The Dumb Zone FREE - Live from 2025 Texas Rangers Opening Day with Jim Knox | DZ 3-27-25

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneWe broadcast live from Leddy's bang bus from 2025 Texas Rangers Opening Day. Steve Noviello drops by and his surrogate happens to be a part of Leddy's crew. Dan's connection to the Cleveland radio host starting the Dak trade to the Browns rumors. And Jim Knox joins us to relive some classic audio and go wireless which includes him jumping from the bang bus (00:00) - Open: Live from Rangers Opening Day (28:09) - Sports: Dak trade to Cleveland rumors (46:30) - The 2025 Texas Rangers (01:01:22) - Steve Noviello and his surrogate (01:15:22) - Classic Jim Knox audio with Jim Knox (01:51:30) - Wireless Jim Knox ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Fairly swear are we today Blake? We are at Texas Rangers opening day and Seen a lot of new cars around and it looks fun I'd love one and if you're in the market for a new car go to Fairly's When you buy a new car, it's all about how little can you pay for this vehicle. Leasing helps you do that. And Fair Lease will handle it. He just asked where we were.

And all of a sudden. So here's what happened. Here's what happened. My voice is a little bit messed up. So before the spot, I said, Blake, can you start the spot? Because I didn't want the first thing people heard to be my voice. OK, and then he didn't. But he started it late. and then I said Texas,

because they're from Texas, Fair Lease. Yeah. And they're all about Texans helping Texans. You don't need to go to some big box store. Who knows where they are? France? I know where Fair Lease is, Texas. Yeah.

That's where I was going with that. But then you kind of. He did the whole, he started doing the whole spot. Yeah. You want to give the website? No, go ahead. It's fairlease.org folks fairlease.org We get we get now yeah You guys act like it's been an easy setup so far I like we have a lot of our ass off trying to get on the air

And then you want to throw every damn curveball at me already I asked And then you said yes, you know We're doing this People don't want to hear about Is getting up and my nipples are sore they just want that baby. Yeah, I don't want to hear about the first 90% Yeah I'm Dan McDonald. I'm Jake Kelly Jones We have Clayton here. We have Marv. Oh my God. The cosmic cowboy here helping us in the role of promotions director, right? Yeah, I love it. This is perfect. It's the most like Arlington thing you could imagine.

We're outside? We're outside. We're here in front of a disgusting pond which sits in front of an unused sports complex. Boy that is a disgusting pond. With the bus. With Letty's Bag Bus. Yeah, we're at the legendary bus. I mean, you think Wrigley. You think Camden. That's probably a bad one. But the parade was right here, dude. Can you feel it? Oh, yeah.

Four-door Toyota Tundra featuring Ezekiel Duran drove right by here. Here, throw that headset on there, Letty. Right. So yeah, we were out here last year. We were broadcasting inside the bus. Yes. And not live streaming.

We think we're live streaming today, in some way, shape, or form. No? Audio? Yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah, we're streaming audio on YouTube. I think Clayton gave me this tired, harried look. I don't know. I think this went well.

I guess we're not live streaming video, but we are on video and we will have this video out for you later, I guess. I don't know. Yes. think it went well. What's Dan's fit today? I know that's a big thing Yeah, and I wasn't really gonna bring it up, but you're right. It is a big thing It's a weird fit brother. You think what I'm wearing is weird. Well, it was a little chilly and So I wanted a little a long sleeve shirt. Yeah, and Then I put on my Rangers jersey over it, but I will probably change And then I put on my Rangers Jersey over it, but I will probably change Yeah, it's a Lone Star beer. I love your hat, but it might play merch Are you too frazzled right now to weigh in on this do I look weird?

Let me see describe my look okay. Why does it look weird? Well? He's got his normal Remote shorts on which are black like the fitness brand that starts with a V, Viori. Yeah, they're nice shorts but they're they're not like dress shorts by any means I have on like khaki shorts. So he's got those of course and then on top he's got like a loose fitting black long sleeve tee all the way. Again chilly this morning 60 degrees. And cancer a factor.. Oh, you know, you see older fair people at times. But then he's got like an oversized blue Rangers mesh spring training button-up on over it. It's just kind of an unstable color combo. Well, it's opening day. I had to wear Ranger stuff. But Letty made us t-shirts. I see that. With a bus on the front and the number 69 on the back for mine.

So I'm going to change soon. What does the back of yours say? It's just 69. It's Jersey number, obviously. Mine says DD on the BB. Get it? What's DD? You know that there's no chance I could drive that bus any better

sober than blacked out. So it doesn't matter. It would still be the same. How'd the bus do today? You know what, fired right up and it was smooth selling. I mean, we were a little late. I told Blake, he kept moving the data. I was like, the time of it, I was like,

Blake, look man, there's like 30 people on this thing. It's an effort to get everybody there. I mean, we're drinking Bloody Marys in the parking lot, so it's a lot to just get loaded. So let's reset what this bus is. Oh my god. Oh! This bus, there's Jim Knox driving by. Wow he gets himself a golf cart. Yeah you know it's funny, so we reached out to Jim before he kind of did the Rangers Nation thing. And we kind of thought we were going

to get cucked on that deal. But he was like, no, no, I told you guys I was coming. We're in. So the bus was we all went to UNT. We played lacrosse. And our coach who donated his time, Coach Carl, was very much so like, hey, we need to travel together. We need to do something. So we bought this old school bus. He paid for it he

wanted me to clarify that from last year he was really upset but two two grand it's been in the family since the whole bus for $2,000. What was the other option? Yeah. Half of it? No Tracy over there she researched it forever she's saying three thousand sorry. Okay. But anyway yeah, she researched it forever. She's saying 3,000, sorry. But anyway, yeah, so we had a partition in there so everybody could hang out. We made road trips to games and stuff. And then we tried to pass it on to the next team.

They had no interest at all. Oh, that's always super tough when you think you have a really cool tradition. I mean, kids these days, right? And you try to give it to the next generation, they're like, you're gay. Yeah, yeah, that's basically what it was. We need Steve Novella here. here, which by the way his surrogate is here with us by the way. That's the weirdest shit Yeah, yeah, small world. It's that Steve Noviello's son came out of her vagina. Yeah, she's here somewhere

Oh, really? Yeah, well introduce you later. Yeah, yeah, so anyway, but yeah, so then Tracy's dad took the bus He's like well, I'll steward the bus. He added the rooftop. He did bicycling. He was retired. Went all over the country with it. And he used to come every day. This is the 25th year we've had the bus.

So it's the anniversary day. Yeah, it's pretty big deal for us. So anyway, it's always a little clench your asshole a little bit getting here. Yeah, obviously we have you guys coming. We got 100 people depending on a good time. And it's always. So knowing that, knowing it's opening day,

knowing you've scheduled us, you've scheduled Jim Knox, you've like everything's gonna revolve around this, you decided I'm gonna start it up that morning. Let's see if it works. We started it the day before. Let's be fair. Oh, somebody did go try it yesterday? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we got it to the neighborhood the day before. Oh, somebody did go try it yesterday? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We got it to the neighborhood the day before. I checked in with him the other day, just like, how we doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the day before, even that is kind of. I mean, I have a mechanic at work. We kind of somewhat drive it around the yard a few times. But yeah, we don't really put it on the road. And who was it, your wife or somebody told me,

you called her like yesterday afternoon with this shirt idea, and they printed you out some shirts. Yeah, Tracy hooked us up with the shirts real quick. I just wanted y'all to have something. You're kind of big on planning, because we knew this was happening. I don't think he's kind of big on planning. I mean, it might not always go off without a hitch.

Look, the guy over there shaking his head. Jason. Yeah, he gets our tickets every year. I mean, this is a big group. I think we're up to 65 tickets, 80 tickets a year. We put together. The Rangers have been awesome. We've had our group tickets since 06.

So again, it's a big group effort. Then getting out here, you saw getting set up is a lot. Just get umbrellas up, chairs up, beer bongs up. I don't know if you guys are ready. Jake, if you want to relapse. We appreciate the tent. It does look like the sun is moving. This guy. Don't wear a long sleeve black shirt when it's going to be 80. Well, it wasn't 80 when I put this shirt on and I have, you bought me a shirt, so I'm good. I'm going to change. Now the world needs Leddies. Can we move this tent

if we need to? We're not moving the tent. We can definitely move it. We can if we need to in the sun. We'll follow the sun. With cameras and lights and it'll be fine. We're going to be fine. You're going to be fine is what I'm saying. Yeah. Anyway, thanks for being here.

So this is like a crossover event, though. I also see Wire Will and like. The Grapevine Colleyville Dad's club is here. Yeah, I see Lee McDowell like what's the deal? I don't know why we'll exactly like It's like I thought this is letty's bus. We know Mike Adams, but I don't know why will that's That's a celebrity out of our reach. That's a celebrity out of our reach, for sure. Dumb Zone Avengers. Yeah. OK, yeah.

I wonder if I supplied anything for his rebuild on his firehouse. But I'll talk to him off there. Sorry. Yeah, you guys need to link and build. Yeah. You guys are getting liquored up early, man. I was concerned about that. All right, so we have a rollout bar in the neighborhood we pull out.

So we all had, you know, we start with Bloody Marys as we're loading the bus. Because a chance we may have to push this thing let's be honest right so so we want to be liquored up a little bit to just enjoy the experience right. Blake I was talking to you yesterday like I was worried that are people gonna be really into it I mean last year the game started later but if the game starts at three are people gonna be drinking when we're there at ten and the answer is yes.

Yeah. Cheers. You were drinking well before that. Yeah. Yeah. It's pace yourself, obviously. Yeah. Looks like you're not really doing that.

No, he's good. I'm a big guy. Yeah. I'm all right. You are. OK. A beer is pacing himself. A guy, yeah, I was going to say, a guy who looks like this.

That's not his first one. A guy who looks like this can drink those Mm-hmm consistently for the next ten hours. That's how he gets his water. There's just no Okay, so that is his light. Yes, that is you'll know I purposely stop drinking this craft beer bow is a cut from the same cloth Okay, you turn around and he's not drinking hard liquor. So you turn around and he's got an empty case of beer and is Sober yeah, okay He's not drinking hard liquor, so. He turned around and he's got an empty case of beer and is sober. Yeah, OK. Well, thanks for having us again. Also, you know that Letty is the guy that purchased the Dumb Zone table skirt for us?

Wow. Yeah, you guys look real official. We do. Many moves ago, I think. After last year, I was like, can we do something? In fact, I think that's what it was yeah We were here on the bus. Yeah, you're 420 event at the movie theater and by then we had a thing. Come on man, let's look like we know what we're doing right?

We're getting there. Our people lift us up. Yeah I went to that I went to that concert I was telling you about last night, Dan, where the band returned after being cancelled when the lead singer, who was in his late 20s at the time, was found to be sexting and sending nudes to a 15-year-old. The band, brand new. I think this stuff all went down in like 2018. And the guy's like 40 now?

Yeah. Well, how old was he then, then? Mid-20s, late 20s late 20s okay so yeah they have not really played they definitely like not live and I don't think was this the first comeback I believe so okay yeah it was the first time they had toured where was it it was at the bomb factory which the weird thing is I went home blew up my house They've read they've brought it back. I know bomb factor and I just felt so are we bringing back Red River shootout this year

Like it seems like everything's brought back. I keep saying this but I do think we need an actual list, right? Of things that are reverting. Yes, it's John Gruden got back into the Bucks Ring of Honor Wow, okay, which was weird. Yeah, okay. It's it wasn't so bad now in hindsight That's one there's a list we can put together here But so yeah, they came back and took Jackie Robinson off the government website it can go both ways. Yeah This is a band that I was a fan of I wouldn't say I was like a die-hard, but they had one album that I was very, very into. I haven't listened to them in a while, to be honest. Over the last couple of weeks after a listener offered me tickets, I kind of started soaking

in their music and just listening to it a lot, which I don't really do I don't know about you, but I don't really listen to music outside of exercise or walks anymore I don't listen to music in my car at all At home my wife might put on some ambient. I do if I'm with my kids. Yeah. Yeah, it's weird so I'm actually just like diving back into this album and you know hindsight's 20-20, but I was reminded that it seems like most of these songs

are really kind of about the nervous energy of having sex when you're like right at the end of puberty. Where you're like 17, 18. Or she is. You're not sure if you're allowed to do that. Yeah, even if just she is at the time. But you know what I mean like that? The songs are about like, I don't know what's OK.

