The Dumb Zone FREE - The Dumb Zone 4-29-24

Episode Date: April 29, 2024

Subscribe to our Patreon - Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneIn this episode of The Dumb Zone, the crew is back with another round of hilarity and head-scratching moments from the world of sports and beyond. Dan McDowell and Jake Kemp, along with the insightful Blake Jones, dissect the latest happenings with their signature blend of humor and sarcasm.First up, the guys dive into the curious case of the Dallas Mavericks' emotional support dog, Bailey, whose untimely passing may have left the team in a lurch. Was Bailey's absence the reason behind the Mavs' slow start in the playoffs? The crew explores the impact of furry friends and the oddities of sports superstitions.Next, they tackle the bizarre world of celebrity and sports crossovers, including the unlikely marriage of a 26-year-old to an 86-year-old Hugh Hefner. They ponder the dynamics of such an age gap and the strange rituals that come with it.The conversation takes a turn to the gridiron as Micah Parsons offers his candid thoughts on the NFL draft, player contracts, and the financial implications of the rookie quarterback window. Is Parsons hinting at a future shakeup for the Cowboys? The guys analyze his comments and the broader context of team building in the NFL.As always, the episode is sprinkled with random musings, from the introduction of the zipper to the peculiarities of the Brady Bunch. And let's not forget the shoutouts to listeners celebrating birthdays, including a nod to the legendary Willie Nelson and a certain "Pow MIA" cap that's found a new home in the studio.Whether it's discussing the nuances of submarine life or the latest in sports contract drama, The Dumb Zone delivers a dose of dumb that's sure to entertain. Tune in, laugh along, and embrace the absurdity with the crew that never fails to find the humor in life's dumbest moments. (00:00) - Open (03:56) - Zeke returns (18:21) - Back to the open (47:00) - Mavs (01:10:55) - Viewer Mail (01:25:05) - Sports audio: TNT crew, Micah (01:48:50) - News (02:01:16) - Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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

Now for the floor that you're walking on, I chose this Bolivian Wormwood. I think it works well in here. Are you a homeowner, Greg? No, no. I rent. Oh. So, things are going real, real well for you, aren't they, Newberger? Of course, things have been going so great lately.

Yeah, I got in early on some wireless IPOs and stuff just skyrocketed from there. Wow. What about you, Greg? What line of work are you in? I'm in health care. Greg's a male nurse. That's right What about you, Greg? What line of work are you in? I'm in health care. Greg's a male nurse. That's right. Thank you, Jack. Wow. That's great. That's great to give something back like that. I'd love to find time to do some volunteer work. Just the other day, I saw this golden retriever that he had like a gimp and he couldn't really, it just made me feel terrible. I wish there was something I could do. Yeah. Well, I get paid, but also it feels, you know, good too.

So it's kind of everybody wins. 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. Well, I hope you're hearing us today. Are we backing up the recording is the question.

That's question one. Then I have a follow-up. All right, so I got this thing running. Are we backing up the backup? I got the backup running. That looks like a different program than I've seen before. And armed, and then I've got the cloud one too. Maybe the first question should just be, are we

recording it? Oh, like the first recording? Yeah. Yeah, he always forgot the first one. What's the definition of insanity? Just doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. How does that fit here? Well, this is a different program.

Why are you doing that? Because he doesn't want to be insane by just trying the same thing over and over. So rather than record into Audacity like I've done forever. You shouldn't tell people that. Why? Go on. Do you feel people ridicule Audacity? I mean, it's a free program.

But go on. So we're recording into Audition. Okay. I'm a big fan of Audition. I've never recorded into it, though. I actually use Audacity to record all my stuff, but I don't record a lot of things that are two and a half hours long. Yeah, I don't know

what the issue is, but we're moving on. We are. We're on to Cincinnati. Or on to Seattle, rather. We're now on to Audition. Okay. You know, don't fear change. I fear change. That's why I didn't want to.

I know. You can change. I can't. What is this? It's all green. Eventually, though, you'll be like, hey, that's the way it should be. Can I zoom out? How do I work this thing?

This seems like questions we should have maybe worked on over the weekend. Or just work on it right now. I worked on downloading it over the weekend. Went just work on it right now. I worked on downloading it over the weekend. Went to a basketball game with me. Yeah? Times were good. Friday night into Saturday. I want to hear all about that, but first, we have an update.

We have breaking news today. Yeah. That I woke up to. And I think people expect us to cover this. And I want to give the people what they want. Tom Pelissero, whatever, he tweets, Reunion! Reunion!

Saro, whatever. He tweets, Reunion! Colon. Three-time Pro Bowl running back Ezekiel Elliott agreed to terms with the Cowboys' pending physical sources tell me and rap sheet. He goes on. With Tony Pollard gone and Elliott coming off a strong finish

What? to his lone season in New England. It's time to feed Zeke again in Dallas. Now how many drafts did his agent put together before he settled on sending that one to Tommy P?

