always sleeping where the dogs were. It's not like I'm sleeping in the bed of bedroom. Have you ever been in a house with Pug? dogs, Dan? No. Dude. Horrible. I don't know how they do it. But by 4 a.m.

That's just how they live. They have sleep apnea all day long. You have to drain their faces. They have to pick up parts of their folds and let them breathe. I've always thought it's a beating of a dog. My brother has one. It's so much work. And my brother has like a jeep.

It's like the face has to piss. My brother has everything he has is like that. It's loud. Like a Jeep. You drive in a Jeep? It's loud. Kind of a pain. Yeah.

But I guess. Kimberly. We had one in college. I knew why I hadn't heard you in a minute. Kimberly's not from Broken Bow, folks. You had a pug in college? She's the pug clean on Facebook. Our junior year, one of our roommates just showed up with a pug and said,

hey, here's our dog. And I was a cheap mattress on the floor guy. Of course. So there were many a morning where I would wake up with a pug in my face, just drooling, snorting, and I would just be like, all right, Ringo, get the hell out of my room. It's so gross.

Don't know why people do it. You're on LinkedIn. But you still probably need to get... I mean, it plays on the quad when you take that dog out there. That's probably true. That's probably true. All right.

I've been up, so whenever you want to undo it, I mean, it plays on the quad. That's... It's going super well. This is Vium Realt birthdays, let's say it's brought to us by Lola Blankets today. Man, that's going with us on the trip.

If you're taking summer trips, you want a Lola blanket with you. And if you don't have one, you need to get one. So soft. It's, you know, I guess we could say this about everything, but it's the softest blanket I've ever had.

Much like with mayonnaise and sauces, blankets appear to have come a long way. When I was a kid, the... St. your grandma's blanket. The families who I thought were the most wealthy just had the most comfortable blankets. That's so true, dude.

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You're over there messing around with single hymns. Level up. No shedding. What he just said is so true, though. I remember like... I remember the kids with that comfy... I remember what other people's house. smells like and not wanting to go and what their what their blankets were like.

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I gotta I'll be knocking that out On Saturday morning Viewer mail birthdays for this Thursday, June 25th. Dear Muff Mugger, this is Judd W, your faithful San Antonio correspondent. My 35th birthday is Wednesday, so please read this on Thursday the 25th. I'm not asking. Nice.

Leaders include Blake's charismatic Christmas takes. He said, quote, UMFers celebrate for two goddamn months. Hey guys, Merry Christmas. Australia's Yao Ming fandom and boozy Julie Big day tomorrow Julie and Soroy Julie Soroy

Pizza He says he runs a medical office Do you want to hear Why medical forms are required A million times Kind of I do, yes Yeah And a succinct manner

It'll help me not get so mad next time He says it's in case Something like a symptom or Insurance has changed if a patient comes back and says, I never said that, which happens all the time. The forms allow us to put the anus on the patient for what they are or are not claiming. Word of mouth is not dependable.

Many of them have figured out something called, has anything changed? Check here if no. The reason you have to repeat yourself or submit the same information at different stages of the same appointment, Jake's experience, is because health care workers are idiots. Okay, well, at least he's... Okay. Keep cranking those punts. Let's let it cock.

Lock it, cock it, re-stock it from Judd. Lock it, cock it, rocket, rocket. Boy, a lot of stuff there, Judd. But thanks. I will say that for all the trash talk about having to go to the doctor and the TV's too loud with HGTV on, as a guy who has broken my wrist, torn my ACL and had the flu in 2026, I'm very impressed with where we are in medicine.

Shit works. I don't know. You know, we complain about it a lot. You broke an arm and like two weeks later, you're rocking. They're doing stuff. You're cranking hog. No doubt. Happy birthday. Dear Uncle Hotmail, Subby 709 here,

my leaders of the roast twins. Anyone that appreciates a house built in 1825 by General Custer. Thank you. And Jake's inevitable guest appearance with four-day weekend in Fort Worth? What is that? I think that...

