The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 9-28-24: KT, Voch Lombardi, and Julie Dobbs hang with us on a Saturday

Episode Date: September 30, 2024

Subscribe to The Dumb Zone at Dumbzone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneA rare Saturday stream from Proslat Garage in Richardson. Voch Lombardi joins to talk Cowboys and how Mike McCarthy is probably to blame for the slow start. Kevin Turner talks his SNL draft and ridiculous kicker knockout league and Julie Dobbs brightens the program by talking about her dead cat ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Are we going to put this out as an audio thing as well, Blake? Sure. All right. If you want we are live today at pro slat garage suit garage store i was gonna say superstore can you say that no no no we can't say superstore anyway we're at pro slat and there's people here so let's applaud that we're here. Yay. In spite of KT.

You're here early. Oh, come on over, KT. You know, here's the thing, Dan. You don't start with SuperTarget. You start with Target, and then you have a SuperTarget. So this is ProSlat Garage garage store maybe in a year or two okay garage superstore well what can i say just to illustrate that when i walked in here the sign outside said garage store and i thought this is a little more this is an exceptional garage that's

uh but but superstore you're saying that's a little too far. Well, their low bar is already high, is what I'm saying. But there's still room. So you should know ProSlat is going to be super. Interesting. Well, anyway, it is kind of awesome here, if you walk around the showroom. Showroom?

Can we call this a showroom? Rooms? The lady said yes. You're asking a lot of questions. Oh, okay. Well, then I'll just tell you where we are. 75 in Arapaho. Although, was it Rob or Scene or somebody was just yelling at me saying that's really not that great of a description. How about this? The Northeast Quadrant. If I say we're on the Northeast Quadrant. Yeah. Off the service road, 75 in Arapaho. If you miss us then, you can't miss us at that point. There's like a pro-slat truck out front.

Oh, and in fact, they got, what do they call the big dancing guy wind thingy? You got it. You nailed it. Yeah. Dancing guy wind thingy. That says pro-slat on it. That dances like. You nailed it. Yeah. Dancing guy wind thingy. That says Pro Slat on it. That dances like D from Always Sunny. Right. Are you Always Sunny?

100%. Yeah. So join us. We invite you to come out here and join the people who are already here and we have chairs set up. Free food.

Free food? Hold on. I just thought there was a food truck. You just walk out there and you can eat for free. Okay, I'll be back. What's the food truck? What's the place? Tacos?

For free? I don't know. Is it? What is it? KT, what is it? It says taco on it. It says taco on it. It says taco on it. Okay, so we've narrowed it down.

Now, there are plenty of places that could provide tacos via truck. How about someone that works at ProSled? Anyone know? What's the place providing the free tacos? They're like here for, they're like, I could tell you anything you want to know about a garage.

Yeah, this is their first day. Yeah, but yeah, it's a grand opening. This has never been opened. Well, yesterday, I guess they had a VIP event that I wasn't invited to. A soft opening,

if you will. I wasn't invited. Your first day on the job and this guy comes in. I'm just a peep. Asking a hundred questions. Right. So is it super?

And what's with the truck? Who's taco? Well, that's, I'm just a peep. Asking 100 questions. Right. So is it super? And what's with the truck? Who's taco? Well, I'm just trying to prep them for when others walk in and they have questions. That's what I do. I get things done. You sound a little rough, my friend. Saturday morning, Blake. He was up till four.

What were you doing? Long week. I don't know. Wife wasn't home last night? No, so I got some work done. Got the weekly wrap-up done. Work? No, trust me.

I thought you did the weekly wrap-up. No, I voiced the thing. That's it. And I email him the cuts, and then he assembles them. You think Danny's pulling all the segments? What else are you doing? I thought you were working with us now. I don't know how to pull a segment.

I've been co-hosting for the dork that bailed on your show a month ago. What more do you want? He said he was coming back. Co-hosting. That's not that taxing, is it? Anyway, Danny did do something. Boy, it all makes sense. Scene had this idea.

Who did? The great Scene. Oh, yeah. Scene sitting. Scene had this idea. Who did? The great Scene. Oh, yeah. Scene sitting there. Everybody, Scene. That's 690 Scene. He invented the 690. Not the 69.

I'm not sure who invented that. Can I produce on the fly? Don't play this? Mm-mm. Really? I've obtained some audio from the original source. That might be better. Well, well.

I just need the music bed. Oh. Well, what if we do this, and then we up it? Oh, compare? And make it even better. Okay. Like, we'll... We'll make it super.

Yeah, there you go. Like, let's just debut this, because Danny did this on, like, right here. He was sitting right here. He was incredible to watch. He's an incredible musician. Everything he does sounds awesome. And he's sitting here, like, talking into his computer like this. Okay, so you know that's going to be bad.

It's going to sound like crap. He also asked me for headphones. Uh-huh, because I needed to monitor without feeding back. I would think since Blake is a great softball player, so he always has some cleats and a softball bat in the back of his car. Yeah. Like, why wouldn't you always have, I'm always ready to do a little music production?

Like, if I was you, I would always be ready. You know, wherever I am. Oh, if I need to spring into action, here I am. Like you see a hacker on a show, always has his laptop.

Yeah, like the guy that's always carrying it. They don't leave it at home. Why would you leave your headphones at home? He's ready to hack. You borrowed headphones more than anyone in the studio.

Well, Rob's working on mine because they broke. It's like the guy that always carries around Who has one pair of headphones? A guy like this who's been in the business for three decades.

Why don't you just buy some more with all the money you have? Yeah. What money? Severance money. We didn't get any severance money. We just got kicking the ass. Yeah.

We got like a negative severance money with the, I guess, the lawyer's bills. That was your choice. You could still be over there making wild-ass six-pigs. I used to support choice. I'm not pro-choice anymore after that whole bit.

I get it. So here, Scene had this idea. Danny implemented it. This is a mock-up. Blake claims he will make it even better very soon. This is what some will think of when they think of our

Pro Slap. Yeah, you're right. It sounds like he leaned over his computer five minutes ago. Any rap song on SoundCloud

from 08. And I didn't even do multiple takes. I just said it once and then copied and pasted it. That's it. Yeah. You can just stop it now. I don't say it anymore. That was too much work.

I like the bed because then I think it in a better and you know not just leaned over the computer oh where did this bed come from it's so cool it is a cool bed did somebody make this or is it just some stock thing that's out there no one knows it's been one of the great mysteries of music production for decades. This is the bed. That means he didn't pay for it. Royalty free, folks. Come on. Anyway, we have a loose shell of a program planned for you today.

We will talk cowboys with Vach Lombardi. He's our cowboy friend and we haven't talked to him since just before the season. When in fact he was telling us that Deuce Vaughn was kind of the real deal and they should give it to Deuce Vaughn more. Do you recall that conversation?

Amongst arguing with him about Dak? No, I don't. Yeah, yeah. He's a big Deuce Vaughn guy. So we're going to ask him the tough questions today. Okay. About Deuce Vaughn. Also, Kevin KT Turner.

Against the wishes of those here with me on the show, I want to promote that he is here. He is standing back there. He's afraid to show. Okay. Kind of a tepid. Very tepid. Tepid wave of indifference.

Oh, my gosh. Pro Slat has a – how did a tumbleweed get in here? It just kind of went right through one room to the other. Kevin tracked it in. Well, let's try this. From all me. Let's try this. Also joining us today will be Julie Dobbs.

Yeah. That's applause, folks. Look at that. That's applause. Where Kevin already got a seedy hug in. I'm watching him. He loves to kind of like stand in the back. Like you might see him at your local playground.

Just kind of standing back there, sipping on his big gulp. Can I say something about Pro Slat real quick? So the restraining order is over? Please. You can say whatever you want about Pro Slat. So this is supposed to be ostensibly for your garage i would have no problem if the inside side of my house looked like this right yeah like this could no that's the point they can make i want this to be my kitchen

yeah they can make your garage look awesome golly with floors Awesome. Golly. With floors. Mm-hmm. This floor. I want my house. Aren't you tired of houses without floors? Well, the garage has a floor, but it's just a crappy, you know, beaten cement floor. Concrete. What do they call this, this speckled thing? Speckled floor?

Speckled, spackled. What's it? Epoxy, Dan. Epoxy floor, man. Yeah. That's great. Feel that. I'm going to lay on it. I'm going to eat off of it today.

Yeah, they could redo your whole garage. They could make a North Texas-themed garage, if that was your bet. You know, Andrew used to play for North Texas. Clearly. Yeah. You can't tell he's massive. He is massive. He was able to see UNT get a victory or two.

Yeah, they beat Wyoming last week. Oh, yeah, they did. Bet your ass they did. Are you just finding out about that now? Were you up late? Did you see Miami? Mm-mm. You didn't see it?

No. The Hail Mary? Who was it? Virginia? Virginia Tech? Virginia Tech. Okay. Yeah.

No, it's a very controversial end of the game. I wasn't up late either, but I caught it this morning. What happened? Hail Mary at the very end of the game. Virginia Tech is losing.

They throw it into the end zone. The refs on it, so it's in a massive humanity, of course, but in the back of the end zone, someone ended up coming down with the ball, but you couldn't

really even see, and the refs on the field called it a touchdown. So big upset. Miami's undefeated season is over. The ACC sucks again. And they overturned the call. Like they sent it to ACC headquarters for review. And they overturned the call.

And there was really the evidence. I thought, looking at the replay, I thought that kind of extra confirms it. It looks like that guy had it, and then he got it ripped out of his hand at the very end. And so that's the college controversy of the week thus far since there's only been like two games. So wait until later today. Well, now I know.

Now you know. And I'll tell you what. I think it's a travesty. I'm against it. Against that overturned call. Okay. Okay. Thought I might get you fired up about that.

Anyway, Vach Lombardi will be with us later. Now, Kevin KT Turner will be with us so that we can preview tonight's debut of the fall season. Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live. Because I am in an SNL fantasy league run by Kevin KT Turner. Do you even watch? None of my draft picks. Yeah.

You watch? Yeah. Okay. I'm pro SNL. I am too. And we'll probably watch Extra Hard this year just because it's the 50th anniversary season. And the movie's coming out too at some point. I'm not familiar with the movie.

I'm sure when we have KT on, he will be able to inform us on all things SNL movie. Oh, okay. So you're also not. No, I mean, not as much as him. I don't want to give you a crap description of it and then have him come on. Well, that's what we did with the music. We haven't heard the music yet.

I thought that version was great. I think you're undermining my ability to produce incredible content. I was the one who wanted to play it. Blake doesn't like you being around. I know. He thinks that takes a little of the shine off of him. Partially true. I totally get it.

Yeah. Well, I love Blake, for the record. I do. Okay. He's a real sweetheart. He's got a great kid. Cool wife. We also have drinks out here.

Drinks? I think some of the drinks are for adults only. Okay. So that's kind of cool. So free tacos, we're saying. We're still trying to determine where they're from. Dude, I'll bet Andrew knows. Andrew's the GM here.

It might not actually be from a brick-and-mortar restaurant. It could just be like Frank's Tacos. Okay. Well, then I want to know that. All this time, me complaining and no one has found... Look at Scene. Scene's getting up. He's going to take care of business.

He's just a guy who does stuff. He gets things done. Oh, he's walking right past the door. Where are your tacos from, man? He'll figure this out. Yeah, maybe he'll grab past the door. Where are your tacos from, man? Yeah. He'll figure this out. Yeah, maybe he'll grab a menu. Do they have a menu at trucks? They're usually on the side of the truck.

Yeah, what if he brings the truck in? He could. Because this is a garage showroom, so you could actually fit a truck in here. Or quite a few trucks, I would imagine. Andrew, where are the tacos from? The truck. Okay, from the truck. The truck.

It's perfect. My seed. And they're free, by the way. And they're free. Okay, we got that. So incredible. Yeah, we might need an early break for me to go eat a bunch of tacos. Did you have breakfast?

I did, Danny. It's very important. I have always believed it's a very important start to every day. However, now I've been told that you're supposed to intermittently fast and not eat until 5. I'm full OMAD. I'm full Derek Henry except for

his requirements. One meal a day. What was that? Oh. What did you give me? I had to read here. Oh, okay. From Spar Taco. All right.

Spar. Spartico? Is that what it is? I don't know. Oh, okay. Is it Spartico, Dallas? But they sell tacos. Oh, okay. Is it Spartaco, Dallas? But they sell tacos. Okay, anyway.

Yeah, OMAD, one meal a day, Dan. Try it. Also today, I'd like to roll over the NFL picks because I need to pick my games, Blake, for the Jared League. I'm in so many. Too many. This happens every year. I tell you every year.

I'm so beaten on a Friday night and then Saturday night with setting fantasy lineups, and now I've got to pick games for this Jared League. Am I out of your knockout league yet? Oh, yeah. What did I get last? Oh, Cincinnati knocked me out. I think I'm now out of all my knockout leagues.

I was in five different knockout leagues. And by week three, I'm now out. It's going to be week four. I think there's only 20 people left in the dumb zone knockout. Really? Yeah. What did it start with? A whole bunch, 700, 800, something like that.

Oh, really? Wow. I'm still in my kicker knockout league, and this is something I could have. That's not a thing. This is something KT can speak on, too, because it's so confusing you would think KT came up with the rules. But it's actually like a friend of KT's.