Someone from, I think it's Bleacher Report named Jordan Schultz. Breaking! Two-time All-Pro running back Ezekiel Elliott is signing with the Cowboys per sources despite fight... This is a good one. Despite fielding offers from

other teams. Well, yeah, the Renegades really wanted him. A source tells me. The Gamecocks perhaps. A source tells me, quote, Zeke wanted his legacy to be a Dallas Cowboy. Unquote. A source tells me, quote, Zeke wanted his legacy to be a Dallas Cowboy. Unquote, a legend returns to the star. Ian Rappaport on Twitter.

He's back. The Cowboys have agreed to terms with their former star running back Ezekiel Elliott, per me and Tom Pelissero, as the ex-rushing champ now gives Dallas a proven weapon. That was eight years ago. It was eight years ago. In the backfield, things are looking good. Let's see.

He had a strong finish to the season. Let's take a look at that. No. Let me take a look at the game log. Do you have a good playoff run or something? No. For New England. No. Let me take a look at the game log. Do you have a good playoff run or something? For New England. No. Let's take a look at his start and we'll determine was it a strong finish. Game one, 29 yards rushing. Game two, 13. Game three, 80 yards on the ground. That would be his season high. And we look at how he ended the season.

Let's just look at the last four games. 54 yards in a 17-3 loss to the Jets. 39 yards in a 27-21 loss. 27 yards. Now that was all on one carry though, right? In a victory. 12 carries, 27 yards. That seems bad.

And 25 yards. So his last four games, 54, 39, 27, 25. That doesn't seem like a lot. Well, it's 2.9 yards a carry for his last four. And if you even threw in his last six. Yeah, it's down from the dizzying high tee it achieved for the first 10 games of the season of 3.8 yards an attempt. I mean, we saw it coming.

eight yards an attempt. So, yeah. I mean, we saw it coming. And then throughout the weekend, there was little hints, little, you know, Sod would ask a question and, you know, I mean, hey, you haven't drafted a running back yet. You haven't – what's the thought process here? And then Jerry continually just would go back to, like he'd just drop little Zeke hints.

Breadcrumbs, yeah. Here and there. And then, of course, right when the draft is over, despite all these offers. Fending him off with a stick. It's so dumb. Zeke indeed is stick. It's so dumb. Zeke indeed is back. It's so dumb.

Let's see. It just exhibits a complete lack of, and I know that he's a good locker room guy, but these things just very rarely work. Let's see what he had to say. This was day two, Prescott. You invoked Zeke, so does he still have, in your mind, RB1 starter capability at this point in his career?

Who are you looking at? Are you looking at me? I didn't know who you're looking at. You invoked Zeke. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Does he still have starter capability, RB1 capability at this point in his career? Yes. Yes. Yes. I might regret this, but we'll finish up with Tim. All right.

We didn't even expand on that. We're just saying yes. That's definitive. Yeah, there it is. He was saying during the weekend he has running back one capabilities. What does that even mean anymore? What are you, Eric Dickerson? It doesn't even make sense.

It makes no sense at all, and it's, yes, about jersey sales. Man. And he's friends with Dak, and their dogs attack people together. Yeah. Tony Pollard was unable to achieve that. But it's just, there's so many other ways. I would have been fine just going with Rico Dowdle and somebody from the middle rounds this year.

They picked up, I saw, in the free agency after the draft, undrafted free agents. I think it was, was it Dane Brugler's? He was ranked number 43 running back. Yeah. So not like the 43rd best player. No. The 43rd best running back.

Like other top running backs higher than this guy on the list were signed as undrafted free agents by other teams. Yeah. I don't know why anyone would have gone to any other team. This seems like a prime opportunity if you are to have a chance to break out. Unless you're worried about competition from old Deuce Vaughn. I was about to ask, was this guy related to someone in the building? Yeah, that's right.

Where's Deuce Vaughn? This time is coming. It's just that no one even mentions him. When you're 5'3 and a running back and you can't play special teams, it becomes very difficult to get onto the field even when Zeke leaves. This is ridiculous. I mean, I don't even care what the money is. I think I saw it's $3 million with $2 million guaranteed,

but it's all for the storyline. This will have so little impact on the team, but everybody's going to talk about it. Yeah, but remember the impact that it does have. It's going to have – you don't think he gets the first carry of the season? That's what I mean. He's there, and then now the guys – Now we have to feed him. McCarthy, whatever.