No, that's an improv thing, but I don't... Okay. I would not expect it. My Jacob de Grom on the Rangers' birthday... Oh. Is July 1st? Did he... He just sent this to me today. Well...

Is it my fault? Do I need to read all these 100% through? What if we put in the subject line? Hold on. I think this is the right move. Let's smooth the cap and do the birthdays from next week between today and tomorrow. You don't have a zillion of them before. there we go guys

good better great this is adam in fort worth he said anyway always run on first down so brad sham won't condescend you dear leader dan I'd like to wish my fellow softball dad

and d.F Santiago a happy birthday on this the 25th day of June he was not woken up in that special way because he's married nice my leaders are side quest Jake the loudest proudest member of the fight in Texas Aggie class of 2045 Carter Kemp

from Ryan I would love that inside linebacker dear supreme leader of the Vagian regime it was my boss Jorge's birthday on business Wednesday we're both D-Fs so that's nice his leader is talking to his direct report ports like Sam Kinnison.

A gummy thought for his birthday. You know how home teams and baseball choose whether they're dug out of his first base or third base side? What if they could also choose which way each team ran around the bases? Does this impact how a team drafts? Also, if you rotate an early bird gummy 360 degrees, it kind of looks like a baseball diamond. I was kidding about the Sam Kinnison thing. Jorge is a great boss and leader and good guy. please don't forget to read this part. I'll tell you what, I have no idea what you meant about the Sam Kinnison thing.

That's from Ryan and Saxey. Two more. Dear Dan, the good at sex man. Today is my buddy Jeff Kayla's birthday. I'm not sure if he was woken up in that special way, but I was rooting for him. His leaders are Jake's Lakehouse Orgy Crew and the hog that resides in Justin Thoreau's sweatpants from Eric. D.F. Eric. And fellas, today is the Ichero Suzuki minus Randy Johnson plus Dick Buckus birthday of my brother, Jennings Ryan Hill. His leader is puddle pools. Nice.

More Israel Luna and Greg Oster Tag. Maybe a roundtable. Hey. More old guy who sang the Brandon Aubrey song. Same. More Blake. Dat bit gah. from stew this is formerly Rivian stew

now C4 Stu C4 yeah Alpha bomb stew Petal Pool He's fired out of his mind We now have Community Mechanical

Presents On this day In history Who did you say Was that kid with hype That kid the Knicks drafted Listen to this This is popular

on the internet this morning, but maybe I'll fight it for you. Community mechanical, I don't know if you saw when I was driving to Fort Worth yesterday. I actually saw a community mechanical truck with the Dumb Zone logo on the back in the wild. And I immediately had to take a picture and tweet it because that's what you do when you're driving. The safe and responsible thing to do when driving is to take pictures of the community mechanical truck. the van that will come out to your house if you go to community dfw.com or you can call or text them. You'll get right to Travis at 469-667-7-290. They can do the mini-split.

They did that at Jake's house. They could do the whole air conditioning system. They could just do, you know, the preventative maintenance. That's the big deal. Get signed up for preventive maintenance and then you will make sure everything is running right. They'll come out a couple times a year just to read. reset. Make sure we're set for the summer. Make sure now we're set for the winner. They're fantastic. They can do commercial as well. That means business. That doesn't mean

they're going to go on TV and start reading 60 seconds of a copy. So yeah, community dfw.com. Great people. I swear every time I talk to Travis, he's like, yeah, I'm heading back out to somewhere very far away and it's like the evening. He'll take care of you, no doubt. He also sent me a picture yesterday, Greg from Qualis and Paul from community were on the same street at two different people's houses. Wow. And I kind of

wondered if they like anchor man fight at first, like, you know, there's respect but, or if they just immediately do the meme, do the predator fist meme. That's it. They love each other, right? That's what the picture look like. It's cool. Cool to see. Let me play

this guy for you real quick. Tyler N. nickel, Blake. He was taken by the Knicks. He grew up in Virginia. So how he ended up talking like this, I'm not sure. But he was asked, what was the toughest thing you were asked at the combine or by teams? That's tough. I think somebody asked me who I would have three people I would want to have dinner with dinner a lot. And that was, that was tough. I had to think about that one for a a while I didn't expect that one. What was your answer?

