The Dumb Zone FREE - Episode 104: Luka vs. Tim McMahon, Beltre's Hall of Fame, Blake's Dating Apps Advice

Episode Date: January 25, 2024

Alright, folks, welcome back to "The Dumb Zone!" On today's episode, we take you on a wild ride through history with our favorite time-traveling duo, Bill and Ted. Picture this: meeting yourself from the past and dropping knowledge bombs like the legendary number 69. Dudes, it's mind-blowing stuff. Then we shift gears to talk movies. Ever mix up Jeff Spicoli with Keanu Reeves? You're not alone. Our hosts hilariously navigate through iconic movie quotes, blending "Fast Times" and "The Matrix," before realizing it's all about "The Replacements." Football, Keanu style, folks!Next up, we get into some real talk about sports. Jake, Dan, and Blake dissect the latest Mavs drama, with Luca’s frustration hitting an all-time high and Jason Kidd’s laid-back coaching style not helping. It’s like watching a soap opera but with more slam dunks and fewer love triangles. Plus, a special shoutout to Adrian Beltre for his induction into the Hall of Fame—deservedly so, for a player who brought so much joy and intensity to the game.And, of course, we couldn’t miss a chat about the latest Hollywood trends. Jake Gyllenhaal in the new "Roadhouse"? Yes, please! Plus, a sneak peek into how these action-packed flicks are changing the way we view our favorite heroes.We also take a moment to celebrate the Ticket's 30th anniversary, reminiscing about the good times and the legacy of this iconic station.Finally, we wrap up with a look at what’s buzzing in the world of business. Why do all those meetings feel like they go nowhere? Our hosts share some personal anecdotes and hilarious takes on how the corporate world is more about golf games and lunch breaks than actual work. And don’t miss Blake's expert advice on navigating the wild world of dating apps—spotting the red flags and finding the gems.So, grab your headphones and get ready for another epic episode of "The Dumb Zone." We promise it’s going to be a most excellent adventure! (00:00) - - Open (07:30) - - Viewer Mail (27:30) - - The Ticket’s 30th birthday (38:00) - - Sports: Luka vs. MacMahon, the Mavs are a disaster, and Beltre is a HOF’r (01:23:00) - - News (01:37:00) - - Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Dudes, you guys are gonna go back in time. Yeah! You are going to have a most excellent adventure through history. Who are you guys? We're you, dude! No way. No way. Yes way, Ted!

Look, we know how you feel. We didn't believe it either when we were you, and we us said what we us are saying right now. Okay, wait. If you guys are really us, what number are we thinking of? 69, dudes! Whoa!

Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright You know that movie, Blake? Come on! I mean, at first I thought it was Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times. And then I think I heard Keanu and Ted. So it's The Matrix. So I'm going to go with the replacements. He had the right reasoning and then the wrong answer.

Yeah. Because if I heard Keanu and Ted, I would think of... In the replacements, his name was Shane Falco. Shane Falco. Well, Footsteps Falco from Ohio State. Footsteps Falco, that's right. He played Ohio State quarterback twice? Twice, yeah.

That's a great movie. They should have won the Sugar Bowl, but he was a disaster. Yeah. Bill and Ted, I don't know. There you go. But I don't know the rest of the title. Magical Adventure. Pretty close. Pretty close.

Pretty close. We're going to get you to know everything we know someday. Yeah, no. Boy, that's... It wasn't even the sequel, right? It was the third one. That kind of came and went. There was a third Bill and Ted?

Yeah, like three or four years ago. Kind of like a Dumb and Dumber. Oh, my God. That was so bad. Yeah. So bad. The remade Roadhouse, that's coming out. Oh, I know.

A remake, not a TV series? No, no, it's a movie. Oh, it's a movie. The trailer comes out today. Yeah, I saw Gyllenhaal kicking ass on Twitter earlier. Yeah. I think I'm in. Yeah, that actually made news because here's the plot, Dan.

It's basically the same except Gyllenhaal is Swayze. And the reason he's so kick ass is because he's a retired MMA fighter. And, like like they filmed part of it at an actual MMA event, which gave away one of the fairly major plot points as somebody recorded it with their phone when they weren't supposed to and

posted it. But I think Conor McGregor's in it. As like the bad guy. Is Gyllenhaal all beefed up? Stupid. Yeah,haal beefed up? Stupid. Yeah, just... Stupid beefed up. I mean, I could do that if I was a Hollywood actor and I just hired a trainer.

Of course, a chef. Worked out eight hours a day. That was my job, to work out. Yep. But I got... Hell, I got meetings. How about Business Wednesday, man? Were you as tired as I was last night?

It was action-packed, yes. It was the most tired I've been in a long time. Like, I'd rather do the stream on Sunday and carry chairs up and down. Yeah, take notes. Yeah. We had two and a half more hours after you got done, Blake. Because it's weird, and I wonder if people feel like this in business. Like how many meetings and how many hours you spend on one thing

and you're like, I'm closer to the decision. Yeah. Because we don't really know what we're – we still don't know. We're allowed now to take advertising. We'll soon be allowed – we'll have all shackles off if we have a shackle on. It's, it's... Dumb zone unchained.

Yeah, but like today's episode is free and I was thinking today, yeah, it's our one video ep and I thought, you know what? We could just video every episode if we wanted to this week. We could put them all out for free, you know, we could.

Yeah. But so we're in this middle portion of we're... We're edging. Out of, yeah, we're out of one area, a cloud not quite over us anymore. As it were. I didn't mean that. Dang, that. Dang.

That was perfect. Oh, man. That's going to be a fun day. Sorry, I forgot. The edge of the cloud is just over. That's a great catch. And then to total, we could do any, but we just don't know. So we're in the, I think I told you on the phone yesterday,

we're in the taint of our career because it's in the middle. It's not this and it's not that, but we don't really know what it is. It taints this, it taints that, yeah. I will tell you this, though, about business people. And we stink. Taint is not a... Clean it up. You can clean it up, but it not a... Clean it up.

You can clean it up, but it's tough to keep it clean. I've often wanted to just wax it. Seriously. Because we've talked about when you groom, you're like, well, where do I stop? All right. 7,500 followers and we do it? Taint wax? Yeah. I'll do that at...

What are we at now? Add 10 more. Well, let's try to. Oh, sorry. Bad sales job. Get the people going a little bit more. Yeah. I think, of course, yeah, we'll do it on video. I think the lie of the business world is, I think that there's a lot of just kind of sitting around. world is I think that there's a lot of just kind of sitting around. Like you might have two or three meetings a day, but you're not doing meetings the whole day. How about people that want to do a lunch meeting or a happy hour meeting?

It's like, well, now I got to drive 45 minutes. Right. Waste a bunch of time. And now we got to do pleasantries and hang out and talk about like, I don't want to do that stuff. I just want to talk about, let's get to the meat meat my wife has to do that sort of thing and she hates it and that's part of general business and that's part of your wasting time you could be i could be working on cancer yesterday and i wasn't working on you know trying to cure it yeah

thank you for clearing that up yeah not But that's why most of them golf. That's true. And that drives my wife insane. So four hours, you make a decision somewhere in that? You might even just get closer to a decision. But you're either spending time in a conference room or at a Chili's, or you could just go play golf. Yeah.

The women of the business world are very upset that golf exists. What do they have? I mean, think about how bad people would freak out if you were like... Let's go get a mani-pedi. Yeah, we're going to go to a spa for four hours and just talk. But it's an expense, business, right, love? I mean, it should be, but you couldn't get away with that. I'm a feminist.

Yeah. You are. Hey, I have a little bit of viewer mail that I love. You're the AOC of the show. Yeah, I think that works. You're all hot. Yeah, no, that's me. I've really enjoyed our Gaza Strip ice cream series.

And we've gotten a lot of good suggestions. My buddy Sean hit us with RPG Lotto. But I'm reminded by a listener, Dallas. He says he grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh for countless hours in the backseat of his parents' car. I had a somewhat similar experience. A lot of ticket, but a lot of conservative talk radio. And Rush did a couple segments on a company that popped up, I think,

basically right around 9-11 or the Iraq War, so early 2000s, called Star Spangled Ice Cream. And these are some of the... We couldn't have done this. Ours were good. These are great. Like Iraqi Road. Like Prail to the Chief. How about Impeach Clinton?

That's a layup, right? I hate the French Vanilla. French's a layup, right? I hate the French vanilla. French is a fun one. Because if you recall, they were sitting things out. Nutty environmentalist. That's kind of a reach, but it kind of works. And then the one I love the most is chalk and all. Because their slogan was like,

chalk and all the campaign. Slogan? Do you have a slogan for a war? Basically. because their slogan was like shocking all the campaign. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Slogan. Do you have a slogan for a war? Basically. They kind of did. You always have like a name for the operation,

like Iraqi, Iraqi freedom. It's always badass. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But would you like to be in that room? That writer's room? They're all kind of dicking around with a lot of funny things?

Like, what should we call this? Right. Yeah. Like a lot of racist undertones? We're just going to have to go with shock and awe. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Yeah, there's no doubt that somebody at some point was like, can we use sand?

Like, how can we do that? I always loved The Surge. Like under uh i think that was obama right like when we were decided like hey we've had enough of this shit we're gonna commit and it's like we're calling it the surge felt like an ode to the soda that i drank growing up that i uh was convinced would shrink my penis. Yellow 5. That's right. Well, if you're in the mood for follow-ups on a Thursday, we have another 9-11 memorial. We're learning that there are a lot of them. If you're wondering what this show is all about,

you're just tuning in, maybe you heard the Brunigs talking about us. Maybe you just read about us in the Washington Post. Sure. The show basically, and maybe you're former, you used to hear us on the ticket, and you're like, wait, what are these guys doing now? And you're just tuning in now. One of the ten new subbies we got on the way to Jake's Taint Wax.

