The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 8-19-25 PREVIEW | The Brandon Aubrey show theme song contest and Jared Sandler

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

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Hey now, what you were about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full, along with the full archive, ah, shit. If you would like to hear this program in full with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at dumzone.com. Well, do we want to follow up on the Brandon Aubrey thing? Or do we... What do you guys think? That's going to get messy. Well, no. Jared's a big member of our show. He can just assimilate into our show. So you said you got a text and from somebody that had sent you a Brandon Aubrey theme song. We'll go back to that, Jared. Possibility. Yeah, I missed it. And you missed it. And so they were upset. You didn't play it in this contest. So let's let me have it. So yeah, here we go.

Okay, that's actually awesome. It's just a stinger and not a theme song. Right, it's short, it's sweet. We'll use it. Yeah, but that can't be voted on. I just think it won't be our regular theme song. We did vote, so we voted on. I do like that quite a bit.

I'll tell them to shove it up their ass. No, no, no, that's not what we just said. I think what you could do is if you use one of the other ones, you know, just in the middle of the show, hey, what is this? And you hear that Right Brandon Brandon

Not a brief presented by community It's insane And I love it It's like backwards church music Now Jared,

no chance you were listening In the last half hour Or is there a chance? I was at the Negro League Museum That's right Yeah That's right

So we've been doing A Brandon Aubrey show theme song contest. We did not do this for the Jared Sandler show, but Community Mechanical didn't give a pair of cowboy tickets to the winner of the Jared Sandler show theme song contest. So we voted during the break. We listened to all the entries,

and we're pairing this down to three, but I'm going to say now it's four, because there was a tie for third. So we're going to have four that will be voted on by Brandon Aubrey. I did want to ask Blake, though. So we have been talking about... Anyway, let me play this for actually Jared

to see if Jared knows what is this song that this is based on. Have you ever heard this song in real life, Jared? Is Bob Dylan or something? Short on the third down. Oh. Shotty went to the special teams and say, sending Brandon on Aubrey.

Band on the run. Band on the run. It is band on the run. It is Paul McCarton. So I didn't know that. And then once I was notified of that, I was like, oh, we can't use that song. So, yeah, some of these songs use an actual. if we do a parody song

it's going to flag YouTube and then we're not going to be you just can't do it and we all know that and so maybe this songwriter didn't know it but immediately we're just ruling them out so I go to the voting and everybody gave me their votes

and I tallied them up to get our top four and there was only one vote somebody voted the number one song to be that It would seem like a misunderstanding of the rules Listen, if all of you want to vote each row in, that's cool But I want to vote for the best song And that was the best song to me

Now whether we can use it or not, I don't know Do you guys remember that Nolan Ryan makes the Hall of Fame Not 100% though No So he's got a million strikeouts, he's got 300 wins He's like the most don't But somebody said, I'm not going to vote him in On the first ballot

Because I need to make it about me That's what you're doing right here We were very, we were extremely clear. Why would you vote the one we all said you can't, we won't use it? Do you want to deal with the DMCA? I'll make this the number one pick. When they hit us for copyright? Yeah, I'll deal with them.

Why? You've just changed the waiting of the whole thing. It's worth it. Let's also discuss another thing. The song, the original song, I'm not a fan of, but that's subjective. The remake, the parody, also not good. We're really fighting. You're the one who said he doesn't ought to rhyme.

It's not EA or AI. That'd be better I want EA to submit a song No it's not AI It was thoughtful and it's All right this is ridiculous Toss it out Yeah just toss it out

Who cares Well it obviously is not Over here right It's not helping any of these others Over here writing in Jill Stein Throwing things off I don't know Was that her name?

What good song won? Do you want I know the top four Yeah In no particular order Take a little notes for us Jared Top four in no particular order

We go right here Here we go Now it's the time That we tune in And listen to Dan's best texting friend Number seven Yeah

He's the Dallas Cowboys Biggest star He's Brandon Aubrey Brandon Aubrey And he's All right Jared's grooving So I think this could work. I think that's it on lyrics, right?

What? That's number seven. I was saying that's it on lyrics. Yeah. That's good. Kind of short, sweet, gets to the point. Here is the next entry, which is a top four. It is number 10.