And it's also kind of a good bit. But then I just can't understand. Like I think my kicker is missed twice, but like I'm still in the league. But I'm like on the – No, that makes sense. They call it the edge of extinction. No way. Yeah, there's three different categories

for how you get out of this league. There's one level and then there's different color coding when they send out the thing on who's finally out and all this kind of stuff. It's kind of like you can never lose this league. Did you do this? It does sound like something you'd come up with, though.

Come over here, man. You guys against this? No. I love KT. He can talk to Vach with us. It's the best. I'm against it. You want to sit on my lap?

You know who Vach Lombardi is? We're going to introduce you to him in a minute. Do you guys want a break to get Vach ready, or do you just want to pop them in? Whenever we get them. Okay. Am I supposed to send him that link? I do. Here, have a seat, KT.

Thank you. Use your leg. Hey, nice hat. Oh, thank you. Hey, it's Kevin KT Turner. Hi, everyone. I'm only here because Blake asked me to come out and sign some autographs. And you live a block away. Yep. Happy one-year anniversary, everyone. I'm only here because Blake asked me to come out and sign some autographs. And you live a block away.

Yep. Happy one-year anniversary, Blake. Jesus. That's right. Blake is one year and a day now. What a day yesterday was. People aren't really into that either. Jeez.

What's that? I said yesterday was incredible. People aren't really into that either. Like, Blake doing spots for a senior center in Hebron or something was the highlight of my week. I drove a lot of business to that. It was great, man. And I quit. I think I quit the ticket in 2013.

So I never really picked up that you, like, might have sounded like that. So I don't know if people, like, made fun of you for that or whatever. What do you think? I'm assuming they did because radio is really just a test of how long you can get kicked in the balls. So how Blake sounded 10 years ago. Oh, we're doing this again. What? I mean.

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And again, that wasn't live. You have one chance at that. That wasn't live on the air. I didn't know anything about editing, so I thought, got to do one spot, or one take. Yeah. And so I nailed musculoskeletal. I'm like, yes. This is such good.

And I just ran with it. Southern charm coming from you. It was so good. I was crying last night listening to that. I don't know. Why? Because you could relate in a way? Do I sound like that?

No. I don't sound like that. Do I, Danny? No, but you don't have your classic radio broadcaster voice, which is great. Yeah, Eric Nadel taught me a long time ago, you guys, you've got to get that out. Well, you've got to train yourself not to talk like that because he sounded like a New York guy when he came here. Eric Nadel's not from Texas? Who would have known? Who would have known?

Who would have known? He's synonymous with the Texas Rangers. True. Some would say a Hall of Famer. A Texas Ranger Hall of Famer. Also, he's in the Hall of Fame Hall of Fame. He's in the real one, yeah. Yeah.

Any chance we can get in that? The Baseball Hall of Fame? Yeah, what would we have to do now? What could we innovate? Like hit 600 home runs? Like we could possibly get in the Rangers Hall of Fame. We'd have to be hired by the Rangers, and we'd have to like stay there for another 30 years or so.

That's kind of the way to get in it. Like Gerbs. Gerbs could have been in. Could have. But they would have had to put him in posthumously. Gerbs? Yeah. Why?

What do you mean? Because he's Gerbs. You don't need to feed that ego anymore while he's alive. You want to talk to Vach? I do want to talk to Vach. Joining us now on our live stream is the great Vach Lombardi. Hey, everybody. Vach Lombardi.

We're out at a remote today, Vach. Stand by. Hold on. We're waiting. Hold on. We've got to get your audio fired up. A little something going on on our end. Try it now.

So I guess keep talking. Still nothing. Can you sign language this interview? Sure. Yeah. Okay. I understood one of those things he said. Uh-huh.

Well, let's just imagine Votch is talking about the Dallas Cowboys because that's what he said. Well, let's just imagine Votch is talking about the Dallas Cowboys because that's what he does if you search Votch Lombardi on YouTube. I think he's got six figs in the followers. Really? Yeah. I believe so. And the pocket

book if he's working at Old City. And so it sounds like we have close amounts of followers because we have five figs. Hell yeah. Right? Uh-huh. Does that mean we're just one fig off of his follower count?

We just need one more. Yeah, we're right there. Or 90,000 more. Either way. That's what's always funny to me when you look at some of these owners, like Cuban versus Steve Ballmer whenever they were playing the Clippers in the playoffs. Steve Ballmer, $5 billion, Cuban, $2 billion,

or something that figures off. And you think, oh, that's kind of close. No, it's not. It's $3 billion off. It's so much money. You ever seen the graphic that they'll do where they'll have a pile of money that's a million dollars and then a pile of money that's a million dollars

and then a pile of money that's ten million dollars and then the pile of money that's a billion dollars? How ridiculous it looks compared to one to ten million? It's crazy, Dan. Graphs are crazy. Yeah. What's up with graphs?

Do you like graphs, KT? I love graphs. I actually saw, I love stats too. I saw today that if you made $7,000 a minute for the next like 10 years, you would still not have as much money as Elon Musk has. What about $7,000 a year? That's where we're at. Yeah, not a year. $7,000 a minute for 10 years?

Yeah, something like that. It was also the same account called World of Stats that said 30% of people refuse to sit on a public toilet seat. I can hear Echo. Hey, there's Votch. I hear a voice. Hey, Votch. What's up, what's up, what's up? Yeah.

I can hear me, though. Let's cheer Votch and Video Man and just technology for allowing this. We can hear you, Vach. I can hear me still, though. I got to echo real bad with my staff. Okay. Well, we'll work on that. It's all good.

And then I guess you could tell us when you don't. Again, we are at the Northeast Quadrant of 75 in Arapaho. You were talking about toilet seats, Kevin. Go ahead. Was I? Yeah. Yeah. Stats, graphs, 30% people.

Oh, yeah. There was a bunch of weird ones. Okay. What is this edge of extinction? Is that real? Yes. So if your kicker misses twice, then the group now votes who your kicker is for the third time. And if you miss that one, you're gone.

And everyone types. It is a beating because a lot of people do chime into the emails. But they are basically voting for why they think. The email is a long thread. Yes. I don't know the guy who did this either. Skin's the one who tipped me off to it. Oh, okay.

He's like, boy, this seems really confusing. let's tell KT about it yep he'll love it and it's fun um but yeah so everyone votes and they voted on the the crappiest kicker and then then you're finally extinct so you're you're you've missed twice um I don't know it's so hard like I'm now I gotta go find find who Joey Sly played against last week and see if he made any kicks. It's just a beating. So you know MLB managers and kicking history? Well, no, just week to week.

I don't. That's why I'm not doing well in this league. Should we try now? Rob says no. He says do not try. The point is, when you watch an extra point, you actually care a little bit more. You'll find out.

I try to pick a game, like if it's the Sunday night game or the Thursday night game. Oh, wait, missing an extra point bad, too? Oh, yeah. They miss the extra point, you're done. It got Justin Tucker in week one. But it does seem like a crazy way to win a lot of money because there's a bunch of people in there.

And it does feel random, so I don't know. It's fun. I am with you, though. Too many pools. The Jared League is too much with 10 picks a week. The great thing about the SNL draft is that you don't have to do anything after an hour and 15-minute draft. Or in Dan's case, do anything at all.

Yeah. Well. True. That's kind of like saying Dan Rooney of the Steelers doesn't do anything at all. He owns the team. He directs the general manager. He makes a call or two. You know, if they're like, hey, I want to sign, you know.

Oh, do you have acquisitions and free agency and trades? No. Oh. What Dan has basically just said is he sees himself as kind of an owner. Kind of an owner. He gives that vibe. Manager type thing. Lay down the Texas hammer.

Tell Spinks what to do. Show up to the draft. I was in the draft room with him. Select Parker Posey is in round four. And you didn't gain points in the first five. No. It's okay, buddy. Did he at least take it seriously?

He did. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Unlike your partner's skin that one time. Last time when we did the condensed one and he selected like Edgar Winter. The guy from Mario Speedwagon. Kevin Cronin. Mike Campbell.

Tom Petty. Tom Petty's guitar player. Yeah, terrible. He'll ruin anything. That's why you didn't invite him? Yeah, he was not invited. I didn't want to take the abuse from those guys and this other thing. And I invited you because I thought you would participate.

I thought you'd be excited about it. And I guess you did participate, but you just didn't show up. I was excited. I was telling these guys about it for weeks leading up to it. And then that day came. I didn't want to do it. His wife was gone. He had nothing to do.

Yeah, that's why. There's a bunch of things that add up to it. If my wife was home, I would say, oh, I can't do whatever you want to do, which is just sit here. I have to go. I have to go do my draft. This is very important.

But didn't you live stream this? And he watched the live stream, but didn't just turn on his camera watch the whole thing it was really well done oh yeah you go to kt's uh youtube page you'll see like he had really cool graphics and oh you three were roasting probably teach you a thing or two blake about the whole graphic game i want you to hire him y'all were roasting me before the draft. I mean, I got to listen to that episode. And y'all were roasting me, saying it would take three and a half hours

and the rules are tricky. The rules are so simple. They're not tricky at all. And then you don't show up. You did. You had to, like, you would roll the dice or something for just to determine draft order every draft pick. So that did take a little time.

In the beginning. Yeah. To get the order. You didn't do a snake draft? We did snake draft, but we spun the wheel in the first round. And one by one to see. What a cool graphic for the wheel.

Yeah. Terrible website. Has anybody hit? Because they announced they're what first four hosts and first four five first five yeah and musical guests any doubles like uh host and music uh no doubles but seven out of the ten people yeah i mean there are seven points awarded are you kidding a low scoring game because me you and saroy did this last year yeah you know and you won thank you that's why i didn't ask you to play because i didn't want you to take all the money Because me, you, and Saroy did this last year. And you won. Thank you.

That's why I didn't ask you to play because I didn't want you to take all the money. I wanted to defend my title. But Dan had Steve Martin in round one. That could pay off. The Simone Biles pick in round two, though. I think that's going to get you. Just because the Olympics are over, right? Are people thinking about her right now?

Probably not. Certainly somebody went and grabbed Lady Gaga, didn't they? That was the second pick in the draft by T.C. Fleming. Okay. That's a great one. Who was videoing a Quaker City Nighthawks concert at the time of the draft and still made it to the draft. Did anyone get two points? I got two points.

What did you get? Round four, Coldplay, and round eight, Jelly Roll. So the basic thing, the basic premise is you need to draft someone who will be named as a host or a musical guest somewhere in the season. Yes, and there's 20 episodes, so it would be 40 would be your total amount of points. And seven of them are gone. I don't want to interrupt this awesome conversation, but I think we have Votch ready to go. He actually does want to interrupt it.

We have Votch ready to go. I rate Votch Lombardi due to the technical difficulties. Let's see if we have you. Votch, do you read me? What's happening, fellas? We good, we good. KT, what up? Big fan. Nice to meet you. There he is. Votch Lombardi. Not echoing with us, not echoing with you. We're all good.

We sound good, we sound good. What's happening? What's good with y'all? How you doing, man? Man, life good. I can't complain about nothing. You know what I'm saying? I tune into the show and y'all pocket watch and let me tell you about my money, but it's all good man you can't complain alright this guy

works very hard he broadcasts all the time are you streaming everyday yeah I'm doing at least three different types of things I'm talking about the Cowboys in general just going over news I'm watching film just so we can know what the hell went on in the game.

And then I do a show with the legend Brian Broaddus at night. Okay. So how are we feeling right now at this point in the season? It can't be anything like you thought it was going to be going into the season for the Dallas Cowboys. I'm trying to fire Mike McCarthy and all that kind of stuff. But besides that, I mean, you got talented dudes that aren't playing in a very talented way.

I mean, you have guys. Some of those guys are hurt, by the way. So, I mean, these next few weeks will be weird. But, yeah, you just got dudes that aren't living up to what they do. They're shooting themselves in the foot. The biggest Cowboy beater right now are the Dallas Cowboys. It's not like you have a terrible roster

like a Panthers type roster or anything like that. I just think that your offensive play caller is making some mistakes and I think that your defense is kind of overcoming some of their ailments. They call it midseason 4-4 for a reason. It's like week 4 and nobody did pre-season stuff so hey we look weird san fran looks weird

sometimes the lions look weird you know it's you know we'll figure it out roster you say not terrible but i think doesn't it kind of feel like it's not as good as we might have all thought it was going into the year though uh you know fans can can think that you know people can be better than than some people sometimes but this is the problem right if you watch the saints right and the saints beat the hell out of us uh they don't have all like they don't have the the the dudes on their line like we have right like they got a dude named trevor penning and nick ruiz and they somehow beat the hell out of you right but we have guys like zach martin and you know uh you know terrence steel

kind of up and down this week but like tyler smith is possibly one of the best guards in the league and we can't run the ball like they can run the ball so like scheme matters coaching matters that's why i'm trying to fire mike mccarthy right now like there are teams that don't have a wide receiver number one that move the ball better than the cowboys can get the ball to cd lamp you know i mean so like i said you you have guys, and you can – you never really know what a young team is going to do until a young team goes out and play. But I think you have plenty of dudes that can go out and play.

