The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 6-4-26 | Knicks take game 1 and Dan learns about Costco

Episode Date: June 4, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneDan went to Costco and came away overwhelmed. The Mavs and Stars are moving north just as the AAC was getting settled in. Jalen Brunson and the Knicks take game 1 in San Antonio and is it legal to put down your own animal? (00:00) - Open: Dan's trip to Costco (41:35) - Sports: Mavs and Stars are moving north (01:03:30) - Knicks take game 1 (01:16:19) - Big Thursday Viewer Mail Bag (01:43:23) - Democrats plan to steal back the manosphere (01:53:36) - News: Can you kill your own pet? (02:05:52) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Foodie CK back there. Blake is back in studio. I saw Blake yesterday. I'll get into that in a second. After I mentioned that at the time of this recording live to tape, or live to live, if you want to watch us on YouTube, two days, six hours, 27 minutes, 20 seconds. Away from the Dumbzone generic.

Summer events. Right now, Dan is in his pinto, circling the high school, smoking a cigarette, waiting for the summer event to come of age. He graduated a few years ago. Finally, finally legal. But she's fresh as a flower. I did want to mention a couple of things, because I have had some queries, which is nothing derogatory there. That kind of means question.

I don't even think the term queer is derogatory. I think it's cool. Okay. Like there are slurs that... Well, retroactively, let's not be mad at Tyler Sagan for saying steers and queers are in Texas. Yeah, I don't think we should. Not that we were.

We were fired up. Hell yeah, he said queer. Yeah. Throwing another pick. I wanted to bring up, though, the fact that I have had a query about, hey, man, what if it rains? Good news. It's inside.

So there's a pretty big indoor area. That's why we chose, well, that and many other reasons, we chose Four Corners Brewing Company in downtown Dallas. Would you call that downtown? A little discussion about what is downtown? The AAC is not downtown. What's down to... Where are we?

Where is this four corners? It's by the convention center, kind of, right? Kind of. Yeah, people would say it's the Cedars. It's near a dart. That's a very Dallas-centric thing to say. Which dart station do you get off to get there? Have you been...

Have you done the dart to there? No. But you're a dart guy. But I might Saturday. You got a full... Do you have a season pass for the dart? What is it called? Yearly pass, yeah.

All right. Yeah, I think probably my best advice is to put it in your phone if you have one. Oh, yeah, but, oh, yeah, okay. All right. Just be prepared for the World Cup. Even Angela has a phone. Traffic. Really?

They've redone a couple of the roads around there. Oh, the pre-World Cup. Yeah, there's not really going to be World Cup people, but, yeah, they've blocked off stuff at the convention center. Get there a little early. Yeah, we'll get to that. Angel had two phones. Two phones. by the way.

Now, so the other contingency point. He's like CD. He's the CD lamb of homeless guys. Yeah, he is. There are some fans that may live in my household that have made allegations towards. Yeah. Because of candles? Came to find out. Just the whole vibe.

He's got more in common with Angelo? The whole vibe. My wife and she's not the old. He's got a guy phone and a girlfriend. Bro? you say that that is absolutely in play really not for him necessarily but in life yeah definitely um no so if it rains uh we'll be fine we'll figure it out we'll have the air conditioning brought to you by community uh community mechanical we will still have bands profits and outlaws and quaker city nighthawks

but dan has requested that they only play ccr rain so it'll just be Keep the rain away. No, if it rains, that's all you... Stop the rain. No, if you ever leave the rain. I was there yesterday with Travis. He came by to check out the space. And this is how you know this is a AC man.

As soon as he gets there, he's clocking the vents. He's like, just how many units we run on this thing? He's like Jason Bourne, but for HVAC. Yeah, he's out there doing the due diligence. They're giving away a train man. mini split. $5,000 value. So we'll give that away at the end of the night.

Can we enter? You can, actually. Cool. Yes. And you know why? Because I always thought, that always bothered me at the radio station. Or any,

you work at a magazine or a newspaper. But then they'd be fixing it for you. Not, the fixing was over by the time. I got in the bad time. I bought radio at the high. I'm just saying that's why that rule is there. You can't.

have an employee win the contest. Well, I'm an employee, so I'm pro fixing it for us. So Blake will be winning a mini-split Saturday night. Connie Rousseau will be out there cooking pizza. We need to talk a little bit of logistics because Travis at community is giving away at least, in addition to the mini-slit, 69 piss bottles. Over the last few months, the show has become very enamored with why stop at a bathroom on a long road trip,

or if you're Blake, a 45-minute trip across town, when you can just use this large piss jar. I don't think that's the origin of this at all. For you to now frame it as, for some reason the show became enamored with this. The reason is that Jake has a, a Yeti that he drinks water out of every day. And one day, he just had to go potty, so he went number one in it on the way home,

then threw it in the dishwasher, and then drank out of it again the next morning. No. In your car or in your office? You can't do that. Like, are you going to drink out of the pea jar too? If I needed to. Like, hey, let me just wash it and throw a little water in here. Let me tell you why I wouldn't drink out of the pea jar because it's specifically made for pee.

And it... As the Yeti is not... No, no, no. And I don't mean that. What I mean that is from the mouth of it. Ask Blake, if you tried to drink out of this thing, it would be a disaster. It's made wide for your big hog, and then it caps. You couldn't drink out of it for that reason. But yes, I would. But still, all right. And here's the thing.

Let's not focus on this. No, no, let's do it, though. Hold on. You're right to point that out. The only error in your story is it's not that I did it that day. It said, I did it that day and told you. I'd done it thousands of other times leading up to that. It doesn't make it better. But I introduced this concept to the world, and much like a profit, those in my orbit,

hesitant at first, are now adopting the principles and reaping the personal benefits. Travis, I assume as one of them. On your trip for sure, dude. On a trip for sure, but where were we the other day? I was just dying. Oh, it was actually a, it was Tuesday evening. So it was kind of a pre-business Wednesday because I was thinking about Sean Kernan and 360 wealth management. Shout out.

Talk to him yesterday about, he's our business Wednesday sponsor. And yes, he does manage money. And he actually, if you have a daughter that is graduating college and you want to give her a little gift of how to invest. Put a little money in a thing. he'll settle up and now she's got a way to put it in my anyway we were leaving a meeting a business Wednesday on Tuesday meeting

and I really had to get a bathroom and Jake made it worse by pointing out as we were going to the parking garage just like do you see a bathroom anywhere around here? You don't guess what I got in my car he was all real cocky about it and so as I see cocky Jake and I'm feeling emasculated myself

and just the more you think about it now the more I have to go to the bathroom and then every little bump on the road is uh uh but all we're saying is you don't have to live like that yeah i saw jake being emasculated so this is a break from our talking about the p jar he was emasculated by the business so they uh what do you call it if you get your parking ticket they validate it mm-hmm so i'm like four deep in this car line to get out. And Jake is at the thing with the ticket and he's waving it in front of it. And then he's trying to put it in the hole.

And then he's looking at it. And then he's pressing a button. And like, it just felt. It was so curbed. So I thought it was hilarious because I was four deep. And then I'm like, what an idiot. Like, you can't get out of a parking. So now when I finally get up there.

it's going to do the same to you, right? I was like, I wish I watched what his final move was. Yeah, my final move was to eat it and pay $20. Oh, no. Oh, I figured it out. I just, well, you know what? Eventually, if you had not been behind me, I would have, but I'm in the pocket, dude. That's what I mean.

It's collapsing. The thing is, no one was behind me. You had all day. But I saw you. I was four deep, and I know you're sweating because now there's everybody else. Like, hey, buddy. There's everybody else and you. And I halfway saw you.

I look like I look back there. you laughing. I was like, fuck. I love it. F it. 20 bucks. Well worth it. I'm going to the penalty box. Get out of here. So we'll have these jars. And in theory, in homage to Chuck Morgan, at least the first 69 people will get them. We may have more, but that's what we're guaranteeing. So the idea, I think, is that you need to be there probably by five, even though the event starts at six. we're going to start letting people, I guess, line up at five. And if they do, then you'll be then, and if people don't show up until 545, fine. I don't care.

When do we start? Should we say we're going to start giving them way at a certain, like, 530? Yes. Okay, exactly 530. Yeah. Because you want to be able to get back to your seat and do your thing, right? And they'll be. You can bring a chair if you want, like long chairs.

It's BIOC for sure. But there are other chairs you can find there. Yeah. If you don't want to bring your own. Yeah. There'll be table, you know. And it's air conditioned. So it's air conditioned and it's rain-free because you'll be inside.

And the- I think that goes with that. You can't have one without the other, right? You can't have like- Can I say, hey, it's air-conditioned? And then, oh, no, if it rains, you're done. Texas Stadium. You have a hole in the roof.

The piss jar bottles, they're signed by me. So if that's... Have you done it yet? No, he picked them up today. Okay. I've seen the specs. Yeah. Final piece of business regarding the summer event is America's next top, Angelo, folks.

That's right. You're doing it. Your opportunity to win $100 of Blake Jones money for the next year. A month. Yeah, $100 a month, $1,200 for the year. You'll have a chance to defend your title, of course, at next year's summer event. Oh, that'll be good. be such a smash.

So what do we got? Got a bunch of emails. And what would you say the top four? So the whole bit was you have one minute impress Blake. So talent show kind of a thing. Yeah, somehow Angelo in his, that first dart ride you guys met, was able to impress Blake enough to give him a gift card or a whatever. a Venmo gift card.

A stipend. A Venmo charge card. But he lost it. He didn't follow the rules that Blake didn't like where he was spending his money. And then they ended up breaking up. Who would have thought that a homeless guy would have been emotionally unstable, but that's how it went. Or bad with money. He started it.

So what are the top four would you say things that we have? Top four? Oh. Oh. Do we have? How many do we have told me? I saw a bunch of emails, but I just... We have a bunch of emails, but... Okay, well, let's just run through them.

So, again, for example, a guy said, a big guy said I can come up and do the splits. I was a wrestler. Well, you keep talking about that, and if that's our top one... I didn't say it was a top one, but I'm trying to find out. And listen, I'm open to the dialogue here. There's a lot of people who say they can juggle, which if I'm going to tip my hand, ain't going to cut it. I'm going to go more than three balls.

I think you have to. Or you have to involve your feet. Buddy, if they're juggling nine, I'm not, I don't know, man. You're not impressed by that? That seems incredible to me. That's a neat trick, but I'm not going to sit there and applaud it. Fire? Oh, I think if it's something that's not a ball, you're juggling a knife.

Again, we're coming back to, like, are we impressing me or are we impressing you guys? Basically, you need to bring perfectly manicured pictures of your lawn. Right. A proper rain gauge placement. A video of you doing kills on Halo. A Valpack. Yeah. Just kneel down and hand him the valpac that you got.

It's not juggling or the splits. One guy said that if I named any athlete from the 90s, he could give me their jersey number. That's not good. And that's about it. Okay. Well, I thought there's one guy that wanted to do a minute of the. stand-up. He said it. Cool.

We're impressing Blake. You got a punchline. What if it's really funny? Neat. In a minute? That's a lot of work in a minute. Would that not impress you? Somebody needs to learn. I guess I need to see it. Are these worthy enough for us to just have four or five little interludes throughout the summer events, and you can just sit and make fun of it? Kendall says if y'all are still searching for talent, I have a lot of, I have. a weird one to offer, I can eat a banana faster than anyone at the event.

Those are the emails we're getting. It's not phallic. I don't have time to cape up for a grand entrance or anything, but I could swing by with a few bananas and help with some competitors and have a quick round of banana chugging. Do you think it's a bad idea that we're doing this two days before? Entire time would take three to four minutes. That doesn't seem like a fast eating of a banana. That seems like, what is it normally?

Are you just, that's, yeah, it's not, we're done. Oh. Oh, we're pulling the cord. Pull it. Wow. What are we going to do? We got all this time. I don't care.

It was, that's the thing. It was ancillary bit. We have plenty of other things. Oh. I guess I'm looking at a different run sheet. All right. So, we're officially canceling. America's next top angelo.

Sorry, Kevin. Why, that was KT's idea? I mean, I think initially, but his... The initial bros wanted it, KT and T.C. Yeah. So that's why you're against it. Those two are for something. If it's KT's idea, I'm naturally skeptical.

And it typically kind of goes like this, doesn't it? Oh, okay. It didn't work out. It didn't work out. But that's why you... You kill the baby. You know, you got to be willing to move on. Yeah, I don't know that I've ever heard that freight.

Like you say that's a common phrase, kill the baby. Is that a phrase? Abort. Oh. That is a common phrase. I don't think you abort because you think this is going to work out great. I think because you're probably seeing trouble ahead. That's true.

That's why some 24 years ago. Yeah, and it's for the person abording just doesn't want to deal with this right now. Right. And that's what we're going with, right? We saw there could be a little gene malfunction in there, and we're like, I don't know. We test it. I think the metaphor is done. Oh, sorry.

Yeah, so rain or shine, we will have the generic summer event on Saturday, June 6th. This Saturday, two days from now. Is it 6 p.m. I know you just said that, but I've had a couple people who listen to the show reach out to me and say, hey, y'all haven't said when it is. 6-6 at 6. I thought that hit. 6-6 at 6.

And it's from 6 to 9 if you were worried about, hey, are these guys losing their fastball? No. There it is. Come on. And it's brought to you by Community Mechanical. They are our HVAC company. Might as well pimp them up now real quick. They could be your HVAC company as well.

It's Community Mechanical. What's the website? CommunityDFW.com. Okay. You can also reach out directly to Travis if you're more of a call or text person at 469-667-7-290. Wait a second here. Did I get a... I thought I recently got an email.

