The Dumb Zone FREE - Mark Cuban comments on Luka trade, Dallas Stars field trip, and NBA dice games | DZ 3-20-25

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

Hear every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneThe Dumb Zone took a field trip to a Dallas Stars game and had stories to tell from Mexican Heritage night at the AAC. Mark Cuban tells us that at least he made a ton of money watching the Dallas Mavs burn down. And Terin and Kim tell us about the Meg Matters charity and their Krum Walk event coming up (00:00) - Open: New DZTV promos (15:34) - Dumb Zone trip to a Stars game (46:35) - We’re glad you made your money, Mark Cuban (01:05:17) - Big Thursday Viewer Mail bag (01:37:26) - NBA player weighs in on Finley taking Luka’s beer (01:53:27) - News: 40 years for killing kittens (02:10:27) - VM birthdays/Today in History (02:35:06) - Closing Remarks: The Meg Matters Krum Walk ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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And if you get the new HVAC system through them, much like our friends at Qualys, they will get you a 690 sit-in. So communitydfw.com or like Dan said text Travis 469 667 7 2 9 the preceding and the following content are brought to you by no puppet productions and the dumb zone I love you guys I love your content but I'm like so embarrassed sometimes just share your stuff and like this is my dear friend Kim and I I Probably spent how many times have I warned you about this show? And I know I know it's all good, but I was like I think Kim's fired up right now

She's honored to be in the presence of Uncle Tater Twat. All right, that went okay. I'm Dan McDowell in Dallas. What? I thought you did great. Oh no, I did great. Oh. Jake's performance was great as well. I just thought, I'm just saying the technology we're using today, it went okay. Would you agree with that Jake? I'm Jake Kemp at Surfside Beach, Texas. Okay, I'm Dan McDowell in Dallas.

I'm Blake Johnson. You'd already done that. Oh, I did? Yeah. I like to remind people. Were you Surfside? I mean, I was in Dallas. I was in Dallas.

I was in Dallas. I was in Dallas. I was in Dallas. I was in Dallas. I was in Dallas. I was in Dallas. I was in Dallas. I was in Dallas.

I was in Dallas. I was in Dallas. I was in Dallas. I was in Dallas, I did. Yeah. I like to remind people. Where are you surfside? Let's start with the lead here. Huh? What's up with the hat? That's a, that's a banging hat, my guy. Oh, thanks. It is my banging hat. I hear the trucker hat is back. It is. So we have a sit in this morning. We have sit ins. Yeah, I heard kind of nuked the whole pre show call thing.

I'm just sitting here like what is happening? A lot of balls in the air pre show today. We got some Fox four news we have to break in with. But you remember Taryn? Not related to Elvis, Andrews. But spells it the same way. Or maybe... Ring of Honor member. Are you related to Elvis at all? Okay. I haven't checked my family's search tree, but I might be. Anyway, Taryn is here. She brought Kim and they're here for Meg Matters. If you were under the impression that Meg did not matter.

They're here to tell you. They're raising awareness. I thought she didn't. Right. Well, you know, you'll hear all about it in closing remarks. Like if you've tuned in just to hear Taryn, fast forward to the end. Although she's probably going to pepper in her hot sports opinions throughout today's program. Where you arrange Taryn Thursday. You never know. Yeah, she gave me a heads up.

So yeah, and at the end, yeah, so this is a Meg Matters hat. That's to answer that question. See? It says Meg. It also says Matters on it. It's a cool hat. And actually, I trust now, when I said I think truckers are back,

I was referring to women like Taryn. Like I see a lot of, you know, 30s, early 40s, you know, women that are like, hey, I'm still cool and they've brought the trucker hat back and it worked like I'm pretty sure my wife has a couple I'm like I think those are I think you're 25 years late I thought you were anti lady in baseball hat I am you boys what evidence did I provide to you that well I mentioned your wife just said she I said she wears them okay that is in no way contradictory to the fact that I don't like it okay you know that's

why she wears them yeah no 100% yeah but again I'm in the red here boys so there's a lot I'm gonna have to put up with that I don't like a lot of hats for you we're still yeah well yeah I guess we're pretty still pretty close to that. I don't think we'll ever not be. We'll keep an eye on it. So we're in Dallas and you are where? Surfside Beach it's not too far away from Galveston maybe I don't know 30 minutes south of Galveston. Little less populated, I think the beach is a little bit nicer. And my parents sold their house in DFW some years ago and bought this place,

and now they rent a small house up our way. So they bought this house, and we've been coming down a couple times a year. But last year it got rocked by a hurricane. So not totally, you know, not able to be salvaged, but it was out of commish for a good year. Did that hurricane affect the infrastructure of the internet there? Oh, is it really bad? No, it's not real. The word really is the key there.

Somewhat. I would replace really with somewhat. We can also evaluate and decide if tomorrow you just want to replace me. No. Never. Never, never. Let's see how today goes. Oh, Blake is keeping that as an option. Yeah.

All right. So, yeah, I said things are kind of crazy around here. So we get into our Fox four studios. And we're told that we're here celebrating the Dallas Stars today. Because, as you recall, Jake recall Jake from a couple days ago, got an email from John Kukla who informed us they have landed four Dallas Stars games. How much money... there was like this thing around they would say the Gulf War created a lot of jobs and you people became well-known and they had careers after that.

The OJ trial, very similar. A lot of people emerged during the OJ trial. How many people are going to emerge and say, man, financially, people emerge from the pandemic? Not us, but others were like, oh man, this really worked well for them. How many people will come out of the rubble of the LUCA trade to say, this was really great for me financially? Like the Dallas Stars, I think are one of those people, if the Stars organization can be a people. Yeah, I mean, the Stars and Rangers are obviously your candidates, but I've heard people say this about media entities, even us,

like, oh, hey, these numbers you guys get on these Luka things are crazy, like, this must be huge. And right now it is. But the problem is, I don't know if this applies to the Stars and the Rangers, but as I've mentioned before, get it in now. Because in four years, no one's going to care about this basketball team in the city at all. Oh yeah, yeah. So we're basically just front loading

and main lining our NBA like juice, and then no one's gonna care. Whereas with the Stars, they can bit of it now and later. So. But you know, I do think you're locked on Mavericks and your DLLS Mavericks and stuff like that. It sucks. Nobody's going to care about the Mavericks in four years. Nobody.

We have Tim McMahon, uh, in here tomorrow or on the show. I'm not sure if he'll be in studio, but he's got that new Luca book out. And we got a copy, the advanced copy, or excuse me, we just bought the pre-sale copy. And I've been reading it slash listening to it, Josh. And I got it, I'm just, I'm really, really into it. And I got to think that there are, I would think he is doubling his book sales that he would have made.

Because I think Luca is a very interesting topic and it's really a fun read, but I'll bet you a ton of Laker fans are now going to like, like I said, at least double the sales. This has to be great for him. So he's won. Yeah, I think, you know, it's probably would have been about comparable to the Yanis book Great story. You're interested. Where'd he come from? But it's just an NBA superstar book about a city. That's not major But now I mean

Right and the final chapter, which is very As you reviewed it the other day, it's it's great. So So the stars are one of those, and maybe in fact Fox4 slash More27 are also benefiting short term here because they have landed the stars. Like, hey man, let's get the, you know, what is it, Channel 8? Can have the MAVs.

Let's go after a team that people are kind of into right now that made a big trade that really helps the team and people are on board with. So he says, remember the email the other day said, we're going to give you some promos in these games. So tonight it's on More27. I think they have two games, though, that are scheduled for Big Fox, which is huge, and one more for More27 as well.

But this morning, I have not seen these. He sent us two promos. They're not sure which one they want to use during the game. And he said we could choose. Would you like to watch the promos? Absolutely. Okay that was a rhetorical question we're gonna play it no matter what you said. So you got him Clay? Let's go for promo one. That doesn't look like it at all. Space him out. Yeah what are are you going to do? Eat 12 meals, the free meal? Even if they give you the whole month, that's a lot of pressure.

My birthday, May 15th to this place, June 15th. That place, July 15th. That place, August 15th. Because then I get one free thing a month. I mean, I'm just in the dojo learning, bro. Oh, yeah, no. OK, I don't know if I talked over the beginning of it if the audio is real low.

So let's play it again. All these places want your birthday. Pause it. To give you free stuff on your birthday. Space. Can we not stop? Back it up to the beginning. So at the beginning it says Life Hacks.

What does it say? Life Hacks from DZTV? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Can you back that up, Clay? Oh, he can back it up. Yeah.

Life Hacks from DZTV. All these places want your birthday. Yeah. Okay. Can you back that up Clay? He can back it up. Yeah. Life hacks from DG. All these places want your birthday. To give you free stuff on your birthday. Space them out. That's a... I like this one. You're only gonna do eat 12 meals the free meal. Even if they give you the whole month, that's a lot of pressure. My birthday, May 15th to this place, June 15th. That place, July 15th. That place that place August 15th because then I get one free thing a month You are brilliant Blake so I actually told my wife that the other night I said man because I was telling her how Blake has run the ball guy and he's always looking for a good deal

And he's car shopping and this and that how did the Karen receive it? She loved it. Okay. She thought it was brilliant. I feel like we have some similarities. Yeah she's going to start incorporating that into her game I think. Good. Without a doubt. All right promo number two though that was a very good one we'd accept that right? We're not gonna throw that out but... Why should people... Okay promo number two. Okay, promo number two. Why should people watch DZ TV? Uh, it's on. It's on. It's on every night.

It'll make you feel better about yourself. Stock tips. Medical advice. What to do when your wife goes to book club. The meaning of life. So I can keep my job. DZ TV. Weeknights my job. DZTV. Weeknights at 9.

On More 27. Deep. Thoughtful. Meh. Well that's a banger too. You need both. Yeah, maybe both. They hit different people. Yeah, but I think they have one avail.

So. That's hard to say. They hit different people. Yeah, but I think they have one avail. So. That's hard. This is the kind of thing, it's a... Sophie's choice, I've heard of that. They got two games though, don't they? Huh? No, no, we can get them in a different game, yeah. Yeah.

But apparently they're gonna put one of these in tonight's game, we have to choose which one. You know what they say. Which kid do you want more? You know what they say. Which kid do you want more? You know what they say about every great leader is that they're effective delegators. And in this case, as the co-executive producer of DZTV, I'm gonna pass this one down to the associate producer,

Blake Jones for the call. Good call. I think it only makes sense. Well, I think we should crowd source this. Maybe we should just let Taryn decide. Oh, that's a lot of pressure. Because Blake probably wants the second one because there's a lot more Blake in it. I feel like the second one highlights

all of you guys more. Yeah, the first one's a Blake promo. Kim's the first time over here, so what is your vote? Second? Kim says two. So brand new audience. I knew we should have never let them vote. Yeah.

But you got a good backup. Yeah, at least they came up with an idea. That's a good point. Like it might have been prohibition, but it was something to. Yeah. It was something. That's cool.

Stars on tonight on Channel 27, not DZTV. But you can still go to the app. Fox Local. Fox Local app and find your DZTV. Get that fix. Hey, let's interrupt here with a quick thank you to our friends at Scenario. They are the ones who have the bracket up and flying. Said they've got over 500 entries from you the good DZ listeners

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I so I did the stars post game show for 14 years. So I used to go to 40 of those a year. Can't believe I did that. Don't know what human that was, that wasn't me. Because it's just a big deal, just to go out and go downtown. It was fun though. Met Blake at Chipotle, we had a little pregame dinner. Jake showed up later,

because he's above us in so many ways Jake at the parking pass Jake at the parking pass So I Was honestly hoping that of all of the bits we would leave behind to the ticket this sort of character assassination We're I'm texting hey I want Dan to have the parking pass if he needs it, please sure Dan has a chance to use it. I'll park anywhere for Dan. And then because I end up using it, you and your narratives. Anyways. Anyways, so I walk in and I'm like I haven't been here in 10 years. So I walk in and I'm like, I haven't been here in 10 years.

And everything was different. Hold on. I'm sorry. Hold on. They're playing like Tejano music. They had a mariachi band playing the national anthem. But it started before you walked in. Yeah, out front was crazy. Out front, they're promoting this Simi something,

and they have all these little dolls that they're throwing around. And I go inside, and then the soldier they're honoring is Hispanic. And the in-house announcer, it's not Selena Ray anymore. It's some Hispanic guy. And I'm like, now I see what Trump and those guys are talking about, man.

They've all taken over, it's every, they've even infiltrated hockey, it's totally changed. And it turns out, it was like Mexican American Heritage Night, that's not every game. Yeah, that was funny. Our little line there, I was like, who would have thought they would make NHL arenas a sanctuary city space? They all came here, you know? But man, that is a fascinating thing. So right when you walk up, you know, we're in the plaza and you see the flags, you hear the music. Plaza and you see the flags, you hear the music, but also there's just a ton of Mexican people.

Biden's open border policy. Not like more than you'd see at a hockey game normally. I'm talking like a third of the crowd, which got us to thinking like, how does this work? My idea, as I told you guys, to bother both racists and woke people, I actually think that they should just lean into it and on those nights, if you bring a 23andme test that shows that you're X% Mexican, you get 25 to 50% off your ticket. Okay. That's commitment, right? Who's mad at that? Everyone?

No one? Because other than that, I guess it's weird to say as a white guy, but I can't imagine looking at a local sports you know, it's probably like community organizations, right? Like in certain neighborhoods or if there's like a Latino professional organization, that's probably how the Mexican population is getting those tickets. Because otherwise I don't understand it at all. Right. It's weird. I heard also they're doing the gay night now. The stars?

Yeah. Remember that used to be the bit, they wouldn't do the gay thing. I thought that was Rangers. Stars never did it either? No, the stars did. Yeah, yeah. Remember that didn't they get mad at you or us or something at one point, we pointed that out?

It was the Rangers. I thought the stars didn't do a gay thing. The stars may have had a controversy also. The controversy might have been the ice thing. That's what I got yelled at for. Because they were playing a game that they ended up failing on, but the Rangers have been known as either one or two teams in MLB that have never done anything pride related. Okay so they still aren't? Not to my knowledge. Okay good. They want a World Series and bought themselves a little time. I can still go to ranger games. God bless. God bless.

Without all these uh what do they call it cross dressers or whatever I don't know I don't care. I actually don't care about any of it. But the hockey game was fun. The Mexican thing. So those little dolls. Was that the video you were showing us last week? Yeah. So the video that ran on, I ran on the HBO Max in the States and I had been tipped off to it and it was like an animated hockey game of Av Stars.

But unlike with, you know, The Simpsons or Toy Story, I didn't know what I was looking at. Like the animation, the characters, none of it made any sense to me. I figured out that it was sponsored by something called Dr. Seamy, which upon researching is apparently like a Walgreens sort of thing in Mexico. And they have an actual guy, his name's not CME, but there's a doctor who founded it. I guess he's famous. He ran for president in Mexico.

And they have like a little cartoon character that's kind of like the burger king is he's kind of man, he's kind of cartoon. And they animated the game based on his Dr. Seymour universe. Very confusing. But then so, yeah, at the game Tuesday night, we're walking around and there's little Dr. Seymour dolls everywhere. Now it starts to kind of make sense. So someone sent us a TikTok video, which is very long.

