The Dumb Zone FREE - The Dumb Zone 4-22-24

Episode Date: April 22, 2024

Subscribe to our Patreon - Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneGood DF info - Lane Ingram _ [e-mail] _ upsidewellness.com _ IG @ingram.laneIn the latest episode of The Dumb Zone, hosts Dan McDowell, Jake Kemp, and Blake Jones, accompanied by special guests Lane and Chloe, delve into a smorgasbord of topics that will leave you both entertained and pondering the peculiarities of life. From therapy insights and school board politics to the legacy of Pat Tillman and the ethics of telehealth, this episode covers it all with the show's signature blend of humor and candid conversation.The crew discusses the intricacies of workplace stress and the courage it takes to stand up to the man. They also touch on the nuances of navigating professional relationships in therapy and the unexpected twists that personal growth can take. But it's not all serious talk; there's plenty of laughter as they reminisce about prom disasters, the absurdity of the Oklahoma land rush, and the unexpected career advice from a radio legend.Lane, a therapist from Austin, shares his experiences helping clients through work-related turmoil, while Chloe chimes in with her architectural expertise and comedic chops. The episode is a testament to the power of storytelling and the connections we make through shared experiences.Whether you're in for the deep dives or the lighthearted banter, The Dumb Zone delivers a listening experience that's as thought-provoking as it is enjoyable. Tune in for a dose of reality served with a side of sarcasm, and remember – you might just learn something about yourself along the way. (00:00) - Open (37:17) - Sports: Mavs lose game 1, Dak speaks (01:21:01) - Viewer Mail (01:34:31) - News (01:51:40) - Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Oh my, what a bargain. Now, on to today's program. The Dunza, Dunza, Dunza. All right, you all know your orders. When you see the Taliban come over the horizon, you open fire immediately. Okay, so when I see Pat Tillman come over the horizon, I shoot him. No, no, no. When you see the enemy come over the horizon, you shoot the enemy.

Okay. Good, now repeat it back to me. Okay, I shoot Pat Tillman, then run over the horizon. No, he's on our side. You charge the enemy. Right, and shoot Pat Tillman. No, no, no, no. Okay, well, you know what?

You're going to have to explain it to me again, because it sounds to me like I'm repeating back to you exactly what you're telling me, and obviously you're hearing something different. So just one more time. Okay. When you see the Taliban come over the horizon, you shoot them. All right, so I shoot Pat Tillman and then run when the Taliban show up. No!

You shoot the Taliban, not Pat Tillman! Got it? Got it. You sure? Yep. All right. Hey, you know where I can find Pat Tillman? 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 gonna listen. I wanna listen to the drums. Uh, moment of silence for Pat Tillman. Just a moment. Very brief moment. This is his death day, death anniversary.

Hate to spring that on you to start things. But if you want to just go through your mind and think, what's going to be our break audio? I bet you can come up with it. Is he in heaven? I was about to ask you. Find out when we take a break in about an hour. Happy Monday, everyone.

I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jake Kemp. I'm Blake Jones. My loud? There we go. My loud? Yeah. Sweet.

You did it. And we're here with you on Recording Live to Tape, high atop my garage today. Monday. 4-22-24. We had a cool event Saturday, and I didn't even stick the open right. I didn't even stick the open right, so I'm surprised it actually turned out okay, because I had meant to open that show on 420 by letting you, especially Jake, know that that was a palindrome 4-2-0-2-02024. So 420, then the 2, and then the 024. 420-2024. That won't happen again until there's like seven more eclipses.

It's an incredible date. And we just let it go. I think I was baked. Yeah, probably. It was Saturday, you know. You were partying. My daughter asked me the other day, hey, will we get to move in to the old house before the next eclipse?

And I was like, you know what? I don't know. I honestly don't know. So you're renting a house. Yeah. Because of renovations. Yeah. And I think she just thinks eclipses are kind of like football season.

Kind of like Blake. Yeah, they just come around. Like, what do I need to see this eclipse for? Yeah. Did she think it was awesome? She did, actually. She did. It's a wonder of nature.

She's five. Good point. Good company you have there. But counterpoint, there's not going to be another one anywhere in the U.S. for 20 years. It was kind of interesting, though. I didn't know how she was going to take it. I didn't know what they were going to do at school. And the next day, whenever we were driving to school, I asked her about it.

She actually saw my glasses. I still had them in the car, and she asked me about it. She was like, was the moon mad at the sun? And I was like yes That's exactly what happened I would stick around for that A sun and moon fight Yeah, that's basically what it was Dude, that's ridiculous

The moon would have no chance Rather than like Bumble whipping my way through, like trying to explain astronomy to her. I was just like, yes, that's exactly what happened. The moon cucked the sun. Yeah. That's totally what it was, babe.

It does suck. Many things suck about having kids, but especially when they start asking you stuff that you just don't really know. Like, why is the sky blue? Just freestyle. Because, you know, why is the sky blue? I don't know.

So it matches the curtains? Yeah, that's right, the drapes. The ocean? Yeah, I mean, you can also conveniently, even if you are an atheist, you can always be like, because God said. Yeah. That shuts things down pretty quick.

It's an easy way out. Yeah. That really works for everything. What happened to your grandma? Well, she's dead. Well, why? Heaven. God needed a cherry pie.

She made the best one. It does work, though. It really does. I mean, it makes you think of where religion started, you know, just the whole, well, let's just answer these questions. I think pretty much based on I need the easiest explanation possible. Well, because, yeah, I don't know any of this stuff. Well, why is it? Well, because God.

Yeah. Well, then, and if I question that, you have said now there's a law that I will possibly be killed, so I will... And burn. I will nod and agree that yes, indeed. That must be the right answer. But, so thanks to the... Oh, I wanted to thank a couple people for the Alamo Drafthouse thing. Go to our YouTube page.

We did a 420 live event. It was a big success, I think. I don't know. I don't know. Is selling out a theater in like 18 hours a big success? I don't know. You be the judge. I'm a big fan of feeling himself Dan.

Yeah. I like that a little bit. I think it was pretty good, though. Things went well. Seems like people had fun. I really enjoyed the movie. I had never seen Pineapple Express. I missed the first 20 minutes or so because of being too famous.

When I went outside to go to the bathroom, there was a bunch of people there buying gear and stuff. So anyway, it was a good time. But you can go back and relive it on our YouTube page at YouTube and then search the dumb zone. But one of the items we had out there was, if you noticed, like we are, you can't really tell we're getting better if you listen day by day and you watch everything we do. But it's like your kid getting taller. Right. It's a little, your kid getting taller. Right. It's a little, just a millimeter better. Yeah.

And so we got a millimeter better on our public presentation because we had a table skirt with the Dumb Zone logo on it. And we actually had this idea. I think it was in the big meeting you had to miss, the Wednesday meeting, where we were just doing a last-minute thing, last second. You know, is the movie theater good? Is the tech okay? You know, guests we have lined up, get a run sheet going.

And we kind of said, oh, man, it'd be really cool if we could ever have, like, the logo on a table skirt. So Raymond from E6 Sportswear was on that call, and I was like, how fast can you pull one of those off? He's like, well, actually, someone who wanted to contribute to the cause here and to get us something that we could use, contacted him and said he wanted to buy us a table skirt. And his name is Letty Foster. Oh.

From the bus. Yeah. Good guy. Letty from the bus? Yeah. Yeah. Letty's last name is Foster? Should I know that there shouldn't be a lot of Lettys?

Last name is Foster. Should I know that there shouldn't be a lot of Lettys? Anyway, Letty Foster is the one who reached out to Raymond, bought that, and he might have even bought the – there was like a big dumb zone – I'll say sign, but banner. The word is banner. And anyway, so we wanted to give a shout out to him Yeah cool And say thanks

And we need You know what we need I mean if people are Buying stuff And hey How could I support We need like the wedding register Thing

Okay Yeah Where okay We could use this mic Yeah Or this headset Or this You know you want to

This would support Or this you know, you want to, this would support, or this, you know, 9-11 poster or whatever, this Sinbad book. And then that way you won't double up and do something that someone else has already done. You know, I don't think people really like buy birthday gifts for their friends when they're adults, but that would be a really cool thing to be able to do just outside of your wedding, because that was a fun experience. I mean, the male doesn't really participate that much.

What do you mean? What's the fun? Just creating it. You created the wedding registry website so you can pick the things you're going to want? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, and I think we might have done it for the kid, too.

Like on birth. I don't know if that was a bit when I got married. It's pretty sweet. And basically, so here's what you can do. So you don't get four toasters. Exactly. You get one. Yeah, and you get the one that you want.

That you kind of like, yeah. And you can actually go to the store, and if I recall correctly, this checks out, they'll give you like a scanning gun. Oh, yeah, we did that. And so you can just walk around, you know, whatever department store. Okay, so you say, let's just say it's Kohl's, because that comes to mind. Sure. So you're registered at Kohl's, they go to Kohl's, and they say, yeah, here's the list. You can go walk around, so like if you want a say, yeah, here's the list. You can go walk around.

So if you want a piece of luggage, that's the kind you want. Yes. And I had gone up and tagged that with a scanner. Oh, so you walk around the store first. Yeah, you do it first. They just go to the website.

It's hard getting the gun from the wife. There's a gun struggle. So you did this? Yeah. Which basically you just follow her around into the stuff that you don't want. What store did you guys go? Kohl's is popular because they have a bunch of stuff. I think we went Bed Bath & Beyond, too.

A classic. Yeah, yeah. And that's probably... You get the nice thick towel. And then we did it on Amazon, too. I think we did that as well. Now, that one, obviously, all online, but yeah. It's badass.

I mean, you feel like Richie Rich, like a little kid. Yep. This, I want this, I want this. Now, is there anything you tagged but you didn't get and you were bummed out? I'm sure there was. Yeah, I don't recall specifically, but yeah, I'm sure. Because they tell you to ask for it So you go to the very expensive stuff

If somebody wants to buy you that, sure But that's stuff you don't get That's great Yeah, it's pretty sweet You also can do the thing where they help you pay for your honeymoon Which was pretty cool I forget what you call it But you sign up and say

Hey, this is our plan for the honeymoon. It's going to cost this much. If you just want to give us money, then do it here. Dangerous though, because some people will judge you for asking like, Oh, you're going to Hawaii, huh? Why don't you just go to North Carolina? Yeah. I went to Charleston. Yeah. Catch a Duke game. Yeah. I don't know. There is a judgment that comes with that, though. Very similar to my 529 email, which I've told you guys about. The biggest contributor for my honeymoon fund was Norm. I thought that was pretty cool of him.

He didn't judge me on where I went. Really? Yeah, because we were just going. What did he throw in? $250? I think. I just actually came to your wedding. I thought I'd be more impressed.

He was our biggest contributor. Okay. If you're grading on a curve. Kind of feels like about the amount I spent on here. You're right. No, you probably gave more. That's all I want. Yeah.

I just want people to know that I didn't give that So that nobody would ever know And again you didn't give your presents So No Well what I did is I gave my meal Your presence is a presence

I asked if my meal Could be just given to a homeless guy Behind the place But I'm glad you ate I wouldn't want you to go hungry. Yeah, well, you also traded meat for soup at my wedding, so. I really did. You're a dealer.

Hey, we should welcome in. We have guests. We have 690 sit-ins today. Don't talk too much. Oh, you can talk. Yeah, you do whatever you want. Okay. Do your thing.

This is Lane. And Lane has brought sand to the beach. Chloe. Lane and Chloe. I really thought this was going to be a boys' time, and we'd have some chicks over, and then all of a sudden Chloe walks in. So this is kind of ruining my Monday.

They're waiting outside. Thank you for having us and letting me bring my better half here. What's your bit? My bit is I'm a therapist down in Austin. I do psychotherapy, so talk therapy, help people with anxiety and things like that, depression. Have you done that that that's your bit you talk to a therapist right quite often okay yeah yeah this guy would be great wouldn't he

what if you walked in there and there's lane there's lane sitting there lane seems great but you really want somebody who doesn't have any idea what you're... Your whole scene or anything? You don't want that. Isn't that kind of difficult, though? Why are you so anxious today? I don't know. So I work for this radio station, and it's like, well, why is that a big deal that you left? It's better than them being like, I thought your last couple 15 for 15 sucked.

Yeah. Way better. Yeah, no, it's a weird bit. So you'd rather totally be honest and pour your heart out to someone that you don't know at all. Yes. I think so.

I think when you can tell, and this has happened to me twice, that the person that you're talking to has some level of background on who you are, it's not good. Because he goes in there, and Dan is such an asshole, and they're like, well, I didn't think he was that bad. Kind of the only reason the show works.

You're fired. You should probably listen to Dan more. I'm friends with Kat, actually. Because anyone doesn't. I can't follow up on that can I tell you real quick I know I've met Kat I used to work at KLIF back in 2004

and therapy for me is a second career and Dan I have a story to tell you about my very first day at work it's gotta be about me it's great though very first day at work. Can I bust this out? It's got to be about me. No, it's great, though. Okay. My first day of work.

Like I was an animal. This might not ever make the episode, but. This was 2004, and I was working at a radio station down in Austin, and I submitted my tape to Jeff Hillary, who was the program director at 570 KLIF, 16th floor, Maple Avenue. Of course. I get hired at 23 years old to a big market radio station. I didn't know they were the last place station in Dallas at the time. But it's Dallas.