Oh, I did. I got a couple of emails how great they are. And, yeah, don't forget that train mini-split. So apparently this is not something that they just bring to the GSE, but you can get one of those at your house too, like Jake did in his high atop his garage office. It's the best. Where he just has a jar. He has one of those jars next to him.

You do not have a bathroom in there, do you? I don't, but I don't need it. What I needed was heating and air, and that's what I got from my mini split from community. They installed it quick. They could do that for you if you're doing a remodel, you're adding. But it really starts with having them come out and just check your. stuff. Preventative maintenance is the way to go. Then you're in the loop and you can avoid bigger problems down the line. Hit up, Travis. See if you can ride him maybe this Saturday.

Maybe we do like a chicken fight thing where you get on top of the guys at community and just wrestle it out. CommunityDFW.com. Would you like to hear about my business Wednesday or you want to do some sports first? Let's keep talking. This is Wednesday stuff. I had a very interesting day myself. Oh, go on. Well, I kept the boy home from daycare. So usually on Business Wednesday, we are very busy, getting to pretend to be business people. You kept him home to hang out with him? Kind of, yeah.

So he's going to a swim class right now at 3.20 in the afternoon at the wreck. So we're picking him up somebody by about 2.45. Now, usually that's not me. but on this day I was going to have to pick him up at 2.45 and all that really needed to be done past the morning morning meeting was like filming stuff with TC at my house for the summer event videos we're doing. And I thought, I mean, he can just be here for that. And then past that, I thought, well, all right, I got maybe a couple hours of show prep, email stuff to do. I remember we have a pool so he had stayed with nora at my mom's the night before i picked them up in the morning

and she had to go to a camp so he's riding with me to that and he's just like over and over going don't make me go to school don't make me go to school today and he's still in his pajamas you know and i'm like just feeling it and it's like yeah eff it dude this is why i have this job right this is why Angelo Cotaldi and Sean Cernan gave us business Wednesday. And we just went home and deed around all. It was like stepbrothers. Like we were just back and forth from the tramp. I mean, I don't have to get in the pool.

He can get in the pool on his own with a life jacket on. And I can do whatever. And he just pops in and out and in and out. It was just awesome. We just hung out for like five hours. He's in the background of the summer. And what is this school, too? It's pre, it's not even kindergarten, right?

No, no. He's not even going to be in kindergarten next year. It's all right. That's not, yeah. It's not a thing. Even to call it school. It's not school. Makes it sound bad that you're skipping school and you kept it.

The bad part is it's expensive as hell and you feel bad about it. No, I didn't, I have no guilt about this at all. It just was the cool occurrence to me. It's babysitting. There's no way I could have ever, would have ever been allowed to do this in any other permutation of my life. Now I can. And it was awesome. Now, the problem is then this morning he's like, what up?

What are we got today? I'm like, uh-uh, buddy. You're back in the meat grinder. Was there something I wanted to show you guys, or can I say? Oh, real quick. You know there was a story in Oak Cliff the other day where Mike Soroy almost died and a gas explosion? It caused his appendix to explode, right?

I believe that scientists are now looking at that. That his pendy rupture was because of the explosion. Well, sometimes this probably doesn't happen to you a lot, Dan, but my wife has always doing stuff at our house. So sometimes, like, the other day I noticed a painting that I was like, who, where do we get? She's like, that's been there for 10 months. And it's at a prominent place in the house. She could change a rug.

She could change. There's things that change. Oh, she didn't paint a painting. No, no, no, no. Okay. She bought a painting, hung it up, and then you. And there's things that I've asked about in the backyard in the last few months where she's like, that's been there since we moved back in the remodel, which was.

a year. Okay. I'm about that attentive to detail. So when I saw this thing plugged in this morning, I was like, God, please tell me this hasn't been here forever. It hasn't. What is it? A carbon monoxide meter? Yeah. Gas and go

detector. Oh. That's got to be an Instagram mom thing, right? A hundred. That's what she said. I go, hey, what's this thing? It's some sort of like air pure thing? She goes, carbon monoxide. I go, is this, because of the Oak Cliff thing, she's like it was on Instagram.

You know, it's one of those, why not? I guess, sure. Like, I'm pretty sure the one we have already does it. Right, you're a fire alarm, man. A fire alarm thing, but no. Well, now you're sure. You're absolutely sure you're not going to wake up dead. Super sure.

You all wake up dead. I did a couple of things. things yesterday. One was, I was going to go to the car wash, Mustang car wash. I was going to have them detail my car. Elite. And so before I did that, though, I, at home, I got

a bucket of water, and I got the hose out. I washed my car and I wiped down the inside and everything. I just didn't want to be embarrassed about how they... Oh, actually, wait, wait, wait, wait, I'm mixing up things. I went

to the dentist. Yeah. So I was thinking that at the dentist. I'm like, why do I do? Because on the way to the, before I left for the dentist, I brushed my teeth, and on the way, I flossed. Oh, you clean for the housekeeper. Do it at the house. That's what I'm saying.

But shouldn't this be like the end of Texas Stadium? I don't know. Or if you're going to go on a diet on Monday, on Sunday, do you just eat a salad and broccoli and go, you know what? I want to get ahead of this a little bit. No. No. You eat a ton.

So I should eat broccoli and popcorn and peanuts and shit and whatever. Dip. Yeah, whatever. Walk in with a chew in my mouth and then say, all right, have at me. It's true. This is the dirtiest it can get, but I want you to clean this baby up. And think of it this way. When you go to a car wash, you're doing it because it's just, it's horrible.

You don't clean up the inside of your car first. Yeah, they have equipment. You get all the trash out. Yeah, but you're not going to vacuum. ever. Right. They're vacuuming. But you're getting the trash out really just to make it easier.

I just think it's weird because I walk in there wanting the attractive. Yeah, not just because she's attractive, but, you know, the dental hygienist. She's clearly into me. She loves. I said Indian. Oh. Can you imagine? If you could somehow have an Indian.

No, it makes sense. They have the big guns, right? So why go in? They have the 10 power gun. I just find it funny that I do that. Man. But I really do want her approval. And she gave me a little tips for, hey, just make sure you focus on this area.

And for the next six months, I'm going to focus on this area. And I'm going to walk in there. And she'd be like, whoa, I can't believe the gum. What a dork. The gum number or whatever. You know, they put a little thing in there. She's never good enough, is it? What?

You floss more than anyone I know, and it's still not good enough. Oh, no. No, but that's she was very, very impressed. Very impressed. Yes. I feel like I walked out of there with an A-plus. But she still had something to recommend. That's because he asked.

Right. The back of the teeth down there, you can brush that a little better. She's like, do you drink coffee? Yeah, I could tell. I wouldn't call what you do drinking coffee. Yeah. You're dirty water over there. Leave me alone.

And then, okay, so now I also, so it was my daughter's last day in town. She was going back to college or actually Brooklyn. She's going to live now. my daughter who just graduated from a very liberal arts college on stolen land those are yeah kind of different uses of the word liberal but it's a very liberal liberal arts college yeah so um for a graduation present her boyfriend's mom or parents got her a Costco card that's good and i've never been to college Costco.

What? Oh, man. So she said, let's go to Costco. That's where I ran yesterday when Blake was over my house. Blake came over to do some filming, brought his baby, Benny. I'll tell you what. If you got a wife with, like, kids that are already 20 years old, hand them a baby. My goodness.

And it's not even like she didn't know that she was helping you out doing work. Yeah. She thought you came over. and just helped her out by handing her. Like, she was like, can I touch it? Can I hold him? Can I smell it? And Blake's like, take him.

I'm so happy for you to hold it. And then she gave me a big scottering report later on the differences between Benny and Brooks. Yeah. She said, Benny, much more aggressive. Yeah, he's the younger brother. He's just got to be. He's just got that dog in him. Yeah, yeah.

And it's good. You did help her. And it's a no-risk proposition because her ovaries don't work. Yeah. So if you hand that to a woman in their 20s or 30s, sometimes it's like, oh, they may get ideas. Can I hop in here? So you know how some people just can't turn the bit off? Like Stephen A. Smith, very normal guy.

When he gets on TV, he acts like that. The Rose Twins don't turn it off because Rose Twin 2 saw my kid and was like, boy, that's a fat baby. That baby needs Ozzympic. And I heard Dan try to defend him a little bit. It's like, no, babies kind of need to carry a little extra weight. And she's like, nah, it needs those impic. Look, she's doing bits. Yeah.

Anyway, she took us to Costco, so I've never been there. First thing, and she told me this, I would notice this. Carts are bigger. Like, they're just bigger than the common cart. Think we man riding in a shopping cart. I want you to buy more? Maybe. Oh, it's a bulk store.

You walk in, you could buy a playground set, or you can get your tire changed, or just go buy some vitamin C or get a shower hit. So I'm walking around like, wait, I'm at Home Depot. Hold on. I'm now in Kroger. Yeah. We've just crossed over into some kind of other I've just transported. Now I'm in Target. Well, it's the same like six flags.

Like you're in Mexico and then you're... Exactly. Yeah. They should just put the sign of the flag of Target. Also, I found out early on. So you're walking through and you're there and it's like it's six flags. Are you going to not buy a trinket? You have to buy something.

I'm here now. So it is the perfect place for a wife fight. And because my wife grabbed, I have a picture one for you Clayton. Oh, she was all three of you. Yeah. So she grabbed this off the shelf and she goes, and I'm like, We've lived together for how many long? What?

Are you telling me we need this? So what it is is a 40 by 40, 40 inch by 40 inch. It's a rapid off fire blanket. For all the... And they show a few pictures there. One is you could take this blanket and toss it on that fire on the stove that got out of control. Yeah, common occurrence. Or on the grill.

Or on outside. A fire kind of got out of hand. Let's throw this. I got the fire blanket. Don't worry. Perhaps. One of the features is it handles temperatures up to 1,076 degrees. Who's measuring that?

Dude, our fires are always like 1,078. I know. That's so well. Hangs easily on war, a wall or door. Oh, okay. So. I love the psychology of a person. I go, wait, what?

This is the first thing we're buying. And now we need, she goes, ask, she goes, ask any firefighter. I meant to want to call Jimmy and just see if he'll... And like, maybe, but why now? Or I'll save this for Jimmy. Why now? That's what I mean. Why now?

And it was just a mini fight, but it's like, you know. Oh, it's got to be... I'm a bad guy. Gotta be a big, big wife's fight spot in general. Did you all buy it? Oh, yeah. It's now at home. Okay.

Next time you guys are frying shrimp. I have a couple things I want you to. write down and follow. This is one of them, but, you know, I will let you know if we ever open this, like if I ever see the box open, let alone use it. Things are going right next to the Steve Zon cut out. I was saying we might need to bring it to the retreat just in case you're able to start a fire. Everything is bigger. Like the mayonnaise jar is a little bigger than the biggest mayonnaise jar you can get at Kroger.

Did you know this? Does everybody know this? What do we do? I don't know. What? I've just never been there before. I was never at Trader Joe's before I went like last year. So I'm just saying, do these companies make bigger jars just for Costco? Yeah.

They do? Yeah. Okay. That's the idea. Do you know what Sam's Club is? Or is that a foreign concept too? I've never been there, but I think that's owned by Walmart, right? It's the same thing.

It's the big bulk. These are membership places, yes. It's the big. Walmart. Correct. It's the same brands, but yes, Costco exists as a surplus type. That's not the right word. But yeah, you're buying in bulk. So even when you were stocking up during COVID, toilet paper and all that, you were just going to normal Kroger or wherever? Oh, yeah. I've never, yeah. Oh, my God. These places were getting hit hard. Yeah. Because you can buy 100 rolls of it. And this is like what, like, I swear to you, this may be Rick Arnett and the homeless guy. But early in the Cuban time, He would say that this is the sort of thing you should do.

What? Buy, like, all of your toilet paper for two, three years or something if you can store it because the price will change. Like, you can lock it. I'm not going to go up. So it, yeah, this is a, dude, this is right up your alley. But yeah, I think Costco might be on the level of tamales. As far as people listening being like, huh, they sell big stuff at Costco. I'm not trying to be a jerk,

but I feel like it might just be a very small number of people. But that's why I'm saying, yeah, that's all they do there. I'm a very niche broadcaster. I like to. And that's fine. Like just three or four people to get what I'm saying. I think people are enjoying the journey. Okay.

Well, then I don't have to describe a lot of stuff to you, but I do have to say this. It's like, it's all bigger. I feel like, oh, actually, I was talking to Jorts. while walking around because he called me back and it's hard to get on, you know, us both on the phone, I guess. Superstars. And he said, oh, man, he goes, whatever you do, don't buy jeans. Like, why?

He goes, that would just prove that you're really old because my dad started buying his jeans at Costco. There's no doubt, Chappie buys some clothes at Costco. Dude, for real, my... I was thinking maybe underwear and socks and stuff. I don't think the thing is, people, this is like a destination for, Like my dad and my stepmom drive to the one in South Lake once a month, and they'll plan a day of it. Like, they've got things that they only buy. Dude, that is a retired person's thing because my mom will be like, I'm like, what are you doing this weekend or week?

And she'll be like, well, you know, Monday, we got Pinochle. I got a doctor appointment on Friday. Wednesday, I'm going to the grocery store. For real. Like, that's her whole plan. Yeah. For that day. It's written on her day planner.

Let's go to the grocery store. But the other thing you need to know. And she'll buy four things. Yeah. She's all old. I thought you were going to say this when you mentioned the fire blanket. So this is like a, this is like Buckees and that there is a cult type following. First of all, do you remember the Rizzler?

What were the Rizzler? Oh, the Costco guys. Boom. The, what was? Double Chalko cookie. Boom. Boom. like the big ripped guy, the Italian family that everybody was...