Our man is kicking hauling bombs with his foot down on the gas. Homey kick it off the turf. Papa kick it off the grass. Community mechanical make old. Blue Baby, Baby Buckle of Love and stuff. Brandon Aubrey Show. I believe everybody voted for this one on some level. You can start talking well before that, right?

Well, see, that's the thing, is you just got to have a fade and start there. Oh, wait, that was not voted by everybody. It's crazy, but it reminds me I run the jewels, and I like it. Okay, this is the other one, number 16. Hmm. Travis Gafford vote. You're in a tough spot. I just asked you that on the air, and you're like,

no, I don't want traffic to vote. What does he know about music? I don't want Travis to vote. And... Leg day every day. All right, this is the final entry in our top four, Jared, for the Brandon Aubrey Show contest. From the pitch to the gridiron, he's,

number one you know 60 plus is nothing it's a Brandon Aubrey show na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Brandon Aubrey

Show Na na na na na na na na na get ball da da na na na get check Na na na na Brandon Aubrey Brandon Aubrey

show. Jared, your thoughts. Nice fade out. I feel like the guy died right there. That was the last thing he did. He's not even listening to us. I would like to combine the last two, but I think number three is definitely my vote.

That would have been number 16 for us. The rap. The rap song. Also, because I don't know Brandon at all. I get the sense there's a little bit of irony and that being his song. Yeah, well, go ahead and play number two for him.

The one that we got that we think probably most fits him with no irony, it's like five minutes long. You want the whole lead in? It doesn't really I don't know, we just let it play. This is not. Would this fire you up to listen to a football interview?

This is kind of a, he's the calm in the storm. This is name Not so Ordinary game This is the one where you're thinking about Your life I literally am Okay

Bring the juice back On my sports sets or something You would never Have to try and go to he can kick the ball from really anywhere please no more dude wait let's just get to the uh the chorus

makes it seem like he has no care here we go here we go Jared and Aubrey was his name and now Jared Sandler for those just listening tears streaming down his face We talk to him. Oh, but there are cheers of doing. Starting in July.

Okay, you're right. Anyway. I think that would be like after the, after your segment, there's a triumphant ending, just like the end of a movie. And as the credits are rolling, that's the song as they ride off into the sunset, living a happy life together. That's great. So we're going to present those to BA? to B.A. next week. Okay.

Next W. I mean, I guess we can get this out of the way, Jared. I know that, you know. I thought we were just going to ask Jared about football betting and stuff this week. Yeah, okay. That's fine. I don't care. If you want to ask about the Rangers.

Let's do this. Are we doing trivia? We were going to ignore the Rangers with you this week. Are we going to do trivia? Yeah, let's go. Let's do it now. Okay. Let's get some butts and seats.

Yeah, Wild Card era. But in 1994 on, four shortstops have won the MVP, only four. Who are those four? 94 on? Yeah, since 1994, including the 1994 season. That's the beginning of the wildcard era. There's a hint. Four shortstops have ever won the MVP.

And they were a shortstop that season. So they don't have to be career long shortstuffs. They don't, whatever. But the year they won an MVP, they were primarily a shortstop. I think one is blatantly obvious. Come back to it. It was a good shortstop era, though. It was pretty vague.

That's pretty vague because immediately I was like, was there a bad one? Yeah, I guess short stops are always good players. Pretty stocked there. Like, you know, if you were like, what an error for catchers? I believe shortstop starting hitting for more power and... Sterell? Maybe that helps. Could Ripkin have been an MVP that late in his career?

I highly doubt that. Anyway, so the chat, they're the ones that get to guess on this? Yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, it's not like we just want to not talk baseball. It's just that I think you actually have very interesting football and, you know, analytics thoughts. And you'll just rip off like a six, seven prediction thing, like Peter King style.

Seven things Jared thinks he thinks. No, we've been talking behind the scenes about how can we, can we do a weekly thing just football-wise with Jared? because he's so into it and we're working on it. Don't know if it's going to happen or not, but I would love to do it because Jared is, he's like a maniac. He's a norm intern. Huh?

