The Dumb Zone FREE - Episode 100: Millionaire Moments and Joel Corry on NFL Contracts

Episode Date: January 19, 2024

In this special episode of "The Dumb Zone," hosts Dan McDowell and Jake Kemp dive into a lively discussion about Mike McCarthy's infamous confession, their own historic 100th episode milestone, and some hilarious behind-the-scenes moments. Mike McCarthy humorously admits to Jerry Jones about not watching every play of the 2019 season, and the hosts explore the implications and funny aspects of this revelation.Join the crew as they share their excitement about going video and guide listeners on how to find their content on YouTube. They welcome two special guests, Jeff Jones and Austin Waters, both of whom have been on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Their stories of getting on the show, dealing with Regis Philbin and Meredith Vieira, and their unique experiences make for an entertaining segment.The episode also covers the fun and chaos of listener interactions, the intriguing nuances of sports fandom, and a deep dive into some amusing anecdotes from the hosts' personal lives. Blake Jones shares the wild experience of being recognized from TV and the unexpected encounters that come with minor fame, including awkward moments and unexpected propositions. The conversation shifts to tales of bizarre fan interactions, revealing the quirky side of being a public figure.Dan McDowell and Jake Kemp join in, discussing everything from the oddities of modern technology to the latest sports news, including the intricacies of NFL contracts and player negotiations.  The guys dive into the complex contract situation of Dallas Cowboys' quarterback Dak Prescott with expert guest Joel Corey. They explore Prescott's leverage, potential for a record-breaking extension, and the challenges the Cowboys face in managing their salary cap. Additionally, the conversation touches on NFL contract strategies, team dynamics, and the impact of top-heavy rosters. Don't miss this insightful discussion on the future of one of the NFL's premier quarterbacks and its implications for the Cowboys. Throughout the episode, the hosts maintain their signature humor and candidness, making for an entertaining and engaging listen. Whether discussing the absurdity of Texas highway signs or reminiscing about the heyday of professional wrestling, "The Dumb Zone" delivers laughs and insights in equal measure.  (00:00) - - Open (08:30) - - Viewer Mail (26:00) - - Who Wants to be a Millionaire guests - Jeff Jones and Austin Waters (01:15:30) - - Joel Corry (01:39:30) - - Sports audio: horns down and McCarthy trapped Jerry (01:54:30) - - News (02:08:30) - - Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Mike, you mentioned the year off, and you spent a lot of time with a bunch of other coaches that you hired or worked with. And you said you analyzed every play or watched every play of the entire 2019 season. What is it that you learned from that experience that you think will benefit you most here? Well, I mean, I need to confess. I mean, I told Jerry I watched every play of the 2019 season, but I wanted the job. I watched every play of the 2019 season, but I wanted the job. So I haven't watched every play of the season, but it was just, I mean, you do what you got to do, right? Hey everybody, welcome to this historic show. Man.

What? Why are you laughing at me? You're killing it. We're doing video today. We are. Now, some... Most, I would say, might be listening to us. Just remember,

we're actual people with video that you could look at us on our YouTube page. www.youtube.com, at the dumb zone or slash the dumb zone. I know it's labeled as something. When's the last time you put an at symbol in a URL? Is that not done? No.

It's not done at all. What is it, Blake? He is right. We have our... There's not done at all. What is it, Blake? He is right. We have our... There's an at? Yeah. In the URL? For YouTube.

How is that possible? Well, well, well. Who's the a-hole now? YouTube.com slash at the dumb zone. Look at this. Oh, I know everything about the internet. Okay, so you actually type out at? Yeah.

But you don't put the at symbol. I was with you until a couple weeks ago when I tried sharing the link, and it is. It's the symbol. Dot com slash at the dumb zone. The symbol or the two letters? The symbol. I don't know about that. Oh, lookit, guy knows everything about the internet.

This is my generation, bruv. I've never said bruv. Ever. Well, you should because it's great. It rolls right off the tongue. So if you are watching on video, you already see there's more people here than just us. Although I can't. Our video guy is now not switching us, so I shouldn't say it.

But anyway, we have two... We're adding on a lot to his plate. Who? Video Man. Oh, yeah. We can only call him Video Man. He doesn't want to be identified. But we have sitting in here in the den,

the Dragon Den of Inequality located high atop my garage where we broadcast, where we record live to tape every day. By the way, Video Man, are we backing up the video? We've had a little issue with... We have one video. One video? Yeah.

Okay. Are we backing up the audio, Audio Man? We are, yes. Okay. I say it's a... In studio, what was I going to say? In den? In den. On couch?

We have two guys who are listeners, apparently, correct? You guys are familiar with this... Yes, very much so. Journey that we're on? Absolutely. You're joining us in the journey? And these guys were both on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire many years ago.

We have Jeff Jones. We have Austin Waters. Yay. Yay. One T. One T. Not like Ricky. One T. Waters.

Give it to Raph. More Charlie. Ricky was a special runner. Rel it to Raph. More Charlie. Ricky was a special runner. Related to Charlie? No, unfortunately. Yeah, there was one T. Charlie had one T, right? Ricky had two.

Yeah. So we'll talk about their experience at some point. I can't believe there's an at in this website. It's shocking. I'm kind of shocked by that, too. Do you have websites with exclamation points? You know, maybe you should be involved in our show somewhat, like the other stuff, besides just showing up and sitting there and killing it.

It's not fun, is it? It's fun. Anyway, Jake, did you know the historic occasion that we are on right now show 100 show 100 yes

man I feel honored actually 101 but I don't know if you guys are familiar we had one we have a lost episode we do wouldn't it be cool

to ever find that and find did we pay the 80 bucks Dan's jizz joke we had one. We have a lost episode. We do. Wouldn't it be cool to ever find that? And find... Did we pay the 80 bucks? Dan's jizz joke. No, we never tried paying the 80 bucks. You kind of retold it. I did?

I don't remember. Yeah. That was yesterday? Yeah. Wife asked me last night, so how'd the show go? What'd you do today? I don't know.

Did the same thing we did the day before. I think it was way different. I think it was at least partly different. It was partly different. Okay. It was partly different. We didn't laugh as much at the Romo audio, but still.

It's funny. It's funny to me. It's great. It still does work. Martin Luther King, what a guy. Deserved the day. You know, he just did some things that were good. Slayed a lot of ass.

A lot. You know, we could start with some viewer mail. I've got a little bit. Hey, everybody. It's time to answer some of today's viewer mail. If I'm allowed, since I've now been told that all I do is show up. Oh, come on now. I can deal with this all day.

He's so sensitive. Yeah. Now, I did tell you yesterday on purpose that Video Man would be here because I know... I don't have to bring my wife whenever the... I know, but you like to look nicer.

Like, you look way nicer today than I think you would have had I not informed you of that. Thank you. Don't you think? I don't know, but... Jake is the vainest one of the group, I think. That is 100% true.

Okay, good. I will not deny that. Oh, you felt you might be elevated i was getting ready to strike just because you changed your outfit for jake i own that yeah not today i own that for sure it's kind of my i have a jake my work wife yeah and my wife wife jake wife analogy because my wife will scramble around if i tell her, oh, hey, we're doing a Sunday stream. Now she's cleaning the downstairs. It's like they won't be down here.

Yeah, and she's like, yeah, but what if they see it? And I go, what if we just always lived? Like people were coming over. Yeah, like if the way you live is embarrassing for you to think that other people live like that, why don't... Because I just... Look, this place is a mess.

It's delights and stuff. I know, but I'm just saying, if I invite you to my house, I don't have to go clean up first. Right. This is how I live. It's not great. There's worse. There's much worse. There's much worse. There's always worse.

That's what you can always say. But yes. But I think most ladies are like that. Like, would your wife be upset if I... Or if you brought home a bunch of people and she didn't know they were coming over and I didn't get a chance to pick up? I'm like hesitant to even say this

given how much I've been roasted by the roast twins. But we would pick up if Eden or Ava were coming over because she's like what if they tell Dan and Kathy? Golly. Like they won't.

They don't care. Right. And if it's perfect they're going to rip it. Right. To clean up just for me? Idiots. Let me give out some birthdays.

We have Good Afternoon Breaker of Chains Dan, DF Matt here. I am part of the illustrious group of people that has smoked a cigarette with Jake. The list grows. We need a Hall of Fame. Outside the O-Y. Bolin Bush. Oh, man. What is that? It was a bar over by my house when I lived in Fort Worth,

right by where you would pick up your ringer. Pitcher. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Fantastic. She was good. It was a great bar.

Today is my wife Brittany's birthday. She doesn't listen to the show, but the bored, semi-annoyed look when I play this back to her will be just perfect. Okay. We sat directly in front of Jake at Blink 182. Uh-oh. But due to your little contract thing or some S,

we were robbed of the review. Sad. Do you have? I mean, I was really into it. Oh, okay. Yeah. Positive. Oh.

Your thumb is up. For sure. For sure. I just thought maybe they would have caught me vibing pretty hard. He says two things. One, return of Yawal. Why not? I think if we get a studio...

I can't do it in here, necessarily. There's just not enough room. Although I could take down these pictures of the kids. It's an option. I know what they look like. I don't know what your wife looks... I don't know what Brittany looks like, though.

Right. And he says, too, I know what they look like. I don't know what your wife looks like. I don't know what Brittany looks like, though. Right, right. And he says, too, more Blake. Hey. We agree. That's all I have. From Matt Cizek. Okay.

CZ. I know that dude. Oh, that's why he wants more Blake. That's why, yeah. Cizek. Cizek. Cizek me. I know that dude. Oh, that's why he wants me to play. That's why, yeah. Cizek. Cizek. Cizek me. Matt Cizek. Brittany Cizek.

I want to give a birthday shout-out to my boy, Julio Rojas, a.k.a. July Reds. He is 37 today. Leaders are you, Gordo, and Corby. Here's a pic from his dream hall pass and the picture was Susie Colber. What? That's your dream? From Juan Johnny Ramirez on Twitter.

And I've been up close with Susie Colber and her little fuzzy tennis ball face. I like it. You like it? That's a compliment. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

I'm writing this email from Hotmail. Didn't feel like one, but... Hotmail for your... I'm writing this email from my lowly Gmail account. What did she do? She voted for the Bills trainer, but only for fifth place? For MVP, yes. Okay.

For MVP? Yeah. I listen to the dumb zone and take inventory after a water pipe burst in my house on Wednesday. I want to thank you for having the epi with Wire Will to remind me that things can always be worse. And to give a birthday shout out to my brother John Day1DF for helping me manage the damage here from Alex Housewright. A1DF for helping me manage the damage here from Alex Housewright. And then I have a couple more that are not birthday related. Okay.

One says, Dear PottyFuror, As a D1 Patreon subscriber, I pay all three of your salaries. I demand to know why you have not issued a ceasefire notice to Palestine. Hope this email makes it to you from inferior Gmail. We should. From Brad Gilbert. We should. We should put something together from the official desk of the dumb zone.

I think we should talk about it first, though. You think so? Maybe a committee. Okay. How, what? Maybe a committee. Okay. How, what size? Not large. Probably even smaller than small, yeah. Just not, I don't want to put a lot of resources towards this.

Okay. Because, I mean, it's just Palestine, right? Oh. Is that that big of a deal? I thought about Reese Fire a lot yesterday. Thank you. That was great. Thank you. And I got Howdy Dan.

I was listening to some- I tried to order it at Andy's last night, and they were highly- I love the Reese's Fire. It's peanut butter ice cream with red hots. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, where did that come from? That was yesterday.

Okay, I could have told my wife that. Because Ben and Jerry's decided to issue a ceasefire for some stupid reason. Oh, man. A question popped into my head as I was listening to The Dumb Zone. At the ticket,

you always seem to involve producers, board ops, more than any other host. I've learned that you guys always thought they were undervalued. Even with guests or hosts from other shows, you would let them roll as much as possible, ask them to hang around when they were there. Let's see. I have enjoyed hearing about your broadcast history. What inspired you from what you had learned? Okay.

Blah, blah, blah. Just curious about that. Yeah, what is this? What was that cough? What was inside that cough? He said that was gay. Whoa! Whoa! cough uh he said that was gay whoa yeah that may have been um no i just wanted to say i was thinking about this this morning nice email though and i've just been a i used to listen to a station called w wlw in cincinnati and they would do a segment every day of just kind of effing it was some guy had a talk show

but then at the end of the show and i think this is probably what was in my mind as why today doesn't suck became what it became it was just kind of like a free-for-all eff around and they would answer trivia questions from people and and blow them up or something i don't know they would do some funny stuff and chris coll Collinsworth was a big part of it. He was one of just seven guys. And it was just really cool. And then I always liked what I liked about Stern besides nakedness. Sibians.

Is that what you call that, Blake? I'm distracted by the robot cam. It's just all over the place. This robot cam? Yeah. What I liked, yeah, and I was walking around here the other night,

I told you I put a shirt over it because I couldn't have it following me at night. What I liked about Stern is they would have people in and just do their show. But, you know, every other radio thing I had ever listened to was, oh, we have, again, we have the guy who wants to be a millionaire,

and now let's talk to you about that. Okay, then you're on your, like, I just kind of liked people jumping in and joining the show, and I always thought that was a cool thing, that the ticket provided that possibility. So I always thought that was a cool thing, that the ticket provided that possibility. So I always thought that was kind of a cool bit. Yeah, because it sounds more like life. Yeah. The guys hanging out bit.

