The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 9-23-25 PREVIEW | The Brandon Aubrey Show and Jake's big award

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

Hear the entire Brandon Aubrey show and the rest of this Dumb Zone episode including Schotty audio saying teams are afraid to run against them and Jake's big award by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneThe NFL and probably history's greatest kicker, Brandon Aubrey, joins us this week to talk about the Rams knuckle kick, his Notre Dame buddy group, and the Cowboys trip to Chicago ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey now, what you were about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full, along with the full archive, ah, shit. If you would like to hear this program in full with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at dumbzone.com. You talked about everything that came with last week's performance, and I like how you seem to be a guy who kind of just, it's another day. but it did mean that the 203 maybe the ESPN profile like when you first became a thing that was like showing back up on my timeline

and it's funny how things work because we we not only credit DAC in that article with your nickname it's almost like we're crediting for like teaching you to kick not Egan it's all but DAC was there and I forget that you were kicking with like kids that Egan had actual junior high and high school kickers out there with Brandon Aubrey.

You know, it's funny about that. Tyler Loop, who's actually one of those kids. Yeah, he's made, uh, is in the NFL now, right? Or? Yeah, he's making his rookie year with, uh, the Ravens. Yeah. Like, uh, I don't know. That's just very, like we're talking 13 year olds and here's a guy who now is getting, uh,

you should let him know you got slimed. You should call those guys back up. I'm sure they're. They're aware at this point. But I was laughing because obviously it lays out that your wife was a big part of it, that you guys are watching football, and Jen's like, you can do this. Which is good for you because are you aware of Rodrigo Blankenship kicked in the UFL recently? Yeah, he's another one-on-one kicking guy who was like big in Birmingham.

One of the coaches that I've been with is his, he's his favorite ever kicker. So I definitely am aware of him, respect the specs. Oh, yeah. I've never, I've actually met him. Oh, yeah. Well, even though he hasn't met you, he doesn't have a gig right now. So he doesn't have, he didn't have a wife, like, pumping him up. He's just out here on TikTok recreating every kick from the NFL every week.

And here's yours from a couple weeks ago. And I only wanted to play it for you because you'll see he gets it through. but while yours had a bit of distance on it, I think his draw is crossbar, but this is how kickers are working. Try to get a job. He's just out here filming himself doing every kick. Oh, crossbar.

Yeah, I mean, you've got to make money any way possible, and TikTok's a great way to do it for somebody who's not in the league currently. So hopefully, I mean, he had a great year in the UFL, so hopefully he can find his way back. would we ever see Brandon Aubrey auditioning on social media just doesn't see. Well, we hope not, not now, not that you've been to this level. That could have been you, though.

Never know. I used to go out and film myself all the time, and then you put the other little workout cut-ups and send them to whoever you have the contact information for and just pray they spend the two minutes looking at it. It's a grind. Well, I got an email from, Brent, who says, is Brandon Aubrey following how the other former UFL kickers are doing?

So do you do that on purpose? I watch all the kickers. I watch current UFL and just fast forward to the field goals. And if the stallions are playing, I'll watch that whole game. But, yeah, I'll look checking on the stats for every kicker, not just the UFO kickers. But I saw Bates last night, almost had the record. What a love for him to make that one. one um but just a hair left he looks like he had the distance didn't we also last night we had

uh uh one go over the upright right yeah that was tyler loop yeah he put that okay right which that one that one i don't think is very cool i mean it's as close as it gets but it was very obviously good in my opinion you know my solution extend the uprights lasers lasers extend the uprights with lasers and it's not reviewable but like what would they even do if they did review what if you put a crossbar at the top of the operation you got to make it in the rectangle where i think that would hurt me yeah yeah well no this guy is writing very popular this guy in particular wanted to know and this is more for the brandon quiz i guess the browns kicker is a former ufl kicker yeah andre schmitz i don't

know if that's how you say it but s z m y t yeah i'd say schmitz but i could be butchering it he He had a game winner, too. There's a lot of game-winning situations at the end of games this week. That Brown's operation was smooth. I know that gets you going. I haven't put the stopwatch to it yet, but it passes the eye test for sure. Says he got the attention to the NFL by making the most field goals in the U.S. Last year.

He had a rough first week but won the game today and has everyone in Cleveland hoping they've found their own Aubrey. That's what people want to do now, Brandon. Find your Aubrey. Yeah, there's a lot of UFL kickers in the league. You got John Parker, you've got me, Bates, and Andres. That's four off the top of my head without really even thinking about it. So I got an email from a listener who was every year with his dad. He finds an away game that he's going to go to with his dad.