I just don't think that your coaching does anything past that. Were you thinking that if they lost to the Giants, that McCarthy dream of yours might have had a chance to come to fruition? Hey, man, Jared Jones think we think we stupid and goofy. So maybe he was going to try to sell us this this dream that he needs to play this thing out. I seen Wade Phillips get fired in the middle of the season, but Jason Garrett somehow hung around to the end and they let him keep his office and walk around and do the interviews, even though we know he was getting fired. So it just depends on where Jerry Jones ego is. Yeah. Jerry Jones or Wade Phillips, excuse me.

Jason Garrett. Jason Garrett. A lot of names. It's hard to keep track of them all, Botch. Jason Garrett was kind of a part of the Jones family, though. You know? That's why he got the very last second. He never, he didn't even get fired, did he?

His contract just ran out. They had a mutual parting of ways is what they called it. Yeah, yeah, so for sure. He just didn't get re-signed. Yeah, McCarthy's definitely not, I don't think, in that group of family members like Garrett and Romo was and Jason Witten, that seemed like they were all part of the Jones family. Well, see, this is the hard part, right? Mike McCarthy

can't walk into Jerry's office and be like, hey, man, we went 13 and whatever, like 12 and whatever, three years in a row. We're a playoff team three years in a row. Like, look at what I can do, you know? And that's the hard part, you know? Like, if you're the, like, if you're a terrible team right now,

Jason Garrett ain't a bad coach for you. Like if you owe in whatever and Garrett can get you to eight and eight, like that's a good situation for you, right? But we're just constantly trying to chase better. So you have to balance the idea that, all right, Mike McCarthy can get you to the postseason. If you fire him, you have to risk

that your next coach is trash and can't get you to the post season right you want the coach that can get you to the daggum superbowl how many coaches can get you to the superbowl from the first round without you heavily risking you know being a i was about to say a wild card team but being like a top 10 draft pick type team or whatever right so it's a weird balance but um i think you have a franchise quarterback i think you have a a talent field roster i just think you have a dude that uh runs hitches slants and curls 50 of the time on offense we watch these other teams and their fun little offenses or whatever

we see all this motion sometimes we see double motion and we'll be watching teams play against us we go man boy how did this team get this dude wide the hell open? How did this tight end get open with, like, nobody around him? The Green Bay game, playoffs, right? Like, all these wide open dudes. The Cowboys don't do nothing like that. The Cowboys seem like they're fighting for their life every single play. And I think that goes to coaching and scheming and play calling.

I actually don't have a problem with Mike McCarthy, the head coach. But if Mike McCarthy want to keep his job, he need to go find one of them Shanahan tree kids and just hand over the reins to him. In my personal opinion, I ain't nobody. They kind of had one. Who? If you want to count Kellen Moore. Nah, Kellen Moore was

a young, you know, he was a young up and comer, but he didn't really have like coach experience like that. He was just a dude that played backup quarterback for a couple years and a year later he was a quarterback's coach. And a year later, he's calling plays for you. It's not like, you know, you look at Mike Shanahan, right, who's technically a young coach, but he's been coaching for like 20 years or something goofy like that, right? We saw Kellen back up the quarterback that's playing quarterback for you right now.

So he doesn't have that, you know, that backing behind him. And even still, right, you can watch the Eagles right now and see Kellen Moore's problems. Kellen Moore will get you a bunch of yards. He'll have you like a top five offensive team or whatever. But when it's time to run the ball, he'll throw it or something like that. When it's fourth and one, he'll line up in empty and try to throw it deep or something.

Like Kellen does goofy stuff like that. And that goes back to situational football, and that goes back to that balance of, hey, if you're a bad offense, you love Kellen Moore. But if you're a good offense that's trying to turn into a Super Bowl offense, Kellen Moore leaves a lot to be desired. In my personal opinion, I ain't nobody. I'm just doing a microphone to the camera.

It's just my thoughts. I'm just saying. Yeah. Well, you asked a question. I think it was rhetorical. But there is an answer to it. How many coaches can you find that could get you to the Super Bowl, but you would not really be risking not even able to get you to the playoffs um there's one out there

that I feel like would take this job in a second because with this roster just in a couple of years he could end up with uh the NFL record for most wins of all time. And, you know, man, shout out to Belichick. I think he can do something, but I'm not really trying to hire the old man coach anymore. I think the league is moving towards these young guys with the innovation and all that. Like, if you're 70, you're not going to be staying up 3 in the morning

trying to figure out a new offense or try to figure out what, you know what I mean? Like, you old, you're 70, you're not going to be staying up three in the morning trying to figure out a new offense or try to figure out what you know. I mean, like you, you old, you're an old man like Nick Saban ran out of a lot of this steam for the nonsense that's that's going on. I like these young, hungry coaches. Right. Like if you look at, you know, Bobby Slowick, Ben Johnson or whatever. Right. Those are some young dudes that you can hire to be your head coach and they can bring that top tier offense with them. My problem with Jerry Jones is when he goes, oh, I like experience. I like skins on the wall. I want somebody that's been to a Super Bowl before. And that's cool, but when you hire like Rex Ryan or like talk to Rex Ryan

or like Ron Rivera and like, you know, my man who used to coach the Bengals, Marvin Lewis or whatever, right? When you interviewing those guys, I'm like, man, I think that's hustling backwards a little bit. I would much rather go for the young coach. And look, this ain't me poo-pooing on Belichick. Belichick's the GOAT. He's the greatest coach of all time, you know, whatever, whatever.

But I just think that you should probably be looking for a coach with a lot more youth in his energy and all that. What if you have a coach, like if you have Belichick, who's kind of a, you know a known disciplinarian or organized dude and has a real culture and vibe about him, would he be a type of coach that would hand over his coordination responsibilities to some of those younger guys as far as play calling and defense? Because you're describing a guy that's running the defensive side of the ball right now,

Mike Zimmer. I mean, that dude's been around for like 50 years. Sure. And if I had Bill's number, I'd call and I'd ask, hey, Bill, would you hand the playbook over to some young coach and all that? I mean, sure. I mean, we're just talking back and forth trying to figure it all out. I just don't know what Bill's going to look like when you're removed away from football.

I know these these young coaches, Mike McDonald, that's coaching with the Seahawks. Now he was the Ravens guy. I'm trying to find somebody like that. And to your point, though, I kind of do like my defense coaches to be a little bit older. I do like the older coach that, you know, shuts down the little goofy little motion stuff that we like. If you look at the Vikings right now, right, Flores probably can't be a good head coach with the Dolphins because he thinks his quarterback is soft and he tells him that to his face. But he goes to the Vikings, who ain't got a whole bunch of talent, by the way.

Like, they got some solid dudes over there, but they don't have Michael Parsons, DeMarcus Lawrence, Oso Digizua, Trey Diggins. Like, we got dudes on our defense, and our defense isn't as good as the Vikings' defense right now because they got a dude over there so to your point fair enough you know maybe an old man can work as a coordinator but uh just you know i'm i'm just looking i'm just looking towards the youth right now but that's my own personal opinion i could be wrong i'm just

doing a microphone you don't you don't think uh belichick dating a 24 year old gives them a little energy at night yeah there you go or takes it 24-year-old would have me not going to practice at 6 in the morning because at 6 in the morning you should be with your 24-year-old. I mean, just whatever. Well, he did leave her front door at about 5.30 to go to practice. That's a cold dude right there, man. That's a cold character right there. I mean, he did also have Josh McDaniels.

Who he would bring. You know, yeah. That's how that would go down. You think so? And then we'd lose Will McClay, too. And is Josh McDaniels. Who he would bring. You know, yeah. That's how that would go down. You think so? And then we'd lose Will McClay, too. It would be terrible. And is Josh McDaniels not thought of as a young guy anymore? No.

Because he's a two-time head coach or once? I think he's thought of as a guy who creates a dumpster fire everywhere he goes. Oh, yeah. He went to Oakland. Raiders. Vegas. Yeah, wherever they are. Yeah.

They look terrible, yeah. terrible. They look terrible prior to what's the name being there. I think you have a group here that's on board with not having McCarthy anymore. But I do think also that Jerry at his

age, they are not going to get, what was the Saints offensive coordinator? Clint Kubiak. Yeah, they're not going to get that young. They're not going to do that because that's going to require kind of an overhaul. So that's the whole point. This is kind of like when he hired Wade Phillips. Like, hey, I just want you to come in and oversee what we already have going here.

And that's kind of what he did with McCarthy. And obviously McCarthy's had way better success than Wade Phillips did. But then you're screwed for the rest of this year because we're four games in. You're not going to be able to get Zimmer or McCarthy to change their strategy. We talked the other day about how Zimmer, it seems like, he's trying to get his players to play to his scheme as opposed to designing his defense to their best abilities and talents. And Mike McCarthy is, you know,

he took the play-calling responsibility away when Moore left. You're not putting that horse back in the barn. He's not going to let some young kid handle that responsibility. I slightly disagree. This is what I like about Mike McCarthy. I'd love to hear something positive. Mike McCarthy isn't all tuned into his ego that way. Right.

If you listen to like the off season last year or whatever, everybody was talking about, Oh, Dan Quinn should be the head coach for the Dallas Cowboys. Right. I'm not as, as humble as mike mccarthy if dan quinn was my dc and i heard that i'm firing dan quinn because i don't want

nobody that's gonna encroach on my job or whatever right but mike mccarthy said hey but dan's pretty good let me just keep dan here or the whole sean payton talk or whatever right i do think mike mccarthy has a has a has a decent check with his ego and And I do think Mike McCarthy will change everything at the drop of a dime because last year, we looked ridiculous, just like this, which is partly why I'm mad. We looked ridiculous up until like week six. We had a bye week and we had one week

where we just kind of, it was like the charges or whatever. But after that, you were the best offense in the league because CeeDee Lamb cussed Mike McCarthy out and Mike McCarthy just, fine, Dak, take over and do your thing i do think mike mccarthy still got some of that in him my big issue is that when you go through all last season and you end at week 18 or whatever playoffs or whatever you should go okay all the good stuff that we did at the end of last year with all this motion that we're doing with

you know cd lamb double digit targets and jake ferguson you know doing all this motion that we're doing with, you know, CeeDee Lamb double-digit targets and Jake Ferguson, you know, doing all this kind of stuff and da-da-da, you should take that and build on that into week one this year. But you didn't do that. You started all the way damn over. Can I cuss, by the way? Because last time y'all said I cuss a lot. My bad.

No, no, no. Go ahead. Please. But this year, instead of building on week 18 last year, you started over from week one last year. You're still doing the goofy dragon concepts. You're still doing hitches 50% of the time. And this ain't me.

This ain't hyperbole. If you go look into analytics, we run hitches 50% of the time. I can play defensive back in the National Football League if you run hitches 50% of the time. Because if you run a slant one time, that means, the next time your ass run the hitch, you need diversity. Diversity in your offense. And you needed it last year. And Mike McCarthy got cussed out, allegedly, by CeeDee Lamb.

And he said, all right, man, y'all do your thing. We'll do this. And we'll build upon that. And we built upon that. And it was a fantastic offense. So I do think Mike can change. I do think Mike has the the the lack of his ego type of thing or whatever to go all right let's do what works i just don't want

to wait all the way to week six to do it we could have did this in week one and been fine in my personal opinion i don't know nothing i'm just saying yeah i do think i agree with the mccarthy ego thing because i think you don't even take the cowboy head coaching job if you can't do that that would are you know be an argument against Belichick doing it but uh you know even adding Zimmer in the offseason he knows Zimmer is a love of Jerry Jones and by adding him he was risking that's your possible mid-season replacement like if the defense was actually you know doing well and it was the offense's problem but I don't think that's the case right now. So that wouldn't,

that wouldn't really make sense. And then, and then on that note too, I think both of your coaches got different problems. I think Mike's trying to be too simple, but I just think Zimmer's players aren't playing very well, you know, and, and, and Zimmer's not asking those guys to do anything complicated. Like this is stuff that you learn in high school football. When you go out there, Hey, if you're the, if you're the defensive end, you have to contain

and you have to stay at home and you have to capture the edge. Oh, you just can't run a field on traps and counters. You got to stack, share, use your hand, use your eyes or whatever. And it's been – if you just watched the last couple of games, not this Giants game, the defense was fine there. But the Ravens and the Saints game, it was just a bunch of hero ball, just a bunch of running around in a circle trying to make a play, when indeed if you just do your job, you'll be fine.

So I do think the Zimmer defense is more fine right now than the offense or whatever, right? It's some weird stuff going on with Mike McCarthy, man. It's like as soon as he do something good, he'll just stop doing that the very next drive. So they have different problems you know definitely um but you know whatever we'll see I'm an optimistic cowboy fan so you know that'll be all right until they prove to me that they won't be I actually think CeeDee Lamb was doing something last week because last

year it was week five when he took his helmet off and stood by himself on the sideline sure and then after that they started forcing the ball to him and And I think he was like, okay, if I do this bitch fit, then they'll realize they've got to start getting the ball to me. And I don't know that it necessarily worked out that way, but it's a wake-up call to McCarthy because they're frustrated. As a lifelong Packers fan, I can tell you, this looks just like the offense in 2018 when Aaron Rodgers got him fired. It looks horrible.