I think we should just play the first minute or two, just explaining what is this Dr. Seame phenomenon. Do we have that prepared? Should I have asked that before we started this segment? I think it's prepared. OK. Why do people keep throwing this bald, Should I have asked that before we started this segment? I think it's prepared. Okay. Why do people keep throwing this bald, mustachioed doll at celebrities?

People throwing it on stage at Harry Styles and Dua Lipa. Is this Colonel Sanders? Chemical romance. My chemical romance, sir. He's just a gentleman in a fine white suit. Yes he is a gentleman in a fine white suit, but he's not the Colonel or the Monopoly Man. His name is Dr. Simi, the humble face behind nearly 8,400 pharmacies across Mexico, who has all of the sudden become an international superstar. If you're a local you've known him for 25 years since the pharmacy's inception,

which often features a life-sized Dr. Simi mascot shaking it outside the stores. It's a household name. But just how did Dr. Simi take the world stage? It all began after a fan gifted a doll to the artist Aurora at the Corona Capital Festival in 2021. Eventually, a clip of her holding and smiling with the doll went viral.

After that, the tradition boomed. People started throwing Dr. Simi at their favorite artists and it even crossed borders to performances across the Americas and Europe. One musician decapitated Dr. Simi while others, like Rosalia, asked her fans to gift her the doll. One particularly cringe-worthy moment took place during a Lady Gaga concert in Toronto when just as the singer belted out an emotional moment of Hold my hand she was struck in the head by a dr.

Simi doll but behind the craze is the story of a Mexican businessman who in 1997 decided to combat the country's expensive pharmaceutical industry with a chain of affordable pharmacies selling generic off-brand medicine While locals at first were skeptical of the pharmacy's products, Dr. Simi and his stores earned their trust over the years. Within a decade, they were serving over 10 million clients per month. The Harvard Business Review even made a case study about the chain, which saw Mexico go from the country

with the most expensive average medicine in Latin America to the second cheapest of six major markets in the region in 2015. Okay, I think that's about enough. But that at least gives us the... I'd like to hear what she has to say. The backstory on why are these little dolls everywhere? And...

Yeah, and as I pointed out to you guys, upon further review, maybe I'm not quite as sold on this, but it's funny to me that it's a Mexican chain it's in Mexico and they're dull like definitely looks white It's like you guys had a chance to just make your own like I know we have most of them You know globally, but you can make a Mexican doctor But they're like now we know what sells just make it a way make him look like dr. Phil But they're like, no, we know what sells. Just make it a white. Make him look like Dr. Phil.

He kind of does. He kind of does look like Dr. Phil. And the Monopoly Man. The Monopoly Man the most. Yeah. With that mustache. So the stars are getting Dr. Simi money. That's cool.

Just because I don't know, are those pharmacies even here? No, not that I could find. So it's just weird that they would be promoting that. It's like they would build a whole hockey game around it. My first thought is just it's the next step of like avocados for Mexico which was just a money laundering scheme. Like is that the only explanation? Why this connection between Dr. Simi and hockey? If it was FC Dallas, you'd understand. But it's hockey.

Right, how is? Yeah, I'm very confused by the whole deal. What's the obvious how to money launder? That was how the cartel was getting money in? I mean, I sound stupid, but there was some sort of Kim spin behind it. Yeah, I don't know if it was just the avocados for Mexico thing, but there was a brief period of time,

although I don't even know if it ever came down, where the price of avocados went up substantially because all of them, or a lot of them come from one place and the cartels are taking over the farms. And we're extorting the farmers, so they doubled in price, for sure. But yeah, I don't understand. Maybe just some guy in marketing,

some lady in marketing is like, we're gonna have Mexican night. They say, go find a Mexican brand. And then they say, hey, turns out they got a cartoon character. What if we did? I honestly don't know, but there were a lot of Mexican people there.

That's my report. I have a theory. Quite a few. Yeah, go for it. Well, isn't Cuban into like pharmacies and stuff? Yeah, but he's not with the Dallas Stars. Yeah, but maybe the Dallas Stars are showing him the power. I don't know.

Like what he let go. I did think he's like the semi. No, I don't think. No, I mean, he could have used the Mavs to do some good things with pharmacy, right, instead. I've kind of lost faith in Cuban because of who he decided to sell the team to. Yeah, well, I'm gonna get to Mark Cuban in a moment.

Oh. I have some Mark Cuban audio. I thought I was supposed to chime in. No, no, no, I'm not the, Jesus. He's not a real big fan of ladies speaking. But I tell you one thing he is a big fan of, a bit, because this is what I was gonna cut you off and say earlier. Are you saying you never saw Luca in person?

I think he was saying a stars game. Just stars, okay. Dude, I've been to stars games in the last 10 years. I was doing the bit for, I haven't been to the arena in 10 years and now Mexicans have taken over. That's the comedy that you didn't tell us. It jumped out at me real quick,

how many times did Dan actually see Luca? Because I know there was at least two Mavs games we went to but one of them he didn't play. No, I've seen him in person quite a few times. Okay. Well the bit that you hadn't seen. If I've gone to anything, it's Mavs games throughout the years.

Now it might be three or four a year and one or two hockey games. Okay, fail on my part, but I was surprised to learn when it broke out that you'd never seen the Simba bit. Yeah, I've never seen the Simba bit on the Jumbotron. Yeah, so it starts happening and Dan's like, look at this. And I was like, oh yeah, it's Simba. You never seen this? And he's like, oh yeah, it's Simba. You never seen this? And he's like, oh yeah, I've seen it.

Which at one point I realized he means that I just asked him, have you seen The Lion King? The movie, yeah. Because the whole, so yeah, they have a bit where you hold, it's like Kiss Cam. Yeah. They put up Simba at first doing, holding his baby up and then people hold their baby up.

And it's awesome. It's a good bit. I thought it was the And it's awesome. It's a good bit. I thought it was the greatest bit they had. It's a great bit. Yeah. And I told Dan, I was like, yeah, this one, this is probably in his dark period of the last five to seven years.

I've seen that bit. I used to look forward to it. So, you know, the Mavs are 22 game winners, getting the piss kicked out of them every night. I'm like, show me a baby. I'll tell you the other great one, which you probably have seen, is a baby race. Yeah, that's.

The baby race is captivating. That's the best halftime show. But it was funny in the crowd because everyone's holding up nine months old, whatever, a year old, and then some lady held up their four year old, just to be funny, and the crowd was like, get that shit out of here, boo!

It was the 16 year old trick or treating. You're like, uh-uh, dude. And they backended it perfectly. They had the cutest six month old up there. The crowd's like, aw. And then a nine year old scrolling TikTok gets held up. And it was like, fuck it. Boo. So funny.

I do remember, though, and people now are bringing their kid to the game and they put the big headphones on them. The noise canceling headphones. I always just think that's amazing. I guess paying for a babysitter can be expensive, but just even bringing your little tiny baby to an event like that.

You have to pay for a seat? Is that a dumb question? I don't think you do. bringing your little tiny baby to an event like that. Yeah. I... You have to pay for a seat? Is that a dumb question? I don't think you do. You just have to hide the baby in your backpack when you're walking through. And just hope they don't open it up. Yeah, they hit him under their sombreros.

Yeah, no, good bit. Very good bit. Somebody said to me that recently, a few years ago, when they did this, they actually gave away ponchos and sombreros. I'm not making a joke. I think you're right. They did this a few years ago. Someone who I think would know. I don't think a Hispanic would think that's racist. But I'm now, oh, are you Hispanic?

I'm Hispanic. Go on. Is that racist to give away? It just feels like that's a white person putting that on saying, oh, we can't do that because that's racist. And a Hispanic guy would might be like, I'd love a nice Sobrero. Maybe they should do like a poll

on Mexican American night and see because. What do you think? Well, I'm Hispanic, you know, through my ancestry, right? But like my mom, when she was four, was told not to like speak Spanish anymore so she could learn English. And so I don't know a lick of Spanish. I can't roll my Rs.

And so if I say I'm Mexican, I of get like you're out. But having the heritage what is your opinion on if they gave away a poncho would you be like that's just terrible yeah okay that's what I thought. I'll have a poncho. All right a hundred percent of our respondents so far have said well I mean it's weird because we all have, we're all projecting what we think another group would think because even like the Indians, like at their worst, we're not like, or maybe you're about to correct me,

but I don't know that they were giving away full headdresses, war paint, and a knife. Well, it's kind of like the cowboy. Cowboys go to rodeos and they dress like a cowboy, but like, they're not really doing anything cowboyish. They're just watching a rodeo. You might also say golf. Oh, don't go golf, Jake.

Okay, yeah, all those guys need to dress like golfers to watch golf tournaments. You have to be prepared. That totally makes sense. You have to be prepared. That's why I wear my NBA uniform when I go to NBA games. So we were talking about, so things up on the Jumbotron, they'll put lots of stats, as Luca might say, lots of, lot of stats.

It'll be too much stats. And you were saying how it's just too muddied. Yeah. Yeah, this is something that I've seen develop over the last 10 or so years. But I saw one that I think is really valid. But go ahead with a. Yeah, yeah.

So now that we have all this data, advanced metrics, we got the player tracking data. There's a camera everywhere. There's a chip in the ball. We have a lot of information that can be very interesting and useful, but with no context it means nothing. So in the first period they just put up distance traveled per player. And it's like the top five guys and it just says 0.7, 0.5, 0.5, 0.4. Absolutely no one knows what that means. Is that wrong?

What is it adding to your... Is it short? Is that help? Yeah. Is it... But it doesn't make any sense. They did a couple things like that. Is that exceptional for it? Yeah, you just need some base to say, this is average. And I can't stand stuff like that. Like you'll hear somebody on TV or on the radio just say, like, you know, he allowed 2 and 1 half yards of separation per route run as a cornerback. I'm like, is that a lot? It seems like, yeah, they shouldn't

allow that many yards. Ooh, bad. Now, someone else would be like, no, no, no, no. That's the best in the league. Exactly. Miles per hour is kind of interesting, because you have a concept in your head of how fast you can run or how fast the car goes.

But the one that... But once you see it once, you're like, oh you nod, oh, okay, they're a little faster, he's a little faster, but yeah. But the thing that they did that was really cool that was video game-like was the players that were out there in their current shift, they just have their ice time up there counting upward and it goes from green to yellow to red and that's really cool. Yeah, like it would hit what, 30 seconds

if you've been on the ice, it'll go to yellow and then yeah, red is 45. Yeah, that was cool. And then when it starts blinking and smoke comes out of the top of the numbers, like it's But I think that's great because now oh my gosh Yeah, you've got this one line on they've been on the ice for a minute and a half This other is freshly on that's gives you some context of you know, I think we might be able to score her

Let's take advantage of this. Yeah. Yes. It's a very good bit. So I thought that was, uh, that was nice. Um, we had the best seats ever. Oh my gosh, dude. Let's, let's get into that. Third deck, but I think there's only four pockets in the whole arena that have these seats. The third deck, the upper part of the third deck, so there's two levels of the third deck. But it's only three seats next to each other, and that's the whole row. So somehow it's right at the corner, the four corners of the arena. Yeah, it's in between two staircases also. Like it's just sandwiched right there. And there's just three together.

So in theory, it's just your whole row and nobody else would ever have a reason to walk in front of you. But I guess in practice it's different. They even have a sign on the floor, if you want to put up the floor sign or whatever, while we're doing this, Clayton. But there's a little sign on the floor that say the attached cables are to assist in preventing individuals from using this row. And we're like, whoa, attached cables? Well, we're just sitting there and some guys behind us start yelling at us and say, well, we're just sitting there

and some guys behind us start yelling at us and say, hey, hook the cables up so people don't walk in front of you. And so there's a cable on the left and there's a cable on the right of these three seats and you just hook it up like, I don't know. Yeah, like you're a bouncer and you got the velvet rope and you're letting people in and out of there. So, yeah, we were wondering, is that really a problem?

And Jake said, let's- Because they were very adamant about it. Like, before we even sat down, they're like, bro, ah, hey, listen, it's gonna get bad, hook it up. They'll do it all game long. Okay. So, we did it, and then in the second period, Jake said, well, let's do an experiment.

Let's see if people really do walk in front of you all game. So let's take the cables down. So we took the cables down, because this is our craziness. This is how wild we are. We're getting nuts. So, yes. And in a couple minutes,

a guy and his son are trying to walk in front of us. And we wanted to do the experiment and let it play out and see how many times this happens throughout the game, or throughout the second period. And guys, the whole section behind us, like in a chorus, started screaming at this guy and going, that's not an aisle. You can't go through there. No, go down the steps.

Go down the steps. And we're like, no, no, go ahead in front of us. It's not an aisle, you can't go through there. No, go down the steps, go down the steps. And we're like, no, no, go ahead in front of us. It's okay. Also, guys, put up the cable. Put up the cable. This won't happen to you. They're screaming and they care. And so we had already let the father through

and he was walking down the stairs now. And now the son, they're screaming, like throwing stuff almost. He's 14. And we're like, no, go in front of us, but he wouldn't do it, because now the crowd is screaming at him. And so he had to walk somewhere else,

not with his dad, and go meet him somewhere. Yeah, he was in quite a, excuse me, he was in quite a pickle. And I think that that moment will stick with him forever. Because he was just isolated and alone, and there was an angry mob to his right, and he just did not know what to do. And so we had to put up the cable.

The experiment's over, because our own section was screaming at us for not being smart enough to stop people from walking in front of us. It's our game experience. If I want people to walk in front of us, but I didn't want to have to go up and explain it to each and every person, this great experiment we're doing,

you won't believe how cool this is going to be after a period of watching people walk in front of us. But maybe their view gets obstructed a little bit, so maybe it's a little annoying for them. But we also had a ton of leg room. So the average person, they might see that, well, it's not going to inconvenience these people if I just slide through real quick,

but it annoyed everyone in the section above us. I will say that our legs were fully extended to the railing, so that's a pretty egregious move. Yeah, Blake's like 4'11", he's like, oh, we had a ton of leg room. Yeah, we had leg room. Yeah, I laid down. But we, Dan and I at least had our feet on the railing

pretty much the whole time, and that's when the guy came through and was like, hey, hey, excuse me, which I would never do. Right, if you see someone's feet up in there. Yeah, so I don't feel bad that the guy got called out. What I felt bad for was for his son, and for the fact that we pissed everyone off and the Ducks scored a tie at like 10 seconds later. It was our fault. It was not a pretty situation. Did they win the game?

Yes, they won the game the stars did yeah in overtime. All right. Yeah, we left before the third So here's what I was gonna ask you real quick. They won Dan We set there for two whole periods together. Did you know? that going into that game the Stars had won eight straight at home and were looking to protect the pretty sizable streak? I could feel it. Or did you just know there were a lot of Mexicans there? I knew there was a lot of Mexicans.

So I wanna know this from you guys though. Cause mid second, I had to go run and take a potty break. And like, I think I missed one of the bathrooms, so I don't know, I couldn't, didn't know my way around up there, so I'm a sweet guy. I know we're, I know the sweet level for sure. So anyway, I realized, boy, I'm taking a long time.

