The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 8-10-26 | Jake opens for Akaash Singh and TC at the Hall of Fame game

Episode Date: August 10, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneIJB hit the road this weekend as Jake went up to Oklahoma City to open for Akaash Singh. TC went to Canton to watch the Hall of Fame game and its enshrinement ceremony presented by Hagger. And the rest of the show gives their mid weekend checks as we look forward to Cowboys training camp in 3 days (00:00) - Open: Weekend check (34:04) - TC at the Hall of Fame enshrinement (01:02:40) - Adam Vinatieri's roast (01:17:05) - An NFL murder cover up? (01:31:05) - News: Terroristic threat over anime (01:53:18) - VM birthdays (01:58:08) - Jake opens for Akaash Singh (02:27:04) - Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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I'm Blake Jones. Foodie CK is here as well. Here is the downtown Dallas studio. It's the Game Day men cell studio. Game Day.com. Be your best self. Quit being that person that you, everybody else is looking at. Your kids are going back to school.

These are trying times for you. So get to game day? Get it right. Game day, don't beat your kids. Moment of silence for Don't Nelson. He's dead. It's a major. Big whistle.

Don Nelson. Gummy slash Portobello thoughts this weekend. I mean, Cuban's obviously the guy. And it was pointed out to me pretty quickly. like Cuban inherited Donnie, but he had to keep him. Donnie's here because of Cuban. And just the massive impact. He didn't have to keep them.

Look at other franchises. Right. Quick to clean house and hire their own guys. We could have got some. Hold on. Let's welcome T.C. to the microphone. Hello, T.C. Just the next time the Mavericks changed ownership, it didn't seem like the transition

between front office went as smoothly. Yeah, and I mean, a lot of times your team gets bought, it gets bought by some slub, and they hire some slub. Yeah, Cuban selling, getting rid of Dirk. Yeah, but he could have hired some Eastern Conference haircut guy. He hired, he kept Don Nelson and Donnie Nelson around. And from there, I think, like, everything about the way I see sports unfolded. So, yeah, RIP.

I've just been smoking a lot of pot lately. That clip is. Yeah, I downloaded that. whole press conference. Do you have the Carl Malone thing? I don't know that I was very familiar with this. Carl Lone. The bizarre incident in Dallas where Maverick's coach John Nelson took after Utah jazz star Carl Malone.

Nelson had been ejected for arguing a call and then turned his anger on Malone. As you saw, you had to be separated. Nelson had to be escorted from the arena. So, yeah. He's just can't see the video. Number one, they're the same size. They're the same height. People forget.

Yeah, Don Nelson was, I guess, right, a rotation player for the Celtics. Like, I don't think he was a star, but he was... Right, but same as Rick. Getting lots of minutes. Rick's a big guy. One five championships. Yeah. As a player.

And then, yeah, we're just getting in Carl Malone's face. He's like, you got to send that lady child support, Carl. And then he called called her mad. Yeah. He's like, you can't call her a lady. She's going to be a child. She's a child herself. I got to send her child support.

Anyway. No, that's a big one. T.C. is here. He was on assignment for us this weekend. We had a couple of assignments out there that we'll be learning about in the next couple of days. Today's show is called Things You Couldn't Have Done if he still worked at the radio station. Amen. We sent Henry to singles night at the Rangers game.

To Glove Island? Oh, wow. Hell yeah. So we'll hear about that. Probably tomorrow. Many bits. Because we've got a lot of stuff going on today. Yeah.

We're leaving in 48 hours. We leave in 48 hours. Cowboys Camp Coverage. We spell all those words with C's. Cowboys Camp Coverage. Always. And we only will get sponsors that begin with P. So we have Plum Quick.

Oh, yeah. Our title sponsor. And we have the Parlay Collective. That's our presenting sponsor as well as puddle pools. So, yeah, the three P's of success. That's going on in just a couple of days. Yes, things we couldn't have done at the radio station all happened this weekend. Jake went and did stand-up comedy in Oklahoma City.

We sent TC on assignment because we had the offer to say somebody, we need someone to cover the Hall of Fame, the Hall of Fame induction ceremony and all that kind of stuff. and could you guys send somebody? And yes, T.C. was like, I'm ready. Let's go. We're equipped for that. I love football. Who doesn't love the Hall of Fame?

And yeah. And then he's like, only can I bring Danny Binion? And he's like, well, okay, we'll let him do that. Appreciate it. That was the rider on the contract, I guess. Childhood friend of mine. Yeah. And then I guess if you just talk about this.

week. Yeah, we're going to training camp. Why are we going, as Brian Schottenheimer would say, a few days early? I don't know. Blake just said, hey, why don't we go a few days early and we could just stay over the weekend? Is there a way we could geo-fence this specific part of the show when you keep saying it from my zip code? All right, come on. Just, I'm serious. No. I don't know what that is. There you go. I still don't know what that is. Okay. Anyway, so, yeah, let's start everything off with a weekend check because we did, we're not going to get, some of those things are bigger than a weekend check. But the weekend check is brought to us by Game Day Men's Health.

It's the title sponsor for our studio, and it might have fueled you and your balls to the wall, leave Friday after the show. Don't get home until last night at 9 p.m. I'm like, how can you do it, Jake? How do you have the energy? How can you do it at the age of 40? Well, there's one, 41, bud. The old decrepit age of 41. Well, there's one place with 12 locations in DFW.

That's Game Day Men's Health. And really, it's not just about Sunday. It's just the mission and journey of the last eight or nine months. There is no way that I would have done that without being on a little juice, a little help, a little TRT from Game Day Men's Health. Peptides as well. Yeah, they got a peptide. title of week. Let me look at that up and you keep talking about how great game day is.

Well, it's the one that I'm actually starting today. I have it in my fridge right now. Because the last few months, I wasn't like working out a ton. I was trying to do a bunch of work work. And now I want to get on something to help me muscle up a little bit there, Dan. Sima Morlin, I think is what it's pronounced. But it just ask them what works for you. It's on my wall at home. I know. And I don't think it's, I just don't think it's, I just don't think it's that important. It was the center. The center fold of the, it's the peptide of the month. So yeah, you got to look at it and be like, oh, yeah. What a great peptide, which improves energy levels. Promotes deeper, more restorative sleep, right? No doubt. Channel your inner LeBron. He

says sleeping is very important. You want to be like LeBron. Recovery, it helps recovery. That's the big deal when you're in old, right? I thought you was, can you do it again tomorrow? I thought when you said you want to be like LeBron, you mean have your entire career kind of be a fraud because you were on steroids the whole time. Hey, hey. Can you imagine, have you seen Travis at Community Mechanical lately? Yeah, I have. He's shriveling up.

He's lost like 80-some pounds. I think he looks great. And he, when I said, hey, man, how much of you lost? He's like, gameday. Gameday.com. No doubt. And he's not in pain either, because that's a guy who's played a lot of sports. And he's feeling good.

Gameday. dot dumbzone.com. All right. Weekend check. Mine's pretty boring. Now, it's kind of like sometimes I used to go on vacation and my wife would yell at me for just hanging out at the hotel or something. We could have done this and this and this.

But I'm on vacation and I like the opportunity. I could have done all of those things. But I chose to do just this. I could have done any, and that's what I did. And so that's how I felt about you guys experiencing. this big weekend. I did have the freedom to do all of those things. Freedom is the true vacation. I didn't go do stand-up in Oklahoma City. Offer was on the table. I did not fly

with the CEO of... Am I allowed to say who you're with? I don't know. I would assume that they want... TC was with CEOs. He was traveling with like, royal... Hager definitely won't. The CEO of Hager. Okay. For sure. He and T.C. are now best friends. I could have have been that. Thank you, Henry. They moved the pot belly. I'll talk about that in my

weekend check. Anyway, I didn't do much. Okay, well, I mean, I did stuff, you know, at home and everything. All right, well, I've got a question about what you've done. Connie Lingus. Was she there the whole weekend? Yeah. Okay. You do like TV time and stuff,

right? You have to watch anything you don't like right now? No, I'm enjoying our billion. Yeah, we watch billions on the weekend mornings. Okay. And this is the together time I have with my wife now. We'll watch a show or two. Top things off at the end, get the mood right.

Yeah, you want her to spank you? I just wanted to ask about your name change. Okay, so then I, yes, I came in today early enough to take a leisurely walk over to pot belly and back to get my lunch. Usually I prep all the lunch for the whole week. But this weekend, I see we're on a flight. Wednesday morning. Hey, no.

Why prep a lunch for the whole week? I'll just grab a lunch for the next couple of days. So I went to Pop Belly today. It's the closest place. If they put a Conne Roso in over here, I'd be there. But I went to Pop Belly. And they moved it. So it used to be in the Ren Tower.

Apparently, they moved a thing over. So I had to leisurely walk back because I didn't know where Pop Belly was. I sent Henry and I said, hey, make sure you grab it's for Daniel. I've changed my name on all the apps. Chiloso. Name an app. Fuzzies. Grindr. So it's just food related.

Yeah. Okay. No, any food app. Because you know, my theory is that when you have the name Dan, even when it's printed, if you say it then out loud, to, let's just say somebody at the Chinese restaurant. That's how it started, right? Yeah, it'll be like stand, pan. Pam.

Whatever. There's a lot of different things, but it's Daniel. They've never messed up Daniel. Got it. I also... Sometimes add son to the end, but that's it. If you just hit them with two letters, like if you just say TC, it's...

That could be a million things. You say Thomas, very clear. Okay. They've never messed up Daniel. Like, what could Daniel be? There's nothing. Practical. I like it.

I thought you were... You know, because we've discussed... Like, we've discussed, like, would this thing go further if it were... Jacob and Daniel. Could we put on ties or something and engage a different? I don't know. You're still Dan. I'm still introducing myself to the ladies as Dan. That's what's important. But maybe we'll try something different. Danny and I met a woman who had a relative whose name was Danny, not Daniel, Danny. But I mean, Danny's a good example, right? Binion is like that's, he seems like a pretty loose Danny type of guy. I would never. And they mess up Danny all the time.

Oh, okay. But back to what you said. Remember when I met the professor online and was like, his name was Daniel McDowell. He's a professor, but he's a sports fan. He loves, like everything about him seemed the same as me except he was really smart. And he did really smart things. And so, had I been called Daniel, maybe. I might be somebody of consequence. And then, so yesterday went to Parr Park. Oh, yeah. You're familiar with Par Park? Did you get a little splash pad?

It is pretty hot out there. If you live over on that area of town, it's Collieville. It's near the corn maze that you go to every Halloween. And Par Park is a great place to get a little shade in your walking on a Sunday or a Saturday. And so I almost, here's another thing I didn't do. Could have, though. Almost did, and I could have, and it could have set me up for a whole new career and a whole new set of weekend checks for weeks to come. Because Jake once said yes to this in a different way.

But I was walking by this game that was playing, and they were playing like four on five. And the ball trickled over towards me, and they asked, and I had to pick it up to throw it back. and they said, hey, do you want to join? It was all adults. Daniel. And they were playing volleyball. Oh, never mind. Sorry.

Get the fuck out of here. There's a huge, you ever go to Park Park? There's a volleyball park like right in the middle. No, you're right. I wasn't thinking about that. That is popular over there. Yeah, I couldn't think of anything less that I would have wanted to do. Sand?

I don't know. I don't know. It's sand, but it's pretty, it's grassy sand. It's grassy sand. It's just the... Come on, dude. Fire that shirt off. Get in there.

I should have. No doubt. When I was growing up and we had church, they indicated us that hell would be like personalized at some point, you know? Unreal. Like that it was like, whatever you hate, that's what it's going to be. But we had sand volleyball, like outings at our church and I would always be like, well, we're here. They didn't love that. But I thought you were about to play some hoops.

And I've played basketball with Dan. and he's an effective, solid, you know, athlete. I'd love to get him back out there. I would be... But I would quit the show if you started playing sand volleyball. No, dude. I would be excited because I go to the gym. They have a basketball court,

and sometimes I'll go in there just to walk around because it's air conditioning stuff. No one's ever invited me into their game. Okay. But I feel like I now could be the old guy. I used to play intramural basketball, and there was always the old guy who just had the knee brace and he stood on the perimeter and just drained them.

Sure. I want to be that guy. Now, I don't have a knee brace and I don't think I can make three-point shots on a consistent basis. That was the only difference between me and the old guy used to play with. More of a paint player. Yeah. You ever hear Joe L. M. Bid say, that's how he learned to shoot threes. What?

In my private life, I have a pretty good Joe L. Embedd, but I'm not going to do it. Come on. Oh, come on. No. He said he would watch YouTube of, like, just white guys in the, like, old white guys in the gym, like, on you. some guy would just they're the best shooters i've ever seen the purest form like he would just they really are good why would i learn from someone else yeah anyway uh who wants next clayton um i watch ball we had baseball to uh friday night on um apple apple tv that's great and then uh is it

i've heard lots of mixed reviews i wasn't that big of a fan i like it i like the way it looks on the screen. Who did they have in the booth? Eric Nadell. Okay. That's a great bit. You can sync the radio with the TV. Okay, I meant the bit where they do, they'll get like Dave in. They'll get a TV guy. Maybe they had someone for Baltimore. Yeah. No, Apple TV has their own

crew. It's people you've never heard of. But on, you know, next to the subtitles, there's audio. And you can listen to the Orioles or the Rangers. That's great. And so every Friday I listen to Nadell and watch the game. It's great. It's pretty sweet. That was about the only redeeming quality. Actually, wait, Friday was Jared.

Yeah, had Jared. From Subway? Yeah. Yeah. From prison. Did you do what I did? I stopped at Matt Grimm's house. I dropped off a bag.

I'm going tonight. Oh, you don't have to because you're driving with him. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be heading there after the show. Today? Yeah. When are you all even?

12.30. Tonight? Yeah. I'll probably be there at midnight. I like to see him. What if Matt asked you to leave at 12.30? Then you would just do it. No.

No, Dan, no, I wouldn't. No, I thought, I didn't realize you were looking only at the only person. No, because I remember. There's only one person in here that we have to worry about that. He got me up at four or what was it three that one time? He wanted two. You said six and we met in the middle. Like you just do whatever, man.

Like, for example, not to get ahead of ourselves, but the Akas shows over the weekend. They added a fifth show yesterday. yesterday. So they were going to leave Sunday morning pretty early. And I was in their group text as they're reorganizing things. They were at the airport texting each other at 515 this morning. And that's just like how it is, you know? What would you have said to that? Like, no. Well, I guess you could always buy your own flight. It's if somebody else is paying for it. That's work. In this situation, I don't know. I feel like if they said we leave it at 1230, I would not think twice about it.

You go back to sleep in the car. I also didn't ask you. That's true. We keep getting back to that. And that keeps on moving back. So I would say don't show up at 12. We might not be there. He relieved during daylight?

Oh, yeah, because T.C. was asking in our group chat, like, when are we leaving? The Matt was like, probably like 1 a.m. And then now it's 12.30. Dan's experienced this before. Yeah, Matt Graham's a liar. The creep. He's a dirty liar. I like it.

I'm with him. Whenever he said one, I said, I'll be there at 12. And then he's like, hey, I'm 12.30. Let's do it. And you're going to see them all. What's wrong with you? Because he's just a good friend. No, he's not a good friend.

When they're there, I like, I already have, I already bought him a bunch of nerd clusters and stuff. He lives like 45 minutes away from you. There's nothing I can't get done in the car, right? Like, if there's something I need to listen to. At midnight? What are you going to do? There's a Christian Parker interviewer. he was on the fan for 20 minutes I have downloaded and tee it up if I don't get to it before

then there's always something you can do you know that you're up do it I'll probably record a podcast with TC tonight that'll probably wrap up at like 10 at that point you're like I'm not I don't have to be up until 530 or 6 tomorrow game day dot dumbzone dot com yeah I mean at some point um okay also um mid weekend check uh yeah how's this going for flooring direct DFW it's great. Are we going to come home from camp? There's actually like two more samples now that she wants to see.

No. We settled this. She's very... It's the college football playoffs. It just keeps getting bigger. Indecisive. But look, flooring direct D. DFW is dot com slash dumb zone.

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there. It's a big deal. Yeah, so no, we're getting all new floors, really looking forward to it. We implore you two as well. It's a new floor season. 9-72-44-9. 9-4-6. Just looking at that font. FlooringDirectDefW.com slash DZ. They're great to work with. They bring it all to you. They bring the showroom to you. That's the whole direct part. The DFW part is that they are DFW owned.