And the defense looks like 2020 when Mike Nolan was here. So, it's got to go. I actually disagree on the ego thing with McCarthy, too. I think McCarthy took the job with the Cowboys because he needed a job. No one else wanted him. That's why he took the job. No one else wanted him. Dude, the Browns and the Jets were both like, nah, we're good.

But give me Adam Gates or Adam Gase. And Adam Gase started looking at tacos that are floating around his head. I don't know if you all remember that. By the way, Spar Tacos here for free. That's right. I miss you. I miss you. Yeah, okay, because I want to talk Zimmer in the defense,

but sticking on McCarthy, he is seeing they have a, you know, something we knew that they had in the offseason was a problem at running back. And so now it looks like last week the thought was, we'll try a little more C.D. Lamb there. What do you think of that? Well, I mean, C.Dd lamb is your best player so you should get him the ball everywhere you should line him up at quarterback see if you can give him the football like he's your he's your best guy so yeah give it to him but uh yeah they uh they

tried to do something different last week uh they tried to do a lot more rico like in the first three quarters or something like that and they tried to end the game with zeke i still think they're trying to force you know zeke into having the job or whatever. That was my biggest gripe or whatnot. But the run game technically is better than it was the last couple of weeks. But I don't think the run game is blowing anybody away or whatever. But look, to that point

though, it goes back to scheme and coaching because it's not like you need this ridiculous dude at running back. Like San Fran rolls out of dudes you ain't ever heard of every single week and they go and knock it out. They're down to their third running back. Like San Fran rolls out a dude you ain't never heard of every single week, and they go and knock it out. They're down to their third running back or something like that, Jordan Mason, and they just figure it out, you know.

Singletary, you know, not this week, but just coming into the, you know, like the Giants were able to run the ball with Singletary a little bit, you know what I mean? You can still run the ball with the unknown dudes, but you're blocking and your scheme got to be up to par. Deuce Vaughn. I know you were a big fan in the offseason of a little more Deuce Vaughn. It looks like they tried that a couple of weeks,

but that's going nowhere as well. All of them are pretty much looking the same. See, this is why Jerry Jones think the media evil and be lying on people. Okay, go ahead. Big fan of Deuce Vaughn is a wild way to explain it. looking the same see this is why jerry jones think the media evil and be lying on people okay big fan of of deuce von is a is a is a wild way to explain it i just wanted less zeke you know what i'm saying that's that's that's my whole thing i'm just not trying to give the ball to a to a 30 year old running back i would love to just you know make this thing rico dowdle and try to figure out a way to make deuce von work uh i just don't want to give the ball to the dude that's that's almost 30 and clearly declined you know um but but yeah i was i was uh i was vouching for

deuce vaughn because you know hey he's a he's a younger running back and hey deuce deuce vaughn in college i know it's there between college and league whatever uh but deuce vaughn is a i think he can be an adequate back i think he could be solid for you it's in this in this type of hey rico's the one guy you know uh lip you does some things you know zeke they force him into a row i think there's a way to get deuce von involved or whatever you know he had some pretty decent blocks the other day and uh had a catch i believe or something like that so yeah i'm not a fan of forcing anybody to football but i would just much rather get him going than to get the old dude going uh but at the end of the day let me just be be clear here, you know,

since just whatever, whatever. If I can get a running back better than all of them, they all can go. Like if I can, you know, draft his next year or whatever. But if just free agency or something like that, hey, we got a bunch of comp picks. Hey, I'll send you this fourth round pick for this dude that you're not going to hold on to next year. Whoever that running back may be, if they better than everybody,

I don't have such a fandom that I'm going, nah, don't bring Najee Harris in here because Deuce Vaughn got to get some carries. You know, Tyler Algier in here because Deuce Vaughn getting carried. I mean, they all can go. I just want a better dude. Speaking of running backs, was Jerry lying when he said that they couldn't afford Derrick Henry? Or was there some truth to that? Because they had every opportunity to bring somebody in in the offseason

if he was lying, which I think he was. Yeah, Jerry lied about everything. Jerry ain't told the truth in years. So, no, yeah, we probably could have afforded Derrick Henry. Yeah, for sure. I think the salary cap is very malleable. I think there's a lot of ways to do gymnastics on the salary cap to come up with a little bit of space.

I think you could have done a shorter deal with Derrick Henry just to put all your resources into a now contract, and then he leaves and it just kind of frees it up or whatever. You don't want to put big money into a running back long term or anything like that. But just to answer your question yes i think he was lying about derrick henry but if it's just my own personal pain i don't think derrick henry would change this this run game all too much i don't think

um you know the way i do i see a couple of guys that can't three guys that can't create anything on their own and with this weird offensive line with a couple of dudes that are getting older, a couple of rookies, Derrick Henry can gain three or four or five yards by himself with a garbage offensive line. And that's kind of what they are right now and have shown to be. So at least if you've got a guy that can pop it for three and a half per carry with a suspect O-line, you've got to account for that guy.

Other teams don't have to account at all for our running game. Well, if you've been watching Derrick Henry this season, I mean week one he had like 40-something yards. Week two he was like 70 or something like that. He didn't have a great yard per carry or whatever. Now he beat the hell out of the Dallas Cowboys because our run defense is bad. But, you know, I think scheme matters. I think scheme matters.

And, you know, I think as an an offensive as ex-offensive lineman pardon me i'm old now but as an ex-offensive lineman i could just watch run schemes and be like damn boy san francisco makes a lot of space for their guys or detroit makes a lot of space for their guys even ava kamara who's a guy that a lot of people thought was like getting older and he was like declining or whatever he looks like a whole new dude because their scheme looks looks different derrick henry may be better than ezekiel elliott for sure but i want this scheme to change first like i'm i'm big on changing the scheme and i think if you change the scheme rico would be better but if you can find somebody better than rico we you know rico can go and that might be derrick henry but i just don't think derrick henry is going to change

so much of the culture oh we got a 100 yard rusher now i don't i don't i don't think Derrick Henry is going to change so much of the culture. Oh, we got a 100-yard rusher now. I don't think Derrick Henry is that with this offensive line in this game. Certainly, though. I'd be firing off Roman candles in the parking lot if one of our three running backs ran for 70. Roman candles. A lot of this goes back to the offseason, too, because they certainly could have afforded Derrick Henry or something

had they gotten Dak and C.D. done earlier because they probably could have gotten them done at those numbers, you know, months ago before the draft, before free agency. And I wonder, you said earlier you were talking about Zeke is almost 30 and clearly declining. So speaking of that, Dalvin Cook, can I interest you in Dalvin Cook maybe during this 10-day stretch? I think Dalvin Cook and Zeke are the same dude.

Yeah, that's what I mean, yeah. But they guaranteed Zeke the year. I learned on the Dumb Zone that Trey Lance is the 10th highest paid Cowboys player this year, right? And then who is after CeeDee Lamb and maybe Turpin the most dangerous Dallas Cowboy player with the ball in their hand probably Trey Lance but he's inactive and didn't they make a new emergency quarterback rule so couldn't he just be the backup and Cooper Rush could still be there as like the QB3 in case

Dak or Trey Lance got hurt because you could do do everything in your power to, I don't know, get the ball in the hands of your most dangerous people instead of making him inactive each week and paying for him. I just think it's interesting to have a guy standing there doing nothing, taking all that money, and also being maybe one of your biggest threats. He is a guy that if you got him in space, that's – If you're going to hand it to CeeDee Lamb, why can't you hand it to Trey Lance? Who cares if he gets hurt?

He's kind of like the Mike Soroy of the NFL, gets paid and does nothing. We don't want to do nothing fun. I think that's a fantastic idea. I was watching Trey and Campbell, whatever, just running around. He's just a big, graceful dude. I'm like, man, just let that dude be the running back for a little bit. I think he'll be better than some of the running backs we have on this team, for sure.

But you can't have him as the backup. And if Dak got hurt. If Dak got hurt, we're losing anyway. Yeah, but then you can't put in Cooper Rush right then. If Dak got hurt, also Trey Lance got hurt. He turned his ankle on a carry. Okay. Or a direct snap. Well, if Dak got hurt, also Trey Lance got hurt. He turned his ankle on a carry. Okay. Or a direct snap. Yeah, yeah.

And then Cooper Rush could jog on out there and continue his great success. Nah, Vach is right, though. If Dak gets hurt, it doesn't matter anyway. Although Cooper Rush... It is an option that you have, though. He doesn't have to be an active stand-in. No, you're right.

He could. No, that's not a bad idea. Put him on the field and see. And I think, now let's go right back to you wish there was the young, Shanahan, innovative, Mike McDaniels, whatever type. Yeah. That guy might think of that. Taysom Hill does it.

Taysom Hill does it every single week. I was watching film on him. He's like. Tied him as a position player. Yeah. Yeah. I'd land as a position player, quarterback, tight end, fullback, a wide receiver. Taysom Hill does all that. Teams to kick return all that. Yeah. So yeah, we should, we should,

we could be doing that, but we don't want to have fun. We don't want to do good things. We just want to pay all the money to a backup dude that ain't active. Unbelievable. And he was there that fourth round pick that you probably could have addressed running back, that Jets running back. Braylon Allen. Braylon Allen's fantastic.

Braylon Allen was picked after your pick. I made him. That you didn't have. To the defense, then. He's wild. Was I reading that Micah might be out a few weeks? A couple. Yeah.

He says he'll be back, I guess, for Sunday, Was I reading that Micah might be out a few weeks? A couple. Yeah. He says he'll be back, I guess, for Sunday, but all signs are pointing to at least two. Possibly Micah. Is that what you're hearing? And Tank, too, right? Yeah, yeah. Who knows about him? Tank's worse, yeah.

Okay, so now if you say Mike Zimmer is really not the problem, it's the players take, like, the best player away. And things don't look good in the near future, does it? No, I mean, it's not going to be easy. But, I mean, you know, you got Pittsburgh next week, and they win playing defense. So you kind of get a break there. But after that, you get Lions and San Francisco.

They probably beat the hell out of us on offense there. So I don't feel great about that. I think Mike is probably going to be off like three weeks or something like that. D-Law probably is probably looking like six for him. You know, that's his, you know, because this is like that's the same bad foot that always gets hurt. So it probably be a little longer for him. So yeah, I ain't got a whole bunch of faith for these

next few weeks, but I feel solid about Pittsburgh. If you can score points, which I don't feel solid about because of my part, then you can probably beat Pittsburgh or something like that. But I think the Lions and the 49ers are going to have a little party with you. Boy, that's going to be – so that's the next three? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, man. That's tough. Well, thanks for joining us today, Vach. We appreciate it. Vach Lombardi is on YouTube. Just go search him. Six-digit follower count. Is that today, Vach. We appreciate it. Vach Lombardi is on YouTube. Just go search him. Six-digit follower count. Is that correct, Vach?

We're close to you. We got five. I'm close, man. I'm at 92. I'm probably at 92,000 right now, but I'm trying to push to get to 100 by the end of football season because I'm motivated. What will you do at 100?

Is there something special you're going to do? Do it on shrooms. Do one episode. Nah, I'm just going to go to work and celebrate my 100. When I get my plaque or whatever, my little YouTube button, I'm just going to put it right there or something like that so everybody can see it. That's it. Nothing too

crazy. Okay. We're doing drugs when we get to 10,000 subs. I'm happy for y'all. Do all the drugs. Drink too. Drink and do drugs. I'm happy for y'all. Do all the drink, too. Drink and do drugs. I'm happy for you. All right, man. Thanks for your time on a Saturday. Shots out to y'all, man. Shots out to KT. If Julie is there,

shots out to her, too. Love her, too. Peace, y'all. Okay, Julie is here, as a matter of fact. All right, there you go. There he goes. Votch Lombardi. Votch is very positive when it comes to analyzing the Cowboys, which I love. I think it's great. He's a fan.

He looks at the bright side. You know it's bad when you have Vach on for 45 minutes and you feel worse about your team. I don't feel any – I feel worse than I did before we had him on. Not because of him, just because it looks so dang bleak. It does, man. Just the way they've played and – And their schedule and now injuries.

Yeah. I don't feel good about Pittsburgh at all. Going on the road. This should make you feel good. This means change is coming in some way. Whether it be new head coach or something. When's the last time they were 2-5? Oh.

Yeah, because they will be 2-5 if they lose to Pittsburgh. Yeah. 2-5. Jeez. You'd have to think. San Francisco's pretty beat up, too. They are. San Francisco has a bit of turmoil as well.

Did you see the Brandon Ayuk shorts? Practice. Can I use the word kerfuffle? Does anyone ever say kerfuffle? Only if you can spell it. Or is that a word only used in media as Brian Curtis would say.

But yeah, there was a little thing at practice because he didn't wear the right color shorts and I guess Brandon Ayuk got his deal, and now he's being as Brandon Ayuk as he can. I've never been a big Brandon Ayuk guy. They got Debo coming back, I think, possibly this weekend. We will take a look at that NFL schedule right now.

Should we take a little break? Yeah. Then we'll talk SNL. We'll get Julie Dobbs over here. NFL skid. Come out to Pro Slat. Garage store. Exceptional store.

Danny says not super. Yet. But they're on their way. It is Pro Slat. They have a really... This is their theme song that we've come up with on the fly today.

