The Dumb Zone FREE - The Dumb Zone 3-25-24

Episode Date: March 25, 2024

Have you ever pondered the intricacies of a basketball upset or the cultural significance of a man cave? Well, our latest podcast episode delves into these topics and more, including an enchanting visit to Legoland.Imagine the scene: a prestigious university's basketball team gets outrebounded by what many would consider an underdog. The shock, the awe, the analysis—it's all here in our discussion that goes beyond the scoreboard to unravel the 'how' and 'why' of sports surprises.But it's not all about basketball. We also take a light-hearted journey into the realm of personal sanctuaries, aka man caves. Why the aversion to the term? What does it symbolize in today's society? We dissect the den, the neon signs, and the jerseys that adorn these hallowed halls of masculinity.And for a dash of whimsy, we recount a day spent at Legoland. From the life-sized Dirk Nowitzki made of Legos to the miniature replicas of famous landmarks, we explore the creativity and joy these plastic bricks bring to both kids and adults. Plus, we touch on the unexpected social dynamics of such a place on a Sunday afternoon—divorced dads, anyone?This episode is a tapestry woven with the threads of sports, personal space, and childhood nostalgia. It's a conversation that will make you laugh, reflect, and maybe even reminisce about your own experiences.So, if you're looking for entertainment that's as engaging as it is enlightening, tune in to our latest episode. It's a shot you won't want to miss. Listen now for a dose of humor, humanity, and a little bit of Lego magic. (00:00) - Open (28:06) - Sports: Kim Mulkey, Ohtani, NCAA tournament (01:13:05) - Viewer Mail (01:26:30) - Today in Twitter (01:32:56) - News (01:48:15) - Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hello, I'm Dan McDowell, longtime professional broadcaster. Why subscribe to our Patreon podcast? Well, perhaps you support our struggle to get out from under the oppressive thumb of the man. Or, objectively, if you sign up at patreon.com slash the dumb zone, you'll get the two episodes per week that are available on all podcast platforms, like this one, plus an additional two episodes each week that are exclusive to Patreon. So subscribing on Patreon gets you four episodes per week.

Oh my, what a bargain. Now, on to today's program. The Dunza, Dunza, Dunza. How does Baylor get out-rebounded by Yale? How's that happen? Are you directing that towards anyone? Gentleman who just talked about getting out-rebounded by Yale? How's that happen? Are you directing that towards anyone? Gentleman who just talked about how to out-rebound him. He had the stat sheet.

Torrey? Torrey said how do... Yeah. They have more rebounds than us? You said he got out-rebounded. I was surprised. You did. 36-32.

How does Yale out-rebound Baylor? You go up and grab the ball off the rim when it comes off, and then you grab it with two hands, and you come down with it, and that's considered a rebound. So they got more of those than we did. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. I never listen.

I'm going to listen. I'm gonna listen. I wanna listen to the dumb zone. Recording this live to tape on a Monday at 12.16 in the p.m. the 25th of March. It's show number 138 of The Dumb Zone. I'm Dan McDowell. Hello.

How do you guys do your thing? You say, I'm... The dog got it out of there last time. Oh, okay. I was like, why is he... Anyways. What is it, a sandwich? Trying to hide your food?

I'm Jake. I'm Blake? Is that what we're doing? I don't know. We have a full house today. The house being high atop my garage. The room above my garage. Some might call it a man cave.

I would not do that. Some neon signs. A couple jerseys. I'll call it the den. You lost your war on Man Cave. What do you mean? Just that I know you've always thought that term was really

ridiculous. I hate it. Yeah. Keep that bitch out of here. Um. You win your football game yesterday? No game. Your little football game? Bye week.

Two weeks off to rest and recover with Easter next week. Oh, Dan, I was at Legoland yesterday. At the Grapevine Mall? Yeah. Okay. Got to tell you, pretty impressive. Sure. Pretty impressive.

They have a little room you can go into that is just like things from the Metroplex. So they've got Victory Plaza. They've got the Death Star. The Leaning Tower. They did not have the Leaning Tower or the Wrecking Ball, but it's awesome. The Grapevine 9-11 Memorial. Did not have that. Did have the Gaylord and Great Wolf Lodge.

They still have Dirk? They do have Dirk. They have a life-size Dirk out of Legos, and it's incredible. I got a picture of it. But the things you'll notice when you go there on a – It's interesting to take a picture. What are you going to do? My wife made me, actually.

Like you're going to sit at home and gaze at it? Then I took one – well, it was me and gaze at it? Then I took one. Well, it was me and my daughter. And then I took one with just Dirk. So I could show you guys or something if I wanted to. But you go to a place like that on Sunday, that is divorce dad central, buddy. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

The ratio is off. Big time. So you weren't scouting out? It wasn't partly milfy? No, but there's just a lot of dudes in there with a kid. And you can check for the wedding ring. Some guys just don't, like us. But most people do.

So there's a lot of, this is my last few hours with the kid before I have to drop him off to mom and his new dad. Yeah. I saw a Mary and Barbara III jersey, Blake. Really? Yeah. I don't know why that made me think of you. On a dad or a kid? No, it was on a dad.

But he didn't look old. He was probably early 30s. Still. Just paying his respects. Okay. The MB3. The deceased, yeah. And then the other thing I thought about... He's used to putting it on on a Sunday.

Yeah, that's right. Get 20% off. Yeah. The other thing I thought about that made me think of Dan is just think of the germ factor. At Legoland? Yeah, because they've got the cool models and stuff,

but they also have 10 different stations where kids just stop and build stuff. Yeah. How can they sanitize? I think the world of kids is just... You can't worry about the germ factor. Yeah, I was going to ask. Like the ball pit.

Yeah. Did it stress you out, or did you just not even worry about it? No, I think I've changed over the years. You used to be less of a germaphobe? Yeah, I mean, just think about the squalor we all lived in in college or something. Yeah. I could not go back.

No, of course not. You know, just think of where you, just different places you would put your wiener. Am I right? Different stuff you'd put up the nose. You know, whatever. Whatever the case may be. Yeah, different things you would ingest. Like, here, try this.

You bought it from some guy whose car is barely running. Sure, no, I'll see what it does. Like, now you'd be like, oh, let me do does yeah like now you'd be like research stuff doesn't work i'll take more that is the good thing about the whole if things get legalized right at least you know that's what i've always thought about you know people railing against regulation like i feel like regulation keeps things safe. Go across the border to get your medicine. No, you don't want to do that.

I want it to be regulated. I want a ton of people who do that, though. Tested. Go get a surgery. Yeah. He's going to town over there. Butt surgery. All right, he stopped.

The dogs. Umpin' something. So we have some extra voices here as well. It's a full house. We have Matt. Hello, hello. 690 Matt is what we're calling him. He's here for a 690 sit-in. Now, did you split that with Ben?

I sure did. Okay, so now Ben is getting a short end of the stick because he's back behind the couch. Yeah. I mean, we said, so it's our birthdays this month. And so we said, hey, we're turning 41. It's our Dirk birthday. Let's treat ourselves.

So let's go have these on 690. Do a visit to the den. Yeah. And then I get the couch and he has to sit over there. You're a little bit of a bigger guy, so he acquiesced. Do you know what happened to A&M last night?

I don't. We have a fan in the house. I fell asleep. I T-voted, so don't. Shut up. They were down to Houston. Ben is decked out in Aggie gear. In fact, yeah, hand Ben that, Mike, just for a second.

I want to say also, I think Ben is probably on my top ten Aggie name list. You do look like you're ready to go to a tailgate right now. It's way below Kyle, but it's definitely on the list. They're down 81-69 with a minute and a half left to the number one team in the country, at least the number one seed, Houston. Four out of five of Houston's starters had fouled out and they still were just beating up on them.

They tied the game, A&M did, before it was overtime with a one second left on the clock three. Wow. Yeah. They made it up that quick. And then they lost in overtime. And it was a crazy overtime. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

But you would have had a lot of momentum heading into overtime. Yeah. Carry that right over. Had they won, Alabama or Houston would have said. We couldn't stop the momentum. What were you going to do against that momentum? They were hard charging in the final minute 30. No, they lost because I turned it back on.

I'd already turned it off. Oh, that's how it works, right? I love that guy. The universe could feel that. Yeah. But anyways, it's a tough night for Aggies. It in no way made my morning. Well, I'm glad you guys are here.

Happy birthday, right? Yeah, happy birthday month. Happy birthday, guys. Happy birthday month. It's a whole month-long celebration. A whole month. Did you do like a bit when you were 40? The whole lordy, lordy, look who's 40 sign in your yard and all that?

You know what I did when I was 40? We went and played pickleball. I know. You gave us money so I will hold my tongue even though I already took a shot at the Aggie. Hey, I would say I would say him too but he actually graduated though.

Also sitting in we have Bentonon benton what's up fellas is part of dumb zone lore forever engraved in our history and his uh his bestie clay is here as well. Also known as Corn. Corn? Yeah. Okay. It's a good nickname. Corn Smith. You guys really are like besties.

You said you've known each other since you were four. Yeah, just about. Which is very sweet. He's using that in place of another word that he wants to use. No, no, no, no. I don't think it's gay at all. I think it's awesome. I think it's awesome.

No, no, no. I don't think it's gay at all. I think it's awesome. I think it's awesome. Now, Benton, we need to talk about just your role in our history. So Benton is the guy, and you might have heard a mention of this on the Lawyer Roundtable. If you haven't listened to the Lawyer Roundtable, go back to, what, two weeks ago? Yeah, sounds right.

Our epis from two weeks ago where we described the whole scene when we got sued by a large corporation and lived to tell about it. But during that lawsuit, it was the very end, right, Jake? Was it the hearing day? No, no, no. We did the hearing. It was the end of mediation. Then there was more mediation. And then we were ending it like, yes, we have a settlement. And the judge announced something to the courtroom.

Yeah. She said, we've already had multiple requests for the transcript of these proceedings. And I'm like, what does that mean? But she acted like that was not a common occurrence. No. They were taken aback by... It was kind of like the OJ trial. It was very... It was very much like that was not a common occurrence. No. They were taken aback by... It was kind of like the OJ trial. It was very...

It was very much like that. The media was descending upon... Yeah, I feel like she might have told us back in the meeting room and then in front of the whole court. I can't recall, but definitely the other side, they seemed kind of like,

what the fuck? What are you... Then it started to like dawn on me like if that is something that is possible to be purchased a hundred percent somebody was going to do it not to take away from benton's role but somebody was going to do that but it was a high dollar purchase right they seem to indicate this or at least our lawyers are whispering to us like man this is that's like two dollars a page or what it's that's probably a thousand bucks or more yeah it meant a lot to me though to get okay i i

meant a lot to me to get it it was about 1700 bucks damn um it would have been less if i it would have been less if uh if it took longer to get. Like you waited? Well, no. If you had waited? I actually reached out to the court reporter by email while the hearing, I think, while the hearing was still going on. Oh, okay.

This case excited me to... You're a lawyer too, right? I'm an attorney, and I do a lot of litigation that's kind of in y'all's realm. Y'all have been... I've been huge fans of y'all's for, I don an attorney, and I do a lot of litigation that's kind of in y'all's realm. Y'all have been, or I've been huge fans of y'all's for, I don't know, 10 or 15 years. So I knew that I wanted to get this transcript. And why did you have to get it immediately? Because I was going to post it up on the internet.

Because you just knew people wanted to... I wanted all the tea, man. i wanted all the tea man i wanted all the tea wanted to know what was going on that was a wild night when it first popped too like it felt like uh somebody dropped like this weekend when future and metro put out an album at midnight and you're like i gotta stay up all night listening to this people are just going through it posting their parts that was uh and i i remember reading through it, posting their parts. I remember reading through it just a couple pages and being like, alright, nah, I can't

do this again. Not again. Now, I enjoyed the excerpts that people would find and put out there. It was a lot of fun. I was just amazed that somebody actually transcribes that whole thing. AI is coming for that person's job.