People. Bros. And ladies. Could be women. We've got to cater to women, remember? Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. Yes.

Guys and girls, especially girls. You want more women. Could be women. We've got to cater to women, remember? Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. Yes. Guys and girls, especially girls. You want more women. Actually, that was in the last episode. When you say remember, I might remember. And now so many people don't. Yeah. I got an email from Andrew who said he was just listening to our story about the dry ice bombs. That was not on the last episode, was it?

No. Said it reminded him of some friends that he had during high school. Put a Coke bottle filled with dry ice in the mailbox of some girl they either thought was a bitch or had a crush on or both. Which was typically the case, right? Yeah. That's how you... It opened up the top of the mailbox so that instead of it being a metal art shape,

it was completely flat. So it just exploded. I mean, they explode, right? A few days later, these guys go home after school and waiting for them at each of their houses were a team of FBI agents. Jeez. Just in case blowing up a mailbox was dumb enough,

they did it in 1995 during the height of the hunt of the Unabomber. And if you recall... Wait, mailbox blowing up was a thing when I was growing up. It was. There was something that like... It was M-80. It was like whenever you would hear that

your dad's friend's arms had to be registered as lethal weapons. Effing around with a mailbox was like the one thing that I was told, don't. Now it's federal. Oh, that's why? Yeah. I mean, I don't know if that's true or not. Like that's a federal offense?

Yeah, but like you would smash mailboxes with baseball bats and stuff, or we would throw pumpkins at them. We would steal pumpkins off people's doorsteps and just throw them out of the car at mailboxes. Boy, I remember how mad my mom would get when somebody would take our pumpkin and smash it in the middle of the street. Oh. Because that was the most common thing to do. Why would they do that? I would do that for a week every year for three or four years.

And she's like, what's going through their mind? And I would break stuff in the neighborhood all the time too. And it's like, who could have done this? There's not, yeah, there's no,

don't rhyme or reason. Yeah, that's why even now when kids get in trouble or whatever, it's kind of like, it's not that they're really well thought out

or they're trying to make a statement or whatever or because they are neglected at home or it's just that they're really well thought out or they're trying to make a statement or whatever or because they are neglected at home. It's just that they're teenagers. You had a pumpkin. They had a mailbox. Yeah. We had a van.

And you had time. I had time today. Oh, by the way, the last guy who had asked those questions? Who is Aggie Todd? Very Aggie question. He said you don't have to answer this on the pod. But if you do read it, ask Blake if he could say anything nice about Aggie.

No. Nothing? Have you been down there for a game? No, not for a game. I was down there a couple months ago for a semiconductor event, and they have a weird obsession with that dog for some reason. And no, I didn't like being on the campus. It just felt weird. What a fun event that you didn't invite us to.

A semiconductor event? It was working for the production company. I was gone one of those days from the show. And then I stumbled upon the Yale practice, remember? Yeah, yeah. In the stockyards. That was in Fort Worth. That was a cult meeting.

Yeah. So no, I don't have anything great to say about the Aggies. You went there, yeah? Hell no. Oh, I thought one of y'all said you went there. No, I went to OU. Okay, that's right. Very much against the Aggies.

Yeah. Oh, that's right. Have been there for a game. Terrible. Terrible. So you might join us for Sunday for our OU. We're having a Baker Mayfield watching party. I'm 100% there.

Baker v. Dan Campbell. You know what the networks are saying? Dan Campbell's most know what the networks are saying? Dan Campbell's most difficult test yet. I don't think anyone's ever said that. In all his time coaching, playing, this is the one thing that he

kind of feared the most. Yeah, I mean, it's tough to imagine bigger chips on shoulders than the two of those. Like, do they even have shoulders left? If you think about the chips on the shoulders of Dan Campbell and Baker Mayfield. YouTube.com slash at the...

He's got me on that one. I've been to a game there once. I feel like it was overrated. They were weird. I thought it was fun. Like within a span of like two or three years I went to Penn State or no

I went to Michigan, Ohio State and Kyle Field. The former two are 100% way above Kyle Field. Way above. It's a better atmosphere. I don't know. I just thought it was like, okay, this is what I've been told about.

Pretty spared. All right. Yeah. I didn't get to see Marty B like you did, though. Was Marty B playing when I was there? I think so. Not Michael B? Not Michael B, no. Did Michael B

go there? Yeah, right? I don't remember. But he was like older and still in college when Martell has been and was already in the NFL. Is that right? Am I crazy here? Is anybody going to help me?

No, that seems weird. Why would he be older but still in college? The Bennett brothers history. Yeah, I think Martellus just got drafted earlier. When are we going to get him, Blake? Yeah, I don't know. Okay. Fantastic.

Later today, we have former NFL agent Joel Corey will be on with us because we got to talk Dak Money Sitch. Because it looks like the Cowboys, like Dak's back for sure and probably will be the highest paid player in the NFL. And Joel Corey warned us about this two years ago. Yeah, he did. And the Cowboys also made a curious announcement yesterday.

At least I saw you react on Twitter with, uh, quizzically perhaps you reacted. I guess I get it. They want to stay in the news cycle, but your coach is not – he's still under contract. So why do you need to announce, like officially put out a statement,

not just like sources are saying or reporters are putting out a comment. You have to announce official statement-wise that we're going to keep our coach? That seems really weird to me. Do you think it's because of the comments he's given in the past, which are the kind of like we'll just see. Game by game. You know, we got game by game. I got a lot of good people in this room that could coach,

you know, all that kind of stuff, which just shows all of that stuff he was ever saying is total bullsh. Because this was the one scenario where we said, okay, this is the one way. Let's go back to last year after the San Francisco playoff loss. All right, they're running it back. I probably asked you this directly. What's the one thing that could have McCarthy lose his job?

Well, probably a first-round playoff exit where they just get drilled, like embarrassed. And we didn't even add in the fact that it's a first-round playoff exit as the second seed in the NFC and everything had lined up for you. I heard Troy on the ticket this morning saying he didn't plan a vacation because he was planning to go to San Francisco for the NFC championship game. And I think that was in our head. Like, of course.

And, yeah. Well, you know what's funny is if you think back to last year, the Mike McCarthy on Rich Eisen interview, wasn't that where he addressed – because didn't Jerry say something like maybe the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys is already here? I mean, you kind of alluded to that a minute ago. Like, I got a lot of great people in the room, but – That's what he said?

Okay. Like he actually said, Mike knows he's not going to be the coach of the Cowboys forever. It's like, why would you even say that? Certainly that was insinuating. Dan Quinn. Dan Quinn will just slide over once I'm tired of Mike McCarthy. And so, yeah, I mean, I guess if you're going to keep him, you have to make a statement. I guess.

Yeah, that's weird. Yeah, but the Browns, did they make a Kevin Stefanski statement? I don't know that anybody else does this, ever. Like Sirianni, there's another guy. Kind of the media and fans are questioning, is he in the hot seat? Have they stepped out and made an official statement? No. And will they?

They will not. No, you might as well just extend McCarthy now. If you're going to do it this way I don't know it's highly disappointing anything worthy from the McCarthy press conference today or should we hold this and talk a little millionaire because we're worried about the Joel Corey timing yeah I would say we could hold this

okay Joel Corey is coming up in about 40 minutes or so Joel Corey our former our friend about 40 minutes or so. Joel Corey. Our former. Joel Corey. Our friend who's a former NFL agent. We've talked to him before. But, yeah, let's talk who wants to be a millionaire then,

unless you guys have any other. Do you have any opening remarks, Blake? No, I'm excited about this. I mean, I think this is one of my all-time favorite TV shows. Okay. Wow. I've got it think this is one of my all-time favorite TV shows. Okay. Wow. I've got it set up to record on my YouTube TV, and I watch it a lot, and I love it. And I probably missed the initial buzz of it.

I mean, I remember watching it as a kid, but to this day, I'll still watch it. Oh, it was appointment viewing in my household. This was until they put it on every night. Yeah, and I mean, even for probably a little bit into that you know we were we were like all right this is what we do at night we eat dinner we watch we watch millionaire yeah i did so the reason we first started talking about this is that somebody wrote in and gave a birthday shout-out to Austin. To you, right? Austin Waters? Yeah.

With one T. Buddy Kevin. With one T. Yes, with one T. And he had said you were on Millionaire, and then we just started talking about how we liked it and stuff. And then you heard us, right? Yeah, one of my friends, Jen, actually texted me that day.

I hadn't listened to the episode yet because I was at work, and she said, oh, such a cool shout-out on the dumb zone. I was like, what the hell are you talking about? Cue it up. And I was immediately called to Kevin. I was like, dude, I cannot believe you did that. He's like, man, I haven't even listened to the episode. So I was, yeah, not expecting it. And I was like, shit, I guess I'll email him, see if he's serious. I didn't really know how serious y'all were but here we are you say in the email it's a pretty wild story

it was in the heyday of the show when Regis R.I.P. was the host a special Father's Day edition what's up it aired primetime

on Father's Day in 01 the story of how we got on the show is great as well we can talk about that later. So let me ask in the end, well, actually, I saw the episode, so I kind of know, but how much money did you guys walk away with?

We walked away with $125,000. After taxes, I think it was like 85 uh and so i'm the oldest of four kids my parents put twenty thousand dollars into each of our college funds and then um my sister uh who's like a year and a half younger than me she's diabetic and so we donated the other 5 000 to diabetes research and my dad uh at the time worked at all state and they actually matched the donation which was really cool nice okay so 20 grand in each of your college funds one class yeah that's that's That's very Boring Yeah yeah When you're a kid It's like hey You can buy

It is smart But yeah Planning ahead I mean I even feel like I was watching I can't remember which episode it was Regis is like You already got a sports car

Yeah Like no We're not We're not buying a Camaro It's not like a thousand dollars For each kid to just Hey go buy whatever you want Yeah

And we'll put the rest of it. Like, there's nothing worse for my kids than when grandma on Christmas. Here's your $5.29. Yeah, like $500 goes into your college fund. Yeah. I've got a birthday five days after Christmas, so I was always stuck with the, here's your birthday and Christmas gift. It was like the same amount that was given to my siblings and stuff, so that was fun.

Not from my parents. They were great. Right, but from Regis. I think it feels like 85 out of 125, that doesn't seem like egregious for taking taxes, does it? It's two-thirds, right? They kept two-thirds. That's what I'm saying.? They kept two-thirds.

That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I'm just saying. I feel like that's normal. Like 35% is what you always hear about like lottery and stuff. Okay. I think. Yeah. I've never won $125,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, though.

Or a scratch-off. No. So what's your deal, Jeff? I guess you also heard us talking about this and then just sent a clip out of nowhere. It's like, hey, I've been on the show too. Right, well, you know, I thought I'd back it up with some actual, you know, evidence. Not that I'm sure you would have taken my word for it,

but no, a good buddy of mine, Dustin, he, I think i missed whatever episode and so he said hey uh you know he of course knows that i was on the show and uh yeah i reached out with that uh lovely clip with me and uh miss viera who i have to say you know she uh when i was on the show she was a very striking woman and you know we we had a – you'd have to see the whole appearance, but – You had a connection. Yeah, a little chemistry. We absolutely did.

It was like palpable. And I would get asked, hey, did y'all – because, you know, she said – it came up in my appearance about how I like to go to the karaoke bar. She asked if we could go together or something like that. I said, well, hell hell yeah let's go and so I really had people that this was the towards the end of the myspace time and so I still had a myspace because it was like 0708 and I got I don't know how many myspace messages about um did you did you actually did you go out did you do did you do something with Meredith Vieira?

Anyway. What was I talking about? How do you get on the show? Did you? By the way, did you ever answer that? No, we just, you know, no. Just vibed. Vibed.

All right. Ships passing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, okay. Ships. How do you get on the show? Yeah, because on your email you say, in addition to the cash,

I took Meredith out for drinks and a screw. I'd be happy to elaborate, so I certainly wanted to hear about that. You didn't remember sending that. I kind of thought I'd add that for y'all's benefit. Just to get me to respond. To get you to respond, yeah, yeah. I did the same for Regis.

Yeah, yeah. How old were you, Jeff, when you were on? Let's see. That was about 15 years ago. I'm 45 now, so I was like 30. Okay, I didn't even know it was on in 07 still. Well, you know, after Regis, it went to syndication in like 05, 06. And so the way you got on the show when i appeared was a lot different than i'm

sure when austin was appeared when appeared because the uh the madden cruiser equivalent of millionaire would roll into your town and in this instance bass performance hall in fort worth and uh you had to get in line and i remember i uh it said get there like 9 30 and i my dumb ass thought ah well you know i can just get there like at 10 or something and that the line was wrapped around the building like twice waited in that line for about three and a half hours finally got inside bass hall bass whatever it's about to say bass pro um bass performance well yeah yeah and so i got into the door and i'm not kidding like two people behind me that's when they shut it and said all right everybody go home and then you sat in the theater they gave you like a little golf pencil and i swear a pad that was like something

you'd get on a hotel nightstand and it was like 30 questions, not like it was 30 questions. You answered them. You gave them to the whatever. And before you did that, you got like a marathon. Yeah, like a bib type thing. Yeah, with your number. I still have it somewhere. And so they just, after you take the test, and they say, based on your number, if they call out your number, you went on stage.