This is a weird time. I'm nervous to have sex. I'm describing shaking. And now, I listen to it, I'm like, well, yeah, because you were committing a crime. Yeah, OK. Those were seventh graders. Your hand should have been shaking as you slid your hand

down her hip and felt her, like he's describing like how, and I remember at the time being like, yeah, I don't know what the fuck's going on either. Sex is weird. I'm nervous too. Well then you're both shaking, yeah. The difference is, is that I wasn't.

He's shaking because of the illegality of it. Yeah, I was just nervous. And she's shaking because it's her first time. Yeah, it's different when you listen to the songs now. Did you go alone? I went with TC. Okay. But we met a few listeners. One guy who had driven up from Austin, he was a debate coach in Austin.

Oh. 20 year high school debate coach. Met another couple people, a guy named Eric who pointed out, their faces were like almost completely covered by light. You really never saw him and they really he he's the guy it's his band he never really spoke. What do you what are you saying? I don't like in between songs and before and after you you're familiar with the idea of going to a band. Banser with the crowd? No. It was just that we're playing our songs.

Yeah. And he did have one moment towards the end where for about 30 seconds, he did the music has gotten me through some really tough times in my life. And I'm glad to be here in Great Bowl for everyone. I love my bandmates. Thanks for coming. But there was no like, hey, it's good to see everyone after I got called a pedophile.

So no joking about it, there was no- So TC and I kept talking to each other, like is there a joke he could make? Like a Ted Cruz did it right after he left for Cancun. Yeah, like is there a- He then went on stage later and kind of joked about that. Like if he went on stage and was like, this song right here is 15 years old, you know I love it.

Thought it was 17 in Texas. Are there jokes about it he could make? And I don't think that there are. So he went with nothing. There's a band that disappeared for a decade and didn't really engage, kept his eyes down, or kept the lights down. And I was wondering wondering what if someone

yells at him and we determined the crowd would turn on you because if you're there you're already supporting that not that big of a deal yeah or at least art and artist whatever however I did witness one phenomenon last night I'm happy to report there is a backlash to people with phones at concerts Because this crowd is older like I was thinking I wonder if there are any 1819 year olds that are into this band like we were at that age the answer appears to be no it's all people that are there 35 and older and As they came out the lights came up They were probably I was pretty far to the back because they turned out to be GA seats I think I told you they were balcony okay

that's what was relayed to me might not have gone but I'd already committed once the guy said GA so just went toughed it out with the back but we were like towards the back so maybe 50 phones go up and within 10 seconds there are not one guy two guys there's half a dozen guys, put your fucking phone up! Put your phone up! Really? And then one, you're 45 years old!

He's got a point. Put your phone up! And like it's growing and people are booing and then now the next time the lights come down and up and there's a moment for it, people bring the phones up, they start yelling, no, shut the fuck up, I'll keep my phone up. Oh, wow. We got a thing.

A little Civil War. I got my phone out and tried to record it, but it was just towards the end of it, and it didn't come back up for a few songs. But it was definitely a present thing, of people just yelling. Huh. Yeah, it was a weird show.

They didn't play a couple of their biggest hits Present thing of people just yelling. Huh. Yeah, it was a weird show. They didn't play a couple of their biggest hits because they just didn't do an encore. I'm fine with no encore. Usually you play your hits, but in hindsight, his hits are, you know, if you listen to them, they're pretty gross. Biggest hits are... So is that why he shied away from the more egregious... It's tough not to think that's the reason.

Lyrics. Yeah. It's tough not to think that's the reason. Yeah. The weird show. I'm glad I went, but it was. Every time you go to a show lately, you come back and say it was weird. Tom Green was weird. Shane Gillis was weird.

I'm just reporting what I see. Pivot was pretty regular, other than just like the racial dynamic of it but so is this band what's it called one direction what a dick yeah is it one direction brand the one direction of your era right it's not even like close to that brand new is their comeback like the bomb factory being relabeled like did they fall into that like hey we can come back now. Unfortunately, I think yes.

I mean, the guy's probably as left as the day is long, right? But it does appear that there's a little hole in the line for him to creek through. It's been opened up by culture recently. Is Gay Not Gay on that list? Of course it is. OK, I like that list. list? Of course it is. Okay I like that list. Yeah of course it is. Oh I've seen a few other ones. Yeah it was an

interesting night and then Blake's house like fell down. For real? Almost. What happened to you? So Wednesday night at about 9.30, it starts raining really hard out of nowhere. Like I had no idea it was even supposed to snow. We got light, but it was weird rain. You know, we really need it. Hell yeah. Yeah, after I scalped and laid some weed and feed down, it didn't have to run my sprinklers.

It must have felt great. Timed it right, fellas. Yes. But then the rain started to turn to hail and Before long I was getting hit by some Pro V ones go golf balls eyes Were you under the squall line you must have been I don't know it was tough to tell where the squall line was yeah Yeah, my house got pelted and apparently Wiley McKinney Grand Prairie South Dallas all got hit with some pretty nasty hail. And so then the next, in looking out of my window, it looked like it was snow.

Like there was so much hail. It was insane. And so I get up the next morning and I leave, I kind of see some of the damage, you know, there's just leaves all over the place. Just looks like a windstorm just rolled through. And when I get back to my house at about 8 o'clock, there are five roofing companies walking my neighborhood. Oh, boots on the ground. I like it.

And this was the first hail I'd gotten in any house I've ever had. So I was not prepared for what was coming. And so about 8.15, the first guy comes up, I'm like, no, I got a guy. 8.30, another company guy comes up, no. Do they just park like the mail person and then just canvas on foot? Yeah, I've seen, you know, pest companies do this or solar companies where a truck will let four guys out

in a neighborhood and then they scatter and they'll hit the whole neighborhood. I've seen that but I haven't seen the degree of this before. Where yesterday I got seven business cards for roofing companies. Damn. But, uh- You ever had a job like that, Dan? Like a door- not like as a kid or anything but as a door to door- I just mean not for youth sports but you gotta go to the door, knock and, hey, Tree Trim Company.

No. God, I didn't. Have you done that? No, and I had friends that did, man. It's the summer and it's just brutal. The rate of return, you know, the hit rate must be really low on that. It's got to be. But I think if they hit one.

Yeah, the cost, the investment is very low. Yeah minimum wage and printing even doing the neighborhood walk about the politics thing We did that was that felt like that. Yeah. Yeah, so I was out in my front yard doing some stuff anyway, and so I would see these people approaching and I'm established the run guy, but I'm not to the point where I'm gonna be a dick to somebody just to get them away from me. You know what that is that's okay because that's just you respecting a hard-working American. And I feel for him. Which our RTP guy does. And as soon as we make eye contact he knows and I know the situation. He has to do this I have to hear him out a little bit I'm in need I probably already have somebody but he's

got to do his song and dance anyway and so it's just a whole I'm in need. I probably already have somebody, but he's got to do his song and dance anyway. And so it's just a whole, I'm sorry, I got a guy. Let me take your card. Let me at least do that for you. But do you actually have a guy? I do. And so as I was getting pelted by hail, I texted our good friend Brian Evans over at Qualis Roofing and said, I'm going to need an appointment tomorrow at some point. There it is. And so they were over there at about noon and you know, I was just, it's one of those things kinda like buying an engagement ring where you have no idea of what you're looking at

when you first go in there, but as soon as somebody says, this is what you're looking for, you turn into an expert. Yeah. Because I was looking at my roof thinking, I don't know, I don't think it's that damaged. And then once Qualis' guy came out and pointed to me, I was like, you know what, That is a lot of damage. Yeah

I think we're gonna need a new roof You should have made the guys in the neighborhood do like a bachelor bachelorette type thing All right lineup. Let's see what you got. What can you do for me? Yeah, no, but Fence is gonna need repair garage door got dinged gonna need a new roof solar panels made it. That's good but yeah, Qualis made it easy. Thanks C-Log. Yeah, but it was raining so your TV wouldn't work. That's right. Yeah. So he asked me who's my home insurance through? I said I don't know, I'll look into it. But yeah, he helped me with the filing the claim, they're gonna do their appraisal walk later in the week. It's a bunch of stuff that I have no idea about

and so I'm really glad Brian and Qualis is gonna take care of it for me. No, Qualis will, just, they are great. They're great like that and they've been around, they're not a, I don't think they're walking door to door through the neighborhoods. Yeah, that's very ambuous, Chase. They are kind of like the paralysis foundation when Christopher Reeve

Got thrown from a horse Wallace's not that upset if they see a hailstorm went through why oh you're right you're right Hail is to Wallace what magic Johnson was to AIDS. Yeah So Wallace now if you if you get a new roof. Hale is the Qualys. No, Hale is the Aids. OK. Right? Well, no.

Wait, no, Magic wasn't happy. No, AIDS was happy. AIDS, the AIDS foundation or whatever. Yeah, I think I got it. Not AIDS. AIDS itself, that'd be like saying cancer. All news is good news. Yeah, all right.

Sorry, Blake. So if you get a new roof through Qualys, of course they'll pay for your sit-in. This is not even actually a spot, right? No. No, I was talking to Brian. Their new thing now is they, with a roof, you can get a sit-in or you can get a brand new Traeger grill,

which is pretty sweet. Do you know how much better that is than our show? So they gave you that? It's like not even close. It's kind of similar. But let me say this. So if you got hit by hail, have them out, get a new roof, I get a- Like physically?

Will you just let me finish? Damn. If you get the new roof through Qualys, I get a $250 referral fee. If you tell me that you signed up because you heard about it from me, I will give you that 250 if you get a new roof through Qualys.

Dang. You? Yes, I'll give you the 250, I'll give you my 250 referral. What are we doing here? You'll get a Traeger grill, and you get a new roof that's paid for by your insurance. It's a hell of a deal, guys. What is going on here?

Everybody's got side deals now. I can see why the ticket was mad at us. They can't do your own thing. Oh, man. So now we have Blake is working a thing where he gets a reference. There's not a good chance, but there's also not a 0% chance Oh, man. So now we have Blake is working a thing where he gets a reference. There's not a good chance, but there's also not a 0% chance

that we're not all in jail for tax fraud in the next four years. Not me. No. I don't know. Well, probably me. Some of those phone calls. I'm like, I don't know.

So I'm getting a new roof. Good for you and good for Qualis. Yes. Thank you, Qualis. Yeah. You getting a rainbow-colored one? It'll match my kids leotard for gymnastics. Hell yeah. So As far as the gym knock situation, I see gym knocks showed up. Is he cool to...

So he's doing a little roaming for his... Is he cool to not join us until like noon? Yeah, I told him to come back at noon. Go do some push-ups, come back at noon. Oh yeah, I don't know if you guys... He is cut. Like, honed in on stuff like this or not, but I want to talk about his body. Because it's changed a little bit. You think?

Yeah, he's still ripped, but you guys can, he's not as bulky as he used to be. I'm just going to ask him about protein intake, compound sets. I feel like he had a Roy there. Or at least outwardly looked like. I thought he owned a gym, so he's probably not going to own after that. Crazy, crazy in shape. He just looks slicker.