Go ahead. I'm just amazed that somebody actually transcribes that whole thing. AI is coming for that person's job. Yeah. Go ahead. You seem like you're ready to jump in. Don't be shy. I loved reading it. I think everyone of your fans loved reading it, too. What were you thinking of the whole case as it was unfolding? Were you following it?

Yes. I followed it very, very closely. And there's a free service called, I forget what it's called, but you can subscribe to the filings to where you get a notice whenever a filing comes up. So as soon as it would come up, I would read it. So like a Sunday evening filing or something? It comes through Pacer. Okay.

I just heard that word a lot during that time. You ultimately purchase it through Pacer, which is a PACER. Okay. I just heard that word a lot. Yeah. During that time. You ultimately purchase it through PACER, which is a federal court filing system. But there's a free service that will just let you know there is a new filing. Okay. Okay. Matt, you're not an attorney? I am definitely not an attorney.

No? What's your bit? If you didn't make it through A&M, I don't know. I am an internal auditor for a big bank. Okay. That sounds like business. It's really boring. There's a lot of business terms and circling back and getting bandwidth.

We know all about that. We'll double click on that. A lot of circling back. Put it in the parking lot for later. I like that one. My weekend check would just be that I started watching The Three-Body Problem on Netflix. Heard good things. Yeah.

Game of Thrones dudes, right? I don't know. Is that who produced it? Yeah. Benioff and Weiss, I'm pretty sure. Okay. One of the guys, I can't remember Game of Thrones names and stuff, but one of the guys was a main player on Game of Thrones.

One of the main characters on this. Yeah, he was... Yeah, I see who you're talking about, but I don't... Chubby guy? Yeah. Yeah. And so I'm watching it with my wife, who has never read The Three-Body Problem, the trilogy. I have.

If you take a look over on the bookshelf, you'll see The Three-Body Problem on there. I love it. It's a sci-fi, and it's like the most realistic... It's a very realistic sci-fi book series. And my wife has one problem. Her problem, she has a one-body problem. wife has one problem. Her problem, she has a one-body problem. And it is that the lead scientist, the main character in this, is one of the hottest women you will ever see. She's a former model. She's an actress

I think of. She's some kind of a Hispanic actress. I don't know. The point is she is so smoking hot, it is entirely unbelievable that she is one of the leading scientists in the nation. Yeah, unbelievable as a scientist. I will give you that, but...

This one? Too thin. Yes, I think it is that. Take a look. The smoking hot in the bikini is a scientist? I'm looking at it right. Eliza Gonzalez? Yes, and then I think it is that. Take a look. The smoking hot in the bikini is a scientist? I'm looking at it right. Eliza Gonzalez? Yes, and then I guess her big complaint, too,

is that not only is she smoking hot, but then she has all the top-of-the-line, like, outfits. Like, whatever the highest dollar outfit, and it's always matched. She's like, well, if she was indeed this scientist, then she wouldn't have that part of her life together. She wouldn't care about that. She would just be devoted to whatever, blah, blah, blah.

Women. Women's biggest enemy. Women are women's biggest enemy. I got a problem for Blake on Shogun because I started that. Okay, I want to get into that too. You're past me. No, I'm only like two in.

Okay. The problem I have, and this is minutiae, it's mostly in Japanese, in subtitled, which I appreciate. It really bothered me that when they remade, or when they made the Looming Tower into a Hulu or FX series, that all of Al-Qaeda spoke English with like an Arab accent. Okay, so you like it better when they do...

Way better. Okay. The problem is there's this whole situation with Portugal and Japan. I think it's mostly a true story, at least loosely based on history. There are a couple of people there who speak Portuguese, except the people who speak Portuguese, when they say they're speaking Portuguese to each other, they speak English.

So you've got... It's very confusing to me. So you've got 70% of the show that is in Japanese and subtitled, but then it'll switch to English, which actually represents them speaking Portuguese. I'm like, look, we're already doing it. Like, we're already doing the... Japanese is a very foreign... Like, I don't understand Portuguese,

but Japanese is a much more foreign language if you're an American audience. You know, even though it's not Spanish, you could kind of maybe pick some stuff up. Like, would you want to watch a show that was all... Well, I guess... We did... I wouldn't.

We did Squid Games. But there's no English in Squid Games? I don't recall. I don't believe so, no. You could choose how to watch it. You could choose, but I don't think we did, though. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, we watched all subtitles.

Okay, yeah. So who cares what language it is if it's all subtitles? I feel like you've got to either do one or the other. Yeah. Because it's confusing to me. They're like, she's like, I know Portuguese. And they're like she's like I know Portuguese and they're saying it in English pretty good show though

it is good I like it that is one I will at least attempt to finish so could this be a show that we watch as a trio finally

we've come upon a show. I don't know how popular it is, but yeah. It's on the top of my hula hoop. You know what would be really funny is if after years of asking Blake to book guests from our favorite shows, he books someone from Shogun who speaks no English. And that guy on. Wouldn't be the first time I booked a non-English speaking guest. That's true.

Although we did get invited to their wedding, so I feel like it turned out okay. That's actually my biggest regret of leaving the ticket. That we didn't go to that wedding? Yeah, because we would have been at training camp. The guy who ran onto the field and proposed to his wife or fiance at Dodger Stadium. And got trucked.

Trucked by security. There is one guy or somebody I would like you to book for something that we'll watch, Blake. Who we got? This show will be on ESPN, and it will premiere on April 25th at the Dallas International Film Festival. It is a 30 for 30 documentary

called Dude Perfect, A Very Long Shot. Oh, yeah. So they went from Magic and Bird to Mario Andretti, Michael Jordan, college basketball matchups of all time. Bo Jackson.

Bo Jackson, the Patriots dynasty. Right. Marcus Dupree. They've been building up to get to. They're giving a 30 for 30 to Dude Perfect? That's right. Tyler, Cody, and Corey. That's right.

Tyler, Cody, Corey, Caleb. Oh, I forget. Yeah, we might offend these guys again. They are Aggie greats. I got a 14-year-old, but when he was six, seven years old, I mean, that was life to him. We used to watch them all, and I didn't hate it. I thought it was fun. It's all right.

A little softball stereotypes or a little basketball stereotypes? That stuff sucked then and it sucks now. The problem is you can't always control. My daughter came home from staying the night at Grandma's this weekend and was like, Grandma and I watched Taylor Swift's movie. And I was like, what the hell? What is that? It feels like a concert movie, but I've tried so hard to keep Taylor Swift out of her life and out of our home.

Grandparents are unhinged. They don't care at all. My daughter will come home and be like, what's TikTok? What's Facebook? I'm like, I don't know. Hey, we got to stay up till 11. Here's a book. You're going to bed at 6.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, grandparents F everything up, 11. Here's a book. You're going to bed at 6. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, grandparents F everything up, man. Brooks just started reading that Dude Perfect book you got him. Okay, nice. Not nice.

Whoa, what do you mean? Because he'll just come up, Dad, I want to read Dude Perfect. Now he has to think about Dude Perfect. No, I just got to

read their dumb little book. Now he's back there jumping off the trampoline trying to... Tyler shoots from half court. And he makes it. Oh, wait.

Dad, I want to vape. That book should be 1,000 pages long because they have to list all the times they missed. Tyler misses. Tyler misses. Tyler misses. Tyler misses, but keeps his head up and keeps trying. Tyler misses. You guys are giving jealousy.

Ooh. I hate everything. Do you think they would like him if they weren't Aggies? Yeah, it would not matter to me. I hate over laughter like that. Well, it's nowhere near the over laughter of his favorite show. Boy, they've been getting pimped hard during the tourney. That's the only time of the year I remember they exist.

They're carrying true TV. Because they're on the same TV network. Watch us sell in. Impractical jokers. You won't believe it. You got anything from the weekend, Blake? Before we move on? No, not really.

Just played a little softball yesterday. The Indians swept. Nice. So we got back in the win column. Oh, I forgot you changed your team. And you got Chief Wahoo on your hat, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Did you mash? Not really. Come on. You only hit one out. No. Not going deep these days?

Are we losing power? Are we shifting to contact? I'm, uh... Yeah, I'm struggling a little bit at the plate. But we're okay. Do We have to send you down? May Yeah

May have to get in the cages Where are you at in the lineup these days? Uh Two hole Still Yeah They're gonna let him ride through this thing They're gonna let me figure it out

Um Yeah Uh A little housekeeping, I guess. So this week, we will be going to our possibly future studio tomorrow, right? Doing a studio show. Yeah. We are scheduled to do a show from the ballpark for opening day.

a show from the ballpark for opening day but i don't know i guess there's a a little problem with as far as can we get into the parking lots early enough yeah and we're we're working on it the rangers are opening their lots at one and i mean if you guys want to start the show late we can that would just mean a show wouldn't get out until after 5, maybe 6. That feels a bit late for a... Yeah, my instant reaction was... Our Rangers preview. I mean, if you guys want to,

we will. Let's just see what happens. What if we live stream it? Can we do that? Can we live stream audio? Can we have an app by Thursday? I don't think we need an app. Let's circle back. Yeah, we're not going to. Let's go to the parking lot for now.

And then we'll have another Den 690 show on Friday, I believe. We also need an Eclipse location. We want to live stream the eclipse on April 8th. So I did see there is at least a minute and a half difference. If we were to do this downtown Dallas or downtown Fort Worth, like Dallas gets more of the eclipse if you care.

But I guess we have to decide how to do it, too. Let me stop you there. I don't. Okay. So you don't even want to be a part of this at all. No, I'll come and do my job. I feel like a live stream, though, would be a cool bit. Sure.

Like a short, should we just live stream it? Should we, like, record our show like usual and then break away for live stream? Or should we live stream a whole show that day on YouTube? What say you? I have no opinion on the matter. It seems kind of weird. Aren't people going to be outside just looking around at the eclipse and not at their phone?

Yeah, but for the future, you're going to want to have a live. It's kind of like a Cowboy playoff game. We got 8,000 people watched that night, and then another 16,000 or whatever watched later in the week. Cowboy playoff game is about as rare as a total eclipse. Am I right? Yes. So, yeah.

Yes. So, yeah. We think around 140 on April 8th, we will be live streaming. Where? I don't know. Hey, it could be your place of business. In the path of totality. Yeah, you could own that part of us.

And then I know that Raymond has been reaching out to us about stuff, and I might have even missed it. Like they had a big pre-sale thing going on for the – Got too much stuff. During the lawyers' roundtable. But we don't plug E6 Sportswear very often, but it's on the Patreon link. So link in bio. Am I right? Totally. Are they still doing link in bio? I saw one the other day. It was like the Patreon link. So link in bio. Am I right? Totally.

Are they still doing link in bio? I saw one the other day. It was like sex in bio. Like you guys haven't been getting porn bot responses? Where it's like some graphic L, graphic I, graphic N. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen that.

It's just porn bots. And then it says link in bio spaced out. I saw one the other day that just said sex in bio. Well, got your attention. Yeah. I get a lot of porn people like, they'll like something you had on there three years ago. Yeah, what's the deal with that?

I don't know. What's the deal with porn bots? I think she just really likes you. It could be that. Alright, shall we move on and like do Deal with porn bots. I think she just really likes you. It could be that. All right. Shall we move on and do some sports or something? Sure. Or some viewer mail?

It's up to you. What do you say, Matt? Oh, yeah. Let's do some viewer mail. Oh. I'm just kidding. Sports. Everybody's a PD.

He hit the sports bet. What do you guys want to do first? I see Tyron Smith is a jet. You said he was going to have a press conference. Was there anything there? No, it was pretty uneventful. I mean, he's Tyron Smith. Yeah. When you said you were going to go over that audio, I didn't think there was going to be a lot. I kind of knew that going in.

I have a bunch of tournament stuff, but maybe the lead one is Kim Mulkey if you want to start there. It's up to you. Yeah, the whole Kim Mulkey thing is very – I couldn't hold it in, and I talked to you about it a little bit yesterday. Like, I keep looking at the Washington Post trying to find the story.

