The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 8-3-26 | Cowboys at camp and a bad weekend in Houston for the Rangers

Episode Date: August 3, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneThe Rangers have a rough weekend in Houston resulting in them most likely being sellers at the trade deadline. There's a new women's professional baseball league that began with a horrible rendition of the National Anthem. And today's news features THC's future in Texas and a missing miniature horse (00:00) - Open: Weekend check (51:21) - Sports: The Texas Rangers and the trade deadline (01:06:52) - FIFA denies PE (01:16:08) - Women's professional baseball league (01:33:22) - Christian Parker glazing (02:00:35) - News: THC's future in Texas (02:22:09) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hello, I'm professional broadcaster Dan McDowell, letting you know that you were about to hear one of our free podcast. But if you'd like to subscribe at dumzone.com, you'll get four shows per week plus the weekend wrap-up and any bonus sods like our business Wednesday interviews. So if you forgot how to use the 15-second rewind, that's dumbzone.com to subscribe. Now, on to today's program. When I say Fair Lease, Jake, what do you think about? I think about my good friends Connor, my good friend Nick, who once upon a time had me out, let me tour their facility. Honestly, dude, kind of felt like a celebrity when I walked in. You are one.

No, they just knew the show because they know dumb zone listeners. They explained how it all works to me, what a credit union is, how the credit union in Texas works, how it makes their process a lot easier, a lot. You guessed it, Frank, more fair. and then they gave me a business card with a phone number that said 972-705-4815 Fairlease.org. They said, do you know Brandon Aubrey and if he needs a vehicle? And I said, I know a couple guys who are really good friends with them. And the rest was history.

So Brandon now has a vehicle through Fairlease. Fairlease.org. That's how easy it is. Fairlease.org. Fairlease, when you don't know what to do about a car. Why? Hard stuff is hard. Need a dealership, baby.

All right, happy Monday. Hello, friends. Not the Game Day Men's Health Studio. That's in downtown Dallas. Gameday.com. That's in everywhere. That's in the cloud. You can always get there.

In my blood. Even if we, like, upload you to the cloud, like, you can go there forever. Could you imagine that? Rocked and ripped in space. Wouldn't that be great? That'll be part of the singularity. Gameday.dumzone.com.

Join the singularity. Do you think some people will choose to be soft, though, just to be kind of like owning a record play? Yeah, I do think so, yeah. There's nostalgia for everything. Anyway, yeah, we're not in our downtown Dallas Game Day Men's Health Studio in the Fox Corps building. We are high atop my garage.

Yet again. Not sure why. It often has to do with Blake's whims. but that's the guy that keeps this whole thing together. So what he wants, he gets. Today, Jake, is show number 600. Oh, wow. And I know we all love the round numbers.

So a few words, Blake, about show number 600, perhaps. What's all meant to you? Just 90 more to go. Oh, yeah, bro. Blow me up. TLC, I think, has it. Is it my 600-pound life? I was trying to think of what number I associated.

Isn't there my 600-pound sister? Have you seen that one? No. I thought it was 1,000-pound sisters. Oh, is it? Thousand-pound sisters, because I think that's a little bit misleading. I believe it's like our couple that's 12, whatever. Oh, there could be a nice little...

Yeah, and even if they're both... A little 150-pounder? Even if it's 550 and 450, aren't you a lot less interested than if you see that sign and you're like, whoa, we got a couple of... couple tons here that's a lot um so hunt two chicks at the same time do you still go for but you're told nah i don't think then you could always say i once had two chicks at the same time i don't think i don't think you do um interestingly enough i have no idea why we're here either but it is

blake's a good lover though because wherever we end up that day i always feel like this this is right. You know what I mean? Like without any knowledge of why or... You felt like you didn't want to drive downtown today. Yeah, and the days when we do, I'm like, let's go. Let's get in the car and get out of the boat. If I have to over-explain everything, yeah, if you guys, if one of you returns from vacation,

the next day we are here. Right. You don't have to... Oh, okay. Interesting. I think we're just extolling the... Yeah, I'm just saying you're awesome. Why you can...

He's mad at everything, man. Boy, okay. I walked into here and he's like, he's just sitting down seething. It's because it's Monday, you. Just to be here. Listen, there's only like three more... We just got you away from your kids. I don't like, how happy should you be?

Like three more puddle of mud Mondays for Blake. Because that's, after that, he's eating sushi without Michael. I love mud day. Did Dan shove you up against the wall and tell you this in your first year of like, anytime you do something good and you tell him about it? He's like, hey, I don't need to know how the sausage is made. Just do it. First year?

Oh, okay. Still? Yeah. Okay. Well, yeah. I schedule you here, 4J. No, I get it. Yeah.

We're giving you love. I think he's more just reading your... You probably have... a Monday. You have a case of the Mondays. I feel like Blake has a case of the Monday. If anybody could, it would be him. He has to do stuff all weekend.

He has to do, and really kids stuff is the only thing that's doing stuff. I feel you on that, though. I feel you on that. Kid stuff is a lot, but you also manage to go to softball. You manage to do. He takes them to that. Yeah. I don't get it.

I just sat down. Did you have softball? Well, we'll do a weekend check. Let's do a weekend check. It's brought to us by Plum Quick. One of our newest sponsors, let me go to some Plum Quick. Man, we can get in text and emails, people who are trying out Plum Quick. Yeah, it turns out for all those years.

And we're like, I feel like people really need a plumber that we can trust. You want an email or a text? I got a text from Ryan, former intern and house sitter. Okay. Ryan Long, we love him. He says, Happy Friday. A good one. I want to let you know that I had Robert and team from Plum Quick over today to fix my clogged toilet.

insert joke here. Well, I'm not the stand-up comedian. I'm not able to pull that off. Aren't you upset that you ever told us that you did stand-up comedy? I've waited as long as I could. They found out it was more than that. They were able to fix the pipes and even showed me the issue via camera. Wow.

That's a freaking camera, though, snake down in it. They let you watch. They were quick and professional. So they weren't like flipping cigarette butts all over the house. Right. Like plum at your own, at whatever pace we goddamn feel like. That's the other company. Haven't you always wondered like when bad guys go into a house or something?

What's one of the first things they do is go to the fridge? Yeah. Like if your plumbers just like, what do you got? Throwing a few things. Make a sandwich. Anyway, he says very good sponsor added to the Dumb Zone family. That, of course, like I said, is from former intern Ryan. Plumquick Company.com.

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to make sure things are working right. 469, 331, 369 Plumquick. Need a little jingle for that. You know what? We might need one for weekend check too. Like a jingle? Hey, you know, jingles all around. All right.

don't you feel like jingles have been diminished with AI now that everybody can do a jingle? Everybody can produce a jingle. I have yet to hear a single good one. Well, that's what I mean, but not like if we use George, that's a professional, we pay him. And I believe that AI is like, there are some companies, it doesn't matter.

The point is go jingles. All right. And Joe Ingalls. Actually, moment of silence for Big Pussy. Was he the gay one? No. He is Vincent Pestori. He played Salvatore Big Pussy Bon Panciero on the Sopranos.

He was 80. He was not the gay one. That was... But he was caught up in... The life. With the feds and wearing a wire. And I just watched the... Spoiler.

alert the Sopranos assassination. Would you call it that? I mean, yeah, you're killing him because they found out he was a stool pigeon. Okay, are you going through the Sopranos again, or you watch that scene? No, that clip just popped up this weekend because of Big Pussy Dying. Yeah. Also been getting a lot of, I don't know, everybody's feed is different, right? To an insane degree.

I've been getting a lot of Denzel Washington. My wife last night is like, oh my gosh, I keep getting all that, like, she had to stop looking at Instagram. I'm like, what? And she goes, I just love Obama. I keep getting on this Obama. Oh, my God. So put him on the, my wife's from Mount Rushmore with, uh.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Who is it? Hold on. I got the list. Willie Geist. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Steve Zahn. Yes. Who's the third? There's four more. Oh, really? I've got Theo James. Oh, yeah.

Dave Matthews, Paul Rudd, and then you have one at the top with a couple stars next to it, riding lawn mower. Oh, yeah, that's on the Mount Rushmore. It's just the little... It's the one that can do the 360-degree return in one spot. Obama on here? She just said she's been watching a lot of Obama videos, and she likes them.

I'm like, all right. Drone strike that ass? Okay, weekend check. I will tell you, A quick sad tale, my mom. Uh-oh. My weekend call with my mom. So she lives in an apartment building that has a laundry, a separate lawn.

So everybody has to use the same little laundry in the apartment building. She doesn't have her own little laundry. So she says because she has trouble sleeping and because it's less crowded, she might go in there like at 11 p.m. And so she had done that like Thursday night. And she would bitch to me about even why do they do this at all because you need a key fob to get into the apartment building. But even to get into the laundry room,

then you need to use your key fob. Well, of course, so she's in there. It's like 1130, whatever. walks out of the laundry room, having left her keys in the laundry room, and the thing closes shut. She then proceeded to tell me how bad the current handyman is or whether the guy is supposed to be on call.

You can't ever get a hold of him. Not like the old guy. The old guy was great. A lot about the old guy. Metaphors everywhere. You know what? Yeah, we really wish he was in charge. there. But anyway, and then now it's late. And no ladies are walking around and stuff.

And, you know, even the one group that's usually up, they weren't, she had a lot to tell me. Well, now she just sat there. And she said she was resigned to being there till six in the morning, just sitting, staring straight ahead. Raw dogging. Didn't want to walk over to the, they have a library in the building too. But if she walked over there, what if somebody came in and then she missed her chance to get into it? Anyway, she had to sit there until 1 a.m. When some other old lady came in on her scooter, she said. A lot of questions about that lady.

I'm sorry. You showed up at 1 a.m. on your scooter. Yeah, I don't know what she was out doing. I don't know. Look, a lot of details in the story I can't repeat. But I just wanted to, I just say my old mom. And then she was upset because now she gets into the laundry room and she has to put stuff in the dryer.

Now she didn't get to bed until 3. I said, all right. Good story, Mom. I'll tell it on the show. However, I'm going to say it is a good story. Because when someone comes in with a mom story on Monday, they're going to be worse than that. You fall, you know? Oh, yeah, yeah.

You fall victim to a scam. Boy, you don't want her to fall. She just sat there and was bored. Do not fall. All I've heard about us how easy it was to be bored back in the day. Show us. Huh? Show us how easy it was, boomer.

So I went to the gym. on the weekend. And Jake has always telling me to do this. I don't like to do it. It kind of gets me tired, but then I did it. I'm like, you know what? Because I hurt my back. We unloaded an old reel-to-reel machine I had in here.

I had to take it out and unloaded it. A video man came by. He wanted it. I'm like, yeah, awesome. Take crap out of my house. We're currently like cleaning everything up because we're getting new floors, flooring direct. So that's caused it.

We've lived here 15 years. So that's caused us to like, hey, let's evaluate all this crap we have and get rid of a bunch of stuff. Which you say you should do once a decade, right? I think every five would be better. But at least once a decade you should move. My dad moved every two and a half years for like almost 30 years. Keeps things light. Yep.

Keeps things tight. Anyway, I'm at the sauna. And I walk in there and I'll just lay it out. So I went. sat in the corner. On the left, old white guy earbuds in. On the right, younger black gentleman. Big. Okay? Old white guy is what you think. Right? He's, I'll ride the bike.

Yeah. Big black guy there to lift. Okay. But now we're all in the sauna. I sit down and I got my earbuds in. I'm listening to a new podcast about baseball labor relations. I think it's very good. We'll talk about that later. This guy, all of a sudden, though,

this is, I mean, I don't know if this could illustrate how loud it is, really. Let's see if I can play this real quick. So this is what I'm hearing. Leave. You know what that is? Yeah, leave. Okay, well, it's that loud.

I'm in the sauna. So he's got, he's got, he's got, he's got, he's got a pill. Yeah, he brought a pill. He brought a pill. This is not just loud headphones. Yeah. That's, he brought, it's lying out there. No. So.

No. Did you kick his ass? I, so I'm not, I wouldn't have confronted him if it was the old white guy. But because the old white guy is there, I thought this gave me a little cover. So I'm listening to my podcast and I decide, you know what, I'm going to go to my Bluetooth. I'm going to try to connect

to his pill. No. Incredible move. And I would have just been like, I never got it done. Like I kept trying to hit on it. The one I didn't recognize in my phone, I kept hitting it and it wouldn't connect.

You probably had to press a button on that one to find other things, whatever. Code or something. But how cool would that a bit, like I would, oh, I'm sorry? You don't want to hear my podcast out loud? I think I hit the wrong button. That would have been excellent.

I thought if I just started playing it out loud on my phone, I don't know. That would have been different. The other way I could have pled ignorance. And I was looking for this is going to be a really good story. And he won't beat my ass with the other guy here. I don't think. Maybe.

Who knows? Yeah. And it's a less ass-beatable move than. Bro. Because then even if the other guy's there, who knows what happens. But I, as loud as that was, man, I've never said anything about loud headphones before. But the pill? Loud.

The actual pill. And it wasn't like, yeah, just so he could hear. I think I'd have to, I'd have to say, these are small songs. And it wouldn't even matter. There's no sauna big enough for a pill. No. No. No.

No, there was barely room for more people once the three of us are in there, you know? You can kind of squeeze into, it's a small place. How long? So nobody's, the other white guy didn't say anything. Another guy. No, anybody else come in? You know who would have said something? A woman immediately.

They're like, you're not going to beat me up. You're not going to, like, and nobody's going to beat you up, but they might, like, get aggressive with you. And then it's the, I got to go back to the gym. That's why I don't like going to gyms. You know, because everybody's bound by this, like, oh, you know, we're going to have to see each other so nobody can front each other up. Seriously.

That's how you get, that's how you get. like lunatic behavior at the gym. Dude. Nobody goes up and says, like, hey, get the, what are you doing? Yeah, I'm not that guy, pal. We've got a grandma that will walk around the gym barefoot. Another lady is on FaceTime. We got a guy that will approach young women and say,

I'm proud of you for being in here. No. I got a Hawaiian guy asking me what's in my water bottle. It's bad. It's awful. It's been a bit. bad run of luck. I started the packing process for California.

For real? Looks like you're done. So, no, it's the two suitcase problem. Do I go with the big suitcase that we have to check? Or can I get away with the small suitcase? My question will be to the other two guys I'm flying with. Because what are you doing? If you have to sit and wait for checked luggage, maybe I'll just do that too.

But if you guys don't, then let's expedite this thing. Let's make it quick. man um what are you guys doing i like i don't know because we leave in a week and a half i like checking a bag i haven't thought about it but um you haven't even thought about it this is just on my mind man no not like a single little bit okay but also i got a new jacket for the trip you'd see that green jit you're gonna see a lot of that guy anyway go ahead no i just i eat oysters again i'm gonna do whatever i want to yes because that's where jake wants to eat every night so i got it my jacket i got I'm going to go with me.

