The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 7-29-25 PREVIEW | Schotty mic'd up and Jared Sandler on Rowdy Tellez vs. Joc Pederson

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

Subscribe to the show to hear the full episode! DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneWe step into a Dan fights with his wife, followed by we get to hear how Schotty is around the Boys, and Jared Sandler helps with our Doug Davis, Kris Benson confusion ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey now! What you are about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full, along with the full archive... Ah, shit. If you would like to hear this program in full, with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at DumbZone.com. Had a fight with my wife last night. Oh. Yes. Had a fight with my wife last night. Oh. Yes. It's very quick.

And in retrospect, it's probably, they're all probably my fault, as I look at the play. No, I don't think that's right. I think the way to look at it is like, magnanimous, Christ-like and king-like. It's mostly her fault, but it's on you to keep it from becoming a problem. You're the man. You are a problem. You're the man.

You are the upper. So they typically are causing the problem, but it's on you not to be drawn into that. Thank you. There you go. So she's food prepping for herself now. Nice. We all, you know, I do the salmon and everything for me,

which these guys are excited to see before the show. That was so cool. That I was eating salmon and broccoli and rice. It was like getting to watch Judge take BP. It was. It was like before the game, this is what we do. So she's been watching that for years and thinking, you know what? Maybe she should do it. So she food prepped some kind of stew thing. I don't know, it looks disgusting. But the point is she's doling it out into the five or six containers.

Glass? They were plastic. Okay. She's just going plastic. And she's doling it out and then we have these lids. It's like a little GLAD container. It's like Tupperware, like Earl Tupper. Remember Earl Tupper from yesterday? The great Earl Tupper. Yeah, but it's like a little glad to contain. It's like Tupperware like Earl Tupper remember Earl Tupper from yesterday.

The great Earl Tupper. Yeah, but it's it's glad whatever so And she has the lit the containers there, and then the lids are stacked there but then she pulls out the Saran Wrap and she puts Saran Wrap over each one and Then the lid and I'm like What are you doing? It wasn't like she was storing fish Or anything that could really go bad. It was all vegetables And I'm like, what are you doing? It wasn't like she was storing fish or anything that could really go bad.

It was all vegetables. And I'm like, she goes, well, this will help me. I read that this helps keep things fresh longer. And I said, OK, so are you not going to use the saran wrap for like tomorrow's and the next? Like you don't need. She's like, why are you like this? like this wait wait wait no no so she why didn't she wrap she only wrapped one of them no she put Saran Wrap on every one

of she had like six of them okay six containers so here's the stew is in each plastic container she puts Saran Wrap over the top of each one and then she puts the plastic lid yeah seal it on top and she says that Saran Wrap keeps it fresh longer and then I was arguing with like well so don't put it on tomorrow's because you don't need that one to be fresh longer you're gonna eat that tomorrow and then she was a she just got annoyed you know it was like I said yeah it would be tough to live with you low low why I'm just pointing it out like and she also likes to be thrifty, so I could have saved a day or two of Saran Wrap.

You know what Saran Wrap costs these days? It's Jesus Christ, yeah, the EU tariffs. Isn't it funny how that, whether it's Trump or whoever, just when you start complaining about something, it's always some specific thing that you didn't know about, like, whoa, eggs, really? And then you go to the store, yeah, I guess. thing that you didn't know about. Whoa, eggs, really? And then you go to the store? Yeah, I guess.

Holy shit. Look at these eggs. Yeah. Before you went out and had them. I feel like Saran Wrap is just as random that you could just throw that out there and go, yeah, yeah. The tariff. I respect her.

I think I would have a hard time with your existence on the home front. I asked my wife, typically our relationship is just me going, well what can we do about it? If there's not an answer, then it's just a constant stream of like, God I hate the dog. I hate the dog. I hate the fucking dog. You or her? Her. Because the dog's eating the kids food, it's knocking people over, it's got diarrhea, it's whatever. And I'm like, well. The cyst. Publicly, it's gonna look tough if I kill it. So we need to figure out a way for you to be happy

because it's every day. So is this before we went woke? Would you have just driven it out to the country and just let it go? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Blindfolded. So one of the stories I hear at the Domino game is how old men used to treat dogs.