Is this the new one? No. See, that's what it sounds like if you make a theme song in a garage. Right. Right. Using your computer microphone. And not in a studio. But it is 75 in Arapaho, the Northeast Quadrant.

If, in fact, you're learning about us on the YouTube, which we are at today, or which we're on today. And if you're listening to this in audio form in the future, some future date, just know that ProSlat is located there, and it would be a sweet place for you to go and get your garage hookup. How can we describe this place, man? Awesome. Steel cabinets, shelves.

What do you call this thing that hangs from the ceiling and you can store stuff on? A hanging shelf. Is that what you call it? I don't know. Maybe. Because that thing's badass. I could really use that.

Just think if that was all of your shelving. Because your garage is pretty high ceiling. Just put everything up there and just keep your floor area clean. Dude, I'm looking over there. I need one of those things for the bikes. Hang the bikes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those bikes just take up so much room.

You get some stuff here and then spend the rest of your Slatter Day working on your garage. Your Slatter Day. Look at that. I could tell he had gotten to Slatter Day and didn't have. Your Slatterday. Look at that. I could tell he had gotten to Slatterday and didn't have anything else to say after that. Well, I appreciate the hard work and effort on that. Let me take a look here for a second. I think John Slattery from Mad Men will be coming by the next break. Oh, my God.

Do you now not miss KT? I can't. I'm doing this before you on your anniversary. This is all good stuff. So we have a taco truck here. Free tacos. The truck is not made of tacos. They serve tacos.

But you get free tacos. We have drinks. We have frivolity. I believe I've seen some frivolity. We have some mischief. Is there mischief? I haven't seen any mischief at all. Just a little bit. We've got amazingly clean bathrooms.

Well, it's day one. They better be clean. Yeah, that's what I was thinking when I was in there. You didn't expect it to look like a Stucky's, did you? Sorry for the drive-by there on Stucky's, did you? Sorry for the drive-by there on Stucky's. But they could give you a themed custom garage makeover, perhaps cowboy themed.

Perhaps, let's say you're a real psycho, and if you're here to see us, you're already on your way. Dumbzone theme garage. Like they'll put our logo up there or they'll make the floor into a dumb zone logo. Don't do that. That would be really bad. Let's see here. 25% of people with two-car garages don't park in them at all.

Due to garage clutter. True. Do you feel like your tax dollars could be spent elsewhere? I do. Yeah, I do. Let's study garage clutter today. Yeah, let's do that. We've had energy crisis. Let's have a money bath today, and then they throw money on you.

Yeah, why is the U.S. Department of Energy studying that? You just walk into some Congress office and go, Jim, I've got a task for you. A third of people with two-car garages don't park in them at all. At all? At all. I have room for one in a two-holer. Same. And you know what most of the other crap is?

Like stuff that Malcolm can't wear or play with anymore that I just need to give away. So if you've got a kid that's like two, call me and bring a truck and you can have everything. I might even throw in the baby. No, I'm kidding. 89% of garage owners would like to improve their garage spaces. That's me.

That seems like a low number. I am right in. Yeah. So 11% of all garage owners are like, yeah, my garage is fine. I have no need for Pro Slat. Those are Pro Slat customers. And if they're not, they walk in here, they're changing their vote because they don't have a garage that looks like this place.

No. Hold on. There's a question here on this copy point. Would you rather not be among the group of homeowners who avoid opening their garage doors when the neighbors are around? I think that's maybe rhetorical. Of course you would. You don't want to be among that group. Yes, oh, I want to be among the people who are embarrassed of my garage.

I don't want that. Nobody wants that. 52% of homeowners want to have a garage their neighbors envy so 48 percent of homeowners are like yeah i don't need my neighbors i'm not worried about that game but i have a uh i have a neighbor named steve who has an immaculate garage like he's is it ocd when you just have to keep everything clean and organized. Like it looks like this showroom. I envy Steve.

And I've often thought, well, I would love for somebody, when I open my garage door, to have that same feeling that they have when I see Steve's garage. However, I'm not like Steve. But if I get Pro Slat, I will be like Steve. So the main copy point is to be like Steve. That's their slogan here at Pro Slat. Be like Steve? Yeah. Who has an immaculate garage.

You're ready for Pro Slat because your garage is already pretty neat. Wouldn't you say? Dan's garage is quite tidy. Yeah. But it doesn't look like as cool as it could no he doesn't have all this badass stuff i need badass stuff this will yes badass garage like where you know how people have given us gold shovels look how you could hang it up right over there just on one of the pro slat thingies yep so when you go to pro slat ask for the thingy say hey where's the thingy that i can hang the shovel on and they'll oh right this way come with me sir yeah and they'll show you and they'll be like you could put a rake on there not

just a shovel and i'll go no i want the shovel thingy i don't want the rake thingy anyway that's a lot of copy points for ProSlat. Can I go eat a taco? Let's go have a GD snack. The Dumb Zone. to the dumb zone you're listening to the dumb zone the dumb zone the dumb zone the dumb zone the dumb zone the dumb zone the dumb zone yes indeed and uh we are live streaming today on the youtube and we're back at Pro Slats. Don't hug me.

Happy Saturday, guys. Julie Dobbs is here. Come on over, Julie. Oh, look at that. There are people here. We are at Pro Slat, which is 75 and Arapaho, the northeast quadrant. Does that help you? Or you're a lady, so you don't really know.

Just put it in your phone. Unfortunately, you're exactly right. I'm a lady, and I'm bad at directions, but it sounded like the correct address. Sorry about KT. I saw the hugs. like the correct address. Sorry about KT. I saw the hugs. We want to have him on too as we're going to keep talking SNL fantasy draft.

Come on over, KT. Yeah, he's going to take my spot. No, no, no, no, no, no. Come on. You're Blake. No one takes your spot. Kevin. Anyone can take my spot.

Did you see this kid has a MyPig shirt? And on the back of the shirt is the full MyPig quote. There's a mic over there. I did see that. Yeah. That is the son of Intern Rach. That's right. And gosh, his friends must be confused.

Does that make you proud, Danny, when you see a kid with a My Pig shirt? Is that what you aspired for your life? I guess by default that's kind of my crowning radio achievement. So proud? Yeah. I mean, subjective. Okay. I think you should be.

It's a great shirt. subjective. Okay. I think you should be. It's a great shirt. If we can see production magic in front of us, of course we heard Danny's hastily produced Pro Slat theme song, which was done right here,

right before the show, not in a studio. Pro Slat is a garage what would you call this? Store. Yeah, garage store. Store. It's in the name. But Blake says...

The dumb zone. Yours sucks compared to this. ProSlat. ProSlat. ProSlat. ProSlat. So did you get TC like right when he woke up? It sounds that way, doesn't it? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That's TC.

He has such morning voice. Tried to speed it up and doctor it. That's the best I could do. Pro-slut. Okay. Your morning voice finally went away. Pro-slut. You sound normal now.

Well, we're approaching our normal recording time. True. Pro-slut. And your normal Saturday wake-up time? Probably another hour and a half. Pro-slut. Seriously? No.

Oh. Jeez. I don't know anyone that sleeps in anymore. Post-life. Seriously? No. Oh, jeez. I don't know anyone that sleeps in anymore. I think the jury's still out on whether that's way better than Danny's version. It's great. I'll take a back seat to that any day. You want to ask the crowd?

Sure. I don't think they care. Okay. Yeah, just text, what, 1-900-DUMBZONE. Mm-hmm. If you like Danny's And Whatever Do we still do that

For American Idol How's American Idol Going these gays guys Gays These gays Did I say these gays You did Was that a Freudian slip

I think it was I was looking over at KT I thought maybe You just didn't. Yeah. I don't know. American Idol. I don't know if people watch American Idol still. Do they? Is it still on? That's the first question. I think

it's still on. Yeah. Okay. Tonight, SNL, the fantasy draft. We've talked about that a little bit, of course, the fantasy season. You're winning so far. Yeah. In your own league, which is the way it works.

But earlier, Danny was mentioning there's an SNL movie coming out, and I am unaware of anything about it. And he said, you're the expert on all things SNL. coming out and I am unaware of anything about it and he said you're the expert on all things SNL okay yeah so the movie comes out October 11th and it's called get this Saturday night okay and it is about the 90 minutes before the first episode back in 1975 where your host was George Carlin who was wearing a black t-shirt like most white comedians do um and like you Kevin like me yeah I know I wore this for Dan I thought he would like nice um the but it's uh yeah so it's like the chaos of the 90 minutes before they hit the air For the first time

In 1975 So they've casted All these people That look like The cast members And it's kind of crazy Like the guy Who is Lorne

I forget his name Kind of looks like him The guy who's playing Chevy Chase Kind of looks like him Dan Aykroyd And It looks like

It's going for Less of a Real historic Like Like going All the accuracies of it, and more just chaos behind the scenes of all those people. So is it a 90-minute film that's shot in real time? No, because it's... They've got to provide some kind of backstory or... Yeah, they have to do a little bit of that, and I'm interested to see how they're going to do it.

The guy who's doing it is Jason Reitman, who who obviously he would know dan akroyd from ghostbusters and i read a big article on like the casting process and finding all these people that look just like them and they had to go through 200 people to find the guy that looks like chevy chase but it does appear to be like there's a lot of network fighting like how are you going to do this and lauren's like it goes on at 11 30 because it has to and it kind of like it's a it's a weird process like i think it became very popular for people to mock snl at some point and i get it it's had some bad years but uh you know we've all had some bad shows here and there that's what happens right but like the the fact that that show even gets made and is live is really stupid and really impossible. I think that's what that movie is kind of going to illustrate, is, like, how it all come together.

Just, like, because back in the day, Carson was the only comedy, late-night comedy. And these people were unknown. Like, Chevy Chase was not a star. These were guys in their early 20s. Yeah, this is such a mainstream show now. It seems like it's kind of the stuffy show, although they try their hardest to stay relevant. But every time they get a cast member,

you don't know who they are. Right. Like through all of these years until they were on the show for a little bit. Then they become quite famous sometimes. A lot of the time. Tons of breakout stars. I mean, heavy hitters.

All of them were unknowns, right? All of them. All like Second City people. Unless you were hardcore in the comedy world, you might have seen this guy who's a stand-up. Back then it was sketch. Now they take a lot of stand-ups because, you know, a lot of the sketch comedy places shut down during COVID

and things like that. But I think it's, I mean, a part of it is I wonder how much Lorne had any, like, say in it because I imagine it paints him in a very good light. I know they're going to, like, point out the infighting with the network. Like, you know, the head guy at NBC, what's his name? Is it Ebersole or is it the other guy? Dick Ebersole? Maybe.

Maybe it's him or the other. I forget. Ebersole came in to run it in the like one or two years lauren was gone when lauren took a break right like in the 1980 or something yeah yeah it's um and then like i think they were kind of pushing for you have to have a plan making fun of the idea that there's not really a script i mean you have you really are going off cue cards and they make those edits last minute on the fly it's kind of crazy like there's something to watch if you even give a crap man maybe a lot of people don't care but like it is not a actual documentary

but like 2008 james franco dude have you seen this the james franco youtube doc that he did no handheld cameras this is amazing when he was hosting no the host is john malkovich and like snl famously does not give any access to anyone like they don't want you to know the process except for this time and they gave it to james franco in 08 at the height of his powers i mean half the thing looks like he shot it on his phone yeah and it's not like well done when you watch it it's a reason i wasn't released in theaters or something like that and it just takes you day by day and he's just embedded with them through the table read which is like six hours of them and they have all kinds of energy drinks and and fruit and nuts to stay awake as they're reading through hundreds of scripts of sketches.

And the all-night writing, and you can see Seth Meyers at 4 a.m. trying to stay awake and come up with something. So I've heard like Norm MacDonald talk about the process. I think it was him. And how kind of ridiculous it is. And just the thought, like you said, you got to stay awake. So you're eating fruit and energy drinks and nuts. Back in the 70s, they were doing cocaine all night.

And that's how they did it. Yet we've transitioned out of we do cocaine at work. But we still want to have that same schedule. And he always thought that was just ridiculous. That we don't go home at 8 p.m. or 5 p.m. or whatever it is. still want to have that same schedule and he always thought that was just ridiculous that we don't go home at 8 p.m or 5 p.m or whatever it is because just that's the way it's done well why don't we all just go home and get here at 8 a.m and write all day well that's because that's the template that we set up in the effing 70s so i think that's insane and they still do that norm

from stand-up comedy world is I'll go write this on my own or you know I'm on my own time when yeah a big half of the cast is sketch people who are like all right everyone let's come together and come up with something and they're very whimsical or whatever Colin Quinn was the same way when he did a weekday update or a weekend update he was like everyone else is like staying up all night. I just write everything I want to do on Monday. It's like I just write it. But now, like, for instance, Colin Jost and Michael Che, who I think are great. I think the jury may be out on them.

I think they're wonderful. But they're your head writers, too. Like they're involved in writing the cold open. They're involved in editing all these things and rewriting them last minute. And Norm and Dennis Miller and Colin Quinn and all those guys, Kevin Nealon, didn't have to do any of that extra stuff. That kind of became the thing when Tina Fey took over and Seth Meyers took over when they were the head writers. Now you kind of have to be involved in everything,

not just the big 10 minutes and the weekend update. Do you ever read the – obviously you've probably read the SNL book. Yes. Can't remember who that's by. The big oral history. The same guy that did, I think, the ESPN book. It's great. But do you ever read the Jay Moore book?

