The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 8-27-25 PREVIEW | Schotty pulls a fast one and Jared Sandler on the Rangers disappointing season

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

Hear the entire episode by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneMicah Parsons said it was more important to play for the name on the back and went on The Undertaker's podcast. Schotty enjoyed this prank, Clay Travis does pull-ups, and let's do a fantasy football draft stereotypes video ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey now, what you were about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full, along with the full archive, ah shit. If you would like to hear this program in full with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at dumbzone.com. You are listening to subscriber-only content. We got edged on the right side one time. It's already, all right, all right, all right, all right. It's already Wednesday. Whoa.

Doesn't that mess your brain up when you have Friday off and Monday off? Just as far as doing the program. A little bit. A little bit. Yeah. Miao. Man. So this is the dumb zone. I'm Dan McDell.

I'm his friend, Jake Kemp. I'm the producer, Blake Jones. Reading something there. I'm not sure what that means. It doesn't usually identify himself as that. He must feel beaten down in some way. I'm just the producer. If I just say, I'm Blake Jones.

Then it's like, oh, look how pissy he is. We have Clayton here. Here is not our Game Day Men's Health Studios, which is downtown Dallas, where you can get 10% off. Well, you can't get 10% off downtown Dallas. If you walk into our Game Day Men's Health Studios, we're not going to do anything for you.

Well, I don't would go that far, but we're not going to give you TRT. No. But if you went to any Game Day Men's Health location, you can get 10% off TRT for life, for life. Today, like I said, it's the dumb zone. It's show number 420. Are you excited about that?

There's no way your mic is on. Because our producer. Oh, I'm sorry. Producer slash engineer. Oh. He's up now. Go ahead, Nathan. Oh, hold on.

We're trying to get you up. You know, the problem... We're edging, Nathan. The problem with Blake, like, consolidating all the equipment so perfectly is before when he had to do something, he would have this exact, like, lean forward. It kind of made sense. Like, boy, that does look like a hassle. Yeah.

Now he's just moving his wrist. But now he has everything reacting to an ocular scan, and it's like, I'm still. I'm blessed to be here for $4.20. Okay. I think me and Clayton tried to do the same thing at the same time. Oh, the light blame? Yes. I want to know.

I want to think it up with Clayton all the time. Nathan's one of my oldest friends in this podcast world. He's a member of the Smoke to Cigarette with Jake many times club. He's a big FC Dallas fan. And it took me a while to figure out. His Twitter handle of FC Pyramid scheme, because for a while they were sponsored by Advocare. Now it's a hospital, so it's still kind of a... Still a little bit of a pyramid ski.

Yeah. So he's a good one. He's a fun one. Yes, Nathan is sitting in this afternoon in our dragon den high atop my garage. The iconic location. Is it iconic yet? People will... I mean, people walk in and they're like, wow.

People will travel here. It's Mecca for a DZ and IGV listeners. It's been... Take the trip. We've had a Remo. It's a lot cleaner. We had a little mini-Rennie. Mini Rennie.

It's cleaner than it used to be. It's very exciting. We opened it up to entertain. So... You're looking real Pat Murphy today, bro. You got a pancake somewhere? I have Brewers gear on because I know we're going to talk baseball with Jared Sandler on today's program, and so the brew crew, Pat Murphy's got those boys playing

peaking too early. Just the way that you should play. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Move the runner over. The way God intended us to play baseball. Lots of cowboy stuff as they did cut downs and shoddy talked and things like that on today's

program. I know it is. It's fantasy football drafts season. And I'm prepping for mine, which is Sunday evening. Someone invite me to your league. If there's a listener league and you have a spot, I want to play fantasy this year. You're going to get ten invites. You're asking very late.

I know. That's why I'm only going to get a couple invites. New Jake. I want to participate. Just want to do what Dan does. Just want to do what Dan does. He's been in a fantasy. League, so you should be in one.

