The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 8-20-24: Back from Cowboys training camp, Trey Lance gets a win, Mavs receive their schedule

Episode Date: August 20, 2024

Hear every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to our Patreon - Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneWelcome back to another episode of The Dumb Zone! In today's episode, Dan, Jake, and Blake are back in the studio after their Cowboys training camp trip. They discuss the confusing feeling of what day it is, the joys of driving back from Oxnard, and the hilarious mishaps along the way. Plus, the Dallas Cowboys win pre-season game number two, the Mavs get their schedule for the 2024-2025 season, and a special shoutout to all the birthday wishes that poured in while they were gone. (00:00) - Open (29:11) - Sports book review: Pressure (47:05) - Cowboys: Preseason game 2 (01:24:38) - Mavs receive their schedule (01:32:24) - News (01:49:12) - Viewer Mail (02:03:57) - Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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So subscribing on Patreon gets you four episodes per week. Oh my, what a bargain. Now on to today's program. I'm sitting here in the box, and Deron Bland just broke the record. I don't need to say anything, but how about the Cowboys? How about the Cowboys? All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right.

I never listen. I'm going listen I wanna listen to the drums on Today is our Monday. Or just Tuesday. How about that? Doesn't that feel good, kind of? Well, I don't know if it does for you. You got back like last night. I did. But I keep thinking it's for you. You got back like last night. I did. But I keep thinking it's

Monday, and then I realize it's Tuesday. That's big for you. And I guess it is good for the whole week if you didn't have to drive to New York on Thursday. Yeah, but it's your Thursday today. Yeah, today is my Thursday. And I'll be driving on your Thursday.

But it'll feel like your Wednesday. Anyway. Do you guys talk at all in the car? No. Me and my daughter? Yeah. No way. Yeah, sure.

What were we talking about last night? We did the Andy's Chans thing. Nice. Does she wear headphones in the car, too? That's kind of what I was asking. She does if my wife is in the front seat. If she's in the back, she'll have the big giant headphones on. Yeah.

Possibly with nothing playing. Oh, yeah, and then we'll talk to her, and she'll be like, what? It's fine. There's nothing on. Yeah. And I don't believe it. Anyway, I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jay Kemp.

I'm Blake Jones. And this is the Dumb Zone. We are a radio program now doing a podcast. And today we are broadcasting live to tape from inside our downtown Dallas studios. And we are fresh off a cowboy training camp visit. I feel like it's a success because we're back. Yeah, I mean, Matt did not kill you guys. No, Matt's great. I think he's penciled in for next year. He's definitely penciled in for tomorrow.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's not negotiate contracts in the media. Right. Parcells? Let's just, we'll see. We've got some other prospects coming in. That's right. Matt's asking for a lot of money.

Might get that PJ. It's a small piece of the pie. I don't even want the PJ. Oh, okay. I like the grind. Yeah. Yeah, half of the grind. Half of the grind. You don't even know about the grind.

We'll talk about it more tomorrow. I don't want to... We could do more of a big recap with Matt because we got a lot of stuff to get to today. Did you guys break down? No, but... Again, I want to do most of it tomorrow, but I'll quickly just tell you that...

So we did the trip back in two days. On the trip there, we took three days. Trip back, two days. And these guys did, as you know, hit me with the, you know, we're going to leave really early on Thursday. What day did we leave? Thursday. Yeah. Or Wednesday.

Thursday morning. Yeah, 4 a.m. Right, but I talked in my head, okay, that's 6 a.m. Dallas. I've been on Dallas time. I can usually get up. I could get up, get out right away. Okay, I accepted that 6 a.m. Dallas time would work with my body and the clock and all that kind of stuff.

My biological clock would wake up. Then we get to Albuquerque and we're checking in. The great David, the general manager at the Albuquerque Marriott. Marriott. Thank you. We're checking

in and I really love that. Remember the breakfast we had there? Yeah. I thought it was great. Great little breakfast room. and I really love that. Uh, remember the breakfast we had there? Yeah. I thought it was great. Great little breakfast room. It was like I was visiting France and Belgium.

Anyway, it was continental breakfast. Yep. And, um, so I was really looking forward to that for the next day because I just had some Taco Bell on the way. Like I knew we're getting in too late, which is like seven or eight for me, but I can't eat dinner then. I, so I had Taco Bell on the way. I knew we're getting in too late, which is like seven or eight for me, but I can't eat dinner then.

So I had Taco Bell on the way. He seriously had Taco Bell. What? Yeah. I was proud of him. What's wrong with that? You ordered Taco Bell and didn't eat it. I thought Matt said no fast food.

Dan was the only one that got Taco Bell. Yeah, he didn't eat it. Oh, okay. Yeah. I just said, hey. Which I respected even more. Let's go to this Taco Bell. Okay. You are a fan of their bean bean burrito no you oh yeah yeah yeah um well so now we're checking in and i and i said uh okay uh whatever i was kind of beat and i said i'm

gonna go to my room i'm leaving twice remember the casino, I was only leaving my room once because I didn't want to walk all the way down. I said, I'm going to leave my room twice. Once for that delicious breakfast, and I'll go back, get my stuff, and then I'll leave again, and we're gone. But I just wanted to indicate, look, I'm not coming down tonight because Rob is the kind of guy who will travel like 28 hours in a row and then be like, let's go out and get a beer. Like, no, I'm not going to do that. Yeah, Video Man is a nightcap guy. He is absolutely a guy that he's just always doing something. Like, can you ever just do nothing?

Just sit. And so then Matt said to me, well, I don't know if we'll be here for breakfast. Oh, no. I said, what here for breakfast. Oh, no. I said, what do you mean? Oh, no. When does it start? He goes, I think it starts at 6 a.m. Oh, no.

And, you know, by this time, Matt, our driver, had run his idea by me, by Video Man. Of course, Dan is the final, he's the boss. He's the boss at the end of the game. I mean, it doesn't even... I'm not the boss, because I didn't make the decision. No, no, no, I mean it in like a video game. You're the final boss's the boss he's the boss at the end of the game it doesn't even i'm not the boss because i didn't know i mean in like a video game you're the final boss like in order to beat the

game there's this really tough obstacle at the very end which was you you're shredder i i'm easy he's easy you're the last you're the last guy yeah blake is definitely easy blake will just side with whoever he sees as the majority developing. I mean, the reality is there's no point really in Matt running it by Rob or Blake. He knows they're going to say yes. They're going to say yes to whatever he says. So I said, and I thought about it, and I thought, okay, well, six here in Albuquerque is seven there. Yeah.

So I can see his point on not wanting to, he wants to leave a little earlier. And yesterday we did negotiate down to 4 a.m. with 6 a.m. So, okay, I'm thinking we're going to go 6 a.m., which means 5 a.m., which I will dutifully nod, take my loss, and realize that I'm not going to get this great breakfast. So I said, all right, well, when do you want to leave? Because he's talking in Albuquerque time now. Like a normal person.

Yes. And Matt looks at me in video, man, like, you're going to help me here, right? I am so glad I got to miss this. He goes, I want to leave at 2. I go, 2? It's like 8 o'clock now. Like 2? So Dan had started at 7, and Matt asked for 2.

Yeah. And so now I'm swirling in my head, this guy has done so much for us. He provided the RV. Chicken thighs, salmon. He bought the gas. Yep. He did every second of driving. He did the cooking.

He's awesome. How can I say no to him? Well, I found a way. So I did negotiate him down to three. What's the, I mean, is that- Knowing that I could talk myself into that's four Dallas time. Jeez. I wanted to negotiate him back because I did say to him,

oh man, I thought you were going to say six. And I thought he'd go, okay, how about four? No, he just stood steady. Yeah. And then riding up the elevator, I'm like, I just don't know if I can do it, dude. I don't know if I can do it. You're glad you missed this? I loved watching this play out.

No, the reason I'm glad I missed it is just because, like, thinking about my role in the interaction. Because I want to keep the big man happy over here. I know, but it was funny to watch it just deflate. But I also get very annoyed by his we all have to be on one person schedule thing. And I don't know. Sometimes that's tough to navigate. Well, it helped for California. It helped me at least.

I don't know if it helped you. But, you know, just knowing that we're doing a show in the same time and the people get it at the same time. Yeah, but the thing is, like, we had to develop the slash method. We eat dinner at 4 p.m. That took some getting used to. Okay, so we're going to leave at 9 slash 11. Yeah.

Yeah. We had to work that in every day. Well, in the same day, we had the same conversation. Okay, when are players available? 1.30. Okay, 3.30. I'm a Texan. We start the show at noon.

I mean 10. You got here as fast as you could. That's right. I brought some Texas dirt to sprinkle under my crib when I laid there. Your own crib? Yeah. Anyway, we're back. I'm back for a couple days.

And then we'll drive to New York. He got on the RV at 3. Respect. I was there, man. Yeah. I was there. I'm the greatest. Wasn't it so nice just having all the extra space without me on there?

I really did you guys a favor, right? So we have a sit-in today. And the sit-in is in our downtown Dallas studio, Justin Mooring. Justin. Let's turn on those mics. Go ahead. Try it again, Justin. What's up, fellas mics. Go ahead. Try it again, Justin. What's up, fellas?

Oh, hey. How you doing? I don't know if you have to lean forward every time. Just kind of pull the mic to you. All right. There we go. Yeah. You know how to pull a phallic thing to your face, don't you?

Yeah. I like it. One or two times. Like sucking a dick. Whoa. And then he has friends. Will and Weber. Correct?

Weber right here. Yes. And it seems I was eavesdropping a little bit on your conversation before the show as I was pounding my salmon, which is not a euphemism. I was going to say. I was actually eating a piece of salmon. eating a piece of salmon. But it feels like you guys are good friends, but then you're like, oh, yeah, I have a kid. Like you're good friends that haven't seen each other in a long time. Yeah, yeah.

So we used to live all down here around like in the uptown area maybe, what, eight years ago, ten years ago, something like that. And we hung out all the time. But, you know, life gets in the way. Then you get married. Yeah, we get married, life gets in the way, you know, that sort of thing. Okay. Well, I'm glad you guys are, well, I guess I'm glad you guys are here. Will looks like Michael Phelps. You guys, I mean, you're bringing friendships back together. That's right. You've heard that before, right? We unite. I get more of the, and I'm not happy about this. The guy from the Big Bang Theory, the main character.

Jim Parsons? Yeah, which is not. That's not as good as Michael Phelps. What did you say? Michael Phelps. Okay, yeah. Yeah. I could see that. Very fit.

He's a great looking dude. He is. Looks like he's ready to hit the links. Perhaps after the show. I want to put this shirt on today. What's that? I knew that was coming when I put this shirt on today. Okay.

You can call me out about it. You know what's funny? I actually thought about wearing a golf shirt the shirt on. Okay. You can call me out about it. You know what's funny? I actually thought about wearing a golf shirt, and I thought, you know what? Maybe not. I don't want to get picked on. Picked? I was just making a comment. Anyway, thanks for being here.

Prepare your closing remarks. Do we want to do just a quick weekend check on what you did, Jake, on your way back? Because we do have lots of Cowboys stuff, and I have some Mavericks stuff for you. It was Do You? Yeah. Interesting. Korda Elaine, Idaho, which I had never heard of prior to about two years ago. So you had a guy's weekend.

I did. Pre-plannedanned before we had planned to go to training camp. Yeah, it was maybe February or March. I had the likes of the Mike Soroy. Boy, you really look ahead. The Mike Marshall, the KJ. Okay.

The TC, the Blind Josh. It's magical, dude. You really look ahead except you look smack at cowboy training camp and you're like, yeah, I'll just do it there and then. Okay. Again. I'm just saying, we are planning a show.

Far, far before we knew that we were going to. So why is it magical? It's just like the most beautiful place I've ever seen in my life. Was it like a lake? Yeah, it's a lake. Okay. And it's in the mountains. Uh-huh.

And it's just beautiful. It's perfect. The water is crystal clear. The weather is perfect. Dude, I walked out of my house this morning. I mean, I'm sure you had this experience too, even though you had to take the RV back. Like when you walk outside in the morning and it's 93. It's the thick air.

It's 630. Because I had gotten into a nice routine in California of going for a, putting on the sweatshirt and taking a little morning walk. Yeah. And then, you know, I was able to extend that by a couple of days. And then just getting off the plane last night and walking out of the house to take the kid this morning, I'm like, this is, why? Why do we live here?

I said that to somebody yesterday. It doesn't make any sense. Why do we live here? And then this morning was my first day of drop-off at the school, the new elementary school. Oh, yeah. That's a wild ride, dude. Why?

It's hectic. They warned me about this, but I actually didn't think that they would bring it up. But I was on the phone in the car line, and the cop was like, hey, hey, whoa. It's illegal. No cell phones. Yeah. I'm like, really, dude? It's illegal. No cell phones. Yeah. I'm like, really, dude? Like, is this?

It's illegal. I know it's illegal, but there's a lot of things that are illegal that I don't think they enforce. Yeah. No, they do. When they go through school zones, man, you can't have your phone up. I did.

And the guy was just like, hey, yo, gotta cut that off. So what you do is you put it on speaker and hold it down on your lap. Yeah. And that's what I'll do in the future. Yeah. Real cop or just? do in the future. Yeah. Real cop or just?

