The Dumb Zone FREE - Pablo Torre's deep dive on Jordon Hudson and Nick Wilson gets to cover Shedeur Sanders | DZ 5-9-25 PREVIEW

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

Hear the entire show by subscribing to The Dumb Zone at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneWe dial up our sports talk buddy in Cleveland, Nick Wilson, on the Browns selecting Shedeur Sanders in the NFL Draft. We also call up our fan of the Catholics, TC Fleming, on the new White Sox fan Pope. Then we get to play the role of Maury as we allow a son to come clean to his mom about a drug test ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey now, what you're about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at DumbZone.com. So if I can ask you, do you remember a time When Eric, you had great suspicions that Eric as a teenager was smoking marijuana. The Devil's lettuce? Yes. The Devil's lettuce. Mary Jane. Indeed.

The gateway drug. Yes, I did. Yes. Yes, I did. Yes I did. And I'm, if you're gonna tell me that that was actually, that he actually did it, I will believe you because I never believed that he didn't do it. Okay, so what do you remember from it? You're saying? This is how Mari gets the feel. Here's what I heard from my, what I heard the story was that you called him, you had,

From what I heard, the story was that you called him, you really knew that he was smoking pot. How did you know that? Because I found a foil pack in his bag after he returned from his trip, and it smelled weird. And I, so there's that. Are you someone who has smoked pot yourself, and so that's how you actually knew?

Back then. The laws have changed. You're saying that since then, you have touched base. I've been made aware. Yes, I've been. Little market research. OK, but as of then, it wasn't like you were a partier in college and then that's how I know.

You were pure as the driven snow at that point. I really was. I never smoked pot. I hadn't even smoked a cigarette. So I was on high alert for anything inappropriate. This is my life. OK, you grew up perhaps in the 80s with the Nancy Reagan and the we're real anti-drug back yeah yeah in my email I describe you as the DEA in yoga pants okay so that was very good

okay so that that day you were certain but you called him and what do you remember telling him? I don't remember specifically what I said, but I made him take a drug test. Okay, so you were going to buy a drug test at the pharmacy, take it home, and make him take that drug test immediately when he got home. Right. And then, well, but then you're saying, from what I know of the story, somehow that he passed the drug test, right? Yeah, he did. And you were distraught over that because you knew for sure he must have been smoking

pot, so you just didn't, you didn't know how to handle this, right? Like you were distraught over that. Because you knew for sure he must have been smoking pot. So you just didn't know how to handle this, right? Like you were never so certain of something in your whole life. But then all of a sudden he passes the drug test and you were beside yourself. Like how did this occur? I even called my sister and I'm like, well,

it came back clean. I don't know what to say So you're probably thinking man, I must have I must have done this wrong you know pregnancy TET like I felt bad No, I felt bad. Yeah, you know Yeah, you felt bad that you had accused your poor little baby who you carried around for nine months Who you you fed imagine how he feels now attacked yeah by his own mother we've been trying to work through it yeah great it does sound like mom that we have a little more information and that is what we are going to reveal to you today. What did those little bastards do?

Let's have, I think this might be where Eric and Little Brother, what's Little Brother's name? Tyler. Tyler. Tyler, you were like 8 years old then. What did you do? He didn't know what he was doing. Do we want Dan to reveal this or is Eric going to talk about this? I think you're doing well keep it up Dan. Okay so from what I understand mom, Eric was at home with Tyler right at the time you called? And I tipped him off didn't I? Well you tipped him off But what what I understand is that Eric had a friend He's also here who called him and he called his friend and said man I'm screwed

My mom is on her way home with a drug test. I Guess I'm just going to have to accept my fate and the friends told him Is your little brother at home? Oh my God. You are kidding me. What if you had your little brother pee in a cup and just go hide it in the bathroom? Oh, they are in so much trouble.

They did not do that. So mom, you know better than anybody that the rivalry between little bro and me was at its height. So going in there and asking him to do this for me, I thought there was a 0% chance, absolute zero. But I was done either way. I had to make something work. Yeah, if you asked him and he told mom,

well, you're still in trouble. Exactly. How much worse can it be? Yeah, if you asked him and he told mom you're still in trouble exactly How much worse can it be but if you asked him and he actually did it and it worked, okay That's that's called the Hail Mary That's so why not throw one more if it gets intercepted. We already and it did it did It worked and it did so I knocked on his door, playing video games, told him to put the controller down, and... Over here, sit on the bed, little buddy, we got something to talk about. There's just some things in life that mom and dad, they don't have to know, just brother stuff.

He's real serious, like, what's wrong? What's going on? All I need you to do is go in the bathroom and pee in this cup. And he almost peed his pants doing that himself when I asked him. He complied. I knew I had what I needed. And you wasted no time as soon as you walked through the door. It's like, come on. Now mom, are you at least a little bit proud of them? The two of them together. I mean, this is... The ingenuity.