And I don't want to go back to that, by the way. But here's my thing, is like, my grandpa is one of the greatest moral human beings I've ever known. Yet, when a dog just showed any signs of getting sick, he would beat it with a baseball bat. Ha ha! And that was just socially, I guess, acceptable, or just what they did. just like it's one thing to not treat it But why would you he would say like this dog got distemper whatever the hell that is

Yeah, beat it out of him and took it out beat it with a baseball bat and kill it and then just go okay If the purpose is to kill it I understand like you didn't shoot it or whatever But that's you're like a pleasure. He's Yeah, beat the shit out of the dog until it died. That's not something that was okay That's not something that I'm capable and I'm not either but I like He probably never thinks about it. It's not something that weighs on him But if I killed a dog, that would be all I thought about but to him, it's just what he had to do He took care of business. Man, built different. Yeah, I guess.

Yeah. Ha ha ha. Dogs got to stemper. You got to put them down. Well, we're not going to do that. I want to be clear. We just kind of complain about it. That's fine, too, babe.

How the dog slides in the power rankings as soon as the kids come is amazing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's the pre-kid. The dog is your kid. And then the kid comes, and yeah, that's why you got to watch getting one of them big dogs, because

that can be a little rough with your little kid. Yeah, mine's not, but... And your kid's putting its finger in its butt. That does happen. That did happen. So, Cowboys. That could be sports today, and then Jared's gonna join us in like 10 minutes or so.

Maybe less, knowing him. He's punctual. You got anything? I know he does. He started to open your mouth. Yeah. Like, I like it. So, I can't imagine,

like the way the Cowboys have handled Brian Schottenheimer is completely different than how they handled Mike McCarthy. And I think that, and I think we were talking off the air, but just the way that they are uplifting him and saying like, Shottie's our guy. Shottie is the man.

And we're gonna do all of these videos and just prop him up to make it not seem like this is a under the table hire or something. It's clear that they know they have a PR job to do. It's very clear that they didn't with McCarthy. He won a Super Bowl in Arlington. But with this one, even the guys, you feel Dak knows this is looked at as weird.

So Dak is doing the I mean he's been around for years I'm with him every day whereas if you had asked him a couple years ago he's like I see the guy you know but Mike McCarthy so they're hyping him up and now they've they did sounds of the sideline for just coach shoddy right which my first thought is, did they approach Mike McCarthy to do this, and how would he have responded? Oh, okay, they would know not to approach him, and if he did, he would say no.

Or it wouldn't be interesting content. Like, McCarthy's there to coach football. And is there any chance Shottie is saying no to any requests from the front office? Yeah, Jerry could ask him to, I mean, get set us up. He might have already done that. He might have already done it. He might have already done it.

So you probably have a pretty good idea of how this is going to sound. Like a guy with a backwards visor on who's coaching an NFL team. He's miked up at a training camp practice. Yeah, like they do. So it's the same thing they do for the games when they win. And it's like, look at the players' personalities. And it's usually Micah and Osa.

And now it's like, whoa, I mean, Shottie's, he's just as exciting as them. We'll do a Sounds of the Sideline of him saying, well, it's good. So you're, I mean, Shottie's your guy, right? So you're going to love this. I do love it. I'm fired up now.

Let's see if I can get more fired up. OK. Let's go, baby. Let's go. Let's go. Right, so you're gonna love this. I do love I'm fired up now. See if I can get more fired up. Okay Let's go He calls shoes kicks don't say sweet nice your own players nice, how do you do fellow homies Yells a lot. Let's have a day baby, let's have a day! Sweet kicks baby. Those are some sweet kicks. Hey, who is Junior in Mario Brothers?

All right, so he is approaching George Pickens and CDLam, who, you're gonna have to fill me in, do they wanna go by the Mario Brothers? Yeah, I think so. I think they're doing a Super Mario Brothers thing. I don't know if the celebration fits in with that, no, but that's a dynamite celly, though. Yeah, it's cool.