No, real cop. Yeah. I think it's probably because it's early. It's because there are kids walking around in the streets. No, it's not that it's early. It'll be there all year? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. But the whole thing is just, there's people honking at each other. What? Oh, yeah, dude. Like honking hello or they're upset that you're? No. Not hello.

Not hello at all. I was like 40 cars back. Like I thought I left on a proper amount of time. And I was in line for 20 to 25 minutes. Did you see anybody try to cut in line? Yes. A couple people, hence the honking. See, there's no escaping the length that you're going to be there.

Because I remember I used to occasionally get to pick up my kid if we had a day off or something. And I was excited to do so. And then the first day, I'm like 50th in line, and it took forever. I'm like, God damn. So then you have to get there an hour early to be front in line. So then I'd get there an hour early and sit in the front of line, but I'm still there. I mean,

they're an hour either way. I believe I was told that people start lining up at one 15 for a three 30 release. Whoa. So I will not be doing that part of it. And are you going to be the chief dropper offer? Yeah, that's typically been my role. Okay.

I like that part of the day. My daughter's extremely obsessed with Frank Sinatra. Interesting. So we listen to Frank Sinatra on the way to school. The High Hopes was a big song for my- High Hopes, My Way. Everyone knows that. Come Fly With Me.

Aunt Can't. Yep. No, but you've talked about this before, but man, I swear to God, my son gained like 40 pounds while I was gone. He's noticeably different. Noticeably different. Like he talks different. His hair looks different. It was just. Like he talks different. His hair looks different.

It was just. Like saw. Yeah. Saw dude. And you gave me the finger. You bring any weed back? But no, it's crazy. It's just wild.

Like just seeing him this morning, I'm like, dude, you're like a different person now. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're like a different person now. Hey, do you copy it? So now you're back. There's no more Pornhub for you. Oh, I know, man. We were talking about that off the air.

It's very tough. I mean, you guys know that I was at that house for like five hours after you left on Thursday. Yeah, yeah. They sent me a note about that. Yeah. That we're going to have to pay extra for the cleanup. Yep. It was also 4 a.m.

Yeah, but you guys were gone. Yeah. I was already up. Yeah, he doesn't go back to sleep. Yeah. It's kind of like, all right, well, I'm not leaving. Did you leave a microphone there? You never answered my text. I did. I was already up. Yeah, he doesn't go back to sleep. Yeah. It's kind of like, all right, well, I'm not leaving. Did you leave a microphone there? You never answered my text.

I did. I did. How about answering a text? How about being polite? I'm just trying to do a Saroy here. Yeah. I was. I told her to mail it to us.

The last four days, I can't really tell you where one day ended and the other one began. You know? When you're out on a dude's trip like that, it's just like there's no time. It's just all experimenting. It's not gay if we're on a dude's trip. One guy's blind. He doesn't know what's going on. Very helpful. No, it's your wife.

It's all good. Was Blind Josh there? He was. That's a dumb question. Well, it was a dumb question because I already said it, but he was definitely there. I wasn't listening to anything. I was driving home.

I skipped out on this, but they went to the Northern Idaho County Fair. Okay. And I was just like, dude. Like a freak show? A hundred percent freak show. Was there? Very much like a,

like, juggalo type vibe. Why were you out? I was just like, dude, it was like a, it was a drive, and I'm like, dude, why would I want to go to this? I'm here at this beautiful lake.

Yeah, like, why don't we just sit here and enjoy this? But then I started seeing some of the photos, and I'm like, man, I kind of wish I would have gone on this. There was a guy, there was a white guy, probably 400 pounds in an Ichiro jersey, which is like the funniest thing I've ever seen. That's great.

From an athletic gear standpoint. Did you guys, when you left, did you have a lot of beers and stuff left over? Because I was wondering this on the RV trip. Do guys always overestimate how much they're going to drink? Because Rob ended up filling a cooler with 30 beers that we didn't drink. We threw a bunch of stuff out. Yeah. Like a whole bunch of stuff.

But if you're splitting it between like 15 people, then the death of like two cases is not the end of the world. Yeah. You don't want to have not enough beer. Or others. Or other things. Yeah. Everything's legal out there. Yeah.

Well, I bought those to bring back. Those are my- Oh, you did it on purpose? Yeah, just like Blake with the water. I bought beer. He brought water. I brought beer. You want to show what I found on my doorstep yesterday?

A quick bout of viewer mail. We're saving... So we've been off for a while. I will announce we're saving today's viewer mail birthdays until kind of the end of the program Before today in history There's just too many This was on my doorstep

Blake is Going to unveil But I have to take a little bit of credit Because as soon as Dan gave me the box I said He told me what it was I know exactly what this... I could feel it.

Yeah. He felt the aura. Oh! Some Arrowhead water. Nice. Arrowhead water. And that'll be much easier. You gonna be a gallon guy now?

I'll do anything for Arrowhead. Yeah. Yes, we lugged 500 pounds of Arrowhead water back. Yeah, and for some reason, I just didn't believe it until I had all 12 cases in my car, and I could definitely feel the impact on my car. Yeah. Like it was just leaning to the back left. No, I was parked at Dan's house for RV departure on day one, and I don't know.

It's weird seeing you really early in the morning. The type of people that you only see at certain times every single day, when you see them outside of that time, it's weird. And so I Ubered over, which is so lame. You Ubered where? To your house. When? This morning.

You live a walk away. I know. And that's the thing. It's a 20-minute walk. I was telling my wife, I've always been like, man, I wish I lived in an urban downtown area just to have that lifestyle. So I could walk around. Yeah. And I took a four-minute Uber to your house.

What did that cost? $5. What a beating. Huge beating. But then your wife and your kid were out there. It was like 6.50, and I'm like, man, this is weird. My kid was outside? I'm pretty sure.

Okay, you didn't see her? No, she was in the car. All right, she wasn't. Okay, but your wife was. Yeah. Maybe the guy, she was letting the guy out. Maybe so. Which is fine and it was weird too because it seemed like she thought that i had forgot my car was there she was like need something

and i'm like well yeah i mean i the car really bothered the dogs dude just it being there i lived with it for two days and she said it was like that for two or a week and a half or whatever it's just parked on the street i know but it's not usually there okay so every day they're barking at the window when they see it when we walk outside they're like looking weird like just the fact that that car was parked right in front of our house i'm sorry i didn't even think about that no i wouldn't have thought of it either but they bark at anything unusual she said she said it in like a way that i had screwed up you know like she was like need a little something i'm like well yeah that's why i'm here yeah she's that's why i came over here at 6 50 in the morning yeah that was an

odd choice you could have done it last night in fact fact, you texted me that you were going to come over last night. To be honest. You were wasted. No, I was not. What it was was. You could not leave the house again. I was definitely not doing it. It was, this is really lame, but my daughter was like, will you stay in bed with me? Like, I put her down.

And she was like. Yeah, no, that's not mean, dude. And she was like, can you stay in here? And then by the time she was asleep, was like nine o'clock and I'm like I'm not messing with this right now it is nice to be reminded that they miss you imagine that poor guy to driving uber at 630 in the morning like 10 bucks

so it cost you 15 bucks. Yeah. And it's so nice and cooler than usual. Like just for a little morning walk, get your steps in. I should have walked. You could have carried your kettlebells. Yeah, bring your kettlebells. Wear the weight vest. Your sweatbands. Yeah.

Why are you so obsessed with the fact that I wear a headband? It's just... It does look funny. Kind of strange. You look like Jim Carrey and the cable guy who's going to play basketball. It's not cotton. It's still... What are you guys following? Dressing up for your workout.

Oh, I mean, I've got long hair, so I've got to wear something. Got to wear the headband. He has long hair. Yeah, and I'm bald, and that's why I would have to wear one to catch the sweat from my eyes. And if you wore a headband on the elliptical, I'd probably make fun of you, too. Me? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Well, I wouldn't. I'd just wear a hat like a human. Okay. Human. Trey Lance is back, boys. You know what? We have a lot of sports, but we should tell you that. So today is Tuesday, which is generally a behind-the-paywall show,

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That's their tagline. It's good stuff. Thanks, earlybirdcbd.com. Okay. On today's program, sports-wise, I have a couple cowboy things here. I have some Mavericks. I finished a sports book on the way that I'd like to tell you guys about. Very excited.

That was an experience kind of like I've told you before about my bit of watching someone watch a movie on a plane okay no idea what thor ragnarok is about but somebody four rows up and across the aisle is watching it so you'll watch it from behind them no audio okay and just sort of piece it together on my own and that's kind of what i did when you were reading that book whenever i was like in view of you having the book open I would just read it as you were reading it yeah the book is called Pressure by Sam Ritigliano so because we were going to training camp when I'm around football I like to get in a football state of mind like do you remember

I think last year I might have read Belichick like during as the NFL season is heating up. I like to do that. And you'll go on a walk listening to NFL films? Well, I do work out a little bit with NFL films. There's nothing wrong with that. Sure. It's totally normal.

Lots of people do it. But yeah, so Sam Rattigliano, I'll give you a quick book review. Sam Bertigliano was the head coach of the Cleveland Browns when I first had any tiny sports consciousness. So I don't know how old you were, but I guess I, it looks like 10, 11-ish when I first started to realize, oh, something's going on in sports that everybody's talking about. And that's like my earliest memory of sports is the 1980 Cleveland Browns that should have gone and won the Super Bowl. The first one I have was a little bit earlier than that, and it's the 1992, I think that's Pasadena, right?

The Super Bowl. Is that the first Cowboys Super Bowl? Yeah. Of the 90s? Yeah. And I was seven. And it's interesting now that I think about this, because I'm pretty sure my parents went to a Super Bowl party. And we had a babysitter.

But then the Pro Bowl was like a month later. So the party might not have gone that well now that I think about it. Oh, that year. Yeah, I think so. Jake's mom told him that they were getting a divorce at halftime of the Pro Bowl. Yeah. Thank you, Rachel. But you know what

it was probably for the better they would just thought and argued and you would have grown up in that kind of a household instead of the no and the interesting thing about it is

once that happened they never argued Sam Artigliano was coach of the year two years in a row in 79 and 80 how many times has that happened

I seven I have no idea doesn't it feel like that's always two years in a row in 79 and 80. How many times has that happened? I, uh, seven? I have no idea. Doesn't it feel like that's always a we-can't-give-it-twice award? Like in modern day, perhaps, yeah. Huh. But I guess he took over the team, and they were really bad,

but then they got kind of average, and then they really blew up in 1980, or the 1979 season. And there's a couple funny things in here. So I think in the end, I'm going to say not a good coach. Okay. A fine coach. Seems like a really good human.

But like when you were a kid, you thought he was a much better. Well, yeah, you just don't know anything. Yeah. And you're fresh off of reading the Belichick book. So anybody compared to him is probably not going to seem very good. He did have very progressive thoughts on the drug problems of the 80s. Because he started something called the inner circle with the Browns. And he has gotten me as close as I can come to liking Art Modell again.

Wow. Because Art Modell was fully on board with the prevention, treatment, and very importantly, they say, aftercare in their drug program. Kept it totally anonymous, despite the local paper trying to figure out who was in the drug program. But they were very, very progressive, very progressive thoughts, whereas most teams would be like, if they found out you had a drug problem, they'd just kind of get rid of you.

Yeah. Or if you're like a really good player, they try to figure it out. How can we just keep you being a good player? They weren't really worried about you as a human, and Sam Artigliano does seem like he was worried about you as a human, at least in this book. One of the things, he gets a bit religious in it. You might know later he ended up being the head coach of Liberty University.

I don't know if you did know that. I did not know that. After he was fired from the Browns. Now, was he the one who gave the thumbs up from a hospital? No, that was Hugh Freeze. Oh. Who gave the thumbs up from a hospital. That was Hugh Freeze.

Oh. But his Finding the Lord story is just something I never knew about. This was early in his coaching career when he bounced around the NFL, Denver, Jets, here and there. He was driving late nights with his wife and four-year-old daughter. He fell asleep at the wheel and the four-year-old daughter he fell asleep at the wheel and the four-year-old daughter was killed and so that's got to be a tough a tough situation to ever come out of and you

know sometimes religion will help you do that and it did for him I think I'd probably end up going the other way. Hit the bottle? Well, just like give up. You know? Yeah. The guilt.

I'm like, I am a two-time Coach of the Year winner. Well, he would become that. Okay. He did this thing early in his coaching career. What I knew him for or what anybody in Cleveland knew him for, again, I was before, I had real sports consciousness during the late 80s, early 90s Browns. That was when they went to the

AFC Championship game three years in a row. That's the drive with Elway or the fumble with Ernest Miner. But three years in a row they went to the AFC championship. Never got to the Super Bowl. But this was called Red Right 88. Have you ever heard me use that term? I've heard it from you and from many others. Okay so in the 1980 playoffs, the Browns get to the playoffs for the first time in whenever, you know, I mean, Art Modell famously fired Paul Brown, who like invented football, like he invented a lot of stuff in football, but he fired him.

He invented a lot of stuff in football. But he fired him. They ended up winning another NFL championship with a coach named Blanton Collier after that. But it was basically like Switzer winning the Super Bowl here with Jerry's team. Yeah. So it was like right after the firing, they won the NFL championship. But it didn't really count. So ever since he had fired Paul Brown, they were thought of as like a laughingstock until Ritigliano came around.