But it's Dallas. It's a huge deal. Number five, number six market, yeah. So I get the job. I move up. I'm from Dallas, but you know, it's a whole different landscape for me. I'm, I'm brand new. I ride the elevator up on my first day of work with you and Bob and I,

you over and Dan, you overheard me say to the guy at the front desk, Oh, it's my first day of work at cliff. And, uh, and, and you go, Oh, what are you doing over there at uh cliff oh i'm their new evening news anchor and you go like you said something like oh great i think it was something like i'm sure that'll last a while and i and i go i go and you're like cracking up everyone in the elevator and i'm like this you're totally that yeah you're killing in this elevator and i go so what what do you do and you go oh i'm the uh i'm the uh janitor yeah yeah and it took me days to like piece together who you actually were and i was like that guy's awesome i'm gonna be running into him all the time

and i never saw you ever this is my first time to talk to you since then in 2004. So it's a full circle moment for me. Thank you for having me here today. Okay. That's not as bad as it could have been. I've heard worse. It was really cool, yeah. Well,

I'm sorry that that whole thing didn't work out. I don't know. No, no, it's good. I moved on. I was there when Cumulus took over and laid everyone off in, like, what was that, 05, 06? Were you a victim of that? No, no, no, no. I managed to survive that. So you were an evening news guy.

I was an evening news guy a million years ago, yeah. Okay. That's awesome, dude. And then I decided I wanted to do something different. Had you already gone to college to be a therapist or like no i i my so i went to ut by the way jake thank you so much for like you've been one of the only people that stood up that would stand up for like speak to the longhorn fan base so thank you yeah over the years that's really changed a little okay but i i did go to ut a million years ago and did radio television film there.

I wanted to be Quentin Tarantino. Okay. And then ended up in radio and then was like, what am I doing? I need something different. Same. I've wasted six years of my life. Yeah. I didn't have what y'all have, though.

So you go back to college? So I went back to, so I went to UNT and got a master's degree in counseling and became a licensed professional counselor. Quite popular at UNT, right? That's like a really good program. Yeah, it's the best in Texas, actually. Way to go, yeah. And did you meet your wife?

This is a guy who's been in a lot of offices and seen a lot of degrees on the wall. I'm familiar. I've gone to therapy too. That's part of what made me want to be a therapist is having good experiences doing it. Was Chloe your patient? Is it tough to be married to a therapist?

Is that frowned upon? Yeah. No, it's nice. He doesn't psychoanalyze me. That's good. He doesn't tell you he is. Yeah, he's doing it. He doesn't psychoanalyze me. That's good. Anything like it's helped me. He doesn't tell you he is. Yeah. Yeah, he's doing it.

He's manipulating you. Does he speak therapy talk, though? That must be a beating. In the bedroom at the house. Yeah. Yeah. Let's process. Yeah, let's, yeah, help me out.

What would I say? Trust me. I can walk you through it. She actually kind of hit the jackpot because he doesn't mind to talk. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but his job is like listening all day, so he doesn't mind to talk. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but his job is like listening all day, so he doesn't want to hear her yammer on.

That's true. You know? Like you think you got problems. Yeah, she's telling you her mundane problems with the dog or something, and you're like, look, I just talked to this guy who – He's cutting himself. Yeah. Right, yeah. Right, yeah.

Right. He's cutting himself. Right, yeah. Right, yeah. Right. No, really, for the most part, I feel very lucky and grateful that, for the most part, you know, I get to talk with people all day, and, like, I do kind of like that. That sounds great. You know what? It's not that different from radio in a way. You just get to sit and talk. Yeah, we talk at people.

We don't really then have to see them and interact with them, though. Yeah, because they're crying. What do you charge per hour? $180. $180 an hour? Yeah. What do you mean? Well, so there are some places, it depends on your insurance,

but there are some places that will charge you based on your income. Oh, okay, yeah. Rent-controlled building or something. Sort of, yeah. So you're like, all right, well. Well, that must have worked out great for you once we quit the ticket. It worked out quite well. Well, we didn't quit the ticket.

We just had to have a contract. All that, yeah. It's like, it's a weird deal. Like, last week I was paying you this. Yeah, you want to talk to them about work, and I'm like, hey, I have horrible news. I'm no longer at my former employer. And they're like, well, how does that feel? And I'm like, well, it feels like you're going to be making less.

It feels like I'm going to be paying you 20% of what I used to. She's like, I have horrible news, too. Yeah. My schedule is just filled up. That's to. She's like, I have horrible news, too. Yeah. My schedule is just filled up. That's right. That's right. How can people find you? I think Instagram would probably be a good one.

Really? I'm ingram.lane. I-N-G-R-A-M is my last name. We got to get on this Instagram, boys. We've been doing better. We've been hitting it. Have we? We have more followers.

Yeah. Subscribers. Yeah. Followers. Followers? We have more followers. Yeah. Subscribers. Followers. You don't subscribe on Instagram. No, we're trying. What's our thing? DumbZone69. Okay.

God, so many bids. So someone has DumbZone. Yes. Who in the hell has our DumbZone? I don't know. Contact us. Come on. That's what we put that on our wedding registry

thing. We want the handle. Yeah, we want the dumb zone. That's not a bad idea, actually. Like, who owns the dumb zone on Instagram? Can you go there and see? Yeah, I mean, they don't even have a picture, if I remember right. Squatters. I hope it's not

Cumulus. They're like, we're gonna get this. Listen, no posts. No posts. Man, we'd be inundating that thing. Can we, like, send them a message? Oh, yeah, we can. Yeah. There we go.

Give us our account, you bitch. All right, well, let's be a little more diplomatic. Okay, well, we can talk it out. Well, thanks for being here, Lane and Chloe. Thank you for having us. And, you know, you know the bit, right? Just you want to chime in, chime in. I don't know.

What do you do, Chloe? I know she's off mic, but. Yeah, do we have a mic for Chloe? Oh, she just said, yeah, she told us that. She's an architect. Architect. Okay. Nice.

This is a power couple. It is. I know. Oh, and she's also. You must have so much money. Without their kids. They got no kids. You guys have probably been to France.

I'm sorry, what? I got kind of lost in my thoughts there for a second. I was also going to brag on her. She's also a comedy performer down in Austin at Fallout Theater down there. We lived in Chicago and did the Second City Training Center like 10 years ago. I know what we're doing for closing remarks. That's right.

45 minutes set. Better warm up. Start stretching. Just an improviser, not a stand-up. Okay. All right, well, thank you for stuff, supporting us and all that kind of stuff. On today's program.

And thank you to Jordan Michael. Yes. Oh, Jordan at the Alamo. I'm sorry. Yeah, we got a lot of, what, Tony Cooper and his buddy Freddie was out there. And Adam Romo I sat next to during the movie because Blake made sure he put two seats between him and Adam Romo. Because Blake gets annoyed by Adam Romo, doesn't't he I just wanted to sit next to Beth drop Beth I sat next to drop Beth and Adam Romo and yeah Adam Romo had uh had seen the movie before and was pretty fired up about the

whole thing as Adam Romo will be sure about bits I got towed oh my god I forgot I called him yesterday to check in yeah so I've been towed a lot I think that

I was trying to recollect I think that was my sixth time to be towed jeez oh Pete Blake do you think one of these times you're going to have to say, like, look at the mirror?

Like, who's at fault here? No. This one was 100% your fault. I don't think so. You parked in the loading zone. Hold on. Okay, so we had to meet up and get equipment. I had a lot of equipment in my car.

And so we took three vehicles over, and they let us park right in front of the Alamo to unload. And that was the last I heard of that process. The other two vehicles knew to move. No one told me that I had to move. And so, yeah, after the movie, I walk out to no cars out there and somebody in our group was like, oh, yeah, I probably should have told you that we had to move our cars. Well, okay, let me tell you my experience with this. When I got there, I was a little bit late. I got there about an hour and 15 minutes before the show started,

and I'm driving around, and I can't get in to where Blake is. They have erected those little cylinder cylinder type things, like little poles. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, okay, well that means you can't park up there. And Blake's like, just come in here. I'm like, well, I would have to like literally drive up almost onto a curb

to get in there. Feels like they don't want me in there. He's like, well, that's where I am. I'm like, okay, well, I'm not doing that. I thought we had squatters rights or something. Yeah, so you parked there at the beginning of we shouldn't be here. And then you just decided yourself that I can just stay here all day. Yeah. Did anyone from the movie theater say, hey, this is great.

Park here as long as you want. No, but no one said, hey, you can't park here. Okay. Well, I pulled up and it was pretty clear to me we weren't supposed to be parking there. Yeah, but you were coming in as the concert comers were coming in. Yeah, but still, it's clear. I was here early, I got my spot, and this is where I can stay. Until someone tells me otherwise.

Whenever we were loading up or breaking down all the gear, I can't remember if it was Clayton or Rob, somebody said, hey, we need to go outside and see if Blake's car is there. And I'm like, why? Why would that be? I didn't understand. And then we walked outside and lo and behold,

it wasn't. And then I understood that Blake had parked in a risky zone. I parked where they told me to park. I'm just saying though, if you've been towed six times, because most people,

if they get towed, it's kind of like a once thing. And they will make, ever again, okay, if there's even the hint of I could, this could be wrong, I'll go ahead and park a little farther away. But I get, you didn't want to, it was raining. Get wet. You don't want to get wet. I mean, I was just there six hours before the event.

Ooh. Ooh. And I wanted to load in the equipment that I had to bring. But yeah, it was fine. Well, you weren't a part of load out. Yeah, that's the price. Get my car towed, then I'm not helping. Yeah, that's the benefit.

So a good dumb zoner Wes took me to South Dallas to get my car. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. It's that far away? Dude, and I've been to that. Why don't they just use the local tow? We were in Las Colinas.

I know. I had to go to, he drove me 30 minutes south to South Dallas to get my car. Why did they do that? I don't know. Is there not a local? That's like one of the more famous, I don't know, famous, but it's one of the bigger ones in DFW for sure. I mean, there's not a tow company in Las Colinas?

I guess not. Hmm. Yeah, I thought the same. Like, okay, let me just drive 10 minutes or something Uber over there. But, yeah, he had to lug me to South Dallas. Yeah, I was talking to my wife about this yesterday because I offered to take Blake Saturday, but then he was already gone. So I called him yesterday, and she kind of overheard it.

The worst is – so it's happened to me twice. One time I was like 19, 20 years old in Austin, going to a UT game. I parked, I went into a 7-Eleven, walked out, and I actually, I'm telling you, Dan, five minutes, maybe less, and I actually saw them hooking the car up. Did you go get in it? I have heard of people doing that. Didn't Adam Carolla do that once or something? So what?

They didn't unhook it for you? No. He's like, once I've been called, I have to take it. They can drop it. There's a drop key. Of course they can. Yeah, what if you're like his buddy? And I told him, I was like, dude, I have a $300 limit on my ATM card.

I can go back in here right now. I will pay you $300 to let this car go. Because I knew it was going to be at least that much plus the beating. And he's like, no, I got to do it. I watched him put the hook on the bumper of the car. That could be an employee quota. Probably. Yeah.

No, or just like, hey, if it gets in the system to prevent anyone from working out a side deal, the guy walks up, hands him $100, and then he tells the company, oh, it wasn't there or something. It was like 1.30 in the afternoon. And then I had a game to go to. You know, your 2.30 or 3.30 kick or something. And I'm like, well, at 10 o'clock tonight, I'm going to have to make my game to go to. You know, your 2.30 or 3.30 kick or something, and I'm like, well... Going to the game. At 10 o'clock tonight,

I'm going to have to make my way to South Austin somehow, pre-Uber. That sucked. Yeah, the tow world sucks. It really does. Six times? That does feel like a record. I don't even know if I've ever been towed.

Yeah, I think... I've been repoed. Yeah. That's feel like a record. I don't even know if I've ever been towed. Yeah, I think I've been repoed. Yeah, that's pretty big beating. Yeah, once or twice after a concert. Most of my damage came at North Texas because I didn't want to pay like the 300 bucks for a parking pass. So I just try to find all these like other lots to park in. And how much did that cost you over time then? Yeah, way more. Yeah. But I'm 21, and I think I can get away with it. I've been towed a couple times. I've had to go to the place in South Austin that you're talking about. It was the worst.

It's terrible. What was that conservative chick from ESPN's name? Is it the one? She was, hey baby girl? Hey honey or something. Oh yeah. Like she called her fat or something. Yeah. There's some weight baby girl.

There's some weight baby girl. Why did she come up? Well, she got towed. That was a tow situation. Oh, okay, okay. They had like a, you know. Why are you mean to that person?

That was the whole, that's why. You got repoed? Yeah. Right before I worked here, I was working in Dayton, but I wasn't making too much money. And what he was making was not going to his car payment. Right. There are certain people that won't take credit.

They only will take cash. Yeah. And those people would help me get through the day. Sure. I had to buy pot, is what I'm saying. Yeah. Back then. Right? Back then.

So, yeah. No, I was always two to three car payments behind. Man. And one morning, I lived in a pretty bad neighborhood too we had like crack dealer next door um the the bad neighborhood of dayton it's not that bad but it's still pretty bad and uh yeah woke up one day walked outside my little uh vehicle is not there and i was praying that got stolen i thought that would be great because then i'd get some insurance or something and more pot right but uh no and then

the station management didn't want me to talk about it publicly because i was on the air and we're of course trying to get the 25 to 54 year old to listen and it was men male and female it was whio in Dayton it was like the news talk leader blah blah blah and I did the afternoon uh you know talk show uh from like three to seven and so they didn't want their, you know, listener base thinking that I would eat two things. One, be too irresponsible that I would get my car repoed. And two, that they don't pay me that much. It's so little that I'm getting my car repoed.

I think I was making, wasn't it like 18,000 or something? It might've been like $40,000, but I was kind of splitting it with my buddy Joe, who I brought with me. They weren't hiring me and a guy. So I don't remember how I exactly dealt with it. I might have just paid all our rent or something like that.