No. About his one year at SNL? This was referenced on yesterday's episode. Was it? Do I need to grab this? I can lend it to you. Okay. Just grab it.

I'll just grab it. Or just grab it. But, yeah, no, it's very good, too, just because – and he's blaming himself. He said, yeah, I was a different guy back then. I was an a-hole. But just the whole process of how everything is done like it takes you like a year to kind of figure out how to approach Jim Downey to to get a sketch

on or how I got to kind of work with this guy I got to be friends with some of the writers so that they'll write stuff for me to you if I'm not Chris Farley and just so obviously the the head of every room I'm in um you know I have to you know it's just difficult to get on the show if you just don't know all the you know behind the scenes politics oh there's so many clicks and things like that but also like you have to watch this documentary because they're showing you in the read-through okay so Sudeikis is going to get his sketch on and Sandberg's going to get his sketch on showing you in the read-through, okay, so Sudeikis is going to get his sketch on, and Sandberg's going to get his sketch on, and you have that Keenan's going to get his on. And what they show you in this documentary from 08

is Bobby Moynihan, who was new at the time, and he's got some wacky sketch, and they're doing the read-through at the table, and it is not destroying at all. And you have all these, like, people who at the time, Sudeikis, all these guys are, like, respected, and, like, looking at at them like, you idiot. And they do that every week.

So if you're new on that show, to break through past that offensive line of comedy like people, that's amazing. And if you have a good idea and it kind of doesn't make the show one week because there was some real gold, the thought of giving it again at one of those meetings. Yeah. They would have to bring that up to you.

Well, yeah, that's the problem is, and I guess this is one of the things that Jay Moore did. And, you know, we do this with the show. We got this great Dion audio from Saturday or whatever, and then it just doesn't make Monday or Tuesday, and then it doesn't make – and then all of a sudden next week you're like, remember I had that really great – well, now it's a punchline. Yeah, it's got a stink on it at that point.

Yeah, it's a punchline, even if it's great. And it's very difficult to get over the mental thing of playing it. But then, yes, if you're in the room with a bunch of people who have just heard dion idea well we're all not going to do it because it didn't make the show last week you know also they do the rehearsal at well i'll use central time at nine o'clock you know tonight let's just say tonight's episode something could kill and if it kills too good they're they're like no that's not going to be on the real show it was it did too well what do you mean at dress rehearsal if the audience gives

them a great response like an over-the-top response on a bit that typically means it's going to tank in the live show why because you can't do it that good again right so they just kill it all together yeah and then maybe they maybe they bring it back and pitch it. And I suppose experience has taught him that. Yeah. Well, Lorne. Yeah. Lorne, who speaks in riddles,

so you never really know what he's saying, but he is absolutely a comedy goat. And he had the wherewithal to go, you know what, I'm not going to make it as a sketch you know player on canadian tv but i can do this and i like all the behind the scenes stuff and i do know what's funny for the most part and like to me like that's pretty wild to have something and you think oh that's easy or i got a lazy person would just go yeah absolutely that's gonna work again like i was like no and that's why he's Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers movies. I mean, he is a mystery

and he's 80 and now they're all talking about he's just going to stay and keep doing it. There were big rumors that this would be his last year. They'll hand it off to Tina Fey or Seth Meyers

or whoever wants it, Kenan, whatever. No one else can do that job. He can. I also like how, yeah, it's ruled by him. It's amazing that he could be 80 and they've still kind of stayed relevant and they'll have the relevant hip, whatever new music's coming out,

that'll still be on. Like there's no way he has any idea who some of these people are on. Who Jelly Roll is tonight. Yeah. Is Jelly Roll on tonight? Is Jelly Roll tonight? Jelly Roll tonight. Damn. I'll never forget the Jelly Roll.

What did we get? An email? Yeah. From Dan Bennett back at the ticket that said if anybody wants to, we could go see Jelly Roll perform in the break room or something one day. And you guys were on remote, so we didn't get to. We're all like Googling Jelly Roll perform in the break room or something one day. And you guys were on remote, so we didn't get to. We're all like Googling Jelly Roll. Jelly Roll was in the Cumulus Cafe.

Oh, yeah. Not quite the Cumulus Cafe. No, yeah. The Cumulus Cafe. The Cumulus Cafe. Seriously? Yeah, that exact little. Right next to the muffins.

Yeah. Oh, wow. Like Jelly Roll was in there. That's where they would perform? Yeah. C-9. Yeah, in that little conference room. I'm getting all my radio stations mixed up, because iHeart's the one that had the couch

listening room, but no one... No, that was the old spot. The new one at Victory Plaza. I see why I've worked too many places. I'm getting them all confused. The conference room that's right across from the kitchen? Yeah. That thing.

I've seen... But they'd put Jelly Roll in the cafe? No, not literally in the cafe. He wasn't actually... He likes food. Next to the fridge. Yes, he was in the cafe. Next to the fridge.

Break down here. Oh, my God. Yes. I've never seen that. Yeah. But you would see on that floor, it was not uncommon to just walk down the hallway and in one of the country music program director offices, there'd be some guy in there with an acoustic guitar being real earnest and getting into his song and pouring his heart out and there's just like three people just kind of staring at him and when he finishes

like oh that was really good thank you that's really good song about a track then he leaves with his you know weird pants a little mini version of the voice just going on in a conference room trying to promote whatever you know single they promote whatever single they're trying to plug. And it was Jelly Roll. And now he's on Saturday Night Live. Now he's on Saturday Night Live. Who would have thought? All because he played at the Cumulus Cafe.

There you go. Next to the ice machine. That's where it all started. Jelly Roll is a part of a group of singers. I think there's a thing called Wildcat Singing that's in now. These are all guys who have beards. They might have dabbled in country music, but they don't consider themselves a country music artist.

Chris Stapleton would be one of these guys. Nathaniel Ratliff. These guys all kind of look the same, too. They look a little bit like me, I guess. Without the beard. Yeah. And they all kind of wail and sound like wildcats. They sound like wildcats?

Marcus King is another guy. How does that sound, Kevin? I'm not a good singer. I know, but I want to hear what a wildcat country singer sounds like. I don't know. It's hard to describe. It's kind of like Southern Rock, screamy, Southern Rocky kind of gravelly voice, blue-eyed soul dude. Okay.

The wildcat is back at Sexton singing rather than college football. I like all of those people. The Jelly Roll thing is like, did you know this is back at our old building? Were you ever at the old building for Cumulus? Not really. The Maple Avenue? Mm-mm. Because I remember that was the bad radio days,

and it was the days when we were still producing the open, like the producer wouldn't make the open. So either me or Bob would go in and do today's open. So I was going to do today's open, but I couldn't get to the computer because there's this little guy in there with his guitar from the Bone or whatever that merge was. And I'm like, well, who is this guy this guy and they're like it's Bruno Mars and I was like all right well he's in the way so like they had to get Bruno Mars out of there so I can get today's amazing and then later he'd end up doing the

halftime show for the Super Bowl wow yeah yeah he was sitting right there in front of you kicked Bruno Mars out of a production studio so you could add three fart drops to your show. And a clip from Curb. Yeah, a clip from Curb. That was a really funny opening that day. I swear to God, when I worked at the fan, one day Chris Arnold was brought in post Malone.

He's going to be a big deal. And I was like, okay, cool, all right. Yeah, whatever. Sure enough, post Malone, he's going to be a big deal. And I was like, okay, cool, all right. Yeah, whatever. Sure enough, Post Malone, there he is. There he is, Brandon Aubrey's best friend. Hanging out with Jerry. Collabing with Tay-Tay. I would have drafted Posty to do double duty.

Yeah, he did get drafted somewhere. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Because he could host and do the music. Yeah. Right? Oh, absolutely. Also, back on the process of SNL,

I think about this a lot because nowadays, just in our new iteration, because we will be, you know, either someone will be in the den with us or like the live streaming for sure when we're doing it with Rob and we're in our downtown Dallas studio,

because now we're like deciding kind of when we start and it's like, all right, we're going to try and hit it at 11 or noon or 11, 11 or something weird. And so we'll like, you know, I got the music and Rob's got the video and we're just trying to say, all right, 45 seconds now. In fact, people might've seen it here, right? Okay. 15 seconds now. So he can match it up and know when to hit. Norm MacDonald would say he couldn't understand why. SNL had been going on for 30 years already when Norm MacDonald is there. And he says when it's about to be showtime, like it's nothing but chaos,

people running around screaming, like two minutes, two minutes, you know, 45, 40. He's like, you think after a while it'd be like you could, hey, Rob, 45 seconds now. You know, just like talk and act like you're a steady hand on the helm. We've been here before, but maybe part of that chaos feeds to the energy of the audience and then they get excited and and everybody can't believe, and when it starts, it's like a big maybe. I don't know. No, you know, like, there's so many sets that have to be moved around,

and the digital short with Andy Samberg is what everyone talks about, but the pre-produced commercials were all happening for all those years. I can't believe they put those little music videos and all the canned bits together that week. The reason they do that. Just on an audio mixing, because some of those tracks are pretty intricate. Yeah, and the only reason that happens, though, is to give the people on the crew an extra two minutes to just get that set off the stage and wheel on another one.

Because the guys will say there's three different sets. Off to the side where the music is, and there's one way in the corner, and then there's home base where the host comes out. Those sets are wheeled out there, and if your sketch gets home base, you've got a better chance to do well. If you're off in the corner, the audience isn't going to laugh as much. If you're where the music guest is, you'll get some laughter, but you're not going to get everyone.

You want your sketch to be on home base. So they have that room to work with, but without those two-minute digital shorts, the crew's got to have time to get over there. Otherwise, you've got to go to commercial or whatever. It's very interesting. I would love to just go see an episode, but the lottery is impossible to get in, pretty much.

How big is that studio? What does it hold? It's small. I don't know. 100? 250? Maybe? I'm not good at measurements, but yes.

I've actually seen it. Not a show, but I was on a tour there in New York City, and they showed me that studio, and it's tiny. It's crazy. They're moving the 50th anniversary special because they did the 40th anniversary special there and everyone was told no plus ones. You just show up like Peyton Manning. You want to be here. You can't bring your wife.

But like they're moving it this year to Radio City because there's like there's too many people now. There's 500 to 1,000 cast members going to get invited. So it's kind of weird they're going to do it in a place that's not there yeah but i think i think they're going to warn won't ever give any uh info he's like a he's like a coach with their scheme like you won't say anything but it does feel like they're going to have a bunch of cameos like maybe not special hosts maybe they'll give steve martin a shot you know, that's who Dan picked in round one.

But, like, I don't think – I think they'll keep doing young hosts, up-and-comers, up-and-coming music people. And then, you know, if John Goodman wants to pop into a sketch, you know, all these people have been around, Bill Murray, whatever. I think that's how it's going to work. And that will make it a little more special. Yeah. The Steve Martin one might be bad because we're not allowed to.

The 50th anniversary show itself doesn't count, you said. Does not count. So that's probably the one you would see him at. Yeah. I would guess. They let Fallon host the 40th, so who knows what they'll do. You know, another thing, though, that is great, back to Norm MacDonald. A lot of my conversations go back to Norm MacDonald.

Just the whole big picture aspect of it that Lauren does have in mind. I mean, Norm MacDonald got fired. Big story. And he was hosting within a year. and he was hosting within a year because, Lauren, this is one of my things that I don't like about certain media outlets. The ticket will do it in a way, but bigger, I remember ESPN Radio would do this or ESPN in general.

You weren't allowed to, we would try to book Michael Irvin. He was like a radio host for ESPN Miami a long time ago. And it was like, hey, we just want to book Michael Irvin. Well, I can't go on with you because it has to be an ESPN station. Or Keith Long back in the day. We couldn't get him on the ticket because he didn't write for the Dallas Morning News. If somebody writes about baseball, it was like, well, wait. My theory was the Dallas Morning News, they can have any story they want. We can still have a partnership with them.

We can have any writer. We just have to have the best show we can have, and then our partnership will be better for the Dallas Morning News because we'll have more listeners and you'll get more people to your app and vice versa. Make your paper the best it can be. So, Lorne, that was always his thing. They weren't insulated like, well, you can only have NBC people.

Or, you know, if we got rid of them, we can't have them on the – like he'd be like, well, they're in the news. And what a ratings grab this would be to have Norm MacDonald come and host and be commenting on getting fired less than a year prior. Even though Norm MacDonald, the reason he was on was because CBS gave him a talk show or a sitcom. Yep. Was it CBS? A Norm show, right?

Yeah. So he wanted to be on to promote his sitcom on another network. Yeah. But Lorne had that power. I'm sure somebody probably was upset about having him on. And Lorne never wanted Norm to go. But he's like, ratings, that's what matters. Yeah.

And I know the ticket right now in Dallas would never have us on, but I would imagine that might be a, you know, their ratings are going fine, but still. Yeah. Well, it's weird. You said ESPN. Like, in round one and two of the Masters, Jim Nance is on ESPN. Like, it shouldn't matter.