I bet they think I just left. Had you guys talked about the fact that I just probably left? No. Oh, okay. You thought I was coming back? Because you know that's in my game. I'm going to the bathroom and never come back. Yeah, I don't know if it would be funny if I didn't come back. And then they were all mad at me and we talked about it later. But yeah,'re you're running the Turley play yeah we're totally super pissed off at you for doing something that on the surface is kind of an a-hole move but you're like look we're talking about it

20 years later I just thought you guys were discussing okay maybe I'm narcissistic thinking they're just talking about me when I'm gone Everybody does it. Yeah, that's that's a therapy play for you But also I think we think of ourselves as in a group of people you wouldn't do that too Maybe that's wrong. That's a good point. I do yeah, I if I'm there with you guys I'll come back and I'd at least tell you hey, I'm leaving now But yeah, I never had to, because he was like, the second period break, you're like,

I mean, tell me when you wanna go. And I'm like, how about now? I just waited for one of you guys to say it. You could have probably said at mid first period, I'd have been like, all right, let's go. So it was a fun time, man. So they were great seats and I took a picture and threw up the first one Clayton

of where we were in the arena and I don't know, I put it as an Instagram story because I think that's what you're supposed to do. And so this was the view from our seats and I think I put on there like dumb zone stars night or something on Instagram. And so later in the game I get a message, throw the second one up Clayton,

from Fox Four's Steve Noviello, who just responded that picture and said, gay. So it was like stars night, whatever, and it's supposed to be like, hey look at us, we're branching out, and then yeah, the co-host of Gay Not Gay says, you guys are gay. Yeah, it felt a little like that, you know? There's something weird about it.

There's a guy who's upset we didn't invite him. Yeah, I think there's something gayer, to be honest, about three dudes hanging out with two. I don't know how to explain it, but it just feels like, it's not like, hey, we're just catching up. It's just like, oh, we're a little team team and we go out together it feels sillier for sure it was a good time though good time nice one in a row I've been informed yeah I think that's right we're going for 10 tonight we ran into a member of the wolf

clan yeah which was great because Easton Wolf, if you may recall, is the bright young man who I think probably four years ago was valedictorian of his high school and he delivered the my pig speech and he is now in college, he has a dad, his dad's name is I think Trey, uh, Troy. And, uh, we met met Troy there which was very great because Troy's alive after surviving that helicopter crash in Hawaii that he filmed on the way down and we had him on to talk about afterward. I was like a year ago and he was like yeah you know traumatic brain injury you know shoulder

all that but yeah we had him on when we were in... It wasn't Waxahachie, somewhere down there though, right? We took a long drive to do a remote. Yeah. Yeah. It was outside of 100 miles, I believe. And you want to know the best part of the night was earlier in the game, we had been discussing our previous

Stars Bits and how few players we know in the NHL and we were reminded of one of our favorite Stars players back in the day. Of course you all knew him in one way we just simply could call him M. Roffle. And one of Troy's first questions was why is it Dan wearing an M. Roffle jersey? Which just loved M. Roffle jersey? Which just loved him. Raffle man really made my night. That guy left it all out on the ice. Where is he now?

Nobody knows. Nope. He came, he went. Yeah. They wondered overtime, overtime, uh, hockey on the radio. Not much like it, dude. I was locked in. Yeah.

It's it's fire. Three on three hockey, the roller coaster. I was locked in, yeah. It's fire, three on three hockey. Roller coaster, it was a great time. I think I spent my drive home listening to the Tim McMahon book. Which I have some, I don't know, we'll get into it with Tim McMahon, but I've got some problems with the person

that was reading the book. Tim just read, he just did the first chapter. Yeah, that's, it says narrated by Tim McMahon. Unless, can you turn, are there two different voices on books sometimes or no? Don't know. Like I don't know if I hit a button and it reverted to a different guy, but Tim did the first chapter, I thought it was great.

And then a different guy who mispronounces a lot of words. Or like he called the Celtics the Celtics. So I don't know. Oh, that's tough. Oh, I'll play you the audio tomorrow though, before we have Tim make. All right, before we get into more audio, Dan, I'm gonna tell you about where you and anyone you know

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Oh, OK, so we were talking Cuban earlier, the cubes. Yeah. Remember that, Taryn? Yeah. Don't be upset. I wasn't. I'm not upset. He was on some podcast and I got sent this a million times. Not some podcast. Who is it? Your mom's house is one of the four or five

biggest podcasts in the world. So I need you to, if we're gonna be in this space, recognize now, it's also your dream, it's Tom Segura and his wife. Oh, is it really? They were amazing. If that's what he was on. I think that's Tom Segura and his wife. Oh is it really? If that's what he was on I think that's what he was on yeah but his wife and him have a show and it's it's amazing. Is it good? It's very good. Okay. Even though it's you know it's a comedy podcast. I prefer Two Bears One Cave the one he does with

Bert because there's you know obviously less women talking. I prefer Two Bears, One Cave, the one he does with Bert, because there's obviously less women talking. I like it when they have his mom on. Yeah. And she gets to talk to him. The Spanish lady? Yeah. I mean, I haven't watched the whole thing, but those little clips are gold.

Well, The Cubes was on for a couple hours, but for just a five minute period, he was talking about they brought up the Mavs and there's not really a ton in here new but I thought you'd like to hear him talking just just a little bit about the whole situation but what part of basketball do you control and what do you not don't anymore and I haven't for a while so you so you relinquish it I didn't relinquish that kind of muscle did out of you Yeah, I won't say muscle but you know the majority owner Patrick Dumont decided that you know, he was comfortable with

Nico Harrison the general manager and the team he had put together which is his choice his choice I mean and you can't totally argue with him because because you know we went to the finals. Yes. Um, now I could tell you you know, but stuff but yeah, it was his choice and he made his choice And so so he just a fan now you were in the position of I'm interested in that that he decided not to talk about His choice his choice. I mean and you can totally argue with him because you know, we went to the finals Yes, so good choice because we went to the finals. Yes. So good choice, because we went to the finals. Now I can tell you, but stuff,

but yeah, it was his choice and he made it. So however, I, okay, no, let's move on. I'm not gonna say anything. Okay, can I scatter shoot here? I don't think it's anything nefarious. I don't think it's any sort of, hey, I was about to say something that's gonna get me in trouble. I think it's two things. I think the first thing is he's saying, yeah, because you had Luka

Doncic, which I drafted. That's why you went to the final. My people drafted Luka Doncic, which, you know, obviously if you read in the book, which you've read this part, the analytics department, which I believe as a consultant, Harala Bob was a part of at that time, they said he was gonna be the best player in the world, the Mavericks analytics department. So Cuban, who put those people in place, and Donnie, they deserve a lot of credit for that pick,

all of it. So I think that's the first thing he's saying, is like, look dude, the reason we went to the finals is because of Luca, not freaking Nico Harrison. The second thing I think he could be hinting at is that Dennis Lindsay was doing a lot of the work. That's what I was gonna say. Just that the, like even the draft, excuse me,

the trade deadline trades that were made were not like Nico. I'd have to go back and look at the timeline. I think some of them were before Lindsay, but a lot of it was after. But I think that's what Cuban's saying is like, hey, you know, this guy didn't really build the team that won the finals. Like, first of all, you're never there without Luca or got to the finals. And second, he wouldn't make it all those, all those goals. Yeah. I think.

Let's see where I wanted to say. Yeah, it was his choice and he made his choice. And so I'm just a fan now. You were in the position of having some... That was, yeah, when I originally sold the team, that originally was the conversation, that originally what was supposed to happen. Okay. And then over time, and initially it was, you know, and then over time it was like, okay, and Nico, we trust.

So I think that's where he's talking about, you were going to be still running basketball operations so here we are so I have to imagine that in the of course we're talking about Luca being traded which was I think in like we're not you know similar ish in like the biggest trade in American sports that I can I remember Herschel Walker remember that when you're like what the fuck? It was crazy. That turned around the Cowboys.

That was great. Yeah. But like, I imagine your phone blew up a lot. Well, I was in- Okay. Then he goes on to all that kind of stuff. But I got one more thing for you as well. And of course that goes back to something we've talked about, you talked about quite a bit, just the, Of course, that goes back to something we've talked about, you talked about quite a bit, just the...

The whole, the oddity that a guy like Mark Cuban would say, I'll keep running the MAVs and this is just a handshake deal, it's not actually written down anywhere. If he actually did want to keep running the MAVs and think that was very important moving forward. So when we talked about that for a couple of days in a row, I got a lot of feedback on it.

And some of it was from people in the media or people who were very close to the Mavs. And I was floated the idea that he wasn't open to that because it would have made him an employee and he was never going to be that. Like that he, that he was, the idea of Mark Cuban having an NBA contract through the Mavs was not gonna happen. And that's really the only way I guess.

Because then he could have been fired from it? Could have been fired, I guess. But is there no way to codify this role without having a contract or in the terms of the sales, say as 27%, it comes with these things on down the line. And I'm also very interested in how the process worked, where it started one way and changed, because he said, you know, initially that was the case. All right.

Well, over time, did they just stop copying them on emails? Was it a formal thing? Because if it wasn't a formal thing, it's really weird to me to have a transition in who's in charge of a basketball team or any team without really telling anybody. So like, let's say that- Well, that's the kind of way that Cuban ran things though. Even bringing in Haralibab and Donny and who was in charge, it was Cuban in the end. But I still feel like Cuban was always the guy, you know?

Sure. So you're right. There was Murky. But now it's like, OK, let's say Cuban's in charge in March. And then in June, he finds out, hey, Nico's more in charge. Well, what's been happening for those three months? Is Nico calling teams that Cuban doesn't know about? Are they scouting players for the draft? That's weird.

You would have to surmise this is a Nico. Nico's a relationship guy and apparently he developed a good relationship with Dumont and maybe even had his ear to, we don't need keeping in on this stuff. I'm running, me, Jay Kidd. I mean, who brought us to the finals? Jay Kidd, we just gave him a new contract. We re-upped him, make sure he's here. We can't lose him. Well, I saw... But you can offer one more thing that's really crazy. Because it's full faith in Nico from DuMont, for sure, right? If you go back to those comments DuMont made, I want to say at the luncheon, which is a lunch with speaking.

Um, he said, we were in the finals last year and the team that beat us got better and so did some of the teams that we beat on the way there. We didn't get better. Well, I would argue against that. And I would say that Najee Marshall and Quentin Grimes absolutely made you better. Uh, and those were moves made by Nico and, or Dennis Lindsay, I think probably Nico. But if the reason you're trading Luca is because you feel like you didn't get better enough in the off season relative to other teams, isn't that the fault of your general manager?

Isn't that his job? So if you're flatly looking at the summer and being like, fuck, we did not get better. That's his job. So why do you not turn the guns at him and be like, dude, you're sleeping on it. You're slacking. We didn't get any better. And again, I think they did. I think going to get in Q and Najee were good moves. But the guy you indicted there is Nico. That's the part I can't really wrap my head around. Kind of the GM's job. This Nico Kid talk, somebody sent me this. The title is, How Are You Saying That Jason Kidd Wasn't Involved? So this is Jason Kidd being interviewed. This must be shortly after Nico joined the Mavs, which was, I guess, the exact same time Jason Kidd joined the Mavs, right?

Talk about your relationship with him and how proud are you to see his development? Yeah, I've been trying to get Nico for a couple of years to become a GM. I tried in Milwaukee, but our relationship goes back to that swoosh. Everybody knows Nico. And when you talk about Nico, no one has anything bad to say about Nico. Like one thing.

Because of his relationships and the way that he takes care of people. And so I'm so happy to have him as a brother, but also as a teammate, being able to build a championship team in Dallas. Yeah Kid knew what was up. Yeah I think so. I mean I think the more we talk about it the more you try to read between the lines. I got one more Cuban thing for you. This is about it's less than a minute. Here we go. I'm excited. I really want to see this guy.

Like I'm so excited to watch what happens. Like I'm such a fan of his and this story. I mean, I just want to see what, I know we're not allowed to cheer for the Lakers here, but I just want to see what happens with him. Yeah, it's just brutal. It's painful no matter how you look at it. Yeah.

All right. It's like talking about the, yeah, it's just, yeah. Like a pet dying. I'm in mourning kind of still I understand Hopefully, you know what? I want to keep listening but that's I just yeah. Yeah That's how I feel. I can't We were at the Stars game last night and I'm looking up at the banners and Knowing there's not gonna be a Luca

Jersey banner and the saddest banner I could see was the 2023-24 Western Conference Champion banner because like that's where it all ended. That's it. That's as far as we're on this journey but that's that's the one that they got like not after 10 years of having him and man, tried this and that. And it just didn't work out. It was you gave up. You give up right, right there, right at the doorstep of it. Yeah, it sucks to see that banner in there.

I wish they I wish that someone would steal it. I know I wish the hard to do. We're not allowed to. Oh, yeah, I've seen some caper movies. I wish that was not in that building with those individuals able to claim it. All right. It's like talking about the, yeah, it's just, yeah, like a pet dying. I'm in mourning kind of still. I understand. Hopefully. But they paid me to buy the circus. And so, you know.

That's true. I just look at my bank account and feel better. There you go, yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. Why? Hell yeah, let's talk about money. Let's talk about rich guy stuff.

Well, no, it just is what it is, right? You know, I sold for a reason and, you know, nothing more I can say about that. I mean. Yeah. Yeah, it's what it is. Boy, that's not a great, that doesn't print that well, does it? No, it doesn't.

And I know that he's always been fan first guy and look, he gave me two decades of the most fun I've ever had in my favorite hobby, but that's not, that didn't sound good. And you could tell immediately, like Tom and Christine are like, hell yeah, bro, money. And he was like, no, seriously, it is what it is. I made a lot of money.

That's, it doesn't sound great. No, no. Oh, do you see the, you told me this morning, the Celtics were sold. You saw that? Okay. Yeah. Oh, do you see the, you told me this morning, the Celtics were sold. You saw that? Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, I'd seen some, when it's like, this group is buying from this group,

somehow it becomes a lot harder for me to follow that this person is buying it from this person. You know what I mean? Like, oh, Steve Balmer's taking over for Donald Sterling, but this, it's like this capital group and that one, but the upshot of it is it sold for over $6 billion. Well, yeah. And I was going to ask money-wise though, because they would always say the Cavs franchise did change in value when LeBron got there and then when he left. And when

he's there, it was much more valuable, like a billion dollars more valuable. Like he raised the value of that franchise. Is that something where if the Mavs sold today, would they get less than Cuban made on them? If the Mavs sold for four billion or whatever it was. I can't recall where I saw it But somebody sent me an analysis. It might have just been like a sub stack. It wasn't like the journal but

There have been estimates that the team valuation by the time this is at a full year that it'll be about a billion dollars I have a question. I'm dumb. Can I ask a question? Bring it. It feels like Dan's job to permit. Well, I mean with Shark Tank and everything and Cuban's mind for business, why wouldn't he like open it up to people to bid on? Like, hey, I'm in the spot. I want to make some money, like, get your groups together. That's a great question that should have been. Well, I think it's. I was gonna say though, it should have been.

I think it's super ironic. Right, I was gonna say it should have been thrown at Cuban when he said, you know, just they got a bad haul, how come they didn't open up the bidding for a trade? Great point. Yeah, it's a great point because I mean, what he said is that he sold it to them because those are the people he trusted.

And those are the people he'd known for a long time. His nephew, or excuse me, Adelson's stepson maybe was an intern for the Mavericks in 2016. So he trusted him. He trusted one person in the family. I think he knew Miriam decently and he had gotten to know Rich Guy No, Patrick Dumont. Of course the irony here, it means rich people know each other. Yeah. Not like they're hanging out.