They are locally located here. They have a showroom, but they'll bring the showroom to you. They think it looks better. It's better for you to look at the flooring samples and whatnot under your lights. And in fact, that's one of my wife. things like she wants okay the sales guy comes over at noon she wants to see what it's going to look like uh you know at nine o'clock at night she wants to see what you don't think about these things do you yeah she wants to see what it'll look like with me laying on it naked so uh we do a lot of that stuff

so it's flooring direct dfw.com slash dz think about me laying on my floor that should be our next calendar without clothes laying on different samples Where do we go? Jake? Blake? I'll go. I'll go. My youngest kid's first birthday was Saturday. Happy birthday. His second first birthday party. What was that mean?

Yeah. Well, he'd already had one at a senior citizens facility. Right. Liddy as hell. Oh, yeah. They're all sniffing him. Yeah. They were adrenal croming him. Yeah. This one was for the family at our house.

They put like the thing over their head. Right. They had them in a pot and then they just sniff it in. Yeah. No one's died yet. So maybe it worked. You got to make... Knife hits a toddler.

You got to make baby vape. That's our next big idea. I remember the first kid's first birthday party was a big deal. There's a ton of people there. Second kid's like, uh, okay. It's so true, dude. It's so true. I guess we'll invite people.

Uh, the theme, Benny and the Jets. Yeah. Yeah. Because every party has to have a thing. What do we, wait, why? He doesn't know. No, you're. It's not for him.

The party has a theme. You're a decade late, unfortunately. This is like me, you teaching me about kids painting their parking spots. This is like every, you've been out of the game too long. Everything keeps moving, though. Like, yes, when I was in the game, it was we have to make gift bags for all the people that are coming over. And it was just a big.

Well, I'm here to inform you. Battle against, you know, all the wives or mothers are just battling each other to, who had the best gift bag. Oh, well, after that it chilled out and stopped. That's what I'm saying. No. You keep adding. Like, okay, now we have gift bags and a theme.

We're in late stage. For the one year, what the one year old, just get him a cake. He smashes in his face. You take a couple pictures. Get him a couple neighbors. IRA. It's people who live next door to you. The kid won't remember any of it.

No. You're right. The mom's, but you got a huge. You got peacock. Yeah, they do like the balloon arch. all the balloons have to be a certain color. We had little toy jets around. There's a whole economy, Dan.

He's wearing a Chad Paddington, Jersey. Nice. Very accurate password. It is what it is. So anyway. You just lay back and enjoy it all. You're like whatever. You're not part of it.

No. No, it did come down to either Benny and the Jets or Benny from the sandlot. Okay. But I figured... What if we save these for when he could actually... That's why I saved the same. Hana, right?

You've obviously got a little fake. All right. Let's do that next year. Do you. Oh, habachi. Yeah. Nice. For sure.

Yeah. I distinctly remember Blake when he had his first kid, us doing his segment. And I'm pretty sure he came in all tough guy. Like, man, there's one thing I learned. You don't have your kid's birthday party at your own house. Dumb your shit ever. So that's why I texted you last week.

I was like, where's a party? and he's like, this one's at an old folks home. So where was this one? My house. Yeah. And here's my next note. I had two dogs at my house. I don't have any dogs.

That means... Who brings their dog to a party? That means two different people brought their dogs to my house. We're out of control. Did they ask? I guess. Maybe they asked her. They don't really ask.

Sure as hell didn't ask me. They tell by asking. Too comfortable. Because what are you... Exactly. What are you going to do? No, I hate dogs. By asking, you're already putting it on the person.

to say no, which they won't. So you're over the line. I bet he would. I think you guys. He would, but his wife wouldn't, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What, say no? Yeah.

He might. She probably knew about the dogs coming over. We've been dog free for, I don't know, what, eight months or so. It's fantastic. I'm excited for you to join me. Oh, man. There's another person who's pretty excited to. He lives with me.

Anyway, but no, it's been nice, not, well, and our dog was towards the ends, so it was incontinent and it was just a mess. But I don't miss the dog hair. I don't miss the dogs around the old people or the dogs falling you around with the food. Running over the kids. Yeah, whatever. Being free from the hair was magical. Yeah, T.C. lost the dog in the last minute. So he's free.

But gain to clean. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. A lot of great times that dog. Enough. Enough great times. Yeah.

The proper amount of great times. Yeah, there's something too that we should talk about at some point or bitter otherwise. But women, it's so funny to watch, dude, because they're so, you know, when you get the puppy, they're posting it. It's like a baby. You know, they're so, yeah, we got a dog. But the second, the second that baby comes out of their body, that dog is your dead weight. That is your dog. And they have no emotional connection to it anymore.

Severed. Yep. Wild. Brooks had an early swim lesson the next day, and I got barked at in my own house. Well. I'm going to get my kid. I'm curious about how it was there the next day. Family stayed over.

Oh, my goodness. It was a family. Okay, it was one of her. Mm-hmm. You could. What's that? Why did I want to leave for California early? Barked that in your house.

So they're like, we're going to stay over, we're going to bring our dog. They probably didn't even say it. The dog slept outside their room. I go to get Brooks, barks at me, scares me. Just, yeah, I don't know. All right. Sleeps outside their room. He owns you now.

To your family, I guess. Oh, the dog was slept in the house. Why wouldn't you bring it in your room? In their room? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. It's our dog.

We're here. I'm already imposing on you bringing our dog. I'll keep it in the room so it doesn't bother everyone else. Nope. Also, I'm not judging because I grew up like this, but Blake is so country. He's like, yeah, dogs slept in the house. Like, that was a... Our dogs slept outside.

Yeah, yeah. They're outside animals. I'm sure people still do that, but you don't hear about it much. Dog sleeping outside? Yeah. It's pretty hot out there, dude. Yeah. Bring him in, but...

It's an animal. If you put him off the chain, you have them tied through, the tether ball pool. I'm mowing the grass. The fence is open. You remember how I'm grill guy? I bought a grill a few months. go. Girl pill. Yeah. It's going well. We've done we've done steaks, sirloins, pork loins, hot dogs, hamburgers. We're learning. I've now evolved. I've got a deep freeze.

Okay, yeah. Get some game. And I just bought a half cow. Hell yeah. Whoa. You buy it from a listener? Yeah. You bought it from Travis? I did. That's so great. Half a cow? Yeah. It's a legitimate smart move. Am I allowed to ask what? half a cow runs you? You may? A couple G's. Yeah.

Oh, right. Wow. Incredible. Is it just all cut? But you've done the math on... Oh, there's no doubt. What would this have been cost if you just bought it steak by steak? Oh, yeah.

He wanted to know whether or not it was the first down. Dude, he probably, yeah. He probably factored in the deep freeze, in the cost and was still coming up in the green. That's big time. I had a Travis Bell steak. Two weeks ago. Yeah. They gave us some.

Yeah. Yeah. And then last time I'm taking the trash out. They should let you kill it though, man. No, I don't want to. Hunt it. Have the option. Yeah, do whatever you want with it.

Hunting it, cow. Yeah. I don't think it's getting away from you, bud. Nope. So I put on this. But a remote thing. You're like on your computer and you hunt it with that. Like Jay Cutler.

Yeah. What? Whenever I was watching, He has a remote deer stand or something, right? Seriously, dude, it's just a laptop. And he's over there watching, you got a 16-point, he's touched tapping. 308 to the dome. Just drones after?

Basically, it doesn't feel like hunting, but I'm not a hunter. Well, because, you know, I put on this facade of, like, I'm a grill guy and mad at my family coming over. I'm still, I'm pretty weak. I was taking the trash out last night, and I almost stepped on an armadillo. in my backyard. Whoa. Scared the S out of me. And it's like, it blind, it's not going to hurt you, but,

hey, get. What if it has rabies? First thought, right? I just kind of assume every animal in the wilds got something that I don't need. Like, if it bit you, it would be more than, or if it got on you and, like, yeah, I don't even know. I don't know. I know it can jump.

I don't think they can butt you. Probably not. They can. They have leprosy. Whoa. He's so good. Yeah. I forgot he was here for a second.

Yeah. On point. I need you to come shoot this armadillo, Clayton. Okay. It's a little bit more difficult than you think. I would think it's pretty hard. They got armor. Well, you got carp on.

You want to set a trap. You want to do whatever you want. Yeah, but you live in city limits. I can't use high caliber. Okay. I have a dumb question because most of what I know about animals. comes from Looney Tunes. So I've seen it, I've been nearish to an armadillo,

but if you were to try to kick it, you could punt it, right? It's not like it's like, boll, like a hard shell. Like, I feel like there's certain, there's a certain turtles you see that if you tried to punt it, it would break your foot.

I think that's an armadillo. Really? Yeah. And you're sure that's not just a Bugs Bunny. Like, they look pretty cuddly, don't they, do you, Dan? Well, I mean, if Clayton's saying he needs a high-powered

weapon to get through its shell and it might hurt your foot too. I think I missed that part. There you go. Okay. And this is a neighborhood nuisance. They'll probably eat your stuff up. Yeah. They do a lot of damage in these neighborhoods that are encroaching on their

territories. I can set you up with a trap. Progress. No, I have the trap. I've had to try to catch them in my front yard before, but now I spray for grubs, which helped. But now I don't have a dog in the backyard to keep him out of the backyard.

What a tangled web. Yeah. I can't believe it. But you don't have any dog hair all over the house. Relatives. Yeah. Dog outside. Well, happy birthday, Benny.

Yeah. Happy birthday. Themes, Dan. Do you have any weekend check or your whole thing was just, you're going to do it after the break? Yeah, I don't think I have anything else, really. What if you could tell us about Brain Topia to lead us into sports? I would love to.

Is that your thing? I will be there this week. Braintopia, I go to the South Lake location. Beringtopia centers.com. It is neural feedback. I started doing this with my daughter. I wanted to do it with her. And essentially, it is, if you deal with ADHD, if you deal with autism, PTSD, any sort of regulatory, you know, brain issue, they'll give you a brain map.

And Dumbzone listeners get 25% off that. They'll talk to you about your brain map, different areas of your brain that are, functioning well or not so well, and they'll help you with that through neural feedback. It's a 30-minute treatment. You sit there, you watch TV, and you get the treatment. So whether people who have TBIs, like traumatic brain injuries, this can help them recover things from those losses. Like if you have chronic headaches, if you have sleep issues, this is something that people have been doing for a long, long time. It's just starting to be more affordable and available now.

So substance abuse, mental stress, these sorts of things. If those are your issues that you or someone you know are afflicted with, you owe it to yourself to check them out at braintopia centers.com. They got a buttload of locations in DFW. From the wonderful world of sports, radio sports, scoreboard. Oh, yeah, I like that. One quick thing before sports, this email just came in. Do you remember Karen?

Brain surgery, Karen? Yeah, yeah, I emailed her. I haven't heard back. Okay, she just responded. unfortunately, it's all in Chinese lettering. I was so about to try something and you got it. I love it. And she said, Dan...

We'll get back to her. So Karen emailed us a few weeks ago saying she wanted us to think a good thought for her. She was having brain surgery. Right. Like a tumor or? Well, I don't know. She just said brain surgery. And I...

I hoped that she would have at least locked in her annual before the brain... You know, just to make sure. Right. At least we get the next 11, 12 months. Yeah. Did you see the response? No. Yes, I locked into an annual sub.

All right. Nice. Thank you. And she's fine. Is there any other news? Or she's not good, and that's why she locked in, you know, like they hit something wrong. And she's like, yeah, I'll do it. Awesome.

Let us know more. Send us photos. That's weird. Translating the Chinese letter. Thank you so much to DZ for recognition. It really played a crucial role. Everything is going smoothly, and I'm on the road to recovery. I love it.

All right, sports. Part of sports will be sports slash comedy. So we have a comedy story later, and I have a sports comedian. Oh, wow. But I think T.C. also saw that guy. But, yeah, let's throw it to T.C. So we were contacted. It was pretty late.

It was like last weekend or the week before, it was like, hey, we have this opportunity. You can go cover the NFL Hall of Fame weekend. Go to the Hall of Fame game. Go to all the events and all that kind of stuff. Hang out with the CEO of Hager. If you guys want to go, even do the show there Friday. Well, we had the Oklahoma City thing already on the books. We had Benny's birthday on the books.

And anyway, it came to be, we're like, hey, wait, T.C. Do you want to go? Yes, I'll go. So now T.C. takes his camera, takes his little buddy. And they go to cover. They go to the Hall of Fame weekend. I don't know anything about it. All I know is they said they were going to get you flights and hotel rooms.

Separate hotel rooms? Absolutely. For both of you guys? Okay. 100%. All right. When did you live? leave.

It's a great question. Wednesday night? The day before, the Hall of Fame game was Thursday. It was Thursday morning. Thursday morning left. Okay. And this is all courtesy of Hager. I don't know if Dan said that part of this reset.

Hager, the pants, right? And as I was trying to figure out, like, why is someone willing to pay for a flight in the hotel room for me? I'm going to need a little more explanation. Hager makes the gold jacket. And they wanted to get. the word out there that people know a lot about the gold jacket. They might not know who makes it. And so they're willing to spend some of their marketing budget so the dumb zone audience can find out

who makes the gold jacket. So I want to emphasize. Okay. I don't think I was aware until this moment. Yeah. Hager makes the gold jacket. Awesome. Then it was worth buying me and Danny a plane ticket. Absolutely. It's not just me. It's not just me that's learning. Yes. Yes. Think of the tens of people. So that's our primary point here is that Hager makes the gold jacket. In case no one knew. And it's a kick-ass jacket, right? It's so good. High threat count.

Iconic. Yeah, and we got there. You know, everywhere we're going, like, it's not how would they treat T.C. and Danny. It's how would they treat their primary corporate partner. So you land in Canton? Where did you fly to? We flew into Cleveland. Flew in Cleveland. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

Your original draft, it ended up, it was a very busy weekend, so they didn't have drivers available. But the first draft of how this was going to go was we received an email saying there would be someone waiting there with a sign with our names on it. Wow. That's what we thought. The dream. I would have been happy for you. You know, Dion, he had booked up all the cars or whatever. Oh, okay.

We just took an Uber, which was fine. Disappointed in the, you're just going to get an Uber to kids. And we're like, did they reimburse you for that stuff? They did, they did. Wow. Our driver's name was him, which I enjoyed. Oh, wow. He's him.

He is him. Yeah, and then we went to the Hall of Fame game. We went to like a hospitality. Like first, where do they drive you first? Your hotel, you get settled in? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Hyatt Place of North Canton. Was that, is that walking distance to the Hall of Fame?

It was not walking distance, but I think it was about as close you could do. It was a short, less than 10 minute drive. Okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hall of Fame doesn't seem. to be a while. It's right off the highway, right?

It's next to a highway. It's also a school. I've been there many, many times. Yeah, it's also a high school. The Hall of Fame? Right next to McKinley High School. I wonder if that's changed or if I just didn't know that. No, I mean, it's not like they're the same building, but whatever we went to the game, to get the cameras in, we needed to go through the media entrance. And the media entrance was the high school. So we're walking through a high school where, like, Sunday night football also has a setup. Yeah. It's just crazy seeing Sunday night football in a high school. And then, you know, you walk out the doors of the high school and you're in the concourse of the stadium.

And then also on that grounds, you know, like... Is the Hall of Fame? Yeah, yeah. So what are you wearing? How are you dressed to present yourself to the Hall of Fame and Hager? That's a great question. And your T.C. That's why you need to ask.

All the... So they were very helpful. They gave us a nice art. where each time for the event it had a dress code listed. Awesome. They did. And everything that was outside, it said specifically casual, which I took as far as one could possibly take.

T.C. was very casual. Similar to now, you're wearing short, gym shorts and a Notre Dame polo. Yeah, well, I put a collar because this is a big-time TV presentation. Right. Which were you wearing your Waterburger polo? What were they, which, I know you have a power. And wear the collar for the, you know, they told me it's casual dress. Oh, okay.

Casual doesn't mean. We're not to business or formal. Okay, this is formal. Right. For the game specifically, it had a note on there saying if you have some NFL gear, that's encouraged. So I wore my bear's shirt. Okay. That's interesting because we always will criticize when we see the fans.

Oh, what, are you just going to wear anything to any NFL game? But they wanted you to. They asked me to. Yeah. Okay. So you had to represent. Yeah. God.

What if you had the Rob Loh hat? Just NFL? Well, funny you should have. Did you see those for sale? No. I told you I might like you to buy me an AFC hat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do not have an AFC hat.

