The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 9-29-25 | The Cowboys and Packers tie in Micah's return to Dallas

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneIn a very anticlimactic ending, Micah Parsons returned to Dallas to face his former team and surprisingly enough, the Cowboys hung with one of the NFC favorites and led with one second left in overtime until everyone left confused about how to feel with a tie. Updates on the U-Beuerline and Target scams in weekend check, a wild story about a dungeon and a Dragon in the news, and a pretty memorable closing remarks to close the showThis month, get 50% OFF ALL WINDOW STYLES! Put zero down, make zero payments, and pay zero interest for two years and you could pay nothing until 2027! Schedule a fast, free estimate now with Window Nation at 866-90-NATION or visit windownation.com! Make sure you mention The Dumb Zone!Window Nation is having a flash sale and updating their offer for the rest of September. The offer is being updated to Buy 2 Windows, Get 2 Free plus an extra 10% off plus no interest for 2 years. (00:00) - Open: Weekend check (56:23) - Sports: Cowboys and Packers tie (01:24:12) - Audio from the broadcast (01:45:52) - Today in Twitter: Retweet this! (01:50:31) - News: Dungeons and Dragons (02:16:49) - VM birthdays/Today in History (02:46:18) - A top 3 closing remarks ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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to tape and live to YouTube in the Game Day Men's Health Studio, downtown Dallas, the Fox 4 building. You don't know that they won't test your awareness. I don't know that, but I don't think that's in the copy. I think you read it wrong. I think sometimes I try to do a joke and it's just too funny for your, no, I don't know. I don't know. You're at a higher level. I'm definitely low-hanging fruit guy.

I'll just take the easy stuff. But, you know, ever since you've been going to Game Day Men's Health Studios, like your brain is on this. It's comedic replacement therapy. What is the Zach Galfinacus meme? Yeah, I'm in The Matrix. Yeah. Anyway, here in the Game Day Mencel Studio,

we have a sit-in. He is Brandon Harrison. He is here. It says next to your name, Brandon, in parentheses, Qualis roofing. Yeah, we got a new roof. We were moving and had a great experience. And they were nice enough to hook me up with this. You moved and then got a new roof on your new house or the old house?

The old house to sell the old house. I know, doesn't that suck? Yeah, a little bit. Although probably not with Qualis because they dealt with the insurance company and all that bulls. Yeah, it was a seamless. process starts to finish so yeah great experience and then at the end i hate it i keep running into seamful processes oh man so many seams everywhere i look um it does make me think of the four seamer it is a better a better option than if he had purchased a new home and just as a matter of an

oversight didn't realize it didn't come with a roof oh my gosh all my furniture's getting uh soaked we checked all the other boxes call call the air conditioning bill is that Without the, really, we are air conditioning, Texas. But you don't get to, you know, I've done this before, too, moving. Like, we had to redo the kitchen. Like, I didn't get to enjoy this. Yeah. We had to build this, we had to put all this money in just so that we could sell this house

because this idiot realtor told me I had to. Yeah, at least like when your wife gets implants and gets hot, she's already gone and like she's not yours anymore, you know? Yeah. Yeah, you didn't, well, you might have paid for it. You might have paid for that next guy to enjoy your. your implants. Dude, I had a buddy that happened, too.

Really? Yeah, and he was also pretty convinced the guy was spending his child support on a new jet ski. But we give a little love to call us here. Call us gc.com. That's if you want to check out, if you need a new roof, they'll give you a free roof inspection, right? Is that what you did? Well, you didn't need, you knew you needed a roof.

Well, it was pretty old, so it was pretty sure. We were pretty sure, but, you know, I got a T-shirt with the inspection, so. And then at the end, they give you a choice. We'll pay for a sit-in for you. or you get a Trager grill. We think that most people should choose the grill, but you've chose to be down here. Yeah, I just want to be my podcast heroes.

He's got a master's shirt. You've been to the Masters? No, I haven't. My guy that works with my wife. My wife has done a lot better in life than I have. So she, retweet. Call me up, Doug. My wife's at a golf tournament today.

So he was nice enough to mule me back a shirt. Nice. How about that Ryder Cup? yeah it was fiery okay yeah I heard there's controversy controversy is I had a lot of fun following it all week if you get an injured player then all of a sudden like that doesn't that's not a demerit against you you just kind of like tie it it's a secret envelope yeah that is a gnarly rule like before the tournament you write down a a name of a player that if this guy gets hurt he's got to go it's weird never knew anything about that no and that was

like 10th on the level of controversy things. It was just a lot going on. Heather McMahon got kicked off the course. Noted comedian. Heather McMahon? Yeah. Who's that? Isn't that her name? My wife's a huge fan, goes and sees her a bunch. She was the popular podcast. Yeah, on the first tea.

And I had heard that they had had to remove an official for joining the fans and chanting F.U. Rory loudly because the fans were chanting it. I could hear it on a bullhorn in the clip. And I'm like, this is insane. This is just some USGA lady out here screaming F you, Rory? Come to find out, they had Heather McMahon on the mic to get things extra rowdy, which she did. Fun golf weekend, buddy.

So you're saying she's a real popular comedian, but I'm hearing of her now. Yeah, I mean, you know, I know you're a bit. What? I mean, the next funny woman you meet will be the first. That's ridiculous. But I'm not that far off from you. No. Heather McMahon's not bad.

I'm a fan. I love the Ellen stand-up back in the day. Dude, Ellen's most recent one even was a banger. Was it really? Yeah. Even knowing that she's like a devil-worshipping baby adrenachrome eater, it was good. Oh, does she do that? I think so.

But in any case, it was fun golf weekend. But. Can you get that at Game Day Men's self? Did they have Adrenicrome at Game Day Menzel? If they do, you'll get 10% off. Jerry looked like he needed it last night, man, because whether it was a old mark, a herp, or a drunk fall, he just looked. Jerry's lip.

And then his hair is getting more disheveled. Jerry looked like I felt late as the game got later and later, and we had Dan from Flooring Direct as part of the stream team gallery. And he remarks like early in the fourth quarter, Man, this is a quick game. It was like... I didn't want to say anything. It was like 9 o'clock.

Because he owns a business that advertises with us, but that was uncool. That's the Donovan rule. Yeah. Don't do it. He did it. He jinks the whole thing. Don't do it. And then Julie joined him like, oh, this is moving quick.

And then she just left. Yeah, then Julie's like, okay, I'll leave. You got let you guys stay. But man, golf can wait, dude. What a weekend of ball. What a week? Overall weekend of ball. I do want to mention, like,

Like, Clayton kicking ass on that broadcast because Blake wasn't there, and T.C. is generally Blake's fill in, and he wasn't there. So Clayton's like, I got this. Oh, we actually, yeah, actually talked to the very hot Michael Copeland. I was so excited that he was coming over. I got a haircut, and I bought some chocolates. Told your wife not to ride the lawboat that day. Yeah. And then he had to bail as well.

And so now, just up to Clayton, and we were thinking, what do we do to fill it? Clayton's like, I got it. Put the team on his back, though. That's right. Clayton was our George Pickens, our GP. So, and he's informing me because now we're figuring out some stuff with, if you get monetized or things that get you flagged. Apparently, we've cleaned up the flags. This is what Shottie wants to do this week, right?

Right. We've cleaned up some of the flags. not as much laundry is on the field. And he said that's leading to record viewership that we are during the games, more people than ever are tuning in. So check us out when we do the stream teams. Let's throw the schedule in today's notes or something,

so people know when we're doing the stream team. Do you have the schedule? Do you have access to it? I'll send it to you. I think our next one is like October 19th, But, yeah, a brief look behind the curtain. The first week of the season this year, we doubled our previous high, which was awesome, but it was also the Eagles. It was a Thursday night.

It was a long delay. And so there's this thing on YouTube, you know, maybe you've heard it's like monetization, right? Well, we don't really give a shit about making money on YouTube. It's worthless. It's very small. You get 10,000 people, they might send you 50 bucks. So our thing has been, well, if we don't care about making money on it, that we're not going to follow the rules.

We're going to do the best show we want to do. And if that means playing copywritten audio, so be it. So be it. But the problem is when you do that, YouTube doesn't promote you because there's no money to be made on it. So now that we've cleaned up. So what is it now if, like, somebody searches Cowboys, they might. A lot higher. I did it after he told me last night.

Yeah. They're pumping you up much higher. I'll be pumped up. Game Day, Men's elf. but yeah that that is the the upshot of that and it worked it was a good time and there was a brief moment five minutes into the second quarter last night where I thought well this is the peak and from here it's downhill viewership wise

because that could have turned into like 4117 in the snap of a finger I never had a doubt and then the vibes are very different today and that's about all we have to go on right now is You know what I wanted to do? The McVibes. Have sex? Yeah, absolutely.

I want to have sex, Jake. All the time. But Blake isn't at these games. And I know he's not a team player. He's not a show supporter. So he didn't go back to watch any of the stream either. Yeah, man. Yeah, after watching the broadcast radio.

That would be a big team player. Like, I think I'd watch the four hours. I do. Yeah. Anytime you interview someone. I watch the whole, I watch the whole beginning part of the stream as the countdown is on just to watch everybody kind of walk in and walk around. They don't watch it downstairs. Yeah.

Just pumping himself up. And when you're out later this week, you'll go back through our episodes and listen to. Well, I'll watch it live. Okay. And then I'll go back like Beth and I'll mark some stuff in the evening and cut it off just for myself to enjoy it. But where was I going with it? Oh. You're not.

there, so I actually, I like to, after the show, I'll just tune into a little of it real quick, just see how the open goes. Like, is that popping just for our ear? I think it is. It's not out on YouTube. But I love the open that you're putting together, and for those who don't tune it, I want you to go tune in and check out the open, but I kind of like, I'd like Blake to hear it right now. So this is promoting our...

Okay, you have it. I thought you were giving me a look. No, no, no. Okay, good. Yeah, yeah. You know I got it. Oh, you know I got it, bro. Anyway, see what you think of the open.

New song and everything. Yeah, new song. Cowboys, Packers, Week 4. Tactical Shottie, better be ready. Why? Because Micah Parsons aims to butt the Cowboys like he did his teammates at Penn State. Remember that story?

That wasn't even the only time someone got butt-ficked at Penn State. There were those other times. Something's got to give. It's the Dumb Zone's Dallas Cowboys stream team. Let's hope Micah's tired from sex. Tonight, stand-up comedian Lawrence Rosales, Dave Campbell's Texas football editor-in-chief Greg Tepper, and from the TV show, Let's Fish, Julie Dobbs.

Also, Jameson Gray, Caitlin Noblock, Jake Kemp, and Dan McDowell. Yo, what's up, it's Shottie? This time I had a shoddy yelling. To turn the nation. I love that. We've organically developed this that somehow tiny Blake Because you could feed into AI whatever Our Don Pardo

And he fed He fed in like 19 year old Blake into the AI And from the show Let's Fish I actually Julie Duh I had to look up what it was called I didn't know it had a name beyond fishing show Oh I thought you just made that it was called Les Fish

That's what it's called now She's still on it boys because I look last night, yeah. She hasn't told me that. It's still out there. Conditions for the weekend, you know where to turn. But no, dude, I hope people enjoy those. I hope they grow because that's like the most fun I have doing this.

Like, this is fun, but the Sunday nights are baller. The crowd's great. It looks great. And we've got Dak. We've got Dak. Let's do a weekend check. Community Mechanical. They also are a big sponsor of ours.

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I like a little banana burp. On Victory Monday, you can baby bird that burp into my mouth, and I will, ah, okay. Eat it up. We'll set that up.

I'll eat up the carum. caram last night was a word that we were we thought that was an anchor word kind of just kind of anchored to sports sports yeah like where else do you hear carom oh ball carombed around the rim or that one kind of carombed off of his hands you're not like oh do you see the way that caramed off her cheek

you don't hear that well normally sticks what'd you do this weekend guys I didn't do much I did prep the den as we will do we fill up with Lone Star Beer We put all the chairs out and all that kind of stuff. Looking stellar in there.

I like how the den is growing. Yeah, we got the guy that... Do you remember the guy that did the old man, Brandon Aubrey theme? Oh, yeah. I think about him a lot. I think about him a lot. Do you?

Yeah. Well, he mailed us a Brandon Aubrey fathead. And that got there, actually. I think it was Saturday or Sunday. and so kind of put that up over your head there in the den we'll have that hanging in there we could bring it in here into the studio maybe I don't know I think you need it for the game streams at least

it's fun to have there it gives me strength yeah when I look over at Brandon Aubrey so I put that up packed for Ithaca I'm going to visit my daughter she goes to Ithaca college in New York which is like, what do they call that region? The Finger Lakes?

Upper New York or upstate? Upstate. You've heard that your whole life, but I never really knew what it meant because I don't know anything about geography. I know it's way east and they say upstate and I just don't, I would imagine it's north. Yeah, that one's built into the... But what it is is impossible to get to.

Like there's no real close airports. Any flights into Syracuse, you have. have to leave here at 5 a.m. And although I am early morning guy, I am not wake up at 2 a.m. to get ready to go. Like, I'm not going to do that. So, I'm flying to Buffalo

and driving three hours just so I can have a regular flight. But the point is traveling to and from Ithaca, you have to have one day of travel on the front and one day of travel. It's the full day. You kill the whole day.

So I packed. Because you guys make fun of me for packing. But on Tuesday night, I'm going to be like, oh, I'll just add one or two things. Fully packed, ready to roll. The blanket is in there. I have a road blanket because I don't like hotel blankets. See, now that I'm packing guy that wants to also fit everything into the overhead compartment. Because I used to always check a big bag.

Yeah. But I think maybe it was when I lost. my luggage heading to Ithaca that I stopped doing that. I don't remember that. Yeah, when I went to Ithaca, the luggage stayed in New York City because we had to take a couple of, there's JFK or wherever the hell of JFK. It's New York City, probably. Yes, that is one of the airports there.

So. You put an air tag in it, right? I put an air tag and I could see it. I'm like, God damn. And I didn't have any clothes, had to go shopping for a sweatshirt and some pants and a toothbrush and all that kind of stuff. You know? Brutal. So.

So you're just jamming a big bag into the... So I'm jamming it? No, no, no. I'm packing a regular bag, but I can't... I don't have room for my towel. Because when I travel, I like to have a towel. My own towel. One that Trey hasn't used or anybody.

Because I think one of the most disgusting things in a hotel is the fact that I'm grabbing a towel that I know a thousand other people have had on their bottom. In their bottom. Maybe, who knows what you're doing with that towel? At best, it's been on their bottom. Right, maybe they're cleaning up DNA because they're having, hey, we're, hey, honey, like, you know what hotel sex is like. If you're on a, it's boring to do it at home, but if you're on the road, you're like, hey, wow, we're in a hotel. Let's, what if we do something?

Yeah, get the towel. Listen, 50% of the hand towels in, in hotels are just, they're just made of jizz. Like, they're just constructed fibers. It's, you know what you're getting. Two quick hits on the Cowboys documentary that I'm still rolling through. It's funny in the episode where I think it's the one after, or maybe they win the Super Bowl with Barry. But on their way to that, they're playing Philly,

and it's fourth down and won, and they go for it, and they don't get it. But there was offsetting penalties, so they have a chance to go for it again, and they don't get it, and just Barry got hammered for it. Yeah. Hammered.

And I'm thinking, that's a very logical play. You're the Cowboys. You have Emmett Smith. If you can't get one yard, but it just made a, it's just a weird time machine difference to where today it would just be like, oh, nothing at all. At that time, though, you're Barry already. You're replacing Jimmy. Troy hates you. Troy hates you.