They got the grenade, because I think you can get away with a grenade for now. Somehow. But it's badass. But I think what you're getting at here is it's the Super Mario Brothers who have names, right? Yeah Mario and Luigi, but I don't I guess I just don't know what he means by this, but do you think him approaching CD and George Pickens and saying hey can I get in on your little... No, I tell you what this is. We used

to complain about this all the time. Everyone knows Bob-On is hilarious. What's not funny is when you sit down with Bobon and go, what's it like to be so funny? It's lame. That's what Shottie's doing. Like, what's it like to be so cool and have celebrations like you guys? And kicks. Yeah.

Hey, who is Junior in Mario Brothers? What little character, we need a little minion character for Junior. You know what I'm saying? Is this for Jalen? I don't know, and I don't think we're supposed to know, because I don't think what he said made any sense. And if you have to punctuate with what you're saying with,

do you know what I'm saying? Not good motivation. Not good motivation. Hey, what about Junior and Mario Brothers? What a little character. We need a little Minion character for Junior. So, is the thing that he knows they're doing a Mario Brothers bit but he doesn't know anything about like Mario Kart or is he thinking of but he's

aware they're like isn't there like a little mushroom peach and yeah there's a little toad yeah I've never heard of a junior was Junior. He has seen there's different characters, and he knows there's a tiny one on the bike. So he's like, oh, that's Junior. How about you just admit? How does he not know Mario Brothers canon? Just admit that you don't know the bit, and don't try to get involved.

Or don't, yeah, just don't say anything about that. Let me tell you what he reminds me of. That's what McCarthy would just be like. They got their own thing going on. I don't have this clip at the ready But he reminds me of you guys know when Mark Zuckerberg got he's really into like MMA And he paid to be a part of like a ring crew And he was standing in between like two yoke guys and they're handing stuff down and he's just kind of in the middle Also handing it down

Like the real guys are doing the work and then he just puts his hands on everything as they move through. That's what it feels like Shotty is doing to me. Especially when he's talking to CD Lamb and George Pickens. But listen, there's a slight pause and then a do you know what I'm saying. We need a little minion character for Junior. You know what I'm saying?

Hey, Double G. Is this a good nickname? Hey, Double G. Double G? I'm saying Is this a good nickname a double G Double G. It's nice. No one on the team. It's just our hydration guy, but what's up double G a double G? Hey, make sure we're pushing fluids with these guys That's not a backflip that doesn't count I'm pulling for the defense! Is that Joe Milton? I'm pulling for the defense! In the cage, y'all! Oh, oh, oh, sh**, baby! Woo hoo hoo hoo!

What'd you do, lose your chain? A lot of yelling, that's why I left it in there. Now, we've established that he doesn't know anything about Mario Brothers, can't really talk well to CD and George Pickens. Now he approaches Sam Williams, who lost a tooth the day before at training camp practice that was diamond, like it was diamond filled. It fell out and he couldn't get it back in.

But what I'm trying to paint is Brian Schottenheimer is talking to a guy that just lost a diamond encrusted tooth. Okay, there's a contrast here. Or is there? What did you do, lose your chain? I thought you hurt your finger cause you were like this.

I was like, this one. Ah! Woo hoo! It went nowhere but I thought you hurt your finger cause you were messing with your fingers a lot. Ah! Woo hoo hoo! Woo!

Sh**! That was a dime. That was a dime. That was a dime. That was a dime. That was a dime. There he sounded like Robert Depp Jr. in Tropic Thunder. God damn. That is very... So then he has to break down the team.

Great job, best D in the world baby. Let's go! Best in the world! There it is! Talk to the fans Joe, they love you! Talk to the fans! Hey I'm fired up! When it's a good day like that, and you guys compete I ain't got much **** to say.

Malik Hooker! Get us out of here, dawg! Get us out! Get us out of here, dawg! I'm in. I'm not. I was watching Votch Lombardi's YouTube page because he's at a camp and doing like little camp reports. And the first or second day, he said, and I've only been to Cowboys camp, other than like, Tulane camp, but he said that it was very clear that people on staff,

or people brought onto the staff, were being instructed during practices to run around like crazy. So like if, Trayvon, or it wouldn't be Trayvon, Kaylin Carson, somebody gets a pick and they're like running down the sidelines, there's three guys, like 20-somethings, early 30s. They've been told, do that.