Yeah. You are in my head an AFC guy. I don't know what that means. Yeah, I mean I grew up that way. It's the old AFA. Anyway, okay, okay, so you get to the hotel. You change into your nicer t-shirt. Yes.

You're surprised to learn you have separate rooms. You're excited. Couldn't believe that. At the cucumber water in the lobby. Ooh, we're off to a hot star. So this is the hotel that all the bigwigs are staying. That was a discussion point I was hoping to bring up with you guys. I really want to know.

We saw Jerry and I want to know where Jerry slept that night. Because it wasn't your hotel. It was not the Hyatt Place. There was no one else like the CEO of Hager was there. High places are nice, though. Yeah, they are. I think that's the one I stay at that overlooks the Baker Mayfield parking lot. But then, you know, people like me walking around at him.

Does Jerry have a... Is there a house in Ohio that he's stayed at a million times or in every city does he have some? Or is he in like downtown Cleveland in a penthouse and he just... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The chopper. Yeah, he's at... The helicopter over. He's at a Ritz.

Yeah. Because there is, next to the Hall of Fame is the Canton Airport. And so I could imagine that maybe he flies into the Canton Airport and then he doesn't even want touch Cleveland. He's like, I'm out of here. That's also very possible. Private Jet Life. I just like thinking about it. Yeah. So what's the first thing they had you guys do? It was the game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That night. Did a little pregame at the hospitality tent. What's that mean? Just they had, oh, they had a hats, custom hats. Custom hats. I know how much for this hat, they said, it's free. And so you guys got a hat? You have a T. T.C. hat somewhere? No, the, the head-depth

concerns, I bowed out. But Danny grabbed the hat. I went to grab the hat. Who do you want to embroidered on it? And I said, give me Larry Fitzgerald. Wow. Big Larry Fitzgerald. Put it right there. So yeah, custom hats, then you go over, walk in, you know, watch the game. I would say for the future, maybe could you see if they would do one that just says

dumb. I wanted to say dumbzone on it. Would they do that or it had to be a player? It was a series of decals you could pick. Yeah, it was like six. Which of the six details. You couldn't just pick Baker. No, yeah. No.

All right. It's not yet into the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Yet. Yeah. We're in the club level of the stadium. So, like, there's just a beautiful restaurant that's built into the Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium that's right behind us with, you know. Free food.

There's no price on anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just whatever you want. Okay. We're stocking up with waters as we're leaving. Whatever you want. Nice. First down.

It's like the Beverly Hillvillies are. They invited. It's so true. Pocketing water. Yeah, no, dude, I remember when my dad would occasionally go to the country club, like, he'd get invited. He's like, boy, you are out of your mind. For two weeks. Yeah.

There's nobody looking. Okay. And have you met the Hager CEO at this point? Yes, yes, yes. He's with us. He's sitting with us. And you're, but you're dressed casually and he's looking good in Hager clothing. He was.

Yeah, yeah. He was dressed. But, like, our primary contact, the lovely and wonderful, Mindy, the head of marketing for Hager. Mindy Davis. Give it up. She was lovely. The entire time. Richland High Zone. Really? Richland alum. Wow.

Did you guys had a little something to talk about? Did she know you? No, she's a little She was a couple years before. Okay. A couple years. Well, because there was also a lady who went there named Wendy Davis. Yeah. Oh, yes. It became famous for peeing herself during a filibuster.

It's kind of famous before that, but yeah. No, that, I mean... I know, that's probably the number one Google search on Wendy Davis. It's not Richland High. Mindy was wearing T-shirt and jeans. Okay, good. This was normal. She was casual.

We were not standing out from the group. Yep. Yeah, the Hall of Fame game was great. Then we go in. Who do we have? The Cardinals, because Larry Fitzgerald was going in, and then the Panthers, because Luke Keekley was going in. Okay.

The fly. See if you can find that, Blake. Yeah, we had Drew Breeze, Larry Fitzgerald, Keakley, Ventieri, and, uh, Ron. Roger Craig. The hotly debated. I spent a lot of time on Roger Craig this morning. What are we doing?

That's the problem with these veteran committees. Like, I got to get someone that's overlooked. Or just someone that because half of them have dementia and good old days syndrome, it's like, yeah, I remember Roger Craig was really good. And so, yeah. He would have had a million yards rushing and receiving, were they in a rushing offense? That's the thing is, and I don't know. He had one really good year.

They're going to put Rathman in? This is probably a much, might as well. We said that last week. This is a bigger conversation, but obviously now the game is played differently where running backs matter less. And the implicit thing there to me, Dan, is that they're saying, oh, this way's better. The way we were doing it before, doesn't mean you were dumb, but you were wrong. And this similar system, right?

they're devaluing the running back. Yeah, and that's, but at that time, people weren't able to look at it, I feel like, fully and realize this guy's success is fully dependent on his team. What about his one season? I don't think guys like that should be in the Hall of Fame. What about the one season he had more than 1,100 yards rushing? I don't, he could have had, but he could have had even, that's what I'm saying, is that I've seen enough 49ers from the 80s now, real games.

They're not winning because of Roger Craig. like he's very low on the list in fact. Yeah. So you have it? Yeah. I don't think we played this, but why we're here. Luke Kekley, did we ever find the Martellis Bennett fly thing and play it? I don't know what you're saying.

I referenced it a couple weeks ago. So they were there for the Panthers because of Kikley. And there was a clip one time of Martellis Bennett talking about Luke Kikley on like an NFL Top 100 thing and it's great. Luke Kikley. You know, it's like, hey, where you come from? You know, it's just like that fly when you're in the restaurant. There's one fly in the restaurant, but it's only flying on your food. Nobody else has a fly around their food except for that fly decides to come to your plate.

And some people in the restaurant has ordered the same stuff that you have, but the fly comes around and bother you. Luke Kinkley's everywhere on the field. That's great. That's a genius description. That's awesome. Yeah. I think they did play that at some point. It's part of, I've seen it in montages before.

Yeah. Because it's like, damn, that's bar. Very nice. We need to effort. This is the year of Jake. We should try to get more tell us. Can you book Marty B? Yeah.

Like just anything you touch is turning to gold. So let's come on. Let's go. Nothing but failure. Let's go. All right. So you're at the game. Game goes well.

Great game. Left early. Went down to the wire. We missed it. When you leave early, do you leave before the Hager CEO leaves? Mindy told us. There will be your ride will either be here at halftime if you choose to leave. We're also going to send them back at the end of the game if you choose to stay for the rest of it.

Yeah, we had a bus chattling us around the whole time. No, I'm a little sprinter van. I don't want to say that isn't the choice I would have made. Private driver. There was only of like eight people in the group, two of them stayed until the end. Everyone else was, you know, we got some stuff. Now, what are you doing with, like, you were there to like do some filming and? Yeah.

What were you, were you just interviewing him a little bit? Fans of the Dumbzone Instagram, they've probably already seen some of the stuff we put out. Just try to get the word out there about the jacket. Everything was laser focused on. So like when, is the CEO of Hager putting the jacket on Drew Brees? No. Or he's like right there, though?

We, uh, he was with us, you know, he's in the room. He was at the table next to our table. Okay. Yeah. But yeah, no, the, the, the action. Ceremony is surreal. Because you got the

speeches and everything that you see on TV. The night before is when they get the jackets. And that's like a private ceremony. And you were there? Where is it? We were. It's at the Canton Civic Center, which...

How many people are there? High school football award ceremony. I think they said like 600. But it's kind of like an arena. Compared to the next day when they're giving speeches, there's thousands of people there. Yes. Yeah, okay.

But the Canton Civic Center, there's like seats ringing the floor, and then the floor is filled with tables because it's a dinner. And we're at the tables. You're at a table. Being served food. On the floor, it was crazy. And there's other, but there's other people are not at tables. They're not getting served food. Yeah, okay.

Family of the. Now, how are you dressed here? What are we wearing? That, they said, suit and top. tie, which made me very concerned because I haven't owned this suit and tie. I got a suit for Jake's wedding. That's the last suit that I've had. Do you feel that was a smaller T.C.?

That was definitely a smaller T.C. So the first thing when we landed is I'm going up to Mindy like, how literally do they mean suit? Yeah. And she said it was fine. And it was fine. There was a guy in DeMarcus Ware jersey also on the floor with us. I was not the worst dressed. I had a Tommy Bahama Bears.

Yeah, I mean A Bears button down. A Bears button down. You know what Tommy Baham is. It's a Hawaiian shirt. Yeah. It's a Hawaiian shirt with bears. T.C. said, well, you know, it's going to be like a bunch of like coaches.

I figured I could like wear like coaches would wear. Yeah. What kind of pants? Nice dress pants. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the one thing. Interesting.

I don't even know if I would have done that. Before we read a Hawaiian shirt. Tommy Bahama guy. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So if Andy had been there, we would have fit in just nice. Before we left, I texted T.C. and I said, hey, I don't know if you've seen this ticket that they sent in the email for the gold jacket and trinease dinner. But it looks like a Bruce Wayne party.

I think we're going to have to wear a suit and tie. And he just sent back, I sure hope not. Like you wouldn't use this as an opportunity. You know what? I could upgrade the wardrobe. Now I'll have a suit. Honestly, if you would have asked me, could I buy a cheap suit and the company paid for a hundred bucks? What is this suit?

I mean, you don't have to go. Whatever I first said. You'd have to wear a hagger. Whatever I said to Mindy, she said, well, if you'd let us know, we would have been happy to supply. Man. She was lovely. But that would have, honestly, then he's kind of got to wear it. So that's not really a door he wanted to open.

The email saying suit and tie came pretty late in the game. I was hoping it was. You know, a little more permissive than that. And in truth, it was. But I just, you know, you guys know, I'm from Chicago. Like, the kinds of things that, like, I imagine my grandpa going to all the time, like, Elks Lodge dinners or whatever, like the Rotary Club gets together. Or the Elderman Meat or something.

That's what the enshrinement, like, gold jacket dinner feels like. The beginning of it is the mayor of Canton, just kind of thanking the regional chamber for all the work they did this year. The next speaker was an Ohio farmer in a cowboy hat who's the head of certified Angus Beef. Yeah. He was just telling us a little bit about what we were eating that night. Followed by the man who raised the beef, Hall of Fame tackle Joe Thomas. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Wow. Of course. No doubt. Got the beef, did he? He did? MVP beef, correct? No, Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame. H-O-F. First ballot there, Jake. Yeah. For a guy who said he's... Yeah. We were talking about that for sure. Yeah.

Once drunkenly, uh, just awoke from the back of a apartment in Cleveland. As guys were just like, man, isn't Joe Thomas great? At least we had Joe Thomas. We were having a lot of... This is like a half hour Joe Thomas conversation. Could he have played quarterback? Like, we could have at least tried. He's such a leader.

And I just sort of, with foam coming from my mouth, is like, Joe Thomas in a fucking Hall of Fame. We were Joe Thomas? which really spurred the next 15 minutes of the conversation. And I'm like back out. And they're like, all pros, how many? Yeah. Well, you know, they didn't call it the playoff game winter farms.

Yeah. It's true. But yeah, it just feels like a classic Midwest society dinner. And then kind of Masonic. 120 of the most famous football players on the world come in. They said the most that they've ever had to return. And they have like a Hall of Fame members association. And I guess they've elected Dan Fouts as the head of it.

Good choice. And so it was an excellent choice. He killed it. So he's welcoming each of them in. He's given a little, you know, short bot, you know, this guy's your number one in this category. Remember the 1990s all decade team, welcome them up. And it was just everyone that you've enjoyed growing up.

walks into the room. How late was the night? It was, I mean, there's 120 people there. How quickly could you introduce 120? I think it started at 7, and it was probably 10, 30, 11. Yeah, almost probably that 11. Cowboys, Aikman, Emmett, those guys? Ait was the only one that wasn't there.

I assume that Brady? No. Brady was not there. Oh, okay. But yeah, just of the cowboy, you know, Michael was there, Emmett was there, Charles was there. Okay. Some of the older ones. Larry Sanko was there. He's old as hell.

That was great seeing Larry Zonka. American Gladiators. Let me tell you something. Not on my live list if you had asked me. Yeah. I would have put that one dirt on it 20 years ago. But then they have all of the members gathered there and they announce the new guys and they come up and get their jackets.

So they walk through and like every of the most famous football players you've ever seen like gives him a handshake, tells them how good of a job they did. Yep. And then they get to pick which current Hall of Famer puts the jacket on them. Wow, it's like being knighted, dude. They call it the gauntlet. You got to go through the gauntlet. Yes.

And yeah, they're welcoming you to the hall. It was making me think about these kinds of like clubs and societies. And all of it's just, if you can get everyone to agree that they think this is important, then it becomes important. Sure. And these are all people who like probably have a very important. very Dan-like disposition of like, I don't really care about anything. Like, just if you're that, like, rich and famous, like, but this is the one thing that they all do agree, like, I really care about this. I'm clearing out my weekend. I'm going to make sure

I can fly to this group I'm a part of. And this is the one I care about. Middle of nowhere. Yes, yes. The fact this is all taking place in a Cleveland suburb that's seen better days. No question about it. Yeah, Canton's not a, it's more of an act. It's more of an act. Akron suburb. It's the Akron Canton area type thing. Which I think about Akron suburb. Right. That's what I'm saying. Yes. Like Akron's not bustling. Not that Cleveland is bustling. I bet

you could get a house there for a very reasonable prices, it seemed. Yeah. But yeah, they've, you know, because 100 years ago this is the car dealership where the, you know, two bit businessmen who had the teams were meeting. Now Jerry Jones has to fly

here. And like he did, you know? Like, he cares about being this club enough that he was there for like the group photo and everything. It's pretty cool, man. Gosh. They get to pick which Hall of Famer puts them in. All of that was cool. You know, like just seeing who each of them picked was awesome.

Oh, yeah. But Larry Fitzgerald grew up being a ballboy for the Vikings. And so he picked Chris Carter. And they had a long hug and talk before he puts the jacket. It was just the kind of thing that you don't imagine. Whenever you just see the video of it, you don't look at it and say, I bet T.C. is somewhere in there. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. What were we doing there? It was nuts.

And then you came home Saturday? Yeah. Saturday we had the, you know, that's when the thing you see on TV is. And again, we're not the speech. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, you didn't go to that. We did. Left right after, I guess. Oh, all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The second they were done, we're back. to the hotel, we're up to Cleveland, we're sleeping in our beds. It was beautiful.

But yeah, the speeches are in the stadium, as you imagine. As we were at the Hall of Fame game, you're kind of like looking at the stands. It doesn't look like a regular football stands, and it's because it's crafted so that it like turns into a stage. And that's where the presentation is. All the Hall of Famers are sitting up there watching the speeches. I'm not trying to blow anyone spot up, but if it were me, I would have to leave my phone somewhere else because Adam Vinatieri giving a very heartfelt speech about his life and watching Emmett Smith just got to scroll Twitter during it. Oh, wow.

And you could tell he was way too hot. The sun was just beaten down. You could tell he was like, get me away from here. Okay, there's a million degrees about this. It is. They all can, they're all happy for you. That's hilarious. There's very few situations in life where somebody's going to get up and talk for 20 minutes about themselves.

and really everybody wants to hear it. Yeah. Right? Like your family may be, but everyone else is just like, I do your thing. Yeah, so because we were there as part of the Hager group,

our seats were a row in front of Bruce Ariens. I couldn't believe it. He's got to kind of like peer around me and Danny to see Larry Fitzgerald. And then we're close enough to him that he's listening to everyone else's speech. And like someone said, you know, football is temporary, but family's forever.

And Bruce Ariens over my left shoulder goes, amen, brother. Yeah, yeah, he did. Yeah. And I don't know if he'll make it to the pro football Hall of Fame. I hope. He's a great coach. But the white guy you can tell grew up in a black neighbor at Hall of Fame, Bruce Ariens first ballot.

First ballot Hall of Fame. No, he's always, it's not even just the way he talks. Like he dresses like he listens to jazz. He has. Oh, he's definitely, he had the cangle on. He's always just had a little, a little spice. He's so great. He's a great, I mean, dude, listening to him talk football.

If you ever find, like, clips of him just talking old ball, he's just a, you know, he's a bullshitter. He's one of those guys that, I think, organizes, like, Shottie's not getting invited to that, that table regularly, you know? But yeah, Larry Fitzgerald went first and gave a great speed. like regular down the middle speech. And then Vinatieri was next. And the first like five, ten minutes were regular stuff. And then... Yeah.

Okay. So hold on. I want to play Vinutary stuff right now then. But whenever that first hit, people were not ready. They were not ready for it. That's what I want to... Okay, yes. All right.