You're thinking, what do these guys do? Well, most of our show is spent on Gaza Strip-type ice cream names and 9-11 memorials around the world. And this one is in Wiley. Oh. He says, from Steven, where Blake lives and I live as well, it is properly, he says, placed at a fire station. Yeah, that works.

Not a Tex-Mex restaurant. Please tell me it's the one by my house. Go ahead. He said it's replica 12-foot towers that pay tribute to the 343 firefighters who died, which have been etched into the towers. It also has a piece of the tower within the window of remembrance.

You could reach in and touch it, like a real piece of the tower. And then kind of close your eyes. Just kind of ASMR it. Feel the thermite. It has red and orange lights to represent the fire that consumed most of the lives that day. The sidewalk is pentagon-shaped to subtly this is according to their website, subtly include the

pentagon's involvement on that fateful day. Yeah, I'll say they had some involvement. And then he says, I don't know if this is a tie-in, he says, more importantly, in Wiley there is a house at the address of 911 Memorial Drive.

If it wasn't a house, it would be a great address for Dragon Den Productions. And then he sends a Zillow link so you could actually find. Yeah, we'll have to go tour it and see if we could build it out. What's this bad boy worth? It's a lot cheaper than the studio space we looked at a week ago. That was what, $ 1.7 million asking and we're like gosh i uh kind of looking for 1.3 yeah we're gonna give you a hundred dollars but that was a big big giant building for sale yeah where that's probably not in our near future uh And then he says, may all of your fires be ceased. Thank you.

Yeah. You know, you mock it. But I think it's at the, I can't, like, maybe it's the American History Smithsonian. It might be, like, the media Smithsonian. But they have a 9-11 situation there that you basically have to be even more soulless than us to not like get super moved by it like they got a documentary that plays which is pretty much just raw footage like all these accounts and stuff and like i'm the guy who was making jokes about it when i was 16 on 9 12 912. But in D.C. they have a museum set up and it's like, oh

damn. This was gnarly. So you're saying maybe the Smithsonian does it better than us? Or than Wiley? The Quickie Mart or whatever. The rest stop. I mean, that sounds like a joke, but it is literally in the

parking lot of a Starbucks, a Tex-Mex restaurant, and a title licensing company. A 9-11 memorial. Yes. About two blocks from my house. And it's pretty spare. I don't know that I've ever just gone and taken it. We're going to have... We need...

Okay, that's in our next year calendar, right? Calendar, yeah. Write that down. That's got to be a must-do. Oh, 9-11 Memorial? Picture at the 9-11 Memorial. It is extremely underwhelming. Near Jake.

And maybe now, maybe the one in Wiley, although the Wiley one sounds like it's proper. Yeah, it does. I'll be the judge of that. A bunch on today's program. If we're doing some viewer mail, let me just

at least read the birthdays. I've got one as well. A birthday? Or an email? Viewer mail. Blake wants to end with his. He says it's great. You've been hyping it up all morning. Want to get a last-minute shout-out to my friend Terry Fagan.

You think that's how you pronounce that? How would you say it? For his birthday today. Terry Fagan, I would say it. I got him a year-long DZ subscription for Christmas. Now that it's his birthday, I'm out of ideas. That's awesome. He thinks the Bills are cursed and the Cowboys are nuts. I got him a year-long DZ subscription for Christmas. Now that it's his birthday, I'm out of ideas. That's awesome.

He thinks the Bills are cursed and the Cowboys are not, so we remind him we can all be miserable and the two things can be true. Other than that, he likes big tees and Rangers baseball. He'd appreciate hearing his leaders give him a mention from Treva McCrowski. Oh, I'm sorry. She writes, it's pronounced Treva. The girl who showed up at a remote 12 years ago and gave you a Zico coconut water, and then you asked if it was expired, and that's why I was giving it to you.

Still one of my fondest memories. I used to drink coconut water. Treva. I feel like it kind of waned in popularity. Treva. That might have been the only one I ever drank, if indeed I drank Treva. I feel like it kind of waned in popularity. Treva. That might have been the only one I ever drank, if indeed I drank it. You didn't like it? I had convinced myself, or was convinced by others, that it was really good for hangovers. I feel like for the last 10 years, I only drink water and coffee.

I can't tell you the last time that I had- I just don't drink anything. A soda that was not associated with a cocktail. The last time I just had a Coke. You do 12-hour energy. Five. Five-hour, whatever. Yeah.

But that's like, you know, it's an ounce and a half or two ounces or whatever. But no, I did not do soda. I don't really do tea. Uncle Hotmail, apologize for using inferior Gmail. Hopefully it makes it through the sophisticated Hotmail firewall. My buddy Jeff Q in Tyler, it's his birthday. Happy birthday, Jeff Q. His leaders are Jake's Nipples and Jake's, excuse me, Blake's Nipples.

Yeah, I barely have any. And Jake's Puppet. That was my problem. Yeah, I barely have any. And Jake's puppet. That was my problem. From Matt, the big dumb effing Tyler. I have like recessed nipples. Inverted? Yeah, sort of. Yeah.

Like even when I get cold, I rarely can see them. Like an alien. That used to be me, but now they're always erect. Because of your rings? Yeah. I didn't know that until somebody tweeted at me like, hey, as soon as you get them pierced, they're always going to stick out.

Interesting. I wonder if that happens with the Prince Albert. Only one way to find out. I feel like that would be unhealthy I already committed to waxing my taint So I'm going to let somebody else take the Albert You also claimed off air That you would get a tattoo During our Super Bowl stream

I would If that might help I would It's kind of a lot to set up As I learned whenever I got a tattoo on my foot While doing a ticker But yeah, as I learned whenever I got a tattoo on my foot while doing a ticker. But, yeah, I'll get a little something. I'll get a dumb zone tattoo on my other foot.

Did you see the someone sent me the iced tea tweet? No. Where basically it was, he was looking at, somebody had sent him a picture of their new tattoo, which was iced tea. He dunked on it? No, he said it was very humbling. Oh, okay. To have somebody tattoo iced tea on their leg. And, of course, that's a misuse of humbling.

It is. I have seen other times, though, where celebrities have been sent images of themselves tattooed on someone else's body and they're like that doesn't look anything like me just like kind of ruined the wax museum exactly and now did you almost just come up with a new idea called the wax midget museum I didn't hold on I got more on that in a second but i

that was just a misspeak pull up that video in dropbox you got a video in dropbox yeah so we can all see it i got this text january yes um basically november or excuse me february from df west who's helped us out with a couple things in our past he said you want me to full screen it? I found a 90 second promo of that show

Tens with Daniel Tosh that Jake mentioned yesterday. Hell yeah and apparently he says that Tosh tried to scrub this from the internet because it was really hard to find and it's so very 90s and it's very funny and I thought you guys would enjoy watching it especially Dan yeah this just as a refresher this would run on regular television here locally and I imagine across the nation it would run at like 10 o'clock on either 49 or maybe even 27.

And at that time, the Mavericks were on those channels. So that was like the Maverick game would end and they would just go to this soft core porno. Yeah. Like you're watching Mass Post game and then. Yeah. Seriously. From Oracle to Tosh. Are you ready?

Yeah. Hit it. Taking me back. Isn't it perfect? This is what 14-year-old Jake's watching? Maybe even younger than that. Oh, my God. Yeah.

Get off cloud nine and get on ten. Hot chicks, invaded suits. What characteristics do you have that you think makes you a ten? Aside from my good looks, I'm a gentleman. A little beach interview. I don't remember there being dudes. What is this? If you're a one-ten, where do you fall?

But look at young Daniel Tosh. Bleached tips and stuff. Yeah, earrings. What makes a perfect 10 woman? Someone who can be your friend and love you and appreciate you for everything that you have to give. Come on. Great body. That doesn't hurt. Hell yeah.

Hell yeah, love body. Look at that bod. What's the worst part of your body? My skin. There. That's not the worst part of your body. Yeah? Not at all.

Yeah. I got my biggest big hot girl. Your tan lines? Show me your tan lines. He's just on the beach now saying, show me your tan lines. You lost mine? Yeah. Be honest, and I want you to be honest.

Is that not the sexiest thigh? Just slow-mo shots of chicks emerging from the water. USAB Late Prime brings you the show dreams are made of. Shams. After Mavs and Celtics tonight at 10 yeah 9's not good

no no no and again I can't remember if it was before or after then they would run strip poker

which is what you think it is you know it does make you wonder what will TV be like in 20 years. Just because every generation is like, oh, this is going to hell. And it was first going to hell because, you know, someone would sleep in the same bed as their wife. Right.

You know, something like that. And then it was going to hell because Ellen kissed a girl. And now, of course, there's an obligatory gay character on every, as Blake's grandpa would attest to you, right? It's just, yeah. They're making out in commercials. They're doing whatever. Then you got this emerges, and you're like,

if an adult had seen this at the time, they wouldn't believe. You're talking about 2035 full pin? Yeah, maybe. Maybe a little FP. I don't know. I feel like we've gone the other way. I think you'd have a hard time finding something like this on local network television right now. Network, yeah.

But, I mean, you know, Love Island is basically The Bachelor, but they're saying, hey, why don't you go have sex with him, and then we'll come back and you can make fun of it and we'll talk about it. And then maybe someone else after that. Yeah. That's true. That show definitely feels like as far as we can go without making normal content just straight up porno.

Yeah, and I guess nobody really gets up in arms about it unless it gets mainstream. Right. Yeah, but overseas they're doing that naked dating show. Yeah, you guys remember when I told you about that? And the naked news. I can't remember the name of it. Oh, the naked truth. The naked truth, yeah.

