The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 9-22-25 | The Cowboys embarrassed by the Chicago Bears

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneThe Dallas Cowboys entered Soldier Field as favorites to win the game. An early injury to CeeDee Lamb and another abysmal showing by the defense forces Dallas to leave with a 17 point loss. How will Dallas manage these next few games without their WR1 and how can this defense be fixed? This month, get 50% OFF ALL WINDOW STYLES! Put zero down, make zero payments, and pay zero interest for two years and you could pay nothing until 2027! Schedule a fast, free estimate now with Window Nation at 866-90-NATION or visit windownation.com! Make sure you mention The Dumb Zone! (00:00) - Open: Weekend check (41:14) - Sports: Cowboys embarrassed by Bears (01:16:42) - Broadcast audio from Cowboys-Bears (01:38:28) - News: New entry for case of the Mondays (01:56:38) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Well, if you're a cowboy fan for me to channel my inner Tony Romo. That wasn't a good time yesterday. No, it was not. And you probably have some concerns about your good times. ahead in the near future or lack thereof yeah there's there's three or four days like this throughout the year as a sports fan right where you wake up and you're like boy it doesn't feel like we just lost one

no because you then you relook at everything again oh yeah week one was complete BS like you very easily could be oh and three yeah see rusts last night Hub 200, 50% completion rating. The thing you can't do is look, squint and go, that could be easily 3-0. You can't do that. It wasn't three games that were kind of on the edge.

It was one that you just got spanked. And it was by a team that also just got drilled last week by an actual contender. So like where do you fit in in the contender world? It feels like right there with the bears and the giants. Yeah, now like in 140 hours, A ball could bounce a weird direction And we could try to rewrite our positivity

But today right now feels like one of those Where you wake up and think, boy, we are in for a long fall So that was me We're jumping the gun on cowboy talk But we have lots of cowboys for you today It's Monday It's all I've thought about It's Cowboy Monday

Yesterday morning Got an article Oh, you got it up Had a game stream What'd you write about Well, we'll talk about that in just a minute or a few minutes, right? It shouldn't have been this hard three weeks in, I'll tell you that.

A lot of problems to address. Happy Monday, show number 432. We have a sit-in. It says here Dave from Game Day Men's Health is going to be stopping by at the end of the show or the last half of the show. Game Day Men's Health, that's our studio. We are downtown Dallas, our Game Day Men's Health studio. It's in the Fox 4 building.

Did you use the hand towel in that bathroom? I had to get three of them, but yeah. Yeah, it wasn't this long? I did some videoing in there. I'm going to try and put public pressure on Fox 4 to be better. Everyone's got a budget, I guess. With their hand towels, yeah. I feel like if they would just make it the right length, the first one, you might just take one.

But now you'll take three out of spite because you're just kind of mad. But I also want to be clear that despite sponsoring, our studio game day men's health not responsible for the length of towel in the bathroom that's why i mentioned if it were them it would be oh yeah they're into making things long long and strong brother at game day dot dumbzone dot com yeah they'll be here later to check your prostate that's right on the air it's kind of like when we would do flu shots on the air right they're gonna actually have you have you uh drop your pants uh but ethan is here Ethan is the guy what's up We've met him before.

Ethan is sitting in our Game Day Men's South Studios on the casting couch. And we've met him before. He is the guy that created the knockout website. How are we doing on the Knockout League? It's going great. Well, what does that mean? What are the dummies? We got over 650 people joined up, ready to play.

Last I looked, I think we're down to like 620, 615. still left in it. Still? Yeah. But, okay, this is a common thing. People keep claiming what's going to happen when there's like 25 people left over at the end because you can choose the same team twice or multiple times right now? Yeah.

But it doesn't have to stay like that because here's the thing. If you do the, you can only pick one team once or pick a team once, then everybody's out by like week six. Yeah, I like the way we're doing it. And I don't think this is a problem. I think this is your garden weeds itself. By the end of the year, we had two last time. If it's four, no big deal. I'm just surprised more people aren't out after these three weeks.

Well, I haven't graded this week yet. Oh, okay. So after two weeks, it was 20. Okay, that makes sense. Because I'll bet you a lot of point, Green Bay. I could do the grading right now. I got my computer here. Get the word.

Yeah, because, yeah, in fact, in my triple play, too, I wasn't picking Atlanta as much as I was picking Atlanta. against Carolina. Yeah. And so I'm sure Atlanta was a very popular knockout league pick. I mean, Green Bay Browns, that's crazy. Indeed it was, Ethan. That's why they caught the NFL, man.

I don't think that makes sense. But yes, what a crazy, it was really fun as everybody was gathering in the den for another live stream video. YouTube live you know what I'm saying we do game streams and it was fun but it was fun watching the end of the other games

like Philly dude Philly block field goal and return for a touchdown to cover what that whoever who block they should have dropped down right they should have fell down

and they just win the game but he had to return it for a touchdown to get the points and I'm very glad he did yeah you get a big man get on a fumble We can cover. The Browns, same thing, a block field goal, the Baker game. There was a block field to go at the end of that.

But left too much time for the show. We'll be very excited to talk to Brandon Aubrey tomorrow about all the block field goals in the NFL, whether he thinks this is a problem that we need to address. Five on the weekend. So it was that, and then it was teams just getting the piss kicked out of them. Like Atlanta over Carolina, as you said, the Colts over the Titans, the Vikings over the Bengals. It seemed like there were pretty much two types of games. And really, if you had to pick, Dalluses would fit into that one.

It was more of a blowout than it was exciting. Despite the fact that at 3114 or whatever it was going into the fourth quarter, I never thought they'd lose that game. But now I have reset my RAM. I've updated my firmware. Yeah, we'll get to it. Oh, Ethan is also the creator of the bumzone.com. Oh, you know, Angela reach out to you?

Yeah, directly. Yeah, actually, I had to go down, you know, I had to meet him down in the streets. The streets is the best you. He's not from here, is it? I'm not from down. He's down to the country. Don't tell me the street name.

I don't know the street names. You ever hear of popular civil rights leader Martin Luther King? Go for his street, as Chris Rock once said. Yeah, there's a comedy bit about that. Kind of work from there. Yeah. We can check. Let's do that.

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It's like a condom for your HVAC at communitydfW.com. They'll take care of you. You get a new HVAC system. You get a sit-in so you can just live the life of luxury that Ethan is here today with Community Mechanical. Let's do a weekend check. Foodie K was at the game yesterday, and I actually, I enjoyed the

as a budding old. I think I'm a baby old, but I've been old for a long time. I feel like when I was young, I was old. Yeah, I think we have that comment. I'm just starting to get into it. But I enjoyed the 325 game, and then everybody's out of the house at 7 or whatever and now I'm cleaning up, I cleaned up everything

and got to actually watch some Sunday night football. Ah, look at this guy. What are we doing? Patrick Mahomes. I mean, this guy, he's been the face of the league. It's possible that Torrico and Herb Street could be good together, but I know for sure that Torrico and Collinsworth aren't. And I think Collinsworth and Al worked.

They were great. But I don't like what I... I don't like what I'm hearing on Sunday nights. No. But anyway, I liked having everybody out of there. And I got to actually watch some of our stream. So I went back and watched some of it. Wanted to see how some of the audio sounded or whatever

and just make sure my guns were popping. Yeah, oh, yeah. Guilty is charged with the working out. I just wanted to say, I don't know that even we mentioned him yesterday or thanked him on the air, but Clayton does a great job, man. He does.

That video is smooth, bro, yeah. Like, he's got everything running. He doesn't need Blake there anymore. He doesn't care that you're not there, Blake. So way to go, Clayton. Good stuff. Those are a lot of fun, man. Yeah.

He's probably beaten. He doesn't want to be there. Well, but he at least, he at least produces. Yeah, and we know how to bring the best out of him. There is typically a pretty hefty food play involved. And it works out. Chiba Hut came through yesterday. All right, Clayton, weekend check.

Anything besides just destroying on the game broadcast? I don't think I destroyed. But I started listening to a book. I won't say reading because I listen to books. I don't read them. And I must say that Jake was spot on with his Ford Brad Cartel recommendation. It is amazing. I'm about three-quarters of the way through.

Damn, dude. Is it brand new? The narrator is three-quarters of the way through. Is it brand new, though? Yeah, I think it's only available in hardcover for like $27. It's in the last couple months, but... Do I want to do that? I...

I guess it's probably how you thought of me or Blake whenever you first met us or whatever. And that's not a shot at Clayton, just his family situation is the same as mine was relative to years when I was 20. Well, he thought I was gay. He did think you. There's probably a little bit of difference. He really, yeah, for a long time.

I used to think that. Just to blow through three quarters of a book and a weekend. That just sounds magical. He probably had like a little robe on, a little drink with a... No, I had another blessing. Ordered some late night Taco Bell, three double deckers. They sent six. Wow.

What a treat. That's a complicated. of math there. Yeah, that's like getting 12 deckers. Yeah, just plowed through some listening. My weekend check. Really not much besides

prepping for the game, getting ready, but a little nice little Saturday, but this was part of prepping for the game. Oh, I should mention, we missed, you know, we didn't do celebrity birthdays yesterday, but I do keep it updated. Happy Lindsay Sterling birthday.

Thank you. Oh, well. She's 39. Yeah, I felt an energy yesterday. I hope everyone found their inner gold. But I went on a journey Saturday to IKEA. You can get some steps in that place. IKEA is not, yes, it's not just a, oh, I'll just stop by.

It's like this big thing. It's like a big... Used to do it when the kids were real little, because they got to... a little playroom there or whatever. Yeah. And it's awesome. It's awesome to drop your kids off at the front there. You go walking through IKEA.

Full of young couples, pregnant ladies. And it just gave me memories because that's how we outfitted the kids' rooms for sure. It's great. But I wanted to get, because we have these old boxes that I use so people can put their lone star beer on. during the game streams. So I thought, you know what? I'm going to buy a couple of tables.

Cheap tables, don't get mad at me. But bought a couple of little tables. But it was, it's, when you're at IKEA, whoever you start with, have you done IKEA? Has everybody done IKEA? Everybody know what I'm talking about? Like, it's this giant, giant warehouse.

And they have arrows on the floor, Like, just directs you through the, like, 40 sections of everything you could buy for your house. I didn't like that the first time I went there. Felt very un-American to me. I love it because then it gets you back on track. Like, you don't get lost. Keep going that way for the arrow, the way the arrow is pointing. Communists.

You're going to somehow get to the end. Yeah. Otherwise, you're in a corn maze. You know, you would never know where you are. Because they have, you know, it's the bedroom room, but that's actually not. not, they're not selling bedroom stuff there. They're just selling the towels or something. You know, they...

Stage it. Everything they have in that room is for sale. So it might be the fridge is actually the thing for sale. Anyway, but you end up walking around like the same five or ten people. Because you start at the same place. Okay. And so I'm walking with a guy and his girl, but he is a black guy wearing a Drew Bledsoe, New England jersey. Wow.

And that also helps me get back on track. If I lose, where's my wife? Oh, there's the... Follow 11. I could never... It just seemed really out of, like, who... What black guy has a Drew Bledso jersey at all, yes, unless you're a cowboy fan. But it's a Patriots one, and this is from...

I like that a lot. A long, long time ago. I would probably have ranked him as, like, if you ask the average black football fan to rank your least... favorite or least exciting quarterbacks of the last three decades, I would have thought Bloodsoe would be high. It's, yeah, my favorite

guy, Michael Vick. I didn't know. Drew Bloodsoe. There's an IKEA in Grand Prairie. Yeah. That's where I went. Because I found myself, when I searched, I was like, oh, I thought it was just the one in Frisco. This one looks a similar distance,

but it's Grand Prairie. Are they going to have good of stuff because it's Grand Prairie? You know? Like, it's all Grand Prairie-ish. What do you think they have, like, bad food at the Grand Prairie McDonald's as opposed to the South Lake one? Well, we went to Grand Prairie. I got past that. Yeah, good.

And, okay, quick IKEA restroom rating. They have a, the water spout. It's a little shower, so I like that. Thumbs up. Good soap output, like that. Very clean. Only a hand air dryer, though. They were hitting a 10 on everything on the ratings.

The door then opens to the inside, so you do have to grab a handle. And it's usually a wet handle because they just have that air dryer, and you can never really fully dry your hand from that. But otherwise, a good restroom to be in. And the problem was, so we bought three tables, and you may have noticed, you didn't notice because you were locked in on the Cowboys. there were only two assembled tables in the room. Like the little, it's a small yet vital item.

A little bag with the three screws in it or something was missing from one of the boxes. What is it not? And so now the problem with the, it's a grand adventure is I have to go back to there to do this whole grand adventure again. Like it's a huge, it's like a whole day. You plan your day because I'm going,

to IKEA. It's not just, I just stop by. I don't know, maybe if we call Sweden or something. I don't know how, I don't know the country code for that. Can I give you a little hint? Uh-huh. Take one of the screws from the ones that were assembled.

Go get some steps in at Home Depot in the fastener aisle and replace them that way. Well, see, I was going to add one more step to that and that is take a picture of it with your Google, whatever, and see if you can replace it at a hardware store. Because that's what I to use the AI. Because I had to replace a TV mount.