The ticket thing is a good example. It is a very good example. Because it wasn't the ticket local, it was kind of cumulus national. So same thing with Norm. One of the big guys, whatever his name was, you remember it, got him fired. Don Ohlmeier. Ohlmeier, yeah. Got Norm fired.

It wasn't Lorne and SNL that fired him. It was NBC that fired him, the suit. And so that's the way I look at it with our dispute with the ticket was with the suits in Atlanta. Really more than local. But I think local also is taking their cue from the suits in Atlanta. Well, there's an overarching attitude

of that no other station exists. And it's worked very well. Oh, yeah, yeah. Can't criticize that. I mean, even like the fan base. Oh, yeah, yeah. Can't criticize that. Because, I mean, if you like the fan base, like, I'm always like, one day a guy came up to me

and was like, man, I love Danny and Saroy. What are they doing? And I'm like, well, if you love them so much, you would know. Like, you must not love them. And that...

How much do you love them? And that's why I don't get to do a show with Mike and Danny anymore. You talking about the freak, Kevin? No. Oh, oh. R.I.P. One more thing.

Do you know who Jean Smart is, Dan? I know that name. Yeah, she's on a show called Hacks. Yeah, I've quit it twice. Is that it? Yeah, Hacks. Dee's on it, right? HBO Sweet Dee pops in. Yeah, yeah. Do you know, Dan? Yeah, I've quit it twice. Is that it? Yeah, Hacks. D's on it, right? HBO Sweet D pops in.

Yeah, yeah. Do you know D? Yeah. Is she like a legendary comedian or something? Comedic actress? I don't know if she's a comedian. I can't name anything else she's done, but when I saw her,

I watched the premiere of Hacks. You know what she looks like, though, right? My wife was against it, so we don't still watch it. You know what she looks like. I mean, you've seen her in a bunch of different stuff. I've seen her of Hex. You know what she looks like, though, right? My wife was against it, so we don't still watch it. You know what she looks like. I mean, you've seen her in a bunch of different stuff. I've seen her before. Sure.

But it wasn't like standing out like, oh, I loved her in whatever. So she's doing a residency, and then Shooter McGavin comes in and is like, no, Pentatonix, who went to school in Arlington, they get the residency now. What's that mean? That's on the show in Vegas. Like, she was a comedian, had the Vegas show. Oh, okay. This is Hex now.

Yeah. You're now talking about the plot of Hex. But the point is, and I quit it twice, but everyone says it's great. And I've quit it. I tried it again. But she's your host tonight. And it is very rare that they let someone, I would say in their 70s, come host the season premiere.

Like, usually they're trying to be cutting edge and they are cutting edge on what's the hot show what's you know if beef was on right now i'm sure that somebody beef yeah were you into beef i quit beef too oh i finished beef i finished beef. I quit it about halfway through and waited a year until I think it won all the damn Emmy Awards. I was like, I guess it's good. I went back and, yeah, it's fine. I didn't love, love it, but it was fine. We're in the golden era of mid-TV, I think. Of what, mid-TV?

Yeah. Just because we're all looking for something? Yeah, and I think also we're not willing to fight through as much. Like I think we used to be able to kind of our attention span would go. We didn't need the Walt White in his underwear in one minute to hook us. I mean, it helped. That was wonderful. But I still think we would sit through some stuff.

And now it's like if it's not good in 10 minutes, I'm just going to turn it off and find something else. We really just end up scrolling the interface of whatever app we're on. It's true. I don't really watch TV anymore, and it's kind of sad. It's partly because of what you said and just partly because of life, and I fall asleep every time I try. But you do.

You just end up watching little short clips on Instagram or whatever, and there's my entertainment, and then I go to sleep. Or I listen or watch the dumb zone or the mom game. You don't have to lie about that. It's okay. Late night TV, that's worthy. She only listens when she's on. She'll listen to it over and over again.

I fall asleep with my voice in my ears, yes. Oh, me. No, not at all. I always try to listen to you guys when I'm not on. As much as I can when I'm not doing deals, you know? Jean Smart was designing women. She was also, what's her name's mom on Mayor of Easttown? Kate Winslet?

Yeah, Kate Winslet's mom on Mayor of Easttown, which is a great show, by the way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, she's cool, man. 73. Dang. For her. Congratulations, Jean. by the way yeah yeah yeah she's cool man 73 dang for her congratulations gene that's way to not die it's a big day 73 i don't think you need to say that yet and to be on uh hosting snl that's

probably more impressive i like your team dan i think you got a chance here i mean uh bill belichick in round 10 now that was a long shot thinking that, okay, because it's the hot thing in the news. The whole reason they only announced five weeks is. But you had him as the musical guest, which I found to be quite odd. What would that sound like? I have no idea. Because it's like in January if a new show, the new beef or whatever becomes big,

they will book that star. So that's why I thought Peyton and Belichick start their thing. the new beef or whatever becomes big, they will book that star. So that's why I thought Peyton and Belichick start their thing like midseason. Okay. And then that's going to pick up steam. Belichick's going to become a media darling. And then, look, it was my joke round, right? Isn't there supposed to be one round that you're supposed to do like a long shot that you get extra points for?

The last two rounds are worth two points. Yeah. The idea is basically. Oh, so I should actually do someone that really thinks is going to be on there. And Blake was like, it's too confusing. I'm like, no, it's just two points for the last two picks because it's off the scrap heap. What do points mean? Right.

For instance, I drafted Jelly Roll. You know the worst thing about his league? Is, well, you probably got a big list. Mike looks disgusted right now. The worst thing is that we didn't have to pay up front. So imagine I win. This is the greatest thing. No one's going to, everybody's going to be like,

no, I'm not sending you your 20 bucks or whatever it is. In fact, I don't even know what the entry fee was. Look, I realize that no one respects me, but I'll get my money. He's done this for a long time. The reason I don't take the money in September when we have to do the draft is because everyone else is in nine pools like you. So when all your money is going away to the kicker pool. But the interest you could accrue? In May, you're not paying for any new pools.

See, I've learned a lot about business lately. So, yes, I would get that money up front. I would put it in a high-yield bond. Uh-huh. Okay. I'd wait for it to mature. Are those good words? Does it all go together?

Mature is a great word. You're shockingly making some sense. Yeah, it sounds like those words should go together. We're going to relegate you if you don't get any points, too. Now there's a rele word. You're shockingly making some sense. Yeah, it sounds like those words should go together. We're going to relegate you if you don't get any points, too. Now there's a relegation system. Yeah, last place is out. It's like the EPL. That's complicated.

Yeah, I hope I'm out. I don't hope I'm out. I hope I'm back in. You're going to be like the West Brom of the SNL League. You took Jeremy Allen White. Soccer joke landed perfectly. That's a team? Yeah.

Okay. Are we going to have Andrew over here before we get off, or what is our bit? Yeah, I think I gave them the heads up. Either Andrew, do you want to come on and chat a little bit, or Eric? One of you guys? Anyway. Either one. Watch SNL this year brought to you by Kevin KT Turner. on and chat a little bit? Or Eric? One of you guys? Anyway, watch SNL this year

brought to you by Kevin KT Turner. I love you, KT. That's the guy that should replace Lauren. Right there. That guy knows funny. Kevin! I have to look at some games to pick as well, Blake. It's fun to do radio with Kevin again or whatever we're doing right now.

It's fun to do it with Kevin again. Where's Pro Sl doing right now. It's fun to do it with Kevin again. Where's Pro Slat Man? Is that who you wanted to talk to? Eventually, at some point, because we are at Pro Slat. If, in fact, you are ingesting this on a live stream. Eric's going to come up here. Pro Slat Man. All right.

This is the man of the hour. Happy Slatter Day. And then we have to... Slatter Day. Hello, gentlemen. And then we have to Hello gentlemen See Julie is a problem Because she will make you think You're funnier than you are That was funny

Kevin will walk away thinking I just destroyed Yeah Are you warning me Is that what we're doing here We're letting me know Yes Eric is it

Yes sir Eric the owner of ProSlat Let's all hear it ProSlat He's the guy ProSlat That Let's all hear it for Eric. He's the guy. ProSlat. Oh, that's right.

We got you a theme song. This is quite the jingle you got. There's a big story behind it. It's a cover song. So I've been told. So you've been told. A lot of inside jokes around here. I'm not sure we're going to release it as a single.

So you, how long have you been doing ProSlat? Since it started. And? That would be... Like you're assuming we know that. Officially, 14 years is the incorporation date. Probably 2008 when I started really working on the project previously. I always wanted to be in the car business, but I wasn't smart enough to build a car, nor did I have enough money.

So I figured, how do I get into the car? I love cars. How do I get in the car business? And I said, well, the next best thing is to be in the car business, but it wasn't smart enough to build a car, nor did I have enough money. So I figured, how do I get into the car? I love cars. How do I get in the car business? And I said, well, the next best thing is be around the cars. Okay. Canadian upbringings? Canadian upbringings. Yeah, okay.

Where are you from? Did you know that this was a Canadian company that is now branching into? Oh, we've been in the U.S. since 2011. Okay. So it's nothing new. We've got offices, Columbus, Ohio, 50,000 square feet for shipping, Vegas, store in Scottsdale.

So we've been in the U.S. for a long time. But not North Texas, right? Not specifically Texas. What we've taken a next phase in our growth was just there's a lot of people out there that will buy on the Internet and do it themselves, and there's a lot of people out there that will buy on the internet and do it themselves. And there's a lot of people out there that said, I just don't have time or the expertise. I want that service to go behind it. Or if you're like me, it's, I always refer back to the old speaker days. Used to go speaker shopping and you'd lift every speaker to see who had the heaviest magnet

to get the best base out of it. Some people want to walk in, touch it, taste it, see what it is. And it's very hard for us. The internet can do miracles. They can, they can make me look as tall as Andrew and they can make it. And in our business, it's very tough to explain what exactly we're trying to sell when you're selling a product at two, 3000, even at $200. So we felt having our stores in the field to come support, not only people that resell our product, but consumers that want to come and touch it before they invest into what they want to do in the garage so these stores is dallas is number one it was the first store we said we're going to dallas first um and that was just a market space that we had identified and we're you know we've got a master

plan we're going to take over the world one garage at a time here but uh we've got a master plan of uh 50 different stores throughout the united states so we can support our salesmen and our customers and grow our brand obviously god that's so cool man julie what you guys do is incredible i want this so badly doesn't talking to eric though i've uh and you have too interviewed hundreds of hockey players over the years doesn't it make you feel like you're talking to a hockey player

yes it feels just like home I'm missing a tooth here too if it really helps you okay just that whole just every I got the honorable missing tooth you love classic rock too

don't you yeah not as much as country though I'll tell you okay there you go my mother grew up just George Jones it was just country

all the time. That was it. Are you trying to ingratiate be friendly, Texan friendly by saying that? No, not at all. Because I'm anti-country music. That's too bad. A lot of Canadians like country music. Highly against your mom.

A little hard rock up in Canada. You brought it here. Why So you brought it here. Why did you bring it here? Honestly, numbers. It just comes down to numbers. The beam counters that look at where every order is shipped and where potential, where is housing growing the largest, where there's so many factors that bring that in.

largest where like there's so many factors that bring that in um and for us it's it's funny because for us dallas is one flight away it's a very simple destination it's a very popular dfw is easy to get into so we back and forth our deliveries that come out of our stuff that's all made in north america so we can literally get a truck down here in two days so this stuff is almost overnight just to be able to supply. And it's the gateway to get to our vision for Texas as a whole is Houston, Austin, and then probably West Fort Worth. That's the plan. That's the master plan going forward. But this would be the master hub. your work is we're in it maybe you don't even do this at all is working with home builders general

general contractors to go ahead and outfit the garages on a brand new home so when the people move in it's already there that's i think jake is because i think that would be like a huge huge selling point because they're renovating the house increase the you know the value of the home right off the bat. It is. And that's probably our biggest challenge and opportunity tossed into one. Currently, homes, if you look at, if you go back a couple of years, many years ago, we walked on carpet. And the guy who sells hardwood convinced everybody, bad for your allergies, everyone's got to walk on hardwood. We walked on linoleum floors not tile yeah countertops used to be melamine there's some form of rock granite whatever slate whatever you wanted to put up there you used to get out of your car to open your garage door you can't do that anymore those

guys have done their homework closets are organized in the home right now if you look at a home in general backyards are done to the nines. Like they've got outdoor kitchens and gazebos and everything you want out there. But the garages, we'll paint it white. Yeah. We'll paint it white. And there's opportunity in that garage now, especially with most, like 80% of homes, the garages are over 50% of the facade of the house.

That's what you're walking in through that's what you're parking in that's your entranceway it's just something that needs to be functional toss into the fact that my kids do i think five sports yeah like our activity levels um pandemic possibly helped out but it's just the amount of activities the amount of equipment the amount of stuff we got going on in there is just, it's the most useful. It has to be everything. It has to be the jack of all, a kitchen cooks, right? In a living room, you know, you relax.

And in the dining room, you eat. Garage has got to be what, what's it today? It needs to be this, or it needs to be football. Oh, now it's hockey season. Nope. Oh, no, now he's a baseball player. Nope. Now we're going kayaking.