And so he brings them back to the playoffs. They're playing Oakland in a very, very, like one of the coldest games ever. The Oakland Raiders come to Cleveland. The Oakland Raiders would go on to win the Super Bowl that year. A little transit of property action. So that's why it was always thought that, of course, had the Browns won this game, they would have won the Super Bowl. And it was a very low-scoring game, of course, in the very, very cold of Cleveland.

Like, real, real. I don't even know what, but you're talking about, you know, literally zero degrees. You know, minus 10 or minus 30 wind chill, that kind of thing. Can't wait. We'll be there pretty early in the season. That's true. So, it's first down for the Browns. They're down by two, and they're on the 13-yard line, the Oakland 13-yard line.

They had just had a long drive of their own from their own 15 to the Oakland 13. Blake, do you know what's about to happen? No. So, they call timeout. All they have to do is kick a field goal. However, their kicker, Don Cockroft, is the NFL's last straight-ahead kicker. Okay.

The toe puncher. Yeah. Which was popularized, I think, by Hall of Famer Lou Groza of the Browns back in the 60s or 50s or whatever. He was an offensive tackle slash kicker. Lou Groza. But Don Cockroft was then the last of all the straight-ahead kickers. All these new fangled foreigners are doing soccer-style kicking now.

Is this Don? But Don Cockroft. How is that a pro athlete? He was at the very end of his career. In fact, if you want to, look up like Don Cockroft stats. This particular year,

he wasn't that great, as I remember. Or reading about it, at least. I don't really remember. I didn't watch these games game to game. But in this particular game, he had already missed an extra point and three field goals. Damn. Because it is minus 30 wind chill.

The wind is blowing like crazy. Yeah. Tom Flores, the coach of Oakland, he won the opening kickoff and I think back then it was always like, receive. We won the kickoff. Well, he did not receive. He wanted instead to think, okay, where is the windiest part of the stadium? It was the open end of the stadium where the dog pound would eventually be right by Lake Erie.

And he chose, he wanted the Browns to be heading that direction in the fourth quarter, which they were. I just want to point one thing out real quick for our visual audience. That guy that was just on the screen? The old? He retired at 35. Oh my gosh, yeah. He looked like he was 44. I don't look good at all, but that guy looks 10 years older than me. George Blanda.

That's a probably 33-year-old man right there. That's shocking. He only made 62% of his kicks in 1980. People were older back then. They were. Older and hairier. Definitely hairier. Oh, my God.

That form. It looks ridiculous. So if they kick a field goal, the game is over if they make the field goal. Sure. So the strategy was run the ball on first and third downs to keep the clock running. was run the ball on first and third downs to keep the clock running. And what they did was, instead, they threw the ball.

Now, the way Sam Ritigliano tells it, he says, I wanted to tell the media all the strategy, but it wouldn't have helped. I wanted to protect Brian. Brian Seip was the quarterback. Brian Seip was the NFL MVP in 1979. The MVP of the NFL. I wanted to protect Brian. I could never. We lost. That's all that mattered. There was nothing wrong with the call.

The problem was the interception. That's the thing. Brian should have never thrown the ball in the middle of the field. He should have done exactly what he was told. The play was designed to go to Dave Logan. He couldn't have been any more open. So he says he just told Brian Seip, you know, whatever the play was, if he's not wide open, just throw it into the stands. Yeah.

You're at the 13-yard line. Ritigliano says, Brian Seip didn't play it that way to the media. I had protected him in my comments. He didn't return the favor. I had protected him in my comments. He didn't return the favor. Later that year at the Super Senior Bowl, Don Shula told me he was very upset with Brian's comments after the Raiders game.

So apparently, Brian Seip kind of threw Ritigliano under the bus. What happened to the whole religious angle, where he's a cool, nice guy at this point in his career? Well, I think he is a cool, nice guy, but he's now writing this book saying, yeah, let's get one thing straight here. So, yeah, apparently Brian Seip kind of just went out and said, well, I don't call the plays like that was the play that was called. And I made the right read and the right throw.

That's a wild story, man. His entire career is wild if you just look at his Wikipedia page. Brian Seip? No. Oh, Ritigliano? Ritigliano, yeah. Yeah, so. 10 years in Europe.

10 years at Liberty? Yeah. He ended up going to Europe later? Yeah. Brian Seip would be wooed away by the USFL in 1983. But he was nowhere near the player he was. In fact, that year he had been benched. An MVP getting benched? Two years later.

Three years later. Still. That's crazy. He got benched. He got benched. He was flown to New York on his off day to talk about a move to possibly the New Jersey generals of the USFL. So Brian Sipe, not that great even when he was great, but then fading, he gets benched. Who do you think was wooing him with a huge, huge contract that nobody would match in the NFL?

Donald Trump. Donald Trump signed Brian Sipe away. I promise you that's not on this Wikipedia page. No. But that's who ended up signing Brian Sipe. It's crazy. I know that it's – I don't even actually know the story as well as you do from jeff perlman's book but it is kind of funny when people will put out the meme that's just like if they would have just let him buy the bills yeah like he would not be a part of the public lexicon in the way that he is at all man for the bills i'm watching some of this game. Sipe was 13 of 40 that game.

Three interceptions. Keep chucking it, brother. But yeah, that final play call was on him. But let's keep throwing it. Jeez. Two more notes that I thought were interesting about this book and I'll end with why

I'm not sure he was the best coach. But one was interesting because they were talking about how they acquired Lyle Alzado. You've heard of him, perhaps? I've not. Okay, he was an Oakland Raiders lineman. He would end up going on to Denver,

but I think in between there, he went to the Browns. But he was a very, very good all pro or at least pro bowl defensive lineman. And so he says, Lyle had the ingredient every football player needs, toughness. That's contagious. You don't find it in every draft. In fact, you don't find it at all, much at all anymore. You don't find it in every draft. In fact, you don't find it much at all anymore. He says, now, players are... This is 1984 he wrote this book. Okay.

Now, players are astute businessmen with agents and endorsements and huge salaries and incentives. They don't seem to have the singleness of purpose that players used to have. I can't blame them, but the hoopla and the big money allow them to be less hungry when they play. So every era. No, it's the best. Like reading the New York Times baseball thing from 1918 or something, right?

Yes. Every era. The fans, coaches, media are upset at how much these players are making. They don't want it anymore. So was he, is this why he didn't win the big one? So when the Browns made the playoffs that year in 1979 and would end up having Red Right 88 called and, you know, losing that game, he says this is, they won their final game of the season. They beat Cincinnati to get

into the playoffs for the first time in quite a few years. He tells his players, he gathers them around and says, these are the moments to savor. You'll remember this day the rest of your life. Enjoy it. Get a still shot of it in your mind so you can picture it later. You're on the mountaintop now. Oh, no. Enjoy it because for every other peak, there's a valley. This is your moment to remember always.

You did it. You won this game. You may never again have a moment as sweet as this one. Why is it so Cleveland? Thanks for a super win. The guys went back to celebrating in the locker the locker room was a noisy, happy place. So, yes, he basically hung a Mission Accomplished banner up. It's very Wade Phillips, but it's also very Cleveland to be like,

this is as good as it's ever going to get. Right, and for Vertigliano's team, it absolutely was. All right, moving on to some cowboy stuff. Want to do that? Sure. I guess Mozzie had an allergic reaction or something. Yeah, he had a latte. I heard it was like a shake, a protein shake, and it had like peanut in it.

How do you not know? And it was like either mislabeled or he grabbed the wrong one or something like that. You know, they're making protein shakes for everyone. So what happened to him? Just puking? Probably just swelled up. He definitely swelled up. He was on the bus to the airport, but I don't think he took off. That's a weird one. Yeah, he stayed back in Oxnard. I thought it was milk.

I think it was like almond milk or something. Oh, okay. You guys know that's actually bad for you? Really? Uh-oh. I know. Why? I don't know.

How do you milk the almond? Just a little. A little teat? Yeah. How do little teat? How do you do it? I've tried to squeeze it as hard as I can. That is a euphemism. He's definitely on the very unfair it's always something list guys

for me. Well, I mean... The guy just accidentally drank the wrong thing and now I'm like, this guy. I don't know if it's always something, but it's just kind of like, what has he ever done? Not much.

Like, that's the thing. It's always nothing. Like, you don't see him in the stat sheet. He doesn't stand out in a game or anything. No. And it could be a rare failed first-round draft pick. That's the thing is it's rare. It's not rare when you're talking about defensive linemen.

Okay, yeah. But it just seems in the past. Taco for sure, but there's, I mean, you got Osa, which hit, but. He was second round, wasn't he? Second or third? Third, I think. But I'm just talking top three rounds, defensive linemen. I guess you could count Micah.

Depends on what you call him. But that is a graveyard. And on the offensive line, it's Hall of Famers. Yeah. And Guyton seems to be the real deal too. Seems like a solid starter. Yeah. Which is great. It is great.

They need it. But yeah, I don't know. It's a, I don't, what does he have? Mazi have one more year left? Like they're not going to fifth year option him. I can't believe they took him in the first round. I thought he was last year. Yeah.

Yeah, so he's got two more till, you have to worry about that. This is his second year. So he's got two more years, and then you can decide on the fifth year option. Does he make the roster next year? Yeah, I mean, he'll be under his rookie deal.

I don't think... It doesn't feel like they're a team that would... Just move on? I've heard people talking about should they release Trey Lance? How could you do that after that performance the other night? Easily. I don't think he was great.

No. Like he had stats. He had stats. Which does happen occasionally. He can run. Occasionally in fantasy football. He can touch down on you. Yeah, he can run, but even though he, you know, his stats are way better than they were game one, he just doesn't, I don't know, man.

He doesn't inspire any confidence at all. No. Like, if you're looking out there and thinking, I'd rather have Cooper Rush be my quarterback, well, that tells you all you need to know. The guy's been in the league like three years. It is funny, though, just to play the Raiders and realize they don't have a

quarterback at all. Dude. Like whatever that is. Gardner? What about Gardner Minshew? You guys don't like Gardner Minshew? No, Connell and Gardner Minshew are their two options. And like they both have to play in the preseason because both of them suck.

And Trey Lance can't get on that team. Like, he was available for anyone who wanted him. And that's an NFL team debating whether they're going to start Aiden O'Connell at quarterback. And I believe famously— There's no way they would touch Trey Lance. Didn't Jerry say, like, he made that trade? Wasn't getting off the phone.

Like, he didn't even ask anyone else in the organization? Yeah. He's just like, whoa. We got to go before this becomes a good time. Hmm. I don't know what that was. Formerly, what, third overall draft pick? Because I keep wanting to say second.

You got it this time. Here we go. Second. You got it this time. But yeah, allure of that was just too much. I'm like, God, what if he does turn out? Without thinking about the salary cap implications, without thinking like Mike Shanahan has had him for two years.

Kyle, but yeah. I'm sorry, Kyle Shanahan. That's really interesting that they even did that. Everybody gets one wrong, man. Yeah, but that's a major one. It was pretty major. Just a couple years before, they had pantsed the Bears. But it makes sense, though.

If you see him play football, it makes sense that he would be great with Kyle Shanahan. Do you think Shanahan's like, look, give me the raw, something I can really mold. Yeah. He's very athletic. Yeah. He can fit into my offense for sure. I will make him. So you have to really give Shanahan a lot of credit for like,

let's just get rid of him. Cut bait and John Lynch, yeah. Get whatever we can. Somebody call Jerry. Huh? Somebody call Jerry. Right. Yeah.

Yeah, but I think we're finding out he didn't fit in San Francisco because he's just not accurate. No. And a lot of that offense is just run after catch, and Lance is just spraying it all over the place. And Purdy can at least do that. Yeah. Put it where it needs to go.

I'm curious if Jerry just thought this was kind of a leverage play with Dak. That's not a bad idea or a bad point, but a fourth-round pick to piss off your quarterback seems like a really cut-off-your-nose-to-spot-your-face type thing. I was pretty sure by the time we got back here today that, like from the trip, that we would have a Dak deal. And that just seems to have completely died down. You got to think they're talking about it, but I don't know.

No reports? Maybe my dream's going to happen. Go to the market? Let him hit the market. Yeah, why would Dak want to sign now? He's just a few months away from hitting the open market? Yeah, no, he's got them bent over, for sure. Right, he would want to sign now if they gave him a deal

that he could get on the open market. Right. You think? I think the price goes up if he hits free agency. Yeah, but he's going to make them pay like he's on the open market even if he signs it before he gets to the open market. I mean, there is a case for he does know he's the Dallas Cowboys quarterback. Are you about to do a take less?

Not take less, but take equal or maybe the slightest, the Dirk discount was like $2 million or something. Yeah, and he was lauded for it. Yeah. So he's not going to take $10 million less like Brady, but just kind of like it would be easier and better, and he lives here, and you're the Cowboys quarterback. Yeah, but what if that sucks?

What do you mean? Steven and Jerry and now Yodeling Kid is giving you tips on how to throw. I think it's great for like the start of your career to build your brand. But at this point, even if he were to end up in wherever. But I mean, he's got weapons around him. They're going to always keep that. You know, he's got weapons around him. They're going to always keep that. You know, he's got a really good, young offensive line. He's got weapons around him, provided they lock up CD, which they will.