I know. So now I have two stories that I've ever read in the Washington Post. Or I would want that to be my second, but it's not out yet. So this all started, I think, when someone named Pat Ford. Pat Ford tweets, hearing some buzz about a big Washington Post story in the works on LSU women's hoops coach Kim Mulkey. Yeah. 40? Ben Mulkey. Yeah. 40?

Ben says 40. Yeah. I'm sorry. I've heard the name, but I don't know. Who is it? He's a Yahoo guy. Yahoo reporter. He's very good.

At least he was with Yahoo. Big story on Kim Mulkey. Potentially next week, wagons being circled, et cetera. So that was what started all of this, I believe. Yeah. And then I think you kind of heard nothing. Like, I wouldn't have known about that. Had that been the last...

Like, I didn't hear it that day. I heard that as I researched this little... I saw it. The audio, okay. Well... that as I've researched this little... I saw it. The audio. Okay. Well, and then she opens up her press conference. So I had the whole press conference pulled up, and what you need to know is, so they had some players, and then they have just a time of nothing. There's like a guy up there.

He's probably the press guy or something. He's just having fun with reporters, but the mics were off. So then, you know, she walks in and right away she starts talking, but the mics are off.

So they weren't like fast enough for her, but she was giving her, she started on her spiel, and you'll hear the mics kind of fade or... Yeah, fade up? Do we fade down or fade up? We fade up. Fade in. Fade in. Whatever. The point is...

So here is Kim Mulkey, formerly the Baylor coach. And also formerly Kim Mulkey Robertson. Yeah. She's a little spitfire. Don't you look at her and think of that? I look at her and think of her as the final boss of Angry Suburban Mom. Okay.

Definitely could be named Karen. Like, you... I kind of think this, too. Because I think at times my wife can be a Karen. Oh. I think this too, because I think at times my wife can be a Karen. Oh, mine's in like undergrad for Karen. But I love it. Like don't you kind of need a Karen on your side sometimes?

I don't love it. I feel like I – I feel awkward every time that she's like, can we move this table over there? And I'm like, they're going to say yes, but it's a beating. We don't have to do it. But then it gets done. Can you lower the temperature like at a restaurant? Oh, man. So I'm feeling the exact same thing,

but the thing is, though, if I need... And then they do it, and then she's like, see, they didn't even care. But you have to live through those moments to get the times when you do want some action taken, but you won't do it. And then you can all you know she will spring into action that's true uh you know i don't want to do this but um and then she

will you know i don't want to complain about the uh the portion sizes here but she will so it's great anyway feeling what you're uh putting down as. Anyway, so here is Kim Mulkey. We're going to fade in, I believe, but it's not my fault. It's theirs. This reporter for the Washington Post has been doing the past several years, and the lengths he has gone to try and put a hit piece together. So she started with this reporter from the Washington. So she had already been yapping about it.

Has been preparing this for several years. That's interesting. This reporter has been working on a story about me for two years. After two years of trying to get me to sit with him for an interview, he contacts LSU on Tuesday as we were getting ready for the first round game of this tournament with more than a dozen questions demanding a response by Thursday right before we're scheduled to tip off are you kidding me

this was a ridiculous deadline that LSU and I could not possibly meet, and the reporter knew it. Want to stop there? Do you want to stop 100 times during this? Yeah, I mean, it's obvious. The guy's been trying to contact her for two years. Like, I wouldn't have said that if I wanted to play the victim, which she is here.

Yeah. I would not say that. Leave that part out and say he called me Thursday. They contacted us Tuesday and they needed the answers by Thursday. Yeah. But she kind of gave up the ghost there already. Yeah, like, excuse me. So you say for two years.

How did you know? You've had a chance to talk to him. Had you said yes one of those times, you would have had plenty of time to answer these questions. Like way more, way more than Tuesday to Thursdays. So she clearly knows who it is. Hundreds of them. He's been trying to contact her for comments.

And finally, like he's got his story ready now, and it's like, hey, here's the questions I need. The story's coming out next week. And yes, I guess you'll hear more of what she says will indicate that she got a feel for what the story's going to be about. It was just an attempt to prevent me from commenting and an attempt. Again, it was not an attempt. Like, you were not trying to prevent you from commenting. It prevented me from commenting and an attempt to distract us from this tournament.

It ain't going to work, buddy. I think that's probably more that's a speech that you want your players to have heard because I'm not sure that the guy really is. LSU basketball? I'm hoping that I distract these girls because I got a lot of money on team their play. And, like, he wants – they blew the doors off somewhat. Well, I guess it was kind of close yesterday for a little bit. I was only paying attention because I wanted her to lose the week that this story came out.

But also, they want you to comment. Yeah. The reporter needs you to... He was trying for two years! She didn't even give a, I've declined to comment on this story type thing. Maybe she did when the story comes out, we'll see that. But he's trying because he would like to have your comment unfortunately this is part of a pattern that goes back years i told this reporter two years ago that i didn't appreciate the hit job he wrote on brian kelly and that's why i wasn't

going to do an interview with him. The extent of the hit job on Brian Kelly was, boy, Brian Kelly sure is making a lot of money at LSU and hasn't won much. Okay. Which is not really a hit piece. He didn't, you know, he was just like, hey, was this worth it? Is Brian Kelly really worth it? She's like, a hit piece.

You know college coaches are used to criticism. They take it super well. They're used to it, and they're, you know, a lot of those, most of the people they deal with, not all, because these are national programs, and clearly now once you're in the tournament, you're dealing with more national people but most of the time they're dealing with actual students who went go to lsu or local people who went to lsu or you know at baylor same thing and that's why you can easily bully them or kind

of just use them as a pr mouthpiece like oh here's why we're not winning a lot. Oh, okay, let's just print that. Like, they won't really look into you too hardcore. After that, the reporter called two former college coaches of mine and left multiple messages that he was with me in Baton Rouge to get them to call him back. Trying to trick these coaches into believing that I was working with the Washington Post on a story. When my former coaches spoke to him and found out that I wasn't talking with the reporter, they were just distraught.

And they felt completely misled. just distraught and they felt completely misled. Former players have told me that the Washington Post has contacted them and offered to let them be anonymous in a story if they'll say negative things about me. The Washington Post has called former disgruntled players to get negative quotes to include in their story. They're ignoring the 40-plus years of positive stories that people or they have heard from people about me. I mean, the guy rushed for over 2,000 yards. He was an announcer on Monday Night Football. Hall of Fame.

You know, really broke some barriers hurts commercials yeah very marketable now you're ignoring all of that bringing up this damn murder but you see reporters who give a megaphone a megaphone one-sided embellished version of things aren't trying to tell the truth. Can I stop you right here real quick? Knowing where she leans politically and not like in a moderate way, the second I saw that Pat Forty tweet, I knew she was going to do this. I knew it. The only surprise here is that she hasn't said Washington compost.

Like she might have to retire to run with Trump because they'd be the perfect pairing and they would crush. Like, you knew at some point she was going to do like the fake news type thing, right? If you know anything about her. The thing is, though, the story isn't out yet.

Ah, that detail. But she already knows that it's a hit piece that's one-sided and it's, you know. I mean, if the reporter actually said, hey, I'm here with her, that's a little bit tricky. But I promise you that they didn't say, well, offer you anonymity if you say bad things. They just said, hey, if you want to talk about your coach, you can do it anonymously. Yeah. But you see, reporters who give a megaphone to a one-sided embellished version.

Again, a one-sided embellished version. We asked for your side. Of things aren't trying to tell the truth. They're trying to sell newspapers and feed the click machine. The what machine? I think the clip machine, yeah. They're trying to sell newspapers and feed the click machine. Oh, no, click.

It was actually click. So, yeah. All right, yeah. One-sided version, all this. Although, I got to say this. Nothing that the reporter did could have fed the click machine like this. Oh, yeah. She's carrying the water for him.

I would have zero idea about all of this. When's the last time I called you on a Sunday and was like, man, I can't wait for the woman's basketball story to come out this week? Like, I would have no idea. I wouldn't care. Even if the story came out, I probably wouldn't care. But if she did this, if she is this against it, I got to see what it says. This is exactly

why people don't trust journalists and the media anymore. It's these kinds of sleazy tactics and hatchet jobs that people are just tired of. I almost think

the reason in sports media that I don't trust sports media sometimes is that they're all so, just again, a PR voice for whatever team they're covering sometimes. And I kind of don't trust that. Or an agent. Yeah, they're just, what did you say, carrying the water? Somebody's carrying the water? Somebody's carrying the water for so-and-so. I probably used that term incorrectly.

She's just giving them free advertising. But yeah, I know what you're talking about. But yeah, so in that way, I don't trust some sports reporters because I just don't know who actually is giving the information and actually wants it out there. I'm fed up. I'm fed up. And I'm not going to let the Washington Post attack this university, this awesome team of young women I have.

Don't think they're going to do that. Or me without a fight. Well, it's probably just you. I've hired the best defamation law firm in the country. And I will sue the Washington Post if they publish a false story about me. Publish a false story about me. Okay, now that's a bold statement because now if you don't sue, we have to assume that it's a true story. Yeah, and also, I was talking to TC about this yesterday.

Obviously, you have to prove malice for defamation. But her attorneys aren't going to tell her, but you know, you're a public figure and it's pretty hard for you to sue a publication. You're going to lose. They're just going to be like, let's go, Kim. And they're just clocking her. And they should because she's behaving like a child. When was this?

Was this after a game? Yeah. Maybe pre. The game was the next day. Okay. I would have loved if this was after round one. Not many people are in a position. Although she did have time to prepare this big statement and get all worked up about it,

but not time to answer 12 questions in an email. Yeah. Not many people are in a position to hold these kind of journalists accountable, but I am, and I'll do it. That's all I'm going to say about this right now, and now I'm going to get back to talking about my basketball team and winning this game tomorrow. Now we've got media guy.

All right, Coach, thank you very much. As you all know, you've been here regularly. Coach Mulkey usually does not make opening statements, so that's all on that topic. If you have questions about LSU's game yesterday and the win over Rice or the game tomorrow at 2 o'clock against Middle Tennessee, we will open up the floor to questions for Coach Mulkey. Please introduce yourself and your affiliation.

And with that, we'll open up the floor. Did you speed that up? No. Coach, Matthew Bernyth on three. Obviously, Middle Tennessee is shooting and they're – Oh, you pussy. That's what I was waiting for. The redirect back to basketball.

Middle Tennessee State. I probably would have done the same thing if I needed to keep a gig, but he had a real shot there. Yeah. Somebody would have admired his moxie. So every – Coach, what do you think is in the story that would be so damning for you? And then he just runs out. Or, you know, let's take

some notes. Your credential's worthless at that point. Take some notes during that and say, okay, I mean, you said they didn't give you a chance to respond, but you had... He was trying to contact you for two years. They probably would have killed his mic instantly. Hold on. Hold on a second. he was trying to contact you for two years. They probably would have killed his mic instantly. She sounded very Bill Clinton.

Hold on. Hold on a second. How about that? Go ahead. She sounded very Bill Clinton at the end of that statement. Now I need to get back to the American people. Yeah, very much. That's in the playbook, right?

What's important. Yeah. So yeah, every question, because I listened to them all, they were all... Basketball. They were all, you know, so- listened to them all, they were all basketball. They were all, you know, so-and-so, so-and-so. And we got to one more. Do we have time for one more if there is one for Coach? Just a softball here.

Is there anything you want people to know about your relationship? So, first of all, yes. Come on, young reporter. Don't let him say this is softball. If you were about to make love to a woman and you were like, listen, I know it's small but can we still do this?

Is there anything you want people to know about your relationship with your players? Huh? Now respect to her for that. Because now we had done nothing but 10 minutes or however many of just basketball questions. Just a softball here.