Dude, we need to do another review of an episode of that. I need you guys to watch a full episode It was the most insane thing I've ever seen And it was on regular ass TV I think I pulled a few episodes And still have it on the hard drive So yeah that'd be easy They were showing Vagine

Yeah On like a channel called BBC4 or something And commenting on grooming issues Yeah And the host would be like yeah yeah I see your point on like a channel called BBC4 or something. And commenting on grooming issues. Yeah. And the host would be like, yeah, yeah, I see your point. Yeah, that is a little messy. So you said something earlier, and I said I'll get back to that. I take you now to Monday night, Channel 8 in Dallas,

as they were doing the weather, but then when they're done with the weather, there's always a little fun banter. Sure. With Chris and Izzy. I think one of the other big stories apparently has to do with soccer and Messi. Is he coming to Dallas? Soccer crazy.

He was just here. He was just here? Yeah. Okay, so that was the whole reason. All right, well, let's take you to the WFAA studios. Sunshine with temperatures in the 60s and get a little break from the rain. And, oh, it's coming back just in time for the following weekend. Isn't that exciting?

But at least it's not snow and it's not ice and it's not a tornadic situation. So that's all good news right there. Question. Yeah. How tall do y'all think Lionel Messi is? He's like 5'3". He's a midget. Oh, no.

He's not very tall, though. He's a small guy. Chris got it right. 5'6"? 5'6". 5'7". He's diminutive. Joe with wow.

The funniest part about that, obviously, is that Pete tries to deflect from the fact that he used this slur by being like, he's not very tall. No. I mean, that's... He's like 5'3". He's a midget. He's like 5'6". He's a small guy. Chris got it right. 5'6"? He's 5'7".

He's diminutive. Yeah, I don't think the issue that they took with you there, Pete, was that you were wrong about his height. I don't think you needed to clear that up. Dang. Wow. That was shocking. It's one thing if it's Dan.

I know, but the weather guy. Yeah, that's... Should be good, no tornadic activity. That's part of my brand. Wow. Also, tornadic activity is dressed up. Just say there's no tornadoes. That's a little bit much for me.

Is it rain coming back this weekend? Is that what I just learned? That is, yes. That's really the message you should take out of all of that. Sure. Is be prepared. Get your rubbers or your galoshes. Is that the name? Galoshes. Is that the name?

Galoshes? Is that like boots? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Boots that you put over your regular shoes, I think. Yeah. Yeah.

May have had a pair of those at one point. There's no doubt you did. How could you go over what you did without it? Yeah. Feels like that's a bad bit. This is what I think. Before we get to, we do have some meaty sports topics that I'd like to get to. And also, a little warning.

Video Man has a tight sked today. And so we actually, I'm going to guess this gets released earlier than usual. So if you're listening to this now, going, why did they drop this earlier? And, you know, we're in the middle zone. At some point, whether we're going live or just dropping it at the same time every day, that's our goal, correct? Yes.

Yeah. Get a little consistency in life. But he's got to leave by 1. And right now it's 11.38. So it won't be as long of an episode as we have become accustomed to throwing out there. So we're back timing. But I did think today,

because we had a lot of correspondence on it yesterday or whatever, did you want to talk about the ticket's 30th anniversary at all? Or 30th birthday? Same thing, correct? Yeah, I think they're the same thing. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it was weird, obviously.

It was a weird day. At no point have I regretted anything that we have done, but it was weird. It was weird just to basically have your entire Twitter feed be about the place where you used to work and ultimately were sued by, at least the parent company. But, yeah, it was a nice day to kind of reflect and just be introspective. Yeah, I didn't think a lot about it until you, like, texted me about it. Yeah. Well, I mean, I still listen a lot, and it was basically the whole day of programming. Yeah, no, I heard a lot of the stuff.

Yeah. And it's definitely weird that, you know, based on just the way that everything's gone with us, that we won't, like, be mentioned in any way, shape, or form, but people that have worked there for a very short amount of time or like a big part of it i was thinking it was kind of it would be kind of funny like do you guys remember when uh world famous and legendary competitive eater kobayashi got suspended for like a year from the coney island hot dog eating contest but he still just like showed up okay he got he got arrested i do remember that yeah like he got like stormed the stage or something.

So you want to do that at Ticket Stock or what? Yeah, I mean, that was my idea is that we just kind of show up. We should have had to buy tickets by now probably, but kind of just work our way. Well, you're talking about the 30th anniversary. Yeah, either way. They have a 30th anniversary show. Yeah, tomorrow.

That I think sold out right away. Yeah. Oh, is it tomorrow? Should we buy a booth? Give away some trinkets. Have a little putting green. Dumb zone t-shirts and koozies. I mean, we're very pro-ticket.

Like I said, I still listen all the time. But yeah, it was weird. That's about all I can say about it. You? How about you, Blake? Yeah, I mean, my history on air was very brief, so it didn't hit me that hard. But you were part of a lot of...

You went on way more team trips than I did. Like, probably three or four times as many. Yeah, and that helped, you know, the relationship with you guys and stuff. But, you know, when you're not in programming, it's not like you're a part of things. At least it felt that way. But, no, I mean, it was cool to hear how happy everyone was and relive some of the memories that was really cool but yeah i mean it was it was kind of a weird day it's like i don't know like i don't know what's weirder like you were there a lot longer and a much more prominent figure dan

thank you but for me like i never worked anywhere else like i didn't have the climb that you radio wise yeah yeah i mean i've worked for my parents business like while i was doing the top 10 i've done four five six seven different publications writing but i mean i showed up there within like five months of graduating high school. And what year was that? 2003. Okay, so your dad had been listening since the inception? Yeah, or pretty close to it. And so that means you're in the car.

Yeah. And so you've been listening. Yeah. Yeah, that's got to be weird. That's Artie Lang on the Stern Show. Artie Lang, I think, grew up listening to Stern, and then all of a sudden he's on the stern show arty lang i think grew up listening to stern and then all of a sudden he's on the stern show and a big part of things yeah and it was definitely weird i don't have that that experience for sure of you know that's the thing i love and then i

my goal is to go work there and then i do yeah and i don't it's weird too like you kind of you were a little bit older like 10 or so years older and had kind of already developed as a person by your like late twenties. Whereas for me, like, I don't even know what I would be like in an alternate universe. I might be a different, in some ways, a very different person. You know, if I had gone to law school or something lame like that, or, you know, if I had gone to law school or something lame like that, you know, or worked in PR or politics or something like that, I mean, it really is like the shaping force of my life. Did you ever consider? Because I got there so early.

Yeah, I guess you got in so early. And I wonder, did you ever consider working at other radio stations? Like, hey, I'm going to go get a job in a different market. Yeah, for sure. Not initially, but after I had interned. And I applied at a couple places, but I had no experience at all other than... Did you ever get an interview? No, not really.

Usually you want somebody with a little bit of... I didn't work at my campus radio station. Okay. That's interesting. Yeah. I wonder why. Why wouldn't you do that? Because that's pretty much a layup.

You can easily get in on that. Yeah. It wasn't my major. So I remember that being a problem. It was a minor. And they put the people who was their major first. And you got to remember at this, I was really stoked on politics. So that was a big part of it.

Turns out, if you want to apply for a job in like Tyler, your main tape being that you used to call strippers and five-year-olds and ask them questions in a trivia contest. That was what Corby had you doing? Oh, yeah. Okay. It was so much fun too. Yeah, I imagine. Not a lot of people have ever talked to a

stripper at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. But I did it every week for like 4 months. What was that bit? It was stripper versus a 5 year old. Oh, okay. Yeah, and they would come up with questions. For knowledge? Yeah. We would do like 20 to 10. It was actually a lot easier to find the strippers.

You know, parents who would put their 5-old on the phone with me or any of us at the ticket was a little bit of a tougher challenge. So I would have to track down the strippers. You know what was funny about it is there used to be a guy who went by T-Bar. Yeah. Indispensable. Yeah, he was Grego's buddy.

Yeah. It was like a promo or something like that, and he would hook me up with a stri Grego's buddy. Yeah. It was like a promo or something like that. He would hook me up with a stripper like every week. Not like biblically. Yeah. Yeah, that was a fun game. Did anything ever come of that biblically?

Like, hey, I really hit it off with this girl? No, there were a couple times where I felt like it did. Or a five-year-old? Any of the five-year-olds? No, none of the five-year-olds either, you idiots. But anyways, yeah, I'm happy for them. If they were born on February 29th, it'd be fine. Okay, yeah, because they'd be technically 20. Yeah.

Okay, good math. I was thinking maybe like 25. Pretty basic, I think. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I thought, I think the exact same thing, pretty much that you said. You know, it is, I do get that, hey, don't mention those guys, because we're trying to pump up the guys who are here.

Sure. And it's, you know, they're using the 30th as not just a remembrance, but it's a promotional event to, you know, they got bills to pay and keep the ratings good and all that kind of stuff um but i've got nothing bad to say about the ticket i don't think i ever will because we are gonna you know we are gonna have like we're able to talk about whatever and all that kind of stuff and and we will we'll talk about whatever but i and i'll be totally honest about a lot of stuff and we're going to talk about being in the courtroom and we'll we'll talk about you know what happened behind the scenes with the lawyers and

all that kind of stuff but um I got nothing but you know the the reason we stayed there in the past like when Bob and Dan were getting offers elsewhere, was the people. And that was the real draw for staying there now. But other factors got thrown in. It's funny, when I was thinking last night about a couple big moments in time where I had a big decision to make, both of the times, I took the one that is way less advantageous monetarily for me yeah which is really weird yeah maybe you're just a pure-hearted soul i don't know but that's both times you know when we stayed at the ticket and didn't go we were getting money

whipped yeah and this time in retrospect it was like getting kind of getting money whipped. Yeah. And this time in retrospect it was like getting kind of getting money whipped by the ticket compared to what at least the short term prospects were outside.