I mean, Jerry brought him in. Jerry said he's an RB1. Are you telling me? What if he actually, I guess we already know, he doesn't have anything left. I was going to say, could they cut him a la Dan Quinn and Notre Dame linebacker? Oh, Jalen Smith, yeah. They could if he were anybody else, but they wouldn't. You think whenever they're out there in Oxnard

and half the jerseys have a 21 on them and they're all doing the feed me sign as he comes off the field, you think they're going to cut him in the middle of that? No chance. No chance at all. And the other thing, too, is I'm a big fan of many members of the Cowboy media, David Moore in particular. But there seems to be this idea that they were really good at short yardage

when they had Zeke the year before and really bad last year when they didn't. And that is not true. Really? It's not borne out in statistics at all. Really? It's not borne out in statistics at all. Like Pollard's ability to pick up on third and two or less was basically the same as Zeke's, with the added benefit that he might be able to run

more than five yards beyond the line of scrimmage without either falling down or becoming caught from behind by a defensive lineman. So the reason he had some numbers on getting touchdowns is that he would be the guy they would choose to use in that situation. Right, which doesn't prove Pollard couldn't have done it. It's just that's what they decided to do. Where's Pollard?

Tennessee. Tennessee, huh? They did a really interesting thing where they also drafted a running back, Tajay Spears, out of Tulane. So they have two of them and they're not really having to pay a ton. I like Rico Dowdle.

I have questions that Rico Dowdle could carry a huge load. But I have no questions that Zeke can't. He can't. I just love stories like this because I work with you. And I want to see Mike Tyson beat Jake Paul. I wanted to see Dez Tiger win another major.

Tiger and Phil. Yeah, exactly. I wanted to see Dez back with a star on his helmet, preferably, but at least somewhere else. That's what I want to see. And now you get to see Zeke... Back in Dallas. This has robbed my joy,

because let's say the Cowboys make the NFC Championship game. Yeah, now... Well, they just needed that morale boost that only Zeke could bring. But couldn't have brought the last seven years or whatever he's been here? I'm just glad we're getting another crazy family member back in the mix. Oh, yeah. Because, you know, CD's mom has been popping off all offseason. Oh, wait a second.

Micah's family. Obviously, Dak's family. Let me do some today in Twitter. Did they fire up the group thread again? Hey, welcome back. I would love to read the disgruntled cowboy family member group chat. I believe Jeff Heath's uncle once upon a time took a run at Bob on Twitter. Let's get him in the mix.

Hold on. I've got something for you. The Dumb Zone presents Today in Twitter. So I found – maybe you guys didn't see this. Did you see who's on Twitter now? Aaliyah Elliott. No, I did not see this. Yes.

Who might she be? Somebody – well, somebody had tweeted out, if the Cowboys trot Ezekiel out as their running back one for week one, I will drop a toaster in my bathtub. That's extreme. Leah Elliott quoted it with, please do. Always good. A little smiley face, blowing a heart kiss, whatever.

I don't know how to explain all this stuff. It's his sister, apparently. Fantastic. Because then Mama Elliot jumped on this thread as well to support sister in all her endeavors. But, yes, now we're actually – you said we're adding one more back to the mix. Why not two? You know, I'm going to take a shot here,

and I'm going to have Blake look at it. Actually, I don't want Blake messing up the... Blake, don't look at it. Blake can't do anything except record. Very fair. I'm pretty sure that once upon a time, Zeke got, like, tossed from his sister's basketball game. Okay. Now, I also know.

I'm pro of that. That actually also happened to Mike McCarthy once. He was kicked out of one of his maybe nephew or something, his basketball game, and had to be like held back. Let's see. The running back they got to be held back. Let's see. The running back they got, too. Nathaniel Peet. Skip Peet's son?

Missouri. Yeah, right. 317 yards, three touchdowns. The 43rd rank running back. So here we are once again. My other Today in Twitter is not related to this. Okay, real quick. Yeah.

He was present for a game where there was a fight where his sister, this one would have been Lila, and also Larry Hughes' daughter. Maybe that is Lila. Well, it's Aaliyah. This is L-A, but it also could be two different people. But he was at the

game. She was ejected for there was a fight, but it doesn't look like he was involved. McCarthy, find the video. Check it out sometime. He was absolutely involved. You want to be trying to restrain that guy when he's mad at a high school ref over a foul call? Sorry.

Today on Twitter, point two. Sports Mayor, an honor to meet or to host Florentino Perez, the president of football club Real Madrid at City Hall over the weekend. He just doesn't stop. Excited to strengthen ties between our city and one of the world's most iconic football clubs. What does that mean? Why? What does that mean?

If you elect me mayor, I will strengthen ties with iconic soccer teams that no one gives a flying F about. Wasn't he here for Luka? And did SportsMayer glom onto that? SportsMayer jumped in, and then they actually gave him. They gave SportsMayer. How many jerseys has SportsMayer got out of this gig? Dude, his band cave, as you say. Yeah, he's got a Johnson number one jersey now with a

Real Madrid Johnson jersey. He probably wears it because he's such a dork. Like when you used to wear your Big Mac Stars

jersey everywhere? Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. Speaking of Stars jerseys, we do have a guest. Yeah, we should say hello

to our our guests we have more than one guest it kind of explains the open that's right you guys got to see how that sausage is made exhilarating

like two seconds before we start the show oh what do we got for an open and then we learned that our guest is a nurse and a male, like Greg. Kind of an everybody wins situation. Kind of like JC.