That's how they started? Yes, they're the Costco guys. They're the Costco family. They would go into Costco and pick up like a bag of... Big justice. Big justice. Do you remember this phenomenon, Dan, that swept the nation for about two months and every, like, sports team was having this little fat Italian kid,

and he was throwing out, they were throwing out first pitches. They were probably on Ellen. It was all... It was them at Costco. and they would hold up like a frozen food thing of Costco, like their double chicken baked protein. That's all it was. So that's important, but also the food court.

Packed. So people go there and are just packed. The hot dogs and the pizza. So much so that this is a thing that people do in like Japan. We have Costco's in other countries and it is like a celebrating cool American style to go there and eat the Costco hot dog and pizza. This is our mark on the world. Buy big.

It's too much for me in general. Now, my daughter says she could put someone else on her account, so she's going to put me. Let me tell you this. I don't want 50, I don't want 70 rolls of toilet paper. I just don't want, I don't know. It's just everything was too much. It's like, boy, I want to, I want that.

it's too much. I bought one thing. I'm going to show it to you. The one thing I do think is good. I didn't buy any yet, but I think this will get me going back. Is the protein drinks and the protein powder? It's the exact same price for a much smaller, the much smaller one on Amazon is 30 bucks. And you get one double the size for 30 bucks. So I'm like, all right, this will be my, I could go back just for the protein drinks. And I think I'll make my money. steps. And get some steps. Here's the one thing I bought. It's picture two.

Because I eat oatmeal every day. And so, and I'm like, I don't want this much oatmeal. And my daughter's like, let's get the oatmeal. Let's just see. So I bought 10 pounds of oatmeal. 110 servings. That's what it says. I eat just a small little cup every day and I boil it.

And like I make it like an old. I don't make the instant oatmeal. But I want to see I'm marked down. It's, you know, June 4th. And so let's just see, can you keep the note on when? I will walk in and tell you when the last bowl of oatmeal comes out of this thing. But the first little bit came this morning and it didn't look like it. It was like I took a chair out of the stadium.

You looked at the stadium and looked exactly the same. I'm interested in how they've kind of hotted up the Quaker Oats guy. Did they really? He looks like he's doing CrossFit now. He definitely used to be fat. He used to be racist. Yeah. I mean, now he's kind of like, I mean, he's still got a cherubic face, but he looks like kind of, like, fit.

Nobody looked like that. Did we not find out that he once owned slaves yet? He definitely did. No doubt. The Quaker. You don't go with that protein oatmeal? Well, then I pour some protein powder in it. Is that?

What a dog. I love it. And then I put a little protein in there. You know what I mean? Oh, another big thing. Right now, summer is here. And seriously, we already got a schedule for Tuesday. Tuesday after the show, we will have some pros.

Some pros out from Flooring Direct, DFW, at my house, to just check out the floor. Because look, they've been garbage for a long time. And so it's not like this is an impulse buy at the counter. And if you're walking around your house, maybe you've been talking about it for quite some time too. Like, man, why don't we just... It's the beating of it, you know? But Flooring Direct DFW makes it kind of easy

just because they will come in. They move all the furniture for you. Great, great deals. How else do they make it easy? They go to your house, so you don't have to go to the showroom to kind of look at all the different samples and stuff. That way you can kind of hold the samples

like next to the wall and be like, oh, that's what it would look like with this paint. I guess that's why they do that, right? That's got to be why they do that. Does that help? So, yeah. It also helps that they've got great financing options. So they'll bring the floors right to you.

They'll give you a bunch of options. Then they've got financing option. Like right now, you can get your entire flooring project for less than $200 a month. So freshen that place up and do it with Flooring Direct. The website, Dan, is flooring direct. DFW.com slash DZ. It's okay. The thing.

But we all know that our, they're pros. are the nicest. We've got the best prices. Do you think they'll do this one Saturday? Maybe. Oh, yeah, I like that. What do you all want to talk about? I'm pretty fired up about the arenas.

Oh, okay. But also basketball. So you pick. No, let's start with the arenas. The Mavs and Stars, I would guess you're talking about? Yeah. Just about, are you anti? Obviously, we should all be anti, right?

Why? This thing just opened. It is not an old stadium. It's a really weird thing that we're getting into here in these United States that you're like, ah, it's 20 years old. What? Yeah, so the stars announced that they are... Yeah, but they're 29th in revenue daily.

Ticket. Okay. Sounds like a YP. Yeah, anyway. Well, so what they've announced... At least the headline is that they're going to Plano, that they're moving to Willow Bend, that they'll build an arena there, that it'll cost somewhere or maybe a billion dollars, and I want to get into these numbers, and 700 million of it will come from the city of Plano.

So how are you going to pass that up? The Mavs, for their part, they say, everyone says they're going to Valley View, and we'll see how that works out, public-private, partnership-wise, with the city of Dallas. I will just mention, though, I heard Robert Wolonski. Robert Wolonski, how was listening to some of those fake promos I did the other day? Those are fun. Oh, he thinks they're fun. These promos I did were great.

They were so good. They should replay him. And he was on the ticket and said, he did the not so fast, my friend, on all this, really. Especially the Mavericks. He said, yeah, they've signed a thing saying that they have. the option to buy the land at Valley View. And they have to pay like $170, $200,000 a month to keep the option open. But they've got a couple years on that.

They don't have to build there. His point was, just remember they own the land in Irving. Because the Adelson's are definitely no stranger to tricky politics. And they could easily just be leveraging the city of Dallas and the city of Irving against each other. And this is not done. Dallas is moving out of it. The Mavs and Stars are moving out of the AAC. That much is for sure.

And I know we want to talk about that part, but it's not done that the Mavericks are moving to Valley View. The Stars one feels pretty done. So it's not done that the city of Dallas will at least have one of these franchises. Correct. Because that's the big thing for Sports Mayor. Well, Valley View, that's technically Dallas, but that's viewed as an L for him too, right?

No, but at least now he's saying that's Dallas. Yeah. I'm saying if they ended up, if he ended up going to Irving. So because to me, what does this mean? Like, how desperate will the city of Dallas be to negotiate with the Mavs to make that work? Like, would that be, I don't know, I guess who would be embarrassed by it? Counsel? Like, what does it mean?

But what if the Mavs did move? and they have none of the Dallas teams in Dallas. Seems bad. It seems bad, but it seems to me bad, the Valley View thing seems bad. Moving out of the AAC seems bad. And here's the problem. As you were alluding to, Dan, it's just about ownership of the entire landscape. So the AAC to me...

They're making money. They're making a lot of money. But they aren't making as much money as some of their counterparts are. in the league. That's what all of this is all about. So if you want to make the most amount of money, you have to own everything around the arena. That's obviously never going to happen for either Gallardi or the Adelson's at the AAC. It was never going to happen for Cuban. Which is always a weird thing. We want to own everything around the arena, but we want to

pitch this city that by us coming here, you should foot a lot of this bill because of all the, I mean, that's going to bring a lot, you know, people into your local businesses. You just own all that. It'll infiltrate. Yeah. They don't talk about that at that point. Yeah. So there's a piece in the morning news this morning by their, one of their business reporters,

and really kind of lays out where this is all headed or whether we like it or not. Franchises are striving to create in-venue fan experiences that rival at home viewing experiences, which have never been more convenient and sophisticated. Modern-day fans, particularly from the Gen Z demographic, are not merely looking to go watch a game. They are in search of a social experience. Teams are looking to bolster their revenue by tapping into dollars from mixed-use districts

which surround arenas with year-round entertainment options. Again, the MAVs, you could already describe them as that. It's a great experience. There's a lot of local stuff around there. The MAVs don't need to leave. to do that. I agree. It's a wonderful in-game experience.

Why, I was frankly repulsed by this quote from Maverick CEO Rick Welts, who has only been here a couple of years. He was brought in to help get the arena built because he helped get the arena in the Bay Area built. Never mind the fact that that's one of the most unique partnerships ever because I think Larry Ellis, some billionaire just gave them. them a lot of the land. There was very little finesse on Rick Welts part. It would be like, I don't know, hiring Rob Polinka because he traded for Luca or something.

You know what I mean? So you didn't really do all that much. In any case, here's the quote from current MAV CEO, Rick Welts. I think if Dallas had to go all over again, I think there might have been a little bit of a different approach on the American Airlines Center. It does not serve the needs or the expectations of a sports fan in 2026 who goes to a professional. sporting event. We don't have any of the hospitality amenities, high class food and beverage and social areas that one would expect in other markets. And that's what we're really looking forward

to. So they're trying to frame this as this is for the fan. I mean, the fan is getting robbed here. The fan actually doesn't really like sports. The fan hates it. They like hanging out. We need more hangout area because they hate the game and they're Gen Z. So we have to, like what are we talking about here, man. This is so many meetings gone wrong and so many people who are out of touch you know, and that's the thing about Cuban is

and Jerry, right? Is that among the class of billionaires, somehow they read as more regular people. They're fans. This sucks. I mean, Cuban was a fan. Yeah.

That's the thing. He cheered for the Mavs And for whatever you have to say about him, he made those games that, like, that was a big thing I did with my kids is going to those games. And the breaks, every piece of that game, it felt like a playoff win when you walked out of there, no matter what they did, regular season, winter loss. That's why you would get engaged at a Hornet's timeout in the third quarter, you know? Yeah. It was a party. So anything they're saying now, they're trying to say, hey, this is all about the fans.

We have to do this because the fan experience, I mean, the Dallas fan, you don't want one of those San Francisco fans to have one up on you, do you? Vote for, vote yes on this levy. Which is crazy because it might be true that this plays out. Like I said, I was listening to The Ticket Talk about this. Junior quoted the study that is out there. What? You'll see it often, which is that you often hear about like the top 0.01% owning whatever percent of wealth in this country, which is true. But more broadly, the top 10% of the country, I think, has like 90% of the wealth.

And that 10% of people, if you think of the Metroplex, has 8 to 10 million. Now you got 800,000 to a million people. there might just be enough people who are true effing douchebags that actually do want that out of their sports arena. And they can find people that are like, yeah, I don't care if it's $500 to go to a game instead of $200 or $170. I'll pay $500 and I'll go shoot the shit. And there might be enough. These arenas only old 15 to 20,000 people. So there may be more of us.

Well, there's no doubt there's more of us. They'll rock. You're going to find somebody who's pissed off about this. but we don't have the money. I mean, real talk, we may be in that percentage, but we're not, you know. That percentage. And we're not making, you know, we're not making a way.

We're not type of people who make waves. Don't have that kind of money. So, yeah. And let me just wrap up this point real quick. Because I do think this is sort of a microcosm of like everything that is happening, economy, business-wise. Cuban seems to get that there's something to, like, we're going to make good money, and we'll be able to make the good money longer if we have good vibes.

And these people, and a lot of people, are like, we just want to make the great money right now. We don't care if you tell us that's not going to last forever because the bad vibes are going to spoil it. Fuck you. We think that you're stupid, and sometimes they're right. in the end, right? So to me, everybody talks about wanting to have this area that everybody's going to go down to,

and they're going to be 365 days a year. Well, it doesn't take a genius to realize that if they split the Dallas market, I mean, how, you can't, uh, Dave Chappelle is not going to go to Plano and Valley View, right? These places, these artists have radio clauses anyways. The only way this really worked is by putting all of it at one point. place. The Mavs are a big part of it. The stars are a smaller part of it. Entertainment is a part of it. How are they going to fill with 40 hockey games in Plano? Like, what are we talking about? How many concerts can you have? Like, it took a while for this to work at the AAC. It's going to

take forever and never for this to work at both those sites, unless there's a casino there. To me, that's the only way that people would go to either of these places to just have to just hang out. I mean, is anybody doing that in Arlington? Like, what do... What? There's a place in town where we see how this works. People go there and they leave. And you know, you see that heat map of economic, uh, the income moving north. We all know how this is working. And Brad Alberts from the Stars is said as much. Their fans are wider, have more money, and live north. And that'll be great on game nights. But if you're at the AAC and your downtown, I realize the revenue thing got messed up and they're all pissed off at each other,

but there's a lot more reason to be down there if you're at an arena where, what are you going to book if you're the Stars arena that's going to get people there that off? I don't know. It seems like you're dividing the pie so you can keep all of it, but the amount that you keep in the end is going to be less. Yeah. Do the Stars now enjoy revenue from Dave Chappelle and Nate Barkazzi when they come to the AAC? I think that that's part of what's...

Do they half own it? I don't think they half own it, but I do think they have revenue sharing, and that's what they're in court for. Uh-huh. But that is over my head. However, I would say the point remains. But yeah, a billion-dollar stadium in Plano for a hockey team. Now, that's where it gets really interesting to me,

is they say that the Plano City Council will vote on around, 700 million of this. And this is kind of minutia, kind of wonky, but I have, I've tried to get interested in the school funding thing, right? And it's very common when you're like, oh,

my elementary schools are closing, but we're building a new football stadium. And people are like, what the F, right? They make this tricky enough to where they feasibly and correctly can say, that's not the same money. Oh, yeah, no, no, no, that's a different bucket of money.

We can't spend that money on the school. That's a different bucket of money. Which is like technically true. But there is something to, if they ask you, if you live in Plano, to go vote for this and you say yes. Are you more or less likely the next year or six months later if they're like, oh, we also have a tax for the schools. We need you to go back and vote for that too. I would say less. You're going to have some level of fatigue.

You're going to be like, what the fuck? They just built. What is this? I don't trust these people. What are they doing? They always say these are not related. It's all related to me. It's the city spending money,

and if you have to ask people for it, then it's all related. Now, there's another really tricky thing that they've been doing, and I bet you they're going to do it here. It happened in San Antonio recently because Manu Genoblee, Nolan Ryan,

and a handful of other wealthy individuals own a minor league baseball team in San Antonio. They needed a new ballpark. It's going to cost about $170 million. The team is paying $30 or $40 million. Now, when this was reported in San Antonio, it was reported as the team is paying for all of it. They're paying $34 million.