And I'm missing one of the screws in it. And I'm like, well, this seems like a very specific screw from this mount. I took a picture of the hole and of the type of mount. And it's like, you can get this screw. Not anywhere, but it doesn't have to be from the vendor. I like when it's just all in the box and then I don't have to, I don't know all this other stuff. That seems to never happen to me. I feel like every time I have assembly, there's.

some problem. Yeah. Although for the significant portion of those years, I was, you ever seen the seat from Mad Men where Don's out there trying to put together a playhouse? And it's like 100 degrees, but he's drinking brown liquor and like a wife beater shirt. And he's just like, yeah, it doesn't go as smoothly that way. I'll tell you what, though, there's just about anything. If somebody just walked in my house while I'm starting to assemble, or while I'm in

the middle of assembling, and said, I'll do it for. 500 dollars like I would say yes like whatever the price is they said because it takes me at least three times as long to assemble something that it would just take a normal person I know I know I hate the same way and my wife is really good at it and so I try to do like the well why don't you do the stuff you're good at yeah yeah because I do all the stuff that I'm good at but I think she likes to watch me suck at it and fail yeah like a dominatrix yeah a little bit masculate you Yeah, a little bit. Speaking to her, I have a, I'm going to tease a banger story for tomorrow regarding charity and getting bamboozled.

But it did make me think, do we have any sort of update with a week to spare? He, speaking of Angelo, he does a good job guilt-tripping me because I fall for it, where he'll blow through the $100 in eight days. And then a couple days later, we'll reach out, hey, I'm desperate, I need food. I can't get to this church until two days from now. Can you please buy me a meal? Like, I don't know. You know, I'm kind of- As you're sitting down with the head of CBS sports for filet mignon.

But it's, yes. Pepper corn, maddow. Negative. Yeah. Yeah. They, uh, I told myself I would not get the flay on the plane anymore, but the last night they crested it with Parmesan cheese. Right.

What are you to do? What are you to do? It's out of your hands. Yeah, give me that. Yeah, as I'm having steak, 30,000 feet in the air. Yeah, but it's more than that. It's the principle. Like, I give you 100.

You need to stay within it. So what's the count in September? Like, how quickly did he run out? Well, I know you said he blew through the 100 in like eight days. What are we at? 150 for this month? 200. No, I just give him the 100, and then I'll buy his meal at McDonald's or whatever.

How many times does that happen? Just once. Okay. That's the thing. thing where, okay, I guess I'll just wait until the end of the month. Hopefully. Hopefully I make it. And that upsets me a little bit, but then I do like, here I am getting mad at a homeless guy.

Yeah. The power he has over me is unreal. So mine real quick, we had soccer Saturday morning and we're 500 now, boys. That's good. Took one on the chin pretty hard. I'm not and no complaints other than because the other team's coach

they put it on us he was really cool I'm like you I want to find out what they're doing I'm not getting mad I'm like let's see let's watch this guy I would never say anything about this because I guess it's an unspoken thing

but like I mix and match my good players and new players because I just feel like that's what you're supposed to do and I feel like some teams are not going to do that So they're putting all their bad players at the same time? Yeah, and like after it's been pretty clear that they've, because if they get out and score like three times in a row, my girls know that they're demoralized.

And now their fight is. Now, we've got to work on that, but they pretty quickly were like, what this isn't like last week. But then my dad showed up and he's like, boy, you guys really turned it on in the second half. And I'm like, no, it's just the three girls who didn't know which direction to kick the ball.

He didn't play him in the first. first half at all and it's weird because it's there's not even keeping score so yeah but it did have like he is and you are yeah and so there was that every parent is yeah and um first time really having to uh referee like shit talk hmm like the girls on the other team kind of like making fun of your team a little bit and you're like whoa I felt something in my body just now that felt kind of like what Papa signs up for and I'm like all right guys it's okay

whatever you know it's the other team this is part of it you gotta calm it down but I love it dude I love it too much it's like it's the highlight of my week

4,300 steps just up and down running up and down I know it exactly what you mean and like I was gonna be and I do feel like I do this of my uh yeah it is important existence with my kids to know in their team

I'm not a thermostat I'm uh somehow I matched the like if he were to just stay right where he was I don't think I would have been running lunatic but he's like down on our side you know for a corner kick or whatever he's running and I'm like well fucking I don't yeah so I look crazy

but I'm trying to only look crazy if the other coach also looks crazy um but that's that's pretty much the highlight of my weekend at this point it's that then i think about it all day like what did we do wrong girls off to play she doesn't think about it twice afterward right that's the thing but for me yeah and then from there dude it was just straight up an incredible football weekend there was so much good college

football on saturday i'm wondering how you take that in now so real quick with like soccer's not your main sport i mean you don't you don't really sit down to watch it or anything but it would be this is not, yeah. But no, but my thing is like, if one day Carter does get into football and you find yourself in that same situation, you're going to explode. I may need to be like preemptively removed from that dynamic. Because girls trash talk, okay, it's a little different, but if it's boys and it's a sport you know, I don't know. You may be too wild for that. Yeah, maybe not. Maybe not during this time. I don't know. I was pretty fired up, but I'm also proud of myself or not being like I see guys out there like talking trash to each other like coaches and

stuff that's why kind of getting chirpy and you know talking to coaches or their kids are a little bit older but they're all their kids still I don't think I have that in me um but dude yeah football like Saturday what do you do now like that oh you Auburn game was incredible so I'll uh yeah our plane was delayed because of cyber attack or whatever happened Saturday Did you all hear about the mess at the airport? No. Mm-mm. Well, depending on what you read, Ethan, did you see anything?

Oh, that's it. Well, like, 100, I don't know, hundreds, thousands, I don't know. But a ton of planes were delayed or grounded because air traffic control, like, lost communication with the planes. Nobody grounded the bear's passing attack. Nice. So that put us behind. So that put the charter way behind. and I don't know if there's anything behind this,

but I swear any travel I've been a part of with any team, if the plane is off by one second, the team will not play well. You did text me that, and you told me my bear's pick is looking good. So when did you get to Chicago? So we were supposed to leave Dallas at 1.30. I think we left closer to 3.30. So we got into Chicago about 8 o'clock. What does everybody do for two hours?

We sat in our cars. Damn. And so you asked how I took in college football. I just listened to the radio. I had Dave and Hank doing North Texas, and I had the iron skillet. Brian and the gang listened to TCU. So I just flipped back between those two.

What are the players doing? Do they just wait to tell them to show up or something? No, some of them left to go somewhere and come back. But a lot, I mean, there was just a hundred of us in cars sitting in the parking lot. So that threw it. You didn't hop in Brandon's car? grab the ox cord no i'm trying to leave him alone i am fascinated by moments like that though

that's why i'm drilling down on this like the idea that you can make 60 million dollars a year but when things go a certain way you have to sit in the same beaten circumstance blake does and his car next to you yeah like i just don't imagine those guys ever being inconvenience like that yeah so when we got there they said the plane's not here yet it'll be 45 minutes which turned into another 45 minutes and it just it just derailed everything but you're right it's all let's just sit and wait um so then we got into chicago and uh we were ping pong tables out on the tarmac or something i didn't see any of that uh i knew i knew better this time it did not grab a jersey mics on the way out no harsh looks there good uh we land in chicago

and uh we pull up the map and the hotel's like 20 something miles away and it says an hour and a half to get there because it's Chicago traffic. Like, well, this sucks. But then we get a police escort into Chicago. Yeah. And we got there in 30 minutes. Like, they got us into the HOV lane

and all the police were getting everyone out of the lane and we were just going 60 miles hour into Chicago. Is that a good use of our tax dollars? Yes. They were behind already. We were behind schedule. It was the road team. It's the NFL.

If I'm paying taxes in Chicago, don't let them get there quicker. Pull the fire alarm. Dinner plans. DJ missed his concert. I mean, it's awesome. Oh, it's amazing. Yes, and I've been part of that too with the stars.

You know, you get a police escort. It's got to be a safety thing, right? Like, imagine if the Cowboys charter got stuck on, like, the turnpike, like, somewhere in, like, Jersey or something. What? Why pee? Attack it. You're just humans. You're not, you already make,

how about you pay for your own thing? I'm not saying. Or are they paying the police department? The Cowboys play for that? Probably. Do the Cowboys pay the police department? That's a good question. And could we?

Let's say, I win the lottery, and I still want to do this show. Remember, I'm going to hire a lot of people in local media and double their salaries. because I still want to do broadcasting. I'm going to be the lottery-winning broadcaster. It'll be great. You're going to love it, Jenks.

That's really exciting. Free subbies for everybody. There's a few guys I wouldn't give a free subby to. Well, we gave them some before. But could I then pay the Dallas police to escort me every day? Because I still want to drive, too. I'm a man. I mean, I feel like if the number was right,

the public would have to turn a blind eye to this and just accept the deal, right? Like, don't you remember hearing, like when Joey Gallo got called up or something that the Texas Rangers had to give him an escort from Round Rock? Right. They're paying for that.

The baseball team, Texas Rangers, are paying... I wonder what, though. Yeah, GPT's got nothing for me. Yeah. They never make that public. That's sweet, though. That's a great, great wish list idea. But the Stars one...

It's just one bus, right? Everyone fits on one bus. So that's a little easier to maneuver. There's seven of these things. Yeah, one or two. Two buses we'd often. Yeah, but just seeing a convoy headed down the H.O.V. lane into downtown Chicago when there's thousands of cars were passing.

I don't remember what city. You were probably there, but one was a torrent. It was a terrible snowstorm. They were helping us get to the airport. And I was just thinking, this is great, but it does seem weird. Like, why there are just a lot of other people who are stuck in this terrible snowstorm? It was Boston, and yes, we were being treated like high-value diplomats. Yeah, it's great.

But the rest of the city was shut down for the first time in, like, 90 years. I just wanted Blake to be stuck a little longer. No. And what's funny is people are rolling down their windows, like filming us go by. You know, like, I don't know. If it's the offensive bus, that's cool. Dax's on there, but us, like the media. Did you see Brad Sham in Chicago?

Ted Emrick? Was Ted on the trip with you? No, Ted did a game in Michigan the day before, so he drove in separate. Yeah, I mean, you joke, Ted Emrick, Brad Sham, whatever. When I went on the road with the Cowboys the one time, there were absolutely people waiting in the lobby, not just to get autographs from players into pictures with players, but the media. Be it Brad Sham or whoever, it's there.

You tell me, John Machota has a piece in every... Maybe not. Who's the color guy? Steve Berline, he went to the Notre Dame game on Saturday, so he drove in separate, too. So we get to the hotel. I messed up a little bit because players were going in the side entrance, and the media was supposed to go in the main, and I just fell in line with the players and kind of walked into the crowd.

Everyone's cheering and stuff, and then I get to the part, like, I get to the hallway where, like, I went in the wrong place. I had to go back out. No, yeah, none of my friends are around. Yeah. And then walked and got some Giordano's pizza, some deep dish. I messed up because it says the small pizza feeds two to three people. That means me.

Yeah. So I went with the personal that feeds one. Too small. Yeah, dude. What are you doing? Were you on a bagel bite? Get out of here. When you put it down,

I thought he was messing around. The last time somebody said serves one and meant me, I was one. That doesn't play. Yeah. And it's you. Come on. I know. I just hate wasting food.

And I wasn't going to eat it the next day or anything. And so, yeah, when I had my 12 bites of deep dish, like, okay, yeah, that's cool. I guess this is worth $22. And then I met up with a listener, Madison. Hey now. That's what I thought. I was going to say. A dude, Madison?

We're cold. There's no way I never heard of a dude Madison Yeah he walked up with it It was a guy in his dad Bomb Gardner I guess What is this? Yeah it sucks

You're all You had flowers and your hair slick back I had cologne on Yeah yeah Yeah A condom in my pocket Yeah of course Preventative maintenance

Sure Walks up And they're both Aggies Oh yeah Another Ethan? Oh he said he lives down there Yeah We were getting

Swarmed lately And he let off, hey, that Aggie stuff is hilarious. I like it when you make fun of us. It's more fun. I didn't, so we had Kent yesterday, Billy. Yeah, he was all about him and his dad do one away game a year. And they started with Arizona, which was a bad game a couple years ago. And they got this one, which was a bad game.

But it was cool to see a subby on the road. And then my final thing, I went up, I got up early the next morning, the day of the game. And I went to a Catholic church downtown. And I'd never been to a Catholic church. Grew up Southern Baptist, always went to a Baptist church. It's a good place to start. What? Up there.

Yeah. And so just walking in in the architecture and... Did you go for service? I was more so going just to... Because you'd have been there a long time, been like, guys, this long? Well, that's what I thought. It wasn't that long. It was only an hour.

Okay. and I mostly went to just like see I don't know I just always heard about Mass Did you go up and eat the bread? No, you're not supposed to if you're not Catholic Right

So I just watched everyone to do that And then like Have you never done that? Of course I have Okay Yeah They're standing up at random times They're finishing the guy's sentences

Every so often There's the little A lot of kneeling A lot of kneeling And so I was just kind of taking it in I just, it was cool. I'd never seen a Catholic service. And it was just right downtown, you know, a bunch of big buildings around it.

And then there's just just random church with this beautiful architecture. Did you feel like Kevin McAllister? From home alone? Yeah. Like that's what I think of when I think of, I mean, that might even be in the second one, but like going to sit in a cathedral. It's right before the pranks happen, right? Yeah, I think so.