I think I ended up saying, who did I say? Like I said, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Jr., and LeBron. It's the blackest answer of all. Did you say he's white? Yeah. Yeah, that's a white dude from Virginia,

who sounds, he just sounds like the apartment. That big, yeah, kid, like growing up. You got red hair. I think you're using Jesus, though, as you're not using the evidence depiction of him is not black. No, no, I just think it's common. Black people are not Jesus. He probably was black if he was any color at all. By the way that we used the word black, but he was certainly Middle Eastern, you know.

More tan-ish. No, he's white. Blonde. Look like me. Butters. Got his protein. Blake and butters. Do you think for closing remarks we'd be able to call Jim Knox?

Make sure you call my dad. Oh, is that what we're doing for closing remarks? You could call Jim too if you want. Does your dad know who Jim Knox is? He would pretend that he did. I had a weightlifting tank top, like a gold's gym tank top with a dumb zone logo on it made for Jim Knox that T.C. picked up this morning. And I kind of wanted to be the one to talk to Jim first, but we didn't really like handle the order of operations.

So I guess T.C. kind of handed it to him. And he's like, yeah, no, I don't think so. I don't want to say that I might have been talking about this a little yesterday. For sure. I mean, do we want to ask Jim? You're like, no, man, let's get him eight. Oh, I think if you ask, he says no. I was hoping if we had it.

Oh, pressured him on the air. Okay, I can see that. So it's Thursday, June 25th on this day in 1947. Somebody capitalized on the death of Anne Frank. They found her diary. This is the way I'm going to. to frame this. They called it the diary of a young girl, and they published it. Like, we just care about Anne Frank. And then they made lots of money selling Anne Frank's diary.

Like, because Anne Frank didn't do it, right? She died. I mean, I hope that somewhere in there, there's a lot of like proceeds to survive or something, right? Don't tell me the guy who just found the diary lives in Maui. 2% of the proceeds. On this day in 1976, This was always something I'd look at at the Guinness Book of World Records as a kid. It's when Rangers shortstop Toby Harrah played a double header without making any plays, assists, or put-outs, anything. He never touched the ball once for a shortstop. That's pretty incredible.

Didn't David Ortiz have one of those playing first base? He didn't record it. It wasn't a part of an out. That would also be quite an anomaly. Oh, I have a baseball rules question that I didn't even look up because I want to prove to you guys how little I know. So something happened the other day. Wyatt hit one to the gap. Easily had second.

They scored a run. He got thrown out at third. Okay. You get the RBI, obviously. But are you scored with, are you given a double? Thrown out at second? Third. Double was easy.

Yeah, then you get a double. Yeah. So in your stat line that day, he was trying for a triple, right? Even though you were out, like, if that was one of your, you got a single and you got thrown out a third, you struck out twice. You went two for four that day. I swear to God I never knew that. You get to first now. And it all goes back to the scorebook now that I think about it, right, is like how you're actually doing it.

Yeah, you made it to second. I'm a dummy. I know. Sorry, sports podcast, but. You brought up baseball, so I'm sorry. It was July 5th, 2015. David Ortiz started at first, did not record a put-out. The other thing is, did you see the Pete Crow Armstrong play the other day where he was stealing second?

Yep. Ball four, they throw down anyway, and because he slid into second base, touched it, and then slid off the bag and was tagged, he was out. Right. Even after a walk. Because essentially, he then took second because it's a walk. Yeah. But if you take second on a walk and keep going. You're up. You can be tagged. And you get tagged?

Yeah. Yeah. So he just like walked too hard. Just put, no, but yeah, it popped up. And you know how you pop up. Yeah, yeah. Come off. So they held the glove on him. And like, that's how replay is now. For a tiny split second.