The rest of it will be covered by a... And then they use big words. They use big words like Helock, the Vader, they start using tax. they say that this is not public money because the money doesn't exist right now. This is a tricky thing of saying, hey, we're going to pay for this with the future growth revenue taxes. So you see what I'm saying? Like they take the money out now and they say, well, this is going to work out.

And when it does, that growth will pay for this. So this is not something that existed before. but that land still could have been something else. Do you see what I'm saying? Like they slight of hand you because, first of all, at the end of the day, in that process... So taxes are going to pay for it, but it's future taxes. It's future taxes, and they're borrowing now. So they say, like, well, that wouldn't have existed anyways.

And I know that's confusing, but it's bullshit is what it is. It is your money. Just because it didn't exist without this proposal, it's your money. They would have found another thing to spend it on or way to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, use it. So. But you never have to vote on that? No, I bet you will and people will. Yeah. And it's, it's frustrating because all of these companies have a ton of money. They could all afford, I mean, the Adelson's right now. I mean, it wouldn't like make up for Luca, but if they annied up and we're like, fuck it, we'll pay for the whole arena, wherever. We're going to pay for the whole thing.

We're going to subsidize it. And we're going to, you know, we're going to have Atlanta ticket prices and concessions. these people have options to be good rich people. There are ways to do it. But why? But why? Well, that's it. It really does just come down to...

Like maybe even Cuban knowing he went a new stadium? Because they were talking about that for a few years, Cuban. Yeah. And maybe as he was sniffing around it, he realized, yeah, the only way to do it is to, you know, shed the person he's been all these years. and he didn't want to be that person. I think that's a really good point because, you know, I'll just keep saying it. I heard Gordon say, it seems like every time there's an ownership change, there's some sort of venue or arena change shortly thereafter.

So I started researching that, and it's 100% true. And that's a big part of it, right? Because you don't hate that guy yet or you don't love that guy. they're coming in sort of fresh. I'd never thought about that. Cuban probably, it's ironic now, legit was like, this will kill my image if we have to do this the way that everybody else is going to do this.

But why couldn't you just do it the old way? Just lose money. Or not make the most. It sucks tremendously. It sucks tremendously because I didn't think the AEC was going to work out. but that's I thought that because I was from Fort Worth or from the mid-cities and I just thought oh that's like booge like you'd come to the AAC in the early 2000s and it was everything you thought about Dallas yeah it was like this is so pretentious

nightclubby feels just it's but it's really built it's so good now yeah it took it 15 to 20 years to actually like settle in and it's kind of perfect now with two teams they got enough parking they have a note you know yes the katy trail yeah like everything around there is awesome and both teams are like yeah what if we had just some more but we're not making all the money from everything around here and both teams want that yeah no the mabs are not certainly blameless in this dumb guy question what it's i hate coming downtown for games why is this a bad from if i just want to see a star's game on a tuesday night everybody's got to have their version of their ox getting gored, right?

Like, it's hard to get downtown from some places, but it's very hard to get to, let's start with Valley View. That's a nightmare. Yeah, there's not going to be a good place, really, anywhere. So maybe you just have to start with and accept that. The thing about the Dallas one is, hypothetically, you're trying to gore as few oxes as least amount as possible, right? So like most of the people live close to Dallas.

Yeah, I guess to me it seems like there would be more space in these new places. Because downtown, you're stuck. You've got the few little stores around the AAC, but then you can't build anywhere else. I mean, if they did have more space to put parking lots and whatever, I don't know. I'm more excited for the move than I think most are, just because it's something different. I know what the AAC is. I don't like coming down here. Yeah, and I would actually, I would support maybe this is my bias.

I think Irving would be cool. I don't know why. I like that area. I think it bridges the sort of gives people in the West a little bit of a possible drive. I mean, if you live in Fort Worth. It's just that I don't like the Adelson's making everything. Yeah. I don't like them.

Yeah, I don't like them. I guess I don't like them at all. It sucks, dude. It really sucks. We got, we got, you know, I saw a bunch of tweets about this. hell, this kind of rolls into last night, but we've had a rough go the last half decade around here. There's a Chucky Cheese right by where Valley View was. You're looking to kill some time.

Before we move on to last night, we can highlight Qualis Roofing. They're one of our presenting sponsors at the Dumb Zone Generic Summer Event. They're kind of one of our OG sponsors. they made the mushroom sandwich, or at least they ordered it, the legendary mushroom sandwich. And Brian, the guy over there at Qualis, the owner, was telling us yesterday on Business Wednesday

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Yeah, mention the dumb zone. So, yeah, last night, I found. myself, because where, okay, Oklahoma City, we were, we were, we became Spurs fans. I'm, I now, as last night was unfolding, I became Knicks fan. I know it's tough. Like, I feel like Wembe might need, he needs that MVP to be announced on that day, or he needs Chet, he needs someone to piss him off. Maybe if Frank Nick Lakeena was still on that team, because he's another Frenchman. But anyway, it is the argument in today's NBA.

Like, would you rather have a Jalen Brunson or a Wembe? I think you'd always rather have a Wembe, right? I think it's easier to build around. Can you remove the names and describe to me what you mean? Like player who's elite. Player who can create offense and create for other. as well, or a player who needs a nudge. You just can't hand Wemby the ball and go, okay, offense.

Right. Because the other side of that is that one's a plus on D and the other's a minus. Oh, I thought you were saying one is like a generational alien. The other guy is like Jake's height. You can find other guys, kind of like Jalen Brunson. The generation alien is why I think you can build around a Wembe easier than a Brunson. Well, yeah, for sure. But if you're saying to some little kid, no, you can't be Wimby.

You could be Jalen Brunson, though. Yes. Yeah, fans might gravitate towards Jalen Brunson in the long run. But, well, it just, it's today's NBA, and a guy like Jalen Brunson is very valuable. And he was Mav, and I love him. You know, he was drafted there with Luca. Yeah, I think there's multiple ways you can talk about this. Certainly you have to acknowledge that he.

He would not be the player he is today if he were with the Mavericks. But that doesn't mean he couldn't have also become a great, great all-N-B-A-type player. His game would be different. But the Mavericks did bungle that contract, but they could have also kept him. They just would have had to pay more than New York did. Right. And Cuban decided not to. And he decided not to.

And he would have also had to pay, we must remember, his agent, Brunson's agent was a high, by the Knicks. His dad was hired by the Knicks. You were going to have to pay a hometown. What's the opposite of a discount? I mean, you know, tax basically. Surcharge. Surcharge. Yeah. Excellent work. Yeah. But I think a part of, I think Jalen wanted his own team. I think he was tired of playing second fiddle to look. I think he wanted to be the guy. I think that is part of it. But had they valued him early on and, made him feel like he was a part of the thing and that it was both of them. I honest, because dude, you go back and look, that was the best friend Lucas had in the time he

was here. I know he was tied with Dorian, Bobon from preexisting, but we had our stepbrothers. They were both in the same draft. He was learning like American culture from Jalen Brunson, and it was awesome because Brunson's such a weirdo, just a very different guy. So, yeah, I think they could have worked. But I was thinking back, dude, and I remember being on the phone that summer with skin and Follow well and Damaris and everybody's talking about what they're hearing.

And again, the Mavericks had just decided it is impossible to sketch out a world where we are a competitive defense with both these guys on the floor for most of the game. and in hindsight I think I was a little bit like are you sure at the time but they were all very sure and in hindsight I think that was just lazy of that and not those people

but that's a lazy take figure it out right you've got we know what Luca is and you know that Brunson I hate to say the guy's a winner but it's clear there's something emanating off this person that we is very hard to find

look at his college, look at what he's done. I just think you figure it out. I don't give a, if we have to go get three other guys that are 610 and taller at the other three spots, I would have, you know. That's what ironically what the Mavs are doing now. Yeah. Trying to be as big as they can. And I mean, New York finished 10th in defense this year.

Not great, but they figured it out. Yeah, I mean, when they lost Brunson, you had to get Kyrie. because you know you kind of learned you need a guy on the floor at all times yeah and I guess it's a little bit different because Kyrie's such a he's a shooter too you know and Brunson wasn't that so it was easier to imagine Kyrie and Luca than it was Brunson and Luca but sometimes I just think we have a lack of creativity like oh these guys both need the ball give it up can't do it got to move one of them yeah the reason figure it out Sacramento didn't draft Luca right it happens all the time

We got a guy that handles the ball. It happens all the time. But Brunson right now, here's a superlative for you. I don't know that I can think of another, like, intangible maxed NBA player in my lifetime. And it's obviously just because he's short. But he doesn't. I don't think he's maxed. I just mean he took a discount, actually.

No, no, no. I just mean he's intangible maxed in the sense of, like, he is, his whole thing just appears to be like aura. He's not particularly fast, you know. He's obviously small. Like with Luca, you can see him change directions and it looks beautiful and you're like, okay, he might not be that athletic, but I get it. A little bigger. Brunson, it just, it doesn't really make sense. And it's not like, you know, Steph Curry is still six, four and is the best shooter of all time. Brunson just makes it work in a way that is so throwback and dirty and beauty. But they also put the team around him, you know.

You built around Brunson. They take the most corner threes of any team in the league. Even though they don't shoot a ton of threes overall, they just make sure they take good. He makes sure they take good ones. I thought Ethan had an interesting point this morning too. Like, you know, you've talked a lot about parity in the NBA. since free agency.

He quoted a guy from CBS this morning that put forth the idea that the greatest parody occurring is between star level and median level players. So I have no idea how you would measure this or index it, but that the best players in the league are not 10 orders better than average players anymore. And this guy's point is that over time, that happens in every sport. And that every sport, the gap shrinks between, over time, between, like, just that everybody is getting better.

But there's more room for those guys to improve and less room for the guys at the top to improve. So I don't know if this is true. But it does sort of build Ethan's piece today of just like that this is the new way. Because the Knicks, you know, I mean, normally if you have you. looked at a team like the Knicks and you looked at their roster. I know it's good, but you would assume that Brunson was a, like, was Michael Jordan. And I don't know, the Bulls had a great roster, but you just look at that roster and think, pretty good. Their best player must be the best player in the league if they're in the finals. And he's not,

no one, I'm not even close. Right? He's not Luca. No. And so you look at it and you think, how do they do this? And I mean, they just have a bunch of guys who do not suck. And that's kind of, who knows if it's a model, but it's interesting. It's definitely different. Yeah, and as last night went on, Spurs are winning. Like, their fans do seem entitled, like, oh, we're back here, like we're supposed to be. And I thought they were a little, you know, once the Knicks did have that run in the third. I thought they kind of shut them up for a while.

And they weren't like this, hey, I don't know. You know, you used to hear about the Spurs fans and the Sacramento fans because they're one-horse towns. That's why they're the best fans. They're not. They're not the best fans in the league. Not happy to see them back in the NBA finals. I think it sucks. Yeah, but then all the crowd shots were all the Knicks fans

and they're really loud and obnoxious. I was liking it because they were taking over San Antonio, you know. But yes, why should I be cheering for New York? This is the worst. There wasn't a likable face and a blue and orange shirt last night. I mean, I'm going to be honest with you. Janlon Brunson, and I love Janeland Brunson. I think Luca would be happy.

I'm going to root for who Luca is rooting for. Yeah, that's a good call. That's fair. I think I once tweeted after one half of Kenny Hill's college career that he'd be better than Johnny Mansell. So, dude, there was a point in the first quarter. It was a great game. So good. Late in the first quarter, maybe second quarter last night, San Antonio was on a little bit of a run.

Brunson went to the locker room. And I, in my head was like, sweep. They're going to sweep this team. Like, Wemby's just about to. And then from then on, dude, he looked awful, like lost. And it's funny when you're that talented, it truly does look like you've lost your monster powers when you can't, like when you're not going.

Another guy, it just looks. When you're that big, yes. It's awful. It looks too much. Every fall looks, ugh. Him trying to sprint. Not good. Not good.

Can I give you all a suggestion? The ESPN Unlimited, you can watch the sky cam of the game, and that's how I watched last night. That's cool. And you could literally see when Brunson came back in the game, just kind of the rest of the team, the Spurter is just kind of deflated. And like you're seeing the overhead view, and Wimby is just struggling. I love that. I'll check that out. ESPN Unlimited?

Unlimited. Mr. Unlimited. Did you see he got a new job? Yeah. No. CBS Sports. Don't know exactly, but I imagine it'll start with Studio. All right, well, if it's CBS, they will screw it up.

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this is barely a gummy gumy thought but Corbin says dear muffin stuff If the MAVs go to Valley View, we need to, like, set up in there where the hang zone would have been. Like, we need to find out where the actual hang zone spot from Valley View Mall was and post up. Like the coordinates, the longitude, latitude, all that. He said it's probably somewhere around Section 369 row G.

Most people won't be able to find it anyways. Taylor says, Dear Faddy Fish Influencer, spoke with a dietitian recently about my cholesterol level. She recommended... Oh, my God! More exercise? Right. Sardines.

Sardines. No. Said, I've never purchased sardines. I need guidance on top brands and places to purchase. That is a separate feed. So I'm hitting the expert, 10,000 hours. No, you need to go sign up for the sardine zone. That's Dan's new.

Side. project. He's left business Wednesday. He's now doing the sardine zone. The great Tim says, not trying to give Barry Bond's hitting pointers here, but I believe that's twice in a few months, Jake, that Raphael Septian's name has come up with no mention of his off-the-field hobbies, making sure he hasn't slipped through the cracks. Do you want to do this one?