He had a hockily thing going on. still like crazy crazy in shape he just looks slicker he has like a like a hockily thing going on I have some sports for you today let's do it and it's gonna be brought to us by community mechanical so that's the HVAC company actually they also do a they'll they'll do a sit-in for you so if you end up getting a new HVAC system with them. Now, I don't know if they have a side deal with Blake. Like if Blake tells you to call Community Mechanical. Well, I'm glad you mentioned that because my AC unit outside, the condenser coil, got knocked off by the hail,

so Travis is going to come to my house Friday. And if you sign up, I don't have anything here, but Community Mechanical is also helping out too if you got hit. Yeah. I don't have anything here, but Community Mechanical is also helping out too if you got hit. Yeah, they'll be at my house in the next couple of days installing a mini-split in the mini-dragon den. So, go check them out. It's our buddy Travis over there, communitydfw.com. You can text him really at any time. Just hit him with a U-up, sup, A-slash-S-slash-L l bra size at four six nine six six seven seven two nine oh community DFW comm What you got for me? I? Have some baseball. Oh you want to start with that because I have football. Yeah, I want to start with your football

Yeah, I like that really wasn't prepared So this kind of went viral yesterday and was from what I saw pooh-poohed by the Dallas media. So I really hope this does happen it'd be great. But it was Bruce Drennan, a Cleveland sports radio legend, had a thought about the Browns and Cowboys working on a trade. And I'm watching this, Bruce Drennan, and I'm thinking how old is Bruce Drennan? He is the norm of Cleveland. Okay. Okay. He's the norm Hitchcups of Cleveland in that when I was a little kid

He was the play-by-play voice on TV for the Indians and then he would host a sports talk show and He was not Pete Franklin who was my king and leader, but he was also on probably the same station as Pete Franklin doing some sports talk. And I would call him and try to record the call, and record the call, and I would try to work in people's names that I knew. Oh, classic. So my cousin's name is Rich Ward. And so, my cousin would be listening at home, and I'd say, hey, I'm gonna call Pete Franklin,

and I'd sit on hold, and well, here's what it would sound like. You're on 3WA welcome. What do you think of Rich Ward? Do you know who he is? No. Who is he? Do you like that voice? I love it. How old? You sound younger than 10. I don't know probably yeah. No. Who is he? He's a minor leaguer for the Indians in Buffalo. I think he's got five more months already. Do you think they could call him up? No, I don't think that any minor league or out of Buffalo was the answer for the Indians not not anyone on the Buffalo Bisons. They gotta have some legitimate power hitters

They're not gonna find it in their minor league system or they'd be on the big club right now So just I I do I want to take a moment here like you're just playing this like it's, oh, I just found this thing. This is incredible. Like, you have a call from when calling a Sports Talk radio. This is like Tiger on that talent show when he was a little kid. This is, yeah, this is what I did, man. This is insane.

I mean, I made prank calls. But to this degree and to still have it, like, this is the pinnacle of your work. Yeah, so that's not the only kind I called him. So and the thing about it is you have to remember, so old time sports radio, they just want callers. Sure. And then that dictates the topics. It wasn't like we're going to talk about this today, call about this. It's just open lines. What's on your mind in the world of sports? Call us. And he might go from a call like that's kind of Norm's thing. He can talk NCAA

tournament and then he'll go right to the Rangers. Then he'll go... So this illustrates too. He will keep talking to me for a while this is one where I was calling about my favorite player George Vukovich and He was this spare outfielder he sucked but he was my favorite player when I was a kid and He booked him. Yeah, so Tell me I say trade Vukovich. Oh, you don't trade these people. Why would you trade Vukovich? Why would you trade Vukovich when he's hitting 285-295 consistently for you? And he's doing a very fine job defensively. And he's becoming rapidly a very popular player in Cleveland with everybody chanting Vuk, Vuk, Vuk, Vuk. Why would you trade the individual? That's ludicrous. Goodbye. And you're on 3W8 World.

Take that, kid. That's ludicrous. Goodbye. He's great. OK, then he. No, he's basically like a little producer. Yeah. Like just feed him something, whether he believes it or not,

move the show and the conversation in a direction. OK, so I have one more here. In fact, because I would spend hours thinking about the Indians lineup and how I could revamp it and some different things that they could do with certain players coming up certain players you know whatever so this is back when Julio Franco was also one of my favorite players on the Indy well they were all my favorite player right before becoming a Texas Ranger eventually Julio Franco was also one of my favorite players on the Indian... well they were all my favorite player, right?

Before becoming a Texas Ranger eventually, Julio Franco was on the Indians. You know who he is, Blake? You ever heard of him? Alright, so I had some ideas about Julio Franco. And then, this is going to be like a two minute call, but we don't have to go through the whole thing. Bruce? Yes, you're on the air. What do you think of who will find those chances of moving to the outfield if Cory Schneider makes it up? Like, does that sound like me at all, like now, if you heard that and you go, oh yeah, that's young Dan? No.

Or only that I'm telling you this? Well, I think it sounds like you to me because I've heard your voice at different times in your life. So it's like a progression. But just your voice today and that, that sounds nothing like you. So kids... Don't, don't, you're not going to be the same. Blake? One day. You know, Frank, those chances of moving to the outfield, if Cory Schneider makes it up to the Bigleys. No, Frank, that would destroy him mentally. You can't be playing mind games with these kids like that. Cory Schneider's not going to be ready for a while anyway. You can't

just sign a kid and make him your number one draft choice, and because he's on the U.S. Olympic team, right away you think he's your answer and you'll be in an Indians uniform next spring no way it just all right let me just jump ahead it's great 20 seconds did he ever enjoy hearing from you yeah my goodness he could be a star in this league for many many errors though. Yes he does, but again, I think it's a matter of concentration. It seems like earlier in the year he had a problem with it. Here let me jump ahead another 20 because he's just keeping me on. It's not an easy thing to achieve. This is the everyday game. Major League Baseball is 162 games. That's a lot of games to maintain full concentration

on every pitch when you're out there. You're gonna have mental lapses. The greatest players of all time will tell you they've had mental lapses. Many of them. The thing is to try to keep to a minimum. Okay. Okay, hold on real quick.

I just realized something. So if you work with slash four, Dan, you know, don't hang up on the caller. When the caller calls, put the caller back on hold so that the caller can hear the end of the call or stay on. And where did I learn that? As a caller? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Because it would be it would be terrible. Yes, if you just hung up in the middle of it and I didn't get to hear him continue. Yeah. Yeah, so I know. So throw the caller on hold. Yeah. So that they can still hear the call. They don't think that, yeah, it would just be a weird Sopranos like thing. Yeah, no, you're right. Like this is how life ends. And then you got to go to the radio, but you're like, oh yeah. Right. Okay, so I played that to set up Who Is Bruce Drennan. By the way, was this drive time show? This wasn't like overnight sports talk radio, was it? Or was it?

It was probably nighttime. It feels like that was sports talk back in the day. Oh yeah, you're right. It was kind of all after drive time. There wasn't really an afternoon show. I don't think. But yeah, so that's who he is. He was like, I don't know, he sounds 50 there. He looked

50. He was maybe 70. I don't know what he was. But he's still on the air in Cleveland in some way, shape, or form. And And now I'll take you to his, he has a big Browns Cowboys rumor that went viral yesterday. Let's just tune in to Bruce Drennan yesterday. I want to conclude the first segment before I start getting into the divisional predictions with the Sweet 16. He sounds the same, I don't, but yeah he wants to get into predictions with the sweet 16 This is norm Yes, sweet 16 in the elite 8 being completed this coming weekend

We'll have Tanner Ron to bring us up to speed well I'm on for a couple of segments couple of segments You're gonna have a guy on to predict The sweet 16 and then afterwards we'll just discuss the Lead 8. Okay, we predicted the first games, now let's predict the second games. That sounds so boring. I'll cover the whole tournament up to now and then preview the final four. And then we're going to preview the final four. Alright, now I want to conclude the first segment before I start getting into the divisional predictions in baseball.

We also have to predict all the baseball divisions because it's opening day is tomorrow. One day? Lamar Jackson is going to be the quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens. Okay. Joe Burrell is going to be the quarterback of the Cincinnati Mane. Who's going to be the starting quarterbacks for the Pittsburgh Steelers in our Cleveland Browns? That's a good question. Well, we now know that Russell Wilson will not be the quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers

because he signed that one-year deal that's guaranteed $10.5 million for the one year with the New York Giants yesterday. So that increases the likelihood that Pittsburgh will replace him with a guy by the name of Aaron Rodgers. Makes sense? Wow. No, it doesn't. Isn't his cadence like norm though? Oh, it's exact same playbook. For sure. It's captivating. So where does that leave our Cleveland Browns? Hold on real quick. I hate to be pedantic here, but

It doesn't it I guess does Technically increase the chances because now there's one less team that he could sign with but how did he just deduce? Well now it's more likely Aaron Rodgers is with the Steelers that being a given. Let's talk about the Browns It's just I don't know. That's yeah, it's more likely Aaron Rodgers is with the Steelers. That being a given, let's talk about the Browns. It's just, I don't know. That's, yeah, it's, don't try to. So where does that leave our Cleveland Browns? Get ready for this one. Uh oh. Okay.

I got a pretty darn good source. That is Norm. Within the Browns organization. I heard since our last show that part of the reason Miles Garrett was so willing to sign this extension for contract. Yeah money money money The Browns are negotiating as we speak with the Dallas Cowboys for a trade for Dak Prescott And Eric got all giddy about it why I don't know we're not going anywhere That's a hundred percent norm. God, that's good. The Browns are negotiating as we speak with the Dallas Cowboys for a trade for Dak Prescott.

And Eric got all giddy about it. I think he might be talking about his producer. I guess producer. He brings him on something. He's like 25. It's like a video show, so he'd throw it to the... But then the producer just lets Norm go, lets Bruce Drennan go, and then he'll jump in just occasionally to give a... Exactly. I mean... Yeah. He will pop on, if you will. Yeah.

Why, I don't know. We're not going anywhere with Prescott, even if they will. Yeah. Why I don't know we're not going anywhere with Prescott even if they pull off. Newsom's part of it and draft picks. Now Prescott has a hamstring injury as we speak and he may not be ready to start a training camp but this comes from a couple of different sources. This reminds me too of, uh, Frito would always say Norm's favorite season. Do you guys remember that? Uh, the off season? Off.

Yeah. He loves speculation. He loves possibly this, possibly that. He doesn't like the postgame as much. But this comes from a couple of different sources and oh wow take it for what it's worth if it does come about remember where you heard it first any comment Ryan before we go to okay I want to get back to that but you want to bring on Steve yeah of course okay or you want to keep playing

it while he's keep playing it I'm struck by how norm this is. Take it for what it's worth. If it does come about, remember where you heard it first. Any comment Ryan before we go to... Wow, I gotta be honest Bruce, when you started that, I thought they trade for Brock Purdy because I've seen something along the lines of that would be the crazy move the Browns could pull off.

I've not heard Dak Prescott now He's isn't this kid's an aspiring sports talker as well. Yeah, that would be intriguing though. He had a signed a fact contract at Dallas I don't know how the money would work out, but I mean money in the NFL whatever Andrew Barry will find a way Hey, it's an upgrade from what you have now because right now It's so norm yeah, hey, it's an upgrade from what you have now, because right now. Anything would be an upgrade, my god. Because right now, if I was a betting man, your quarterback room heading into week one

is Kenny Pickett, of course. It's Shador Sanders, who drafted number two, and a guy like Carson Wentz. So hey, if the Browns are trading for Dak Prescott. They're not going to draft the quarterback, then. If they do trade. See, he loves to conjecture. Now we're, OK, let's say quarterback then. If they do trade. He loves to conjecture now. We're OK.

Let's say in the world that they do. Hey, the Browns are trading for Dak Prescott. They're not going to draft a quarterback then. If they do trade, I could see that. I'm not taking a quarterback. I think they should take Hunter. Correct. I would agree.

If you can get Dak Prescott, I would understand that. And I can understand from Dallas' point of view, they've been with Prescott as long as they were with Romo. And they've gone nowhere fast like a hamster in a cage. Now that, dang, is so Norm. That's the same guy. Like the dead body of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. And I can understand from Dallas' point of view,

they've been with Prescott as long as they were with Romo, and they've gone nowhere fast like a hamster in a cage So we shall see Remember when you heard it first. All right when we come back, I'm going to predict the American League Central Division our guardians and everybody else That's next. Okay. I'm not going anywhere. No bonus time. What's running big play Okay now I'm keeping this in there because just to show you, he's Norm in every aspect. By the way, huge gambler. Oh, no way.

If you search his name, I think he got in trouble lately a few years ago. I was going to say, there's a note on his Wikipedia page that definitely feels very norm. Which is that in 04 he was raided by the FBI and the IRS and had to do five months in prison for tax evasion. Dang! Okay, so he went, he's, we're gonna throw it to break, right?

Hold on. Bonus time with Drennan! Big play. Big play. I love you,or Nissan. Hi, Bruce Drennan here from my good friends at Menor Nissan. Ray Smitchak, the whole staff. As you know, I've been... Okay, gotta bring up the name. Yeah, I know him well. Gotta bring up... Doing a lot of our shows down in Florida, just returned. Great to be back on the home confines

of our beautiful studios here at Berk Lakefront Airport for big play. But I got to tell you, I drove my Nissan Rogue from Menner Nissan down to Florida, had the rack up on top with extra luggage. This man is absolutely an artist. Splendid, beautiful ride. Just as smooth as could be. Also drives a Rogue. we rotated driving down there so to you get on out there test drive or Marano or any of the other great products rogue in I just feel like I feel like we could learn how to sell things yeah these guys just try

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Let's just run through. Let's touch all of them. Here's my baseball positioning statement. Let me just ask, has that porta potty guy come by? Yeah, because if so, we might need to take a break. Letty was saying, well, I'm just going to let you do the show while I go. That's a dick move. Why?