And now you're calling runs. And Troy was pissed, too. Shores, like, terrible play. And then the one other thing I had from that, and then I'll hand it off to you guys, is maybe this is like a scatter shooting while remembering whatever happened to the Goodyear Blimp. Do we still have blimps?

Back then, that meant it was a big game. Monday night game, there's the blimp. Like, they were showing the blimp over a Cowboys game. It was like, that proved. This game was way bigger. than any other because the blimp is there. Who's providing our aerial coverage? And then for a blimp,

drones. I would imagine blimps come from Akron, because that's where the Goodyear company is. How do they get a blimp to the Rose Bowl? Does it have to go all the way from Akron? Well, I think you just could, like... Is it a real slow? To compress it and put it in your suitcase.

Can you really? Can it travel that way, like in a semi-truck or something? Like an air mattress. Go on, Clayton. You're shaking your head as if you have. I can't believe these guys don't know how a blimp gets from Akron to California. It feels like that would take forever. They fly it.

But it doesn't go like fast like a plane, right? Yeah, no, but he's right. It says, you know. People over the- You're flying eight, nine days across the country. Oh, really? So people in the Midwest just look up and see the Goodyear Blimp headed from Akron to Dallas. Is it quick?

It's quicker to drive then? Yeah. Yeah, it looks like it. Probably get fuel every, I don't know. Yeah. It's not efficient. Blimps are still big players at golf tournament. What's it fueled by?

It's tops out at 50 to 73 miles. That's not bad. Then you got the wind. This may be for gas. Let me look. Let me look here. Blim flies are located tops up to 50 to 73 MPG, so that may be gallon. Right?

Yeah, MPG dude is. Well, yeah, but I'm just saying there's no, how is it that much more efficient? But it's also phrased as a tops. out somewhere between feels like a speed phrase right yeah it's normally so i don't know if there's a different metric they're using here like aerial speed you know but the point is it is not efficient they do fly it and no they don't just have to step on all the corners of it to get the last little bit of air out yeah kind of lay and roll it up and just have your kids not an air mattress jump on it and then got to get it into the bag but it doesn't close zipper pops off on the good

The bag is like a little too, like it's perfect when it's in there. And then how does the air pump fit in the bag? Right. Anyway, that's a good question. You know, let's look into it. I wonder if Goodyear had to pay for the, you know, the pub. I wonder if they just stopped paying the NFL. That's why they don't do it.

Who knows? Nobody knows. Clayton, you want to go? Weekend check? Sure. kept it low-key since Sunday I was going to be running the stream solo a lot of good college football on this weekend so just punched up the multi-view screens

and worked on a new leather wallet for myself Wow what does that mean I do leather work whenever I get bored and cut up a pattern for a new wallet You make your own wallet Yeah It's pretty badass But I mean I've known him a long time

So you're not surprised by it Like I have no idea what that even means No I don't If I gave you my You buy leather Right If I gave you my favorite It's like what I want out of a wallet

Would you could you make me a wallet Because I can never find a perfect wallet Where is my wallet Oh it's in the car But it's just a It's like I don't need that thing in the middle And I can't get it off Unless I cut it off

You know? Yeah I'm with you. Like, I want the perfect wallet that's kind of skinny. You guys have big wallet, though. I don't carry mine is a thing. I don't ever, mine's never in my pant. I want to lessen the bigness of it.

That's my wallet right there. Okay. I'm interested. But, yeah, I mean, I haven't met many guys our age who do leather work. Oh, there aren't a lot. Yeah, it's probably the same ones who go to coin shows. Right? And have...

No about blimp travel. Blimp travel, lots of guns. and not being treaded on. So I'm not surprised. So I should be nice to Clayton. Yeah, I mean. This guy with all these guns and leather making. I'm not going to hurt.

And a location that you can get to. You know, he's our fallout guy. He is my go bag. I have a number of things to get to, so I'll spread this out across the week. I went to a high school football game. Friday night. I took my son to his first Texas high school football game. I went to Argyle, Collieville Heritage. Oh, you made it. I wasn't there for more than like a quarter and

three quarters. We got there like 15 minutes before the game started too, so factor that in. But I don't know, man. It's a trip. I don't know how to say it. Like I'm not the most religious person. I'm, uh, I'm walking my child up to a stadium that I played in like 21 years ago. How'd it feel? And then my brother played, you know, we all played there. We played tournaments there. And I'm like, holy, this is, this is wild. It looks, it looks exactly the same. Like, you're walking up those steps. And I'm, I don't know. It was weird. It was a weird feeling. Um, which on one hand might make you feel like, I'm a loser. Like, I kind of just, uh, you know, I didn't exactly spread my wings.

You know, I've told you before, my biggest regret in life, I wanted to go to college in Oregon. But I didn't know anybody who did stuff like that at all. Like, I barely knew anybody who was going to college, let alone leaving the state. But what I wouldn't do is, like, if I graduated high school from that school, which I didn't, not far away, but I wouldn't wear a shirt that says, like, Collieville Heritage O2 alumni on this. back of it which a lot of parents there do man it was homecoming if that matter

oh okay yeah i guess i just assume every every high school football game has mums now i forgot that oh yeah no it is homecoming huh so maybe that's it but i'm still i don't know the dozen to two dozen or so adults that just have alumni o one alumni o'o alumni o two or three jerseys on bad bit what do you want somebody to do come up and ask you what it was was this all here or more field when you were here

like what is the intention of strive what kind of conversation do you want to have I don't know um would you wear like band dad I think you can get away with almost anything if it's for your kid

okay you like you want to identify yourself as I'm not saying I would but I'm saying I wouldn't judge you as much. You know, like there's a lot of parents in the stands there that have their son's jersey, you know, made with their name and number on it, and it says such and such as mom. I don't think you should do that

because I think you want to hear like your dad and mom would have to hear people bitching about Joe. Well, the thought is that if people see that shirt, maybe they won't bitch as much, but that doesn't happen. And also, when you're the quarterback's parents, people know where you are, and they know.

when they want you to hear that you it's time for you to go really oh hell yeah dude that's a tough draw and it's worse in high school but argyle is uh a damn machine i don't know if they're as good as they've been before blake but they're so freaking well-coached and they're just they just it's very high-level high school football i was impressed uh and then i went home after that to finish up watching deuce and the boys brutal loss for our simple Seminoles Friday night. Still in the mix, but... What about that one touchdown he should have had?

That's what I'm saying. He had a monster night. Dominic Robinson's son, our buddy who has all the potential in the world to be a first round MLB or NFL pick, had a monster game with like seven for 190. And then in overtime, Bobbled a touchdown. Now, he would have needed the touchdown and a two-point conversion just to tie. So there's a lot of like Descott at the Cowboys would have definitely won a Super Bowl that year going on, but man, it was brutal to watch. And then I got a resolution to a story I told you guys about in this space last week.

My wife had gone to Target to buy a bottle of wine for a birthday party, and she was approached by a woman holding a baby, an infant baby. The woman said she spoke no English, said she was a Ukrainian refugee. She communicated this message on her phone, typed out, and said, Hey, can you pay for these items in my basket? I'd be forever grateful for you. Kristen estimated the cost to be $100, $150. It was $530. It was high, you know, diapers, formula, but then medicine.

And we're debating whether or not this was a scam. Because there's also the piece of info that as my wife was getting in the car, the refugee approached the vehicle, knocked on the, the window and held up on her phone a message saying i have to have the receipt for these items to get them into the shelter where i stay otherwise they will assume that i uh thieved them so wife gives her the receipt because whatever at this point um four days later we get this notification on the target app where you can see your your your pre recent orders and as you can see there the $525 order

was a return complete one week later on September 26 and it was done so in Little Rock, Arkansas. So, pretty tough to deny the scam element of it now, but shout out to this lady for

waiting a week. You know what? She didn't return it. She drove it back to a group of thugs who took the merchandise and the receipt and put it into their network. Yeah, that's the thing. When you are giving her the money, you're like, well, even if they're scamming me,

I am helping a lady with a baby. Right. In some way. And you probably are. Like, she might not get slapped around or whatever if she doesn't produce enough. Right. Receits today. She's not banking $526 bucks, though.

Right. No, she's banking, not getting slapped around, you know. Yeah. she's yeah yeah i i don't know what you do i kept telling i was like don't look at the app don't you know do you need to see like you know what this is going to be and honestly i actually now that i say that i'm glad she did because if it had been returned at the same store i think i would have been way more pissed like come you could see me here what if we run into each other but if you drive to yeah so that's a that's commitment you know supermarket's

Isn't that couples? Yeah, I mean, they have teams. Couples would do that, yeah. Because there'd be arguments. Yeah, oh, yeah. I wanted to go over here, you wanted to go over here. So that makes it fun. But if I ever get chosen for that show, which is going to be difficult, I've never applied to be on the show, but I want to be on it.

It's like start, Blake. I would get someone like that to be my helper. She's good. Like, just one cart was $524. and she had to put a lot of masking stuff on the top, you know, lower-priced baby items. Definitely. But all the expensive stuff was way down below in the cart, and your wife looks at it's like, oh, she has a little baby, look at all these baby items.

Lower price and, as you were saying, the emotional hook. Yeah. Because underneath there were organic stress relief vitamins that were like $90. And now I'm actually happy those were returned because I was out with friends on Saturday night. turning into a Republican, because I was telling him about Angelo. And then I was like, dude, this lady, like, she bought $90 worth of organic vitamins for, like, I would never buy that. And it makes me happy to know that was a grift and not a refugee who just thought, it's a little hard being a refugee, I need a vitamin.

Listen, I don't want you to be a refugee and we'll help you with it. But we're not Uber eats delivering your food. if you're homeless because it's raining we have to have a line somewhere yeah speaking of angelo hey blake hey let's make blake's uh weekend check brought to us by trident ooh because they have a new special out want to just promote that real quick it is a fall tune-up special so kind of like the preventative maintenance type I was talking to Julie about this this morning and I'm very excited I'm going to have Trident come out to my house

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You like the setup where you have to park, there's one parking lot and you have to walk all the way around? Or do you guys get to park on the other, on the visitor's side? There's a lot of state. games like that. Yeah, I guess there is. This one just feels really like you have to go up and around to the visitor side, but... I guess when you're walking with a little kid, it really stands out.

No, you just park, you find the elevator. Why didn't you just go on the Collierville side? What do you care? I did. Oh. Because of that. I was like, I don't want to go all the way over there and see Blake. It's way too far.

Yeah. No, we were in the press box, so we're always on the home side. Oh, that's right. I'm an idiot. Yeah. Yeah, Argyle played well, did not see Des. I don't know if you were looking for him or not. Didn't see a monkey, no rally monkey, no Dallas.

So that was unfortunate. Did his kid play? If he did, I don't remember. Not when I was there. Because it was a competitive game for the most part. Yeah, Argyll pulled away late, but could start to the weekend with an Argal W in district play. We had Greg Tepper last night on the couch, and he was like, man, I was real good, man.

I should stop making fun of Blake. And we're like, okay, we'll accept the first thing you said. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. A couple of things I noticed while driving this weekend. The first, I saw a guy ball up his cash that he was going to give to this homeless lady and chunk it out the window as he drove by. I don't hate that. I don't hate it.

You're getting a little something for yourself out of that. We were at Preston in the tollway. What do you mean? A lot of cars have to get to this green line. and I understood it. He didn't want to hold up traffic, but I just thought it was very demeaning. To ball it up and chunk it.

Somebody, you're like, you're doing the deed, right? You're doing the good thing. So get off my ass about it. But if you want to get a little bit of I'm better than you out of it too, they're still getting the money. Make them pick it up. I had a buddy who used to do this specifically with another buddy who never had, never purchased a pack of cigarettes.

But not like me where I'd get one or two on a weekend when I was. was hammered would ask for a cigarette every single time everyone else who smoked got a cigarette so we're talking half a pack a day and eventually my buddy was just like yeah i'll get you one go pick it up you dog and throw it on the ground like 10 feet away you want it go pick your cigarette up you and he would just like taunt him like an animal okay so that guy was happy because he got his cigarette eventually he was happy because he felt good yeah eventually started buying cigarettes. Okay.

Same sort of deal. That's a good bit. Throw a wad of cash. Pick it up. But I thought if I was the homeless person, like, don't demean me like that. But then she just, I mean, like, I just scurried right to it. I knew a lot of guys that would all just bum cigarettes. Because, oh, no, I only drink, smoke when I drink.

And I don't want to, I'm not a cigarette smoker, but they would bum cigarettes all day. There is a difference. And so, like, you just don't want to ever say I'm a, like, I don't pay for a cigarette, so I'm not a smoker. I get it. And then you can write that on the doctor for him when they So throw up the car picture, Clayton. I saw this in Deep Ellum

on my way home. There was a car accident and it was a black female, a white male and the white guy has face paint on. He's a mime. I don't know what he's... He's a mime or for maybe my generation, he kind of looks like Sting, the wrestler. Yes.

It looks like a juggalo. Oh yeah, though corners of the mouth may be jugolo. Well, anyway, whatever he's doing, wherever he's going, he was not prepared to get in a car accident with someone else. So he's having to have this serious conversation exchanging insurance with the face paint on. Kirstie Alley's parents. Yes. A car accident where they were in black face. Yes. This is great, too. This guy looks like Keith from Righteous Jimstones. He has a black wife beater on, black techno pants, but he's hot. A school shooter haircut. Yeah, he's kind of. kind of ripped and he's got white juggalo makeup on it's like an extra fright fest and you know what sucks about this too this is like when twiggy used to get uh like nervous whenever there was a crime or a car chase like please don't be a black black guy please don't be a black guy now this woman is dealing with this guy and she's like well i guess if you run into a white guy he just might be wearing clown makeup like a weirdo wearing a tank top that's probably something white

guys do. SNL stole that bit, see that, with Shane? Shane Gillis. Remind me. He was a newscaster with some Oh, pulling for it. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

That's a thing. Also, should be noted in this photo, it's daytime for all those listening at home. Oh, it's 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Somehow a lot funnier. Yeah. So this is in Dallas when you would pick up Steve Berline? No, this was the

before, but yeah, I had to pick up Steve. Got to pick up Steve. I got to pick up Steve. The pleasure, yeah. Can you think of how many, how many cowboy fans would love to just switch places with him? Hello. I get to drive Steve Berline to the game. Now, the beating probably

if I'm to guess, is after the game. What? Because here's, like, you know, these shows come quick, dude. I don't know if you guys feel it. You have to, because you write about it, too, right? I just go straight through pretty much. If I can.

Because just to turn around on ending the stream at 11.30 or almost midnight, then you're kind of jacked up, can't get to sleep. So I'm cleaning up and, you know, trying to just do that. And then a couple minutes of let me just wind down by sitting and watching a little bit of the stream and see here in the open thinking it was funny and stuff. But you still have like three hours of stuff to do for the show. Yeah, yeah. There's only like seven and a half out, you know, yeah. So you got to get up early. So Blake, same thing.

he's listening to audio, he's getting the stuff ready. He's got to drive. You're already far enough from Argyle. Like, you couldn't be farther from Argyle while having to stop. Or Wiley, I'm sorry. Yeah. From Jerry World to Wiley.

Yeah, and it would be great to not have. And then I also know, after a long day of work, even with a really good friend, like even if it was Jake in the car with me, I don't want, I don't want, Jake in the car with me when I'm driving home. I don't want to talk. Yeah, no, it's, everybody's on the same page.