Like they, to me, every church up there, even Cleveland, really, in my head looks like that. Whereas, like, I went to a Catholic church once with family or with friends, and it was like at a, it was in like a shopping mall or like a shopping center, you know, no like grand architecture or anything cool like that. Yeah, I just had seen a lot of stuff on TV. Like, it's open all the time. And then you've got your like your prayer thing. The only thing that I thought was lame was, you know, you used to like light a candle, which was to signify, like, you're praying for someone in purgatory. Now you clap and it comes on. Now you push a button.

And it's like a fake ember. Don't love it. Who can't lie to candle anymore? But no, it was cool to see and be a part of. And then the game stunk, obviously. But I got to talk to Brandon a little bit pregame. He complimented me on my clearance rack jacket. It was very kind of him.

Yeah, Ted sent us a picture of him on the field before the game with EA. He got the whole. He got the whole Fox career. round him. Of course. Yeah. He's Brandon Aubrey. He's the only one they want to talk to anymore.

It's a big deal. So they were talking for like five minutes or so, and then Bangor kind of had to skewed in. It was like, you want to finish warming up? Got him out of. So awkward. He had to have his buddy save him. When your friend gets like picked up by the cooler friend group.

So Brandon, clearly he's the best at his position in the NFL. What are the other positions and the rankings? Like CD? You could probably argue, certainly top five. Very much so. At his position, if not higher. Left guard? You think left card best in the NFL?

Pretty good. Top five-ish, I don't know. But I'm not going with any of the rest of them, I don't think. Yeah. No, we have plenty of time for this. Yeah, we do. But Chicago's great. Do you go flash the portal to the other?

side of the world or whatever okay i didn't see a portal anywhere see the bean i've seen the bean yeah you see empire when i went up there with uh yeah i would go to that uh subway i at one a m but i went to the bar i went to the bar and met some uh i met some chicago police officers and i was you know i feel like they're way cooler up there they're used hey come on so you're hammered yeah i was out with a couple dudes from the cowboys and i like you know just started talking to him about the Empire thing. That long after it. And they were having fun with it?

Yeah. I love meeting the people that fit the, like the... Oh my gosh. Dude, the Chicago cops I met, that's... They were central casting. So the, our spotter and statistician were two brothers from Chicago. Oh, my God. Are they very, like, the S&L skit?

Um, moustaches, they're big. Yeah, just the, like, their inflection, their accent, it was just very Chicago. And so he was trying to tell us about this private back. bathroom for the media because we were on the opposite side of the press box like we are in kind of the stands like our room is like right with with the with the in the concourse and so he's pointing us to this room that we could use to go to the bathroom instead of waiting in the long line and the uh the lady security detail was like ah y'all can't go in there and he just bowed up oh no no we're national media and we know the bathroom is right here just whatever but he was just

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similar to any number of other mistaking causation and correlation, arbitrary numbers like Emmett's got to run 20 times, and the Cowboys are 100 and No. Shotties was 53, so you got rushing attempts and completions. And that's what he had found to be his magic number. And then Sodd asked him about it once we had resurfaced. that, and it's all I could think about. It feels like a good, it feels like something I'd believe because it's not a round number.

Yeah, that's true. I think Parcells used to have it at 50 or 51, 50, I think. But I like, it makes me believe it. Some real science and analytics going on here. Yeah, oh, 53. You must have really analyzed. They're half in there to make sure we get to 54. No, but the reason I wrote about that is because we can't write every week about how busted their defenses and how.

incongruent it is, because what you saw yesterday were going to see several more times. Like, Dron Bland can be out and come back. Overshone can step in halfway through the season. This is exactly what we should have expected, and that's what we're getting. You traded the most impactful defensive player maybe in the league the week before the year started, but even if he were here. You know, they sold us for years on the idea that they were building a certain type of defense under Dan Quinn, with these big-ass corners

and here's Nashan Wright that they drafted in the third round who's now with the Bears and they were going to play all this man coverage and then seemingly none of that mattered when it came time to hire a new defensive coordinator because they hired a guy

who doesn't run a defense similar to Dan Quinn's at all and now they're kind of stuck with it. It feels like something that could get better over the next year, year and a half, but almost impossible to see this being anything other than another Mike Nolan year this year. Remember seeing that Sabin-Belichick documentary?

Yeah. When they were talking about they don't they have a way they do things. So if they hire this defensive coordinator, he doesn't come in with his thing. Like they have a way, and so they're going

to hire, they have a firm belief. Like I firmly believe whatever, this, 4-3 or 3-4. And that can't just change on the coordinator of the day that I hire. Like, what do we firmly believe is our philosophy? And that is how we operate. And I guess that's what you can have with a very strong head coach who gets to hire his own coordinators. Yep.

You do not have that here. You have a front office who really loves the hiring and the hiring and the firing, especially of coordinators. We've seen this so many times over the year. where oftentimes the head coach had no say in hiring the coordinator. Maybe he had to give an obligatory nod or hand wave at it, and they pretended like he was a... But, you know, do we know that Schottenheimer wanted Fluse? Or is it just that Iber Fluse is a name?

He was just a head coach. Schottenhammer, not a head coach. Never has been. This would be a good guy to have around because he kind of is, at least he's got some head coach experience. Can it kind of help Shottie through this? And he was a very good defensive coordinator wherever he was. So, like, that's just a surface level.

If you weren't a football insider, you would look at those things and say, very qualified. But if you dig a little deeper. Now, we've also talked about the fact that he was anticipating having Micah Parsons and was probably prepping whatever his defensive, you know, look was going to be this year around that. And that's where you say, would Micah have been impactful in that game? Would this be the same with Micah? I would say it's not necessarily the same with Micah just because Micah, when he came in, because he came into a Mike Nolan defense, didn't he?

where all of a sudden everyone around him was better because now you have him and you always have to keep an eye on him and you have two players on him and that's going to free up something else. You don't have that one guy anymore. And that has to have an impact, just a trickle-down impact on the rest of the players.

Yeah, it definitely does. No matter what defense you're running, it has a huge trickle-down effect. But to go back to the Fluse head coaching thing, I think that's a good point because I think it's pretty likely that the most important thing about Matt Eberfluse to Jerry Jones was that he had been a head coach because he knows he's hiring a first time head coach in Schottenheimer. He's also going to have him call plays. So they had to, in Jerry's mind, get someone else worst case scenario to handhold for Schottenheimer. But the problem is I genuinely don't believe that Jerry stopped and thought beyond that or anybody.

and thought, this guy might not work with what we have in house at all. You know, we've got a pretty specific thing going here that Dan Quinn liked. And, you know, I sometimes think that it's a little bit overplayed the whole, like, you hear this in the draft season a lot. Like, oh, he's a man corner. This guy's his own corner. And I'm like, you know, there's a little bit of like, this is football. Like, they're going to make you do both. You're going to have to press.

Some guys are better at this than others. But there definitely was an identity they had been building towards. And I wonder how much the Cowboys even really thought about that. I know that sounds basic. But I think they most likely thought, well, we know Fluse. He's coached here before. We trust him. He is a name.

He's not a bad coordinator. Roll him in here. And I'm not an insider by any means, but it's very hard for me to come away from yesterday feeling like those guys on the defensive side are texting each other last night and this morning being like, I know we got this. I know we've I know we can do he's right this plan will work let's stick with it I feel like it's much more likely that they're all already way checked out you're talking players buy in players buy in on the defensive side of the ball and being like there's no shot we can turn this triage unit into passable by December so let's just F off now and be done with it it doesn't it doesn't feel like this is coming around to me something we didn't

think about in this week leading up because a lot of the thought was okay, here's our defensive coordinator knows that team. He will kind of know about Caleb Williams. He will know the little tricks. He will know how to stop that team

because he knows a lot about that team. We never thought about their head coach knows this guy who was their defensive coordinator or is now our because their head coach has faced him plenty of times and been very successful.

He's faced him plenty of times and he still knows guys who played for him, which is why I thought this answer about the flea flicker was very interesting. We have gadgets up every week. I give the staff a lot of credit. They're going through and, you know, they're watching the tape and finding out things that may or may not fit from whether it was Dallas this year or some of the stuff we're watching of Chicago's defense from, you. yesteryear so uh that was really a staff fine and and like i said we worked it all week and

felt really comfortable calling it this week yeah i didn't have that in the cards i didn't have well actually we hired a guy that people are so excited to exploit that when his old team plays him they're like dude you you've got to run this flea flicker on him he can't stop it i thought the first thing the first report from the broadcast was interesting now i went and found this you know re-watching the game. It's very funny to listen to what we're about to play after you know the outcome of the game. Speaking of the Dallas D. They have a coach that's very familiar with the Bears, don't they, Aaron Andrews? That felt intentional to me, by the way, as we claim responsibility for every whim in the media that blows, saying out Aaron Andrews.

Oh. In the Dallas D. They have a coach that's very familiar with the Bears, don't they, Aaron Andrews? Absolutely, Ken. Defensive coordinator for the Cowboys, Matt Iber Flus. We're turning to Chicago, where, of course, he was the head coach here for almost three years. He told us this week, I'm grateful for my time here. But he also said there was a good amount of hallway talk this week. The defensive coaches meeting with the offensive coaches. I have a lot of knowledge about this team.

I know their strengths, their weaknesses. I know how to cover them. And I shared that. Kevin, he also spent time last year in quarterback and offensive meetings with Caleb Williams. So it would be very interesting to see how this first-hand knowledge pays off. Yeah, no, it was... It will be very interesting. That stuff sounds great.

Yeah, it does. It really does. Boy, that's fun to listen to you after the fact. So not only did he not provide a whole lot of insights on how to slow down and Caleb Williams, there's a steak Looney Tune style hung around his neck over there and they just can't wait to uncork deep shots on him really all day. all day you know what go back and watch the stream the first three and out the bears go three and out in their first possession the first throw he just Caleb just missed there was somebody wide open oh deep out and you're like oh we're making fun of Caleb right but is that one somebody called somebody called Caleb by DAC you like that kind of yeah it just seemed to fit I don't know if that was then or later but it does seem to fit but that that was not a three and out because the Cowboys did anything.

It was a, they did not execute. Yeah. And it turns out he would not be that inaccurate all game. That was his first career game with no sack. He did not get sacked once. Got to scheme up the pressure, right? That's what we were told. Well, that's the problem here.

Is that they can't. That's where my thing on, Micah is a, you know, he's a planet. He says, has gravity. Everything revolves around Micah, and the players around Micah, Sam Williams looks way better when Micah's on the other side. Dude, that guy has money flying out of his pockets right now. Yeah, Micah Parsons, again, can't do everything,

but you saw what happened to the Cowboys defense the year he showed up. They didn't revamp the whole defense. They did quite a bit, but, you know, they had a lot of the same players, too. And Micah Parsons showed up and all of a sudden. Yeah, and let's not overrate some of the other stuff they did. I mean, it was like Malik Hooker and guys like that.

They had Micah. Let's just say it. They had Micah, and that's what changed their defense, and now they don't. Right, their game is to sign your, league hookers sure to fill out and

Kyrielem and a number of other guys who don't really look like NFL players right now but what are you going to do this is why I wrote about the offense

because this is not going anywhere look at the schedule and look at the back half of the quarterbacks they play we may be setting some records

if things don't change and that's why as much as I love to see Javante Williams grinding it out and getting six, seven yards of carry, 11 play, 13 play drives, and they take a field goal. That can't be the M.O. anymore. Well, I want to talk about their identity.

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So their identity, we talked about this heading into the season. Number one, I am quite pleasantly surprised that their running game does seem as good as it is. So they've shown a lot more already than I thought they could. Bar was low, but yes. Right now, Javante still has a little juice, and it's not, I mean, a lot of these yards are after contact, so I don't want to give the offensive line too much credit, but it's better than last year. But I almost, I just don't care.

Well, we kind of talked about what should this team's identity be going into the season? And should it be a, hey, we run the ball and we grind out games. And we, I guess if you can do that, do you remember the year the Cowboys' theory was, let's do that. They had to Marco Murray, I think. Because our defense is so, so, so bad that we have to try to just keep that off the field. We know second and ones are good for taking a shot down field sometime. We're never going to do that because we just want to keep the chains moving. We have to keep that defense off the field.

So if they're below average defense, we could at least make it into average if we can control the board. Well, if you were going to do that, you certainly would have invested more in the running game, I would think, heading into the season. But you didn't. You went out and got George Pickens, and you have a porous defense, so you're thinking, I think their identity has to be a shootout team, a run-and-shoot team, a we sling it around. and you would have probably wanted more than just adding George Pickens because we see when CD goes out the supporting cast around George Pickens

is not very good and in fact George Pickens let's stop all the PR they're trying to do in the room and they're doing it for George Pickens to make him feel good by saying oh this is a 1A and a 1B like George Pickens is a George Pickens is not a

number one receiver by the truest sense of the word like every baseball team has a guy that starts the first game of the season how many aces are really in baseball you're just because you're the best on that staff I don't believe George Pickens is a true a true number one you would have to say

is like a top 10 receiver in the game and maybe even less than that is that And you've got to be able to kind of do it all, and he can't. It doesn't run great routes. But we saw in the first couple of weeks, he doesn't have to if he's out there with CD. Well, what if CD's gone? I mean. Well, and then you can make a lot of excuses when it's with the Steeler.