You did that to me the other day. It was like two seconds. If you want, you can. If it's not if it's not well, I just asked the guys here No, no, they said there was gonna be a porta potty driving by Anyway, um Get to work on that Lee. So here's my I feel like we should re-up this every year As I try to get into baseball Here's my baseball like

philosophical positioning statement. It bothers me that they play 162 games against the balance schedule and then have one in four game elimination rounds. It drives me insane. And the ball doesn't score. This is an opportunity for you to re-up my ball doesn't score theory. The ball doesn't score? Yeah. What does that mean? I feel like my mental block with baseball has always been that the ball doesn't score.

Every other sport that I'm interested in, it's based on military defense and advancement. Oh, so the person scores. Yeah, exactly. So soccer. Soccer, hockey, baseball, football, basketball. I don't really know much. The ball has to get to a certain place. Yes. And I feel like in my mind when I think about sports, I like the... That's interesting. I never thought of that. That is a gummy thought, my friend. I don't even know if I came up with it. I just remember as kid somebody pointing or maybe it was an adult and it made sense to me like yeah

this but anyways. Golf? I'm trying to think of something where the ball doesn't score. Yeah golf is a little bit different because it's not really based on you know. But I mean you got to get the ball to a certain area and I guess you do the home run in one situation yeah but I can't really explain this and maybe this is where Blake has to chime in I feel like baseball is becoming cool again and maybe this is social media and it might be that although I haven't done it since I've been back from the HabEx. Maybe I did it once but spending time around like Riz Alpha youth baseball players. Yeah, who were like 16 or 17. It just seemed like the swaggiest MFers in the world

There's a crawfish. There's a crawfish sitting right in front of us now. I'll wait till my wife gets here She peels them for me as part of my harem But I don't know, it seems to me, I don't know if it's like they have a lot of really good Latin players now who are kind of swaggy as it gets for baseball anyways, but it just feels cooler to me over the last couple years. I think, you know, when we were coming up,

baseball was a talking sport. But I think now in social media, you can show an eight second Bobby Witt home run and that pops or a great web gym or something. There are moments in a baseball game that pop as far as the highlight is concerned. So maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe they're just doing a better job of it.

I don't know. I just feel like I see more interesting stuff or players that are interesting and have stuff to say or this or that it just seems like they're doing a better job to me. Now the unfortunate thing for at least right now because it's kind of what I want to talk about I think the Rangers have a pretty boring roster. As far as personalities. Yeah and I think part of it is that they have a lot of young guys. We got Adoles. You have Adoles.

But, you know, you're... Yeah, and then the young guys are being led by Simeon and Seeger. That's what I wanted to say. As to, this is how you do things. Yes. You be robotic, you don't say a damn thing to the media. Yeah. I think Wyatt's going to be pretty cool, though.

That's what I've heard. And I think Josh Young can be, though. That's what I've heard. And I think Josh Young can be, too. Because really, really, yeah, and I mean, Evan Carter's not even on the opening day roster. So when I think about the peak of my Rangers' interest in fandom, of course, it was the era of W.A.S.H., right? It was the entire cast of characters

we want to talk to Knox about. It was a TV show. That was full of W.A.S.H., right? It was the entire cast of characters we want to talk to Knox about. It was a TV show. That was full of personality. It was like a seven season ensemble cast TV show. And when they won in 23, while it was cool, I feel like the parade was almost emblematic of how it felt to me, which was like disconnected. And I mean, I'm not the biggest Rangers fan in the world,

so I'm not trying to take anything away from people who also kind of know where I cried with their dad with a bunch of guys you had well that's what I'm saying it's a bit of the let's say they the Mavs won with Anthony Davis in this year even correct yeah that's part of it is you get to know them in the political game they call it astroturfing like when somebody shows up You know Hillary Clinton or whatever is like running in New York You know really okay, okay? Exactly you come from yeah, it happens all the time, but like well. It was great for the hard hardcore for me I do need a little bit of

juice into it a little foreplay and We have a team now that is, I think, going to be very competitive. High, high, high variance. Although they at least gave the grandma a start on Sunday. I was confused why everyone was like, yeah, it'll be next week. Like, well, if he's healthy. They originally slotted him for the five.

They wanted more space between his starts and less starts over the course of the year by putting him in the five slot. So those are just bull you did it in games No, it's just like no, it's where your but your off days come Oh, yeah, start break it just they're trying to make this a longer play But due to the the gray and Bradford injuries there, they've got to move them up. So I Want to try to get into them as they get as they grow right I think there's a chance they can be something kind of interesting now you're not

touching that era Bruce Bochy's interesting he's more interesting than what's his name Chris Woodward yeah Woody but not much more Mr. Hat so I had something on each of the two new editions I mean there's been a ton, but the two big editions were Jake Berger and jock Peterson and I have a nugget on both that I wanted to remind you both of the first Do you remember when that guy Tommy fam slapped jock Peterson over fantasy baseball? Slapped oh yeah, he was in it, like they were teammates. No, wait.

It was, Peterson was on the Giants, I think Pham was on the Brewers. And during warmups out in the outfield, they had a dispute, I think it was, maybe it was fantasy football, I don't remember. Fantasy football. It was fantasy football. I was like fantasy baseball, this is not real.

It was fantasy football. And Peterson did something that may have been against the rules. And Pham walked up and just smacked him. I do remember this now. It was a big money MLB player league, which means there's probably a million dollar payout. So in reading on it, it was Peterson said.

Boy, I'd like to see the biggest fantasy payout. So in reading on it, it was Peterson said... Boy, I'd like to see the biggest fantasy payout. Peterson said if a player's ruled out, you're allowed to put them on the IR. That's all I was doing. So basically, I think you freed up a roster spot. You probably grabbed the running back that was starting that day. We've all had that happen. We've all done that. Yeah, we've all seen though that people will manipulate. We know the rule, but we still, like CBS will allow it. This being, right? So that was Peterson getting slapped over at Fantasy Football.

Jake Berger, who's going to play first for the Rangers, set an MLB record in 2023 for swinging at 23 consecutive pitches. Hell yeah. And if you're not on board with that. He doesn't walk off the island. No. No.

He thinks Scott Hattaberg's a pussy. It was like over nine at bats or something, but he swung at every single pitch. That's crazy. That's awesome. So those are two new additions. Are we saying hello to Jim Knox right now? He's sitting here.

I think we should. Yeah, the great Jim Knox All right, all right, all right There he is folks here. We go here. We go Dan looking good Janks in the house. What do you think of Dan's fit today Dan's outfit? It was chilly this morning I'm gonna change into a short-sleeve shirt. Yeah, guys being an asshole now. I'm not here I simply asked him yeah something white would be helpful probably on a day like this.

I thought it was going to rain though. Yeah. Yeah, but it looks good, Dan. So you're more into white. Well, white is cool. It's cooling. You know, on a hot day, dark attracts everything. Sure.

Yeah. OK. Yeah. Especially, like, we're sitting here next to this beautiful body of water. Water. With the light reflecting off of it. Yeah, it could be a problem a little bit It's like you're sitting on the Sun here. Are you hanging out for a little while? Can we take a break?

Yeah, take a break. Definitely. I want to go to the bathroom. Yeah, that's good idea. Eat some food Telegate an opening day. Yeah Wait, first of all, though, is there a bathroom within a half hour? Well, there's one it's 15 minute round trip that pond right there. Yeah. Yeah like perfect. All right, you guys are being jerks We'll figure it out. Yeah, all right You're listening to the dumb zone You're listening to The Dumb Zone. You know what we got to do is promote the location of our getaway one week from tomorrow. We will be in San Antonio.

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would get 21% offset merch. Yeah and we're out here at uh how about that at opening day we need to make sure everybody knows that it's section 101 and 126 they got lone star beer at the gilf now whoa really first time ever game changer you've got lone star at the gilf lone. Whoa! Really? First time ever. Game changer. You've got Lone Star at the gilf, Lone Star Lite. That's a long time coming if you ask me. I know. Anyone who knows me knows that I've been waiting for Lone Star and Lone Star Lite at the gilf. Section 101 and 126, it's Lone Star... the National Beer Texas. Okay, so hey Steve, come on over here. Stop talking to those idiots.

So we have, we saw him like an hour ago, but then everybody wants a piece of this guy. Are we on? Look at these. This is the great Steve Noviiello. Wow. Of all places to run into you. From Fox 4. Yeah, we're guys, we like sports and stuff.

Yeah. I saw you went to a stars game. Yeah, just a couple of buddies hanging out. Couple of bros. I don't see the. Yeah. Yeah. I saw you went to a Stars game. Yeah, just a couple of buddies hanging out. I don't know. Couple of bros. Yeah, I don't see the problem. Road trip.

There was something weird about it being three guys. You know what was weird about it and what Mike? Sorry. I'm sorry. My comment. Trying to teach you about broadcasting. The basis of my comment for you. What's that?

It wasn't so much that you were hanging out. Oh, yeah. Blake put a picture of us at the game, and Steve Noviello just commented, gay. It wasn't a selfie or anything. It was just our view of the ice. He also wasn't all. He called us gay.

But the gay part was the caption. The caption said, like, show field trip or something. That's fricking gay. That is, yeah. Side note scene. If it was like dumb zone night at the stars, I'm right there. But show field trip I thought was a little gay.

I just thought it was. It hurts especially a lot when it comes from Steve Noviello, who is a guy who knows. Indeed. Who is allowed to call us gay. And so you're famously a person who has a husband. You have a man husband, right? And you're a man yourself. A couple TV shows. Yeah. Well, but the reason I'm leading into it like that is that you and your husband have a kid to two kids. Yep

But you did not carry this child to term not possible. No And your husband did not either also not possible. So you had to Enter into a contractual agreement with a lady To have the baby for you now Now is this with your DNA? One and one. How do we do this? One and one. Okay. So one was his and one was my DNA. Now it's same egg DNA. Oh okay it wasn't two different ladies. No so one egg donor, two different sperm. Now the lady who carried the baby. One woman.

Was it her egg? No. Really? No. I didn't know that could be done. Yeah, third party. You can take the egg from someone else. Yeah, I mean sometimes you put it back in,

like in my case. It's your wife's eggs. Right, but if you're using a surrogate, they will, it can be any egg. Oh! It's being done externally, right? So, like, Kim Kardashian, did she use her egg in this other lady? Yeah, yeah, that's the pretty normal...

Yeah. In fact, so now, I don't know if you saw the new research, they can now take a stem cell, create an egg out of it, so, like, two dudes could conceivably don't even need, I mean they need the vessel to grow the baby, but to make the egg you can actually, the new research is turning any stem cell into an egg. Yes.

We briefly touched on this. Would you have a kid with me if we could do that? You could, you could. As a bit? Yeah, yeah. That'd be the best bit ever. Just see what would it be like if Dan and Jake were combined. Yeah.

It could be either the greatest athletes or the worst ever. It'd be a pain in the ass. I can almost guarantee that. So yes. So yes, this is how last time we started talking about the idea of in the future, you could possibly use both men's DNA, which is how we arrived at Seamen Cocktail.

Right here today, we have Steve and Steve Surrogate. This is the lady. This is her. Who is ostensibly the mother of both of your children. His semen has been inside of her. So my husband and I each knocked her up separately. Right, but not with her egg. Nope.

Nope. And what's your name? I love learning Dan. No, this is amazing stuff. What Jennifer Jennifer? Do you feel honored that Steve Noviello has chosen you to or what was that process like? so I had actually been a surrogate before and I just recognized him because we were on the same Facebook group and I was just like hey, like I just had a kid but like it's good to see a familiar face and you know just like pretty much like I think like let me know if you have any questions or like hope things go well and then he's like we're actually not looking to have a kid for like a year

or so and I was like okay because I originally wanted to use someone local and so then we just went to dinner, and the rest is history. You went to dinner with both? Yeah, the terrorists and your husband at the time. Oh, and your husband. Yeah. OK.

And he was on board with it? He's like, yeah, cool. I mean, he was super on board with it. Yeah, absolutely. So is it because pregnant ladies get horny? Probably, yeah. Oh, OK. That's true, right? it. Yeah, absolutely. Is it because pregnant ladies get horny? Probably, yeah. That's true, right? It is true, yeah.