If you didn't, you went home. They called my number and said basically, all right, well, you scored enough to be on the show, but here's the deal. We're going to put you into a pool of people. This was July. And basically, don't call us, we'll call you. I pretty much forgot about it.

Fast forward to the week before Thanksgiving. I'd had a couple of cocktails the night before, so I wake up and I've got this voicemail from a weird number I have no idea. And it's a millionaire saying, call us back. We'll want you on the show if you can be in New York City in two weeks.

And I'm thinking, oh yeah, this is a funny joke from somebody. I'll call back and yeah, we'll, we'll want you on the show if you can be in New York city in two weeks. And I'm thinking, oh yeah, this is a funny joke from somebody I'll call back. And yeah, sure enough. Um, it was legit. And God, that's back also the time of, uh, name your own price on Priceline. And I'll never forget. I got my airfare on Delta for $78 to New York city. Nice. Can't get that anymore.

No. Uh, what were you doing at this time? Nothing. for $78 to New York City. Nice. Can't get that anymore. Nice. What were you doing at this time? Nothing. Kind of like I'm doing now. Okay. Yeah. So, because I was tickled by your page. Apparently, there's like a millionaire Wikipedia page.

Yeah. And it says, Jeff Jones, an unemployed man from Grapevine. From Grapevine. That is right. I thought that was rude. They actually wanted to, they were going to use the title Man of Leisure.

And I was like, you know, I like that. I'm a man of leisure. Now it's Influencer. Yeah, possibly. And do you want the rest all the way when I get to New York, or should I hand it to Austin? Let's take a look at your appearance. Okay.

If we can. Yes, please. Can we do that video, man? Let's watch this. And listen if you're listening along. This is good as well. Man, I feel like I'm going to have to rope me a Texan here because you keep getting up. You're all excited.

I don't think it's $100,000, sir. Good reason to getting up. You're all excited. Look at the connection. $50,000, sir. Good reason to get up. I'll say so. You got a little chintard there? I don't know what. It was a different time. You should be feeling good. You're three away.

What is that shirt that you're wearing? It's Marty Moose. Three away from a million. From Waterworld. 250,000. You ready to play? Yes, ma'am. Some people dress up for the occasion.

I put on a blazer. So, you know, that kind of says... Business. $250,000. Okay. So I'm going to pause it here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The question, in office space, Peter's co-worker Michael admits that his high-tech get-rich scheme is taken from what movie?

So when you see that, are you like me? I'm going to have to read the whole sentence. Yeah. You already know. I know it. I'm stroking out, as you can see. Blake. I like to quiz Blake on movies that I'm assuming he didn't see.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Great movies. Because Blake doesn't watch great movies. Oh, that's a shame. He watches TCU basketball. I mean, Office Space, top ten, right? Fell to Cincinnati the other night. No deal?

This question? Yeah. I mean, I've seen the clip, but no, I wouldn't have known. Okay. In Office Space, Peter's co-worker, Michael, admits that his hot tech, get-rich-ski is taken from him. Dude, look at you. The question is, this easy? This easy was for a quarter of a million dollars.

Superman 3. Revenge of the Nerds 2. God bless you, Meredith. God bless you. Wow. This is one of the best movies ever. It is Superman

3C Final Answer. Yeah! Look at her. She's pumped for you. And they said that I was the first person to ever actually get out of my seat. It was like Tiger at Augusta. Yeah, there were some fist bumps. Cocaine or adrenaline?

Adrenaline, mostly. Not entirely, but... And, you know, we had our lovely embrace there yeah that was sweet down for a second okay all right because you're coming back sir yes ma'am yes ma'am he is we'll have more million dollar movie week they said that was a million dollar movie week yeah said i was the first person even counting regis's that one appearance, even though I didn't win the million, went over three days. So that was something. Nice.

In case you wondered. What did you end up winning? I mean, if you saw the – there's a clip on YouTube of my $500,000 question. I've got it in front of me. Okay. Just the question itself. And it's actually from Diner. Oh, and it haunts me.

Let's see if we can get it, because we've actually seen that movie. All right. In the 1982 movie Diner, what is the name of the diner where the main characters hang out? I wouldn't be able to get that. Windsor Hills, Rosemont, Fells Point, Allendale. I would go with Rosemont. I would have Mike Reiner as my one phone call. That's why?

Let me just, can I tell you? Is it Rosemont? No. No. No, it was not. So I was at Lifelines. It was Fells Point. So I'm at 250,000, right?

Well, if you miss, I had already got to the whatever plateau. Yeah, 32,000. That I couldn't do worse than 25,000. But, you know, I missed that. That's a big- i couldn't do worse than 25 000 but you know i missed that that's a big ass zero to go 250 to 25 but i had this nagging suspicion like that it was c fells point i'd heard of diner because i think it was like gutenberg's and kevin bacon and daniel stern it was like all their their first movie but I had no reason to... Why? I felt this way. So I thought, well,

I'd be foolish to gamble here. Do you get zero if you don't get it? No, I would have got 25. Yeah, I was guaranteed 25. I couldn't do any worse than that. I mulled it over for a second and then walked away. Of course, she said, well, we've got to show you the answer.

And it was C. Phil's point. So I would have had half a million and then even more so gotten to look at the million dollar question. Yeah. But I was still pretty satisfied. It was a good day's work. Yeah, I guess so. For somebody that wasn't doing anything and still is.

You're a man of leisure. A man of leisure. It's not a bad day's work. So did you have to really go back the next day or did they take a break? No, so we had to get to the studio in the Upper West or do they take a break no so uh they we had to get to the studio in the upper west side at around 5 a.m you start by signing your wife well my wife 5 a.m i didn't have a wife um could i send her away now uh no sign your life away i love you dear and um then you're in a green room with uh some and crap, and they have people come in.

Usually that's the other thing. Just by getting to New York, I wasn't guaranteed a spot on the show. They invited 10 of us, and they drew straws or numbers or whatever. Well, I was drawn third. And because I went over three days, only two more people got to be on the show. The other five had to fly back home with nothing to show for it. So I kind of felt bad, but not too bad.

And you had to pay your own way. When it was priced, 78 bucks. But those people didn't get reimbursed, I'm saying? I don't believe so. When it wasn't in syndication, they sprung, if I'm speaking correctly, I believe, for your airfare and hotel. But syndication, no.

I got a millionaire discount at the Ambassador or something for $300 a night. But yeah, there was no gratis. Is that like the nicest hotel you've ever stayed at? But yeah, there was no gratis. Is that like the nicest hotel you've ever stayed in? You know, Dan, they crammed two double beds in a room that wasn't half the size of the den. I'm not kidding. You could barely close the door without hitting the footboard of the bed.

That's pretty normal New York hotel. Yeah, I mean, it is. It's standard New York City. But no, it was, you know, it's all right. And you appeared with your father. Yeah. So the way I got on the show was pretty wild. So my whole family was at Walt Disney World. And, you know, we went to different parks on different days and it just so happened the day

that we went to the mgm park um we get off like the little trolley or whatever and we see these huge signs like who wants to be a millionaire auditions father's day edition and to your point earlier like this was like stop down tv for our family my dad was calling you know at the end of the show they'd say call in and do the fastest finger to try to get on oh yeah over the phone and so immediately you know we're like oh my god like we got to do this and my mom was like joe you are not ruining our vacation wasting time doing this and you know me i'm like come on mom we got to do this we got to be like 11 right i was 12 and that actually came into play because my sister who's like a year behind me she was also like well i want to go on it luckily me, I was the only one that was old enough. It was like, you had to be 12 or I think it was 12 to 15 or something. They had like a,

an age bracket on it. So we're like, yo, we're, we're going to do this. And, um, and at the time at MGM studio, they actually had a mock who wants to be a million like a full-on studio there like you could go play the game show um and like if you got in the hot seat and won a million dollars they would like fly you out as a member of the audience so that you know um but the way it worked for us is we went to this auditorium and it was all these fathers and sons and daughters. And basically they just handed a packet. And it was essentially like a written type of like fastest finger type questionnaire. And I can't remember if it was 50 questions or something. And there was like a time.

So basically you filled it out. And then they were going to grade these to see like, all right, you're at least smart enough to like be on the show you're not a complete idiot and my dad just kind of looked at me and was like just chill i'm gonna do this all right cool so we do that part and um after that they're like naming off the the numbers of the people that go to the next round and the next round basically you know so we got our number called that we did well enough on that and the next round was we went I mean just behind like a curtain on a stage or something and they had basically you know like a table with cameras set up and like a panel and they're just kind of asking us questions and they're you know i guess it's like all right

you're you're at least smart enough to be on the show we want to make sure that you're not weird or anything like that they want to make sure you have personality and stuff and so like i remember one of the questions they asked me was you know if there was any other game show other than this that you would want to be on, what would it be? And I don't know if you guys remember the weakest link. Of course, you know,

yeah. So I was like, man, I'd love to be on that show. Cause I'd love to tell that lady off. Yeah. What was her name? She was some British lady.

I can't remember her name. Short little fiery British woman. But yeah, I love that. Yeah, I remember her red hair. Short, little, fiery British woman. I love that. And so they've loved that. They're all cracking up. And so, like, my dad, you know, he'll tell you to this day, he's like, hey, I got us through the first part, but Austin, you were the one that, like, got us through the second part. Like, they really ate it up, all your answers and stuff. So, and from that point, they're like, Hey, you know, we've got your

information. We'll call you guys, um, in the coming days to let you know, if you guys are going to, you know, make it onto the show. And so it was, I think like two days later, maybe even the next day. So we're still at Walt Disney World and um my sister she actually uh had a seizure when we were at Walt Disney World like at our hotel left turn yeah it's uh so because she's diabetic and so a scary thing and so her my brother who was pretty young at the time and my mom stayed back at the hotel me my dad and my youngest sister who was probably like four or five she's gonna hate me for telling this story um we go out in the park that day and we're like in line to do the safari like where you go and look at like the

action it's like a full-on safari thing and it's a long line if you guys have ever been to disney world it's such a beating everything's a long line and we're in line and my dad's phone rings and he answers his cell phone and like immediately starts looking at me he's like it's it's millionaire like it's them it's them and so he's on the phone for like 30 minutes and uh he's like we're good like yeah we're gonna be on we're gonna be on and so i'm i'm freaking out the entire time my little sister is like tugging on me and she's like austin dad dad i'm like shut up jenna jenna shut up and so like finally gets off the phone and uh you know we're just losing our mind and we're you know on this ride and then we're like, what the hell is that smell? My sister had shit herself. Oh no.

And she's crying. That's why she was yelling, you were on the phone with Millionaire. It was Regis. We're telling people online who wants to be a millionaire and then we're on the ride and we're like, oh my God.

And we're like, what is that smell? And she just starts crying. And she's like, that's why I was trying to tell you guys I had to use the bathroom. It was like, so really, really funny moment. And, yeah, unlike you, they flew out my whole family. And, like, my dad was like, yeah, you sure? This is the Regis era. Yeah.

Not syndication. Yeah, he's like, you sure? We've got four kids, you know, not necessarily a small family. And they're like, no, we're going to fly the whole family up. They paid for the airfare, hotel. We stayed at a place called Hotel Empire. Don't really remember anything. You know, it was a pretty normal New York hotel.

you know it's pretty normal uh new york hotel um so yeah that was uh how we got on um and then i don't know what how you guys wanted me to continue or so do you show up um and just like in jeff's case like are you guaranteed to be on the show no So it's a little bit different than when he was on, because back at that time it was, you actually had, you know, all the contestants, we, we knew that we were going to be like one of the 10 people that were like

sitting there. Oh, fastest finger. Right. And then they do the fastest finger. Um, and so it's like, yeah,

you know, you know, you're going to have a chance, but you know, it was like a couple of days of filming. So, you know, like he said, if one person had gone super yeah, you know, you know, you're going to have a chance. But, you know, it was like a couple of days of filming. So, you know, like he said, if one person had gone super long, you know, other people aren't going to be able to get on. So we were the either second or third people that ended up getting on, I think. Nice. Do you remember your fastest finger question?

