The Dumb Zone FREE - Jake phones a former co-worker, RIP Hooters, and Gay/Not Gay with Steve Noviello | DZ 2-25-25

Episode Date: February 25, 2025

Hear the entire episode by subscribing to The Dumb Zone at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneJake phones a former co-worker from The Ticket, RIP to Hooters, and the first edition of Gay/Not Gay with Fox 4's, Steve Noviello ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey now, what you are about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full, along with the full archive... Ah, shit. If you would like to hear this program in full, with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at DumbZone.com. We've actually been on your show. Yes, you have. I would love to have you back. In fact, you're coming back. We've actually been on your show. Yes, you have. I would love to have you back. In fact, you're coming back.

We are coming back. All of you. So, and if you remember the first time you were on, you said, well, could we come together? And I said, no, we'll do just one of you at a time. Why did you say that? Why did you ruin our thoughts? We had a great idea, I think.

You did have a great idea. It was a, let's say it was ahead of its time. Okay. Because now you will. You just didn't believe in us you thought these guys don't know what they're talking about I need them individually. I mean believe I know this is gonna come as a shock to you but I was not fully entrenched in the world of sports talk radio so part of it was, I, you know, no, I didn't. You just thought we were. You were nobodies.

Yeah. Who are the, no. You thought we were just taught to hoing to talk sports and sports only and that's all we were able to do. That's it. Our format was three people from here, one person from the outside. And we, and we were on the, I think it was just weekends

cause we only shot one show with each of you. So now we shoot four at a time. Uh, so we were doing two at a time back then. Now we shoot two at a time. Um, so now we did, uh, it was actually the kidcratic morning show folks. They say, I said, what, what if we got all three of you on here? And it was a three of you and me. And it was great.

I mean, the, like, you guys have great chemistry with each other. So why not have all of you come in? So yeah. Even Blake? Yeah, all of you are coming, yeah, right? You can change your mind between now and then if you like. No, no, no.

Blake's been working out, trying to lose some weight. What are you doing? Oh, just getting the ladies excited for your appearance. Yeah, what are you doing? How come you get mad when I ask, but not when Steve Noviello from TV asks? Because Steve, these two used to make fun of how big I'd gotten in my adult age,

and so now they wanna play both sides of it and say, oh, look at this fat ass trying to play softball. He's the luka of our show. Now you look great. So no, I don't like when they compliment. What were you up to at your heaviest? I think 230. So no, I don't like when they compliment. What were you up to at your heaviest? I think 230. I was, yeah.

I feel I gained, I was way north of that. Really? How tall are you? He's a bigger guy. 6'2". Yeah. Okay. 6'2". I was, my heaviest, I think I was 270.

Damn. It was big. I never even got there. What year? When in the last two or three. Little COVID action. Well, after kids. Before we had kids, I was like 224, jacked.

And then we had kids, and it was goldfish. They're so good. You get the flavor blasted? They like flavor blast. You have to. They like rainbow. I don't even understand why they're making the regular ones anymore.

Who are these children? That want half throttle. Yeah, no, I mean I've I've said this for a long time about a lot of different products. We should be there's a book called the nudge It's about like sales and stuff We should be changing perception of what is normal So like the spicy ketchup that should just be the normal now and then just just keep making a spicy, just move society in that direction. If you have a regular Goldfish now, it's trash. Why even make it?

Classic. No. Goldfish classic. Yeah, it's just flavor blasted, buddy, I'm telling you. I feel that way about Sour Patch Kids. I'm like, not so sour. Back in the day, it was a sour experience. And now it's, you know. You're a big candy guy? I love, yeah. I like like Gob Stop so sour. Back in the day, it was a sour experience. And now it's, you know. You're a big candy guy?

I love, yeah. I like like Gob Stoppers and like bottle caps, like old school movie theater candy. Nice. Charleston Chew. Ooh. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

Which is probably why I weighed 270 pounds. So, you know, I had to get that off. You were married to a dude. We've talked about that before. You've married to a dude. We talked about that before You've talked very openly about that on your programs. Yeah and you have kids is it difficult to adopt kids as a Two dudes so we actually didn't adopt them. So we went through surrogacy. So IVF So that process believe it or not, in Texas,

Texas is a very surrogacy friendly state, which you would think based on, you know. Does that mean that your DNA is in this kid? Yeah, so each of our DNA is in each, my DNA is in one of our sons and my husband's is the other. Oh really? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry, I assume that both of you knew what IVF was. No, I, you, my, I really? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, I assumed that both of you knew what IVF was. No, I, you, my, we, I'm a vet. Yeah, so we did three rounds IUI for first kid, a few, couple IVF for the second, but what I didn't know is I thought you were going to tell us that it was possible to do some sort of semen cocktail.