I think at the end of the day it also comes with a pretty big check. Oh yeah? It comes with a check. It's a job. I would say yeah, but I also did not... So after you've been a proven surrogate, you can actually charge a substantial amount more, and I just didn't because that's not why I was doing it. You can also charge more because I already have twins of my own.

You can charge more if you've had twins before, but that's not why I was doing it. Love of the game. Wait, you've had twins of your own. Yeah. You're a surrogate for someone else. And I have an older daughter as well. OK, three kids of your own, a surrogate for someone else,

and then two for Steve Noviello. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Jesus. Do you love being pregnant? I do. Well, do you really like it?

I do. It's been easy every single time. I mean, at the time I was working from home, so it was just easy. I never had any complications, really. So nine months of dealing with men. 24 hours in a day. What's 24 times?

Are you trying to figure out the hour wage? Yeah, do you at least make minimum wage for having it? I would say if you do it like that, it's probably very little, I would say, right? I don't know. What's the full cost, generally? I don't know for him. I think it was 20.

I mean, for us, between the two kids, quarter of a million dollars. For two together. Because we had like a lot of them. It all goes into your pocket. No. So you have this magic. No.

I didn't get hard. No. Mine was like 20. I think 20 or 21. Yeah. I think it was 25 each time. Somewhere around there, yeah. And then we, like for you, I think

we gave a bonus for lack of a better term. Yeah. So you can ask for all kinds of things, like maternity clothes and all kinds of things. But I worked from home, so I was just wearing sweat. So it's like, I wouldn't do that. But then they'd be like, hey, here's a Roomba, because just relax.

Like hang out and relax. And so it was just things like that. Steve Noviolo's such a guy. I think we got you an iPad at one point. Yeah. How do we go from, if it's $25,000, up to a quarter million? That's a lot lower.

So we had, so egg retrieval. So like that woman gets $10 grand each time. And we had to go back three times. So that's $30,000 right there. That's what we did. Plus we've got the doctors. We had a miscarriage. We didn't get pregnant the first time.

So we had three transfers before we, you know. So it's a long road. OK. It's a long road. And. It's a long road. And for you, though, it's actually, I don't know if that seems like a lot or a little. 25,000 for like kind of a year of your life. I'll tell you what it is.

It's either way an odd thing to price. Yeah. It's an odd thing to do. I mean, yeah. I mean, it is like a lot on your body, too. Just being pregnant in general, but you have to do so much to prep your body, like daily and then you know things like that that you're having to do just before you even do the transfer.

They don't let you drink and do drugs while you're doing the, that sucks. He did let me have Mexican food, like sweets and coke. I was like I can't give, I can't give out Mexican food like that, but some people do, some people they want you to eat like organic, you up Mexican food like that. But some people do. Some people, they want you to eat organic, things like that. And now his kids love guacamole. Oh, really? Yeah. OK.

Yeah. It's crazy. Do you ever see them, the kids? His kids? Yeah, they come over for Thanksgiving every year. Yeah, every year we spend Thanksgiving together. That's amazing. Do they know the egg donor as well?

No, anonymous. OK, that Thanksgiving together. That's amazing. Do they know the egg donor as well? No, anonymous. Okay, that's anonymous. Okay. Yeah, but they know the story of how they came to be and that our friend Jennifer carried them in her belly. So you're just like a, as I go back to Cleveland and I'll visit my childhood home, that's what you are.

Yeah. Yeah. They look at you and like, oh, I used to live there. Right. I think I know her. She was my landlady. Yeah. Right?

Yeah. You should get them all, get all of them together. I mean, it's kind of crazy. See if they just radiate to you. When you think about it, we met Rando on a Facebook group about surrogacy, like two total strangers. And I'm like, hey, you like being pregnant? Yeah.

You don't have a uterus? Like, how about we combine forces? And you know, how about we, you know? And here we are? Yeah. We don't have a uterus? Like, how about we combine forces? And you know, how about we, you know, and here we are. Yeah. And she came back twice. We were, I guess, cool to deal with. And she came back again. Well, you know, you kind of go into it not expecting

to have a relationship with the family. It's like, you can choose. Like, the first time I was with an agency, and you can choose, like, do you want to have a relationship? Are you expecting pictures? It's like an Uber conversation. And I was like, I think it'd be cool, but like, I you want to have a relationship? Are you expecting pictures? It's like an Uber conversation. I was like, I think it'd be cool,

but I'm not expecting it. So it's just been really nice to be able to carry on this friendship and hang out. And then, of course, I mean, I don't see my own family on Thanksgiving, because I spend it with him. That's awesome, though. Yeah.

That's really, really cool. Yeah. Is this anymore? Yeah, I was going to say, you going to hang it up? I don't have a uterus anymore, so I'm closed for business. But you know, I don't know. Are y'all having any more? Are you hating on me?

No, there was a brief moment during COVID when Doug asked about having a third. And I was like, we need a bigger house. And he was like, ah, never mind. Yeah. All right. Well, now you got the new show and everything. Well, you know, I'm a little older now.

I would be a little sad. I mean, I'd be obviously supportive, but like. Oh, you'd be sad if they cheated on you. Yeah. OK. They did cheat on me, but they didn't really have a choice. But we got it back together. We came back around.

After we had our oldest son, the doctor was like, OK, so like you've had 17,000 pregnancies. Like, you got to shut it out. Because you're not supposed to have more than four C-sections. Right. So we went to somebody else, got her pregnant. She, you got to shut it all out. Because you're not supposed to have more than four C-sections. Right. So we went to somebody else, got her pregnant. Ah. She miscarried.

That's why the three times. OK, that wasn't. No, different. But got her pregnant. Then I called you when we miscarried. And you were like, hey, why don't we let's go see? And we did. And there you go.

It's like the brawn going back to Cleveland, man. Exactly. Ah, OK. That is exactly what it's like LeBron going back to Cleveland, man. Exactly. Ah, OK. That is exactly what it's like. That's exactly it. I'm home. Also, apparently, me and Jennifer went to high school together.

Yeah, how random is that? And I do know her, but I didn't know we went to high school together. But I'm only graduated the same year? No. No. And that's why I'm bringing it up, because she claims we were in a math class together, which

I don't recall. That means she's smart. That's the only reason I'm bringing it up. No. I didn't need the math class. So they just. You weren't smart. They just threw me in one.

Oh, OK. Because I needed a credit. So they threw me in one. It was all like underclassmen. And he was in there. And then I knew him because he was friends with my ex-husband. Now that I think about it, it kind of like,

I do remember like the older hot girl energy like in the math class where you're probably smoking. Yeah. Something. Probably. Yeah. I was like, are you sure?

She goes, he's got a tattoo. Tell him to lift up his shirt. Have you been swimming? I was like, okay. It sounds creepy, but because we've been swimming together, I just know because we talked about your tattoo. Yeah. So. All three of us really kind of been swimming together. Wow just know because we talked about your tattoo. Yeah, all three of us really kind of swimming together

Well, I said I said I don't know if you listen to their show But we've talked about you at length and I had no idea the whole time that you're good And I told yeah, I told Steve I think he doesn't know who I am But like we 100% went to school together. That's very cool Like it's been fun Do it you want to tell Steve that we find out what a platinum gay is? Oh yeah. Do you know the term, this classifications of gay people?

That there's certain levels? Yeah. Do you know that? Like what? Well for example, Steve informed us that a gold star gay would be a male who has never been with a female sexually or romantically. So after he said that on our show, they said it was just platinum gay. Platinum gay is a man who was born C-section.

Exactly. Literally never. You've never been in or out. In or out. In or out. Yeah. Never. Yeah.

It was a fun one. Yeah. If either of our children grow up to be gay and never be with a woman, they would be platinum. They would be platinum. You just want the generation after you to kind of go a step further. You want to do a little better than your dads did.

Yeah, for sure. Why do we have to label everything, huh? Yeah, I don't know. It's terrible. Yeah. All right, well, yeah. Let's hang out. Yeah.

We're going to talk to Jim Knox. Let's be friends. Yeah, let's do it. This is the beginning. This is it right out. Yeah. We're gonna talk to Jim Knox. Let's be friends. Yeah, let's do it. This is the beginning. This is it right here. Yeah. You ever had her on your TV show? I've had your kids on the show. Yeah. So her kids were product testers when you were pregnant with our first son. Yes. They were very young. He's eight now. But you yourself? No. No. He did like a surrogacy segment. He was just like, hey, can I talk about it or pictures of you and your family? I was like, yes.

I was like, but don't put me on there. I don't want to talk in front of people. OK. Yeah, no one's hearing this. Yeah. What is this? We're back in high school. Well, thanks for joining us.

Nice to run into you. We're going to get Jim Knox in the Fox Box here. There is a great Steve Noviello and his surrogate. His vessel. Good to see you guys. There's Knox in the Fox Box here. There is a great Steve Noviello and his... His vessel. Good to see you guys. I kind of thought you were going to say vagina.

His vagina? No. I would never do something like that. That's a really cool story. That is. Are we going to get to Gummy Thoughts? I don't know. Should we go ahead and just promote Early Bird? Yeah, sure.

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The news is the news. So it's earlybirdcbd.com. Oh, they may be cracking down on what you can order in the mail. Yeah, 20%. 20%. You know, the more you spend, the bigger that gets, Dan. Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah. Early bird CBD. Jim Knox, so legendary. Appreciate it, Dan. I was searching a little audio in my computer and I've determined that Jim Knox is the search, he is the most prevalent piece of audio I have of somebody I didn't work with. Like I have a lot of Jake audio, a lot of Blake, a lot of Bob, you know, whatever. A lot of me, of course.

Come on. Guilty. But Jim Knox, yeah, we never officially worked together for the same place yet. I've followed your career very closely as you were in the Fox Box. Oh yeah. You were... what is your career? Like where did it... how did you get to be Jim Knox on the Ranger games? I was working in Austin, Texas doing the boring 5, 6, 10 o'clock sportscasts and I remember pulling up to the building a

hot August day into my parking spot and I see a brick wall and says this all there is every single day pulling up into this spot going into a cold news room and delivering five, six, and ten. Then you're the sports guy? Yeah. On a station in Austin station in Austin okay did do the Mac Brown Longhorn Sports Center show so that was cool I like that that's the only time got me out really everybody else is running around shooting coming back for highlights then I decided hey there's got to be something better than this so I saw Fox Sports Southwest executive producer Mike Anaskecia.

I don't know how to spell the last name but he's got to save my life. Got me out of there. Started out with a Spurs courtside reporting job in Dallas Cowboy summer camp show from Austin. Jimmy Johnson. Okay. Yeah. Troy Aikman. Spurs courts. So you were the Spurs court side. You were the whatever Doris Burke or no not Doris Burke. No Doris. The sideline reporter. Leslie McCallister. Okay. McCallister. This is bad. Leslie M. You were the, now nobody, you were never on Dancing with the Stars. No. Because nobody ever secretly recorded you through a peephole.

Yeah, all I do is- But you were that, you were Aaron Andrews. I'm just a break dancer, that doesn't do it. Okay. But had it surfaced, I think, Jim Knox is hot enough to wear. Yeah, so Fox Sports Southwest was the station or what you started working for but just in Austin? So and no it was it was regional

so I started with Spurs and then Mike called and said hey we're getting the Rangers I want to bring you up here to Dallas so you I want to just float you in the stands. You can help with pregame, postgame. And this is a fun fact that you guys may not know this guy, but he's one of the biggest play-by-play guys right now. Brian Anderson. Yeah. Ever heard of him? Yeah, he does basketball. He does basketball, baseball, football, everything.

Golf, everything. I'm not lying. You asked Brian Anderson to this day because I talked to him probably three months ago because I met a buddy of his at a party and he said, oh Bryan told me you're the one that started him on the, every single day, every single day when he knew that I was leaving, he was the camera guy, courtside camera guy for the Spurs and wanted that job and told me, hey put it a good word to Mike A for me, put in a good word for Mike A for it. He called every single day. I did put in a

good word and boom. He got courtside reporter. Then after that, his career just took off. You're kinda saying he owes you money a little bit. Yeah, he owes me something. Yeah. I'll kid him on that. But anyway, that's it. That's how I got started. That's what got me here with the Rangers and started our deal here. But okay, forgive me Dan, for not knowing the backstory, the history. Was it common at the time for there to be a third person?