Like at luncheons? Luncheons are big player. Yeah. You better watch out for that luncheon circuit. It's coming The irony of course is that He claims to not have done a public sale because he wanted somebody that he could trust To continue the organization in the same direction that he had fostered for almost a quarter of a century And instead he sold it to the worst possible option who And instead, he sold it to the worst possible option.

No, I honestly think like 25 years time, I don't think Cuban's gonna be thought of that positively around here. Once this thing all- Because of selling it to them. 10 years from now when Lucas got a couple rings, the Mavs are in the lottery five years in a row, it's gonna be more about what Dirk did than Cuban. Symphony Technology Group is who bought the Celtics for 6.1 building a billion. Did you see the who the managing partner is, what his name

is? Hit me. You see it? No, I just saw Symphony. Bill Chisholm. He's on his own path, his own trail if you will. That's right. Where our friends Taryn and Kim are sitting is in front of the Chisholm Trail sign, you see. Very cool. And they wanted to hang up a Meg Matters sign. And I said, it'll stick there if you put it over there. I don't know if that was well received or not. You know, I immediately vetoed it. As off-air fun. Fun and frivolity that we were having.

Off-air, but we have to get warmed up for the show. We have to throw a few shots up and Just see if any of them. I don't know stick Want to do some news teases No, oh, what do you want to do? Because can we like and I were trying to troubleshoot that issue in the break, but you guys were... Oh, you playing audio? Yeah.

Okay, well then we'll do that after the break. Let's do some viewer mail. That I could do. And we could say that viewer mail, or actually it's really called the... Gummy cold, gummy high gummy high wait not that shut up the Thursday viewer mail follow-up extravaganza inclement fossil thing yes that's viewer mail that's brought to us by own well oh well own well dot com slash the dumb zone Dan why don't you take take it from there? Well, no, I was just going to say they'll help you right now.

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Here he is on the inside sleeve. And autographed it for us. Look at that. How about that? Excited. What a guy. You want to start? I hope his home reno went well, yeah, we should check on him I Thought you guys said stop bothering him

No, dude, he's your friend. He's definitely your friend Can I give you one from my own personal? Well, wait, I guess we should think about the execution here. Do I want to do any gummy thoughts or is he just straight? Well, let's do gummy thoughts in a minute. I have one that says, dear Dan, our good friend and loyal D.F. Kyle Gambrel is getting married this weekend. We'd like to give him a dumb zone shout out in lieu of an actual wedding gift.

He's the last member of our crew to get married. We're mostly happy for him, but the rest of us married dudes have all spent the last decade living vicariously through him and we hate that we're losing that part of our lives. Now he's getting married and ready to lean into a dumb, boring married life like the rest of us cucks." And I feel like we've all had that friend. Oh yeah. In fact, I still have one that has held out. Now he's got a long-term girlfriend. They're basically married. Common law married, but he's still our guy. And I just didn't know if you guys had guys like this.

Yeah, well, it's not- That's from Toddy and Zach, by the way. It's not the wife. It's if you end up having kids. But once you're married, it feels like you're probably gonna have kids. So yeah, I definitely do. I'll tell you who's a dangerous beast though.

Freshly divorced friend. Ooh, yeah, your wife doesn't wanna let you out with him. No, he's ready to make up some time. No, and you may recall, there was a time where it was the ultimate because Mike Saroy was freshly divorced and I didn't have kids and it was it was awesome and then you got you got grounded for Mike Saroy yeah yeah he became my summer camp friend that I can see once a year but no yeah that guy you gotta be

you gotta be careful you know because part of the problem Dan is that you start making a little money you know so, your single friend when he's 23 is like, whatever, dude. You make 10 bucks an hour, but now you're like 35, you got a little job. I don't know. That's a lot of expendable income for a single man. Dangerous. If y'all got any dreams, send's send them my way here uh here's one that actually we talked about before and I believe we were not gummy thotted

out whenever it came up this is just something I want to talk about is this a gummy thoughts no but the guy said it was I don't think it is I think it's talking it's just talking toilet toilet color and it bothers me now now that I've experienced a couple black ones, there's a black one at our car wash, there's a black one at Fair Lease, the Fair Lease Haas Motor Museum remote, there was one there.

And he points out that like, and I remember this too, because my dad used to live in like a 70s house. They used to do wacky toilet colors. Ever see like a kind of off pinkish toilet? I've seen like an off or a light blue type toilet. Like light blue, maybe like a sea foam. I feel like we need to bring that back.

Why? I agree. It's just a nice touch. I don't know. Let's have some fun. You go to the bath, most bathrooms now, even like new modern ones, are just bland looking. There's no dart boards. Black is kick ass though. So I do think it looks kick ass, but I will have to cop as a guy who will go any way, anywhere. It looks infinitely grosser.

Just because you don't know if it's dirty? No, like when you go and it's like spackled across the back, it looks, I don't know why, dude. Something about the contrast is way worse on black. I'm just telling you guys. Now that's like a one, it's not like it's there all the time. You know, you flush it. Do you think you could buy a red toilet?

Yeah. Let's see. Yeah, absolutely. These are out there, they're just not standard anymore. This guy, Saxon, just wanted to know why. Why? Can I comment about the content? Yeah, I was hoping you would.

Y'all posted on your socials with the bear in the toilet paper. Oh, sure, yeah. How much you love bear fight whiskey? Well, I don't drink whiskey, but if I did. It would be bear fight whiskey. Yeah. Well, we have a bidet.

And I feel like you could really save on your toilet paper consumption if you would just embrace the way of the world. You're probably right. And wash instead of smear. You're probably right. I've always been afraid, though, because I've never really used a bidet. You're afraid of water eating Well, but then they have so

many different kinds of bidets. I'm sure that we would end up buying the cheap one that doesn't really work as well and then I would hate the bidet. I'll send a link to Blake. Yeah. He can share with the Dunzon family. It has a cool blue light. You know like the light that Matthew McConnay would talk about? It's got that. And it has a seat warmer. So you never have to feel cold. She's on a different level.

What's the price? What's the damage? I think it was like 600, 500. OK, so I bought, Dan, you can buy one for $100 that it's very basic. There's no lighting, it doesn't plug in, it's not powered, it is literally hooked up to your water and it doesn't heat up, so it can be cold.

And for $100, you turn that thing, you'll have the cleanest butthole you've ever had in your life every single time. Every single time. Okay, $494. Cause here's the reality, right now there's poop in your butt. Stop, you all paint these pictures.

I'm just saying, if you have a bidet, you can guarantee that's not gonna happen. Now, our friend Cameron, who was there last week, he went full Randy Marsh and maybe Taryn, he sent me one that was like 600, and it's full heated seat, which. Yeah, 494. Full heated4 full heated you control it with an app no app but there is a little controller like right now you have to

put it on the wall but there's there's a bottom cleaner and then a lady cleaner too a lady oh yeah they have everybody need one of those. They have the app control points. Everybody needs one of those. In Japan, for sure. Cause I bring home a lot of dirty ladies. Yeah, I think it was super clear what you were doing. Oh, all right. I'm gonna ask one real quick. This comes to me from William.

And he's, I'll'll do his heroes first. Business Wednesday Zoom meeting and Dan's lamp ceiling boob image. And his question is, I'm thinking about, this is a common thing you hear, I'm thinking about getting into the Ernest Ghost Tube movie anthology. And I wanted to know if Jake would recommend me

to start these in order of when they were released or which is the goat in his opinion and see you see this a lot with like Star Wars right Fast and Furious you really aren't supposed to watch those all in order I'm sure there are others in the you know pantheon of great films and what I'll tell you is this you need to start with Ernest Saves Christmas, despite the fact that it's not the first movie, it's actually the third movie. But it'll make sense when you do it.

You need to start with Ernest Goes Christmas and Ernest Goes to Christmas, excuse me, Ernest Saves Christmas, but also, that's where you wanna start any friends you might introduce. The second one, I will tell you, by far, is Ernest Goes to Africa. That's the second best one. But the order is Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest Goes to Jail,

then Ernest Goes to Camp, and then you're in order from there. Of course, concluding with 1998's Slam Dunk Ernest. So, shout out to William for that question. I bet if you edited those movies, what is that, three movies? Well, there's actually like nine of them. Jonathan Williams for that question. I bet if you edited those movies, what is that, three movies? Well, there's actually like nine of them. Okay, edit nine of those movies, the funniest 20 minutes out of each one,

put it together, it wouldn't be half as funny as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, just one movie. One movie, all the gold you needed. But you can go ahead and spend 18 hours you know occasionally occasionally getting a somewhat funny moment enough for it to make it into the trailer that was their problem I heard from the editors they're like what do we make in a trailer they're like well just put some funny moments in there well you watch it Sometimes he would be snooping on someone on a ladder,

and the ladder would fall backwards. I guess even describing that does sound funny when I think of Ernest's face. He's coming around, folks. Is Vern around? Is Vern in this anywhere? He's around. I've never seen an Ernest movie.

Not one. I don't know that I've seen a minute of an Ernest movie. You know what? They're funny, dude. Maybe if there's nine of them, I'll watch nine trailers tonight and review those if you want. I think you'll get the tension and conflict that it presents. I think you'll like that. I'm writing that down because Blake will not remember to tell me.

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Of course. Uh huh. I was watching Nick's Lakers the other day, the other night, and it was a tie game at the end. It was a game where Brunson left the game with like a minute left after he tied the game at the line. It was an awesome basketball game. Goes to overtime.

LeBron and Luke could take over an OT as they will do. You're gonna have to stay with me on this one, all right? I think it's super interesting that if you take an NBA game and you account for the talent level on all the players, the percentage chance that they're gonna score on each possession and the number of possessions, I think it's crazy that it's so finely tuned of a market and mechanism that they can play for 48 minutes and it always comes down to the last shot. Like I think it's a perfect, like they've perfectly figured out the formula,

like they know exactly how good a guy in Greece has to be to eventually be able to play in this formula, where if you score 0.8 possessions per basket on 111 possessions, like, then it all perfectly works out to where it's like, yeah, there's 200 possessions in this game, but when the really good teams play, it comes down to the last two. Don't you think there's a human element in there

where procrastination is like, we need to play our best at the end of the game to catch up. Yes, that's definitely part of it. But it's and the let up factor right the other side of it. Right. But you know, that was a game where it was like both teams are just battling basket for basket. There's not a huge lead.

It's just I find I find sports beautiful, Dan. It is a gummy thought. For sure. Nick described what gummy thoughts are to ChatGPT and asked if it had a gummy thought for him. ChatGPT said, what if every time you forget a dream, it means it was actually a memory from a different version of you in an alternate reality? But when you remember a dream, it means it was actually a memory from a different version of you in an alternate reality.

But when you remember a dream, it's because that version of you forgot it instead. So that version of you in that alternate reality, they forgot that. Yeah. So they just get dumped over to you. And you're just dumping him back and forth? Uh, you know, not a big dream guy, but somebody recommended me to get into Carl Jung. I don't know what that is. You've referenced him before. It's kind of philosophy and spirituality

if you're not the most organized religion person, in a sense. Okay. A book a man and his symbols and I really like the viewpoint of it but it's a lot of dreams talk. I have a little dream take. Hit us ladies always do. Well I- Ladies do remember dreams I guess. Ladies love dreams. Our minds are working way harder than the men's minds. Sure and that's why you also have to tell everyone about those dreams. Now now, you could learn something from your wife's dreams. No we can't. Yeah like she gets mad at you for a dream what you did in your dream. Yeah, that's a real thing. It is absolutely a real thing.

I have had that. I've heard other people say it, but I've legitimately had my wife, I was with some other girl in her dream, and then she's literally, Every wife has had that dream. Kind of mean to me the next day. I'm like, I do not understand you at all.

So, yeah, it's a... Why is your shirt on? Those, but that's what I say right after. I do not understand you at all. Why is your shirt on? Those, but that's what I say right after. And that's why she has a dream. Cause I'm wanting her to fire that shirt off at every moment. Okay, go ahead. Your dream thought.

No, so well there's serious and then there's fun, but dreams actually are like a way that your mind can process hard stuff like trauma in a safe place. So sometimes people have very vivid dreams or scary dreams or anything like that because it's like stored in your body and while you're sleeping it's kind of a safe place to... I'm not a psychologist. I'm not like anybody professional, I don't have any letters after my name,

but that's just something that's been shared with me and has been helpful. And while we're talking about chat, it's okay if you do have a dream that's like disturbing or you're like, oh, what is that about? Why am I waking up mad at my husband? Because I don't know, whatever. You can ask chat and it'll give you some feedback

and then you're like, okay, sweet. Maybe that's helpful for me. So chat GPT is like your little therapist? I have lots of therapists, but yes, chat has helped. Is one of them? Yes, chat is definitely one of them. So much so that she just calls it Chat. Yeah, I know. I've been through it. I named it. I killed my dad in my dream. I named it and then I

changed its voice to, you know, a girl like Pride and Prejudice character and yeah, I've done lots of things. Interesting. So Caleb has a sports gummy thought. When looking at the NFL salary cap going up each year, that makes sense that the players contracts would also go up. Yet we continue to see the blockbuster deal or market resetting deal all the time. The roster has a fixed number of spots.

So if the owners are willing to pay up to the cap, the larger contracts are essentially inevitable. It's just salary inflation to match the higher cap. The gummy thought is that there should be much more conversation about what percentage of the cap they are paid. They make millions, what do I care as a fan? 10 million a year, 40 million a year, whatever. I want to know how much space they are taking up as a percentage of my team's cap. I think any mention of salary or contract talk should be immediately followed by percentages for context from Caleb. I think that's a great idea. I've been on this train for a long time. So Dak makes 50 million a year.

Man, that sucks. Yeah, but Joe Burrow makes 60 million. Oh, okay. Well, what does that mean though? So once upon a time, I was in a position of having to feel like I was fighting off Bob and to a lesser extent Dan defending the Mavericks for a lot of dumb stuff. So I got really into the NBA salary cap and I that's when I first had this thought Because for example Wesley Matthews when he signed for the Maverick or with the Mavericks. It was a four-year deal But the summer he signed the cap was flat, but everybody knew the next year. It was gonna go up Astronomically and that would be the case for three of the four years of his deal But when he signed his his number was like 25 percent of the cap.

And by the next year, it was like 13. But nobody cared anymore. And I would yell like, dude, he's this is not an overpay now. This is the new like six million dollars. But nobody really wants to hear that. And I tell you why, because agents push the big number. Agents push the big number. Agents push that to media. That's why you don't see a lot of guaranteed money

in NFL contracts being, it's just the number, right? But your percentage of cap absolutely is the way it should be presented. Like what's DAC right now? What is the percentage of the cap? 10? 10? No, no, no.

It's probably 20. Okay, he makes 20% of all the money that's paid to all players. So, it's about that, yeah. I can find it pretty quickly. But I'm wondering why, because I'm not sure if the NBA is set up like this. Maybe you know this, since you're arguing about it. But why wouldn't an agent, instead of signing you to a 40 million dollars a year say I'm signing you to a 15% of the cap deal every year that's

your salary? Yeah I mean that would be way more beneficial to players wouldn't it? It would be more beneficial it would there's just some inherent risk there you know you have a COVID year or something that resets things and now all of a sudden you're flat when you were expecting to be up. So that's one thing that could be problematic, is it's not a guaranteed number. But what's funny about it is that the NBA Supermax

is a percentage of the cap. It's just a percentage of the cap at the time that you sign it, which then stays that same number over the next four or five years as the cap goes up. So yeah, you're totally right. It just, it would probably come with a little more risk. And also teams aren't gonna want that, right? Because they want those-

No, teams like it the way it is now, yeah. Yeah, your deal depreciates or depending on how you look I'm sure they're doing that behind closed doors when they're negotiating the agent is saying look by year five this will be eight percent of the cap whereas now it's 18 percent of the cap yeah all right well that's all I got for those. We all good? Uh, yeah, I think I feel pretty good about that. Uh, there was one I really wanted to get to, but I've been clicking around here. Let's see.