I'll bring a fly swatter. Yeah, I got boots. Right. I brought you guys dramamine because the waves. Get you sick. Do we need one of those things that converts water like in Africa to make sure we don't get sick? Go to his place? I'll have a live straw.

There you go. I just need Clayton to go with us. No, no. I will not force you guys to go eat there. I will be there by myself. Why are we talking about camp? This is insane. Well, because I'm starting the packing process.

It is just trying to decide which suitcase I'm going to use. But I think when we're out of town, I don't give a shit how long anything takes. It is the most stress-free, low- Yeah, but I'm thinking of Friday night when we get back. Do you want to sit and wait for your... All right, man, I don't like New Jake who doesn't care about anything. I just don't get. Like, they're going to wait with you?

These are just not problems that I just, you know what I mean? Yeah. If they yell, they yell. She yelled at me this morning. She'll yell at me this afternoon. What fuck do I care? I'm serious. You just ride it out.

And then part of the cleanup process, so I had to get this thing out, this big giant reel-to-reel machine. I have questions, but it doesn't sound like you really want to, is this, you, this is just something you're getting rid of, an old piece of technology? Yeah. From the radios, you don't, have you converted everything you need? Yes, of course. Yeah, that's where we got Air Fire Swant.

Got it. That's where any reel-to-reel work. Um got anyway yeah we have the historian in our and Rob checkering said he was looking for one I'm like only if you take it and never give it back

just because it's it's enormous it's like a 1950s whatever what a give off all right so this isn't I didn't mean to show this but I'm just going to recycle or throw this away this was a yeah but I really had this out to hide something else this was like a promotional thing we did

back in the day. Do you ever see this? I've seen that in a guy's guide. Where Dan and Bob and Dan were... That's illegal in Texas right now. Just as ladies with hockey sticks. I don't know why. I don't know the point of it, but... You went red, huh? Gautierre.

Those burks. I doubt that he had a... Oh, did I have my burks? Oh, yeah. I doubt he had a lot of say. Remember my Keynes era? I had a Keynes era where I thought it was so awesome that I could have shoes that were kind of like running shoes.

Dan's approach to both foot. Where and shorts has kind of been like sorrows to bands over the years. It's never like the main street. Oh, sorry, buddy. Whether it's, he was early, I feel like, on Crocs, you know. That was pre-fat, Dan? You look pretty good in there. Oh, no, we have a, that's why you wear a big moo-moo like that.

So you can't see them. Also, that was not your peak. Of fat? Yeah. You're not that bad right there. Hey, thanks. You were to get fatter. But here's what I wanted to show you, because I finally got this done.

I had dropped it off a while. back, I went and picked it up. We are going to have a new studio in Las Kalinas. We are moving with Fox 4, the Game Day Men's Hell studio, we'll move to Las Kalinas coming this fall. And I don't know how we're going to decorate it, but everything will flow around this. This is the Brandon Aubrey jersey that he signed for us a year ago. We finally got it. Look at that.

I have it in the plastic, so it might not look as good. But yeah, he signed it to the dumb zone. Well, MJ Design Strip. This is the one that says less fast food talk. Oh, big shot. Yeah. That was early on, though. Everything else it says, love the show.

You guys are great. Then the one shot on it is like... That jersey has appreciated roughly 100 times, like his annual salary. since he signed that as a yeoman, a commoner. I was thinking about the other day, do you think he is uncomfortable as he is with money will love if I'm just like, hey, do you realize you're making more than LeBron this year? Dang.

Like a lot more. Oh, wait, LeBron is, yeah, well, Nike. Of course, but the league check, the league check. Yeah, that's right. LeBron makes $4 million. Yeah. And Brandon Aubrey makes five. Or wait.

More than that. Eight. Yeah. Yeah. Community Mechanical, if we're talking Brandon Aubrey, why not talk some Community Mechanical here, Dan? Sure. I think I might have got an email about them this weekend,

but go ahead. You keep going. I can read the email. Oh. Hey there, Mr. Dan, wanted to give a shout out to one of your sponsors. Community Mechanical. My previous company came out. Wanted to sell me a new $8,000 unit called Community.

Not only were they out to my house within two hours. They repaired the unit for $500. I hope all is while loving the show, although I never listened. That is from Air Force Matt. I know we got another one over the weekend, too, but that's just proof. Yeah. They come in quite often.

Half the time you talk to Travis, he's coming back from helping somebody. They'll go further than you think, too. So hit them up. CommunityDFW.com. Preventative maintenance is the entree point there so that if you do have a problem, they're already working on your stuff. They can fix it before it comes some giant, giant issue. Remodel.

They'll help you with that. If you're building the house or you're remodeling a house, commercial as well. We've been in many a game day in Connie Roso and Zoli's restaurants before that were community HVAC covered. So community dfW.com. 469667277290, the top HVAC company in the world. Community Mechanical. Travis and the team real cool. You don't want your house to explode.

Don't be a bitch, so pick up the phone. Dan almost died. Okay. I'll go since you have big beach weekend. I did not do a lot. I'm handcuffed on the weekends. It is what it is. Hey, whoa.

I wish it was in a good way. Can't say handcuff league anymore? All right, Matthew Barry. Don't you settle down. We should find that clip. That would be a good break. Okay. Oh, he stopped us from saying the word handcuff?

It was like Blake's first week on the show or something. Whatever, I'm exaggerating fish story, but Blake was so excited to talk to a guest because he's fantasy man. And the guy's like, actually, I don't know if you've seen the George Floyd video, but. It's a big deal when the producer is told, hey, why don't you ask a question or two? Yeah, I've never been told that before. I play fantasy football. Boy, I get to talk to Matthew Berry. Oh, and he's the one.

So he shut you down, not us? Oh, yeah. And I remember my question. It was like, you know, what do you think about, you know, who are some popular handcuffs, you know, behind, you know, Derek Henry, Christian McCaffir, whatever. And then he's like, you know, we don't really use that term anymore. Hashtag to fund the police. It was amazing. Yeah.

But you're restrained on the weekend because your wife is earning bread. But I do have some first downs for you. Good. A couple user submitted, and I'll end with one. This is from Adrian. There was a blood drive at the hospital where I work, and anyone that donated would get a free beach towel. I filled out the paperwork and realized I'm taking some meds that would prevent me from being able to donate, such as Game Day Men's Health TRT.

I still go anyway, hand over my papers, the technicians apologize and say, I'm not able to donate, but they give me a free beach towel anyway. First down. Excellent. That's a first down from Andrew. Yeah, no going in. It's like applying for the visa at every stop and getting the whatever. Great for your car. this is from Colby it's half first down half follow-up as he grew up playing high-level basketball

same deal his dad would have to go to his tournaments and pay a fee to get in to watch his own son play the bigger tournaments always had you pay to get in in order to prove that you had paid for the weekend you were given a generic wristband each day of the tournament corresponded with a different color wristband my dad would carefully cut off his wristband at the end of the day and save it when we went to the games, he would see what color the wristband was for that day, go back out to his truck, find that color wristband, put it on, it worked every time. That's first down. So Chappie.

That's extremely, yeah. Chappie used to have, like, didn't he have like a Taco Bell cup, a McDonald's cup, a Burger Cup? He did have cups. And then he'd just walk in like, what, I'm getting my refill. God, that's so good, though. I can't imagine how he would have functioned in the pay-to-view youth sports world. No way.

Oh, man. And then I have one. Tropical smoothie was running a deal. You got a free smoothie if you bought a bowl. People like me love deals like that. The problem that they didn't foresee coming was if you go to Tropical smoothie before 10 a.m., your smoothie is $5.

Oh, my God. Compound interest. They usually sniff this out with not allowed to be combined with other offers. Yeah. The enemy of Blake. Yeah, so Monday morning I walk in and I see, rather than just take off the smoothie, they give you a flat $9 off. So $9 off. They're giving you $4.

I was getting a smoothie in a bowl for $5.95. Yeah. Oh, okay. I went in Monday. The deal was for all week. I hit 7 out of 7. Moving the sticks. First time.

Wow. Wow. That is elite. Just. I mean, is it close? at least to your house? Somewhat, yeah. Saturday and Sunday I had to take the boys in with me,

but we got it done. We hit all seven. You know, they say that, and this is important for me, right? Like my mom was self-employed, and I grew up working at her business, and I love whenever she gets to take Nora to work with her at her shop.

But just getting to, the boys getting to see dad at work in there in person. You know the smoothie employees are just in awe. he comes. There goes that man. You can't stop me. It's in the system. And then finally, my wife will sometimes

dip her toe into being an Instagram mom, and I really have to rip her out of that pool before it gets going. Do you know what an Instagram mom is, Dan? Is it just following all the trends, or changing her whole life every time you read something different? You know, we, like our generation

wants to be good parents. We read books, we seek advice, we ask, you know, our parents and grandparents what worked, what didn't. I think at our heart, we want to be good parents. But it's just so much information overload and really unverified advice coming from so many different sources that you could just follow one thing and just it snowballs. And so these women will go on Instagram and see one thing that says, oh, you know, 90% of kids who do this one activity, the development.

develop autism and you shouldn't do, and then they go for it. And then all of a sudden, hey, no seed oils. Hey, we're eating out of glass now. It's just, this is how it starts. And so, we got into a little tiff about scream time. Oh, fun. Yep. Everyone loves it. Now, I've said on the show, Brooks is into Halo.

I don't mind him playing video games when supervised and for a limited amount of time. I feel like it's better than like a tablet where you're just punching and it's a dopamine and it's a quick, quick, quick thing. He's now... Oh, it's switch screen. We're arguing over rich screen. I think there's a difference in screens.

There's a giant difference and I can tell you I've just lived this. We're leaning into the switch right now. I bought him a switch too. I couldn't get him like, dude, it drove my son crazy. The two weeks that he had an iPad when I was in Hawaii and the lead up to that,

it was a different kid. And now we've kind of... The switch, it is... It is totally different from a dopamine standpoint. Totally different. It's interesting because, I mean, comparing eras, then I had no limit on my TV watching. I watched as much TV as I could ingest.

Yet when it came to playing a video game, I think because my mom did not grow up playing video games. Yeah. So we had to put a timer on that. Which makes no sense. But TV have at it. I could have access to the TV 24 hours a day. Like one's a more passive, one's active.

If you could pick. You would rather have me playing the video game, right? Could you imagine? I might be an offensive coordinator by now. We eat alcohol, many such backwards cases, right? Well, so TV, my new thing is you can watch whatever's on TV you can watch. You've got to sit through the commercials. If Blueie's on, guess what?

You got 30 minutes of Bluie. You can't watch one Bluey, one Paw Patrol, skip over to this movie. Wow, what a... But I think that's a part of the attention. Dude, because it never stops. It never ends. And if you get the iPad, you haven't seen this in action, dude. Because if they have the iPad and you've given them, you know, they know the code.

I guess you could do Face ID, but then they're just going to be bitching every two seconds. He'll stay on a game or an app for like 12 seconds, maybe 15. And then here comes the ad. But the ad you can play. the ads are playable. So it's like, hey, you got to wait for like 40 seconds for this to pass. He's like, I can't because there's stuff I can move. And then that takes you to another one and another one and another one.

And I'm, you know, this is to say nothing of the content of which I don't even have any idea how to control. But the ads he's getting are literally like the wire. It'll be like a drug dealer, like putting another, like a gun to a guy's head blowing his brains. His brains come out the side of his head. For your third, or three-year-old. Yeah, and they're like stealing dope out of a, like a house and stuff. It's insane. And I'm like, that ad will be on the little.

On like Spider-Man, kid game. Yeah. But that's not even really the problem. The problem is the jump around. Yes. Right? And that's the problem with putting them on YouTube. Because they're like, no, I know, I want the next one.

I want the next one. No more YouTube for us. It's impossible to control. Yeah. So apologies to those that have kids. So I'll fast forward. So we got into this fight about screens because I believe there's a difference in like classic screens or whatever and what they call now adaptive screens where the kids get to dictate the

content on a whim whenever they want and uh and so she made me listen to this podcast because that's what instagram moms do they hear a stat in a podcast and they're oh hey this is uh truth and so i listen to the podcast and i have issue here uh because i don't know of a single person allowing their kids to do this honestly it can happen very young and i was just reading a recent study that said two-thirds of children under the age of two are on interactive screens. I don't think that's true. Two-thirds of kids under two, okay? That's stat one I have a problem with.

Here's the big one. Every day. Some as much as eight hours per day. Eight hours a day? Of course, she... I'm telling you. Who's doing that? Who's doing that?

Who's doing that? Four kids. A lot of people. Eight hours a day. That's insane. are a significant number of people that when they have a kid around, they just give them the tablet. And two is about when they start doing it.

I would have maybe said three and maybe said six hours. But that's not, we don't do it, but I hear of people that just right out of the gate gave up and just said, you know, this is what we're doing. Do you have physical books? Oh, yeah. Yeah, because you gave him the dude perfect right next to the... I wish you hadn't. Does he pry those off the shelf and just sit by himself reading a book?

Yeah. Yeah, we do that. Okay. He will. Now, yeah. I mean, we're lucky. No, that's... He's very balanced.

I could not... Well, but anyway, this is the argument. As I, you know, some of these kids are developing... So you sat, listen to the podcast for her. Yeah, but the crazy... This is insane, though, because it's like whenever somebody will be like... This is the most extreme version of this possible. Right.

It's not really worth... If you're not doing that, then they're not talking to. to you. So why take that as the, like, the effect? Yes, if you eat McDonald's every day, not good for you. If you eat it every now and then, not bad for you. That has a little too much logic for Instagram mom. It was, it started with, I think Brooks needs a four-week cleanse from screens.

What the, damn, that's like sending them where Jake went. What else? No, I mean, are we going to end up with screenhab? Yeah, we'll have. Yes. Like a, but it'll all be full of eight-year-olds. Yeah. And he had the room with this guy.

He doesn't know. That's why the switch for us was like methadone. It really was just like, look, dude, he can't handle this iPad, but he's, he's it. He knows that there's something out there, and I don't think I could totally rip it from him. So now he plays FIFA and NBA Jam. I wonder when you guys. Exclusively. And Mario Kart with his.

So the stuff I was a lot, you know, the stuff I was being restricted from is now the stuff people are saying, why don't you do this instead? Yeah, but at the same time. Because at least you're hand-eye coordinating and stuff. I would prefer them not watch any TV at all, right? Like, so Blake's saying he makes them watch, your mom would like, you can watch this as long as you want.