On a Rangers broadcast? Or on MLB in general? No, I don't feel like it was. You know, cause I've heard that like Junior did this or something. Yeah, Junior did a great job before me. He did? He did. That was on 33. And Junior did that job. I thought. He did he did that was on you 30 3 and jr. Did that okay?

Yeah, I thought he just did like pre and post No, I he probably did some of that, but someone told me he had a great Gig in the in the stands when it was like one of those hot August days, and I dressed up in a fur coat Yeah, yes, I'm thinking of growing up in Cleveland. I don't So it's a bit of a unique role right? Yeah. That they kind of carved out for you. Well, that's fun. Here's what happened. It started out as getting here at three o'clock in the afternoon doing pregame interviews with players. That went on for about three years then they decided just you do all stands and post game with the fans and we'll get someone else in to do

the player interviews. So that's when I think Emily came on board. Yeah and you mentioned Emily we were talking about this earlier just as we try to get geared up for this season and you know even 23 was was great but it didn't feel like it did before kind of a little bit of a, I used the word astroturf to it. It just sort of was, right, here's the team. But the team that you were part of, I think of as like a seven season HBO ensemble cast legacy story.

The number of characters from, probably begins and ends with Wash. But even Nolan being here, but you know, Elvis and Beltray and Napoli and Josh and you and then you and then Emily and then we're listening back to old audio and it's, it's uh, it's Buzz and Tom. It was just, it was an insane collection of characters. You yeah. Well, yeah, it's crazy.

Keep in mind, too, during those days, the team was not playing well. So they needed a lot of kill time. And that's where the fan of the game kind of got birthed. It was by Progressive. And at first they put Progressive with a card like hidden for here's your progressive lineup It's Elvis Andrews hidden first Michael young all that and then one of the sales guys came to our producer Kurt Dyker and said hey, this isn't getting anything and we they're not happy with this. What can we do it? Well, give it to Knox and then I just I took it and I just said

Hey, I know exactly. I'll just get a fan of the game. And that's what every top of the eighth inning, we maybe walked five miles a night, but we found the fan of the game. Some nights the stands were practically empty and you still found a fan of the game. Yes you did. It took work, but it was fun.

So the criteria to become fan of the game has always been one of the most fascinating things about Gymnox and the Gymnox audio or video. Yeah, we assume there's like a draft grading system. Here's an old fan of the game I can bring one up. Fan of the game, it has to be Fuchsia, comes from Oklahoma, brought 30 students, half from China and you're taking in your very first baseball game. What do you think, Fuchsia comes from Oklahoma brought 30 students half from China and you're taking in your very first baseball game what do you think Fuchsia? We love Rangers we had a great time we had nacho we have just a wonderful fun time

and Go Rangers! There we go can you say Go Rangers beat the White Sox in Chinese? Yes! 1, 2, 3! Go Rangers! Good A mate, here's the bag. Congratulations, thank you. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, we always just assumed there was some sort of, in addition to a metal detector at the front, just an Asian screen.

You gotta live overseas somewhere. Pretty much so, especially when Chan Ho came in. Just an Asian. You got to live overseas somewhere. Pretty much so, especially when Chan Ho came in. Yeah. Who else? Who was the right fielder? Came from the Reds. Shinsu Chu. Yeah, that's right. And then Darvish. Yeah, fan of the game could be a

Chinese or Asian person, I guess, or if they are over 100 years old. It feels like that would also. Yeah, that was a good one. Would people alert you, like I'm bringing my grandfather to the game? Well, some- I gotta tell Jim Knox, I know he'll put him on TV.

Yeah, sometimes towards the end they would. Like, hey, I got this 100 year old in my box, can you come over there? But a lot of times it was really just from walking around. I mean I would walk around that stadium, I can't tell, I know every in and out of that old ballpark and I'd run into like Phil Mickelson, upper deck, by himself, sitting there, ran into him one night. Really? Pink, doing a concert in town, found her and upgraded her seats. She was way back in the back with her band. And she was in town because Eric Hinsky of the Toronto Blue Jays

gave her two tickets to the game. That was her first major league game she ever came. But I upgraded her to like the fifth row. Then she was. The power of knocks. No, no. There's just no one was there that night. So what are you doing back here?

You don't need to sit here. Come up here. So people towards the end would let you know that they had an elderly person with them or something like that. Yeah. Did anybody ever hit you up and say like, hey, my coworker from Taiwan is here? No, none of that. I did like, I mean, you like the people with the signs.

You like the people with the signs, you like the people decked out, you like the people that get overly excited about nothing. And then you also like the stories of, you know, you got some guy who's 50 and he's diving and taking a foul ball away from an eight-year-old, right? Then you got to go in there and and kinda just guilt him out of it. And then if he doesn't give it back, then you buy a ball at the gift shop and give it to him and make the day.

And Tom's pissed off upstairs. Give the kid the ball back. Give him the ball. I'll tell you what, I don't like that bit. Cause I never got a ball when I was a kid and I could see like, if you keep going to the game all your life and Then you're finally you're 45 and you find oh I finally got a ball

Yeah, that's right, and then I'm gonna give it to some kid who's not going to appreciate it He's probably a little a-hole these days, you know, I'll sue you And now but the comment, you know, the fans are all going to chant. And you get guilted into it. Then Jim Knox comes over. Now you're on TV. And I've been going to games. I've been paying my money.

And I'm finally going to fall ball. Yeah. Yeah, I could see that point. That makes sense. But see, if you had a third reporter in the stands in Cleveland, then that would have never happened. That's right. They would have given you a ball, too. Front lines protecting the fans.

Yeah. Big guys too. If you see a real big fella in the crowd, that usually seems to be pretty much a guaranteed... Runs over an old lady, knocks over the eight-year-old, but gets the ball. Now I've seen you at work man It's impressive Yeah, it does those for the days you kind of have thing had things set up that it feels spontaneous But it's actually not no it's a it's a like you kind of trailing telling people during the break all right I want you to get get real wild when we come back and uh and yeah Everybody's just kind of silent and then once it comes back it's oh my god Jim Knox is in the middle of this huge party but I've seen the sausage

being made there and I know that you're a master at your craft. That's right well I appreciate that. There's been some really really ugly words said in my IFB by some people in the truck, not knowing what's coming. For instance, when you're talking to some guys over in London, they come in for soccer and they're taking in their very first game. And then when they say, I tell you what, if the Rangers win this game, we're buying an F-ing lovely jubbly for everyone in the stands and just lets it out. And then I'm like, damn it!

I just go, oh god. And then a girl, it was Astro's Rangers post-game show and she shouts out to her mom and then drops the F-bomb a couple times and everything can't be bleeped. It just can't be bleeped so it goes over. So those are the close, those are the ones I, you know, you get the people, their actions, but the power is to be, the Rangers don't like that. So I had to see her clearing of those people, maybe start talking to the 12 year olds or so. Tampa Bay continues to lead at 9 to 8. We go to Jim Knox. Thank you Josh, and the upper home run courts right here with about

75 youngsters from China along with mixed in with a few Americans you see a few weeks ago these Americans went over to China to teach some of these Chinese youngsters. English when returned they have come back to America as Phil taking in their very first baseball game. Jake

what do you think so far? It's very funny and very interesting. It's a new game for us and we love it very much. It's so funny about it. It's new things. We like the new things. The young people like the new things. Whatever that is, we'll go with it. That's one of my favorite ones because you knew exactly what you were doing. Like you run into somebody who kind of pretends to know about a sport, or like Obama or something with the white songs. Oh yeah? You're a fan?

Yeah, let's really dive deep. So they stumbled and said, it's funny. Oh yeah? What's funny about it? It's like, I don't even what what do you say with music the bet we've always said the musing Yeah, we have no idea is not a common term that he would know but we love it very much. Yeah Musings I always liked The random bit, you know what I was thinking about when we were preparing for this. Maybe this is a gummy thought What you were doing was almost like tick before TikTok. Like within the broadcast it was like, hey you've got 15 seconds to grab somebody's attention, set it up, get it right, and then

we're gonna zip it. Like you had no time. No time. It was just as good. Whereas baseball as a normal broadcast is about as polar opposite of that as you could possibly get. Oh, yeah. Whereas with you, and I just, there's plenty of that. There's a lot of pressure there. Sometimes I like when you would do bits outside the stadium. Oh, the dog, skateboarding dog. Yeah.

Am I up late? The what? Skateboarding dog. Please. Skateboarding dog. Here we go. Josh, outside the ballpark, skating with Tillman, the famous skateboarding dog, Here we go. Josh outside the ballpark skating with Tillman, the famous skateboarding dog.

English Bulldog, he weighs about 60 pounds. The famous skateboarding dog. Of course. Everybody knows. The skateboarding dog. Tillman. He was in a movie. Tillman, the famous skateboarding dog.

English Bulldog, he weighs about 60 pounds. Not bad. Whoa. So I don't know why. I forgot they put a fence at the end of the runway and I'm turning and looking at the camera and I turn around and there is the fence I go flying over the fence. Flying right over the fence and when I got this from YouTube the first comment says the dog knew to stop. Yeah that's right. The dog

kind of turns off on his scooter Jim just crashes right through the wall. He's run that course before. That was my first run. You're like jackass. That's right. Exactly. Like a lot of pressure on you too. So much.

This has got to be good. We're sending it. Oh my gosh, Jim. That's cool. I'm going to... Josh did a good job. I mean, he never knew what was going on. God, Josh was great.

Yeah. I love the guys now. I love the changes over the years. But again, when I speak of that era, it just felt, it almost felt like how I imagine the ABAB. You know what I mean? Like the Rangers to be with just this. Just fun, wild ass.

Yeah, they're going to win. But I don't care as much about that. You know, you think about that, there was a lot of characters created in the stands. Remember Tex? Oh, yeah. Tex? Yeah. Sister Frances? Sister Frances. I don't care as much about that. You know, you think about that, there was a lot of characters created in this dance. Remember Tex? Oh yeah. Tex?

Yeah. Sister Frances? Sister Frances. Came with the drum all the time? The cookie lady. The cookie lady, Shirley? Zonk. Zonk, yeah.

I mean, and then just following where they are. And then Net Man, I don't know if you guys were around for the Net Man, the guy that sat down third base always with a net, he'd catch it. Okay, yeah, now that you say that. And then find a kid and give it to him. And oddly enough. And he would be, I mean literally line up those beers, he probably drank 20 beers a night. That's just fine.

And the heat sucked, but it also helped label, you know, it was different. Yeah. It was not a generic place. No. And it had a jet stream. That's right. So it was really offensive. Well, that man came not only drinking,

but he always came in jeans. And sitting down there in the middle of the afternoon in jeans and his cowboy hat and long cowboy shirt, drinking his beer and catching. And moving around. Catching foul balls on the left field line. This one's legendary Let's check in with Jim Knox. I appreciate it buzz. It is Korean night here at Globe Life Park and a special guest master

Kim he is the president like did they did the Rangers do that for you? Let's do this for Jim Knox Let's have Korean night. Like why would you have Korean? Oh, obviously to choose. Yeah Why would you have Korean though? Oh, obviously, uh... Choo. Choo. Yeah. For Kim, he is the president of the Taekwondo Association of Texas. They've been putting it on displays all around Globally Park.

Let's see someone break a couple boards. Girls, let's give it a shot, okay? Stand here. Right side of Kim. Good kick. Here we go. Ha! Nice!

Okay, one more, quickly. Another quick. There we go. Ha! Oh, don't want to mess with those girls give me one master Kim I'm feeling it right here ready how about a headbutt oh wow that is now master Kim I appreciate that you guys enjoy the game wow Jim Knox crazy Tom oh that was awesome

That is a great line, but I don't think Jim gets enough credit for earlier in it. He just goes whoa dizzy now Oh he did Big whelp on the forehead, but that's okay. Yeah, that's good times Here's one that is not as famous, but it really really makes me laugh They would oftentimes take you to a baby. Oh yeah. If there's a new baby or if somebody who had just gotten married. Right. That was like a kind of a fallback and you know that comes with the thing where you have to kind of guess the gender of the baby. Very young babies you can't tell. Yeah. And this one's a quarter from a TV so not as great quality, but love it

Ranger fans still a little stuff, but you know what hey, it's just one game tomorrow. They get the Yankees again, right? Hey more waiting for the San Antonio this a little lemon The kids name wasn't like a mark, baby. Can't tell it then, baby. Mark. Oh, Lester. I got one here where you were... So would you travel with the team sometimes? It says here you're in Colorado.