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Yes, indeed. So you're missing Jake. I told you it's like Stars Day here at Fox 4. Yeah. And Clayton gave me a report. They were going to have a taco truck here, but something, weather, cars, driving... Too cold. It's too cold for a taco truck? That's what they said.

Don't pop it! So, they brought the taco, they brought like a thing inside. They got a... the hallway set up with like a buffet taco. What do they got over there, Clayton? We got meat, we got cheese, we got the toppings. Chicken, pork, beef. Go ahead. Chicken, pork, beef, elotes. And there's Jake. Three or four different types of sauces. This is Jake's day. Yeah. This would be very tough for me. This would be very, very tough. There's food in there a lot and I it brings up something I've thought

about before when you watch morning television. What do they do with it folks? After they eat it they flash fry the they flash or pan fry the pork chops right there on television at 930 and then what happens to him? I'd like to find out, you know, I'd like Sean Rabb to investigate his own operation. One thing I wanted to tell you guys about that I saw on the way down here, by the way, just, bro the ball guy would have been super proud of me. Never stopped outside of for lunch. There were no bathroom breaks. There was, I had gas before I left, found a lunch place exactly halfway. Run the ball guy.

I know the symmetry like, Hey, let's drive two hours. Perfect. Did you do the thing where you calculate the minutes per mile? Yeah, I beat the clock by a good seven minutes. That's great. Like you have to beat 60 miles an hour, right? Oh, dude, you guys would have been proud of me. I was setting the tone. So it's a hundred miles. You got to beat a hundred minutes. You have to.

Without a doubt. And obviously, there obviously, you know, there are going to be some obstacles thrown in your way, but you got to make that back. Oh, of course. Yeah. That's part of it. That's why you got to go 95 at times. Yeah. And then yeah. So I, I assume the same is true for 35 and 45, but you get out of the cities a little bit, you're going to see some adult stores, right? Yeah. So I saw one about an hour outside of Houston yesterday that was very funny to me, because I think what we've typically thought about these places as is you can either go buy So buy DVDs or VHSs, or you can like crank it in a booth. Now I don't really know how that works because I've never done it.

I'm not opposed to it, but I've never done it. But the sign out front said video on one line and then internet on the other. Which leads me to believe this is just a place for you to just go watch Pornhub. Like if you just don't have the internet, like they'll just let you go watch internet porn there. Like what else could that mean, internet?

It all seems pretty gross. I guess if there's a trucker who's driving through and doesn't have connection and wants to check his fidelity account, like hypothetically, they're giving you that option. But do you just seem something about it seem more beaten to me that you're going there just to connect to the internet, which anyone can do from their phone. Like that's that's not good. Is the trucker behind the times is he not aware of?

Advancements we've made and he thinks this is the greatest thing ever you know, that's a that's a really interesting question because I've been thinking about truckers a lot since we had our friend in Who won the picks or who tied in the survivor pool. I've been thinking about him a lot because he's describing his schedule to us. I've always thought it sounded awesome. And then I saw a video the other day. I guess this is kind of in the, the response to one, the ramping up of like ice

operations for illegal immigrants. And also that crash that happened to DFW the other day, where an 18 wheeler just plowed into slot stop traffic. Do you guys familiar with this? No, it was in the last week or so. Yeah. And the guy, it was really weird cause a guy who was on the freeway and saw it happen, got out and went up to the truck driver and the guy was wearing flip flops and barely

spoke English. And I guess there's a thing in the trucking world where they're trying to cut some corners by getting the cheapest people they can get. And for good reason, it is illegal to drive a truck if you cannot speak English and you cannot read English road signs. So I saw like a little TikTok video filmed by a trucker, a white guy, where he was saying, hey, I just got stopped and asked to read a piece of paper

in English for the first time ever. Whoa. And he's like, I was looking over to the side and there were seven or eight people in handcuffs. And it's a $10,000 fine. Your company gets fined 50K. But I say all this to say, in the video, the guy was wearing one of these.

Like he had a full like radio headset on. And I just started thinking like, man, trucker, that's probably come a long way now. Like that's what they're talking back and forth with? Yeah, like it was a full pro like radio or gaming. I'm sure maybe they have them specifically for truckers. Do they still have CBs? Man, I bet if they do, it's wired through the headset.

I bet it's a channel they can flip over to. All phone calls. I don't think that thing comes off when you're in the rig. And I'm not saying they're all like that, but I feel like now you could deck out your rig to a point where it's just entertainment heaven. So it's like a cockpit or something. You're able to talk back to the, whatever, the tower.

Yeah, yeah, and I mean, the guy, again, this is like a 60 year old white guy, he had a mounted camera from which he was doing TikToks and he was like, follow me for more of my journey. I'm like, you know what? I might. Actually seemed kind of interesting to me. But yeah, I don't know who's stopping at that place, but they have internet.

But yeah, I don't know who's stopping at that place, but they have internet. Let me talk for a moment about one day doors and closets. So at first I was against this company when I first heard about them. Cause I'm like, why? Yeah, so they come in and install a door and then they'll come back tomorrow and take it out. Why would you want to buy a door for one day?

And I realized- What if you liked it? But I realized it was because it only takes you one day to get the door installed. Yeah, or a closet. Or a closet, yeah. Factory painted with advanced coating paint, installed in just one day, fully finished.

They can save you 30 to 50% compared to the big box stores or using a handyman at onedaytexas.com slash promo 30. That'll get you a buy one, get one free on doors. So this is like one day, two doors. I don't think they need one day for each door. I'll bet it'll take one day for them to install two doors in your house.

Let me tell you what I love about one day doors and closets. I didn't know that this sort of service existed before, but it makes total sense because I just, like I said, just remodeled our house and there are a few new doors in there. We just needed to do those and the whole house would have felt new.

But I didn't know this service existed. Let's say to our male listeners, your wife might, but if you come to the table with this, you come to the table and say these doors could use an upgrade, I got a way to get a BOGO, she's gonna love you forever, folks. Don't tell her you can get a BOGO. Then just tell her. Pocket a door you forever, folks. Don't tell her you can get a BOGO. Then just tell her.

Pocket a door? Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. You take that out of your funds. She's just going to be happy because she's got the new doors. You know how women in doors are. That's all you got to do is, you know, Valentine's Day, next year on Valentine's Day, do that. It's just straight Hurricane Harbor after that.

But yeah, just try it man. They have advanced technology that makes sure the doors fit even when the foundation has shifted. You know how foundations are here in North Texas. I don't have to tell you. If there's one guy in this world, I don't have to say anything about foundations too. It's Jake. Yeah, and I don't need to do this because if there's one guy that knows the promo code, it's Dan, but it's onedaytexas.com slash promo 30, onedaytexas.com slash promo 30. Their number is 940-969-4790. If I said it too fast, rewind it.

Listen to me say it again. Okay, so one more math thing. This is from Kevin O'Connor's show. Kevin O'Connor, ring, Kevin O'Connor, Ringer, he's a guy who, he's kind of turned into a hot take artist. He's actually the guy that was in the news recently because he reported that Quentin Grimes said

he wanted out of Dallas after the Luca trade. Yeah. And Mark Stein has since said, that's just not true. You know, and he, Grimes was even asked about it kind of in an interview that he did where he was super cool about Luca and was like the guy busts his ass. And I don't think that happened, but in any case, Kevin O'Connor will throw it out there

and he'll also get big name NBA players or NBA players. And in this case, he had Marcus Morris on, one half of the Moray and the half that was not a Maverick that was sent to the Lakers. But you know they beat up high school basketball coaches that I think are having sex with their mom together. And I generally think they have the same thoughts on the NBA together. So even though this is Marcus not Morquif, I think it probably tracks with what the room was thinking and they get into the Luca playoff Michael Finley beer video. Just let it roll.

Michael Finley take that beer out of his hand. And I know a lot of people might not have looked at that, but as a player, I didn't like how that looked, right? Like we just won, we celebrate and I have a bear, it's cameras and you kind of take that away from me. It's like almost you're trying to like hint at something. And as a player at that stature, I didn't agree with that. I didn't agree how they kind of tried to paint that picture.

So now fast forward, you kind of painting that picture the entire time that he has a drinking problem, that he's overweight, right? And I don't feel as though that has anything to do with his play. Yes, he was injured. A lot of players get injured all the time. A lot of players take a long time to come back,

but his production level is through the roof. So how do you, like, how do you sum up, okay, it's time to trade this guy? Like, how does that come to your mind? And then not only that you trade him, you trade him to the LA Lakers, the team that you have to see every year, four times a year in the playoffs.

So what do you think is about to happen when he goes to the Lakers? You think he's going to be, he's going to be Luca Dockett's point two. Oh, he's going to kill. He has the best player possibly ever. Now he can see the work ethic. Now you can see what goes into the day and day of being greatness. Right. Yeah, that's, that's part of it.

The whole people are going to make that narrative of when Luca wins rings, it's going to be because of LeBron and it's going to drive me frankly insane. But not as insane as him, you know, just the fact that he's not a maverick. But man, I don't know, that feels like something that I would say, like that I would look at that Luca Michael Finley beer video and be like, this feels in hindsight, nefarious. Like they were trying to paint some picture. Like they always were trying to make sure that he was on the defensive about his off the floor activities,

but I'm not there and I have no idea. But this is an NBA player who's been on like 12 teams and his brother's been on 12 of the other ones, right? And if he looks at that and says, you know, that feels like a setup, then he's probably not the only one. And keep in mind, the Morris twins have major beef with Nicola Jokic. You may recall that the Jokic brothers

like almost fought them at a game and they were taunting each other and threatening each other on Twitter. Nobody's tighter with Jokic than like almost fought them at a game and they were taunting each other and threatening each other on Twitter Nobody's tighter with Jokic than Luca in the NBA. So you're getting the respect from those dudes That says a lot Yeah, it says a lot to what our players across the league thinking about this whole organization right now Yeah Oh, can I say one more thing? Cause if there's ever been one slash two guys

who absolutely would come out and talk their shit if they thought it was worth it, they would do it. Like if Marcus Morris thought, you know what he was, I heard he just didn't work out. I heard the guy was drunk. He would just say- They would love saying it. Yes. They would pounce upon that. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, go ahead. Can I play I Have a Friend and share a little story? Let's go. Always. Okay. You got to stop asking. Just go. Flow ahead. So I have a friend, former ticket chick and college friend and she was what I guess back in the day you know like the promotions girls like for ticket chicks and like different bars so she didn't just work with the ticket but there was a Mavs trainer that showed interest in her and so asked her to come hang out and I got to be a lucky friend that got to go hang out with some Avs back in the day and I was at a Michael Finley birthday party at a club down by SMU I don't know 10 may have been the name of it can't remember but and it was in season and it was a party.

And I got to see the whole team partying it up. And then whenever it was done, there was an elite rides to another party. And Cuban was right there and everybody was hanging out and partying in season. Cause I don't know when's Michael Finley's birthday. I don't know, but. So I just think that video of Michael Finley taking the beer from Luca little odd but

that's just my two cents yeah part of that we talked we used to talk about this on the stars trips part of it is that I don't know what generation it is, but Definitely like guys who play pro sports post like 2010 I think they take much better care of their bodies in general like when we go on the road with the stars You're not seeing a player go out like that just doesn't happen unless they do it on the super sly You know, you see the Nash and Dirk photos. You know, we know Cuban was partying with those guys all the time. Yeah, I don't believe they're not going out these days, for sure.

No, they do. I'm just saying, like, in season night of a game, I don't know that there's like, you know, the stories of Jordan, like, being at the poker table drunk until noon the day of a game. Yeah, night before a game might be different. I just don't think that's happening as much anymore. Yeah But it still is very hypocritical

But it also just goes to show this is a different organization than the one that Cuban owned You know for better or worse the Cuban and Donnie show was party time, right? Donnie Don Cuban sure sure yeah I mean those pictures of Durk and Nash what these people are and Finley's birthday is March 6th so yeah during the season hell what was the birthday party during the 2006 NBA finals they actually had a party during the finals and were handing out a flyer. Maybe it was Marquis. Well, I thought it was Howard. Those guys were often intertwined. Cause didn't Avery find out and they had to move it?

They had to move hotels for sure. The little general shut things down. Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. I want to know the real story on all of this. Who's involved? Obviously, Nico wanted to step up like I'm the big man. I'm in charge of everything.

It's my call. This is all me, but Kid, who is the small man, usually in life, he always has been. I think he had more to do with it, and he was happy to go ahead and let Nico take the hits on this. But I truly believe Kid was majorly involved as well, and obviously Dumont. It all trickles down from that because that's the guy who could have said, absolutely not. Yeah. We have to have him, but he doesn't know anything about basketball. He's some kind of a business guy who, what I've read, doesn't really know that much about business either. But, you know, he now thinks he developed a relationship with Nico. I'm sure he probably

doesn't like Cuban from maybe it's political leanings. Cuban was stumping for Kamala and everything. So he developed this thing with Nico and thought, Nico's this basketball guy. Nico's a guy who knows. I mean, look at those trades he made last year when I just bought the team. They didn't seem like they were that good, and then all of a sudden we're in the finals. What changed? Oh, Nico made some trades, and then Nico somehow convinced him that that was the key to getting to the finals. Not the guy who led not only his team, but the entire league in points, assists, rebounds, steel, like all these different categories. By the way, did you see a stat that since Luca's been traded to the Lakers, he is the leading, leading in all of those categories

for the Lakers now, since the trade. Yeah. Like he's been the guy. And that includes a couple of kind of rough games for, you know, Luca, 15, 18 points kind of leading into things. Banged up. Getting his getting his legs back under him. It's almost like he can still be productive if he's not 100%. That's it. And that's what Mark Keefe, was that Mark Keefe? That was Marcus. Marcus Morris was just saying, that's the whole thing here. This is, if this is what he's like as a young kid who doesn't take things real seriously, imagine what he's gonna be.

Like you're still, he's not even to his prime yet. Whereas you would say Anthony Davis, if he has a prime, he's at the tail end of it. You would say, this guy hasn't even started. You're not even sure his peak. That's why you absolutely under zero circumstances get rid of him. So my other sports story, just to quick hit here,

I know it's men's college basketball, well women's, it's college basketball that we're all fired up about right now, but this is a story that comes to us from the world of college baseball. It'll be that video in there Clayton, if you can have that one ready. So this is a Dan McDowell special. I'm on Twitter and I see an account

for a guy named Mitch Voight, V-O-I-T. And it turns out he is an outfielder for Michigan's baseball team. And I come into contact with his account as he is apologizing. Ooh. And, uh, you know, now you have to go search. Why is he apologizing?

Sure. It says, I would like to apologize for my actions on third base yesterday. I made an immature decision in the heat of the moment. And I got to tell you, too, sitting at Zayn, I am like, gotta find this. Like, I'm at, what could it be? How Kenny Powers is it?