Like young coaches, the visor bros, that are like get on your horse and they're in the end zone going crazy, the music never stops, like if there's a breakout play, those guys start running and then the rest of the sideline starts running with them. And he's like, it's clear that these guys are not just excited. Like they've been told you are where the ball is, you are where the action is, go fire people up. Get fired up. I guess we'll see. No, what I'm

thinking of is the once he's gone, the articles. Jesus Christ, I can't win for Lewisson over here. What? We're trying to get excited about football. You're focused on the articles for when he's gone. You know, there's only two ways. It feels like there's no middle ground here. It's either going to be an amazing, once again,

Jerry Jones has done it. First, it was with Jimmy Johnson when he was ridiculed for hiring this college coach and giving him the reins to do everything. That was incredible, and it worked out great. So maybe this does. Maybe this is the new age. It's like Steve Nash with the nets.

Yeah, I don't think that. I think he's going gonna be a net push neutral and that means they can probably win. Just because they're gonna go as far as their players. And I don't think he's good enough to like, I don't know this yet, but I doubt he's good enough to be like an edge in the playoffs, but I hadn't had that in, I don't know, my whole life. Yeah, but in general, you know, I am a believer. It's talent. Popovich can't coach a bunch of guys who suck. But that it's the NFL.

But it's the NFL. And that's where, generally, I think, a coach can actually be a difference between two, three, four wins, maybe. Could Parcells coach the same team that Dave Campo and get four more wins out of it? I think so. And that's the thing here. You already had a really good coach.

They're over under. We'll get into this later, but the give me a sledgehammer. Or their projected wins from the football all that football Mac now. Yeah. So to call it is seven point sevenmanac now? Yeah. Is that what they call it? Is 7.7. Come on, bro. Come on.

Do you know what the Vegas over under is? Point seven? No, seven, like seven and a half. Okay. Yeah, it says whatever mean projection. Okay, I thought you said 7.7. I did, 7.7 is what it says. Yes, it's an analytics number.

They're not doing it based on betting the full act. So it's 7 and 7. But it's 7 and 1.5. Well, I just thought I would hear more sounds of the sideline of coaching or whatever, not just yelling. Don't worry about all that. But that's shocking. That doesn't make for good entertainment.

The position coaches are coaching the positions. He is coaching their heads. Well, he just did. We got a guy. Woo. Just a lot of that. Is Jared ready? He is. All right.

Jared Sandler. Looks like Vegas has seven and a half also. From the Texas rain. You nailing the over. Yeah. If I could get it at 7 and 1. Some of these have it at 8 and 1. Jared, you smashed it 7 and 1 over, hypothetically.

This is Jared Sandler, folks. Just Cowboys wins. Is that what we're talking about? Yeah. Yeah, I'll take the over on that. If you trust him, don't you? 20th game, or is it still just 17? You're a dick. You trust him don't you 20th game is it still just 17 your dick

Mr. 162 over here Yeah I'll take over on seven and a half. Why not? I'm sure Dak can stay healthy for like 12 games Well, there's much to get to you went dot racing the street came to an end Oh, you want to start though with the trivia I do let people in the chat guess that and we'll give them the answer at the end so yeah can you tell your camera down oh yeah we

should let these sit-in guys play the ones who don't really listen maybe they want some Rangers tickets you don't lube them up a bit yeah what do we got Jared I love the lube dudes up. Alright, yeah so the Rangers are playing the Mariners this weekend. Dumper. So I'm looking for, oh that's right, this is a this is catcher trivia because Calralli's having a great year but there are only three players in major league history to hit at least 40 homers in a single season as a catcher, right? So they might have had 47 total, but maybe 12 of those came when they were DH-ing. That doesn't count. 40 home runs when they were squatting down that game as a catcher, who were those three players?

And you know what? Because we want to dial it back a bit, don't want to make it the hardest thing in the world, I'll accept two players. This feels like it should be easy, right? But I bet I just have a bunch in mind that are right at about 30. Yeah, 40 home runs seems like a rather modern level of home run. And I'll tell you, just to narrow the search, I'm alive for... We are all alive for all three of them. Okay. I can get, well, there's no way. Should we throw them out or wait till the end? Yeah, we should wait till the end.