I don't know that I'm on Raphael Septian. Is he? Yeah, he was a... He wasn't flashing, was he? It is, well, first of all Somebody was flashing around that area That was Lance. Lance Rensel?

Yeah. So this came up the other day just because we were playing No pants, Lance? Yeah. That's why I remember it. We were playing the Raphael Septien audio where he's doing an employment ad where he's like, The Cowboys hired me and not because I'm Mexican.

No. This is an interesting term for a charge. Back in January of 87, he was. indicted on a charge of mishandling a minor. He pleaded guilty later that year to a charge of indecency with a child. Sexual contact. Yeah, none of that sounds good. He was released by the Cowboys a year later.

A year? Yeah. They're like, look, still got a good 70% in this leg. He didn't play again. Let's see. His profession is felony once. Okay, good. Or good.

I don't know. Maybe not good. Yeah, good. I wasn't there. Let's see. How's he doing? Is he live? Dude.

Okay. The last sentence of his thing here says, his probation is in felony warrant status as of January 16th, 1992, and is still active as of March of 2026. Probation? His warrant. Oh. He bail?

He may be on the run. Boy, he's gotten away for this long. That's great. Shout out to him. Put him on the list, Blake. I got an actual piece of mail delivered to my house. As you could see, this big box. It's from Plashley.

Oh, I was thinking about her the other day. Why? Because she gave me an A-8 coin that I put on my desk. Because I was wondering if she against Jake. It doesn't seem so, but it is addressed to my house. And then it's the dumb zone, Dan and Blake. Yeah. Oh.

Last time when she sent me the coin, I think she got upset that I didn't, like, thank her. I don't know. Anyway, it appears to be not only an octopus. Wow. What is this for? Well, I know what I'd do with it. Charcudery board? Yeah, probably.

That's my guess. I'd put some fish in there. I'd put blunts in it. Yeah, it's basically, I mean, yes, of course, as most people that email or send me things now, yeah, there are sardines. Wow, look at all the logo, the little cool designs on the sardine cases. And mackerel fillets she has here. But this is basically stuff for Blake's new barbecue. Oh, wow. Hell yes.

What did you get here? A little Weber grill, like a smock. Oh, please tell me that. What do you call the thing, not a smock? Keep going. It's called a smock in school. Keep going. Oh, and gloves.

It's the thing you wear like an apron. An apron. Okay, there you go. Now, what's the funny fron? on the apron. Let's see what that thing says. It has to be funny, right? Yeah.

It's a, I like. I like my butt rubbed and my pork pulled. There you go, bro. I can't wait to see you making it as you flip me a dog. Like, yanking it. You don't flip dogs. I got one from Stephen, and this has a couple images. He says, I'm hesitant to send this email.

Maybe it's been covered on the D.C. before. My wife bought me a pint of Ben and Jerry. and I felt like I was being punked. See attached. Yes. My wife bought me non-dairy Kaepernick ice cream. What? It's a Beninjeri's flavor called Change the World.

You can see that one. This one describes it, but that one, yeah, Change the World, and it's got a Kaepernick photo. W-H-I-R-E-D, World. Yeah, and it describes on the other image, just like all the, I don't even know, dude. That's incredibly lame. He said, as far as I can tell, this has been around for a few years. I feel like this could be the origin of DEI ice cream, and I just missed it. Got me thinking, do you have any Iran war submissions? Here are mine.

Oh, good. Love these. And I believe this is from our friend who lives over there. This is Iran War titled ice cream. Blueberry Blockade. The straight of smoor moose. Okay. He says these are a couple based on some banger Trump tweets. Open the fudge and straight. Okay. And a whole civilization will apple pie tonight?

Why did he tweet a whole civilization will die tonight? That's such a hard o. I got a couple anchor words from Patrick Fugge State. That's a good one. Mike Reiner used to say that a lot. after breaking bad yeah and there was a baseball player too right oh that's right a guy who was like holding a slipper

yeah in the clubhouse yeah yeah yeah was it a ranger might have been a ranger and then zach has one this one i could see it's tricky because it could apply to both words his anchor word is cannon fodder like yeah fodder Fodder. Fodder.

Yeah. I have another tricky one. Differ. You beg? I beg to differ. That from Chase. Adrian has a Blake conspiracy theory. Were you trying out for the Savannah bananas?

Oh, you caught me. Are your kids into that yet? No, they're not allowed. Okay, good. You won't show it to them? No. Last minute, viewer mail here from Alexa. Alexa Silver.

Hope she's going to be there Saturday Running low Yeah, she's the listener With a very porny name Who owns a pot shop In Oklahoma She says gummy thought

Everything has calories That's true Does water have calories? No That's her gummy thought And then she says Movie Trope And I have a bunch of movie tropes for you

Same getting knocked out with chloroform on a rag vintage. It's just that easy? It does seem pretty easy. Dick Tracy. As well as before, certainly before the 2000s,

but the one punch knockout used to be a very big thing. Yeah. Boy, the rag, though. How many times did young Dan think, well, this will be my way to finding a date? I was into the impression that if you walked into any busy city, half the people were just on the ground passed out from a rag that had been put in their face.

So easy. Movie trope from Derek, just the use of shotguns. They never lock them into the shoulder. They're just, like, holding it with two hands and they're able to control it. Yeah, firing from the hip. Yeah. Gun people must just go nuts. Brother, you're don't.

Yeah. Another one. Another one, I thought this one was really funny. How many action movies have a chase scene that goes through a kitchen and the employees don't react at all? That's a great one. That from Caleb Williams, aka the Iceman. John says,

Renegade cop punches boss in the face. He says that in point break, Nick Nulte punched John McGinley. In Mercury Rising, Bruce Willis punches his boss. Yeah. I'm sure these aren't the only two examples. just shake it off. And then he says, also, I have veneers.

Cost me 20K, 20 years ago. They are beautiful, totally worth it. Derek said his were 50. 50? But that's for the implants. He had... Oh, the full mouth? He had Israel implants.

He said, at that price, you have temps right out the door. No gummy time. He says, it's a big commitment. Veneers may be better if you've got a good base. but 30 years of snuff will take a toll. Wow, man. Yeah. He also said he had to talk the dentist down two shades from Uncle Baby Billy White.

Yeah. Like, Dennis like, come on, man. I don't know why the Dennis would sound like. Baby Billy, but. A couple of Blake things. Stephen says y'all are giving him shit for watching the WNBA, but he's not wrong to like it. He says

The WNBA has more literal G players. I think he means gay there, but the MNBA is more SG league. I started watching last year for Page. He was refreshing to find a basketball league where the players actually play like men. No flopping. No touch fouls or endless free throws.

The commercial breaks are short and infrequent. The product actually flows, gets on with the game in a way that makes up for the skill-level deficiency. Also, which league has a fashion show for their All-Star break? Is it the WNBA or the MNBA? Back when I used to watch the MNBA, it seemed like Luca was one of the only players who played like a real man. Yet he got criticism from all corners, got less MVP votes than SGA every single season.

Don't care what happened in that game seven. Oh, okay. Anyway, I'd rather watch WNBA assume me from Steve. Nice. I could see that. Those 40 minutes go by fast. I could see it. Ron C. says Blake had some fumbles.

Oh, of course. He says highest vagina finder. I'm listener, Day 11, DZ subscriber from St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest city in America. I've heard that. I heard it's amazing, too. They're doing a lot with it. Prove it.

Well, that it's old? Run the ball. guy fumbled multiple times. Instead of trading in his car with a friend, trading his car with a friend who has a truck for the day, and then return the truck with a full tank of gas, Blake, per his own

words, ignores his wife's suggestions to borrow a truck and get bungee cords, was not even close in judging the dimensions of his wife's SUV versus the TV he was going to purchase, made his wife sit in the back seat of her SUV with two kids and two car seats to hold a TV

that he bought for his dad. complained that she yapped about it the entire ride home, and then felt vindicated by saying, C, we made it. I was right. He said, I'm counting fumble similar to how Jake counts errors, run the ball guy fumbled at least seven times,

and then bragged about how many first downs he got after his team allegedly, quote, won. Classic dumb assery from the dumb zone, from Ron C. And I got another one I think that Blake can, chime in on because I think your wife is involved in this in a way. I could be wrong. But Stephen writes, Dear Period Penetrator,

I have been discussing with my wife for the past several weeks, a discussion that needs to be brought to the experts. We have friends in which the wife gets mad at the husband for watching porn, but she herself reads smutty novels. Unacceptable. As well as watching things like heated rivalry. Okay. Is the wife justified in saying that porn is different and worse than smutty literature?

Well, I mean... Which wife reads fairy smut? Oh, mine does. Yeah, but... Blake reads the fairy smut. Yeah. Like, so if your wife... Can your wife get mad at you for watching porn if she's reading smut?

I would say your relationship has... It's lady porn, right? Much... Guys are more visual. Wider issues. Don't we all buy... I'll say that when we... Visual learner, babe.

Need a piece of mentally porn. That's insane. But it sounds like you're in way too deep at this point. And the Frankles don't do divorce, so... You can call somebody. I got one for you. We were talking about Kingspa the other day, which I really want us to take a show trip to,

just so you guys can see. I think I'm good. Is this the one that Israel runs? Yeah, I don't have a passport. No, but it's the one that when I told Steve Noviello I went, he was like, that's gay. Yeah. But so if you've never been, it's awesome in that there are 20 different, like, sauna rooms

with different rocks and temperatures and they get massages and it's relaxing. But when you go in, they split you male-female, and the locker rooms are male-female, and there's an area, a huge area connected to each locker room, a male one, and a female one, that are just pools, like a grid of like, let's say a row of eight foot by four. So there's like 30 plus pools of just hot tubs and it's just full of dudes. They're all nude. John said he went with his wife about 10 years ago. On the way, I'll skip that part.

He said, we get there and it's pretty dead, maybe less than 10 cars in the parking lot. I get my robes, slippers, and locker key and head into the men's locker room. The first thing I see is two Asian men completely naked. He says, Gajians. I don't know what that. With one standing behind the other, combing his hair as they look in the mirror. I reflexively hit him with a sup, boys, and headed to my locker with a thousand-yard stare. My leader is Angelo pounding balls at the range.

Always pawn if it's fourth and six or worse and not the fourth quarter from Johnny. Combing another manse. That's good. Brotherhood. It's like very McPoyle. Like, I don't know. It's so gross, dude. I've got one from Beth.

Not drop Beth. I work in the TCU library and while strolling through our lobby, I was floored by the quote being featured on this enormous screen. Not a quote from an acclaimed author and esteemed scholar, but a piece of wisdom from one of our modern day philosophers, Travis Kelsey. The quote is, Achieving Dreams is not solely about the method,

but about the direction and routine one sets in life. That from a Kansas City Chief's tied end. This is how you know that Amelia Earhart was a dumbass, or anybody else that they like have given us quotes from, from 60, 70, 80 years ago, and you're like, well, they must have just been the small, smartest person around. They must have been going to them for quotes because of all the knowledge they had. No. A hundred years from now, people are going to think Travis Kelsey was like Aristotle

because his quotes are in a library. And there's also no way he said that. No. There's not like that. She says I fear for the future. All right now. This from Jonathan, I'd like to respectfully add the great Sidney Sweeney to the swine line. Hmm. Interesting. Interesting. She does kind of have a piggy type face. No, a piggy face. I thought that was good. Because being in the swine zone, it's not bad. No, it's not.

You can be unattractive. You can be hot. I can't hear the word piggy anymore without thinking of Trump. Did he call a reporter piggy or something? Quiet, piggy. Oh, he did? I have the things Dan is ruined. Like the word protein in hardwood. this listener says 2.30.

Anytime anyone says 2.30 for any reason, me and my wife say it didn't his favorite time of this? That one, I've been... This loves it and your kids are going to love it too. My kids, the soccer team, I've been open micing that thing all over the Metroplex and crushing with it. No apologies whatsoever. Here, let's listen to this. Quiet, piggy.

Oh. Sorry, I had to hear that. This one's really disgusting, so it can't be our ender. Okay? All right. Well, I don't have another one, so. Trigger warning. I have one more.

Legit. This comes to us from Travis, who did a little time in prison. He is our regular prison correspondent. He said, I'm listening to Mr. Luna, talking about playing with one's behole, and if it helps with an erection. and that that don't make you gay. When you get to prison, they shave your head, and then the major or gang officer takes you in individually,

asks your sexual orientation, and then tells you, in the event of a sexual assault, if during penetration you find yourself erect, that does not make you a homosexual. It's natural. Like someone that works at the prison is telling him that? Yeah, so that you don't have like a meltdown, like some sort of crisis.

Yeah. Yeah, look. You're going to be raped, but that's not even the focus here. The problem with it is you might think you're gay. We don't want you getting any ideas. So we want you just to understand that would be the worst thing ever. And that's not going to happen. But that's not the end of the email.

But you're going to get raped. There's more. The other day in one of our high-minded parlor-level discussions, we were talking about somebody getting a dumb zone logo, like, implanted on their dick somehow. Oh yeah, with the filler. Yeah, because Sarah Hepelah told us... Yeah, you have to put a thing on for like two weeks.

That young men are... Like in a castor. Right, they're juicing up their weeners with lip filler, basically, and then shaping it. And we thought, well, you know, could you just do a little DZ shape. Travis says, in prison, people will get designs carved into filed down dominoes or get a ball bearing from the padlock, put in their dick. One guy holds the dick, while another guy

takes a razor and cuts the skin on the top of the dick, inserts a pencil to hold the skin open, and then slides the domino or ball bearing in. All this while about 20 dudes are watching, weak need. One unit I was in, the officers found out people were getting

ball bearings inserted because someone's got infected. They came in and checked every person's dick, and if you had a fresh cut. They sent you to medical and made you squeeze the area like a Zit to pop it out. Have a good one. Thank you, Travis.