Yeah. He had his foot off the bag. Now he's free. And yeah, now he's out. That's funny. Couldn't have happened to a better guy. Yeah, why do people hate him? I've noted. There's like, there's a big, uh, wonder if, like, if he's,

any good. I mean, he's defensively the best center fielder in the game. But he kind of hits sometimes, kind of doesn't. And then he told that one chick, I think, in Chicago to suck his D. And then they made shirts. I don't know. I think he's polarizing. Okay. On this day in 1977, a guy named Roy Sullivan was on a fishing trip, and he was struck by lightning. It was the seventh time he had been struck by lightning in his life. Remember we did a little more on this last year, I think, talked about it a little more. I remember to talk about at some point, yeah. The human lightning rod, Roy Sullivan, struck by lightning seven times. Did he learn anything cool? He learned to stop flying kites during storms. On this day in 2007,

they found a wrestling star and his family at their house. Not alive. Chris Benoit apparently strangled his family and then killed himself in the same manner, which is very, how did he do that? He was really strong. Yeah. I thought he was framed.

On this day in the year 2020, Disney said they would recast the Splash Mountain theme park ride to remove its ties to Song of the South. That is a 1946 movie that many has viewed as racist. And I believe the next year they ended up canceling the triumph of the will ride at Disney. Just because they were woke. I mean, that's one where, you know, perhaps with the song, if you know that the song was actually made to make fun of, but literally no one has ridden Space Mountain and been like, this feels. Well, this one is called Splash Mountain, so I don't know if that's different. No, it is, but still.

I've done both. Oh, okay. Yeah, I mean, nobody's riding that water ride and thinking like, God, I feel like black people would be further along. if this weren't here. Now, there are things like that, but this is not one of them. No, it's Kate Smith. On this day in 2020, same day,

the Dixie Chicks changed their name to the chicks. Following pressure from those who object to Dixie is a nostalgic nickname for the South, especially the Confederacy. Famous weddings on this date, I have two. On this day in 1967, Nolan Ryan marries Ruth Holdorf. She was only 18.

How old was he? He couldn't have been that old. He was 20. Yeah, yeah. I was like I say, don't do this. It's crazy. Okay, I won't do that anymore when I tell you that on this day in 1999, Rupert Murdoch, he was 68, married Wendy Dang. She was 30. 38-year difference.

Wow. Is that acceptable? And is it just love? Like, would she have married him if he was poor? I think she would have. That's the character that Wendy Dang. That's the Wendy Dang, I know. I feel like if you're 30, you're making your own decisions by that point.

You would hope. Today is June 25th, this day in Dumb Zone history. Going back to 2020, we had Joe Kemp on the show because we were going to review the movie Full Metal Jacket. We're going to? We did. Oh, okay, good. Yeah.

And so then that got him telling boot camp stories. He said the movie is more like boot camp than it's not. Love hearing that. He said one sergeant leader made one of the Marines eat all of the Oreos he was hiding. In front of everyone? And then he said he had buddies gathered a spider and a scorpion, loaded them with pre-workout. and made him fight. Yeah.

Give him a bunch of C4. Give him a bunch of stew C4. They would find all sorts of weird, you know, bugs over there. And they would put them in little boxes and have them fight. Get him geeked up. To top it off, they all placed bets. Joe bet on the scorpion and the scorpion one. And then on this day in 2025, Jake recorded his 500th Kempspin.

Wow. It was J.J. Reddick. his divorce contract his abortion contract that's what it was what is that so she said she's pregnant and he walked in with a couple

papers said here sign this I think it might have been like while he was with some girl he like a pre-nup in case you get pregnant you will you are contracted a few years later when they were no longer on good terms she leaked it so is it like I don't want to wear a rubber

pretty much so Sign this. If this happens, it ain't on me. Like, imagine having so much sex that you need paperwork to cover all your bases. I could feel JJ Reddick there. Man. All right. Other birthdays today, we have Aaron Seeley is 56.