That's why I stopped having sex. Like, I'm not good at fantasy, and the most important night is the draft, and I've been drafting with these guys who are their high school friends, or maybe even grade school friends. And I'm an interloper. They welcomed me because I was semi-famous, and then I've been in their group ever since. So for 20 years, I've been in the same group.

and I don't I don't want to well I don't want to go to the draft for a couple of reasons one is it's you know like in high frisco and it's just you know a drive back and a drive there and all that kind of stuff and then the other is I think I perform worse when I'm there because there's all the bullets are flying man the drinks are flowing the people are talking when you're here behind a computer you could just all right now I'm I got this. Oh, I see I've got, you know, 18 till my next pick. I'm going to rub one out. Rub one out. That kind of gets you ready. I'm just saying. Yeah.

I understand what you're saying. I want to be clear. I'm not, I'm not coming to a draft. Okay. It's online. It's the most fun. I'll do it online if that's an option. But, yeah, I can't be stepping out of pocket.

So you went to one last night? Yeah. Yeah. I car pulled down to a very sketchy part of Oak Cliff. You picked up a lot of, you picked up all your buddies? Yeah, because most of us are like Northeast, Saxe, Plano, McKinney, and the draft was in Oak Cliff, so we all met up and drove down. And it's a blast, man.

Just you see these guys once a year. You get to bust balls. Every pick is a reach. Every pick sucks. It's awesome. Sorry about your team. Sorry about your draft. Tuesday night draft, though.

It is odd. Well, you've got to make schedules work. And then you all huddle around, like, I have an app that, like, rates your draft, and so everyone just wants to... Oh, yeah. Let me see, let me see. And then it's either, oh, yes, this app is right, or this app is bullshit. Yeah, of course.

Like, there's no way between. I think I had, like, an F last year, and then my team sucked. So it was... The app was right. If we wanted to be, like, dude perfect, I think we could make a fantasy draft stereotypes video. dudes I love the idea

there's the overly confident guy like steal the draft right here there's the guy that wants to explain all of his picks oh you know Jay and Daniels actually finished as a top three fantasy quarterback last year he's set to repeat there's the guy that tries way too hard in the later rounds like sleeper here

this is going to this made my whole night dude we're all searching for that sleeper there's the guy we're all searching for that pick that you make in round 12 where every like three guys go Oh, wow, good pit. Like, they love it. They were on that guy, too.

There's also the guy that is surprised the player doesn't play for the team he did three years ago. Oh, yeah. Like, O'Dell Beckham's not on the Rams? Yeah. So I think we could do this. And maybe that's how we get famous. Was the league you did last night, the one you had to do the Justin Bieber window thing? No.

No, that league fizzled. Oh. Yeah. I think we were going to do a punishment every year. Then I lost. I did the punishment. Then we didn't do the punishment. league anymore.

Might have been the whole point of the league. Pull the fast one on me. I had a buddy tell me the other day, by the way, that he has a kid in 8-U soccer. You know the name of his team? Dude perfect FC. Love it. And the kids love it. I hate it.

They got the logo and everything. The color scheme. Yeah. That's excellent. I like the way. Blake has an interesting way. did their draft because he was leaving for the draft yesterday I'm like what pick do you got because I have pick eight and I've known that for a couple of weeks so 12 team yeah

don't look at me like that was that I was answering him honestly he was he just mocking me I just always think I think I always think he's being condescending right PPR so we do a little competition every year it changes this year we went in his backyard and we had to throw a ball into a bucket to determine draft order. Kind of a shoddy. Yeah, it's... You felt the competition right away. But you don't know the draft order until the night of the draft.

So I think that's somewhat interesting. So we used to do really cool. Like we had a pop shot competition one year. It's just like his thought that goes into this is dwindled year by year. So this year we just threw a bowl in a recycling bin. So, and so if you win, then you get to pick where you pick. where you pick in the draft because some people

don't want to pick first because then you got to wait 24 to the next one right so the first person gets to pick you know I want to pick third next guy I want to pick second I want to pick first

and so it kind of goes in that order and so I came in fourth and I got the fourth pick took Jamir Gibbs what was your top top four or five in the league it was the chalk it was Bejohn

Chase Sequin and Gibbs Okay CD right after I think he was fifth Yeah But it's my favorite night of the year Senior buddies