Like, he's specifically saying on third base. I'm like, is this is nice So I went and found it Because he said the gesture I made does not reflect my character the household I was raised in bingo or the block M that I represent in any way. I take full responsibility I'm truly sorry to those who have been negatively impacted by this What could he have done, man? Did he go full Elon as soon as he got in for a base

clearing triple? Oh wow, there you go. What could it have been, Mitch Voight? Well, let's play the video and I'll let you guys react to what you see. It's very short. Oh yeah. How has someone not done this before?

He did a sniff of the white line. So he slides into third, he's already on his knees, so he's down near the chalk line. Then he mimes. And he goes snorting cocaine. Yeah, and he just rips up the first part of the three to home line and just goes up with like a crazy cocaine face.

And he's got like that college baseball white guy hair that's like kinda Patrick Bateman or Wall Streetie where he just has that like throwback look. Yeah, I thought that was like the coolest baseball celebration I've ever seen. And who's negatively impacted by that? Like, oh, my eight year old Wolverine fan that watched the game with me is already in rehab.

The internet, right? I know, it was just funny, like, that he had to come out and say something about it. How long was he planning that, too? Oh, you know him and the boys had been like, they do that all the time, yeah. That's a matter of which one of the four of them could have got to third first that day,

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I'm amusing myself. You know, I just want to say I love it. I love it. And it's hilarious, but maybe not on the day where I don't know if anything is working. OK. Soft. OK.

Soft. Soft. So an Los Angeles Crips leader and music exec named Big U was arrested by the feds yesterday. Eugene Henley Jr. was one of 18 members that were named in this complaint. They are members, Blake, of the Roland 60s C. Okay. Which you may have heard about in rap songs over the years. Big U, the leader here, largely credited with starting the career, or helping get off the ground, the career of Nipsey Hussle.

Again, Blake. Donovan, not Donovan, LeBron was discovered Nipsey Hussle. Yeah, he heard Nipsey just talking. And LeBron was like, have you tried rhyming those words? Yeah. With music. He's like, I can't rhyme.

Just try it, give it a try. Before you know it, he's dead. So here's a little bit of a sports tie in for this. You hear about stuff like this, you hear about like money laundering and embezzling and fronts. Pretty sure the electronics store I went to this morning was a front because the fact that I needed

to purchase something, the guy seemed genuinely shocked. I was like, yeah, I need this converter right here. Like the one right there. And then he took it over there and was like, very confused to the next step. I think I just pay for it. So the headline grabber here, there's a few sports figures mentioned

in this indictment against this gang operation. Big U was allegedly embezzling large donations from celebrities and NBA stars, including Draymond Green and Shaquille O'Neal into his personal bank account. So like, have you ever heard about, Dan, like, gangs that would use churches, things like that, or laundromats what I was gonna say but for laundering money. I never have. Like you get a church you funnel the

money through the church like I make it donations to the church right this is popular in rap songs like hey we got a new chapel it's tax-free you're making all this donation to the church and then the idea is that you can kind of clean the money well this guy was doing some of that. How do you get the money back though? To the individual? Yeah. I mean, one way to do it is obviously

just like a regular business, right? Like, so Nipsey Hussle would often rap about like, hey, we got to legitimize this money, get a restaurant, get a car wash, get a laundry mat. Just like Hank, or not Hank. Walter what? Walter, yeah. like Hank or not Hank Walter White Walter yeah so you you buy a restaurant with the money that you earn with the drug money yeah how old how run-the-ball

guy do I sound just explain now you're just taking profits out of the restaurant but you can which is propped up by drug money okay now we keep I'm sure that there are holes in this operation. Could we get, if we got the cartel to invest in the dumb zone, could that work the same way? And it helps everyone. They get their clean money. We get the security of a paycheck.

We're out there, Cartel. The problem is you can get squeezed a little bit. Like boxer Adrian Broner did. You've heard that name at least on promos and stuff, right Dan? Yeah. That's about all I know. We do commercials for his fights. So Adrian Broner was somehow underneath the thumb

of this gang that Big U was the leader of. And he was running, Adrian Broner was running high stakes dice games for NBA players. Apparently this is a thing. And he ripped them off. Draymond was one of these people too. They say several NBA All-Stars were involved in a high stakes dice game that Adrian Broner,

the boxer, was running. But he was using loaded dice and took them for about one and a half mil total between a few players. Well, who knew stuff like that was still going on? Loaded dice. How about this part of it, Blake? OK, go ahead. The NBA players then called Big U, the gang leader,

and were like, you got to press Adrian Broner for us and get our money back, which he did by having Adrian Broner assaulted. OK. So like, this is definitely still happening. which he did by having Adrian Broner assaulted. Okay. So, like, this is definitely still happening. How are we finding out about all this? Because this guy got arrested? Federal indictment.

18 people named. He was arrested. I don't know if they were all arrested, but the indictment dropped yesterday. You can read it on justice.gov. Rico charges him and his associates. The behavior reflects a pattern of crime that runs the gambit from extortion to tax evasion, all under the umbrella of a well organized

criminal organization led by Big U. Who would have thought Big U? Well, I mean, you know, this, there would be storylines like this on the shield, you know, where there'd be an NBA player who was in town who was doing this or that. And, you know, there's always like the speculation of like the cops are involved with the Tupac and Biggie thing

and it was at the Tyson fight. But, yeah, I mean. These high level drug dealers seem so good at business, we need to get one of them to run our business. Yeah, I do think so. They know what they're doing, man. They definitely know what they're doing, but I think the problem is-

And then people are afraid of them. You think Blake's gonna show up late if Big U is running this thing? No. Unlikely. Right now, he's like, I'll just get here whenever. It's these two pussies. But the problem with those businessmen,

like a built-in part of their plan is it's okay if we go to jail for a little while. Nah. And like, I don't want that part of the plan, you know? We can't do it without that? Yeah. That's an interesting side topic I was gonna talk to you guys about though,

watching White Lotus. I think this becomes apparent in episode one, so I don't think it's a huge spoiler, but the dad is in finance and he's very wealthy. And he works for a firm and trades stocks and stuff. And he apparently got a little less scrupulous than he should have on some deals, and now he's in some real legal hot water.

And at one point his attorney tells him like, I think you'll do less than a year and it's white collar prison. Now, the last thing I want is for you guys to think that I'm tough because I was at a hunting lodge and rehab for a month. But I honestly think if you told me like, hey, you gotta do eight months in white collar prison,

it would suck, but I'm not blowing my brains out over that. Oh, for sure. Real jail, maybe. Yeah. But like the guy turns it up to 11 of like, what am I gonna do? My life is over, my family's gonna, it's like, dude, you're in finance.

First of all, your kids are probably gonna think it's cool. Yeah. Like, oh, my dad's a little bit of a huckster here. He's going away for eight months. But this guy's acting as if he's facing the cartel. Yeah, you get to eat lobster with your buddies, right? Just like in Goodfellas, blow me up. I'll blow you up for that across the state.

There you go. I've seen it. I mean, even if it's not like that, even if it just sucks for eight months, it can't be that different from rehab. Like where you're not in danger, but you just can't do what you want to do. And I feel like if I got hit with that for eight months, I'm coming back to the show. The whole thing about prison is... Yeah, take the, uh, take the mail rape out out of it and I don't think it's something I can't handle. I don't want to get beat up either. I'd rather not yeah

take yes take all that take the the interpersonal relations out of it yeah with other inmates but if it was just like because it's pretty bad to totally be locked away just try just try sitting in the room right now without internet or doing anything for the next 10 hours. Just see how that is for you. That sucks. Yeah. And freedom to do what you want and eat what you want

and go to three different restaurants and one night and whatever. So that's really, really bad. Like all of that is just terrible. And that's the whole thing, what it's supposed to be. But then they kind of also add in the physical danger and sexual assault. Feels like that really puts it over the top

to where I would consider suicide if faced with a extended amount of time in a real prison. Agreed. And I don't think I'll ever waver on that front, despite the fact that TikTok is definitely giving prison a glow up. Because I see these dudes, you know, decent TVs, better than this one right here. Yeah, they're playing 2K, smoking cigars, and that one guy got to nail the prison guard chick. I was going to say, I saw another video where a couple of guys were just having fun

with one of the coworkers there. And she was into it. So doesn't seem all bad. Three hots in a cot. Get to work out. Three hots in a cot, yeah. Chill with your bros. No, I just think Blake's takeaway is the right one.

How is this just still happening? Like, Draymond Green makes 30 million, 40 million a year, and he's like, I need to go play dice for 500 grand, get ripped off, and have to call a guy who's going to jail to get my money back. I just thought, loaded dice, like that's just something that's never comprehended with me. That just feels fake.

How do you do that? He's just wait, right? Okay, but yeah. It just didn't seem real. It does seem like something from the 40s. Yeah, or in a movie or something. Yeah. Some guy named Bugsy is probably involved.

Yeah. Ha! Bugsy. It's always a good time for a nice animal cruelty story. This story comes to us from Weatherford. There was a 23 year old man there who pled guilty earlier this week to 12 animal cruelty charges. And here's the worst part. He was working at an animal shelter. He was torturing Oh, gosh. Ha ha ha ha ha.

He was torturing kittens, Dan. Kittens? And he now faces 40 years behind bars in combined sentences. But he worked at the animal shelter. I feel like they tried to do him dirty. The kittens did? If you say a guy is assaulting cats, that's one thing. But I feel like they were trying to tug at your heartstrings

and saying that he was assaulting kittens. Right. Cats are little a-holes. Right. Kittens, though? Not kittens. For sure. Not a kitten.

It's the same as the Simba cam. Like, when they put this, if you put it like a full cat up there, you're like, what'd he do? Yeah. Hold up a nine-year-old on Simba cam, and everyone's like, I don't believe it. I don't like that. But I guess if, like, to you, Blake,

you're saying that if it's an adult kitten, then he can do things like stomping on their heads and their necks in cages, kick them, throw them across the room, and the throwing in the trash can. You're saying that's okay. What's the age cutoff? You said that's okay? I mean, when they grow up,

they've experienced some life and it's not as sad, but when they're a cute little kitten that's done nothing wrong, they're just innocent. Okay. That's an evasive answer. Yeah, I can't put a time on it. It's just, it depends on the cat. Yeah, you know, we've always had the suspicion of any violence towards an animal, like portents, serial killing.

But how would we find that out? You don't hear about all the kids who just are good American boys who love torturing a cat who go to work at GM every day for the next 40 years and don't hide anybody in their basement. Yeah, not everything escalates, right? I mean, certainly if you do heroin, you might have started with a marijuana cigarette. But not everybody who tries pot ends up doing heroin. So it's not necessarily a gateway. Are there people out there who just do a little light torturing of kittens? And it never goes beyond that.

They never get it up to a human level. Also, I'm telling you this because my kid is hitting the cat. And I'm trying to tell yourself she's definitely not a or he's not a serial killer. When you know in your heart. We're trying to thread the needle of like, it's OK to mess with dad. Like, can't hit kids at school but then you and dad can wrestle. So he'll like mess around with me and it's like it's fine and then he'll go hit mom and he'll walk over and hit my wife. She's like no, only dad. And then he's like hit sissy. I'm like no. And then he inches over towards the cat, raises his hand up, and he's like, hit cat?

I'm like, uh-uh. No. And he does. A little slap. Boy, this guy got 40 years. I feel like he's got it. They added up all the choice. It's like 15 charges.

You get two and a half each. I don't know. You're cooked. Well, his mug shot, he looks creepy. Jake, I feel like you have a missed opportunity on your hands right now. As a parent, this is your lane. You are Fight Night King. So you get a punching bag and you show your kid.

Oh that's gonna happen. I've got a punching bag. He will be... So when he's trying to hit the cat, just redirect. He'll be well aware. Yeah, he'll be well aware. Alright, there's your news. Shout out to Draymond. The Dumb Zone News!

Like and subscribe! Bum bum bum. Um... Do like and subscribe. Bop bop bop. Um. Hey Claire, you remember that one time the Frankles got me that huge car accident settlement? Oh Cornelius Falcon, how could I forget? Yeah, that was super dope. Was that a fart? Please stop talking.

Frankle and Frankle. Anybody here know the phone number to call Frankel and Frankel? I'm looking at you, Taryn. Me? 214 or 817, and then what? 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 you're gonna talk to a partner, not some spare, like Blake's not gonna answer the phone. You're gonna talk to somebody important at Frankel and Frankel, their personal injury lawyers. When they answer, be like, howdy, partner. And see if that gets them going.

I'll tell you what, never do I think about the Frankels more than whenever I'm driving on 45 South. Oh yeah? Yeah, dude. There's some nastiness out there? There is some nastiness. And as we mentioned before, the 18 wheelers, just feel like they're kinda getting

a little loosey goosey out there. If you find yourself in a situation where you're injured, then call the Frankels right away. Make sure you're okay. Then call the Frankels. And if you in fact deserve money, that's the sound you're gonna hear folks that's a cash register for those who don't know paper money people used to pay for things with an actual physical piece of anyway they'll

they'll they'll put a lot of zeros in your bank account they're gonna fight for you at Frankle and Frankkel now what are we doing oh yeah are you guys hearing it yeah dude that was crazy thanks bro I'm just trying to make you laugh I miss you guys I don't think you do I think I'm just trying to make you laugh. I miss you guys. I don't think you do. I think you're happy that you have a beach. Oh, I forgot. We have some viewer mail birthdays I should start with. This one is belated. I missed this the other day. Dear Sultan of Slit, I'd like to wish myself a happy 41st birthday on Sunday.

Claim to fame, I saw Jake at Esparza's once. Solid. Congrats. It's a good outdoor spot. I went to college with TC. My heroes are Dan's cashier crush at Central Market and Jake's adherence to the law when it comes to parking. More Severance Saroy, Danny Bayless, and Jake's secrets from the stall bathroom recordings. Shout out to my hot wife Casey from Chase Violet. We have... Hi Dan. of Hydan. Like to wish my brother Brenton Hill

his dirty, dirty, derk swish birthday. Forty-four, uh, forty-one. The S that makes him mad is people eating peanut butter as a source of protein. His hero is Jake's lunch tray. He just finished being hard for 75 days. Stay Hard Brent from Jared Hill. Can I ask a couple follow ups?

Like what was all of that? What does he have against peanut butter? I'm just reading stuff. I mean I'm with him on that. No, no, no, I know. I'm not mad at you, Tim McMahon. But, hard for seven, is that like a workout plan? Or is he literally saying he's making a joke about a boner? I wish we knew.

And then peanut butter, yeah, I don't like peanut butter, but I don't have any problem with people eating his protein, right? The 75 Hard Challenge is designed to push you to improve in the areas of physical fitness, emotional resilience, and mental insight. See, I thought I'd seen that on my Twitter account. Yeah.

All the right-wingers are pushing me how to be ripped, have ladies want me. He was probably waking up at five and thinking he had three days to year one, something like that try it You know I Hate to ever admit that I was slightly wrong about something, but I love getting up early you get a lot done man You do get a lot done. I mean I used to get a fair amount done late

But feels like it does feel kind of good if you get a bunch of stuff done and it's like noon. Like, oh man, now I can do nothing. I feel good about it. Yeah, I just feel like your brain works so much better in the morning. Maybe that's more just me, but I know at night I'm like, oh yeah, simple math is a problem. Dear Clitoral Explorer,

we wanna wish a happy Ryan Brokaw birthday to friend, mechanic, good dude, day 3 DF and co-founding member of the Mesquite chapter of the Beehive, Brad Business Time Palmer. That's awesome. A lot of bits here. Leaders are Vaj Radio, Lapdog Dan, and California Sober Jake. Bleeder is Donny Dew, and Bleeder, Busty Beth. More Blake, just the right amount of Sarah Heppela, aw skeet skeet. Let's see.