He was a Ranger. How far the rotation has come? Did he have? Because as a young Rangers fan looking forward to Aaron Seeley pitching. No doubt. Did he have a brother, or am I thinking of the Ashby's only? Isn't there Aaron and Andy Ashby? Yes.

In that era? I'm thinking there's Ashby's. I don't think Aaron Sealy has a brother. The Brewers have an Ashby? It's probably a son. Orande Gadsden, the second, is 23. Aaron Ashby. The Chargers' tight end.

Matt Schaub is 45. He would just have a 400-yard passing game. every once in a while. He was traded for a second round pick. Desmond Bain is 28. Wasn't he? Should have been a Mavreck. You'd have been a mavric.

War Games winner, Carlos Delgado is 54. Yeah, he stacked. 44.4. When they started making good baseball video games, he was always insane. Big cat. Aramis Ramirez is 48. Del Curry. I've never heard that said that way.

Is that right? Aramis, what do you see? Aramis? I think so. No? Probably right. Del Curry is 62. That is the Charlotte Hornets all-time leading score. He is.

We don't even talk about that today. What? La Mello? Yeah, we'll have time tomorrow. We had Jim Knox today. We had Mavs stuff. What happened with Lamello? Lamello was traded to the Timberwolves.

Oh, so this is tomorrow. And the Minnesota is no longer the safest city to ride your bike in memes. You know about Mello and his driving? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's a big thing in Charlotte. Like, he's a tear. There's, like, Reddit and Facebook and Twitter threads full of people, like, was just cut off by a purple phantom going the wrong way on whatever freeway in Charlotte.

People will line up outside of the game. He's, like, almost run over a number of people trying to get his autograph. It's a thing. Like, they've had to talk to him about it. He doesn't give a shit. Del Curry, though, in my mind now, the only thing I think about is the, you don't want to be out here thread, Dan. Do you know that thread, Dan? No. It was when Del Curry and what's the wife's name, Steph's mom. They were like on the outs.

Sonia. So they announced they were divorcing back in like 2021. They'd been together forever or whatever. And there was this guy on Twitter, black guy, who went on this thread about like, you think you want to be out here, meaning single. And he's probably a guy who was in his late 30s, 40s. He's like, let me explain to you. You don't. He's like, it's different out here now. And there's like a 50 tweet thread of like, you ever had charcoal ice cream? Like you ever, like, this is what girls do now.

You ever been to a wave listening session? Like, you don't want to be out here. Go call the woman you love and get her back. because it ain't what you think out here. And every single time, like, some famous guy cheats on his wife or, like, wants to be, like, out, somebody will retweet it. Like, just remember, man. You don't want to be out of here. Tillman for Tita is 68.

And becoming more powerful by the day, it seems. The owner of the rocket. Governor. More than them, right? UFC or something. Civil rights activist James Meredith is still alive. 93. Who knew?

Not me. Ricky Jervais, 65, from the office, the British office. Angela Kinsey, 55. As you know, she was in the office, she played Angela. She'll remind you every time she's on a commercial or does a podcast, but hey, remember this show? They want to feed their family. Here's what the director said at minute 17 of this. Trying to live.

They did a King of Queens commercial. Oh, Jesus. You would be here playing. You know, Kevin James continues to work and put out great stuff, but if you just want to rest on your office, Laurels, have at it. Yeah, I mean, for sure. If they would offer Angela a chance at Zookeeper or Chuck and Larry are married, then certainly. Do we like when they do the retro commercial?

I love it. The Austin Powers people. And I know that it's like, it should be something I hate. because it's just playing on your heartstrings of member berries member berries and nostalgia but it's cool like letting them work okay if i get listen if i get what if it's mike meyers who has a hundred million in the bank should he be doing it don't love it as much yeah but if i give a choice between rob schneider going making insurance and another rapping duck like i want to see hans and fronds but here's stanley eating a bowl of cheeryos

Remember when he was on the office? Buy Cheerios. Yeah. Nothing wrong with that. There's going to be a day. Look at him. He's doing a puzzle just like he did in the office. How cool is this? They literally ran back King of Queens for Kevin Can Wait.