Yeah. They get a night for ingenuity, but I can't believe it. Did you explain, did you tell Tyler why you needed it? He didn't need it. No, it's brother stuff. He couldn't. No. Yeah, he couldn't explain to a seven-year-old

the concept of drugs. Drugs and how... Well, I'm glad I F. Oh, because I wasn't quite sure. Yeah. Yeah How many how long did it take till you told Tyler? ah No Not too long He doesn't really remember. How old are you now, Eric?

I'm 31. He's 22. So I think we may have talked about it before, but you guys reading it on air and sending him the clip, that was like the real, the moment of realization for him. We're healing families. We are. What you didn't know is I would have failed for PCP, too. What? I think he's used to doing a little comedy there, Mom. Yeah, I think you're in trouble all over again is what that sounds like to me. Yeah I'm thinking the next family gathering is going to be quite the...

Yeah, I still have to stay at her house for the next two days, so I'll have fun. Oh, tonight? Yeah. You're going to see your mom tonight? Yep. Yep. Oh. Well, now you can drug test her, it sounds like.

Yeah. Yeah. Are you? Oh my god. Mom, are you happy to finally have closure on this? It was a mystery as to why you felt so sure, but you didn't get it right. I had closure because I knew I was right. I knew it had to be something.

I think the words... But I even made... Poor Eric. I remember marching in there with my drum kit, and I let him turn around so he'd have a little bit of modesty, but I made him pee right in front of me. I stood there in the room like a narc, all in. He wasn't going to fake it. How did you do that, Eric?

I don't know how he was able to sneak in. You at least granted me a little privacy to close the door. You were right outside the restroom, but I had the little Dixie cup under the sink ready to go. I got just told these guys before we called you, I sold the bit and you could hear my stream going while I was pouring his stuff into the drug test. If I remember correctly, I handed it to you with all the confidence and let you do your thing for five or ten minutes to take the test.

When I asked you what happened, you told me, I think I screwed it up. You didn't tell me I passed. He didn't tell me I failed You just yeah. Well, I had to mail it in. No, no you didn't Well, you were broken We appreciate yeah, you broke me. I Remember you telling me Eric's mom. It's gonna come back clean and I was like, we'll see This is great. I do feel like Maury.

Yeah, I hope that you feel better now, mom. Well, it doesn't sound like you ever really lacked in confidence that he was smoking pot. But you were not really able to punish him back then. And now you don't learn about this until you're kind of not able to punish him now. So it's. Oh, I can punish him back then and now you don't learn about this until you're kind of not able to punish him now so it's so you know you got to punish him you got screwed don't you worry all right love you mom love you mom

love you guys all right bye that's fun well mom. Oops, I hit the wrong button. It was funny, though. Dude, that's awesome. That was great. You feel good? I feel great. How about you? Cool. Yeah.

Yeah, take care of the big one. We did win. Any other closing remarks? When are you getting married? July 12th. Preston Butte, Colorado. Nice. That's our other bit. Is that a bit doing an out-of-state wedding? Now you have all the friends? Well, the bit is that most year we live in a trailer. Okay. And travel across. So actually, speaking of that email, that's how we bumped into Matt Dallas.

Yeah, yeah. Let me show you, Jake. He sent a picture along. Are you Van Life guy? No, we own a... Did you meet him at the RV place? No, we met him at the Billy Shring Show, actually. Oh, boy. Oh, yeah. It's all coming together. Oh yeah. It's all coming together. So he was behind us at the merch line and he was talking some very specific dumb zone stuff like I knew what he was saying. I'm like not to eavesdrop.

And he was like, hey, I'm the guy that took him out in the RV, drove to California. And so we lived that life and do a lot of drive time. So she's and gently Gotten to listen to a ton of so what do you hold on you drive like you live on the road part of the yeah we both have lame desk jobs and so just throw up the Starlink work most a day and Travel is it it's it's RV or sprinter or what's your Airstream. Okay, nice. You literally live in it? Do you not have a house? We shack up with the in-laws or soon-to-be in-laws when we're not doing that. Wow. Sounds pretty cool. You know what makes it work? One bed. Separate beds.

Yeah. there we go This guy's got it figured out I'm learning a lot. Yeah, just going on going around. Yes. Yeah going around to all the 9-eleven memorials Lot of banging the twin beds, you know a lot of them. That's great. Yeah, which bed these Whatever yeah, whatever bro, I do it outside. I'll bang wherever Okay, yeah, it's been a lot of fun, and I actually meet it this time Well, thanks guys that it or wait we got a little something else a couple gifts pointing Start with this one here

This one is for mr. Dan. Hand that over. I accept gifts. Not yet. Okay. This is a certificate of disposition and proclamation. Well, there's a lot here, dude. You're a lord. dude. Your lord. I'm a lord of the moose.

You own a piece of land in Scotland. You bought it? They did it! We were talking about it the other day! You own a 2x2. You bought 2,500 feet of land in Scotland. Yes. And they were having a sale so we could get a tree included in the 2x2.

Yes! You did it! The Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs of Dungs