But he was like the board op slash producer. And they weren't hiring two positions. They were just hiring a talk show host, but I needed to bring him. And so, yeah, I was making very little money. Very little money. And so I think they ended up paying it to get it out for me. Nice. Okay.

That was kind of a little bit of a bonus. But the tradeoff was I couldn't talk about it. Deal. Yeah, that felt pretty good to get that vehicle back. Which I think I ended up giving that to Dallas Can years later because I drove that across country. Is that the one that you told your wife that it was like cat piss when it was bought? Yes, she knew.

This is one of the weirdest diversions I've ever heard in my life. Like skunk, everybody says, oh, it's a skunk. She said, your car smells kind of like your apartment. I said, yeah, yeah, because I take the cats in here over to my mom's house to watch them. So she thought cat smell was my apartment smell yeah in the same car that you had coat hangers in the back can't believe that worked um yes so our first date ever was i had a coat hanger where the radio antenna would be kids cars used to have radio antennas. But the radio antenna had broken off,

so I just put a coat hanger in there because I don't have money to buy a radio antenna. Sure. But love the radio. And then, yes, I told my wife on the first date that if things went really well tonight, like too well, we could also use that coat hanger to end the possible life that would be growing inside you tomorrow morning. I used a bit more crass language. And somehow I ended up marrying her. I used a bit more crass language.

That's a different you. Somehow, I ended up marrying her. Cat piss and all. She kind of knew what she's getting into, right? Yeah. That's what I kind of have to tell her now. Like, look, you knew pretty early on I'm a dirtbag. I'm doing abortion humor on our first joke. The twisters thing.

Yeah. So much. I had a broken hand wrist the night that I met my wife. She had to unbutton my button up for me to be able to hold a drink. She knew right then. She's like, what the fuck happened to your hand? I'm like, flat football. I got to fight.

She's like, I love you. This is my guy. Let's get married. Jake, that is one of the things i i really loved about uh high t jake is when you would tell the stories about the anger that always i always identified with that the first time i ever went to therapy was for anger stuff yeah i don't know i mean i feel like kids chill you out i mean other than like when you want to actually kill them, you know. But I do think in general, kids calm you down. And I'm apparently not supposed to say anything nice about Dan anymore,

lest it could be made into a montage. But I also think like hanging out with people who are like have a solid perspective on life and everything helps too. Totally. But I grew up in a pretty – we had a lot of conflict. Yeah, same with my family and growing up. We were a high-T family. Yeah, for sure. For sure, yeah, definitely.

Hey, guys. Hey, guys. From the wonderful world of sports, radio sports, scoreboard. On the scoreboard. Couldn't have gone worse. 109-97, Clippers over the Mavs, game one. Never that close. Was not anywhere near that close.

Incredible game. Incredible that Luka scored 33, Kyrie scored 31, all other Mavs scored 33. Kyrie scored 31. All other Mavs scored 33. Yeah, and that wasn't a good, whatever it was, 31 from Luka. Mm-mm. Yeah, and like... That shows you the bar. Yeah.

If you could see a 33, what do you have, 33, like 10 rebounds, whatever it is. 13. 13 rebounds. Yes, those would be great numbers for just about anyone else. Man, but

26 shots is a lot. And the step back has gotten so much better. I think you can actually look up the numbers now and he's well, him and Harden are taking the most and they're hitting them at the highest clip. But the first possession just being a no-pass step-back three

from the left wing, that just felt like an absolute give-up. Like, remember the days of old where he would just, like, drag Zubats into the deep water and they would just pick and roll him to death until he couldn't play anymore. And now it's just like, oh, okay, well, I'm not even going to make one pass.

I'm just going to, with 12 seconds left in the shot clock, jack up a step-back three that clangs. And then I'm going to do it two more times in the next five possessions just for good measure. That was, I don't know, man. It was lethargic at best. They got embarrassed. That Zubac was just dominating him early.

He was just bodying Gafford, which I haven't seen. That hasn't happened to Gafford really since he's been in a Mavs uniform. Yeah, Gafford also got a couple quick fouls, so now he's out. Yeah. Just a couple minutes in. Yeah, and it's weird, too, because as bad as you feel coming out of that, it's the playoffs.

It's one game. They could easily come out and shoot the lights out of the ball tomorrow night and take home court back, and then you're coming back to Dallas Friday night, 1-1, and you feel decent about it, but... Isn't that weird? Because you're right, but I still don't feel that. I don't either, but remember the Mavericks.

I feel like they're dead. The Mavericks were up 3-2 on the Clippers three years ago, and they were up like 31-11 in the first quarter. That was the game Blake and I were at. They should have closed the game out that night, and they didn't. Kawhi went Terminator, and they went back to L.A., and the Clippers won in Game 7. It just happens.

But happening like that was tough. Do you think it feels – That was tough. Is that good to have that punch in the face? Because had it been a really close, hard-fought game, you wouldn't feel bad at all. You would only feel bad because Kawhi was out. Yeah. But Kawhi was out. Yeah.

But Kawhi being out and that? But you also can't shoot the ball much worse. And there is some level of just things level out, right? Randomness, and it doesn't always work that way. If you flip a coin and you get tails, it doesn't mean that you're more likely to get heads next time. But it just felt to the whole— 30% from three is probably not going to happen again.

We're all talking about how things are different and things feel better. This lineup that they put out, they said at the beginning of the game, that lineup was 15-1 this year on the floor. Yeah. Luca Kyrie, Derek Jones, P.J. Washington, and Daniel Gafford.

And you got Lively back. So you're thinking, boy, we've got 48 minutes of center play here. Maxie was awful. I think he just is awful. It might be over. And that's what I kept thinking during the game is we used to rely on this guy a lot. Dude, remember in the – there's been series before where it's like, can he save the season?

Well, yeah. What did he hit? 7 or 8 against Utah? 8. And he's not even close. No, and he doesn't want to shoot it either. No. That was the most disheartening thing is just guys were just scared of getting the ball in the second half. And that second quarter was atrocious.

Yeah, it was tough. I feel like Kidd got outcoached. I think not challenging Harden kicking Maxie in the junk on a three was a very weird oversight. It was very easy to remember why we hate James Harden so much. Yeah, well.

It didn't take long. Trust me, everybody feels that way about Luka. That's a good point. Do they? As much as Harden? Maybe. I think so. Yeah, I think we're biased. How about if, yeah, that was egregious.

How do you not challenge that? I don't know. I don't know how you don't just call it. Like, how about, what are you doing? What is it you say you do here? Yeah. How what? I didn't hear the postgame.

How was he? Kid? Did you say, hey, things happen? Well, it was a lot of... Just basketball. People are... I didn't hear the postgame How was he? Kid? Did you say, hey, things happened? Well, it was a lot of It's just basketball People are Nobody died Yeah, nobody died

There's a war The series isn't over I'm watching just like you guys Yeah, I don't know what to do I'm just You know, it was a lot of You guys have all the ideas It was a lot of

Things got better in the second half And I'm like, yeah, well you were got better in the second half. And I'm like, yeah, well, you were doubled up in the first half. You think they're trying that hard when they're up 26 at the break? Of course not. And they didn't get that much better. No, but they had a couple runs. They didn't score eight.

They didn't score eight. In a quarter. In a quarter. But, yeah, it was bad. Paul George looked like prime elite Paul George again. Harden is going to hit threes if you have to leave him open. They just look weak. They look small and they look weak. Yeah.

And that's just not the way we've been feeling. Dude, there was a play early where, and I think Kyrie even said this, because he got interviewed after the first quarter. And there was a play where he was just like asleep on an offensive rebound. It was in the first like three or four minutes of the game. And he even said it. He's like, I kind of spaced out there for a second. And that's just what it looked like

it looked like they just I don't know it felt very 2 30 afternoon game well yeah I was gonna say it felt very 12 30 la time yeah which I thought was weird because if you played 90 percent of your games at a certain time it's weird that game one of a series is not at that time yeah I mean I said it last week I was very surprised that they were not the later game. Now, there's also, if you recall, the time the Mavericks were up 77-27 on the Clippers on a Sunday afternoon game. Yeah, but that game seven was the first half. But yeah. Mid-afternoon game.

That all kind of washes out. But they just, simply, they weren't ready to play. That should affect the team in L.A., though, right? More. Because you're playing at 2.30. That's not that bad. As those guys who are playing there, there's at 1230.

Yeah. They may be more used to it, but also they have a bunch of Hall of Famers. Yeah, but do you feel like it was... They've been through playoff battles. Do you think the Mavs though went in a little overconfident as well? When Kawhi was out? Kawhi is out. They've been rolling. All people are

asking is, it's just like the Cowboys. Well, why is this year? This is different. Now you've had this huge run. You're whatever, 20-4 in your last, and this lineup is great. Like, certainly all they've been hearing is just how great things are.

In fact, Blake told me when he talked to you, you said that the Mavs were not favored. So I went to my site of choice and I saw the Mavs were favored by three and a half so I did not

throw down any money. When did you go? Okay. Kawhi had already been announced out. Yes. I went five minutes before Tim. Yes. So that was like a five point swing or four and a half point swing when they ruled Kawhi had already been announced out. Yes. I went five minutes before Tim. Yeah, so that was like a five-point swing

or a four-and-a-half-point swing when they ruled Kawhi out. Okay, but that saved me money because I was going to put a fair piece on the Mavs thinking, hell yeah. My dumbass went to the money line when they were down 20 yesterday. I was like, they can't keep missing every shot. They'll make a run. It's the NBA.

Teams make runs. Yeah. That money vanished very quickly. Well, you're looking for value. Yeah. I appreciate that. We got pretty emotional Kyrie on the bench. Did y'all see that?

I did. He's kind of the guy. What was he doing? I guess I didn't. Yelling? Yeah. I didn't. Yelling? Yeah. I don't think it was on mic'd up. By the way, Tyronn Lue might be a pretty good coach.

Yeah. His mic'd up stuff is great. He's got some hardcore dumb face. He definitely does. Yeah, open mouth. Yeah, he kind of looks like black Eli Manning. Might have a fly. Look it up. Fly in there, just landing on his eyeball or something.

He won't even know it. I think he's a good coach, though. Sorry, Dan. No, he might be. Sorry that Mike Brown and Tyronn Lue continue to prove that maybe it wasn't just their fault when LeBron hated him. Yeah, he's probably hated every coach, right? They wanted to run Spolster out of there.

Well, it's one game. Did your guys... How was your TV broadcast? It was weird, right? I saw some people... Like the mic level. Yeah. Because when I watched it...

So I went back to get audio this morning, and I'm going to play you something. And it didn't sound like off YouTube TV on the computer, I can hear the announcers. But when watching it live yesterday here on YouTube TV on the TV, I could not hear anything the announcers were saying. I thought Richard Jefferson's mic was super low. Super low. That's okay. In fact.

It's actually not bad. You're right. Well, we'll get to that. Here, let me play you a couple of things. In fact, this is the one where I'm like, I think he's meant... He might have said something about Boban there. So this is pretty late in the game.

Like, I had marked a bunch of times early when I just couldn't hear anything they were saying, but going back today, I'm like, oh, I can hear all this really clear. This won't be a good segment. But I'm like, is he mentioning Boban there? Because everybody's cheering real, real wildly. So the Mavs are down like 20.

But everybody's going nuts as Derek Lively is shooting free throws. He had missed the first one. And so he's about to shoot the second one. Chick-fil-A on the line. Derek Lively says, no chicken for you. So obviously what we're doing is the free throw bid.

If you miss two free throws at a certain point of the game or whenever you get free Chick-fil-A, the whole crowd does? You get a coupon, yes, that is correct. Or a coupon for a six-piece or something. Or a Frosty, in Isaiah Thomas' case. Okay. I just wanted a Frosty. So he makes the second, so there is no.

I will say this. Can we have a moment for Boban? With Boban helping the crowd to get chicken, one of the greatest things that I have seen on the basketball floor. All right, let's stop. Was he on the Spurs? It's Michael Jordan over Craig Elo. I was going to say, though, wasn't he part of championship teams?

Cleveland? Yeah. Who? Richard Jefferson? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Also, let's do a reset or something. Now I'm watching this game.

I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah. A social media viral moment that came and went. We do because we're all over Boban and everything. came and went. We do, because we're all over Boban and everything, but to just say that

and yes, to label it one of the great moments in NBA, like is it in the World's 100, is it in the playoff montage, you know,

Jordan goes up and then under and then you see somebody else doing a 360 dunk and then you see Dirk's underhand layup. Yeah.

Or a fadeaway. Yeah. Boban yelling to the crowd, I've got you. God, Jeffers. I don't know the guy's name, but he bothers me. The play-by-play guy.

The play-by-play guy. So here he's bringing this up, a word that I love. So now the Mavs are down like 17. Okay. Here we go. Donchich. Two minutes left.

Step back three. Off the mark. Towards the rebound. And Clippers once again have been able to stomp out the momentum that Dallas was building to try and overcome a monstrous deficit. There's two minutes left in the game, and they're down 107-90. Wow.

Somehow they stomped out all that momentum. They're wiping their, you know, I'm glad he missed that one. Yeah, I would have put it to 14. Yeah. I would have made it a four-possession, five-possession game. But if you were to think either of those were the dumbest thing you heard all night, then you had to wait until the final buzzer sounded to hear the dumbest thing,

and it's going to be given to us by Richard Jefferson. No Kawhi, no problem. The Los Angeles Clippers take game one against the Mavericks. 109-97 the final. I will say this. Dallas Mavericks did a very good job of battling back into this game, building some confidence going into the next game.

The one thing about these seven game series, the team that loses has the advantage because they are going to come back and they're going to make adjustments. Meanwhile, the Clippers are going to keep everything consistent and try and raise their level. Yeah, no, you'd rather lose.