And so I also have no regrets at this point. Talk to us in five years and maybe we'll be like oh man that was a really bad idea. Who knows? I don't think so. I was trying to convince myself to have a regret

last night and I kind of couldn't because I thought if we had acquiesced and done something we didn't want to do, the regret that we would feel now, I think, would be big.

Yeah. Like, what if, how did we do that? Why did we just get pushed around like that? That's how these things work. So I don't know. But it's, obviously, they're great. It's the ticket. And it's a machine.

And, you know, as we've said all along, it's not like we're competing against the ticket. How could we? Let's say we said we are. We're going to take on the ticket? Like three morons? Sometimes on Sunday there's like seven morons. Yeah. That's fun.

Yeah. But just, it's a machine. Yeah. It's fun. Yeah, but just, it's a machine. Yeah. It's a brand. It's like, do you think our YouTube page is affecting HBO's bottom line? We're not. I doubt it. Let's do some sports.

Oh, okay. So I'm going to play something for you real quick to lead us into Mavs talk, because we have a lot of Mavs to get to today. Do you want to do Mavs first? Sure. We need a more basketball-y song than this at some point. It's fine for now, but we need to somehow loop like the Tim Robinson ba-ba-ba-ba-ba basketball.

Ah, okay. Mark that, Blake. So, this is not Mavs related. This is Nets related. Are you aware of the concept of Twitter spaces? Yes. So, like you can, if you're... Does it mean like a live chat? Yeah.

And a lot of times it'll be, you know, like you're locked on, fill in the blank type host. Maybe his co-host. They'll hop on there. There's no video to it. You see this for like politic type things. Elon has even done some of them. So this is a Nets Twitter space with a guy who is, I believe, a Nets podcast host and a Nets writer. And I looked at this video.

There were like 2,300 people on this. So this is not just like some guy and his buddies deeing around. Well, apparently, he was doing this from his car. Okay? Am I unmuted, Blake? I take you to the Nets Twitter space last night where they're discussing Spencer Dinwiddie. We've heard that that happened before.

Hopefully that happens with Spencer Dinwiddie. And whether they choose to go as Cam or they choose to whatever, just make it. Oh, no. Eric? Yep. You okay? Yep, I am.

I got to head out, guys. All right. Let us know you're all right, man. Wow. As the tweet that I saw this put in said, that's the most comedic-sounding cartoon car crash of all time. We've heard that happen before. Hopefully that happens with Spencer Dinwiddie.

And whether they choose to go as Cam or they choose to whatever, just make it. Eric? Yep. You okay? Yep, I am. I gotta head out, guys.

His voice completely changes. It completely changes, yeah. Yeah, okay. I got to get away from him, Woody. Yeah, that is weird. Yeah, I'm fine. He had radio voice. His radio voice is worse than his real voice.

It was. His voice sounds badass. Yeah. It sounds like a drop from a sound effects catalog. I have Mavs-related audio that's not the meat that we want to do today. Okay. It's very short.

It's Sint. Oh, good. What's she been up to? Let's go back to Joe Trahan, who interviewed Sint. Why? I guess because he looked over and there she was.

And he's like, hey, I got a camera here. And so they are talking about it's very generic a lot of vague you know we've made fun of scent marshall for years because she was the product of a sports illustrated expose on the mavss. Wasn't that it? Yeah, and I think really for me it was that she was an executive at AT&T, I believe in town, and said at her introductory press conference she'd never heard of Mark Cuban. A former executive.

She was unemployed at the time, but somehow they were like, you know what, CEO. And she might be great. She might be great. And I think it's, obviously it's a cool thing. You have a black female in a position of leadership that makes representation, you know. I think that's a good thing.

I just thought it was really weird that she felt she needed to say she'd never even heard of Mark Cuban. Right, because she wanted to show how, hey, I'm not going to just do whatever. I'm not a big fanboy. Right. Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, they start talking about

some vague stuff with the new owners coming in. And then she does say something that's, I think, pretty big. And so that's the vision, that we will have a big entertainment center, a big, you know, just a lot of stuff going on a lot of activity that people can come and enjoy and so that's what it means investment in dallas yeah so a lot of we're gonna have stuff it's gonna be stuff people can do yeah there you

go keeping it here in the city right the team stays here in the city right in it well in this region i assume it's the city i mean i don't know the plans aren't there yet and then we have a lot to do legislative wisewise and all that. But the vision is that you're going to see a lot of enhancements in this very arena. In fact, I'm getting ready to go and do a walkthrough with some people right now. So you'll see a lot of money put into this arena. But then we will build something that will truly be a destination spot for Dallas. And I can't wait.

So, yeah, the meet there is. There you go, keeping it here in the city, right? The team stays here in the city, right? Well, in this region, I assume it's the city. I mean, I don't know. The plans aren't there yet. They're moving out of Dallas. Probably so, yeah. And that sucks because

I love where they are right now. It's kind of cool. They actually, it actually did build stuff up around it. It took a while, but it's definitely, you know, it's not an East Coast situation, but as a guy who did, what, 220 Mavs postgame shows and was down there every night, it was really cool.

And it's going to be in Irving now. It's going to be where the old Texas Stadium is, isn't it? Or Frisco. And it's going to be in irving now it's going to be where the old texas stadium is frisco and it's going to be everything around there they're going to promise development and uh and local businesses are going to be no they're not because they're going to build all new businesses around it kind of like texas live texas live yeah all of these places have figured out we need to own everything around the arena as well. And these dumb cities will still pay us a ton of money and will promise economic development and all that kind of stuff.

But really, that's going to happen. Yes, it is going to happen. And obviously, the casino component of it is huge as well. They're going to need a lot of space of which there's not a ton of in Dallas. Not exactly sure why you need to throw a bunch of money at the current arena though. It seems like a weird...

Well, I don't know that she's actually... It's going to happen. I think they're trying to say that to kind of say oh yeah, look. I thought she had a walkthrough. Yeah. How many arenas are there? I mean, this is probably a bad question, but that are just hockey? Yeah, so, yeah, Detroit, obviously Pittsburgh.

Yeah, so, yeah, Detroit, obviously Pittsburgh. But I feel like most of them are dual. Yeah, I suppose if you don't have an NBA team like San Jose or whatever. Yeah, Nashville is another one, yeah. It just seems weird to me to have a downtown Dallas arena for the Stars. I mean, if anything, it feels like they would be more. They used to probably have concerts still, and shows. Yeah, I guess that's true. The Globetrotters. Oh yeah, you can't.

That's a staple. Every February. And then, of course, we have Mavs Chaos. Oh my god, dude. Things are very bad. Things are going bad. They got drilled last night after a good start.

The games are longer, Jake, than 12 minutes or whatever. They're now 16-18 in their last 34. So they are four games over.500 overall. Played a very weak schedule to start the season. Chaos is setting in. During the game last night, Luka got a fan ejected. That's tough. And Tim McMahon tweeted.

Now, did this tweet pop out during the game? Yes. Yeah. He says Luka put a little video, too, of a guy. Luka Doncic asked security to eject this Suns fan who was sitting two rows behind midcourt press row. The comment the fan made

that drew Luka's wrath, Luka, you're tired. Get your ass on the treadmill. And then, let's take you to the Luka postgame. I think, I'll just play it from the beginning. I think the first thing is not to McMahon, but

it gives you context of what happened here. In your viewpoint, what happened from probably the midpoint of the third quarter, you guys were up by 16 to essentially getting outscored by 30-something points in the next 13 minutes. It was our defense. I think

Book went off. He could have missed, he destroyed us. I think it was our defense. What were you frustrated about at the end of the second quarter when you got that tactical? I know I saw you when you said about the fan, you know, that was not a true all, that was not the only thing he said,

but I knew you would be the first one to to point out something like that I'm not gonna say what he said, but I knew you were gonna be the first one to put out something like that So I just saw it man. It's just funny He always seemed to be the first one to put some bad stuff about me. First of all 99% of stuff I've written about you's been good. I don't know. I was sitting two rows behind us Alright, so it was the only thing he was, that time he said something, the only thing? That was what you reacted to.

Yeah, I was hearing the whole first half, right? Or you didn't hear anything? He was definitely hollering. Okay, there we go. You put out something that was just the only thing. What was the final straw? What was the final issue? What was the thing that... It's not final issue? What was the thing that –

It's not the issue. I'm just seeing you seems to be the first one to always put something bad about me. I never asked for the fan to be ejected. That's fine. It's all over. Why did you ask for the fan to be ejected? Because he was cursing me the whole first half too. Why didn't you ask for the fan to be ejected in the first half then?

Because I never would eject a fan. They pay for tickets, but I had enough, you know. It's a little bit of frustration. You turned your head and looked over at him after he said that. I mean, that's what we saw. Yeah, that's fine. I'm the bad guy in the media, right? It's all right.

Do you feel like you're fairly portrayed in the media? No. Do you feel like you're fairly portrayed in the media? No. Physically, how are you after the – you look like you tweaked the – Okay, so now we'll – Brad Shamit. Yeah, get it back to – That's a lot, man.

I mean, they're not very good. Well, it's interesting, number one, this is the post-game press conference. He has already seen Tim McMahon's tweet. Oh, for sure. And probably I wouldn't even be surprised if someone on staff showed it to him. Just like, hey, you're going to get asked about this because this guy put a video out. Maybe he just saw it on his own phone. Well, I mean, you can see that he got a player ejected.