Yeah, yeah, mix it up. Like both. And have both semen. I think one day- Have you ever had a semen cocktail? Um, you know, I actually have not. Oh, okay. have both semen. I think one day maybe. Have you ever had a semen cocktail? You know, I actually have not. Oh, OK.

It's a fair question. It's, yeah. Has that ever been asked on Last Call? Semen cocktail. And has anyone ever asked you that on the 10? No. Well, the 10's a little early in the day. Last Call, that would probably.

But the thing is, it's technically, we're talking science. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think the day. Last call, that would probably. But the thing is, it's technically, we're talking science. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think that's. Well, and actually, I believe that there is trials or research about how to create an egg so that you could, two men could actually, can both contribute equally genetically to one.

But for us, we have an egg donor. Dude, we can do that. I mean, an egg donor. Yeah, a dumb-zoned baby. OK, so you did have the surrogate. It was not her eggs. Correct, so the surrogate was somebody totally different. She was a woman who lives in Azel.

She's awesome. Oh, why? Why does she live in Azel? No, why is it not her eggs? That's fair. Now, let's back up. And yes, why would she live in Azel? There's so many other eggs.

Yellow jackets, boy. There's a lot of hornets. Hornets. Hornets. The Azel hornets. Yes, both of her kids are big into sports. One's a cheerleader and one's a football kid. So she lives in Azle.

And then we had an egg donor who was a totally separate person who was anonymous. OK, do you get to know? Yeah, we have a friend who's going through this and trying surrogacy, whether his wife's eggs are viable or not, but he's shown us, it almost looks like a fantasy giraffe. It's a catalog, yeah.

Yeah. You get to look at height, weight, attribute, interests. It's funny, so for us, we knew that we wanted to have boys, we were only gonna transfer male embryos in the hope that we would have sons. So we would ask for photos of her male relatives because like she was very pretty and hopefully has some genetic attributes that might be passed down to our children. She was very creative. Her line of work was very creative so I liked that. But like you

could be like a super hot girl and have a really ugly brother. We've seen it. We've seen it 20 times. Why only boys? You know what? That's a good question. So we- You're sexist. Well- You're a misogynist. So when it came to raising our children, I wanted to be able to offer them both advice and experience and I wouldn't be able to do that with a daughter. I don't know that I would have, and- But you would if you think about it, as far as what's it like to date guys. Like they're creeps. That's a lot less important

than like the plumbing though. Correct, yeah. Like there's just gonna be a lot of technical stuff. Well, no, no, no, I leave a lot of that, all of it to my wife, if indeed, yeah. Or a nice book. Well, and like logistically as well, like this is again, 10 years ago, like you're at the mall, you need to use the restroom,

like what, are there family bathrooms everywhere? Are there, you know? I can tell you that there are, because they're very roomy, and they're great to go in just as a single guy. He uses them exclusively. It's great. This is where they're present.

It's very rare that I will walk out and there's someone sitting there with a stroller and their kid. Yeah, but there's so much room, it's so clean. Yeah, no, I've been to many. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. With a child. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.

With two children, yeah, yeah. No, but there's plenty of room for your stuff. They have an outlet, you can charge your phone. Okay, back to your bit. Having kids? Yeah, having kids, you go to the mall, okay. So how did you choose whose stuff got to be used first? Little rock, paper, scissors?

No, so it's funny, so again, we're two dudes having a baby, we thought we wanted two kids, we thought we needed two eggs. You've been through IVF, you know that that's not necessarily the case if you're using a donor. Um, so we needed a high yield donor because what happens is so like this woman gets her eggs taken. I fertilize half of them. My husband fertilizes the other half of them. Then hopefully of those, you know, let's say how many of them are going to, how many of them are going to actually take, how many of them are going to grow to day three, how many of them are gonna grow to day five, of those that we then do genetic testing,

how many of them are- The grade. Right, are they graded, would they survive a pregnancy? Great, of the ones that would survive, how many of them are male, how many of them are female? We again wanted to have sons. So we had to go back three different times for eggs before it was all said and done.