Of course. So it was by date of birth um oldest to youngest uh steven tyler whitney houston cisco and britney spears okay and did your dad do it my dad did it yeah so they they had all of the because you're in the crowd yeah so i i was sitting behind him and you know if you guys watch the clips i think he mean he read them in order i did yeah i read i read them in order but yeah uh i'm still thinking steven tyler yeah so i don't know if you guys watch the the clips that i sent you of our episode but uh when i was sitting behind my dad i recognized the guy next to me because at the time he was like a big winner he had won 250 000 dollars and i was like weren't you like the guy and he's like at the time he was like a big winner he had won 250 000 and i was like

weren't you like the guy and he's like yeah yeah and regis actually ended up shouting him out like when we got in the hot seat but um look at him there yeah and so you know my dad um you know prepping us you know the the production team's prepping us on how everything's going to work and uh you know this is just very on brand for my dad and he was like you know i got a question i've never seen this done but let's say that we get in the hot seat and we want to use our um ask the audience question am i allowed to say don't answer if you don't know i've always i've always thought that right and you know to our knowledge we had never seen anybody do that yeah and um you know we he did end up doing that and uh that's genius yeah it uh unfortunately didn't really work right it was still about the same percentage of every, you know.

Yeah. But still, you want to weed your own garden a little bit there. Right. Okay, so the audience does vote. Yeah, so they have these. Because I've always thought they make up those percentages. No, no, no. They have like these little box things.

Yeah, I've seen the box, but I just thought they were dummy buttons. Like, did you get to do that for another? Maybe. I can't remember necessarily because they, you know, we wrapped up in, yeah, I'm 12. We wrapped up in one day, but they actually did have us on the second day, which was, from what I remember, it was the same day and they just, like, had us change clothes. Yeah. That's right.

Yeah. Yeah. So, like, they, I did sit in the audience for like the second day of filming and Regis like pointed us out like, oh, there's the Blonde Waters family. They were, you know, big winners yesterday.

And. Yeah. Because there were a few times where Regis says, hey, enjoy your night out on the town. We'll see you tomorrow. Right. There's no way.

Yeah. And. Yeah. I once went to Wheel of Fortune taping we saw ten shows or something oh wow million dollar movie week on that one Friday that I was there Wow yeah it was it was in July in Grand Prairie we're all wearing shorts you know and it was Christmas Christmas so yeah the sets got a fire it's got a the tree you know, and it was Christmas week. Christmas week. So, yeah, the set's got a fire.

It's got the tree, you know, all that kind of stuff. But if they pan the crowd, you see everybody wearing shorts. It's really kind of weird. So I had a question, and whoever wants to answer, answer. I've always been amused by the phone a friend because they always answer on the third ring. So do you have to give them a list of people that you can call and is there an editing process there? I've always wondered what if they don't answer.

They're already... It's Regis calling. I'm not surprised. Do you have to tip them off? What's that process? I think they ask for, hey, you should probably give us five names and phone numbers.

You need to tell them to be on the phone between this hour and this hour. Oh, you're thinking of all your smartest friends. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Who does crosswords? And, you know, there was somebody that it's like a pretty famous millionaire moment. This one person was so confident.

They were like, no, I only need one person. And the guy didn't answer oh yeah so um and like for you know again i don't know if you guys watch the clips i sent you but the when we called like our our uh thirty two thousand dollar question was like really hard it was something about elements and words that i had never heard of. My dad called one of his college friends and the dude literally spells the word Stan as like S-T-A-N-N-O-U-S. And it's like, all right, this guy, thank God, you know, those people are cool here. And let me play a clip from your show too, if we can video man, um, because this leads into a different question that I have about you too. So here we go. Bleach.

My buddies were like, you're going to show up in the den with the frosted tips? I was like, no, I'll just wear the over sweater. This was 2001. This was the summer before I was going into seventh grade, I believe.

This is right after the tough question there, I guess. Yeah, at $32,000. My brother's like 6'4 now. I just put that little part in the beginning so we can kind of see. ...that made it to $32,000 and still have a lifeline left. Very exciting. I just put that little part in the beginning so we can kind of see. Yeah. I found that very creepy when I was watching that this morning. A lot of secretaries?

A lot of secretaries. Smack a little tush. A big judge. Free me too, Aaron. You an ass man or a leg man? Why are you making me choose? Are soccer players known to have a lot of secretaries? I think he was leaning into the lawyer part.

For sure. So I wanted to follow up. Yeah. Which one of those are you closer to? Neither. My brother, my younger brother is actually, you know, he ended up with the brains of the family. He's a lawyer up in New York City. Super, super bright guy. You're a man of leisure? No, I actually work for an investment real estate firm. We're like a large wholesale

real estate company. So, Jake, if you're ever looking for another late Granberry house that hasn't been, you know, christened, I'm your man. But, yeah, no, we're like the largest wholesale operation in DFW and one of the largest in the country. You've been selling to people from Vegas? We do have an office in Vegas. No, I mean, aren't they buying up all this property to build casinos now?

Yeah, I mean... That was just a joke that fell flat. How many secretaries? Yeah, did you get secretaries? No, no, we're... Yeah, I mean, it's not like a traditional real estate office, like what you would envision at all. I've been doing it for like nine plus years um but you know it's it's a bunch of guys in their 20s and 30s we got

some 40 year old guys but you know like when we first started you know when i first started like nine years ago it was closer to like a frat house type it was just all dudes and you know just do you use this as like a pickup line that i was on who wants to be a millionaire yeah um i would i don't know if i ever like you yeah well did did let me did yeah i'd whip out that youtube clip faster than yeah damn right meredith knows me well i was hoping you were gonna the play the question where i actually had you know the sixteen thousand dollar question where i answered kirsten dunst that was my yeah that was your big moment to shine yeah that was something that was definitely pretty popular and you know when i i went to cop l and uh we at the time, there's three different middle schools. And so like I had people from other middle schools, you know, like, hey, you know, my friend over at Middle School West, like, you know, they want to talk to you and like, oh, you're the guy from Millionaire and stuff.

I didn't even think about that. Like going back to school. Yeah. I mean, it was national television. Yeah. You have to be a king. Oh, we had we i don't know it might have been front page in the dallas morning news um like an article about us we had an article about us in the cop l gazette because i mean seriously this was the

cop l the gazette the gazette yeah oh yeah yeah you know that's when i knew we made it you know the dallas morning, come on. Oh, yeah, they put me on the Dallas Morning News. I almost forgot about that. Yeah, we, like one of our family friends, you know, went and got that like professionally like cut out and framed for us. So that's, I think it's still hanging up somewhere in my parents' house. But, yeah, it was definitely a huge moment. And, you know, my parents, probably going to regret saying this,

but my parents had, when I was like really young, they had signed me up for like children's modeling. Like I was in like JCPenney. You were second place in the beautiful baby contest, according to Regis on the show. My dad loves that story. I'm not sure. I don't know why my dad must have told them

because he had that ready to go yeah we used to have well you're a beautiful 12 year old now what if we go backstage they're going to snag so much secretary puss so I had like done done some JCPenney ads when I was- Let's play altar boy.

Probably like five years old. That's what a fast finger will get you. I've been told mine are pretty fast. Sorry, sorry, sorry. No, you're fine. But my dad was saying, he's like, hey, just wait. When this airs, maybe you're going to get rediscovered. And I'm like, Dad, there's no way.

Well, sure enough, somebody calls our house, like, the night it answers. And it was like this, his daughter worked at Kim Dawson, which is like a large agency. And so I ended up, like, doing that for a couple years. And do you remember hit clips? Of course I was in a hit clips commercial. Like it was the most random shit. Like, I mean, and you know, looking back on it, like I hated doing it cause it's like, it's not really cool to, you're in middle school, everyone's awful towards each other and you're saying, Hey, yeah, I'm a i'm a model like oh that's like easy target practice you know and so like

you know i'm constantly getting pulled out of class and stuff and i'm like oh yeah i just got a doctor's appointment or something and like this kid that uh i ended up you know once i got to high school met him in high school he's like I swear, because when I did it the second time around, they had these huge posters hanging up a JCPenney of me on a skateboard. He was like, weren't you the kid? I was like, no. Not me. That wasn't me, man. Never been on a skateboard.

Stop talking about that. Never even been photographed. Looking back, I'm like, man, I shouldn't been like so embarrassed about that because it was such crazy money like i got like two grand to miss school for two days for that commercial well you didn't get anything no no that was actually like no my parents weren't taking that money they were like putting that aside for me for sure it's oh you money yeah that is oh you money yeah nice yeah yeah man i feel bad because my my winnings when i went a totally different direction than that oh yeah well you know the first well and i don't know how they did it with yours but uh they sent me i was living in an apartment at the time i go to check the mail i want 250 grand

250 000 and it happened to be my birthday was march 23rd and i go to check the mail. You won $250,000, right? $250,000. And it happened to be my birthday. It was March 23rd. And I go, you know, the little dinky mailboxes you open. There's an envelope. It says Castle Rock Productions. But, well, there's no way this is an actual check.

There was the check for $250,000. I go to Bank of America. The guy laughs at me. I kind of slithered across the counter. He's like, what do you want me to do with this? So, well, let's start by having a conversation or whatever. Yeah, I got fast fingers.

Let's go. And so he goes back and gets somebody, and they come out, and they start apologizing. Oh, can I get you a glass of water or whatever? Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah. When they realized that I wasn't thrilled with it. Roll out the red carpet. Because now they don't do it that way.

They annuitize. If you win more than 50, it's annuitized. Where in my case, I got the full amount. And even though I had some debauchery a little after I got the check, lots. Then you had a whole year to then pay the taxes. And so because I invested at a good time, I made in, uh, investing what I owe the IRS, which was $67,344. I'll never forget writing that check.

So they give you 250, a check for 250. There's a check for 250,000. I couldn't believe it. Yeah. And I would go down to the bank like it was my check from Taco Bell or whatever. I wonder how many people end up in tax problems. Oh, yeah. Because I could see that, yeah.

Yeah. They're like, yeah, I'll pay it. Yeah. We'll get there. I was a numbers whiz CPA guy, so I kind of had him sort of take care of all that. But, yeah. So, but anyway, well, I was already done with college, so I guess that's why I was a little different.

But not as wholesome as maybe other people might have spent it, but had a hell of a lot of fun. Yeah. Do you feel like you still have any of that money? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, I've invested pretty well, and I'm married well, so that helps, especially when you're a man of leisure. Yes, of course. It helps a lot. I feel like I want Jeff's life. It doesn't suck.

It doesn't sound like it. All right, so here, let's play this other video. You referenced it, but it's the... Which actress played the head cheerleader in the 2000 film Bring It On? Thanks. So now Dad doesn't believe you? Yeah, not at all. And you had to take him through the steps on why it's true.

But you knew this? You had seen that movie? Okay, so you were locked in. We'd all seen this movie. Really? She was probably in the Spank Bank. Oh, okay, so you were locked in. We'd all seen this movie. Really? She was probably in the Spank Bank. So yeah, right there. She was definitely in the Spank Bank. I don't think Dad's kidding, right?

Oh, watch this. The pressure he puts on me. Boy, he throws you right on the... Man. I love you, son. You're still in the family. Now I love you, son. You're still in the family. Now I love you. And like, so one of the, you couldn't hear it there,

but one of the choices was Jennifer Love Hewitt. And I mixed her up with Sarah Jessica Parker. You know, it's just like a woman with three names. Right. And, you know, so we had like a big watching party at our house, like when this aired and, you know, they told us,

don't tell anybody how much you want, you know? And so you both have to sign something. I don't know if we, yeah, but like, you know, so we have people guessing numbers and stuff.

And, um, but so I mixed up Jennifer Love Hewitt. I was like, Oh, wasn't that the girl on sex in the city? And my mom, like whenwitt. I was like, oh, wasn't that the girl on Sex and the City? And my mom, like, when we had our party, was like, he's never watched that show. Very concerned.

Yeah. And I hadn't. Like, I don't know. But yeah. The father-son thing. So every couple had a kid. There was a kid, a little kid. Yeah.

From like 12 to 15, it was either son or daughter. Just because your first questions were really easy. It was like, what shape is a pizza? Yeah. And then you had to use 50-50. I was disappointed in you guys, and especially your dad, because it was from the book out, The Outsiders, who is the older brother's name.

For Soda Pop, right? Yeah, Soda Pop. I thought that's kind of a... Well, and my dad says in the question, he never read the book. I read that book for school the next year. Like, that was seventh grade reading for me. And I was just like,

when they're like, oh, we're reading The Outsiders, I'm like, God damn it. But we didn't use... You had to blow a 50-50 on that. No, no, we didn't use the 50-50 on that one. No, no, no. No.

The 50-50, that was like another moment where, you know, me and Regis kind of had a back and forth, not like, you know, butting heads or anything. But, you know, they, I don't know if my dad, again, if he had asked that, it probably was my dad asking, knowing him, asking the producers, because you guys recently played the Norm MacDonald clip, I think, where Norm says, I know if I say it's between A and B and I use my 50-50, A and B are going to be the ones left. And that's exactly what happened to him. And so I think my dad asked them, hey, how does this work?

Should we not say what we're thinking it is and the lady said and again you know who knows if this is true but what she told us was no the way it works is it's like a a poll you know they ask x amount of people this question and it's like the two answers that are left are the right answer and the second most guessed answer. Ah. So it is trying to make it tough. Right.