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Thank you, Plumquick. And we have, yeah, they'll be with us at training camp. If your water breaks. My water. I wanted to throw in real quick. They did have on display the Tebow jersey from the game that Dan got out of the suit. Yeah, I saw that in the L's video. They have like famous jerseys from famous games.

And they got Air McNair's 9 from the Music City Miracle and then TiVos from the... The playoff one playoff game. And the lady giving us a tour. Shout out Martha. Martha was incredible. Go to tour guide. You got a tour of the Hall of Fame? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Instead of just like, I've had to walk through. I've been there many times, but just with the dirty public. Yeah, no. The CEO of Hager, when he's rolling through, they put someone with him and anyone that's rolling with the CEO of Hager gets to go along. And they obviously gave us, they gave us the best of the best. Oh, yeah. They said, give them Martha.

And she was incredible. But she had a little spiel at the end of the Tebow thing that it kind of had the feel of the monster energy drink lady. Where she was saying he threw for, so he's a big God guy. John 316. John 316. Both his coach and GM named John. He threw for 316 yards on 10 attempts for a 31.6 average.

When the Nielsen rating came out the next day, 31.6 million viewers. something to think about. Hell yeah. I can't make that up. I've certainly seen that one before. Yeah. That's why he's had such great career. Yeah.

Okay, so I almost don't want to, the one that stunned everybody. So here's the thing. So I saw one clip online and I'm like, holy crap, I got to go watch the whole venetary speech. Like you said, I'm watching five minutes, maybe eight minutes. he's just thing and I go God damn it Ball sack I've got ball sack

I'm sure I'm ball sack this is like a 25 minute speech or whatever but I've already spent eight minutes of my life just hearing him thank his coaches and his wife and his kid whatever and it's just like all right I guess

I mean I just saw like some crazy Seinfeld thing this week like they can do everything with AI and I'm like all right obviously they can just make Adam Venetary say anything they want.

Yep. You saw the Palestinian Jerry Seinfeld thing? Yes. So good. It's incredible. Like, I, if you didn't know it was fake going in, you might have been like, they're in the cafe. Yeah.

Yeah, I started it and was like, I ain't doing this. It's too good. It's like, nah. All right. So the one that's the most shocking is kind of the ender, but I'm going to have to play it because this is the whole thing. This is the, like... And again, Dan, I wasn't watching this live.

There's no way he said this. T.C. texted this to me the moment it happened. And I'm like, you know, I'm not doing anything. I'm looking at my phone. I'm like, there's no... There's no way. Like, not in this crowd. So, yeah, he's just thanking everybody's thanking the Patriots.

He's thanking this people he worked with. Thank you for building an environment second to none. These past 25 years of the Patriot dynasty may never be repeated. Your time to join us. on this stage and in the hall is right around the corner, and I can't wait. I would repeat those last few statements about Coach Bill Belichick as well. Thank you for demanding excellence every single day. Your preparation, discipline, and attention to detail shaped far more than my football career. Unfortunately, Bill couldn't make it here today. There's a lot going on at UNC right now.

Like that said you. He may be on a recruiting trip right now looking for the next Lawrence Taylor. I thought it was because training camp had already started. But in truth, it's because he's judging his girlfriend's cheerleading competition. What? Yeah. I saw that. 100%. Yeah.

There's no way he just said that. And the crowd goes wild. All jokes aside. Well, no, they're not aside yet. My opinion, it was the greatest coach of all time. Hey, no, no, seriously, though, he's a great guy, though. Seriously, though, he's a great guy. No, he was sprinkling in, little.

He's little shots at the Patriots. He's still clearly like he was like one of his things was about the fourth time they tried to franchise tag him or. Which knowing Brandon and like his whole thing, could you imagine three franchise tags in a row? You'd be making great money. And you're a kicker. And it makes sense. Like if you know you have the number one kicker, then paying him the average of the top five salaries is a steal for you? Sure.

Yeah. And knowing that kickers can lose it event. you know, like that, so why not? That's a perfect, you know, position to use the franchise tag on, I would think. So is this when Bruce Ariens is right behind you? Yeah. Yes. Can you hear other NFL guys laughing?

Everyone was stunned, and it, I would have thought that, like, maybe they would have thrown something at him because it was so, like, stayed before that. But whenever he said it, everyone was like, I don't know, I didn't know we get to laugh at this. All right. Bruce Ariens cracked up. Bruce Ariens, wife cracked. up. You know, dude, the wives are loving it.

It's like the Shane Gillis with Rand Paul or something. Like, wait, we're doing this? Yeah, yeah. I broke the mold. All right. So, yeah, then all of a sudden, from here on, it's now a roast. How deep in are we when this one happens? Five, six minutes already?

It's a while. Five or eight, yeah. Yeah, it's well in it. So now it's a roast with varying degrees of the punchlines hitting. Some of them didn't. Some of them are confusing. We can sift through some of those first. And today, I officially close one chapter of my life and continue another.

Today, I get to be a high school football coach. But clearly, my coaching skills are subpar because many of you have seen Grancowski go 0 for two in the kick of destiny. Don't know it. Yeah, me neither. Felt a little like, I don't know, maybe. This one was similar. Is that a Fox bit? As far as not great.

we'll never know response I was lucky enough to play with the greatest quarterback in Patriot history unfortunately he was unable to make it here today Drew Bloodsoe sniped him You think that was good? That's funny That's kind of fun

I liked it It's possible Drew Bloodsows I had a few more Tom Brady jokes But I was afraid that he had run up on this stage and maybe give me a Will Smith like he did to Logan Paul last month All right Here's the thing

I got two problems with this right now And they're the same problem, and I'm sorry to stop the show down, but it's a problem I've been having for the last fucking year. Yes, you get a bad thing. No. Oh. Take a break. Kick of destiny was I knew Rob Grankowski was doing some bit, like, live stream.

It was a fan dual marketing campaign, okay? The Tom Brady bit there, Logan Paul, I'm going to tell you right now. I don't think Kirk Cousins and Max Crosby got in a fight. at all. I think this is a wrestling bit, and I think Tom Brady is somehow involved, and I think Michael Rubin is somehow involved. Interesting. I think that there's way too much bullshit

going on here. I don't like it at all. I hate it. Why do we need to shout out the kick of destiny? Shout out, kick of destiny. There's a forced-in, sponsored thing. Something's going on here. I don't like it. So he's thanking the Patriots at this point. He's still in the Patriots

stuff, and he's kind of working in a little higher level comedy. You've got to think about it. To every coach, trainer, equipment manager, strength coach, nutritionist, front office member, security guard, ballboy, doctor, every person behind the scenes, thank you. Championship organizations aren't built by stars. They're built by people whose names rarely make headlines.

Except maybe one ball boy? I'll wait for it. Go ahead. Yeah. Who's going to wait for the applause? I'll wait for it. You made all of us better. No, that's good.

No, there's a way to... That's real good. There's definitely a better way to deliver that, right? We all know. There's a way he could have really made that sting. Yeah, but another shot at the Patriots. The Fleetgate. And then he's talking now, he's talking about the Colts.

And I think he's going to talk about Peyton Manning. That will always be one of the greatest memories of my football career. But what made it truly special was sharing that journey with all of you and celebrating it all together with you. I'll never forget the energy, the excitement, and the pride that swept through the city. And Peyton, thank you for generously donating your forehead for today's teleprompter. Got him. Sniped him.

Will he recover? And then, so now that he's already, like, the Belichick thing floored everyone, and they're shocked. But now he's kind of working. He's got the crowd going. They're on his side. And he's going to deliver his best line of the night. I'm thankful our pass crossed, and I'm proud of everything we accomplished together. Hey, Pat McAfee's here in the crowd today.

Great to see you, brother. The only person who enjoyed holding my balls more than my wife. The crowd goes wild. Wives love it. She held for me in the off season when everyone else was gone. Get that right. Didn't need that. So I made her a protein drink in the restaurant.

He wasn't willing to go there. I was just thinking about what an odd... What else is there like this? Okay, at the SBs, they do some D-E-Sing, some sucking people off, but they don't... It's nice thing, joke. Nice thing, joke. It's very weird to have to say real nice things.

For 45, 60 seconds, then be like, this guy's got a fucking ugly head. But no one else's doing that. It just comes out of nowhere. No one else is working a stand-up set. I know. They're just all doing the... It just sounds so out of nowhere every time he's like giving genuine, like, man, it really meant a lot to me. You know, this and that, this and that.

This guy's having sex with a young lady. I can't think of anywhere else you'd be able to do this. It's incredible. Leave it to the kicker too, man, to be like, I'm probably good to just take this way further than everyone else. Yeah, they weren't expecting it. They were not expecting it at all. I love it. Were you guys thinking what I was thinking throughout seeing Adam Venetarian trined?

Oh, my God, yes. I mean, I want to be there. That's all I want to be. I want to be at least in the stadium that day. But whenever Brandon Aubrey goes into the hall. Oh, for sure. Are we on the, like I saw Luke Keith Keytons big bus with all of his family. Yeah.

Are we in the back row of that bus? I would like to be. That's certainly something I've thought about. We're going to work a verbal contract in this year. Great move. just to make sure that we can hold them to it. Great job, T.C. Yes, that was awesome.

Thank you guys so much. That was really cool. And thank you to Hager, who made the gold jacket. You know what, Hager? I've always said, like, compared to the green jacket. Like, this one's. Number one. It runs laps around the green jacket.

It's incredible. The green jacket is, you know. Unless we find out they make that, too. Well, they probably would have told you, but yeah. The gold one is exceptional. I mean, it's gold. What else? All right.

You want to keep going with some sports? You want to take a break? Let's take a break. Sports on the other side. Now he does have to pee. The dumsa, d'uns. J.K. Dobbins's mom, Maya, became pregnant when she was 18 years old.

She went to the doctor because she was thinking about aborting the baby, but changed her mind. That baby turned out to be that young. young man. J.K. Dobbins, who she calls her miracle baby. You're listening to? Football's back, bro. So back. Happy birthday to Gus Johnson.

Yes, football's back, and we're going to go out to training camp. Our camp coverage brought to us by Plum Quick. That is our plumber and our sponsor for our title sponsor for training camp. So how about that? We also have Parlay Collective. By the way, Plum Quick. Let me see here. What is the website?

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My bad, my bad. The hot water fridge is that we have here. Stocked. It's hyper oxygenated, not just relaxed and oxygenated. Right. Fired up about it. But yeah, so we don't have to drink that horse urine. The swill.

Blake, Drek. To each his own. Can you tell it apart from Ozarka, or do you claim that you can? How? No, the, uh... Oh, How is great.

Yeah, I was going to say. The stuff he likes. No, it's just a different bottle. No, no. It's just a different label on it. But does he grant that? No. I can tell the difference.

Okay. No. And that's before we even get into all the legal trouble I found out about that the Arrowhead company's been involved in. Are you going to catch a minute? Malicious players in the market. market, it might seem. You're going to Kempspin Arrowhead Water?

If I need to. You should do it. Anyway, we're doing it right. We're bringing the good water out there. And then when we have a lighter load to return, whereas Blake does it the other way, where he'd send shitty water back here. There's certain stuff that you don't get by here

and you go to California back. And this is the opposite of that. Yeah, what's wrong with you? I was laughing when you said, California way with a South Park episode because you know

with current laws that shit is kind of true like there's stuff you can get out there you can't get here oh yeah I heard Shane talking about that on a podcast the other day

of like he's anytime he's travel and doing comedy he's like finds out when he gets to the hotel and I'm like damn it this is a conservative state boy when he pulls it up and it's banned such a pleasant feeling

landing in Ohio and realizing it's so anything goes. That's why he was happy about two rooms. Oh, yeah. I mean, come on. We all know. I have a sports story that I want to tell you guys about.

Like I said, tomorrow we'll have reports from Glove Island, the Rangers singles night. I also have some reports on... Did they call it that? That's awesome. Yeah. Okay. That's wonderful. We're right in it.

We've got a division race to keep track up. But I have another sports story for you. because I saw this a couple weeks ago that there was a dude found dead in a swimming pool in New Jersey and he was his name was Muhammad Kula Bali He goes by Moe And this guy's just found dead in a swimming pool And you know foul play they start looking into it

People start talking about what happened 24 year old guy was found in the swimming pool in New Jersey He was connected to several NFSA. NFL players financially. So when this guy died, I started seeing people say, like, hey, this guy was deleted for stepping out of bounds. Like, he was scamming people. And you start seeing some talk about it.

You start seeing some reports. And then this morning, I saw a guy go on some long TikTok rant about what was actually happening here. And involved in it is the former general. manager of the Arizona Cardinals Steve Kime. Do you remember Steve Kime? He's a wild boy. He's one of the rare offensive linemen who became a GM, multiple DUIs.

He's just, guys, he belonged in that room in Canton with his boys. He's a ball guy and a bald guy. But he's like, you know, he was a GM for many, many years. Very trusted, respected. But he's a wild boy. And he's caught up in this. So here's some guy on Twitter, but I'm telling you he's got screenshots. This guy's connected.

He's talking about what happened. Y'all want to come here and listen to this shit real quick because this is about to get crazy. By the way, I didn't edit this at all. He's just going to have to hear this guy talk how he talks. This dude right here, his name is Mo. Apparently, like, in the past week or so, like, he was either eliminated or committed suicide. But this thing gets deeper than that because I got a message from a very high-profile NFL player that's friends of mine. And he told me like, hey, this isn't just what you think is at surface level.

This is a very elaborate posse scheme. And he was just one of the players in it. And he alleges that Steve Kime, who is a former Arizona Cardinals NFL GM, like the person that's like in charge of getting the niggas on the team and drafting and everything, the GM from the Arizona Cardinals Steve Kine. Like this is fucking crazy. This dude is a part of this elaborate e-com scam. So basically what these guys were doing,

was, and this is all allegedly at this point, but this is actually a player right here, Tay 30, who actually posted this in this story. He says Steve Kime is heavily involved, former GM with the Arizona Cardinals. All right, Tay 30, that was, I can't remember what guy. It's some guy who's bounced around the league. It wasn't an NFL player you've heard of,

but it was some guy that was cut by the Cardinals. He posted that Steve Kime is very involved here, like look into it. since then the guy that he's about to tell you about here that he says remains nameless is the andre hopkins because the andre hopkins just went ahead and went out and did it himself so take this walk with me and let me explain a little bit more so this is steve kine on the left hand side right here i'll skip ahead a little bit uh steve uh steve has basically worked with and provided his uh likeness and he's the C-E-O or CFO of the company that Moe was using this whole E-com Ponzi scheme with these players.

And there's players that were given anywhere between $100K and millions of dollars. Like one guy literally is like a million bucks. And people always talk about how players go broke and shit like that. But this white man right here who is in charge of like hiring and firing of the players, you think he's not trusted and he's out here allegedly setting up people, to get robbed in the Ponzi scheme. And I'm talking about from what they're telling me is his wife was involved in this, his family members, friends, everything.

Like, it's like a big fucking deal. Like, this thing, like, this isn't a small thing. And this one NFL player even hits me up. Okay, so before we get to the D'Andre part, what seems to have been happening here is Steve Kime. And as of last night, his Instagram profile said, like, CFO of Viewflow holdings or something, that has been removed. He clearly knows these guys have a bunch of money that they don't know

what to do with. They trust me. And I can find ways to tell them like, hey, you know, these e-commerce businesses. I mean, you see this shit on the internet all the time or somebody's like, you know, you set up this Amazon thing. And if you've got this kind of money, you can just have it print money for you. And these guys don't know better. But they've got,

this isn't like their cousin, Boogie telling him give them money. It's Steve Kine. And his son and his wife. And so this dude was just basically grifting tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars. from these guys and telling him you'll get these returns. And then now, since this is coming out, now the stuff that you're going to hear from like Hop is not really about the scheme at all.

It's just about Steve's kind of being a sleaze ball. I think that's what he called him on. Did you have it in front of you, Blake? I thought you looked it up. I think DeAndre Hopkins called him, what don't he call him, Steve Slime. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, I think it's what it was.

Like that. Oh, scheme slime was my GM. Skeep slime. Yeah, so this is that. This guy, Steve, was so fucking dirty and nasty that Steve, like, allegedly even tampered with a drug sample test for him that made him lose over $40 million. This player tells me... It wasn't 40.

It was 11, but... That he had some incentives in the deal. And then year three or year four of his contract, he had certain numbers he had to hit in order to make that extra $40 million. Well, now all of a sudden, this player who's never had a dirty sample in his career, now there's trace evidence of something in his sample and that costs him $40 million. That player will be named at a later time, but just not right now. But I'm telling you right now, listen to this.