They will. But, I mean, other teams can apply that, too. They realize offense, you know, they're not going to ever build this team around defense. They know offense sells tickets, and they love a great fantasy team. no offense sells tickets and they love they love a great fantasy team yeah i mean he's probably going to get 65 million dollars a year next year jesus and be the highest paid nfl player and all this will be moot next year here yeah which is again the bumble effed worst way they could have possibly handled this.

I got to think Jerry and Steven are talking to the coaching staff, because Jerry and Steven don't know themselves, but the coaching staff has to be like, it's Trey Lance, man, no. We can't be moving forward with Trey Lance. So it's either Dak or you're starting totally over. And what does that mean? Unless Shador Fongles in the draft, which he could.

See, I knew there were two names just now. Oh, what was the other one? Baker, like if there was some sort of a trade available for the bake show. There was last boy. That would have been great. What did they trade for him? Did we determine? Fifth rounder?

Yes. Like you could have had Baker for cheaper than you would have had Trey Lance. Yeah. That would be great. I want it for you. Yeah. I want LeBron to own the Mavs. I want Mike Tyson to like buy our podcast somehow.

I want Tiger Woods to give you golf lessons. And I want Baker Mayfield to be the Cowboys quarterback at some point. Yeah. I've given up the Johnny Manziel dream. That's big of you. Unfortunately, yeah. But even, you know, professional golfer though, right? I have not given up that dream,

but I think I still have seven years on that, right? For Johnny? Yeah. Or he gave us the seven years. He gave himself 10 years, yeah. Yeah. Brandon Aubrey. How about that?

He's like a robot. You know what's weird? I found his weakness, kickoffs. Yeah, that's a weird one. We're working it out. I'm just hoping his little short kick he's got to make for kickoff, like he's trying to whatever you call that. He's just nubbing it. He's Don Cockrofting it. He's a half make for kickoff. He's trying to... Whatever you call that, he's just nubbing it. He's Don Cockrofting it.

He's a half-foot kicker. Yeah. I don't want that to ruin the rhythm that Brandon Aubrey kind of has. Because on kickoffs, he would just boot it right into the end zone. Now he's got to kind of play it. Yeah, but he did tell us that it's going to save his leg. Which is good. Not pounding one out of the end zone and now he's got to like kind of play it yeah but he did tell us that it's going to save his leg which is not pounding one out of the end zone every time kicking it as hard as he

can you know what's weird is uh like we don't know him that well at all he probably beats 7 000 slappedies like us in the course of a month but whenever he's lining up a kick i get nervous like i'm watching a family member play sports. Oh, yeah, man. I'm like, fingers crossed, 66. I think you got this, Obbs. Like when he told us his whole routine on how he figured it out, and they mapped it out and marked it on the, you know. I love kind of watching him go through it. Yeah, it's really, really cool, but it makes me nervous.

Because I wonder if that's- Because it goes so fast, dude. What do you mean? Just think about what happened to Dan Bailey. Oh, it can just get in the yips or whatever? I mean, they gave him like a five-year fully guaranteed deal. Yeah. Dan Bailey.

Yeah, he was great. At one point, he was the most accurate kicker in NFL history, and then he just couldn't find a job. Yeah. He just bombed. Well, we have to do – Which is why your wife is telling you, go back out there and play in that game, even if we have a new kid, because we need that job.

Yeah. No, but he is definitely, I don't know, he's a robot. He's a robot. I love it. 66-yard field goal, and it absolutely would have worked. It hit the net, didn't it? It did. Yeah.

And it's so funny once he does it too, it fires everyone up. Like McCarthy can't believe it. He's just laughing. Like, okay, I have Trey Lance who can only get it. Actually, Trey Lance barely got that. That was a scramble from the pocket, right? Yeah, that's right. He had to slide, and they got the time got that. That was a scramble from the pocket, right? Yeah, that's right. He had to slide, and they got the timeout in.

That was incredible. I love our little special teams buddies. Who's the color commentator on the Cowboy game? Isaiah Stanback, I think. Blue Star Network? Yeah. Slow it down a little bit. Talking too fast for you?

slow it down a little bit. Talking too fast for you? I think he's just so excited to be in the booth and to show what he can do. Yeah, I mean, it's tough for those guys because they get three games a year. Right. And it's hard to establish a rhythm, but I thought they got way better for game two.

You think so? Yeah. And I didn't realize that Bill Jones had been doing games for this long because they played the Romo clip from 20 years ago, and it's Bill Jones on the call. Oh, really? Mickey's walking all over him.

It was great. That's a very unnecessary shot. Well, he's like the CBS weekend guy, right? Bill Jones? Yeah. Yeah. Channel 11. So, like, Babe is with CBS.

So I'm sure Babe hooked him up there to get him. Well, I mean, CBS obviously runs the games, but. I just want to say respect to Bill Jones. It feels like you guys are kind of trampling on his career right now. What do you mean? I was just surprised he's been calling games for that long. That's all. Donovan used to say that he had a bird mouth. Like tiny little mouth.

Really? Like that little bird that would peck the water. You know? But, yeah, when's the next game? Do we even know? Preseason is so crazy. And the thing is, too, like, it's going to be obsolete very soon. The thing is, you look around the league, though,

oh, Mahomes was playing? Behind the back pass? Yeah, I'm just saying all these other players don't, you know, find some – or coaches find some value in it, but they're just so afraid that if they put Dak out there, he'd get hurt. I don't know. Teach his own. I thought the weirdest one was the Hall of Fame game with Caleb. Like, okay, dude, we're really at the point where the 1-1 on a new team. Well, they're playing it this week.

I know, and they had an extra game, but still. Yeah, might as well see him just a little bit. So yeah, the final game is Saturday. Cowboys-Chargers. And then I don't know. I mean, I feel like eventually you're going to go down to two and then one game. And then none. And you'll just have those joint practices like the ones that we saw in Oxnard. Well, there's going to be an 18-game schedule, that's no doubt. So that'll take one off. Yeah. I think I've heard Jerry say 20.

Eventually, I think... That's insane. I think your son will see a 20-game schedule. Although now when you put it like that, I like it. What do you mean? He gets more football. Yeah. Football's good.

What do you guys think of the running back room? I would like to keep Deuce. He seems like the classic guy that every year you're going to say, in preseason, because he's playing against third stringers. Yeah. And you're going to, like last year, I didn't think there was anything wrong with him. And then he gets out, like, in a real game.

It's like, whoa, tiny. I know, but I'd rather have him than Royce Freeman, who we know. And his dad's part of the coaching staff. Remember that? Remember that cool draft moment? Yeah. I don't know. That was probably another Jerry pick.

He's not an NFL player. Yeah. I'm sorry know. That was probably another Jerry pick. He's not an NFL player. Yeah. I'm sorry. Is Zeke? Probably not. Probably not. But, I mean, he's a cowboy. I mean, those are two different things, right?

So he'll be a significant contributor, or at least first carry. First carry of the season. That's a good guess. I really like seeing the ha-ha-ha in person. Yeah. He just does that literally like he's Beavis. He seems like a nice guy. He is a nice guy, but he just walks around and does that.

He walks up to Kidd with autograph, and he's like,is. He seems like a nice guy. He is a nice guy, but he just walks around and does that. He walks up to Kid with autograph and he's like ha ha ha ha. And then he walks up to the podium. He's just constantly in that weird phase that only Zeke can occupy. I'd like to do something that we can only do on the recording it

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for some audio or something, but just to listen to people talking. It's very weird to me. So I was offered a chance to be in a different... So I was doing some things this weekend. I am prepping. I'm doing some fantasy prep.

Yeah, it's that time. Are you like... Do you have a time when you'll sit down and say, I'm going to devote now to fantasy for this half hour, hour, or whatever? Yep. Let's look at this and this and this. I know you're not into fantasy, Jake. No, I'm not.

It's unfortunate because it's so fun. So I'm getting my fantasy stuff ready. A lot of good names. Oh, yeah? A lot of sleeper names. You're going to go zero running back? I don't know if I can do zero running back, but I think we want to do,

I think we need to get a receiver and a tight end early. Oh, yeah. Which is a different game. I mean, you'll consider going tight end first round for sure, just because the value there can be so much higher. But I mean, you remember back in the day when it was all running backs early? The game has changed.

My gosh. I can remember that. But I'm in, so I'm in a Monopoly type game. It's where you get like a fake $10,000 and then you can gamble every week. Sure. I'm usually out of that in a couple weeks because I like to gamble all of it right away. I think I really know this team. I think Baker lost me that one a couple years ago.

The last one standing or the knockout league, I'm in two of those. Do you know what that is? Yeah, of course. Okay, all you got to do is pick a winner. Seems so easy. Yeah, money one, straight up, right? It's insane how hard it is. Yeah.

But I once lasted like double-digit weeks. It was like the best fall of my life. The funniest is just like the leagues where like 90% gets knocked out in one week. Those are my favorite. And I typically hear about that when I call my dad on Monday morning. Well, did I tell you I called Chappie this weekend? You did. Because I'm in a couple of these things, and I'll get an email,

and they say, invite others if you want. And I think, well, who would love to do this? And Chappie would. Although he did say he is concerned because he's like, well, I tell you what, I've been retired, but I'm busier than I've ever been. I'm selling a house, and you wouldn't believe it. I can't sell my house, and then I already got the down payment. He's in a pickle here.

I'm well aware. Having a house for sale. Yeah. No, I've heard quite a bit about this. But he's got this other house that he's already bought, and he's not getting any nibbles on the house he's trying to sell. Are you just, like, torturing me by me having to listen to this story for the second time? But he's just telling me why he has so much going on.

He's not sure if he can commit to this other league or whatever. But he's in. But then he's like, as far as the picks, doing picks on your show, he's like, I'm not sure i can commit to 17 weeks because i got this house and i get this other house and then i got this thing and he goes what would you say to that and i said to him i'd say you got to suck it up and figure out how to do it yeah because we just need you 17 times it's once a week we got a bi-week i mean here's what happened did you tell him that too uh i've told him that several times mean, here's what happened. Did you tell him that too?

I've told him that several times. Okay. But here's what happened. He just wanted to run it by me. He had a bad year, and now he's looking for an excuse. Oh, a way out? It's 15 minutes a week. He could easily do the show, but people started chirping him last year.

I think somebody found his email address. Oh, no. Yeah. People started letting him know that he had a last year. I think somebody found his email address. Oh, no. Yeah. People started letting him know that he had a bad year. Yeah. Because he doesn't know what it's like to be the man in the arena. So you know Kevin Turner? Quite well.

Kevin Turner, I think still on the freak, actually. He's the cockroach over there. Did not go down. That might have actually been what saved him. Yeah. Thank you, Rob. He's a... He also is part of a cowboy podcast with John Machoda,

as you know. And he's a good dude, but he has invited me to be in his Fantasy League, which is a Saturday Night Live Fantasy League. And so he's like, the only commitment you have is one time, it's the draft. And you don't have to update it all year long. And I thought you might be interested in this because you do care about SNL somewhat.

Well, how does it work? care about SNL somewhat. Well, how does it work? So what it is, there's 10 guys in the league and you get 10 picks. So there's going to be 100 names taken off the board. And what you are doing is trying to guess either host or musical guest. Now, and you'll get a point

or maybe it's seven points. I don't know what it is the point system but it's you score if one of yours pans out so it's kind of like at the beginning of last year i'm not sure if shane had blown up and they knew shane was going to be it but sometimes you know they don't announce this ahead of time right uh because pop culture trends will change something will happen somebody gets hot and they'll be like oh let's book that person to be the guest or the host um so yeah so i think next week i'm going to be in the fantasy draft and i'm going to be following this but i will take your suggestions or uh any email help as well uh because in fact my daughter was like oh so and so has an album coming out in the fall and i'm like okay let's write that name

down i've never heard of before chapel roan is definitely that's a you got to book that one 1a or you might see deadpool is coming out or dead Deadpool versus whatever. Right. So no, Ryan Reynolds might be a guy. It's the 50th anniversary season of SNL. That's going to be throwback. So now, well, maybe some throwback guys. Maybe we got to get Alec Baldwin again because he's a five-time host or whatever. Kamala. If you get Justin Timberlake, and he's the musical guest,

like I think last year Billy Eilish was host and musical guest the same show. So you get two points if you can get that. That's a very complicated, complex scoring system that I appreciate you explaining to me. Are there any experts pushing out content, like rankings about this? What do you mean? Experts in the industry. Who's the Saturday Night Live Matthew Berry?

Exactly. Okay, well, that could be Jake. I'm offering you that forum. No, I think you're vastly overrating my pop culture knowledge in 2024. Okay. I like the show. I think it's gotten better. I've laughed pretty much every time I've watched it for the last year,

but I don't know who's popular at all. Is that the bar now? What? You just laugh at it? Yeah. I mean, a couple of times. Isn't that kind of the point?

Yeah, but there was a long period of time where I didn't, but Chapel or Chappelle Roan, I don't know how to say her name. You want her? Dave Chapel. He's a good guess because they had him on right after the election last time, and there's going to be an election this time, so maybe.

That's solid. They'll have some symmetry there. You've got to make a political play. I mean, Kamala's going to be on the show. Going to be on, but I can't see her as the host. You know? Yeah. Who? I don't even know who that is. is yeah don't say names we've never heard of that's gonna be the whole list oh is it really yeah so that's what my daughter was uh trying

to help out with as well do you want to give ours out if you like the idea do you want to do that yes i didn't know if you were prepared to do that. Let's do it. We're going to do a dumb zone survivor pick'em league. So a knockout league. Knockout.