I know, but the idea of that that was this one statement, he's going to ask you about that, so be ready. But again, he may have just. But the story, you know, the story about. The story now is Luka versus Tim McMahon and not Luka's frustration and the Mavs got killed, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's a disaster. And I think that it was pretty clear at the start of the season

that they were putting up a little bit of a mirage by beating bad teams. They're kind of just rotten as a roster. And their coach is doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. We don't have to play him. A lot of his is regular. If there's anything that really stood out, go ahead and play it. But a lot of the similar stuff of Jason Kidd,

passive-aggressively throwing Nico under the bus by saying, I mean, this is the roster we have. This is what you see, and they're just tired. I mean, I can only do so much. I mean, maybe injuries will, you know, if we stay healthy, maybe. I mean, because no team stays perfectly healthy. Right. But he's basically saying if we stay perfectly healthy,

then possibly we have a shot. Because otherwise I just got all these minimum guys. I mean, he actually said that. Like, I got guys on minimums. Right. And they're having to play big roles. And so, yeah, it's definitely a complete 180 from Carlisle where even when we didn't buy it, Carlisle would just eat all of it for the players, for the roster, for whatever.

He would just shield everybody and say, I got to get the team better prepared. I got to have better plans. We need to practice a little bit differently. And kids just constantly like, what do you want me to do? Yeah. I'm just the coach. I'm just the coach. I'm watching like you guys.

He'll even say that when it comes to, you know, Luca's frustration or Luca's technicals. And it's, well, I mean, yeah, I don't know. You tell me. Yeah. Well, wait. No, you're the guy brought in here specifically to help guide a young superstar because you were a young superstar. This is the whole point.

You're a vibe guy. You're not the X's and O's guy. We established that early on. You don't... That's not why we brought you in for your great technical mind. It was because this is the new way to do things. If you recall, the Nets way, which we see how that went with Steve Nash.

But you're the guy that's supposed to be able to handle all these big egos. And you haven't been able to. No, and it just feels like they're completely rudderless from a leadership standpoint. Now, Kyrie wasn't out there. Powell wasn't out there, as Powell's out with the funniest Dwight Powell injury of all time, which is like a head contusion.

Because he gets hit in the face all the time? WFA actually did an article about that account. There's an account called, Did Dwight Powell Get Hit in the Face Tonight? I'll just tweet yes with a video. I'm typically with you guys

that Kidd kind of sucks, but it's not really his job to be team psychiatrist. And he can't want it for them. And a part of his thing is, yeah, the team kind of has to go through growing pains and that's that was very phil jackson of you guys figure it out i mean where's the line like he no that's a good point but it just seems like i mean the other thing is like phil jackson also had like an extremely intricate tactical system that he was implementing on both sides of the ball. Yeah.

Where it's like if Kidd doesn't have that and he can't get the team to buy in and play hard and want it, it's kind of like what would you say you do here? Yeah, and I guess I would just imagine that he's just more of a defensive-minded guy. He is. They're 21st in defense right now. Yeah, and maybe that's where his comments on personnel. At the same time, you've got to put some of this on Luka, man.

Yeah, and that's kind of where I'm getting to. Yeah. I remember, we've made fun of Gambo in Phoenix because he read that scouting report from a scout before the draft. It's like, oh, this kid's a baby, cries on the sidelines, he's immature. And funny enough, actually the first time I ever had a conversation with someone about Luka, it was pretty early in the year before they drafted him because it was obvious that that team was ass cheeks. And I was talking to Damaris about it, and he knows a bunch of guys overseas, and he's like, yeah, everybody's sour on this guy.

He doesn't take care of himself. He's too emotional. His first intel was not that different from what we made fun of Gambo for saying. It's not entirely wrong. This has been a problem his entire career.

Most of the greats are not quite that emotional. LeBron's had a fan kicked out. For sure. Probably in the last week, yeah. Yeah. But it just seems like, you know,

sometimes the emotion just runs too hot. And the problem is, is that part of what makes him great. Like we talked about for years with like Dez. So you got to find that perfect line. Yeah. And as I was driving over here this morning that's that's des is exactly who i thought of because and to was another one where as i'm watching the

game i find myself just hoping like please des don't get mad please to don't call for the ball and now it's just watching luca with five seconds left in the half just literally stand there not fight for the ball. And whether you just tweaked your ankle or not, I mean, he just didn't care at all. And then gets a tech walking off the court. Yeah. Like, it's becoming, like, just unbearable.

Where I love the guy, and we hear about how cool he is off the court. But on the court, I'm just kind of tired of this emotional battle of, I love this guy, and I'm beginning to hate this guy too. That's where I disagree that Kidd is not the team psychiatrist. That's what he was brought in to do. He was brought in for Luka. Yeah, but he's going to say he's the coach, and that's not a part of his duty. Is anyone else having to do that in the league?

Hey, you feeling okay today? Just leave the officials alone. Hey, guys, can we all gel together? Hey, can we be happy? Or maybe it's tougher love. Maybe it's I have been through this. Give some of your personal experiences. In the post-game press conference, he's like,

man, these guys just got to understand how Michael Jordan and Carl Malone and he's saying stuff that doesn't relate to the players at all. Like, how about you? You were in this is why you were brought in. It's what Rick Carlisle, and they

always say, you know, the scrub players make better coaches in the long run because they relate to more of the the roster and they figure out if they can figure out how to you know phil jackson was a scrub player carlyle was a scrub player so You know Jason Kidd was a superstar And That The theory was

We're bringing him in Another superstar point guard Who had to learn How the refs work How the league works How to mesh with other superstar teammates And I feel like he's failed in

his mission was to maximize Luka. Yeah, it's a very weird situation because I don't even really know who's in charge. Cuba doesn't even really own the team anymore, which I still don't know that we've wrapped our head around. I guess they say he's going to control basketball ops. I was listening to House of Strauss,

and he mentioned he actually still owns more of the team than Joe Latham. Latham? What's the Golden State guy's name? Oh, Latham. Latham. Yeah. I guess that's true. And you always think of that guy as that's the owner.

That's true. That's a good point. Cuban actually owns a bigger piece. But maybe Lakob owns the majority share still. I don't know. I do know they have a bunch of tech investors, even like the guy who is in charge of Oracle. I heard Windhorse saying Cuban owns the control share. Yeah, that was confusing to me.

I heard them talk about that as well. But the point is just like I don't have a clue what's going on. Who's going to fire the coach? I don't really think Nico. Right, Nico can't fire Kidd. I wouldn't think so, but he probably wants to because I don't really think they were a package deal. I think this whole thing was just thrown together,

and that's why they have a superstar that at times can be petulant. It's because nobody's checking him. They don't have, I mean, obviously you've seen little flare-ups and the like in Miami on the sideline. But when that happens, Spoh will get in somebody's ass. And he knows that Pat Riley will support him no matter what. That's why they just signed him to an eight-year insane contract. The Mavs have nothing of the sort when it comes to that type of backbone of an organization.

They just don't. So if you already have a player that's kind of emotional and needs some direction and it's not there, it's just going to get worse. And then it seems like sometimes the rest of the team feeds off of him and his negativity in these moments. Oh, sure. Because now Grant Williams wants to fight. Yeah.

And he's getting ejected. That's about the only thing he's good at these days. Yeah. That's been horrible. It's been really, really bad. Really bad. Started out super positive it did six games and i last night i got frustrated watching the game thinking that oh hey dante exum is back maybe

we'll be back to being good yeah like our faith is in dante exum a guy just plucked out of europe who was exiled from the league it's all very bad guys it's not a good time and it's obvious LaLuca's hobbled yeah Kyrie's hurt and Dwight Powell got hit in the face I don't know man

it's just in a month ago we were like man we're fourth in the West things are looking good how about Derek Lively and Derek Jones Jr. and then now it's just like

just pack it in who cares just get to where we can fire the coach alright like just pack it in who cares get to where we can fire the coach all right it was a tough night because the open shots we did have you know we were we were struggling to get them in and uh you know it was uh it was tough stopping them why sorry why why well Why? Sorry? Why? Why? Well, when you're not scoring and you're not able to set your defense,

you're at a disadvantage. And, you know, they did a good job, and, you know, we had our struggles. It sounds like you didn't play a great game. You played a great game. Can we take questions? We got his. Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on back there. Yeah, go ahead. You're listening to The Dumb Zone.

Or, guess what? I actually don't know what's worth, the Hang Zone or the Dumb Zone. What's worse? What's worse, Eden? Like you stole the name from something else. The Hangzong. Already a horrible name.

Already a terrible name. That's not your thing. That's like naming your show The Simpsons and then calling it The Samsons. It's not really giving creativity. Huh? go on forever, can it? Oh, now he's see if I care. I don't care.

I love it. I would like you to highlight that. All right, we have some other sports that I came down yesterday. You know what? We need more baseball-y music. Baseball-y type music. Okay. Jeez.

That was loud. Yeah. What's going on? I don't know. I don't know. I like that. Mr. Jones. What movie is that from?

Never mind. There's no way you know. Point Break. I don't know. Adrian Beltre is in the There's no way you know. Point break. I don't know. Adrian Beltre is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, which was kind of a no-brainer. I do enjoy. Let me find the Baseball Hall of Fame tracker.

Let's put up the other screen if you want, because I'm going to also play you guys a video while we talk about Adrian Beltre. But I love the tracker. Yeah. Did you make that? Yeah, yeah. I put this together this morning.

Silver coffee. It's obviously go to at not Mr. Silver coffee. It's obviously go to at not Mr. Tibbs. And yes, you could see all the public ballots, all the actual final percentage. Three

players, Joe Maurer, Adrian Beltre, and Todd Helton. Do you have any problems with any of those? Baseball Blake? No, not at all. Todd Helton, this is not his first year of eligibility. That's always fun to me, these guys that gain votes. He gained 10 votes, and that's enough to put him over the top.

I mean, he wasn't as good as Scott Rowland a couple years ago. You need 75% to get into the Hall of Fame. And what did he end up getting? 82%. Billy Wagner. Oh, that's the public. Billy Wagner missed it by like five votes. Don't know if I'd say Billy Wagner is a Hall of Famer.

Man, he was awesome when I was growing up. He was one of the rare guys that threw 100. That was cool, right? Bartolo Colon, 0.5%. That's no good. No. Anyway, Beltre with 99.1. Oh, no.