Is there anything you want people to know about your relationship with your players? Huh? In regards to your opening statement. Oh, now I told you I wasn't going to talk about that again. Anything about it? See? That's the whole thing. This is not

reporter, media person. If you are dictating what is being told, this is not a press conference. Yeah. It's a PR event. If I told you we weren't going to talk about that, then it's like, oh, okay, I guess we're not going to talk about it because you told us. Like, I'm a reporter with a microphone here. That again.

Anything about your current relationship with your players? You better ask them. I think they love me. Coach, thank you very much. Y'all be good. Once again, LSU and Middle Tennessee tomorrow at 2 o'clock. Coach, you got that. You're up late, right?

You heard the time? All right. 2 o'clock tomorrow here in Baton Rouge. We'll be back at 2.15. We'll have players from Middle Tennessee join us then. Can't wait. What a tease. Yeah, this is going to be big for the post for sure.

It's not out yet? No, I mean, I looked this morning, obviously, but... Yeah, and I know the ESPN or somebody reached out to him and he just said... He confirmed he was working on the story and said, I declined to comment on anything else. Okay. Yeah, is that... What is her play?

Because, okay, this was 100% wrong, I think. Yeah. But you said it sounds like the big man, so maybe it's right. Everything we think he does is... It works. It does end up working. It works, but I mean... You certainly have your fan base that's going to support you no matter what.

Yeah. You know, I mean, I saw somebody make this comparison. It worked for a long time for Bob Knight. Like, where he would just make every story completely about him and he had enough people that were like, yeah, but he gets results the way he does things work. Who's to say?

That was also men's basketball and they were winning national championships which makes a ton, ton, ton of money. Does she carry that same? No, not the same, but it's becoming bigger business. Side note on women's college basketball, they talk way more trash than the men. You've been watching? No, I see clips on Twitter.

Did you see Caitlin Clark's dad? Yeah. And then they had to ask him to get her tossed, and she's yelling. Then they had to get her tossed, and she's yelling. There's a woman from Stanford, very attractive woman, who when she fouled out last night was walking off the court and just went, fuck you, to the ref. Wow. You could see it.

People thought she was talking to the other bench, but the ref walks into the frame right when she's walking off. They mix it up, dude. Way more. It seems like with the men, there's like this respect almost. You very rarely see heavy trash talking, I feel like, in men's basketball. You see more in the NBA. But the women, I don't know, must have all cycled up for March. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, they're all together, right? That all happens. They're on the same schedule. I have a couple of quick hits for you here before I get into the rest of my college stuff, although that doesn't flow quite as well. Shohei Otani is going to speak today. Yeah. I'm kind of excited about that as well.

A little bit, because I think there's something really nefarious here. But I also think that Major League Baseball... Like, they can't... If he was betting on baseball... They can't let that get out. They can't ban Shohei Otani for life, can they? No. Because Pete Rose was a... He was a manager at that point.

He was not well-liked in the game. You know, so that seems like a bad, like it was a lot easier to ban Pete Rose from baseball. Yeah, he's a poster boy. The current face of Major League Baseball. On two hemispheres. Yeah, there's never been someone as popular worldwide. Baseball can't believe they have a LeBron.

Yeah. All their big stars, people just don't know who they are. They don't advertise. We've talked about it before. LeBron makes $200-300 million a year because of all the off-the-floor stuff.

Major League Baseball, the guy, Bryce Harper is leading the way with $1 million extra endorsements. Baseball players just are not well-known. But Otani is. A couple questions about today.

Who's going to be his interpreter? Right? I don't think it can be the same guy. Probably not. Probably not. He's like, Joey's like talking, he's speaking Japanese, and then Ipe's like, he says that only Ipe is responsible for every answer. They did ask him that in the ESPN interview, though.

What? I don't remember if we talked about that last week. They actually asked him, have you ever basically misconstrued or relayed different information than what Shohei was telling you when we asked questions, which I've always thought an interpreter could do that. The only problem is there's got to be a million Japanese people watching those interviews who are fans back home. One of them would say, like, this interpretation is not right. If it was a consistent thing, yeah.

Yeah. But if it was a one-time thing. Yeah. So on Ipe, the other thing is over the weekend, The Athletic published a story about him, and it's wild because he's got major resume issues. They put him in the media guide, and they list who he is, and he's part of the team staff,

which listed that he went to and graduated from UC Riverside in California in 07. The school has no record of anyone by that name ever attending there, let alone graduating there. Said he worked for the Yankees for Hideki Akajima. They say no. Said he worked for the Red Sox in spring training. So was he hired by the Angels? Yeah, that's the first in the –

So Shohei didn't know him ahead of time? Oh, no, it's his best friend. Oh, okay. Yeah. Then why would he need all this other crap? I don't know. Why lie? Probably because, you know,

if you'd never really worked as an interpreter before. You had to tell the Angels I have? Yeah. Okay. And so Shohei's like, hey, I want my guy, and you're never really worked as an interpreter before. You had to tell the Angels I have? Yeah. Okay. And so Shohei's like, hey, I want my guy. And you're not going to say no. Okay. I'm not saying he's never worked as an interpreter.

But, you know, you can do like a LexisNexis search for news articles. And this guy was not mentioned once in any news article until Shohei signed with the Angels in whatever it was, 2017. Ever. So, like, the Red Sox came out and were like, he was never a Red Sox employee. If he worked with some of our guys before they got to spring training, perhaps. But, and I almost wonder about stories like this, although I definitely trust the athletic. But if I were

Shohei's team, I'd be like, we've got to do everything we can to make this guy look like an absolute liar. Yeah. These are also all facts. He's in the media guide. None of these former

stops seem legit. But also facts. Weren't you saying last week that he initially said one thing, but now he's saying another thing? And doesn't that kind of lead to this whole thing of just he's a lying, degenerate gambler? That kind of feeds into that because a lot of people want to pin this on Shohei. Yeah, and I think the first story was that Shohei knew

and paid it off for him because they were tight. And then the next day he was like, I stole it from him. He never knew anything about it. ESPN actually caught up with him. I should have pulled the exact conversation. They got him on the phone for like a minute this weekend.

And they're like, why'd your story change again? And he's like, I'm not supposed to talk about that. And they're like, why'd your story change again? And he's like, I'm not supposed to talk about that. Is somebody telling you that? No. Are you working with Shohei's lawyers? No. Did Shohei know about it?

No. They're like, why aren't you talking about it? I'm not supposed to talk about this. So he did kind of talk about it. But also, like, you don't say, I'm not supposed to talk about this if no one else told. That's not the way you phrased that. Ah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And when I saw it, quote to you, it was like, does Ipe need a lawyer right now? Because he should not be answering his phone. It's a crazy story. Yeah, I think we'll never know the truth. Probably not. They don't want you to know. No. You know how that is, Blake.

Cover-ups. Maybe we can save my – I'll do some of my college stuff because I want to play this audio, the two pieces of audio we pulled. You know the most amount of research I did on what I saw in college basketball over the weekend is reading up on Jake from State Farm. Why? The original? No, but he ties into this story.

Because as I've told you for many years, they had a viral campaign with a guy named Jake from State Farm, the khakis campaign. It was funny. It went viral. He was kind of a flabby white guy. And then they brought the campaign back like five years later with a black guy who's ripped to the gills. But they still call him Jake from State Farm.

It's a very weird marketing move. It's like if they replaced the gecko and Geico with like an alligator. And they were like, he's the gecko. But they did redo that commercial bit by bit the the khakis the original yeah yeah they're like remember this yeah so it wasn't because the the original guy was metooed or something no in fact the original guy was an actual employee of state farm and jake was his actual name and uh he is now a bartender in illinois oh but he wasn't photogenic or something i guess not or they need a dei right they need to be inclusive i mean uh he was on dan patrick

actually jake from state farm and he said he tested well he was had been in a couple the original no oh okay guy like he tested well he'd'd been in a couple of bit pieces and network dramas, SWAT and stuff like that. I just wanted to read this statement from, let's see, the chief agency sales and marketing officer of State Farm when they hired new Jake. The simple phrase, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there, reflects how State Farm agents and employees make a meaningful difference helping others. Jake from State Farm isn't just an individual. He is all of us.

He represents what every one of the 19,000 State Farm agents and 58,000 employees strive to deliver. And you know what? Every time I see the guy, I was like, that's all of us. Yeah, yeah. Not just even at State Farm. How did you find yourself in this? Because, so here's the way it works during the tournament.

And I don't know if any, you probably have noticed this. If you watch an NFL game, there's way more diversity in advertising. Like you might see an AT&T ad and a Verizon ad. You might see, you know, in the same game. But there's much tighter construct of ads in the NCAA tournament. Like, first of all, there's only AT&T. So you have exclusivity over – There's title sponsors of the tournament.

I don't know if it's title, but – Certain automobile. I'm pretty sure if it's title. Certain automobile. I'm pretty sure there was only one. One beer, all that. Yeah. And I think there might be Progressive and Jake from State Farm in this tournament, but there's about six companies advertising. And they usually have like four ads each.

But if you watch the tournament, like if you just have it on in the background for a whole day, you're going to see the exact same commercials time and time and time again. Like a Rangers broadcast or something. Yeah, I guess. Because those you – You definitely do. But you kind of expect that from local.

Yeah, I think that's just cable TV. But in national, the biggest tournament in the sport, I mean, I saw a lot of sport, I saw a lot of Jake. I saw a lot of Draymond Green in his AT&T commercial. You're going to see a lot of Draymond throughout the next 20 years. Yeah. The thing on his AT&T commercial too is, because I was like, man, does AT&T know what they're getting into here? And then the copy started, and it's him talking about

learning from past mistakes. Okay, they do know. Yeah, so he's like, you know, if you used to pay too much, maybe that was a questionable decision. You know, that's interesting, because Barkley was the same way as a player. Yeah. He was the guy. He wasn't a role

model. That was his big thing, is I'm't a role model that was his big thing is i'm not a role model he's throwing people through uh glass windows and i guess most windows are glass hey i didn't catch it right away yeah he's you know but he was always getting in trouble bar fights this and that and it is odd how he kind of turned that into being a darling. You know, that's... About Michael Irvin. Michael Irvin. But did Michael Irvin really lean into it? No.

He does... He will reference it and not hide from it. Yeah. But... I guess that's the difference. But they kind of turned it into his thing. I guess they... They haven't really done that with... Who's the guy that ate the Skittles?

The Seahawk. Oh, Marshawn Lynch. Marshawn Lynch. I guess they did a little bit with him, but they're kind of like turning Draymond into like, this is my image, and yes. Yeah, and he's – And I enjoy Draymond. He's pretty good too. Yeah. When he's on broadcast. Yeah, and he's like... And I enjoy Draymond. He's pretty good, too.

Yeah. When he's on broadcast. Yeah, I like him a lot. Do you know what the main storyline out of Grand Canyon v. Alabama was over the weekend? Doesn't it have something to do with, like, it's a predatory... Oh, that's a different deal, which I did not know about. Grand Canyon, the university, is also apparently like a publicly traded company. Yes, that too.

So I was hoping they'd win last night because as someone pointed out, we're going to find out what a Sweet 16 appearance is worth. Were you thinking about getting in? Buying a little stock? Wetting the beak with that? No, I was not. Yeah, they're a publicly traded company. But then

there's something else about just the whole way they're set up. Are they like University of Phoenix type thing? I know University of Phoenix has caught some heat for the way they do business. For sure. But yeah, Grand Canyon that nobody has ever heard of

all of a sudden is on the map because of the tournament. Well, it started a couple weeks ago whenever they were windmill dunking on UTA at the end of a ball game. Ooh, I didn't know about that. You don't go into college hall? Y'all didn't

see this? Uh-uh. They'd like tomahawk slammed with four seconds left, and UTA got really mad, and the kid on UTA chunked the ball at him and hit him right in the hip. Nothing funnier than two adults, one of them hitting the other with a ball. This was...