So let's see if the chat gets it. You guys congress together over there. Well, it looks like these guys have zero idea. Oh, I don't know. They were talking. They might've just been like, this sucks. Uh, I missed last week's program. I mean, I wasn't here, but I did listen to quite a bit of it.

And I don't feel like you guys really brought it up. Maybe I missed it. Maybe I ignored it. Because the week before Jared, before I went out of town. The Rangers called up some big fat guy and he hit a home run and it was he was awesome like his names like Rowdy what is his bit yeah he he's bounced around a little bit he is he is a swinger he plays for space but is yeah he is not in there for his glove. The Rangers needed someone to try and provide some pop against right-handed pitchers. I'll be honest, you know, he and Jock Peterson, in theory, kind of do the same thing. I don't know how much,

you know, like Rowdy Talez is a streaky hitter, and if he can get streaky, get hot, then maybe they keep him around. Right now when a righty's on the mound, I mean, they're putting Jock Peterson in the lineup. So, you know, he's not someone who's really valuable off the bench because he's not a speed guy. He's not a defense guy, but he's someone who's, I mean, he had a 30 home run season. He had a guy, he had 11 home runs with the Mariners earlier this season. The Rangers just needed some slug and they were hoping he'd bring it, but I don't know that he popped enough

while the opportunity was there. But he's still around, I think, just to maybe we'll see until after the trade deadline. We'll see what the roster looks like then. How'd they get him? Waiver? He was DFA'd by the Mariners. He actually, he's one of the, gosh, there are a lot more of these guys than I realize, and maybe you guys have come across this in other sports. There are a ton of major league baseball players who live in DFW who have like no actual ties, like never played for the Rangers, no family. Yeah.

Uh, and he's, he's lived in Prosper the last eight years. Oh, wow. So, so I think there were a few teams vying for his services. I think the appeal for him to go to the Rangers was one, if he did get called up, which he eventually did, he could live at home. And the other thing is his father-in-law was his manager in AAA is he's married to Doug Davis' daughter. And Doug Davis, not the former left-handed picture for the Rangers, Doug Davis, the other former major leaguer, Doug Davis not the former left-handed pitcher for the Rangers Doug Davis the other former Major Leaguer Doug Davis is the AAA manager. Doug Davis was Stacey his wife are they we had Doug Davis on way

back in the day and no no different different Doug Davis you're thinking of former pitcher yeah you're thinking of former pitcher Doug Davis whose wife like to be heard sometimes this is a different Doug Davis. OK, no. That's, yeah. I want to hear about the other one. Who is the other one? So the other one was a Pittsburgh Pipe.

Is that who I'm thinking of? No. I might be totally getting this wrong. Am I getting it right, Stacey Davis? No. So Stacey Davis was, I thought Doug Davis is the left-handed pitcher's wife, but I could be wrong on that. I think you're right. It was an early 2000s

Ranger. They got him from Pittsburgh. Yeah, that's Doug Davis the pitcher. Yeah. And his wife, this was a pre-Twitter, but she would fit in to Twitter awesome like a tad to Prescott. Because his wife actually, I think, called in to rip on Doug Melvin, the GM, for handling something with Doug David. I don't know, but it was awesome.

I would like to know more about this. It was back in the day, and she's real hot and stuff. She was in like Maxim. Remember, Maxim was that one dude who pitched for Baltimore's name. They had that crazy broad. She was like maybe Oakland as well. She was going to sound, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, they decided to hook up in every parking lot.

Yes, that was the story. Yeah, they decided to hook up in every parking lot. Yes, that was the story. Oh my gosh. Yeah, in baseball. Chris Benson, Chris Benson. Yes, Anna Benson. Wait. This is who you're thinking of. Maybe that's who I'm thinking of.

And that's why I started thinking of it, is I'm looking at Doug Davis. Yeah, not Doug Davis. This is our show, guys. Wait. This is what we do. The Dumbs Up.