Whatever you call it. Yeah. Last one standing. We'll get to the money figures or whatever, but it's going to... Go ahead. I feel like we need to be careful about the tax situation here. If we could all just... Let's put this in Monopoly. It's going to... Go ahead. I feel like we need to be careful about the tax situation here.

If we could all just... Is it legal to run this? Maybe we need a lawyer. I don't know. Okay, well, we have lots of them. We have lots of those. Yeah. I think before you say too much else...

Okay, well, let's just gauge interest then. Okay. If you'd like to be a part of a proposed dumb zone knockout league because blake has a way we can uh set up a website where you would just be able to put in your pick every week no i'm not concerned about like the technical back end i feel like he'll nail it because most people who are into this like they have to get an email every week and they update the spreadsheet and all that. We don't want to do that. An app or something. If we were

to do something like that and you would be interested, let us know. How do they let us know? You're asking for emails to my email box? What's our email? Which one do you want to give out? Let's go thedumbzoneatgmail.com Oh, now that's just going to be overloaded she says no the no it's the dumb zone how about this stop yelling while

we're doing the show oh no it's the dumb zone at gmail.com the dumb zone email us tweet us do whatever yeah and if you possibly have advice on what happens if you get hemmed up by the feds for running an illegal book, you can send that to the same address. It's a donation. It's a charity. We could throw a charity thing. Oh, I like that. Anything come to mind? Can't you call us a charity?

Here's what I hear. I don't know. I never thought about that. We're small business. Here's what a charity is called. People who are not doing well who need your money. No. What else?

What's a common term that you hear when somebody talks about a charity? Two words. Yell it. Yell it. Nonprofit. That's right. Now she's confused. It's a non.

I know. Well, she didn't listen to me the first time because she yelled it out. Nonprofit. And that's exactly what we are. That's true. That's very true. We're just staying afloat. No, we're barely hanging out. Curious though because we're paying taxes like profit. I know.

But not making any of the profit. What if we called ourselves a religion? I like that. Yeah. I like that. You know the other play we could make there? Lots of wives. we could have yes how can we i think you can get if you're going to make your own religion you have to be able to it feels like step one do a lot of sex yeah i'm gonna need your wife and your wife i would rather

have the religion with no wives what if we did that one where we don't have to do stuff? Yeah, I mean, it does kind of fit with our general, like, we both want no tea. Yeah. We're going to do that. Well, we're going to work on that. Okay. Before we get into a little bit of basketball, well, wait. Should we be breaking at some point?

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Well, whatever the website is, they have a one-.com okay you could go to uh dumbzone.com and then click the little merch button right no you could anyway he said they got a one year anniversary special where you can get a dumb zone t-shirt a hat and a hoodie, what do you think, what price would Raymond have happened upon for these three items? If I had to guess, it would be less than $70. More than $50, though. Are we close? You're way closer.

It is $69. Yeah. Because Raymond can't grow up. I'm trying to move past that. Yeah. But, yeah, go to whatever the website is that we get the merch. Do you think that our lean into this bit has increased the amount of 69ing that happens, at least like in Dallas? Do you feel like if somebody is 69ing, they kind of think of us, too, in a way.

That's not what I thought you were going to say, but I hope so. That sounds really dirty. Yeah, so if you are... What were you thinking I was going to say? Well, I just think it's... Because it was probably funny. I think you pointed this out before. Yeah, it was going to be a great, hilarious line.

hilarious line. It just seems like an act that, while awesome, is talked about way more than actually occurs. You know what I mean? I absolutely know what you mean. I think it's more of a when you're younger,

that's a thing you'll I gotta do that. And then we do it, and it's like, alright. But you're not It's not a go-to move No I mean It's not the pitching way If she said would you like to 69

I would probably say no thanks Do you feel like it's that formal When you're with your lady? Hello sir No Okay It doesn't It isn't just kind of like you

End up there Or have you negotiated this? Yeah, when I was young, I was like, yeah, yeah, let's 69. You said that? In my head, yeah. Like you grow up, all these jokes, like finally I can 69. And then I get there, I'm like, okay, that's, check. Fine.

You almost want to concentrate on one or the other. But when you have both of them going on, it's like, ah, I don't know if I'm probably not doing this well. Cause I'm worried about. Yeah. I'm not.

No. Like, you know, I know we built this whole thing around 69, but it's probably not that great. Yeah. It's kind of funny too. Like when you,

I don't do what Blake does and just straight up get asked or ask but when you kind of like direct it you know yeah and it's like you gotta commit but when you're soft pedaling it's like okay how about i what about the standing 69 there's no way anybody's actually done that no people have asked yeah people that. I feel like I see that in drawings, like sex book drawings, you know? But it's like, there's no way. I would definitely hurt my back if I tried that. You got to page 47 of Pornhub. I'm sure you saw it.

I did not get to page 47. Unless you had like a little Simone Biles type girl. You could lift. She's just tiny. But then the anatomy's off. Yeah. Would she reach all the way down there? Yeah, that's tough.

You never go past page three. If you end up at four, you need help. Interesting. Think about that next time. Hey, let's do a normal speed commercial read. Okay. Because when we were on the trip that we took to California, where would we have been without factor meals?

Oh, my gosh. In fact, so, you know, Matt, our driver, preps all his meals on his own, which seems really cool, but then he ends up, like, with the same meal every day, every meal. And he has to make it. Yeah. And he has to make it. Yeah, then he has to make it and he has to go through it. He says he spends like four hours on a Sunday just making a ton of chicken and rice and whatever and then just doling them out. With Factor Meals, they do all that for you and then the variety as well is awesome. So you don't have to just eat the same meal, but you're always getting a nice, healthy meal.

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Yeah. Now basketball, Rob. Two, three, four. Basketball. Give me, give me, give me the ball because I'm going to dunk it. Hey! B-b-b-b-b-basketball. Give me, give me, give me the ball because I'm going to dunk it.

I don't think this is too interesting, but while we were gone... What do you got? The Mavs did announce their schedule. Mm-hmm. They had their schedule release. Now, they don't do this in the NBA. Wouldn't that be a pretty tedious schedule release video? Every video is 19 minutes long.

They had Derek Lively do a couple things. Did they? Yeah. I cut it off and highlighted a few things that were interesting to me. And you can look over the schedule as well and see if there's anything that stands out to you. What was interesting to me is they're not opening the season with Golden State. Because the NBA usually looks at player movement and whatnot. Yeah.

And I thought, okay, if they're not opening the season with Golden State, certainly that is going to be the Christmas Day game. Golden State. And it's neither of those. No, it's the opening of the much-ballyhooed NBA Cup. Are they still doing that? Oh, yeah, I guess that is. Yes, they have NBA Cup group play games, which doesn't make any sense because you play the first one is Golden

State at Golden State, Tuesday, November 12th. Correct. Which will be a TNT game. But then they play like three other games, and then they have two more games that are called the Cup group play games. It's really weird. Whatever. The only thing that you have to know is that LeBron is the first time winner of the NBA

Cup. And that propelled them to a long postseason run. Well, he was kind of focused on that Olympics. He's got an answer for everything. You gotta know it. So yeah, they play Golden State at Golden State in mid-November and then in February as well. They have Minnesota on Christmas Day. Kind of spare.

I mean, it's kind of spare because you just think of the Timberwolves, but they're kind of hot right now. Minnesota? Yeah. I feel like they're kind of darlings. They've become darlings. You got the governor, who I've never heard of before, but now everybody's heard of him. Wait, tell me. Oh, from the playoffs?

No. The governor is running for vice president, isn't he? Oh, okay. Yeah. Politics guy? Yeah. I've never heard him leaning into the Timberwolves bit, though, so I guess I didn't really totally... I've never heard him like leaning into the Timberwolves bit though.

So I guess I didn't really totally. I'll bet you he had his, he had equality on the back of his Jersey during the pandemic. Or education reform. He just seems like that kind of dude. Get to open with Wemby again. Did they do that last year? Pretty sure.

That's when Lively punked him a little bit. Wemby at home. Couple bits. They only have four of these. I like the mini series. The home. Not the home in a way, but the, hey, I'm going to the Clippers.

We're going to play two games this weekend. Which is something that I think we thought was going to become very commonplace post-pandemic. It made sense. It seems to financially make sense. You will just kind of stay in one place. It'll reduce our carbon footprint. And that's all we're really concerned about. Yeah, they do it against the Clippers twice, once here, once there.

And then they do it against home to Denver. We'll get a couple of those on a Sunday and a Tuesday in January. And then at San Antonio, oddly enough. I would think they would do it somewhere where you have to travel a little farther. Sure. But they don't. So, oh, I guess everybody plays on MLK Day. Is that why they have an 11 a.m. game?

Everyone plays on MLK Day and no one plays on Election Day. Okay. They have to get out the vote. And I didn't know if, you know, if we wanted to do a dumb zone, like meet up, you know, people have asked us from San Antonio or Houston. I would love that.

Uh, so we do have a little week in March where they're playing San Antonio and Houston. And we could like follow the Mavs if we wanted to do something like that. Let's go. That'd be awesome. So that's just a possibility, but the Mavs schedule has been released and we will now ignore it until we wanted to do something like that. Let's go. That'd be awesome. So that's just a possibility.

But the Mavs schedule has been released, and we will now ignore it until October, right? October 24th, yes. That's the next time. I wonder what their odds are. Have you looked? The Mavs odds on winning it all? Yeah. I have not looked, but I think they're in the top. What would you say?

I would guess top eight. Six. Okay. Pretty solid. Do you want to guess? I was looking at Cowboys futures. Okay. Because I was talking to Chappie about futures.

First coach fired. Okay. No, I didn to Chappie about futures. First coach fired. Okay. No, I didn't look at that. McCarthy, well, he's probably always going to be up there, right? You're just a Cowboys coach. Yeah. Yeah. No, but I might have laid a little something down on.

You went the beak a little bit on a Cowboys future? It's August. I know, but I got excited. What if I told you boys you can get plus 1,100 on the Cowboys winning their first five games of the season? That's a really weird bet. Look at the schedule. Pulled up. Are they going to beat Cleveland?

Well, that's the number one thing they have to do is beat Cleveland. They're absolutely beating Cleveland. That's a pretty soft five right there. There was only one tough one, I thought. What is it? Baltimore. Yeah. But it's at home.

It is at home. What do we got? At Cleveland, hosting New Orleans, hosting the Ravens, at the Giants, and at Pittsburgh. That's a 3-2 stretch there. But if they're 5-0, your buddy over here. You will get $1,100. That's if I bet only $100. I'm placing this wager today

You like it? I love it Yeah Send me the site Well you don't want him to take your bet Why? We're friends Yeah we should all profit

Is he not a good bettor? A rising tide lifts all something Boats? I don't know yeah They're not starting 5-0 I think it's That's all we. Yeah. They're not starting 5-0. I think it's- That's all we need. Almost guaranteed.

They're not beating Cleveland. Okay. What do you want to put on it right now? Yeah. Big shot. Bus ride across the nation. Whoever- You have to drive my daughter home from college.

Oh. If the Cowboys go 17-0, I'll do that. Not 5-0. Boy, can you imagine how confused she'll be? Why is Blake here? Yeah. I'm supposed to drive you back home. The Cowboys made a very improbable run to the Super Bowl.

72 Dolphins, you wouldn't get it. You guys ready for the news? Let's do it. Here's Jay with the Gun Zone News. Dan, do you know what Big Chicken is? They're probably forcing us to eat chicken. Is it like Big Tobacco? You would think, but it's actually Shaquille O'Neal's Chicken Restaurant,

which will be opening in Fort Worth in two weeks. Do you think he has a big hand in it? You know what? He actually does seem pretty hands-on, right? I have no idea how he ended up making this his home but he's always here it's one of his homes yeah well i mean yes but i think he spends a lot of time here i wonder why two or three houses here probably state income taxes maybe you know remember uh the guys at grapevine ford sent me a photo yeah because he was there Just like bought a van for a family or something, right?

Yeah. There was some family that was down on their luck, and he's like, yeah, I'll just buy them a vehicle. He walked in there and paid cash. That's probably sweet. Cash for the car? That is very sweet. Just to be able to walk in. Yeah.

I'd like to do a good deed for today. What I'll do is like You know Tip an extra dollar Do you really feel good about yourself? Yeah and then the rest of the day I'm like I'm a good person But then you start thinking about What you could have done with that dollar

Yeah and then I think That service wasn't even that good I'm rewarding bad behavior Yeah In honor of Shaq's Lakers jersey number That service wasn't even that good. I'm rewarding bad behavior. Yeah. In honor of Shaq's Lakers jersey number, the first 34 customers will receive complimentary food and drinks for an entire year at Big Chicken. Did you say where this is going to be?