Nothing funnier. This was in the conference tournaments, and yeah, Grand Canyon beat them. Full Napoleon Dynamite. And it was just a funny scene at the end of the game watching UTA get really mad about it but yeah the kid like chunked a basketball and nailed him it was like a really impressive throw

well what happened over the weekend Dan was something that was more that people on television were upset with watching you tell me when you can figure it out nope nope 3.9 for Bama You tell me when you can figure it out. Oh. Nope.

Three-point edge for Bama. On the push. Greg Kagan takes the bounce. Count it. The Grandmaster. Well, it starts with the great hands. Jovan Blackshaw. Do it again.

Sorry. It's either a child or hopefully a child. The screaming? Yeah. And they're way too close to a mic. It went on the entire game. On the push. Greg Kelly.

It comes to pass. Count it. The grandfather. Well, it The Grand Tosser. It starts with the great hands. Joe Von Black gets a hand on the... You know Blake is hearing that like, oh God.

Soul leaving his body. Yes. As an engineer for life. Just isolate it. Get rid of it. It might have stopped at some point, but it was definitely

going through a good portion of the game. Did you find the video? Yeah. 2.9 seconds left. Yeah, he does a windmill dunk. And then number four for UTA sees his teammates get a little angry. They're winning by 10. Gets shoved and then just chunks dodgeball style

and hits him right in the hip. Yeah, one guy. Yeah, those guys should be kind of suspended. I guess it doesn't matter. There's two seconds left in their season, right? Did you see this? But one guy, yeah, hip checks him and then the other guy whips the ball at him. So he dunks it to go up 12 with three seconds left.

Checks him and then... to go up 12 with three seconds left. Checks him and then... Let's see here. It was hot gambling talk all weekend, which I think we were kind of in the front of. Are you still on the tournament? Yeah. Okay.

As ESPN has a, I guess it's called Best Bets segment, which is co-hosted by Reese Davis. And sorry, I'm not trying to be misogynist. I don't know her name, but I saw a Rolobob tweet this clip out. This is from ESPN's Best Bets segment. a player prop the total but we're gonna get again a little spicy here this is gonna be a sweat i wish i could give you a ton of research of why this is gonna hit under but when we look at uconn they like to slow down the tempo the same thing goes for northwestern if they want to stay in this game they're gonna have to slow down uconn's offense okay so she goes through a reasoning by hey you need to take under northwestern it was under 60 and then we'll skip ahead in total although it seems low at 60 and a half i'm'm going to go under there. You know what? Some would call this wagering, gambling.

I think the way you've sold this. No, I think what it is is risk-free investment. That's the way to look at it. A positive way. Aaron Dolan from ESPN with the best. I feel like it might be illegal to say that. I was going to say, why do you think every gambling ad you see

has half the page or half the screen is just fine print of saying, do not treat this as an investment. Call this if you have a problem in Kentucky. You know when we've done ads for people on the radio about investing. Yeah, no. You can't say. The scariest ad campaigns I've ever done were ones where they were like, you know, if you mess this up, somebody could get sued. And like, he just flat out says it. He says risk-free investment. And this is Reese Davis. In total, although it seems low at 60 and a half, I'm going to go under there.

You know what? Some would call this wagering, gambling. I think the way you sold this. No, I think what it is, is risk-free investment. That's the way to look at it. A positive way. Aaron Dolan from ESPN. Did that hit? No, I think what it is is risk-free investment. That's the way to look at it. A positive way. Aaron Dolan from ESPN. Did that hit? It did. Okay.

You know I ran to it. Because it would have been glorious had it not. I know. The first thing I thought was, but apparently she's very good at what she does. It was 60 and a half over under, and I think it came in at 58. Play the beginning again, because I do love that. We got to get back to the music. There are many different ways you can play a game. You can look at the spread, you can look at player

props in total but we're going to get a little spicy here. This is going to be a sweat. I wish I could give you... You play that when you're getting a little spicy here. And then our final piece, this is something that... Actually, let me just... You want to do it? No, let me bring something up and then you can play that.

Okay. Because I think that's funny. Well, good. Wasn't it the thing... Weren't you guys telling me about this guy last week? The guy from Oakland? Yeah. I don't know if it was on the air or off. It was...

I think it was off. He had an insane game. Is it Jack Golke? Golke, yeah. Okay, he's the guy. He kind of went viral, too, because after the big upset against Kentucky, he said they never considered themselves underdogs and the mentality they went into the game with and blah, blah, blah.

Any certain day, I can play better than the guy across from me. There's, you know, and if we all do that at the same time, then we can have this game where we win this game. And it got, it was, this, that was a, was that the biggest upset? Yeah. Of this whole thing? Yeah, that's bigger than Yale-Auburn, I think. Just because these are you know

even there was a quote before about you know some of their bulletin board material was these guys will be in the nba these guys will be selling insurance or something which is you know all actually true stuff um but it was jack golke just took a look at his chart shot for the season or uh Colkey just took a look at his chart shot for the season. Or shot chart. Yes. His shot chart for the season. Better to mess it up that way.

His hot chart. His chart shot. 347 threes attempted. Take a look at it. I know. It's so absurd. He had eight two-pointers attempted. And you could see the bulk of,

like some of them are right on the rim, so those are layups. Something happened, fast break, I don't know. Yeah. But then, yeah, there's like one mid-range jumper. It's the craziest distribution. And I think there's one just inside the three-point line. That was an accident. But, yes, one mid-range jumper all season.

It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. That did not go in, of course. It didn't go in? No, somebody found the video of it. He's like, never again. Yeah, there was a bunch of other stuff with him over the weekend too. Like obviously companies are dipping into NIL during the tournament, like on the fly.

So he got Buffalo Wild Wings because he was a hot story, viral story. But the other one he got was because everyone on Twitter was like, how is Kentucky losing to this damn accountant? I'm pretty sure like TurboTax or somebody. Okay, that's smart. Like got him over the weekend. One of the – something tax-related got to him, and he filmed a little video.

Did you see Caitlin Clark is going to the WNBA? Is she just a senior? I believe she's not a senior. Okay. Is that surprising to you? Just because of NIL? Yeah, NIL. They make more now.

I thought she might be able to make more NIL. Now, obviously, she could just keep those sponsorships. Yeah, probably. But it feels like, I mean, Iowa's kind of like a national thing. Whereas if she goes and plays for, you know, whatever. Phoenix? Phoenix. Thank you.

The Phoenix. Mercury. Okay. Got it. The Phoenix. Mercury? Okay. Got it. The upset of the century. Brittany Griner. That's the only reason, but it still counts. Yeah, I don't know.

Tulsa. Tulsa had one. I'm trying to remember. Was it named after a hurricane or a tornado? I'm trying to remember. Was it named after like a hurricane or a tornado? Didn't we think that it was weird that they were naming things after things that would kill many people? Like the Chicago Fire?

Yeah. Do they still have one? Dallas Wings. I'm trying to go through as many teams as I can. I think I've just done it. It was a Tulsa shock The Los Angeles Sparks Which are now the Dallas Wings

The LA Sparks Yeah Sparks are bad Down there messing around with wires The Detroit Predatory lending team Yeah Alright So yeah our final piece of audio here

Before we close up sports for the day. This is from Tennessee UT the other day. Listener sent this in to us, and it is a classic not listening. These are just the mental errors that are killing the Longhorns and allowing Tennessee to benefit and eat off of those miscues. Almost another turnover. Instead, it's going to be a foul on Vescovy. Tyrese Hunter has five giveaways himself of the 12.

Well, but also, but it's been Hunter who has five turnovers. Oh, no. But also. Don't forget. Almost another turnover. Instead, it's going to be a foul on Vescovi. Tyrese Hunter has five giveaways himself of the 12. But also, it's been Hunter who has five turnovers.

That's five seconds. Hold on. Not even that. You can hear the play-by-play guy faintly go, yep. Who has five turnovers. That's five seconds. Hold on. Not even that. You can hear the play-by-play guy faintly go, yep. Who has five turnovers. Yeah. No, you weren't paying attention to a damn thing I said, were you? That's awesome.

That was actually sent to us by Robert Barton. So thanks for watching that. How about before we break, let's get this going. Hey, everybody. It's time to answer some of today's viewer mail. All right. Got this one Friday.

Not in time for me to read it, though. Because it says, Hi, Dan. Tomorrow, Saturday the 23rd, is my brother Jameson's birthday. Oh. You may know him as our keyboardist. The best.

He's the most fervent DF of them all, and the reason I am a subscriber from Brian Gray. That's how we can get the subbies up. Get your family members to subscribe. Got to say, Brian, Jameson got the better name. You think? That's tough. What if Brian's an Aggie?

Perhaps. That's on the list. What are your top five Aggie names? Perhaps. That's on the list. What are your top five Aggie names? Kyle, Brian, Drew, Ben, and then some form of the dude perfect. Cody, Tyler.

Cody would be up there because Cody's generational. Guys my age, Aggies were Cody's. Is it in this scan? Tyler, of course. Tyler's up there. All those guys were in the core with me. Boy, I wish. Drew, though, right?

Yeah, Drew. Drew was in my outfit with me. You were actually in the core? Yeah. Holy shit. Jake, you and I actually got into a twitter fight years ago there's no doubt

I'll fight them all no I'll tell you this this is how I got so much respect for you because I thought you were just full of shit all the time you made some claim

like oh only like 40% of guys go into the military I was like no that's bullshit so I emailed the core guy and he's like yeah it's like 40%

I was like maybe Jake, that's bullshit. So I emailed the core guy. He's like, yeah, it's like 40%. I was like, maybe Jake's not full of shit. Wow. You see my Aggie jar over there? It's a, there's the white, it's in front of the Greggos. Do you ever, okay, so when the videos get published and stuff like that, I know it's tradition and I know you have the pride for it, but does it make you slightly like, I wish this stuff didn't get out to the outside world that doesn't understand it?

Like the Yell Eaters? Oh, I've watched some of them. They're painful to watch. Okay. I'm just glad we're on the same page there. Yeah, they're hard to watch. I'm just glad they weren't doing that when I was there.

I mean, the videos part. Yeah, they were doing it. Others didn't know. Which is fine. There's plenty of stuff in everyone's world. All of our world. As long as people outside of this circle don't know about this. Yeah.

Hey Dan, can you wish my brother Matthew Ennis happy birthday on Monday? Or is it Enis? I think it's Enis. His birthday is March 26th, but he's in Germany, and I guess he'll be a day behind listening, so he'll hear the March 25th announcements on the 26th. That's a lot of info.

That is a lot of info. I'm sorry. He says, but you know better than I do about how listening in Europe works. From Jason, day one, DF, number 168. Ooh, so close. Uncle Hotmail, it's my Jason Terry birthday Sunday. My wife wouldn't send this because she thinks this podcast is, quote, dumb. And I tell her that's the point.

My leaders are Jake's ragdoll cat establishing himself as the alpha of the house. It's kind of already happened. See Jake having to wipe copious amounts of S out of his butthole. And Amster Dan. Thanks for being the best comedy, sports, recreation, news, history, travel podcast on the market. There it is. More Blake. You had me. Good till the market. There it is. More Blake. You had me.

Good till the end. From Will, number 3133. Uncle Dan, please help me wish a JoyX Anniversary. What? I think that's how you say happy birthday in French.

It says French accent. I don't know if that was a French accent. Joy X? No. It's close, though. My good buddy and fellow DF, Kent Iverson. Kent Iverson. He listens religiously as I do, and I think you guys, and thanks you guys, our literature

as fuck can be shortened to Lit AF. From Steven Brunson. P.S. Please thank Jake for meeting up with me to give me masks his mom made during the roni. Like first week. My mom was, she like flipped her shop to just make nothing but masks. So she's like, how do I capitalize on this human suffering? It's all free, baby.

