The Dumb Zone FREE - Stars fall in a serious hole, Diddy trial with Sarah Hepola, and DreamHack Dallas 2025 | DZ 5-26-25

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

Get every show of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneWe've got plenty of tales from the weekend as we grind on this Memorial Day. Jake went to Stars game 3, Blake attended DreamHack, and Dan went to hibachi. The Stars look to be in serious trouble and we wonder where the Oilers chick from last year has been. Then Sarah Hepola pops in to talk Diddy trial (00:00) - Open: Weekend check (50:52) - Sports: Not looking good for Stars (01:07:58) - Other sports: Haliban, NCAA playoffs, Jerry Jones photo (01:31:43) - News: Diddy trial update with Sarah Hepola (02:07:58) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hello, I'm professional broadcaster Dan McDowell letting you know that you are about to hear one of our free podcasts. But if you'd like to subscribe at DumbZone.com, you'll get four shows per week plus the weekend wrap-up and any bonus sodes like our Business Wednesday interviews. So if you forgot how to use the 15-second rewind, that's DumbZone.com to subscribe. That's dumbzone.com to subscribe. Now on to today's program. Today's episode of the Dumb Zone is brought to you by our friends at Fair Lease. They have a website that is fairlease.org, Dan. They can help you if you're looking to upgrade your vehicle situation on the home front. Look at that guy sitting over there. Or on the work front. He's our good

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He was on the moon and you have no idea who he is. You've never even heard of him. Well, if there's been a hundred women, how many men have? Well, that's the moon. Been in space? Oh, that's the moon. Fair, fair, fair. Yeah. No have? Well, that's the moon. Been in space? Oh, that's the moon. Fair, fair, fair. Yeah.

No, we do not let ladies on the moon. What are we trying to do? In this thing with the tsunami? That moon will really F with ladies. Yeah. We do not need them up there. Flood the earth. Tides.

The best spot we've ever done. All right, all right, all right, all right, happy Monday, happy Memorial Day. Right? Is it Memorial Day or is it Labor Day? I think this one is Memorial Day. It's Memorial Day. M is for May. I don't know, ask the veteran over there.

By the way, thank you for your service. Yes. Plus your brother is a veteran, so thank you, Jake. Yeah. For having a brother. And I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Blake Jones. Where's my audio?

What? I'm Jake Kemp. I'm not introducing myself anymore what did you decide this wait didn't have is my audio off do it again do it again I'm Dan McDowell I'm Jake Kemp I'm do you have one for me no like Blake Jones. Why? I don't know. You just want, is that AI Jake? Yeah. All right, let's hear it. I'm Jake Kemp.

That's pretty good. That's AI Jake. Yeah, you can, here, let's see if I can make it. I'm glad you just make a big joke out of it. I'll make it yell. I'm Jake Kemp. Ha ha ha. Anyways, sorry.

I'm glad you make a big joke out of that, because it's a big, I don't know, introducing ourselves is a big... It's a way we connect with our audience. Connect but also... Go to your wedding. Yeah, but I mean I have a secret meaning to it. My mom is really, really old. kind of a shut-in type thing. And, uh, I don't know, she learned how to tune into us,

like, on YouTube. Apparently, we're live streaming today. Oh, wow. And, uh, I just said to her, I will... This is a while back, I said, you know, when I start the show, I'm gonna send a secret message to you and I said I'll say I'm Dan McDowell and that would be like a message to her and she would receive that and and then You know, it's like me giving a nod to her

Every show so when I do it, I'm really thinking about my mom who really has done so much for me over the Over the years. I'm sorry I get a little choked up when I think about it. Don't you think that's a good story? Sure. Oh, by the way, so on this day, I have some completely unrelated audio. This is from Jim Nance. In 2002, just days before I headed to Hazeltyne and the PGA Championship, I sat next to my father and told him that this weekend I'm going to say something when I come on the

air. I'm going to look into that camera, Dad, and I'm going to say, hello, friends. Jim Nance here. My dad's name is Jim Nance. It was a connection phrase with my ailing father who had Alzheimer's and struggled for 13 years before succumbing in 2008. And I wanted to give him something on the air

that let him know I was channeling him at that moment. Hello friends, good to have you with us. What will it take to be the PGA champion? And I said, dad, Saturday I'm gonna look right in that lens and I'm gonna say hello friends, Jim Dance here. I thought I would only do it once but after that day's show on the Saturday show, at the 2002 PGA, had a few people say, hey, I heard you say hello, friends.

What was that all about? And I told them the back story. And I was told, you should keep doing that. That sounds like you. So I continued to do it, not knowing that people would pick up on it. But every time I come on the air, whether it's this weekend at the PGA,

from Butler Cabin at the Masters, the Super Bowl. I need this music. I look into that lens. I don't get any feedback in return. You just see a lens. And like the first shot in golf, there's a little bit of nervous energy. But when I say hello friends,

for that flicker of a second, I think of my dad. It relaxes me, it calms me, and I'm able to kind of move into the show. My feeble. Feeling comfortable and confident. Get a bib on. And more importantly than anything,

connected to my dad. Who, you know, never really remembered any of this. So yeah, he had Alzheimer's. I could have told him I'll do any, look, I'll take off my shirt and run around and dress up like Andy Reid when I do the thing. He won't remember once I start. And then he's like, he said it twice in there.

Like I said, hello friends, this is Jim Nance. Cause his name is Jim Nance. So let's pull out a clip of one of those millions of times that I've done that. Let's, the production assistant or whatever is like, okay, I'll put a clip in here. Hello friends, good to have you with us. What will it take to be the PGA champion?

He didn't even say his name. I'm glad you said something. He didn't say his dad's name. I was like, am I tripping out over here? Or are we like uptight production guys? That's CBS. You've had- First of all, the clip ends on an up.

And if you've done it four times- And it goes into like a, I'm like, okay. type production guys, that's CBS. You've had. The first of all, the clip ends on a up, there's not a fade down. And it goes into like a, I'm like, okay. Four times a year, well that's golf, or how many golf things did he? Honestly, I thought it was gonna be a montage of like seven times that he did it in a row. How many football games does he do? Like, okay, you have all this to choose from,

find one where he says, hello friends, this is Jim Nance. He said it twice in the story. It's like a bad intern cut. Trey, no, that has to be in the thing. That's the payoff. That's really weird and also just awesome. Hey, you know, everyone was just telling me how kick-ass it was, so I started doing it.

This is for you. Yeah. You know what, I didn't know anybody would pick up when I said, hello everybody. I didn't know if people, I was like, you know what, I should say hello every time I. Yeah, he's acting like it's like the people's elbow and he's the rock.

Once I answered the phone, and I said hello. He's like, oh, come on, I say hello. I said hello when I answered the phone, and somebody was like, what a great way to answer the phone some so many people Answer in the middle of a conversation. Hey mom. What are you up to today? Huh? Yeah, and he said my friends say that sounds like me Seem like you and now I want I need to hear Every Jim Nance open. Yeah from before 2002 Because apparently he came up he's just like what up motherfucking every Jim Nance open from before 2002.

Cause apparently he came up with that. He used to just be like, good up motherfuckers, Jim Nance. And then my dad. My dad had. His refining. Dad whose name was Jim Nance. He's like, what channel are you on? I'm like, I've been on CBS for 20 years.

It's so funny, TC was telling me the other day, he takes his grandmother to church and then maybe goes grocery shopping with her. And TC, because he does some video work for Ben and Skin, and Ben was asked to go introduce Tom Cruise at a theater last week, TC was asked to go film that for Ben. And you know, your grandparents don't need to know details, how much you're being paid, whatever,

but he was able to tell her that morning, like hey, I'm gonna be in the same room as Tom Cruise tonight. And for an old lady, he's like, oh, I told him. I'm like, that's one of the few chances you have left for her to feel like you're doing well. Who knows how many more chances. So she just, you're old, you're like,

oh, that's a nice son. You know Tom Cruise. Was she fired up? Because my mom was fired up. Oh yeah. But Tom Cruise was in the same city as me. Have they already? I talked to my mom this weekend.

We gotta get a review, right? She went and saw it yesterday, she said. I talked to her yesterday morning. And she was gonna meet Rose, and Rose's daughter Lisa, if you really need to know. Well it sounds like you know for, what's the story there? Guys grow up together,

like oh stop it, we're just friends. A little bit, but Lisa was more a cautionary tale, as she got pregnant in high school, and I was told by my mom, don't get any girl pregnant. She was like, as if I weren't enough? Myself?

Right, right. I guess she didn't point to herself. Now I'm gone all summer. That one worked out well for us, though. Yeah, that's true. Especially for me. That's true. I forgot, she's listening.

No, I don't. I have no idea if she has any idea how to use YouTube. In fact, I would guess she does not. Anyway, Travis Gafford is in studio and this is a makeup sit-in. Did you realize that? I did. It says it on the cali.

Oh, it does? It's a makeup sit-in because he sat in the den. Must've been last September. Yeah. I can narrow it down to there. If it's a makeup sit-in, somebody that wanted to meet Jake, they were very excited about the opportunity and they got there and it was just us.

Yep. I was a bit booked up. And Danny. In a busy, busy September. So yeah. One of his children had a terminal disease or what was going on. Yeah, yep this is true. This is true. Did I tell you or no? I probably didn't tell you. We weren't tight yet. I probably would now. Maybe. Would you think

it would be okay if I told him now? Yeah, I mean. Like if you disappeared? Yeah, yeah for sure. Seriously, I the way that all went down. But we're buddies now. Dan's the type of dude you can be like, just whatever you think, and it's gonna be way less than you think. So I wasn't worried about it, you know? Yeah. But yeah, Travis is in the trust tree now, if I fall off.

And you brought some people that we'll meet more, like who do we got here today? I know we got some Drews, lots of Drews. Many Drews. Yep, Cohen are here next to me. Drew Agner, Andrew Collier, Drew Bond, Brad Dickens. Okay. Three Drews and a Brad.

I went to the Stars game with a Travis and a Drew. Just different Travis and Drew? Or this Travis and Drew? These guys. Friday night with our friends. In the community mechanical seats? Yeah, not in the community mechanical van with a dumb zone QR code on the back, but in an Elite Ride.

Oh really? I kind of live the full sponsor experience Friday night, to be honest. Well, let's call it Elite Ride. Double Lucy lipped up and early birded. Yeah. Just our weekend check? Sure.

Cause you guys actually took it in elite rides? On Friday night? We did. We did, it was very nice. What was it like? Was it all like, you know, KFC rappers and just dirty and. First thing, offered me water. First thing when I got in,

it went out of his way to be like, hey, you guys can vape, you can do whatever you want. You know, this is your Elite Ride. Yeah. They're also, from what I understand, what do they call it when you can drink alcohol in the, like a limo, they have a limo license. Oh.

They have a limo license, which means you can do it whatever you want. Yeah, we did take advantage. Yeah. Of that vehicle. It was nice, nice pick up, drop-off super, super easy. The booking super, super easy. EliteRides-dfw.com.

That's right, 844RIDE-DFW. There is a promo code. DZ. Or the app, right? Or the app. Or the app. DZ15 is a promo code for 15% off your first ride. It was super, super easy. That's all I can really tell you. It's great for sporting events, great for concerts.

I don't know, you could probably just go drive around. Think anybody ever does that? Yeah, just clear your head a little bit. Yeah, go for it. DZ 15 for 15% off. That took you guys to the Stars game. Mm-hmm. Game two.

Game two with our friend Mike the Machine Marshal. Ah. And that was cool because Travis also has worked in the sports world like Machine currently does. Yeah. And they're all, they're big hoops heads, big guys, take you to the block. Yeah, they're also big guys. They are.

I would like to see them, I would like to see Travis humble Mike Machine Marshall at some point on the court. I would hope that Mike hears this. I would like to see that because I feel like Mike gets a lot of puffied out chest. Yeah, and he's pretty good. He is. But feels like Travis might.

It would be nice. Yeah, Travis got a little height on him. He does. Travis has to modify his seating and standing at sporting events That's his height. What does that mean? Because I kind of do but like for example, if everybody's gonna stand Travis probably not gonna stand It's kind of a sit on top of the seat crouchy type thing. You're like behind the mountain. I mean, he's a big dude like a crouchy type thing. You're like behind the mountain. I mean, he's a big dude.

Yeah. There's not, you know, there's not much you can do. Plus he wears that Dr. Seuss hat. So it's really annoying. Yeah, and he was all night drinking out of yard long margaritas that he was hanging, holding over his head to make him even taller. Yeah.

But yeah, I mean, I don't know how you want to cover Friday into Sunday going through like Starz Talk, but it was a good experience. Dez was right behind us. Oh wow. Right behind, I mean in the don't know how you want to cover Friday and into Sunday going through like stars talk But it was a good experience. Des was right behind us. Oh wow right behind I mean in the suite right behind us. We were in the lower level and we're Towards the back of the section. Okay. I was gonna say why you had better seats than Des. No, no, he's sweet Yeah, and I don't know who he was with. I don't know if we got confirmation somebody thought it was Some dude perfect affiliation. I don't know. I couldn't tell his crypto team maybe I wish they say I could have identified very crypto II there was a yeah Tyler Booker was there but I don't know if it was him or not

because bang guy was there he was wearing a custom stars Jersey with Booker on the back. Yeah, he was. He was in the section to our left about 10 minutes. But you know what I'm talking about also though. So Nick, the Bang Guy, right? He was there. How did Booker look? Is he in shape?

Think he's gonna be good this year? He looks good. Okay, good. There was another guy. His attitude was real good. I think from the Cowboys. He's the leader. The culture he's been involved in is amazing.

Dude, I heard even- His ping pong wrist is a little stronger. I heard even Milton, backup QB, showing up early. You know? I mean, that's where it just filters down, culture. I heard, yeah, Shoddy said Joe Milton was the first one to get there and last one to leave, and I thought,

wow, Dak, falls in Dak's court now. How have you ruined everything for me? Okay, go ahead. and I thought, wow, Dak, ball's in Dak's court now. How have you ruined everything for me? Okay, go ahead. So Dez is there, across from us, there's a row that I can only best describe, it's front row, I would say the end of the row starts goal line in front of Ottinger.