Let's see. What did he get overall? 95.1. Yeah. The public ballots. Everybody wanted to tell you it was Beltre. I voted for Beltre. But when you add the anonymous votes, 99%. That's always silly to me, too.

If Adrian Beltre wasn't, what was your reasoning for not voting for him? Sometimes you'll find the sports writer who says, well, Babe Ruth wasn't 100%, so I'm going to be the guy that's going to hold this terrible tradition because I want to hold on to that. I want to make sure that because some idiot didn't vote for Babe Ruth in 1930 or whatever, I'm also not going to vote for somebody. Anyway, yeah, let me put up this video because Oh, before I do that You know how I knew that Adrian Beltre got in the Hall of Fame?

Tell me Sports mayor If you're wondering what does the mayor of Dallas do Did he even live here at that time? He follows all the local sports teams. I wonder how he's going to frame it when the Mavs announce they're moving to Irving. Because sports mayor, his big thing is, we need more teams here. I'm going to get the Rangers to come here.

Remember back in those days? Oh, yeah. He was going to get another football team, another baseball team. He's bringing everything to the area. And it turns out he's not really doing anything except for tweeting. He says congratulations to the Goat Emoji, Adrian Beltran, his well-deserved election to the Hall of Fame. Greatest third baseman I ever saw play.

You know, like A-Rod was a third baseman, right? For a piece of his career. I'd be interested in the list of third basemen that he's seen play. He says head, in parentheses, and shoulders above the rest. And he did it all with joy and intensity. An honor to meet him last fall along with two other Hall of Famers. He had a picture of it, of course. Because, you know, pictures catch a little better fire, Blake, on Twitter.

As we've seen. Seventh best wins above replacement for 83rd baseman ever. Take a guess at the list. They do have A-Rod in this as a primary third baseman. Seventh best wins above replacement for 83rd baseman ever. Take a guess at the list. They do have A-Rod in this as a primary third baseman. Seventh best. Boy, that's low. Yeah, that is low. I would have thought higher because he has, what, 90, you said?

90-something? 83.8. Oh, 83.8. On fan graphs. It's probably a little bit different on B-ref, but yeah. Yeah, I think it was. Okay, so Alex Rodriguez, did they not list him as a third baseman? They did.

Okay, give me, only because I grew up hearing about him from old people, Brooks Robinson. Number eight. Wow. Give me Mike Schmidt. Number two. George Brett? Number five. Wait, who? What was A-Rod? Number one. George Brett. Number five. Wait, who?

What was A-Rod? Number one. Oh, okay. Is Arenado already on there? No. I think he claimed to have drank 50 beers. Wade Boggs. Yeah, number four.

Wade Boggs. Yeah, number four. So we're only missing Eddie Matthews, who played in the 50s and 60s. Yeah, I would not have known. I know that name, but I wouldn't have known his position. But it's pretty close. I mean, Beltran's not too far behind any of these other guys other than Mike Schmidt and A-Rod. I wonder, are there third basemen below him in war in the Hall of Fame?

Probably. Probably. There's not only eight third basemen below him in war in the Hall of Fame? Probably. Probably. There's not only eight third basemen. Scott Rowland, number 10, Blake. Oh. I know that's of concern to you. And Dan. Scott Rowland.

A little weird. What's funny, though? So we can put this video up in the box, too, as we talk about this, because I was watching this last night, and I could turn the audio down. Anyway, it was a – let's see the title of it. It was on Twitter, and it was from Baseball History Nut, okay? Let's see here. Is that what you do every morning?

What? To scroll baseball history. Yeah. I thought you were laughing at, like, the things I have bookmarked. No, no. Somebody bookmarked Marcus Spears ripping Jerry Jones, and then I thought old intern Marco was talking about the Travis Kelsey heart hands, and I thought that could be a topic at some point. Oh, and then I thought old intern Marco was talking about the Travis Kelsey heart hands and I thought that could be a topic at some point.

Oh, and then this. Look at that. There's Jake. Post pizza. Jake. That was like right, what, days before the official Hang Zone? Yeah, it was pretty close. I think that's what pushed me over the top.

Launched? Yeah. But yeah, that is Jake over the top. Launched? Yeah. But, yeah, that is Jake trying to eat three entire pizzas? Yeah. And that's number two. He didn't get through number two. I still maintain that I could do it with thin crust. And here's that iced tea.

Tattoo. The humbling tattoo. But let's get back to this. So this is Baseball History Nut. Don't think there's ever been a funnier player than Adrian Beltran. I watched this whole thing last night. And just watching it, I was surprised it didn't end with, you know, when he was standing out of the batter's box and an umpire said, not batter's box, the on-deck circle.

The umpire's like, you have to stand in the on-deck circle. You have to stand on the thing. And he's like, no, I'm going to stand here. And the umpire was more forceful. You have to stand there. And he went to the on-deck circle, which, who knew? These things are just something you lay on the ground. He picked it up,

pulled it over to where he was standing, and then stood on that. And he got ejected. That was awesome. I loved every time they did that. That was awesome. But this, just the memories of watching him and Elvis for sure. It was a moment in time Like Elvis would always

Get on him about being in his little area Touching his head Yeah They showed some of those things The touching his head And it really I don't know man I got so many

Member berries There's a bunch of the Okay here's one This is funny I don't know, man. I got so many member berries. There's a bunch of the – okay, here's one. This is funny. And then it's just how Elvis gets so mad at him. And he was just like – he's just like the little big brother, little brother thing. That's exactly what it was. I loved their relationship.

And it got me thinking about this time in Ranger Baseball. It's boring. It's very successful, but it's boring. This time. Yeah. in Ranger baseball. It's boring. It's very successful, but it's boring. This time. Yeah. That we're watching. Oh, dude. And just how.

Like between wash. What does he do here? Oh, yeah. He just runs away. Yeah. And that's. I think I brought this up during the World Series run is it's it was great to watch them win the world series but it just wasn't as fun because it wasn't this cast of characters because this these guys i mean they made the world series and it was fun to do the deer and antlers

and it was fun to just watch their dynamic but now you just have two robots at the top complete robots and it's it's it's harder to get as emotionally involved as you were during these times. Yeah, this team right here reminded me of the early Red Sox teams. Not early, but when they finally won. Yeah, Damon and Nomar. Yeah. Because think about it. You had a manager who was crazy and smoked during games

and would run up and down on the steps. You had Dutch. Napoli is running around shirtless with a cigarette. This one's funny. Look. He's like, what? All of it. You had you. Yeah yeah that was a fun dynamic yeah that's what i love so much about that derrick holland interview we did is him just telling us stories about this era of like yeah you would steal wash his cigarettes

who is it i can't remember but yeah of the pitchers. Yeah. But yeah, and if you'll remember, when we signed Beltre, I remember Mike Reiner saying, this is not a good signing. I was about to say the exact same thing, because I didn't know that much about the history of Adrian Beltre. Because this, what Elvis is doing right now, Beltre fought a teammate over doing the exact same thing. Yeah. I believe.

Touching his head. Yes. I remember the term locker same thing. Yeah. I believe so. Punching his head. Yes. I remember the term locker room cancer. Yeah. Has there ever been a more polar opposite of your scouting report and then what you get? I mean, part of it is that you get older, right? And you get humbled a little bit.

Well, you know what? I like this bit. I like when they do bits after a home run. I like when you freeze out a guy. Yeah. You know what? We were just talking about Jason Kidd and the culture, and you're right.

I mean, it probably started with Wash, and then you're just team leaders being good, goofy guys. I mean, that was just that team that probably started at the top with Wash. Yeah. And I think even JD deserves a lot of credit because he's, you know, Ivy League guy and seems really buttoned up.

He's super cool. Like, he's not like a dick. You know what I mean? Like, a lot of GMs probably are or feel like they have to be. He was just a great dude. Yeah. I miss it. I'm hoping some of these young dudes they have now, maybe, are less Seager, Simeon, Robody. Yeah, I mean, Evan Carter seems fun. Josh Young, possibly. Yeah, Wyatt Lankford, if he turns out,

seems to be a cool guy. But yeah, I mean, Simeon and Seager do what they're supposed to and are paid to do on the field. It's just, from a fan perspective, I don't find it as fun as it was when it was Elvis, Beltre, and Josh, and Ian. Oh, yeah. We didn't even mention Ian. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we had such an emotional connection to that team. Yeah, it was really cool.

Like, I really – and maybe because it kind of – a lot of the guys were on the team when it sucked and then it got good. Okay, this is kind of funny because he jogs out of – Oh, he tried to pimp it. Yeah, and it wasn't a home run. And, yeah, he's pissed at him when he goes back to the dugout but that's i mean that's genuine nah i mean it's part genuine but um yeah man just i would my thing is my memories of that era like i like that era better than I like this one,

and they just won a World Series. I think almost everyone would agree with you. Yeah. All right, look at this. That's why it was so conflicting during the World Series is this should be more fun than it is, at least from my perspective. I mean, I know a lot of people around here enjoyed it and a long time coming, and it was something cool to enjoy

with your dad and your grandpa, but I don't don't know it came out of nowhere too it wasn't a they they reached i don't know but okay but think about this like we're watching all these really great memories and then what we have from the world series run was seager hitting a home run and then just like saying let's effing go like that's all the personality we saw from him. I guess we'll never know. Yeah, I was looking at those. So let's look at the rosters again, as you were throwing out a ton of names. Yes, Kinsler.

So colorful. Josh Hamilton. Nelly Cruz. Michael Young. It's time. Remember Michael Young actually remember Michael Young, actually, I think, also demanded a trade after they signed Beltre. Yep.