I don't, I'm not, I'd prefer that'd be gone, but you can't, you can't kill it. But that's, uh, that's tough times. you'll be all right. We've got a good kid. We're fine. Food E.C. Also, this is just going to be part of the story when he's a Halo champion. Mom tried to keep him down.

You know, you're on the right side of history here, bro. I'm going to be Earl Woods. Yes, Jones. SummerSlam. A little wrestling this weekend. Two-night event. Kind of weird. But they had enough stuff going on.

Brock Lesnar last quote-unquote match. I think they're going to have him do. It was in Minnesota, so made sense. He's from there. When did they become two-night events when I was growing up? That wasn't the case. They started doing WrestleMania like five or six years ago. Because the one in Dallas, that was like the first one I remember.

It was like it was a two-night big event. but I don't know why they're doing SummerSlam that way. I mean, they could have done it because they had some throwaway matches, but I mean, with this new partnership and TKO and all that stuff, they're just trying to milk it for a whole weekend, basically, just get as many people in one place for a weekend as possible. When I was a kid, Dan, it was a bummer because all the events are on Sunday night back then, and I would come home from Dad's house.

and he would buy it and then record it, and we could watch it the next time, but there was no way my mom was paying for a paper-view wrestling event, and we never stayed on Sunday night. Yeah. They'd always like, damn, that's the night I need. Yeah, that was a bummer. I wonder if they ever figured that out.

Probably, right. Divorce dads are, we should have these on Saturday night. But at the same time, maybe they're like, actually the divorced dad just wants to watch it Sunday night by himself. Yeah. But no, I was the same way, Jake. Like, it would be go to Blockbuster and rent. Oh, yeah.

Rent the pay-per-view. A lot of bad beats in there. WWE in your house. But no, that was pretty much it. Kind of weird, they did it. Minnesota has a weird stadium. Like, it's, like, half dome. I love it.

So it's, like, half of the stadium had the sunlight coming through, so it kind of put a weird shadow. And they're wrestling during the day, which is another weird thing. Like, I'm used to arenas being dark and the ring being the only thing lit. But they've started doing a lot of these events at football arenas. And some of them just don't have, or open. Like, they did one in Tampa not too long ago.

So it's just like, they're just wrestling out there during the day. It's just like that's my favorite Norman Rockwell painting is just a daytime summer slam. Just the American. Yeah, just Hulk Hogan, body slamming. I have a couple of pictures in there. You don't have to put them up right. Don't put them up right now. But I went down to Surfside Beach this weekend, left on Thursday after the show at Zollies with our friend T.C.

His family and my family drove down there in the morning and rented the house next to my parents' house. So we had my mom's house, which is two or three bedrooms, and then the house next door is a giant rent house. That house like 20 people, and it was full. So we had 20 to 25 between parents and kids all together. And it was awesome. It was a great time. Kids all, you know, have a good time playing together.

It's a public beach, which I'm not like, super familiar with beach law like I feel like I learned a little bit on the show neighbors of that hey some people can control this part of the beach but this part you can walk on and this part the part that my parents are on in Surfside Beach you can drive up and down it and people do during the day it's pretty chill because there's like a ton of people on the beach nobody's driving fast there's police out there patrolling but at night I don't really think you're supposed to be down there because it's dark but people also do this and they'll drive like with like fireworks firing out of the bed of their truck sparklers you get a lot of uh trucks

that have like lights and running boards and people just blaring music sometimes like almost like doing donuts in the sand and we were outside uh one of the nights Friday or Saturday night up and the houses are you know it's a normal beach house situation it's probably a hundred hundred yards from the beach you're sitting up on the balconies up there and it's dark probably 10 p.m and uh there's a couple of us outside you just hear this boom boom and i could hear leading up to it a car was like speeding up and all over the beach there's like branches you know there's like drift wood that comes in from the ocean and I look up a couple of us look up T.C.'s wife was out there and there was a car. First of all, I'm not driving a car on the beach ever, much less. This was like

an old like Camaro-y type car and a guy got out and I can show you the picture of what he hit, which he hit head on at probably like 30 miles an hour. It is a giant, giant like tree stump-sized piece of driftwood. And we watched, he parked, that's his bumper next to it. His car just stopped and I waved some guys out there like, what was that? And I'm like, I don't know, I just heard it. But I looked over after the first hit and saw that the car had kind of gone airborne a little bit.

There was sand. A wreck in sand is awesome because it just goes everywhere. And we went down there just, you know, as anyone will, classic Dane Cook bit. You got to look at the damage. Anytime a car hits anything, everyone comes outside. Flashlights. Yeah, look at that one. Dude, this is just like a, you're just driving on the beach at night.

And it was a guy with like... That seems like a really bad bit. Horrible bit. Dummy. Not in a four-wheeler, not in a truck, just like in a Mustang or something. Hit it probably going 20, 30 miles an hour and just totaled his car. Like airbags went off. Like, what if your kids just want to run out

Or kids want to run out and play at night? Which we do. Okay. Yeah, I would think that's your whole bit. Crabbs. That's why we have all these flashlights and stuff. Watch out for the cars. Police come down there.

It was just a wild scene. Like, I mean, again, he had little kids in the back of the car. It was weird. I don't really know the difference between the word boil and broil, but I do know that they're different. but we did whatever you do with like crawfish but with shrimp which is so much better I don't know I am yeah so my wife made like a giant like you have the table and there were probably 300 huge shrimp corn so it's just the fact that the shrimp is bigger and which makes it better

I think it tastes yeah and you're doing the work anyways it's a lot of work I don't like working No, but you also have She feels called by the ancestral winds So you just look over and she's peeling shrimp like an addict Because she's from Louisiana

I walked down there and there's just a huge plate of shrimp It's great Got some throwing in How'd you throw it? That's right, we haven't even promoed yet There's a segue Should we do it right here to promo Wednesday?

Dumb Zone Day at the ballpark. Logistics. What time are we doing the show? 10. 10 a.m. start at the Lowe's Hotel across the street from the ballpark. Now, there are two Lowe's hotels, so don't yell at me. Yell at Blake. Yeah.

Yeah, we're in the second floor in the limestone room. Wow. of one of the Lowe's hotels. Yes. We don't know how to say which one, though? If it has a limestone room, walk in the front. So we're going to do our show there. It's the same one we were in last year.

That helps some. Then we will walk across the street, and we will watch Jake Kemp throw out the first pitch. The ceremonial first pitch. Yes. Hoping to see the Rangers really make us stretch run. Yeah.

As the trade deadline is upon us today. Tough, tough couple series. Competitive, but not getting it done. You lost like seven in a row. They lost seven in a row. They won one game in both those series and they were competitive. They didn't win in Houston. What are you talking about, dude?

Do you even watch baseball? Do you even care about the Rangers? I don't think you do. One race, won the Mariners series last week. What if they hear this and they don't let you throw out the first pitch on Wednesday? Well, I think that would be bad because I'm ready for it to be behind us. But you said you got some thrown in? Yeah, with adults and 10-year-olds.

That's fun. Because I was with a group of people that live baseball, brother. What are you going to wear? Every day. We've kind of dropped the ball on that a little bit. What do you mean? We were going to, you know, there's a lot of things going on. And my attire for the day of the game might have been one that fell off the table a little bit.

Well, I mean, what do you have? What are you going to do? You are going to wear something. Well, Raymond wanted to have, like, a full Dumbzone uniform. Which if I have, I will wear. But, like, I have a jersey, a Dumbzone jersey. I also have a Rangers jersey. I haven't really thought about it.

But I should have followed up on the... What's your number? 42. Yeah, it was fun. It was a great weekend. Is it right to wear 42? It's retired. Nobody's supposed to wear 42.

Yeah, they've backed themselves into a bit of pretzel on that one. Like I said, I was listening to that Labor Relations podcast. I started it, yeah. Getting ready for the lockout. So there's a little Kempspin in there on Branch Ricky right away. Really? I guess I didn't get that far away. Well, maybe not right away.

I don't know when it is. Well, I mean, I know some things if you want to know. Well, one of the main one, like, because, It's always thought of Branch Ricky. Oh, man. White Savior. Yeah, just. And maybe he is.

Love the black man and all for equality. Really, what he is is just a businessman who wanted to be successful because there was like a rule even in minor leagues. All the minor leagues weren't necessarily connected to a team. Branch Rickey, by the way, invented the minor leagues. But if you did pluck a player from the minor leagues, you would have to pay. their team whatever, you know. I'm going to pay you $5,000 to take this prospect from you because you can't make as much money now. Like, no such respect given to the Negro League team that Jackie Robinson played for.

Which is ironic. They did not give him one dollar, give them $1. Given the history. They just took Jackie Robinson. Did not pay him at all. Yeah, I don't. Obviously, dude, you great- Or did not pay the club.

You grade on a scale. I'm sure weren't, you know. To the times, right? I don't know. Everybody thinks they would have been an abolitionist. But if you learn about Paul Robeson, who testified during McCarthyism, right, they had Jackie get up there.

And they is Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey pretty much told him, you're going to get up there, and you're going to say it's awesome actually being an American, and you're treated very well. and if you want to keep playing baseball, you're not going to color outside these lines at all. And this is during the hunt for communists, right?

And Jackie Robinson, within like a few years, was like depressed about this for the rest of his life because Paul Robeson got up there and spoke about how he saw things. Oh, and Jackie kind of went against? Yeah. Civil rights leader, Paul Robeson. He was like, things are great. I'm being treated very well.

Look, you all know me, I'm Jackie Robinson. I get to play baseball, and, you know, they basically made him do it. What was he going to do? I mean, what you say he could have done is what Paul Robeson did, which just said, fuck it. It erased me from the history books, but in any case, Harrison Ford, great portrayal. They left some of that stuff out of the movie. Harrison Ford? I think he plays Ranch Ricky.

Oh, in the movie 42? Yeah. Oh, I've never seen the movie 42. Because the number's retired. Right, you'd be disrespectful to even. I don't pay attention to it. Oh, yeah, I like that. August is National Wellness Month.

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If you're a weekend warrior, would you call yourself that? Is there a level below that? I mean, you come in on a Monday with a broken arm because you're playing football with a 40-year-old men. That's a weekend warrior. Well, if you see yourself that way, then I would look into peptides because they've been pretty revolutionary for me. a lot of friends who have beat up bodies who have gotten back into it with various peptides, sleep, sexual health, all sorts of things they can help you with.

And they can help you at one of their 12 locations. Online, look it up, gameday.dumzone.com. Okay, so I think despite the fact that the Cowboys have started training camp, they had the, of course, we did it last week, the, you know, Jerry's, opening press conference, but then this weekend is when they had the official, welcome to Oxnard. Like they have a big thing out there. I couldn't find it.

I looked everywhere. Yeah, no, there's only clips out there. I didn't. I also look for the full, but I've been to the full, too. It's not, I mean, it's Jerry. So there's always a potential there's going to be some good audio. Charles Haley gave us gold there once. What did he do?

That's not when he said Charlotte's looking fine, is it? It was. Oh, okay. She's standing over there. Well, I saw a picture of them together, and I would concur. I would say that's still going on. She's looking great. Yep.

She can see O'Mayo. Keep going to gameday. Dot dumbzone.com. Maybe you too could clean Jerry's glasses. Put a picture over on the wall. No, this is, speaking of cleaning Jerry's glasses, there's been some other funny stuff. Like, Jerry didn't take his hat off during the anthem when Colin Kaeper, Nick Neeling stuff was hot. And it was so funny because I remember the music was talking about it.

They're like, yeah, his hair is attacked. too. Yeah, they were alleging his rug. Yeah. Is the reason he wouldn't take his hat off. So sometimes there's some funny, but it's mostly a nothing. Yeah. I do have some Cowboys Camp stuff, but let's not start with that.

Let's start with baseball, the baseball trade deadline. The Rangers, have they done anything since we've started the show or this morning? Not yet. The report is no one is off limits. I thought maybe Wyatt Langford. But the report is no. Anybody? You're probably right, but it's specifically targeting Seeger, de Grom, and Avaldi.

That's a bad idea, man. What? Trading them? Yeah. I just don't think this. They're close enough that it's worth it to keep it together and keep trying to just turn things over modestly. The time to do it is not right now.

What does close enough mean? Making playoffs or winning a playoff series? Well, you know, the ways are different. I think the case has always been, much like with a defensive team, I guess, in the NFL, the case has always been that if they can get in, that they have a higher chance of winning than another team that is constructed of the same like win loss record because of their arms, right? But also, I know that their farm system is poor, but they don't have, I don't feel like they have. I don't know. I don't feel like they have that many holes at the big league level in terms of their staff is pretty much said if they don't make any trades. Next year, I think pretty – they – it would seem to me that it's too early to just say we're starting over.

They're too much in the middle. I don't know. To me it's – You don't want to be in the middle. You have three or four or five everyday guys that you like. I would say five in your regular lineup. up. You have a rotation that you like. You've got Walcott coming.

I don't know. I could see Seeger, but I would not be just looking to fire sale to DeGrom in particular. Yeah. You might be selling low on something that doesn't look right with him. Yeah. That might just be called August. Well, I just think this weekend was a, you know, measuring. Yeah, but look at last weekend.

Last weekend it's the Mariners, and you went three out of it. And it's like that was the biggest series in the world. I heard Skip say before the series last weekend. Hey, next six days, six days, this tells us what we're about. I know. And they won three or four. And the next 10 days could be completely different. But going into Houston with a half game up and you're throwing your number one and

your number two and you get swept, that just seems like, all right. Ken Rosenthal was alleging that Sunday's game, like it all came down to that. Like if they won, they'd push for it if they lost. And I think, first of all, if that's true, that's ridiculous. That's more what I'm reacting to is that making these huge sweeping decisions with these very small outcomes, it doesn't, they shouldn't even be part of it. But the thought is that, you know, Ray Davis, the owner, or at least the owner that talks and shouldn't. when he, just the slashing of payroll this year,

they're looking ahead to the labor stoppage, and that he's, you know, he wants out. He wants out of these contracts. Ken Rosenthal wrote, Chris Young might get a lifetime contract from Davis if he finds a way to move on from one or more of his highest paid players, Corey Seeger, Jacob de Grom or Nathan Eivaldi. I would be more like you, Jake, and that, you know, do you want to get rid of pitching?

Yeah, I mean, that I feel like you just run that back over here. Even at their ages. But Corey Seeger, I guess you would pay something, but he's owed $155 million over the next five years. Yeah. And there's no way. way you're going to unload that? You may unload it, like you said, unload it while you're eating a lot of it. What would the point of that be then?

And I would also say what was the point of signing Brandon Nemo? You trade for him. But you traded for him knowing, I guess you're trading for him knowing you just could trade him again. I think you traded for him because you were getting rid of another cancer he didn't like and Mark Samian. It's a lot of money, though. I mean, you owe Brandon Nemo $21 million in 2030. But it was Semyon versus Seeger.