Oh, yeah, this quarterback and this quarterback and this quarterback. Well, what about yesterday? You're playing the Bears. Yeah, and we don't know how long. We don't know how long the CD thing will be, two to four, four to six, not at all. He said he's playing next week. I know, but... He tried getting back out there.

I wonder if that was wise. Well, obviously, it looked not wise because he had to get off the field after one play. But you really see it in the second and third, four, fives, they want to run the ball there. And that's fine, but those runs are never going to go for 50 yards. If the Cowboys have long runs this year, it'll look like the one Giovante had that he fumbled or got ganked on, where there's just a... There's five offensive linemen out running down the field in front of them. Nobody, no Cowboys running back is running away from you this year.

And that's why I think even though it might put them in some bad spots, they just have to throw the ball and hope, you know, you're a fall down away from, you throw a stopper out to Pickens and it's going the other way for 60 yards. You know, I know because Trayvon Diggs falls down a lot and it works out the other way. I just think they have to play a high-variant style of, you know, it doesn't have to be flea-flickers, but Ben Johnson coached to win the game yesterday. And to me, Schottenheimer coached, like showing up hoping the game that he wanted to coach was going to be there. And it's not.

Ben Johnson said, we're going to have to figure this out. Here's a flea-flicker. Here's a shock shot, like right after a possession change. That's not what the Cowboys did. What do you think about CD getting injured as a tailback? Immediately when you sort of jokingly said, like, hey, you know, don't run him. I made fun of you, but when I watched it back a couple times, I wouldn't be doing that. Last year, maybe, you had no offense last year.

You had no running backs last year. Zeke was on the team. So it made sense. But Giovante and Miles Sanders had both been running really hard. Going to CD there felt odd to me. but it's also very second-guessy. He does, I think he's trying to justify himself

as an offensive coordinator too, just to, he's got to show some different crazy stuff. They're trying to use Terpen more. Well, what I'd like them to do is uncork the ball and just, they're just, they have no choice. They may get blown out by doing that, but they're going to have to create

some big plays through the air. So what really hurts and I was still off the mic at halftime but I think somebody told me you said this and when I went back and watched the game again I thought this opening the second half here is kind of a must score drive they were down 10

yeah 24 14 you're starting the second half they end up you know DAC gets sacked, and they end up having to punt. Yeah. But it felt like you kind of have to score there, even a field goal. What you really couldn't do, though, is then give up what they did. A 20-play drive.

I believe the longest in the NFL this year, which included. And remember what we were going to fix. when we did trade Micah Parsons. It might hurt us in this one area, but it's going to improve this other area, which included 11 straight running plays. They ate 9.54 off the clock, basically to the very end of the third quarter.

Now all of us, you just had one little measly possession where taking a sack and putting you in third and long, you weren't able to convert that. So all of a sudden you give the ball back to them. And yes, now you're saying Ben Johnson is playing to this game. Then he decided, okay, we're up 10. Can we eat clock? And they just did.

They just did what they wanted. They scored at the end of that drive. On a fourth down. Oh, yes. Fourth and goal from the four. At that, I was a pretty ballsy decision. But remember, who Ben Johnson is and the team he was coming from, not just Dan Campbell making those decisions,

Ben Johnson was on board with that. Didn't Dan Campbell go for it on fourth down more than anybody? Fourth downs, two points, yeah. And yeah. So I was pretty surprised, but also the effect was what he wanted. Boy, if we can fire a touchdown in right here, that might make them feel like the game is over, and that is the way I felt at the end of the third quarter.

because now you started the second half down 10 with the ball, and I thought this is a must-score possession. And you were down 10. Now you're starting the fourth quarter down 17 with the ball. Yeah, I don't know if you run 19 plays to the four and kick anyway. But then a field goal, it's still a two-possession game. So, well, he may be on the aggressive side. I thought that was pretty standard from him.

I don't know the shot he does it Well the good thing about that drive is that Hell Tom Brady said he wouldn't do it Oh really? Yeah The run defense was able to get Their name on the You know the debit for the week Like you up to that point you're like boy

At least they hadn't been killing us on the ground Then here's one drive where they just Put it all in in one 10 minute section They didn't do anything well Who would you say who's your like cowboy MVP Javante? Javante played pretty well

Well he also Fumped I don't know Man So I never saw the TV copy of that Was that clean? Yeah he just pulled it out of his hand I yes but And then what you're saying

He might have not had two feet down He definitely did But it wasn't as I thought it was pretty close And I wasn't even sure what the rule was One or two feet I mean, it's not a pass. Right.

But either way, he had two, but it was really close. But I was just going to say, there's really nothing Javante could have done about that. It's one of the cleanest strips I've ever seen and just the timing worked out of it. But yes, can you be a player of the game if you have even one of those? And DAC, you know, DAC had great numbers, but those are very misleading. There was a lot. And that's what I were. And then, Dax, the next drive we were talking about in the fourth quarter,

that's DAC very good pass to George Pickens off his hands and it's intercepted and now you're really dejected George Pickens did the I would like to count these maybe you can tell me throughout the year the performative helmet slam on the sideline

because somebody else did it in the first half I think it was a defensive player maybe it was Trayvon after he fell down I can't recall I think that's right But someone did the helmet slam, and, you know, we're going to be able to... Coach loves that. Jerry loves that, because look, these guys, they play with passion. They're not just giving up.

They really care. And that's the problem. The only time you say that about teams is when you're the losing team. The I didn't give up. You don't say the winning team didn't give up because you don't care if they did give up because they won the game. But that's the cry of the loser is they didn't give up. And I predict that's going to be something you hear a lot this year. Until they give up.

Until they actually give up. And will they, will Blake's prediction of a new coach by Thanksgiving come true? It's absurd. It probably is absurd. And it's kind of the predicament that they found themselves in after the Green Bay game

in the playoffs a couple years ago where it's like, you know what, they should get rid of McCarthy. Yeah, but if. they did, they have to elevate Dan Quinn, and his defense is the one that really got them in this huge hole. Does that feel weird as well? Because the one guy in your staff with head coaching experience, if we are to fast forward here to replacing Shottie talk. Come on. Which seems a little silly, because I don't think that will happen. Let's judge Dak and Shottie, though. Once you get the

ball back again. The defense does get a stop because the bears are now up 17. They're not going to take too many big risks. So the defense gets them the ball back with 522 left in the fourth. Well, you got the ball back before that. But with 522 left in the fourth, you have a first and goal from the five after Montez sweat just ran over Tyler Booker and lunges for DAC, ankle tackling him. Dak immediately crying to the ref

like we does I just only say that to make you mad It works It's the roughing penalty Then we go Okay now 522 fourth You're down 17

This game's not over This is the NFL This is today's NFL Not only is it today's NFL I've got Brandon Aubrey Who I haven't seen Kicking onside kick in a while But I'm just going to assume

He's the best at it 522 in the 4th 1st and goal Back corner fade for Ferguson Curious Don't know what you think about that for Ferguson ever Brady Watching from above said

Javante was wide open in the flat So maybe someone else saw that too and said hey Javante is going to be open So the next play was Javante in the flat He takes it down to the one yard line Now a fade to pickin About the fade to Pickens Not a fan

He doesn't seem like a jump ball kind of guy Does he? In certain situations But not down there He didn't have a chance at it No And then the next play of course Dak throws an interception

In the end zone He was trying to force it That was a You know he was feeling some pressure Didn't want to take a sack Right there on fourth down Then they get the ball right back One minute left

Or one minute off the clock Same score But they'd yanked deck Okay 421 left in the game This is not worth spending a bunch of time on But This drove me insane

Why did you use all three of your timeouts If you're going to put Milton out there Yeah And then they come out and throw a deep shot And hit it And now we're running the ball None of it made any sense So

Revin span forward I'm trying to go home Of all people, Brevin Spanford got a reception. He takes it down to the four. It got called back. My thought is, if they had scored right there and they get the ball back, do they put Dack back in?

No. I don't know. If Milton led you down? Like, it didn't seem like Dack was the reason that they were not. No. I mean, I think the reason they did that. I mean, he did throw that interception in the end of it. I have no problem with them letting Milton play there, but don't call timeouts in the possession before.

It waste everybody's time. Like you're thinking you're getting the ball back, you're going to get the ball back with four and a half minutes left, take a couple shots, you've got this crazy kicker with an onside kick. It didn't make any sense to then put Milton out there and have him start uncorking deep balls. That felt for everything you could say about Garrett and McCarthy, they weren't pulling that. It was weird. But the broadcasts are pretty fired up about Milton. The guys who, I don't. This guy's arm.

I don't think watch the preseason. But he did. He does throw it really hard and it doesn't matter where you are. He does have a great arm. It just, yeah, there's a lot of weirdness. And it's, okay, so let's talk culture. Because that's what this guy's all about. the culture of extreme positivity.

But do you feel like that this culture hurt them heading into this game? Because, and I heard Machota talking about the fact that he kind of thought that Giants game was just a pile of poo. But then he kind of got swept up in the, you know, when he went to the locker room and there's so much. positivity and we're giving Shottie the game ball and you had Brandon Aubrey like it just felt like oh this is something that you could build on hence I dare I say a possibility of momentum will carry us forward and then it's like it wasn't really a you know we barely got we got really it wasn't thought of as this was such a lucky game and we're so fortunate to be one-on-one it was almost the feeling I was getting was

we kind of should be two and oh I mean if CD doesn't make those drops in the first game which I contend is the wrong way to think about that first game because you know Philly they absolutely play to win games and to the score they don't they seem like they do play these close games all the time against whoever they're it doesn't matter their opponent They will play down to an opponent.

They will play up to an opponent. But so I think if CD had caught some of those, I'll bet that final score is different. I'll bet you Philly could have turned it on and scored. You just don't know. No, I agree. But I also think that about maybe if he's out there yesterday. So look, they're not good right now.

But I also wouldn't be surprised if they won Sunday. And then they get lucky Sunday and win. And then I just make sure we all don't freak out about that, too, because I think there's a decent chance. They get the breaks. There's a lot of emotion. It won't matter. There's not a chance they win Sunday. What, guess

the line? We were doing this yesterday during the game, and I think we were settling on, like, five and a half. It's in Dallas. They lost to the Browns, man. My first thought was Packers minus six. Packers losing to the Browns. Spells bad news for Dallas, but... I think

so, yeah. This is the NFL. It's really the season. We got to act like we know the whole season through three games. We do. Right now it's. I'm ready to define everything. But I think there's things we can talk about that are what they are and things that might change.

And I do think that in some of these games, if they have lamb and pickings out there, they'll be able to stay in games by simply generating explosives. And look, they generate an explosive on the second play of offense yesterday. and the dude got ripped going out of bounds. I'm not making excuses. I'm just saying I think they'll be able to stay in games they shouldn't be able to stay in if they play a high-variant style of football. I don't see any way

all year that they're stopping anybody. Packers minus six. You're very good at this, my friend. I will triple play the count. Not at picking who's going to win it there. All right, let's take a break. You're listening to The Dumbzone. I'm looking at your nicotine routine.

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this product contains nicotine nicotine is an addictive chemical no what other audio did we want to get into but we can do some of it tomorrow of course did you want to do any other game audio from Brady

TB? Yeah, here's the one from the sideline. This is after the Cowboys scored that touchdown. Oh, by the way, I should mention during the break Dave, a different Dave. All the guys that own Bay Men's Healths are named Dave. This is Dave

F. Army of Dave. Do you want to give your last name or what are we doing here? Yeah, sure. It's Fraley. Dave Fraley from Game Day Men's Health. Plano? Where else? Plano? Louisville and North Dallas. Okay.

You own the three of those. That's correct. And you just hop back and forth from one place to the other. Pretty much. Okay, but Dave's in studio. He'll do some closing remarks with us. And can also chime in if you want on any Cowboys stuff. I don't know.

Are you from here? Cowboy fan? I actually grew up in Canada. I'm a Niner fan, but I got knocked out of my Survivor pool yesterday by picking the Cowboys. Oh, by picking the Cowboys. I mean, the bears, they just got humiliated by 30 points. I didn't do it, but I did take the Cowboys over the Giants in my Week 2 survivor knockout, and that easily could have been a loss.

So you're learning, you've moved here from a foreign land, and you've learned, do not pick the Cowboys. I mean, you have to pick them once, right? Yeah, well, if you're in a knockout league, it will end up being. Kids in the hall, overrated or underrated? Underrated. What did you ever make a kids in the hall? Very pro. You were?

Yeah. I think it was just too. I love the movie, too. Is it good? I think so. I just remember the sketch show being on all the time, and I felt like I was used to SNL, I was used to had TV, and I just couldn't quite. That's when I knew Canada was different.

It just didn't make sense. Canada is way different. So Dave's like Ted Cruz, isn't he from Canada? Move down here to Texas? No idea. Let's go to the broadcast. We go downstairs to EA. Kevin, we're going to show you Brian Schadenheimer's reaction here after Dallas ties it up.

And I got to tell you, I was standing right next to him. You could just feel this. And this is exactly what his quarterback, Dak. Weird laugh from Brady, by the way. He's kind of got like, weirdo laugh all day. Yeah, you were into that, though, after they tied it up. You were like, yeah, like. It was pretty badass.