It was first Soriano, right? That got him to move. Yeah, but he didn't move. Right. Soriano wanted to play second base because he had a better chance of being an all-star at second base. And so Michael Young took one for the team, he said, and went and played the better position. Yeah. second base because he had a better chance of being an all-star at second base and so michael young took one for the team he said and went and played the better position yeah uh he went and

played shortstop because soriano didn't want to and then when they called up elvis at the age of 19 i think right yeah they they said to michael young hey we're going to be moving That was when J.D. Was pretty early in his tenure And they had Nolan Ryan And the thought was If they didn't have Nolan Ryan Like Would J.D. have had the balls To sit Michael Young down

Like but But if Nolan Ryan is sitting next to you Saying this is the decision we've made Then you kind of do it But I think he asked for a trade then Yeah When he moved to third base. Anyway.

Didn't he get moved because of A-Rod too? I thought he came up as a shortstop. They moved him to second for A-Rod, moved him back to short for Soriano. Okay, moved him to third for A-Rod. No, I think you had that right. They moved him to third for Elvis. But I think he came up as a shortstop. Okay. But when they signed A-Rod, They moved him to third for Elvis. But I think he came up as a shortstop. But when they signed A-Rod, they moved him to second.

Okay. Then back to short for Soriano. I'm sorry. A team player jerking him around like that. That's what everybody always says. And then, yes, they don't say, oh, yeah, but he actually demanded a trade when they were. You may have already mentioned some of these names,

but I just want to look at them again. C.J. Wilson. How awesome was that? It was fantastic. Colby Lewis, fun. Derek Holland, obviously. Matt Harrison wasn't great, but it was kind of cool that he was pitching so well and he was part of that big five-for-one trade,

the Mark Teixeira trade that brought Elvis here. Let's see. Yeah, you mentioned Hugh Darvish already. That was just fun. Oh, the second year they got, or was it the third, whatever, one of their World Series years, that's when they called up Profar, who was like the number one prospect in all of baseball, but we're going to use him as a pinch hitter

here and there. That was fun. How about the fact that they had a closer that was throwing like 104? Yeah. Joe Nathan? Or Feliz? Neftali, yeah. It's like, oh, this is exactly what you need. It felt like a team from a movie. Yeah.

Mike Adams in there. Darren Oliver, who had member berries for older Ranger fans. He was around their first playoff run, and now here he is back as a – Nelly. The loogie. But then even you had the guys that didn't fit in, like Lance Berkman, Carlos Beltran, Alex Rios to some degree. Did you mention David Murphy? Oh, yeah.

Then David Murphy. Scrappy. As you said, Napoli. Napoli's all fun, like real fun. Mitch Moreland was cool. What was that necklace they would wear? Because I bought one. The fighting?

Yeah. I supposedly gave you some kind of power. That was huge, man. Derek Holland would wear? Because I bought one. The fighting? Yeah. I supposedly gave you some kind of power. That was huge, man. Derek Holland would wear it. It was that and the Nike power balance. That's right.

You still have your fighting? The necklace? Yeah. I have to have it somewhere. I don't throw anything away. I guess that's true. Drop the claw, drop the antler.

Yep. Yeah, man. That was a lot of fun. I used to go to a lot of games, man, which is weird now because I don't have a ton of interest in going to the new ballpark. But I went to a handful of playoff games. The game where they beat the breaks off the Tigers. I can't remember what the final score was, but it was something like 17-5 or something.

And I was at that game, and it was the most insane baseball game I've ever... They just couldn't stop scoring runs. All right, I'm done with the video. Jeez. What's the... I was thinking about this when I was thinking that this is a

This is a better era And I have way more nostalgia for that And I will In ten years still Than the World Series winning team What's the championship trophy called In Major League Baseball? Commissioner's

Because you know there's the Larry O'Brien Right You know that's the Larry O'Brien. Right. You know that's the Lombardi trophy. The cup. Okay. I just wondered if anybody knew. I think it is.

Yeah, it's Commissioner's Trophy. By the way, it was game six in 2011, which is when they clinched, and they won 15-5. And it was, like I said, the most insane sports environment I think I've ever seen. You know, there's 51,000, it's packed, and they're just, like, rounding the bases over and over in a, you know, ALCS clinching game.

It was awesome. Anyways. You kind of laid out on me a little bit, so I'm not really sure what you want me to do now. What if we do this? Do it. Oh, wait. I don't have my audio up because I turned it down because of the thing.

So, three, two, one. Here's Jay with the dumb self-mute. I should have muted it. Dang it. This is a bold play that resulted in a death. A person is dead after a plane was stolen in Collin County and crashed along the Texas-Oklahoma border yesterday. Stole a plane?

Stole a plane, a small plane. That's four stars. The Cessna. That is, you're getting four stars in GTA for sure. It was taken from a flight school in Addison. Small, single-engine Cessna 172. Like, obviously it didn't work out for this person, because they're dead. person because they're dead but you got to be somewhat tactically adept to steal a plane and get it in the air and go 80 miles can you steal a plane and get away with it there's got to be

like a gps tracker in every plane probably so yeah talk about the fa Yeah, I feel like they probably know. Yeah, like you... That's a crime that you could never get away with. Unless you could disable the GPS thing. The black box? That's right. Make the whole plane out of a black box. You could probably...

Maybe while it's flying, you could maybe parachute out in a remote area or something and just let it crash. Yeah. DB Cooper. Yeah. DB Cooper. Yeah. The guy was in the air for almost an hour and a half. What an hour and a half that was.

They say he took it at 6.55 and it crashed at 8.15. I bet so. It was a 23-year-old man. Did he do it to commit suicide? You've seen that happen before. But, like, there's so many easier ways. Yeah. Than having to learn.

What do you got to go to a flight simulator for, you know, a year, two years? I don't know. Not concerned about landing. Yeah. You know, there were other guys who weren't concerned about landing. Yeah. We should learn from were other guys who weren't concerned about landing. Yeah. We should learn from them and win football games.

At least make it to the divisional round. This is a weird story that I can't tell you that I'm totally shocked by, but former Dallas Stars player Mike Ribeiro is about to undergo a trial for sexual assault charges.

This is not the first time he's run into something like this. But yeah, I mean, he definitely seemed like a really sexed up dude. Some people I think we've said, you know, well, he never raped me. But this one I think we've said you know well he never raped me but this one I think you could see coming yeah just by some of the comments he's

charged with two counts of sexual assault a third charge of attempted sexual assault just because of what he said with me yeah but yeah that didn't help the I don't watch porn and make it yeah we once asked him we i asked him on the air what kind of porn he watches yeah i can't remember why but you know how just conversations go sometimes but he just had a creepy vibe to me and obviously like has had seemingly issues with alcohol because if you recall there was that time where he was blacked out at a sushi restaurant or something in Plano and got in a fight.

But yeah, this most recent one occurred at a lake. Lake Cypress Springs, about 100 miles east of Dallas. And what are we talking here? A couple of different things. Was he watching two older ladies go at each other? That doesn't happen at every lake. So he invites this woman out that he met, and she's driving his jet ski,

and he's behind her, you know riding riding bitch and was apparently very very drunk and started like feeling up on her like under her bathing suit and she was like you know stop no and then when they got back to i guess like a boat he did it again. Like, you know, kept slipping. Okay, so here's what happened. Under the things. Kept honking. Here's the thing. Here he goes, folks.

My point is, it's hard to judge him because you're not the hot guy who has made that move many times and they've always been receptive and into it. It was always illegal, though. Yes. But I'm just saying, when you grow up and everybody's allowing you to do whatever you want because you're a really good player and you're good looking, and he's a multimillionaire, all that kind of stuff,

he's not getting the signals because, and hell, even in your growing up era, you've heard of, no means yes, like no, you know, they're playing hard to get. It's all a game because many of the time, or probably most of the time before, it's worked out for him. And in the end, they acquiesce to his wishes. Not saying that that's right, but it is. I don't know. So he said to the woman, she testified that when she elbowed him and said stop,

he said, I'm sorry, I'm fucked up. He also sent her a tweet the next day. Sent her a text the next him and said, stop. He said, I'm sorry, I'm fucked up. He also sent her a tweet the next day. Sent her a text the next day that said, I know we were all tipsy yesterday, but I don't have any memory of anything that happened. Let me get the exact. Now, does that get you out? No. He says, I know we were all tipsy yesterday, but I have no idea what happened.

all tipsy yesterday but i have no idea what happened and i guess even sending the text almost says hey i know something did happen yeah i better send this to tell her i don't think i don't know i believe in 2012 maybe okay it was accused in 2015 by a nanny who sued him and his wife alleging that he had assaulted her in 2012. She was the family's babysitter for the six years whenever he played for the Stars. That's why your wife wants you to get an ugly nanny. Probably at least not

18 years old. And she stayed at the house, which I guess is what a nanny does, right? I don't know. I've never actually known anybody with one. Yeah, I don't know. I know there are people who have, like,

they'll go on vacation with their nanny. Yeah. You know what? I actually, it's very funny. If you live in somewhat affluent suburb. Yes. Go on. When I would go to Norris soccer games this year, you could definitely tell who was a nanny.

Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, sometimes it was obvious because there were three people there. And one of the women would be, like, chasing their other kid around. But sometimes you could tell, like, that's not that kid's mom. And it ain't the stepmom. They would just have the nanny take the kid to soccer.

I think... I'm out here freezing my nuts off. Yeah, that's popular. I mean, that's an au pair, right? I don't really know the difference. Well, I dated one. Okay. And she was here from France.

Okay. And she lived with the family. And, yeah, it was a dad, no mom. Wasn't sure what happened with the mom. But she would take him to school, pick him up from school, take him to soccer, just help out. Is this why you don't want to broadcast from France? Your wife won't let you? No.

You're not going back there. My wife doesn't know a lot about France girl. Did you ever go over to the house? Yeah. It's weird. Met the dad. Very weird.