Yeah. Didn't sell any of them. And I was meeting people around town. Back when we thought those things mattered. Yeah. Were you wearing a diaper on your face? Yeah. Face diaper. Uncle Hotmail, my DF husband, Nathan Seypert. Were you wearing a diaper on your face? Yeah, face diaper

Uncle Hotmail, my DF husband Nathan Seypert Happy birthday, it's his Dirk birthday Dude Just like you guys Having his Dirk birthday, isn't that sweet? This dude is awesome Subscriber number 552

He was hoping to be woken up With a Granberry Lake House picnic table, but will settle for a porcini's table. Oh, geez. Okay. That ends in an abortion. Where's that? That's Patino. Oh.

Yeah, Karen Seifer, the Italian restaurant in Kentucky. Yeah, but a marriage comes out of it. It's really a love story. Yeah. That's what it is, Blake. His leaders are the Times Square Sbaros and not looking into something he has never heard of. From Breanne. What a good email.

He's a big FC Dallas fan, but whenever they were sponsored by Advocare, remember when their jerseys used to say Advocare? His Twitter handle was FC Pyramidski. Ah, yes, I remember when the FC Dallas jerseys had Advocare because now they have... You know, they just changed it. Something else on it? I don't know what it is now... You know, they just changed it. Something else on it. I don't know what it is now.

I feel like they just changed it. Uncle Hotmail, I'm D1DF148 from Denver. My leaders are Jake's squirting fetish, Blake's online dating advice, and WordsWithDan. I'd like a shout-out for my birthday, and if Blake ever nuts up and decides to join the team on a road trip to Colorado, I'd love to join that remote.

Thank you for creating a high-quality comedy podcast. From Billy Cardwell. We've got several people offering up. I was going to say. Yeah. You getting those, too? Yeah. I'm getting a lot of people with place in Colorado, this or that. I feel like Colorado might be our second heaviest listening state.

Blake, can you confirm or deny that? I can find out. Certainly. Blake will do it at his leisure. I'm doing it right now. That's all right. Because it is time now It's very See

See what? Hmm? Jesus That's why I don't do things during the show The Dunzo We're taking advice from 3-6 Mafia Those guys are cool. Shout out to Project Pat, by the way.

Oh, they rule, dude. And their boy Computer. I don't know if you guys, do you remember that? They had one of my all-time favorite nicknames. They had a reality TV show, and their boy, who was the only one who knew how to send emails, they called him Computer. Because he had a Hotmail account? Yeah emails they called him computer that's computer had to be done online computer did you're listening to the No Puffin' What the hell was that, Anthony?

We've switched positions here. How'd you like that, guys? That's how a break goes. It's pretty exciting. Yep. That's how it works in the biz. But when you're listening back, it's 30 seconds. But you just experienced seven hours of hanging out here at the den.

We've switched couch positions. Aggie Ben is now on the couch. And, you know, so, but you guys split the 690, you said, right? And the wives are pretty pleased about all that? Oh, they're less amused. Blake's got a humming wire today, and it's driving him nuts. It's not making me fired up, but it's driving him more nuts. What's the deal?

Anytime I plug in my computer power, I've dealt with this before. I think the power sends a hum somewhere, so I'm trying to plug it in and then unplug it. But you're trying not to lose power. Yeah, we're dealing with that too. I've dealt with this before. It's very annoying. It's been a fun show for me. Do you need my power cord?

It's not the cord. I think we're okay now. I think because apparently... It doesn't matter. you can charge through the USB-C still. You can. They don't tell you that. They don't tell you that. So we're doing that. Okay.

Well, we have to make a phone call right now. This will be fun. We don't think they're going to answer, but today is an anniversary. Today is the anniversary of the first time we ever called Quincy Carter cold. Quincy Carter, former Cowboy quarterback. You remember him, right? Quincy! The guy who was having trouble with internet and somehow tweeted out his phone number.

Yes. It was to get a hold of Dion's son, right? Yeah, he wanted to coach him. Shadour? Probably. Oh, really? Who's now a big deal at Colorado. Okay.

That's pretty cool. Yeah. Anyway, he accidentally tweeted out his phone number, and we called it, and then he picked up. He was very confused at first. He was watching that three-hour movie on Netflix. The Irishman? Yeah. He kind of became friends a little bit.

Am I done with this sound effect? Yeah, you're good. Got my hopes up there. On to a new sound effect. We're going to go to voicemail, isn't he? Yeah. Because he doesn't pick up anymore. No.

He used to pick up. He's a big deal now. Well, no. I just think he hates us. I don't think he hates us. What did I miss? We became some kind of friends when...

Why would he hate? We introduced him to T.J. Miller. Please leave your message for... Quincy. That's true, you did... All right, turn it up. Hello, Quincy. Quincy. Quincy.

Hey. It's Dan, Dan McDowell, Jake Kemp. Hey there. We're calling you. This is the anniversary of the first time we ever cold called you when you accidentally put your number out on Twitter. And then we called you, and you answered answered and we had such a great time. A lot of fun.

And then the next year we talked to you again and introduced you to T.J. Miller, star of film and television. Mm-hmm. And then you met him and everything was great. Probably remembered.

We're just calling to wish you a happy anniversary of the day we first called you. What was it, three years ago, guys? Four? Four. 2020. Time flies, you know. 2020.

Remember the pandemic, Quincy? Alright. Alright, well, thanks very much. Goodbye. Yeah, call us back if you want on this number, right, Blake? Yeah. We'll still be here for another hour or so, so give us a call if you can.

Alright. Thanks. Thanks. Love you. Quincy! Alright. There he goes. Alright. So if we have Today in History and News left, can I do one small Today in Twitter for you? Is there anything else we have to attend to? I think

we're good. I don't know. Okay. Well, I've got to play this for you. Okay. Do you need an open? No. Well, yeah. Sure. Do you need an open? No. Well, yeah, sure. I forgot we had that. Don't know presents today in Twitter. So I saw, you know, I'm a big stand-up comedy fan, Dan.

Saw a couple of great specials over the weekend. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I'll forward them to you. One was a guy named H. Foley. He's like in the Tom Segura, probably Shane universe. Okay. Can't remember the other guy's name, but I'll get it for you. And then I saw this clip, but I don't know the guy's name because it was transferred over from TikTok,

and they didn't have the name in it. But it's just standard dude standing in front of brick wall set, small club, and I thought this was one of the better setups and punch lines that i've i've heard in a long time i just found out that i uh had 27 subscriptions yeah it's like finding out that you had 27 kids you did not know about yes rocket money yes that was what did it yeah it's like it made out all my subscriptions for me like a rap sheet of bad decisions. I had two Netflix accounts. Two Netflix accounts? Yeah, I had two Fubo accounts. How much money did you save?

It saved me $700. $700? Damn, can I hold $20? It only saved me like $300. No, but all serious, if you guys want to save some money, download Rocket Money. Maybe cover the drinks. I almost got a knife from my kitchen when I first saw this. This is a Rocket Money ad that they are passing off as stand-up comedy. As the guy's like, i got 27 subscriptions and then the lady in the car goes rocket money it is uh appalling to me is this guy a real stand-up

there's no chance because nobody no real stand-up would do that no no chance okay i was trying to figure out what's what are you playing that's funny? Like, where's the really funny part? That brands are now like, hey, what do people like? Comedy. We'll set this into comedy. But here's the thing. Kind of genius. Yeah, but it's so obviously terrible and fake.

But here's the thing. One of your faves, Tim Heidecker, some years ago during one of his specials, actually did a bit very similar to this. Yeah, I was doing the 9 to 5 thing for a while. Actually, I was sort of doing the 9 to 5 thing. I was also doing a little day trading. You know about day trading? Kind of did that for a little while.

I used this E-Trade. That's kind of cool. It's an E-Trade. Sort of lets you invest at your own pace I guess kind of cool I got sort of into it for a while they let you kind of

kind of customize your the way you want to invest you know so you can be get a little risky or sort of play it safe it's a whole range you can get analytics and mess around with that I got to mess around with that for a little risky, you know, or sort of play it safe. It's a whole range. You could get analytics and mess around with that. I got to mess around with that for a little bit,

but it's a good service, you know. It's easy, too. You just got to e-trade.com, log in, or set up an account, link it to your fucking bank account. It's, like, too easy. And it's funny. It's like, is there still fucking people on Ameritrade? Just like, which doesn't have the tools that E-Trade has.

It's like, okay. It's such a weird bit. Such a weird bit. So he's doing that on purpose, obviously. Yeah, of course. And he's not paid by them. Is anything he does serious? Yeah, no.

The line, you never know. But yeah, that's what people... Once people are making fun of Rocket Money for this. Actually, Tim Heidecker came up with a bit that was so absurd that it was a bit, and then you guys just used it. So are you seeing this because you're a comedy guy? I don't know. I have no idea.

The algorithm knows that you're going to. It's possible. Maybe that's how Rocket Money thought they'd get me. But, you know, it is a great service, folks. I was just actually listening to it. I was like, wait. It sounds great. I think she saved $700.

I just, I don't know. It's kind of a living, breathing version of Wendy's. Wendy's is actually very good, but let's say, I don't know, Nebraska Furniture Mart tweeting, bruh. I can't stand it. I can't stand the brand side. They want to fellow kids you. It's just more of a, I guess it's like product placement in a movie or something, where a guy's drinking a Coke, and you can clearly see it's a Coke,

and they paid to be in that movie. Yeah. But they're just trying to blur, you know, with fakes and everything. Now you don't know what's what. It's a weird time for me to be saying that the advertising industry might be fake. Right. We might welcome that. You know, if Rocket Money wants to call me.

Sure, yeah. All right. Here's Jay with the Dumb Zone. Although you've always been here, so that's weird to say that. We'll start with a little bit of bad news. This story, I honestly thought it was fake when I first saw it. This happened in Houston. A 59-year-old woman was stabbed.

She went to the hospital in critical condition. I have not seen an update on that condition, but she was alive. The assailants, a 12-year-old and a 7-year-old. Wow. Yeah. They grow up so fast. Blink and you'll miss it.

When I first saw the story, I'm like, oh, what is this? It's just an innocent lady. Was it a robbery? And she was innocent. But. Gang initiation?

Yeah. Is it? No. I'm just saying that's the things you're thinking about. Apparently, I don't think you're supposed to use the word crazy anymore. But you know how like when you were growing up, I feel like everyone I knew had a crazy lady in their neighborhood. Like lived alone. Probably had a lot of cats.

If you dare step into her yard, she was freaking out. I'll call the cops. Yeah. We used to go in her yard on purpose. Yeah. If a ball gets in her yard, she's kicking it, you know, and she's outside smoking or whatever. I remember the lady that I grew up next to, she would walk around on the street, up and down,

to go say hi to people with a full tumbler of wine barefoot. Like on concrete. And her yard had stickers, and one time she backed out of her garage with the garage door closed. Just super wheels off. She was kind of Out there and sometimes rude

But it never occurred to me to stab her Ever So this woman is apparently You know she deals with some stuff So much so That her brother comes by to check on her daily That's dealing with stuff Yeah fragile mental state

He checks on her In the video you can see um let's see the neighbor kind of shoved the boys away like in fact sort of in front of her house and then 10 minutes later they're back the younger one can be wearing seen wearing oversized blue gloves and the other black gloves like they even knew you don't leave prints yeah and i don't get blood on me knew... You don't want to leave prints. Yeah, and I don't get blood on me. Or you don't want the knife to slip.

Were they trying to kill her? I don't know. But there's something really sinister about charging the woman inside her garage and fleeing heartbeats later she falls to the ground. They leap back on their bikes and roll away. Reminds me of Stranger Things.

Ah, yes. The 80s. Remember what the mall was like back then? Remember kids riding their bikes? Aw, man. Blockbuster. Kids riding their bikes and not getting abducted? No, they were definitely still getting abducted. We just called that guy a little bit

funny. Yeah. Not a predator. Sad, sad... Oh, you autoplay ad. Sad news regarding the full eclipse. The total solar eclipse. What? The city of Hillsboro was planning to open a new

Buc-ee's location. And it will not be open prior to the eclipse due to construction delays. And you know what it occurred to me? And this is not even like some Blake BS. A couple things. You definitely are going to have to get gas early that week and fill up. Just do it. Why?