I would describe the row as like best suited at an NBA game, courtside, both athlete and female with them. What do you mean best suited? Like there were dudes, there were two guys, black guys who I think were cowboy players, there were two super hot looking, you know, Instagrammy women, two more guys who looked like

they were handlers's Hangers on. You know what I mean? It was not, it's usually the Stars game. It's like, hey, here's Ezekiel Duran. So, or Josh Young or something. So, it stands out. Bang Guy was there. There's been some controversy around Bang Guy

over the last week. Is he in, is he not, is he accepted, is he not? He was in jail for a DUI, now he's out. So he was, I guess, sitting behind whatever athletes or Cowboys players were there. Because he had tweeted like F my life with his seat because he was behind a player who was very tall. Similar to Travis, he was like sitting on the seat.

That guy had an Ottinger jersey on. Let me just start with this, because last week we did the, or I did the, if you get a DUI, sometimes there's a lot of luck involved in that. There are people who are very judgy about someone getting a DUI, who have put themselves in that position before. And it bothers me at times.

But if you're gonna be lenient on someone for getting a DUI or perhaps even a second one or whatever it was and taking jail time, being a guy who publicly complains because you're on the second row instead of the first row of a playoff game at the arena is not great signs of progress. Like I'm not trying to be a dick here, but then the follow-up one was he found out who it was

and was like, oh, just a seventh round pick, whatever, on to the next game. And I'm not trying to speak like I'm Tom Cruise who's gone clear in Scientology here, but my guess is if you drink enough to have to go to jail because of it, if you want people to be lenient and cool with you afterwards, you tend to have to have a little bit of a softer approach than like,

ugh, I'm supposed to be in front. Like, dude, come on. On a third of his team's offensive possession. He can beat you point guard. No, you wanna be unmuted, go. What is playing? That's not AI, what's playing? It's a whole experience if you want to be unmuted.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I think we're live. Yeah, it was a live stream. But yeah, I just thought that was a little bit. So was Bang Guy, he was there. Displaced from his usual seat? Yeah.

So they have certain, ah, tell me about this. You used to work there, right? Are we allowed to say that? Yeah, that's fine. I just did. So you worked for the Stars in ticket sales. Yep. So there are people with front row seats that know that this could be taken from you if we get a better person than you to sit there? No but what I'm saying is well

okay go forth with that but he wasn't sitting behind his normal seats just to be clear. No I don't I think that if I had to guess that they weren't quite sure when he was gonna get out and those seats were probably spoken for and so he got put in some different seats. But I can tell you that there's a, no one in the organization is really a fan. So they've-

Of Bang Guy. Back in 2013, 14, we had a camera mounted up there and I remember leadership just, I could hear them bitching about, we gotta tell this fucking guy he hits on this glass, which is when he started doing the sign, because he would hit while the puck was on that end

and it would be shaking the Fox Sports Southwest camera. I remember this. Yeah, so, yeah yeah no love lost. But you know I'm not trying to soak box it just seems a little. For the season you're looking at like 30k for one seat. Wow. Bang guy's doing well. Yeah I think based on his last name I think he's the son of a guy who owns or runs one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country, which is based here. I did a lot on his own though. Yeah, I think, yeah. No, it's I'm going to have a real tough time with this nepotism is gross thing.

As I get on the shoddy bandwagon. I just thought it was an odd, it was an odd, uh, an odd take for him to be complaining like that, because he's a the shoddy bandwagon. I just thought it was an odd take for him to be complaining like that. My other thought on the game, you know the noise meter, the decibel meter, the get loud meter, we all know that's fake. We were all crushed when we found out. I know, I know.

But hey, try as you might to do comedy. I was way later than you think when I found out. Like you're doing Mavs post game. You see them try to pregame. I'm in an empty arena of the testin' it. It does kind of reflect with the crowd though. Same, that's what I'm saying. No, so.

It's incredible. I actually think, and Dumont will never do this, that's another thing that sucks about Cuban being gone. And Cuban had waned on this front a little bit, but to try and cool stuff or different stuff, like if Dumont started fresh, the Mavs in Arena experience would never have gotten to where it did like it did under Cuban.

Oh yeah. Like they do cool stuff, you know? So I think a team should try and let everybody know that their decibel meter is real. And it doesn't have to be the actual decibels, but it does have to scale in real time to real volume. And people, I feel like, and when I said this, one member of our party was like, this is a great idea,

how do we get it to the higher ups? The other two was like, this is the dumbest shit I've ever heard. I feel like it would be a huge hit. I feel like the crowd would just go nuts. People would come from far and wide just to be a part of the actual decibel meter. Because as it stands, I think it's a giant waste of time like

there's got to be another way to get people loud that's more college football or European soccer it just feels like a give-up to be like get loud here's a meter and during a timeout to like put a real one during a free throw in a opposition free throw try it it. And see. And have Chick-fil-A sponsors it. He misses two. You get his chicken sandwich. Right.

Or if we go above a certain amount, everybody gets their Frosty. There we go. OK. That bit of a marketing guy. All right, yeah. You're always thinking that. But if you want me to wrap up Weekend Check, yes,

I did Star Stars Game Friday night with the community boys and Machine. Went to dinner for Machine's birthday Saturday night and then we had the- Was it his birthday? I don't know. Okay. It was either the day before or the day after.

That's good. It would be weird if you knew exactly. Yeah, that's Les Gay, right? Yeah, probably. Then, yeah. He's in the clear. It was either the day before or the day after. That's good. It would be weird if you knew exactly. Yeah, that's Les Gay, right? Yeah, probably. Then, yeah. He's in the clear. It was all couples, but it was nice. And then we had people over yesterday.

And? What? Which part? You didn't go to flag football? No, well, they didn't play. They didn't play. We all lobbied super hard and I told them, I'm like, look, I can't play next weekend

because I'm going out of town this weekend. I'm like, but this is BS. You gotta get it moved. And I told them, I was like, guys, you need me to call? Remember he was supposed to bail on his party. Yeah, yeah. But somebody else got it done. We applied the pressure.

Okay. So yeah, I don't know. Why, did you have intramural sports this weekend? I did, but I was just hoping that he would skip his. Yeah, did you have any real sports this weekend? I did, but I was just hoping that you would skip his. Yeah, so you could make fun of me. No, because I respect you. And it's playoffs, dude. So, your league played

despite the holiday and weather? Yeah, we got it in. Okay. What's the, are we done? Yeah, regular season's over. Okay. What are we done? Yeah, regular season's over. We're into playoffs? Mini start next weekend. How was your season?

Blake's softball season. Not good. Really? Yeah. Team-wise or you-wise? I don't know. He knows exactly. He knows it's batting there.

In fact, I could probably find it pretty quickly here. Is it online? It was fine. We just had a bad season. I kind of turned into a douche bag out there. You? It's fine. Oh no. What do you mean?

A little George Pickens. I gotta get the guys going. I gotta talk a little shit. Yeah. Whatever picks my- But it didn't work? No. Okay, maybe that wasn't the way.

He's pressing. I know. So this weekend I just showed up, didn't say a word. Just showed up and raked? Not really. Damn man. Is that mustache intimidating to the other players? So this weekend I just showed up didn't say a word Just showed up and raked not really Damn is that mustache intimidating to the other players? That's gotta add just kind of a little bit of exit below to every Yeah, it's on doubles Paul skein see on doubles. I'll do a swipe. Oh fantastic. It's fun

Other weekend check for you? Did you want to end? No, no, no. I'll go now. Because yours were so great. No. I debated actually not talking about this at all. Because I went to a- Another kid? I went to a, even worse.

I went to a massive video game convention this weekend. You mean the one that you were watching for the last hour of Friday's show? I didn't watch during the show but if the show was out 15 minutes later it's because I had to watch SSG and pool play. And I wasn't gonna talk about it but then when I got my credential they sort of knew about our bit. Credential? No puppet productions got me in the door. Okay. So they were familiar. Arlington. No puppet productions got me in the door. Okay.

So they were somewhat familiar. Arlington? No, it was here at Kay Bailey. Okay. The convention center. And it's just full of dudes playing Minecraft or whatever you watch. And chicks.

What do we watch? A lot of chicks. A lot of chicks. Now the chicks might be dressed as a fairy. As Master Chief. As Master Chief. Or Master Chief. Hell yeah. No, but this was Dreamhack and it was huge.

It was the first time. What is he saying? I'm just going to speed through this. It's an event. And you're not there. It's the fifth major. It was the first time that Halo, Call of Duty, and Counter-Strike all had majors in the same location. The Triple Crown.

Big deal. Now, Halo's not on the same stratosphere as those two. But it was a big deal. A lot of people attended. And yeah, this is for like. How many is a lot? I don't know. The place is packed.

I'm not. I'm not attacking you, wife. OK, I'm asking you questions. Now, okay? I'm asking you questions. Now why would I think you would attack me over this? So I'm just saying, is it, you know, full-full? Or is it like a cheer competition where it's like a come, okay, I'm just. No, the, I mean the main floor was packed.

Call of Duty had its own separate wing at the convention center that was Oh, 2024 was 55,000 people. Yeah, and Counter-Strike had its own, I don't know what that was... Whoa, 2024 was 55,000 people. Yeah, and Counter-Strike had its own, I don't know what that is in there, that little arena at the convention center, but that was packed. It was insane.

And so my bit is Halo, I've loved it for a really long time, but when I go to those tournaments, there's maybe 200 people watching in the arena. You go to the Call of Duty stage, there's five, 700 people. In the Counter-Strike arena, there was probably 1,500. It was insane. In fact, put the video up. I took some video of the Counter-Strike arena.

And just listen to this. This sounds like, look at how packed it is first. And just listen to the crowd. It looks like going to like a massive standup comedy show, size show. And so the presentation's done really well where you can see like the players remaining. They show the map, they show the game play,

but the crowd will react to the game. That's like a play-by-play booth. Yeah. That's, that's sick. That's pretty awesome. That's very cool. Is that where the wings play? No, they play at UTA.

I thought they moved to Dallas. I thought they did too. I thought Paige's first game was at UTA. I don't know. I think they're moving to Dallas. Nobody really knows. That's the thing. I just tried to search and accidentally, well, I spelled their name with a Z zoo That's definitely not right. That's very cool Blake here last one

But this was between team Europe and team Asia Crowd chants going Is it all white Well, like I said, no, there's a lot of Asians there because Team Asia was playing there. Oh, okay. I think video game nerddom is one of our more racially diverse areas in culture. I really do. Okay. It just didn't feel like there'd be a black guy in the house. Man, I don't know.

No, there was... Let me say that the black kids that are into anime were there. But that's a thing. A guy who emails us called them blerds last week, but I believe he's allowed to. He's talking about George Pickens. He's like, this guy just seems like a dorky blerd to me. So. That's cool, what do you pay to get in?

Well, he doesn't. Oh, that's right. Well, what do you pay to get in? Well he doesn't. Oh that's right, well what is the common man? I think a three day pass was 55 bucks. Nah, and then if you wanted to go to the Counter-Strike tournament and sit on the ground level, I think it was 200 bucks, and they were checking tickets, like you had to scan your,

like my media badge got me in at the very top, which is where I filmed it. So someone goes in and they're Saturday and they're like, didn't get enough, I need to go back Sunday. Well, it's a tournament. Saturday's moving day, so you gotta. And in fact, I mean, you laugh,

but the Counter-Strike tournament was all weekend. So during the week was pool play, Friday and Saturday was the tournament, and Sunday were the grand finals. And the purse was a million dollars. All right. It's insane. And so they had some other smaller bits for the smaller game tournaments,

and one of them I thought was weird was chess, where these two people not in front of a board, but they were in front of each other, playing each other right next to each other. And they had the game up on the screen and you could just watch these two people play chess. That seemed a little for money. Or is it just like a time?

A tournament is an actual tournament. Yeah. But typically you see like, why don't you just get the board? But they were playing a little chess game. Um, you just watch the, the Counter-Strike major, I guess they have a female Counter-Strike tournament. Well, okay. This is like pool.

Why do we need? Yeah. Why should that be separated by gender? Yeah, but it is. I don't know. Well I'm going to go trans and get in that tournament. Dominate. Go trans. One of the more popular setups was GeoGuessr.

Have you seen this? I was going to tell you guys about this dude last week. Tell me if it's something similar. So Pablo Torre, he's figuring out every single thing about Bill Belichick, including the fact that Pierce Jordan Hudson might have been the reason Bill Belichick didn't get an NFL job. But so, Pablo had this guy on, or talked with this guy

on social media, his whole bit is no matter what photo you post, he can figure out where you are. Because it's like a really popular thing for Instagram douchebags to be like, you could never get here, guys, that's ass. And he's like, bet. Just zooms in from a satellite using, he's just insane. Basically this guy's Interpol.

Yeah. But he's one guy. And there's a bunch of people that do this. Like you see a building back or whatever, a tree and something else. Yeah, and of course there's like metadata, but like oh this street looks like that. Is it something similar to that?

Very similar. So they drop you somewhere on the earth and I think the timer is 35 seconds. But using Google Street View, you could inch forward, inch forward, and you have 35 seconds to go any which way you want to figure out where you are. That's cool.

And this guy could. Like he had challengers come up and try to beat him, but he had 35 seconds and he would tell you, we're in Venezuela, look, and then zooms out. It was insane. So like I said, a lot of cosplay walking around. Yeah, dude. And I was walking behind this guy dressed as a shark.

I don't know why. He's just a shark. And so I just kind of lost myself in the moment of I'm walking behind a shark. And something catches his eye over to the right and he stops and I had to kind of avoid him. And he says, oh, excuse me. I was like, I don't know if you really need to do that

if you're dressed like a shark. Like, no pardons are gonna make me think that you're not a weirdo. Like, you're just a shark, just. You should have asked him, hey, what's the deal? No. Because he's probably wanting to be asked. Like, if the shark sneezes, do you say bless you?

No. Okay. No. If the shark falls down, I'm not helping him back up. You've made your decision for the day to be a weirdo. What are we talking as far as other cosplay? Like, is it mostly people dressing as video game characters? I think, for the most part,

I think the best one I saw of The Weeknd was there was a pretty attractive female dressed like a prostitute from Grand Theft Auto 3. Yeah, that's fantastic. Super specific. But caught my eye of like, yeah, that's probably a bad beat at one time in my life. Yeah, that played in the room.