This one's at Fort Worth. Heritage Trace area. Okay, what's the deal again? The first 34 customers that day Will receive complimentary food and drinks At Big Chicken for the entire year They're not specifics About how much you get

Because I wonder if it's once a week Yeah I remember like When you were a kid finding out about An offer or promotion like that And you're like okay well i'll just go to water burger every day for the rest of my life yeah and then you find out that the fine print is you get a single no cheese burger so i pull that picture up again please i slept outside of a buffalo wild wings because one was opening up kind of near firewheel because they said they promised free wings for a year and i was 18 had nothing to do set up a tent did the whole thing what lat what

were you in line 20 something okay and had a buddy do it with me stayed up all night so excited to get these free wings for a year and they gave you a little like little pamphlet thing and you got six wings a week and they had 52 little things that youlet thing and you got six wings a week. And they had 52 little things that you just tear off. Here are my six wings. That's just a snack. Yeah, I didn't even use it. I was so upset. My kid did something similar to that at college.

Like at Clemson. They did the same thing. They had to be there, so they waited in line. And yes, every week. But she goes. She goes every week, gets her six wings, and I'm like, well, do you then buy fries and a drink or something? Nope.

And she calls ahead and has it ready, and then she just goes and picks it up every week. She's so mad that she didn't. That's actually pretty awesome. So she actually gets her wings, but she won't give them one extra penny because they did that to her. Okay, respect. I'll drive her home.

So that picture that we had thrown up looks like the most unhealthy thing I've ever seen in my life. Oh, that's not the one that I was looking at. They have one with mac and cheese on it. So this has fries on the chicken sandwich and bacon? Maybe some onion rings? And onion rings? Yeah, mac and cheese and fried onion strings.

There we go, the middle one. Dude, I gotta be honest. You think that looks great. It does. That looks fantastic to me. I can't even imagine. Oh, do you guys like my new hat? The waffle fry. You get a Spencer's hat?

Yeah. I love it. I invested in a Spencer McKenzie's hat. I was thinking that just because Blake ordered the seafood burrito in a way I've never seen ordered before. It's called the business burrito. It's on the menu. And instead of rice, which humans will eat, Blake gets,

it has fries. So instead of rice, he's replacing, he's like, you know what? This thing is just too healthy. You were just saying how you're trying to eat healthier

with Factor Meals. it's Spencer McKenzie's. Live a little. Yeah, I'm on vacation. But it's already got the sauce. No, no, no. Hold on.

And the thing is two pounds. And it's got shrimp in it. You're right. I do replace the rice with French fries. But instead of that silly coleslaw, how about steak? He gets a steak and shrimp burrito with fries in it. So it's got steak, shrimp, and French fries. Cheese fries, really.

And the sauce. The cheese fries. And then Brooklyn style. Let's spice it up a little bit i had a great time in california i can tell well school is back as i talked about with the uh drop off lines this morning um texas schools are seeing like a massive truancy problem which probably is related to socio-economic factors like if you don't have anybody to take you to school or nobody making sure that you go to school when you were a kid were you

afraid that you could get arrested for not going to school oh yeah I thought cops were out and looking for kids. Bro, truancy. The truant officer. In the neighborhood. I always kind of heard of it, yeah. Yeah, no, it's 100% like your dad's friend who had to register his arms as lethal weapons. I don't know anybody who ever got in trouble for it,

but it was always like a thing of, dude, if you don't have a note, they can arrest you and your parents. And your parents. And your parents, yeah. Yeah, we've seen higher rates of chronic absenteeism. This kind of all started during COVID. Many things did.

Many things did. That sucks for your kids too man i remember being really bummed about that like they just kind of had like a lost year of school i cannot at this point imagine having had those kids in the house trying to do school during covid it was two bad years because yeah it was my kid's senior year of high school. And freshman year. So she missed out on a lot of that. And then, yeah, it went into freshman year where they still had, like, some protocols that, you know, upon further review,

were probably a little too much. Yeah. But can you imagine whenever they were, like, my kid's age, having them in the house with your wife trying to work and put them through school that's why i've always thought about like how do people homeschool like my wife couldn't have i mean i couldn't have handled it but certainly my wife couldn't have i assume it's just you're not working. But even then. Even then. Yeah, that's wild.

There's a bad bit. Then you're out of toilet paper. I told you. Gotta use your shirt. No traffic, though? No traffic was sweet. Blake was pretty fired up about the no traffic. I got downtown in 20 minutes.

Did you guys watch any of the dnc what do you think i think the answer is no yeah um but the reason i bring this up is i woke up this morning snoop's not there i'm not watching it do double g is in the house i would not that out. Snoop has got his feet up. How much did he make during the Olympics? 500 grand a day, right? 500 a day. What, three weeks? Yeah, doggy dog world.

We won't see him for a while. No, you will. On what? Something else? Pick something, and he'll be there. The voice? To tie these things together, it's snoop and shack they dominate our culture commercially one of the greatest tweets of all time was when trill withers posted

i'm pretty sure shack would do a commercial for genocide if the check was on time like why is he advertising the general insurance? Like, that's not that big of a product or a company. How much money must he have, man? That makes no sense. Anyways, the reason I wanted to bring up the DNC

was I saw this morning that one of my favorite artists, Jason Isbell, was trending. Okay. And he played the dnc and it's always funny to me i remember this happening with uh rand paul and rage against the machine it's always funny to me whenever there are people who have listened to an artist for years and years and years and years hours Hours and hours and hours and hours. And then they're like, this guy's a lib.

And people are like mad that he played it. Like, are you hearing the same lyrics that we're all hearing? Like, I didn't get mad when Kid Rock turned into the guy who plays at the Republican National Convention. I knew that was in the cards. Do you know what I mean? So what is this? Mad online, you're saying? Yeah.

People are trending? Yeah. It's trending? Okay. That it's like, because he's kind of country, you know? So he possibly has like a center, center-right leaning audience. He looks like that. He's from Tennessee. That's him playing at the DNC right there?

People were really fired up about this, and it's just weird to me that... I thought all... Snoop Dogg smokes weed? Just about all musicians are dirty libs, right? Because they're all always suing Trump for using his song at his rally or something. Well, there's Kid Rock. Yeah, unless you can find... Yeah.

I just assume all them Hollywood elites Yeah it's just You know I guess because he's country People Were duped I want to trend

You did once Remember when he trended Yeah We did trend Oh the check I'm still waiting for the Trending check But it was kind of cool And our last one here Not the check. I'm still waiting for the trending check.

But it was kind of cool. And our last one here, this is a story from Friday. This happened in Corsicana. An assistant principal was attacked so severely inside a classroom at a high school that she had to be airlifted to a medical facility in Dallas. Okay. That's terrible. I don't think I'd take the gig anymore. There was a time where I wanted to maybe

do it. I had a girlfriend who did, what's the thing? Like, Teach for America or something? Is that what it's called? You know, I give you some money to pay off your student loans and they put you in like a low income school.

Oh, I never heard of that. And I thought it seemed cool. But I think like TikTok scared me out of it. Like kids attacking teachers. I just don't really feel like that was happening as much when I was a child. Or did you just not hear about it? Yeah, it probably was in those same areas. You think?

Yeah. I feel like the phone encourages bad behavior. See, now you sound old. I know. But that's like saying the phone encourages police brutality or something. It's like, no, you can now just kind of record things quicker. Like police brutality, you think that increased? No, I think that's always been the case.

In fact, it probably decreased. Do you think trans was invented seven years ago? You know what I mean? Like people feel more comfortable coming out now and saying who they are. I guess I'm just speaking like when I was a kid and we had the camcorder, it made me want to do more wild stuff. Interesting. Like, hey, I can go back and watch that.

Certainly being able to be famous makes you want to do more because you might not have done that if there were just camcorders, but jackass didn't exist. Right. But same thing with now that there's TikTok. Was it you or somebody was recently telling me, if you look at top 10 professions that kids say they want in? Yes. It used to be like fireman and baseball player or whatever. Army man.

Now it's just streamer. Yeah, now it's like TikTok creator, creator whatever streamer youtube whatever like that's i mean i took i played that nora audio yeah every single time she sees a phone and knows it's recording she signs off she has a close and open all of it like to her that's just entertainment that's being a movie star like your grandpa thought like there weren't as many gay people back in the day right now there's more after he sees that commercial of dudes kissing uh i don't know if he had an opinion on the amount of people he just didn't want to see it he i think was really hanging his hat on that he had never seen two gay guys kiss each other and thought and he just at like 80 i'm probably good to go to the grave

i'm in the clear yeah but then he saw the commercial no one will ever swift boat me with a you know i'll yeah i'll never forget he just looked at me he said i wish i could have gone my whole life without seeing! I had to laugh. I wish I could have been there for that moment. It was special. Alright, anyways,

there's your news. How was your grandpa? The dumb son of you. Well, mine all died during COVID. Like and subscribe.

Now I feel like I can't tell you about mine because Jake came in and trumped mine because his is dead and mine's not. That's awesome. Let's quickly do another regular... Oh, Dan! Look out.

Now that did not happen to us on our road trip. But if it did, what would we have done, guys? The first thing I would have done was check on you, and then I would have called 214-817 and then just keep hitting the three. That's right. Because that's their phone number for Frankel and Frankel. They're awesome.

They are chosen by the people feared by the insurance companies they are personal injury lawyers they're based right here in dallas and what you should do after checking on me if you get in a wreck call them immediately insurance companies try to take advantage of you frankl will fight for your rights when you give them a call, Jake, who will you talk to? Probably like a low-level part-timer. I thought you were looking at the copy so you'd know that you'll talk to a partner. Oh, wow. Mark or Scott Frankel or Gene Burkett.

You'll be on the line with them. You're talking to somebody who can make things happen immediately. They have the experience and knowledge to win in the courtroom, work tirelessly to maximize your outcome, and they used to work for the insurance companies. They know the tricks. Yeah, so they could use that experience to advocate on your behalf, like Belichick becoming an offensive genius because he knew so much about defense.

That's a great analogy. Who's the one with the cool shoes? Gene Burkett. Okay. But I don't want to rule out the Frankles themselves having cool shoes also. I've just never actually personally... You've personally

seen Gene Burkett speak. That's true. Real tall guy too. Oh yeah? But everybody seems like that to you. Anyway, Frankle and Frankle. They're great. 214-817-333-333 Just keep going three And you can't lose there

Let me do some quick viewer mail Which is These are all birthdays Okay I told you like we were going to save it Until the end And that's kind of where we're at now. Yep.

But we were gone for so long. I have quite a few birthdays. I'll save my moosing viewer mails. Thanks. There's more than one? There's more than one. Just a little tease for tomorrow. So a lot of these rolled in last week, whatnot.

Dan and Jake, please give a birthday shout out to my husband, Jason, for his birthday, August 19th. It is, as you'd say, his Kurt Schilling birthday. He's the best dad to our son, Max, and new baby girl, Annie. And we love him so much. This is from Kelly. I'm thinking Kelly, though. She's only judging him probably against her own dad.

And if she's calling him the best dad. Sure. I'm probably a better dad than this guy, Jason. I mean, I could be. That's doubtful, but I definitely am a probability. I mean, you were on the cover of a dad magazine. That is true. I've not done that.

Not yet. But anyway, Jason, you might get on a cover of a magazine someday. I still can't believe that they printed the quote where you said, I really love my kids, just not yours. I don't love other kids. I don't. It's like a parenting magazine, like a community magazine. They actually ran that quote. You were honest.

Dan, day 10 listener, because I didn't know what Patreon was before you guys. Friday is my birthday. We all know I won't be woken up in that special way. Maybe a late night moosing if I liquor her up. More drunk Dan, more Saroy. This is from Ben Twiss, the vodka guy.

Oh, nice. Okay. You know Ben? I do. We do need more drunk Dan. That was fun. That's right. He's, he hooked us up with some Tito's

for the Super Bowl. He says, PS Business Talk, working on some stuff with my marketing team with you guys. Okay. All right.

Talking about an iron in the fire? I want to have a marketing team with you guys. Okay. All right. Talking about an iron in the fire? I want to have a marketing team. I think it's like Rob is the marketing team. Pretty much, yeah. Pretty much. T.O. Hotmail. Sending this from the far superior Hotmail platform to insurance delivery.

Friday, the birthday of good D.F. Patrick Payne. It's his Jerome Bettis birthday. His leaders are the A's Road play-by-play announcer, Jake abruptly ending the news, and Blake's Tinder dating tips. Also, more Danny Bayless from Chris the Candy Salesman. Oh, yeah.

What a guy. I need another care package. Dude. He said he is from the surprisingly nice North Richland Hills 690 remote. Yeah, that was the drone delivery day. Yeah. That was cool. One bottle of water delivered.

And you laid out by the pool. I do not buy sweets like ever. But I saw some of those Reese's. Animal crackers? Oh, my God. Yeah. At the airport. Had to do it.

Had to do it to him. Oh, my God. At the airport? Had to do it. Had to do it to him. This is Matt with 1T sending a birthday shout-out to Oklahoma DZD1 Josh Stanley. It is his dat when minus Marion Barber the third birthday. His leaders are Super Spreader Jake and Dan's environmentally friendly Chainsaw.

Interestingly enough, the Earth decided to minus Mary and Barbara the third too. It was my pleasure to grease the crease with a $20 Venmo in his name. Happy birthday, Josh from Matt B. Matt with one T. As long as I get one out of the couch, it pretty much works for me. Jeff Kunzel says,

Happy 103rd birthday to my dad, Walter. Whoa. His leaders are Heart Attack Man, Blake Jones, more Julie, and

he'd like a joke from Heart Attack Man or Dutch. Dutch died. 103 years old. I think that's sweet. I don't know, man. I want to be 100, man.