And now here you are with Steve Berline. And that's why I said I have to drive Steve Berline. So do you, then do you feel? Also, because with us, you're not a guy that feels like he has to do small talk, right? Because we're all friends. Right. And you know, we don't need to talk every second of every day, but you don't know Steve Berline.

Right. So are you? So. kind of I mean so how many kids you have again like all that kind of yeah we did that we had to do that the first time and then we settled what's wrong with America and the Charlie Kirk shooting we got through all of that wow we got through all of that this is a podcast luckily did you record no no no so you know we're past that part now I'm hearing about his fantasy football team and how the Americans didn't show up for the rider cup oh yes You know, all that kind of stuff. All right. There's something here. And, you know, I'm...

Burline's takes. I'm still, like, in the... Burline of the B-Hillard. Pretty nervous stage of, you know, doing the job. And, sure, whatever. So I'm not, like, real... Hey, Steve, what was it like? When in the playoff game in Chicago?

I'm just... I don't know. I just want to get to the game and kind of get it over with. But yeah, after the game, I'm obviously in my established-to-run phase. I don't want to sit in traffic. I'd rather just go sit in the press. box they open the taps up in the in the press box you can go talk to sod talk to ted hang out for 45 minutes let the traffic die down but steve thinks we can beat traffic if we can get to the car

fast enough we can't so so it's steve verline you can't argue with him like no dude i'm driving i'm going to hang out here for 45 minutes you know i just said like you know they put out desserts and food and stuff in the press box he's like i i think i think i'm going to whiskey's whatever yeah and so no we just he said i know the way down so took the stairs got to the car waited an hour and a half do you think that uberline will learn from this experience and perhaps the next home game enjoy the accoutrement and not sitting because you can't do this for you can't do six seven more times i don't know but it's i just kind of like with my wife i just don't feel like fighting him because that's the thing too dan like if you told me i have to sit in a car

for an hour and a half after a game i'll make that i'll put that money to work for me like i got shit to do yeah listen to the game i'll get my computer out the audio that's what i'm saying there's nothing that like makes my skin crawl more than knowing there's an hour and a half after a game where i can't do anything with it right and you can't tell if you're with your wife or something you like i got to listen to this game and she let you i got a mark audio for the morning read your phone lady yeah should be cool with it no but berline is saying you know we should have covered this we should have done this and we're recapping the recaping the game and I kind of

got a little tired of that so I just put on the ticket post game show which is like okay look we can both listen to this we don't have to talk and it was a Bob night because it was a Packers game and Bob is very confident in his delivery

and at one point Berlin goes who is this guy this guy named Bob Stern he does a radio show writes a lot about the Cowboys like oh he was just not feeling Bob yeah that probably comes up

I know it really well I worked with him for years yeah you got to get the unfiltered sure that's excellent so that was fun so he's annoyed by Bob a little bit he's probably annoyed by most

anybody who didn't play who the chat the YouTube chat we popped a picture of you we meaning Clayton great of you guys do you do this pregame picture every week

Yeah So it was Not my idea No way In the middle Yeah Ted told me I had to be in the picture With Ted

Yeah but in the middle I would just expect He said get in the middle And then Ted and Berline And the chat was enjoying They said What was the comment about the button Like it was hanging on for dear life

Maybe I wish I trust I trust Dak in this situation As much as Blake is trusting that one button I'm doing this Listen It's not a tight here's the deal you're you're making progress

but for a very small amount of money you can make that and all of your clothes look right you need to get that tailored you don't need new clothes you need to get that tailored the jacket fits fine no it doesn't no it doesn't and neither do your pants for that matter

what if it wasn't buttoned would it fit better I just think Blake is in his physical prime right now and we can get him in like good tailored cheap suits he's going to be doing this for a while he can't this can't we've made one step now it's time to make another

Ted looks great well yeah Ted always looks great Ted's suit is tailored at least to a small degree you'd be like Ted's important and stuff he fits it you're now getting into that world you need to understand

you're moving into that world you can't just live with us forever you fake it till you make it you made it you don't have to fake it anymore so what I learned from the first picture is your credential goes outside of the collar. Thank you, BK, for that. And then I learned to button

the suit, but I guess I won't from now on. I think you can, but that you're really stressing. You could have lost a button there, bud. It wasn't that tight. It's a nice jacket. The thing you should do... It's a nice jacket.

You should not work out and eat right. You should get it tailored. That's what I agree. It's true. So fake it till you make it. In Philadelphia, it was also an NBC game. So I told you Collinsworth was real beaten that week, long game, the delay. Tricco was very kind. I said hello before and after the game.

And Ted had worked the masters with Tariko, and so he wanted to see if Tariqo remembered him. And so I tagged along just to see, hey, it's Mike Tariko. Love it. Ted introduces us, and Tricco's like, hey, good to see you again. Yes. I was like, oh, yeah, Blake, you know, hey, we're. whatever. And I don't know if that's just play-by-play guy being nice. He meets a million people. But I could kind of tell that he did somewhat remember my face. 20 minutes later,

we crossed paths again on the field. He's like, all right, Ted, see you later. Hey, Blake, good to see you again. So I don't know if he's real good at the part or he's just a super nice guy. Torrico knows your name. I might be pretty pro-Turiko. You might be in with Mike Tariko, dude. Yeah. Maybe. I told you, you've made it. You've made it. It's changed, dude. You could be going to the Olympics. The biggest highlight of the night, the next picture, Clayton.

I got to meet our friend in the press box. I caught up with Fort Worth's own, Brian Curtis. Oh, nice. Blake? Heck, yeah. He's giving a little Taylor Hart. Now, see, the jacket looks okay there, but it could still use a little improvement. I like it.

I think he looks great. I think he looks great. I just want him to look greater. How great is that press box? happy for him. It just looks like a lot of fun. Yeah, I had just eaten prime rib from the carving station. He has that look about him. Is prime rib that

great? Oh, wow. I'm just asking. What do we can, what would you prefer? Just a ground chuck? Just a bowl. How about a Frito chili pie? I don't know. Yeah, okay. It just seems pretty haughty. And what's the, what's the, what's the pride? I mean, it's undercooked meat? It's fine. It's okay.

It is one of those deals where I would assume Dan would be like, if you have to smother it in Aju, then is it really any good? No, I mean, I had some truffle mac and cheese that was kind of way better than that. This is his life now. He turns his nose up at prime rib, Dan. Burline wanting to make a fast food stop on the way back? No. I just got him to his hotel

Did you make him do that before? No, I just posed the hypothetical last night of, like, Burline wasn't like a frosty at 11 o'clock at night. I think he put a little feeler out there because he said, boy, you know, they don't bring his food. I haven't eaten since 1 o'clock. I didn't say a word. Yeah, good call.

You're not like, oh, it's a waterparker right up here on the right. Mm-mm. No, your hotel is right up here. Yeah. Why wouldn't he have eaten? He didn't eat the pregame meal. Yeah, he had your opportunity. Oh, yeah.

That's the thing It's hard to eat when you're that dialed in though It's one thing when your kid does it And you're trying to teach him something It's another thing when He's an adult 60 year old Burline does it or however old Just all the context clues here

Don't tell Steve Berline About your Angelo arrangement I don't think his brain Would be able to handle it They're gonna have to get to that someday You're gonna run out of topics Yeah Angela might see us down there My hobo squeezing me

Angelo calls him in the car Yeah Put on speaker That's right, he does call you, doesn't he? Yeah, we have a weekly call. Steve's over there. Let me talk to him. Lazy ass.

Well, that's awesome, dude. I almost wanted to call you. I was thinking about you Sunday, thinking he must be driving there right now. I could have checked my app. I have, we have each other on Find my phone. which is super gay but I want to call you with

Burline in the car well you can you know what I'll call you the next time he calls his wife on the way of the game he calls his wife okay well you've been prepped for this years working with killer yeah I didn't hear about

poop consistency but also love killer what's he talking about Steve Berline he can do whatever he wants what are they talking about It's his second wife, so he's really nice to her. Ah, yeah. That would be, too.

Let you out, all you potential Jordan Hudson's out there. You're never going to be treated better than you are by me. Second wife. It seems something to envy. Like, you're just kind and cordial to each other. What's the fun of that? Somewhere down the road, you're going to have to, it's kind of Catherine Zeta Jones.

I'm going to have to wipe Michael Douglas's bottom or something at some point, right? Yeah. They're getting to that point where it's like, oh, this was kind of cool when you were 50 and I was 25, but I don't know how it is now. All right. Nice job, Blake. If that's the end of your weekend check. Go Argyle.

A lot of Packers fans at the game. There are a lot of Packers fans that live around here. Why is that? I don't know, but it was probably. 60-40 Cowboys in there. Cowboy fans will also quickly sell their tickets. That's true. God, man.

In re-watching the broadcast, Collinsworth commented on it at least twice. Maybe it was once Chris, once to Rico, but they just said something like, boy, the opposing offense operating in relative quiet here late in the third quarter. Then you see Dak on the sideline having to pump people up. Yeah, yeah. It's left in the fourth. Jake was even saying during the game. Like, it sucks that he has to do that. It's, it's unconscionable in most, most stadiums.

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Yeah, I mean, you've got... You did? I did. Okay. Then I won't do it again. You can just rewind. I know everybody does. How are you supposed to feel?

And it's probably the first question we'll ask Brandon tomorrow. Although he's probably pretty used to it. Now, I heard the Cowboys... Soccer guy. I think Machota was saying like the Cowboys players. you know, we're kind of acting very down and dejected, and maybe they thought they had that in their hand and they lost it. But I do think when you step back, like, I felt great last night.

You have. Like this is a fun, maybe this is a fun team that's just going to be in game. You're going to have some games where they get blown out. You know, you're going to have some game. But the fact that they could do that offensively without C.D. Lamb, I think, and think of. all the injuries that just kept powing up throughout the game, the offensive linemen were going out

left and right, that they can overcome that? I got to hand it to Shottie a little bit, Shottie and Dak. It's all about the coach quarterback combo, isn't it? Definitely. And we're early into this one, so we don't exactly know what to expect or how they're going to work

together. The coach has not really ever coached at this level. He hasn't even called plays. Well, you weren't there. They did it again on every broadcast. Maybe this is just the big giant broadcasts, the Monday night or the Thursday night, but they put the thing on the screen that says, has not coached, has not been a head coach at any level. And you were, I think, just walking in or something.

And the point is we were saying, you know, Jake, you wouldn't be able to put that for Jake. I'm a head coach. Jake has been a head coach at some level. Right. And Shottie never has. It feels really disrespectful to highlight that for Shottie. But it's true. It doesn't seem like it's too big for him.

The bullets are flying, but he seems pretty calm, calm demeanor there on the sideline. And I don't know. Yeah, he's a unique case, right? And that's not even necessarily a good thing or a compliment. But we don't have that many guys who have been hanging around the NFL a little bit for a quarter century without getting much of a look at a head coaching job. So he has seen a lot. And the CEO part of the job was the part that I thought, it would make sense if he can do this part. We just didn't know how things were going to work, as you said, bullets flying, and he's having to call plays.

That even looks like it's too much for Matt LaFleur if you get into the situational parts of last night's game, and he's thought of as a wonderkin. So, you know, a year, two years, whatever, down the line, you may have an idea of how Shoddy and Dak are going to react and get up off the mat. but there was zero evidence other than blind fandom and you're maybe trust in DAC to think that last night after the first three games that when they got down two scores that was going to be anything other than a bloodletting. Especially after Chicago. Yeah, but all of it, dude.

Because I think the Giants game, you got the win, right? But same as last night. If you're just looking at what you take out of it, You did not come out of the Giants game feeling good, especially after Russ got benched the next week. Now, to Greg Teper's point last night, who lives in this world of fandom, dealing with high school fans,

maybe now we're like, Bears lost, not so bad. Giants lost, maybe not so bad. You've got to start working yourself up into that mindset. But no. My feel record? They're bad. They've been bad, so you could have expected them to continue to be bad on that front.

What's their record? two and one. Yeah. Yeah. My feel record is two and two. But it's not... Mine's two and a half and one and a half. Like I felt bad for the win,

felt real good after Philly, real good after this game, and real bad after Chicago. And like it sounds fruity to say your feel record, but... And it does matter in a division like this one, or probably any, right? Or playoff positioning.

The half game does matter. That's really all that matters and the record side of things. The fuel record does matter, especially this early in the season, especially with a new head coach, and especially because they knee-capped their effing team the week before the season started. They planted a bomb in this chemistry set that easily, at any moment, could have caught everything on fire. You have a first-time head coach. You have a quarterback that you don't know if he can stay healthy. and you traded your best defensive player

that the whole thing is predicated on and his best buddy still here who before last night I wasn't positive wasn't like throwing games he looked like he didn't want to be out there so bad and Trayvon buy in looked like it was at a low It looked like that's probably how he was acting

during practice too because he didn't start that game and wasn't in for quite a while no and when asked about it afterward was like yeah I don't know Wasn't like, he didn't say he was like aware of it. He was just like, yeah, yeah, ask coach. You want to hear it?

Sure. What was it like for you? I don't think you started tonight. Is that a health situation or what went into that? Were you surprised by that? Yeah, maybe. A little bit. A little bit, a little bit.

And then how would you assess your plan that you did come in and you played a starters levels, a amount of snaps. Yeah. A lot of, it looked like you got a lot of money and won opportunities after I played a lot. You played a lot of ceremony. Yeah. You talking about how I played when I got in? Yeah.

I think I prayed pretty good. Do you? I think I did pretty good. I love that when he turns it around. How do you think I played? He does that a lot because he comes off as a defensive, no pun intended, insecure, bothered athlete, but he also has high-end talent that is unmatchable. And he was awesome last night.

Is it wrong to say that maybe this is Shottie's give it to Shottie a little bit for motivating him? Well, if he were pouting, we would be saying Shottie can't handle this. So, yeah. But that he got out there and kind of was pissed that he wasn't out there. Responded. And I thought right away. Well, obviously, he comes in right away, gets that interception, but it was called back. But he kind of was playing with a chip on his shoulder.

Yeah. The swag looked like it was back. And not knowing who to credit, I kind of credit shoddy, because they did ask him about it too. He kind of dismissed it real quickly. Blued off, said, yeah, we're working with Trayvon to, I didn't cut the audio because it wasn't real significant, but it was kind of like a re-between lines here. We're working with Trayvon for consistency. That's what we're doing with everybody.

and kind of just didn't want to bag on him at all. And he's handling some things behind the scenes. And certain guys like that, we talk about this in the NBA a lot, the only currency a coach can use is playing time to get you out there on the field. And just to take him off the field for a little bit, but he ended up playing starters snaps.

So it kind of doesn't matter when you play, I suppose, If that's the place we have to not put you on the field to get that spark lit, then we're going to do that. Credit shoddy. Yeah. And you know, you got to credit him too for just for not the whole sideline giving up at 13-0. You know, they had gone three and out, and then I think maybe got one first down on their second drive and then punted after a penalty.

And Green Bay had scored two out of three. drives. The only one in there they didn't was a penalty that screwed their drive. It felt like it was headed the way that a lot of people thought it was going to go, which is that I don't know if a touchdown's enough. And the main thing that I tried to convey in the column this morning, demagazine.com slash sports, is I think that DAC is very good, especially if he's got you know above average wide receiver core but it it doesn't really matter what i think or what you think or what blake thinks it matters what the guys on his sideline think and they think he's good if you watch it watch not just the sideline but watch the way that player twitter

lights up when dac is bawling and i'm not saying you should make football players the gm although I'd rather give most of them a crack at it than like an oil and energy prospector. But they may not be the best talent evaluators, but I'm not asking them to build the roster. I'm saying you need in football. I'm not going to get too into like momentum, the qualitative side of it.