So anyway, they all are safe there, these cosplayers. But it was funny, I did see one guy, I think he was dressed like Link, getting on the Dart train. Oh man! So it's like whenever you leave your safety is gone. Roll the dice Link! But might want to bring a change of clothes. So yeah Dreamhack was was really cool and the other thing I did last night was I went to the Rough Riders game because it was Paw Patrol night. Okay. And so all the video cuts on the board, hey there's Marshall up there.

The draw is come get your picture taken with Sky, which is just a dude making minimum wage in a Sky costume. And luckily Brooks didn't want the picture, but it got me thinking, and I'd like to send this to our marketing department, we need to say that Bluey will be at our generic summer event. And we need Marv dressed up in just a horrible Bluey costume.

Did we have a story like that? Yeah, it happened. It happened one year and there was a big fight. They beat up the Bluey. Huge line around the block. They couldn't deliver. The spares Bluey. The guy was smoking cigarettes as Marv does.

Let's do it. Yeah, the worst looking generic summer event. I wanna deliver. That's a terrible idea. That's why we're calling it the generic summer event. Yeah. So we can deliver. We can do that. You can show up and you'll be like,

I don't know, this was kind of a thing. I just think it's cool that we can have a Rangers night and Paw Patrol can only get the minors. We have a Rangers night, details forthcoming. Yeah, but they were wearing Paw Patrol jerseys and it was a big deal, which was funny to me because I got to see Sebastian Walcott hit. Not pitch.

Nope, nope, he DH'd last night. And if all goes well, hopefully, fingers crossed, he's a decade-long starter in the majors, but until he gets there, he's gotta wear a Paw Patrol jersey. Oh my god, yeah. Although... Just do all the bits that they have to do. Although, I don't know, man,

I may be basing a lot of this off of eastbound and down, but I'm pretty sure, like, if you're playing ball in Latin America, like, there's no level of weirdness that you're like, whoa, I can't do that. I think minor league baseball in all of Latin America is probably pretty wheels off. Yeah, and I guess if you're not used to the majors, you don't care.

And I saw Seager rehab there, and he just wore his normal Rangers jersey. I mean, he's not doing bits. And I doubt rehab assignments are, but for the guys that will be something with some day, until then, you gotta do your little song. The truth is, Walcott is young enough to have maybe been a huge fan of Paw Patrol.

Like where he's like, you know, oh, policia de perro. I mean, good stuff. He's 19. That show's been out for 15 years, hasn't it? I don't know. Clayton, anything in the Discord this weekend? What were you doing?

Not a lot of Discord this weekend. We were doing a little food research. Okay. Yeah. Clayton's weekend check often will involve Reddit slash fast food, is that will involve Reddit slash fast food? R slash fast food. Alright.

Yeah, big debate on there this weekend about Wendy's falling off. Ooh. Which side do you fall on? It's falling off. Hmm, interesting. Yeah. Unless... They got new Frosties though.

Damn, that caramel one looks fantastic. Dude. I ate everyone's leftover dessert on the table Saturday night, Dan. Water burger banana pudding shake. Did you also order your own dessert? Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Pudding shake, huh? Water burger banana pudding shake. When was the last time you had a shake, an ice cream shake, Dan? Not too long ago. Okay. My girls are in town and we've been stopping at Andy's just about every night. You go with the shake? Uh I've mixed in the shake along with my vanilla cone. I go back and forth. Vanilla cone. That's right. It's pretty boring but. The star of the show was uh Domino's new stuff crust. Been telling you.

Been telling you. And what is it stuffed with? Cheese. Oh, OK. I thought you said there's like a new bit. No, no. They just said they've never really done this. They've never done one.

This is basically, again, to use your- Pizza Hut started it? Yeah. To use your reference, this is like Texas run on the spread. OK. I actually think Pizza Hut's a phenomenal restaurant, but Domino's getting that stuffed crust, and it's better. Oh, all right.

It's phenomenal. Yeah, it's really good. It's a hearty meal, too. It's a perfect ratio of cheese in the crust, the actual crust. It's got garlic. And it's got garlic parmesan topping. And I walked in there one day, saw the guy brushing, in the crust. Garlic. It's got garlic. And it's got garlic parmesan topping. Yeah.

And I walked in there one day, saw the guy brushing it, and I just, he was doing a little brush, brush of the flavor. And Domino's isn't afraid to let you watch. God bless. Oh yeah. They have the big glass wall right next to where they're making all the pizza. Go over, cough on it, whatever you want, Dan. No, it's a glass wall.

Their safety is top notch at Domino's. So head that. That's what everyone says. their safety is top-notch at Domino's. So head that. That's what everyone says. And then started the Pee Wee Herman documentary. Excellent, as did I. I watched episode one, there's two parts. Yeah, I got through episode one last night.

It's excellent. Seriously dude, you should watch it. How did he come up with the character? Because I've been doing a lot of research on Jim Varney because I watched all the movies and stuff. I owe you. Jim Varney did the Vern thing because like another guy thought of it

and then said, hey, you're like a failed actor and stuff. What if he did this? And he's like, I don't know, I'll do it. And then he did it for a commercial. And then like it just... Pee Wee Herman, it was very intricate how he developed Pee Wee Herman. He was just like Jim Varney, a serious actor, just though... But I love origin stories like that. I love... Give me that Beatles documentary on how they, you know, from Stem to Stern, on how you came up with an all-time great song.

I'll sit and watch that for an hour. Like the Pee-wee thing was really fascinating, I thought, how he ended up, you know, falling upon that character and just, we end with about the movie, right? So I guess now we're gonna probably get into the TV show. And will we get into the adult theater? I'm not sure but because he's he's the one putting this documentary together basically yeah, it was those type of documentaries are always interesting to me just because Like you see how it started and all the famous people that they were around in the beginning. Yeah, and and that was like

That was like holy crap. He worked with you know such-and-such and like this and this I'm not trying to spoil anything for people and watch it, but it's uh It was very interesting how that whole thing kind of just came together and like you can't do Back to the say you can't do that nowadays. It's like stuff like that doesn't just like come together. You know What do we have today? It feels like the age of the character is just kind of gone. Like, you know, you're Elvira or You know your movie guy What do you mean peewee like what would be analogous in current day? It's an old thing kind of, you know? I mean, what would it be? Like the closest

you might be able to get is like the Geico cavemen. They had like barely any penetration. You've developed a character, but then you just stick with that and that's who you are then. Right. It's in movies, TV shows. Like does Larry the Cable Guy counts? He developed that character. Yes. And that's where Peewee was in Improv, and that was just one of his many characters,

but that one was really poppin'. And that's when he made kind of a whole play out of it, you know, one thing, and then. It's like Sacha Baron Cohen just being Borat all the time. Correct. Right, and he never is anything else. Right.

Yeah. Yeah, you could never is anything else. Right. Yeah. Yeah, you can even like host SNL. No, obviously they do SNL, get different characters and you make a movie, but to just be that one person. Like you said, was Elvira one of the ladies that he worked with in that improv group? Yeah.

That makes sense. Yeah, like they all, they figured out their character and then they just stuck with it. Phil Hartman was in his improv group, too Okay, now I'm back on board. Yeah and Hasselhoff. Oh and David Hasselhoff. That's right Yeah I'll watch it. I'll watch it. No, it's good stuff Mike if I am to tell you from and then we'll get to sports here because we do have a big I don't know was it a big sports weekend? We had a sports weekend.

We did. But my weekend check in reverse order yesterday was very busy I really wanted to get to your house my family knew that was my only goal is to get to your house sometime during the day a lot of back and forth about if we're gonna, anybody's gonna go with me and whatnot. And my two daughters are in town. They are living at their college right now, but they came in at the same time for the week. And so it's very busy with them. Also we got to put them to work, so it's Memorial Day. And so that Memorial Day weekend is traditionally, I guess for us at least, when we take the pool cover off.

And now the pool's all brown because we just took the pool cover off. So a lot of scrubbing the pool, a lot of beading on that. The pool cover wasn't quite dry as of last night. So I'm like, you know what? Let's just leave it out for the night. It'll be really dry in the morning. Oh, great move.

Yeah. Apparently, it poured last night, and it was drizzling when I left this morning. So I don't know when that pool cover will be dry. But it's on our lawn now. I'm sure that's good for the lawn. So. Winds everywhere. Saturday, I can't remember what we did.

Lots of stuff. Anyway, it's just all stuff with the girls. Whatever you want to do. You want to go shopping. You want to go whatever. To the mall. You want to go shopping, you want to go whatever, to the mall, you want to go to the bookstore. Oh, bookstore, that's good to know. Yeah, we went to Barnes and Noble,

and then my younger daughter wants to take the half-price books tour. So she went to like three different half-price books. The much-ballyhooed. I don't know. She just loves her books. That's good to learn, because I've seen a lot of Twitter

activity about how a significant portion of current college students are functionally illiterate. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Well, that's their problem. And then, Friday night though, we did a dinner. And we went hibachi. Yes.

So, and we went hibachi. Yes. So I love the hibachi dinner. I think we all do, right? Is everybody very familiar with hibachi? Yeah. I've only been once or twice, but I'm definitely familiar. Well, once you have kids, then it really gets into your wheelhouse

to where, and it becomes kind of like a, it can be a birthday dinner. Because it's definitely a little higher dollar. But it's like a cool, fun experience. So they take your order and then they bring it all out. And then the chef cooks it right there in front of you. And there's lots of bits. It's a, is it Japanese? Japanese, Asian of some sort. I don't want to. But so the guy comes out and it's a Japanese guy.

Okay. Or at least of Japanese origin. It's always, cause I've met some people or talked, you know, email with some people that are like, oh yeah, I'm, I'm Jap, like my grandma came over from Japan, but I was born and raised here. I sound like a Texan, but I go and I work as a hibachi chef. So I put on the accent. Oh yeah.

So I'm trying, I kept trying to listen. And I did detect a couple of times where all of a sudden the L, you couldn't say the L two minutes ago, but now it just closed out of your, you know, like they don't catch it right away. But that thought struck me, cause the first thing he does is he takes the oil and makes a smiley face,

and then, you know, upside down, but then we can all see the smiley face on the big grill. And he goes, ah, Japanese smiley face. And he has the slanted eyes. And I just thought, could I do that? There's no way I could get away with that. But this guy, and he might be as American as anybody, but he might be reveling in this. I can be so racist right now because I am Japanese.

I never really considered that, but this does sound delightful. Like if you look fully as if you should sound one way and don't, but can really lean into it, that sounds great. He's carrying around throwing stars. I know that's China, but you could really lean into it, that sounds great. He's carrying around throwing stars, I know that's China, but you could really get into it. That sounds great. So he did all the bits, he did,

I don't know, remember what Japanese cowboy was, but he had, of course he had the egg roll. Ah, egg roll! And then he rolls an egg back and forth. He was a master with flipping the egg up and down and catching it on the spatula, and then flipping the egg up and down and catching it on the spatula and then he flipped it up and into his hat and then he's like, you know, he cracks the eggs and now they're out there because they're going to make the fried rice in front of you first

and so he cracks, you know, four eggs and he's and he he cuts out just a yolk of an egg and he has it on there. He's flipping it up and down, catching it. I'm like, this is great. This is amazing. He's unbelievable. And then he's like, who wants catching mouth? Who wants catching mouth? And like, he was gonna toss this egg yolk in your mouth and you know, like he'll do with a piece of shrimp.

And everybody's like, ah, and he goes, oh, just yoking, you know? Ah! So he's killing it. Wow, there's an entire, yeah, and he goes, oh, just yoking, you know? Ah! So he's kind of. Wow, there's an entire, yeah, entire folder of comedy available. He's destroying, he takes some of the butter off the thing and he flips it up in the air,

butterfly, you know, he's going nuts. He lays some sesame seeds out because he's gonna put that in the thing and he's like, and he lays it out in a little line. Sesame Street. This guy's crushing. Little kids. It's really based on little kids.

We were in a, ostensibly a table full of adults. My two girls are like 20 and 21. Otherwise we're all full adults and everything. And then he did the, I had a little video of the volcano because of course that's kind of why you go, right? You want to pop up the volcano, onions into a volcano mix, and then you pour oil in the middle and then you light it. Slow-mode it?

I slow-mode it, of course. And then he had a couple of these little guys to put the volcano out. They just, I guess these little things peed water or something. I don't know what it was. Anyway, you know, five stars. I don't know that I've been to a hibachi and had a bad time. Yeah, we were, uh, we were debating as I told you guys about doing it at a birthday party, having the guy come to your house and do it.

And I think it's just like a huge, it must be really expensive. I don't think it's, I've heard. Yeah. I don't think it's as expensive as, uh, as we, as we first thought, but yeah, they're shooting water guns, a booze at you, throwing shrimp at you. Probably not for me. And then I guess- You know what else is not for me?

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You wanna start with the Dallas Stars? Yeah. Since you were at the game? Sure. First thing I'll tell you is I think you could take anybody, sports fan or not, have them watch Connor McDavid play hockey for a couple hours and I think they would pretty quickly get it. They would know.

I feel like that's what I used to say about Modano back in the day. Just jumps off the screen. Like somehow, even if, yeah, no one's ever been to a game before, but you'll be like, ooh, that's the best one. Mm-hmm. It's just, and you know, in person, it's just so, it's a thing to behold.

It just, very quickly, the eyes will look clogged and then it's not, and he's just on his own. So the analysis seems to be the Stars may have run into a better team. Well through the first few games right you would say Edmonton has to be feeling great like hey that first one was the fluke. Yeah I mean it was a fluky comeback but I mean there are some you know if you care there are these websites that track, like, your expected goals based on the quality of your chances.

Yeah, high whatever chances, yes. Stars have had a ton of those. I don't know. I think they may have won. I know they won yesterday based on that metric while losing 6-1. Yeah. But, you know, the second period,

they were all over them, the Stars were, and they just couldn't produce anything. They just might have run into a hot goalie. It's always good in the playoffs to go read what people are saying at the other side, and this is a goalie that this fan base cannot stand. Like this is the guy you're going to the playoffs worried about. Not last round guy you're going to the playoffs worried about. Not last

round when you were going in the guy's a Vezna winner, as I know. Yeah he's awesome. Yeah I mean they the guy's standing on his head they they ran into a hot goalie. So I don't know I mean not having Rope yesterday certainly didn't help. What do you think about that controversy? I don't know I've seen people explain it both ways and I guess I don't know I mean it didn't help. What do you think about that controversy? I don't know, I've seen people explain it both ways, and I guess I don't know. I mean, it didn't look like, to me, it didn't really look like he was trying to hurt him.