Do you? Write that down. It's already on the list. You already know? You've said it a lot. Okay. I don't know. It just all comes down to quality of life, right? How come people

in Europe live longer, yet they eat fattier foods? That's what I've been reading about lately. Not just Europe. Pretty much everywhere. Everywhere? Yeah. I thought we were so over-regulated. How do we allow all this other crap to get in our foods? That would be a ruse.

That we're not over-regulated? No. Okay. Relative to the rest of the world, no. No. Damn it. You don't see a lot of fat Japanese people either. That's because you said they don't eat cheese. They don't.

What about the sumo wrestler? That's a very specific design. It's Japanese, right? I just didn't want to. All right. Dirty Dan, I'd like to give myself a shout-out. My 44th birthday, no jersey numbers. Thank you.

You, Blake, and Jake are my heroes. More Danny. Less theme song girl on the football live streams. Theme song girl? No puppet. Sorry, Caitlin. Look, if you're going to be involved with us, you're going to take a stray noun again. First chappy.

On a side note, I'm a TCU alum. We have a fantastic tailgating scene. We'd like to have you guys out on a Friday before a home game, possibly the next day. How should I go about setting this up from Bart Bar? Email thedumbzone at gmail.com. Yeah. this up from Bart Bar. Email thedumbzone at gmail.com. We'll figure it out.

I think all of our Fridays are booked for the rest of the year, but... Let me hear your first offer. We can be bought. Dear Moose Lord, it is my Emmett Smith plus Ed Belfort birthday. Come on, Jake.

That's easy. Day one, number 89. Legit, not bought. Y'all killed it on the DVRZRT to the DCTC. No. I once stood next to Jake at the restroom at an off-the-record IJB live taping event. What a distinction. You just stood next to him?

It's the closest to a major league arm I've ever been. Okay. He says, if you ever need an expert in local city government, public works, water department stuff, let me know. Give him a call. I like this new bit. Yeah. That's from Glenn. His name is Glenn.

Dear Uncle Beaverburger, Oh my God. Please wish a happy, alive Walter Payton birthday to good DF Brian, the buffoon balloon. He's the guy who emailed you about Grover Cleveland marrying his friend's baby or whatever. That's from Nick.

It did happen. He met her whenever she was literally in the nursery. Okay, they didn't get married then. No. They waited 30 years or 20 legally. And the weird part about it was he was really good friends with their parents and took care of her like her whole childhood as an old chap that would come over to see his buddy. You think that makes it extra creepy? I think it's...

Like it's bad enough Tiger Woods knew the girl next door when she was 14. Yeah. Like he was bringing her lollies. Literally held her when she was an infant. Yeah. And then became president. And then got married to her. Yeah. Yeah, but wouldn't you risk it all for that? Yeah. You know, I don't... Don't era adjust me. I think era adjusted, yeah. Yes! I think so.

Dear Senor Gash Guzzler, today is my, or no, is D.F. Bryan's D.F. Bryan's D.F. Bryan's Devin Harris birthday 34 Oh wait Is this the same guy? Oh it says here

He's known for his book report On Grover Cleveland Okay That's from Billy Bracket Daniel My wife Oh Amanda Sadler Happy birthday

It was August 18th. She's 45, getting hotter by the year. There's no way that's true. Prove it. I thought, though, for a while, didn't we say... That's the tipping point, though. You think 45 is where it ends? Yeah.

Because I thought 45-year-old Hillary was hotter than, like, 30-year-old Hillary when we looked at the 70s Hillary. But that could also be the era she was playing in. The 70s, you know. Yeah. 70 liberals are all hairy and... Weird glasses. Yeah.

Yeah. But you know they'd do anything. Do I? You're her weak coffee leader So tell her it's not weird To leave a package on your driveway With just one banana So the day before we left For the trip

There's a package on my driveway Not delivered to the mailbox No stamps But it's just a box. And in it was this toy RV and one banana. Because Amanda knows I like to just go buy one banana. It's really weird, dude. Justin, this is husband Justin. More Blake, we're looking forward to the Ranger game,

but she probably won't say hi because you're not supposed to meet your heroes. Well, not after Jake called her ugly. Well, he just said she's 45 and that's where it all ends. So maybe she's at her peak now. Yeah. 45 is perfect. But the idea of getting hotter every year after that, it's not happening. Father Dan, DF number four here again.

Tuish number six, Jared Allard, happy square root of 900 birthday. Back during your holdout, we would dutifully tune in at noon to see if Mark Rubbier would welcome us to the airwaves, so we are well-positioned to blindly subscribe when the time came. Jared's leaders are the Stephen Vought-led Guardians and Miles Garrett's Temper. That's Austin Breakbill. It's a lot. I've got a lot. I told you that's why I'm saving it until the end.

If you didn't want to sit through this, or maybe you just want to sit through it to hear what people say, like, dear Uncle Meat Curtains, it is my friend Jizzle J's birthday. He has been moosing my aunt for a while now. His leaders are Dan, Julie, and Heart Attack Man. He's never had his birthday read by you

before, so I know he'll love this. From Alex McKenzie. What a day. It is me and my son Donovan's birthday. Would that suck? No, because it kind of takes it away from you. Like, you don't want it to be your birthday.

When you're older, I just don't think you want to be celebrating your birthday. Right. Until later. Later that night? Yeah. Yeah. I don't need a party. Right.

You don't need lordy, lordy, look who's 40 out in your front yard. I really would really, I would hate that. Just Yeah. Yeah. I don't need a party. Right. You don't need lordy lordy look who's 40 out in your front yard. I really would really hate that. Just like you did. Let's see. We have to do it to his house.

Blake. Yeah. We won't be friends when I'm 40. Hey. Hey I think we should take that as a win because he's implying

we're friends now. That's true. That's very true. I don't know if you can tell this story here, but I swam in your pool a few years ago with Killer. This is a guy named Dirk. Oh, yeah. You remember we had Killer, our engineer at the ticket? Dirk.

He's an adult who didn't know how to swim, so he was going to, Dirk was a swim teacher. That's right. He taught Donovan as well. Great dude. He said, I was hoping to bring awareness to drowning prevention and reduce the stigma of adults learning to swim. Killer showed up an hour late to his lesson at your place. He came wearing Paw Patrol arm floaties and said, this is going to be so funny. By the time Jake interviewed me,

I was so shook up I could only respond with yes and no answers. I missed my chance to talk about drowning prevention. My leaders are the sniff laugh after adios mofo

and the sad parents watching Liz Brunig be best friends with their child's killers on death row so happy birthday to Dirk and his son his son's name is Donovan okay it's a weird email man there was a lot there and dear furor

of the fur burger it is my 50th birthday today. Of course, I was not woken up in that special way because I'm married and she's a bitch. Tell Blake I'm working on a saucy romance novel written by a married man. It'll be one page long with over 300 pages of references. My leaders are Saroy and Brad Sham's keen fashion sense from Jason Robbins. No comment. So much. The Dumb Zone presents Today in History. That's why I was saving all those till later.

Because it was just a lot. You're good, man. I know you're yelling at me in your head. This is what it's like, guys. We're working with this guy. He's always on edge. Of course, we have Justin Mooring and his friends here. The W-W's.

The W-W's. That's right. How has your experience been thus far? It's great. Yeah, the casting couch is pretty cozy here with these boys. Still wondering what's in this Etsy box. Oh, yeah, let's present the Etsy's box. I'm sorry.

Speaking of birthdays, that's for Jake's birthday. Because we missed Jake's birthday on the trip. So, Adam Romo, go ahead, pick it up. Okay. Get up. Get up there. Make Justin do something. How about get off the couch?

Jesus. No, him. He's trying to lean as far as he can. Like, you can't be that exhausted. Yeah, Adam Romo delivered a cake, an Eatsies cake. Actually, there's some cookies and chips for you guys and stuff if you want. What's the cake say? It doesn't say anything.

Oh, it's just a... What kind of a cake is it? Oh, my God, bro. What kind is it? It's a massive cheesecake. Wow. Is that your it? It's a massive cheesecake. Wow. Is that your thing? He knows you.

All right. We lost Jake. Jake doesn't generally like sweets, but I guess he likes cheesecake. So it's made of cheese? Yeah. No, it's just queso. It's like Munster? Yeah.

Stylized as a cake. Have I ever had Munster? Yeah, it's a as a cake. Have I ever had Munster? Cheese? Yeah, it's a fairly common. Fantastic. Oh, okay. Jeez, I'm sorry. I forgot your cheese guy, though.

Yeah. That's one thing about Eatsies. You'll be able to find that cheese. Remember you were complaining about the grocery store? You can't find the cheese section? Yep. Then they tweeted you. That did happen.

So thanks. Thanks to they tweeted you. That did happen. So thanks. Thanks to Eatsies. Thank you so much. For hooking up Jake on his birthday. Now, it would have been cool if Adam Romo was here, like, wearing some kind of a costume. Right. Like a big block of cheese costume. Dressed as an astronaut or something.

I talked to him the other day, and he said... astronaut or something. I talked to him the other day and he said he said that because Matt was being such a D-bag about leaving early I'm just having fun. He said he was going to show up.

He wanted to show up to see us off but he didn't want to show up that early on a Sunday. I would have thought of him as a very early riser guy. We left at 7. Yeah. Sunday, though. Grind never sleeps.

Maybe that's his doing it day. Doing it day? I don't know. You make a whole day out of it? Sure, yeah. Well, I'm back. Because you have to start with one early in the morning and then do it again later.

Of course. Because you've got to recharge. It's like the EV. You know? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we're all familiar with, like, the concept of charging something. You didn't have to, like...

But when you're young, when you're young, you get the supercharger, fast charger, whatever. Now it's just like slowly upticking. Oh my gosh. Now you plug it in, it's all night, and it's still only at 50%. All right. But if another car were to come around, maybe you'd... Maybe you could recharge. It's just this cable.

Yeah. All right. So today in history, August 20th, on this day in 1884, the first boxing match was fought with gloves. Or as we call it, the first pussy boxing match. Jack Dempsey won in 22 rounds. Okay, on this day in 1938. So there was a committee, like Cleveland has long had a inferiority complex.

So back in 1938, they had something called the Come to Cleveland Committee. They're trying to tell people how great Cleveland is. You should come move here. Sure. So they had an event, and about 10,000 people showed up on a Saturday morning to watch five members of the Indians attempt to set a record catching a baseball thrown from the top of the terminal tower, which at one point, I believe, was the second highest building in the United States,

only through the Empire State Building. 708 feet tall. The third string catcher, Henry Health, caught a ball dropped from there. It was estimated to be traveling at the speed of 138 miles per hour. That broke the Major League record for a vertical catch established when in 1908, the Washington Senators catcher dropped something that dropped 555 feet from the Washington Monument.

So the point is, back in the 30s, they were like, remember, this is the flagpole sitting area. Okay, so you're on this Cleveland tourism committee, and you're like, look, I feel like industry's dying a little bit here. What can we do? What if we drop a ball from really high? You're in a brainstorming meeting. Like, how many ideas got discarded? What if we do the flagpole sitting?

Everybody does that. What if we get the bullpen catcher to simply catch a ball from really high. So the manager is like absolutely not. But yeah the third string bullpen catcher we'll let you have him. Again it's so Cleveland. Is this one of the

first instances of dude perfect? You might be a dude perfect. Hey dude perfect. Say dude perfect. Did you ever finish watching the documentary? The 30 for 30? I watched like half of it. I think I was at about half, yeah. Write that down.

I got to get back to all these things I was going to do. Like, did you do half the stuff you wanted to do on the trip? Half? A third? Did you ever lift those kettlebells? Oh yeah. Remember? He was bitching about it. You were slamming them on the concrete. Okay.

I was clanging weight, bro. I know. I had to lift them to put them in my garage, where they still sit. Oh, was that tough for you? Little 25 pounders? Hey, you add those together, dude, that's 50. And we were just

fresh back into the humidity. We were miserable unloading that RV. That sucks. Did your plane have AC? That's cool. Hey, is there any chance anything was lying on that bed

that was like a crayon or a purple something? What? This is a really just off-topic thing, but I did whites that night. Do you have like a stain pen or something? Well, I don't think so. So the only whites I did were like my T-shirts and socks and everything. And then there was like a sheet that was on the bed in the RV, which we never really got to lay on because it was covered with equipment.

Right. But my wife had put a sheet on there before we left. And so I figured I'll wash that and I'll wash this. And then I also grabbed, she had like two pairs of brand new white pants. Uh-oh. That she bought for her new job. And I threw it all in the washing machine and washed it, and then I go to take it out for the dryer,

and everything looks like it's tie-dyed purple. That's not good. And there was like, it seemed to be like a crayon. There was paper and then these little just, and everything was purple. How'd she handle that? Not well. Because she's blaming it on me, as if somehow I had a purple crayon. Well, somebody did.

And I'm the one, so because I'm the good guy starting the laundry, I ended up being the bad guy because I ruined her brand new pants. I'll ruin her pants. Here's something from my childhood. On this day in 1986, postal employee Patrick Sherrill went on a deadly shooting spree at a post office in Edmond, Oklahoma. He shot 14 fellow workers and then killed himself. This was like a thing back in the day. Oh, yeah.