Talking Miss You feel good I think so Is our team good What's your team name? I try to base it off of Whoever I have on my team I think last year it was

It was bros over young hoes Should have gone Jamiriqua this year Because I had coup I get it I didn't think you did some other young ho for those Young ho Smith

Jamiriqua That's you're too young for that Tamarquah fucking ruled banned You got Tramere Gibbs So you want to name it after your player right

Who else you got Let's workshop it Gibbs Racing You don't remember Every time when I do a fantasy Draft I am so much better to Gibbs racing I am committing at that roster that night

I am committing at memory i am what do they call roster baiting and congratulating oh yeah roster baiting i love to congratulate myself you piss boy uh yeah grabbed a lot of receivers early no i don't remember i got another draft tonight is it what wait a wednesday draft let's line them up knock them out do you do that one from home no we're going to go to a golf simulator unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable this guy's more scene control than massage. Right, he's got like a little tiny baby that can't even move at home. Yeah, he turned

three weeks old yesterday. You know what I thought last night? I was like, man, I feel like, I kind of feel like a dick. I haven't asked Blake performatively, how's the kid doing? But I'm like, but he's thriving so hard, like doing everything he wants that I assume he's doing great. Yeah. She's not

working. What do you want? Yeah. You're like, I got a wedding shower to go to with the other kid. Hey, do you want to go to the antique store? whatever y'all do she wouldn't leave the kid anyway now you've offered people that you'll go to their kid's birthday party going to another one sunday really yeah is it the email i saw for the 20 year old kid oh no no you're not gonna do that i'm not doing that sunday that's dope too because monday's an off day that's the reason i'm going to be yeah that would be a nice party you're going to a kid's birthday

party sunday will you go to somebody's draft no just to be blake no because i get a some points for taking Brooks. Yeah, yeah, that's the... Getting the kid out of the house. What about for an appearance fee? Um, sure. Really? I mean, no one wants me at their draft.

I just wonder what's the cost. You're misreading the market slightly. If we wanted to hire Blake to go to our draft, what's your cost? And do, he, can we, he just shows up. He's not insane. Just shows up, your Blake. Osteer. That's the thing.

Is he having to kind of run the thing? I don't know. You're just. When you get Blake involved, he kind of runs everything that he touches. 50 bucks in dinner? Wow. You shouldn't have said that. That's extremely low, because I was thinking...

Five. I was thinking at least four figures for me to go anywhere, but even that, I'm not sure. It's a listener. It's a listener. You're going to have good conversation. It's not about showing up and being somewhere for three to four hours. Yeah. I'll do it online.

No problem. But, no, that's great. I mean, did you make that much? But your last weekend for your birthday party, all your buddies were around. If you or guys were just kicking each other in the nuts over the NFL, that wouldn't have been fun? Yeah, no, I mean, I'm, you don't have to... He wouldn't have done that because he'd miss his wife. What the fuck?

And she wouldn't have been there. Nobody bust my nuts harder. You ever been at a fantasy draft where one guy brings his wife? Holy no. Well, I have. I've been, there's a Yoko sitting right there. Oh, my God. What is she like...

I've seen it where they... Too many titans. They co-run the team. Oh, my. That should be a... That's the last thing I would ever do. Honestly, that's a leadership issue. That's a commissioner issue.

You can blame McGuire and Bonds, or you can blame Seelig. Like, who's letting them do that? You're bringing... Yeah. That's... Yeah. When you get to be an old, you will run into this. So I'm in this league with these guys who have known each other since grade school,

and I've been in the league for 20 years. Well, now they're old enough that they have some of them. If you have a kid when you're like 20 or something, you can have a, you know, they've got a kid who's now 18 or 20 or whatever. I think you're a mess. No, I'm saying some of these guys have like a 20-year-old kid who are now in the league and then they're in the group text where all the dads are now, you know, saying the F-slur and you know how group texts are.

There's no... It's the outback. Yeah. So that's a weird situation. I mean, not for me, because I don't care. Yeah, you should have seen the things I've seen your dad do. That's right.