He's a norm intern. Yeah, but it's like you don't have to do that anymore, Jared. Like you've got your own good job, but he still wants to like, he's trying his hardest to have a kid. He's traveling across the country for that. He's traveling across the country to play base, or to do the baseball.

thing and now he's also like... It's got a charity in case you forgot. Oh my gosh. The Sandlot charity, which says, oh, wasn't named after me, but we all know the different. Anyway, yeah, what are we talking about now? Football. Oh, yeah. I actually have an idea.

You guys don't mind. Can I quickly just plug the charity? Yeah. Tickets went on sale an hour and 11 minutes ago for our ninth annual swinging for a cause event at Globe Life Field so I am if I have not texted you guys already

I would love for you guys to come but if you go to the sandlot.org slash events you can find the link you can purchase sponsorship still tickets

tables it's December 7th it's a Sunday the Cowboys do not play and for those who have never gone or aren't familiar with the event basically

we take over the field at Global Life Field and we have all sorts of different games, three point contests. We actually have like a sport court basketball hoop last year. We, if you wanted to like simulate what it's like to participate in an NBA three point contest, timer, racks of balls, everything, Whiffle Ball, Home Run Derby, we got pickleball, we got stuff for little kids too. Yeah, there you go. If you're watching, you can see, well, that's our happy hour. That's not. But yeah, we got also volleyball. life size jenga so like bar games sport games activity type things and then stuff for little kids

too uh so if you go to uh go to the website or you can check out any of my social channels uh would certainly love if people joined us and uh you guys i think unless something pops up you guys will be there and uh so if people want to meet you guys and hang out with you guys they can do that at uh at our event yes it is uh it's a ton of fun for little kids for sure i just let the boy and I plan on doing that again So yeah It's whatever you Whatever you could donate

It's worth it Goes to a good cause And your kid I mean It's a little kid on a On a major league baseball field To them that's like everything They think they're

You know they don't know the difference And it's incredible Yeah it's great Now did you have the Did you have the website set To trigger like to go on sale Right at 6 out of the third wild card You just decided now we're sort of

Switching to charity mode? Or what was it, was it five? Yeah, I wish it worked that way. Yeah, you know, this is a big week for the Rangers. I said prior to yesterday's game and I'll stand by it. I'm not going to recalibrate just because they lost. I think they need to win five out of seven this week. And if they don't, then it's not impossible because they could win every game the rest of the way.

That's not going to happen. But they would need to go on like a legitimately unlikely run of winning, you know, 10 straight or 12 straight or something like that. I think short of that, like, if you still want, if you still want the Rangers to be able to make the playoffs within the confines of like a realistic output, the rest of the way, I think winning five of seven this week is necessary because you're facing two teams you're chasing. And, you know, Bassick said at the 38 game left mark, they need to go 24 and 14.

even at 24 and 14, they would need the Yankees to hit a little bit of a road bump, right? Like if the Yankees just kind of play chalk, then that might not be enough. So winning five to seven this week still might not be enough. They got to win five of their next six now at this point. But I think that's what they need to do if they want to come out of this week, still feeling good about their chances short of some ridiculous stretch of, you know, consecutive wins. So you, let's see, as far as your prep goes, time-wise, I imagine it just works this way,

right? But have you ever been a guy who wanted to go do football in the fall or in the, is that something that could be an option for you? Paul of Josh Lohen. Yeah, that's a good question. I guess the reason I'm asking you is because I know how you are and I know that like whatever job you were doing that you're going to prepare all this stuff. And that's why, you know, you could just, you could.

use it, right? Yeah, I think when I was younger, I wanted to do all of that stuff. I think now that I'm older, I love football. And the reality is if I'm broadcasting football, I don't get to be a college football fan if it's on Saturdays because the time spent before the game and then, you know, you got to get out of there. So that and just being married and hopefully one day having kids, like I want to have some weekends to myself.