That's basically what he just told me there. Yeah. That's one thing that the average sports fan just doesn't know. The team that loses has the advantage. Yeah, in fact, what you – so it's best of seven, right? I would advocate losing the first three. Because then your backs are really against the wall. And you've got so much more information for adjustments.

Right. And they're just going to keep doing the same thing. Right. Like, defeating you by 40. I'm seeing here if you win. Hold on, hold on, hold on. So, I looked at all the sports. What a dummy.

With these seven-game series. Because maybe NBA is different than Major League Baseball or hockey. So Major League Baseball, actually, if you win the first game of a seven-game series, you go on to win the series 64.3% of the time. Well, that's more than 50. That is more than 50, but not a greatly... Now, Richard Jefferson would be wrong with baseball, but... Let's keep going.

Let's keep going. So in the NHL, if you win game one, 68.6% of the time you win this. That's even more than baseball. Yeah. But you cannot compare sports. You know, that's ridiculous. Right. Totally different.

Two totally different things. So let's go to the NBA. If you win game one of a seven-game series, you are going to win that series 75.6% of the time. Yikes. win that series 75.6% of the time. Yikes. Which would be 24.4%, right, that you would losing game one.

Yeah. So I don't think that's an advantage. In fact, let me go a little further for Richard Jefferson. A home team that wins game one of a series will win that series 85% of the time. That's even more. Again, that's not good. So the numbers, just objective numbers, would tell

you the Mavs right now have a 15% chance of winning this series. But that is data that you had to... You spent like a year combing through all that and putting. But that is data that you had to, you spent like a year combing through all that and putting that together, and I think you had to pay for some subscription services, and that was not publicly.

I searched very quickly this morning. In fact, Blake just illustrated, because he was about to steal that thunder, because he searched it too, and it took him two seconds to find that number. And Richard Jefferson's a player! He's been in these games. He's won a game one. He's lost a game one.

Got him right where we want him. Well, he'd rather lose it, honestly. Yeah. I wish I didn't just hear that data. Or that audio, frankly. But, uh... You know, I mean, it's... I would be interested to see how that looks over the –

like if the trend has changed at all. Because it does feel like there's a way higher variance with way more three-pointers being shot. I think it's probably changing as time goes. And, you know, to be fair, if you want to, a 4. I'm sure it's way different than a 1-8. Yeah. But it's still an idiotic statement, no matter what you want to say.

To somehow come out of that game and try to say the Mavs actually feel better about this series right now. I can't feel worse. Like they didn't have Kawhi. I know they have three other Hall of Famers, but they have one that's

better than all of them. And they didn't have that guy. And it wasn't even just that they got beat. It was just that they looked very unlike themselves that they've looked for the last quarter of the season. Looks like they had 10 days off. Yeah. They just got bodied.

Luka looked kind of fat, which was weird. That was weird. Why did you think that too? I don't know. I saw someone else say that. It might have been my brother. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, his brother called him thick with two Cs.

Yeah. He just looked a little lethargic. A little baby fat. Chin fat. Yeah. It was weird. It was just a weird day. I don't know.

And you can't blame 10 days off because – I thought that was supposed to help you. Well, but the other team had that as well is the whole point. Yeah, that's true too. You know, you're not a – if you were playing the seven seed and all of a sudden they came out real hot because they've been playing all week, like, okay, maybe. Speaking of being fat, you want to listen to Barkley and Shaq talking trash to each

other a little bit? Yeah, always. Is this after the Mavs game? No, this is at halftime. Oh, wait. Yeah, Mavs run ESPN. Yeah, this is at halftime of the late game. This is really long, so we'll skip around a little bit.

How can ESPN just suck so bad at broadcasting games? Like the audio is bad. And they've tried so many different things, too. They've tried Michelle Beadle. They tried Jalen Rose. They tried Bill Simmons. When they go to break, even during the broadcast, they don't put the score and time up.

Yeah. And I'm taking notes, so I guess people don't really care about that. Burke and Reddick are good. I like Burke and Reddick, but they were on the noon game, right? Yeah, they have an East Coast bias. Oh, my God. Doris Burke and the Celtics. Yeah.

I almost can't handle it, dude. I love her, but it's a lot. Give me your perspective on what we've seen in the first 24. Great job by Willie Green having the Pelicans control the pace. They're trying to walk the ball up and down the court, and they're doing a fabulous job. Man, Oklahoma City got a ton of players. Whoever they drafted, man, they're 10-11 deep.

But great job by Willie Green. The one weakness of OKC, Chet Holmgren is having a very difficult time keeping Valachunas off the board. That's why they're getting all those second shots. Valachunas is either getting the rebounds or he's clearing out space because if you take away Holmgren, they got no big guys out there. So that's the reason they're killing him on the second chance. You all right, big fella?

Yeah. Okay. So Shaq is kind of adjusting himself in his seat, and it looks like the chair is going to break. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to lose some weight.

The chair won't break. Well, I'm lighter than you. You ain't lighter than me, you fat ass. You ain't lighter than me. Get on the scale right now. Get on the scale right now. Just because you're taking Monforo or whatever. Monjoro.

Yeah, whatever. You're taking Monjoro? What is that? It's a drug. Yeah Yeah, whatever. Hey, you know what? If you're taking my jaw, what is that? It's a drug. Yeah. You're taking a drug? No, no, no. You're taking a drug.

Kenny, it's the diabetes drug. Yeah, diabetes. I know, but everybody's using it. No, you know what drug you need to take? It's called this. You get out there, and you do a little of this, and you do less of this, and less of this. Stop the drug. So what I would say is.

Oh, you cheating the game. I'm not cheating the game. No, people cheat the game on Ozempic. Okay, so now we're taking shots at Ozempic, which ostensibly they do ads for. Because I see those ads all the time. Everybody knows somebody who's on it. And yeah, Shaq's like, you're cheating, fat ass. This goes on for several minutes.

Ernie in the middle. Keep it going. Valanchunas. Whatever. Yeah, but Ernie's trying to redirect it. This is hilarious. Even Chuck tries to bring it back. They're in the middle of breaking down the middle. Keep it going. Valanciunas. Whatever. Yeah, yeah. But Ernie's trying to redirect it. This is hilarious. Even Chuck tries to bring it back. They're in the middle of breaking down the game.

It's halftime of a playoff game. Yeah. This is not Tuesday night Magic Hawks. Yeah. There's one thing that Oklahoma City does. Here you have freezing air. This is Larry Nance Jr. And you got a double-tap off covers.

They're all matchup problems. And Chuck said they did a great job of drafting Isaiah Joe over here. It's tough. You got Dort in the corner. You got Williams over here. All of these guys are all mismatch problems. They can all drive by. He can barely keep it together.

Anyone guarding them, get some second shot opportunities, continue to put pressure on the basketball, put pressure on the defense, and finish. They are five mismatches. Come on, Chuck. Yeah. We're going jogging tomorrow, me and you. Chuck, you want me

to get you some more jar bars? You want to break your chair? Nope, I don't cheat. Either we got to put some I don't cheat, fat boy. Put some duct tape on it. That's why I got four yards now. Now it's ring time. Oh, I got four, you got none. Oh. And he holds up the

four. That's why I got four, you got none. Team couldn't be any tighter. Neither could the relationships on this set. 43 apiece. You can't even spell it, Monjero. Spell it. Come on, man. Spell it, Monjero.

Spell it, Monjero. Clay, y'all try to quit spelling Monjero. He's not on Monjero. Yes, I am. God damn, that's the best thing I've ever heard. It's just amazing. And Ernie just puts up with it, tries to get the car back on the road. We're playing a game here, tighter than Shaq's suit. But it's a Sunday night playoff game. Game one. Game one.

It's tied or something. You fat ass. I don't feel like... You fat ass. I don't think that's fair, the I got four, you got one, in a fat argument. I got four, you got none, yes. I believe in a lot of arguments.

I guess Shaq can use that. He does it a lot. I think during the highlights at one point, Valanchunas is bodying Chet, and Charles goes, yeah, Chet's on Olympic or whatever. Olympic, yeah. Whatever.

Olympic. Olympic. That was Dan's thing. Yeah, it was Epics like in the news. Oh, yeah. Or at least in the social media feed I look at. I get it advertised to me a lot. Do you?

Mm-hmm. Must be because I'm getting fat. I kind of want it. You know what's funny is I was showing Blake this video earlier of when Migos are on a radio show, a morning show in New York. They're reading Llama Llama Red Pajama, which is a children's book. But they just read it over one of their beats. And it's really funny.

And my daughter loves it. And I dropped my daughter off at my mom's yesterday for a little bit. And she was like, hey, she's asking, what is this Llama Llama Red Pajama thing? I was like, oh. So I pulled, you know, what is this Lama Lama red pajama thing? I was like, oh. So I pulled it up on YouTube to text it to my mom. But somehow the ad sent.

So like the YouTube thing pulls up and then I hit share message mom. It plays an ad first. Yeah, but I've never seen it like actually just send the ad. I mean it was the video. And the ad was like why your wife wife is leaving you, three reasons. Your computer knows everything, dude. And I sent that to my mom. I was like, oh.

You could have sent worse. That appears to just be an ad that was tailor-made to me. It could have been worse. To your mom. It could have been worse. It could have been worse. Gotta be careful with those personalized ads. Man, that's gold. Here's the other thing, too. I didn't watch it.

Skip. Skip. Skip. He was always giving gifts. Thanks, Pap. he was always giving gifts thanks pap uh i didn't write shit because uh i'm not a writer and um i just want to say it was there's a lot of people here thanks um it was really amazing to be his uh little baby brother It was really amazing to be his little baby brother Yeah, I'm not just gonna sit up here and break down on you but uh

Thanks for coming Pat's a fucking champion and uh always will be Just make no mistake you want me to say this he's not with God He's fucking dead. He's not religious. So thanks for your thoughts, but he's fucking dead. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. And we're back with Lane and Chloe. That was a fun break.

We should have done that all on the air. I was going to say. I'm sorry to tell that story off the air. But we'll save it for another day. I'm sure it'll come up. What do you think so far, Lane? I'm having a blast. Go Puppet!

This is great. Y'all make it look easy. It's so cool seeing this up close in the dragon den. It really is. What do you think of the den? I love it.

Love it. You got all sorts of great stuff. You got that Letterman Rolling Stone up there. Crusty O's box. It's like all the stuff I'm obsessed with.

It's a lot of Superman, isn't it? Yeah, theucks. It's like all the stuff I'm obsessed with. It's a lot of Superman, isn't it? Yeah, the Superman. Is it over Superman? No, I was obsessed with the Christopher Reeve Supermans as a kid. All right. Huge time. There we go.

I got a guy here. Yeah, yeah. He's hitting some trees. Thank you, Blake. Gotcha. You ditched the hoodie. I did. I got a little hot. I got the... Temperature's rising. I did. I got a little hot. I got the...

Temperature's rising. I know. I got the Dustin hoodie on today. How do you like it? I love it. It is great. A lot of requests. It's like a perfect spring, fall hoodie.

Yeah. It's nice. Yeah. Hey, Blake Jones here for... For hoodies. Dustin's hoodie. You know, it's a little brisk in the mornings, a little cold in the evenings.

You don't need a full-on hoodie with fleece. You get too hot. You need something a little lighter. You need a reigning champ hoodie.

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Want to do Dak? Yeah, let's play it. Okay. Dak. I was bothered by his attire the other night. Maybe that's just me. Go on. You know, I mean, Romo's got the skinny tie,

because Romo's a skinny tie guy, and I can't really talk too much ass because I'm skinny tie guy but Dak is wearing like a he doesn't have a tie on he doesn't have a collared shirt on he has how would you describe it Blake you've seen it

it's almost like a t-shirt that has three buttons at the top maybe you would call it a Henley but it but he has aley. But he has the suit coat? But he has the suit coat. And then, you know, Aikman looks like Aikman. Yeah, he's always looking sharp. Yeah.

Yeah, so Dak, Romo, and Aikman were at some charity thing? Yeah, Dan. Oh, yeah. It's like from the 1890s to dress shirt. The collar is weird. Yeah, it's kind of like a Taylor Sheridan looking, like you would wear it in. Yeah, he's doing a bit from Peaky Blinders.

There's something going on that I don't like. That's what I'm telling you. Yeah, it's a collarless shirt, which looks odd in a suit. I wonder if Troy thinks both those guys are just spares. What is Tony doing in this picture? Like, is this a smile? Do you ever know?

He's the Mona Lisa. The Tona Lisa. Okay. Boy, Chloe loved that one. Yeah. Anyway. Guy's weird. Duck lips, always.

Gut. Gut's looking pretty big these days man I used to love him we all did anyway they the media's there as well man it must suck being Cowboys media

you just have to go to all this like we're Cowboys media you know we cover the Cowboys a lot but yes if like if John Machoda's gonna be there

then David Moore is like, oh my God, I got to be there. Like what if? Another hospital. What if they happen to say something? And they never really do. No. But they did ask about the contract talks and all that kind of stuff.

Honestly, I'm focused on the moment on the now. If the talks begin and real talks get to happen, I'm sure we can talk about getting that done. Hey, are you surprised that he said that? If the talks begin? That's definitely the headline. Like, geez. Yeah.

You guys haven't talked yet? The whole, this has been like the number one story on everyone's mind since before the season ended even. Yeah. Like how important this offseason is to sign Dak. That seems really weird. If the talks begin and real talks get to happen, I'm sure we can talk about getting that done.

But in this case right now, honestly, I'm worried about just getting better, being better tomorrow than I am at this moment. So leaving that up to my agent and Jerry at this point. And when those talks begin, I'll be more involved, obviously. So no talks. Are you surprised with no talks? No, I mean, I've been in conversation. I've talked to Jerry, and so I understand where we are, obviously.