Like, it looked like he was making a play on his stick with the idea that the puck could be headed there. But you also just like whacked somebody in the leg. In the unprotected area, and those guys all know that. Yeah, and it's bad enough to miss a game. Like should he have gotten the game misconduct? Well, when he didn't, it felt like the game was over. It felt like the game was already over.

Same as yesterday when, I was gonna talk to you about that. I try very hard to remain sports agnostic when it comes to momentum, because I agree with you, but hockey playoffs test my limits on that. I don't think the momentum is predictive, and I don't think it means if this happens, then that's gonna happen.

But I think I have to allow that it's kind of like we were talking about Friday with the Cowboys and Vibes that maybe like that there are certain events that if they happen the ensuing event is more likely to be this or that. So they missed that delay of game penalty and Edmonton scores 10 seconds later. I think it was the next shift and that felt like the Stars and of course you say it felt like they were rattled and they were all pissed off about it but you only say that because they scored and after they scored felt like oh god and then they

score again and I know that it would be very hard to prove but but I feel like I acknowledge that there is something too, like, God, we need to score, this is a prime opportunity, it didn't work out, we're rattled, they score quickly, they score again. There's something to that, some, I think Bob used to call it like a contagion. There's some feeling. See, and my point is just that I acknowledge

that I also feel that feeling. Me, same here. But there are probably just as many examples where that feeling happened, but then... Yeah, and I don't know. There have been times where I have actually... And especially if somebody builds up like a three goal lead, then you can always, because that's usually going to work no matter what, whether those goals were scored within one minute or. They're just better.

One every 15 minutes, yeah. Yeah, it's just tough because I know that, I believe in the NFL, they've proven the sudden change. So if you have a sudden change play, you're more likely to have a chunk play on offense in the next two plays, like a bad interception or a strip fumble, while everybody's collectively like, fuck.

Yeah, but you have to call that play too. And if you have Jason Garrett, you're more likely to have a run up the middle. Subtle things down. Your boys are a little excited. Yeah. I remember that was a big Parcells thing, take a shot.

Yeah. Like right then, when you get a shift. Because he would say it's a momentum shift, but really it's you taking advantage of the, you know, we've talked to Brandon Aubrey, oh my gosh, it was a chain, all of a sudden I'm out there. So all of a sudden those defenders are now out there. Like you're getting your bearings straight, you weren't expecting it. The drive hadn't ended, It was just an interception now

I'm out here right away. Okay, let's take that shot right now. You have it's tactical not you I mean the momentum feel is there but then you had to actually do something and You know, that's I Don't know it just did You know that I bring it up every time like it doesn't work. No. Which is pretty often too. Yeah, and I.

But I do agree, there is a feel, there is something going on, but I think if you're a pro athlete, you can't almost acknowledge momentum in the moment because you have to, you can make a play, you can. You can get something done on your side. You can make a great play you can. You can get something done on your side. You can make a great play. And they didn't.

And then they had a number of great chances and they didn't cash in and then the game, pretty much. It felt like it was over. It felt like it was over when it was two nothing Friday night. It felt like it was over when it was two nothing yesterday. I don't know. They look a little slower. That's pretty much where they are.

Ben, watching Ben in person is tough. If you can just keep a tracker, like watch a guy every time he's on the ice. Not sure what he's giving you. Robo, same thing. Just a handful of passengers. Oh, I did want to say, tomorrow night the Sorroys are doing a live stream watching the game with Kelly Forbes. Oh really? Good bit. I mean we'll see. It's a good idea for a bit. No, I think the Sorruys doing a live stream at night is a good idea for a bit.

We will see if it is a good bit in the long term, but I think that's great. They're just doing something different. I know, if it is a good bit in long term, but I think that's great. It's different. They're just doing something different. I know, it's different listening to it in the morning. I feel like whenever you do this now, but Bob especially would watch like True Detective Sunday morning at seven. I'm like, what is wrong with you?

But listen to the sororities at 5.30 or something. And they're all partying. Yeah, it's a different experience. Troy Stetcher, do you know who that is? No. He is an Edmonton player apparently. Are you familiar with him? No? Okay, they had him on between periods Friday night, I believe. And it's just funny to hear

guys swear on the radio and hear the radio guys like be like, oh Okay, so American Airlines Center and Troy much like the other night I would think the team leaves the ice feeling pretty good about the way the opening 20 minutes developed Yeah, you're absolutely right. I was a good first 20 Also every hockey player. Yeah It's not just the stars kids. They all sound exactly the same. Exactly the same. They all got that breathe in.

Oh, well, yeah. They were good. Like you said, though, last game we had a great first 20, a great first 40. Now they shit the bed on the third, so the focus is on a good strong second here. All right, well, one of the things that you need to get going and... He said they shit the bed, so, yeah, they're on. Look, you're not on the power play. You have played on the power play at different levels.

It tends to be a little bit cyclical, but you guys are now two for four. This is funny, too, because I've done this. You get the player they give you. Oh, without a doubt. Between periods, sometimes it's just going to be the spare. And it's the... But I want to ask him about the, oh, he's not on the power play. Well, you've seen- Yeah, but you can imagine what it'd be like if you were though.

Imagine if you were, you've been on a power play before, right? I mean, everybody was hurt once. Played different levels. It tends to be a little bit cyclical, but you guys are now two for four. And Ryan Nugent Hopkins has those two goals. And you- Tell me about what it's like to play with. That's tough.

Your thoughts on the PP goal. They're a smart man. They're about boxing bodies and that good things are going to happen. So we obviously got the two best players in the world on our team. And they have a lot of creativity to make plays. But sometimes less is more.

And when things aren't going right, just get boxing bodies and then you get rewarded. So that's a big goal at a crucial part of the game and we've got to carry it forward. I could actually, so the one thing I couldn't do is like the hockey, but otherwise I could be a player. Like I could say all these things. I know exactly what he's going to say before he says it. Like, oh, you know, just got to get the puck, the puck, the crown of the net, man.

You know how to, how to clean up on the plain food. Absolutely, yeah. A lot of the player stuff I could do. Fruit water, you're pretty good at. I love to wear the same thing every day. Yeah. And the same thing all my buddies are wearing. I'll get the exact same suitcase we all have.

Like, I could be a player for sure. Troy, that's a great interview, but please don't indulge my partner by saying how smart he is. I fucking love Bob. Oh my God. I love Bob so much. Troy, that's a great interview, but please don't indulge my partner by saying how smart he is. I fucking love Bob. Oh my God. I love Bob so much.

Sorry boys. Hey, the Daily Double. Troy started it with some color, full analysis, and finished it. That's why you tuned in to 880 Chet. Hey, it's got to be after midnight somewhere, right? Look at Bob. He's giggling like a schoolboy. What?

Nothing, Edmonton. I think he said flip. Yeah, something like that. Oh, it's cut. Noach and Hopkins for Bouchard and Dry-Subtle, 5.51. Time of the power play goal. We'll see whether they allow us back for the second period. Maybe they pulled a license, folks.

Renegade Edmonton Oil and Radio here. I mean, that's a hard F-bomb. That shocked me. So. But it's still just weird because if you're ever around a. I mean, that's a hard F-bomb, that shocked me. But it's still just weird, because if you're ever around a hockey locker room, that's every other word. And then they have to act, it's just a weird bit. Where we have to really change the image

of what the people really are, in theory, I guess. It's all so silly. I mean, nothing said this more than the Trayvon Digs D's nuts thing last year. Like, it went from he did something he thought was funny to now he's doing a canned photo op. I don't remember, what was that? Oh, you know, Mike Leslie tweeted out a play.

It was a play where Trayvon was not super pumped on tackling. Yeah. But it wasn't one of his worst. And quickly after the game, Trayvon saw it and went up to Mike Leslie. And he said something like, do you want to explain it? He's like, I bet you explained Dee's nuts. But it was a photo thing. Got him.

Yeah. Yeah. Media. When's the next game? Tomorrow night, I think. Yeah. Tomorrow night. Are we going to Edmonton?

Go visit, do a little simulcast with Ace Burpee? He's Winnipeg. Oh. Those are different places. Pretty sure. Find the Euler's Girl from last year. That came up the other day, yeah. Oh, the Euler's Girl, yeah, where is she?

What do you guys think she was going to do? Win an Oscar this year? I think you've got to set your sights a little high. She should be back! The same thing with Hawk 2 is like, oh, you know know they turned down two million dollars from Playboy because their standards are so much higher you get 15 minutes I feel like she was in Playboy she was but it was right okay she's out and bro down the fake one or it's Playboy but without nipples my recollection of 2024 boobs that got us really excited online was this girl and the

girl in the portal where they could see you like in France or wherever it was. Yeah, that was cool. That was the same one at the Trump, she was the same lady, the one who flashed Trump during one of his speeches. Oh, recently? Yeah. This woman, I'm on her Instagram. She was recently on a plane, so it looks like things

are going pretty well. Portal lady, or is this? Euler's girl. Yeah, her name is Katie. For a while, she was basically in my Twitter feed, like for some reason, I guess because I clicked on the one. And then. You searched Euler's tits oilers yeah yeah why is this super weird like I don't know all right all right all right I'm thinking about filing a claim with

the NSA yeah I'm hacked oilers boobs well this did you see the what she's not like a particularly attractive woman. She's in Edmonton, bro. She's not thick enough for you, Jake. She's like Edmonton eight. Oh, she's thick enough for Jake, there's no doubt. Nah, I don't know, let's just move on. What were you saying?

She had a very meth vibe. Yeah, yeah, there you go. I feel like Edmonton is kind of the south of Canada. Can you have a meth vibe and be all fat? Yeah, you know what? First of all, she's not fat at all. Your definition of fat is insane. And two.

I have high standards. By far the most. For other people, not for me. By far the most Larry David moment I had in the Hab. There was a woman, she was probably about my age, black lady, she was easily four bills and you know, exactly what you're thinking. Like she walked, Nike slides, sweatpants, tank top and you know, I met her, she was super sweet, had a funny laugh and what they

say in rehab is DOC for drug of choice. So you're not supposed to be just like, hey, what's ruining your life or what do you love? They say like, oh, what's your DOC? I don't know that I ever said it, but I heard somebody say it to her, and she was like, oh, I smoke meth. And I was like, very much Larry David. Really?

How long? She was like several years. Teeth are white, she's real fat. I's like several years. Teeth are white. She's real fat. She's like, whoa. Huh. OK. So do they make fun of you because you're there for alcohol?

That seems really low. Yeah. I mean. If you've got some meth head next to you, you're like, yeah. Yeah, but you know. Margaritas. I don't know, man. I mean, yes.

There's some of that. But also, you know, it's a very serious issue, Dan. Like you got to throw in some lies. Man, I was drinking hairspr. I mean, yes, there's there's some of that but also, you know, it's very serious issue Dan like you gotta throw in some lies like man I was drinking hairspray and stuff too. Like you just gotta You guys spice it up a little. Yeah some fish stories. No, no, but Yeah, anyways Beth you see the overworked Twitter joke of the week after the Pacers beat the next the Knicks to go up to oh Um, was it about Paul George I after the Pacers beat the Knicks to go up 2-0? Was it about Paul George?

I have a Paul George thing for you, but the Twitter thing I kept seeing was the picture of George Bush reading to school children and a guy leaning over in his ear and saying, "'Sir, the Halliband just hit the second tower.'" Halliband is really good. And so this is, it's interesting, the path we have traveled to get to here, to where you're playing a New York team.

Right. And against a guy whose name you can kind of put into the Taliban, and we can just openly have fun with it. Like just remember the days after 9-11 or the years, the first couple years perhaps. I mean this would have been the worst thing ever. But and I'm not complaining about it, believe me. I was doing challenger jokes right away. Yeah I feel like we're almost, we've gotta be as close to a president that you've seen a D-pick to a president

who at one point tweeted a 9-11 joke. Like isn't there some 20-year-old kid at Harvard right now who's done a silly 9-11 joke? Maybe a little video? I don't know if he's at Harvard anymore, he might be back home. For the joke? Oh. They might have a, okay, he might be back home. For the joke? Oh.

They might have a. Okay, damn. Isn't that a little political humor? I love, Dan is definitely listening to daily political news. Yeah, I gotta stop. He's in his top five. Top five, five things.

Five things, yeah. Oh, I hope she's there today. I didn't see her this morning. It wasn't up and flying yet, Memorial Day. So how can, if you didn't serve her this morning. She wasn't, it wasn't up and flying yet, Memorial Day. So how can, if you didn't like serve in the military, why does everybody get off this day? To remember them. Observe.

Yeah, that's what we're doing. But we're working. Today's show is brought to you by Fairleys, but dedicated to the troops who lost their lives. Okay. So, do you have anything else? The Paul George thing. Paul George thing is delectable.

Are you talking about like, that two teams could be in the finals that were built on Paul George trades? Yes, yes. The Pacers traded Paul George to OKC for Oladipo and Sabonis. Sabonis developed as a player, and then they traded him for Tyrese Halliburton. Insane.

The Thunder traded Paul George for SGA and seven picks and swaps. One of this, well, those turned into Jalen Williams. And of course, SGA, so. The Kings had Halliburton. They could have had Luca, and it was all because of De'Aaron Fox that they didn't, and now they don't have De'Aaron Fox. That's a very tough draw for them.

Like if you wanna think, man, the Mavs have it the worst ever, at least you had Luca for a little bit, and it might even be worse having had him. Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't know if I wanna have that. But to better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all? I don't know.

It was fun while it lasted. If it was, like right now you have the option, let's go even younger, they're like five or six years old and you're enjoying your children and someone's like, well, I'm gonna kill both of them in front of you, it's gonna be bad. And then afterward they're like, would you rather have just had that or none at all? You would take none at all.

Especially right afterward, ask me a year afterward. You know, when I'm back out. Yeah, it's a good one. Yeah, it's a good one. Are you guys keep? Bear trap. Okay. What?

You kill, it's okay, if some people's children pass, I mean unless they were brutally murdered, I don't think this is a bear trap. He's saying they were brutally murdered. Okay, well. But, and they're laughing. And I'm sad, I feel like I'm getting played. Okay.