And so the one that we used it on was about the Ephesians. Yeah, yeah, like Turkey. It was like Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, and maybe Saudi Arabia or something. Syria, that's right. And so we used 50-50 on that, and it was between Turkey, which is obviously a huge country, Kuwait, very small. And my dad's like, oh, it's got to be Turkey. And then that's when I bring up what that lady told us, like, hey,

why would Kuwait be there? Why would they be, you know, why would people be guessing Kuwait? It's a small country. And Regis is like, what are you talking about? And I was like, listen, man, I'm like, this is what she told us. You're a smart kid. Yeah, yeah. And Regis was like, Austin, I've been doing this for years.

You and I switch seats. Like, you have this more figured out than I do. And I was wrong. You have this more figured out than I do. I was wrong. You were wrong, but still. But the reasoning, I felt, was pretty sound. But yeah, luckily my dad trusted his gut on that one. When they were going over biography, too, they were saying you tested well.

Were you in Duke Tip? I think that's what it was called. Okay, my daughter was in Duke Tip. Did you travel or no? No think that's what it was called. Okay. My daughter was in Duke Tip. Did you travel or no? No. I never signed up for anything for it. I remember my dad and I went. I think it's a scam a little bit.

Yeah. You got to pay money. You have to be kind of smart. Dude, I'm not an idiot by any means, but I'm not some boy genius either. But it's a, hey, take this test, and if you place, we will allow you to spend $2,000 to go to... That's exactly what I was going to say. It was like $2,000. It was allowed.

We had something like that. Yeah. Yeah, they were offering trips to Australia or something. You're done. Oh, look, you got published in a... Your poem got published in a book. You could buy this book for $49. Would you like to buy a plaque?

Yeah, I think we went to one event and realized it was this game. Best number 12 radio show. Remember? We were offered we could have bought a plaque. Sure. Damn. Same thing when you get your grad degree. They're like, you want to give us $300 to have this framed?

Oh, really? No. I don't. We could hang it in the studio, man. Right next to Sinbad. That sounds great. King's Graduate. Oh, my gosh.

Put it behind you. Yeah. Look real official. All right. Well, anything else to get into with this, or should we move on to Joel Corey soon? Yeah. That's cool.

It's just kind of cool living through your experiences for a show that we've all watched you know a million times um did you say you got recognized from it jeff for did you actually get you know you'd be out and somebody'd be like hey wait the weirdest one too was obviously i lived in the area at the time and so um again this this is MySpace. Not that it would matter whether MySpace, Facebook, whatever. It doesn't matter. And I'm not saying this.

There's no bragging there. I've just got, I don't know how many messages a day. And some included some photos of... Talking about nudes. There we go. Oh. Co-eds. It's a quarter of a milli, brother. Come on now. That's better than my experience. So I go It's a quarter of a milli, brother. Come on now.

That's better than my experience. So I go to Baton Rouge of all places and meet up with this chick at some, I don't know, really shitty Cajun restaurant. So someone had DM'd you or something. Yeah, DM'd. And you're like, I'll go to Baton Rouge to meet this person. And I was like, what the hell else do I have to do? I'm a man of leisure.

What am I going to do? He's got a quarter of a million dollars and he's's single yeah right and so he'll pay the taxes later at this really shitty cajun restaurant and i have this family of five come up to me and i don't even think that i think they just saw my profile i don't even know if they saw me straight on said oh my god you're the millionaire guy i'm like holy shit i'm wearing louisiana how is this even know if they saw me straight on, said, oh, my God, you're the millionaire guy. I'm like, holy shit, I'm wearing Louisiana. How is this even possible? Anyway. They got TV here?

They got TV here? Geez. I don't know if I knew what that was. But, yeah, a few places here and there around the area here. Well, how'd your experience go? I was going to say, though, it must be pretty easy to close a deal if you're the guy who had just won $250,000. Easier, for sure. It's kind of like

being out with Monica Lewinsky. You're just waiting for her to come. You're not the president. And I've got those fast fingers too. But she DM'd you. She sent you a naked photo. You know that date's going to go well. It's not like, oh my gosh.

Yeah, right. Will she put out there you go i've not heard that term in i know but that's certainly what you were thinking at the time yeah i didn't uh i didn't have my space at the time but literally for for several years after the fact i would get random messages on facebook like maybe a decade after the fact, I would get random messages on Facebook like maybe a decade after the fact. Unfortunately, it wasn't similar to yours. I was getting messaged by like creepy old dudes. Oh, no.

Lou Pearlman type? Yeah, like, oh, you're such a good looking kid. You really were. Yeah, I don't know what happened, but I would, you know, I would get recognized, too, from time to time, but one that, like, stood out was, you know, this was pretty soon after it aired.

It had been that same summer. I was, like, on a cruise with my grandpa and my two other cousins. He took all three of us, and we're sitting at dinner, and there's, like, a family, like, 25 yards away, and just, like, staring like 25 yards away and just like staring at me and it's like you know i'm looking i'm like dude this is really weird and like they finally like come up and like i'm i'm so sorry like but were you the little kid on who wants to be a millionaire earlier this summer i was like yeah it was but so yeah it was definitely

cool to get recognized would have been a lot cooler to be single and older, but it was cool. So you guys know what Jake feels like now since he gets recognized. Oh, man. I'm out there with a jersey with my name on it. Right. Dumb zone Tumblr. They're like, Dan Quinn? All right.

Well, stick around if you want. And if you don't, then, you know, we are not the boss of you. So thanks for being here, guys.

Hey, thanks for having us. This was awesome. Absolute honor. Especially. The Dumbs Up. The Dumbs Up. The Dumbs Up.

Let me ask you something. If I say, hey, I think it may be Madrid or Lisbon, and then the 50-50 comes, it's not going to say Madrid or Lisbon, is it? You don't know. Okay. But there's not a dude in the back going like that? No. These are locked in. This has been locked in for months.

50-50. Let's do it. Computer, take away two of those wrong answers. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. Ragdoll cat. Alright. We have Jeff Jones Ragdoll cat. All right. We have Jeff Jones and Austin Waters. They won't leave. They're still sitting here with us.

I'm squatting. And I'm kind of doing a reset because we have a guest on the line, and it's me, Dan, him, Jake, him, Blake. And now we'll welcome a guy who we've had on our show before. He is a former NFL agent, and he's got an awesome podcast, and he writes some awesome articles. His podcast is called Inside the Cap. He is the great Joel Corey.

He talked to us about the all-too-early Cowboys offseason and other things going on. Hi, Joel. Thanks for joining us. Hi, how you doing? Good, man. How are you? Oh, doing well. What is your fandom growing up?

Actually, I loved Tony Dorsett as a kid kid so i was a cowboys fan as a kid quit being a cowboys fan when tom landry was fired and as an agent did not root for teams rooted for clients and rooted against organizations which were difficult to deal with but But now one team that I follow, that's North Carolina basketball. Okay, wait. So, like, for instance, what organizations might be difficult to deal with, more difficult than others? We had Patriots clients, but I was never a fan of the Patriots. So that was conflicted when we had guys like Troy Brown. Happy to see them win a Super Bowl for them to have success,

but really don't want the organization, so it was kind of a mixed bag. Did not like the Cowboys in the heyday because we represented Jimmy Smith and there was some acrimony there. You know, it's interesting you mention this. I just lent Dan the Marvin Miller autobiography. What is your – do you have any sort of – not memory, but like have you read much about Marvin Miller and his efforts? Oh, I know who he is.

I know exactly who he is. He's been the best union leader for any player association that I can recall. Too bad that the NFLPA doesn't have its own Marvin Miller. Probably should be in the baseball hall of fame. Do you think that's because of the length of the careers? Yeah, because in baseball you had guys who would school the new generation on how things work, so you had union solidarity. And the last CBA was barely ratified.

And the big problem is there are two competing interests. The star players have their own agenda, and the rank and file have their own. And you throw a dang amount of carrots and the rank and file have their own and you throw dang little carrots at the rank and file you can get something to pass which may not be in everyone's best interest you've seen that in basketball as well that's how you got salary maximums after the 1997-98 season when he had the lockout. And I know that you wrote something, just to get to the Cowboys here real quick, that you wrote something that really is similar to what you've told us the last couple times you've talked to us, which is that with Dak Prescott and his cap number of nearly $60 million next year,

he really does kind of have the team over a barrel. And this could not have gone worse heading into this offseason, that the taste in everyone's mouth is so sour, and it feels like at some point in the next two months we're going to get the press release that the Cowboys have extended Dak Prescott. Yeah, I'd be surprised if that didn't happen. Yeah, I get it. That was a stinker.

His stats were misleading. It was all in garbage time. He was thoroughly outplayed by a first-year starter. You're not supposed to happen. But that being said, the day that contract was signed, as long as Dak didn't turn into the second come at Carson Wentz consistently, in 2024 there was going to be a reckoning, and he was going to have all the leverage in the world,

not only because of the cap number, which is so high because of three restructures where you kick the can down the road to create cap room. He's got the no trade clause, and you can't stick a franchise tag or transition tag on him after the 2024 season. So the way the contract was structured, it was always set up as long as Dak played reasonably well. And he had the bounce-back year from last year when he was throwing interceptions left and right,

where he's going to be an MVP finalist. Not that people care about that because of the playoff debacle, but that still gives him a ton of leverage yeah and if as you're you just put out an article about Dak too just today I think and uh yesterday yesterday yesterday I apologize but uh just the whole thought that last time he got the big deal, this deal that he's on, which is an awesome deal, he was coming off an injury and you had no idea how he might perform or how that might affect him going forward.

So certainly this time, after coming off the regular season he just threw out there, I would think a playoff loss like this is much less to worry about than the injury that he had. That was a point I was going to raise. Good point. He became the second highest paid player in the league. It changed because other deals were done shortly thereafter. But if you were going to make him the second highest paid player in the league

coming off of a significant injury then what do you think is going to happen this time around um he took a step forward in the regular season i don't think this is the old proverbial one step forward two steps backwards with the playoff game um so if you made the second highest paid player last time that's currently justin herbert at 52 and a half million dollars per year i've tied france as long as um that's currently justin herbert at 52 and a half million dollars per year i've tied france as long as um that's his agent dac empowers todd france do what he sees fit he's going to be asking for the sun moon and the stars not with staying the playoff loss and he's going to insist that dac becomes the highest paid player in the league eclipsing uh joe's $55 million per year, and it wouldn't surprise me if he's shooting for his target number would be $60.

Okay, so why does he have him over a barrel, though? When you say if he asks for everything he wants, he's going to get it. What are the options, I guess, with the Cowboys here? Well, when I put a tweet out the other day, which basically Monday reminding people of the setup, I had significant people saying, cut him. Let's roll with Cooper Rush and Trey Lance. That's crazy.

You're not going to cut a guy who is, in most people's opinion, a top-ten quarterback coming off of the best year of his career. There are no good options to do that anyway because you would have $61.915 million of dead money. You could split it up over two years. But in order to do that, you have to use a post-June 1 designation. You'd have to carry his full $59.45 million cap hit until June 2nd, which defeats the purpose of why you would try to do an extension now

because you want to lower the cap before March 17th when the roster bonus of $5 million is due because you want to lower the cap number so you'll be able to make some other moves. The no trade clause means you can't ship them off if you wanted to. And if he did consent to a trade and you would be getting 2024 draft capital back in return, the dead money is $61.915 million because there is no such thing as a post-June 1 designation with the trade. Now, if you were having trouble getting a deal done, you have sticker shock,

you have voiding 25 and 2026 contract years in place, the contract has automatic conversion rights, you could kick the can down the road by restructuring again, and a maximum restructure would give you almost $22 million in cap room. The problem is, if he walked out the door next year, you've got $52.38 million of 2025 debt money. There's no good options here. So is it pay Dak $60 or pay no one $60? Around $60 million a year figure keeps coming up. Yeah, well, you're probably going to have to make the highest paid player in the league.

That's Joe Burrow at $55 million. I would see Todd France going, well, the max value of Burrow's contract with the incentives averages $56.25 million per year. incentives averages $56.25 million per year. I don't think you get them below that, provided that Dak is letting Todd France do what he wants. Obviously, the agent works for the client, but Dak didn't get the no-trade clause, didn't get the provision where you can't restrict him if he plays out his contract, so he's headed to the open market. He didn't get those not to take advantage of him, at least that's my opinion. What if he said he wants a fully guaranteed contract, much like Lamar Jackson was trying for last year?

And Deshaun got? Well, if you're going to go the fully guaranteed contract route, then you'd be given a discount on the average. And had things gone well and you were still playing, I could see that being more of a viable option because I was going to write a Dak Prescott article whenever the season ended. I was contemplating that it wasn't going to be until you lose to San Francisco, and then it was going to be give them two options, take it or leave it,

$60 million per year, fully guaranteed contract for less than that. I don't think a fully guaranteed – I think that may be a bridge too far. What's your opinion of the job that Todd France did on this deal? Oh, great job. Great job. One, the Cowboys made a mistake because they didn't do it when it would have been its cheapest which was when he's heading into his fourth year when he hadn't made any real money they should have made it the first priority that offseason would have been under 35 million per

year then asking for the extra year which was the big sticking point one in five years um dallas likes new long deals. I'm going to see that probably as an issue with C.D. Lamb because we saw Diggs do a five-year extension. Had to plan the franchise tag, and then he signed for four. So basically franchise tag plus four new years is five years, but you've got that clause in there where you can't franchise them, which effectively means you have to address it in 2024 anyway.