But to get the most out of your team, the team has to believe it's good and capable of something. And that starts with having a quarterback that the team isn't immediately. like I've told you guys the we lost story a million times it's the most instructive thing that's ever happened to me in sports it was a seven on seven

tournament we were rotating two quarterbacks all summer one of them was a family at the school's son and he sucked and the other one was pretty good and we were going back out for a last drive in like a title game and I walked over playing catch with a buddy

on offense before we're going back out and he said who's in a quarterback and I said it's Mac and he goes, we lost. Because you know there's just quarterbacks that can make you feel like we've got a prayer and ones that don't. And his

team thinks we're in it if he's out there. Ironically, the only guy that I wasn't real certain thought Dak was any good was Micah. And I didn't have to read too hard between the lines on that because he was routinely ranking quarterbacks and getting to like 11 or 12 without mentioning Dak

on his football talk show. But I think most of the guys in there, they think he's a gamer, and they think they've got a shot when he's out there. And that helps, especially if you're not a very good team. He's done it. But it looks like he's pretty good. We were arguing if he ranks ahead of Baker in the top 10, but we'll get back to that at some point. Baker's also, I don't want to just S on Baker.

Baker makes a lot of plays, and I think there's value in what he does, but I also think, I think his team believes in him too, but I'd rather have a guy like Dak who is just down the middle, super calm, like not jawing guy in big moments, even though Baker may be more exciting, cooler, more fun. I don't know that I trust that more than my robot. And you had said before the season that you kind of like to shoddy hire because, the offense would stay the same, meaning that the offense is pretty much Dack, you know, what he sees at the line, and on the Pickens touchdown right before half, I mean, that was an adjustment to the line of scrimmage. And so we probably don't take that into account as much as we should that, I don't know, he might get a play call at the line, and it could be completely different based on what he sees. And I hate the logic of, well, you can hire this coach with no experience because you have Dack Prescott. Well, you can trade Micah Parsons

because you have Dack Prescott. They used to do this with Romo. We got Romo. Why would you need a good offensive line? it's this backwards logic. Nobody lives in that world where, oh, well, we might as well hire a coach with no experience. We have a really experienced quarterback. You could do both. They just seem not to,

but the state of place still is that DAC is so in control of the offense that you can get away with having coordinators that you don't really have all that much evidence from which to trust them. I thought he called a good game. I don't think the awesome Tolbert catch in overtime

I think Dak was just throwing it away Was he asked about it at all? Yeah I didn't get through his whole press conference He's not going to say I was just throwing it away He just said

No, he saw Tolbert down there Tolbert could make a break on and he tried to put it in a position where only he could get it But at first glance It really seemed like he was throwing it away You know next gen stats does the probability of completion

And they had that one at 7% which was the second lowest since they've been doing it 10 years ago. And a 7 seems high, like when that ball left his hand. But I didn't know there was even a receiver there. That's so, it's all Tolbert. Yeah. Incredible. I mean, yes, he can have a bag all game.

But if you do that, then that's everything. And can't say enough about George Pickens, I don't think. That first bomb that he caught with two defenders draping him, we were all game just referring back to that as just such a lucky moment because it did not like he high pointed it he they all jumped up but then all fell back down and the ball's still coming down and it just kind of happened to land in there that's a weird one I thought that was a bad throw bad bad bad idea to throw it there not necessarily a bad throw because it did go into his arms it was a little backhanded when pickens was asked to Got it because he said, yeah, the throw kind of hung up there and let the safety come over and hit me. It was a, yeah, it was real high. Yeah, and the safety had a lot of time to get over there.

But even if that ball had been picked, I don't know that I would have been bitching too much because I came into that game thinking they just have to try to create big plays. They're not going to be able to grind this game out. And to their credit, they kind of did both. they ran the ball pretty effectively and they threw short pretty effectively and then they threw deep pretty effectively they were throwing short a lot to not let Micah rush the passer

yeah felt like a preoccupation with that maybe even early like we're not going to let him take over here yeah I was super impressed with Shottie outside of the first drive where it was just three runs but other than that way we weren't We weren't feeling good in the den at that point. No, you know what?

It felt like a T.O. The topic all week was Terrell Owens and now we're going to handle the ball seven times. Hey, the topic is we're not going to let, we can run past Micah. Jerry said it in a meeting this week. All right, well, shit, let's just come out and run the ball three times. Prove he can't wreck our drive, kick it back to him and start over. I would not put that past that being somewhere in their mental approach. But as far as game management, play calling, you know,

On the opposite sideline is a top five or ten coach in the league, and you can say that you were not out-coached. And in fact, the biggest blunder of the game was the final, you know, the play before the kick. When Greenbank got extremely lucky there was a second left. The whole sequence, really, man. If Shottie does that? Yeah.

What do you think about the home field time operator? Is that a real thing? Oh, it's definitely a real thing. That we should be upset with? I mean, listen. What's home field advantage, if not let a little. A little extra. I am of the mind that there's, I'm sure there are reasons why this would be prohibitive.

I'm sure TV would have something to do with it, but there, a hundred percent should just be like the ball should just freeze the second that it gets to zero, zero. Like there should be a, first of all, it should be down to the decimal, right? Yeah. Not a whole second. And then from there, like, they need a mechanism with, I don't know, a pager goes off. or something flashes up on the the fact that a human being is doing it is insane

right like you just got a guy with a clock pressing go a bean bag and a yellow flag I know the whole thing the whole thing look I threw my hat means he was out of bounds

so yeah I mean you can't you can't rely on that but LaFleur was playing with absolute magma level inferno last night with their approach to those last 90 seconds. I would believe where we thought this feels like Victory Monday, they are not feeling great in Green Bay right now.

Especially given the context, man, because I thought a lot of people were like, oh, Dallas is going to show up desperate team tonight. I'm like, Dallas didn't just lose to the Browns with title hopes. Well, they lost the Bears. But the bear, nobody thinks the Cowboys are any good, you know. The Packers coming off of the first two. weeks to lose to the to the browns even if it was all miles garrett they were just as desperate is what i'm saying i'm in theory i hate to say they should have opened it up more because they did score

40 they ended up scoring 40 points but it felt like they could have just thrown it deep down the middle of the field anytime they felt like it the packers yeah oh yeah yeah whereas it felt like all of Dallas's had to be extremely carefully selected, get some luck, you know, pulling teeth a little bit, whereas... They were just having fun, using all the plays. In the Packers' first drive, they attacked Bland downfield where they had two receivers in the same spot, and then the fade to Dobbs against Bland, I thought it was going to be a long night because we were all waiting for Bland to come back.

And they said on the broadcast that the thought, Collinsworth had talked to coaches, was you start bland outside to let him work back in so that he's not having to see as much inside outside, you know, lateral movement as you do in the slot. So, again, the Packers are like, all right, I bet. We'll work you in from the outside here, and they just attacked him. I don't like the overtime rules,

but I don't know what I want. Can I play you George Pickens' thoughts on overtime? because he has an idea. First, I don't know how much of this is hyperbole. He thinks overtime is a new concept. I mean, yeah, I don't, I never really, out of all my years playing football, I have never heard of a tie or any of that.

I honestly, I'm not sure you guys probably know better to me if that's new or something, but I don't know how to feel, bro. I just, next week, next game, I guess. So should we explain to him like, hey, there's been a lot of ties, especially like when football first started. This is not a new thing.

Yeah, but late, I can see what he means. Throughout the bulk of his career, there's not a lot of ties because it was first one to score wins and then it was first one, if you can get a touchdown first, then you win. Like, it's a quick resolution. And I think George Pickett is just the type, he's just saying like, I don't know what any of this is. He's not just like, oh, ties, he's saying, I don't know.

I don't know who, what the rules are, you know, whatever. But his idea to fix it is pretty funny to me. You said earlier this. I just feel like the game can continue. More events can happen if you let time on the clock and you let the game continue. Yeah, that's kind of how it works, George. If there's time on the clock, things can happen. So I got an idea.

I'm going to piggyback Pickens here. The fourth quarter is now just 25 minutes. Just fold it in. But this is like the elementary concept of the game. as we play with the clock. I just feel like the game can continue. More events can happen if you let time on the clock and you let the game continue.

He's not wrong. Had they continued. You know, more stuff can happen if you keep letting us play. I mean, but again, to try to alibi for him here, he's saying, shit, 10 minutes goes fast. Why not 15? What if you're tied? Could you?

You just, over time just extends the time, but you are where you are. It doesn't stop and start over like halftime. Would that be something that I could interest you in? It's tied, but you're, you have the ball, you're at the 35-yard line. Okay, now overtime just kind of kicks. It's like- Oh, from a strategy standpoint, I love it. Third quarter to the fourth quarter. You're probably not breaking any field goal records, right?

Right. So you're saying the Packers kicked a field goal. a tie, so now it's Cowboys football and overtime? Yes. If the Packers just go kick off with whatever it was four seconds left. Somehow I want a winner.

Yeah. I don't want to shoot out type thing. I don't want to throw it through a tire competition or whatever. Like football. But so that makes me kind of lean towards the rule they just previously had where

a touchdown does end it. it motivates you to push hard for a touchdown. And a field goal, you could match it by winning with a touchdown or a field goal, and then it keeps going. So I think I would like to revert to a touchdown ends it. I hate that. But it makes you want to receive the ball. Like, I don't like playing defensive either.

I don't like, well, let's just wait and see to what they do. That feels weird as well. It is. Give us the ball. Yeah, I know everyone hates it, but I like college. So I know it's tricked up. Well, then the score will be a million, yeah. I don't care.

Yeah. They somehow managed to still. I guess there's no perfect solution. I'm with you. I don't like not having a winner. I don't want extended games. I don't want more time. I want less time in these things.

And we've watched two now that have gone the whole overtime. Yeah, it'll probably become a thing. What if they do like hockey and just go seven? on seven. Honestly, I think what they want to do that is something that they don't have to change once they get to the playoffs.

That's what they have now. Yeah. And I'm for that. It should always... What did you point out last night, Clayton? The streams that we have done this year, we've done three streams. one was a rain delay game

and two went entire overtime like our we choose a stream and it will be a five hour game on you make it six I love it no it's fun it was an exciting night

and again it's interesting to hear that they were down about it I saw some guys that seemed down about it shoddy was a lot more down about it than I expected but man if you're one and three

you may be able to get yourself good enough in time to be like a decent team by December but it's going to take a lot longer and you're going to be another game down. This team needs to think that it's good. That is like challenge number one for 20 of the teams in the NFL, maybe more.

And they traded Micah right before the season so there's no reason for them to have believed that they were contenders this year. Being able to stand up to that team last night, given the way the first quarter went, they should at least have some belief that they can stick around. I think it's a bit of a hoss of cards. You're going to have to score.

It used to be like, if they can, they got to get at least 20 a game. And this defense can keep you in it. I think it's 30 a game. Well, the problem is it's not even just that. It's that you don't think you're going to get extra possessions. because you can talk like Donovan as a rock who's coming along. James Houston, maybe their pass rush gets better.

It's never going to be like it was the last few years where a quarter of the time the other team went out there, you're like, give me the damn rock back. That's not happening. So now the offense has to score not only a lot of points. They have to do it in fewer possessions. There's no room for air. Yeah.

But. So you've got to try to eat a little clock too. Then that's in the back of their minds also. it's a high wire act but if you can if you can keep lamb and pickings healthy for the bulk of the season and Tolbert and Terp

slide in nicely after that Ferg it's not bad they're in it at one two and one no it's the best one two and one I think you could feel that end of the season is still

very rough schedule-wise but this game proves they can kind of play with people. And I guess the whole NFL, man. The NFL is great. It is. You're like, okay, how did the New York Giants beat the Chargers? The Chargers have looked awesome this year. And what is it, transitive properties or something?

That means you can also beat the Chargers. Real quick, let's mention Windon Nation. they have a flash sale, but it ends at the end of September. And what day is today? The 29th, Dan. So this is probably... 30 days have September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31 except for February, which is irrelevant to this entire conversation.

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Save some money with Window Nation. So you have one syllable in your name, Blake. So I don't know that we can shorten that but I would love you to get on a good enough basis where Tariko will shorten your name. Let's go to Mike Tariko last night.

He's a bro. familiar face in a new place of the Packers and the Cowboys, a couple of franchises linked by championships and playoff meetings now have a blockbuster trade to time together. For more on that, here's Melissa start. Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Mike. Do we shorten Melissa in this day and age? No one. Absolutely. no one says that outside of the broadcast world. Think about it. Is it just these guys? And why do they think it's okay?

Like, there's no chance that Melissa, who works at Deloitte, her boss, is like, you got those reports, Melissa? Was Tofoya? NBC? Oh, yeah. Okay. Al and Chris? I just got to say, not sure they know what they're doing when it comes to pregame, like Garrett and. they know what they're doing on the sideline.

I'm a Melissa guy. Dude, Melissa Stark is good. Yeah. And, you know, for whatever it's worth, and going back through the second half this morning, when they go to her, she has something. Yeah. Like, we were, because, you know, we're not listening to the games. We don't know what's happening. But the Micah thing, she explained, like, Micah had to go to the tent, wanted his helmet, but he didn't get it in time.

And then you see him throwing his hands up. That was the play the Cowboys scored. And she, like, broke the whole thing down and said he was like, pump fake and throwing his helmet like they were having to restrain him not restrain you know but calm him down it's like that's what I want not it's just Pam come on

Pam had a rough Saturday morning Pea Pamelae we go to oh we noticed a while back that Chris Collinsworth cannot say pass rush he will say

patch rush and to prove it, here's every time he did it yesterday. So the problem they have is they don't have the pass rushers to really come after the quarterback, right? So you go, right, you've got a blitz then. You got blitz. One of the things they wanted to do for sure was take some of these defensive ends like Sam Williams

and move them down inside in some pass rush situations. And right now, the pass rush isn't getting there and the zones are getting stretched. Well, and I think that's something we should talk about a little bit is that Kenny Clark came over here and he's a good pass rusher. And that works, Mike, because what you've done now is you've established the run. They go play action off of it, slow down the pass rush, and those linebackers stepped up. Give Matt Iverflu some credit.

He hasn't changed who he is. And they just got better. The pass rushers in this game tonight compared to what we saw a week ago against the Bears night and day difference and see they're trying to get Kenneth Murray back going again but James is a really good pass rusher I thought he was

one of the most accomplished pass rushers coming out of college he had more pass rush moves for somebody coming out than I really had seen that was a yay boo yay I was struggling saying it this morning myself I was making fun of him

oh right no it's it's not as that easy there was a few times where he went pressure and I'm like that's better that's better stop there hash rush that's really all I got for game audio I don't know if you guys found anything uh I got a couple things but I didn't know if we were carrying over or not so we'll keep it going okay here's uh here's passive aggression here's uh shoddy and malice coming out of the the second half oh my bad Brian, 14 points to take the lead at the end of the half. What started working?

Well, you got the blocked PAT with a big return, great momentum. You know, we've been not running the ball, great. Defense's been punching the ball, but we're a team that feeds all momentum. Feeds on it. I would rather feed on skill, execution, but for them, it's all momentum. Yeah, I believe he pointed that out in the press conference, too. They feed off of it. They're a team that feeds off of it.