We thought that was a problem. And ultimately, that could be the root of this whole thing, is they just have a bunch of people that don't like each other, and they're tired of it. And which if you win, it doesn't, I don't think that matters. Right. So much. You're staring at like, well, this clubhouse is dead,

and we don't want to run this back. All of our pitchers are a year older. Start over. And the only way I'd be okay with that is if they were also doing the thing where they dump a ton of money into it at the same time. right like you shed contracts to get prospects and then the next summer you say all right we're it is inexcusable for a team in a market this size to not be competitive in baseball they should take your fucking team from you i'm serious well they are competitive they're on the bubble they won't be if they trade two of those guys they'll they'll be a 100 lost team or a 90 lost team and that to me is unacceptable in a sport that's built like this one You got to at least try. I think so. Seeger also, if you don't trade him, he will have 10 and 5 rights next year.

10 years in the big leagues, five with the same team. That means he can veto any trade. Right now he does have a veto, I think, on eight teams. I think DeGrom has full no trade. So you might not even be able to trade him. I also think this is the problem with chasing the one championship because it worked. you got your title and here we are three years later

bitching about where the team is I've never I've never believed that one is not enough well I mean because they they did the full they bought the free agents they bought in all these players and it worked they won a title

but now everyone is hating Corey Seeger now although he was the hero during that run well that's the problem sometimes with titles and especially in baseball is that you could have a team kind of get hot in the playoffs. It's a very small sample size.

And it's not, I mean, it's real, but it's not real. Like, they weren't anything close to the best team in baseball that year. They won all the playoffs and won the World Series. Yeah, so it's kind of all the public if you changed your perception of it that much. Right? They didn't. Obviously. because immediately they started thinking of ways that they could get away from that number.

To me, I'm not saying they should add, but I would not. I just wouldn't touch it. You've got, you're going to, if for no other reason, then the Jerry Jones model of, you're probably going to be playing competitive games in your stadium in September that matter for the division. That's a giant cash cow. I mean, there's no way to guarantee that. but two and a half on August 3rd is, I think you just, now, a larger conversation might be, do they need a new GM if they're going to try to start some sort of a fresh approach here? Because that has, nothing has really worked other than throwing a ton of money at those guys.

And I know he's a friend, tangentially, but. Oh, for sure. He's underperformed. you'd have to say. No, and that's always the thing with teams that want to play like, want to be like the Yankees and Dodgers, but they don't all have the stomach for it. They don't have, and the Rangers don't have Yankees and Dodgers money either. But they certainly do have money to spend more than they are now.

Anyway, Dodgers do have money, and everybody's upset right now, because they got Terrick Scoobble. the gem of the possible trade deadline deals. Boy, I really thought it was going to be Milwaukee, everything I was reading previous to now. And so they get scubel. They add them to a rotation, which is already just full of Syung winners and contenders,

which has just lost Shohei, right? So now Shohei is, they kind of deactivated Shohei from pitching. but he's still there. It's an embarrassment of riches. People are complaining about the fact that the Dodgers, oh, of course, it's the Dodgers. But anybody, I think, could have made this trade. The Brewers could have made this trade.

From everything I've read, the players that they got back are not, like, top, top, top prospects. Well, River Ryan is just old. Well, they're two 27-year-old minor league, excuse me, not minor league players, 227-year-old. 2-21-year-old. Sorry, two minor league pitchers,

one who's 27, both have had Tommy John surgery. And then, yeah, the one outfielder who is probably a top 50 overall prospect. And he's a rental-ish, but certainly they'll have the, inside track to bring him back, right? Oh, yeah.

Already there. He's going to be a Dodger. With the deferred contracts, sometimes that can help the way they're doing things. I mean, at all, I don't know. I do have a lot of doom in my head right now because I've been thinking about baseball labor relations. I think it's all going to, I don't think the season will start on time next year. But.

Robot players? Maybe robot players. Maybe robot players. Stratomatic. With human umps. Maybe. Yeah, it's a bleak situation. But I have another idea too, but...

But I think it's across all, pretty much all the sports. Somebody's... We've got some splainting to do. The math ain't mathin. What do you mean across all the sports? I mean, I think the NBA numbers, I mean, they got, obviously, somehow a giant national TV deal. But I think that the regional... the regional part of it, they're subject to the same thing the Rangers were.

I don't know that the stars are feeling great about being all in and part and parcel of Victory Plus right now. Yeah. I think just across all of it, it's just like the entertainment industry in general with cord cutting or whatever. I think the economics were fake for a long time, and now I think they're being called to the carpet and nobody knows what to do about it. there's a lot of contracts guaranteeing people X amount of money to be a bad basketball player. Yeah. Relatively. No, it's interesting as to where it all end.

I don't know, a lot of it to me is just because it's what I hate sometimes when you hear about business or whatever. It's that they're accustomed to making this certain amount of money so we can't, it can't pull back from that at all. Well. So, yeah, we always make a profit of X million. And if we don't, you know, like, wait, what if you still made a really healthy profit? That's unacceptable, though. They owe that money to people, though, right? So if it's a traded company.

But I guess even in private companies, you get that. I don't want to derail you from baseball talk if you have more on this, because I do have a sports business story that's similar. Okay. So apparently riding high off of the World Cup being, by their estimates of success, the president of FIFA, Johnny Infantino had a plan in place where he was going to sell off a portion of FIFA to private equity. It was going to be like their portion of their, what do they call it, events, event operations. Basically, the World Cup would be run by a private equity firm.

Name? I have it right here. Can I just probably guess it? Yeah, it's Thrive. All right. Now, it's also run by someone named Joshua Kushner, who yes is Jared Kushner's brother. Sick. And this plan got out there, and there was a revolt,

much like when they tried to create the Super League a few years ago, a couple people from FIFA. I mean, people just don't have bars like this in American sports. What do you mean? A dude who quit, he didn't quit, but he was second in command at FIFA, and he went to the press, French guy, and said, let me be clear. I had no involvement of this proposal.

I pose it unequivocally. This $20 billion commercial subsidiary is a bad deal for football. If that means I lose my job, then so be it. I will understand and respect that decision, but I'll sleep well tonight. Oh, yeah. Wasn't it something like Spain was not going to be a part of it or Argentina? So the way FIFA works is you have like these federations. That's what Concaf is.

That's what America is in. They've got that. They got UEFA. That's Europe. Africa has one. Whatever. And so they were all deciding. whether or not they were going to participate in this.

And I don't think UEFA ever actually ended up having to say no, but they just intimated they were going to and their support was going to be enough. They started saying in Europe, football is not for sale. This became a giant, I don't think we need to, in light of losing a certain account over editing together pussy names. I don't know that we need a segment called, fuck this shit. but occasionally in society we're going to get times where people are like, no, I don't think so. We're not doing this.

And in the case of world football, they are allergic to commercializing the sports. Why they make you call it Dallas Stadium and other WHL-type things. But at the end of the day, they were like, no, absolutely not. This despite the fact that much like how the business world often works, FIFA is telling you, this money's going to be great for all of you. They're going to give us a trillion dollars right away, and that's coming right down to every club, all the way down to your academy teams. And then they tried this interesting move where they said, we'll give you $40 million each if you support it. But if it passes and you voted against it, it's only

20. So they tried to play mafia with it, which made it look even more bullies. ish. And three of the federations announced absolutely not. Even South America, who you would sensibly think needs the money, their statement was like, we're not about short-term gains. This is about the future of the sport. We're not selling pieces of it off to vampires. And now Infantino is probably going to lose his reelection bid in March. What they say? He's up in March and was thought to have rallied support. after the World Cup, but yeah. It's interesting only that, I guess I don't know, obviously, how this all works,

but you always hear about how FIFA is very corrupt, and I would just think if FIFA wanted to do something, they would just do it, and some would gripe about it, but move forward and take their money, but. It's one of those things of like, hey, we like are corrupt, not they're corrupt. Yeah. You let them in. So they didn't. It's not like a live thing, right?

It's just. No, it's not like a. live thing, but you know, you take somebody's money, they start being able to control, you know, your, I can tell you what you're not having, Dallas Stadium. It would have been called, you know, Bitcoin Arena or whatever the Kushners are involved in. You know how data centers? That's the new fracking. Everything.

That's what I just keep saying to myself. Everything's data center. But just the, yeah, I just need a full breakdown, like on what is PE? Private, I, give me a positive private equity. story. Well, the idea would be that they're infusing capital into the business and that that needed capital will improve the business. But that's just not generally how it works? No, because at the end of the day, they don't care if the business sustains. They only care if it makes money at that time. And so they will front load it with debt a lot of times. They'll take out, you know, they take out,

they load the business up with debt that they previously did not have and then uh at so a lot of times it's also what happens is you know you don't even know that the company is owned by somebody than it was before right they keep the name they buy that um keep the customer list and then they slowly but surely the best example i can give you is when my dad started at uPS um he was over not started but when he started in management, right? He had a certain territory. And then over time, as his company went public, you know, that territory, there were like 25 people. And then there were 20 people, then there were 15, and then they were 10, and there were five, and there were like two.

And they're like, well, you still have to do the same job, though. And then people just die or they quit. So it's basically saying we're going to continue to try to do the same volume of business. But over time, we're going to cut cost. So the margin continues to grow. The margin can't stay the same. And I'm sorry to everybody who I screwed that up for. Rob enough explanation.

Action Jack Barker in Silicon Valley. He wanted to build a box because of the stock price, not because of the long-term vision of Pied Piper. I just rewatched it. It's a good callback. I feel like he's a representation of it. It really is. Hey, flooring direct DFW.

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No, this has been very good. You're going through this process. I thought I got it, but I really get it now. This could have been so much worse. Oh. So much worse. No, no. It's fun.

I don't mind it. In the end, we're going to have new floors. And then we're going to christen each one of those floors. But give me a few days in between each one of us. Didn't you say you just started watching billions again? Yeah. Are you going to christen it each floor like the first scene in that show? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We have to get a few more... You just lay there? A few more outfits. Is you just standing over him? I like to lay on the pentagram. Excuse me. With my hands chained. No, I have more sports.

It is business as well and it is baseball. It is... The women's professional baseball league. Okay. I'm telling you guys, I'm getting this ACL surgery done. And I want to pitch to them. I saw this. I saw the clip you're going to play, but I saw this.

I could play in this league. I could do it. I've just seen so many tweets that say this is the funniest thing I've ever seen. So I purposefully avoided it. Well, you're not going to get to see with the real funniest thing, which was women playing baseball. But that's not, I don't know. I just watched a league of their own.

weekend. I think they can play. Do you have the clip? Clayton, C.K. Do you have the clip? The little thing I sent you from Twitter? Did I send you that? Or no? You sent me Baker. Oh, I sent you Baker.

Well, let me play a clip of audio then. This is the women's baseball league National Anthem. Okay. You see by the tom's early light. What's so proud of the twilight's last gleaming. Some are saying this is the worst national anthem ever.

No. You're saying no. There's the worse. I mean, you can't count Roseanne Barr. Roseanne Barr was going up to be it. Because she was doing a bit. She's a comedian doing a bit. What about the one lady with her titty?

out. This, that doesn't sound like the worst to me. That sounds awesome. You're talking about Lucy Lawless, Zeno Warrior Princess? It was on the ice of a mighty duck game. This is either the best or the worst ever. This is Martha Reeves. She was the lead singer of the group Martha and the Vandellas.

They recorded such top 100 hits. There was only like 100 songs back then. as nowhere to run heatwave. You know heat wave, right? Oh, it's a heat wave. That song does kind of rule. Oh, we're so hot. And dancing in the street.

Oh, okay, never mind. These are bangers. Certified. Never mind. Sorry for the disrespect to the women's baseball league and the Vandellas. Well, anyway, that's what's different about this and Roseanne Barr. This is like kind of like a real good singer. To the parable love life or the rapids.

We're so gallantly streaming. All right, I got to call another timeout. So if you can't see the video, you've got Martha here. And she's with two other women who I don't think are the Vandellas. And it's not just because they're white. It's just because they're not singing with her. And they're not 80? They start at the mic all three of them, and then she kind of takes off,

which does beg the question to me, how often are they just having pickup games for the hands? anthem where it's like they don't even know each other because otherwise then how does this happen you know they rehearsed this right uh i would have assumed they rehearsed it yeah so do we know anything more about like is she with them did she go rogue i saw the other day a guy got into like eagles or jaguars training camp ravens ravens it took a rep with the past real i's by dude i've scrolled past that thinking there's no way Things like that have happened.

My point is, how did this lady pull this off? Was she in her head all day going, they have no clue what I'm going to do? Because it's weird that there's two other ladies there, right? You think she's doing a bit? Well, I don't know. What I'm saying is it's not like she's out there by herself. She's with a group of singers, and she just goes rogue. And I don't think enough people are talking about that.

Oh, now they're back in. They're trying. That our flag was still there. What? Maybe it's just that she's old. 85. She's 85. I know.

I would hope that when you're 85, you're able to build something out. Okay, it's terrible, right? It's terrible. Well, I mean, it's subjective. She's a singer and it's terrible. It would be like if Jacob de Grom dirted the first pitch ceremoniously. But I don't think, again, if she's just by herself singing like that,

I don't think it sounds as weird. It's that they have two. When have you ever heard that before? Again, that's whatever. Like imagine you saw a barbershop quartet and one of the guys just kind of stepped forward in the middle of it was like, exit night. like a totally different style.

Four teams in this league. They have seven inning games. They will all be played in Springfield. Oh, my God. At Robin Roberts Stadium. Think of the sinking possibilities. All of them there? They will have a, their inaugural season starts, started Saturday.

Excuse me. 30 games. They throw 85. Why baseball? Keith Stein is the, co-founder. He was emotional. Of course he was. And while watching the women's first official workout last Wednesday, so three days before the first game, wiped away tears. And good for him. Can you give me a why softball? Why do we have softball? Well, we have softball because why did we once have

women could only run half marathons. Because we protect our little flowers, our delicate little angels. And so because there's no way, I'm seriously dumb guy just thinking through this here, was there no way to make a same-size ball softer? Because the ball, I assume, is what changes the throwing motion. Now it's an underhand instead of an overhand delivery. I don't know that softer is the thing. Softballs aren't actually soft, Jake.

I don't know if you played soft. But I assume the idea is if it's bigger, the impact is like. What are, what is, what, is that true? Yeah, I mean, try, try throwing one. You can't throw it as fast. So that, okay, but I'm trying to ask you how you're, so they engineered the idea that we need less speed on the throw, we'll just make the ball bigger. I'm guessing, I'm just guessing because I know that, well, again, women weren't allowed to do, like, if there was a, sure, 200 meter run, they could, we'll give, let them run a hundred meter, you know, like. Certainly there are biological reasons for some of this, but when you have a little girl and they know,

about baseball. They ask you, why do we have this? Right. Well, and that's what a lot of the girls on these teams are saying, hey, we played, I played baseball for my high school team. Right. But once I got to college, I had to play softball. Good for them. Monet Davis. Remember her? Hell yeah.