Are you keeping track of what's going on in college football? With what? I don't know and I just change the playoff formats in the offseason now, I guess the SEC and the Big Ten have Gone full steam ahead with a plan to have a 16 team playoff this year that features four automatic qualifiers for the SEC and the Big Ten. And then there's like a four, four, two, two, one, one, like they're basically, there's a first four. Wait, so there's two qualifiers for the Big Ten,

two for SEC? Four. Four for each. Four for each? Yes. So half the playoff will be from those two conferences? Yeah, unless they expanded beyond 16. I think it's 16, yeah.

And so they keep saying, well, that's what we've been averaging, but it just completely kills the season. Yeah, for sure. And it's all about, it'd just be about seeding. So I think this is for this year. Are they also, because I thought I saw a headline where they were going to 2026. This would start in 2026.

I thought I saw a headline where they were going to at least your four conference winners wouldn't be guaranteed by they won be. The reseeding is changing. So yeah, they would have 14 teams, four births each for the SEC. So if they they could have the top four teams all with buys are all SEC teams. Yeah. If they were ranked one through four. Although not necessarily because it's just based on the committees bit, right? They don't even go by ranking. So the way they want to do it right now is that the 13 through 16 would play the weekend after Army Navy.

13, 16, 14, 15, and now we have our bracket. It's really, really confusing and frustrating because It's really, really confusing and frustrating because it occurred to me that the reason that they're having to do this is because they're trying to maximize revenue at like an insane private equity level.

And the reason that they're gonna have to do that is because we always thought like, man, college football's making a lot of money, they should pay the players. But then when it came time to start paying the players, they were never just gonna keep making the same amount of money. They had to make more money, especially now,

because they're about to have to start directly paying the players. So while we all thought, man, they're making a lot of money, they should pay the players, they thought, well, if the players are getting paid, we have to figure out how to make more money. And in the process, we're gonna ruin the sport. We're gonna completely ruin the sport

by destroying everything that's made it kind of cool. And I'm not trying to be like old man here. I don't mind realignment, but this is weird. It's just not... So you've already kind of destroyed it with the realignment. Yeah, now I guess just let's keep going. If you have USC in the Pac-10, or excuse me,

in the Big Ten. Yeah, and. And they're playing Michigan and Illinois and whatever. I mean, for some reason it still seems like fine to me that USC is playing Michigan and Ohio State, it's like their blue bloods, but do you remember how much people hated the BCS? It was horrible. Like they finally kind of got something halfway right. Now

they're like, this is a very weird idea. How many teams were in the playoff last year? Just four? No, 12. And now there's gonna be 16. We went from four to 12, yeah. Yeah. And we're just bump We went from four to 12. Yeah. Yeah. And we're just bumping it right up to 16. Yeah. So those first four will play and then they'll go into a six game bracket on the second weekend and then there will be two teams that have double buys.

But I don't, it's just so weird. Is this because Alabama hasn't made the playoffs in the last two years? They got to figure it out. I don't know. This improves the chance you get a blue blood deeper in the playoffs. It's where it has to stem.

Yeah. You're able to appease any smaller schools that end up with really good records? You at least get them in the playoff. Yeah, but that's gonna be super tough. I mean, okay, Stuart Bandel wrote about it today. Last season this would have been in the playoff the first weekend, Miami number 13 versus Clemson number 16 and Ole Miss number 14 versus South Florida number 15. As he said, this used to be known as the Outback Bowl.

Yeah, that's too much. Not the playoff. Really weird. I think there's a lot going on in college athletics. And then it just shows up like, oh, this is done. They did this, it's over. In a way, will this also expose certain teams or coaches or whatever that were, if you can kind of stay in the,

you know, the big 12 for years, and you're always kind of competitive among the top, like that looks good for you. Is this gonna hurt Oklahoma now? Is this gonna hurt USC and UCLA? Just if you're in these big conferences. Well, the reason I don't think it'll hurt you is because if all you have to do is Get into the top four You win a few big games and you can get that and then if you're a talented enough team to Finish in the top four in the SEC or the Big Ten, you can roll the dice in a 16-team format

and probably expect to be making it to the final four every few years. But the whole thing's a mess. The portal and I, I don't know, that stuff is all weird. This one bothers me. It actually bothers me to think of this being how they award a college football champion. Because it's gonna get to the point

where the SEC and the Big Ten or whatever will be their own league. Yeah. With their own playoffs and with their own champion and then the rest of the group of five will have their, and it's. It bothers me. Yeah.

Well, what do you mean? I mean, they are their own league. I mean, they're gonna have their own playoffs and championship and it's. Oh, just the SEC and Big Ten will yeah I mean, that's the way it's headed and then my last sport story real quick here is just You see Jerry getting photographed out at a bar over the weekend, I love it. I know it's not news

I have the entire article right in front of me here. Okay, York Post Fantastic and I have the the picture in there for you, Clayton, if you want to enhance this whole thing. This is, of course, also today in Twitter. Headline, Jerry Jones goes viral for photos with young blonde at Dallas bar. So he's 82 years old. So just the fact Jerry Jones, or is he 81?

Is at a Dallas bar is something, but that's who he is. He will never change. Here's the old article. Jerry Jones has become the center of attention again, this time after being photographed with a young blonde woman at a Texas bar. The images, which quickly went viral, have sparked speculation regarding the woman's identity and her affiliation with the high-profile cowboy's owner. So let's translate that.

The images, which quickly went viral, has sparked speculation regarding the woman's identity and her affiliation with the hyper, is this Oaker? Yeah. Is this, is he tagging this lady? Did he just have sex with her in a bathroom? Much like we thought perhaps happened with the Vegas photo years ago. That woman, was that in Vegas, Clayton?

I know she was from Ada, Oklahoma. You're talking about the woman where she's at as junk? Yes. Okay. The woman photographed with the 81-year-old Jones has been identified as Jessica Jane Farrow, a real estate manager at Viori Clothing. Ah, what?

Viori, Vori? Yeah, but a real estate manager at a clothing company? Yeah, you gotta buy the sites. Okay. Where's the next Viori, Vori? Yeah, but a real estate manager at a clothing company? Yeah, you gotta buy the sites. Okay. Where's the next Viori gonna go? Okay, businessman. I was in that world for about six months. Okay.

I'm a Viori fan. I know you are. It'd be hard not to know that. Let's hook up with him. Let's get a promo code going. Lincoln build. I would love to promote Viori. It's okay, the woman has been identified.

A real estate manager at Biore Clothing, Inwood Tavern in Dallas, according to the Daily Mail. So I don't know. That doesn't all make sense, but they were at the Inwood Tavern. Farrow's Instagram profile, at Jessica Jane Farrow, showcases her interest in books, philanthropy, fashion, wine, art, travel, and wellness. Wellness, eh? Is this written by AI? Farrow has previously appeared

on the Live BTR podcast last October after she was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. And she discussed her health journey to remission. Gross. Jones, 82, has been happily married to Eugenia, quote, Jean, unquote, since 81. Or 81, since 1963. And nothing about the recent photos suggest anything but the Cowboys owner taking

a selfie with a fan. And nothing about the recent photos suggest anything but the Cowboys owner taking a selfie with a fan. Jean, former Miss Arkansas USA, has maintained a relatively private life, despite her husband's high profile status. Didn't mention her high school state championship in basketball.

That's right. They have three children, Stevens, Charlotte, and Jerry Jr., all of whom hold executive positions within the Cowboys organization. The Cowboys organization. The Cowboys are preparing for the 2025 NFL season under new head coach, Brian Schottenheimer. How does he make the article? Dude, because everybody's talking about him.

The team is looking to improve upon their disappointing 7-10 record from the previous season and return to playoff contention, which is expected to be challenging in an improved NFC East. Thank you, Daily News. Quite a New York Post article which yes does sound AI written. A human did not write that. But if AI wrote it, they in the beginning of the article call him the 81 year old Jones and later say he's 82 in the same article. Dumb robots. So I would think robots would figure that out. Oh I do have a... Well you know what, can we take a break?

How about that? I guess we can. You want answers? I think I'm entitled. You want answers? I want the truth! You can't handle the truth! Franco and Franco and understanding of the law and its power.

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And I just finished eating so I got a floss. Okay, well it's The Dumb Zone Generic Summer Event at the local Shacks at Austin Ranch. It's June 7th. it's 6 o'clock. Blake will be there. Jimmy Nelson will be there. Jimmy Nelson will be here tomorrow as well in studio. No, I think it's next week, right? I don't know what you two want from me.

You told him to rebook it and I saw on the calendar he rebooked it. Oh, it's already done. Mm-hmm. Okay. But if you want him in tomorrow, I can get him back? Tomorrow we will have Jared Sandler instead of today. So we can get the update on Jock Peterson. Things are going really well.

He got hit with a pitch. Oh no. Yeah, he's out of the lineup. Don't spoil it. He's out of the lineup. Yeah, June 7th. The one thing- Now you didn't say that it's presented by Qualys Roofing.

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The other guys really love when you only mention his name. I've heard Well, it's not really true me. Uh, where's the note? He handed me and make sure you mentioned me a lot. Yeah Yeah, I don't know. I think it was a text probably your phone. Okay. Yeah, cuz you guys are buddies Yeah, it was supposed to be Gafford mechanical, but Said it's basically that, yeah. Sorry, Jake, I interrupted you and stuff. Go ahead.

Also brought to you by Texas Trident, Silverback Construction. I said those things. I said them. Okay. You're yelling at me for everything today. You know what it is? The troops. It's what it is.

It is the troops. No, it's his troops. I remember my grandpa. You know what it is? The troops. It's what it is. It is the troops. No, it's his troops. It's that he's emboldened by having his little assholes in the house. So now he shows up here, he's like, I'm gonna roast everybody. Okay, so now we can just call each other's kids assholes.

I guess that's off-limits. Everybody's kids are assholes. I think they're all precious gifts from God. I think that the- You're too far removed. Heph-Ison? What? Are you a kid?

Oh, you're an intern. Oh, I suddenly thought you actually had your kids in the house. Oh, hey, Sarah. No, they're home. They're at his house, yeah. Oh, at his house. I thought you meant in this house.

It's Sarah Heppala, everybody. Sorry, hi. Hi. Thank you, thank you. everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Lest we dredge up the what can we can't we say about the female of them through so far. Like the families. Anyway the who was saying okay I thought Sarah would be good to bounce this off of. Who was saying something okay, I thought Sarah would be good to bounce this off of. Who was saying something about it's their birthday or, oh, you were saying Machine's birthday.

Yeah, we went to dinner Saturday night. And it was for Machine's birthday, couples. Yes. So at the Dumb Zone Generic Summer event, Julie Dobbs is like, I can't go. It's my birthday. Been planning something for my birthday. Oh, all right.

Her birthday is June 4th, but the event is on June 7th. Ah. But is it a weekend? June 7th is a weekend, Saturday, June 7th. But June 4th is a weekday, so she's celebrating her birthday that weekend. Okay, but. It's fair.

You just like, oh, I can't be at our biggest event that we have as a company, because my birthday is somewhere within that range. It's within the- I don't know what kind of font is in the contract. So, you know, like, I don't know- I'm gonna sit this play out. what kind of font is in the contract. So, you know, like I don't know. I'm gonna sit this play out.

I'm just saying, how old do we, is this just a girl thing is what I'm saying. Well, what birthday is it? I don't care. It's her 40th. That's, okay. Now you have no. You made me reveal her age, which she'll now be men.

That's first of all, she looks great. Yeah, that's tricky though, right? Because when you're a lady, you want everybody to be, it's all about you, it's all about you, it's all about you, and it's your birthday, when it's 40, you're probably gonna have to tell them, right? You really want it to be about you. Okay, Julie should feel no embarrassment

because she looks fantastic. So there's no shame in that. Well, he wasn't saying she didn't. No, he was. He wasn't commenting on it at all, really. He was commenting on it. No, I'm saying that if she, don't give me that look. Well, I don't think of women like that,

whether they're attractive or not. I just think about the content of their character, but go ahead. The content of her character looks great for 40, and so she should be really proud, but I'm gonna now come strongly into her camp and tell you that she has a big 40th bash planned that weekend and you shouldn't take it personally. It's not about

whether she loves you guys or not. She doesn't. I wasn't taking it personally I just thought you just gotta... I don't want birthdays acknowledged for me. I don't care. Yeah I think you know. Because I'm not 11. I think I Think a lot of people probably deal with this but I know I do which is that I just can't expect everyone else to think like I do right. I think it's ridiculous. That's where you're The will of the world to match us. Yeah, and sometimes that's okay like look Christmas starts at noon Yeah, and sometimes that's okay. Like look, Christmas starts at noon, you know, whatever we want.

Like my daughters are in town this week and they're very upset with when I want to eat dinner. Is Julie a mom? Yeah. Okay, so if you're a mom, you have to like constantly be worried about everybody else's needs and everything else they want. And there's this one day out of the year that she wants to kind of... It ain't one.

Yeah, what about mothers? They got a whole slew of them. Every other day is for the mother. Yeah. Yeah. There's this swath of days. Yeah. Then we got articles about how much, you know what?

You should actually be making $280,000 for just for- I don't have any, I don't have any, you know, I don't have any issue. Dan will be there. I, oh yeah, yeah, the generic summer event. It's presented by Qualis. Well, I noticed you didn't invite me. We just did.

Pfft. Do you want, like, you wanna be on the marquee though? Oh, I don't know. I don't even, I just learned about it on the show. We were thinking about bringing back, we were thinking about doing like wet shorts contest. Not going to play that. No, for dudes.

For dudes, like we get up there with like light. I'll be a judge. Because again. You spray. Yeah. The three of us or whoever, whatever, Travis, big fella. Or it should be a wet t-shirt contest for dudes. It could be a wet t-shirt contest,

but it could just be like linen shorts, and you're just in your nuts blessed. I think that'd be hilarious. It's hilarious, but what are you judging exactly? What are you judging when you do a wet t-shirt contest? They're abs. Oh.

Like, and a guy. Oh yeah, well, I guess we're- Or your boobs. Yeah. Well, let's make them fat guys though. Yeah, I mean- Well, you could join if you're hot and you have abs. But I'm just guessing.