Feel this. And this is exactly what his quarterback, Dak Prescott told us. We asked him, why is this a good fit between you and this entire team? Dak said he's genuine. He's an energy guy. He keeps it loose and it has carried over throughout these last three games. What did he say? Even in Philly, he was rapping on the sidelines to a song they were playing there.

And Doc looked over and said, okay. I see you, Shottie. Well, I hope that I hope he starts rapping one with an offensive term in it quickly and gets caught on sounds of the sidelines. So no. This is one of the things where, yes, if you are winning, the ping pong table is great. If you are winning, this is when you're losing, that's why the question of culture versus, like, how to build a culture, can you build a culture with a bad team? I don't think you can.

And if the talent is just what the talent is or the talent slash coaching is what it is, then it doesn't matter how many dinners he has or how many dinners he has or how many. balled-up paper basketball games we play in my office, people are going to be bitter. Yeah, it's a matter of, I think it can elevate your play. It can hurt your team. If you can have good players who hate each other and it can be a problem, but I'd rather have that than bad players who really enjoy hanging out together. Though I do think the end of this piece of audio might have given us some drops.

Let's see. On the sidelines to a song they were playing there and Doc looked over and said, Okay. I see you, Shottie. Okay, there it is. I see you, shoddy. This is Brady trying to talk about Bears' defensive coordinator Dennis Allen and his small perky A-cup tits.

For a guy who's not fat, Dennis Allen has a little rack on him, a little Sabrina Carpenter rack on him. It's really weird. Almost like, was he 300 pounds? It doesn't look good in the gray tea, you know? I might want to hop in for some. peptides game day no cotton t-shirt and not the thing right that thing was hugging you

but while Brady was trying to talk about Dennis Allen KB was trying to talk to us about an injured player no one knows about his skills as a defensive coordinator more than you said you said he made it the hardest of anyone you went against in your career do I really have to say nice things about Dennis Allen

I actually I say a lot of nice things hold on we have an injured bear on the play far side of the field In the end of that tackle. Yeah. KB. Dude,

seen them before the game. They were really rolling. KB looks so, bro. It's worse in person. Really? He's got the all white sneakers. His long sleeve is buttoned up.

He's such a cool dude. Brady's got an aura around him. He's dressed nice. He's got a detail around him. But just KB's just... I mean, Brady's Brady, though. I know. Yeah, you don't...

No, he's awesome. Giving to marriage for that, yeah. No, no, no, yeah. He looks great, but, yeah. K bro. I think that's where I think there is... You talked about Tariko, and maybe Tariko and Herbie could be good.

Maybe. Now, there is something to the partner, and I do think Joe Buck would be great with Tom Brady. Man, maybe one day. I thought KB and Greg Olson. This one were not bad. I like Greg Olson, but the energy between the two of them doesn't work. Like Romo and Nance?

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Oh, that one's Boino. Oh, that was Boino? I thought that was Bill. I think that one's Boino, yeah. Sorry. We can finish up audio tomorrow of what I got. All right, well, I'll give you a little something. A little TB.

TB was talking about, I thought this is a little DAC criticism. When was this? Third and 15. Just swinging out a little swing past a first. and he's not going to go anywhere. As Remain Edmund's shoot-strain tap on the bear's defense gets a hold. That might have been the first play or the first series of the second half, which we both thought independently was a must-score series.

It's the second time I've seen Dak do that now when they line up close to the line. Even if Bigwood's one guy, it feels like, oh, there's a lot of them coming. I better just check it down. Second time Dak's done that. today just not quite sitting back there comfortable in the pocket making his reeds downfield on those third longs so what he's discussing there with all the guys that they they did this a couple times where they come back from break and kind of show the formation and we were like what are they doing are they it looks like a punt return formation yet they just had all the players up on the

line and then whoever's going to drop back drops back from there they just don't line up back there. And I think that's what Brady is referring to. When they would do that, that would kind of throw DAC off and he would just check down immediately and not wait and see what opened up. But good move by them. Brady, okay, this came up. He's going to end up talking about tough coaching, and I just got to thinking about shoddy. What is he like behind closed doors? I will be a better quarterback because of Ben Williams told us. Okay, so we had thrown it down to TR, and he's giving a report on the Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams, relationship. I will be a better quarterback because of Ben, Williams told us, because of that detail and how demanding that he is.

As for whether there's any aftermath, we need after every practice to go over things were close, but it can get spicy. Tom, I think you can relate. Yeah, you think second and short and Swift was tackled immediately, and he did not get there. What do you mean? I had such a player-friendly coach and coach fellow, you always tell me how great I did. You know, there was a high demand of excellence. Let's say that. And believe me, when you're a pro quarterback, you'd much rather have your coach be hard than easy.

Sometimes the growing pains is I've got to get these guys outside of their comfort zone from a coaching standpoint to help them grow and to understand the magnitude and the truth. trust that the organization is giving to them. So maybe he's talking more about the young quarterback. Yeah. And maybe he's looking back at I needed that because certainly he did enjoy, I think, leaving and having a more chilled out head coach, you know, once he had accomplished a few things in the NFL.

Yeah, to a smaller degree, think like Romo early in his career. You know, he doesn't get to where he is without Parcells. Yeah. But it was probably pretty happy to see that. part of his career go once he felt like he had some of the answers to the test. Really, I don't know that any team could hire Shottie if they didn't have a quarterback like Dak. And really, I'm trying to think of any other team hiring him. So it's coming up. They've all had the opportunity. Right. It's just, I don't know how you could, you'd have to have a guy super, super confident in himself to

be able to bring a quarterback with this little experience in. My last piece of audio from the game is the label here, is Tom Brady a pito? Yeah, it's a big man to take. He's, I think this was when, is it DJ Moore? I think he's talking about DJ Moore. Yeah, it's a big man to take on and Diggs knows it. Full head of steam, DJ Moore, just has a very dense body. I saw him in the pregame and I saw his cute kids there in the back of the end zone as we were walking off.

Is that necessary? Did I just have to throw in that his kids are real cute? Just throwing it out there. Yeah, no, I mean, he made out with his son, too. That's what I mean, because he made out with his son, and I know you love that. Dave, what do you fall on? I think you're allowed to kiss your son on the lips, though. How old and for how long?

Well, I've currently got an eight-year-old and a three-year-old, so it's still acceptable. What was Tom Brady's kid? 13, 14. And he was, Tom Brady was laying on a massage table, nude other than a towel. So that felt weird too. And he said, come over here and give me a kiss. And then when he did, he was like, that's not enough. Give me some more sugar.

I have a one drop. I have a drop from our broadcast last night, our YouTube broadcast, which was Jake at the very end of the night. This is how he signed off. And I wonder if we should sign off our shit. Add this to the sign-off montage. All right. Well, thanks to, you know. What?

He took his headset off. Sorry to Gabe Day. He was just so. He was just so beat by the whole thing. Because I'm thinking about the next, I'm thinking about next week. I mean, the chalk is that it's exactly like yesterday, but worse. And now you're one in three and it's. hard to get excited. You're one in three, and then you get to a point where, like, if

Dak gets hurt, they're like, well, what were you going to do? Not only that, what they'll do is, well, you know, we've got to be thinking long term. Let's get ready for next year. Wasn't that the whole point of the micah situation? And at the end of the day, it really is. Like, they, you can't have it both ways. Like, you can't come out and say, we're going to make our team worse and then be surprised when they're worse. I was thinking, because I have a little bit of Jerry,

I don't even know if it's worth playing, but he's going to bring up these draft picks a lot. Let's hear it. Let's see the part specifically. Or not. If you want to play it tomorrow. Yeah, we can play it tomorrow, but I just wonder if every other GM that ends up with a couple draft picks

just talks about it like this all the time. Certainly the Eagles have multiple draft picks in every draft. I listen to Jerry after the game and he's different. He's,

you know, age catches up to everybody. He kept talking about how great the bears are and the bears are this great organization. Yeah.

He's not ripping anybody. He's sounded like an 80-year-old guy who kind of at arm's length knows about the team. And I think the reporters know that and they love to ask him like kind of real

specific, how do you fix this things of the defense just so that you can hear him go, well, you know, you got to get just running around the ball and like just generic stuff. It's, this sucks. It's what it is. I only got a couple of quickies from Shoddy after the game. Let me tell you why it sucks, because right now on a night like last night or a morning like this morning, and I'm sorry, trigger warning to all of you, we're supposed to be able to think about the goddamn basketball team

right now like the end of September when you give up on the Cowboys you're supposed to be able to think about November when your all world best player in the league starts back up and you're like well whatever who cares we'll show up for the back half football season

if they get frisky and make a playoff run it doesn't matter this is all we've got I know that's the problem that's the problem I'm sorry but it needed to be said This is worse now because of that. Glenn Goldson. That trade has treated us negatively in the way that Micah being on the Cowboys treated the other players positive.

There's a multiplier effect. Yes, Micah there makes all those players better. The Luca trade makes everything around us worse. Because you could always just say, well, at least we have Luca. At least you have a Michael Jordan. You would add that with Cleveland and LeBron. Like, at the very least, you're on the map. They're not even on the sports map anymore.

Shottie, I've pointed this out before where he will, in his press conference, try to show you that he's not like other coaches. Remember what it was for? but he, as if he's doing some innovative stuff, and he's going to show you that again. Oh, it was about when Micah got traded. It's like, you know what? I just, I thought it was important. Not everybody would do it, but, you know, to call, you know, some of my captains and talk to them about it.

Like, I thought, I stepped forward, and it wasn't just like a quick call. I mean, we sat there and broke it down. In fact, he might have said, I called like 14 people. And we were like, well, let's do the math in that. 14 players, and you sat down for a deep, meaningful 20-minute call with each... Are you really? That's what you did yesterday? Anyway, he's not like other coaches after a loss like that.

Just can't happen. There's just too many big plays, and we know that. We addressed it. You know, I don't shout... I told the guys this. I said, hey, here's a deal. I don't just talk to you guys after a game and just throw a bunch of coach speak at you. I'm going to be honest with him.

And I was. I mean, I told him, like I just said, I said, hey, we've got to stop giving up big plays, explosives. we got to protect the football. That sounds like Coach Spee. Listen, cut the BS. So I'm not going to give you Coach Spice speak. And I was. I told him, like I just said, I said, hey, we got to stop giving up big plays, explosives,

and we got to protect the football. Other coaches won't be that real with them. No. You know, they go in there and blow smoke. That is not coach speak at all. You guys know me, the realist MF are on the block. But he is the most upbeat, positive guy we've ever heard, correct? And here he's sounding like it's already beating him down and we're three games in.

You know, got to take a look at it. You know, like I said, we're three games into the 17-round deal. And we've got a good opponent coming in this week. But it's what we get paid to do, make corrections and get these guys playing better in with more confidence. Can I say something I've been thinking about that's probably kind of selfish, but you can only view the world through your own eyes and brain? I generally feel like really good in life since like making some changes in my lifestyle

and meaning to find folks at Game Day men's health. But like when you're doing really well and you tell people you're doing really well and you are, sometimes like you don't really know how to communicate it when things aren't going well I don't want everybody think I'm like falling apart but when you're always in a bad mood it's way easier it's way easier to just like okay well this is just what it is like it's no different than any other like I just expect things to be shitty this is generally my attitude like parcels could treat his players he could be like really an a hole when they won because he was always like that I think when you're the constantly upbeat like just go on to the next one

everything's great guy, it's hard to come up with a second pitch when you're being asked to bite the curb like every other week. You know what I mean? This isn't going to work past a certain period of time. It's a tough corner to paint yourself into. I'm not saying my experience is exactly the same, but it is a different disposition. There's not a lot of a second pitch to this. Yeah, he kind of started it taking him out to paintball and shooting free throws. it's hard to get up their ass now. Yeah, I don't know. He's going to have to...

He'll grow. But those dinners they had was what would help them in times of adversity to be there for your brother. So I guess now? I don't know. Blake's going to get to eat steak every week.

That's what we know about the Cowboys season right now. They'll melt cheese on it for you. Wow. It's great. It is cool. Early Bird, CBD. Hey, listen, it's going to be a long season. Dot com is, yes, what you might need.

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Dumb Zone 20 is the promo code. That'll get you 20% off at early bird CBD.com. The games with the sorroys, the game picking? You're not really paying attention to it, are you? This week I tapped in. I got a little more locked in. We're both at 13 and 14. now both teams

this this week okay Blake so far we have one game tonight I'm the only one who picked Detroit and before you scoff at me I was the only one that picked Chicago but I'm the only one to pick Detroit for tonight

so we're actually even though you guys have picked Baltimore we're rooting for Detroit to win because they all pick they will win this week if Baltimore wins you guys don't want that do you That would make you pissed, wouldn't it? For everything you just said and everything we've just said for the last hour and a half,

I am still pulling for the Ravens because the Lions are an NFC team and they are in my way on the way to a Super Bowl. They are in Baker's Way. How about you lower your expectations a little bit? How about you get off my ass because it's September 22nd, and I'm going to still try to feel good about this thing for another couple weeks? Jake's seven and two week? Seven and two thus far.

Yeah, I mocked his Duke, triple play, but that hit. Blake is one and eight. The public had gotten out of control on Duke. Bad week. Sorry, guys. Blake is one and eight. Just terrible.