Diggs has that, you said? I'm sorry. Did you say Diggs has the franchise tag and the clause? No, no, no. I said Diggs has a five-year, I meant to say five new years on his extension. Okay. In terms of length of contract. Cowboys winning long deals.

Do you think that they're about to make Lamb the highest paid receiver in the league as well? If they, well, that's misleading because it's $30 million per year, Tyreek Hill, but that's not real because he's got 45 million in the last year he's never going to see so it really was a three-year extension at 25 million per year so if cd lamb's trying to say i want 30 this is going to be a hard deal to do it's really cooper cup who's slightly under 27 um if he does become the highest paid it'll be

short-lived because justin jefferson will top it if i'm cd lamb i wait for justin jefferson and let that deal get in the marketplace and if i can't beat it i try to get close to it what would be it What would be the argument against the Cowboys moving a little bit of other money around and just letting Dak play out one more year on his current deal? I know that they're 14 or 15 over

right now, but couldn't they just gather another year of data? It's going to be closer to 20 once they got everything in place. Over? With the top 51. It's going to be closer to 20, depending upon everything in place. Over? With the top 51. Yeah, it's going to be closer to 20, depending upon where the cap comes in. So that may be tough, but, you know, I'd rather – Yeah, but every dollar that you – let's say you do a small restructure, you're adding to the dead money next year if you make him play it out.

If you make him play it out, he might just walk next year if you make him play it out. If you make him play it out, he might just walk. Because you don't get good quarterbacks hitting the open market in their prime. The last time we had that was Kirk Cousins. And what happened with Cousins? He became the highest-paid player in the league, had lost his only playoff game, and got a fully guaranteed contract. So Todd Franch would be enticed by that.

Let's say Dak has a year comparable to this one regular season. He goes to the open market. What do you think happens then? I guess you're right. He truly has them over peril. We always thought that Zeke had the best contract we could ever imagine. Zeke was smart. Zeke was smart.

I'm a running back. I got a short shelf life. He knew that Emmett was able to get a deal after they started 0-2 as a running back. He assessed the situation perfectly, then fell off a cliff as soon as he signed his contract. Yeah, and he had those year-ahead rolling guarantees, which always really hemmed the Cowboys up cap-wise. Yeah, but then you restructured him as well,

so you made the dead money worse. that's the cowboys way of dealing with things they're not as extreme as the saints and now the eagles but they restructure a ton of contracts and take a credit card approach to managing the cap which is going to ultimately be fine in the long run as long as you don't have something like the pandemic where the cap drops precipitously one year because if the cap's going to go up at least 8%, 9%, 10% each year, you should be able to outrun kicking a can down the road. Six million for Zeke next year, by the way. Oh, still off his contract, his cowboy deal?

Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That is a good deal. Yeah, this stuff is so confusing, and I always think, oh, man, once that guy – oh, look it, Aaron Rodgers just signed with the Packers. Well, that ensures he'll be a Packer for the – well, then they can trade it somehow. Well, that contract was structured in a weird way.

They had these option bonuses where the longer he stayed, it got worse in terms of the dead money because option bonuses were treated like signing bonus and they're prorated, and he had multiple option bonuses. So getting rid of him when they did was the least amount of cap pain they were going to have to get rid of him, and it worked out because the guy waiting in the wings could actually play, which is another thing which Dallas doesn't have, someone that you think could actually be the successor.

Trey Lance was dealt for a reason, and they gave $5 million guaranteed to Sam Donald for a reason. They obviously weren't happy with Lance as a backup. Yeah. No, I thought that was a curious trade that the Cowboys made. What's Denver going to do with Russell Wilson? Oh, he's made. What's Denver going to do with Russell Wilson? Oh, he's gone. Sean Payton didn't like him from day one. He inherited him, and you could tell by all his off-season comments

that they didn't want him around. But what's that monetary, you know, what's going to happen there? It seems like he just signed a new, has his new deal even kicked in? No, this will be 2024 will be the first new year because they did it with two years left. This is one of the rare instances that if you give up a ton of draft capital for someone, usually the longer you wait to do an extension, the more expensive it is. But this would have been one of the rare instances if you had waited, you'd have been better off.

The problem is that they've got to pull the cord this year because he's got $37 million as a base salary next year that's guaranteed for injury that's fully guaranteed like the third or fifth day of the league year. He's got $39 million fully guaranteed this year. No trade clause, he's not going to do them any favors, so he's probably going to be playing for league minimum someplace because there's an offset to guarantee,

which means anything he makes from his new team, the Broncos get to recoup to offset their guarantee. So there's no point in him. He doesn't double dip where he gets the $39 million in every dollar from the new deal. So he'll probably sign for league minimum. The Dolphins get to, not the Dolphins, the Broncos get to offset the $1.121 million, which is his minimum base salary. He's still going to make $39 million total,

and he'll have to play well to be a starter in 2025. Maybe a cowboy, boys. Maybe a cowboy. So he would take league minimum from someone just because he'd want to stick it to the Broncos a little more. Like, hey, no offset. Let's say he made $25 million or signed for $25 million. He's not getting the $25 million.

The guarantee that the Broncos have has an offset. So the Broncos, we get to offset the $39 million they owe him with the $25 million, so they'd only be on the hook for $14. So he has no incentive to make more money unless someone's going to pay him above $39 million, which isn't happening. Yeah, and I forgot that the whole injury guarantee thing, that's what caused him to get benched in the first place. Yeah, but the timing of when they came to him,

where you just beat the Chiefs for the first time in forever, and he was starting to look better. So the timing was curious. I did think that had they continued to lose, the bye week was when he was getting benched. But they didn't cooperate. He played well enough for them to win a couple of games. So I think that plan went out the window.

And then how close are we to Micah Parsons breaking the bank? Actually, you don't have to do him. You didn't do Cee cd lamb after his third year um it's been a mixed bag on when you do or you don't zeke forced the cowboy's hand he's been given his position he was smart to do that tyron smith got paid after his third year when he signed his extremely long contract eight eight new years He's ended up playing out all of them. Zach Martin didn't get done until he was heading into his fifth-year option. So you've got Michael Parsons making a shade under $3 million next year.

His cap number's a little over 5-4. He's going to have a fifth-year option in 2025 for, I think it'll be right around $23 million. Joey Bosa, not Joey, Nick Bosa, who is the highest paid non-quarterback at $34 million per year, got it done when he was heading into the fifth-year option. So you don't necessarily have to do Parsons this year. but that's what we're looking at in a couple years if cd does get justin jefferson money parsons does flirt with that bosa number dac is making what we think to be around 60 i mean is that a viable way to build a roster to just be this top heavy no um it's not ideal The Colts used to do it.

They were extremely top-heavy during the Manning years because they had Manning, who was up there, Dallas Clark as a tight end, two receivers that were up there, Bob Sanders, Dwight Freeney. They were really top-heavy. Dallas will restructure every contract known to man, so they'll keep kicking the can down the road, but you better hit on your draft picks. Alright, Joel, when's the last time

you talked to Shaq? No, it's been a long time. Okay. I just wanted to check in. What's the Shaq relationship? Didn't Joel tell us once that... It was great when I was working with him, but when I started my own company with the head of the football department,

then started having the contact started decreasing. I believe Joel once told us, and I believe my brother relayed this story to me, and I think we talked about this before, that Shaq had to have a waiver on him at all times because he liked to tase people. Yeah. Jack had to have a waiver on him at all times because he liked to tase people. Yeah, he was a practical joker. He was in the office once, and they gave me $1,000 to tase me. And I'm like, nah, you better add a few more zeros to that. And I told Leonard, my boss, about that. that and i was like i think we need to do

a waiver it's like yeah just because if he's gonna do stuff like that he did get a friend of his to do it for ten thousand dollars who said it wasn't worth it really yeah that's awesome shaq's just that's always what i thought like Yeah, if you had a billion dollars, would you just do bits with it? Yeah. Shaq does. He also does good stuff. Donates, buys people. He's been doing that from day one.

When he was a rookie, he would make the hospital visits in Orlando to children's hospitals. He didn't want any media there because it wasn't for media consumption. Yeah, because he didn't want the media to see him tasing them kids. Don't be putting that out there. Alright, well, Joel,

thanks a lot, man. You're the best. We'll talk to you again soon. Thanks for having me, guys. Alright, there's the great Joel Corey. Go check out his podcast and stuff. Read his stuff. Sure. Do things. Great dude.

Haze him. No, I was going to say, Shaq, do you remember? I think I sent you pictures because when I was at Grapevine Ford. Yeah. This is like a year ago or so. He... I think he bought a a year ago or so. He... I think he like bought a family a car or something.

Yeah, somehow knew some family was on tough times. He just brought them there and bought them a vehicle with cash. Yeah. Like, can you imagine the haggling there? It's probably pretty low. Yeah. I would imagine. But yeah, no, that was a story my brother told me that Joel told him once upon a time in their office.

Like, Shaq would just do bits with cash. That's awesome. They're like, you need a waiver. Liability is going to be an issue here. Okay, sports interstitial. Just for Blake to time stamp it. Trying to help you out, Blake. I know, thanks.

Trying to help your show. Thank you. Because we have other sports audio, correct? Audio or video? Audio. Oh, some video. And you know what? It's attached with video sometimes.

Audio. Do you want to do Des today? No, let's do it tomorrow. Oh, okay. We've been going a long time. I do want to play you the horns down thing video sometimes. Audio. Do you want to do Des today? No, let's do it tomorrow. Oh, okay. We've been going a long time. I do want to play you the horns down thing, though. Okay. This is after Texas lost to UCF 77-71 last night.

By the way, I know nobody cares, but that's a beast of a conference for college basketball. Oh, yeah. It's... They're going to beat up on each other. The Big 12. Oh, yeah. They're going to beat up on each other. The Big 12. The Big 12. Once they added the schools that they added.

Yeah, and it'll be better next year when the Arizona schools gets there. But adding Cincinnati and UCF definitely helped. And Houston. And Houston is huge. They have Texas at 3, Oak State at 16, Oklahoma at 15, Kansas State at 18, Kansas at 23.

I've never heard you talk about college basketball in my life. I'm just saying. You know what? I might even have those rankings wrong. I think it's even better. No, but you're fired up about college basketball. I'm not really fired up about it. It's just like a weird random offshoot of like football ruling the day, you know?

And I think it was worse last year because whenever conference play started in the Big 12 last year, they pulled all of the team's strength of schedules. 11 of the top 12 were Big 12 teams because the conference was that stacked. Yeah, and I actually got that wrong. I was looking at the wrong ranking. Kansas is 3, Baylor's 9, Tech is 25, BYU's 20, TCU's 19, OU's 15, Iowa State's 24, and Houston is 5. Were you looking at the ladies?

No, no, no. I think I was actually looking at, like, football probably. Did you see the TCU women are having open tryouts? Yes, we talked about that yesterday. No, we didn't talk about the open tryout. Just the fact that they're having to forfeit two games? Yeah. So now they're just trying to get some bodies in there.

Transition? Yeah. That's what Trump says people do, right? So UCF beats Texas last night. You got eligibility, Blake. And their coach was upset about something that took place in the handshake line. You know, I'm a big believer in, you know, you win the right way, you lose the right way. And, you know, I always tell my guys, you know, whether you win or lose, you win the right way.

You lose the right way, you carry yourself the right way. You don't go through the handshake line. I'm proud of getting to the handshake line and have about six or seven guys putting the horns down. Come on. Wait. Hold on. I know. I thought he was going to say that he did the middle finger

tickle your palm handshake. Right. Letting you know that you're available. Now, when the audio starts of him saying, you know, people need to win the right way, do you think he was going towards something positive? Do you think they won? No.

I did not know the outcome of the game before I saw this, but I could ascertain it pretty quickly. And have about six or seven guys putting the horns down. You don't do that. Because when you do those kind of things, it looks very classless, and it also looks like you were just hoping to win. We never go into games trying to hope to win. We go into games expecting to win.

So we don't act like that. We expect to win. We don't jump up and down like we won a national championship. We sure don't step on anyone's Oh, so that's what happened too. They were over-celebrating. Over-celebrating at Bless the Mood. What does Aggie Austin think about this?

I'm not an Aggie. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were trolling me that time. Oh, that's right. You threw it. All right, what does Sooner Austin think? No, I mean, you know, we were talking. Have you ever thrown the horns down?

Oh, my God. I have a shirt with it. I'll wear it on Sunday to the live stream. Yeah. Like, I mean, it's... And would you stop if Texas didn't care? We did it before, you know, the entire time I was in college. That was a thing. And then I feel like in the past few years, it became this huge deal.

You know, they started doing the penalties during the games. Tom Herman went a long way for this. He's the one who really was like, uh-uh. Will Greer. It's just the softest thing ever. I don't understand why they get so butthurt about it. To your point, if you're getting butthurt about it, you think the people they play next and kick their ass,

they're not going to do that? You're just making it worse for yourself. We expect to win. We don't jump up and down like we won a national championship. We sure don't step on anyone's home court deal and act crazy and try to show them up in any way. We don't do that. We don't walk on the logo.