Yeah, yes. There was a couple... We had fan experience travel a couple times out of the year. So John Blake would send me on a couple of them One was Colorado. The other was a Boston Toronto Series So here's here's what he did in Colorado. Let's head down to the field and Jim Knox. He is standing by Jim Actually buzz. I'm up above the field. That's right with plenty of Ranger fans on hand.

This is the rooftop bar. Great view, a great place to watch a baseball game. They took out 3,500 seats. It made a nice restaurant bar and a lot of Ranger fans enjoyed that tonight, including one Ranger fan that came all the way from Korea 36 hours. How? That's my thing.

How? How? In Colorado they send you hours. How? That's my thing. How? How? In Colorado, they send you on the road. It's impossible. And so now. What is the signal in the sky? Yeah, number one, I have to have a Ranger fan. That's going to be kind of easy.

Yeah. Got to be Korean. But you somehow found an Asian. They're not in San Francisco, you know? He's in Denver. Right! That's what's incredible. You know, that was...

I do not remember that one, but for having a Korean fan out in Colorado is a little... That... That curry stand out. It's you, dude. You are incredible. Yeah, the magnet. There's a little magnet to that. I remember one time he was in Colorado, because so was the hard line.

Oh, yeah. And they clearly didn't read the labels on whatever they had purchased up there. And they go to Knox with the hardline and Danny's got sunglasses on at like 10 o'clock at night all baked. It's clear. Knox is just trying to work with it. Yeah. I remember that.

Yeah. That's good times. Yeah. I'm looking at Rick Carlisle. You've just interviewed anything that happens. What is this? Interesting night all the way around. Jim Knox is standing by with one of the heroes. We'll go down to Jim. Alright, thank you, Josh. Josh Hamilton, I tell you what, you should have had two home runs tonight. You know the same...oh man! Oh no! Elvis! I just got started here! Here, let me...that was Elvis by the way.

What happened there? I think he drenched him or pie or something like that. So that once they hit the pie, it's over. Yeah. Well let him get cleaned up, but you should have had two home runs. Alright. Yeah, Josh. So, you're a very fit man. How old are you Jim Knox? Well pushing 51 right now. Yeah, you look great. Oh, thanks

Did you ever bigger? I don't know I feel like there was an era during the peak of I just keep doing strangers about you I feel like you used to be even more ad hoc-y-lee. Yeah. You kind of... Maybe. I mean, I don't... I probably don't... I run a little bit more maybe.

Yeah. And that's about it. But work out in the morning. Just get it over with at six. I want to see the Jim Knox morning routine. Jake thinks you dipped into roids. No, no. I didn't actually mean that.

I mean, he just had a bigger era I would I would I'd be a terrible Roy and a terrible I guess heroin guy. I hate needles. Oh, yeah, you can figure it out though They got ways they go Didn't you own a gym? I still do. Yeah. Okay. Where in Houston we have five used to be five Gold's Gyms, now they're fitness projects. So it was a good franchise, Gold's Gym. Damn, you own five gyms?

Five gyms, yeah, in North Houston. I love that Gold's Gym still exists. The only problem with Gold's Gym, we didn't want to be known as a meathead club. Because that's kind of what I was going to say. Now we have more women than men. 51% more. Okay. That's the Knox effect right there.

That's right. You bring Jim Knox in. We do work out fan of the game over at the gyms in Houston. I don't know what that means. Speaking of that, I want to play this. You found a married couple, but before you found them, a lady found you. Time for the progressive fan of the game. OMG!

Oh, yeah. OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! Look at this! All right.

It's not her. Trust me. We got about a 50-year-old woman here, and this is basically John Lennon for her. Right, right. That's it, Tom. It's just wedding couple over here. No!

No! What? What? Tyler. All right, hold on, hold on a second. Congratulations, I understand you had the biggest wedding party tonight. So now we'll talk to this fair for 15 seconds. Just bring all the guys in the truck out there. Guys in the truck, come on out, they'll love that free food and everything. Congratulations, way to go.

OMG, what does this mean? OMG! I don't know. Wow. that free food and everything. All right, congratulations. Way to go. And OMG. What does? I don't know. Wow. Whatever you do, don't bring her to the wedding. Okay. I'm just kidding. Yeah. Good times. Yeah. Good times. So now I saw you on Twitter like, Hey, Ranger Nation. I'm back, Ranger fans. That's right. What are you doing? This, out of all the fan of the games, we interviewed this kid at the time. And he started this thing called Rangers.Nation. His mom came to me and said, hey, my son started Rangers.Nation.

Can you talk to him or interview him, fan of the game? I go, yeah, that's great. So I tell the truck, I got a fan of the game and I tell him about it. And it was either Tom or Kurt in my ear said, hey, you got to stump this guy. You know, ask him something in minor league baseball. So he claims to be a ranger fan. Yeah. Well, he started this blog.

Right. He should know everything about the Rangers. So, you know, I get in, I talked to him then second question in hey Who's coming up from the miners thinking on and he whiffs out a couple names and I didn't even know he was talking about one of the guy Omar or something I forgot he came up and played well for the Rangers and I thought I walked away and Thomas in this guy's gonna be something someday. He knows he's gonna be a general. Well, he linked me three months ago

and say, hey Jim, this was a long time ago, but remember this. And I text him back, or linked him back, and I said, I do remember this. And then I looked at the site and he grew that thing to 125,000 Abbot Ranger fans. And I said, hey, I said, give me a call, give me a call when you can, and I gave him my number.

He called me the next day, and I said, I've been looking at your site, I said, I like it, and he said, I reached out because we have great fan engagement, and they do. I checked it out thoroughly. And he said, a lot of the fans have been asking me, where's Jim Knox, can we get Jim Knox back? Can we get him with Ranger Nation?

All this, so he goes out, I'm reaching out. And I wanna see, would it be possible? And I thought about it, I thought about it, and then he said, I'm gonna post a couple old videos. So he posted the one where the guy, I'm surprised you don't have that one. That was the one that Dan Patrick and those guys, the guy that said he's going to be married

at the ballpark tomorrow. And I said, how's it feeling? He says, it's going to be the worst day of my life. And I remember he's from Tyler, Texas. My only, my first job I started. And then after that, it, you know, he got a lot of fan engagement from, you know, everybody who's on his site. And then he posted another one. I forgot the other one he posted. It was something else that got...

A Korean. Korean something, probably. Anyway, it told me that, okay, yeah, I'll come back. Let's help your side out. And we can do whatever we want, right? We don't need to be in the park. Although we can we'll be outside. We'll be in whatever we'll do fan of the game We'll continue to do what we started and he was so excited that his listeners and or our viewers Excited as well. So we'll have fun and do that It's not every game, but we we come out and we do fans just like this guy right here. Oh wow. That's Terry from Tyler.

The Donald Trump look and his son who's playing hooky today. That Landry. There we go. So the Facebook page is Follow Rangers Nation. That's the easiest way to stay in form. Instagram. Instagram. I'm old. Rangers.nation. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah Facebook guy

God, I don't know a nerd That's all right Facebook. So We plant we want it. You said you're gonna do some stuff with us today, right? Yeah Before we do it. Let me just mention a bear fight whiskey. Ooh, big sponsor of our show. Okay Drink a couple Couple those for that. Are you a whiskey guy at all? Yeah, I'm a whiskey guy. I am NOT yet. I loved Bear Fight Whiskey, it's kind of been our Saturday night. We'll go to bearfightwhiskey.com and Check out a couple of the

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Raise a glass to all the bold challenges that come your way. Order Bear Fight Whiskey now at bearfightwhiskey.com. I said that. I'm heading that direction. So our guy Marv over here is one of our listeners. We do a lot with him. He's a good dude. He says you're like his hero. Marv? Which one? Oh yeah, Marv. Okay.

Met him earlier, yes. Should we bring Marv over? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Come here. This is Marv the Cos, met him earlier, yes. Should we bring Marv over? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Come here. This is Marv, the Cosmic Cowboy. It's funny because we joke sometimes, you know, when you're a kid, it's like, who do you want to be? What's your aspiration for a role model professionally? I never-

Like, I wanted to be a play-by-play baseball announcer. Yeah, and- So I was aiming high, a little high. There was a brief time where I thought that I could play sports collegiately or professionally, but I thought the best I could do was maybe be a special teams gunner. So that was literally my dream as a kid is like I need to get, I want to be on a kid coverage team at the college level. It wasn't that I wanted to play quarterback in the NFL. His dream was not to grow up and be Bob Costas. It was to be Jim Knox.

You said it pretty well. Grab which one do you want him to grab? The wired? Yeah, the wired is great. So this is your opportunity. Have you guys been conversing at all? A little bit, yeah. I think Marv's got the voice and I think he's got the talent.

He's got some juice. Yeah. He's got a little Knox juice. He's got to love the overseas fans. Absolutely. That's a must. Yeah. Really big into anime as a youth, so I feel like that will translate. Yes, good. You got to enjoy walking a lot. And then you work on that. Get your steps. And then every now and then a few cuss words in the ear just to get you going. Yeah, I work in manufacturing, so that comes natural. That's perfect. It is a funny question.

When you were in high school, were you? I wanted to be a coach. You did. You weren't like class clown, necessarily? No, not at all. I did everything right. OK. I waited till college for class clown necessarily? No, not at all. I did everything right. OK. I waited till college for class clown.

OK. Makes sense because of how well you control the moment. Control, like you're saying, you've got 30 seconds, maybe 60, maybe 90 if you're lucky. And you've got to strike gold within that short window of time. And watching you, the ability to make random strangers do what you want. It's a very cool talent to have.

It's a sick trait. I don't know. It probably started with football, because we did a lot of crazy things with college football. Oh yeah. Running with the Buffalo. Oh yeah. Couch jumping. Again, just keep setting the bar

too high for yourself. Yeah. And then there's something out there like when someone, I was crowd surfing, it was like, I was, you had to wear, back in the days you had to wear like a suit still and I was sweating like crazy. Oh really? Yeah. Your teeth are beautiful. Really? By the way, are they really? Yeah. Your teeth are beautiful. Really? By the way. Are they real? They are real.

We don't believe that. We're 0 for 2. We asked the guy earlier. He's like, why would you ask me that? I want veneers. Yeah. I do have a good dentist, though, that can do that. I think it would be too shocking just to all of a sudden walk in,

and I've got veneers, and I have walled-goggons or something. The only way we're doing it is if we both do it at the same time. I think that's a great idea. Yeah, but yours look like they have had work. They're just, they're beautiful. You're a beautiful man, Jim. I appreciate that. Dan, Dan the man.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Marv. Yeah. So do we want to go out and try to, do we want to take like a little break? What would you like to do or just kind of grab a wireless and you want you want? Yeah Asians right here. We can make some up. I'm just a People do you want to break so I can just we can let's just take a music break for a minute

All right, you're gonna walk around with Jim Knox and See what's going on? See here knocks and see what's going on see here abrupt ending is that okay I can hear you mr. Dan okay well I'm on the wireless now okay Jim Knox is on the wireless of his own is that hooked up to our I'm not hearing Jim Knox. Yeah, it's like a second twisted and tweaking Where's the beer bong on the side of the bus Remember that last year?

Here we'll just technically do it on the fly Where'd Jim go? Oh, there he is. Jim's right here. Okay, yeah. Blake's such a wizard. Jim Knox in the Fox Box. It's just so lucky that his name rhymed with Fox. I know.

That's right. Test one, two. There we go. That's good for that. Let's see if this one works. Hello, hello. Oh yeah. Blake, Blake, Blake. The great Jim Knox. Is that Mike Adams over there?

That is Mike. We gotta go talk to him. Okay, go see what's up. He closed out a, he won a game in the World Series. Remember that, Dan? I do. Who did? Mike Adams. Ranger former Ranger? You think you can kick his ass? I bet you can kick his ass.

No. You wanna go talk to him for a second? Yeah, let's go talk. You wanna start with him? Yeah. Get that mic up near your... Yeah, Tess, one two. Our stuff ain't as good as Fox Four's stuff. Yeah, we're on. Oh, we're live on the internet. Okay, yeah, that's right. Here he goes. Mike! Once he knows he's on... I know, I flipped. Oh, yeah. All right, we got Mike Adams right here. Former Ranger pitcher.