Anyway, are we doing the news? Sure. Here's Jake with the Dumb Zone News. So we're not going to get into any of the specifics of the day or anything, but there was a large memorial held for Charlie Kirk yesterday. in Glendell, Arizona. And the only thing out of this that I wanted to discuss was, because it was definitely like,

we joke about Norm and Pat Summerall talking about the Washington, D.C., being the place to see and be seen some 20 years ago. You're going to run into like Dennis Kucinich and Steny Hoyer. But now it literally is the most famous people in the country when the conservative intelligentsia or Republican Party gathers together and the president's there,

the entire cabinet's there, and the video that I wanted to show you is from up in one of the suites, and it's the president, Dana White, and they are joined sitting down by Elon Musk. And this was the thing that was making headlines is they, Elon and the president shake hands.

And I don't really know where this whole story ended up like with the base or with people in general, like the Elon thing. It was kind of a season one, like the first two episodes of this new season of politics, he was in it and they killed him off. Well, no, season one ended with the tweet. Yeah, and that's what I wanted to talk about was like, I know that public figures have said gnarly stuff about each other forever. But it does feel like a different level now when one of them is like, you're a pedophile. and then they just see each other like a month later and he's like I'm sorry dude hey bro you good I probably shouldn't have called you a drug addict either even though you know you

are clearly high but it's just they go back and forth with this and it's it it's we're all just here looking at it like I guess that's normal now yeah no their relationship this whole time I know that at first I couldn't believe they were kind of buddies because Trump hates anything, not gas power. He would not drive an electric vehicle. It's kind of gay. Yeah, I mean, he's kind of said as much. You can hug a tree.

Yeah. And then they kind of are in bed together, and he's doing jumping on stage for him. And so everything's great. And then they put together the new tax thing, right, where you don't get the electric vehicle tax credit anymore. And now that's, I think that's what made Elon really mad at first. Yeah.

I don't know. it's hard to keep up with this soap opera it is but somehow that video way funnier because they're joining them as Dana White I don't know dude life is funny like that

hey Clayton did you ever visit the actual Tiger King Preserve plate like the actual location in Choctaw County Oklahoma over the weekend we had a handler killed by the tiger A tiger under his care at Growler Pines Tiger Reserve, or Preserve, rather, near the Oklahoma, Texas border. I think what that documentary did really was just show how many tigers there are out there.

Do they euthanize the tiger after? This one, yes. Because I think that's terrible. Like the tiger's doing what tigers do. Mm-hmm. So then you kill it? Doesn't seem right. It doesn't.

Hell, it also says all the tours were canceled until further notice. That doesn't seem right either. That should be part of the variable pricing. If you bought a ticket on the day that somebody... Yeah, you should be able to see that. Like, isn't that why you see a tiger? Why would you get a tour and look at a tiger? Because it's a killer.

Because it could kill you. It could break through. That song ruled, Clayton, and you know it did. It did. I saw tiger in a tiger show, man. See if I can find that. Oh, come on. Copyright?

What, because he's in prison? No, but I remember when that show came out, people being like, this is not uncommon. Like, people from Oklahoma and the country parts of Texas would email us and be like, yeah, this guy's crazy, but these places are everywhere. I think Texas is big for him. Yeah, I remember that was one of the first Rogan bits. Lex. I ever heard, and I think it was correct. We have more in captivity in Texas than are left in the wild.

At one point, that was, I believe, Drew. You tried to tell Luke about it, too. I did. I did actually try to talk to Luca about that once. He wanted to own one, didn't he? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if my mom let me get it.

Well, I'd like to talk to her about that. Yeah. Luca has a hot mom. Luca had a hot grandma. Really? I'll go there. Check the map. It's not that weird. Think about it. Blake's situation on Friday regarding the flight being late getting out.

It was not, as he said, a cyber attack, which felt very 1998. It was on Friday, right? It was Saturday morning. Oh, okay. Maybe we're talking about two different things here. The cyber attack was Saturday morning. Okay. That's when Chloe, does a cyber attack just feel so. oh yeah no it feels mr robot mr robot yeah but on friday at both they have the guy with the mask and everything the guy fox masks how do you say it is that how you say it yeah god fox so hundreds of cancellation to dfdb and love field on friday which were the result

simply of two fiber optic cables being accidentally cut during a repair oops dude the biggest oops sorry it's so good we don't have a job like that yeah do they fire that guy right away you know it's a contractor so i mean they're not gonna put it in the news story but i would imagine so but it's just some guy how many millions of dollars lost dude you get up you pop into quick trip on friday just like normal you're headed in you're like today's gonna be a great one i'm gonna knock off early today

i'm gonna go knock out this one more project up here quick electrical job then you instead ground tens of millions of dollars of flights you go to you go to the good contractors list there's a one-star review by dfdvdvue airport cut our fiber optic line had to ground thousands of flight oh 10 would not recommend right yeah it said that the uh the cable specifically impacted primary and secondary paths of data radars radio frequencies and computer systems you know when you read a story like this it's pretty amazing that air travel works as smoothly as a does, isn't it? So we just be...

I'm in all. This may be just like this I am in all. The lame AA thing in me where you're just like supposed to be like... Like I'm... Appreciative or of thing.

I'm also not bad. I know that it's expensive. Like getting a $500 flight or $400 flight seems high. But it's getting you like... A thousand miles in a couple hours. Yeah.

The overhead on that must be an You don't even know. You have no idea. I know this is a stand-up comedy bit, but it's amazing that you can get internet in the sky. That's why I buy it. Even if I have nothing to do, I pay for it, and I find something to do. What about hot water?

I was eating steak. It's wonderful. It's like, what? This is hot? But as soon as the internet is slow, like I just start to bitch. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're like, why is this Chief's Giants game laggy? What the hell?

Arlington police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a woman in her backyard this morning. This morning? Does that mean like 2 a.m.? Well, the news story actually says it happened around 9 a.m. this morning. Okay. But there's really no details on this. I really only wanted to mention the quick note of the story because of the odd timing. Yeah. Like last week we had the FedEx guy who showed up at work on Monday morning and had been thinking about it all weekend.

Oh, this is another Monday morning. It's another Monday morning. Case of the Mondays. Call this section of the news, case of the Mondays. Every week. Look for the biggest case of the Mondays. Yeah, some week it could be like, you know, somebody who their cow got out of the barn or something. The bar has been raised tremendously for the first two weeks of Case of the Month.

Right. Stab wounds, multiple. That's a tough way to start the week, pal. She's killed? Yeah. Okay. And then our last one here, this is a bit of a confusing story. But I think Clayton may actually be able to help us with this because I think he visits pawn shops.

Yes? Absolutely. Is that what Gold Rush is? Like in Dallas Gold Rush? Yeah, I think so. Like the places that you see. A lot of, a lot of Ponters. shops will buy and sell like your old gold jewelry but then there's a lot of places that just

focus on you know like buying your grandparents old silver set or your grandmother's old uh gold jewelry stuff like that okay my coin dealer is specializes in that stuff well they buy china i was looking at my china again this week uh china no you'll probably just want to go to like an estate auction site and have them or like a consignment shop Guarantee there's like five of them in South Lake. Well, two Gold Rush business owners and three members of a Texas gang called Tango Blast have been convicted for the 2020 home invasion

of a Gold Rush customer in Addison back in 2020. Okay, so we're going to go back to 2020, April. There's a home invasion. and there's an employee of this gold rush, as he just described. It's a place where you bring gold and they buy it from you. And they carried out basically a home invasion, two of the people who ran the business and this gang, which is just described in this news story as the Tango Blast Gang.

Now, I'm not taking shots at Fox 4's website here, but it appears I'm also the only. one who's never heard of the tango blast gang as if this is like uh oh they're at it again i mean it's a cool name the tbg sounds like a taco bell drink it really does and in fact if you look it up in the u k there is a drink called tango ass uh tango ice blast it's a slushy drink the other option is uh Hispanic and prison street gangs located in major cities in texas And I've never heard of this in my life. But apparently they run stores where they trade gold for cash.

That's probably every one of those places, right? You assume there's something. Like, are there any straight up gold business? No. Like, this is, I'm just an honest-to-goodness gold man. Ask Clayton. Yes. Is there?

Like, what about pawn shops then? Like, are pawn shops? It all seems seedy. And maybe that's just a perception thing Because they keep showing up in news stories like this But I don't know And they're always in seedy parts of town The pawn shop

Like that just lends to it There's one I frequent Like right down the street from Jake's house You frequent That's why I'm going to him man I'm telling you this guy's in this world I feel like pawn stars changed the game From a PR standpoint

No I was a hardcore pawn guy The Mean Streets of Detroit 8 Mile What does that mean That you're a hardcore pawn guy That was a show That was a show on TV Called the hardcore porn

No no That's sorry Either way There's shows There's that many shows Yeah yeah And they were You know

They had ones for the real ones The real beaters Like that Where he can look down On that one Pond stars And be like Come on dude

Weak shit I'm hardcore pawn Can I cleanse the news Real quick What do you got Uh Let's see that's luca's grandmother

hey listen got a little bob holds the Guinness world record for hottest grandma is that a wax figure of lucca's mom no that's that's luca's real mom that's really weird looking man it's not a great photo but

but the mom as you can see 40 yeah nothing wrong with that at all I don't think so no very attractive old rule woman stumbled so hard there What are they doing with the Guinness Book of World Records 2020?

I don't know. Oh, Lucas is in it doing something, yeah. Doing something. They're holding the, man, I was such a Guinness guy. Were you? Oh, yeah, well, they had a book fair every year at school. We had a book fair. And so that was on the list.

Like, yeah, I'm going to get the Guinness this year. So I can see the two fat guys riding a motorcycle. The guy with the longest fingernails ever. I will go to the sports part of it where Nolan Ryan threw a fastball 100 miles an hour, which apparently is done all the time now and nobody cares. But at the time, it was like, whoa, the only guy. What was the other sports one? Toby Harrah played an entire doubleheader without receiving a put-out or an assist at shortstop,

which apparently is the only time ever that's been done. So a couple Ranger-related things. Back guys on a motorcycle? I did mention that. Did you ever get into... Not listening. Yeah, you get to do your own not listening. Get a little not listening.

Damn it. Did you ever get into hot dog eating contests? No, besides trying to find funny audio from that. What do you mean get into? That's this side of the room player. Yeah. Like watching it? You were into watching it or actually doing it?

Oh, just checking out the records in the book. Yeah. Okay. No, I think when I was a kid, I feel like that wasn't a thing. There's a guy with like 200 cigarettes in his mouth. You ever see that picture? Oh yeah, that's a great one. Except it's like a nine-year-old from India.

Yeah. All right, there's a news. All right. Yeah, let's do that. Case of the Mondays. Who was murdered every Monday morning? And subscribe. That was a good news. Uh, Frankel and Frankel, just a quick reminder.

They are our personal injury attorneys. If indeed you need. you know, help in that regard. If you get in an accident, if you are dealing with the insurance companies, they used to work, some of them used to work for the insurance companies, so they know they're dirty tricks. They know how they're trying to keep you from what you deserve, and they know how to get it.

So, Frankel and Frankel at 817 or 214 and then dial all threes. Let's see here. I don't have any viewer mail birthdays on this very day. So we'll get right into some today in history. Fairlease.org presents. On this day in history. Let's see. It's Monday, September 22nd.

And on this very day in 1862, September 22nd, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all slaves in rebel states should be free. As of January 1st, 1863, because we do have the fall harvest to get through. Let's not be hasty here. We already scheduled these games. Yeah.

What do you want us to do? So, hey, we won the war. Hey, we're free, right? Hold on. You will. You know right now to give it time. That, and this is a historical. You think they were treated real nicely in that three months leading up to?

Yeah, it was basically just. Just like, yeah, your senior year. Oh, you're going to be free in a couple. Yeah, I'm sure the slave owner is really cool. Like, oh, it's cool that you're going to be free in a couple months. This is entirely a historical. Like, I'm not going to get into what Lincoln was or wasn't. But it is really funny to imagine.

Like, you know how anytime you give money or a rich person gives money to something? And people are like, that's it? No, you know. Lincoln showed up and was like, I'm freeing them. All of them. And immediately somebody was like, not till January. Very racist, piece of shit. Yeah.

And he's like, dude, what do I got to do? What do I have to do? Bring him today. That's the end. Boo. The answer is... Well, yeah, but Mark Cuban could also donate a billion dollars instead of a million dollars. Yeah.

Pretty far from June. Juneteenth. He's a long way away. Pretty far from June. All the way to Galveston. On this day in 1927, It was Soldier Field in Chicago. That's where the Cowboys were yesterday.

That's where you were. It's pretty sweet. The historic Soldier Field. That's going away. That's all. It was a big topic of conversation yesterday with T.C. in the mix. Is it official that they're moving to the burbs? No, but, you know.

I thought it was cool. No, no, but yeah, they're moving far away to the suburbs. Oh, I didn't know that. As they all will. Brandon said the stadium was old. Tomorrow, Brandon Aubrey Show, tomorrow. Oh, tonight. Wait.