This is a guy that's literally going to got access to every NFL player on the sideline. I'll go ahead a little bit. But you get the picture of what's happening here. People don't like this guy. They've been waiting for a moment. DeAndi O'Hopkin said Steve, Steve Kime? Yeah. Was scheme slime?

Yeah. Okay. Scheme. Yeah. IG Bio, prior to him changing it, he was his chief operating officer of Vent Motion LLC, former GM of the Arizona Cardinals and two-time executive of the year. So Steve is like a decorated fucking baller, man.

And then he gets involved in some bullshit with a Ponzi scheme. And he's got all these players losing all their fucking hardwomeness. working life savings allegedly. And, um, okay, I'll skip one more here. So let me explain exactly what was being promised to these people. So Mo was essentially telling people you, Mo is the guy who died in a swimming pool. Who would, uh, invest in their e-com store and he would handle all the heavy lifting and

all the work, meaning he would handle your products. He would ship out your orders, doing all of the fulfillment, run your ads for you. That sounds familiar, right? Boniface ran the same thing. I heard, uh, Papi Chulo run the same thing. But like, the thing that these guys do is obviously they flip. a lot of cash. This is somebody's money. This is somebody's probably NFL salary or something that's being spent in a strip club or balled out on. This is the part that you have to pay attention to.

There's not people that have real money that they've got legally doing this type of dumb shit. Like you just got to understand that. And these players, like most NFL players, man, let's be real. They don't know what to do with their fucking money because they've never had that type of money. So they're looking at people coming to them that look like they're when they're getting co-signed by fucking NFL GMs and shit like that. And they're saying, hey, we can make you 80% on your money in six months. Like, yo, 80% returns is fucking crazy. So, yeah, of course, people were thinking that they're about to be getting that.

And I don't know what was exactly promised these guys. Some of this dude's numbers are off. But you know it was enough to where it was illegal. Like you're promising things that are illegal. And it sounds like what happens or what happened in this. case is when things ran out, you're probably not getting to Steve Kime first, but you're just going to kill the guy in between you and Steve Kime. In this case, it was a 24-year-old, you know, street dude. So the theory is some NFL player, like, are there players coming forward saying,

hey, yeah, I was, I gave a million dollars and I didn't get anything back. As of this morning is when this came out, I haven't seen. Okay. But that's the theory is that somebody who did lose lots and lots of money, had him killed? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you wonder, you hear all this stuff about Steve's character. I'd like to openly speculate what his role might be.

Yeah, no, I mean, that's another side of it, right? What if it was supposed to go to the players if Moe would have been doing his job right? Yeah. And then Steve Kimes, like, well, I'm going to move you off the too deep. And the thing about Ponzi schemes is when the economy's doing well, it's not that hard to keep him going. Right. Is the Iran war hurting us this? bad?

It's a wild story, man, and it just makes you wonder, like, you know, we've all seen like ballers, playmakers. You know that there's, like, connections, but you never know how deep. And this dude was 100% murdered by somebody affiliated with the NFL, being a player, a GM, somebody that got screwed. Like, was he wearing a bathing suit and lying on? lounge chair? Was he fully clothed?

Yes. I don't think so. Yeah. Okay. I don't. So it wasn't a possible just accident. You have a suntan lotion on his nose. Barron's, the Wall Street Journal thing, did an article where they interviewed three former

players anonymously who said they lost more than a million, or lost more than a million, the three of them combined over their investments with him. nearly two dozen other current and former pro athletes were also on a pitch deck the guy had a pitch deck so now everybody's names on it that he's... That's how it works.

Maybe a Canva. I'm a pitch deck guy. Yeah, it's Dan Lerns things time. Settle flexes. Canva. Today's news will be brought to us by Qualis Roofing. The foundation, ironically. I heard this in forever.

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I thought you were like moving. Never. Okay. Never. We had an assassination attempt or a man arrested for one. A Houston man is facing a criminal case for, for threatening the governor. There's a 35-year-old guy.

And here's the reason. He sent a letter. Actually, it was a voicemail at the governor's office. Now, I don't have the call, but I wish I did. So I'm just going to read it for you, okay? It's got the transcript. I don't know which one of you son of bitches, sons of bitches, pass this mother-of-fucking bill to get this damn shit blocking

my motherfucking anime, but you a whole ass motherfucker need to unpass this shit. Y'all are fucking ridiculous with your bitch asses. My Google account says I'm fucking over the age of 18, and your dumb ass is passing these done-ass laws. I'm going to fucking stab every goddamn one of you unlock my fucking anime. That's an assassination attempt? Well, it's going to get you, you know, sorry, I went a little far on the, maybe my headline, but it's getting you arrested for a terroristic threat against a public servant. I saw the guy interviewed

and I don't know I'm kind of proud of him for expanding his horizons enough to be that passionate about anime just regular white dude did not have all of his teeth is that porn?

No, it doesn't have to be it's porn coded though it's very likely Because why is he shut out? What's wrong? Well that's his point Yeah because the service he was on

is not an adult service it's crunchy role I'd never You know But I just saw it from the story but it's not like anime porn, it's just anime. But I guess they're saying, I mean, listen, we probably should keep an eye on those folks.

Yeah. But, yeah, no, it's not a... So I think with the problem, Dan, is that, you know, something that, like when Doge went in and control F to trans and accidentally took all the money from the Transmission Auto Workers Association or whatever. Yeah. I think what you might have is that anime... This guy got crotting the crosshairs.

Yeah. And anime is horny. doubt about it. So horny. And it's sexual compared to American cartoons, but you could see it getting caught up in the crossways. I'm just glad crunchy roll finally has a use. I've been seeing that button on my remotes for...

The only way I know it's... Nine years now. I'm like, finally. So that's what that is. You guys ever do animated porn? No, absolutely not. Now, primarily, when you say animated, you're not just talking anime. You could be talking lowest or something.

No, just cartoon, like a real... No, not... Bad beats. I'm sure, Blake, you've seen some animated stuff that has gotten you going at some point in your life. But, like, now, adult, do you cert, like, oh, there's Marge Simpson and, uh. God, man, it's so gross. That's just, that's not me, dog, no. Someone's having to draw.

No animated? Someone's having to draw cum. I don't think I would. It's so gross. I bet TC has done, like, space animated. No. Absolutely no. Like Rick and Morty or something?

And I don't... Aquitine. I don't know that I would associate with anyone who did. Okay. Did Benion and I knew a guy? Well, you're using the past tense there. Yeah. Knew a guy.

I feel like anime is just, that's a... Is that the thing with pulsating lights and I got to be warned before I watch it? Yeah, there was once a writer. I think he might have been from Dallas. Kirk Eichendwald, right? Yes, yes. I was just trying Listen, I may have posted a screenshot

That clearly showed I'm watching tentacle porn But I was just showing my family That it exists. I wasn't watching it. Tenticle porn. Yeah. Is that anime? It's animated.

It's an octopus? Yeah, kind of. The four ladies. Well, the thing about animation, it can be. Anything, really. It's a new kind of creature you've never even heard of. Right. With flashing lights.

Here's a creature you have heard of. We've got big trouble out at Lake Worth. Texas game wardens are offering a $1,000 reward for information that will help them find out who is illegally shooting alligators at the Fort Worth Nature Center and refuge on Lake Worth. Between May and July of this year, they found three alligators shot. Two of the animals were killed and their carcasses were left to waste. Well, this sentence is really.

funny, all right? While a third survived after game wardens discovered it with a crossbow bolt still lodged in its body. It sounds like a Gordon character, like beaten half a live alligator with crossbow through But they saved him?

Yeah, they saved it. Yeah. They save that one. It's wild, dude. I mean, I guess probably you're hoping you kill it, you sell it, right? There's got to be tremendous value here. Yeah, but they just left them to ride. And that's why I, maybe there was a, if they made a purse or something, you'd be like, okay. Boots. Yeah. I can see that. I like how you did coach O for the alligator voice.

Well, I mean, I just, that's a straight cribbing Gordon, but I would imagine, you know, half a life character. Yeah, I don't know what the incentive is if you're just going to leave it there. But maybe it was like, you know, you weren't able to finish the job. You couldn't get to vault and get the gator carcass. I don't think some people just want to shoot it? Just for the fun of the game. Man, I hope not. Soft.

Man, he used to be cool. Soft. Yeah. The guy mad at anime definitely wants to shoot an animal and just let it lay there. Do you guys see Coach O's on cameo? No. He'll draft your draft order for you. That's really sad.

In your fantasy team. That's what I was thinking. Why? You're Coach. He's on. a staff now, isn't he? LSU. Yeah. But I think he still will for exceptionally low price

for what Coach O'Shea must have in the bank. Yeah. You'd think. Yeah, that's disappointing. I like the way that... Wait, sorry. Before we move on. First pick, T.C.

Is the board of trustees members still at LSU? Man, that's a great question. But I don't know if we ever found out which one it was. Yeah, no, I think it was always. Yeah, so that story is referencing. I guess most of them probably have a hot wife, but.

Yeah. Maybe. Not all of them. Not every, money that can't always get you hot wife. Now, there may be other stuff going on, but. And the big story that got Coach O fired about how horny he was, among other things, one of them was that he, like at a gas station in Baton Rouge, pulls up, I swear in my In my memory of this, his shirt was open.

Like no shoes. And there was a trustee's wife at the gas pump, and he made a run at her. She was wearing yoga pants. I don't know. She was wearing yoga pants. She was also pregnant. And he's like, I don't give a fuck. Like, give me that.

She told him my husband's a trustee of the university. He said, what's your man got to do with? Informed Ordron that she was married and pregnant. Ordron supposedly was not deterred and replied, why? does that matter? Why does that matter? Why does it? What I can do with anything.

Spot the line. You're not made a coach old. Yeah, I mean, just an insane, insane level of machismo run amok, you know? Like, no one's telling that guy's shit. And he's at a point where he's just barefoot hitting on rich pregnant ladies. And it got him fired and he said, I'll be back. Yeah. Now here he is.

So there's this thing that you do when you're wasting time in grad school. Something called a content analysis, perhaps, where you'll say, well, let's look at all the news coverage on this topic for, like, one year and see what words they used. How do they talk about these stories? Shocker, you're going to find that things are, you know, slanted one way or the other. But I like what we're doing here because a pedestrian in Dallas, sadly, died over the weekend after being hit by a car on Maple Avenue, okay? But a lot of the headlines say like Dallas pedestrians struck by car, comma, Waymo died. And I like that because this Waymo didn't have shit to do with this. An SUV driven by a human hit the person. The person flew into a Waymo. Okay. Why would they even put Waymo in the...

So that we can run these people out of a... Yeah, why is it even in the headline, though? What if it was a Toyota? I don't know. Yeah. maybe if I don't want Waymo's taking my jobs, then I'll put their race of vehicle into the headlines a little more like I used to do with different types of people. Also, there was a black guy standing there.

Whenever I'm writing a headline, I'm not saying, hey, what's a good, true perspective on this? I'm saying, what's going to get this to get people to click? Yeah. For sure. And I want bands on... By the time they find out that it just got knocked in. to the Waymo by an SUV. They've already clicked.

Yeah, news stories where it's like, you know, white guy bit by dog and Allie was also there somewhere in the background. I don't want, I don't want driverless cars anymore. Oh. That's because you have a turn. I know. I haven't really been in one. It's so good.

You predicted it with glee. Yeah. I know. Like operas. That's ridiculous. I think you were less involved in this than he was, but sure. But I didn't think at all about what they would do with this. So just your degree of having any privacy in your car ever, like that was always a good place to just be like, at least I'm fucking in here.

Nobody's messing with me. That's gone. You'll be on camera and every fart and every piss in your little cup that you're so proud of for the rest of your life will be streamed. Yeah, but the current thing is Back to their main office Bullshit The current thing is either that or a human That's sitting next to you is watching you

Like I would much prefer Nah, but you could drive your own car though You know what I mean? That's what I'm gonna miss And that's why Well, I don't think that they're outlawing Your own cars yet No, but it's just the creep

Right of okay Well I'm willing to get into a car It's way more car What if I buy next time I drive by a car I'll do one that driverless a little bit And then when the tall, it's, you know, Cass Sunstein were slowly dripping it. But if I can blame them for, like, child kidnappings or car accidents that they had nothing to do with that. The story even says the Waymo, like, stopped and slowed down.

Like, it behaved exactly like it was supposed to. I heard they killed that NFL advisor guy. Yep. Scheme's gun. Waymo bitch Give my money Let's see What else will we want to do here

I was intrigued by this story First of all there's two things happening That I'm interested That involves SeaWorld I'll tell you about the second one first Have you guys noticed that rappers are just going to SeaWorld now Doing like insane concerts Yes

First it was E40 Yeah yeah And then over the weekend it was too short At San Diego Zoo Which is badass Maybe it's the San Diego SeaWorld. It's on the water. So it feels like it's part of the water.

And so we're doing concerts at SeaWorld. Why not? But SeaWorld San Antonio this weekend welcomed seven new beluga whales. Oh, yes. Which we recently talked about. As I saw a whale that I thought was going to be like probably 90% of the whales in the world were beluga whales. What is a beluga? I remember we recently talked about it.

A goofy-looking one. Yeah, they got a, they're white, they got a goofy, real goofy-looking heads. Why do we talk about them? It was just on my list of things that I heard a lot about as a child. I don't know that I've ever seen one or a story about one ever. Did you hear, are you about to say how they got there? That's the only reason. Okay, got it.

So how does that happen, right? You've got these, they're in Canada. like a theme park in Canada that's closing down. Oh, okay, yeah. You did that story last, yeah. About the moving them? To San Antonio. I did?

Yeah. I didn't know this. Because you didn't, it sounds like you're about to do a little better job on the story now. It tells it, like you're going to tell us why they're there now. You're going to give us a Kempspin on them. No, there's no Kempspin. Sorry. Oh, I thought they were severely abused in Canada.

That's okay Yeah It was like a place International effort No it was a place that I'm just going to pair I don't know the exact numbers But they had like 30 whales die in the last four years

And somebody looked in there like Hey This probably is not good right And then they went and looked in it And yeah you know It's like the health inspector at the restaurant A lot of rat poop And they're like

Yeah we can't let you be C World anymore We're going to take all your whales. Yeah, it was called Marine Land or something. Yeah, so then they sent some of them here. They sent some of them all over the place. Yeah, I saw a TikTok of the air traffic control chatter where the guy's explaining like, hey, we got to land this way. And they're like, why?

And he's like, well, we've got a couple of whales in the back. Yeah, there are these giant tanks that they put on these trucks that they basically drive onto an aircraft carrier. Yeah, like in Star Trek, the movie, Star Trek 5. Star Trek 3. Okay. How many Star Trek's are there? There's probably a lot, but I think it was Star Trek 3 that they went back in time.

Of course, they're from the future, so they went back in time to current time, which was like 1990. And they came back and because whales had gone extinct in the future, so they had to come back and then build something that was big enough to carry a whale in space and through time. You know, they had to slingshot around the sun. Which you'll have to do if you're going to time travel. You understand. Man. Space might be super gay now that I just talked it out. I like letting you just, I hand you the rope.

I hand you the rope. I've been meaning to tell you, Dan, I saw the Shatner chair in person this summer. Wait, what's the Shatner chair? Captain Kirk. Oh. The original from the first series or whatever. Could we buy that for the studio? What were that close? Paul Allen owns it.

Or the estate of Paul Allen owns it. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. What about like Ahura's chair? See what you can get done? Considerably cheaper. I see. Yeah, it's on display in Seattle.

See, now I'm going to have to learn a bunch of Star Trek characters to be able to do a little frustrating bit. Heavy as the cross. This is one maybe TC could help with a little bit because I feel like there's a chance your wife watched this type of TV. But today there was a deadline. that has been pushed back. The deadline was for John Gotti's grandson, Carmine Agnello. He was a star on the reality show Growing Up Gotti. No, we never watched growing up Gotti.

Wow, I watched it. You did? Nice. Yeah. So his mom, Victoria Gotti, who is also featured on the show. Here's what we got going on. Agnello is 39. He was given an ultimatum last week that he has to

complete the kidney transplant to his mother by August 10th or go to prison and start your COVID fraud sentence. Huh? Yeah. You can get out of prison for a kidney? Yes. Oh, right. Yeah. So this is, uh, that's very complicated how they worked this out, but I mean, they're letting him stay out right now.

he's going to have to do some time at some point but he's doing the like oh I can't go in now oh okay so that's what he was saying I can't go in because I got to give this kidding and by the way there's a zero percent chance and now he's partying yeah there's a zero percent chance this guy talks like that he looks like the situation

or fucking Polly whatever all those guys he's fully bleached all that but just trying to run out the clock on giving mama her kidney. What an angle? Yeah, I think How old is his mom?