Like working at the post offices, so you'll go postal. Mm-hmm. And nowadays, we don't do it anymore. Just the term. Huh? That made it to my generation, just the term. But I feel like this happened multiple times

more than one time could also be like a Mandela effect thing like it didn't really happen that often yeah also that job doesn't seem that bad to me we've talked about this before I think it'd be fun being a to me. We've talked about this before. I think it'd be fun.

Being a... Well, working in the post office, is that different than being a mailman? That would suck, yes. But just being a mail carrier, I think, would be cool. You're on the move. Yeah, you get your steps in, Dan. This day in 1989, entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty were shot to death in their Beverly Hills mansion by their sons Lyle and Eric. Aren't they like on somebody's trading card?

Mark Jackson. Yeah. Courtside at MSG. sighted MSG. On this day in 2008, a Spanish jetliner crashed during takeoff from Madrid. 154 people survived. Excuse me, 154 people

died. 18 survived. Okay. I think that violates our thing, right? It has to be one for everything. That's too many? Yeah. We need three more bodies. But they feasted. Why?

Right. They were on the end of the runway. It was like craft services. Oh, I only bring this up because the NFL is so different than baseball. On this day in 2013, the NFL suspended Von Miller for six games for violating the league's substance abuse policy. And it's like, eh, it's alright. Oh, you mean just like as far as tainting your legacy? Yeah, like baseball? You did steroids? Yeah.

Dude, I mean, think about like the guys in the last year or two in the NFL who have been popped for gambling. But the greatest or second greatest hitter of all time, it's like no. Right. Never in the hall. Black balled. Yeah, Calvin Ridley just signed a big deal.

Yeah. But these guys are if you didn't do steroids you probably weren't really trying. And on this day in 2019, President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a trip to Denmark, which owns Greenland. Dude, this was so great. After the Danish Prime Minister dismissed the idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland, which is mostly frozen. Just the fact that he was like, why can't we buy it? And then

the Prime Minister's like, well, no. And then Trump's like, alright, well, I'm not going to visit then. That's a big deal! It's so great. A couple famous weddings on this date. Kim Kardashian married Chris Humphries in 2011.

This guy's like, what? Really? And then... She wasn't like today's Kim, though. You know? And you also might not recall, he got a massive contract at one point. Did he?

To suck. And then I've never heard of this guy. Maximilian Schell was an actor. 82 years old. And on this day, he married opera singer Eva Mahanovich. She was 35. Pretty sweet. Okay.

I don't really know how to describe this He looks dead Yeah Fish eyes Yeah But that's gotta be where you're not really basing anything on looks at that point Like if you're 82 years old Like if you're like, if I can land a 35 year old, yes

I think Yeah, but whenever we see these stories, they're not marrying Groots like if you're like if I can land a 35 year old yes. I think. Yeah. But whenever we see these stories they're not marrying Groots. Yeah they're always marrying somebody that's good looking. Yeah.

Birthdays today. Oh. It's not Groot by the way. Dang look at that guy. Isn't it Groot? Well Groot is a cute root He's on something

He definitely looks like he's on something Root is somebody who's, you know, not attractive I know, but he said Groot I don't know what a Groot is, but Crute came from California, actually Probably about day five No, there was kind of a little homely looking girl

But she was kind of cute On Flagst of a little, no, there was kind of a little homely looking girl, but she was kind of cute. On Flagstaff? No, no, no. It was many years ago at a training camp. This girl who would serve me coffee every morning was a crute. Well, yeah, she got better looking every day. Cute root. I was thinking, well, maybe I should tell you this later,

but it was on the drive home when we had been away from ladies for quite some time, and I was trying to decipher a scenario because I saw a picture of Angel Reese, and I thought, she's hot. And then I thought, what timeline exists? Is there a timeline that exists where Angel Reese and I are like a romantic item? Absolutely not.

Nowhere? There's no possibility. Okay, let's work through it. 20 years from now. Traded to the wings. Okay, she's playing locally. We strike a partnership with the wings somehow where we cover the wings. I'd love to do that.

First of all, the biggest problem for you, am I still like alive in this scenario? Because clearly if she's interested, it's going to be me. So that's like roadblock number one. Yeah. But you like love your wife and have a family.

I'm beyond that. You said 20 years from now. I'm so past. Oh, okay. And then he comes into work the next day. That bitch, Caitlin Clark. Yeah, I hate her.

Giving her an unfair whistle. I don't know, man. We just might hit a lot. Oh, no. I know. It's not happening. It's just, it's all about personality. 33 years old today.

Yerky Yokeypaka. Wow, Dan. What time is it? So, yes, we were once at a... So, is this in New York? Yeah, this was at Madison Square Garden. The same day as... Weren't y'all going to fight somebody?

That might have been a different one. No. That was the same one? Same one. Dang. What a day. Yes, we were doing, we, me, I was doing overly enthusiastic road fan. So we were at a Stars game, and we're just yelling for everything that would happen on the ice,

even for, like, the fourth line. It's Yoki pocket time! Yoki pocket time! Come on, Yoki! Yoki! It's beef yerky time. That's it, Trevor. Get it in there.

Oh, boy. Oh, dear. Oh, no. Jailbreak. Jailbreak. Oh, you ain't getting it past garbage. Ryan. Because we all know that guy, right? Oh, you ain't getting it past Garvin. Ryan Garvin. Because we all know that guy, right?

You've been at a game where it's overly enthusiastic road fans. Yeah. Like, he's screaming about everything. I think we were wearing jerseys. Hadn't we changed out of the suits? I think we did have, like, our, yes, my Big Mac Stars jersey. Yeah, like the personalized stars jersey and then sometime around the third period there were a couple gentlemen who were not

thrilled about it at all was that around the same trip that we went to buffalo right yeah the nema trip we met nema and we were talking the other day about the bit where we went in a cab, and we were with Starz personnel. Like buttoned up good dudes. Like, yes, front office type guys and whatever. And we did the bit. We, again, me, did the old, do you know where we can get, well, I have a piece of audio from that. Like we're with these guys.

He's going to dinner. Hey, so, where's the guy go to get some pussy around here? But I have the unedited. Hey, so... Where's the guy go to get some pussy around here? Buffalo? Outside of Buffalo?

Different city? He said different city. He had an answer. Outside of Buffalo? Toronto? How about Cleveland? I don't know, man. I don't know about that.

Let's not go crazy. Just like these guys in suits. Yeah, the out of nowhere, where's a guy go to get some pussy around here with guys who aren't expecting it. It was really more for them than it was for that guy. But that guy didn't blink. No, he didn't. People ask this all the time.

Quinn Buckner is 71. Mavs coach? Is he a Mavs coach? I think he was an assistant maybe, right? No? Let's look. Former Cowboy Aranda Gadsden. Gadsden.

Whatever. He's 53. Yeah, one year. Don King is 93. I was so confused by him as a kid. I just didn't get it. Like, okay, what does he do? You know what I mean?

He loves America. And he makes money off of Tyson. Mitchell Trubisky is 30. Tunnels. Tunnels, so dope. Where's he? Isn't it Pittsburgh? He's number three?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. He is Buffalo. Loves kissing titties. Todd Helton is 51. Hall of Famer. Is he? I think so.

He is not today's War Games winner, however. That would be a guy named Greg Nettles. You ever hear of him? Nope. 67.9 war. Todd Helton, 61.8. Greg Nettles is 80 on this day. And he spells his name G-R-A-I-G.

That always threw me off. He was like an Indian's third baseman, Yankees. He bounced around. I mean, it makes sense, though. Greg, if Craig Indian, third baseman, Yankees. He bounced around. I mean, it makes sense though. Greg, if Craig is going to be spelled that way. Yeah.

But you've never, I've never seen Greg spelled that way. No. And I've also never seen Craig spelled, uh, C-R-E-G either. Right. So,

appears to cut one way. Demi Lovato, 32. Local. Born in Albuquerque. Oh, for real? Yeah. I thought she grew up here.

Might have grew up here. I mean, she got here as fast as she could. That's right. Amy Adams is 50. From American Hustle. Catch me if you can. Isn't she married to... Well, never mind.

I think I confused her with the other red-headed chick from Arrival. Or is she in Arrival? I think she's in Arrival. I'm thinking of Borat's wife. Yeah. Wedding Fresh. She was in... Isla Fisher? There you go.

Hot Rod. Yeah. Andrew Garfield is 41. From the Social Network and Spider-Man. Actor K. Hugh Kwan is 53. He was short round in the second Indiana Jones movie. Didn't he win an award recently? Everybody was real fired up about it.

I think he did. But that's all I can say. And for Jake, Fred Durst is 54. Wow. Kind of having a revival. Really? Yeah, I mean, they're touring. Our good friend Jordan Richardson went to go see them over the weekend

with Riff Raff and Corey Feldman. Wow. Yeah. The former Ranger pitcher? No, that's Scott. That's Scott Feldman. Corey Feldman's live show is as bad as you think it is. Like, it's the worst music I've ever heard in my life.

It'd probably be worth going to then, right? If I was in town, I would have been there. Born on this day, now dead, Benjamin Harrison. Who's he, Blake? President. He was a president. Good. Good job, little buddy.

Thank you. And Dimebag Daryl Abbott from Pantera. That was actually very sad for me at the time. Were you stoked on them and stars and all that? Yeah. That was my metal phase. Dead on this day, still dead. I'll just give you one.

Jerry Lewis. Speaking of the The nursery Right? Or am I confusing? Did he rob a cradle? I don't recall Jerry Lee Lewis? Jerry Lee Lewis did This isn't Jerry Lee Lewis

Married his cousin Yeah yeah She was like 13 Yeah No this is Which made it okay If she's 13 Jerry Lewis

The comedian You know he's got a weird Spouse too, though, because he was married. Married? Married at the age of 18 in 1944, stayed married for 46 years, and then got divorced and remarried for one year. Wow. I wonder if she got all the money. Yeah, I don't know. The new wife.

How old was the new wife? Yeah, it doesn't say right here. Damn. But, I mean, he didn't die during the marriage. I mean, he lived for another 35 years. Oh, then he divorced the second one, too? Yeah. Yeah.

He's like, you know what? I was wrong. This does suck. All right. Yeah. I had the right idea the first time. And that was Today in History. Well, we finished our, you want to say Monday show, but it's actually Tuesday.

It's true. How about that, bros? Learn about Don Cockcroft. That's right. You guys probablyos? Learn about Don Cockcroft That's right you guys probably never even heard of Don Cockcroft And now you can go out into the world Go to parties And now what is the one fun fact you can tell me about Don Cockcroft Give me one

See if you remember one thing about him Yeah the first syllable of his last name Okay That's really not what I was looking for Like something that I taught you today. You're not remembering one thing, are you? Pack. The last

straight on kicker. How about that? This is how people consume this. They just forget everything we say the second it... Don't listen. I usually think if somebody's walking around the house doing chores, doing whatever you might – driving. These guys have been sitting here staring at us.

I was getting switched up between the quarterback, what his name was, what the kicker's name was. Okay. Seriously, that was a little confusing for me too. Okay, so should we just scrap that whole segment? No. Taking a run at your execution here. We set the names every five minutes during this. Okay, I should do that?

Yeah. Okay. I enjoy the criticism. In fact- It only makes you stronger. During our trip to California, I was very upset with myself because I once ate an apple in front of these two. And I had been criticized in the past to not eat apples in front of them because of, I guess. Well, it's really loud.

Is it really loud? Am I just slurping and all that? Yeah. Okay. It's really, really loud. But I also think that our general disposition, as referenced earlier in the show, was let's just not get on Dan's bad side on this trip. Oh, come on.

I'm happy. I know, and I wanted to keep it that way. And I'm happy about the whole the apples that you told me. Can you feed an apple core to a horse? I think you can feed anything to a horse.

Okay, because not knowing... You threw it into your neighbor's yard? Yeah, I was walking... I was taking a walk eating an apple the other day, and I threw my apple core at the horse, and he ate it. And then it looked like he laid down. And he's still laying there. He's been laying there for three days.

All right, any closing remarks from Will or Weber? You guys want some cake? Shout out John McAfee. Justin? Okay. Possibly still alive?ee. Justin. Okay. Possibly still alive. Listening as well. Okay.

Does he mean like a friend? Do you have a friend named John McAfee? Yeah. Okay. McAfee security. Okay. He's doing a bit. All right.

It is really weird that I actually interviewed that guy. It doesn't make sense that he was, you know. He's a rumored dad, but maybe not dad? He was off the grid. I think that's a lesson for Blake that sometimes just take the shot and don't say there's no way we can book this person. Yeah, Blake. Come on, Blake.

Book John McAfee. Book the baker head girl. Cheese cake factory. All right, well, that kind of petered out. What do you got, Justin? cheesecake factory alright well that kind of petered out what do you got Justin on a serious note how's our boy Monty doing I haven't heard much about him in a while

you mean with the cancer yeah I haven't actually talked to him in about a week we were out of town. You could probably just ask him. Just tweet him. I think he answers.

That's how you want to answer this. Although that could be a bear trap, yeah. If you do ask him and he's not... That's why you don't want to ask people sometimes. You would know. Because then they'll tell you that they're not doing well and that's not what you want to hear, is it? You want to hear he's doing great and everything's fine.

Right. So that's why you decided to ask us. Make us uncomfortable about it. Well, I think that's about it. All right. Adios, mofo. We got to go before this becomes a zoo. Thank you for watching my video.

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