Like it's, and then we started a motocross. Now we're going, now we're a mechanic shop. Like it's just. Yep. And then we started motocross. Now we're a mechanic shop. Now we have a camp out. Need a sleeping bag. Yeah, all those things. It's incredible, that versatility. And it's been just been a dumping zone. And, you know, don't...

We made him sleep in the garage when we went on our road trip to Cowboys Training Camp. I wish... Yeah. It looked like this. Can you imagine if it was like this? Oh, I would have enjoyed it. It did have a couch. Oh, at least. It had, like, spider webs and... Yeah. He was living like. Can you imagine if it was like this? Oh, I would have enjoyed it. It did have a couch. Oh, at least.

It had like spider webs and... Yeah. You know. It was living like the Unabomber. Yeah. And that's why we were very embarrassed to let our neighbors see our garage because... Because Blake was in it? Blake was in there sleeping.

He was naked. Well, the good news is you're out. They take it, you know, you're working your way up. Yeah, exactly. Did you know, Eric, that 25% of people with two-car garages don't park in them at all? I should know that, but I'm going to believe you. Did you know that a... These are your copy points.

I should probably thank Andrew then for this. Did you see the redhead around the corner? They're her copy points that I should have studied before you put me on this podcast. Did you know... Well, then just... I'll say yes. Just say yes to whatever. Did you know that a third of people could only park one car in their garage,

their two-car garage, largely due to garage clutter? That number sounds low to me. And you, a third, here at ProSlat, would be able to solve that problem. That's the whole bit. I think that's the whole bit right there in a nutshell. I think what it comes down to and what we're just trying to educate people about is that we have a solution that could be $200. I sell a manual hoist at $20.

It doesn't have to be $50,000. It can be $50,000. But there are products out there that just can help you improve whatever clutter you may have. Yeah. We have, you know, bicycles, for example. Well, I've got four different ways that we can organize your bikes and just what works for you and at what budget. It could be a $149 rack.

It could be a $99 rack. And it could be a $10,000 garage because that's what you want. There's levels that you can be at. It's not a lot of people have this preconceived notion that I don't have the money to do that. It's cost me too much. And it's just, it's not true. There's so many different levels of products and that can solve a problem. And that's what we do. All right. Before we kick you off, Rob, you had a video. So you guys set up our studio, um, our broadcast studio and Rob did it it Rob did not time-lapse this this is the actual this is how fast they can set up your garage as well but this

is the pro slat studio that we have now at the Fox for building if that's if that's the case I want to make sure that you do drug test your employees. They guys haul an ass. How do they do it? Yeah, so you just saw the crappy wall that it was, and now it's that. And we can hang stuff on there and just throw things at it. I generally like all my employees that work at this speed. I actually have, you know, if you've ever noticed that Siri, you can speed her up on your phone or slow her down.

I got her so fast. It's like, that's the same way. That's the same way. That's normal speed. Yeah. It looks great though. So every time they're doing a show, everybody's seeing that slat wall. It works for you guys. It works for us. You guys have been talking it up. Good stuff. Appreciate the time. Well, everybody, this is

the owner of Pro Slat. Let's hear it for Eric. Thanks, man. Yeah. Thanks for having us. Nice's hear it for Eric. Thanks, man. Yeah, thanks for having us. Nice to meet you, Eric. Oh, we didn't make him say about.

That's always fun. It's a boat. That's always fun. I thought it was a boat. A boot. A boot. A boot. A bean. Needle, needle.

Canadians are great. Yeah, they are. Yeah. Canadians are great. Yeah, they are. Yeah. Let's just end the program by talking about some football for tomorrow. I want to.

Unless you guys have another idea. What do you got, Julie? You like football? What? Do you like football? I like football. I like football. Are you sleepy? No, I'm a little stressed out.

Why? Where's Missouri? Is the wine buzz wearing off? No. Have you sleepy? No, I'm a little stressed out. Why? Where's Missouri? Is the wine buzz wearing off? No. Have you been drinking? You have. I haven't started my wine today. Okay, I saw a couple ladies drinking.

Yeah, there's wine here. Yeah. Yeah. What's going on? Why are you stressed? Rob's been drinking since like eight. Talk to Dan. Can I tell y'all about why I'm stressed?

Yes. Because y'all were there throughout the whole Blueberry experience. Right? Oh. This is Julie's cat. This was my first Were you there? Were you with us when her cat died? I think I was there for Cranberry.

One of her cats died. Yeah. So Blueberry passed away a few years ago when I was doing the show with Dan and Jake. And I'm sorry those guys were joking. They were mean to me about it. I came in. I fought through my emotions and came into work the day that Blueberry died. So Blueberry was the little one. Cranberry is the one who I've had for 15 years. Well, she recently passed away. And that's okay. You know, she was 15. She lived a great life.

You haven't heard this story yet. Danny's heard a little bit of it, but there's been a... Today came to a head a little bit. Just now? Yeah. Like, while I'm here. Do you need to go? No, it's okay. I'll... Is this better with NFL music behind it? Yeah, I think it is.

Give me some NFL music. Give me some NFL music. We'll work up to the big moment. Did someone unplug the deep freeze? They did, didn't they? So, Cranberry passed away. It's been about a week and a half or two weeks. And I haven't told the kids.

I hadn't told the kids. And yes, she passed away. So, she had moved. They hadn't noticed that cats were out here? So this is what I was about to explain. So she had moved to my parents' house. It was serving a little bit as like a cat hospice kind of situation because I knew the end was near.

And I just at this point in my life couldn't physically handle it. Like I just couldn't handle any couldn't handle you just don't want your young children to walk in to a dead cat cat corpse yeah so be with the parents and they are live out they're in austin okay but kind of in the country ranch or they have the ranch also but their house house is in austin the cat live its best life and its final what 14 year old cat i mean 15 15 yeah and uh she was also like peeing and pooping around my house like it was just getting too stressful and so she went and lived with um her her crayon parents her name's cranberry her crayon parents and so they set her up on the catio. That's too good for him. They turned their patio into a catio.

Yeah, keep going. Don't stop. And they said she was really happy there. She had kind of turned a corner and everything was going great. Well, she ultimately passed away. And I think she had some sort of stroke. She was 15. So it's sad, but it's like, okay, she lived a great life.

We did everything we could. Hadn't told the kids yet. I was trying to figure out how to tell the kids. I told my husband, this is going to be your job. I do enough. Can you tell the kids the cat died? I just can't. Can you do that?

Of course, he hasn't yet. How many times have you heard, I do enough? Because we do. That is the wife's key phrase in life. I wish I heard that. You wish she had the confidence to say something and be honest about it like that? She just realized. So anyway, I tried to pawn it off on him.

It hadn't happened yet. I was thinking this weekend I would tell them. Like we have some time maybe tomorrow, Sunday. It seems like a Sunday kind of thing to do tell your kids your their pet has died that's a Sunday thing right like you don't tell them you don't tell them during the school days you know Saturday was busy they had sports I was going to tell him tomorrow so the nanny has um my daughter and then she was I'm on a text string with her and my husband. Our nanny friend, actually. She's just taking them to go play today.

And so she had said, I'm going to take Anna, my daughter, to a shelter to go look at some pets. I was like, God, I got to tell her just to like. So I start texting. I'm like, okay, Alex, like FYI, Cranny has gone to heaven. I haven't told the kids yet. I'm probably going to tell them tomorrow, but just let's be sensitive with the whole going to look at animals today because this is about to happen, blah, blah, blah.

Well, then my husband chimes in. Ryder has my phone. He was checking his fantasy football team. This just happened like 30 minutes ago. The little boy found out? My son read in a group text

that the cat died and that I hadn't told the kids yet. And apparently he's bawling. Oh no. Oh no. I don't know what to do.

How's this fantasy team doing? You know what? Maybe not good. Maybe that's why he's bawling. I don't know. Let's hope. Because it's just hard to know with kids. And she was my pet.

I didn't think he would be that distraught. To take your mind off of your kid, your little boy, let me lead you into this next detail. So the cat died like two weeks ago, right? And you would think that once the kids are told that you're going to want to have a cat funeral, right? This is the best thing for you, though. Where's the cat been?

You're not dealing with it. Where's the cat been for two weeks? Let's look where's the cat you're not dealing with it where's the cat been let's look at the positives you're not dealing with it your husband now does have to deal with it that's true so you've pawned it off on him the universe was my ultimate goal yeah the universe wanted that to happen you've got enough going on you do enough julie doesn't julie do enough? Come on. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. These are some real friends here. Yeah. So I think this is a positive in the end.

Plus, they were just at the shelter. Let them grab a cat or two. Right? No, I don't need any more cats. Yeah, they need a strawberry. Come on. Yeah, you need one. What did Jake say? Jake suggested dingleberry. Yeah, they need a strawberry. Come on. Yeah, you need one. What did Jake say? Jake suggested dingleberry.

There you go. Are you not curious where this cat's been for two weeks? Because when the kids are told it's at least two weeks later, the kids are going to want to have a funeral. Where's the cat? At a cat funeral, you don't lay the cat out and look at it. Yeah, you do. No, you don't.

I've had three, two. I had two of them with my kids. You had two cat funerals? Yeah. What was your cat funeral like? I think that each person can have their own version of a cat funeral. Well, I believe we laid it out on the ticket when Manny died. It was they put a tiny helmet on his head and then put him

in a catapult. Don't make fun of me. Launched him into Lake Grapevine. You did not really do that. Oh, yeah. You launched the cat corpse into Lake Grapevine? Yeah, it was great. Did you have kids watching this?

Oh, yeah. No wonder they're the way they are. No wonder they're the roast twins. And then we put one of those fireworks inside it, so when it got over, it just blew up. It was great. Okay, now you're lying. This is all a lie. The sparkles were like little cat heads.

It was amazing. And then when Maude died, Manny and Maude, you know, it was just a, hey, the cat died, deal with it, and we had a little cat funeral, but it was, you know, cremated. Okay. It's not like we laid the cat out. It would take a little extra long to cremate the cat in its current state, right, Julie? So they put it in the freezer? It's in the deep freezer at her parents' house. Not anymore.

And where is it? Buried at the ranch. They already buried it? They buried her. Well, there you go. But it's like right next to the ice cream sandwiches and waffles. What the hell? So my stepdad's a big country guy, and, you know,

he's got like a deep freeze for hunting and stuff. So he wanted to keep her so they could have a little funeral for her. Did he mount the head on his wall? No, he didn't. Well, they do that with deer and stuff. It is funny when she described, you know, told me that, man, they put it in the freezer. I mean, I just imagine, you know, coming home after a long day and you want to microwave some Hot Pockets and you open up the door and the cat's like, you know, not wrapped her up or anything. At least the kids didn't find her that way.

But yeah, so they buried her out at the range. You still have to tell your daughter now. And she's going to be the one that's going to, she's the one I was really scared to tell. So the fact that he is crying like this. Maybe just let her borrow your phone. Maybe she's listening to the live stream. That's right. Even better.

Yeah, that's what I'm dealing with. Just another day in mom life. Oh my God. Yeah, I guess it's... It'll be over tomorrow. This situation? Yeah. That's when you go to the shelter and just teach them that if somebody dies that you love, you can just go replace them.

You know? Yeah. I don't know. I don't think I need another cat for a while. She's begging for a bunny. My daughter is. Thinking about a bunny. I think the bunny would be better, right? It's in a cage. Yeah, it's in a cage. It's got to be a little easier. It for a bunny. My daughter is. Thinking about a bunny. I think the bunny would be better, right?

It's in a cage. Yeah, it's in a cage. It's got to be a little easier. It's a lifespan. But I also have a dog, and I feel like that could end very poorly. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what to do anymore.

There's my football contribution. Yeah, I think football music made it better, though. I do, too. Man. That's a good bit, Julie. I mean, not a bit. It wasn't a bit. It's just my life.

I mean, every day is a bit. Your life is a good bit. Thanks. Well, thanks for being out here. Yeah, this is great. I'm so excited that so many people turned out and get to listen to y'all and learn about Pro Slat. Some good stuff. Pretty generic what you just said there sorry it wasn't good enough for you dan oh you're the best let's all validate

julie by giving her some applause thanks guys should we get out of here? Yeah. We good? Nobody cares about football right now. Can't top that. Okay, yeah. No. All right, thanks, Julie. Thanks to everybody.

Thanks, Eric and Andrew out here at Pro Slat. Go to proslat.com for all your Pro Slat needs. You can still get out here. Is that taco truck going to be here throughout the afternoon? Yeah, I believe for another couple of hours. Okay. How do you know that? Well, because we had our 11 to 2 window, but they're going to be here all day.

Really? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's a store and it's open, so come see them. He was talking about the taco truck. Oh, I think the taco truck will be here for a while. I don't know. Andrew, taco truck here for a while? will be here for a while. I don't know. Andrew, taco truck here for a while?

Taco truck here for a while? All right, Julie knows everything. What's that? As long as it needs to be. There you go. The taco truck's here. We've got some beer. We've got some wine.

Okay, well, there you go. Yeah, we're going to be partying. Okay, thanks. You're welcome. We've 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 videos. Pro slap, pro slap Pro slap, pro slap Pro slap, pro slap Pro slap, pro slap We'll be right back. Come on.

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