For the retrieval, all from the same woman? Yeah, all from the same woman. That's a lot. It was a lot. It's quite a process. It's quite a process. And they talk about the price of eggs these days. You know what?

The eggs you buy at the store are not nearly as expensive as the ones that you buy at the store. That right there, that plays on last call. Is that quality? I feel like that's good. Topical. A high level topical. It's not really political.

It's just things are expensive. Right. There's another thing. Yeah, I like that. With eggs in particular. Yeah. Good stuff. Did you ever have to go?

Because we've both had to do this. But I had a different thing. I don't think it was IVF. But I don't know. You're at IUI. You're about to ask me about the donation, aren't you? My wife's insides are a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.

Ah. And so I did have to go give a sample, go to the thing. The bark. I did it a lot. Did you ever have to do that? Oh yeah. Okay. Oh yeah.

When I went, so we're talking 20 years ago now, they had, it was a cold room, and it was a leather chair, much like you're sitting on there. Yep. That was what was offered. And then they had some material, and it was the dirtiest, it was terrible porn. But as far as I remember, it was all straight geared towards it. Yes.

Do is there a gay porn room for you? So, so or do you just look at the dudes? Funny, you should ask. So by the way, same leather chairs. They have like, like a piece of like paper paper, like a sterilized like those... Paper, sort of, yeah. Paper, like a sterilized paper. Like for the toilet. Yeah, that you can put around it, but there's a big piece, yeah.

It's almost like a pee pad for a dog, right? Like it's like a one way liquid goes in, but doesn't come out kind of situation that you sit on. So yes, we went, Doug and I both went to the doctor to donate and they put you in a room by yourself. So you don't get to go in with your guy? No, there's no, that would help. Right. Right. Right. It's gotta be a sterile sample. There are people on the, as you know, on the other side, there's a busy office.

Oh my yeah. Right outside the door. I mean, right outside that door. Not a whole lot of confusion about what you're in there to do either. You are right. So I went in, blah, blah, blah. She said there's, you know, now what I did do, I will say this, is I, cause it was like a DVD player situation. And I opened it up just to see like what the last guy watched.

I was kind of curious. Sure, yeah. What did it for you kind of situation. So I'm in there and I'm getting ready and there was a knock at the door and it's the nurse and she said, I'm so, so sorry to bother you. I just need to switch out the DVDs. Oh, okay.

And I said, she had some stuff. I said, you know what, you're good. I have an iPhone. what, you're good. I have an iPhone. Yeah. It's, you know, we're good. Yeah, I think I did it before an iPhone. I think that's a... I actually brought earbuds with me as well,

because I was like, I don't need you hearing. Yeah, hearing it. And also, when I went in, they had a set of Bose noise canceling Bluetooth. I'm like, this is a snow wave. I'm not putting... First of all, I don like Bose noise canceling Bluetooth. I'm like, this is a snow wave. I'm not putting, first of all, I don't want noise canceling. I want to be able to know. My mom's not here, but she could walk in at any time.

Yeah, but I wonder- Be prepared, but yeah, the headphone felt like- That's interesting that they have a separate set of DVDs. She did. Like, do they have a separate black set? Do they have a Asian set? Like with your- Like what, yeah. Like do you have any kinks or fet Do they have an Asian set? Like, with your- Like, what's, what, yeah.

Like, do you have any kinks or fetishes? Yeah, yeah, interracial. So interesting that you say that because I was thinking at the time, I mean, how much is the, like, intensity of the content, let's say, going to affect, like, the personality of the sperm that comes out? I'm glad you thought about this.

Do you know what I'm saying. Oh, yeah Yeah, no, not only have I thought about it. I Thought about it a lot Steve. I I Selected a video each time that I thought this is not so bad, right? I actually have them bookmarked. There was only two people involved both time Missionary like they seem to like each other. They were caring.

Yeah. Right. They were there voluntarily. Nobody seemed like they were having kind of a bad time. No one was coerced. No. Right. The Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of.