Travis. Thanks for that email. So I don't know if it's like a pleasure thing, but guys are opening up their self and inserting like a D piercing almost. I could have gone without knowing that. Yeah, forever. It's prison, man. I think it's a double five domino or does it matter?

You're the guy. Yeah. I guess I'll end with this. I don't think it's that much better, but dear Jake and possibly Blake. This ties into the summer event where we're giving away 69 piss bottles autographed by Jake. This from Rob Schindler. He says, my son was recently hired as a U.S. postal worker and has been sharing his experiences and tales from the streets. As summer approaches, they are encouraged to drink lots of water to stay hydrated.

which of course means many bathroom breaks making deliveries later and later. Most carriers resort to piss bottles to save valuable time. I was wondering if there are any particular piss bottle brands or types that you veteran mobile pissers would recommend to a piss bottle rookie. We kind of read this the other day, but only part of it, so it's okay. I don't know what the one we have is called. We've got multiple. We got the extendable one.

I don't, let me tell you something. It's a bad question, Rob. they're all the same, they're plastic. No, no, no, no. I have two different. No, they're definitely different. Yeah. That dick extender one, I'm not a, I'm not a fan of that.

It feels, I've never used a fleshlight. But I imagine, it feels too sexual. Then it is the one that extends out, like the medical grade. I know, but it's compact. It just, it does squeeze back down. It sits right there.

Like, do you know, like the accordion plastic? Like the br-br-br-br- Yeah. Sort of thing. It's fun. It's like what you use to give your dog water when you're on a walk. But you have to like put your junk in. I don't.

There are different ones. You just want the big plastic wide mouth jar. That's the go-to. Yeah. For sure. All right. Well, there's viewer mail. We've disgusted Dan.

The dumsa, dumsa. Oh, man. Those were fun times in the Big 12. When Missou was good. Kansas was good. You big fan there, Julie? I am. Aren't you Missouri?

Yeah, is that a lot of those. games when they were good. Really? Once upon a time. You weren't going there when he went there, were you? Who were you talking about? I was listening to Olaf. Tell me that it's okay to cry

about this coronavirus situation. But who were you talking about? Way to go, Dan. Who's Olaf? Josh Gad, the actor that plays Olaf on Frozen, he made this video and it just captivated me. I'm sorry. He's sitting here

on Twitter crying, telling everybody, that it's okay to cry and it's the same voice as Olaf. Who are you talking about, though? You're listening to The Dumb Zone. That old generic summer event. I know you've been staring at the countdown clock. Oh, I just exed out. It's just a couple days away.

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Red and blue makes purple That's your Nate sound effect You said you were talking to Nate And you're So you're I saw an article I had to tell you guys about It's in WHL

Monthly, also known as the Atlantic. Our good friend, Liz Brunig works. And, man, this is good. So, I think this probably was going to happen either way, but the Greg Abbott Spurs' wheelchair dunking photo, I think helped bring this about. Because the governor of New York is a lady, and her name is Kathy Hochel. She's a classic dem. Her wheels are off. his are on

no that's a good point I didn't mean that at all in that way but man we're just that genius she's very wheels off and she's set a whole bunch of wild stuff

this is not one of them but it was a bit of a faux pa she when somebody was like hey Trump you know he's a big Knicks fan because she's Trump's enemy whatever she's like oh yeah well I bet he couldn't name the 93

championship team well the Knicks haven't won a title since 73. They did win the Eastern Conference in 94, but they lost in the finals. To the Rockets, of course. Her office, when asked about this, her office, when asked about this,

said that she slipped up on purpose. She was baiting Trump into pretending the team won the finals, a classic 4D chess move. Love it. Love that claim. I don't believe. With that tact and width the Democrats are known for. Yeah, always. Always looking ahead.

Always playing the long game. So you remember when Trump won and, like, he got a lot of people he didn't get before. We started talking about the left's Joe Rogan. We got to get men with hard dicks who, like, tits back into the day. That whole bit, right? And it's been my whole life. A bunch of dudes who look like they drink milk that doesn't come from cows, run the party. and it's always it is what it is.

What's wrong with oatmeal? It's an identity problem. That's what I say, man. And that's the problem. That's why Trump has been, that's why the capitalists rule the world. Let's become a sardine party over here. Because you guys drink oatmeal and eat canned fish. That's the problem.

So this writer from the Atlantic has a solution. The solution is headline, Democrats must learn to talk sports. Okay. That's why they got Tim Walts or whatever, right? This is great. He likes football. Yeah.

In fact, it was a coach. It was a coach. He did a mean pick six. Yeah, we're going to. Remember that when AOC did a mean pick six on him when they were playing Madden? One of his staffers tried to tweet out for him. That was tough because he was an actual football coach. I listened to him on split zone and he knew bare fronts and whatever.

But then they played Madden with each other and his account tweeted. AOC did a pulled a mean, pulled a mean pick six on me. If you're going to lose to AOC on Madden, that's... Oh, no, don't beat me up, AOC. This is terrible. Anyways, this article is great. It gets into, you know,

hey, look, Stephen A. Smith is popular. Skip A.L.L.S. is popular. Their debates may be contrived, inconsequential, and moronic. Their arguments are made in bad faith. Yet an entire genre of kids, of sports podcast, make waves. with similar arguments. Here's the one that... It's going to highlight how funny inside the NBA is,

and then they're going to find out Charles Barkley was making fun of fat women in San Antonio. Yeah, like, oh, no, right? Cancel him. Here's a popping graph. The Senate candidate, James Talariko, doesn't need to run away from his meatless taco order. We never even got into that.

What? Yeah, he ordered potato egg and cheese, which is an extremely normal thing to do. You're saying, Not without adding another one with sausage and bacon. That's fine. I was picturing just cilantro and lettuce and tomato with it. No, he got potato egg and cheese.

And like because everybody from New York wants to cover Texas in California, they were like, this is a what this pussy? Is he a vegan? It's like, potato egg and cheese. That's a normal ass order. Anyways, it put him in extra beta cuck zone. So instead, they say, he could prove that he's a regular guy by calling into ESPN Austin to accuse the University of Texas quarterback Arch Manning of being a Nepo baby who got millions of dollars just for his name.

Yeah, that sounds like an awesome strategy. It sounds like a good strategy for James Talariko to call in and say, yeah, and call in and say that the most popular college athlete in the state is a piece of shit and actually not very good. and he should be benched. That's a great plan. Or perhaps he could compare Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys, imperious owner to Trump, an egotistical old man

destroying a once-proud institution. Ba-Bap-Bop-Bop-Bah-Bah-Bah-Burrne, Burt, motherfucker. Tell me you don't know ball without telling me you don't know ball. Jerry will never get up off the mat after that one. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania is one of the most popular Democratic governors. isn't any coincidence that last year he drew headlines complaining about the tush push and the attempts to ban it? I think not.

That's, oh, that's why he's popular. Yeah. Because he... Just a little ball with the bros. So what we're, though, telling people is not to be authentic, but to, you know, to find something that other people are into and then pretend that you're into that, too. Never. Maybe I'll call the country music station and say. say that I think Garth Brooks is better than...

Than... North Street? Then Gaines. What was his alter ego? Chris Gaines? Chris Gaines. Chris Gaines. Yeah.

Just a final note here. You'll notice there's not going to be any looking in the mirror here and wondering why exactly it is that if a, as a party, people who grew up playing sports and are into that think that you suck. There is no... There's no looking at. There's no reflection on why it is we're so unpopular with these people. It's more like, what if we could fake it some more?

Right. They'll believe this one then. Awesome. No. It's working well. But we're in great shape here as guys who talk sports. Oh, that's right. Yeah.

I have a sports politics story before we do the news. Not really a story. You ever heard this voice before? Hey, this is Jason Garrett. Yeah. Have you seen this? Oh, yeah. I've known Michelle Tofoya for over 25 years,

all the way back to her days at ESPN and certainly through her time at NBC. And as a former NFL player and coach... Okay, so anyway, he's endorsing Michelle Tofoya. Yeah. She's great. For what? She's running for something in Minnesota.

Oh. Yeah, she's running for Senate, didn't she? Sweet. She's running for Minnesota. Because people were eating dogs. in every way that she possibly can. That's why she's doing it. If you're a citizen of Minnesota, vote for Michelle Tofoya.

She's going to make your life a heck of a lot better. This sounds like a cameo from somebody he's never met. Vote for Michelle. In fact, is that how she got it? Did she send $15 to Jason Garrett? Look, Jim teleprompter. Yeah, no, that was very final two bullet points. Hey, it's Michelle Tofoya.

I've known her a long, long time. and she's going to make it better. And then she has a... Better for you. Then there's a montage of her with different NFL players. I don't know. She should call me, though. Oh.

God, I love Dan. Just goes into comms for... Mr. Floyd will not answer that. Oh, yeah. I could be the press guy, director. Frankl and Frankel, just a quick nod to them. They are our personal injury attorneys. They could be yours as well if you get hurt.

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Frankl and Frankl. Here's Jane with the Do you know-so News. All right. Let's navigate. Do you have the big story that everybody sent me? about a cop in New York The hand thing? No. Not the hand.

That's a good today in Twitter, though. The cop pulled over someone. I said, I saw you looking at your phone with your right hand, and she holds up her nub. She has half an arm. Have you seen that? Yeah. Okay, I'd be surprised if you haven't.

Feels like you're on nub Twitter. You're just very into Twitter. They get pretty creative. Blake is very into Twitter? Wait, who gets creative? Lays with nubs? Yeah. Ooh.

Anyway, No, what I'm looking for is it was like a cop. The microwave and the fish. Yeah, a cop pulled a gun on another cop because he was microwaving fish at the office. Oh. And the gun pulling cop got correctly suspended. Yeah. The guy microwaving fish is just a guy who loves health.

No. And he wants everybody else to know that he's healthy. And you could be too. No. What if we all just microwave fish? Let's normalize it, folks. But you think if you worked in a place where everyone had guns, you'd be pulling them on each other all the time? No.

I think that that would be the exact opposite. Everybody should be like, that's why the cold war didn't happen, Blake. Because everybody had the guns. Everybody had the nuke, so we just don't do it. You pull a gun, I got one, I'll kill you. Which is also why I would not. not microwave fish in a place where there were a lot of guns. It's an asshole move.

I have broccoli here today that I'm uncertain about. What do you think? Dude, everybody loves the smell of broccoli. Now, there are curly fries in it, as you know. That's how you eat your broccoli? Yeah. You have to throw in something fried? Every time.

I think the curleys will overpower it. We'll see what they think here at Fox 4 about that in just a little bit. Texas, and passing some laws here, Texas has mandated English-only CDL tests. Now, I know that this oftentimes gets coded as like anti-immigrants. What's CDL? Commercial driver's license. Truckers.

But, I don't know, does it make me a crazy nationalist that I think you should probably, no, you definitely should know how to read. write and speak English if you're going to be driving one of those cars or vehicles? Yeah, unless I'm willing to hear the case of somebody who says you don't need to. Well, you guys are racist. Oh, there's the case. It sounds like. I would just like to hear both sides.

Like, yeah, is it just... Now, sometimes when they institute these things, it is for racist reasons, but to get people to... Right? Like, if... Even the guy you talk to, I think. You talked to a politician who was like the anti-Sheria law, and he had kind of an explanation, but I feel like, well, you know what you're doing there. When you put that out there, you're firing people up to go vote, you know,

and it's not really about that. Yeah. Because we already, like, have laws, right? Yeah. Like, there's already laws on the books. Yeah. But to say, let's put this other law, you're just trying to suck people into that. But this doesn't seem to be a case of that.

You're not trying to get people out to vote. They would let you use an interpreter during testing, which seems insane. So they're just making a lot of structural changes to it that more strictly require exclusive English language testing. Yeah, do they always put the little picture that shows like if you have the way station, is there like a little arrow in the truck driving that way? I mean, I'm sure a lot of it is. You don't need the words, but what if something happens, dude? Those things are death machines. I'm fully okay with you having to, you know.

Until you take a cross-country trip, you never really think about how many trucks are on the road, dude. Until you take a cross-country trip, and then it's windy, and you're up, like. It's really incredible. Yeah. Thank God for MacGrim. I wonder what does people make. It depends.

And also they're getting squeezed, I've heard. Are you making $100,000? You can. You definitely can't. It depends on how far you drive. Yeah. It's very regulated now. But, you know, they've got stories on all of our local news channels about,

and I have buddies who work in this industry, too. It is what you think it is, dude. It's freaking, they're cutting corners where they can. And, you know, there's, well, there's supposed to be limits on, like, how much you can drive. Double log books, running backwards. roads. All sorts of stuff. Yeah.

Telling you, you know, basically you'll get fired if you don't finish this thing and this route. They're like, well, yeah, but this is going to put me into the illegal zone. Okay. Many may recall that this is actually how Mack lost Lightning on their way to California to meet up with Dynico. They were going to stop and Lightning said, come on, I'll stay up with you all night, Mack, and Mac fell asleep. Oh, wow.

Fell out of the back of the car. He was trying to impress the new sponsor. Ken and Angela Paxton's divorce trial, which we were going to go to in person and do some bits and have some fun. It has been canceled. Taking off the docket. They staying together? You can cancel a trial? Yeah.