I thought she'd have two Cy Youngs by now. She was in the Little League World Series. Nobody was saying that she was going to, you're such an asshole. She was in the Little League World Series, but again, Once she went to college, she had to play softball. Now she's in this thing. People didn't put her in the pros. No, someone probably put her in the pros.

Someone did the thing of like, this is the MLB equivalent of 111 miles per hour. Through the first six weeks, six-week season, it will be televised on ESPN. Let's see. Former Major League Baseball stars, some of them are managing the teams, Matt Williams. Remember Matt Williams? Oh, yeah. He is... Giants, maybe?

Yeah, Giants player. Says here he was the 2014 manager of the year for the Washington Nationals. I don't remember that at all. Well, they barely do either because that was his... He had two years. That was his first, and then he was fired. Wow. Very Gabe Kapler-Captler-ish.

That is crazy. Gabe Kapler. Manager of the year for San Francisco and then fired the next year. He got 100 on the test. They won 96 the first year. went to 83 and they fired him. Yeah. Anyway, he's the manager for San Francisco.

Eric Young, former big leaguer, is with Los Angeles. Keith Falk, the former closer, is managing Boston. So I guess they're all managing in places where they played. That kind of makes sense. They get ready there and then go to the bubble model. And then they have a lady managing New York.

Rachel Henley. Her nickname is Rocky. Yeah, I knew a girl. I think probably everybody had a high school softball team with a player named Rocky on it. They also added Dave Stewart. We know Dave Stewart from the A's. Four-time 20-game winner.

He's an advisor to the league. We're just throwing that in the story just so you can, hey, what about this guy? We ask him some stuff, and he's like, yeah, I don't know. 5,000-seat stadium. First game was sold out. Okay. They sold out their original inventory of 20,000 baseball caps.

Top salary, $500 per game. It's a barn stormy. The minimum is $300 per game. Well, I support them. And one of the players says, Now a girl doesn't have to say there's no path for me to play baseball. We don't have to feel alone. I can look to my left, to my right, and not be the only girl.

My goal is to play as long as I can, into something where young girls all of the world have a direction and path to play baseball for a living we have arrived we are here and we are staying here okay proclamation maybe bring Winston wolf into the conversation yeah before game three before uh of your 30 games to start calling it the mMLB should we uh do we determine do we get through all 30 games does this last the whole first year? I would say it does, and then they're going to say, listen, we can be the league while the MLB

figures their S out. Ooh, how about that? I like that. And so then the MLB will come back and then they'll quickly die. It is kind of funny, though, that, like, the only real way to save your sports league right now is to, like, go to Saudi Arabia, and they're like, nah, we're actually good on this one. We'll wait for the next thing.

You're letting them pitch? Sorry. You hand a woman a bat. Okay. We just bought EA Sports. We're a little cash poor right now. Cowboy stuff after the break, but I want to mention North Carolina. We haven't talked about this.

It's not really a big talking thing, but it's Michael Lombardi has been put on leave. I think it happened the day you were gone maybe last week. The Bill Belichick hire of Michael Lombardi. Bill Belichick hired to be the head coach. North Carolina for 10 million a year. And not only does he bring along his Jordan Hudson, who's actually named Jordan Hudson, but he brings Michael Lombardi, 67 years old,

former Cleveland front office guy, just kind of bounced around the league a little bit. Always had some ties to Belichick, though. Former ringer, right? Wasn't he with Bill Simmons for a while? Musers? Yeah, I was a fan of listening to what Michael Lombardi had to say. A lot of people were.

But not in North Carolina, apparently. He was the highest paid general manager in college football. $1.5 million. If you remember when he first started, like I think his opening press conference, he said North Carolina will be the 33rd NFL team because that's how awesome they'll be. Before they went four and eight, I believe. And then reading a story about him this morning. on the athletic, one thing stood out, it says,

here's what we do know about Lombardi's time in Chapel Hill. Because, like, they've, allegedly an HR issue, he's been put on leave. Right. They're, you know, looking into it. He's done. So they don't know. They're like, I don't know.

We don't really know anything. But here's what we do know about Lombardy's time in Chapel Hill. Arrogance plus incompetence is a lethal combination. That's a bar. But also, do you guys remember when Pablo Torre did that, like, entire thing where he found there's like those tapes. Didn't we play it? There's tapes of Jordan Hudson trying to do like a football talk show video shoot with Lombardi and Matt Patricia and Belichick.

It's super weird. They're all afraid to talk around him. You can just tell they're just suckling at the teeth. I'm not saying Patricia's not a dog. Around Lombardy? Around Belichick. Oh. But Lombardi won't, you know, he's just there.

and I think he knows how to keep his head down. I've always heard that he was a bit of just a blowhard, but man, I'll tell you, whether we get to some of it today throughout the week, like Dan and I have references before, there's a podcast that the Texas Tech GM in basketball and football set down and talked. And let me tell you something. And it's not because those guys are like internet posters

who are like actively involved in. and Michael Lombardi is not putting in the work that it takes to be a college GM right now. These guys are out of their minds deep in this stuff now. It is harder now to be a GM of a college. I mean, it didn't exist before. I'm just telling you, this is not a I go golfing job. They're hiring dudes now who are 30, 35, 40 years old. You got to be scouring the rosters, the portal.

It's a different ball game. The high school. Kind of part of the reason I'm not sure of Belichick really fully. understands exactly what this was going to take. You know, they thought, well, it's becoming more like the NFL. But he's Belichick. He's Belichick. And I still think it could work because he's a great coach.

Like, you'll want your son to play for Belichick. What Belichick should have done is called the Indian kid from North Texas or called the kid the dude who got hired at tech or one of the, you know what I mean? If he's going to take his legacy style in, he needed to try to bring in something totally. But just bringing in another guy who's going to take. Hell him. He needed to bring in somebody that Jordan knows. Basically.

Like a friend of Jordan Hudson. Yeah, someone in her age bracket. Because you can do a lot of NFL, maybe some NFL personnel stuff by like, ah, we're schmoozing. I call it. That's not that life anymore. Or just organically through film. Right.

This is a different world. Dogs only apply. How old do you, what, do you think he makes 2027? Belichick? Yeah. He had them in the playoffs. I know, but times change. Year two, you know.

Takes a little while, turn around. Sure, okay. Who's fired first? Shotty or Belichick. Oh, fire the music. Next. The Dumsah, Dumsah, Dums, Dums.

I'm gonna start following the rules. But this isn't you, Cartman. Yeah, where's the Eric Cartman we know? The Eric Cartman we know breaks the rules, and he gets away with it. Just like his hero. Come on, who's your hero, Cartman? Tom Brady. Right.

And what does Tom Brady do after breaking the rules? Deny and subvert. Yeah! Yeah. Well, what would Tom Brady say if he got caught shoplifting? Everybody's shoplifts, why are you coming down on me? Yeah! You're Tom Brady, Cartman.

And that new principal in there is the football commissioner trying to dictate his punishment to you. And what happens when an invulnerable cheater comes up against an elitist corporate dictator? Perfect storm of hypocrisy that everyone in the country has to deal with for months on end. Yeah! You're right, guys. I'm gonna Tom Brady this thing.

Yeah! I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, you're not giving me four days of detention. You're only giving me one! Yeah! No, to hell with that! You're giving me no days detention! And then I'm gonna go home and f*** my house. I'm fucking my hot wife.

Who's not even that hot. It kind of looks like a dude. Yeah. You're listening to The Dumzone. So the Wednesday Ranger game is what we want to promote. I forgot to mention you can go to Dumzone.com. And on our events page, there is a link to buy tickets. Those tickets will be in our particular section.

And then you can join us and hang out with other people that listen to the show and watch Jake throughout the first pitch and, you know, stay for all night. The first time we did this was two years ago, we had nearly a no-hitter against the Rangers. Did you and intern Henry wear the same shirt intentionally? No. With intentionality?

I just noticed that. I tend to wear mine when we're not at the studio, one or the other. They're both wearing their game day men's health shirts. And he's wearing the same hat as a lot. me so he's just trying to he's not sure who he wants to emulate today he's got a little electric violin he's playing over there no uh last year on dumb zone ballpark day there was a assassination not at the game but i was standing with my friend sarah oh that was charlie kirk day that's right got my phone out i'm like did you see this i didn't know how to discuss it with my girls

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And then they come up with a treatment plan. And this is something that your CEOs, your executives, your pro athletes have been doing for a long time. The treatments are you sit there and watch TV for half an hour. And now they have it, you know, for kids. So for ADHD, they do it for PTSD, for vets. If you have sleep issues, addiction, braintopia centers.com. It's the future. I believe in it.

And I've heard from a ton of listeners that have gotten their kids involved in this. So check it out. Before I cowboy stuff, can I just play you this from Browns training camp? Yeah. I think it's going well. Somebody asked Deshaun Watson. Would you be open to signing a new contract with the Browns after the season? Yeah.

Oh, for sure. I mean, I think, you know, when I first got here, it was just, there's a lot of stuff going on. Oh, yeah? But I don't have no bad film tours, please. I love Cleveland. Oh, okay. wife. We got our house on the east side. We're very worried

about this. What are we doing here? Are we just trying to make me mad? Are we trying to make All Browns fans mad? Like, why are we even asking him this? You know what it makes me sad? He's in a, he's in a battle, a

QB battle with Shador Sanders. And there's not sure who's going to win it. Does that tell you how far Deshawn Watson is falling? I didn't think Watson was going to play again. I hope that he he wouldn't. I'll bet you the Browns hope that he wouldn't too because they might have got some insurance relief on paying that contract. No, that's not what's going to happen.

What? He's going to ball out. And they're going to be put in a situation where they're like, Mother. What do we do? Be kidding me. What do we do? I promise you he's going to have a good year because that'll just be. Sometimes being the most Brown's thing ever can provide you with a little bit of fun time briefly. And that's probably what will happen. Yeah, what if he's like pretty good? He gets better as the year goes on, you're like, oh, I don't know, maybe he's back here. It's behind him. Redemption story. Get the daughters up there to talk about how it's all okay. Man, that's crazy. And it just bums me out because it means that somehow along the way, we have a bad process for training quarterbacks because we're so desperate that this dude

has to be like, yeah, I guess I'd be open to the Browns paying me more money. That's the leverage he somehow still has, which is insane. Oh, speaking, okay, while we're here, speaking of the Browns, I didn't. This. was for today in history. It's one of the things I gave Clayton, but let's do a little today in history early so you could just remember this day. Seven years ago, I believe. This is the Jumbotron at Jacobsfield or whatever they call it now. Oh, yes. Baker Mayfield, uh, shotgun to beer, wearing a Francisco Lindor jersey. What could have been? The crowd's going nuts. If only he had gone on the road and beaten a rival in a playoff. He's got a Blake mustache.

then they would have brought it back. All right. Anyway. Speaking of Blake, I thought you were going to play this. Can I play Matthew Berry? Yeah. Like, I just want to know what happened to Blake. Like, where did it all go wrong?

12. If you actually set out to finish last two years in a row, I don't think you'd be able to do it. Let's see. It's hard. The Levyon Bell hold out. That got me Justin Bieber. And then McCaffrey killed me last year with not picking up the handcuff. So.

Didn't get Mike Davis. I didn't. Who was the backup in Carolina? Correct. What did you say? A handcuff? What's a handcuffs? Take your own emotions out of it.

I'm sorry? What? No, no. You guys both said handcuff and nodded like everybody knew what you were taught. Is that like drafting Tony Pollard if you have Zeeke as you're running back? Yeah, I mean, to be clear, that's language that I try not to use. But, like, I would say that it is a phrase that has been used in fantasy people for a long time. The idea behind that.

Okay. To be clear. I didn't say it. That's the case. Your guy said it. This gets aggregated. That's what I love on. One of my favorite bits on big time podcast national shows is like, I know, they'll probably aggregate this.

But you know what? I just think Deshawn Watson shouldn't be a good quarter. Okay. You know, and I'm just upset that they'll, that what makes this a big podcast is going to happen and feed this to a lot of different people. But you know what? I'll say it anyway. Yeah.

Shocking number of people in the game don't get the game. I got a lot of Christian Parker. And maybe I'll split this over two days because I'm pretty fired up about him. He was on with Peter Schrager, who outlasted Ryan Clark at ESPN. Peter Schrager comes over from NFL Network. The guy Ryan Clark told he didn't play. play the game. Yeah.

And we got in a big hissy fit about that. I could take or leave Peter Schrager. I'm almost working on a theory that it's a self-serving one. Shocker. That you have to be a dweeb who's kind of a bad interviewer to get good guests. Because they just know you're going to, oh, isn't, tell me something about how awesome it was to be you and how much it's still awesome to be you. Like, there's just no...

There's no threat. And it's not even a threat. I just would love somebody to have a conversation with the guy, and I just, maybe those, they don't want that. Maybe they just want, you know, to be talked about how great you are. But he is very young. Not as young as me when I got a coordinator job, Kimosabi. Just shot in Conahey, but he is a young coordinator,

and he's worked with some legends. I mean, Elko bringing him in at the college ranks, say what you will, about the 2016 Browns. Mike Petton was somewhere around that team, I think. But he's thought of to be like a defensive guru. Vic Vanjio, obviously, Sean Peyton stamped him in Denver. So a question Peter Schrager had for him, which I do think was a good one, was kind of, you know, you're 26, 27 in these rooms. How do you not just feel way overwhelmed and out of your league? Yeah, I would say I try to just be me.

You know, I've been around, like you mentioned, some of the names from Elko, who's one style to Pet, to LaFloor, to Isiro, to Vance, to Pet, I mean, to Vic and Ed and O.G, who I call Jerry Gray O.G. and Jason, like, they're all different. I think that I try to be as direct, honest as possible. I try to outwork the competition as much as I possibly, can and give the same effort to the players as I expect from them. I think accountability and urgency are two main things. I think I've operated under over the course of my career. And I mean, I definitely wouldn't be sitting in this seat right now if it wasn't for the opportunity to work

under all those guys, even just as young as when I was 21 and the things that the trail, Scott, made me responsible for from a young age and kind of, you know, kind of sink or swim. You know, either you figure it out or you don't and somebody else will. And you kind of got to have a competitive spirit about you to make that happen. And it's not like I haven't stumbled along the way, but I think, you know, learning those lessons from those guys has been really impactful on me. Again, this is a dude with no real background, right? He didn't have a connection.