He's been doing it for a few years. He wanted to meet up sometime before the game, and I told him I would because he said he was an Aggie, and I just feel like we've got to repair that relationship with our Aggie listeners. So I felt forced to meet this. guy. Also, he said his name was Madison. I was kind of hoping it was a girl. I'm a little disappointed when he showed up. All of that to say. I was in the lobby getting a drink with our listener and I noticed you had a big collection around you. And I just surmise it may have been some Notre Dame. And I guess I didn't put that together that you were playing so close to there. So that pretty special for you,

I'd imagine. Yeah, it's my Notre Dame soccer class. We had six out of eight of the guys there and one had a wedding and one had medical reasons not to come so it was it was great to see all those guys it's been been a while only really see them for weddings and major occasions like that so we were playing in chicago three of them live within really close distance and two of them took a flight and mid-practor there which is awesome it's really cool to see them and their their spouses so yeah so it was fun. They didn't go to the game. They all just got together and watched it. Ticket prices were like $500 when they were looking, so they balked

at that, which I don't blame them. They're not going to really interact with me at the game, so I got to see them and talk to him for a bit. It would have been longer if it wasn't for that delay. Dude, I know. We got in way late. Yeah, that was brutal. Oh yeah, what's that about? When you guys,

did you have to just sit on the plane for two hours or did you sit in your car? No. I sat in my car, and it started I was worried about killing the battery. I've done that before. So, you know, just profusely sweating. I gave up and I ran over to Banger's car, hopped in his. He had the 80 full blast and going.

So it was nice. I almost invited you to listen to some SMUTCU, but I thought you might have better things to do. No, no, I was doing nothing. You needed a car tray. Get a little worked on there. Do some taxes or something. I was afraid to leave and get anywhere

because it was just like sitting your car until you're, until we're ready. They didn't say it's going to be two hours. Yeah. I didn't find out until later that they were trying to drain like 2,000 pounds worth of gas or something like that. And I mean, I know from my wife that they can only drain like four pounds a minute. So it's like, I would have left if I knew that information.

Yeah, I thought it was the, because, you know, DFW had to ground flights or whatever because they cut the fiber optic cable. I thought it was that. I didn't know if they put too much gas in it. It was that. So our plane was preoccupied. We got another plane that was supposed to be going to. Asia, and it had way too much fuel on it for our flight.

We had a lot of other weight coming on the plane that a normal airliner wouldn't with all of our gear. And men. And then drained a bunch of fuel. And men. And Blake, now Blake this year. And beefcake. Blake is.

Yeah, I took a couple of Jersey mics while I was in there. How many tickets do you get on a road game? Oh, come on. Zero. I get zero tickets. I thought they'd give you a couple. No. We get two three tickets at home

And we have to pay the taxes on this We're like $220 Oh So if you get tickets for a road game You have to pay Yes I mean honestly dude Before everything went sideways

With Micah I was expecting that if he resigned in Dallas They were going to like Work in tickets for him Because he was like leading to charge Publicly being like this is bullshit Like I don't want to have to pay taxes On this for my family

It's an extra benefit It's like a tax. The cap type. Yeah, it's a tax thing for the, for the teams. If they're giving us that, it's like an extra benefit. Yeah, I get it. I don't know all the tax flaws. But it's just like with us when we worked at the ticket, like people thought, like, oh, yeah.

We get free cowboys against. Yeah, yeah. We could get you to the rough riders, though. Perhaps. Often. That's a fun game. I've been to a few. That's a guy with young kids.

Yeah, minor league sports are great. minor league hockey is the that's the it's good and your little kids don't know yeah they have no idea that this is not the big leagues yeah um so i guess i'll cross off my next question it was about when we go to denver can you get us a sweet oh man sweet you're talking to the wrong guy hopefully not after this year dan won't go to football games

without being in a suite anymore Wow. Especially, oh, yeah. He's not. Especially Denver, late October. You don't want me in a stands. I'm going to go by myself. You don't want me in the stands.

You know I need to be pampered a little bit. All right, Brandon, well, we really appreciate your time. And congrats on getting slimed. Yes, what a moment. The kids will love it. Is that it? Do you have like a, well, you don't have a trophy room or anything. He's going.

Your kid took it. No, we will eventually. We have a little shelf that's supposed to be for like pictures and whatnot that's out here. It's kind of getting crowded with this stuff. So probably going to ship it off to the closet until we have an appropriate space for it. Because it's getting ridiculous. Hemmy after hemmy. Yeah, who knows what's next.

Thanks for complimenting my jacket. That sort of stuff. I put that out just for the show. So it's a little decoration. The sign? The sign is super. Oh, nice. It's like wood carved by laser, I guess.

Did she get that from Etsy? Dude, you look badass in that. You do. Yeah, you do. You do. I was at a trading card show and some guy signing autographs and some guy just brought it up to me, had me sign one, and then handed me one.

Wow, that's sick. Yeah. Yeah, it's really cool. It looks like a 70s movie post. There were you. Yeah, find them. Place kicker slash mob boss. Yeah, that looks great.

Yeah. All right, dude. We'll talk soon. All right. Sounds good. Take care, guys. The MVP of the week. Your friend and ours, Brandon Aubrey.

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