I don't know that... It's a Monday, so I don't know that... It's a Monday, so I don't know how early you can get in there. Okay, I would say a few days out. I don't know that people, from the stories I've been reading, and like, you know, Texas consulted with Montana, I don't know that people understand how insane this is going to be in the Metroplex. I was telling you that a year ago. Yeah, I'm just saying now, like, they have figures on it,

like traffic situations. Like I told you, people are having to get out of the car and pee on the freeway in Montana. Maybe we should just do it here then. I mean, I definitely don't want to go to downtown Dallas. We will be there forever. We've been offered a place like top of a parking garage in downtown Dallas.

That might be cool. You better be willing to stay there. We could be bought, right? Maybe. Yeah, yeah. Well, certainly we can be bought. I suppose the question is how much and for what. Yeah.

But the other thing is people are going to swarm every Buc-ee's location in this path. So don't be driving to the Eclipse at 1.30. People are going to swarm every Buc-ee's location in this path. So don't be driving to the Eclipse at 1.30. Dude, people are going to be there two days before. You think? I know. There's going to be camping out? Yeah.

Camp outs, people who paid for an Airbnb starting Saturday. I wonder if it'll be like the fireworks and stuff at Town Square. I wonder if Town Square will be full. In Grapevine? Or in Southlake? Southlake? Yeah. Either. It will be.

Everything will be full. Every single thing except your house will be full. I went to the Grapevine Barbershop Saturday. Mm-hmm. Boy, I hate when I go there and you've been there. Because immediately they know everything that I'm... They're like, how's France? They ask, how's Dan?

And I said, he's in France. I'm sorry. How would you guys know that I was in France? But yeah, they were talking. Because you know how Victoria's great. She won't really talk to you. She'll talk a little bit at first, but then they're just doing their own show behind you. And they were talking about how a place down the street, what was it called?

The Vine? Something. They were charging $250 a head to get into their eclipse party. That's not going to be an isolated situation or anything even approaching it. Like they're going to have wine, they're going to have just a big party and all that. That's what I was thinking. We should,

you know, what if we charge to go out and broadcast from someone's eclipse location? Eclipse. Eclipse. Total eclipse. Total eclipse. Eclipse machine. Yeah, but back to my original point. Hillsboro's got to be crushed because people now know about Buc-ee's.

Like if you go, I don't frequent, I don't go. I may never go again. Why? Because you just can't, especially on the weekend. It's like the band that you used to know? No, it's, there's another gas station across the street. For the novelty of it, I get it. Yeah, but they don't have beaver nuggets.

Yeah. But you can't get gas there. They have 700 bathrooms. You can't get gas there in a timely fashion most of the time. They do work pretty fast at the register, but there's going to be a long-ass line. So they're a victim of their success. A hundred percent. And actually, sometimes there's not a gas station right nearby because they put it out of business.

Yeah, it's become a bit. Just going to Buc-ee's is a bit. People wear merch. Like, you will stretch your gas just to get to that next Buc-ee's. Yeah, and as I've said several times, I don't know why they have so many billboards. Like if you drive down 35... Because you got to know where to go.

But I'm telling you, dude, it's every three exits on 35. It's like, no, I know it's still up there. You're like a nationwide famous brand now. But if you just got on the highway... Well, you'll see another one, three. Another one, three. Like, what other business

has ever done that? Maybe they bought a tin for... Bubba's RVs. You ever gone there? No, I've not. You ever see that? I have seen the sign, though. Heading down to Houston.

Yeah. That was when we first decided that we'd never get an RV. Because I actually had talked myself into wanting to get an RV. Because of the Bubba's RV signs. Just driving down to Houston. And like, man, we're going to stop there and we're going to put a down payment on an RV.

Like, I was so excited about getting an RV. Because that'd be great. Drive across the country. And then everything in it is so tiny. And it just seems too much like camping to me. That's why I was surprised we were even doing this. And then, you know, but it took me, you know, I don't know, half hour, 45 minutes

walking around with the sales guy to determine I'm not an RV guy. But I thought I was. Because like even the nicest one, and this is some time ago, and it cost like $250,000 for the nicest RV. Yeah. And I didn't want to be in that one.

I wouldn't think you would. So now I know. Not RV guy. The last story, apparently before a Stars game last week, there was a guy out front with a big sign that said, literally anybody else 2024. You know, because you can't find better?

Yeah. There's 330 million people. We got these two old windbags. Yeah. So the guy who was doing that is a teacher in Birdville ISD, 7th grade. It doesn't say what school. Perhaps he taught at my middle school or teaches there. I don't know. What was your middle school? North Ridge. 35-year-old, seventh grade math teacher, Army veteran. And he has literally, don't get to use that word correctly too often,

literally changed his name to literally anybody else. So he could be on the ballot. He's trying. Okay. Yeah. He's legally changed his name. There's a picture of his driver's license right here. So just like McLovin, but it says literally anybody else.

Yes. His last name is now Else. He's referred to as Mr. Else throughout the story. Obviously a huge hurdle because he's got to get a petition with over 100,000 signatures from registered voters who did not vote in the primary in either party. But I feel like... We can get me. I'm one of those. Yeah.

Blake? Anybody else? I bet a clean sweep in here. Just did six. Quick canvas. There you go, buddy. And we're close to you. I feel like if this got in front of the right people,

he might be able to get on the ballot. And who will it hurt more able to get on the ballot. And who will it hurt more? That's always the question. I feel like it's a toss-up on this one. Because usually the third-party candidate has at least policies. They're like, well, it's kind of a little more like this guy

or a little more like that guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this guy's just like, who cares? What if he won? If he won Texas? I mean, it wouldn't really matter. Oh, he can only get on the ballot here? Yeah, I think so.

Yeah. Is it because the Supreme Court said he couldn't be on the ballot in Colorado? Isn't that a story? Yeah. I'm just a news guy. I think that came and went. I think that... There's some news stuff going on. I got hit with the block walkers on Saturday, speaking of elections.

Dan and I are veteran block walkers, so... Yeah. We walked for Scott Riggs. And so... Unsuccessfully we walked. Yeah. And that's a weird gig, too, man. And Mayor Bra. You never know... How did we't know bruh you never know how do we lose the

mayor bruh you know how business block walking is really weird because you don't really know what you're getting into door to door so it could be somebody who's like i don't vote get off my porch could be somebody who's like i'm a republican and you're with a Democrat. So it's really tough sledding at times. And the lady that came, there's a big school board election coming up in GCISD. And as you know, we've been in the news a little bit, much like Southlake. Is your school board too woke? Vote along this line. Yeah, so the lady came to the door.

I don't know the names of the people. I just know who I'm going to vote for, sight unseen, given everything that's happened in Grapevine. And she came to the door. I was solo with Carter, so I barely opened the door. Dog's freaking out. Carter's like, ah, freaking out. And the lady's like hey you know i'm here

canvassing for uh for the two spots on the school board do you know what's going on with the school board uh i was like yeah and she's like uh well i'm here to and i was like let me stop you i was like are you with uh the people who are the uh the side that is funded by an extremist right-wing christian cell phone company and she's no, we're with the others. And I was like, you don't have to say anything else. I was like, you're good. And she kind of just stood there like, hmm. Mark me down for my vote.

I don't know if she gets like a ton of those. Like she didn't have to go through that. She had like a whole spiel. Yeah. She got support right away. Yeah, I was like, you don't have to. No, we'll be there. Just know.

I know what Patriot Mobile is. I know how things have gone on the school board recently. And she's like, okay. And I just kind of shut the door. Like, did she want to perform or did she want to get a guarantee that she's got two votes? Just move on. I cut her off right at the pass

so yeah I'm surprised though you even answered the door but I guess if the dog's going nuts and you got a big window front window is open

what am I going to sit there and be like it's Tennessee Texas this one's close because that's something that I can employ my wife because she likes to be she doesn't like to mean, but she's more comfortable with it than me. Because I'll buy your magazine.

What am I going to do with 40 subscriptions to Vibe? I mean, I'll just buy one, but then I'll, but if I send her. Blake got that. You've converted to Jehovah's Witness six times. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I want to hear you out like the other day some guy said something to me like hey do you have a uh it was a tree cutter guy and man i do have a tree that i need cut down cut down cut down it's the worst possible thing there's one sometimes i just stare at it in my backyard like we're really going to

cut this down okay but that's not a bad one. Because that's a vibrant, that's a very healthy tree that you're just going to kill. But I've got a lot of dead trees. One in particular that just two

weeks ago or a week ago lost a giant branch. All of a sudden it's just in the middle of our yard like, oh no. And then last night, it was very windy and we were outside walking the dogs through the front yard and you could just hear it creaking. Like, I'm like,

I can hear it cracking. And she's like, well, we gotta wait until we can tell what other things we want done. I'm like, I think we gotta call now. I think we need to, like, I think we got a call now. I think we need to get, like, that's going to fall on our house. And some guy came by the other day. She wasn't home. And said, yeah, I'm a tree cutter, you know.

And I'm like, well, you know, I don't know. My wife does have somebody lined up. But, like, why did I encourage the conversation? No sooner had I started talking than I realized he's like, well, can I come back later? Can I come back at this time? Will she be home at 5 o'clock? And I'm like, oh, why did I

do this? And then I had to say that she was out of town. That's a smooth play. I turned to a lie. Eternal book club. Which I don't want to do Alright there's your news Alright The Dumb Zone News Like and subscribe

We'll do a couple birthdays We'll get out of here We got a big meeting Got a business meeting As we will do We've got a big meeting. We've got a business meeting. As we will do. As a small business owner. It's Monday, March 25th. Recording live to tape.

Here in the den. Let's see how do you guys like it so far? you seem non-plussed that means like non-impressed right? no I don't think it does I think it means the opposite of what

you think it means I've learned this recently so it means you think it's good filled with bewilderment oh okay that's part of it I've learned this recently. So it means you think it's good. Filled with bewilderment. Oh, okay. That's part of it.

That's a very annoying term. Bewilderment? No, nonplussed. Yeah, I'm nonplussed. Yeah, that seems like I'm not impressed. Yeah. Interesting. On this day in 1911, 146 people were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York.

This tragedy led to better workplace safety laws. Overregulated. Despite the fact that after the fire broke out and the 146 people died, some local shock jock said, yeah, but they were just... Oh, don't. Shirt workers. Young female immigrants. Which they were. Shirt workers.

On this day in 1985, young Dan remembers this. You guys probably do not. An Illinois judge ruled that state and city laws which banned night baseball at Wrigley Field were constitutional. Now, I did not remember this. It says here the Cubs in the 1984 NLCS. That's the team where the Rick Sutcliffe trade happened. Rick Sutcliffe for Mel Hall and Joe Carter.

Rick Sutcliffe would go on to go 16-1 after being traded in June and win the Cy Young Award. Unprecedented. Yeah, Blake. Unprecedented to win a Cy Young after going 16-1 in one league. So he was already like... So he was traded in June.

And he won the Cy Young in the NL. And he won 16 games after the trade. Isn't that amazing? That is amazing. Thank you, man. I'm trying to get it going. I mean, starters don't win 16 games in a whole season anymore. It's draft night.

It is. The baseball team that I own. Got to get back to the World Series. Been there twice in a row. Weird setup. Anyway, so during the NLCS, it says here the Cubs were forced to give up a home game because the networks needed night baseball. And in fact, they were threatened that they would have to play future postseason games at a different stadium

because laws banned night baseball at Wrigley Field because that's the way God intended baseball to be played at Wrigley Field. So then they probably in the next year or two changed it because of money? Yeah, they eventually did change it, obviously, pretty soon after that. Yeah, they eventually did change it, obviously, pretty soon after that. But the Cubs sued the city to overturn the laws, and the judge ruled that the city wins this round. And on this day in 2005, Brad Pitt... Well, actually, Jennifer Aniston filed for divorce from Brad Pitt

after four years of marriage. We know her as Alex Levy on The Morning Show. What a character. A strong woman. Strong character for our daughters to look up to. Jan, what a great show. Did you pick up that

don't really hear from her family anymore? They were kind of a big deal in the first season and then we kind of forget she has a husband and a kid. It was an ex-husband, yeah. Ex-husband and a kid. Yeah, she doesn't seem to be the greatest mom. You guys are joining us? They're just breaking down news. It is interesting. You guys would love it. News girls.