He also has a gay not gay for your consideration. His favorite car is a convertible Mazda Miata. Oh. Don't you have that Mazda? I did. With 250,000 miles on it? Yeah. So my grandma, boys, my grandma won a red Mazda Miata,

or whatever, what is it called? Miata. Miata, convertible from KVIL back in the day. That's awesome, that is cool. And it was like my dream to get that car passed down, like that I thought I would be livin' if I got that. It didn't happen. That's sad, who'd she give it to instead?

Her favorite granddaughter? A loser way younger that kind of moved in and set up camp. Yeah. So to the emailer. After my grandpa died if we want to get into it. Let's keep it moving. Craig's Sager situation. She was a trucker though. And she's 86 so I could get some info on what trucking was like back in the day. Oh, okay. Crack Sager situation. Keep it moving. She was a trucker though, if you, and she's 86, so I could get some info on what trucking was like back in the day. Yeah, what's the opposite of a lot lizard? Like what are the dudes called

who just hang out and pipe the female truckers? Well, my grandpa was a trucker too, so. Okay. They like had separate routes and stuff. And she was from Germany and very European. So they had separate routes and stuff. And she was from Germany and very European. So who knows what the arrangement was. Boy, think of that.

Like you're on two separate routes and you stop in Mobile for a couple hours. I'm gonna knock the bottom out of that thing in Topeka. That'd be great. No, so to the email or to the question of, is it gay or not, I don't know. You tell me it was a 16-year-old girl's dream car. Hello from Houston Sportsphere.

My name is Preston Day 5 Subbie. March 20 is my 35th birthday. My leader is Jake's 911 Buzzball. I met you guys in Norman, Oklahoma years ago when you did a remote there. I Walked up to get a picture with you Bob and Donnie during a break But Jake thought I wanted a picture with him. Oh, he asked oh you want a picture with me? And he started to stand up and I said no Just Bob Dan and Donnie he sat back down looking really sad.

I still feel bad about that. Tell him I'm sorry and please don't let this story of past rejection send him down a dark path to relapsing. Oh, that's where it all started. From Preston Young. Started on the Pro Bowl. No, I don't recall that, but it's tracks. I mean, is this about me?

Yeah, come on. I'll do it. Make it fast. Probably want to phone in with the young guy, right? No, but you know what I remember about that show is that we had Brian Bosworth on and we couldn't get him in person. So he was on the phone and it was like 2.30 on a Thursday

or Friday afternoon and they were piping the show into the bar and Brian Bosworth started crying. and it was super awkward because it was like a party like hey and they had turned the music down and turn on the show and he just started weeping it was really weird man I think steroids make you emotional hello vagina enjoyer please wish DF Billy a happy 35th birthday wishing you rad beats instead of bad beats from Brian and we have salutations senator squirt thirst er today is my good friend I'm just reading for Can you not edit these for the women that listen? Or maybe I'm just the only one.

Hey, can I defend men here real quick too? I'm just reading. Like it does paint a picture of all guys that just. OK, hold on. Clearly it's just jokes. But I'm not going to have the male species or half of the species in general just be tagged with liking, quote, squirting

that's disgusting no one's saying like that's awesome I'm with Taryn though this is all disgusting stop saying I mean it's disgusting I didn't say it's all disgusting this is the worst thing ever I'm not saying it's all disgusting to be into it and tell people about it whatever your body does is beautiful people are making me read these things, and I don't appreciate it. I mean, but the people... Your narratives.

The people are... I wouldn't be surprised if you have a bank of these names that you've been coming up with over the last how many years. Do you know somebody made us a picture with all of these names? Okay, let me get, Kim needs to read these. No, I don't. Yeah, she does.

Because this is what, okay, I want to just be upfront and honest. General manager of the great bulls. I love you guys. I love your content. But I'm like so embarrassed sometimes to share your stuff. And like, this is my dear friend Kim. And I probably spent, how many times have I warned you about this show?

It's all good. And I know, I know it's all good, but I was like. I think Kim's fired up right now. She's honored to be in the presence of Uncle Tater Twat. I think that little honored to be in the presence of Uncle Tater Twat. I think that little part where she said, I gotta warn people about your show, there's our open. Oh yeah. Okay.

That's the open for, we're always looking for a place to put as the open of the show. Oh, I hadn't heard. Sorry Blake, I think whatever you would have picked would have been fine, but I suppose that's been somewhat taken off. Uncle Hot Gash gets to make all the decisions. Ha ha ha ha.

Blake, Blake was looking for, where did I say something that was entertaining? Oh, I've already got it marked here. Where was I? Oh, March 20th, my good friend Charlie's Bill Masterton on the star's birthday before his tragic on ice death birthday. Dang. Charlie's leaders are Grease the Crease Friday, the insurmountable expectations that Hawk to a Girl will face on every date going forward,

and Five Minute Strangers' debut album Meet Me in Mexico. This is from your New Hampshire D.F., Alex Posani. Now, we have some Today in History. Today, Thursday, March 20th. Are you offended, Kim? No. Are you appalled by being here? No.

Are you upset that Taryn has brought you here? No. And is it only because we're going to promote the Meg Matters that you're not offended? Maybe. Okay. And she's honest and that's what I love about her. Yeah. I'm seriously gonna get like all the feedback on audio on the way home. Will you roll on it? Yeah, voice memo all the time. You don't tell them. I think that's not OK. Like your bathroom bit, no, that's not all right.

You can't record audio in the bathroom. All right, mom. Next thing she's going to be telling you, you can install a camera in there. Now, Jake, don't call me your mom. Like all of a sudden, you can't put a camera in there either? Jake, don't call me your mom. Like all of a sudden you can't put a camera in there either? I mean, I don't mean it from like a demeaning age thing? You know, I'm not going to lie, your toilet

was doing some weird stuff. It's not my toilet. The old toilet, not the new toilet. I mean, better check and make sure there's nothing back there. Yeah, no, I don't mean it like as an age demeaning thing, but I do feel like Taryn's always been our team mom. And what that means is like your mom, well, just cause your mom is kind of like,

when you're acting up, your mom is like, God, they're disgusting. But if somebody else would be like so disgusting. She still loves you, but she wishes you were way different. Yeah, but if somebody else pointed it out, she'd be like, that's mine. You don't talk about how gross they are, I do. I mean, she brought us sandwiches today.

I did the best sandwiches. Only the best. 7-Eleven, chicken salad, egg salad, tuna salad. Get them. On this day in 1969, John Lennon marries Yoko Ono. He was 28. You'll probably never beat her. He ended up beating her.

He was 28. She was 36. I don't know if he beat her. He definitely beat his first wife, oh my bad yeah you're right that's true in 1984 on this day bum bright purchased the Dallas Cowboys from Clint Murchison bum bright his name is bum bright yeah that was really funny listening to that business guy do a Bum Bright. His name is Bum. Bright. Yeah. Yeah, it was really funny listening to that business guy do a podcast on Jerry.

And he's not from Texas. He's not a sports fan. And he was just like, you're not going to get a load of the names of some of these people. His name is Bum Bright. You know, the Cowboys are like, yeah, Texas, bro. On this day in 1996, a jury convicted Eric and Lyle Menendez a first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their wealthy parents. There was a little

groundswell of hey maybe they didn't do it because of a Netflix thing and then that feels like that's died down. Yeah I think there was also I think it was a political thing like there was maybe a DA that was running that had a lot of support of the celebrities that was trying to use that as a springboard to office, but then the whole place caught on fire. What's up with politics these days, guys? Chill out on that. And on this day in 2020, Tom Brady signs with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You know what, it's funny people forget they signed him on the strength of

him being able to throw a ball into a jugs machine. And that would start a trend of the Buccaneers just always having the best quarterback in the NFL. Started with Tom Brady continues on today to this day. Elsewhere in birthdays, Pat Riley 80, Mookie Blaylock 58, Bobby Orr 77. Mike Francesa, 71. That's from Mike and Amanda. Bobby Orr is not the super racist one, right? Bobby Hall, maybe. The Hall Father.

Yeah. Although, he is a 77 year old who had his Hall of Fame career in Boston. I'm saying, to be notable enough to be known even from that era. You're doing something Spike Lee is 68 Vanessa Belle Calloway is 68. She is the princess in coming to America a Movie that Jake hated It's not good Holly Holly Hunter is 67. She's Ed from Raising Arizona.

Oh. Probably her best role. She's been to some other stuff too, right? Oh yeah, a lot of films. Oh, obviously, but something else I'd know her from, let's see. The Firm. The Firm's a good movie.

Will Tom Cruise. Oh Crash. Yeah. Kathy Ireland is 62. I think she played a... She was a Sports Illustrated model, but she played a kicker in a movie, right? Necessary Roughness. A lady kicker. About North Texas State. Featuring Scott Baio and of course, Sinbad.

Oh, wasn't Big Strong Jare in that? Like Extra? You ever hear that? Yes, but I can't remember if it was for any given Sunday or Necessary Roughness. Is it still Big Strong in front of Jillian? Should be. Can we get her in studio? Pop on Jill.

I bet you do it. Michael Rapaport at 55. That's a wild ride. No boy is it. Mikey Day is 45 from SNL. Grown on me. Cedric Yarborough is 52 from Reno 911. Paul.

Can I tell you? Go ahead. Can I tell you what's not growing on me is I'm trying to watch SNL every week now, like a couple of days later or a couple of sketches at a time. This Mike Myers, Elon thing is D.O.A, brother. Not good. And you know what he did last week? He was like, Tesla Stuxworth $1 billion. I was like, dude, come on,

we're not doing the cross universe thing, are we? I love it. Paul Wahlberg, 60. He is the third brother. The Jewish people's champ. He's the third brother on the reality TV show The Wahlbergers. They opened a restaurant. I can't believe you gave me nothing for that, Blake.

Yeah, you beat me to it. I was a little jealous. Okay. Paul Wahlberg? Yeah. And today's feature birthday for Jake. Maybe. 19 years old today. Baron Trump. Oh!

Wow. Wow, the scion, the future. I can't wait. Say nice things so your future king knows that. Dude, he's going to be stuffing X-Ash 12 Archangel into a trash can. Come on, bro. Look at me.

Honestly, it's a huge upset that he's not playing today for a 15 seat. Just some super rich private school school but he's 6'9 and he's just like I got a little bit of a face up upset run for high point or whatever the college is born on this day now dead David Warren he invented the black box on airplanes like before they were all white like toilets. Yeah. Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers, and Chester Bennington from Lincoln Park.

Ooh. All born on this day now dead. Dead on this day still dead. Joseph Aspin invented cement. Thanks. Yeah. We'd be driving on sand. On sand and.

Speaking of cement. Parking garages would be made of dirt. You know how like none of us really know how anything is made or how anything works? I got hit with one today about the pyramids in Egypt from Nora. Oh great. And she was like, they're made of sand, right?

I'm like, I think, yeah, somehow. They wasn't just like, packed of sand. Boy, I would have loved to hear this conversation. I was like, they wasn't, yeah, I think they made rocks out of sand though. They packed that shit super tight in there. And she's like, no, I mean, if it's made of sand, it's made of sand. And I was like, yeah, I guess it is. And she's like no, I mean if it's made of sand it's made of sand

And I was like, yeah, I guess it is and she's like why did it blow over? I was like, I don't even have the first clue. This is why they say Aliens did it. Well, plus it's actually they're made of like each rock is like a ton, right? Yeah, what I was trying to get at is like they took sand and made it into rock but she was like it's made of sand why is it not blowing over and I didn't have a great answer like usual. Yeah no I would like to hear that one. There's so many other now. Cause your daughter won't give up either she wants to know she wants to get to the end and it has to actually make logical sense. And that's where the problem is. When you're trying to come up with, my kids,

you could have lied about everything. And then. She doesn't buy it. No, your daughter will not buy it. Well, why? Like, look, I don't know. I started drinking because of you! Look at the timelines! Oh anyway, died on this day in 1899. Martha Place, she was really a hero for you two and for my daughters as well. I thought I would

every year on this day me and my daughters would have a special cupcake celebration. Martha Place was the first woman executed in an electric chair. So, women can do anything. What did she do to get that sentence? Was it kittens? She was just testing it. Was it kittens or cats? She was torturing. I bet it was kid related.

What was her name? Martha Place. She probably just flashed a little too much leg in public or something. Did she try to get a credit card? Got on an elevator with a black guy? No, actually they would have fried him for that. She tried to get a credit card.

Yeah, she tried to get a credit card. Or yeah, she went to vote. She went too early. They found her voting. Get your stuff out of here. Joe Zangara, he was also electrocuted but it was for trying to kill FDR. Big John Studd, who it says here wrestler tie, and died on this day in 2020 Kenny Rogers, who did Coward of the County. And that was Today in History. Damn.

And the Gambler, and threw a perfect game. What's Dan? What did Martha Place do? So, she went to work as a housekeeper for a guy named William Place, and they eventually got married a year later. He had a daughter from a previous marriage and she tried to kill him with an ax, but he escaped. So she didn't even finish the job.

Typical. Yeah. And no reason as to why the Axe was involved. Like, what was he doing? It doesn't say, but I mean, he was probably just being a cool guy. Probably, yeah. She just all of a sudden picked up an Axe and was like.

He was co-parenting, you know, he was listening to her. They were praying together, meditating, and. Yeah, I'm sure in 1899 men treated their wives great. He was just respecting her too much. Yeah, he was helping around the house too much and she got mad at that. Yeah. Cause you know how women will get.

Leave those dishes alone. Right. They're mine. My wife is always yelling at me, stop. Wait, don't touch that vacuum cleaner, I'm gonna do it. Anyway. Wait, take your hand off that thing, I'll take over. Anyway.

Or whatever. So Taryn, our good friend from way back, and Kim, our new associate, I won't call her a friend. In fact, I think after today, she'll wanna have very little to do with us. Except that the fact that we are promoting their great charity, Meg Matters. Right?

Yes, yeah. In fact, we are really supporting you. Yeah, would you like to tell your listenership what you're doing? Go ahead, I just know we bought a title sponsorship. Yes, you did. To your walk, run, crawl? Community walk.

Okay. Yeah, because the dumb zone's all about getting the steps in, right? That's right. Yeah, and so what better place for the dumb zoners to come to just think about some mental wellness. Jake's been, I think, taking people down a journey. Y'all's listeners have been hearing a lot about mental wellness through,

you know, lots of different ways. And so we at Meg Matters, I'm gonna kind of reset. I'm gonna try and be professional here and reset to when y'all did a remote out at station 222. That's when y'all first gave remote out at station 222. That's when y'all first Gave me kind of a platform to share some mental health resources to your listenership and so the people at station 222 actually told me that if anybody calls in and wants to have an event there we have an over-and-under and

and wants to have an event there. We have an over and under and if I win I get to get another remote at station 222 and invite as many people out from Denton or wherever Dumb Zone family to come out and party. So I'm hoping that if anybody wants to do an event or anything in Denton to reach out to station 222 and maybe we'll get a little cut back for our nonprofit and then some fun times with the dumb zone. So they will not allow you to have us out there for remote again unless a certain number of people call or do they have to actually book the place? So they will allow a lot of things and I just pitched it as a fun. Oh okay, all right. We're doing, we're just... We're doing bits. Yeah. So just call in and say the dumb zone sent you and you'll get a discount if you book and yeah.