Some teams get big turnovers and they just fall asleep on the field. They lay down. The Cowboys will go out there and seize the day. I'm going to play this next thing for you. It's an extremely generic rejoin, especially for the night games. You're going to get some local high school football. You're definitely going to get it when they're here in Dallas. And you're going to get it when the Sunday night crew's favorite player of all time,

Jason Witten, is coaching locally. Oh, Mike. But the reason I play this. look at him there he's there he's on the sideline he's he looks at a time of his life i play this because every time i knew this every time i knew this remember when he played for the raiders that was weird like uh i play this because i always wonder who is this for and last night we were watching the game with a bunch of our friends and i found out because as soon as i played it julie was like that is so cute that is the cowboy great jason whitney's now the head coach

and his school of Liberty Christian got a win on the Friday night lights over Trinity Christian but his son was the start Witt's son Cooper two receiving touchdowns a sack, a pick, and a fumble return. The best winchow. I bet you Wittins never had as much fun in his whole life.

Nothing better. You know it, you know it. Congrats to Witt, one of the all-time best. But Witt? Witt feels like retroactive Wall of Dallas. Maybe that's what the players call them. I never heard that. But again, we wonder who's that for.

We found out last night, women. Because it's cute to see dad, son, football. So if there's anything that Collinsworth and Toriko have, it's excellent chemistry. Monta Williams, a ghost motion involving Turpin, gives Williams a little more space to gain nine. on a nice looking drive here for the Cowboys. I'm going to give you your analyst license here.

Exactly right. They're going to go with this reverse action right here. And they're going, oh, they're getting a ball to Turpin on this drive. Here we go. So now they're going to fake that and create a little space. Just a few eyeballs go with Turpin there. Solid. Is that license work in all 50 states or just Texas?

It's not worth much. I'll just borrow yours. Here in the third. Oh, yeah. love this Tariko Norm laugh. Is that license work in all 50 states or just Texas? It's not worth much.

And they were not done because... It says the... He actually was like he should have gone with. The license does not work in all 50 states. You must be 18 plus, 19 plus in Alabama and Nebraska, 19 plus in Colorado for some games, 21 plus in Arizona.

Text, hope. Keep going? I don't. Assets. Dot... I will keep going, though, because the comedy the hour was not done. Play. The Packers have an offensive

lineman with a last name Morgan. Speaking of Julie, she was all over. This guy's lumberjack bones last night. But they were highlighting this big guy, last name Morgan. And dude,

Collinsworth, he just thinks of this stuff. All right, let's take a look at her. First of all, it sounds like me doing him. All, let's take a look at our 4K Sky Cam delivered by Walmart plus and our guy, Captain Morgan, Jordan Morgan up front there.

Okay, hold on. Everyone be quiet because you're going to have to listen. I'm sorry. As Toriko cannot handle this guy destroying. Walmart plus and our guy, Captain Morgan, Jordan Morgan up front there, trying to battle his way against Kenny Clark and all the best that the Dallas Cowboys have to offer. But boy, you really need those young players first round draft. last year, when they are throwing into the game, they have to deliver. I'm with you here.

What aisle at Walmart is that? From the 30 years, Jacobs to the right. He just became three yards to the 33-yard line. It's like the funniest thing he'd ever heard in his life. That was 45 seconds ago. Liquor. What the fuck the more? Gosh, how'd you think of that?

How'd you think of that? I was looking over the roster all night last night. He's not a pirate. Like, he acted as if that was the greatest, like, the greatest line he'd ever heard. And Chris is like, what are you laughing at over there? Right. I throw away quick. I'm with you here.

It's just. What aisle at Walmart is that? From the 30 years, Jacobs to the right. And Collins was like, what are you saying? Yeah. What are you? Why are you highlighting this? Dweeb, just don't finger me.

Did they say anything on the, they say anything on the broadcast about Shottie's highlighter slash mechanical pencil? Because we were really looking at that during the stream yesterday. Man. So he's got the visor and then sometimes he's got a highlighter hanging in it. Sometimes more than one. But it felt like.

Back into the passing lanes that. What is it? When they were on defense, it was the highlighter. But then when they were on offense, he had a mechanical pencil. Like a .7 Bick. Have you ever used a mechanical pencil? Dripped it with two tones of paint. And they always break.

Like, Julie was pointing this. Oh, Blake's in the era. They're terrible. Why does he have one? Can you imagine the quick, I got to keep in stats, you got to erase? Yeah. A pencil is one, a mechanical pencils suck. What's it going to do?

Turn around the white cotton and be like, you have 0.7? He's like, only 0.5. I got the thin shit. Yeah, and replacing it. Just get a regular pencil. Be prepared. Load those things in there. I'm sure Sad will ask him about that for us sometime.

What are you highlighting throughout the game? I wouldn't be surprised, dude. I mean, I made this, I joked about this in the column also, but, you know, if they would have gotten stomped last night, it becomes a lot harder for him to keep the vibes up, right? and I don't know that anybody in the Cowboys media would have done this. I'll play this for you guys later, but Brian Callahan is about to fight the people that cover the Titans because they're just really, they're sarcastic.

Like, oh, you said your team's message in camp was being relentless. How relentless are they now? Like that'd be like if Machota 4110 last night is like, hey, how much did the ping pong and pizza parties help? They are doing that. When you guys couldn't get off the third down, like. That's what they did in the, In the lead-up, you know, in the pre-the- Friday press conference. They're like, you know, all this, the dinners and everything you did.

That's true. You did bring that. We did play that, yeah. But last night, I'm thinking it comes up. Is that helping with the resiliency? And Shottie's like, yes, it is. And then they go out and kind of do this. And it's like, okay, maybe going to dinner is good.

So, yeah, Collinsworth is a bit. I enjoyed this laugh. Let's see, I have it queued up, right? 29, Prescott. It up for pick-in, safety coming over. Did Pickett to bring that down? Remarkable stuff. He got it.

Oh, wow. CD loves it, too. First and goal, Cowboys. This replay pops up. What's say, does he get it done? The catch. I love him, dude. I do, too.

I think him and Greg Olson are both great. Olson better, but Colonsworth fun. Yeah, Tariko haircut. Yeah. He's a guy you went through in the Olympics. And the Masters. Yeah, not football. Chris Collinsworth is actually a good football player.

Is that hard to believe? Yes. It's, I guess, but I was very, very well aware of him as a child in my book of whites. Really? Because he played, okay, 80s. Well, no, no, not like I watched him, but the uniform that he wore combined with being a white-wide receiver. I was up to speed on those guys. Okay, he wasn't going nuts, but I guess this is 1981.

He was a rookie, 1,000-yard receiver. Oh, wait. Yeah, like, what you were like Steve Largent. That was like another hero of mine growing up, right? Yeah, I would think that's probably the 80s, too. Wayne Corbett. He had four. Much later, but yes.

Let's see. Eight-year career, four. 1,000-yard seasons. Very Mike Evans, though. 1,09, 1,024, 1,100. Didn't go nuts, but made three Pro Bowls. Imagine if he played and fling a round offense. Let's see.

Second in Offensive Rookie of the Year. Who was first in Offensive Rookie of the Year that year was? Someone named George Rogers, Running Back Saints. How do I not know about this person? person's name, 1,600 yards rushing, 13 touchdowns. That's kind of kick-ass. I thought you hosted a sports show. How come I don't know who George, why didn't you tell me who George Rogers was before the show, Blake?

Make me look like a fool here. What's kind of a producer, are you? Didn't pick me up? Didn't ask me about the political state of play? We're good with audio? Yeah, man. Yeah. Okay.

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What else is tomorrow? You were just telling me during the break. What are we doing? Let's do an NBR. The monthly business review tomorrow. Reset. It's... No, I'm just playing, bro.

And I didn't know what else we're doing on today's show, but I have also been informed a top three closing remarks warning. And there might not be three. A watch. What do you mean not be three? I'm just saying... Well, does that people say, like, top two and there ain't two? No, yeah. It's just me or something.

No, it's... Yeah, you're top two and you're not two. Yeah. Jake put a lot of pressure on Brandon by telling me, hey, leave some time for closing... Hey, we may want to just skip the news today, bro. This guy's got heat. It's going to be totally awesome. Look at him.

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trying to glom on the popularity of the Dallas Cowboys, and specifically their kicker. So this Twitter account is called Aubrey Sizzle. Man, I thought that was the sit-in for a second. No, there's Dan. Yeah, I've sent Aubrey Sisson our show before. At Butter Aubrey. Yeah, so that I can...

Because these accounts have... Who started this? So much of a bigger reach than we do. No, no, he doesn't. He's got very few followers. Well... But it's been building. This is a very quick...

He gets retweeted by Jane Slater. when she runs into Brandon on the field you know that bit no like Brandon is very well aware of this dude he's like shattered him out the butter Aubrey guy yes yeah

let me see here I do hold on let me find it again here it is he's only got like 5,000 followers listen Blake, you can either back me up on this or not.

If this dude retweets one of our things, it does a lot better than if someone else with 5,000 or 20,000 followers or 25. I've watched it happen. The Cowboys, you know, Brandon. So, but he did this, and I want to ask you, if we should do some stuff like this on Twitter. Because we're trying to learn. We're trying to learn about monetization of. Kind of.

We're trying to learn about imps. All we know is how to sit down and order to meal. God, it's Monday, isn't it? It is. Blake and his eyes just match. What? Oh, because you got to do new imps for somebody that wants too many imps? Like they want hourly imps?

You're not far off. What did you guys do this hour? So he does the I'm going to be doing, but he writes IMA, IMA, I'm a be doing a brand Aubrey jersey giveaway because y'all have been showing so much love i want to give back winner will be picked in 72 hours so a picture of a branded Aubrey jersey steps to enter follow at butter Aubrey repost and like this tweet comment your favorite team i don't know what that means but the point is that's gay though i know i don't want to do that i know what are you guys considering this follow me i'm asking right now

Now, do we do something, that's how you get followers? Absolutely not. That's how he's getting. I don't want you to make fun of this guy because I do want him as an ally, but are you out of your mind? You're telling me how much reach he gets and how this. And that's awesome. That is super awesome.

Wouldn't that be awesome. Yeah. Go cash your likes. Follow me. Go to your mailbox and get your likes check. I know it sucks, but I'm asking, is that how you have to get, you know, you put our show name on it. We don't have to put our personal thing on it. No. And so it's not

like you're gay. It's the show's gay. Of course the show's gay. It's trying to get imps. I think we all understand that there are things, and by we all, I mean, us and those of you listening, there are definitely things that we could do that would grow this thing or try to grow this thing

that we're not going to do. We'll just keep doing this and hope it incrementally gets in front of people. But no, we're not doing, what are you talking about? If we put this out from the account, All of our real true subscribers light us on fire. That's the problem. Most of his followers are gay.

So they look at it and they're like, well, I mean, this is just normal. And you just told me if he retweets something of ours, everybody's going to go nuts over. The Backstreet Boys sold a lot of records. You know, it's not. And I think the guy's cool, got a cool account. I want him to promote our stuff. Brandon shattered him out. There should be an account dedicated to Brandon Aubrey.

But no, we're not. like and subscribe to give away like and subscribe to have clayton come over and punch you in the face people would enjoy that our listeners way more they would rather have clayton punch me in the face than when have the opportunity yes the thing all this guy does is buy one jersey no it's it's really this i would rather clayton punch me in the face than like a tweet retweet it and comment with my favorite team don't forget to tag a friend and tag a friend and tag a friend. What if I could raise money for ALS?

Hmm. And you put a funny video on it. I was young and dumb ones. That was when you were tweeting like Chase Utley to give you a followback. It wasn't me. I was tweeting Leah Remini and it worked. It did work 20 years later, right? Yeah.

And that was today in Twitter. You're not going to let me put the Ryan Medelline. Twitter behavior on you? No. Just because you were the same age? No. Tweeting celebrities? I was not tweeting Alex Gologoski for a retweet.

Damn. What's the biggest account to retweet you? I wasn't doing that. I don't know. Oh, you didn't? No. Mine's Jake Kemp. Jake has retweeted you?

Clayton's new to Twitter. I don't believe in social media. He's got leather to whittle. I don't think you believe in social. car right just being social in general true Clayton loves when nobody's around I don't blame him dude

he said he would love those streams more if we just didn't invite anymore no Dan asked me hey are you gonna be alright with like extra people sitting around you I was like well Dan I have a general disdain for people whatever it takes to get this thing off the ground be it one or a hundred I wish there were fewer he

Clayton's an interesting studies he does exude he's giving bitter he's giving I don't want to be here and then he just goes out and kills it like I'm really loving the stream

dude look I'm gonna give you a thousand percent but I'm not gonna like doing and you're gonna tell yeah you're gonna let us know that that's fine with me yeah all right

I will unfollow and no we like what the butter guy you want me to follow the butter guy now

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Here's Jane with the Dumb Zone News. Let's see here. Wild story that feels like I should have known about this one. So Epstein has been all the rage for the last handful of years, and in fact there was a Trove has got to be on the list, right? Treasure? Yeah. Yes.

There was a treasure trove of a trove of emails from the Epstein situation were made public this weekend, I think by Bloomberg. And it's all just exactly what you think it is. Every single, you know, from Alan Dershowitz to whoever, every powerful person he was talking to, you know, after he had already been arrested and put on house arrest for sex crimes. Like the big question has been like, did all these people know? how could they have known they fucking knew it's in the emails they all they're like asking him

he's like asking people questions about like so if you take somebody from one state to another but it's underage like which laws am I triggering here everybody knew but I'm not here today to talk to you about Epstein I'm here today to talk to you about a case

that is equally horrific but with a local tie There's a guy named Howard Rubin He is a Wall Street financier He was sued

Some seven years ago In civil court for sex trafficking Along with his assistant Her name is Jennifer Powers They won that case Again it was a civil case So they were not found you know, civilly liable for sex trafficking or sexual assault, but Friday they were charged

criminally for sex trafficking. This billionaire financier who's like in his 60s and his 40, now 45-year-old assistant Jennifer Powers. Is this the South Lake lady? Powers was arrested in South Lake on Friday where she moved from New York from Manhattan in 2020 and bought a home that he paid for i've got a number of photos of mrs powers uh here for you guys to look at now in the the the local media her face is blurred out his face is not but we go beyond we go beyond the mainstream dan to see if we can find photos and we did this is this is uh it may be not epstein level as far as underage um but this dude had a sex dungeon where uh and again i think it's possible some of them were underage um is a dungeon

always underground like a basement no this one was not okay it probably should but you know as i was thinking with the foundations here in texas very difficult to have a sex dungeon it's got to be yeah but in general the dungeon is thought of as a basement yes but this is castle the dungeon is not on the second floor correct but and i know that they do have you know plenty of underground you know housing in new york but where most of the billionaire sex weirdos live is there and they don't have or you know pick your big city in in asia or europe and they are creating they're having to like this guy did create his sex dungeon in his penthouse in manhattan so he has a two-bedroom apartment or penthouse in Manhattan that he does not live at it is just there for sex dungeoning the walls are all painted red

because there's a multiple affidavits here there's the one from the civil case there's the current one it's extremely detailed uh it's all uh you know bdsm stuff uh like i said it was all painted red it had a lot of the tools that they needed in there her job was to she was basically the gmax uh the lady in Southlake was. It was her job to recruit the women and get them to New York and to clean the room, manage the residence, and deal with any fallout that came from this situation. Yeah, be it women, you know, going to the authorities or threatening to do so or, you know, complaints from people in the building. Like, hey, I feel like you're torturing, sex torturing somebody in there. And geez, like, all right, let me handle this. Um,

Yeah, I went back and read a story on the civil case, and it's, you know, because she was deposed, and it's, you know, they've got text messages from her where she's like, I can hear you in there. Like, that one was, was a little much. And she actually text the guy, like, were you shocking her pussy? And he was. There was a case that she had to deal with. She was his Mike the cleaner, too, right? where he was banging a woman so violently that her implant became inverted

and it cost 20K to get it fixed which he just of course had to pay out of pocket on the spot right there like I broke your implant wow that's some good sexin yeah haven't you always assumed like if you lose a

civil case certainly that never then goes to criminal because doesn't it take a little less yeah proof of but guilt to get it like oj but there's also the other type of situation where you get sued civilly they don't have enough evidence back in 2017 2018 but from that point cosby style now there's maybe a few more women can you not seven or eight years who were like I think I'd actually like to put my name on this. So is that a double jeopardy on each thing? Like, you've been sued civilly, you get, you're innocent. They can't sue you civilly again?