Does anybody remember Mike Adams? I do, yes. Great pitcher, 2011. You win a World Series game, right? Yes. What was your best memory about that as far as, what do you remember best about that game against St. Louis? Just that we got the W you know just being that was my first ever World Series appearance and just being able to get in there I mean I came in

through one inning got a win so I didn't do all the all the heavy lifting I just came in did my job and then they got the boys came in behind me and so humble run and we got W after that. Hey, that was an important ending right there. Now right now, you're out tailgating before the Rangers home opener against the Red Sox. How about the spread? How about the bus right here? I tell you what, you haven't lived life on opening day

unless you rode in the green bus. Green North Texas bus. All right, good deal. All right, ask him what he thinks about Schottenheimer. What do you think about Schottenheimer? We will see, I like his attitude Is you know what kind of roster is he gonna be given The head coach just there to kind of give morale and you guys together and make sure they're doing their jobs

The coordinators gonna be the the big question. What do what do the coordinators do as we've seen with like Detroit and Boy this is the old cowboy fan coming The head coach he does a great job of keeping them great attitude But the coordinators are the ones that do the heavy lifting and if yes, it's all about quick matters Doing their job. Hopefully, uh, hopefully they put us in a good position to win I feel like that's a politically correct answer. You hate the higher. It's boring. I don't hate the higher. Brian Schottenheimer is no Dan Campbell.

I'm upset with your comments right here. We don't know that yet. We don't know that yet. You're out. I mean, Shadi's been in the league, he's been in the game a long time. Alright, let's make a bet right here, me and you, because it's gonna be horrible, it's gonna be a train wreck this year. What are we gonna do next year at this time? This year, this year is gonna be a train wreck. Oh yeah, we gotta have a... What's the bet? What's the bet? Well, I don't know, I think he was trying to tell me

how great Brian Schottenheimer was, and I just want to challenge Mike Adams. I think he's being politically correct here. Alright, let me just check. Do you think... Here we go. When it comes to the Cowboys, there is no politically correct for me. I'll tell you straight up how it is. I'm a season ticket holder. I've been wasting my damn money for the past 15 years. Jerry Jones needs to kind of hand over their damn reins to a real football person. And we need to get a new quarterback.

Yeah, okay. So let me just check if you're always- Oh, we need a new quarterback. We need a new fucking quarterback. Oh, we're not trading him to the Browns. You heard about that? For who, Deshaun Watson? Yeah.

For Deshaun Watson. Would you like that? No. That's not an even trade. One, it's not going to happen. Two, if it did happen, we'd be in a cap hell for the next three years anyway, so it doesn't make sense Boy, Jake loves Dak Prescott. You're making him mad that guy over there loves that. I was a big support

The windows passed the windows passed Did you like the Luca trade? No, you don't have to comment on that. All right Thanks, Mike Adams. Mike Adams in the house. A good spread, too. Mike Adams, everybody. Yeah, there we go. Hey! Thanks, Mike.

Mike, Mike, Mike. All right, we have any people from overseas here? What do we got? I think you gotta get this closer just because I can't hear you. Oh, there we go. All right, we're gonna go hunting now. Hunting.

Hey, make Jim climb the bus. Hey, wait, do you wanna go on this side where the music is not blaring? Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Although that's where the bitches are. Hell yeah, man. Where are you girls from? Oh, Jim Knox. We're from Benbrook.

Likes girls. Oh, Fort Worth. Okay. We were a fan of the game ten years ago with you. For what? What game was years ago with you. For what? What game was that? Do you recall? It was against the A's.

And what was the story behind the story of fan of the game? We had a big family. Yes. I have three girls. She was four years old at that time. Four years old! Look at this! So why did you choose them as fans of the game?

I think big family. We saw three little girls all dressed the same. Our son, that was one. Is this her? And that's her right there, this one. See, I would not call her, I would not call that a boy name. I mean, you can clearly see that's a girl.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. So there's no Asians around, there's no old people. It's a slow night. It's not Asian night. Nobody from Normandy.

He got little kids. How did that change your life when Jim Knox awarded you fan of the game? We got a really cool t-shirt. Yeah. I mean, like, just- Oh, he's got it on right here. Look at this, progressive fan of the game. We got a really cool t-shirt. Yeah, but I mean like just always got it Look at this progressive fan. I guess I just mean like you know at work the next day all that kind of stuff What how did how did that affect you?

Did anybody know The secretary at work like that a lot okay, baby. Yeah, did your cell phone blow up I? Have a new spray tan in my phone All right blow up I have a new spray tan in my phone I'll say good alright what's that Herbert Herbert family from Fort Worth all right you want him to go up there Blake as you said I appreciate you want Jim Knox up on top of the grown-up that's great look great okay get him up Jim, you want to go up there? Awesome. Let's go up. Let's go the bus. Let's go. Has he, uh, didn't you send me a video where he jumped off the bus? He totally jumped off the bus. Did we recreate that today? Yeah, that's what I told him we

should do. We've got a few larger guys here. I'm pretty fit. I think we can catch him okay so he'll jump off and just let you catch him yeah like all right here we are Jim Knox went on top of the bang bus and here's the guy that orchestrated the whole deal Jason Jason this is how many straight years opening what we decide 19 years at least and 19 straight years can you believe believe that? It's ridiculous. We actually have disposable income to do something like this now. Give me out of 19 years, what was your best opening day memory? Paycheck to paycheck, Blake. I think it was when we played Cleveland and it was 35 degrees with a wind, we were bundled up underneath and it was like

not even fun, but it was actually the fun part of being at opening day So anyway, so you got about what 80 people here 90 people going in there's probably 100 plus Got it. Okay. Awesome. Okay. Who else we have up here Where's the New York guy got any tail up there Let me get up. Where's the New York guy got a tail up there. So Jim, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. All right.

Let me says he is challenging you to jump off of the bus and that the guys catch you. I did do that. Is that the old Jim guys to catch you. I did this. Would you do that? Oh man. Is that the old Jim Knox? Yeah, I can still do that. Do you think you have it in you? No. Does Jim Knox have the guts to jump off of the bus? But where's the chair?

Here live on the World Wide Web. Do we have any... We'll get you there. This guy flew in from Oregon. This is brought to you by Fairady's. Alright, so we've got a couple of guys here. Wirewheel is one of them. Where they have staff. Jim Knox is going to what? Hold on, I got somebody up here telling me something. What was that?

I was going to say this doesn't look like the most stable chair, but then I changed my mind. I think it's going to be fine. So wait, what are we doing here? I don't know. That doesn't look like the most stable chair but then I changed my mind I think it's gonna be fine so wait what are we doing I don't know that doesn't look too stable Dan I mean really I don't even think I could fit in that thing you need a bigger chair do we have so what is the bit he's gonna jump into a chair what is happening you guys see that video that lady we got naked I don't know we should plan these things Yeah, she's kind of high. I don't know. I okay. We're looking for a big stable chair. That's a little that's a little better Now we got to move We got to move the benches in the tables. He was really gonna jump off the bus. No

Probably remember. Let's say they're older. They're younger than me though, so Jim Knox, but okay she knows Let me talk about the it's a bad idea Okay, do you think? Okay Jim Knox about to jump off of the bang bus All right guys you think you could... He might get hurt. He really might. Huh? He doesn't look happy. Little further out I don't want to go back to the... Oh thanks. Don't have it in there. Alright here we go. Alright let me just say this.

Good luck Jim. I can always see his feet. Good luck Jim. If I have a perfect landing that means the Rangers are gonna have almost a perfect season. Alright. If I don't it's gonna be a train wreck today. Okay. I don't know dude. Alright. This is like. Here we go. Ready? Let's do this! Yeah! Hey! Hey! There we go! Yeah! So, Letty and Will didn't really catch him.

They just kind of tumped him over. God, he's the best. Wow. His hair's all gray. That's nothing. That's nothing. I could have made that happen. I'm here for now you're the postgame interview I'm here with Jim Knox yeah yeah he's our star he's our player of the game here with Jim Knox Jim how do you feel I feel good especially when they brought that second chair the first

year would have been a disaster too Too small. But it looks like that was like, you actually said yes so quickly. Because I don't think it was that far of a jump. Not to you. I jumped a lot farther. Not to you. Yeah. Yeah, I thought your head was going to snap back and hit that and then we're going to... That happened in Kansas State, but the reason why is because the kids who were holding the

cats, they were drinking too much beer and we had too much dead time and then when it's time to go live, boom it was a disaster Yeah, well, I'd like to thank you for your service to the Rangers name Dan and Jake good podcast Thanks Jim Knox everybody Rangers nation let it whoa Wrap up I appreciate it. Let me get this breaking down here. Daniel there. Fire me up. I think I have tickets next to Jim Knox.

Oh really? Yeah. You're going to go to the game with Jim Knox? I think that's the reports I'm hearing. Dude he so quickly agreed to jump off of that bus. I would absolutely not. See you bud. One second. Like I would not do that. No, I mean you look at the view from here. Sit down real quick. All Blake and I could see where his feet. Oh my god.

From here you just see the feet like kind of trembling right there. You're thinking there's no way. He's insane. And joining us now for closing remarks brought to us by Frankl and Frankl is going to be Letty. All three. Frankl and Frankl though, you know what? Yeah, Jim Knox might have been a dead. I swear to God, Frankl might have been attacking us. Yeah, there's no doubt. Letty. Yes sir. Letty could have been in trouble. Right, no, but I mean we're the ones that implored him. It was on tape and everything. It's on the web. In court I think we were okay. So yeah Jim Knox our advice to him sadly would have been yeah you know what I would have told Jim Knox he would have been like oh what's that Frankl number I'd be like I

don't know I can't remember I don't think that they're still in business because I would not want Frankl and Frankl to come after us. Penny would be penniless. With Jim Knox's personal injury suit. Because that's their whole bit. Personal injury attorneys. Did you know that, Letty? I did. Yeah.

All three. All three. You'll talk to an actual partner. That's right. Yeah. So you know the copy points. I listen. So if you get in an accident, bad bit, right?

It is a bad bit. Or is it the best day of your life? Because Frankel's going to get you a big windfall. I would say just limp away. At least pretend. OK, yeah, that's probably a no. I was just going to say, how close were you to being called by the Frankels?

Pretty close. Throughout your life, do you feel like that's not top? Several different times. Yeah, you seem like a guy that would he has offensive guard energy he's right he doesn't have a quick footballs cuz they kept sticking me a lot of line he doesn't have a cautious energy like no I'm not sure so yeah maybe we should think this out first. Oh, no, this is a move fast break things So, uh, thank you guys for coming. I uh, I I want to bring up that uh our core

During 2023 we we won the world series. We we had a hashtag going ranger sweep sex Okay, so we anytime there's a r sweep, the wags have to accommodate. Listen to these guys. Yeah, so we need to make sure we slacked off. That won't make you pay attention to the Rangers. Oh my god. We slacked off last year, but that's an under-understood agreement.

I don't know. It's very funny, but it's also super funny to imagine your wife like trembling in the ninth inning. No, yeah. They were pissed. There's no doubt. There's no doubt they would come home and be like, did they win today?

Where did they get Kirby Yates? Who the f is this guy? Who is this guy closing out game? But anyway, yeah, thank you guys for coming. I hope we brought a lot to the table again. Did you guys know that Kevin Pilar was still in baseball? That was a huge shock to me. Jake, you're supposed to be a baseball guy this year.

Well, I learned it when learning about baseball. Kevin Pilar, Dan, is on the opening day roster. Dan's wearing the bus shirt. I appreciate that. Well, I appreciate you giving me this bus shirt, because it turns out wearing a long-sleeve black shirt was not a really good play on this day. Bad idea.

Yeah. So I hope you guys are good for next year. I feel like we're doing a lot here. long sleeve black shirt was not a really good play on this day. Bad idea. Yeah. So I hope you guys are good for next year. I feel like we're doing a lot here. So if you'll have us again, we will be here for sure. Next year we got to get knocks in the pond. Yeah, this is just this is show the people at this point, right? 100%.

Yeah, we're not big radio. We're not in it for the money. We're in for the glory. Yeah. Well, this is a good time. Well, thanks, bro. Yeah. Well, this is good times. Well, thanks, bro. Yeah.

Love you guys. Let's party. Happy opening day. Let's get to it. Let's do it. Let's party. Yeah. Thank you for watching my video.

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