Before episode one? Are you going to work it out? Yeah, what's going on? No. Counseling? I guess you can just decide that you've made enough progress toward, like, you? amicable resolution that there's no point in

going to trial. You don't have to go to, not everybody who gives divorce goes to trial. It kind of feels like settlement. It kind of feels like his wife bought the land at Valley View and was like, what now? Like she said, and I don't know this, but she and her attorneys are like, let's go to trial. How about that,

Ken Paxton? Let's put it on the docket. And then it takes his attorneys about two weeks to be like, how do we make this definitely, what do you want? Okay. The house the car. What do you need? It was just a transact, yeah, it was to make them do that, yeah.

You'd have to figure. It was a chess move. Yeah. A 4D chess move. A 4D chess move. Just like the, just like Katie Hokel. In East Texas, Kilgore, to be exact, which I believe has got to be what, the Rangers, because of the Rangersettes, they always come dance here.

They had a good Homer call once. A 34-year-old man there is in some hot water. Okay. Deputies respond to allegations of domestic violence. They show up. They find an injured domestic goat. Goat? Correct.

It gives the breed. You can have a domestic goat. I've looked into it. Yeah. It's... Apparently the right breed can be just like a dog. It's right on the edge of chickens and carbon monoxide. on Instagram.

It's like a dog, but then it eats your garbage and stuff? Some breed, yeah, I would love some help with the backyard. Women that wear... Oh, it just trims the yard? It'll, but it'll be dead. Does it know the height to stop at? No, it eats it all the way down. Oh, really?

Mine does it like Wrigley, like it cuts a... A little pattern. A little crosshatch. A little dumb zone logo? So they show up and there's a... There's a goat, and that goat has been shot in the neck. Ow. Now, this is my...

But it says from there, an investigation led deputies to finding a video of this man they arrested, firing multiple rounds from a handgun at the tethered domestic goat. He couldn't hit a goat that was leashed up. So what we have here, this guy tied up this family's goat, shot it a few times and sent them the video. So it wasn't even his goat? It's not even his goat. Was this a message we're sending to the family? Yes.

He shot the goat to terrorize the family. Text messages show he also made threats of injury and death to the family members. And he threatened to burn a house cat as well. Which is better than burning your house down, I guess. The goat have a name? No name. The man, Castro, had threatened to post nude family members of one member of the family. He was threatening this on social media.

Nude photos. Of someone that, like, I don't know, you know. I was going to say daughter, but who knows? They pulled this guy over later. They found him, and they pulled him over for DUI. And then we're like, hey, you're the goat shooter. I was having a rough day. Doing a lot, yeah.

It really, you, there's otherwise, is it illegal to shoot a goat? It's a goat, right? You're getting hit. That's livestock animal. Dude, that's what we're talking about with like clav shooting an alligator. Are you allowed to kill a cow? No. No.

Why? You can kill them and make burgers and stuff. No, man, because that's the thing is you've got, I know that the way we do it is not like necessarily humane to a lot of people. But there is a regulation in a way to do it. Imagine if you just anybody could kill their animal they owned at any time, there'd be. What's wrong with that? I just think they're. I mean, you can.

I can kill a fish, right? go ahead you can kill like if you have a cow you own it and you want to butcher it yes there is a way to do that but this guy is maliciously harming an animal now yes i do think yes if you're doing it to send a message to the family

but if i own my own cow it's on my land and i walk back there maybe i have the video camera set up and i just shoot it in the head is that all right i don't think it is i feel like you're going to get in trouble for that like there's a way there's got to be some sort of a stipulation on how to do it. Is there like a cavorkian of cows that you bring in to do it humanely? Definitely.

Right? Like a vet. Yeah. It just comes out and they put it down. Cow vorkian? Coworkian? Okay. We can get out of here on that.

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On a Thursday, we have... Hello, Fuhrer of the Fur Burger. My son was born on 6-1. Oh, wait, did we do this one? No, we didn't. In celebration of his entrance into the world, I'd like a name rating. So this guy's last name is English, if that matters. His name is actually English.

The last name. Okay. His son's name is Bennett Cruz. Damn. That's pretty tough. Qualifiers, I'm white. She is Latina. His name is Brant English.

Yeah, that's a phenomenal name. Oh, you like it? Yeah, it sounds, I mean, if his middle name was Cruz and the mom wasn't Latina, I would probably have submission. And that it's out there, you know. Little question yesterday when Benny left was, what's his name? His full name. Is it Bennett? Benson. Benson.

Because I knew they asked if it was Benjamin. And I was like, well, the roast twin was like, what's his name? You know? And I was like, I don't know, really. And this guy simply does not remember that there's an individual who scored 15 touchdowns in three state high school championship games. That's who it's named after? Rest in Power. Died on a motorcycle, didn't he?

With a girl. Not after the 80s sitcom about a, what is it, the black associate governor or something? I don't know. There was a show called Benson. Dear Daniconda, look it up. Requesting a shout out for. for myself who turns 4-0 today. I'm a day four or five subscribers because I need a few days to confirm

if I wanted to follow Reiner's favorite twink Blake on terrestrial radio or make the jump. Jake is my leader because he reminds me of all the fun, dangerous, and irresponsible lifestyle decisions that I made between 1999 and 2024. That's an era, bro. That's his leader, and his leader is Blake's general bombed out and depleted view of of life. Did y'all catch Loop Daddy on Apple TV's Friends and Neighbors this past season? Can't wait for the GSC, never punt from Brendan Berry. My wife's been asking what you think.

Of friends and neighbors? Yeah. Debe gay? What? Oh, what? What? Y'all are just saying that nonstop around your house now? What did you just say?

That big a day. That bit tough. Y'all aren't aware of the kid eating the pineapples? I thought you were doing minions Pineapple kid No That big toe That big guy

Oh yeah Oh yeah How are you How have y'all missed this trend Like white White America is apparently Over the last few days Discovered that in certain parts

Of certain cities There are entire Parallel food economies You remember when Donovan First introduced everybody The Candy House Do you remember that? No

Donovan told everybody like, hey, where I grew up in the hood, there was a house that we just went to to buy candy. It was the candy house. The lady just sold all of, like... At a house. At a house. Huh.

What you'll see a lot of times is in, at the bazaar or whatever, and let's not like I, I'm not from there. So I'm telling you what I know is a day tripper. You'll have guys selling shit out of their beds of their trucks, out of their flea markets and stuff, out of the... I remember hearing about the... Bootleg DVDs at Minyard. Minyards, don't do it again.

Well, no, that's, what's his name called it Minyards? Whoever told you all about that? Yeah, intern Evan, yeah. He said at Minyard. So you'll get like, uh, I'm not about to say it like him? You pass. You'll get, uh, you'll get like drink concoctions. You'll get different sorts of treats and wings.

Now, a lot of times the racists perhaps take on this is that these people are using EBT to like buy things and then sell them. To which I say Good grift. Entrepreneurship. That's what this country's about, right? Mm-hmm. But so the current one that is really taking off is that you soak like these syrup pineapple slices in Kool-Aid, in candy, and they put them in jars, like Mason jars. And it's just diabetes in a jar. But they're, they're, this has been. a thing, but now this white kid

in like Florida, they hand him one. And he just says, ah, that big guy. That bitch gas and that bitch tough are just... Takes a bite. That big guy. Oh, yeah.

Appreciate you. All right. I like the long explanation for what that is. I want you to walk in and tell your... They know. Or she's gone now. But yeah.

It's all right. I'll give her a ring. That bit tough. Oh yeah, that big air. Her mom dropped her off at the airport, and then I had to drive there half hour later to bring her the iPad that she forgot. Oh, no. In her room. Some things never changed, my man.

And that felt good, didn't it? The driver to, uh, to, uh, I didn't mind it. Uh, and then finally I have hi Dan, day three subby here. It is my Dirk plus Dennis Smith Jr. birthday. My wife did not wake me up in a special way, but she did threaten to kill me. when I woke up because of my snoring. Maybe Game Day has a peptide for that. More everyone.

Thanks. P.S. Tell Blake that if I'm a paying Patreon subscriber, I don't want to see the episode preview that you show to non-subscribers fix this shit rich from Russell Terman. I've been saying that for months. You know what he's saying? It's just laziness. No, I have no clue.

The episode preview in Patreon? Yeah, you're going to get the... He said, you see the preview like it's saying, hey, if you're a subscriber, I don't know what it's saying. I just read the thing. And I support Russell Turman. Those are for people who are not subscribed that come to our channel and want to listen to just a little preview of it.

I don't email you about it and it doesn't show up in your podcast feed. Why don't you chill out a little bit? He says it does. Did it this week? It might have this week. Okay, I wasn't here. Russell. Ooh.

Now, wouldn't Russell's comeback, but you should train your replacement to do it to me? Yeah, I will write down every single step of everything I do here. This is the 20-year anniversary of Fight Night. Jake versus Mike and Duncanville, if we can get me on the card this year. 20? You really? 10, excuse me.

Yeah. 10-year anniversary. Damn. It feels like 20. Is it our, did we do a foul? up by not mentioning the guy that ran on the court during the game. I was surprised the TV stuck

with it for so long. For the selfie? Yeah. I just saw the selfie for the first time. I saw the... Oh, is that real? Oh, I haven't seen the selfie. Does it have like... Yeah, it's in a video, so I think it kind of is. The plane flying into the two towers behind them. And Jonah Heim committing error after air, after air. No, I mean, it's, he's,

Wimby's there. He's... Okay. I guess the guy's a streamer. Oh, yeah. That's ruining running onto fields, right? I don't think you should be able to run out there

with your pants on. Is that ruining, though? Like, it used to be done for the love of the game. Right. I suppose you could say that if you're recording your prank phone calls too. That's the same thing, right? That's for clicks now.

That's not pure. Yeah. Let's do this. Fairlease.org presents on this day in history. Let's talk about fairlease.org. I know a guy who just got a vehicle delivered to him. We will have to go recreate that so we can put a social media video out for our football player friend, getting a fairlease.org vehicle delivered right to them.

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It's Thursday, June 4th on this day in 1937 It was the introduction of the first ever shopping carts It was Oklahoma City Where local inventor Silvan Goldman built a shopping cart by attaching baskets to small chairs. It was the Humpty Dumpty Supermarket. 1937. Now, this day in 1969, two men trying to flee Cuba.

People would flee Cuba, right? So there was a plane heading to Spain. Two men snuck into the wheel pod like they climbed up. there. One of the guys died, and one made it. Break a few eggs. And I guess because of the hypothermia, extremely low temperatures, like once they landed, somehow he managed to stay in there, but once they landed, like his body kind of fell out because he was unconscious. The other guy fell out, but it was like up in the air. And so, yeah, they just had to get a little shovel and a broom and all that.

But for this other guy, they had to, like, pick him up and take him to the hospital, and then he was good. Good to go. Then he was in Spain. I hope they just gave him, let him live there. I bet they did. Oh, this is the day in 1974. It's the legendary Rangers versus Indians game at Cleveland Stadium. It was 10-cent beer night.

And do you remember we had a full story on this before, but it actually like stemmed from an incident the week prior. So tempers were already ready to, there was like going to be a brawl in this series no matter what. And it just so happened that on this particular night, it was 10-cent beer night. The Indians were down, but came back in the bottom of the night,

tied the score five to five, and I mean, every, it was just hammered and start throwing everything and going nuts, and they ended up just forfeiting the game. because that has to be the Major League Baseball's last forfeit. I just haven't heard of a forfeit. Did Tom Greve have like three home runs that night? Yes, something wiped off of the – maybe it was two.

Yeah. But for a guy who has like 10 career home runs, he had two home runs. And then, yes, if you end up forfeiting, you win the game officially 9-0, but none of the stats in the game count. So nothing that anybody did in the game counts. but it's listed as a 9-0-0 win. The Lenny Randall Bunt started it? I think the week before, right?

Yep. So he had bunted... The most perfect bun. The pitcher went to field it, and Randall bowled him over because of, like, an inside pitch or something. So, like, that's, boy, that's where men were men, right? Democrats were all greasy-handed back then, right?

Much more. They weren't... Now you just touch your head if you don't agree with the umpire's call. All right, I got a quick. quick update on the forfeit, not to invalidate your story. Go ahead. It's not 10-cent beer night. That's a great story.

But in 1995, there's been a more recent forfeit. The Dodgers forfeited to the Cardinals at Dodger Stadium. It was a baseball giveaway night, and fans started throwing souvenir baseballs onto the field, and after repeated delays and warnings, the umpires declared a forfeit, with the official score being 9-0 Cardinals. 1995? Yeah. That's the last Major League Baseball forfeit?

Yes. And they were like, let's stop giving away the balls. It references... They must not do that anymore. It references 10-cent beer night in here. And then disco demolition night. I don't know if they had a forfeit or not, but... Yeah, that did affect game two of a double-header, as I recall.

Oh, wow. This was at the height of Nomo Mania. which I was extremely swept up in. As was I. Dude. He was in the ballpark. All-Star game. On this day in 1997, it says here,

Cowboys star wide receiver Michael Irvin announced he will put his NFL career on hold until he can find a reason to continue playing. How did Jake take that? I mean, you know. He said he was worn out and lost the emotional spark to play. Yeah, you knew it was over. He later retracted the statement and returned to the game.

He felt like it was over after the trials to me. But he's just... Michael Irvin's also a quick... I'll bet he said a lot of stuff that doesn't end up happening. Like, he's a very emotional, like, I'm going to... I'm out, I'm quitting. I can't come back to the game. Then a couple weeks later.

Right? For sure. And we have June 4th this day in Dumb Zone history. Back in 2024, we had a 690 sit-in, and it was just a guy named Matt Grimm. Wow. On this day. Yeah, his first sit-in. It must be, his birthday must be near here because I think we're doing a show at his house tomorrow.

You've context clues. I've figured this out. Awesome. That's that fish. Yeah, dude, you're vibing. Brain. Buzin. I guess Dan had just been getting mad at the gym.