And Jerry's mentioned the same, so there's not any gray area in that sense. So, yeah. He talked about the cap and all the situations and why they're not doing it. We had a great conversation. We had a great conversation that put us aligned in where we are and moving forward and where we are in this moment. So generic. And we'll address moving forward as that comes about.

Yeah. Well, it's not going anywhere. This is going to be all we're going to hear about all through camp. Well, I mean, the other thing we'll hear about is CD's holdout because he won't be at camp. So, yeah, this is where we are. And if you want to go help sick kids, you're going to be asked about your contract. Do you think he's talking? I don't know why I laughed at that.

I'm sorry. Yes, apologizing is the way to go. Then it's all fine. Put this headset on again. You can't get canceled here, bruv. We've proven that. What, are our sponsors going to cancel? Good call.

You know, Blake, you going to cancel your hoodie sponsorship? No. See, he's you going to cancel your hoodie sponsorship? No. See, he's fine. Still a great hoodie. Yeah, like, have they... He said he's talked to Jerry. Like, just him. And so has Jerry laid out,

we got to get this CD thing done first? Or... The tricky part about that is it would be a lot easier for them to get the cd thing done if they had done dac first that should have been the order if they had done dac first they could have lowered dac's number considerably and then you know like that column i wrote a couple weeks ago justin jefferson turned down 30 million last year. So he's going to get $35. So CD's not going to get that, but he's going to get $32 or $33,

which, you know, they're going to have to pay. And they could have done that a lot easier had they done Dak first. To me, it feels like they're both in a game of chicken of we're only both like 70% sure we want to be here.

Like that the Cowboys are kind of like, you think Dak isn't sure we want to be here. Like that the Cowboys are kind of like, you think Dak isn't sure he wants to be here? I don't think it's out of the question. He's already brand famous. Like I think leaving the Cowboys, if you're not the Cowboys quarterback and you're not a Super Bowl caliber player, being the Cowboys quarterback is definitely more valuable from an advertising standpoint. But if you already were the Cowboys quarterback,

then you're already really famous and you can sell mattresses. So I don't think he would lose anything by becoming not the Cowboys quarterback. So clearly though, it doesn't seem like you're going to get any kind of even the slightest hometown discount hell no no should we criticize Dak for that I really the way that like it seems like that these hometown discounts occur is in the structure of the deal not so much in the amount that you're actually being paid. But if you think about like Jalen Hurd's contract or Patrick Mahomes' contract, it's not so much that they make less money.

It's just that they kind of get tricky with the number, which then goes way over my head. But it does seem like the Mahomes deal was quoted as team-friendly, but he's still making a butt-ton of money. I don't know. Yeah. They're in a weird spot. That's what I wonder too.

Would Dak, so Dak has the greatest agency, right? CAA. Mm-hmm. Would they accept a Mahomes structure? In fact, like would Dak take Mahomes deal today? Probably not. Same exact deal. Probably not.

And do you think? He should. Yeah. Yeah, like. But that's just not. Same exact deal. Probably not. And do you think... He should. Yeah. Yeah, like... But that's just not the way it works. I mean, obviously, Tom Brady took a lot less

throughout his career. Less. I think at times I feel like you've overplayed that a little bit. Okay, but even Dirk was credited with taking less.

Yeah. And that meant he was paid $21 million. He could have been paid $23 million. Right. have been paid $23 million. Right. It wasn't the max. So...

Even LeBron, right? Slightly. But he's pretty much, though, changed the game to where... When LeBron first moved, I think the thought process would be that your superstars take more to get players to play with you. So LeBron wants a ring. So they could have each – I think they took slightly below the max,

the three in Miami is what you're referring to, right? The Heetles? Yeah, because he certainly doesn't take less now. No. And even Miami, they had to put a bunch of kind of garbage around them. You keep Mike Miller's name out of your mouth. And build around, you know. Whereas, you know, Brady took, I think it was significantly less.

I mean. There was at least one time where he took. He was making less than Romo. Yeah, but I mean, also the Cowboys paid Romo way too much, way too early. Yeah. Not a great. Which is odd that... Yeah, yeah, no, it is weird.

...the same team is doing this with Dak over and over and over again. I mean, it's really weird that you've got, you know, Dak and... Or, excuse me, Romo and Witten dressed in white linens in Lake Como with the family. I don't think it's a race thing, but it is definitely weird how much of a part of the family Romo felt like. I mean, he got him his job. I think, right? Like, to keep him from going to

play for the Texans. Jerry got Romo the TV job. Yeah. That's what we think, yeah. Yeah. And now they're playing hardball with Dak again. So, I don't know but it did uh is that the end of the audio yeah it's the end of that he talked about other stuff but oh did you he also kind of said he gave a pretty vague answer but it was like a you know whether it's he someone point blank asked him are you going to will you re-sign with the Cowboys?

Yeah. Like they want the – here's what I ask so you can say the right thing for the fan base. But Dak did not take that bait. And he did say, you know, I'm playing this year. I'm giving it my all. And wherever I play next year or in the following I'm going to give it my like he kind of threw out that you just don't want your you want to hear your quarterback

be like oh my gosh I want this star on my helmet for life yeah which strangely is kind of what CD and Micah have said and Dak though has kind of thrown out there, hey, wherever I'm playing. Yeah. So that's certainly a negotiating tactic, isn't it? Definitely. But this is a very loose tie-in, but they were at an event for, not for children's cancer. That would be weird. No. It's a combat. They're trying to intercept it?

Yes. That is correct. They're trying to intercept cancer and They should bat it away Fumble racism We've talked about that right You want to bat Cancer away Depends on where you're on the field

Are we standing up for cancer Because if you intercept it You now have it You now have it yeah Deflect Past breakup cancer Yeah PBU cancer

PBU cancer Yeah yeah yeah But it made me think of Obviously this is a cause Near and dear to Dak's heart. He lost his mom. And as sad as that is, all I can think about when I think about Dak and his mom and her plight is Chris Collinsworth from many, many years ago.

I haven't previewed this, but here we go. You have two cuts? Yeah. Going to be third down and seven. Well, Prescott telling us the other day that, you know, he's super confident right now. He is a guy who, and you asked him if he's extra motivated because of the contract situation.

He said not at all. I play for free. He got his mom a house. He's happy. He said sponsorships pay for a few other things. Yes, they do. Third and seven. Got his mom a house.

Well, let's fast forward about four minutes into this game. Peg Prescott and his special relationship with his mom, Peggy Prescott. We've talked about her many, many times. She passed away in 2013, and he told us this week all he ever wanted to do was just take care of her and buy her a house. Apparently, I said that in some very mangled way, and I apologize for that. But the relationship is so special, I would never, ever want to do anything to get that twisted around. Well, he's such a guy who wants to take care of the rest of his family now

as he gets tremendous protection and hits Elliott. The beauty of being a play-by-play guy. Yeah. You can easily change the subject. Yeah. There's a lot there. Number one, he'd play for free. He'd play for free.

He doesn't care. Nope. Not worried about it at all. That's changed. Yeah. Number two, even in the apology. Todd France had a little something to say about that. In the apology, the 2013 death was like before Dak was able to buy a house.

Quite a bit before. Yeah. Three full years before. Yeah. But you know what? I apologize that I mangled it a little bit well no i mean pretty major uh whatever mangled way i said it no misstep there yeah that car is not mangled it's totaled

yeah yeah you you completely botched that um yes all right i'm just trying to look at the time i'm trying to be conscious and keep these yes I'm just trying to look at the time I'm trying to be conscious and keep these things around two hours and we never do it do you care? oh yeah we're here what do you think about the long episodes?

love them more content the better I'm finding out people like the long episode well and it's we meet a lot of people who are really into the show though so that's a bubble that we're in. Like, hey, you know, people that pay us to come out to their place

or something, what do you think? Like, yeah, give us some more. No, but I should point out to my clients, I don't actually listen while I'm working because that would be

pretty disrespectful to my therapy clients if I was listening to the show while being their therapist. I'm sure there are people who do stuff like that, though. Do you therapize in shorts? Oh, yeah. But you got a nice shirt?

I'm a nice shirt, basketball shorts, and flip flops. That's what Dan was going to do if he had to appear virtually in court. Yeah. It's a great way to do it. Yeah. But what were you saying? What did the Conan thing? You're like, this conan thing

and you're right like hot one i gotta stop yeah you loved it did you see it's great it's incredible but jake wanted me to watch it to actually like listen to conan and not just watch him uh you know going nuts uh over the hot sauce but um he brought up a point in there of don't like don't apologize don't tell the audience like hey is it too long are we going like just uh just go forward lie say this is the best thing ever no I agree and that's why I find it no it's my problem I'm yeah and that's why I find it slightly odd that you just asked both of them I know that's what's what I'm saying. I'm following up with. I'm an idiot. Dan, it's like your movie.

I'm no good at this. Fast Times, Damone, everywhere you're at, you act like it's the place to be. There you go. Isn't this great? Yeah. Right? We're having the best time ever. Yeah.

All right. Let's do this. How do you like our new Male song Are we pro or She listens all day every day To this song Yeah this song on repeat I don't know if you guys

Got anything but I got A bunch of birthdays I got a quick Columbine follow up Yeah Did you ever think You would say that Well no I actually Went back and listened guys got anything but i got a bunch of birthdays i got a quick columbine follow-up yeah did you ever think you would say that well no i actually went back and listened to your book report a second time i thought it was that good i thought it was great it was really really good and i got a lot of email and we're not just doing the conan thing no no i thought it was great and uh a lot of

people had the same experience that i did in youth group with uh cassie bernal yep like i got several emails about that one in particular from john our youth group even saw it as a witnessing opportunity to the rest of our high school we had shirts made that said only the words she said yes the idea being if someone asked us what that meant we could explain to cassie bernal student at columbine high school was asked with a gun to her head if she was a Christian or not. Knowing she would be killed, she refused to deny God, defiantly and heroically said yes, and then was killed. He says, somehow that would make other people want to come to our church. Not sure we thought that far ahead.

Yeah, that seems too hardcore for me, man. Yeah, definitely. But I feel like our guest on Friday had the same experience that I had. And I got a bunch of email about this to find out that it was kind of just an urban legend. Well, I should have been more specific. And now, without my notes in front of me, I'm kind of just going off of what I remember. They were asking people, do you believe in God? Yeah.

That was a thing. Now, the story did get stretched. She was never asked that. However, another student was. And she was like, what do you, she was kind of hesitant. And they did end up shooting her. Yeah. But it was just not as clean as.

Put a bunch of pieces together for a clean narrative. Yeah. And she ended up living. The girl who was shot that did say yes. And that was kind of like, do I steal the thunder from this book release? Because you're tarnishing her name. And the only reason that her parents kind of got through this, Cassie's, was just the thought that their daughter died for something.

Yes. That's a tough thing. 100%. It's like if you have family in the military, you know, and you can cope with it by like, well, you were existing for a purpose that you believed in. And if it cost you your life, you kind of knew that, you know. But, I mean, I'm like paging God being like, dude, we'll straighten up after this. No, what is it? I promise, dude. Like, I'm just kidding. You know we're good.

You know my heart. No, if Saving Private Ryan taught me something, what is it they send the letters out if someone dies? It's like, your son died during a very important mission, sacrificed, did heroic deeds. I was going to say, particularly important today. Oh, right. I just got that. With Pat Tillman

being, you know, they made it sound like he was like, had a knife at Bin Laden's throat or something. Not the friendly, quote unquote, friendly fire. The oddest term ever. It's not a great euphemism. An oopsie.

A military oopsie. We killed our own guy. Sorry about that. It does. But yeah, man. I thought it was great. I got a lot of positive feedback on that too. Yeah, I mean it put me back in a place of...

I imagine everybody thinks this about their, like how old are you guys? 41 and 43. Okay. So you were around the same time. Yeah. It just put me back in a place of, we had like Columbine and the president getting his dick sucked, like being discussed on television. And then 9-11. Within like two years of me being,

that was like my high school. When was the Clinton thing? Because he was a big player in the book. I just didn't know where on the timeline that fell. It was like 96, 97. It was the second term. So 97, 98, something like that? It was right before the second term. Okay.

But it carried on into... Right, no, no. But it was a thing like, is this going to derail him? But like the trial and stuff like that went into... You know, it took forever. Oh, yeah, yeah. And so... I think.

I don't know. It's just really weird to think about. And that's where you get like Marilyn Manson and Eminem. Yeah. I was just like, man, the late 90s, early 2000s were very strange. Wait, when was the second term? Was 96 to 2000? Yeah.

Maybe it was after. We could probably look this up. There's no way to find out. It's just a weird way to grow up. You're going through adolescence and it's like, oh, kids kill each other at school now. Yeah. That is what you would talk about on the playground. Yeah, I was in college when Columbine happened.

I was just like, wake up, turn on the news. The dorm room was a big deal. What did you call it? Satanic panic? Oh, that was. Yeah, I do remember being afraid of the kids dressed in black. Oh, yeah. Marilyn Manson.

Yeah, for sure. The Matrix outfits. Yeah. it's a weird time and you know how we blame i turned to blink 182 but we blame twitter now and social media for amplifying all this crazy stuff do you feel like oprah was that day's yeah amplification for anything that was kind of moms at school or getting worried about. Rainbow parties. Oprah and then the offshoots of Oprah. Because it was also like the subsets of that.