You guys would love it. Today's birthdays include Avery Johnson. He's 59. You may remember him from Avery Johnson and Nissan. I do. Shazam. Did he do an ad read for Shazam? He did, and it's glorious. Let's see if I can pull it up while Dan's still grooving. Jeff Kunkel is

62. Isn't he our guy? Didn't we have Jeff Kunkel on or no? We had Jeff Fry. Was it Jeff Fry? Yeah. Darn it. Kunkel died, right? Yeah.

Jeff Kunkel's not alive? Right. He died last summer. Oh, no. He had Alzheimer's at the age of 62? We're not talking about the mayor. I want to be clear. They keep saying, the mayor, the mayor?

No, we're talking about former Ranger Jeff Kunkel. Oh, you're talking about the number one cop. Yeah. All right, he's Jeff Kunkel, former Ranger, alive and well. Against Ryan Nembhard for his third personal. Two men. Two up, two up. One of them.

Avery, I'm going to have you read this poem. One word can change everything Shazam Fury of the gods Now playing only in theater Brilliant Brilliant by the play by play Oh yeah

Perfect set up Play by play lady guy Danica Patrick is 42 Go to godaddy.com to see more I have absolutely clicked it You know I did And I don't even think she's hot. Did you ever see her naked?

No. One Super Bowl, though. It'll come around. Yeah, the company that can actually make her do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that would be a feat. Vladimir Klitschko is 48.

AK-47. Speaking of our... Kind of had a Klitschko-based episode today, haven't we? Did I get that right? No, that's not right, is it? Kirilenko. That's Kalashnikov. AK-47.

Still works. No, we're talking about three different things here. Klitschko's a fighter, right? Yes. You're talking about Andrei Kirivenko, nickname AK-47. I thought that was the name of the guy who invented the AK-47, but that's Kalashnikov. Klitschko's like a boxer or something.

I wouldn't know. And really, his name has Klitschko in it. That's why I'm reading it. Right. Gene Shalit is 98. Former, or I guess maybe current, film critic? Big mustache guy? That guy?

Oh, yeah. Today Show? You know who I'm talking about? Yeah. Gloria Steinem is 90. Very strong woman, so you probably don't like her. Very strong woman, so you probably don't like her. But I think she wrote the legendary article, If Men Could Menstruate.

You ever read that, Blake? What do you think? I think you should. Is he trying super hard? Maybe just a little. I read that because I took a class in college called Women's Studies. Is he just trying super hard? He's like, maybe just a little. I read that because I took a class in college called Women's Studies. And in Women's Studies, so I was thinking about the difference of now, growing up now and then.

In Women's Studies, I think I might have told you this before, but one day we had a guest speaker. Much like you guys will guest speak for various college classes, right? Mm-hmm. But we had a guest speaker Much like you guys will guest speak For various like college classes right But we had a guest speaker And It was a girl Maybe a woman Well she was My age ish

So you know 18 to 21 or something So What was her thing though You know if you were a guest speaker So, you know, 18 to 21 or something. So what was her thing, though? You know, if you were a guest speaker, well, you're host of a podcast or a radio show or you do this or that. Her thing was she was a lesbian. Looking at her like she's a dinosaur. And we all got to AMA her.

And it's like, well, what's it like to blah, blah, blah, how do you do this? I'm thinking of all the scissors stuff, but didn't ask that. But then she, I just remember her saying, like, I had never met anyone before that identified as a lesbian. This is an age when before Ellen, or maybe it was right

around when Ellen is having a kiss on television and it broke the... If there was an internet it would have broke it. You know? Oh, yeah. Like, it was a huge, huge deal. And now it's like a prerequisite. You have to be gay to be on TV and kiss. You know. Or your grandpa,

right? Can't believe the ads that... Yeah. The AIDS commercials or whatever. You know what I just learned? Gloria Steinem was married for some time to a man named David Bale. Married in 2000, died in 2003. That is Christian Bale's father.

Christian Bale is her stepson. Wow. That's a good fun fact. Wow. I think that's awesome. Elton John is 77 Some say He's gay He's been on a

Three year Four dates in each city Each time around Farewell tour Right you went to like The first time Yeah and I was like crying I was like

This is so crazy Piano man He's back the next year Literally he was back The next year Cause you wanted he was back the next year. Because you wanted to say, I saw him the last time he was ever at that. Yeah, and it was one of the last shows, too. And it was awesome.

And then he was at Globe Life the next year. And I'm like, okay. Cheap. But again, the lesbian was like, so. She goes, I'm. It was the only lesbian I had ever known to meet or whatever. And she's like, but there, there's a lot of us on campus, but you know, we'll be able to tell. And she was describing gaydar.

Yeah. But she's like, you know, I'll be walking and just make eye contact with somebody as we're walking through the, uh, the square or whatever. And she's like, you know, we're out here. But it was just a weird, just a different time. Bonnie Bedelia is 76. That is Holly McClain in Die Hard. Ooh. Sarah Jessica Parker, 59.

Man, she always really bothered me. Yeah. Why? She looks like she'd be a real difficult person to deal with. And now Dan's going to do the more... I'm not going to say anything about her. I'm not going to say anything. You were going to say that she looks like she could live across the street here.

Yeah, I was going to say that she could star in a live-action remake of Mr. Ed. Right, but they make it woke and it's a lady. That's what you were going to say. It's Mrs. Ed. That's right, Mrs. Ed. Dude, when's the last... Blake, have you ever seen a clip of Mr. Ed? Yeah.

It's fucking insane. Yeah. They have him maybe playing for the Cubs. He's like up to bat. I don't think I've seen that. I don't think I've ever seen Mr. Ed. It's so insane. Yeah, Sean Bass once

showed me Mr. Ed playing baseball. He's like up at the plate. I think he hits a home run. Like how much acid? In like the 60s are those dudes like, what if?

Shows were wild then. If you go back and look at it. Like I Dream of Jeannie is pretty sweet. That's an insane concept. Also, she was so hot. Yeah. But I've grown, and that's not the first thing I think of anymore.

Dominic Lombardozzi is 48. He is from The Wire. He's McNulty, right? No. That's Dominic West. Isn't it the fat, chubby, bald, white guy? Oh, okay. One of the cops.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, he's been in a bunch of... He was in Entourage also. I think you're right. And Big Sean is 36. Rough weekend for him. Yeah. How come?

Take me too long to explain, but we got a serious rap beef on our hands, Dan. Oh, yeah? Yeah. That rap beef on our hands, Dan. Oh yeah? That somehow encompasses every single rapper you know. That the audience may know. I don't know. It doesn't involve Kanye? No, not Kanye.

Cool and the Gang, did you say? Kanye or the guy who did Wild Thing. The guy who stole ketchup Or is it stole ketchup? Tone Loke Tone Loke, okay I wouldn't call him a rapper His music transcended

An artiste Yeah You know Tone Loke? I know your story You don't know anything? You've never heard Tone Loke? No Okay, write that down I want to play you some Tone Loke? I know your story You don't know anything? You've never heard Tone Loke? No Okay, write that down

I want to play you some Tone Loke tomorrow Okay, he's not gonna, so I will Are you hoping that I'd love it? Or... It's just iconic I think you gotta hear a little Tone Loke in your life I don't want you to... No one has ever said that Born on this day, they're not alive anymore iconic. I think you gotta hear a little Tone Loke in your life. I don't want you to die.

No one has ever said that. Born on this day, they're not alive anymore. Howard Cosell. Apparently Chief Kunkel, but I don't know when. It's not his birthday, I don't think. And Jack Ruby. Didn't expect that to bring the room down. Dead on this day, we have Larry McMurtry.

Texas legend. Not like the G League team. Right. That would have been funny, though. Is G League disbanding? Ignite. Ignite and maybe the other one, yeah. We need to talk about that at some point.

The ones where they're getting paid to not, you know, be affiliated with the team, because now they're like, why don't I just go to college? Even if I didn't want to go to college and get some money. And died on this day in 2022 at the age of 50. So I wonder how. But maybe you can tell me. Taylor Hawkins.

I think they were... I think it was drugs, yeah. Drummer and Foo Fighters. But they were kind of like weird about releasing any facts about that. That guy is awesome. And I don't even really like the Foo Fighters, but... One of the best concerts I ever saw in my life. On the beach.

On one of those trips we took. Is that the one where the son of the guy in the submarine went? And the guy died in the submarine, but he was at a concert? No, that was a Blink-182 concert. Okay. You guys knew what I'm saying. We were so obsessed with that submarine for so long. But the son, whatever happened to him.

Remember, that was a nice five minutes of history. Yeah, and it turned out he was just like sending super creepy stuff to girls online. Yeah. That was a fun time. All right. I sincerely hope my dad does not decide to explore the Titanic and lose Eric. I will be in trouble. People start digging through me.

So what a day this has been. Let's thank Benton for buying that transcript. Yeah. Of course. And Clay for being friends with the guy who bought that transcript. We're going to clap for everybody. Oh, wait. Oh, yeah, that's right.

He had a gift for you. Clay has a gift. Give it up for Korn. This is for you. Yeah, that is a – Is this seventh grade? Eighth grade. This is –

1996. Eighth grade. Something like that. Yeah. They'll let you get away with just requesting any number you want. So in eighth grade, you thought 69 was funny. Yes. And everybody's parents knew about it.

They knew that we knew. They knew that you knew. Yes. And so now the rest of your life, there's you, and you're giving me this photo framed and everything. Printed at CVS, 32 cents. Wow. 32 cents, $1,700.

That's right. I have a picture of Clay. Those both add up to700. That's right. I have a picture of Clay. That's true. And then, of course, we have Aggie Ben. We have Aggie Ben here who paid half of $690. No one can figure out what that figure exactly is. And not Aggie, Matt. No, he's also Aggie.

You just didn't make it. You're on the Blake plan Yeah He just went for a little bit Any Closing remarks I don't like the Political texts

I'm so tired of them Well you better get ready bub It's not even Well they're not even close And it's like 50 times a day Oh text Okay you don't mean Twitter

You just mean, just the random, oh, Trump here. Nikki Haley here. Yeah, I'm getting slaughtered right now. This is the problem with voting. They should allow you to vote and register and vote in everything you want to vote in and have an option of but don't text me. The more

you vote, the more they text you. God forbid you ever give a dollar, which I'll never do again so you have donated to a political party i have i've donated to bernie a couple times and it's the worst decision i ever made in my life i would pay them double what i donated to have them stop texting me which would be 50 dollars i, I thought you were referring to Twitter because they used to say at first when Elon bought it,

it's changed and it sucks now. But I kind of feel like now it has changed a little more. It just feels like all that politics stuff is right in my face and it's not reading my algorithm. I don't want to know all this stuff. I just want to know. Any closing remarks there,

Benton? Anyone else? Matt? Keep doing what you're doing, Playboy. Okay. Well, I guess we will. Adios, mofo. Vaping has become a very big business, as I understand it. Like, a giant business in a very short

period of time. But we can't allow people to get sick and we can't have our youth be so affected and I'm hearing it and that's how the first lady got involved she's got a son together that is a beautiful young man and she feels very very strongly about it especially vaping as it pertains to innocent children innocent children

innocent children And they're coming along with this saying Mom I wanna vape mom i wanna vape hey i wanna vape mom i wanna vape Hey, Mom, I wanna vape Hey, I wanna vape I wanna vape

Mom, I wanna vape Hey, I wanna vape Mom, I wanna vape