We're body positive. I'm just guessing. Maybe it's about a performance. If we were inviting our listeners out there, there would be more to choose from if we said, let's have fat guys than guys with abs. Reserved from the Abercrombie and Fitch models. Really what I'm going for here is you guys know

when you go swimming if you don't have a bathing suit on how that's like a top three uncomfortable moment for man. Like you have shorts on but not a bathing suit. How funny that looks when you get out. Well how does it look? Ah, it's. It's not great. What do you mean?

It's weird, it's like a wet t-shirt. It clings around, yeah. I just want that on stage. Like dudes just with soaked. You want to see the ridge? I want to see the wet ridge. Yeah. Yeah.

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And if they don't have one of their own, then they have to accept those that are donated. This is how we ended up with those jokesters a couple years ago that were donating the pillars of Islam or something. See, you've gotta put that in there too, but I think they've cleaned that up. It's gotta be the 10 Commandments. Ah, good. Yeah. Yep.

The weird thing about it is I don't know that many people who are, I spend a lot of time around a lot of conservatives, religious people, Republicans. I don't know anybody that's like, this is definitely something we have to do. Feels like a politician virtue signal gone wild. Definitely. That's the thing, that virtue signaling

is on all sides, isn't it? Oh, of course, I'm just saying this seems like the sort of deal where you're out there and you're like, we're gonna get it back in schools, and everybody's like, I don't think he means literally, right? He's like, no, I'm gonna hang a poster. It's probably an easy win.

I guess, yeah. I mean, it passed pretty easily. I don't know. I guess I'll monitor the situation and see if, like, do they have a big unveiling? I don't know. I guess I'll monitor the situation and see if, like, do they have a big unveiling? Like, for us, it's like us in a studio sponsorship where they, like, get all the kids around

and they're like, look, we got a new thing. Do they explain it at all? How many of the Ten Commandments can you name? Oh. You got your kill. Yeah, that's strong in there. Do not kill. Yet that's not even number one though, right? Do they rank them in order of importance? Or is it like a top ten list? Is kill one? God is first. God, what do

you mean? God should be first in your life. So what's the commandment? It's like a don't talk about Fight Club thing. It's like a superseding. about Fight Club thing. It's like a superseding commandment. Thou shalt have no gods over me. Oh, God is a mess. OK. Seems like he's kind of implied. He or she is very just a little. Insecure?

Yeah, you know, like, come on. You already got us here. We're doing commandments. I listen to you. Yeah. OK, kill. Just in case. kills kills what? Covet the neighbor wife is it you said is it neighbor or brother? But how hot is she thy neighbor's wife?

She came on to me It doesn't matter There's no parentheticals. I don't covet this. I'm just here. And there she is. The thing is, it's not. Also, it's tricky because it's not even just his wife.

Also, if he has a cool lawnmower, you can't. Don't covet. That's not in there. Uh-huh. When he says wife, he means everything. When it says don't covet, that one's all about just don't be jealous. So that's really about.

And to really drive it home, which is interesting, for God to drive home the idea of don't be jealous, he's like, let's cut to the trace. Don't fuck your neighbor's wife. I understand that's gonna be the most jealous that you're gonna get. So that's really interesting because wife is sort of seen as the pinnacle of your neighbor's property.

That's what he's saying. Exactly. Yeah. I didn't realize. Or she. Whoever's saying it. That's interesting. You're saying a lady can own property?

That's ridiculous. Especially in Bible time, Jay. Don't talk shit. Don't take the Lord's name in vain. Don't be putting my name in your mouth. Don't be putting my name in your mouth. Don't disrespect me. Observe the Sabbath. Okay.

Like just- Define observe. Like there it is. Raise awareness. You have to raise awareness for the Sabbath. The- Yeah. The band? No one's with me? All right.

Blake, are you aware there's a band with Sabbath in the name? Are you really trying to dig out of this? I just, I did it for you. Okay, I'm gonna wear a black Sabbath. There you go. We have- There you go, kids.

A very sad story out of Jacksonville. This was sent to me many times. There's a doctor named Bruce Mitchell. He lives at Sawgrass in Florida, like the Sawgrass. Or he did live there because he's facing felony charges. Hey Jim, thanks for having us here, of course. Felony. Felony. Felony.

He's out driving, he's a doctor, he was a Mayo Clinic physician, he's out driving his black Range Rover and he's at an intersection and a group of teens jokingly toss... Cheese. A piece of cheese. He reacts thinking that he has been shot after this cheese landed in his backseat. He fired five shots into the air and hit I think at least one of the kids. No deaths but shot one of the kids. So his windows were down? Yeah, I guess so. There's not a lot of details in this story,

but it says they tossed it into, from the back seat and it flew towards his vehicle. Pretty funny. Not a reciprocal response, right? Feels a little disproportionate. Yeah. But again. Like one shot, okay.

I don't know if there's ever a gun involved in this. Oh, really? Why did they throw cheese? Oh. It's funny. Yeah, so this is a bit I used to do. And I've seen it coming back. It's really, I feel respected, you know? But you just, you toss it,

especially when it's hot, Florida, Texas, you toss it into traffic, especially if they're coming towards you, like oncoming traffic, and it just lands on their windshield, like a slice of Kraft or Velveeta, and then when they hit their windshield, it's hot, and it just smears melted cheese all over their window, and people get really- You're just sliming them, basically.

Yeah, yeah, exactly, but with the, you know. Food products. Food products. I've had people get really upset at me over that. Never shot at though. Gotta be a beating to clean off. Oh God, it's so bad. You know what it's like?

It's like when you're trying to take a label off something and you just get the top part and you really, you need your Goo Gone or something of that ilk, but it's on your whole windshield. It's so gross, dude, and it's the hot part of it. But yeah, I don't think it's worth shooting somebody over. Well, that's your perspective, but you gotta give this guy the benefit of the doubt.

That's true. I'm gonna let it play out in the courts. As you want to do. I haven't seen a bunch of injuries at the lakes over the weekend. You know, this is always big. There's something going on at Grapevine Lake. I got one.

What do you got? Somebody on a kayak who was struck by a jet ski. That was it. Yeah. And I was out there, you know. I was thinking that could be TC, because I knew he was over your house and stuff. He was over there.

I was jet skiing. He was over there. By the way, side note, just an absolute mind deaf when you see your child playing with your friend from when you were. By the way, side note, just an absolute mind-eff when you see your child playing with your friend from when you were, I don't know, when I see my kid playing with TZ, it trips me out. At a level I can't explain, I don't know why.

It looks like you, was it? I don't know, it's just like, oh, she meets Dan and it's like, oh, that's cool, whatever, but I don't know, just something about his daughter and my daughter playing together with him trips me out. Anyways, it was not him, but it was someone on a jet ski at Grapevine Lake and someone on a kayak, which is what I did a couple weeks ago in the evening.

And the thing that strikes me is, when's the last time you drove a boat? It's been a while. Like as a teen, maybe, or young adult. Anybody in here boat guy currently? Clayton is. Pontoon. The thing is about the lake with jet skis and with boats,

they don't really teach you how to do it. As far as the laws, there's a lot of, we hope you kind of understand what we're going for here as far as the flow of this thing. But you can kind of just get out there and tear ass. Mm-hmm. I mean, when you think about having to take the whole class for Driver's Ed, the whole,

the instructions and the videos and the parallel parking and all that, and then with the boat, they're just kinda like, you got this, right? Right, stay away from those. Yeah. You're like, well, which one? There's a lot over there. It's very...

You have to be able to read when it says no wake and know what that means. What does it mean? I mean... No messing around. You don't wanna go real fast and creating waves. Okay. In that area.

Yeah, when you go into a, you know, you're supposed to like idle, basically, right above idle. But unless it's your dad's boat and he has told you that, that's how I learned, how would you know that if you're just a guy who's on a boat? And then to me, out in the open waters where I found it, it kind of just seems like we're all just reading each other. There's no real lane. It's kind of like the future is gonna be with flying cars, right? Yeah. How you gonna have lanes up there? Think about it. I mean, you know, you said you did the bikes in Amsterdam with the girls as part of a tour. We didn't do

it as part of a tour. They just let us rent bikes, and to me that felt like renting a car on 635 chaos with No idea how to navigate it the laws or anything therein All right, so Did this diddy trial thing just fall in your lap or did you oh, that's right Sarah's here Yeah, she's our Diddy trial expert. Yeah. And I wanted to say, we'll make this brought to you by Frankel and Frankel. That's good. Because they are lawyers that you might need at some point, especially personal injury.

I don't know if some of these people probably got hurt. Generally, they're for car crashes. I mean, that's a lot of people will call Frankel and Frankel if you get in an auto accident. But, you know, if you're on a kayak and you get hit by a jet ski and you got your cell phone... That'd be perfect! Let's get that guy on and tell them about Frankel and Frankel. They will get you what you deserve. Yeah, it sounds like he needs some help. So 2-1-4 or 8-1-7, 3-3-3, 33-33. They're

good people. I don't know, you have this idea, but you're gonna be dealing with insurance agents, attorneys, everybody's out to get you shady. The Frankles are good people. Hit them up, 214-817-3333-3333, and now tip that kayak back over. Oh, that'd be great. Anyways, did you intend to follow this trial?

Like it seemed to me when the Johnny Depp, Amber Heard thing happened, there were just a lot of people who just sort of happened upon it and then they were just sleuths. Yeah, and I went up to DC for that trial. Did you? I was there, yeah. Wow. Yeah, so I have a sort of-

Supporting Johnny? Well- Since you're of the Man-osphere? What? How am I of the Man-osphere? I don't know, I sort of identify her as like, female who's done with all this lefty bullshit. That's true. So-

That doesn't mean I'm in the Man-osphere though. Although describe the Man-osphere. I think we're in it right now. Okay, then I like it. Yes. Okay, well, I do have a little bit of a minor. You couldn't tell from the nicotine pouch edge? Specialty.

Specialty. I don't know, I can't tell if the Manosphere is like Nick Fuentes or Joe Rogan. No, no. You know, like it sounds. Or Rogan. Yeah, okay, well, I have kind of a minor specialty in me two cases stemming out of the book

that I wrote in 2015. Because Blackout, you know, was, it emerged into a world that was having this kind of reckoning over drinking and sex. And I became a specialist in that, sort of reluctantly. I really didn't want to. I dragged my feet on a couple of cases because to actually speak with rigor and honesty

about some of these cases would get you canceled, which is part of my disillusioning with the, you know, I used to work at Salon, an echo chamber liberal site. So I'm starting to run afoul of like the dogma because of these cases, but I have followed several of them very, very close. I wrote for the New York Times about the Brett Kavanaugh

case, because that's a blackout case. Yeah. I like beer. What? I like beer, didn't nobody said? Like over and over and over. I like beer. I like beer.

Devil's Triangle. And then I, Devil's Triangle, boof. Boof. Are you aware too that there was an era, well I guess the era was all of humanity or all of time before Me Too era. Yeah. But like the movie 16 Candles.

Oh yeah. It's like great. Culturally, yeah. Because he had sex with her when she was blacked out. When she was in a blackout. And that's great, that's what we all aspire, as with her when she was blacked out. When she was in a blackout. And that's great. That's what we all aspire. As a kid, I literally aspired to that.

Not only that. Like, I would love to. I knew I could never nail the hot chick in school. Right. What if she was blacked out at a party? That would be a great opportunity, just like in the movie I just watched. It was like the number one movie in the nation.

Actually, went back and watched that to write about it. And first of all, do you remember that A, that woman is super beautiful, but B, the next morning when she wakes up, she's like, I think I liked it. Awesome, that was great. That was really amazing. He showed her, even though she doesn't remember it.

But I actually think that's Shakespearean. If you go back and watch Midsummer Night's Dream, they're going into a forest, pixie dust is scattered all over them, they can't remember, they mix partners. It's very much like a drunken orgy. I remember that about that. Yeah. So there is a long history of that, Dan, and you're right. There was this period around 2013, 2014 where it was almost like a hobby to go back to 80s sex romps and look at what we had been indoctrinated with like I just watched Risky Business again by the way do you

remember the do you remember the the story of Risky Business I'm trying to think I know I saw it many years ago okay guy I know he has sex with the the hooker and yeah okay so's parents go out of town. He decides to get a prostitute. Then they end up starting a prostitution ring in his house to make money. And this is like championed. This is like he's won.

Man, that seems like a risky business so i don't know yeah it we did it he started doing it with songs from you know like the 60s not even the ones that there's some that are obvious you know obviously baby it's cold outside yeah but some right there but like it's, the number of them. Go back to Guns N' Roses. Turn Around Bitch I've Got a Use for You, besides you don't have nothing else to do and I'm bored. That's an actual line. You know, it's-

Yeah, but- Factual. Again, that line doesn't reference Wish You Were a Little Older or something, or, there's so many songs from the 60s that are just, it's insane. Steely Dan songs are infamous for this. So.

So anyway, so that's how. Yeah, that makes sense now. So, and like I know everything about the Harvey Weinstein case, I know everything about the Johnny Depp case. And I gather when you say probably like run afoul of the dogma on this and the role that alcohol plays in like the Me Too thing is, again, tell me if I'm wrong,

is it the idea that, look, if you're getting blackout drunk that you're somewhat responsible for putting yourself in that state where you are unable to consent? Well, there's a couple things going on. One is that I think the project of feminism has asked that women be agents of their destiny. I choose, I make a choice and I have to step up to it. And a lot of the Me Too language

felt like it was female protectionism. They can't make their choice, men need to get better, you need to protect them. And I found that, that bristled against some of my understanding of what it was to kind of. Be a woman. Be an adult. Yeah.

Be responsible for your own dumb decisions. Makes sense. This all makes sense to me. But then, while on the same case, being a man, I do think men should probably get a little better and not. No question. Not be tagging passed out chicks.

That's rape. We stand firmly against it. Firmly, yeah. But you don't have to scroll back the tape in pop culture that far to see shows about that. There's something called rules of attraction where that's a plot line. So anyway, the point is there was all,

and so much of questionable behavior and Me Too stories kind of live in the gray zone of hookup bacchanal that emerged really in the gray zone of hookup bacchanal that emerged really in the decades when after dorms became coed because it wasn't until dudes and young women, like women used to have curfews at college. You can hear Camille Paglia talking about this. You know, like back in the 60s,

the men could stay out all night, but the women had to be home at nine o'clock or 10 o'clock. Damn, that sounds awesome. And so, you know, Polya's generation was like, we don't want curfews either. And the protectionists said, but you'll get raped. And they said, then let us be raped. And then that's what happened.