That's what I was angry about, and I was letting those guys know, you don't do that. You guys won. Hey, we shake your hand, tip our head to you, but we're not going to let you act that way. You're not building. You're not going to do that. You're not going to put your horns down and do all that nonsense.

Baker planted the flag at Ohio State. That was one of the best Baker OU moments. It's incredible. Just kind of like tackling T.O. on the star. There is one way you can stop that. Yeah, you've got to win. You have to stop them from scoring. And for UCF to go into Austin and win,

that is a huge moment for their program. You don't expect them to act a little wild when they won? I just think it's... The guy sounds very old. He does sound very old. I don't believe he's actually that old, but I think he was just spent. Yeah, coaches are older than their age, usually.

Very much so, yeah. You remember how Rodney Terry became the coach at Texas? Well, I mean, Chris Beard beat that lady. Oh, the other guy. Yeah, yeah, is that how? Yeah, he was just one of the assistant coaches and kind of earned the job. But, I mean, he was only there because Chris Beard got in an argument with his wife because she broke his glasses.

I mean, come on. They're expensive. Yeah. She's got to be careful with that stuff. She's got to probably get another eye appointment. Yeah, it's a whole thing. What's his bit? Did he get hired somewhere?

He got hired right away, didn't he? Ole Miss. Not right away, but. Pretty short. It was pretty quick, yeah. Incubation period, as I recall. They have Chris Beard and Lane Kiffin. The Disgusting Brothers. They're just doing bits. Anything

come out of the McCarthy? Did we play McCarthy on you? No, we didn't play it. No, I was just going to play one thing from it because... The big man. Big old self. He's back. Did we play McCarthy on you? No, we didn't play. No, I was just going to play one thing from it because – The big man. Big old self. He's back. He's all big and coaching.

Back. I do think – I think they're trying to spin the story now of where McCarthy's job was safe all along. I don't believe that. Because we played audio from Jerry after back-to-back games of we are still taking this one game at a time. That's what I believe is just Jerry was just going to wait and see. And we even said it. And you decided after this one game, I've seen enough.

This is great. Good to go. Well, I think it's because McCarthy kind of saved his ass here. So they ask him, you know, tide's turned. How did you keep your job? Whatever. He talks about meeting with Jerry and what that meeting entailed. It was a long meeting.

I think we went probably a little bit past three hours. We talked about a number of topics. I mean, the first topic was obviously the disappointment of the ending of the season. You know, went through all the layers of that. And then we talked about pretty much everything in the football program. I wouldn't view the conversation that way. I think clearly, you know, it started off with the, you know, peeling back the layers of what went wrong and the disappointment.

of what went wrong and the disappointment. And then, frankly, it got to where Jerry and I were one-on-one. And, frankly, the best meetings I have is with Jerry's one-on-one. I can't. They're super productive. Get that Yoda kid out of here. Is that what he's referring to? You need to corner him. Finally, Steven left.

Yeah. And that's kind of the theme here. I think I got Jerry one-on-one and then I just begged for my job. Got everyone else out of here, but yeah. He just had a three-hour long meeting with Jerry. It does seem like, guys, if Dez would have

sat with Jerry one-on-one, he would have still been a cowboy. He would have been released. Yeah. Because Jerry loves his people, Jerry treats his people well, and Jerry has trouble saying goodbye. Yeah. And I think that's what happened is he got in the room

and he saw McCarthy's big old self who'd won a Super Bowl in his building. Rode on his back around the office. Yeah. Slapping him like a horse. And he just felt for him, and his emotions came back to him. Made him squeal like a pig. And he forgot all about Sunday as the Cowboys got trounced, and I think he just made an emotional decision to bring him back.

Yeah, I was not as shocked as everyone else was. I mean, I thought it was weird that they put out a statement, but it seemed like, I mean, I thought it was weird that they put out a statement, but it seemed like, I mean, even in Joel Corey's article, it's like the shocking decision to bring back Mike McCarthy. I'm like, I don't know. I feel like this was kind of the chalk.

Right? I don't know, though. I mean, what are they going to do? It'd be a very difficult thing to get rid of a 12-5 guy. I told you my idea is demote him to offensive coordinator. That's a horrible idea. You can't do that.

Not viable. I don't understand why you can't do that. Be the first. Everybody said they couldn't hire Jimmy Johnson, too, and he did it. Okay, well, let's say that hypothetically we had a downturn in ratings during the bad radio era, and they came to you and they were like, you're the producer now, Jake's the host. Would you have been like, that sounds great.

I wouldn't have wanted to. You would have been like, I want to go somewhere else. It's my paycheck and I'm under contract. What would I have done? I could have quit and then I would forego the money. Somebody else will hire you. Don't you think? Well, I would have had to sit out for six months,

but certainly Mike McCarthy would. That's why the world of the NFL is a little more fair sometimes. That's fair. But I just think you sometimes discount how important ego is in these professions. I mean, you see it in free agency for sure. Guys will take even a little less elsewhere sometimes just because it's the indignation. There you go.

All right. All right. You got there. Guys, here's for me. For, you know, of having to take such a massive pay cut or something like that. Like even Zeke. They were offering a pay cut.

I believe. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. But we've had situations like that before. Sure, no. But they don't have a lot of other options. I just feel like the real thing here is going to be you were at a moment of time,

in time, where there were so many really good head coaching candidates who have done it before, number one. And then, really, some others. He'd probably never go with the young, hot guy now at this stage of the Cowboys and his life, right? Right. But, you know, that's going to be the second guess. And I suppose next year, I saw somebody else point this out.

I don't know who it was. I'm sorry, but, you know, Twitter, lots of stuff going on. The thought that Jerry hasn't actually fired a coach since Dave Campo, that Parcells left on his own. Well, I guess they fired Wade Phillips. Yeah, in the middle of the year. Yeah. So that is a bad point that I read.

But Garrett let his contract just run out. They never actually fired Garrett. No, they treated him like the guy with a stapler in the office or in office space. And the same thing might happen if indeed this happens again next year, it will be just that I don't give him another contract

because his contract's up next year. Yeah, the one thing I saw that I agreed with on Twitter was our buddy Tim who said they could go 17-0 next year and I will have no confidence heading into the playoffs. Like, we'll do our streams. We'll have fun.

We'll say it's different. We'll drink some beers. I'll write some columns. That's the thing, because they were doing all the this year's different thing already this year. We've done that. We did the, what's different about this team? Well, I mean...

Got rid of Kellen Moore. Yeah, I mean, we're all on the same page and it's just Brotherhood and this. backyard, Texas Coast. Yeah. No.

No. Got rid of Zeke. Yeah, they had a lot to point to this year. Yeah, it's going to be weird. That's kind of why I thought... I kind of thought they would do something yeah i think we all did because they're probably going to be selling i think dan quinn's still going to get a job i could be wrong but there are lots of

he's interviewing everywhere yeah um obviously seattle is the yeah is the chalk or whatever. That's probably just because of his history there and all that kind of stuff. Carroll's still there, I believe. Sort of. Did he get demoted to consultant? Or was that a mutual thing, or they were going to fire him and said, hey, this could help us save face? I don't know the specifics on that one.

I think he got demoted to offensive coordinator. Yeah. Have you seen – I saw somebody allege that Belichick's going to Atlanta. I don't understand that at all. They interviewed him? I know they interviewed him, but... I thought it was Oakland. I just don't...

I would have to think, like, this is a perfect situation for Belichick that's already kind of ready-made. He can go ahead and win enough games in the next two years to, you know, take down Shula's record. Got to deal with Yodeling Kid, though. Got to deal with Yodeling Kid, though. Got to deal with Yodeling Kid.

I'd like to know if there was any back-channel communications. We'll never know. No, we won't. We will never know if they met on the tarmac. Got him out on the Bravo. Yeah. I kind of think there was. You don't think Jerry's covering every base?

Well, maybe not. Let's do the news. All right. Geez. Move this thing along. All right. I'm going to pick up the kid at 3.30. Oh, okay.

Carroll High School evacuated yesterday after a bomb threat. What do you know about this, Dan? I know that my wife didn't get home until 7 o'clock. Whoa. So, a little bonus. Did you call it in? On one hand, a bonus. On the other hand, I got to hear all about it.

Okay. Because it was such a big thing. Yeah, she works for that school. And just said, you know, everybody had to, like, immediately get outside. And it's a huge just cluster F because it wasn't a drill. And so, you know, people didn't have their coats and bags and stuff. And like, it was just a huge ordeal getting back in. And people were, they had to evacuate and just leave.

And so people were coming back as late as 7 p.m., like getting their stuff that was still there or their cars or whatever. So she just said it was mayhem. But I don't know what happened exactly there are scant amount of details here it just says an anonymous tip was received through the stop it alert i don't know what that is i was hoping you would do you think you should uh like have to carry a charge for the rest of your life if you call in a bomb threat at your school when you're like 15? Were we on the air or off talking about dumb things kids do?

Just like earlier today. That was today. Yeah. On the air. Yeah. Because, I mean, you are not the person you were at 15. Pumpkins and mailboxes. Yeah.

Like, you're nothing close to it, I would guess. Certainly not. And I think I'm a moron now. I was a complete imbecile when I was 15. So wouldn't that be tough to carry that? Yeah. So wouldn't that be tough to carry that? Yeah, I mean, for me, pre-Columbine, it was always like the fire alarm. Like you would hear that if you pulled the fire alarm, like, dude, that's on your record. Yeah.

I was scared touching it. Oh, yeah. Just even being around it. Yeah. I was always skeptical that it even worked. Why? I don't know. Did you ever hear about people that put fake fire alarm up to get around the regulators or something?

Like pass code? No, I've not heard of that. You think fire alarms are old technology? Why do we still need those? Something on the wall that you pull when there's a fire when you could just make a phone call now yeah and you're like I'm on fire I don't have time to get over here to this thing

I'm burning it just seems really outdated when's the last time one was put to good use but you're doing it for everybody in the school not for the fire department to be alerted. All right. Boy, you defeated that point pretty quickly.

Yeah, I just remember it's just a little box on the wall, and it's got a little plastic thing that makes sure no one hasn't broken the seal or whatever. But, yeah, you're right. I guess it does trigger an alarm. Do you have a readily available fire extinguisher in your home? When we first moved in, I remember

we did make sure that we did at least one under the sink. And I got to tell you, I have zero idea if that's still there. Do they go bad? I think they do. I think they probably do. We got a hose outside.

That's not going to help. Do you have? Yeah, I think it's a few years old. And I think it was grade school based because the kid had a pride. They had to go home and make sure they could identify. So it kind of makes you... Great school. Here we go.

Here we go. This seems great. They're kind of making little spies because they also came in and told us like the certain smells of drugs.

How'd that work out for you? I just do remember once when they came back from, they took a trip, the wife and two kids, and they came back. They did identify, they said they thought a skunk or something was dead in the garage. And, you know, my place, this is our old house, I think, and it was right off the garage was my room. And I'm like, and I think they might have put that together at one point where they said marijuana will smell like a skunk. I was like, it does?

I don't know, man. That's crazy. I've never smelt it. Yeah. I wouldn't know. Yeah. But then, yeah, then they come home and they're like, let's identify the escape routes if there's a fire and this and that. I'm like, what?

I don't know. Yeah. Like, do you have a ladder for the second floor? What are you, from Public Works? Yeah. So we had to put a rope ladder that was in Ava's closet and all this kind of stuff when it's just like, look, the odds are it's not going to burn down.

Right? We're going to be fine. Yeah. So we did this story the other day on the Lost episode. But we're going to do it again. Just because it's near and dear to our heart. Which is that all the funny highway signs are going away. This is Blake's favorite bit.

I know. We will no longer have horns up, phones down. It can wait. Or only Rudolph should drive lit. Now, is this a national thing? It is. Okay, I thought it was Texas only. No.

The Federal Highway Administration issued a new manual that said that they need to be quote, simple, direct, brief, legible, and clear, as well as relevant to the road user on the roadway on which the message is displayed. What happened is Texas got the rest of the country in trouble. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly what happened. Do you think we're the highest percentage of bits?

Yes. Hocus Pocus, Drive with Focus, Around Holidays, Around Halloween. What on earth is this one? The sun has rizz, the sun is set, and y'all ain't out of Texas yet. Yeah. We ruined it for everyone. The sun has riz? It's got a strong riz game.

Shut up. What? Oh, this is the one that started Dan. Santa's coming. Have you been a good driver? Only reindeer can fly. Watch your speed.

Cobble, cobble, go easy on the throttle. Okay, that was the cum joke. The lost episode cum joke was Santa's coming. Get a towel or something. But it's not... It didn't fit. It has to be car related. Yeah, it didn't fit our...

Yeah. It was so... Which makes it barely a joke. Oh. Yeah. I guess just the shock of the word come. Of the visual of Santa coming. Jeez.

Gobble, gobble, go easy on the throttle. When would they put that up? Valentine's. Okay. So yeah, it's over. Ruined it for everyone. It's Valentine's Day. Santa's coming.