Jim on this day in 2024. Dan mad at lady at gym for walking down the stairs the wrong way. Dan mad at people at gym for not spacing out on bikes properly. Dan mad at younger people at the gym. Yeah. Those are all valid, though. I'm not as certain about the stairs thing.

Well, you know, you're going up the right and then someone else all of a sudden comes around the corner, but she's going down there, but there's a pole in the middle. I did that to a guy the other night. It's like, hey, what if you just went down the way, you know, traffic and everything we've done our whole lives is. Bike spacing. What if she was British, though? She might have been British.

Bike spacing is an auto. That's a good question, though. Do they all walk up and downstairs like they do on the... Or on the street? On the street, yeah. Like if they're in the mall, do you kind of... Do you ever walk around the mall, but you kind of hug the right? Yeah, it's natural.

I don't know if this is a W.H.L. in retrospect, but this was the, I guess the day after Pat McAfee called Caitlin Clark, a white bitch. I remember when everyone got up in arms about this? I don't remember him saying that. In it, but... It wasn't... It wasn't derogatory.

It was like, oh, now, because some... Yeah. Okay. And then the dumb zone question of the day of this day was, would you get molested to be Justin Bieber? The classic... You have to define molested, too. Fausty.

There's a couple things there. A couple levels, you would think. He woke up in bed with Pete, did he? This guy with a domino and his dick has a run at you. Justin Bieber definitely got assaulted, man. You can see it. It sucks. The pain in his eyes.

For real, dude, he's not even that coy about it anymore. He's kind of like, yeah, I hope what doesn't happen to me, happen to them. He's had a pretty awesome life. Dude, I don't think so. I honestly don't think you would trade. I would trade. Man, I don't know, man. There's a sweet spot.

Like, there's a sweet spot of like... Would you trade for just a 70% chance that you'd become? Okay. There's 100% chance that you're getting the P. Diddy lube. Dude, I'm talking this guy was like at the age of 12 or 13. You like good odds. I don't think you're, I mean... Get it out of the way early.

And then you get the whole rest of your life. I think it would be worse if you got molested late. To cry in the shower. Would it be worse to get molested now than if you were 12? I would rather take it at 12. Because 12, you just don't know how that's going to affect. Can you molest an adult? What are we talking about?

Yeah, of course. What do you mean? sexually assault? But you don't ever hear the word molest, do you? No. So it must just be a, like you... Yeah, what does molest mean? I don't think it means minor at all, but we only use it in that way.

You never are like, oh, Donald Trump was molesting... Yeah, Mike Tariko was molesting that girl. Right. So you're getting F'd by P. Did he here? A lot of money. Dude, I think you're going to be crying in the shower every time. Sorry. That it?

Let's make a phone call. We have today's birthdays, and we have our dumb zone birthday of the day. We're going to give them a call. So we're firing up the phone. How many numbers? What do you mean? I'm trying to buy you time. Is that too many numbers, you guys think?

Julie Dobbs, please. This is she. Who's calling? We're calling to wish you a happy birthday You've got a crowd there We of course remember your birthday last year Because we couldn't I don't know if you've ever remembered my birthday

We couldn't reach you for a month I absolutely remembered your birthday Because I wanted you to be at our DZGSE And you were like oh no it's my birthday And I'm like oh well I guess it's her birthday Then it wasn't even her birthday It was like her birthday week Yeah it was my 40th birthday weekend

Like you had the whole week though, we just wanted you for a few hours. I know. I'll be there this weekend. Okay. My 41st birthday is not as exciting. No? I'm available. It's your Dirk birthday. This is a better one. It's what?

Your Dirk birthday. Oh, I know. That's what I've been saying to people, and then they just look at me confused. I was thinking about inviting him to my pickleball party tonight. Is that what you're doing for your birthday, a little pickleball? A little pickleball action. Is that what Kelly's calling it now? No. No, he wishes.

It's the real pickleball. Yeah, did you get woken up in that special way? No, no, no. He got me coffee. Okay. Is that what Kelly's calling it now? Here's coffee. I love it.

Men in their fantasies. Yeah, speaking of that, when's your girl's trip coming up? Or did that already happen? That already happened. Yeah, that's our favorite Julie Fantasy when she goes to Vegas with the girls. Yeah, we went to Arizona. Y'all didn't call me, though, like you have in the past. I feel like those come around about as often as WNBA drafts, though.

She does go off. I feel like Julie has a great life of partying with her friends. Can you name... Life is good. Can you name anyone else that's famous that has you share a birthday with that you remember from years past? As I'm doing birthday list right now. Oh. Let's go.

How many can you get right? Yeah, there's somebody, like Angelina Jolie maybe? That is correct. Angelina Jolie is 51. I think Brad Pitt hit her once. Oh, he hit that a lot, dude. He was married to her. Yeah.

Even she gets old, apparently. What about a famous Dallas star? that has my birthday it's gonna be like Lundquist or something no no it's a big name like if this person had a birthday on my birthday

and I didn't remember it I would probably be exposed as a poser who actually didn't really like the stars at all and maybe you've figured me out Darian Hatcher is 54 wow

oh yeah he's kind of an old though oh okay I guess flags don't fly forever. 38 years old, Taylor Fadoon. Wow, that's more what I thought we were going to get. Well, if I was a Stars on Ice reporter for years, I would absolutely know Taylor Fadun's birthday. No, you wouldn't.

There's a reason I didn't last very long. Maybe it's because I didn't know Taylor Fadun's birthday. Terrence Steele is 29. Right. Hollywood Brown is 29. Let's see if you know any of these people. Aaron Nola is 33. Do you know who that is?

No. Pitcher. He's today's war games winner. Edging out Darren Erstad. He has the most war for anybody who's born on this day in Major League Baseball history. Cool. And Aaron Nola's name sounds like Areola. Do you think he knows?

I'm just trying to say it so you'll remember next year. Yeah. I wonder if he knows that. You think like little kids ever teased him? As a kid, I didn't know what I... I don't think little kids know that word. Yeah, I never heard the word ariola until Tom Gribble. Really?

Who sang a famous song about his... That was a big player for me. The ariola? Yeah. Because it was in all the books, you know? It sounds fun. A Riole. It sounds like a flower.

Katie Smith is 52. She is a WNBA Hall of Famer. She was an Ohio State legend. Take a look at her, yeah, 13 points a game. I mean, how can you not put her in? A few or minutes. Quetz her per 48. T.J. Miller is 45.

Been on the show. You were at a pinball festival. Canceled and kind of back, I guess. I don't know. Actor Keith David is 70. He is the president in Rick and Morty, and he was also in Requiem for a Dream. Oh, God, dude.

You should watch Requiem for a Dream tonight, Julie, with the kids. Is that, like, about drugs and stuff? Yeah. There's a little drugs mixed in there, sure. But it's just more about relationships. Keith David is a guy who's setting up the ass-to-ass thing. Oh, he is? They're all cheering.

Back to T.J. Miller. Didn't Austin have a burger with him? Somebody did. No, wasn't it? Lana and Daniel? I think so. They ended up meeting him and hanging out with him, yeah. But didn't we introduce him to Quincy?

You did. Yeah, we called Quincy. I thought we had Austin, we, Austin picked him up, and then after the show. Austin, who? Hang zone Austin? Yeah. Oh, really? Austin guttery?

Yeah, and then on the way back, T.J. Miller was hungry, and so they stopped and had a burger together. I wouldn't doubt it. He seemed like that kind of guy. Yeah, I went to his show that weekend. He was awesome. To my knowledge, he didn't try to rape Austin even once. Nope. Actress Lindsay Frost is 64. Let me see who that. I don't know who that is, but I did see a note that made me mention her. It says here, mother of Lucas Gialito.

Picture. And she's an actress. Rob Hebel, Hewbel, is 57. I find him funny. Yeah, he's great. What's Ian? He used to be, no. Children's Hospital, for sure, but human giant, too.

Oh, yeah. Russell Brand is 51. Theo Rossi is 51. He's juice on sons of 8. Anarchy? I find the verse here. Oh, Julie, Jeremy Bieber is 50. Almost got it.

Jeremy Bieber? That is Justin's dad. We were just having a discussion. Oh. About what? That makes me feel old. That Justin Bieber's dad is 50? Yes.

Like, I'm closer in age to Justin Bieber's dad than Justin Bieber. In my mind, I'm not. I'm closer in age to Justin Bieber. Blake says that he thinks in order to become Justin Bieber, he would accept being molested at the age of 11. It's a lot of money, Julie. I'm saying I would rather be me or Blake right now than Justin Bieber. I think you're insane.

Would you have a good life? I just don't think, man. If you knew, okay, you can pick which one, but one of your boys, they say, hey, I can make him the next Justin Bieber. Damn, now he's making it extra real. That's really gross. But here's Diggins who he'll be staying with tonight. I can't believe you would bring that up.

This is a bad bit. There's plenty of other people who have a lot of money and have awesome lives who didn't get raped by Diddy. It almost starts to seem like you just want this. Like, why don't you say? Yeah, but I'm not in that camp, so I would rather do, I'd rather be molested. That's true. Anyway, and then our Dumbzone birthday of the day, Julie Dobbs, everybody. Yay.

Yay. Sales at dumbzone.com. Thanks, guys. Who's out playing pickleball? Yeah, hit me up. So you're doing pickleball tonight, a Thursday night pickleball. Yeah. That's right.

And then we can see you at the Dumzone, the DZGSE on Saturday night? Yeah. Can't wait. Quite a weekend. It's going to be a party. It can basically be my birthday party, right? We can make it your birthday party, sure. We need some content.

Okay, I'm so kind to throw a big party for me. Jake, at the beginning of the show, killed a bit. We were planning on being like 20 minutes of the show. So we need like 20 minutes of content. Can you do something for us? I'll do some tricks. I'll tell some jokes. All right.

Settled. We'll take that. Actually, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You've already said it. $100 a month. I don't have 20 minutes worth of jokes. Let's get a shot. It goes by faster than you think.

Okay. Yeah, that's true. All right, we say happy birthday and goodbye to you, Julie Dobbs. The great Julie Dobbs. We love Julie, folks. Okay. We love Julie. Everybody loves Julie.

We love you. Okay. Bye. All right, you hang up first. Okay, I'll hang up first. Bye. That big, yeah. She didn't know what that is.

I bet you there's a 100% chance that writer is walking around his house today. That's hot. Oh, yeah, that bit tall. Born on this day now dead. Dr. Ruth. Sex therapist. You're aware of her, right?

Oh, yeah. I would imagine you are not. I can't remember I used to watch her show late at night or not. Oh, okay. I didn't know she had a TV show. I remember her on the radio. I watched some old lady talk about sex late at night. It has to be her, right?

How many? There's an opening there, by the way. Old lady who wants to talk. We need a 75 to 80-year-old lady right now who wants to jump in and be the next Dr. Ruth. Because that's the hook, right? Anybody can talk sex. But if it's an old lady and if she has an accent, that would be good. I don't remember that.

You want to take his penis. I remember. She looked like the least sexual human being of all time. You want to put a ball bearing in it. Right. If you can fit another penis. The only thing I remember about that show was she used to take calls and people would give her their sex problems. Yeah.

This one Mexican guy called and he said, how do I get my girl to stop queefing? You seem like pretty upset. It's like, well, every time I'm disgusted by, I want this to stop happening. And she was just so condescending about it. You are forcing air into there. It's natural.

It's your fault. And he's like, yeah, but it's gross. Right. And that was the impasse. And she was like, it's your fault. And he's like, well, I don't like it. Yeah, you call Bubba. Also born on the stay now dead, Robert Earl Hughes, the heaviest known human.

He's the guy in the Guinness, 1,071 pounds. And born on the stay now dead, Clayton, guerrilla monsoon, says here, professional wrestler. That's why they call it gorilla position. Hmm. Dead on this day, still dead, Mildred Hill. She wrote, happy birthday to you. Very niche drop we have there. It worked, but somehow twice today.

The show I watched was Talk Sex with Sue. Very similar. Sue Johanson. Was she an old? Yeah. The oldest person I've ever seen. For pedestrians, there isn't one universal rule like there is for cars. On sidewalks, people often loosely drift left, especially in stations, escalators, or queues, lines.

When walking on a road with no sidewalk, UK guidance generally says pedestrians should walk facing oncoming traffic, which means walking on the right-hand side of the road. That's the way we do it, too. When I neighborhood walk, I walk facing, because you don't. Right. Yeah. You want to be able to step out of the way of that car when it doesn't see you. So it sounds like they kind of just figure it out. Also dead on this day, still dead.

Ann Cook, she was the original Gerber baby. The little baby. I wonder what she got paid for that. Weston Bieber. Yep. And died on this day, Dwight Clark. Ooh. Of the catch.

And of another one of the incompetent Cleveland Browns GMs. Yeah. Didn't know that so much later in life. Like right when the Browns came back. Somehow they got Dwight Clark. I love this guy. I was like, yeah. And yeah, he didn't have much.

Anyway, does chat have anything for the end of the show? Or are we just going to head off and do our thing? Well, tomorrow we will be joined by an appendixless Mike Soroy. Oh, nice. For a pre-party for the GSC at Matt Grimm's house. That'll be fun. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a surprise. It was supposed to be last year

But it got exposed Oh, I might have blown the surprise Or me I don't know Like how was it going to be a surprise If we show up and I purposely not said anything to him Because I didn't know if the trucker set it up for him

Oh like she would be driving him around And then they show up at home and we're there And I ruined the surprise I think I ruined it because I showed up Three hours before to set up on you. Should we even do the GSE? We may have to cancel it.

Adios, mofo. We've got to go before this becomes a zoo. See you guys for drinks later. Thank you for watching my video. Subscribe and type for my name if you want to watch more.