Maury. Maury, daytime talk shows, Ricky Lake and stuff like that. But they'd all jump on the same bit. And it's like okay that's why you thought rainbow parties were real because five different shows was doing stuff about it so they are amplifying this crazy thing that if it happened once you know it'd be lucky but the same way that social media now amplifies some wackos and you just think well that's right there next to cnn uh their report so i suppose that well, that's right there next to CNN, their report.

So I suppose that that's possibly true as well. Those two things are right next to each other. This is some great media criticism. Dear Leader. Remember, we're doing mail. Yep. Oh, yeah. It's my wife Elizabeth's Andre Kirilenko birthday.

Oh, layup. That one's easy. 47. I would wake her up in that special way, but you know it's Monday. Got a lot to do today. What does that mean? You got a lot to do, man.

You're stressed about the week. I would think that'd be a great day because aren't you all kind of fresh and showered? No, because people shower every day now. Now? Like since the medieval times? Yeah. But you're definitely on Sunday night or Monday morning,

you're getting showered, you're ready to roll. The week is ahead of you. Like I'm doing the head shave. You know, I want to be fresh. Maybe Wednesday I'll do it again. All right. let's see anyway this is from the other shower talk

I recently heard that Napoleon once wrote to his wife I'll be home in three days don't wash nice what are you reading military history military strategy. Yeah.

And that's probably to prevent her from cheating because he knows she'll be washing the man's smell off her. Right. So that way you can't be with anyone. Right. Because I know what your disgusting smell is. Hotmail Dan, I turned 45 on Monday. This guy's thinking. I have gifted myself a Dumb Zone membership.

Let's see. Listen, long time. Love you, long time. Hang Zone, Blake, Donovan, Jake. Okay. So people can tell they're being cheated on by the smell? That's what I'm saying. That seems crazy

let's all try it not a bad idea when it hits you you're like huh I mean it's not quite Doug Christie's wife yeah

Wayne is nuts that's he's inviting us to a remote at his rental shop Fight Doug Christie's wife. Yeah. Wayne is nuts. He's inviting us to a remote at his rental shop in Lakeside, Montana. I would like to go to Montana. It's pretty great. He says $690 is ours if we do it. May need a little more. Travel is on you, of course.

What's the rental shop? Like for skis? Skis? Skied a little bit? Let's see. Touring, glacier, kayaking the lake. I've done that. Backpacking, floating the river, mountain biking, rock climbing, etc. You'll have an amazing time.

You will. Let's see. Sign Justin the only DF in Montana. It's probably true. Montana's see. Signed Justin, the only DF in Montana. It's probably true. Montana's great. I have to send in my own birthday like a loser. I'm now the oldest I've ever been. It starts with a four.

Jake is right. Birthdays are a bigger deal for women. Men age like fine wine. Women age like old milk. For my birthday, I want more Blake, more Jake, more Dan, more Sarah Heppler, more Beth, more Akash, more Kip and Bodhi. Oh, I mean, there's only so much time.

Less poop cookie talk. Come on, that was funny. Ange. Kitty Fantastico on Twitter. on, that was funny. Ange. Kitty Fantastico on Twitter. Oh, I like her. Why don't you marry her then? Yeah. Uncle Hotmail. I might.

Let's see. My hot-ass girlfriend, Diana, is celebrating her Derek Holland birthday. 35? 30? 35? Dutch oven. I used to know birthday. 35? 35? Dutch oven. I used to know these. 35, right? She moved here from Valparaiso, Indiana,

the home of Orville Redenbacher, where they honor him with a Labor Day Popcorn Festival and Parade. Attached, you will find a picture of the Popcorn Festival's 9-11 Memorial Float. Yes. Complete with both World Trade Center towers represented. Notice the attention to detail, which includes the explosions and debris coming out of the giant holes

created by airplanes that crashed into them. Personally, I can't have popcorn without thinking of this incredibly tasteful tribute to the victims of 9-11. I hope you'll do the same when eating your movie popcorn today. Never forget. From D.F. Todd from Dallas. Jeez. Literally, dude. Yeah, I'm looking.

Wow. Do you see the email? Did he send it to all of us? No. No, I'm looking. Wow. Do you see the email? Did he send it to all of us? No. No, I'm trying to find a picture. But they actually do have a... Yeah, no, I'm looking at it now. They have two towers with two big holes in them.

Is that classy? Yikes. Dan, it's my 42nd birthday. I don't mean to laugh. I'm a day-ater because I'm cheap and I waited for the August billing cycle. My leaders are Goodnight Gorilla and Dan's Country Saturday Game Show Ambush of Jake. Ian in Seattle. Really good book.

Goodnight Gorilla? Oh, yeah. Did I give you that one? I think so, yeah. And then I gave you Goodnight... Dude Perfect. Dude Perfect? Yeah, one was good think so, yeah. And then I gave you Goodnight. Dude Perfect. Dude Perfect.

Yeah, one was good, one was not. I just like looking at all the pictures in Goodnight Gorilla. Bumma, bumma. Yeah, trying to find the balloon. Yeah. Yeah. Long time listener, it is my Cleveland Cavaliers Shaq birthday. Man, that is deep.

That is deep. 32? No, it is deep. That is deep. 32? No, it's heat. 32 would be pretty much the rest of his career. My leaders are Dwight Owl and whatever's in Norm's underpants. I don't have much else, but I do have to say more Blake. But even more Dan and Jake, he says. 33. Sorry, Blake. Carlos even more Dan and Jake, he says. 33.

Sorry, Blake. Carlos Calzada. And that. Were you pretty fired up when he was a Cav? I cannot say that I was. I mean, I do love me some Shaq, but that was clearly the end, right? Yeah, I would say. Didn't he play for Atlanta? Didn't he play for a bunch of teams?

Phoenix, Cleveland, Boston. I forgot about Phoenix. Yeah. Yeah, he wasn't much. That was their... Look, LeBron, we're getting anyone in here we can. And even a little less Shaq. We're replacing Big Z with Shaq.

Big Z. You want to do some news and stuff? Sure. Here's Jay with the Dumb Zone News. Okay, let's see here. We will start off. Oh, yeah, early voting starts today, Dan. You're pretty fired up about that.

It's the May 4th municipal election season. What's on the table? Well, for me in particular, it's school board. For more and more in our worlds, right? You're hearing more and more about it. That's right, yeah. I've never in the past cared, or I still kind of don't,

but I've never heard so much about school board voting. Yeah. As in the past couple years. 30 different local school districts holding school board elections. So now it's... In fact, I thought you actually didn't vote... They don't have parties.

They don't, but they do. Right? I mean, if one of the slate of candidates is funded by an extremist Christian cell phone company with some light white supremacism mixed in, you're pretty sure that one's to the right, right? And then the other one is just not that. They're like teachers.

Yeah, because I used to always think it was just people that know about that stuff. Yeah. Like, I don't know about that stuff. Dude, and it's absolute catnip for me, too. And I don't know about that stuff. Dude, and it's absolute catnip for me, too. And I don't have kids in school now.

It's okay. And I have chilled out a little bit to our guest point, but it is very hard for me not to engage. Because it's not so bad

if you go early voting, but if you go on election day and you go to the Grapevine Rec and Library, there's 500 people outside, and they want to engage. And I also sometimes want to engage. That's really interesting about you.

Yeah. Because I've always been the, I do want to engage when I get in front of a microphone about this. But I don't want any personal actual interaction or confrontation. But you kind of like. Look for it. That fuels you, right? You're like, I studied this.

I know my shit. Yeah. I'm going to, I'm ready for a debate. As the Brunigs would say, I'm ready for the Args. There you go. Let's go. But nobody wins. Like, I'm not changing their mind. They're out there with a sign. There's not a chance

to change their mind. No, and they're not changing my mind. You could have a stack of logic. Objective facts. And so could they. Right. And you're already locked in. Yeah, we're wasting each other's time. I wonder, yeah, I wonder about that. The people out in the parking lot. Like, how many people are swayed by that?

One percent? They probably do sway. Like, let's say me. I don't know anything about anything except I went there to vote for the president. Or one thing. And then, hey, this other issue, this is really important. Will you vote no on it? They're like, yeah, I guess so.

I don't know. You know? Yeah. So this is like the pickup line or something. If you're using it, it must have worked somewhere. Maybe. Like the block walking. What is the point of that?

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I told you about the lady... At least you're going to unsuspecting people there. These are people who are going to vote. That's true. They already have their vote on their mind. You would think, yeah. Yeah, I don't think I told you.

The one note that I left out about the lady that came to my door block walking for the school board, and she was with the good guys, as I will call them. And she's like, yeah, you know, I told her, like I told you guys, I was like, I'm pretty aware of the whole thing. I know who I'm going to vote for. And she's like, it's a big deal. And I'm like, no, I've been reading about it. And I was there with Carter, I think.

I don't think Nora was there. And she's like, yeah, it's a big enough deal. That's why I'm giving up my Saturday with my kids to be out here talking to people about it. Really? Okay. Did you flip? No, I was just like, I mean, there's not another...

There's not another parent here. What, do you want me to just leave him at home? Oh, you flipped because of that? Yeah, right then. You know what? I'll vote for the cell phones. Yeah. Just because of you shaming me.

It just felt like an unnecessary add-on. Kind of a shot at you. Yeah. Like, well, if you care so much, why aren't you out here block walking? Yeah. I guess you just value your kids. Plano woman is charged with murder after she allegedly shot her husband on Friday night. 55-year-old man.

Domestic dispute. She called her friends to tell them on Friday night that she had shot her husband. They do have children, but they were with other family members prior to the incident. Not home at the time. A domestic dispute. What was the origin? Doesn't exactly say. Often financial.

Yeah, what are you getting that mad about in your 50s? Don't you just kind of chill out over time with your wife? Who cares? Maybe disagreeing over the school board voting thing.

Perhaps. Maybe. Could be. Hey, early voting is Monday. Like, uh... What was the lady's name that kind of looks like the cryptkeeper

that worked for Trump, Kellyanne Conway? Like, her was the lady's name that kind of looks like the Crypt Keeper that worked for Trump? Kellyanne Conway? Like, her husband was just like a wild boy on Twitter, just criticizing Trump. I think they're now divorced, but there was a good three or four year period where they were both in the news all the time. Oh, yeah. And he would just tweet about her boss all the time. And their daughter got caught up, right? Yeah. Their daughter was all over it? She their daughter got caught up, right? Yeah.

She was like at a TikTok or something? Yeah. Man. She did what? She just came out. She came out? The daughter came out? That's huge news. Kellyanne Conway's daughter. Lesbian. Apparently. Nice.

But it would be weird. Jeez. It would be weird if you were just wildly different than your spouse or your partner or whatever politically it's one thing if one of you is one way and the other one doesn't care but it would be weird if you're like we have to burn all these books and then your husband or wife is like actually i want to turn all the kids trans. Do you think the MAGA era has changed or actually broke up some couples?

Definitely. I've worked with a couple couples where that's become quite an issue. Like one of them are on board? Yeah. I know it's big in family. I don't know about spousal relationships but definitely family i mean i know people that have not spoken to their

extended family yeah yeah i've actually in the last few years had to go no contact with my family really yeah yeah like politics were just kind of a small piece of a larger picture, but yeah. Yeah, it's all real weird, although I just remember growing up. By the way, we don't know that that's why this woman killed her husband. It's an interesting topic, but I want to be clear

that that is not a piece of this news story. Back to Dan. I do remember growing up, at least in our house, it felt like some things were taboo. You don't talk about salaries, and you don't talk about stuff like who you voted for. This is a private thing when you go to that booth.

Religion. Not just to avoid arguments, but it was just that that's just a private thing. My mom wouldn't tell us who she voted for in a particular election. And we were just little kids. Like, oh, okay. Well, we didn't really care. Right? Yeah, I...

I didn't really have to wonder with most of my extended family. I was pretty sure where the die was cast. But... It is interesting. I do feel like it's ramped up, for sure, in the last five to six years,

as far as people just cutting people off. And that's also, like, really unfair that they make the election right before Thanksgiving. Because everybody's just, like, so heated and charged up, and it's like, let's just all get together at this holiday that most of us are just kind of lukewarm on anyways. It's not Christmas. There's no cheer.

No. It's cool that you get a few days off. Yeah. It's in the middle of the week. Like if it's on a Saturday, maybe. Yeah. Gives you time to put up the Christmas stuff. stuff yeah that's what you got to just steer it to like world series talk at thanksgiving if possible good call do you guys ever do the uh

or have you been party to the let's go around and say what people are thankful for oh my god we did that a little bit when we first got a video camera. Oh, yeah. That was the thing. Didn't you get in trouble for that? Me? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I did because the Cowboys had just hired Bill Parcells, and things were going pretty well. And when it got to me, I said I was thankful that the transition from a 4-3 to a 3-4 had been mostly smooth. Greg Ellis was responding well. Yep. And your mom was?

Not happy. That's what you have to do. You got to nip it in the bud. That's how to end it. Make a mock of it the first time around. Because you mock it. But to be honest with you, at that point in my life, I was pretty thankful for that. Yeah.

It was a big deal. It's the tuna. It was three years in a row there were five and 11. Come on. Campo? Does for that. Yeah. It was a big deal. It's the tuna. It was three years in a row they were 5-11. Come on, Campo. Does she understand? Yeah. What a period of utility that was. That's a reclaim our right.

Whatever it was, like, what, 16 or something? Wow, that's like you calling your shot as a sports broadcaster. Just like. That was pretty. It's a thing, too, that the wife really loved doing when the kids were little and then so you know we'd do it it's for the kids but then once the kids kind of started getting their own mind yeah and you know my kids of course how do you think like they ended it just the way Blake was just saying,

you kind of ended it. Yeah. Like, they just stopped taking it. You couldn't get them to do it without them just laughing or just roasting you. And then the wife's mad, and it's a big thing. Yeah. Did Joe participate? I don't remember.