This is the one thing I tell, like if anyone listening to. something wants to be a broadcaster, or they have kids who want to be broadcasters. I always, when I go speak to schools, I always tell them this, because I think it's important that, like, college kids especially understand what they're getting into. If you're working in baseball, when I leave for spring training, mid-February, I don't have a single Friday, Saturday, or Sunday in which I am not working until at the earliest, the end of September. Now, I might be lucky to have a Saturday day game, so I've got a Saturday night to go have

dinner. But point being, my weekends, when the season is over, they are very valuable. And I love football. And if I was a better football broadcaster, I probably would still be doing football. But I never really got onto that treadmill and was doing games that were interesting to me. And so I'd much rather just be able to be a person on the weekends in the offseason and enjoy football, both college and NFL and, you know, bet my saving. away and hang out with friends. So I've never, I did football like a decade ago, but I have not really pursued it since. Yeah, how great is it to have all that time off? Like, kind of like the teacher thing, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's nice. I always, you know, I will do some

basketball, but, you know, that's not every weekend and those games are way shorter and length, and I'm not traveling as much. Oh, you'll do some play-by-play. for that. Yeah, I will. I'm not, again, though, it's not something I really pursue. I'd love to like in a perfect world, I'd love to do like good college basketball games that involve TCU or SMU. So and like home games because I don't, you know, at that point, like I'm, I get my travel in during the baseball season. I don't need to go travel, you know, elsewhere for college basketball. But I'll, I'll tell you too, guys, I don't, I don't find as much joy doing a network broadcast as I do broadcast. As I do broadcast for a team. I have no skin in the game when I do a network broadcast unless I'm pulling a norm

and betting on the game. But when I'm when I'm broadcasting for the Rangers, I care. Like I was pissed last night. You know, there was a game they they need to win. Yeah, I think there are guys who can do that and guys who can't. And I do know from being around Jared that he's he's a fiery MFer. I've always wondered how guys who aren't that do it and especially how they switch back and fourth. Followell does it very well, I feel like, but it's hard. And I think there's a certain type for it. Also, like, can you imagine, Dan, especially if you're married and you have a, you have a child, you think you're doing anything other than, hey, you were gone for nine months, these three months, I need you to catch up for that. Yeah. You're getting handed the baby in

September, and it's like, this is you. But just the, uh, the idea of traveling, the idea of, you know, I don't know, it's probably one of those. things too you have a million ideas for like oh i'm going to do this this and this and this and this during these two months and then you never do it right yeah i and i will travel my wife and i'll travel a bit but like the one the one thing i do i've done regularly the last eight years that's like a me thing that doesn't involve her is i go on a guy's trip to a college football game uh no skin in the game necessarily like we just pick a cool venue cool game cool atmosphere What's this year?

This year, I think we might be doing Georgia, Texas, and Athens. Incredible. Yeah. So, but yeah, I mean, I enjoy, Dan, you're right, though. I always have a list of things. Sweetie, hey, we need to make sure to do like these 23 things, and then we do like two of them. I like when you call me, sweetie. All right, well, the sandlot.

dot org? Sandlot.org slash events if you want to go directly there. Do we have a winner? Yeah, we have a lot of answers here in the chat. A lot of correct answers, like you know the correct answers? Yeah. Okay, so again, Jared, the trivia question? Yeah, the four short stops in the wildcard era, so starting with the 1994 season

who have won their league's respective, or their respective leagues MVP award. I'm going with Ripkin for one He was pre-94 Gosh darn it He was pre-90 Like he had retired before then No no no Oh his MVP way

Yeah Okay he was just good before that A-Rod is the obvious A-Rod is the obvious I would With the Rangers Barry Larkin Barry Larkin is correct

Oh Damn I was going to go Nomar But I don't remember If NOMAR That was a 100% related to video games. That answer there. Barry Larkin? Yes.

94 or 90, yeah. Did Nomar ever win one? He won it in 95. One of the more underwhelming MVP seasons, but he was the MVP. Who? Larkin. How about Tehada? Miguel Tehada was an MVP, yes. All right, I'm the best. Everybody tell me that.

Finish us out. So we got three? Yep. I don't feel like I remember Nomar winning one, though, so I'm going to say not Noamar. No. But who were the... Too low? That wasn't my guess, but no.

But it's National League. National League. Philly. Switching. Oh. Yeah. Jimmy Rollins? No.

Jimmy Rollins won MVP? Jimmy Rollins was the National League in 2007. He was, he had an outstanding year. He had 20 triples that year. He had a 20, triple, 30, homer, 40 stolen base season. Yeah, he was, he was outstanding.