He didn't have not only just a dad. I mean, he wasn't a great player. How did he get in the door? Well, he was a college, you know, a rotation lower level DB and knew in college, I, am not an NFL player, but I want to be a coach and just right away. Right away was a standout on a staff. But, I mean, he worked at some places you've never heard of before. He was asked, like, what advice he would give to a young coach.

It's about a minute. I think this is pretty cool. Leave no stone unturned. I think that when you're young coming in the league or wherever you are, like, there's no job too small and there's no detail that's too small. So you just want to learn as much as you possibly can and just be focused and detailed in the process. You know, I think that, you know, depending on the staff that you're on, whatever your area of focus is, like, your number one job is to be the greatest person in that role. You know, there's a quote by Martin Luther King where he talks about just being a street sweeper.

And if you're going to be a street sweeper, you got to, you know, sweep the streets like Michelangelo used to paint, you know. And so whether you're doing a, you know, visio document or you're running indie or, you know, you're setting a computer up for the D.C. and making sure that you don't mess something up, check the remotes, doing all those things. But like being the highest performer in that current role, and if you focus at that and then use your extra time to develop yourself in those other areas outside of your position of focus, then you'll get the opportunities that you want coming forward. But, you know, there's nothing more important than the current job that you're in and being where your feet are. Lost me with the last DAC line there, but don't forget the race. That's what he's saying.

This dude is as no BS determined, locked in as a human being could be. Yeah. And I, you know. He's just very different from his head coach. It's a thing you tell your kids or I don't know if you will, but, you know, when your kids get older, it's, you know, how do you stand apart? I always say it's actually kind of easy. Like you know within the first day or whatever when we had a batch of four interns to stand out. and it's like he's saying

act like that's actually a really important thing that you're doing you know we've I mean we've worked with people who it's a weekend show I'm going to be producing for you know maybe I'll read the paper during that

and others you know act like it's that you're actually getting a shot with the musers and treat them like the musers and people that's just noticed it's noticed overall in the long run and people start to talk about you correctly.

Or, you know, in a positive light. Like, hey, I really like working with that guy. And all of a sudden, the crappy show is like working with you. And all of a sudden, wait. So, yeah, I would imagine it's very similar in college coaching and pro, like, your young guys get in and a few of them are in there. But if one guy is like, I feel like you could probably step up and be noticed pretty quickly. If you are what he's saying, and it's not.

Everything, every time this guy opens his mouth, I'm pretty impressed. Yeah. And I almost don't like it. Obviously, you're not alone, right? Because he's worked his way. He's thrown up. He's like, okay, I want this guy. Yeah, Vic Fangio is hiring him and putting him in charge of the D.Bs on a Super Bowl team.

Yeah. No, I love everything I hear from him. Now, it's a little Winston Wolfie, and it's probably the most, the biggest part of the Cowboys problem is talent or lack of it on defense. So, you know, right? Rick Carlisle is a great coach. Greg Popovich is a great coach. They have bad players.

You're still going to probably have bad players. So I'm interested to see how this year works out. It is the NFL, though, where those margins are very, very small. And, you know, I think as you say all the time, I think not only just the head coach, I think the coordinators matter a lot more than they do in other sports. You know, I don't know. What's the hitting coordinator for the Rangers doing? Not what the O-C for an NFL team is doing, right?

Right. So I do think it matters. I think that getting the right talent for that coach has got me fired up. But, again, it is all. Did you hear about the big thing he did early in camp, or at least shot he made it public? When I first heard it, I was like, oh, okay, I bet this kind of stuff happens all the time and nobody makes this stuff public.

But it's still interesting. Did you hear that he, like they or Christian Parker, pretended his radio went out, so Oversone had to call the defense without his help. And apparently he said it was scripted to him, but, you know, Overshone didn't know it was coming. I like it. But he did it on purpose just to see, how is this handled?

And he passed with flying colors, got into the call we wanted to be in anyway. So that's just something he's doing, I guess, with, you know, the green dot is the nice. It's the big thing, right? We're all talking green dot now. Whoever gets that radio headset. Yeah. I think it's assumed it's going to be Caleb Downs, and we're just trying it on a bunch of people just so it can kind of look like Caleb Downs won it.

Yeah. But that's just my opinion. I think it'll be Caleb Downs. I don't think there's a doubt that it'll be Kaelin Downs. For no other reason, then, I mean, because we're talking about communa what? Communication, coach. I was listening to something on the drive down. It's that time of year, dude, you know?

I was like, when you sit in baseball pod yesterday, I was like, all right, there's going to be a lockout. I'm going to work this in. But I am just swimming like I ran a plane into the towers and got my virgins. in football preview content. Dude, isn't it great? Wash it over me. Are you getting ready for fantasy drafts? I'll listen to this effing AFC East preview down to the Jets.

And I'll go right through this bitch. Gino, what is interesting? But I heard like a big conceptual talk on a different show I listened to. And like, why would a linebacker be calling your defense in 2026? That makes no sense. The passing game is what dictates, you know, everything now. Linebackers come off the field more, right?

It should be your safety. If your safety is not making your calls, they should be. What do you think? What is it league-wide do you think? It's mostly linebacker. Is it still? Because the defense is set by the Mike linebacker. That's why the offense is coming up and identifying and they're setting to that.

That's, to me, antiquated. The safety is sometimes a nickel, like box corner, not box corner, but a slot corner who's playing close to the formation. that guy is in charge. That guy's marrying the coverage to the line now and the way that the linebackers used to. And so to me, this is where things are headed. Very fortuitously, the Cowboys seem to be

on the accidentally the cutting edge of something pretty cool here. But this is the way it's going. And I think in a handful of years, you won't have two linebackers on the field. You'll have something in between where you've got, a 515 or something where these guys are not, I don't know. The linebackers are hybrid guys.

All of them, basically. Yeah, so maybe you still make that number or a different number. But the point is, nobody's running a 4-3. So if you take a linebacker off the field, why would you have one of the two that are left out there? They're rotating a lot. It doesn't make any sense. Is it like NBA centers?

Yes, it kind of is. Yeah, you could, there's a roll, but it's not, hey, we got to find this guy and have him out there. I think it'll probably all the safeties will be the ones making the calls in five years. It's cool. It also doesn't matter. Well, I think. This is just a training camp bingo of like, oh, green dot, let's pretend that matters.

Well, I was talking to you guys about this before this started, and it was because I started listening to people who break down the Vangio defense. And that's why it's an interesting talking point because those are really the only defenses in the league where there's not a linebacker wearing it, to my knowledge. And it's because it's so complicated. The linebackers do not understand the coverage as well enough to call them. The DBs do. However your defense gets the call, I just don't think that matters.

I think it's cool that maybe a rookie gets it because he knows the defense and people respect him, but I don't think it's as big of a deal as people make it out to be. I think it's more interesting than that he's safety instead of a linebacker. And that whether it's true or not, they blamed all their stuff last year on communication. So it's going to be a story. Yeah, that's funny because in a Machota article, he's just talking about Christian Parker. He talks about DAC. Dak said about the defense, they're like, what have you noticed about the defense,

a defense that's communicating? Yeah. Everybody got their marching orders. We are going to hear a lot about that. What if... Never mind. Go ahead. Speak your truth, Blake.

I mean, God. It's okay for... What if the F-in' Giants paying 31 on him in week one? Dude, but listen to what I'm saying, though. And I'm going to maybe... Why are we just anointing this guy already? I'm not... I don't think that anybody's anointing him, but I can play you the minute of...

I didn't even play it. I got a minute and a half of Christian Parker talking about him, but we've all heard it. They're like... Caleb Downs. They're like, he's in here before everyone else. He's the last one here. In fact, he did a reverse lunch bail on this whole thing. Because there's like...

Smartest guy. I'll play you tell me who he's talking about here. Well, you'll probably be able to figure it out. But does it play? Yeah, can you point you back up? Coupe is probably one of the most natural players I've been around. He's just a... Cooper de Jean.

Natural, like, hand-eye coordination athlete. So, you know, you go to basketball, you know, He's shooting threes. He's dunking. You play golf. He's good at that. He's good at that. You know, the little funny social media videos where you're doing those, he's good at those.

You know what I'm saying? But then when he starts talking about Caleb Downs, he's like, this guy just, he's watching film nonstop. Like, he just gets the defense inside and out, blah, blah, blah. I was reading about Caleb Downs? There's an article, I don't know, athletic. Again, we're reading a lot of shit. Sorry, Blake. I just want to watch him play.

When he was six years old. Oh, no. Did you hear about when he was six years old? No. This is kind of like I saw Kyler Murray play when he was six years old. When he was six years old, did he transfer to another top pro? Seven years old. He was in first grade, 10-game season.

He scored 46 touchdowns. The championship game, he had 313 yards rushing, seven touchdowns, and then on defense he had 15 tackles. Yeah, I mean, if you're a college football guy, Like if you're TC, you've known K.L. Down's name for five years. Since he was like a junior in high school, he was like, this is the next generational defender. But the league doesn't value his position the same as they do like an edge rusher. And maybe they shouldn't.

But the podcast I'm referencing, Dominique Foxworth, he was a DB for the Ravens, then he was the head of the PA. Now he's in, like, media. That's not the guy with the big hog, is it? No. That's Dominique. John Ruggers-Kromarty. But if you watch a game and you hear them kill to something and it's like, boy, that was pretty basic. I feel like that was just a run to a pass.

It is. It absolutely is. And so he was talking about it from terms of it's time for the defense to start operating like the offense and dictate the terms a little bit. One thing that you'll see in the Vangio defenses that you don't see in Iberflus's defenses is, and this is by far, I'm not X's a nose guy anymore, but at the snap, you might have two safeties high level, right? Usually that means they're dropping back and covering either half the field or a quarter of the field.

But in this defense, one of them might run down and the other one's going to run back. So now we have one high safety and one low. The point is you want to make the quarterback, make their decision as late as possible. Always. They'd rather do it before the snap. Every quarterback ever has a day before the snap, they know where they want to go.

But as late as you can give them that information, that's what you want. So the defense starting to think in terms of like, why don't we try to confuse them more? Why can't we get up here and have fake calls? Why can't we get up here and have kills and dummies that confuse them? Because now we're in a situation. I assume they do that. The quarterback gets up there and sees a look and then yells kill. never hear the defense do anything. They run the ball right into it, but they were set for a pass.

Now they've killed that to a run. Screw me. His point was like, we have cerebral, and this is like a point I've been trying to make, but I didn't play at a high enough level to make it. They always say, well, we got, we got, we don't have the guys. But you don't have the guys because you haven't made them the guys. Like Caleb Down didn't just become a safety. They made him a safety. They could have made him a quarterback. Once upon a time, they were making guys wide receivers. And then they were like, I feel like this guy could be a quarterback. He can handle all this mentally.

Now if you think about doing that on the other side of the ball, it won't have the same impact as like black quarterbacks. I'm not saying that. But putting a guy who is the quarterback of your defense truly back there who doesn't come off the field, he's not the fastest guy in the world. And he's also not like the greatest playmaker in the world. he's not like a freak breaking contain and all this, but he runs shit,

and he's going to be where he's supposed to be, and he will hit you. Like, that's what you want. Basically, that's now a running quarterback, because he can run and he can throw, and he sees the whole field. Now, by saying all that stuff, is he almost inadequate with the size and speed he needs to be or no?

Maybe. He's not like... Because the smartest guy in the world, right? without the NFL body attributes that you need. I mean, he's a great athlete. But to people, like, I think people think of, like, a guy who's just, you know, Ed Reed, I feel like was a great cerebral player, but also had the ability to do anything you want freelance.

I mean, there's the only concern with him right now is over-hyping him. Right. Because, yeah, it's like when LeBron came into the league. would you say right now that he's a failure? You might. With what people were saying, you know, I mean, he has only four titles. He has, you know, whatever you want to say about LeBron.

Is that a failure because he was brought in? Like Caleb Downs right now. It's a lot of high. It's going to be hard. But he's got that worst DVOA rating in the history of the sport working in his favor. Yeah, but he also has in his, the opposite of favor. They lost Micah, and their defensive line is a year older,

and they lost, what's his name, Clownie even, right? Yeah. So he just signed with the Texans, I believe. Which is odd before camp. I thought Clownie would wait. It's still, yeah, Houston's not going to make him do anything. It's still nowhere to go but up. So I still, and I love to go.

rush can really help the secondary. They have a really weak secondary still. Yeah, that's my biggest. And their pass rush is not what it was. It won't be what it was last year, I don't even think. Oh, I don't know about that. We'll see. I think Azaraku's a player.

I think Barre M is a player. I think Malachi Lawrence has got something. Throw one injury in there and what do we have? I mean, there's, the offense is going to have to score a lot of points, I'm saying, still. Yeah. And it's very possible. Blake, that New York does score 31 in week one. I will.

But it's very possible that Dallas scores 40. On 31 against New York. Any bet you want. Really? Yeah. Didn't they do that last year? The Russ game, for sure. Yeah.

I mean, Russ. Who stops Russ? No, but I mean, there's no Quinn in there. There's no Micah, obviously. That was before the trade. I think the main thing is just, I do think it's a new. interesting topic. I don't know necessarily that the cowboy media knows exactly how to cover it if you want me to take a shot. But if you're a football, it's somewhat of a nerd, the cowboys have

been serving vanilla for a very long time. And now they're like, what if we put a little some peanuts in there, a little chocolate, make you something fun. It's different. Speaking of the Cowboys, you think about where they're going on the road this year. And And then that makes me think of like their radio broadcast, their national radio broadcast and what the dress code is sometimes. And you can pass that dress code if you're wearing a poncho shirt. You can go to poncho outdoors.com slash dumb zone. You can get 10% off and free shipping on your first order.

And you can look like Blake does when he's standing right next to Steve Burline in the Cowboys National Radio booth. Now, they're wearing suits. They're wearing the jackets. They're wearing the nice pants. And Blake's got his poncho shirt, which he could have been wearing outside fishing a couple hours previous to that. Could have been.

It's got the UPF to protect you against the sun. And when the game starts and I fire that jacket off, boy, I'm feeling good in my poncho. It's so light. It's just such a good feeling fabric. See, I thought you were going to say football season because really like no matter where you are the poncho works you'd be like west coast east coast it's it's just a breathable wear it's good it's good for the fall poncho outdoors.com slash dumbzone

get you 10 bucks off and free shipping do it let's get berlin in a poncho this year let's just get more burline here's jay with the dumb zone news trying to get him out at camp doesn't he live was he phoenix Orange County? Well, the big news here in the state of Texas, folks, is you're going to jail forever if you have THC. Oh, no. Yeah. The new law, new law.