They brought Leah Remini in and then just moved her in. They did the same show over again. It wasn't Carrie. Linda Cardalini is 51. From Freaks and Geeks, Madman, and DTF St. Louis. Mark Titus is 39 Club Trillion From Titus and Tate

Tideass and Taint A couple music birthdays for you Jake I did enjoy that bit Titus and Tate God those commercials We actually think that Saying to listen to a podcast Is competing

That's weird because we're running ads for them That feels Just the most lukewarm basketball take Only on Apple Podcast If you're not making your threes, you're then relying on twos. Mike Kruger is 54. What is it? They don't need a Jalen Brunson.

They need a Jalen Brunson type. Pompon, pump, boom. That is from Nickelback, Jake. Oh, Jake. Oh, wow. And I have one more. John McCray is 62. From Cake.

Ha, damn, cake. Let's listen to this promo, this fake promo, real quick. or maybe this is real. Titus and Tate, a podcast from two obsessed basketball lovers. praising LeBron as the go is an attack on Michael Jordan. Yeah, this sucks. I don't want to.

Target shit. We need a voice like that. Dumb's on birthday of the day. Kevin Kelly, 57, the football coach who never punts. Good listener. That's right. It's been to the den. Born on this day now dead, George Orwell

Anthony Bourdain Ted Stepion of the calves And the rule And dekeme Mutumbo No no No no Dead on this day still dead

What about those What about getting the Dekembe In the grocery store aisle No no no no Come on no No today If everything recycled is out Then I'm closing my laptop.

We're done. Blake, dead on this day, still dead. General George Custer. Oh, nice. Wow. He built a house. Most famous line of any movie ever. Died at the age of...

38. 36. Wow. Shut up. What? Every photo I've seen of George Custer, he looks like he's 80. These are who we're calling generals. Yeah. This is kind of...

to like the Alamo, right? It's like, oh, yeah, Davey Crom. He was 12, you know, like whoever it was. It's like they were just putting people in charge. They knew these, they were clowns, and then all of a sudden they end up American legends. Bad or he was like LeBron. Well, he died at the age of 36. I don't think that makes you LeBron. Also died on this day in 1939. Dick Seaman, the auto racer. Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett both died on this day. Breaking news.

I was at Buffalo Wild Wings. Were they on? Was it a hardline remote or you were at? No, I was just enjoying some wings. Oh, okay. When the news came across. And two more deaths on this day. We have in 1961, Ma Ferguson.

What a great story of first female governor. Women's rights. Yeah, first woman governor. She was the governor of Texas. Yeah. Yep. So what was it? Her husband was extremely corrupt and.

Yeah, he had been. charged with a bunch of stuff. Paul, he had a real name, but and he was no longer allowed to run, and she ran as a surrogate. And everybody knew. I'm actually voting for him if I vote for her. Yeah, completely. But she

gets in the history books as the first female governor, what a trailblazer. And died on this day in 1906. This is an awesome story. His name is Stanford White. He was an architect. He designed the Madison Square

Garden. Which, are we planning a wedding for Madison Square Garden? Have you guys heard? A permit has been pooled for Madison Square Garden for a date later in the summer. Are you serious? Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey? There's just, that's the rumor. Oh, I don't like that.

Well, anyway, let's get back to this guy named Stanford White. He was the architect who designed Madison Square Garden. he was having relations with someone named Evelyn Nesbit. Well, she was married. And so the husband of Evelyn Nesbitt shot and killed Stanford White on top of Madison Square Garden. They were standing atop Madison Square Garden. Somehow like, say, it's like a duel type thing or something. It made me at the top of the garden.