I believe, but. Brandon, are you a lawyer? I'm not, no. Well, then what could, why you can't help me here? For his part, Howard Rubin, he said in a deposition that because he and her would have all these women signed NDAs saying that they were not

under the influence and they were not being coerced or under duress. Now again I don't think most, I don't think this is an underage thing. It's like a Jerry Lewis thing. I'm coercing you to say you were not coerced. It feels like that and so a lot of these women they say you know some of them were like models and some of them were

you know people who are extremely down on their luck and a lot of times it was both. But these are not underage. No, but it's a situation where somebody comes there and they're like, yeah, you're going to come here and have sex with this guy for $10,000. You're going to sign this thing. And then they show up there and the sex goes

way beyond what they actually agreed to, but they are physically in a dungeon with nothing they can do about it. And they've just signed a thing saying nothing happened here. And this woman who is 45 now, and as you could see in all those images, because

there's a few more of them you'll see there's one with her and her husband that i want you guys to see that's her husband who is a dj what he looks like fabio he looks like fabio dj steve powers yeah it's a porn name yeah he looks kind of fabio passion of the christie and that's her husband she not the guy she worked for but uh so she's 45 now she's what 35 when this was i guess really popping off, moved to South Lake in 2020. This lady's just been living amongst us, Dan. Here she is in Town Square

at like October Fest with her dragon decked out family. This lady looks like every single woman that is mean to the lady at McAllister's when I go pick up my food. And she's running. They are kind of slow. All right. Establish the run.

Like it's not... Yeah, let's check the food in there too, huh? You don't think they always get it right? They get it right maybe 50% of the time. And so I go through this big thing every time I'm picking up food there. I'll take the staples out of the bag and they look at me like they're all mad. Yeah.

I'm like, um, there's not tomatoes on this sandwich? And they're like, oh, okay. Yeah, the spud max used to be big. Treat me like I'm, I'm the A-hole. Do you feel like, when you do that, do you feel like a guy at a deal with a knife who just cuts the package open? Yeah. Just stares the guy right in the face. Numb it up.

That's pure. But they get offended that you're checking the quality of the product, then you have to draw on them. Hey. That's my kind of my life. The biggest thing after COVID is you have to be able to have a to-go business that doesn't F up. Yeah.

Because driving back, what is it? What's the really, there's an expensive taco place in, uh... Torchies? It's not Torchies, but it's in South Lake right around there. Shiloso. Shiloso. So we had ordered from there. It's fire.

By the way, any of the sales at dumzone.com. I mean, the ROI these folks are getting. Would love a promo code for Chiloso. Right. No, they're not going to like this. And see, that's why I'm saying it. And none of these people will, but we can make this problem right for you. Yeah, so what was not in, there was some key item that we really needed was the cheese or something.

It wasn't a major item, but it was a key. key item. Like that lady on Twitter during COVID. Yeah. Why can't have her fajitas. 19 minutes without cheese. There's something like that. The Allen Texas location.

What a time. Picked up the food, driven back, find out the cheese isn't there. Drive back. That's a 20 minute, 15 minute drive. Yeah, it is. Drive there. Get the manager like, hey, whatever it was.

It was cheese. It was right. It was something small. It wasn't the main meal. But integral. But integral. And I'm like, this isn't, and then they're like, really? I'm like, here, here's the receipt.

Really? Like they were like. How about I really blow this place up? They were kind of like giving me a lot of attitude. I'm like, what do you think? Because it was like an hour before that I had ordered this or an hour and a half. And now it's like, what do you think my plan here is? Do you think that I'm scamming you out of this, you know, $1.

$1.50 that you charge for this cheese. It actually costs you $20. You know, on the bottom line. And then I'm going to just sit. I sat in the parking lot for an hour so that I can then come in and get another thing of cheese. Like, why am I getting attitude here?

Shouldn't I get the, oh, I'm so sorry. You had to drive all the way back. I'm so sorry. Like, at least just be performative. When I let you in traffic, give me a finger wave. Give me a something. I just want

That's over the line But I'm with you I'm with you on customer service You're paying them It is a job Yeah but he is the job He was doubting me I know and I don't like it

Go kick his ass for me You could do it if anybody could Although it was like eight months ago I'm not sure if he still works there I'll get to the bottom of this for you But also sales at dumbzone.com We have these football streams

Your food will be on the uh anyways um what were we what was the story well there's a sex trafficking oh yeah yeah and it's gnarly too we could uh she's mean to people at mccalus we could probably keep that's right that's how we got there but can you have a dungeon that's not uh painted red and black i don't think it can be painted nothing can it be like pink and like a a light purple like kind of a festive can you have a festive themed dungeon, but you still got the whip hanging there. Yeah, like a floral

wallpaper? Yeah. I don't think so. I don't think so. It would maybe make your attitude a little better in the dungeon. That makes you a serial killer. Yeah. Yeah, I think the... I imagine Dahmer having the dungeon with a nice floral print on the wall. Don't be a

weirdo. um let's see and we'll keep uh we're going to keep track of this story this could get juicy this feels like it might have a documentary on it on its uh way here because there's a lot of hot stuff the lady's hot it's in south lake we like what we're seeing uh kyle texas what is not the meeting of the kiles okay that was the first thing it came to mine i have the name for the documentary what do you got go ahead dungeons and dragons it's not bad oh hell yeah it's not bad at all

we like the local tie-in that should be the headline if South Lake had a local newspaper throw her on the cover oh that's excellent I don't know the cover of South what is that South Lake magazine South Lake style yeah Dungeon and Dragons put a hot on the cover

or a local athlete this is a guy who knows how to work in tantalizing media right here how to get your base All fired up. That's the cover for today's podcast. How proud are you now? Tell your parents.

That hot? Dungeons and Dragons? No, you have more work to do. I guess I've got to make a thumbnail now. So, yeah. Keep your mic off. There is a tree in Kyle, Texas, with a name. Where Just Lane is, right? Great tie-in.

Yes, Gileine Maxwell has been moved to a low security pillow fight prison in Kyle, Texas with Elizabeth Holmes. Is that from, you're trying to get Blake's attention? Yeah. This tree is named Jolene. It's 400 years old. Older than the country. And this has been a subject of controversy because it is, blocking development in the city

so they had a city council vote a few months ago don't they voted 6-1 to not cut it down to relocate the tree no don't do that

it'll die they say it won't but you certainly have to think that it's a possibility there were protesters there's a petition the road needs to be expanded and having it the way that it is now with the tree is a danger

and I think I'm only doing this story for my own therapy because we cut down a tree and I still feel like a dickhead about it how old was that tree? I mean it wasn't 400 but it had to have been 150 like there's... Did you count the rings? No, but if you go up to the botanic gardens in grapevine

they have a tree that's 275 to 300 I think it's like mid-1700s and you know it's a similar area size-wise

wasn't that different I think I had a 200-year-old tree maybe I'm wrong but it was old and it's gone and I feel like you need an office office is dope

pretty great Alvard Blake there are other trees in the world too right did you plant one to replace that I paid a

Kwai Leonard's Indians, right? I think yes. Wise County. And that's important if you're not from around here, Dan, to know where we're talking about when we do this story about

Alvard, Texas. Oh, Bulldogs. Alford, Indian? Alvord. Alford, with an F, maybe, is an Indian. But a teacher in Alvard ISD has had to issue an apology. Now, this is a good one.

a good time one not a social media one not a beating a kid with autism one this teacher had to apologize there was a a bit of a rumor going around that the parents caught wind of from their students and the rumor was that an advanced animal science teacher at alvard which out there I would imagine they actually have because there's probably a lot of FFA going on a lot of agriculture A teacher, an advanced animal science teacher at Albert High, the rumor was, fed an ailing kitten to a snake before the start of the school day in front of the kids. This rumor, of course, was untrue, the teacher says. The teacher says that they did it before school and the kids were not in the room.

They just told the kids about it later. So that's the alibi. So they did. She definitely did this. She later acknowledged, this is from the superintendent. So she feeds before they have kittens in the class. They're not doing well. She fed one of them to a snake in class before school started.

The kids got there and she, quote, later acknowledged this decision to her class and permitted a student with parental consent to take the. remaining ailing kittens home. So can I tell you how I think this happened? Given the information I have, we have a group of sick kittens in this class. She needs to get rid of them. She fed one of them to a snake. And the kids showed up and she said, you notice there's one less kitten here.

I asked you guys if anybody would take these on Friday. And you said no. Well, one of them, we got rid of it this morning. you can see the other seven over there who would like to take these or do we do this again tomorrow because what is the implication of

why even tell them why tell them and then say you can take the rest of them if your parents say it's okay what age is the class it doesn't say but it's a high school okay yeah the teacher an experienced educator and animal lover

has apologized to the students for her actions and voluntarily removed all snakes from her classroom. She wasn't a real bitch about it. The NBC asked the school where the teacher obtained the ailing kittens, but has not yet received a reply. And then the word ailing can mean a lot of things too. Right.

But if you just spit, if you want to spin it a little bit here, if you are an animal science teacher, the mistake here is that you didn't feed it to him in front of the kids. Like, if you're going to do it, let the boy watch. Let him learn something, right? You can't feed a beloved animal to a snake in front of people. Even an alvert, apparently. Kitten is on the beloved list. It's only like kitten and puppy, right?

you can get a rat a mouse probably even a ferret I could see a city kid being affected by like a hamster getting gnawed by a copperhead but out there

man I don't know if this is still a thing or not but are we doing dissections we were man I I did not fare well in that environment my guys

no man I'm so I got a gag reflex formaldehyde that just the smah god otherwise I'd be a doctor if I could just even take a little of that

I mean I think you know you're a very smart like organized person so I could see a world where you would be a good doctor if you weren't a gash I am a gash What can you do? You are what you eat?

The superintendent Blow me up. Dang. Superintendent told NBC this is very much a faces of death thing. The superintendent said the ailing kittens that were taken home by the student later died.

Okay, so that's... What do you want them to do? Learned or not learn? I guess you want them to not learn. So I used to like watch faces of death and they would have some guy with a, you know, a voice coder thing on, and they'd show like a boat wreck. You know, there'd be like 70 people on some cruise or some big yacht,

and it would crash and catch on fire. And they're like, 38 people died. The other 22 died later. Yeah, we know. George Pickens. How many? You add more time. More events can happen.

So when you save. All of them. There are more than one Faces of Death video? Yeah. Like, is that... Yeah. Was it a box set or something? It was a box set.

Like it was an actual series? Yes. Called Faces of Death. Correct. I'd never had it on anything beyond VHS. I've always heard of it, but never really had desire to watch any of it. Well, I'll tell you how it happened for us was you just got to have the buddy Breivig, who you know well, work at a tape store. And not a...

Not Blockbuster. You got to have a guy who works at a place with a mirror, and you can get whatever you want, you know. But then beyond that, as I told you last week, just thinking about my generation's place in society, you know, there was a website called like morbid reality on like Internet 1.0 and it was, you know, that's all it was. It was just images of like the craziest thing you could imagine. So is that before you were porn age? Yeah, I mean We didn't have You know

So let's I'm talking seventh grade here And so yeah I don't think we had like porn at home There was no porn on the internet at home You might You weren't just thinking about Porn all the time

No Not yet I mean we were thinking about Because when the internet popped up For me I was like whoa But we weren't thinking Like

We were not thinking about pornography No In fact I would say That if you were to Check the browser for that seventh grade quote unquote shop class it was probably 80% gore

40% sexual and the sexual parts were probably like funny like oh look it's a guy with elephantitis having sex I'll head over to a third period reading after this

I watch this video of a horse right so this guy an enum claw get killed by horse dick and there's your news all right how many times is that phrase closed a newscast here in Dallas the dumb zone

did your wife know of the South Lake lady and subscribe you were aware of that story somehow right is it not is it my buddy who's a CEO of a restaurant chain sent it to me this weekend fantastic

I don't know if it's a restaurant you don't call that a restaurant I mean it's so much more than you know I have a good CEO friend. It's so much more than a restaurant. Let's say viewer mail birthdays, the last sponsor on our run sheet, we'll do that on Thursday, okay, dude? That's what I was texting Blake about. So Frankl and Frankel will bring us viewer mail birthdays. Frankl and Frankel, personal injury attorneys, we implore you. Get in an accident. And then, oh, right?

First things first. What's the copy points? Don't get hurt. hurt the copy points are the correct or perhaps you know someone okay the word if should be if you get an accident not when you get or go get an eight eight eight eight one seven or two one four it's eight one seven or two one four three three 33 33 they have uh professionals over there the frankles and jean burkett too who have worked for the insurance companies they know the tricks of the trade uh and like i said it's maybe you have a family member somebody who gets mixed up in a car accident. They're telling you how poorly they're being treated.

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we Mexicans roll. His leaders are Dan's riding mower seat, Jake's hyena howl laugh, and the Dragon Den bathroom spider mascot Vanessa. Vanessa. Moment of silence for Vanessa. He's a proud member of the Mexican beehive and founding member of the Dumber Zone. Oh, is that the...

There's like a podcast called The Dumber Zone. Yeah, the summer event. Is it still rolling? I think so. Does it... Reflect poorly on us that even a podcast about our podcast has not asked us to guest on it yet. They're like, oh, I mean, we have so much to get to first. I know.

That's tough. Keep doing what you're doing and chase them pesos. Always C, I mean Pee, I'm going to say. That guy rules. The word, the punt. Yeah. He wants us to punt from Beto. And or Beto

I would think it was Beto But then Beto O'Rourke is like no Dear IDF of the Vagaza Strip This is Jared from Oxnard Sunday was my 38th birthday Just the guy we met To have oysters or something Yes

Overrated oysters And until Blake Then ate oysters with his friend Steve Berline About 28 degrees and windy. What are we doing? Super cold. Hey, the guys who will complain about the weather in California on the beach as we eat fresh oysters. We had a limited amount of days that we were there.

And one of the meals you said, let's go outside. This is such a for sure. My first one. Hey, welcome to California. Eat this cold, raw fish thing. Don't worry. It's only like $45 per seven of them. Right.

And you're not going to get four. Cool. Anyway, this dude was cool, though. Take you guys to Hardee's and call it a day from now on. I was not woken up in that special way, but I did do some hot socks on moosing. Oh. You are my leaders, but I'm a proud member of the Smoked A.J. With Jake Club and then watched L.A. car chases and a mediocre Mark Marin special.

Yeah. Love you guys. F. the Aggie cancellation guy. Jared Walsh. We had a great night. That was a fun. We stayed up, ordered pizza. Matt Grim went and hooked it up.

Oh, so we did eat. So somebody got full. Yeah, that's what happens when you get oysters. You have a pizza two hours later. Let's shotgun a pizza with this. Just say it was a bad choice for a place to eat. Yeah, I don't feel that way. You're like, oh, yeah, I've been walking by this for years.