Is Delta 8, which is something that they've been selling at the convenience stores and vape shop. It's very popular. It's in what's a lot of the gummies. It has been banned as well as Delta 10, T-C-T-H-C-P, which is like a flower. Are all these things actual marijuana, or are they synthetic somehow? For the purposes of all this, synthetic is gone. None of this is synthetic. Okay, so Delta 8 is real?

Yeah, it's real. It's hip-derived T-8, yeah. Plants over pills. That other stuff is in the past. That's years ago. Yeah. So these everything, because Delta 8 makes me, it sounds fake. Yeah.

Why is it called that? Because that's... Just call it herb. Call it Mary Jane. Delta, I'm positive, is some form of a thing that we don't, would never understand, right? Like what that means. But Delta 9. That's fake, right?

Is legal. And that, I believe, is what is in early bird CBD. Oh, nice. Now, at the end of the day, this has kind of been a weird workaround for some time, right? Like, pot's not legal in Texas, but you could go buy stuff that certainly made you feel pretty similar to the stuff that I had purchased before. It was legal. So it was always kind of a weird, and if you remember there was like it all had to relate to the farm bill and they got hemp in there. and there was like, you know, little crevices in the law,

but they're tightening it up. What people love, farmers. And they, they, you can still get the drinks, huh? Now, is that because, I heard it's like one of the politicians, like his wife is an investor in the drink company, so like. Yeah, I've heard that about Dan Patrick. There's also just the giant amount of lobbying that the liquor companies. Because liquor companies owned a drink.

Initially, it was like they're going to freak out over this. Then they're like, what if we buy that? I've been here a little bit. They buy the little drink company. Yeah. So THC is a felony in Texas. That seems high. Penalties ranging from 180 days to two years in jail.

And you know who walks free? Dylan. Ethan Couch. Dylan something. Cleveland. No. But he only killed three people, Ethan Couch. No, there's a.

another one. There was a couple of affluenza kids. But yeah, this is, and hey, I'm not here to tell you anything about how to vote, but I feel like this is a bad move for the Republicans this close to an election. Because even if it doesn't matter who's who, they've been in charge for a long time. So this is just serving soy boy Tala Rico something up on a platter. That seems like the best case for, if you keep bitching about how things suck, you go, yeah, well, I thought you were in charge for like 20 years.

But I'm not as in charge as I would have been if you wouldn't have voted for a Democrat every now and then. And also, sometimes you vote for not enough of a Republican. I'm not able to do this thing the way I want to do because you keep voting for other people. Well, tell me what to do. Boy, tough scene here in Houston. A Texas miniature horse breeder is asking for the public's help after one of his beloved miniature horses peanut. was stolen from his property.

Stolen. Surveillance video captures a white truck, luring the horse through an unlocked gate. Come on, horse. I know that doesn't work that easy. I once tried to get a horse into a gate. They don't listen to you. No.

Or maybe these people know how to do it. Peanut Meads the world to Terry. Peanut was born while Terry was battling stage four cancer. Oh, man. I know that I've told you guys the story of St. aeroid man riding a miniature horse at my buddy's house. Because a friend of mine's parents, they had a bunch of land across the street from our junior high. And they quartered, I guess is what you call them, horses.

And the other story that came from that was, I feel like we were in junior high. So it had to be before Columbine. But right around that era, Dan, I don't know what was going on out in Ohio. but down here we were experiencing satanic panic and one of their horses was found like cut up on the property that's not going to slow down that panic it was a big story big big story trying to find out who had knifed a miniature horse on the christopher's land peanuts been found oh this story i have it from Sunday. What do you got? They found him?

Where was it? They said the tall grass. All right. I don't even care if that's just the setup. It's really good. Texas man, boy, that's a hard 25, was arrested facing

second-degree felony charges. This is, it's a theft charge between $150,000 and $300,000. It's for hot checks. and with that 300 grand he purchased 77 head of cattle out in buffalo which is an area i passed by this weekend the sign always makes me laugh because it's for two cities one's called buffalo the other's called jewett south south and yeah 45 leone county but yeah we always have that uh we always scheme up these

questions of like all right if i just handed you i don't know let's make it a pound of heroin Right. Like, what do you? I give you 24 hours to liquefy this from, like, asset terms. Like, I just think, I think there's so much, there's so much planning that involves in selling cattle that this guy just did not think this through at all. It shows up at a Buffalo livestock meeting with fake checks and bought 77 cattle. It's like, dude, there's no world where you get away with this. Like, none. I don't know. I just, I love crimes wear right out of the box. I'm like, and in my head he walked in there like Charlie from the Always Sunny episode

where he has like a big, like 10-gallon hat. He's like, what do you for? Lass. I'm amazed that people are still writing checks. I bet Dan writes one every now and then. Boy, maybe one a year now. I still have a checkbook, but I don't think I've renewed it in a decade. There's certain people that will only.

take checks. Do you know that? Yeah, like I had a lawn guy for a while. What? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I had a landscaper guy that would only take checks. I would drive it over to drop it off at his house. Yeah, I guess that makes sense since they know where you live, but just back in the day, going to coffee shop and writing a check. I don't know. It just could have bounced. You could have just gotten free stuff. Well, then you'd get your picture up on the register.

Oh, no. Says don't let this man. I've never like taken a check. to a store and written a check. Oh, groceries. Yeah, my parents did a grocery store. And you're kind of writing for 50 over. Get a little cash. I've certainly been behind that person in line,

but I've never written a check at a third location. My agent would take check or money order. Instead of I'd have any checks, I'd have to go get a money order every month. I was always afraid of having a money order. Oh, I lived on. This is just like cash. I was money ordered guys from my mom's business.

Oh, what? Yeah. running money orders. A woman in Mansfield, 56 years old, was a woman. She died Saturday afternoon. After, now you'd be the judge. Did she die doing what she loved? A riding lawnmower that she was on overturned into a creek and trapped her.

Ladies do like the riding lawnmower. It says, upon the... On arrival, first responders found that the woman's husband had tried to free her from beneath the heavy machinery, but slipped because it was so wet around. It had rained in weeks. Yeah, you don't want to be crushed by a machine. Fucking sucks, dude. Somebody was pitching me on ATVs in Hawaii. It might have been our James Gold Tesla guy.

He's like, I got family down there. Go to the ADV thing. I'm like, this, it's not happening. I'm done I'm out Herschel told us to be weary of those people Jet skis

Jet skis in the water That's right Yeah Herschel Walker emerges Once every couple years Just to say something wild And you don't hear from again So anyways

I say shout out to a woman Who's mowing her own lawn at 56 on her riding lawn Although 56 doesn't sound old to me at all like it used to. You see a new story like that back 15 years ago. I'd be like, well, she was going to die what, the next day anyways? Yeah. The closer you get to 56.

100%. I see people who are 56. I'm like, doing pretty well. Gameday.com. Thank you. Yeah, no doubt. A teen down in Sugarland was bitten down in Turks and Caicos. this teen from Shriglin

was bitten by a barracuda okay cool she's uh sounds like a piranha what is a barracuda oh see I was going to say barracuda is on the list of things that I definitely thought were going to be like you hear about you heard about them they got a song

and every time I've ever been snorkeling which is only like a handful of real times they were like hey watch out do you consider it to be similar to piranha though Barricudas I've seen. I've seen them. I don't know what it looks like.

They're huge. They're giant. So not just in movies? I think not just in movies. Okay. Big fish. This woman was a girl, Epstein, was bit by this barracuda, shallow water, blood pouring down her arm. She dreams of becoming a marine biologist.

Did. Kind of right there, you know. I thought about this. Like a kid got some. stung by a jellyfish on our trip over the weekend. Do you pee on him? Yeah, I peed on someone else's kid. I said...

Not all heroes wear capes. Yeah. We don't know which one was stung. Why don't I hit them all? Line up. I mean, they're all sitting here crying. But it puts you in that spot of like either... Like, you're the girl who got bit by the barracuda,

and she immediately is like, this was kind of my fault. I love the ocean. this makes me feel more connected to the ocean, or they say, I'm never going back there again. Don't know how you thread the needle there. But it's tricky. Two more diarrhea deaths in Michigan. We hadn't cleared this yet.

I didn't know we were dying from that. Yeah. Yeah. I saw a funny thing on Twitter. It was like, how do I know if I have the lettuce, the whatever breakouts? what was it called?

What's the name of the... Cyclos... Cyclopomo something. Cyclosipora. Diarrhea... Yeah, I think is it... From Taco Bell, or is it just regular Taco Bell diarrhea?

Like, which one am I getting here? I don't... You know, I don't understand how Taco Bell got diarrhea coded. Well, I just thought that was a funny tweet. Is it all fast food? It's just the same? I'm with you in that I won't stand. for much Taco Bell slander.

Yeah, thank you. But I thought it was still funny. And then final story, the Star Telegram had a long article this weekend about one of these transfers, Dan. I'm against trans. So I'm sure Blake is all over this one. Star quarterback? Yeah, yeah. It's always a quarterback, right? Yes.

No one cared when he transferred anywhere. No, they did not. John Meredith III. Now he, after all this fallout, ended up enrolling at Texas back in like January. Or maybe just before the summer started, I guess. But he's forgotten his senior season. He had enough credits. He's at Texas.

He was the number one player in the country. And so the issue at hand here in the Star Telegram reporting is, so he was at Trinity. Trinity is coached by – did not know this, but apparently much like with the Dodgers. Once upon a time I saw Coach Steve Linweaver against Coach Todd Dodge. Riley Dodge was playing in that game. Riley Dodge would go on to become the coach at South Lake. Aaron Lynn Weaver is the coach at Uis now, his son.

So they had a kid, John Meredith III, their number one player in the state, who was going to transfer to North Crowley. Okay? Another power. The coach was under the impression that this was for an athletic reasons, right? That he's like, look, he's going to another power.

So he had had phone conversations with someone at the UIL where he had said, hey, you know, I think this is probably athletics. What the Star Telegram obtained are text messages from the guy at the UIL, texting the coach at Trinity, saying, hey, make sure you select athletic reasons on that form. Okay, like we talked about. The UIL is saying they had talked about it. This is referencing a phone conversation where they talked out all the factors, and the guy from the UIL said, okay, what I'm hearing is you need to select athletic purposes.

He followed up with a text later, hey, hadn't seen anything yet, making sure you're going to select. So now people are saying the UIL is actively deciding which one of these they want to follow up on and press to say to the coach, make sure you select athletic and which ones you don't. There are a couple of complicating factors here. Like the kid, I think the kid did move, but sometimes you can move

and there's still a school closer to you than the one you end up choosing. And there's also the case of, well, you can move and you can go to that school, but you can't immediately be academically eligible. In this case, his mom is a cop and she got married, which I have heard from our friends in the last year or so. I don't think this is the case here from what I've heard. But I have heard of a couple cases in the last year or so, Dan, where a couple will divorce on paper legally.

Oh, yeah. and go get another residence. Yeah. And the mom or the dad will literally live there so that they can prove it in case they ever stopped by. So that their son can start. Yeah. You know, under the eyes of the Lord.

Do you think that gives you any daylight? Yeah, does it? Hey, I thought, but we're officially. So in any case, this kid eventually just said, F it, I'm going to Texas. He's not playing at Uly, he's not playing at North Corrali. It looks like a mess. A lot of lawyers involved. A lot of hearings.

There's some parts in here where Aaron Lindweaver from Trinity is asking which district is going to hear this case. Will it be the old district that we were in or the new one? Because they realign, you know? And in the new one, I guess they got some new company. And he says, the new district is the I-20 guys. I seriously, or probably won't get it. denied in that district hearing. So I would

imagine that probably means what schools is that, Blake? Does this never affect? So it's a race thing. Something like Argyll? Is Argyal private school? Oh, Argyll recently had their own own situation. I mean, private schools, are you allowed,

if it's private schools, is it okay? Is it just because it's public schools? Duncanville, Cedar Hill, Skyline, DeSoto is who he's referring to here. Yeah. say your question again then I mean are you allowed to transfer to a private school

yes and that's it no questions no whatever yeah you can do that anytime you want like when my brother was a senior in high school there was a high school in Dallas that was offering for him to come play a fifth year like and live there you can do whatever you want but okay he also had a clemper or not clemson two lane offer yeah the idea was that would improve your offer like go play at a private powerhouse that, you know, they might not be...

Then you can go to tech. Yeah, whatever. It was like Bishop Lynch or something. One of those types of those types. They do it a lot, apparently. So did he consider it? Yeah, but it was a mess, dude. It wasn't like...

It wasn't like it is now. Can you imagine if they had NIL money back then? Dude. You watch that, it's just kids, but you watch that at the QB show. And Cam Ward shows up at a... kid thing. They're all like, I'm going to get NIL.

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Birthday was July 31st. New baby. Teddy Stout. This is from Grant. He says, can I get a joke from Jake since he does his little stand-up thing now? Absolutely not. Oh. Absolutely not.

Good listener here. That's a good name for your kid. Teddy's a cool name. I saw some article the other day. I don't even end up clicking on it, but I think like it was, it's very 2018, but it was,

I think, saying that somehow white parents using classical names, such as a Nora or Carter is racist. Somehow, or like a tool of the imperialist. I don't know. I loved it. Dearest Fandango of the three-legged tango.

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Okay, punk like no one's watching is very funny Would love it on a shirt It obviously makes you think of dance like no one's watching Somehow recently I was reminded of the 90s I guess it was a book, maybe a movie, but the phrase, eat, pray, love. Do you guys remember that? Of course, yeah. Is that how we ended up with live, laugh, love, and all the other, like, college apartmentification of women's houses?

Did it start with eat, prey, love? Or did it just start with shit shower, shave? We had it in the 50s. Yeah, eventually. That's probably it. It started with something cool like that. Yeah. And they're like, well, what if we make one?

for us. And predictably, it turned out like that. Gashman. Today is my 29th birthday. My leader is Blake. Movie trope. The trope of having guests in the dining room making an excuse to walk into the kitchen, then talking about the guests at normal volume while shutting the half-ass door.

Yeah. Major problems with that. And a Bonds list entry. This is from the Bonds versus Griffey list. Jake from State Farm I'm not positive he gets the invite to the party from the events that he is courtside at

but if so it's inevitable Yep The new one? Yeah He hangs out with Drake This is from Pedophile Mason

Beehive member 221 Yise County Division So a beehive As so many members We're numbering them You seem confused Well 221 of

Wyce County Oh And dear daddy of the radio dials With a name like mine I've got to have a porn name Papa as well So I'd like to wish my dad Ron Silvers Yeah

A very happy 70th birthday Thanks from Alexa We're gonna review any of her audio What do you mean? I sent it to you guys over there We have Alexa audio? Yeah They do

Oh. Oh, that piece of... I didn't know what you're sending us. I don't hear it either. Did she say a bad word? If we'd like to have a former review, we can, but I don't. We can do it tomorrow. All right.