What was it in the top of the garden? See? When was MSG built? I don't know, but this says he died on this day in 1906. Wow. Could MSG be older than 1906? That doesn't even make sense, does it? It doesn't.

But maybe they're like being loose with what the garden means. It was just a garden back then. Yeah, like literally, an actual... Well, anyway, don't look into it. I don't want to be balls back to that. And that's what happened. On this day in history. No, there was a Madison Square Garden that opened in 1879.

And it ceded 10,000 spectators. There you go. A real place on that. That's crazy. Watch this rose bush grow. And they just keep, they keep changing out of plank in the boat. And now it looks like it looks now. And you're like, is that the same garden?

No way, dude. They're not watching, watch this flower grow. They didn't have PETA. They were doing wild shit. It's 1879. Oh, yeah. Everything's on the table. They're killing monkeys.

Speaking of Taylor Swift and arenas, the Cavs sold the chair she sat in when they were at the playoff game. So, Cavs. $7,000. Dude, we could have had that in here. That feels really low. I mean, for that, right? It's Taylor Swift and her ass was on it.

Like, I feel like there's definitely somebody. It's just a folding chair, though, right? Yeah. And are you sure it was hers? Can we authenticate? Wasn't she a Cavs fan at that game? Yeah. Yeah, because she was there.

Because Kelsey's a Cavs fan. Yeah. Oh, and then you can be a Knicks fan in the finals? Yeah. Have you ever seen celebrities before? I was trying to call out the Bullsh. That's what you do. Not somebody who you get with Blake.

Tells it like it is. Even when he doesn't want to. No, he didn't want to say that. He reluctantly said, look, this is what I've signed up for as a journalist. Calling Chappie today will be brought to us by Franco and Frankel, personal injury attorney. if indeed you get an accident because you're taking a picture of... No, if you're the one taking a picture of the community mechanical vehicle

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We're possibly dialing Chappie right now. He is Jake's dad. Oh, it's dialing already. Hello. Greg Kemp, please. Just a second. Let me see if he's here. Hang on just a second.

Hey, stud! Hey, she got a minute? Oh, yeah. Here he is right here. Hey, Pops. Happy birthday, Dad. Hi, I thought I was trying to do a little stand-up. I guess it worked.

What? No, that was great. It killed. I liked it. I was wondering, yeah, did you have something new on your answering machine today? Your voice man? Oh, for sure. Yeah.

I don't really change it for my birthday, though. I just change it every Monday or Tuesday. Every Monday. Crockworth, baby. Yeah. I might have to give it a ring tomorrow. Okay, we're going to give it a ring tomorrow as a special treat for those. who listen to our Friday show.

Yeah, why don't you, why don't you do that? It's just a little little jingle. Some of them are a little, some of them are a little flat. Yeah, just got to keep shooting. It's not, you know, I mean, if it were a holiday or something, you would have an obvious theme available to you. Well, it is coming up on America's 250th. Your thoughts on that?

You know, that just really resonates with me, Dan. I mean, you know, because of the fact that it's all about my 50s, year reunion from high school. So they made such a big deal about that at the Bicentennial 200 years, 1976. Here we turn around, you know, a whole half a century later, five decades, slice it any way you won't. I don't care, but 50 years later, 250 years, some could say we're still standing. I mean, maybe not all four corners of the east, west, north, south, but we're still here. you got the reunion this weekend? No, it's in, I think it's in October.

Oh, okay, okay. Yeah. But they are trying to shoehorn this into like, oh, look, we're special. We're part of America's birthday, too, because we graduate. I bet Chappie put that together on his own. Oh. Actually, they did kind of try to shame the end of the whole deal back in 76. I didn't really get it.

Oh, yeah. graduated in high school. They're like, America's 200 years old. And he's like, what? I mean, but I, you know, I had like a 1.6 grade point average, so I really didn't get the whole thing anyway. You know, I'm too busy looking at a couple of chicks up in front of me. So I really wasn't paying attention.