Did you ever go over to the house? Sure, but didn't end in that. Wow. I have so many questions like what do you make you know i mean really it's a way to just be here yeah you know you're not making a ton of money but you're here on a visa and you're technically working you're paid for for like yeah lodging and yeah that you get a place to stay and you're taken care of and you should use that opportunity to go to school here and get a degree and kind of made the most of it.

What could have been. Yeah. Could we hook up with her if we do go to France? Like all three of us at once? No, I don't mean hook up. I just mean, like, get around. We'll talk about what's it like to date Blake. I don't know if she's back over there or not.

You don't keep in touch? No. You're definitely still friends on Facebook. No. You had to scrub it. Yeah. I'm that type. Was she on the gram?

She's on the gram. You posted pictures of you and her, but had to get rid of it? No, didn't really get that far. How'd you meet this woman? Tinder. Hell yeah. Let's talk more about, you know, I have some other stories that can wait for tomorrow. You know, when you're in your mid-20s and you're single, sure.

Put yourself out there. I think our first date was, she had never seen Christmas lights before. That's very sweet of you. Drove through her neighborhood, looked at Christmas lights, tuned up the radio, and hey, look at this. House is going to this song. It was a wild time in my life.

This is another thing where Dan and I are closer in generation because I'd never once used a dating app. I mean, I could, there were times where you might try to like engage in some sort of hookup via MySpace or Facebook, but that was different. Like it was a person you knew. I've never just gone like on the random site. So how long were you on it? I mean, off and on here and there. Oh, for a while, yeah. Did you bumble? Yeah. Nice. Yeah, bumble was

better, actually, in my opinion. Grinder? Didn't hit grinder. No, but bumble, the draw there was the girl had to message you. So I at least took that off the table of, well, she's got to make the first move.

See, you're already at least legging out a ground ball to first. Yeah. Yeah. It's very funny if you have single female friends and you're, like, if your wife is friends with them, to watch them all gather around a phone and just go to work. You could tell the messages that came from a group of girls rather than just one. Yeah. They're like, no, no.

If they're real aggressive, if they have a pickup line. That's a baby. Yeah. And then you got pretty good at looking at their profiles and finding out, oh, she's the fat one in the group. Jeez. You had to know. Were you wary of the close-up face picture?

Like, oh my gosh, if she's not showing any of her body? I had a set of rules. Go on. Oh, man, I got to harken back. Yeah, anything from collarbones up, fat. Jeez. If her first picture is a group photo, she's the ugly one. And,

um, Oh, if it's a far away picture, like she's doing something like, Oh, look at me. I'm shooting a gun or something. She's ugly.

Cause hot girls will show off. So yeah, big sunglasses. That's a dough. You know, what's under there. So yeah, big sunglasses. That's a no. You know what's under there. So yeah, just save yourself some time. Oh my God.

And I don't feel bad because the group of girls are way worse. Yeah, they are. Look at this guy. Tiny dick, guaranteed. I think I've heard that. I mean, I've obviously heard that, but I mean, like, I've heard them scrolling and being like, this guy looks like he's bad in bed or something. That's a good bit.

Great bit. Blake's dating tips. Yeah. Blake's tips tips Yeah They're Blake's Tips for It didn't get me far Online dating Yeah I did learn a couple things On how to Spot a lie

On dating apps And Was it because you showed up At a date And it's like oh no Um Yeah And

You've had some bad experiences Friends have some stories Yeah Where Yeah you want to do some double date And the girl shows up And he's immediately like I gotta go I gotta leave And then You gotta try to save the night i don't know what a wild

what's your i don't even really remember dating um did you have anything that stands out not really you know most of that is just just talk a lot of it doesn't really lead anywhere. Yeah. But like I said, yeah, my friend had a really bad experience. But no, I think mine turned out well. I mean, I think she was one of the few I actually met up with, and it turned out okay. But ultimately, what got him to find love was that he can mash. Yeah. She was impressed with your ops. Chick stick to love mash. Yeah. She was impressed with your... Chick stick to long ball.

Yeah. All right, there's your news. The Dumb Zone News. Like and subscribe. All right, we got a couple more minutes for this. A couple. The Dumb Zone presents... Don't yell at me presents Today in History.

Were you upset that we didn't broadcast yesterday because it was 1-24-24? No, I didn't think about that at all. That'd be kind of cool, right? Yeah. I'll tell my family. What was the other one? Was it 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 12-31? Yeah, that was awesome.

Okay. Well, today is 1-25-24. Thursday, January 25th. It's our 104th show on this date. I don't have a lot of birthdays to get to, but some today in history for you. This is the day in 1915 that America's first official transcontinental telephone call took place. Next thing you know, they'll want to play men's sports or something. I don't know.

Yeah, I don't think you're defining what I'm... The continent isn't know. Yeah, I don't think you're defining what I'm... The continent isn't trans. Anyway, Alexander Graham Bell in New York spoke to his assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco. That's pretty freaking incredible if you consider what was going on in 1915 where people were still, like, in some places riding horses. Isn't it also incredible that...

Don't they have a cable laid under the ocean? Yes. That's a pretty big deal, don't you think? Yeah, I think it's incredibly impressive and something I'd like to know more about. But yes, there is cable under at least the Pacific Ocean. Or excuse me, I think Atlantic for sure. Blake, on this day in 1945,

Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first community to add fluoride to its public water supply. You keep tying me into this one. What is it? That's how they control what? You tell me. I don't know. I don't know this one. What do the chemtrails do? I think

they give you autism. Chemtrails control the weather. I'm talking know this one. What do the chemtrails do? I think they give you autism. Chemtrails control the weather. I'm talking the fluoride. Oh, the fluoride. Definitely had a roommate in college who was 100% sold on chemtrails. Like, any time we'd go out for a drive, a little... He'd be like, look. He's like...

Look at him. It's going to rain next week. Yeah. And then just the next time it would rain could be a month later. He'd be like, they were seeding those clouds. Kind of like me and the gas shortage. It'll come around eventually. On this day in 2002, Ken Hitchcock fired his head coach of the Stars.

He'll never be back. Yeah. They had, yeah, they were very good under Ken Hitchcock. And then, yes, they would rehire him a few years later. Or like a decade later. And you thought that was a great move, right? I thought it was weird. It led to some show fights.

More like off-air meeting show fights, even. That's primarily what it was. It was a weird deal. On this day in 2004, Jake, NASA's Opportunity rover, sent its first pictures of Mars to Earth. They showed a surface smooth and dark red in some places and strewn with fragmented slabs of light bedrock in others. What was the cost?

$500 billion. That's probably something comedic. It did not cost $500 billion. And on this day in 2010, $800 million. Okay. In Arlington, Texas, the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame had its grand opening. And what's going up next? The Medal of Honor Museum?

I don't know. Okay, the rovers themselves cost $800 million. The overall project was $2.5 billion. For some grainy photo of a place we'll never be able to go to. Matt Damon went there. Matt Damon. Haven't seen that movie. Eats a lot of potatoes.

That's your takeaway? Uh-huh. Sorry, you guys were doing a museum set. Oh, I forgot to tell you. So wife is getting up Leaving the house About 7.30 And I'm still in the bed You know

I'm kind of rolling through I'm playing Wordle I'm looking at Immaculate Grid Doing my thing A little Duolingo 35th day in a row perhaps Nice

We're in the 30s What was your word today? On Wordle? No, Duolingo. Duolingo, it runs through like 15 or so. Oh, okay. Because honeymoon was one of your words a couple weeks ago. Yes. And I just know

Luna was in it. I don't remember anything else. So it's going well. No, so she's the, we'll see you later. Yeah. And then she's out of the door. The door closed. She closed the door's the, we'll see you later. Yeah. And then she's out of the door. The door closed. She closed the door so the dogs don't run.

She goes, oh, wait. Uh-oh. I just remembered. Cha-ching, cha-ching. I just remembered, I got book club tonight. Yes, sir. And then the, all of a sudden, like sudden the clouds dissipated. You were somehow out of bed.

There's sunshine. The birds are chirping. I'm skipping around. I'm singing. Good for you, man. I'll be at my kid's school, which is like the polar opposite. Oh, you got a teacher night or something? Yeah.

That's great. Yeah, it is great. And like I said, really not a teacher night or something? Yeah. That's great. Yeah, that is great. And like I said, really not a lot of birthdays. Rick Bonus, former Stars coach, 69. Rick Bonus. Rapper Pooh Man. Who's that? No idea.

Okay, I'll get that. All right. Okay, Video Man. I'll end with born on this day not alive anymore we have uh diana highland remembered for her remarkable performance in the tv movie the boy in the plastic bubble for which she was honored with an emmy posthumously after divorcing her first husband diana had a passionate affair with her much younger co-star, John Travolta. The two remained together until Diana died of cancer at the age of 41. Her unfortunate death left John devastated for life.

Diana is regarded as his first and only real-life love interest and has remained irreplaceable to him. Well, there were those massage boys. At least it tried to replace. Yeah. Okay. And that was Today in History. Look at that.

Nailed it. We did it. Plenty of time. Nailed it. It's only 1259. Closing remarks there, Blake? No. Adios, mofo.

Riding down the highway of girls on my bike. Man, I never felt so alive. Screaming pig suey at the top of our lungs. Man, I never had this much fun. But then she reached around and put her hand on my thigh. I was in heaven and I closed my eyes. Next thing I knew, I wound up in a ditch. Oh, man, I should have never messed with this.

Girl in the athletic department in the volleyball shorts. Girl in the athletic department in the volleyball shorts. Girl in the athletic department in the volleyball shorts. My face is messed up, my Harley's in the shop, and I don't know if I'll keep my job. All because she reached around to my thigh. I was in heaven and I closed my eyes. Next thing I knew I wound up in a ditch Oh man, I should have never messed with this

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