I do remember him thinking it was hilarious. It was. But I don't remember. I do remember him thinking it was hilarious. It was. But I don't remember what his answer was. I guess it's prom season because we had a shooting at a high school prom after party in Fort Worth. One dead, two injured. Did you hear about this or something, Blake? My neighbor was complaining about prom dress prices. $700 for a dress to wear one time.

What? Wow. Yeah. Isn't the big thing always the mums? Yeah, it's homecoming. That's homecoming. Oh. Did you say moms?

Is that what it's called? No, mums. Mums. Yeah. Is that with the flower? Yeah. The big flower? Yeah. The big giant? Yeah.

That's a racket and a half. Dude, it really is. Prom sucked. You didn't like prom? No. And yeah, I went twice. What do you mean? I went my freshman year of college.

What was that like? It was weird, but I sold it to myself because my girlfriend was only like a week and a half younger than me. But you were born in that time when it's a mid? Yeah. Not really sure. Oh, August, right? Yeah, August. And she was either like late June or July or something.

So that's a weird thing, too, when your kids are that small. You're making that decision? Yeah, like, man, she's so good at reading and blah, blah, blah. I mean, I was a prodigy. She should not be in kindergarten now. We've got to let her go to first grade. But then you don't do the math and like wait she'll be barely eight not even 18 when she goes to college or something not 18 uh didn't really drive until close to my

senior year that sucked i was smaller so you're a smart kid but apparently you weren't great athlete because if you're a great athlete then the mindset might be well let's let them happen to have a sibling uh who was born in early september did they do that exact same thing Because if you're a great athlete, then the mindset might be, well, let's let him. Happened to have a sibling who was born in early September. Did they do that exact same thing? So he could have been a year ahead? Yeah. And they held him back. And I could have been a year behind.

They didn't so much hold him back. I think he just did like extra pre-K or something. Yeah. But he was like right on the line. And I was right on the line. And they put me ahead. They didn't put him ahead. And I believe Malcolm Gladwell has actually written about this.

I think this is featured in Outliers. Because he was just bigger than everybody all the time. So naturally the coaches or whatever will tend to be more playing time or more coaching or more attention or whatever. And I remember my freshman year of college, I gained like 20 pounds of muscle. And I'm like, oh, well, now I'm just the same age as everybody who's playing sports who's a senior in high school right now. A senior in high school, and you might have been better.

And I'm like, I'm actually like filling out as an adult. You would have been better. You would have to think. Yeah. Couldn't have been worse, to be honest with you. But yeah, prom sucked. So we blame Chappie. But I did go back the year after, and I was looked at as a loser.

Same girl? No. So you had a new high school girlfriend, but you were in college. Yeah. Was it still Richland? Yeah. Okay. And you lived in San Marcos?

No, because remember the first two years I was up here. I was interning with the Hardline. So I was still local. I lived on Brown Trail, your favorite. Okay, I thought you went... And I had known her from... I thought you went there the first two years and finished up here. No, the first two years... I mean, when I started interning with the Hardline, I had just turned 18.

Okay. Like right after that summer. Okay, so all summer interning with the Hardline, I had just turned 18. Okay. Like, right after that summer. Okay, so all summer you're dating the girl. I see it. Yeah, yeah. But it was weird. It was definitely. In hindsight, it was pretty creepy.

Was that the girl that he gave the full lesson to? All right, that's the 130 News. That's what I'm going to call it now. The Dumb Zone News. Full lessons. If I'm putting his timeline together correctly, if he's interning. Your timeline is correct. I'm just going to leave it at that, okay?

I'm not remembering this story. The Grego story. Chloe loves it. Yeah, we're fans. All right. I just tuned in. I've never listened before. I was in an argument.

God, Mom, please turn this off. Just skip ahead like five minutes. All right. Trigger warning? Yeah, trigger warning. Is this NSFW? Big time. What Jake's about to say?

God bless it. Mom, please, I'm serious. What if she just subscribed, gave us the money, and didn't listen? Yeah. Yeah, wouldn't that be better? Grego overheard me arguing with my girlfriend, the girlfriend that Blake is mentioning. I shouldn't do this. At the station.

And she was yelling at me and I was trying to defend myself and he's like, girl problems? He's like, I'll tell you what. Eat her asshole. She'll never leave you. And that's what he referred to as full lessons. And how old were you? 18. Chloe, I'm so sorry.

Were you shocked? I'd never even heard that was an option. Yeah, yeah. Like, what the hell is that? I was like, what do you mean? Like, I've barely heard of the other thing. Yeah. Like, had he told you try doggy style, you'd have been like, whoa, what's that?

Yeah. Cool. No, I was blown away. And it was very nonchalant. It wasn't like he had dropped some bomb or something. They just went back in to do Secret Ranger of the Day or whatever. And he'd known you for a month? Maybe.

Yeah. I thought that was like a Gen Z thing, and then Grego was way ahead of the curve, apparently. Way ahead of the curve. I mean, that's... Like 30 years ahead of the curve. 25 years ahead of the curve. Yeah.

It wasn't wrong. It's Monday, April 22nd. On this day in 1889, the Oklahoma land rush began at noon. Sooners. As thousands of homesteaders staked claims. I don't really even understand what the Oklahoma land rush is. Do you? I mean, I know a little bit about it, right?

Like, they basically fired a gun and people took off. And you could just say, hey, this is mine. Yeah. This piece of land. I think you could only get so much, right? But it really was like a starting line. It's kind of like the Easter egg thing for the kids. Am I wrong?

Y'all heard of this? I think it's something like that. Like, we have 100 miles here. Go find your mile. And we cleared out the Native Americans. That had to happen first. So now it's yours now. You have to just take it.

Yeah. I think there was a movie Far and Away. It was a Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, like Ron Howard movie that showed that. And as a kid, that's like all I really knew about it. Look at that.

On this day in 1898, Congress authorized creation of the first U.S. volunteer cavalry known as the Rough Riders. Is that somehow related to, like, Theodore Roosevelt? Feels like he was a Rough Rider. Yeah, because he's the Frisco logo, right? Yeah.

I still have the gear they gave us when I saw Dan go yard. Oh, yeah? What was that for? We did like a home run derby out there like eight years ago, and they gave us awesome shorts and shirt. Like they've made it the whole time. I watched throughout the first pitch there. That's pretty cool.

Wearing a kilt. I don't remember why. It was like Irish night or Scottish night. Irish night would be weird. Wearing a kilt. I don't remember why. It was like Irish night or Scottish night. Irish night would be weird. Wearing a kilt. Irish people don't wear kilts? Scottish? Not to the Scottish, yeah.

Okay, well, I'm apparently both. Okay. They just looked for someone with MC at the start of their last day. Yeah, I don't know why, but I remember my kids were with me. And it was just like, you know, kind of a cool thing. I feel like that's maybe where we met Dave Raymond.

That's where I met Dave Raymond. Yeah. At the Seabass Home Run Derby. Is that the one? Yeah. On this day in 1970, millions of Americans concerned about the environment observed the first Earth Day. Isn't that coming up? Oh, wait.

Yeah, you just actually said it's the anniversary of it. Is it always today, though? I don't know if it's always today. The 22nd? Or is it like... And the first one was on this day. That I don't know. I just know I was looking at our calendar and I was like, oh, Passover, Earth Day.

I found out today was Earth Day because people have been sharing the Tiger Woods meme of him shaking a tree's hand. That was a good meme. Yeah. A lot of when the edibles hit on the course. I feel like I'm going to shake this tree's hand. On this day in 1994, Michael Maurer defeated Evander Holyfield, winning the IBF and WBA titles. Couldn't believe it. That's right.

Wearing the Michigan State hat and all. He first made the documentary Roger and Me, then took on the establishment. Moorer, who's not actually that guy, I note this for you, Jake, became the first left-handed heavyweight champion in history. Nice. Jake's left-handed. I don't box left-handed, though. Chloe also left-handed.

Left-handed. You do? Yeah. Michael Moore came up in the Columbine book. Of course. Because in the aftermath, he made the... Bowling for Columbine. And he said the biggest PR thing to come out of that

is Michael Moore took one of the victims of Columbine to the local Kmart and tried to return the ammunition. Yeah, that was lodged inside of the kid. Yeah. I recently re-watched that.

Doesn't it end with him harassing Charlton Heston? Mm-hmm, that's the one, yeah. Yeah, that's... He doesn't help the cause either, though. I'm on board with Michael Moore and what he wants. But it feels like... Just the provocateur style that he has just turns a lot of people off.

Yeah. Very weird fade from public consciousness, though. Yeah. Not even a fade. It's over. All of a sudden. Yeah. Because I used to buy every book he wrote and watch every documentary,

and I was like, oh, this guy's like a prophet. I like that he had a half-hour show that was pretty good. I vaguely remember that was that the one back in the 90s there was something he had a show well I thought it was

early 2000s okay yeah it was because it was Bush era I'm almost positive kind of just like a yeah stemming off of his documentaries

and then Bowling for Columbine and then like a half hour like kind of stick it to the man type show he did the 9-11 one what is it where to invade next was one of his slightly more recent movies it's really good and actually his least political movie it's just like you know how you always hear like america is like ranked really low and like education ranked really low and health care yeah he goes to all the countries that are ranked number one and all those things

and just interviews kids there people there okay what's it called where to invade next all right I'm on board yeah I, I love Roger and me. That's great. That's a classic right there. Yeah. He just was gone. On this day in the year 2000, in a dramatic pre-dawn raid,

armed immigration agent seized Elian Gonzalez. Wow, Janet Reno. The Cuban boy at the center of a custody dispute. They raided him from his relative's home in Miami. He was then reunited with his father at Andrews Air Force Base. How about him? Where is he?

It's the year 2000. He's like 30 now, right? He's got to be older than that. That was such a moment in time. Yeah. And that was like peak SNL watching era for me. Yeah. Yeah, Janet Reno dance party with Will Ferrell.

Yeah, that was a very popular topic for a long time. And this is the day that Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire in 2004. was killed by friendly fire in 2004. Birthdays today, Rasheed Rice, 24. Will he play this year? Probably not. Really?

Dude, I don't know. I mean, I could easily see him getting a year. A lot of people that are pretty seriously injured in that deal, right? You know what? This will be good for Blake. Good value in the late rounds of the draft. Pick seriously injured in that deal, right? You know what? This will be good for Blake. Good value in the late rounds of the draft. While other people are picking up kickers, you'll remember Rasheed Rice is out there.

Maybe he'll be reinstated. Richland Royal. Rebel. Was he the last rebel? Nah, he was a royal. Oh, you were the last rebel. You were the last rebel, you said. That a Royal. Oh, you were the last Rebel. You were the last Rebel. You said. That's right.

So that's what they call me. Former Ranger David Clyde is 69. Speaking of Grego. Matt Jones is 41. I was talking to Jake this morning and I said, are you a big Matt Jones guy? Because I feel like that's. Had to be, right?

Yeah. Your guy's wheelhouse. Yes. I forgot to look up the exact stats. Wide receiver, but he was a quarterback in college? Quarterback at Arkansas, then he was drafted by the Jaguars, who made him a tight end. Oh, tight end?

Okay, I thought he was a wide receiver. Maybe he started as a wide receiver, but he ultimately ended up a tight end. So, Arkansas at Texas, September 2003, I was at this game, 12 attempts for 102 yards on the ground. Jeez. He threw the ball. He completed eight passes in that game.

But he was like Vince Young before Vince Young, except he was a Caucasian. So I could kind of see it. Maybe. Maybe I could do this. Then he got in some cocaine trouble, right? Were they still running the wishbone or something? Yes.

Triple option? I don't know. It wasn't so much wishbone, but it was definitely weird. They also had nobody else you've heard of to be honest. Marshawn Lynch is 38. Really weird that

I mean, I find him very entertaining, but that we've let him skate on how many really dangerously illegal things he's done. Like what? He ran somebody over drunk more than once, I'm pretty sure.

Well, he's been in trouble a lot. He was really good in the movie Bottoms last year, if you all saw that. I did not. He's really good. This guy just... Regular Roger Eber over here. I'm a movie fan. Total movie nerd, yeah.

The Kimspin file says he hit a woman with his car twice and then fled. Also had a DUI. How do you do that? Back up. Hey, is she okay? I got a bad... Oh, no. I back up.

Jack Nicholson is 87. I don't think he's doing well. Is he still alive? He's definitely still alive. I mean, publicly. Is he like at the Lakers games and stuff? No. I don't think so.

Then you know he's not doing well. I feel like he retired, yeah, and then just kind of maybe needs to be behind closed doors. Tended to. Yeah. Who's the Hoosiers coach? Gene Hackman. Don't you see on social media every six months or so, you'll see a picture of him. He's retired in Montana or somewhere.

Someone at the general store sees Gene Hackman walk in. I've not seen that. He's very gaunt. He's very old. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But so, yeah, like I said, just every now and again that will pop back up, somebody else will run into Gene Hackman. And I think the last time I saw, they were dragging him

for he was wearing the same outfit that he was wearing four months prior when somebody had caught him. And then those people were getting into arguments about, hey, the guy's 88 years old. Let him just kind of be. And yes, he probably wears the same stuff.

You have to be to make fun of the attire of Gene Hackman in Montana? What's wrong with people? The man was in Superman. Leave him alone. Ah, yes. I'm on board with you, dude. The best Superman.

Willie Robertson is 52, Jake. Help me Duck Dynasty? How do you know that? Yeah You know people like that I know plenty of people like that And I also know that

People in that part of the world Consider them to be major frauds Oh Oh, really? No The real Cajuns are not on board. Oh, no. Dude, have you never seen pictures of them before the show?