I got to tell both of y'all, though, I combed up $20 today, and I went on a bet from a chump here at the ranch and so yeah I'll pick me up a magnificent pizza that Jake turned me into won this bet pretty convincingly yeah I saw a dude I guess it's two days ago

I was coming out of the Aquatic Center I said aquatic and he said hey what are you doing I said well I just got through swimming he goes how far do you go and I said well it just depends but today I did a half a mile at 17 laps up and back. That's about 880 yards, your chunky ass.

At which point he said, dude, I can do that. I said, yeah, you know, that's what most people say that don't swim. I can turn that. I said, well, I got 20 that says you can't. So I meet him up there today. You couldn't do it then. You had to, like, we have to train a little bit. Well, I don't have to.

I, I, I, okay, but you gave him, as a gentleman, you gave him a little time to prepare. Yeah, I did, but I knew just from observation, the tubby ass wasn't going to get it done. But, you know, he said, hey, you know, I've seen the dude before in different venues around here running his mouth off. So I said, well, come on over. I said, I'm going to be up there at 2009 today. So you just, that's a little military flavor. I said, hey, come on up there. and let's see what you got.

And, yeah, I think he went maybe a quarter of a mile. He made it eight laps. He looked like a big well harpoon trying to get back down to the other end. I picked up that double deuce and went over and got me a Magneto at this place right down the road. Is this what happens at retirement communities? Dude, you have no idea. So I can't wait. The amount of time just being wasted.

Because I thought you were having trouble with the HOA there at the ranch. He's going to plead the fifth all the way on that one. Wait a man, Jake. I still got that going on, Dan. I mean, I don't have any, I don't have any lanes on my property right now. But, you know, it's still, you know, we'll go sparring a little bit. Somebody got turned in just, yep. Jake, were you here when I told you about the person got turned in?

They were growing a watermelon in their front. No, but I believe it. He made me... He was really worried about where my car was parked, really worried. Like, that part's not a driveway. Like they'll ticket you or something? Yeah, because he's afraid of them. But that's the biggest overindulgence of an exaggeration.

Look, if you're going to have your vehicle parked here at night. Anyway, what are you doing for your birthday? Yeah, I guess we're done with that. I mow the lawn. Yeah, I mow the lawn on my birthday. Okay. Did you get woken up in that special way? No, I'm just going to go mow the lawn and weed eat.

And then, you know, when you get my age, these kind of things happen. Are you shirt off? Oh, yeah, for sure. Okay. Homeowner's cool with that, though? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you know.

Do we still have an acre? Because Chappie used to have an acre and he would do a push mower on a day like today. And he would wait until like 2.30. Yeah, in the middle of summer. Not like when he was a young man. This is like current day Chappi. He's like, yeah, I'll get out there. I come from psychopaths.

Yeah. So you're doing an acre? Well, no, I've got a much smaller property. And I kind of vaguest did it up a little bit. I tore up the whole front. and I did a lot of hardscape, if you will. Oh, I'm interested to see that. Yeah, it looks pretty good.

It does. Yeah, it's very different from what, you know, is normal looking here. It's not at all out in Vegas. I mean, because you don't have any grass. So artificial turf in the back, stem, the stem fence line, the fence line. Wow. And in the front, most of the driveway eats up the yard. So.

All right. So this is about a five-minute job mowing this line. It's not much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think Jay- Does your lawnmower even have a motor?

Or is it one of those metal things that just spins? It's a metal thing. I turned it in and it's got eight blades on it. And I just pushed it around with my shirt off. Now, most of the women here are north of 70 and their drive off the road looking at a cat like me. All right, All right, well, happy birthday. We'll talk to you soon.

Happy birthday. Yeah, man. Sounds like somebody's trying to get rid of me. I don't know which one. I appreciate y'all calling, though. Bye, dad. Bye. Bye.

There he goes. Thank you, guys. That's two birds, one stone. Right, that's your gift, right? Yeah. All right. Adios, mofo. We've got to go before this becomes a zoo. See you guys for drinks later.

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