Is it worth it? And she looks so weird, dude. Like what, lip filler type? Oh my God, dude. Just the sort of tanning and hair and class. It's just, it's not an attractive look. I don't know. Keep working it.

All right. And then I'll do my last one here, well, in Global. There was an evening flight to British Columbia from Toronto, Canada last week, that had to be canceled after a toddler refused to buckle their seatbelt. You cancel the flight? 10.30 p.m. flight. We'll kick the kid off. Just getting, I think, leaving Victoria.

And is it worth it? So then the toddler dies if they get in an accident. Is it worth? Okay. Go ahead, sorry. It's a lot of money for them. What? If the kid's flying around and gets injured in a, yeah, in turbulence.

Aircraft could not take off in this unsafe condition, the airline said, because you just couldn't get the kid in a seat. Again, why you're canceling the flight because your kid sucks. Yeah, but back up. How about just get you and your kid off the flight? Before that, like, what on earth are we talking about? You can't just, like, buckle the belt? The toddler was too big and strong and he fought you off.

What's going on? A young child was standing in their seat and would not secure their seat belt. That's the statement. Adding that neither the adult with the child nor the crew were able to get the child buckled. It's just Chris Barley as the baby. But I'm just saying, though, I'm on that flight. It's a red eye, right? I'm getting home real late.

How about we just kick you and your kid off and then we keep going? Why have we stopped this whole flight from leaving? I think that they're too woke to put the kid over the shoulder. It might be the case. Well, they had to get off that flight. Eventually. Or just pretend. Like, don't you fake stuff for your kids?

Like, all right, we'll just pretend we're all going to bed here. Oh, yeah, I love doing that. We all walk off the flight and then we all walk back on, but to leave the kid out there. Yeah, sometimes you get caught, though. I don't know. And you don't like to see them to catch you lying. Yeah, but this is the airlines and hundreds of people. No, I'm with you.

I'm still hung up on T.C. Sting of, like, how were they not able to get? Well, as you're describing it, starting to kind of come into focus my mind. I actually know a child that seems like a potential candidate. Would your kid do that? Yeah, but I think... He's biting the stewardess. There's times where he's a bit in control.

and I love it. You feel like there's not... Okay, that's fair. Well, all right, let's call that your news. We could still do the... What is that? 75 attempts in a row where it just sucks of him closing the news out. We were at however many shows before that in a row of it sucking,

so we're... What, a slight pause, and it was kind of entertaining, too? If it was, then you should have fought harder for that. The Ballyhooed pause. He would do it on purpose. I got you. It sucks. I ended early.

You didn't know I was going to end and now you had to pause. That's really funny. This is funny stuff. You're looking for a reason for the modest success of our show? We'll do the stand-up stuff tomorrow. If we can find a way... We never did the stand-up stuff. I'm sorry.

I mean, I'm doing the show. You said it's time for the news. He said... Oh. So I'm away. Look, I was a bad radio producer. You want to stand-up stuff now? I went to Africa for two weeks one time,

and Bob and Dan talked the entire segment. Do you want to do it now? I did it to throw it to you. And you go, okay, well, I guess I won't do it. And you just fucking shit all over my news closed. Now you're like, well, I got to do whatever this guy says, though. I guess I do. I guess I'm not doing the stand-up thing today.

I asked for the news change, the close change, because it occurred to me that you guys were really not paying attention during the news at all. You would kind of start flossing and lean back And I figured All right, well, I might as well just handle this part then Because every time I try to in the news He has to get a bus to get back to his computer

Because then just the hang time is weird So I feel like it's better if you don't have to do it Now you can fully check out during the news And not have to like come back I think I'm winning this argument I don't think it is one Do you want to do the stand-up show? No, we'll do it tomorrow.

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And we talked about it on the show after all. I've been doing it for a while and Akash Singh our friend from Point O who moved up to New York 20 years ago now he listens and he hit me up and was like hey I'm going to be in Oklahoma City

August 7th and 8th do you want to come out and do five to seven minutes and at this point I think I had done four or five open mics I was before the Dumb Zone Comedy Night Show and I remember remember when the Mavs were going through like a lot of turnover on their broadcast. Somebody asked me, this is like three or four years ago, like, hey, if they called you,

would you say yes to do a game? And I remember thinking, like, I would have to say no. Because I just simply, I think sometimes if you're not ready, there's no amount of get ready you can do. And you're probably not going to get asked again if you really bomb it. And I'd not done TV. So there was that brief moment in my head of like, you know, they're not ready for this, but I opted for I can get ready. Because he's going to have a real audience. Yeah. Now, not only, pros and cons there, right?

I mean, they know him and they also know, I would imagine to an extent, his opener, Matt McCoy, who's been an open, his opener the last couple of times I've seen him. He works for Akash. He lives up there. He's been doing it a while, too. Just awesome. They're both just, they're not just different, you know, they're killers. So the people don't know me at all, right?

I mean, one guy as I was walking up there the first time, I was like, who the fuck are you? Who are you? And so I have a real crowd, and they also did a cool thing of, they put me in between them. So, like, Matt went out there and did 18 minutes and kind of got the crowd ready.

Oh, so you were right before Akash. Okay, that's interesting. That's nice. Is it a bit like opening for Bruce, Bruce? Is that what Groobs did once upon a time? No. Well, it's an Indian audience and a largely black audience. It's also in Oklahoma, which is, I would imagine as far as like percentage of whites.

There's Indian people there, there's black people there, but it's a lot of white people too. Way more than you'd see a show in Dallas. Way more. Which is important because, you know, my shit's a little, you know. Some of it's, you know. Anti-Indian, a lot of it. I don't know about anti-Indian. I don't really focus on that continent as much.

But listen, if you don't think it's funny that possibly there's a kid in Africa wearing a Confederate Civil War champs t-shirt. And there was a guy who didn't love that. You know, they lost. Don't yell at me about it. He was feeling something. It is Oklahoma City. That's a factor.

But I'm not, I want to be clear at the beginning of this. I don't have any sort of like, oh, the audience, this audience. was this or that. I mean, I noticed what they noticed, but that is, I'm just up there trying to grow. So I'm not complaining in any regard about any of that. They can properly assess in two or three minutes what people are like. What about his thought process, though, I'm putting, like, you had only been up there a few times. He's going to throw you up there?

Like, I can't imagine he'd do that for most many people. Didn't he give Blake the chance? No. It's fine. I mean, he knew you'd been working on it, yeah, but still, I mean, that's... Yeah, I don't know. He's like, he was pretty confident in it, and he didn't really even watch. It's not like he's going to sit there and watch my set all five times.

He's got his own shit to do. So, I mean, he would give me feedback, but Matt would give me, you know, Matt's watching. And Matt would go back up after me before Icage for like one minute. Just kind of like, all right, we're back. Here's our next. Like the host normally would in his show. So how the first. the first show, how nervous are you?

Not at all. I'm telling you, dude. I was not nervous. It's Friday night? Yeah. Nervous is not the word. But I, just because you're not nervous, that doesn't mean it's going to go well or that you're like confident. I'm not, but nervous is not, how I feel nervous is when my heart is beating faster. And that was not happening. But, and it's about 300 people. And it's a, but the room is awesome. It's a dimly lit, like little dank ass. It's great. He loved it. They knew him right when he walked at the door. That's a cool thing, right? The club owners are like, can they love him? Because he sold out four shows with a whatever you need, dude. Like, they're getting it. That's great. So, yeah, I wasn't nervous. It's just, it's impossible to get that sort of experience at Open Mike Nights. So the second it was over, I was like, damn I want to do that again now but I got to wait two and a half hours because by the end of it I was like okay so you've often talked in open mic nights there's no one there like as a real fan most people are just there to do their bit and they're not there to laugh and party they're yeah it's very very hard you can't get a crowd on your side yeah and how do you get that's the part that I'm at I can write jokes I feel confident in that but being able to just be you know Akash one of his feedbacks was like after the first show was you got to stop having a conversation with yourself. self and have a conversation with them.

And that's not something I can practice at an open mic, really. So the next time up, I'm doing that. Because it's not just that it's people who are focused on their jokes. It's people who are the kinds of people that show up to open mic nights that are focused on their jokes. Like the Shane stuff of like when everything else is going terrible in your life, this is what you do. I'm sure it's not universally the case, but like, dude, not usually a room full of happy people,

I'd imagine. Yeah, I'm in a different spot. We'll put it to you like that. But the feedback... But here you are at a show where everybody paid money to see comedy. Right. They are there just to focus on you. Yeah.

And... Well, I mean, Akash first, but who's this guy? Yeah, who's this guy? Let's see what he's got. And so we did the two show. Like, the second one I felt way better about. I had a long conversation with Matt in between. Basically Akash's whole set.

I've seen... And he changes it up a little bit. but I mean, I've seen what he's doing right now. And Matt, he's... You're unimpressed. Crazy. No. He was like, told me when he first started doing open mics, he was a boxer before.

And he's like, I'm super competitive. And I would give myself one point for reordering jokes, two points for a new joke. And it was something like three if I ended with a different closer. And, uh, because I knew I needed to reorder my jokes a little bit. But I was so sad. I'm like, I want to execute the fucking script. We're running these 10 plays and we're going to see what happens. So if you were to attempt to reorder it, but you've got it in your head, that would throw you off?

Yeah, because there's like transitions, you know, and I haven't really worked them out. So then I would reorder it in between shows and I would be like, all right, we're trying something new. And then I did that every time. Every time I would try to add more and he would bring me on and I'd be like, it's points time. We're going. So these guys are like coaching you up. Big time, dude. Not only did they let me be in, like, and you guys know me.

Like, I know that, I definitely know that I print as a super arrogant asshole. But in reality, and that's not, not reality. But when I'm with people, I'm very concerned about, like, putting upon them. I really don't like feeling like I'm a bother, a nuisance, like, whatever. I just want to be in the background. I'm happy to be here. And they let me be around, you know? I mean, his mom was there.

Her first show was Radio City. This was her second. She drove up from where she lives in DFW. you. So she was there. Do you guys drive together? No, we did not. But I would, if she asked, she's got a lot of HSOs. A lot of HSOs.

She's a joy to be around. Would she like to share them on a podcast sometime? Yeah, but it probably won't be this one. I mean, I think he'll be cleaning that up at some point. But no, they just welcomed me in. And then from there, it was almost like, you know, Dumb Zone Comedy Night and, like, people, not everybody but some people like oh it's so great you're doing this so cool

like you like took it whatever they don't give a fuck when I started doing it they don't care about any backstory they're like you're here now it's obviously you've got some jokes let's start like getting better this is not you're not just here like don't so I really started trying to like challenge myself

and after the first show I was in the back in this youngish security guard Mexican dude came up to me and he was like hey man he's like your second show. He's like, I love the one bit. He's like, it was so, so good, so much better. I was like, the first one, I was like, I thought it went pretty well. He was like, yeah, not really. Boy, the security guard. He's like, the first one I could tell. He's like, well, you know, but who's seen more competent than that guy? He was like, oh, he's like, oh, he's been doing

a couple years or something kind of raw. I was like, I started a few months ago. And he's like, that's crazy, whatever. He's like, but anyways, your first show. So then I was like, okay, well, what did we do in the second one? Let's keep going. Let's keep going. Let's keep going. and I thought it got better every time. But who knows? There was no bomb in there? Sometimes people are like, yeah, I bombed. No, no, there's no real bomb.

It's, you know, there was somebody laughed at every joke I told. But some of them, there were only five or six people that like, and, you know, I'm learning a lot, and I don't want to beat people down with this, like, over and over. That's probably why I subconsciously didn't take the ball whenever you offered it after sports before news and just say, like, let's do it. I don't want to just beat people down with this, but sometimes I, like, I write jokes that are too smart. And I was told this in class. I've been told this by other comedians. And Akash was like, you know, Seinfeld quote, if your smart joke can only be understood by smart people, it's not a smart joke.

And there were multiple things I could clean up where I would actually see. Would Dennis Miller argue with that? I don't know, but fuck Dennis Miller. I would actually see some, I would see some guy. get it like a couple seconds later. And I'm like, okay, well, that's not good. I need you now. And I'm like, oh, okay, you get it.

The slaves made their own songs. But in the moment, he's like, what does that mean? You know? So some of that I can do better. And, you know, you get that from being in front of a crowd. So, dude, it was insane. It was a dream come true. I have a lot more I could probably talk about on just the not comedy part.

Yeah, like where do you stay? Sometimes they say that they have a comedy apartment. Yeah, well. Did you get a high at place? I got my own hotel and I kept it because as uppity as it sounds, I was not about to stay in a room with another dude at this stage of my life. I don't care. I'll spend the money.

Did they offer you that? They offered me a hotel room. Yeah, but I think I would have been sharing a room. With who? One of the crew. They had the opener, Matt. They had a camera guy. and they also had a guy who was training to replace the camera guy.

This is a whole other thing I have, segment I have, maybe on, like, as much as we talk about how media jobs are going away and don't go into journalism, this and that, there are a billion different jobs now that did not exist before. Like, I was telling this girl in Kauai, who was our tour guide, I told you she goes to school in Boston, and she was pretty hot. And she was like, I work behind, I do behind the camera stuff too, or mostly. And I'm like, because every team now has 10 people, five people, every college team.

Yeah. The guy that was with Akash works pretty much full time for Chris Destafano, who's a dude that I'm not like a huge, like, I'm not going to come see him when he comes to town. But he's big enough that he like filled in for Kimmel over the summer. And I like him. I think he's great. He's got some crazy, crazy ideas and thoughts. Some of it's too much for me. But the point is like that's a guy who's just a guy.

He's got a team. He's got editors. He's got like a guy. He does three podcasts. This guy used to edit that. Now he does video. Just know, you know, as we hear these stories about how the literacy rate is dropped to zero, it's because people are watching videos.

I think that's a big part of it. Those author jobs are going away and they're coming to people like me and Dan. Because there's this whole industry, dude, of people that are, and they're seeing the world. Like, that guy was in Saudi Arabia. He was at the Riyadh Festival. We talked about it for an hour. Oh, wow. And he's a guy who's like my age, and he started doing this like,

quit his corporate job seven years ago. Like right before, right at COVID, decided I've always wanted to do this, started editing audio. Now he's a sought after, like, videographer. And all these guys are bringing their own people, you know? So that was crazy just to see, but, and I think I'm allowed to say this because Matt made a joke about it. I gather in every city, like, so once you're going to get an NBA team, that's what I

want to talk about tomorrow. Nothing pisses me off more than seeing that arena during the daytime. I've seen it at night. It's dog shit. They don't deserve an NBA team. It's a travesty to this country that we let them have one. But across the street from that arena, there's an Omni. So that's where the NBA is staying.

Yeah. And that's where Akash is staying. Oh. A little bit down the street, there was like a courtyard by Marriott. It was nice, but that's where his crew was staying. Oh, right. Yeah. So that's what it is.

So he's kind of got a different idea than the CEO of Hager. Where are you? I was at a Marriott. Okay. But it was across the street from the comedy club. I walked out my front door to the back door. So we went out Saturday during the day, just go mess around, see what we could do. And somebody had seen like a tarot card reading thing on the map.

Now, I don't know shit about tarot cards. I would have said Indian. If I had to guess, I would have thought somehow this is... Interesting. Gypsy. Yeah. Gypsy. Turns out it's just basically anything mystical.

right so they wanted to do it it's like palm reading or something and i think this one even said indian psychic tarot card reading on it nice so they just do things that maybe something will pop up and they'll end up talking about it cameras with them the whole time oh okay now that might have been also because mom was there but uh so we met it they were like let's go do these tarot card readings and see walk around a little bit so we met at akash's uh hotel and got an uber from there go ahead and tell you that story now to make sure I get back to the tarot card thing guy pulls up it's not big enough that car's not big enough and akash genuinely there's stories I could tell you like off the air like is genuinely one of the sweetest dudes like there are people who show up to shows

that are like sick or special needs what he takes care of him he'll take him to the green room he's a super nice guy I swear to god but he's also famous and he's used to shit work in the way that it's supposed to work and if you order an ex-o and the guy that and have enough room. He's not like, oh, sorry, there's another one of us. He's like, figure it out, dude. Make the seats work. Like, he'll sit up there, figure it out.