Okay, yeah. It is a very cool place. Yeah. But when I was on the last time, I was able to share a little bit about our organization, but I just wanna, for new listeners that maybe didn't hear that episode, tell you a little bit about Meg Matters. So Kim here, my good friend, we have known each other for a long time. I actually met going to a bunko party.

Yes. I was like in the back of her minivan and she was taking me out to Jamie's house, who's a supporter of our organization. And I got to learn a lot about her. She was an advocate for bringing families together and helping kids get placed into homes through adoption. And so that's kind of how I first met Kim and kind of learned about her heart. And we've been close friends ever since. And in, I'm gonna try not to get emotional. In 2021,

I had been experiencing my own mental health challenges, and Megan, Kim's daughter, lost her battle with mental illness in June of 2021. And so I was kind of at a really raw, completely broken place. And I could, I think, identify that in others. And so even though we were close friends and we saw each other all the time and very surface social, we would be in places that we were normally in

and I could just tell like when things were landing and hurting her and she wasn't able to vocalize it and because she was in a rough spot. So together we kind of walked a path of what is life when you're in a really dark place and how do you kind of crawl out of it when you don't feel comfortable sharing your dark places? And Megan, who I want to be educational right now just for your listenership, anytime suicide's involved, it's a tough topic to talk about.

So you can kind of ease it a little bit if you say died by suicide instead of committed or killed or all the things. So just so that you all know that, Megan died by suicide in June of 2021. And about same time, well probably about March of 2022 when we were kind of coming up on our trauma timestamps. Jake might be able to talk to this, but you know he's got 9-11 and he can remember 9-11 and make a joke out of it. And that's what I love about the

dumb zone is you can kind of joke about hard things and cope that way. But that moment in our lives, we were like, we just need to get the heck out of Dodge. We don't want to be around our normal every day because that brings up trauma. And so we went on a girls trip and just talked about like what we could do to change things Because really like all we wanted was to just save one kid and So through that Meg matters was born And We've been working really hard in our school district because that's where we have connections and relationships.

And we just started a conversation. We really didn't know what we were gonna do. We didn't know, have any plan. We were just like, okay, let's try and do something. And so our nonprofit last year, well, we got our 501c3, yay, in 2023. The IRS is scary. Like real scary. I hear you. And so, and I, I could talk for hours about it, but anyway. So we got that. And then so we were like, okay, because it's weird, you could fundraise.

How was it explained to me? You can fundraise, but, and they'll backdate your 501C3 to when you filed. But you don't get it approved until like later. So I'm like, I don't know. Like, I don't think I can go ask for money unless I have like a visual document. And they're like, no, no, no, it's okay.

It'll be backdated. And I'm like, I don't know. So we started in 2023 with our official, they backdated it to 2023. So in 2024, we did our scholarships for our crumb seniors. So you didn't have to have a GPA requirement. It was whoever wanted to apply. We were going to offer $2,000 to the essay winners or the scholarship winners.

And through that process, we provided five prompts about mental wellness basically and like things like who taught you how to be kind and you know just just different things like that and we had 17 students apply and that was like a whole therapeutic process for us because we wrote you know read all those essays and like it just further like committed us to what we were doing because these kids have been through so much and they're still able to apply for college. You're like, how are you?

They're vulnerable. They're vulnerable, but I mean, the process of doing all these things and writing out their trauma, and seeing the silver linings and having the resilience and it just blew us away. Like we, we, it made us just more dedicated to what we're doing. So after that process, our superintendent, awesome guy, I'm sure he would love to be on if you wanted him to. Jason Cochran.

He has been working with us, you know, over the last, well, since 2022 when we talked to him. And he's like, OK, we don't know we're fun. We think we can get a grant, but we're going to hire a social worker. So that was like his charge, is like, we're going to get a social worker in. So we have been working with them and trying you know to get

everything set up and programs we've got suicide prevention programs in place, peer support, groups for kids, we've got community wellness activities that we do, community outreach where we invite the parents, we have a professional therapist there, they do presentations for whatever the needs are. So after we kind of started walking down this path, like people just kept coming to us of like in expressing needs and so now we're just like okay let's let's get everything done. What can we do? So we did our first fundraiser was called Crumb Fundays, which is run by Stephanie Thompson,

who is a volunteer that works with us in our organization. And that was our first like community outreach event. And there was one guy that like absolutely just crushed us. He came up to our booth and our kids were there playing games with the kids and telling everybody about our organization. And if they wanted to know more, they would come to me or Kim and he was a grown adult man, right? You're not expecting tears because I've only seen men cry like it.

Remember the Titans, you know, like just somebody talking to you just in conversation, they don't typically cry and, and he was breaking down. And he was an ER doctor. And he said he was so happy that we were doing this work because kids are brought to him in crisis because parents don't know where to go. And he is a doctor in the ER to fix bodies. And so when it's someone that has their mind that needs help, there's not much he can

do at that point. And how crucial it is to be proactive and be getting resources out and having these conversations and making safe spaces so people can talk so that you're not in crisis mode and have to do something that is going to be something that's really hard to overcome. So that was our Crumb Fundays experience and so from there there we were like, well, let's do a fundraiser. Well, what do we do? You know? And so we came up with The Walk. And it's, I would love for anybody that's interested in knowing about our organization and what it looks like actually out in the wild, like what connection and community and caring look like to show up at our crumb

community walk April 26. It's a nighttime from 6 to 9. It's totally free. You can register. I'll get Blake all the information to put in the show notes and send out and share on the socials but you can register and if you do by April 1st, you can get a t-shirt if you donate $25 and the t-shirt will have Dumb Zones logo on the back because y'all are a proud supporter and sponsor and we really appreciate that sponsorship. Like it's so huge. Our organization is 100% volunteer run. Like no one's getting paid.

Everybody that has come into our world that has wanted to help is just doing this as a side gig. And every day, we're just so appreciative of everybody. So yeah, so that's why I'm here. And I hope that anybody that wants to know anything about us can go on the website, send us an email. If you're in school districts, like if you work in a school district or if you're a parent in a school district and you're not really sure what programs are available for kids that are having mental health needs that are going unaddressed, send us an email.

We would love to kind of see how we can help out everywhere. So, or if you're a CPA or what is it that we need? Someone to do it's like we've asked people to help us with taxes and it's like a thousand, someone's quoted that already does taxes, a thousand dollars. And it's like when you're volunteering, you volunteering all of your time, you want that thousand dollars to go to activities for your kids and you know to help the community. So it's hard to say, okay, we'll do my tax, I'll pay for that. So anyway, if anybody wants to help

out, we would love that. And yeah, I'm sorry. What's a contact then? The contact. Like you just say we love that so I could just see somebody out there going yeah well who do I what do I do? Okay so Blake's gonna put our website and then on the show notes and we're gonna have the flyer that I'm gonna give Blake. He's gonna send that out through socials. But somebody who wants to help. Somebody who wants to help. Let's say there's a CPA or somebody out there like,

hey, I wanna help out. Yes, send an email to Meg Matters. Megmatters at gmail.tx at gmail.com or our website, megmatters tx.org. Okay, that's what I wanna know. Sorry. No, no, no. And so besides buying a sponsorship

or paying for a sponsorship to be on the t-shirt and stuff, and I know that's how you guys can make money. Yeah. Other people can just donate money if they go to that website. Yeah, for sure. There's a place to click. There is a place to click.

Just come to our walk. Yeah, we really just want people to come. We're providing so many resources. All right. Just for their own mental wellness. Yeah, something that we're really proud of is we're gonna have special designated people there, like with green shirts on, you can clearly

identify that are professionals if you needed to talk to somebody. It's going to be a fun event. It's not going to be sad. We are going to be remembering and honoring people. We really believe, because we know Megan and she's a creator. I don't know if you can see but our logo on my sweatshirt is actually her artwork. Like she drew this butterfly. She is amazing and she's

musical. What did she play in band? Trumpet. Yeah, she's a trumpet player. She's just, she was a light and continues to be a light and so we're trying to just recognize that a lot of the kids that struggle are just really, really empathetic souls that feel the weight of what they're experiencing around them. And the scary thing is we don't know what they're experiencing around them. We don't know what's going on at home. And it can be as simple as like parents just got divorced and they don't know how to handle the change that is coming their way. And so, you know, it's just we're just trying to be aware of the needs and address it.

So thank you for providing funds to support us and we really would love everybody to come out to the walk and just have fun with us. It's from six to nine, it's a glow walk, there's gonna be food trucks and it's all free. All the donation, all the money donated will go to our cause. We're gonna have the band and the choir, a lot of groups from the high school out running these booths for kids to do activities. We're gonna have a luminary garden where you can go and kind of have a serene experience just remembering and in your feels if you want. So there will be something for everybody. You're good people. What's that like?

Being a good person. Seems like a lot of work. Yeah. Like I was gonna talk about, I was gonna go, but then you said you didn't pay, you didn't want to pay the appearance fee, so I didn't know if, no. We encourage you. So it's April 26th? We said y'all could come broadcast if you wanted to. Okay. Well, April 26th, right? April 26th, 6 to 9. Yep. And- Is that a Saturday?

It's a Saturday night. Okay. And I got everybody some gifts. Oh, all right. It's time for my awesome sister-in-law, Tiffany. So she's my sister-in-law. Hold on, hold on. Yeah, we're not doing that.

This is a new bit. We're not doing that. Do people do that? What's this one, Taryn? What do you mean? What's this one? What do people mean when they say, like if I heard someone say my bonus daughter,

is that just stepdaughter but not like shitty? I don't know, I have never heard. I've heard it twice in the last month, somebody was like, oh, his bonus daughter lives over there. It's your kid's friend that's always there with you. You kind of have adopted them. Oh, no. It's just your bonus kid.

I have some of them. Kim. It's a new thing, it's your bonus kid. I'm the kind of mom that doesn't have any bonus kids. I can only handle my own. Well, my mom definitely did. I mean, we were like the neighborhood house. But if my mom was like, Drew, my bonus boy.

OK, at least now I know. Nope. Now I know. That's what it is. OK. Sorry, sister-in-law. Oh, yeah, Tiffany. She's my sister-in-law.

But we say sister-in-law jokingly, because who wants to just be like, oh, my sister-in-law? but we say sister-in-love jokingly because you know who wants to just be like oh my sister-in-law that that gives like a negative connotation I don't know why but it does so we say sister because the law sucks the law does suck it's true but it's great to have new family members so anyway she is my bit Queen like anytime I'm like I need a shirt can you help me with this shirt and just don't ask questions?

She's like, sure. So anyway, everybody got a shirt. So I want y'all to look at your shirts. Jake got one? Yeah. What do you got for Jake? I'm gonna wait. That's the ender?

Yeah, that's the ender. Mine says Air Force One. Elon tried to buy it. We said no. That's the comedy network, of course, that I was working on. That's fantastic. Many years ago. Mine's very nice. It's a quote from Jake that says,

Blake is damn good at play by play. OK, Jake Kemp. Which Blake never remembers I said that, so now he's got a shirt for it. Well, do you know who remembered that you said that? Your sister in love. Chat GPT did. Oh really? Yeah. Creepy. That is creepy. What do you got back there Clayton? Is it funny? I was unsure about this one if anybody would get it. Utah, give me two. I mean 20 seconds of audio for the open.

Nice. What does it say? Utah, give me two. OK, always good. Then dot, dot, dot, I mean 20 seconds of audio for the open. OK, I like it. OK, and this is my favorite. Dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot Kim, you a Dr. Pimple Popper fan? Ew, gross no. No, okay. Are you?

Well, a little bit of a guilty pleasure, you know? I mean, it's kind of like a, well, let me ask you this, Kim. Do you like, if you ever, I don't know your marital status, but dating marriage, do you like popping a guy's pimples? I used to. I did used to enjoy that, so I will say yes. Now I find it gross. There's at least a seed of it.

I understand. Yeah, yeah, there's something kinda therapeutic about it. What changed that you find it gross now? I got old. Yeah. He got old or you got old? Both got old. Yeah, that'll do it.

I still enjoy it. Well, thank you, Taryn. Yeah, yeah. Oh, and I did have some HSOs. Am I allowed or have I gone over? I know- You've gone way over, but go ahead. You can do whatever you want.

Blake's in charge. What time do you wanna get out of here? I'm, you got seven minutes. How about that? Okay, good. You can do whatever you want. Okay, can I pitch a segment idea? Yes, you can do that.

Even though I'm not a DZ VIP? You're fine. Okay. So being the team mom, I guess, or dumb zone mom, my kids are in high school, my older two, and my son is in basketball, and hearing Blake do play-by-play I seriously was like how can I get Blake to crumb? How can I steal Blake from Argyle? Argyle has everything.

Hey Taryn, you have a little bit of charity money that if you're smart with. I'm just kidding. So anyway, yeah. So I don't know, I watch basketball because my son plays basketball and fouls, I don't really know. I just kind of follow what the crowd is like yelling, you know, I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, they think it's a foul. It's a foul, you know?

But like in his last game, we lost to Kennedale by two points. They ended up playing and winning states. So we lost to the state champs, but it was heartbreaking. But there was like goal tending calls missed apparently. And I'm like, goal tending? Like what is freaking goal tending? Like I don't even know. No one knows, yeah. So do you know what goal tending? Like, what is freaking goal tending? Like, I don't even know.

No one knows, yeah. So do you know what goal tending is? At the high school level. Are you asking us to do a segment where you explain the rules of sports? Well, because I really don't understand, if there's goal tending, this rule that is so hard to call, like how that can affect, it's a two point game

and we have maybe three, four goaltending calls that we're missing. That's a lot. Right? Yeah, feels like it was. The ref, so my son. They had it in for Chrome, that's clear. So my son grew up worshiping Luca, right?

So when he thinks maybe something's amiss, he'll ask. And I think that's okay to ask. Like he's not being obnoxious. Yeah, he was probably super chill about it. Yeah. I always was. And they're giving him a technical fix. If you don't mind me, sir.

And so is Luca. When Luca talks to the ref, it's very kind. If you don't mind me, just a question from the little boy over here who's innocent as could be. I mean, maybe that's the title of the segment, Check the Tape, Blake. There's video of it out there. So, I don't know. Maybe he was a little like his dad and maybe a little, a little whatever. But it's okay. He's got time, he's got five years to get better, right?

So to explain Jake's shirt, Jake and his friend TC were watching pimple popping videos. This is a thing on the internet? No, no, it's on the internet, but it's literally a highly rated show on like A&E. But you were watching it on YouTube and you wanted him to hit the top right or whatever that will make you you're familiar with how to

make a video big there Kim? Full screen. Okay yeah. Oh God. Make it big. I'm scared. This is gonna be so bad, dude Good for ten seconds and I'm out out. That's good time. That's what the t-shirt is. Make it big. Alright. Alright, thanks for coming guys. Thank you. Adios, mofo. We gotta go before this becomes a zoo. Thank you for watching my video. Subscribe and type for my name if you want to watch more of my videos. They're painting a new road that must be paved They still do a show but not on their waves

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