Tomorrow night is the premium subscriber meeting, our quarterly brainstorming meeting. Anyway, Soldier Field in 1927, the site of the historic heavyweight rematch. It was Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, 100,000 people there to watch a boxing match. which I guess has been done in modern times right we saw Mike Tyson and Jake Paul in front of 100,000 people at Jerry World Yeah I'm sure there's been some overseas ones too On this day in 1993

47 people were killed when an Amtrak passenger train fell off a bridge and crashed near Mobile Alabama A tugboat pilot lost in fog had hit the bridge knocking the tracks 38 inches out of line just minutes before the train arrived

there were 150 survivors would you want to be part of that survivor group or do you think that's too big I'd want to live yeah does seem like too many though how many people are on a tug

oh it's an Amtrak okay Oh, in Jake News, in this day in 2019, the movie created after a TV series, Downton Abbey pulled off a box office upset on its opening weekend, defeating Sylvester Stallone, which was being watched by my mom and Rose, Rambo Last Blood.

I was at Downton that day. You were at Downton. My mom and Rose were at Rambo. They're all here. They were all there. Oh, this also appears to be the first Antonio Brown Twitter rant on that same day. Wow. Truly historic.

His first NFL Sunday without a team. He announced he was done for good with the league. One famous wedding on this date in 2004. Kendra Wilkinson She was a Playboy playmate Hank Basket Mary's NFL player Hank Basket Kemp's been

Lots of them At the Playboy Mansion Yeah she walked in on him With a man That was dressed as a woman Living as a woman I can't recall He said he was high

Sorry I was so high And we will say today in Dumb Zone history, it's going to be brought to us by Lone Star Beer. I just want to remind you that LoneStarBeer.com, if you use the promo code DumbZone 21, you can get 21% off merchandise. Must be 21 or over to purchase. Lone Star Beer, available at Globe Life Field, the National Beer of Texas. We're big fans. I underconsumed yesterday, and that's what we promote. Um, not over-consuming.

I over-consume their t-shirts. Yeah, but Lone Star beer, an integral part of the Dumb Zone football streams. Looking like it's going to be more and more. And on this day in Dumb Zone history. Also, the Lone Star, the drink of choice at the monthly subby 42 game. Hey. As well. Guy gets in from Chicago at 1 a.m. and he's headed out to play Domino's tonight.

Yeah, with my good friends. We love to see it. Um, one thing from on this day in 2021, we had Jay Leno on. I think it was the only interview we pre-recorded. I might have done one with Shatner. He did. Yeah. And then I guess we did McConaughey during COVID pre-recorded.

Yeah. But other than that, it was like we wouldn't move our schedule around for just anybody. But yeah, we had Jay Leno, I remember being in the production room, and we set up Jackie the joke man to pop on with him. And Jay Leno was mad at that. He wasn't happy with us later. Yep. Because it was like springing something on him. That's my Jay Leno.

And then I think Linno told the joke that was good. But I think the punchline was like, that goddamn nun here? And we went back and forth of like, do we play it? We did. Do we beep it? And we played it full. And I don't think he got mad about it. And we just kind of watched the reflection just to make sure.

Yes, at the ticket there was never really a hard, steady rule. It is like one day It depends on the mood of You know the PD sometimes But if If things were going right Then you could let the goddamn play on the air But if things were going wrong

Then maybe you'd get yelled at for goddamn Which I had this problem in Dayton too And so we did a study Study Study So it was like The end of Planet of the Apes. Are you familiar with the end of Planet of the Apes?

I honestly think only from hearing you describe it. So I think I get the... When the guy's riding on the horse and he sees half buried in the sand is the top of the statue of liberty and he realizes, you know, because it's a thousand years later, he didn't really... He thought he traveled somewhere in space, but apparently he just, it's Earth. And he's like, you maniacs, you blew it up. And he's like, God damn, God damn you all to hell. And so I got in trouble for this in Dayton.

So we played that and we beeped out, damn. And then, but we were saying after we beeped out, that doesn't seem, damn, the word damn, you should not have to beep that out. Right? The FCC wouldn't get mad at hearing the word damn. What are you supposed to do? But then it seems sacrilegious if you beep the word God. Silence the Lord? Like I'm beeping God and not.

allowing God to get a little more pub, and perhaps you will, you know, join in with the whole God thing. And so then we played that and then played the beeping God, and how would that sound? And then we took some calls and... Oh, for your research. Went to the phones. Right.

How would you think? But yes, if you thought the program director, who at times would sit in the studio with a stopwatch, making sure that our music didn't go more than 15 seconds was cool, He actually wasn't. He wasn't cool about that either. But it was fun. Torn ACL for Nick Bosa.

It was confirmed. Donzo. Oh, that sucked. Damn. That's going to suck. I forgot we got a Niners fan in our midst here. Well, they've been overcoming lots of injuries. I'm sure everything will be fine.

You got a genius head coach. That's it? All right. Other birthdays today, former Maverick and Bobcat. Gary Trent is 50. Share it with his dad. Share it with his dad. The Shack of the Mac. Hassan Reddick, 31. Carlos Correa, 30.

Cheater. Cheater. Vince Coleman, 63. A big bass dealer back in the 80s. Harold Carmichael is 75. Eagle. Singer David. Coverdale is 73.

I can confidently say I've never heard one of their songs. He is the lead singer of White Snake. Oh, yeah. Is that the car? Is that the car? White Snake's car? Here I go again on my own. Yeah, it's like Frank the Tank.

What do you mean? Is that the car? What is he saying? Am I? You're talking about the music video? Mm-hmm. That's... Wait, what does he say? saying? There's a music video with a girl on a car.

Yeah, but that's not what he said. He just said, is that the call? That's what you meant? Tani car. Tawney Catan? I don't know. Short-circuited me. Andrea Bocelli is 66. The singer. That's the original song

who Will Ferrell was doing at the end of Stepbrothers. That's the Andrea Bocelli song. Actor Scott Bayo is 64. He is from Happy Days and Charles in charge. And the RNC. Is he into that?

It was before they had Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan. That should tell you how far the parties come. Rapper Mystical is 54. Extremely underrated. Should be regarded more highly, but I'm pretty sure that his prison sentence was for Pito stuff. so I think there might be a reason. Let me check on sexual battery. Yeah.

Do we have mystical on the Kempspin list? I don't think so. That's an original. Well, I just remember I was a big mystical fan, and then I didn't think about him for a while. And I brought it back up when we were at the ticket or somehow it came up. I'm like, man, what happened to that guy?

He kind of fell off for a little while. He was really going strong. They're like, oh, he went to jail for rape. That's what happened to him No, he's on here Oh, we've done it Um I've really done it

Okay, dumb zone birthday of the day It came down to two This is our runner up John Wu The director Uh Certainly many many classics and The Rock, probably.

Really, I wrote it here just because he directed Face Off. Face Off, okay. Yeah. And I know that's one of your... Mission Impossible. Top five. No, it's... What is it, like, gone with the wind?

Right, Citizen Kane. Yeah. But our Dumb Zone birthday of the day just brought up a memory. And I could not find any audio to back this up. But the guy's name is Ted Williams. He is 68. In 2011, he was a homeless guy who went viral. Yes.

Cleveland. Columbus, I believe. Columbus, okay. He has a voice. He is the man with the golden voice. Yeah. I don't remember why, so I couldn't find. He got commercials, too.

Yes, so after he goes viral, all of a sudden, he starts getting a ton of, got a couple movie things, like the voiceover thing, obviously. He got the Browns to draft Johnny Menzzo. I think that was a different homeless guy. Oh. Can you find anything on him? I mean... It's hard because his name is Ted Williams. That original video of him being interviewed.

That was the classic YouTube. Yeah. Can you find that? I should have found it this morning. When you're listening to nothing but the best of oldies, you're listening to Magic 98.9. Thank you so much. That is a great voice. You've got to see the video, though, is a thing.

And don't forget, tomorrow morning is your chance to win a pair of tickets to see this man live in concert. Where is he like he's on the street? Dude, yeah, like at a street corner with a sign, disheveled, the guy's recording out his window. In 2011, I was, again, homeless and penniless and hopeless in some people's eyes. God, I hate that piano. That was something that I had from before the game that I wasn't even. going to play for you guys, but that made me think of it. Aaron Andrews set down with Dak before the game, or I guess Friday in Chicago or Saturday in Chicago at the hotel. Here's a three-minute piece

about adversity and blah and shot. I don't know. I'm just going to hear a little bit. And the guys in the locker will definitely remind me. But man, you played with Jason Whitton. And I'm like, yeah. Do we need this music the whole time? And so they call me on sometimes, but body feels great. Fast forward. solid start you've been on some teams before I've covered you when there's been a Super Bowl buzz right at the beginning pass forward your immediate response to the drama once you heard that Jerry had traded Micah

what happened to interviews like the whole interview is like this stop cut up and the green bay packers come to Dallas but I want to know what the okay anyways but they don't say anything they have cool shots and they put music behind did piano and that's it. Now, I'd rather listen to this.

When I got the call that they were looking for a homeless guy with a golden voice, I had no idea of really who they were talking about until someone called me. There you go. Shout to Ted Williams. Our birthday of the day. Born on this day now dead, David Stern. Tommy Lasorda. Find that.

I don't actually get hit with a cop. You want to find that? Yeah. He was talking about... V. Stiviano. His friend was the owner of the Clippers. Donald Sterling. And yes, V. Stiviano, the lady who secretly recorded him and got him kicked out of the NBA.

Do you think he's kicked out of the NBA in today's culture? Yeah, I think that was still probably... Okay, he never said the N-word. No, but it was still a deal where he was just so bad for business. Yeah, that's the thing. They'll find a way. Right. That's a lot of the cancel people is like, yeah.

Actually, we also kind of wanted to cancel you. Yeah. Maybe they wanted, maybe ABC in a way they were losing money on late night and the Kimmel thing like this only helps them. That's why I get frustrated when people are like, you know, his ratings were terrible. It's like, that can be a part of it. Like if somebody offered you a, hey, uh, Can you get out of this contract by doing me this fake? Like, of course, that's part of it.

Yeah. Who's the guy that was always against Stern in New York? Dymus? Nappy-headed hose. Yeah. Same thing. He was making a ton of money. His ratings weren't what they used to be.

And so all of a sudden, nappy-headed hose will get you fired. Whereas it used to get a hand wave, like, ah, okay. Let's do a fake suspension or something because you're bringing in a ton of money here. you know follow the monies what some people would say here is you ask me and I'll just tell you what I think about it I think that is very

very bad for that man to make an accusation like that that is terrible this is a new I have never you uh you looked in the drop box didn't you and you couldn't find it in the drop box

could you so here's this I've been a friend of that guy's for 30 years A lot of hot topic going around. What is your thought? Well, that doesn't surprise me that he said those things. That doesn't surprise me.

And he shouldn't have said it. And he just hurt himself by talking too much and doing things that he couldn't, it shouldn't be doing. And I tell you, I don't wish that girl any bad luck, but I hope she gets hit with a car. But the good luck kind. Yeah. With a car, not buy it.

Right. Get hit with a car. Also born on the stay now dead, Ellen Church was the first airline stewardess. Okay. In 1930. Everyone was probably pretty cool to her. Dead on the stay still dead.

you have Yogi Berra and you have Nathan Hale who is a captain in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War who said I only regret that I have

but one life to lose for my country and then they executed him He's like 27 or something 21 That's awesome Yeah That's ballsy

Yeah And that's what happened on this day in history You think it was easier to be a spy back in the day Like when nobody knew anything about anywhere else in the world Like you could just show up with some completely BS accent Be like boom a spy from I'm like whoa

Edwarder says three to four weeks for CD All right What are we doing Dez? Shut. You got picks, man. All right, closing remarks are brought to us. Antonio Brown, tired.

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Why are you doing this spot? Because I'm stoked on Game Day. Shouldn't Dave be doing it? What can you tell us about Game Day? This is Dave, everybody. Hi, Dave. From Game Day, Dave. Game Day, Men's Health.

Game Day Men's Health is a different than most of our other clients, because you guys each own your own franchise, right? That's right. Or some of us own three kind of scoreboard to others. I mean, we don't really hold that over one another, but. No one's keeping score. the guy who's in first place with three of them. But anyway, yeah, so we know a lot of different individual owners where it's not like, oh, I just owned this one business and we have all these

locations. So we're developing relationships with a bunch of different people. And with us, you get to develop a bunch of different relationships with a bunch of different people. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's what I'm saying. With you guys, we're meeting a dozen owners, not just Yeah, I think there's... One Grand Puba. I think there's seven of us in the Metroplex. Okay. We've got 12 clinics open, and we're here to help guys get back on their game.

Relive your glory days. It's... The TRT thing is working out quite well for me. I think I told other Dave this, but the biggest thing for me was like I can do the same stuff, and I feel like I get more out of it. Like my workout, it's no different. but I burn more calories.

Like I just feel like I could do everything that I was doing, but do it a little bit better. A million dollar man. That's my way of selling it, but it's different for everybody. So you can check, because I know it's Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. He's going to do you right now.

I'm saying you can do that without putting a finger in someone. We can. We check you with blood. And as you said, it is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. prostate cancer affects one and eight guys in the United States. So you have a 12.5% of percent chance of getting prostate cancer at some point in your life. It's probably a good idea to get yourself checked with a non-invasive test. Which is what you guys do.