So it was already kind of like the guy was like, the dude was wearing Bruce Ariens hat. He was wearing a suit, older white guy. Not that old, though, probably like 60. And as he got in, I was talking about how it pissed me off at that arena was there. Because it's across the street from the Omni, dead grass everywhere. just not even an ounce of care for the aesthetic.

The city's just, ugh. So as we're getting in the car, the guy's like, oh, why is that? Shouldn't have a team. I was like, I'm just kind of messing around. I was like, I was a Sonics fan growing up because the Mavs weren't any good. And you guys kind of took my team or whatever. And he started in on some bullshit.

Like, oh, you don't understand what this city means to, this team means to the city. I'm like, yeah, it's probably true, whatever. And he's like, it's a real point of pride here. point I'm at this point I'm I think are like tuning him out but I'm up front and uh he's like you know that they make every single player before they can step foot on that floor go to the Oklahoma City bombing memorial learn the history does anybody here who's known me for a long time know what the next thing I said was you might have a shot inside job I said I said

do they drive them to Tulsa? Oh, okay, there you go. What's that? Do they take them to Black Wall Street? I think it's only about an hour and 50 minutes from here. Oh, okay. Do they drive them to where the... You're talking about local tragedies.

Yeah. Race rides. One that just possibly Shagildeghous Alexander would be more interested in than the federal building being blown up because a guy was mad at the government. Yeah. Did they take Lou Dort down to... down to Greensboro, Oklahoma, Tulsa.

I'm going to tell you what else they don't do. They don't take them to the Oklahoma City bombing site. They probably say that they film a little something. I don't know. Could you imagine Russell Westbrook? Now we're talking Tulsa. Now we're talking Tulsa. And I'm not going to read, you know, we're not going to redo the whole thing.

So why do he bomb it? And he'd be like nodding like, oh, okay, yes. Kind of sound like paying taxes. Yeah. It's like 50% of my check or something. I think Kyrie went on his own. Right. Right, investigate.

I'm trying to get to the bottom of it. So we started talking Tulsa. He's like, you know, you got to put it in the context. It was at at the time. Like, the blacks were doing their own. Oh, wow. He said the blacks. He's like, they're upset.

He's, like, a lot going on. He's like, a lot going on. Okay. Some people say they were bombed from the air. And that's up in the air, no pun intended. But there were planes flying over. And he said, they were not bombed from the air. You believe everything you read on the internet.

I'm like, that white lady recanted her statement, too. and he just was not having it, dude. But the backseat's loving it. And I'm like, all right, I'm in the pocket here. Comedians are laughing. And then he told us he was Lou Dort's personal driver. And that, like, Dort got shipped out. So now he's got to find a new guy or whatever.

And then he's time for us to drop us off. And the place, the psychic, was inside some other building, right? They don't have their own building, as we would come to later find. out but we're like where is it where is it it's like pop bill and we're like I think it's right here and he's like it's at the sailor in the dock and we're like okay whatever that is uh we want to go to that he's like I said it again it's right here and he stops and lets us out and he's the guy was not happy with us dude he wanted us out of the car but when he got out now it's 105 we're in the middle we don't know where this place is and it's a group of five dudes and a 70-something-year-old woman

and uh we're looking around we can't find it this address isn't right this address isn't right and I just did what I do, and I was like, I'll fucking figure this out. And I just ran around like three city blocks and then found it and called them. And I was like, you need to go down one. You ran? Yeah, it was figured out. Yeah, it's figure it out. Like legs moving faster?

We didn't have. Game day. We're standing there. We're just standing there. And to his credit, Matt was like, I probably would have opened one door and we would have gone back to the hotel. Ed, you pack some extra shirts? Yeah, you're a sweater. Yes.

So I direct them there, and now we are at a place in Oklahoma City that kind of feels like the only place to hang out if you're slightly progressive. So you're gay people, your hippies, it's like a food hall kind of. There are a couple little, there's like a Puerto Rican restaurant, there's a macaroons place, there's a white guy playing acoustic guitar, there's a bar, there's a, there's a, clothing shops to buy things that look like Stephen Tyler wears, scars and things of this nature, you know? So it's like this type of place. And I walk in, I'm doing recon, and I see the tarot reading thing. Actually, I walked up to the bar. And I was like, are there tarot readings in here?

And she said, she's right there. She points over. There's a table set up in the middle. And there is the whitest white lady from Oklahoma you have ever seen in your life. She's actually Native American. We'll get there. She's about, she looks like she's about 25. And I'm thinking of calling them, an Indian guy and his mom.

And all I can think of, I don't even know where this quote is from, this is very internet coded. But all I can think of is that I always see Big Boy with the clip from Outcast, which is the, everybody think Chrysler 300 looks like a Phantom to a Phantom pull up. I was just thinking of Akash's mom, like walking up to this. fucking girl from Ardmore, Oklahoma who's like, yeah, I'm in touch with the mystics, and I'm gonna... So anyways, they showed up

and I'm like, I don't know if y'all are gonna want to do this or not. It's this white lady, and they're like, oh, we are so in. So they filmed like a bit. Now, here's where it gets weird. And they tipped him heavy, but they're gonna film a video now. Now we've got to go over to the sad

church white guy. I'd be like, hey, you've probably heard this before. Can you stop playing that guitar for a while? We'd rather not have that in the background. But we will take care of you or whatever. So he just has to stand there. You paid him not to play. Yeah.

And then, yeah, they took care of him. So we do the tarot card readings. I cannot tell you the level of bullshit. What did you learn about yourself? What has... Dude. So what's going to be happening this fall? What are the Cowboys doing?

Matt is like a really fun, like energetic. Like, I found out he was my age on this trip. would have bet 30. And she immediately was like, you're immature. You need to grow up, you know, whatever. Because I don't know. She bought, she got that, right? Dude, I'm not making this up and I'm not trying to sound like, you know, brooding. She was just like, I really can't read anything. There's just nothing strong coming through, which is just, you know, she couldn't, I was her like fifth one. I think that means she's honest. Yeah, maybe. If she was, if she was making it up and not seeing the future. She just would have said something.

Yeah. So we did that and I, uh... Are you going to be in this video? Yeah, were you the first one? No. No, we did. I think we did mama first. Blake, I'm going to try something here.

This was a girl. She was a white girl. She looked like she played softball. I did not ask her that because I could not find a way to do it that wasn't offensive. She told me her name and it started with an R. What was it? Riley. So close.

Anybody else want to guess? You might have a... You don't have a chance. Okay. I almost put in the text to them. There's a white girl in here who looks like her name is Reagan doing tarot readings. And I was like, what's your name? She's like, yeah, it's Reagan.

I'm from the Sean... And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. That is... And she looked like a... And she was from an Indian reservation. What if your mom had a girl? Does she have a Reagan today? No.

No Bible. She loved Reagan. Oh, that's a good. point. Good point, but we're... Your Bible? Yeah. Okay. I don't know many, not a whole lot of super featured ladies in the new testee, but... And then so the last thing I'll say is just on Friday when we got there, or when Akash got there, they come to him and he's immediately like, are we looking? They're like, it's super selling out.

We're full tonight. We're looking at tomorrow. And he's like, let's look at a fifth. Let's look at Sunday. He was saying that. Friday. Oh, Friday. Yeah, we showed up Friday. They were like Saturday's looking like it's filling up. And then by the end of Friday night, they were like, we had people turned away, whatever.

So it's like, let's go for it. Okay. Yeah. So they added a Sunday. So what was that like? Because we've talked about that before. We were even worried about doing Dumb Zone comedy night at 5 p.m. That's too early, you know.

And I remember going to the Nate Barkatchie show at 3 p.m. once. I don't think I... How is the feel... I don't think I would mind it, Nate, because it already feels kind of... Right, he's not a yelling FU. And I gotta tell you. And it's not...

I think it was probably just circumstance. It was Akash's best show of the weekend. He went long, and it was about half full. And I think this is also probably because we're in Oklahoma. And despite the fact that it's ugly, there are a lot of really nice... weird fucking people there. Just it's just, I think he put it,

he was either him or Matt or Akash was like, this is like a reservation, not just this for whites. Like there was a guy from a biker gang who had fled three states. There was some lady in a wheelchair who he got up on stage, but I don't think he knew when he called her out, maybe he did.

There was just a lot going on. He had people up on stage. He had way more crowd interaction. It was just a wild, wild show. There was a lady in the front that might have been my biggest fan all weekend. and that lets you know like you're on to some weird shit.

I think the problem is my stuff's pretty dark. I have to figure out a way to be a little less because I can see people going like, oh, God. That's good. I'm proud of you. I know, but they're not doing that for the most part for him. But I mean, he's just such a fucking boss, man. Just watching him work.

Both of them had been off for a month. Both of them. And Matt goes out there 18 minutes like it's nothing. And, you know, Akash, he's able to do things up there that he's earned, right? Like he comes out and says, I've been on vacation for a month. I've never done that. I haven't done this in a while.

It's my first weekend back, and it's good to be here. But nothing lets you know you're off a vacation like landing in Oklahoma City. This place sucks. It's terrible. And he just rips the city. And then he does the bit of, which is true, he's like, this is the nicest people I meet anywhere. Like everywhere we go, people are so incredibly nice and kind and, like, supportive.

Which is crazy, given that you live in the shittiest place in America. Like, he can always keep coming back to it. And they were on board. So it was weird because it wasn't five, dude. It was three. It was doors at two. It was weird. But it was fun, man.

That show was really fun. So, yeah. Good time. That's awesome that you got to do that. I appreciate it, man. No, I'm fired up that you're doing this at all. It's incredible. Yeah, it's not nervous.

It's just like, you know, I'm like you. I want to get stuff right. And you can't do this. It's not like I can go do this again tomorrow. You know, I could, I guess, but not like that. But it's awesome to know those guys, too, that brought you in and actually we're just trying to coach you up a little bit. A lot.

Because it would have been very valuable for you just to do five shows of straightforward Jake just trying to just audience feedback get the feel for being up there for sure dude but they were more than more than and gosh I don't know if we'd do it over like Zoom or something but he offered to like watch a set

because that's something I had not thought to do but Matt was like man when I first started watching sets back with him I you know vert like uh oh so he wanted to sit and watch a set with you yeah while you both are staring at you yeah like your mom making you watch some prank video you did

Were you better at the comedy this weekend than you were at throwing out the first pitch on the other day? Definitely. Okay. Definitely. I'd say killed it on both. Well, you thought you were great at the first pitch. No, no, I did not. I knew what was coming this soon as I came to work the next day.

I was fully prepared. I know. Awesome, man. That's awesome. Let's do today in history. It's brought to us by Community Mechanical. I got an email from Charlie. who said he had heard us, you know, talking about community and blah, blah, blah.

Thought we were on some BS, huh? And he said, he finally had them out, and their work was almost too good to believe. I had two other companies look at my AC units before community. Both are referrals from people who had worked with them, said they did good work. According to both, I needed to replace both of my units. They were, the quotes were 50,000 and 24,000. So 24 for just the units or 50 for the duct work and the units. He says, you know where this is going.

I called Community. They sent their tech Alex out that day. He looks at the systems. It took them about 30 minutes to tell me he could totally fix them for about 450 bucks. Comes back two days later, fix them. That was a week ago. AC is working great now, maybe too cold. That's been a problem for some people.

Maybe I'll need new systems in a year or something. I don't know, but I do know that for now, Community Mechanical legitimately saved me at a minimum $23,000. They are the shit. He says, they are the shit. I thought that was you kind of doing a Henry. How do we get a hold of community there, Blake or Jake or DC? CommunityDFW.com or the phone number 46966777290 contact community and they'll get right back to you.

They're the shit. Travis and the team real cool. You don't want your house to explode. Don't be a bitch, so pick up the phone. Dan almost died. Community Mechanical presents on this day in history. All right, it's Monday, August 10th on this day in 1932. The Lego group is founded, you know, the Legos.

Mm-hmm. By Kirk Christensen in Denmark. Is he a Nazi? The name is a contraction of the Danish words, Leg and Gott, which means play well. So there you go. No political affiliation listed here, but it was Denmark.

It was 1932. I don't know. Nah, they've been chilling, hadn't they? Did they go fool in? You know more about that second one than I do. Told to, right? Anyway, I don't know. We're Nazis in Denmark at some point.

On this day in 1962, the Spider-Man Marvel comic made his debut. Are you a Marvel guy? No, D.C. So, you know, Superman. I got a bone to pick with you. They got signs all over the Cleveland airport

saying birthplace of Superman. That's right. That's true. He's born on Krypton, dumbass. He's an alien. They had to have something on his government. I guess you're right. Cleveland done that money because they're like, all right, what do we have?

We could throw Drew Carey all over the airport. No, no, no, no. We should throw Superman all over there. I thought it was going to be littered in Drew Carey stuff. Not one mention. Man, it might have been. Just a lot of Indian stuff, a lot of Chief Wahoo. Don't you feel like in the 90s they were really leaning into Drew Carey?

That show was giant, dude. We watched every week. Me? Was it not? Like, I mean, I assumed. I don't know. Was it ever even the number one show on its night? Yeah, but if you put the numbers then up against today, it's number one by... Well, I know, that's silly, though.

Large margin. There were a lot of people watching that show. I loved it, dude. I wanted Kate O'Brien badly. On this day in 1971, 16 baseball researchers at Cooperstown formed the Society for American Baseball Research. All right. And that's why it's called Sabermetrics. Oh, I wanted to tell you, they had at the Hall of Fame, they honored the guy who was one of the first guys in the Elias Sports Bureau. He invented the QB rating statistic.

Wow. And so now he's being honored. And they had his grandson speak. And I was like, well, what qualifies his grandson to speak? His grandson is the current head of the Elias Sports Bureau. Even at the Elias Sports Bureau. We're nepotism. Babes. Unbelievable. On this day in 1988, it's when Herschel Walker, then of the Cowboys,

performs at the Fort Worth Ballet. On this day in 1995, Norma McCorvey, she is known as Jane Roe, the woman whose demand for an abortion led to the 1973 Roe versus Wade decision. She announced that she is joined up, she was baptized by the leader of Operation Rescue and has joined the anti-abortion group. Yeah, I love when they hold that up. I'm like, all right, so the lady who, like, kind of had her life ruined by people, like, haggling her about this issue for 40 years? Oh, okay. Apparently, she made a deathbed confession that said she was paid to...

Oh, my God. To do the... To start she'lling for anti-abortion. But that's the first domino... Pro-abortion. And then the last one is the fight at the pirate house between Jake's friend. It's true. Roe and his friend Wade.

I tried. Very hard. One of our parties was flyers contacted a local boxing. Great bit. Yeah. On this day in the year 2000, California lawmakers approved the creation of a new state holiday that they would never regret. It would honor United Farm Workers founder Cesar Chavez. who had spent his life organizing and fighting to improve conditions

for the predominantly Hispanic and immigrant people who worked in the nation's fields and orchards. Might have banged a lot of them too. Too horny. Right? Definitely. One in particular that was very involved. Pretty high-y-old.

Maybe a little young. Maybe a little young. Maybe a little young. Look. I think it's a very hard, uncomfortable truth. Very hard, folks. that a significant number of human rights were won by men who could not keep from getting their dick wet.

Yeah. It's simply true if you look around the globe. Ambition and horny, it's the same expressions of the same thing. You want them on that wall or you don't? I can't control my horny level. I just love rights too, though. These people are getting screwed. Whenever you got that much coursing through you,

it gets then diverted into these civil causes. That's true. That's how it works. On this day in 2003, it was the first wedding conducted from space. Man, I don't know. Jake is not in on that at all. A Russian cosmonaut married a Russian lady, but she was at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

He was at the International Space Station. And then they did a, like a video marriage thing. Great. So that we could say we had the first one in space. Did he like Since he's Russian Did he like slap the camera And she

Like you kiss your kid on FaceTime And on this day in 2006 It was the highest scoring game In WNBA history Don't do this man Well it was 06 It was a different era man That was the

That was really more of the grinded out You know In regulation Half court Triple over time Yeah I figured That's really 111

to 110. Oh, man. Three overtimes, though. Guys. And at WNBA record 47 points scored by Diana Tarasi, who then called up

Mike Vrable and hooked up with him afterwards. Close. Rossini. Oh. How's she doing? Is she at camp? Diana Rusini?

Yeah. A couple of famous weddings on this date, and I only bring these up just to show you that sometimes older guys like to marry younger ladies. We don't know when this started. Certainly that, you know, in the day of kings and all that,

they're doing it. Bloodlines. But how about this? And it's often, though, you've got to be somebody of note, right? And they let you grab them by certain body parts down there. How about this? Would you ever have thought? Samuel Morse.