And it's very complicated. I mean, I don't have like a line of, like, I don't know, there's not- Now where does all this fit into Diddy? Well, Diddy is actually not a normal- Me too, but still. Me too story, but he kind of comes out of more of the hip hop Bacchanal, so the 90s and the aughts,

where it becomes really cool to also have been in Jake. I mean, this is more Jake specialty. Yeah, 90s kid. The sex trafficking case. I don't know. 90s kid. Look, there's Jeff Tubman over here. But no, it came up because I'm asking her how

did you get into this case and now I get it because there are people like this writers like her who are into the all of these types she's probably got Baldoni opinions after you know that whole but it's a very that's a very boring case yeah so uh the Kid Cudi or excuse me the uh the Diddy one hey of which Kid Cudi was a part of on Friday because he got his car blown up. What is, it feels to me like this Diddy trial, and he was like the most famous person in the culture when I was growing up.

It seems like it's kind of, it reminds me of our trial where I don't really understand why all this other stuff is coming up. None of this seems like it has anything to do of our trial where I don't really understand why all this other stuff is coming up. It's a really good question. None of this seems like it has anything to do with the charges that he's being charged with. Because this is a federal case. They're trying to make an argument for sex trafficking and racketeering.

So racketeering is- Hold on. Go. No idea. No idea? Heard about it. Go. No idea. No idea? Heard about it.

Okay. Or is it like a concerted effort of something? It's your... Like you're not just doing it solo. What's the other one that's kind of like it? We know embezzle, kind of. We know that one. But it feels like racketeering would be involving

more than one party. Okay, we'll go with that, final answer. I mean, I'm not an expert on racketeering, except that I know that it comes out of the mafia era. When they're trying to basically get these guys on doing things, like this is, the Diddy trial is the equivalent of Al Capone getting busted on tax evasion. Okay, yeah, that's kind of what it seems like.

So there's all these other things that he's doing. Like, we know he's a domestic abuser. And there's probably something about Suge Knight and Biggie and all this other stuff that they tried to get him on. It's too big, they can't connect the dots. But they could get this, which is racketeering. So we put OJ in prison for stealing. The stealing his cards because we didn't get him on the other one. So Jake's correct that a lot of this, a lot of the testimony has seemed sort of beside the point,

but they're setting the stage for a sex trafficking thing, which is very blurry to me. That part of it is very blurry. The racketeering though includes arson, and so the Kid Cudi, is that how you say his name? Okay, that story is Jermaine. It's the first one that I've heard that I was like, okay, that just made the case.

It's like intimidation. That's part of racketeering. It's super vague. Just, I guess just going around and threatening people is actually just illegal. And he was doing a lot of that. I guess he's gonna go to jail. Yeah. Is this something

he's gonna go to jail? Yeah, I think he's gonna get found guilty. Very weird. I guess like this would be, I'm trying to think the, again, the analogous thing. It would be like Mick Jagger. Okay. I mean, he was the biggest music figure in the world

for a long time. But you know, he- So I don't know, maybe Mick Jagger's bigger, but something like that. But Mick Jagger didn't have run-ins with the law from the beginning. And one of the interesting things about Diddy. That's true.

Is that in 99, he shoots a woman in the face at a club. She said he did. And then his. Believe what? His right-hand man takes the fall for that, okay? But even before that, when he was a college promoter, do you guys know this story? When he was a college promoter at Howard,

and he and Heavy D put together the biggest festival, hip hop festival, and they oversold the tickets, and there was a huge crush and nine people died. He was like 19. I read some news reports about that event the next day. But they were like just rap fans, right? They were just rap fans, so nobody was upset. I mean, the guy is a career criminal.

I think the most interesting thing about this to me, and maybe they're just giving us a little peek, just a little peek to make us feel as if this is all real, it seems more likely than ever now to me that people that I thought were untouchable can go to jail. Yeah. And maybe. Like way more than for sure,

like whenever our parents were kids, you know? But they have to get them on other stuff. But maybe what you're also seeing is that people that were once untouchable aren't nearly as powerful as they used to be. I mean, Weinstein got nabbed because he was losing money for the company. If he hadn't been losing money for the company, I don't think they'd be. Yeah, maybe everything's the same. Just like Bob Knight doesn't get fired when he was winning national championships

He was an a-hole to his students and players before that isn't that what like To go full gummy thought with like it's so frustrating about everything is just that all principle is just tied to well Is there a reason strong enough for me to ignore it? Well, yeah, think of the NBA. You're like, yeah, no, I have a real problem with that. The NBA and China. Yeah, exactly, it's everything. I mean, LeBron wants to protest everything,

but once China gets brought up, like, look, I make a billion dollars in China. Yeah. Same with the NBA itself. They also want to support all the protesting, but when one of the GMs says, yeah, what about the whole, I don't know, what was that, Taiwan or something? Hong Kong.

Hong Kong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know, the point is, the NBA also is not as woke when that actually costs you serious money. In fact, the reason all the companies were being woke, quote, was because they thought that, well, that's the way the wind is blowing here. Sure.

So we need to institute this because it looks like the population wants it. And now it kind of is maybe going the other way. It's like, oh, OK, I guess we're not doing these woke policies, whatever that means. Like, what if you just be good, but you can't? So I want some deets on this trial, too.

You come in and- What do you want to hear? I want to hear some of the- Do you want to hear about Kid Cudi in the car exploding? No, I want to deets on this trial too. You come in and... What do you want to hear? Do you want to hear some of the... Do you want to hear about Kid Cudi? Yeah. The car exploding? No, I want to hear about the explicit text. The oil? The freak-offs? The freak-offs was last week and we talked about that.

Oh. And then Cassie came in, remember his ex? Yeah. And... Well, she was all... I also... I'm victim-blaming here or something, right? She was paid like 20 million to keep quiet about it? Okay, well, those are separate... So, she had...

This whole thing gets kicked off by a civil filing that she makes, and he settles it the next day for 20 million dollars. And so, all of those accusations were public. What's really interesting is that he doesn't settle it before she files and I don't know why that is. Like I promise you somebody came to him and said, we're gonna file this if you don't give us money. And he was like, do it.

So she does it and then the next day he settles. But all that stuff is that's a can of worms now. And so the federal case gets opened on the basis of that civil filing. And she becomes one of the, you know, she's testifying. Okay. So her testimony lasted days. I think most people, I found her a very like,

credible, interesting, very beautiful woman. She was pregnant. I think. She says it. She says it? Yeah, you just mentioned she's a beautiful woman. She's pregnant. She says it She says it Yeah, you just mentioned she's a beautiful woman, but if we do it, it's like why do you need to mention? I mean that was a completely unnecessary piece of information. I would never have noticed that so I'm glad I think women's beauty is one Of the great joys of the world. Why would you not comment on it? Write that on a card and so I can hand it to me

Write that on a card so I can hand it to people. Like Jim Nance at his toast? Yeah, so I can hand it to the next hot I see at the gym. I think we've been in a period of overcorrection for a while. Yeah, we're just ebbing around. Where women have felt a little bit bristly about this, but I'm hoping that we're coming out of that, you know? And we can go back to appreciating beauty in all its forms. You guys look, you guys are very handsome. Hey dude.

She just said I'm handsome. Okay. He's looking at Jake. Go ahead. I was looking at both of you. Freak offs. Yeah. We did have one of the women from Danity Kane.

Oh, like a group that they were trying to launch. That he put together. I remember that. Yeah. So she came in this week and kind of, it was meant to kind of bolster Cassie's testimony, but one of the problems with her testimony is, A, she's got a beef against Diddy

because she tried to get Danity Kane back together and he didn't want to. And then B, she has this story about seeing a frying pan fly, like him throw a frying pan at Cassie, and the story keeps changing. You know, when people's story keeps changing, you can't tell if it's because

memory is in fact elastic. But you know, it just I don't know, her testimony I didn't think was very interesting. There was one of his assistants that told a story about two assistants ran into Suge Knight at Mel's diner, which is the old setting for American graffiti, by the way. At like four in the morning. And they have this little like, hey, what's up? And then they go back to Diddy and they say, we saw Suge Knight. And Diddy gets three guns and they drive over

to Mel's diner to confront Suge Knight, but he's gone. Okay. So that was interesting. Yeah, he's gone. Okay. So that was interesting. Yeah, he's going to jail. And then we have another story about Kid Cudi, which, you know, that was kind of like the big celebrity moment of the week, so Kid Cudi comes in and he's apparently smoking cigs.

He was smoking a cigarette, I saw that. I love that he's bringing cigs back. I've been trying, it doesn't work. He's gonna do it. But he comes in, good looking guy. He starts dating Cassie in 2011, all right? And she tells him, you know, Sean and I, we're not really dating anymore.

So they start dating. What he doesn't know is that Cassie's using a burner phone to continue to talk to Sean and him because she knows Sean's gonna get mad. Okay, so the first thing that happens is the two of them are out on a weekend together and Puffy's assistant calls Kid Cudi and says, I think Sean's at your house,

I don't know what's happening, I'm really worried. Can I stop you there? I wouldn't date somebody who dated Diddy. Can I victim blame there? Well, do you know that now? No, no, then. Okay, here's a good example. Aren't you kinda like thinking this chick'll do anything?

Yeah. Clearly. And I'm also thinking that her ex is too powerful. Isn't there a line? Well, she's really beautiful. I know, but think about it, Dan. Like, isn't there a line? Like Shane dating the... The Navy SEAL or the black guy.

Yeah, it's like either way. You know what? I mean, the guy can have you killed. Imagine. That's part of the fun too. This guy, how popular was Cutie? You've gotta stop. Cutie.

In your head, Cutie, Cutie, Cutie, Cutie, Cutie, Cutie. Cutie. It is odd because it's one D. Usually two Ds would. Yeah, yeah. Because cutty. Cutty. It is odd because it's one D. Usually two Ds would mean. Yeah, yeah. Because he's a cutie. He was moderately popular. I don't know how to convey that,

but not like a huge, huge deal, but a big deal. Okay, but I'm just saying that people that go into that profession are so much ego. You know, you don't want to get bounced because the other guy, the ex, is more powerful than you. That just seems like a defeatist position. So I can see him going for this.

I don't know. Okay, but let me finish the story though because I'm gonna be on your side eventually, all right? He calls Puffy, who he's friends with, and he's like, motherfucker, are you in my house right now? And Sean's like, I just wanna talk to you. And so he comes back home, nobody's there, but somebody's broken in.

All the Chanel bags that he'd bought for Christmas have been rifled through. Hate that. There's, his dog who runs free in the house is like scared and in the bathroom. So he calls the police and makes a police report. Then he spends Christmas with Cassie's family. And I think this is around the time he's starting to go like,

I don't think this is worth it. But Cassie tells him that she got an email from Puffy that's like, you know, I'm gonna do something to you and I'm not gonna be in town when you do it and you're not gonna know. Like something really threatening like that. He's a superhero villain. And yeah, exactly, exactly.

And so. He sent her an email, that seems. It seems really stupid. Superhero, yeah, like, big mistake there. Really stupid. An email, of all things. Yeah. I agree with you. So, anyway, that's around the time that Kid...

Cuddy. Cuddy. Jesus. Kid Cuddy isn't home, but his car, somebody throws a Molotov cocktail into his car, and it explodes. And that's when he says, I think I'm done with this relationship.

Yeah, should have seen it coming. Should have seen it coming. I don't know, you wanna date a... Well, you don't know how much of it is all bark until your car's on fire. You get bitten, yeah. I guess so. But I would think the closer you are to that, the more you know that like, Puff Daddy is a, he's a thug.

Yeah. Yeah. He's not all bark. Well, I'm gonna let the courts let it play out. That's what you do, man. You believe women and you trust the courts. Two things I know about you. The dumb zone knew. I like that timing. Like and subscribe. So we'll do some today in history and some viewer mail birthdays brought to us by

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This is from DF number 22, Mario in Pflugerville. Pflugerville. Nice. Have you told Dan what weird hours you're keeping over here? It's insane. Why? Are you guys texting early in the morning? Yeah, I texted him at 5 a.m. this morning when I had been up for four hours.

I woke up at 1.30. She's like double shifting. Yeah. When did you go to bed? I don't remember actually because I fell asleep watching a documentary. It's the new blackout, read a new book about how you just fall asleep during TV shows, because you keep blacking out.

Oh no, someone's having sex with me. What's going on? On that app we were just watching this. Documentary. That's what Netflix and chill means, I thought you just wanted to watch the thing. Anyways. I wake up, I'm very close to finishing my book,

my second book. Right. And I don't know, I just can't sleep. And so I wake up, I've been waking up at 2.30, but this morning I woke up at 1.30. And she's back out at like, what, eight, seven? So I work from 2.30 to seven, take an hour long break, and then start stuff for the Dallas Morning News.

Are you smoking that early in the morning? Yeah, I go out and smoke. Hell yeah. I just chain smoke from whenever I wake up. You go out, you don't smoke in your own house? Absolutely not. Oh, interesting. No, I have a smoking couch.

You have a smoking glove? We know a guy with a smoking glove. What does that mean? Is that me or did you actually? I think it just takes... Oh, I used to... yeah. ...takes the... you don't have the smell on your hand. When Nora was born, and I was having to do...

Oh! ...overnights... That's funny. It's like, well... I was referring to our Fox Four buddy that we've seen out there. Okay. You know what else takes the smoke out of your hands? Soap. No, not even close. into our Fox Four buddy that we've seen out there. Okay. You know what else takes the smoke out of your hands?

Soap. No, not even close. Oh yeah. And I use a lavender, Epsom salt. Here's the thing, you think it works. Okay, if I had a baby, I probably would use the smoking glove.

But like for my purposes, it's fine. So today in history is May 26, Monday, May 26. It's Memorial Day. And on this date in 1977, a guy named George Willig scaled the outside of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, arrested at the top of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, arrested at the top of the building. Just kind of for kicks, huh?