Yes. I committed to sin. Presents on this day. I just knew that Spencer McKenzie's is up there. There's no fries in these oysters. It doesn't matter what it is. If it's a five star on Yelp, Jake will go to it. It's true.

This is like, I remember. It's five stars with 49. I enjoyed it, Jake. I remember like my mom used to always just constantly be like, nobody appreciates me. You guys don't appreciate me. And I'm like, gosh, she's just always, what's that? And now I get it.

It's not, you don't need to expect them to. appreciate what you do for them. That's okay. So today's Monday, September 29th. The guy who wants the Cowboys to replace prime rib with Frito Pie is the deal and takes. On this day in 1982. Kind of a forgotten time. Tylenol.

Extra strength Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide. killed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. This is a case of, so they got away with that, huh? It truly is. As that remains unsolved. All seven victims immediately solved a Rubik's Cube right before they're passing, though. And Tylenol, yes, it's kind of stayed out of the limelight until now. They're like, what are we doing?

You know, everyone is trying to skirt the R word. They're now calling kids Tylenol babies. Oh, wow. Which is pretty funny to me. That's solid coding. On this day in 1986, I must first tell you about August 1st, 1985. This is going to have to do with baseball, I bet. Jay Bell.

Yeah. Told you. Was the Twins first round draft pick in 1984. So a very hot prospect back in the day and was traded to the Cleveland Indians for Burt Blylevin, former Ranger Great, current Hall of Famer. But so 1985, the J. Bell for Burt Blyleven trade happened. So I was very excited.

Especially on this day in 1986, when J. Bell is called up. The late season call up, and he became the 10th player in Major League history to hit a home run on the very first pitch he sees in the major leagues. Now, what makes this extra exciting is that that pitch was thrown by Bert Blylewere. How about that?

The guy he was traded for one year prior. It was also the 47th home run of the season against Burt Blylevin, which broke the Major League. record of 46 home runs, which was set in 1956. Do you remember where you were? Yeah, I was watching the game on my phone on the toilet.

If you could have told Little Dan, someday while you're sitting on the toilet, you will watch a game on your phone. He said what? You're doing a lot of that? What?

Are you doing a lot of that? No, I'm just... Are you quick hitter or... What does that mean? A quick potty man? No, no, no. I'm in there for a while. We're bringing the computer in.

We're bringing the... Bringing a book. Like, in case I get bored doing one thing, I got to have another thing, too. Like, we might have a numb foot. Have you ever had to go get a charger? Like waddle over to get a charger? It's wrong.

Yeah, I've like door-dashed a charger. Then they go get one and bring it to me real quick. And then today is Monday, September 29th, September 29th, this day in Dumb Zone history. We're going to work our way back. So beginning in 2022, we were on this day squarely in Dan's no-cap era. Oh, great. Just hitting us with no-cap. all of the time.

In 2021... And you wrote it on your notes. Oh, yeah. This guy said no cap again. Of course. All right. I probably had a no cap counter at one point. In 2021, Lionel Collins got pot for COVID.

And rather than just sit the two games, he bribed the guy that did the test. Do you remember this? I do. Yeah, because we had heard of guys doing it with drug testers before. Wow. I did not recall that until you just mentioned it. And then I saw this on the broadcast last night on this day in 2021. YouTube TV and NBC were trying to fight to come to an agreement.

And they're doing that again. So I guess the three-year deal, four-year deal is up. That was scrolling on the game last night, yeah. So while we were doing the segment, Jake's wife texted them that they can't lose the Bravo channel. I mean, it's ESPN for women. You're about to lose Sunday night football, but yeah, not real housewise. Yeah, right, for Bravo. And then we did an NBA segment, and we were playing some audio.

KP said that him and Luca could be good together if Luca will just pass the ball. Man, I don't miss those, the badges I wear from those battles. And then the very next thing we did, we were mocking Kyrie over his vaccination status. And just how far we've come to where Kyrie is our hero, KP sucks, Luca's gone. Ah. Yeah. And then in 2020, I actually have some audio for this. Because Jake, you went on a Seattle radio station.

I assume the Cowboys and Seahawks were playing this week. And you went on the Tom and Curley show. Do you remember anything about this? Yeah, vaguely. I mean, I don't want to blow up your spot, but I, if you just, they play sound effects, right? Yeah. They, they, I couldn't tell if it was a joke, but if you're the guest, you don't care, because it's not really a prank on you, but it felt like weenie in the butt, right?

They want to, they're the type of show that they want to get a guy on to talk shit, not for your opinion. Right. On the game, right? So as if you're a cowboy fan? You know what you're doing, what you're getting. into. Okay, yeah, I like these bits.

I don't. Yeah, this is a great bit. So they bring you on, and I guess the first thing they do is they, you know, oh, Stephen A. Smith hates the cowboys that kind of rile you up. You're like, no. I was way worse at this five years ago, surprisingly. They had a gallery in studio, so it's very weaning in the butt. I just want to play a couple things.

This first one, you start to jab back and you call their quarterback Russell Wilson a dork. Ooh. And they didn't really like that. Your opinion, after watching what Russell Wilson has been doing to defenses, you must have thought at some point, I wonder if I can leave this city and apply for a job in Seattle to do sports. Is that true, Mr. Kemp? Yeah, I've heard quite a bit about the cost of living,

so I'm not sure that I could cut it there and find a proper gig. But look, I mean, I'm a cowboy fan, but I'm a football fan. And it's an absolute injustice that Russ doesn't have an MVP at this point in his career. Absolutely. A lot of times when guys get the somewhat sympathy MVP, they don't really deserve it anymore. Russ is going to get it while he still does. He's still at the top of his game. He's still on his prime.

It's absolutely a crime that he hasn't won one already. I think he's got five, six years of dominance left in him. So he's a bit of a dork, but at the end of the day, he's a very fun guy to watch play football. And I dread it every single time the Cowboys run into him. So you hear a little bit of it and skip ahead. Yeah, he is cooking. Dre's, any questions for a Dallas Cowboy fan here? Look, Jake, I don't like you taking pot shots at my quarterback, but that's okay.

We're going to let the dork cook this week. I need to know you guys have looked good for all. Okay, then he gets to his question, but he wanted to get that little thing in there. Yeah, and you can hear somebody, like, laughing in the background. It's like... They're sitting? Yeah, I'm just killing with this horrible sports point. Let's just do this one.

This one just says sound effect bit. We do this with everybody. Just hold on one second. Are you ready? I'm going to ask you a scenario question. You ready? The Seahawks playing here at home. They are at home, right?

We're at home, right? Okay, good. You ready? Here's what happens. Ready? Hit the music. The Seahawks Boss pulls up. You are disguised as a hot dog then.

With a bad New York accident. Hot dogs! You have a frying pan in your right hand, assuming you're right-handed, Jake. And with that frying pan, you can hit one Seahawk over the head. as they step off of the bus. You get on a horse because you're from Dallas

and everybody from Dallas knows how to ride horses. The horse travels away from CenturyLink Field. You've got the slightly unconscious Seahawk on the back of that horse. You at this point

have an opportunity to take that Seahawk that you have knocked slightly unconscious and tear his jersey asunder and put him in a Dallas Cowboys uniform.

What? Seahawk do you steal to play for the Cowboys to change the outcome of the game? I ask you, Jake, Kemp? Man, that is a tough one because I would take

Russ, but again, I don't want a Dork playing quarterback for me, so I'm going to take Jamal. I want Jamal. I want the guy with Dallas Ruth. I want the guy who wanted to come to Dallas. If Dallas would have been dumb enough to give up two first and a third to give him. God, dude, I was trying so hard to be Bob. Yeah, it was. Trace, you took

one more shot at you, there, Greg, Grace. All right. What I should have said was, I just want to steal this bit. Yeah, dude. That's the only thing I care about. Like this easy little two-second question you made into three minutes. Right. Yeah. And we've been talking, we've got to do more. We do this. I'm probably just got to have more guests or something, but we do this with all our guests. Yeah. I love that bit. Whether they do it or not. I was in for the ride.

That's awesome. Shout out to Tom and Curley, man. Tom and Curly. Other birthdays today. Steve Busby is 76. Nubber. Former Ranger. Is he a former Ranger or just an L. Hell yeah. Let's see here.

Take a look at Steve Busby's. No, he never played for the Rangers. For real? For real. I know the bulk of it wasn't here, but that is very surprising to me. In fact, look at his baseball reference page. Not long. Eight year career.

Great first four years. War, 1.3, 2.6, 6.5, then 6.0, and then wins. He was called up, so he won three games in his first year. 16 is second year. That might have been when he had two no hitters. 22 wins, then 18, and then he falls off a cliff. Did he get a significant injury? Yes.

Oh, he did? Because innings pitch, 238, 292, 260. Steve Busby was an ass kicker. The torn rotator cuff ended him. This must, this is pre-teach. Oh. Or at least right around the time. That's not a rotator cuff.

Is that the Ulnar collateral something? I've heard those words. Your Tommy John is just your elbow, the ligament there? Yeah. Well, this one says, it just says previously thought to, previously would end your career. a pitch count was recommended. He has thought to be the first pitcher ever placed on a pitch count. Pussy.

Well, I promise you that's what he said. Right. And he's like, I'd rather quit. I'd rather just retire. You're going to pull him after five innings? Kevin Durant is 37. Former Longhorn. A mysterious.

career. Ken Norton Jr., 59. Really wanted to be him. Former cowboy? He would punch the goalpost bag to honor his father after a big defensive play. I thought that ruled. Oh, okay.

I like that. Yeah. Cowboys had a lot of dudes who would celebrate back in those days. Dude, it's so fun watching that documentary. It is sprinkled with overly, Jerry's overly great stuff, but it's You did it the right way by spacing it out.

It's really fun. I might like to go back and just watch what you said is the best document, just a thing on the 90s Cowboys in general. Like, they're unbelievable. Anyway, Tyler Malley is 31. Pitcher? That's a current ranger, my friend. That's right.

I couldn't remember if he was still here or not. He was hurt, right? That's when the season fell apart. Yeah, you're not replacing a mallee. No. You don't just go out there to the mallee tree. Calvin Johnson is 40. He never had a 300-yard receiving game, did he?

Against Dallas, my friend. Yeah, against Brandon. That is the Chris Durham Day. It was three. It was maybe, I used to know the exact number, and I'm disappointed. I don't, because it might be closer to four than it is three. I'm going to say it's 369. What kind of a fantasy week with that?

I'm going to say he went 12 for 369. And it's also the game that Stafford did the fake spike. Yeah, 329. Damn it. He did a fake spike and then, you know, Matt Stafford's awesome. Calvin Johnson, this is going to maybe piss people off, like the Wayne Gretzky thing. I think of Calvin Johnson is the most dominant. wide receiver to ever play the game.

Why would that piss anyone on? So therefore the best. You can't say he was better than Jerry Rice because people do the longevity thing. Calvin Johnson's the best wide receiver to me ever. Like the whole package. Yeah, but if Jerry Rice was in a slinging around offense, you might have a different. And see, with Calvin, his numbers were suppressed because he was on such great teams

that had the ability to get everyone involved. Yeah, you're looking at a 46 point day. that's it I would have thought more 300 yards Cardale Jones 33 I thought he was good

he didn't come here to play school though that's one of the greatest tweets of all time his tweet is why should we have to go to class if we came here to play all caps football we ain't come to play school classes are pointless football school and pointless are all caps

and some eight years later when he got his degree, he posted that tweet with it in his cap and gown. We ain't come to play school. Dave Iranda, 48. Man. I don't know if these... Feels like things are... He kind of reminds me of like Tobias Funke if you were a football coach.

Don't ask me to explain that. Brian who? Bryant Gumble, 77. Wait, what was Aranda's weird thing? thing. Midgets or something? He did. He was talking about

Wolf of Wall Street. We could probably find that. He was talking about Wolf of Wall Street in the scene he had just seen where they're throwing. Are you searching a randa or searching midgett? How did you label that? I probably just played it on the fly.

You know, hey, this midget Wall Street when they're talking about throwing midgets and it's like, you know, hey, this, this midget. This year, can he, you know, can he roll there? And he go, no, he doesn't roll. You throw him. You know, and they're made for throwing. And then after a while, they start talking and they go, well, you know what? I think if you start talking, if you start, if you, they may think they know we're making fun of them. the midgets may think that we're making fun of them so then I'm going to start you know they may get mad at us

and then the guys go well what we need to do is make them think they're one of us and they go one of us one of us and I think that's the thing we're coaching calling it recruiting definitely I'm with it

got to get everybody buying in everybody buying in everybody buying in Andrew Dice Clay is 68. When are we going to break down the Dice Man Cummeth? I'm positive I have a page of notes on it somewhere. Haven't we been vowing to do that for years? Isn't the Dice Man in Uncut Gims?

He's great. I don't know. He was in a couple things. He's like Adam Sandler's father-in-law or something? He had a little run. Where he was in a few movies, like a Woody Allen movie. A couple other things. like kind of at the same time

that was his comeback I'm thinking of something else a star is born Andrew Dice Clay is like Gaga's dad in that movie good movie this is what I want

I wish this is where I would get a Henry involved like I just want a weekly review of something like that which would then come become monthly yeah I was like this fall or because I'd like

to know what Blake thinks of it, but I kind of feel like Blake's just one of us. Of a star is born? No, of Dice Man Cometh. Oh. Let's see. Runner up for Dumbzone Birthday of the Day, McKenzie Crook,

54. That is Gareth from the British office, which is great. And very short, if I'm recommending something to you. Oh, and the Roast Twins loved it. They both

liked the British office. And boy, that could be a good tag for any like a business

if I could get them to actually if they could actually like something like one of our advertisers.

And then our dumb's on birthday of the day Ian McShane is 83. From Deadwood and Game of

Thrones? I don't know if he was Game of Thrones, but he certainly was Hot Rod. Oh, that I'm thinking of a different guy. Yeah.

But Deadwood... No, no. Yeah. That's... He's in Game of Thrones. Oh, was he? Yeah. Who is he?

He was Sweringen in Deadwood. I don't know who he was in Game of Thrones, but he was Andy Sandberg's dad in Hot Rod. I forget about that one. Pick his ass. He's also, um, you know. You seen Hot Rod? Or no? Yeah.

Yeah, once. He also kind of runs the hotel. John Wick. He's a big player in John Wick. Never done a John Wick. Buddy. And that's what happened. That's too early.

What if I could request that you do one of those movies with one or both of the twins? Because I bet you they like him. I'll do it, John Wick. You're going to challenge me to watch John Wick? The one in Paris, the most recent one, is it's... Do you have to watch them in order? You'll be really confused. I was going to make that joke and say, no, you don't need to,

but I kind of feel like you need the origin story of John Wick. All right. I just don't know if you have to watch all of them after that. Isn't that what's his name? Keanu? Keanu? I'll do any Keanu for use movie. Bobon's in the third one.

I'm a big fan. Born on the Stay Now Dead, John Minok. He was famous. I would see a picture of him every year. He was the world's heaviest man. 1400 pounds married to a 110 pound woman and they had two kids

good for them died at the age of 42 can you just put them in goal or something also born on the standout dead Cindy Morgan she was Lacey Underall in Caddyshack oh wow and Jerry Lee Lewis

who Jerry Jones had at his birthday party a few years ago like I think the year that he died like a couple weeks before he died I don't think I think that that was an impersonator no we do this every year and every year I'm right every year you're wrong dead on this day is still dead

you have Rudolph Diesel we'll see you next year bro Rudolf Diesel He clearly invented The diesel engine Thanks So you can kind of get an idea Of when he might have lived

It'd be pretty easy, right? I can probably get a decent idea where too Mobile No German? Yeah Okay Is that where we're headed?