They're all in, like, golf polos. They have no beards. Really? They're in the cable guy? The whole thing is fake. Oh. I mean, they're from that part of the world, but they're, like, not, dude, it's all made up.

They're Larry the Cable Guy. Pretty much. They found a bit. Yeah. And a bit. Yeah. And a shtick. And they do, I mean, they actually did come up with the duck calls. Yeah. But, like, the whole bit is cosplay.

I mean, with us, we're authentic. Right? Absolutely. We're the same guys. Totally. She sees what she gets. That's right. That's you guys.

Or worse. Are you going to do that video of me tomorrow or no? That would be the plan, yeah. These guys found this video of me from like 20 years ago. At least. I think you would have to say kind of the same guy. Yeah, I would agree. I have not changed my game.

I would agree. He's on like a cable access show. 25 years ago. Yeah, 25 years guy. Yeah. Right? I would agree. I have not changed my game. I would agree. He's on like a cable access show. 25 years ago. Yeah, 25 years ago. Oh. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is 58. Stenner now. He's from The Walking Dead.

Dana Barron is 58. You know what I find interesting about The Walking Dead is for a show about zombies, it appears to be like a zombie television show. Isn't it still somewhat on? Yeah, there's been a spinoff. At least one. I almost feel like that's a meta bit. To have a show about the undead

and then everyone's just like, how is this show still on? It won't die. 20 years later. It's always been weird to me. Dana Barron is Audrey from Vacation. She's now 58. Amber Heard is 38. Johnny Depp.

Machine Gun Kelly is 34. Didn't she do cocaine in court? Did she? Is that the allegation? Y'all never seen that? Like me? No. She kind of gives a little rub.

Yeah, I didn't want to do it immediately. I was going to let it breathe. I was trying to make sure he writes the Kemp spin. I have one on Machine Gun Kelly, too. That one is really good. Yeah, I'm pretty sure in Dallas... Well, there's two of them, actually. So he was...

He climbed to the top of a light pole at the Cavs parade. And he was he climbed to the top of like a light pole at the Cavs parade and he was like hanging from it but the other one is he was at a show in Dallas. Is he from Cleveland? I think so or at least was like Cleveland Associated. Yeah. At a show in Dallas he received oral sex from good friend of mine Rachel

Starr on stage. Look it up. Boy would you be Rachel Starr, on stage. Look it up. Boy, would you be able to do that on stage? Well, I mean, he is a good-looking dude. No, would you be able to receive? Oh, sorry. Like you're on stage in front of a... Thank you.

Like, I think there would be literal stage fright. Yeah. Then the whole crowd Is going to see How tiny it really is Yeah Or kind of see it I have not actually Seen video of it

But I do recall It being reported Blake Got anything That's what the file says Well then Do you want to find Video proof

Huh Somebody in the crowd Was filming it You can't find video proof In Texas anymore. She is a good friend of mine, though. I smoked a cigarette with her. Rachel Starr?

Mm-hmm. Like, shared a cigarette, or? Beth. No. So she's a smoking, like, how many people? Like, all the people out there who have been like, yeah, I've smoked a cigarette with Jake. That's probably the most famous one.

It's got to be up there. Yeah. She's from here. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Do you think we're like a hotbed of porn? Definitely. Like a lot of porn actresses I feel like are from here.

Definitely. Yeah. I feel like Austin has a lot of OnlyFans activity. It does seem the Twitter stuff that shows up, it's a lot. I mean, it's Texas. It's like high school football. It's Texas, California, and Florida. Do you think any of our listeners are on OnlyFans?

But not Ohio. Like high school football. Do you think any of our listeners are on OnlyFans? Almost certainly. Almost certainly. Almost certainly. I saw an interview with a guy the other day. He was an Australian guy on OnlyFans. He said he makes 80K a month.

Damn. Oh. Okay, I thought you were talking about a different thing. There's an Australian guy, I think. Have you guys seen the bit? It was like on Instagram, for every follower he gets

like tomorrow I'll bet 10 cents on Blackjack. And he started this like a year ago. That's a great bit. And he's up to 900,000 followers. And so he had like a $90,000 Blackjack hand he played

yesterday. So every day these are going more viral and then he'll get a ton more followers and tomorrow, like he won it yesterday. So he's like this is for $180,000? That's awesome. Yeah. I'll be damned, here it is. You found the video? Yeah.

Of the guy winning the blackjack hand? No. Machine Gun Gelly getting domed by Rachel Starr. It's winning a different kind of hand. That's right. Wow, she's giving it her all. She's a pro. Yeah, that's great.

Oh, my goodness. Good for him. I think he's married to Megan Fox. Oh, they called it quits. Oh, man. Those two crazy kids. And actress or actor Sherri Shepherd is 57. I found out this morning she was on The View,

but I knew her from she is Tracy Jordan's wife on 30 Rock. She's really fun. Oh, yes. She was great. Yeah. 30 Rock guy? Big 30 Rock guy. Also a big Atlanta fan. Sure. 30 Rock guy? Big 30 Rock guy. Also, big Atlanta fan.

Sure. I hear you're a big Atlanta fan. I'm a fan. Big fan. Born on the state, now dead, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Should I see the movie? And... You want to answer me? I haven't seen it.

No, I haven't seen it either. No. It's long. It's a lot. It's okay. It's fine. It's okay? Yeah. Better than Civil War?

I like the other movies out better. I haven't seen Civil War yet. I want to. Oh, that's right. I think Barbie came out the same weekend. I can't... Have you guys ever seen the TikTok? The Bobby Oppenheimer? Barbie Oppenheimer?

Barbie Oppenheimer? Bobby Oppenheimer, is that you? Get your country ass over here. My mama told me you're making a bomb as big as a damn bus. How am I supposed to stop making a bomb? You make yourself some damn dinner, you string bean. Atom bomb, huh? It's like the original man himself from the book of Genesis you met president Roosevelt Huh you tell me how does he get his bottom half to look like a little bicycle like that was he born that way? Tom and bomb even though its energy comes from a fission reaction That seems to be something of a miss no more correct as it gets all of its energy from the nucleus of the atom making

It more of a fusion weapon you're gonna do what with it? Bobby, does your mama know about that? If I know Anne-Marie Oppenheimer, she's gonna paint your back porch red. Boy, she's gonna tan your hide. I'm gonna make you eat a big ol' plate of grits. I haven't heard tan your hide in a while. Oh, yeah. I just, I can't hear Oppenheimer.

Bobby Oppenheimer, is that you? Country ass in here. That's good. Down in the stay we have Richard Nixon 1994. We have You ever like

spend any time on YouTube actually like listening to all the audio they have of him? Nixon? Yeah. Like the secret tapes? Yeah but like

obviously the stuff that ended up bringing him down is what everybody knows about. But it's all up there. Have you? Yeah. There are certain slurs that he really enjoyed. Should we do a report?

Sure. Yeah. I'm interested in that. Like what? The British cigarette one he was a big fan of. Oh, okay. Yeah. No ends? Don't think Oh, okay. Yeah. No ends?

Don't think so, no. Okay. That would have probably been big news. Yeah. But back then it was like, yeah. The F word for gay, though, is not something that most people... I would guess, maybe I'm projecting, I would think people grew up saying that. That was 60 years ago.

Maybe they still say it. Yeah. Let alone. But it's still shocking to hear the president say it. It wasn't the State of the Union. I feel like, though, that was a word. And by the way.

Yeah. Spicoli said those guys are fags in a dream sequence thing but to me like the n-word was something i would hear on regular tv like network tv prime time family time right seven o'clock eight o. Yeah, like all in the family. You would hear the N-word. Yeah. And it wasn't anything shocking at all. But the F-word for gay,

I don't think you would hear. But I could be wrong. That sounds wrong to me. Yeah. That's interesting. Anyway, Pat Tillman, we know he died on this day. And died on this day one year ago.

Len Goodman. No one? Nope. Apparently he was a former British dancing champion. Oh, yeah. He's a judge. And he was big time on Dancing with the Stars. Oh, yeah.

I mean, I've heard Tony reference Lin before. Tony. That reminds me. We got to get him. And that was Today in History. He's the best. I got to meet Tony once. Did you?

I was a little starstruck. He's a great dude. He was great. Yeah. Yeah, I'd love to see him again. Guess what it's time for. What is it? Closing remarks.

Closing remarks. Are you prepared? Oh, yeah. What do I... The floor's yours. Okay. Or did we already give it all up? No, no.

Do you want to go? Did she get to... Okay. Well, no. Just thank y'all for having me. And yeah, I'm accepting new clients. I thought this would be a good fit because, you know, I work a lot with male clients. Guys are known for not admitting that they need to go talk to someone. So sometimes having another guy across from them.

If I violate your thing, though, if it's a guy like Jake out there? Jake, do you want to have anything in common with your therapist? Like, be able to say, oh, you listen to The Dumb Zone, too. Um. You know? Yeah, but. Or would that be not, that's not nearly the same as. I don't think that's quite.

I know who you are. Yeah, I think you're right. It's not nearly the same. I think having, sometimes I will know who you are. Yeah, I think you're right. It's not nearly the same. I think having... Sometimes I will talk with people that are big P1s or... In Austin, a lot of people hate the Cowboys, so just connecting with a fellow Cowboys fan, it's like, yes, all right.

Someone who gets the stress. What if we're about to have a breakthrough? I'm about to cry because I remembered the thing that my second dad did to me or whatever. You're accessing. And then it's 58 minutes. Do you like, all right, we'll pick this up. Like if somebody is on the verge of, or will you go over the hour?

If I have to, absolutely. But a lot of times you can kind of, you work with people, you see these things. You learn time can kind of, you work with people, you see these things, you learn time management, kind of, you learn to go deepest, like in the middle of the session. And as you start getting close to the end of the session, you start, that's when you're like, hey, did you see Marshawn Lynch? Now, does your notepad look like Jerry at the Senior Bowl? I've always been like, I feel like I should be able to see that when we're done. What do you got going on over there? When I was first starting out, I would have a notepad. And yeah, it triggers everyone's anxiety.

So I got rid of it a long time ago. Oh, because you're worried about what they're writing? Yeah, I'm like, you just keep it all in your head. Like every time you say, wait, why is he writing now? Yeah. You jot down notes afterwards.

That's the key. I do know that there's a debrief process. Is there a thing, much like with the masseuse, like do some people just want, like, I don't want a guy. I need a lady. Like do you feel more comfortable with a, or you? Do you? I actually worked.

Because you say you're in therapy. Yeah, I do therapy. I've had a few therapists over the years. The first two or three that I ever had were men, and that was fine and great. But it just so happens I'm working with a female therapist the last few years, and it's great. It's just kind of a different perspective.

Like, I would worry, do you want to not... Like, I don't want this guy to think I'm gay, or do I, you know, like, not manly, or whatever, you know? Nah, but the thing is, like... I'm more apt to open up to a lady. But the thing is, much like with the massage comparison, like, they're professionals. Yeah. So, it is obviously, like, maybe the first time you're like, oh, this is a little bit

weird, but it's probably mostly weird not because of their sex. It's weird because you don't know them. So I don't know. I've had both and I don't have really a preference. It's more the personality fit, really. It's like sometimes I can check all the boxes for someone, but we're just not clicking very well. I've had that happen too.

And so I'll even say. Do they have to pay for the first one or what do they do? What I'll say is, yes, I'm busy enough to where I can't really do the free intro calls and the free initial session that sometimes clients want. But what I tell them is, if we do a full session, you will have to pay me. If it's not a good fit though, I'll use all of the stuff that we talked about where I'll then go through my mental Rolodex and be like, oh, I actually know the perfect therapist to connect you with. So this hour was not a waste of time. And it's all the kind of stuff like you just can't get in an email or a five minute phone call.

Kind of it does help to just do a full session. OK, it really does but i was gonna say like one of the reasons why i mean you guys are awesome i need to say that in my closing remarks you guys were gonna hear a butt the best show no y'all were y'all were the best show on the ticket and they totally fucked up cumulus fucked up y'all are awesome that's what we kept telling them it's an honor to be here and what I love is I work so often with people that are going through some sort of work stress, a ridiculous amount of work stress. And I love that y'all talked about that and that y'all stuck it to the man and stood up to a big corporation.

Yeah, we showed him. They're barely surviving without us yeah but no i think it's cool for people to hear y'all's story i think it's very inspiring and yeah just a lot i mean that's one of the most common things i work with are people that are feeling really stuck in their job or career and just like need they want to sort it out talk it out figure out what their options are so yeah well that's cool man you do good work you should be proud i try thank you so how uh again you got like a website or yes upside wellness.com is my website upside wellness and then uh lane

ingram is my name uh you can find me uh like I said, Instagram is probably the best. Ingram.lane. Psychology Today. I'm on there. Send DMs. Send photos. Blake, will you put these in the show notes? Isn't that a thing people do? In the podcast world?

Put his little link in there. Cute little link. I think I mentioned this little link in there. And I should mention, cute little link. I think I mentioned this in the break, but I didn't mention it on the air, that I'm all telehealth, so anyone in the state of Texas can meet with me pretty easily. And even outside of Texas,

I think we can still do it. I just have to call it life coaching. I don't think you're supposed to say that part. I mean, I'm a life coach is what I'm trying to say. That's right. What about Paris? Paris, Texas, Paris, France.

Yeah, Paris, France. You can watch your favorite team on a sweater. That'll pull Blake. He's back. But yes, I think we could make something work. Okay. Well, good times. Thanks, guys.

Yeah. Thank you for having us. All right. Okay, see you. Adios. See you. Bye. yeah thank you for having us alright okay see ya see ya you can't get assed when you're doing a podcast They left a company that was named after clouds Cumulus

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