That's right. which didn't it used to be a bigger killer, but now you're identifying it earlier, all that kind of stuff? Well, it's 99% survivable if you detect it early. Yeah. If you let it get malignant,

it drops down to about 37%. So you want to catch it early. You want to get treated. And, you know, for 15 minutes, what are you doing that's, for that 15 minutes, that's more important than checking to make sure that you're not dying of cancer.

The Cowboys give up 17 points. Well, there you go. Oh, yeah. Don't they have a deal, too? Like, if you, do you get a free B12 shot, is it? Yeah. So you get a free prostate cancer check and then a free B12 shot while you're there. Test your T while you're at it.

That's right. You come in. We'll take your blood. We'll check you for both your testosterone level and for your prostate-specific antigen. And as long as you're nice and, you know, mention the dumb zone, we'll throw in a free B-12 shot for the balance of the month of September. What if you're an A-hole and you mention the dumb zone? Well, we'll still probably give you the shot.

Okay, because you did throw a caveat on there I wasn't comfortable with. They being nice. Well, I mean, being nice helps. Okay. And it's not a problem because when you get testosterone fixed, I mean, you have to hold the door for the next person walking. The thing is, though, listening to us helps more, because if you're just walking and you're nice, they're not going to just be like, oh, I'll give you the nice 10% off thing. We're going to give it to you when you mention the dumb zone.

Absolutely. See? So be an a hole. Mention the dumb zone. What else would you like people to know? What are we not hitting enough? Well. I've had people.

A lot of people ask me about peptides. Peptides are amazing. They're the cheat codes to enhancing your body. You know, you look at muscle growth, you look at your quality of sleep, you look at weight loss, even, you know, your skin elasticity and that kind of thing. Like there's a lot of things that you can do with peptides that will help you enhance and optimize your life. so you kind of like talk to a dude about what are you trying to improve and then you're like I can whip it up yeah yeah sure special thing for you I mean look with with with peptides like there's not one peptide right no no peptides are branch chain amino acids they naturally

occurring your body and the whole idea with peptides is you're giving your your body more of what it needs in order to improve itself. So if you want to build a bunch of lean muscle, there's a way to improve that. And if you want to lose a bunch of weight, I mean, everybody's heard of Ozempic and... I call it the fat shot. Exactly.

But Ozempic is, for all intents of purposes, a peptide. And you can slow your digestion, curb your appetite, lose a bunch of weight on it. It's just, it's a magical concoction of things that make your body respond. I like a nice B-12 shot. That's not a peptide though, right? It's not. Just a vitamin.

What's the vitamin that the sun gives you? Vitamin D. Okay. Can you get that shot too? I'll give you some. Really? Yeah. All right. I'll take your vitamin D, Jake.

Protein chaser. Don't laugh at that, Dave. Don't laugh at that. Well, what are we doing here? Are we throwing it over to website, man, or how do we work this? Oh, you want to give a couple closing remarks? Yeah, he's here. Sure.

This is Ethan who created our Knockout League website. Are you a name Knockout? Oh, you got knocked out of a Knockout League this weekend. I did, unfortunately. Because you bet on the Cowboys. I figured they were going into Chicago, and Chicago kind of sucks. We got their defensive coordinator Our defensive coordinator

knows all their secrets, yeah Now if I were to go to gameday.dumzone.com Do you have a peptide that makes me better at gambling? No, because I'd be all over that. Yeah, I would be... Let us know buying the place out. Ethan? Awesome.

Sorry, Ethan. No, that's fine. Just a couple quick ones, then I have one final thought. Intercepting Cancer. Have you ever thought about it as... The quarterback is cancer. So you're intercepting...

That's pretty good. Cancer, the quarterback, you're getting one over on it, you know? Well, they have to be more specific there because we assume the football is cancer there. And you're saying we want to intercept... You're going to grab the cancer, but I'm saying you're getting to take away. Because we always say, do you know that was a slogan for the NFL last year? No, I didn't know that.

Like they were against cancer, right? Who isn't? Not a lot of people were coming out on the pro-cancer platform, which is unfortunate. I like to hear from both sides. Not this month, bud. But no, yeah, no, no, not prostate cancer for sure. But their bit was, yes, intercept cancer. That was their campaign.

But then wouldn't you have it? We thought, yes, we thought it should be knocked down cancer. Like you wouldn't want to intercept it. You want it away. It's not football, though. Spike cancer. P.U.C.C.C. Yeah, but, yeah.

If you said spike cancer, though, it feels like you're celebrating with it. Like, yeah, I don't know. I don't like the intercept being with the quarterback. I reject your first closing remark, Ethan. I'll take it with block. Block cancer. Block can't be good, yes. That's what you're doing.

Yesterday would be pretty relevant. Ask Brandon about that tomorrow. Okay. Everybody's a PD. Got a quick recommendation. I don't know if you guys ever listened to the Acquired podcast. It's like a businessy podcast. but they do long-form, three-four-hour podcasts about businesses.

But I think you guys would love it. There's a Nike one. I mean, they have an NFL one. Acquired? Is that the one that Sean Kernan was telling us? I don't listen to anything he says. Okay, well, he had emailed us that he was corresponding with some podcast. It was like about entrepreneurs.

And so it was kind of like a, there was some kind of a system to become a guest on that show. yeah and he was emailing them as us oh that's funny and he said you've got to the next round now it's up to you you have to do a call with the guy you're like no and so yeah i got to figure out what no not that um a quick one blake i the whole like going to kids parties i feel like that's it's next level insane but also it's like an ego thing it's like i could come to anywhere and be like, what's up? No big deal. That's crazy. Well, I was invited.

Yeah, but like... So Blake has a little kid, what, three years old? Almost four. Okay. And he has put out the call. I'll explain this to Dave. No, I listen. I understand. Okay, you understand what's going on?

Well, for anybody that doesn't know, then, he puts out the call to listeners to invite him. He will go to your kid's birthday party because every Saturday or every Sunday, he's, you know, wife has new baby she's worried about so he's just spending all day with brooks and so yes if you invite him to your saturday more often i think because you now do the cowboys a bit i think i think going to the the third party invitation is a stretch yeah that one you mentioned yeah oh the one where it's like a friend of mine has a kid yeah and i told him but he's looking he's looking to kill time it's fair with the kid he's looking for some free food yeah i mean my son has a good time yeah whoever i would i want you to continue this as long as you can

until he's at an age where he's like what do we do listen as a as a fellow parent of a three-year-old i applaud you for all the time you're spending with him amazing and god what a force field because everybody there's a lot of us who are thinking i feel like he's stealing i don't like it something's not right about it but then you're like god he's spending so much time with his son, though. My kid has a great time. It's like a confidence that is borderline, like something's crazy. Yeah.

Does it ever occur to him? Someone's like, I don't want him here. No. Then don't invite me. Not the Blake Jones, I know. I'm just impressed. Have you ever been rejected? No.

Like turned away at the door. Well, you know, the wife of whatever guy invites you is like, what is, who is this? Yeah, confused by the bit. Do you bring a gift? I have. That means not always. Not always. Ooh, interesting.

Do you bring an empty bag with tissue paper in it? Ooh, that'd be great. Get there. I just want this to pay off with Jake or with Blake having to go to like a Kintaniera or a bar mitzvah. Oh, yeah.

When we get to that level, that's when this is really going to kick in. Yeah. He's got traditional garb on or something. See, the next... That's what I want. The next step of this is I got invited to a 40-year-old's birthday party.

Just a random? No kid. I think listeners a 40-year-old bash and that's not that bad though or weird i would just do you going might the bigger question is have you ever crashed a wedding i haven't done that well yeah we did we got it i haven't done it singular you're invited though right yeah i guess that's not crashing but a lot of the people they were very confused including the groom yeah yeah but the bride was all about it the bride was all about it she was all hot and stuff and got this groom like wait what you invited and yeah

were like, let's face it, we were the stars of that moment. All of a sudden, she didn't care about the groom as much anymore. Brattle party was very confused when the first pictures taken were with us and not. Right. They were on their way over. Not the couple. All right. I got one final just thing.

I was going to sign the screen. Go for it. Okay. I just think about you. Jake, you mentioned you think about the show all the time. I think about y'all show probably too much. as well like the show is it's amazing you guys are my you know you're like my friends that i don't talk to it's kind of a weird one-sided thing but i'm sure that's how many people feel but like

i've been thinking about your show should really be like big big you know like you guys got it i feel like you're on the precipice of just blowing up and i think a lot about like how what does it take to get to that bar stool i mean barstool's massive but like you guys are a thinking man's bar stool like i listen to barstool stuff and it sucks like it's but it's like what you do but it sucks you know and like this is so much better than that there's so much content out there that is big that is not good and y'all's content is like a a plus and you know i just think about what take what i don't know it's like the social game i don't know what you guys you know you guys put stuff out on social but i feels like there's something there

that you could get in that game in a way that could take you out. And I also think about the Dallas thing a lot. I don't know if you guys ever talk about it. But being so Dallas-centric, that's what gets so many people into it and Dallas-sports-centric. But I wonder, is there any holding back because of that that could happen? But part of me is wonder, it's like, do you guys even want to be big, big? You know?

I know you guys like money. Everybody likes money, but. Yeah, who would want that? But I just, you know, I wonder, like, you have such a niche in this Dallas sports market and everybody knows you here, but I mean, I know there's people in like Denver and people, you know, wherever, but like people need to hear y'all, you know. I feel like you could be on that level of national, but I don't know the formula to get there, but I think it could involve something about social and something about Dallas-centric stuff. And I don't know, is there any consideration of being like this portion of the show or whatever? is not as much Dallas, and this is Dallas? I don't know.

Just thoughts. Anybody want to go? I don't want to put you on. I don't know. It's like serious talking stuff, but it's like I would think about it with the ticket, too. I always thought the ticket could have been, you know, put it on serious FM. Yeah. And it would have been a well listened to just because people that did find us that weren't

from Dallas would be like, hey, I'm still staying tuned in. So there's a lot of anecdotal. like I like this show anyway and you know it's not like we're breaking down last night's Rangers box score or anything no and we are heavy on the cobblades but otherwise it's gotten better with the podcast because you talk about what you want to talk about

it's kind of you know general stuff like I'm as interested in the NFL as a whole as I am in anything yeah so I mean it is a serious it's not serious but it is a you know it's like the science to it right less than the art and any entertainment

product is going to grapple with the do you go away from what made you what you are in an effort to try to grow right? That's anything and so I think you kind of just feel it out but it's easier to feel out or maybe it's harder I don't know we have a lot more freedom

to feel it out now than we did before but you know I don't know I think I think probably there is a lowest comment denominator element to what Barstool does, right? I mean, the truth is, like, if I would just meet people on the street, I would almost never meet people who listen to the ticket.

Yeah. I would only meet people who listen to the fan. Legitimately, dude. Like, I'd go play flag football for years, guys who were playing football all the time. None of them knew who the ticket was. But they all listened to the fan. So it was weird to me even then that it was like, it seems like everybody I run into who's kind of a dummy, like,

listens to this station but there's way more dummies in the world no pun intended so like the same sort of deal like the more niche your thing gets i think it can get better but also it has less room to just become like a massive massive thing so i don't know dude get off our ass no i'm just uncomfortable to hear someone be like really nice i want like i'm all about y'all being as big as possible and i just well i'll tell you this how to that's why we're going to game day But also, yeah, get that P-shot, baby. Get it? Right in there.

The wiener shit. But let me say this, though, like somewhat serious. I think about what Sarah said, Sarah Heppel has said after the dumb zone summer event a lot, which is that there is something to like media product or content feeling like the people are part of it and it's part of the people. Like it's a bottom up thing and not a top down thing. And Barstool has done a really good job of getting huge while maintaining some of that. But it's really hard, I feel like, to get huge. and feel small. So I would rather stay feeling small and just be, like, small.

And I have a pool. Yeah. I got to meet Dave from Game Day. Blake eats steak on a plane. So, I don't know. I just love the shit out of doing this show. That's why, and that's why I was wondering, like, is it just exactly what you want?

Yes. Well, I wanted to get better. I want to... Life by the box. I can't believe it. Grab life by the box. That's your mission. Yeah, I don't know.

It's uncomfortable to talk about, but I do love doing this. And I think the listener's situation here is you could do this forever and you wouldn't find this. Yeah. It's rules. You got a bunch of dudes getting hard, a bunch of listeners now. You do an amazing job of making it feel like old stern and the way that everybody feels like they know something that other people don't know. You know? all the inside jokes and you mean something as ridiculous as creating a website for a fake

i mean honestly like that's why i want that's why i like helping y'all because it's like it's part of the lore you know yes i do i love it i love the lore of it even has to drive back to college station i know what one tiny final thought i think i'm it floor's yours but tc should really be like there's another world where tc is like famous. Like he's he really is like an amazing podcaster. See, I was feeling great about myself until this. I know.

You guys are amazing. But like you know, Jake's... You guys are really good, but you know who's great? This other You guys are amazing. See, we should have just ended there. I'm all love, you know? I like everybody. Play the box thing again.

Ready to grab life by the box. Adios, mofo. We got to go before this becomes a zoo. Thank you for watching my video. Subscribe and type for my name if you want to watch more of my video. All right, well, thanks to, you know. Oh, Cowboys defense, what the heck are you doing? All your fans are now booing.

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