That feels like that was a 70s thing. Climbing stuff. Climbing stuff, maybe tightrope walking. Like just out of nowhere, you would just hear about a guy did it. Yeah. Then he got arrested for doing it. Love the spectacle of it.

On this day in 1994, Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley. Wow. I think my wife- Which was weird, because a lot of people thought like he was gay or something, but apparently not. Totally loved buns, lady buns.

I think my wife either read her book or her daughter's book. I think they wrote a book together. Did they? Okay. She said it's about life with Elvis. I just know she wrote one about being. Well, she's dead now. Yeah, that's why I can't remember, but it was a very hard life.

Always, basically my wife reads books of women who you probably think they had it awesome, but here's why it wasn't. It's a good genre. You know what I mean? Very popular genre. Yeah, and at the end of it, I'm like, I'd still trade. On this day in 1993, Jose Canseco,

this is the game in Cleveland, I believe, that Carlos Martinez hit a long fly ball. Jose Canseco camped under it to catch it. He missed it It hit his head and bounced over the fence for a home run That's the old Royds test just if your head so roided up that Take my favorite part of that is the pitcher is visibly upset But he still gave up a shot that went 400 feet. It's not like it was routine ground ball to short. But it's a fly ball.

It's still a warning track fly ball. Okay, but. You shouldn't be upset that he didn't catch that? Yeah, a little bit, but you still let him hit it that far. Feel like that's a bad take. I feel like it is too, but I'm gonna let the baseball guys. That's a guy who's never been on the mound.

First thing I thought is this is just Dan out here who's defense let him down time and time again throwing BBs. On this day, giving up moon shots to the morning drag. Oh in 2021 President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence officials to redouble their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's like a full double times too. Including any possibility the trail might lead to a Chinese laboratory. That put them in the upper quadrant of the quadrant. That's right.

Like the draft. And I have a note here, so it must be the exact same. This must be a couple years ago. It does say the NRA had recently, at the same time, said they were going to redouble their efforts toward making schools safe. Okay, so. They had already doubled them.

Who was more successful? Dude, I bet you right now, few people on earth want to die more than Joe Biden. Oh. Seriously dude, just think about him like looking at the news like, you gotta be kidding me, let me go. Dude, he- Let me die. He ruined his own legacy though.

I know, but- Had he stepped down like a year in or two years in? And I don't want to get off into the weeds about that. It's not all his fault. Kind of right now, it'd still be Trump and everything, but it would be rocking. Like his legacy at least, like, hey, he did his part. I don't know.

The rest of the Democratic party messed up. I'm not really judging him. I got thoughts similar to you. It's just a real, real come down, the reverse of a come up, that like six, seven months ago he was president. Now everyone's like, fuck this guy, die. I guess too, if we're gonna blame. He's gotta be thinking, just let me peacefully go.

I served, let me go. Some are blaming Jordan Hudson for like taking advantage of Belichick. Maybe we gotta blame the people around Biden or just the people that would remain in power. There's definitely something to that. Like I gotta keep this guy in power because then I stay making decisions.

Sure. And don't you think it's weird that they didn't do some of the basic checks on him, like checking for cancer and... I don't know. I don't really... I don't know. I am not involved.

Today's birthdays include 26 year old he should be our birthday of the day but I also got to mention him first Michael Parsons Wow good times future Eagle he's got it yeah he hasn't signed the deal yet right because I've seen some false reports on yeah it gets, no. It gets me excited. No, got a new trainer. Things are looking up. Hearing a lot about the off season. Kevin Kennedy is 71.

Former Ranger manager. Oh yeah. Our friend, Brent Muskberger, 86. Very nice guy. Probably, probably got out at the right time as all the Me Too stuff was starting to blow up. Last time we talked to him, he was shopping for a Christmas tree with his wife.

He was. There you go. There's a whole lot of guys applying to full estate today. What a great guy. Who would do that? Not me. Stevie Nicks, 77. She's a badass.

Support that with one fact. Any fact about her too. Silver Springs. I don't know what that means. It's one of her songs. Oh, cause she makes a good song, that makes her a badass? She's a great singer.

Okay. She's a great... I wanna hear some badass thing. Why are you trying to fight everyone? I'm just saying. I don't know. I just want facts. Do you not like-

What would the fact be to substantiate is badass? I don't know. It's a switchblade. What? You know what? I agree. That would have been a pretty good piece of info to- She went to ditty parties and thought it was great.

Do you not like- Didn't sue everybody about great. Do you not like Fleetwood Mac? I don't know, they're fine. Really? Yeah, what do you want me to do? I want you to admit that Rumors is a genius album. Genius album, all right. I don't know, sure. Okay.

I think it's very good, but I don't sense that you're really trying to move me off my opinion. He's kind of... I'm just playing around. Hank Williams Jr. is 76. but I don't sense that you're really trying to move me off my opinion. He's kinda. I'm just playing around. Hank Williams Jr. is 76. He used to host Monday night, or do the Monday night football theme song.

And he will again at some point. I keep hoping for that to be back. Why, who did he got now? I don't know. Gary Underwood, I don't know. Is that Sunday at 10? Wasn't he the one that did, are you ready for some football?

Oh yeah, oh yeah. And then while that was on, he did the, here's what I call Obama, at a show. And they're like, whoa, you can't do the theme anymore. Oh, no way. Yeah, yeah, it was a few years ago. Lenny Kravitz, 61. Don't get it, never did,

but glad that it's out there for people. Do you remember the moment when he went down, he leaned down, not leaned down, but like he- Whatever you're about to say, the answer is no. Probably no. He squat on the stage and his pants ripped and his dong came out? Oh wow, let's see that. Then he could have his dong came out. Oh, wow. Let's see that. Let me grab its dong fall out.

Did he have something you would refer to as a dong? Yeah. OK. Yeah, it does feel a little. I wish I was a guy that you would say, man. Right. What a dong. And be like, let me show you how I ingrain this shot.

What a dong. Adam Curtis is 70, filmmaker. Can I say genius for that? He's such a genius. Got it. I think so. I didn't know you watched Adam Curtis documentaries. Can't get you out of my head.

I fucking love that documentary. I had to watch it like seven times. Oh my god. To kind of understand a little bit of it. It's so dense. It's great. Have you ever watched Century of the Self? The PR one or something like that? Yeah, it's about Freud's cousin who creates PR.

So it's really about individualism in the 20th century, but it uses PR as kind of the through line. It's genius. He's very good. I'm interested. Now let's see this cravats penis. Scott Disick is 42. Oh, it's blurred.

Kardashians somehow? I don't know much about him. Of course, that's Courtney's former boyfriend. Okay. I don't know if he was independently famous for some other reason. He's Scott Disick, bro. That's true.

And then our birthday of the day, Matt Stone is 54. Aw. Greatness. I'm gonna have to agree with you there. Maybe even badass. Oh, whoa. Ate at his restaurant. What rarefied air.

Small little Tex-Mex place up in Colorado, might have heard of it. Yeah. Born on the stay now dead. This one's directed at Jake. John Wayne. Chappy. No, not Chappy. Your mom is stoked on him.

Yeah, my dad probably hates him. Yeah. I thought he was showing Nora John Wayne films. No, that wasn't John Wayne, but not far off. It was just that my dad just watches Turner classic movies. No, it wasn't John Wayne, but not far off. It was just that my dad just watched Turner Classic movies. No, it wasn't even Face Off. It was like old black and white movies where, you know, have you guys seen that old movie clip

that's going around where the guy's like spanking the woman? She's like out of line. Yeah. No. It's a movie from probably the 50s or something. My dad was watching something like that. Like a Western movie where they tie the woman up. And the kid goes, I know you're doing that daddy

because you love her. Yeah, exactly. That's the line. I think it's real. Yeah, it's real. Also born on this day now dead, Sally Ride. Who was she? An astronaut. What was the big claim to fame, though?

First woman in space. The first woman in space. We were talking last week that we've now had 100. Really? Does that include the Lauren Sanchez? Yes, it includes the lower space. The fake space. Influencers. But I learned that on Space.com's Fact of the Day.

You know what? I haven't seen their picture of the day yet. They do have a picture of the day, Space.com.com's fact of the day. You know what? I haven't seen their picture of the day yet. They do have a picture of the day, space.com. Let's see what it is. Oh hey, it's stars again. Different angle. Man, those guys are crazy. Died on this day, still dead. Crazy. Died on this day, still dead. We have Theodore Morel.

Who's that? Hitler's personal physician. Good God. What, I mean, he had a doctor. I mean, okay. You know. Alan Bean. Of Mr.

It's kind of sad that you don't know who Alan Bean of Mr. It's kind of sad that you don't know who Alan Bean is. He's an astronaut. He's an astronaut. Fourth man to walk on the moon. Oh. He was on the moon and you have no idea who he is. You've never even heard of him. Well, if there's been a hundred women, how many men have?

Well, that's the moon. Been in space? Oh, that's the moon. Been in space. Oh, that's the moon. Fair, fair, fair. Yeah. No, do not let ladies on the moon. What are we trying to do? End this thing with a tsunami?

That moon will really F with ladies. Yeah. You do not need them up there. It flood the earth. Tides. Jesus. We're not trying to go extinct. Also died on the state Bart Starr, who had two sons.

And Ray Leota. Oh, greatness. Godfather. Uh, Goodfellas. Shoot. It's all right. He just watched Goodfellas. Failed you.

And that was Today in History. I think it's weird, I remember him from the Chantix commercials now. He had this illustrious cinematic career. Now I can think of him as being like, man, help me quit smoking. It wasn't illustrious though. I mean, Goodfellas was the peak and he's so good in it.

And then it's just kinda like, Yeah, I guess that's true. Kinda like, flamed out into all these like, like he often played like an abusive husband or boyfriend in these thrillers, you know, because he had that intense look. Is she closing remarks? No, well, I mean, you can use her,

but I mean, Travis Gafford is today's sit-in, and I believe Closing Remarks belonged to him and his little band of thugs that he brought in here. They love that. But whoever you want to label with Closing Remarks, because I know you need to label everything. No, I just... It's brought to us by Lone Star Beer.

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What a day. Yeah. It's amazing, Lone Star Beer, what they've been able to do. Authentically Texan, crisp flavor. And it says here on the copy points, perfect with a tray of barbecue. That seems to be pigeonholing Lone Star Beer a little bit

into, but I don't think it's only barbecue. No. You can eat it like with a sandwich as well. Chocolate cake. According to, well, I don't know. Or your hot dog on Memorial Day. There you go. Yeah.

I don't know that he's getting it. Or caviar. Well, sure. Maybe. But anyway, sure. Maybe. But anyway, so thank you though. Next time you get hibachi. Sherbert. Lone Star beer. See, Jake is really not understanding.

Dumb zone 21. Jake's forgotten already what it's like to... Although maybe if you're Jake, you are having it with chocolate cake and sherbert and whatever. Anyway, closing remarks. Why'd you have something pointed for Sarah? No, I actually just wanted to make sure

that they got their time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. They were booked before Sarah. Well, here we are. Community Mechanical's own. The only guy who can speak for Community Mechanical, according to him, is Travis Gafford. Yeah, no, we appreciate you having us back out.

When I first, your first sit-in, Community Mechanical didn't exist, it was a dream. It was. It was in a concept. Mere weeks away, yeah, we were. It was in your business balls. We had been in the negotiations for a while and we were hoping we were gonna be able to tell you.

You don't like that? Sorry, Travis. Yeah, you had told me, I remember talking to you after the show and you're like, yeah, we're gonna be doing this thing I don't know. We're kind of interested and We do a little advertising maybe I'm like, I don't know dude. We're kind of full. Okay, we'll look Hey, it's been great. Anyone wants to advertise I'd say that you know Definitely do it. We in fact shout out Dario Aguilar we just signed him up this morning to do change out his HVAC system this week from the

dumb zone. Nice. So going great. I only have a few things and then I'll let these guys if anyone has anything so the first thing. So last week, Jake, you had talked about like one of your kids to run, right. Um, and how the guys from APEC said that. Well, we actually, I actually sent my son and my daughter to APEC last summer. They have a class. Wow. They will teach the kids just to like how to run, right. Functional movement, that kind of thing.

They loved it. So we're going back again, but I thought I should bring that up because that was something that was really big for us because both of our kids kind of ran weird and especially like they just weren't, I feel like if he came up kind of COVID post-COVID, you weren't out running and doing as much. Yeah.

So that has really helped them. The teachers there are great. Yeah, and you just go, we're watching our kids work out and it's like, oh, there's, you know, no center guard or whoever. So that was a cool experience. The other thing that I have to say, so yeah, Jake went to the game with Drew and I on Friday. And let me just tell you what a pleasure it was to see Jake in the lab crafting what food he was going to get on the way back from the game. In fact, he was just, you know, such a artist and, you know, was painting

his masterpiece that the elite rides guy looks at me, he's like, you want to go get some food? As soon as Jake get out of the car. And we went to Waterburger because Jake was like, I got to get some fucking food. And he's just scrolling through the app. He's putting things in the car, and we went to a water burger, because Jake was like, I gotta get some fucking food, and he's just scrolling through the app, he's putting things in the car. After the game. Yeah, no, I planned it perfectly.

Like I said, I was with Community, I had some early bird, I had some Lucy, we had elite rides, and on the way home, I had avoided food at the game. I didn't wanna do it halfway. My thing with eating trash food, not trash food, obviously, junk food, let's just call it what it is,

is I want to really get my money's worth. So for me, I'm gonna just eat a massive water burger meal. I don't want to go have two hot dogs at a game because I'm gonna feel like, oh, that's kind of a cheat thing. If we're gonna do it, let's do this. And so for me, I had a very large water burger order waiting out front. And you believe in delayed gratification? You

don't do it? Yeah. You've been thinking about it all night. Yeah, I was thinking, I kept saying to him, I was like, dude, I'm so hungry, but I gotta wait it out. I gotta wait it out. And it was waiting for me out front when I got home. The options on the water burger app, folks. Damn cheesy, don't know about. It's true. It was a great time. It was, yeah. We actually ended up in the Water Burger line next to your house.

Elite rights, came through great. It's a good time. That's awesome, man. Do you have to, did you let them speak? I think I just wanna thank you for your service. We need to hear from the veteran yeah it's true okay that's it true nothing to say I'm trying to like my wife it was it is funny because Travis is a really large guy Drew's not as large and he was kind of it's me it's

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