Well, probably, yeah, I guess so. He was born in 1913. I thought you were about to basically tell me that diesel fuel was created for the sole purpose of fueling the Nazis. Oh, I don't know. Like a lot of things that were very effective were. Okay, I don't know. But at least you could kind of get a time period of when he lived

because there was not engines. How about this one, though? Oh. So a guy did not have the, he didn't, He didn't name it after himself. He wasn't that narcissistic. Hans Lippershee invented the telescope. When do you think Hans Lippershee lived?

He was alive for 48 years. Can you give me any year he was alive? Because if you told me that we invented the telescope in the 16th century, I would say, yeah, I mean, that's how we were looking at space. But if you told me, and it was like a rudimental. one, but if you said it was like the 40s. Give me 1550.

No, I'm going to take the other play. I'm going to go, I'm going to say he was alive in 1880. 1480. Want to chime in there, Brandon? Let's go 1600. 1619.

That was his project. He was born in 1619. You know, Galileo was using one. Which, of course, he was around. Oh, yeah. Of course we know when he was alive. He was there for all of the happenings of that time. Doing things.

With his friend Newton. What happened in 16. His friend Copernicus. 50. Burned at the stake. He lived in Rome or? Part of the empire. The church put him on a house arrest because he said, we rotate around the

son. You got Charlie Horse. He stays up late one night. You need a banana or something, dude. Jeez. How does that happen? And dead and the stay still dead, Greg Geraldon. Oh, man.

I bet he would have some pretty hot MAGA opinions these days. And I really loved that guy. Good roast comic. Good roast comic. All right, closing remarks will clearly be brought to us by Qualus Roofing because that's who brought us, Brandon Harrison, a listener who went, got himself a new roof, doesn't even get to enjoy it. No. Sold the house, but probably real easy to sell after, oh my gosh, look at that. Yeah, that's the centerpiece of the whole marketing, yeah.

Yeah, and then easily sold the house for way more than market value. or asking price. So thank you to Qualis Roofing for doing this hookup, because they have purchased you sitting in on the show. How was it? It was awesome. Yeah, got to see the whole process. I've been listening for some iteration of this for 25 years, so it was great.

Do you have some prepared remarks? I do not. Jake and I were talking in the break, so I guess that was kind of where we were headed or... Well, first we want to make sure you did not, like you said, you don't have a notes page of things you want to get off your chest or comment on Blake's game day attire, anything? No, everything kind of, it fit how I pictured it. Okay. Yeah, that's... I'm meeting my hero. It's working out for me. Well, so I just asked them, what do you do? And you can take it from there.

Oh, no. So, yeah, I started working behavioral health. I'm in the sales side now. I've been doing that for five years now. I started very, very bottom at a rehab here in North Texas. Can you just say what's behavioral health? Behavioral health, like that encompasses mental health, addiction, all pretty much on the therapeutic side more than like the medication side. So there's places like treatment centers that somebody has to sell that, like, to the public, but also things like the place where he works, there's like outpatient.

programs that you can do online like i did mine in person but you can do uh like three nights a week for three hours you're in a group that's software like that network somebody has to sell like that to people so he there's companies that work in this you know whether it's therapy treatment whatever and there's a business side to it yeah it's like iop's what jakes briefly like if you think it's like the starting of the continuum is just going to therapist once a week that's where most people start. The other end is inpatient treatment like rehab where you live somewhere else for 30, 45 days, whatever it is. IOPs are kind of in the middle. So a little more structure and support than seeing a therapist once a week. But you got to piss. Yeah. What's IOP? Intensive

outpatient. Okay. So that's what I do now. And I kind of found a, it was a weird way to this. Obviously, I was on my, not obviously, I was on my own substance use journey. It should be obvious because I was thinking about that over the weekend and there was a guy that was a really nice guy who worked at my rehab. I think about this was like Ken Hitchcock. This dude was, you could tell he'd never,

he didn't have any problems. It's not those kind of problems. And I just didn't really have a whole lot of time for what he had to say. Yeah, I wonder if that bothers. I was like, can I bring back the lady who just told me she got out of her 25 for meth and she was facing a mandatory,

like permanent paragraph charge or whatever they call it? I'll get her in here. We got married in a Catholic church. Yeah. And to be, like, in the church physically. And to do that, you have to have a, you have to have marriage counseling with a priest. Who?

I'm like, what do you? What is this guy telling me about how to be married? How does he know? So you at least had the credentials of your own journey. Yeah, which helps. The facility I worked at, it was about 50-50, people that had the lived experience versus the people. I would be clear, you could definitely do that job either way and be great at it just in the moment. moment. I was like, I don't know. No, but that's common. Like when, you know, someone would be sitting at my desk, I did a couple things there. And I'd say, you know, hey, I'm an addict too. I've been through this. Or I, you know, say, I know what you're going through. You can see him instantly just kind of relax. Like, okay, this guy gets it. He's speaking from at least a little. Now, it won't be as judgmental. Yeah. Perhaps. Yeah. Exactly. So, yeah, that's the field I'm in now. Prior to that, I was a police officer. But I was also a drug addict. So that was. That was a drug addict. So that was.

was not a career enhancer, shockingly. Help you get drugs, though, sometimes? Not really. I mean, it did in a kind of a roundabout way. Like, I was more of a prescription pill painkiller guy. That was my DOC or drug at choice, as we say. And, you know, when you go to the doctor and you have a badge and you're a cop, they tend to give you the benefit of the doubt more often than just if I'm, you know,

some dude that's been banging heroin for six years and coming in and asking for painkillers. So, you know, it did help me in some way. but I never, the two things that I, the two lines I never crossed, which I'm shocked there were two, was I never used needles and I never stole anything like out of evidence. I don't know why those were the red lines in my head, but they were. Everybody has them. Yeah.

I mean, the needles thing is probably why I'm alive today, to be honest. But, yeah, so. Yeah, especially if like opioids are your thing. Yeah. Because you're not far from that at that point. No, yeah. By the end of the time, by the end of, you know, when I got to my rehab, I was doing fentanyl patches, so I was about as far down the road as you can go and still, you know, be breathing.

So, yeah, it was a... How old were you a cop? I was in law enforcement total for about seven years. Why did you not do needles? Was it just a fear of needles? Well, okay, I'd like to say it. Like, I feel like I might try heroin someday, but I could never put a needle in myself. Yeah, I don't think so either.

That's what rules it out for me. Everyone says that, and then usually it just becomes a cost efficiency thing. A little more bang for the book. And then it's great. heroin. Well, part of it was I don't like needles either, but also every time I get my blood drawn, they're like, you have really shitty veins. Like, you know, they're

digging around in there trying to find it. So I was like, that's kind of a lost cause to begin with. So, uh, but yeah, that was a, the only, I mean, all the other lines, unfortunately, I did cross, but, um, yeah. For instance? Using it work. Uh, definitely, there was, uh, there was once and I was,

I was in a real bad, I was usually in a bad spot for the last couple years. But I was, the thing about opioids is, like, hair, when you get very sick when you don't take them, like, super, super sick. And so I was at work, and I was feeling a little itchy. And I'm like, drug-addled thinking, if I go into the bathroom and they hear me snort really loudly, you know, they'll know what's up. I'll get busted. But my sergeant was out on a call. So I went to his office, knew he wanted me back for a little bit, locked the door, did what I needed to do, got well, wiped off the desk really, really well.

And, you know, at the time, like, that didn't even really seem insane. That seemed, that was just when you're getting to the next point. Exactly. You're living just maybe eight hours in the future. Yeah. Anything past eight hours is a future problem, the future you can deal with. But, yeah, and so, and it's funny, I didn't realize that was insane until I was telling someone about it at rehab. And I'm like, dude, that's crazy.

And I was like, in hindsight, yeah, that was probably a poor decision. So wipe off the debt. I thought you're talking pills and stuff. I was snorting. Yeah. If you're not going to bang it, you're not going to get a needle out. I mean, you can't just, from a cost standpoint, like he said, you can't just be eating pill. Like, you need to get the most out of that.

You're going to need to snort it or you're going to need to shoot it. So snorting it goes right to your bloodstream or something? It's a little faster, yeah. It's faster than through orally. Yeah. And my mom took a lot of Tylenol when she was pregnant, I think. So I'd research the bioavailability factor for insulvation versus oral ingestion. Be a pro about it.

Yeah, yeah. I know, I was the most spectrum you had it on the planet. Yeah. But, yeah. It's crazy. And now this is a... So that's not something, this is dumb guy drug question. You don't chop it up somewhere else and then have a bag of the chopped up ready for you.

You go right into your boss's office, smash down a pill, and then... That might have been a better... I mean, pills, I think it's a little more portable. That way I'm not carrying around a bag of powder. Okay, yeah. And then you... wouldn't know how much either yeah yeah exactly you know this is one pill yeah yeah so you ever talked to anybody used to be on the force with like do you know guys now did you get like

kicked off and stuff not it's a it's a it's a little bit of confusing story it was a um i'm sorry interrupted dear no no no no no but uh not really to answer that one but uh no i i i was in i was probably as bad as i was shape i could have been in and i pretty much just no call no showed, which they took as a constructive resignation, which they were not sorry to see me go. They knew something was up with me. They just didn't know what. Like I'd always, from the academy, I'd always been a great report writer. And all of a sudden, my reports weren't even readable. Like they were just gibberish. And they're like, you know, what the hell's going on with you? And I'd be sitting in a sergeist office being like, oh, and just kind of shrugged my shoulders.

So they have like a performance review every now and again or whatever? Yeah. And I was doing okay I was doing the bare minimum and uh you know I was doing and kind of like in my personal life and I was married my first wife at the time I was doing just enough not to get yelled at just enough to let me keep I hear you whatever it is I want to do on a different level than yeah maybe I am now but um yeah so I but they knew something was up and they were just they kind of just ushered me out the door and in hindsight that was that was one of the first dominoes to fall I mean, to be a cop, it is kind of a long process. You got to, I think there's like, when I tested, there was like 160, and they hired three of us.

So it was this long culmination. I thought I was going to do it for the rest of my life. And I was really, so that was probably the first domino and to me really starting to get clean. Unfortunately, it took a little bit longer for me to, you know, figure that out that I needed to, you know, actually really do something. How did that happen? It was a process. intervention? Sort of, I remember, long story short, I couldn't kick the can down the road any longer, basically.

My wife at the time, she's a very smart lady. She's a doctor-nourced, confusingly. And she was, like, yelling at me once like she was off in-then and saying, this is why you won't go inpatient. I'm like, fine, I'll go in-patient. So I got on to Google and I searched luxury rehabs in Texas, and I ended up of a place that I would not describe as luxury at all. but uh you know it was uh and that was a process even i left there i'm like okay i can't do painkillers anymore i don't want to get sick i don't want to withdraw i get that but i thought i could do other stuff and that and then it took a another couple years after that to realize me i can't do

anything what's that mean like pot or uh just other stuff probably booze first if you're coming from pills yeah booze was the main thing and then i started realizing oh well there's a couple other performance enhancers out here I can take to drink even more. And so, you know, then that I actually. You had to go back to rehab again. I didn't actually. I got, I got cleaning the rooms that time. Just going to meetings and doing it my own. Thankfully, I wasn't drinking enough to where I physically withdrew from it or anything like that. So I just, you know, and it's been a slow process since then. It's been a, yeah. So how many years since you were a cop? It's been right at about nine years. Okay. So you say you've been listening to us in some way, shape, or form for over 20

years. So all through this all thing, you're probably, you're all effed up and you're listening to us. Oh, yeah. That's how we hooked him. How you hooked him. Bad radio. He's like, this makes sense. Yeah. The gibber. This matches the gibberish I just wrote this morning. I felt seen finally. He's out there doing the Bob thing. Bob's going on ride along during that time period. This guy's out here policing the streets while also just faded out of his mind. thinking about how life's weird, like Dan. Yeah, no. He's just running the bad radio gamut there.

I remember the first time Greg Williams announced his thing. I was at community college at the time, like, like it. And that'll never happen to me. Yeah, what a loser. Good for you, dude. You ever shoot your gun on the job? I did not, no. I got close on a fireworks call once, but that's a, that was there.

Briefly, it was a fireworks call, a bunch of apartments in town. And it was Fourth of July, we're going to fireworks calls all night. Boy, that must suck. God bless. Like, do you ever, like, get that night off? You're like, I don't want to work that day. It was blocked off. We worked an alternating schedule, so occasionally we'd have it off, but I'd have it off.

But, um, so I go to the fireworks call. It's like, four in the morning, three in the morning, and I'm pulling up. And I was like, I see two people out there, and they should have seen me at that point. And they're not really reacting, which is weird when you're in a March squad car. And as I get out, I notice one has a gun to the head of the other. Oh, shit. And so I, you know, draw down on them real fast. And I start yelling, drop the gun.

And then he didn't want to drop it. So I was at the point where I was starting to take the slack out of my trigger, which is about as close as I were. Were you alone? Yeah, yeah, because it was a fireworks call. They didn't, and it actually hadn't even gone out over the radio. When we would see the calls pop up on our computers, you can dispatch yourself. So I just self-dispatch. So I got, thankfully, he dropped the gun and got them both prone out.

Turns out the guy with the gun was confronting the guy shooting fireworks. He was very upset about that. But then the guy with the gun was also a felon, so I shouldn't have a gun. and it was a so the one guy got a couple tickets and then he he had me he was like dry heaving he was so upset because he thought he was going to die and so he had me follow him back to his apartment and get all his fireworks so I left the gun and this a giant moving box full of fireworks dude that's so like apologizing the god on mushrooms please mr please take my fireworks take them all never do it again because I just had a gun at my temple over some bottle of rockets

damn yeah so that that was thankfully that was the only really close call I had with having to do that but wow man that is good bit that probably is top three yeah that was not oversold nice it's been fun

adios we gotta go before this becomes a zoo thank you for watching my video subscribe and type for my name if you want to watch more of my video Okay, not a win or a loss or a Lina, not a loss or a win. Both teams at the same score at the end. So let's make them do it again, right?

But unfortunately, that's not how the league wants it to be in one of the oldest sports rivalries, the outcome is one major key, a tie, tie, oh my. but why not tonight this is too polite let's not fight let's keep the score tight so at the end of the day we can say we all got it right the packers the cowboys played a game that ended tied i know what you're thinking but you've probably been drinking how about sudden death nothing left the we can accept there has to be a winner or a loser sorry soccer is still new here it's a zoo here we just spent all the money on tickets parking food and beer that was neat i was fully expecting the cowboys to get their ass beat if i must confess i wasn't impressed by

michael parsons and the packers offense and okay i know moral victories are lame but what about that pass at the end of the game what the f how the hell was there one second left did we not have a chance to review it just take a look agander a peek and stare the packers just waltz into the field to kick a field goal without a care but i see I swear there is no logical way that the clock displayed was in the same time frame. But maybe that's what the league wanted. A close game with the outcome, the same from two of the most vaunted. But since 1969 was the very last time the Dallas Cowboys had a game and in a time.

That's by design. Seven fellows. Drink whiskey, not wine. Because they're winners. And you can't win in life with a time. Unless it's a bowl, a double wins are about time. special occasion or on vacation or a funeral for death but at least it was an outcome that there was nothing left of your life so a tie we can't accept tonight or today because a tie is

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