Wallace Roofing presents on this day in history. All right. Jake's gone from a show, and he just won a shits on it. I was sent a piece of audio by a... I think a listener's sending in feedback is valuable. Oh, this is what you do when I'm not here? Worth my time. What was the...

I don't even remember. Play it tomorrow. She just... We had to get Mike Soroy in here to check it out, though. She may have done her best Soroy impression. I don't think so, but I'm not the council. I mean, I've heard that different things fly in Oklahoma. We have to hide that in a subscriber show.

That's what I was thinking. So this is how Qualus Roofing wants to prove You already know Qualis Roofing's the best Oh yeah The OG of advertisers They started it all

They put on a roof at my house Blake's house No us without then They're the place You know you call them for a Free inspection on your roof They'll give you a dumb zone t-shirt Or like a subscription

They'll just do a lot for you They're awesome So just today, Brian at Qualis said he wants to do something in August, wants to give away a Trager Blackstone grill and a $100 gift card to Eatsies for cooking supplies for their new grill. Anyone that gets a roof inspection qualified. So get a free roof inspection. What are we talking about? You're in a drawing for the free grill and the $100 gift card for stuff to use on that grill.

You can do anything you want with that gift card. You could re-gift it. Once it's in your hand, we're not going to tell you what to do with it. But just a little extra incentive. So you're still going to get that T-shirt, get your dumb zone t-shirt. Now you're in a drawing. You might get a free grill as well. Now, they'll offer you that grill or a sit-in on our show if indeed you end up getting a roof.

But why not just get the free inspection? Yeah, as he points out, you might not have had a storm, but the sun, it beats down on your roof. That's a bad beat. Get it inspected. And I entered a win a grill. It's a good bit. Bad beat, good bit. Give the contact info.

CallisGC.com. Or you can hit them up via the phone [phone]. So it's Monday, August 3rd. On this day in 1936, Jesse Owens wins the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics. There's a guy mad about that right there. But Jesse Owens, would leave a hero and come back to a life of riches. I'm pretty sure he had to race a horse, like 10 years later.

Just for money for dinner that night? Who were we talking to about that the other day? Somebody was like, yeah, humans racing horses used to be very common. This day in 1940, let's see. Reds-Katcher Willard Hirschberger commit suicide by slashing his own throat. Dang. Slump.

He had blamed himself for calling wrong pitches in the 5-4 loss to New York on July 31st. Jesus. This may be my favorite athlete of all time. That's caring. So it was the ninth inning. The pitcher retired the first two batters, had two strikes on each of the next four batters,

but two of those batters hit, home runs with a man on. And so he's like, I called the wrong pitches. This is on me. And, yeah. Suicide by slashing your own throat. Hersberger's father had also committed suicide back in 1928. His genes.

Let me tell you something. If Kyle Higashioca was about it like that, we wouldn't be looking up at Houston right now. Atlanta had called about Jacob de Grom. DeGromes says. I will not be traded. There was thoughts that Atlanta might be because DeGrom lives in Florida off-season. We have a chance to improve our team, but...

Way to give them a no-trade clause. You guys. Rebuild the system a little bit. No, I like you here. I got a house in Addison. This is a generational difference right here. A old team tank. Team tank.

On this day in 1955, the AAA, do you have a AAA card? No. I did. The American Automobile Association announced it would end its support of auto racing. They used to be a big sponsor. Yeah. Because of the inordinate number of racing fatalities over the previous year.

Of course, you have to like, what? Inordinate. What was going on? So in 1955, they had the 195 Lamonts. Do you say it Lamonts? Yeah. Disaster. A car crashed into the crowd, killing 84 people and injuring nearly 180 others.

And also that year, there was a bunch of American deaths. Bill Vukovic, two-time Indy 500 winner, was killed during the Indy 500. Let's see. There are three or four other. fairly high-profile deaths in American racing. But if you look back at that Le Mans thing, it happened into, it happened hour three of the 24-hour race, and they just kept going.

Yeah. They finished the race. Yeah. Like, people are so close. We still got other people racing. Other people to hit. The rest of the race is not like there was nobody there. race and they kept going.

That's Wayne Gretzky keeping going, right? Who thought the French? And on this day in 1984, it was the Los Angeles Olympics, and Mary Lou Retton got a perfect tent. And that's why you've heard of her name. On the women's gymnastics. Which you think about it, gymnastics.

And then it's like subjective... I can't. Subjectively scoring? Now I'm like, oh, wait, I should remember this forever? Get a ping pong ball, make it interesting. Yeah, right. So it's August 3rd, today in Dumb Zone history. Well, back in 2021, our favorite guest, KG, had been traded. We got him on after the trade. Ooh. This was over a weekend, so he had been with the team for a few days, so he was telling us about how intense Bryce Harper is.

I think the Phillies had fun home run celebrations. Sounds like he was having a better time up there. Then in 2022, we had Micah Parsons on the show. Good times. Jake was in his Pizza Hut jacket. Okay, I was wondering which time. Yeah, we've had him on a few times. Oh, so is a camp? Housebars.

Yeah, this is the follow-up. Yeah. When I think Jake had to have his wife mail him that jacket. She did. The tradition, unlike any other. What will it be this year? Some notes from the interview. He still lived with his mom.

he still flight coach I thought this was interesting because he detailed how he stayed in shape over the off season and it was not going to the gym like I think he would he said he would like work out at his neighborhood park like he'd do pull-ups and

yeah I've already met Miles Garrett well I heard I don't know where it is now but I mean certainly I'd heard we all heard he wasn't exactly a The best thing he had going for him was Trayvon. Right.

If you're standing next to him, he's like, oh my God. This guy's here all the time. And his three mentors, LeVar Arrington, Ben State, rape, Dack,

and Zeke. What a trio. Dack, Dack is he's trying to make up for the fact that he didn't put him in his top 28 quarterbacks. Right. Other birthdays today.

Former cowboy Lance Allworth is 86. He always wore his pants in front of everybody. Correct. To our knowledge. No, no pants. Different guy. I called Jake this morning and said, dude, you should do your book report today. He's like, why?

I go, because it's Lance Allworth's birthday. He's like, are you doing a bit? Are you doing an off-air bit here? I thought this was Duke Walker, Ray God. Apparently, your book is about Lance Rensel, not Lance Rensal? Lance Rensal. Which, if you think about it, Lance Allworth 100% that has happened to him in real life before. Somebody has said to him.

He's a white receiver from the 70s who played for the Cowboys named Lance. Yeah. I just assume he's the guy that exposes himself in front of... It's not quite Jerry Sandusky, the other Jerry Sandusky, but it sucks. Dante Fowler, 32. Bust. Yeah. Tom Brady is 49.

Bust. Khan Knieppel is 21. The rookie of the year runner up to Cooper Flag. Two whites. Tennessee, I think. Kevin Sumlin is 62. He's one of the guys that Johnny Mansell made a lot of money. Think of that.

Should Mansell have gotten a percentage of Sumlin's Arizona contract? Like Coach Pro. has Mansell to thank for resurging his career because what has he done without Manzell? Has he been extremely innovative? I don't want to do this. But I do think Kevin Sumlin, his posts, I think his post Johnny resume is pretty thin, right,

relative to even Cliff. I mean, you're getting an NFL job somehow, but the swag copter, everything was, just so big and brash. I would love to see another year. Yeah. Hell, to be honest, I would have loved to have seen him take the next year seriously. Yeah, he might have imploded during that final year anyway.

Eric Esh is a boxer. He's 60. He's butterbean. I know I had him in studio in Dayton. I'm very upset. I couldn't find any Eric Butterbean audio today. It's a big world out there, so I probably wouldn't have just been able to pull it. but if you gave me some time,

just start listing people you think I had in Dayton. I would have got to Butterbean before too long. That's a Dayton guy, yeah. Polly Shore. Did he fight Johnny Knoxville on Jackass? Yeah, he had him punch him or something. Yeah, he was involved. Wasn't it in like a Mervyn's?

I think so, yeah. Will Muss champ is 55? Tap the gloves. He's seen the monkey. He was coaching waiting once upon a time. He was. from Mac Brown, who coached another 10 years. Today's still alive.

Marve Levy, 101. Holy shit. Are you serious? Wow. Howard Stern has a joke. Oh, but a Jewie, his name is very... Yeah, I think Howard was stunned to learn there was a man named Marv Levy. He wasn't a football fan.

Why don't they just call him Jay J.J. Steen? Um, we had him on. During one of the early years of bad radio, we did, uh, we did picks. But it was like we had a ticket chick. The big dog from Cleveland. Excellent. And I can't remember who else. But then we would have, we would have like a serious guest.

This was the way me and Bob worked together. Like he wants to talk serious football. Right. I want to do bits with the big dog from Cleveland. So we're like, all right, we'll do a two-segment bit. We book the serious guest. We hold them over, and then we do picks with the people. Love it.

And the most confused serious guest we had doing the picks when we'd throw it to him was Marv Levy. So we did Marv Levy, they were going to play the bills or something. Yeah. This very serious football interview. And then, hey, hold over, coach. and then on the other side is Susan the ticket chick. The big dog, you know the big dog, right? You've seen him out there, and he starts barking at Marv Levy.

And it was very... And Mark Levy right then, I was like, well, this guy will be dead in a year. He's 80. Incredible. And he's now 101. Marv say hello to Tay Zonday. He's from the Buffalo area, actually. Doug Townsend.

Todd Gurley is 32. Man, 32. I know. Isn't that insane? When you read running back ages, you're like, whoa. And he was like awesome. Young ho Koo also 32. I think the running back died with Todd Gurley.

What do you think about that? I don't know. Sequin Barkley might have words. No, but when they write the book, like because he was on the Rams and the Rams were like, oh shit. Yeah, we don't need a run. We just are drawing this up. Because remember they went to C.J. Anderson or whatever that guy's name was. Oh, yeah.

Gurley was fully healthy. They just let him walk? Yeah, they basically were like anybody could do your job. And then they won like a lot of game. No, but, you know, the marginal cost, eventually. Tyrod Taylor, 37. Still playing. Zach Wilson, 27.

You know where he is now? Saints? Yep. Wow. I wouldn't have got that. Ryan Lockty is 42. Teah! Do you remember the Lockerage?

Yeah, I do. People would hang around Ryan Locti. Martin Sheen, 86, from the West Wing and from having Charlie Sheen. And the coach of the Mighty Ducks. Emilio! That's his dad. Spinderella from Salton Peppa is 55. I think she lives in town.

Yeah. Martha Stewart is 85. Wood right now. James Hetfield from Metallica is 63. Billions? He was in billions, wasn't he? They play a private party. For a minute, yeah.

John Landis, the director of Animal House, is 76. I thought that was the NFL Films guy. Evangeline Lilly is 46. She's from Lost. She looks kind of like a monkey. Her face, take a look at it. Hey, man. You ever see Sam Ponder?

Similar. Evangeline Lily. I just always thought we'd have seen more banana trees on that island. But no. I'm Julia Roberts guy. That's the monkey. I think she's more Muppety. I think y'all are mean.

Oh, you can't compliment a woman about her looks? Yeah, what if I like monkeys? And Muppets. Oh, I guess that's gross to you. Dumb's on birthday of the day. John C. McGinley is 67. One of the bobs from office space. Incredible.

Great role in the Chappelle. Not Chappelle. the Seagal movie we just did. He's great in everything. He is great in everything. That's the thing. He was also awesome on the show, big sports fan. I remember that.

He was a hell of high energy. Born on the Stay Now Dead, a wrestler, Clayton. Have you ever heard of Haystacks Calhoun? Geez. Yes. British. Keep it on my list. Big guy.

Born in McKinney, Texas is it said. But he's British? Oh, no, that's giant haystacks. There's more than one haystacks. That is not an intimidating wrestler name. That sounds like a name of a local hobo. Into the ring. And born on the stay now dead, Rod Beck.

Baseball? He died at the age of 38. Says here a possible overdose. They found cocaine and heroin in his room and his body. He was probably taking it responsibly, measuring it out. You know what? I think it's been enough time. We should do some more heroin.

Yeah, wait, no, that wouldn't be safe. He's one of those guys that anytime they do the, can you believe this guy was only this old, shows up every time. But he was kind of leaning into it, you know? Like, he was trying to look badass and, like, civil warry. Big mustache. Yeah, but he was, they looked old.

Well, at the age of 38, he must have already had a will. unless just his family really knew him because he was buried in his Chicago Cubs uniform. That's, um, he, okay. You got any thoughts on yours? Big Mac Jersey, Stars jersey. You want your pickings? No, that moo-moo. The pickings, Georgia jersey?

Yeah. I think the Irvin, the Michael Irvin, Miami, Irvin you got me before any of that. Could we get more money out of Poncho if we said we will be buried? in the poncho that's a add this to the spot when we send it to him later because I'm not

I'm not kidding you know I've heard the UPF keeps out Poncho outdoors.com slash dumb zone if you want to be buried in a poncho

tell him we sent you dead on this day still dead in 1999 Rod Ansel he is an Australian Bushman he was the inspiration

for crocodile Dundee, the movie, which was like, was that early 90s or late 80s? Anyway, he died at the age of 44 in 1999. So he must have been kind of young when he was the inspiration for that movie. He died in a shootout with police officers. Damn. What? We got some badass deaths today, man.

Guy slid his own throat. Okay. I have so many questions. We got Rod Beck. And we got Crocodile Duffalo. Dundee who we thought just had a knife. Right. That's what I was going to say. But he's got a gun.

Is he running dope? Like, was he involved? What happened? I did not look into this one. Some of the people on my list, I did a little deeper dive, but... That's insane. You have to ask Claude. Did they pick Claude because they know no one's named Claude?

I think it probably didn't hurt. Like, we got to have a... Every computer thing has to have a name now. Anyway. Every computer... Please somehow, let's use that. Right? Every computer thing has to have a name.

Don't they? Yeah. I agree. Clippy. Clippy. Also dead on the stage, still dead. We have Lonnie Anderson. Laurel.

Who is the hot on WKRP in Cincinnati. And on this day, we have Mark Margolis. We've had him on the show. You know him as Uncle Tio in Breaking Bad. Oh, wow. Wow. With the bell. And that's what happened on this day in history.

This is a very long article, but one sentence says Ansel felt cheated and not earning a penny from Crocodile Dundee and its sequel. Ooh. Yeah, it doesn't sound like he was taking care of real well. Yeah. Very Jesse Owens, very Eddie Goodell.

Those things have any relation at all, but. But they'll be joining us. If you hold through the break, Merrill Reese All right, good times Adios, mofo We gotta go before this becomes a zoo See you guys for drinks later

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