The code guy? Who invented Morse Code 1848. Come on. He's 57. He marries a lady that's 25. Okay, good. So he's not even like a full creep. He just...

Well, 57 and 25. Okay, but you're great on the wrong curve. What are they talking about? Yeah, but think about it. 57 and 25. What's SOS? Now you'd be like, oh, it's pretty weird. Do SOS on my back.

I don't know, man. I love learning that, like, math guys used to get tons of Poon. Right. They were the most famous guys in the world. Just solving equations. Pythagoras. That's crazy, but I do like it. This day in 2003, Geraldo. God.

At the age of 60, marries his producer. Connie Chung. She is 28. The exact same age gap of Samuel Morris and his wife. That's wild. I don't think of them as like that far apart. Who? Connie Chung.

Okay, excuse me, second one. Second one. Second one. Got it. Erica Levy is his... There you go. Connie Chung is with your guy. Mopo.

Mori. Yeah. See? I'm not a racist. They're the same age. So when the... If I confused, you know, Lucy Lou and Connie Chung or something, but... Right.

No, you're not a racist at all, dude. Keep saying it. So when we went to New York for the Super Bowl, the ticket, Geraldo was doing a show for a Cumulus Station in New York. I remember this. And so I got to engineer his show for a week. Oh, at the radio row? Yeah.

And so my only job, he seemed to have no format or rundown. It was who, let's look around and let's see who we can get. I remember him having Chelsea Handler on for a lot of it. But my job as the engineer was to not ride levels. It was just to point out like who people were in the room. Yeah. Like he just didn't know anyone? Well, especially sports.

He's a tiny guy too, isn't he? Yeah. Man, the stuff. And so he would walk by, I know. He'd walk by and he's like, who's that? That's Michael Vic. All right, who's that? That's Adrian Peterson.

That's Michael Irvin. That's Ed, like, and he thought I was a genius. He was fucking clueless? He had no idea. How did that not turn into? Keep his number? Like, TC this weekend, I told him earlier, he made some great contacts. Yeah.

He now knows the Hager CEO. That's right. No, I never got his number. We did take a picture. Same height. That was a fun week. You got it. I think so.

I don't know. Close. Man, he sucks. He's nice. No, I know. But just like, I don't, he's just, that type of guy. People listen to him. He's very kind to me.

So it is August 10th, this day in Dumb Zone history. Only one show on this day. It was in 2022. And I felt like this happened a lot back then. Jake is back on the show. Dan is in the den. Jake was sick. Now Dan is sick.

Yeah. In what year? 2022. Oh. So you're already reeling. This wasn't the beginning of your downfall. Long-haul COVID. Yeah.

That hasn't affected me in quite some time. Dan's pretty virile. Yeah, I mean, because he calls the truth the lines. But I haven't been sick in a long time. Sick, but I feel like there was changes that I've never seen go back from. It used to be, you would stay up till two. Sure, it affected, yes. But currently feeling bad, I feel great.

But yes, I go to bed at 10.30. Whenever I look at the 5 p.m. Dumbzone show, I'd say, but for long-haul COVID, I could have had this at a regular time. That's a good point. Yeah, I was thinking, because, you know, I attempt to stay on Texas time no matter what. And I kind of did it last training camp. It's going to be quite a challenge now, because I'm waking up. I wake up at 6.30.

So what time is that in California? 4.30. Okay, two hour? Okay, that's not too bad. But I don't pay attention to what time it is there. I just know it's dark still. But I also know when I go to bed, it's really light. Get some shades like LeBron.

Are you a sleep mask guy? Absolutely. Yeah, okay. Then who cares? Yeah. Well, I don't know. You guys will all be partying. The whole house will be really loud.

Y'all wish you good morning. Yeah. There are times where I could tell you that the TV won't be gathered around. I have headphones too. I have noise. Los Angeles Nightly News is not one of those times, my man. You can't wait. You lock in, get the quad box going for the four L.A.

That's right. Your news that week is going to be all that. Car chasing to hunger? Dude, they'll flip over there. Like, again, what would lead here tonight? They'll put it forth. A lot of crime going on. Triads, things of this nature.

The money train, the Armenians. Other birthdays today, we have former stars coach Rick Wilson, is 76. Who's that? That was a very brief moment in time is what that was. That was super brief. Was it like interim? Or did he get a year? I think he might have got a year.

Let's see if that's official. Dalvin Cook is 31. No, there's a player. How about that? How fast does the wide? Does the running back lose it, man? Yeah. That was like five years ago that he was a cowboy.

Was it three years ago, two? Two or three, yeah. But he's 31. What we were talking about the other day? Todd Gurley is the... Zeke is like 32. Just the fact that Cook didn't come to the Cowboys and immediately take over as offensive MVP

is a indication of how fast they lose it. And the year before, he had like 1,500 yards, didn't he? Yeah. Or two years before? He's a special player in his prime. He was unstoppable. in Minnesota. I love hearing Jimbo talk about him.

Dalvin? Yeah. Are you hanging ball to Dalvin? Wasn't, when the Cowboys played in San Francisco, Rico Dowdowell was kind of sick, and they held him out so that Dalvin could start? Yep. Very, very serious organization.

John Morant is 27. No, the Dalvin Cook thing real quick, I was just going to say, because people are posting like Caleb Downs clips and stuff, and I'm not saying this applies to Dalvin Cook necessarily. Definitely not Zeke. But I feel like there's a lot of guys. like okay Dalvin Cook's out of the league whatever

what if you at the age of 16 been like I'm a safety yeah on this size I'm gonna go be the quarterback of the defense and become a star I think you're still playing

I think the problem and Cody Alexander brought this up when we were talking dbs I think the problem we have the bodies you just have to convince guys like this is a cool position you can play a lot longer and you're like the reason

the defense is good. With running back, they're never going to be able to convince themselves again. I was about to say ever again that that was because of you. But then I forgot we had a big weekend of NFL news.

And like three teams made bonkers decisions on their running backs. Like Bijon's at like 30 a year or something? What? 25 and 28. I thought it was 244. Okay. Jamir Gibbs is up at like

25? Uh-huh. It's a lot. dude. Is it worth three times more than Giovante? And I thought Javante's number was high. That's a crazy, crazy goal.

Hmm. But for the most part, don't be a running back. Gus Johnson is 58. Happy birthday. J.K. Dobbin. How did Lubies ever get knocked off the top spot? Yeah. What a guy.

He's got so many great moments. He's a big Luby's guy, right? What was the Luby's thing? He, I guess at some point, was working in Waco as a young television reporter, and so he was doing a game at Baylor later and was like, you guys are not going to believe this restaurant they have down here. Yeah. On a broadcast.

He takes like five minutes to talk about how much he loves Lubies. That'll let you get anything you want. Gino Toretta is 56 Spurgeon win is 48 Not a lot of Spursions anymore Nope Says here Texas State quarterback Yeah I know he had a run through there

Was he a brown? Yes That sounds like a brown Justin Thoreau is 55 Hogg Giant hog That has seeing the innards of Jennifer Aniston.

Oh, damn. I don't think that's how you should say that. The innards. The fucking GoPro. Disgusting. You're a bad guy. It's like Plumquick has one of those goes through your thing.

That was Dan. That was not Daniel saying that. You plum quick comes out. You know, honestly, I feel like my pipes are probably pretty good. Ian Anderson is 79. Sounds British. That is the Jethro Toll guy that I think Jimmy the Saint once interviewed. Oh.

Flute player. Something to do with he plays on one leg or something? I don't know. I don't know anything about Jethro Toll. It's a weird peacock stance. He plays like this. Don't ask me why. If you needed to know, Benions are guy.

It's a weird move. Who was the Rangers center fielder that came over from the Nationals, whose name was Ian? Kennedy. Desmond. Yeah. He had like a four war season the year before, and it was the only good season of his career.

He didn't do anything with the Rangers? I thought he was all right. He actually wasn't terrible, but I remember the team was not good enough. He had an okay year. He's a shortstop, right? They moved him out to the outfield. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

One year. Angie Harmon is 54? Jason Sly the four? That's right. The last white cornerback before. for the rebirth, baby. The current, yeah. Current bit.

Same sort of deal, dude. You just had to say, hey, why don't you not be a receiver? Not a slot receiver. Be a DB. We have Kylie Jenner's 29. I remember when she solved the whole Israel-Palestine thing. That was cool, yeah. I don't know what you mean.

No, but I remember like when the race riots were going on. Pepsi had a commercial, yeah. It was like. Oh, she handed someone and they put down the... Yeah. It was clearly in. response to, they're like, all right, we're in this George Floyd moment. Ad team, best thing you got.

Yeah, dude. I mean, in my head, if AI turns out to really just take over, just the mere thought of us having this conversation, we could instantly have a video of that ad, but how we want it, where the cop that just pistol whips the shit out of her. Like, what are you bringing a Pepsi to this? Stop resisting. We're in the middle of a authoritarian takeover. Baby.

She's the most followed woman on Instagram. Congratulations to her. I mean, it's probably not a, like, popular opinion, but they all three just seem very well put together as individuals. Like, you watch the Lamar documentary, and Chloe's like the hero. What do you mean by three? Well, just everybody from that family, those are the three I associate as being the most famous. Kylie.

Chloe Kim? Yeah. I see, because I would not say that Courtney's living a life that I envy. That sounds right. That sounds right. But, you know, every family with four kids. What about Caitlin? And you're not even getting into Rob.

Hitting people with her car. Rob Dissick? No, Scott Dissick. Scott Dissick. There's an actual. Rob Kardashian. Yeah, yeah. Rob Deardack.

He's a blood relative of the others. Okay, sorry. Scott Dissick's flu. by marriage, yeah. Although I would say, best one. Scott Dissick. Big Scott guy. Yeah. Rosanna Arquette is 67. She was in Pulp Fiction. She was not the Wolf, Winston Wolf. And our dumb's own birthday of the day, you won't believe, I'm serious. She's 47 years old, Mama June Shannon. That is the mother of Honey Boo Boo, and you won't believe what she looks like now.

I should find out. I got a fine mill. Let's figure it out. Yeah. I should find out. Tell me. There's not many of those things that get me to click, but I'm going to click on that. Oh, I mean.

Born on this day now dead. It doesn't look like when she lost weight, she lost the chromosome. Charles Darrow. He created Monopoly. Damn, dude. Lego and Monopoly guy. Actually, Charles Darrow. stole the idea of monopoly from some lady.

That's monopoly. Knew how to monetize it. Yeah. And then she is penniless. He monopolized it. Yeah, that's great. Both of them should never have been born. That game's terrible.

Boy, hold on now. Whoa. Hold on now. I enjoy it. It is a waste of time. There is no skill involved. It's just rolling dice. Doesn't it teach you like risk assessment a little bit?

It does not. Property money. Yeah. Yeah. Property management. Just because they put names of streets. It's the only... Classic socialist.

He doesn't want to have to learn about any sort of... But I'm saying, you know how... Well, complain about, hey, they don't teach kids about money and, like, practical stuff. The closest we got to that was playing monopoly. That you have to pay rent. Now. And you sometimes can win the lottery. I will tell you.

And maybe go to jail. There was a... You could be banked. There was a better version, if that's what you're looking for. Our family, played a ton of life. Oh, yeah. Why is that better?

Because it was all that. And it could go poorly. And you could do things. Did you make your parents mad by just having two guys? Like, I want to marry a guy? 100%. I would put two little blue things in the car. And then when my house would get hit by like an earthquake, they're like, see?

This is the blessing bestowed upon the like, that game was brutal, dude. Your kid would lose a tooth and you're like, fuck. Oh, the inventor. of the Game of Life went to McKinley High School in Canton. What? Stuff we wouldn't have known if he doesn't go to the... It's just paying dividends. Look at all this information you have.

Quick post script. That's incredible. We drank from that water fountain at McKinley High School also. And one of those old school water fountains. I'm not sure if everyone's always been allowed to drink from it, but it was a sight to see. Delicious water. Ohio was going.

back and forth. I weren't sure. Dead on this day, still dead. Michael Houser. That's why Corby's not here. That was the widespread panic guitarist. Whatever that is. It's jam, but I don't think I could give you a single song.

But listen, there's a lot of things in life that I look at Dan and I'm like, how and I'm happy. Wrestling? I wish he kind of knew a little more about. right but i because but i'm like that was that claws were out after him for wrestling but fucking widespread dude like you're saying how did i miss it shocking yeah i don't know anything about it shocking but you're happy so happy because i'm not all telling you about widespread panic jam band guy is very tough to deal with very tough would you i thought they were like the dead or something okay would you have said that to me too like but they're younger though

I think the dead's horrible. Well, but it's like the vibe, right? It's communal. There's a lot of drugs. It's really chill. Yeah. It's very, very, it's like a... Like a lot of those things.

You're trying to sell me on this. To me, it always felt like the, whatever generation that is, Gen X, dead, basically. So like a little bit better music, maybe. The dead is definitely better than widespread panic. They're definitely better in retrospect. I think at the time, if you're trying to get someone new into it, that's that age, you probably are like, hey, these guys are our age. Yeah, yeah.

And something like that. But the good news is you were able to somehow do hippie crack without. You was Keanu Reevesing that? Where are we? Michael Houser. Dead on this day, still dead. John Saunders from ESPN. Stay safe.

Stay very, very safe. Good thing he died before they could lay him off. Oh. And died in this day still dead. Are you guys sitting down? Is IJB sitting down? Yeah. Ryan Dunn or something.

He died on this day, sadly, by his own hand. Jeffrey Epstein. Wow. Wow. If only that darn had not been looking at furniture online. What a weird, odd coincidence. The video was lost. They had a video on him, right?

then they couldn't find the video. Drats. They just recorded over, right? I mean, that happens all the time. America's funniest home videos was coming on. I'm shocked. There's not been follow-up. Someone discovered, like, the guard, like,

had a big payment show up in their second account shortly after, and there's been no more on that. I would have thought that America's top journalists were figuring out what's going on with this guard. Yeah, I'd possibly contact a law firm. I don't know. Frankl and Franco probably wouldn't be the one because they are personal injury attorneys. That is their bread and butter.

They will help you out if you've been in an accident. If you are dealing with, you know, the insurance companies and you're trying to get what you deserve and you can't, just give them a call. You will talk to a partner, not some idiot. You'll talk to one of the partners at Frankl and Frankel, 214 or 817, then dial all threes. They're awesome. They are really good people. They used to work for the insurance companies. And then they felt icky about that.

For real. They do not like what those people are trying to do. They were like, I want to be on the side of the little guy and try to help the little guy get what they deserve. So that's what they're doing now. Frankl and Frankel, and Frankel, Personal Injury Attorneys, FranklFirm.com. The running back contracts are like $22 or $23 million.

Which is still three times more than Giovante. But Jameer, Gibbs and Bejohn both got three, 67 to 68 with 51 guaranteed. Well, it sounds like a great deal for Javante then. I almost think Javante, it's, I might not have given him that deal. You know, but compared to this. Yeah, dude. I mean, those guys catch passes, but still. Is Bejohn great?

Yeah, they're all great. The point is just that you've got to figure out a way to make that worth it. Who's the guy on the Raiders? Genty. And what's the deal with these teams that aren't built at all drafting a running back shot? Yeah, the Cardinals did it. And, you know, I think a great move for them.

Jeremy, I love. They did do it. Why, what did that get you? He's a Notre Dame player. Oh, okay. But he got super horny about him last year. Yeah, he may be the best football player that you've seen in a long time.

How much can he help you? Figure it out. If you can figure it out. See, what you need to do, the Browns, once had the chance of Joe Thomas or Adrian Peterson, but the Browns are a really bad team. So they're like, let's get the linemen. It's built from the trenches.

And then you see how that worked. That's, you know, they ended up building. It's not being the Browns for step two. Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, this has been a lot of fun, guys. I'm glad you guys were able to make it out. This is awesome.

Yeah, thanks for going to Canton. Thanks to Hager. It was incredible. Thanks to Hager. Thanks to T-speed. Thanks to Akash. And how? And what have we got going tomorrow?

Anything to tease? Audio program? Audio only. The boys are leaving tonight. Oh, we have the... You look over there at Clayton. You see nothing but excitement. You see nothing but...

Juice energy. How are you feeling right now, Clayton? Are you looking forward to this? You enjoy Matt Grimm. I have to pee. Oh, yeah. Sorry, Clayton. Adios, mofo.

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