New year, new you. Use your blinker. Yeah. See, now that's a subjective rule, too. I know. Who says? Like, who says these aren't direct and to the point? Is it an issue of...

And what will happen? That they think that you're... You're breaking a federal law? Is it an issue of they think if you look at it, you're going to be just laughing so hard you'll demolish your car? Yeah. Because you'll be so distracted by the comedy? Who's to say?

Really? What's a worse federal offense? Mailbox? Yeah, mailbox or writing comedy on them. Writing comedy. mailbox or yeah mailbox or writing comedy on boy it'd be great like to have uh we're gonna our our guest uh text administrator is shane gillis this week and and everything is shane gillis related like all stuff he's he's posted on there that would be great. Call me.

Alright, I'm just going to start this last story with a headline. Okay? And I've read a couple of different accounts of this and I'm still a little bit confused. Naked man beat Fort Worth delivery driver to death with firewood, court docs say. A Fort Worth delivery driver was killed by a naked man who beat him to death with the firewood he was delivering.

27-year-old suspect now in jail and charged with murder. Don't think you could kill me with firewood. Yeah. I think I could thwart that. Yeah, you'd have to be already tied up in a chair or something, and I'd just keep bludgeoning you. Victim was dropping... You're sitting there, you're doing the show, you're doing the news

and someone hits you with a stump. Wouldn't happen. You're caught off guard. No way. That guy's just doing his job. I would hear it coming. You just drop the firewood off and then you're thinking, oh, a naked guy, I gotta get out of here. You turn around and he hits you over the head. But the weird thing is that the guy who was killed was the guy delivering the firewood. That's you're thinking, oh, a naked guy. I got to get out of here. You turn around, he hits you over the head. But the weird thing is is that the guy who was killed

was the guy delivering the firewood. That's what I'm saying. He probably dropped at the door and tried to get out of there. And the guy's just doing his job. The naked thing is... He's got pods in. He can't hear.

The naked thing is a pro for an assailant. Or a defender, really. I've always said that. That's true. That's why it really. I've always said that. That's why it would be tough to home invade Dan. And me about half the time. Because I'd hop out of bed and I'm naked? Yeah, you don't want to be part of that.

And the guy's laughing? A little tiny wiener. Miming a magnifying glass. Looking at my wife like, Hey, you want a real man here? Definitely some wood jokes there. Very nice. I do think that if you get up in the middle of the night and you need to case your perimeter,

doing it nude is the way to do it. Yeah. Case your perimeter? Like walk around the house? Yeah, like if you hear something and you're like, alright, I need to go around the hole. You've done that? I've definitely done it.

Okay, because recently I had to get up and I can't remember, but I had to, I fired on the shorts. I don't just walk downstairs naked. I do.

Well, I mean, I don't have this palace. Right, no. You have simply one story. Now here's the problem. When you are in the age where the kid might occasionally get in bed.

Yeah. Now you're like, I need to get up and put underwear on. Because then you have a CFNM situation. You're talking about my daughter. I'm just saying she would be a closed female, a clothed female,

and you would be a naked man. Now, there doesn't have to be any more activity. Yeah, I mean, I'm just stating a fact. And those are facts. And it could have been when I had a kid as well, if you recall. I mean, I still have kids. Yeah, that's an area that I think I used to judge you pretty harshly on. What?

And like Bob would too. Sleeping nude or showering nude? Showering, I still, I probably am not. By the way, I shower nude, of course. No, no, like I'm probably like, it's been eight or nine months, but, sometimes it's just more efficient for us to both be in the shower at the same time. Yeah. Like, my wife does it. Right.

No, you just, there's no, yeah, she's got her own thing going on. You just run in there. Yeah. Yeah, it's fine. It doesn't feel weird to me, but when you used to say it, I was like, man, that's odd. Like, I'd shower, and my three-year-old kid steps in. Yeah, my daughter's five, so maybe I'm over the limit. No, I don't know.

It doesn't seem weird to me at all. Right. Yes, and I suppose if you don't have kids, then you might, oh, is that a sex? There's no sexual thoughts. No, and the only reason that I put shorts on with the dog is that... And that's what I was going to go to next. The dog is way more interested in, like, running into me. The kid is, like, over there doing her own thing.

Okay, so you do have a big dog. Is it size-based? Because I told you I will pull my dog into the shower to clean him up if he's messy. And you're like, oh, man, what is that? That's gay. Is that what I said? Aren't you attracted to the – I mean, look at that little starfish.

All right. That's the news. Oh, no. The dumb zone news. Hey, babe. Mike Ansems. How long have we been going? It's been a long time.

About 2.15. Okay. Let's just do a quickie one of these then. The Dumb Zone presents... Unless Jeff and Aggie Austin don't want it. Now I'm trolling. Now I'm trolling. Did you go to college, Jeff?

ACU Wildcat. Ooh, curfew? Yeah, yeah. They have strict rules, Dan. Yeah. Who? Abilene Christian. Oh, okay.

Yeah. You don't seem like an Abilene Christian guy. Yeah, I probably don't give the AC vibe. Yeah, and I'm from Abilene. I was born and raised there. Yeah. Yep. So we're recording this

live to videotape on Thursday, January 18th. And right now it's 2.45 and Jake's got a kid to pick up so we'll get moving. He's got showers to take. Okay, it's not like a regular thing. It's 2.45, and Jake's got a kid to pick up, so we'll get moving. He's got showers to take. Okay, it's not like a regular thing. Occasionally it's efficient.

It's a 4.15 shower. On this day in 1976, it was Cowboys in the Super Bowl. Remember when the Cowboys were in the Super Bowl? What year? This was 1976. The Steelers beat the Cowboys in the Super Bowl. Remember when the Cowboys were in the Super Bowl? What year? This was 1976. Ah. The Steelers beat the Cowboys, becoming the – that was their second Super Bowl win ever.

They would win two more in the 70s. Team of the 70s. On this day in 2006, I don't really remember this. This Knicks forward Antonio Davis went into the stands during a game because he believed his wife was involved in an altercation with a fan. You remember that? Vaguely, yeah. I remember that he had quite the rap about him being hot-headed.

I think it's great that you have your family members come to watch you play, and you have to have that on your mind as well, worrying about what's going on with them. Leave Riley Curry alone. On this day in 2012, Mike, the Texas Rangers signed Hugh Darvish to a $60 million six-year contract. That was pretty cool, because when he showed up here

he had a shirt with a big pot leaf on it. For real? Yeah, but like, I don't think there's a weird deal that happens and this is going to sound incredibly racist but like when you go to sometimes when you go to other countries they will like use symbols that we use

in America without really... It's kind of like how they have Hitler Cafe in India. You know? You're like, well, we're not using the swastika anymore. And yeah, he just had a shirt with a pot leaf on it.

But it wasn't because he thought it was cool. Pro-herb. No, I don't think he was pro-herb. Because he was... He thought he was cool. Pro-herb. No, I don't think he was pro-herb. Mary Jane. Blake, that's what I'm talking about.

Doobage. Doobage. The devil's lettuce. Legalize it. On this day in 2013, former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin... Oh. ...indicted on charges that he had used his office for personal gain, accepting payoffs, free trips, and gratuities from contractors

while the city was struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. I say, what good is being mayor if you can't take a kickback here and there? No doubt. That's what Ray Nagin said. He was convicted and sent to prison. Should have been in Texas. You can get away with that here. Birthdays.

Today, Gary Trent Jr., 25. He used to share it with his dad. I think his grandpa. Right, his dad shared it with his grandpa. Leonard Fournette, 29. Leo. T. Higgins, 25. Do you know who Dave Bautista is?

Of course. The Blue Jay? No. That's Jose Bautista. Dave Bautista. He's the wrestler and actor. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yes, he was in Guardians of the Galaxy. Okay. Do you know who Ted DiBiase is? Everybody's got a price. Yeah. He's the million dollar man. That's right. Is everybody into wrestling except me?

Because I would expect you to be on my side of, yes, I'd never watched that stupid stuff. Dude. Somehow you're like... I think the difference between me and you was my parents got divorced, but my dad would still get me like five days out of the month.

Whereas yours really like didn't. It was a weekend bit. We were a week every other weekend. So were we, but I mean but that's what we did. You'd watch wrestling. Okay, well, I guess we had different dads. Yeah. I mean, I feel like...

We grew up on the Attitude Era, right? Of course, the Attitude Era. We didn't have cable, and so we only got SmackDown on Thursdays. Of course. Me and my brother, every Thursday in my parents' room, pile-driving each other, mom yelling at us. I've got video of me pile driving my brother for sure no cable yeah it was uh even with the millionaire money i think that might have actually changed after that yeah i don't know well we had like like the super like

the one you could just coax plug in first right so like i had like usa like USA and Comedy Central. Yeah, we had the basic, not like the... There was no guide or anything like that. But like we had USA and that's what it was on for a long time. And then you could just go to Blockbuster and rent VHS tapes. And it was great. Kevin Costner is 69. Also, I would just jerk off to like the female wrestlers a lot. Is that a big player?

Yeah. Is that why kids, teenage boys are into that? Yeah, especially during, as he referenced, the Attitude Era. They really sexed it up. Oh, my God. I think it was Shane Gillis' podcast the other day. There was a storyline with Kane raping Lita or something. There was.

I don't remember that. They actually had a wrestler who was just a pimp. They had a rape storyline? Yes. pimp they had a rape storyline yes dude it was they had wild are you interested now no i'm just uh i'm shocked kevin costner 69 spare his band played at my brother's bar i actually recall us uh promoting that fact when we did our show there once upon a time. It was because of the draft.

Draft Day. Yeah. That's the movie? Yeah. Let's review that before you don't want to. I mean, I'm down, but it's terrible.

Comedian Dave Attell, 59. Dude, speaking of having like three cable channels, Insomniac was such a great show. Yeah, it was. When I went to visit my brother in New York recently, we went to the Comedy Cellar.

He was... I don't know if you know, but they don't tell you who showed up. And it was the last show of the night, like real late, and he showed up super late. I talked to him afterwards. That show was fantastic.

Do you remember that, Dan? I remember there was a show called that it was like a man on the street thing where he would just go to like bars at 2 a.m outside and just riff yeah with people who were just hammered and comedy central would run it at like 11 o'clock at night, and it was great. I never took it in. It was good. That's what she said. Solid. Slow me up, dog. Sure.

Been waiting. When's he going to say something? Rapper DJ Quick, 54. More of a producer, but yes, a legend. And singer Jonathan Davis is 53. Corn. Oh, that's right.

I knew that sounded familiar. You know who opened for them? Okay. Cream? Didn't we just do this yesterday? Hold it, yes. We could say that every day. What's the other one?

Bush and Tool. Bush opens for Tool. Hold. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. what's the other one Bush and Tool yeah Bush opens for Tool thank you thank you thank you born on this day not alive Kurt Flood

ooh speaking of Marvin Miller another reference I was surprised he didn't say yes I've read that book that Joel Corey wouldn't have just

fired that book it fell a little flat I might not have set him up properly. He knew who he was. Yeah, but I would think if you are an agent.

I mean, he kind of walked me into it with like, I just want to fight the team. I thought it was a fantastic question. Thank you. I appreciate it.

And then, died on this day. I'm going to say the U.S. president who most liked to do it. Ooh. Kennedy? No, because he died.

He died on this day in 1862. John Tyler was our 10th president. Tippecanoe? And the reason I say that he might be that, only because he had 15 children. Although perhaps they didn't have a... They didn't have plan B. The rubbers back in.

Yep. I wanted to use another term you probably haven't used in a while. Yep. If ever. Did he not understand how it worked, and there's a time that you could, like... Pull it out? You know, make that happen? Yeah, and also probably...

I thought he took no for an answer. Say again? He probably didn't take no for an answer either. He might have been a little demanding. He had those fast fingers. That's right. Tie it all up. If you think they let you grab it by their this day and age, imagine back then. You had no choice.

What are you going to do? Vote him out of office? Yeah. Run and tell the local sheriff? And probably... I mean... He's workshopping. What was it? No, no, no. This is no joke. Half... Was it half the kids would die?

In childbirth and all that. It was a very high... Yeah. childbirth mortality rate. Even up to... I mean, my grandma had two kids that died before the age of two, something like that. I believe mine had one.

Just the way it was. What a note. Yeah. What a... A little pick me up and everything and that was today in history

alright Jeff Austin closing remarks absolute pleasure thanks for having us especially on the historic hundredth episode

oh that's right how you feel about that, Jake? Well, it's actually 101, but... Oh, yeah. This one will be the one that counts. Anything? You're kind of petering out here. No, no, I was...

Zidane's den. Zidane's den would be like, if my brain, I think, could be a place. A place? Yeah. Yeah, thank you, Jake. Yeah, no, it was, we appreciate it. Or we, why am I saying we?

I. Well, there's two of you. Yeah, I feel like I'm speaking for Austin. Yeah, please don't. All right, well, thanks. Yeah. Thanks, guys. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Good guys. Adios, mofo.

Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here we go.

Here we go. Here we go. Yeah. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.