Yeah, it's just volunteer work, really. Yeah. This is AC. He is our 690 sit-in for today. How do you spell it? AC-Y. Okay. I wasn you spell it? AC-Y. Okay. I wasn't sure if it was like AC. Kind of like Lacey.

AC gets 10%. Oh, yeah. AC Green. Or like AC, like Quentin AC or AC Green. Yeah, ACIE. Yeah. I've seen that. You have any kids?

Not that I know of, bro. This is about to be a bear trap. Oh, really? Oh, no. Jeez. Forget it. So a little bit of yay- This is about to be a bear trap. Oh, really? Oh, no. Geez. Forget it. So a little bit of yay-boo. Got to meet the monkey doctor.

Not for, you know, the best reasons. Okay. Way to go, Dan. The stars are looking pretty good after day three, don't you think? They're looking great. Gosh darn it. Got to even up a series. Well, how am I supposed to know?

I just was going to say you could have a daughter and name it Lacey. I've stopped asking. Lacey, Lacey. You just don't ask about anybody's family or anything they have? Because if you ask somebody what they do and like they... Don't mess with the mic. If you ask somebody...

Well, Blake's supposed to tell you this shit. Yeah, but I wanted to at least relax a little bit after he dumped that news on us. I was going to give him a second. Let him play with the mic if he wants for a sec. Who cares? If you ask somebody what they do and they're currently without a job or they just lost it, they quickly, I'm kind of in between something right now. Yeah.

You know what it means, but that's way less harsh. If you ask somebody about kids, and I learned this during fertility time, not because of something super tragic, but you would ask somebody and they'd be like, oh, I'm incapable of having a child. And that happened to me a number of times. See, I'm just a friendly guy. That's my problem. People would even ask me, and I'd be like, yeah, well, we're having some complications. Yeah.

And then they would be like, the stars look good. Yeah, we were having complications. Stick to sports. But I made sure I threw it onto my wife because I'm fine. Yeah. I can impregnate anyone. I mean, I have extra. I can impregnate dudes.

Yeah. And you'll prove it. That's right. At 7,000 subscriptions. But he is a nurse. You are a nurse. I am. But you've never delivered an ape?

I have not. Have you delivered a baby? Thankfully, I haven't had to. Or is that a bear trap too? No. My wife delivers babies and I much prefer the ER where there's a lot less chance of having to deliver a baby, but not zero. What was the first question I asked you guys about your line of work?

If I've ever removed anything from somebody's rectum. See, that's a safe one, too, because every one of them have. For real? Another ER nurse here today is like, yeah. Yeah, like within the last six months. Two of you guys are nurses. We've got three dudes in here. Who's here?

Introduce your friends. It's my dad, James He's the one that is also a nurse And then my brother-in-law, Robert So you followed in the dad's footsteps I did Removing stuff from butts What did you have to remove?

It's usually a long list, by the way, I've noticed Had you had this info from your dad Going in to being a nurse Like, I know he's removed things from butts. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. I think this one was a plug, but good thing was, if you are, you know, no judgment here, but if you are going to stick something up there, just make sure that it's got a flared base, because that way we usually are able to just remove it. Got it. If it doesn't... Why are you writing that down, Blake? If it doesn't, sometimes it's too far up there

and you have to go to a surgery to have it removed. Never thought I would have to ask the question of, are the batteries still in it? Is that bad if the batteries are in it? Sometimes they won't work. Yeah, because if it turns on, the vibration can cause it to move further up. Oh, okay. A guy once told me that his worst one was a pool noodle.

Wow. Like somebody had chopped down a styrofo a pool noodle. Wow. Like somebody had chopped down like a styrofoam pool noodle. It wasn't like the full five feet of it or anything. Yeah, that'd be great. But it was, I mean, if you think about the girth of the pool noodle. Now, also squishier. So able to kind of contract and expand a little bit more than perhaps the plug that AC Dell was. And you won't sink.

You can lounge in the pool. Hey, how's that guy doing it? He's just smiling for all sorts of reasons. Do you play hockey? No. I've played like street hockey as a kid. Because he doesn't just have the star shirt. He has the Texas Hockey Club hat, which is badass.

It's just a cool hat that I saw that I liked. Now, your dad, James, he's the play-by-play guy or the color commentator on Godly Football? Yeah, like, I don't know, like 12 years ago or so. Okay, you're not doing that gig anymore oh okay i gave it up were you on the team ac not the homer call team i was an eighth grader that year okay but you were well aware that your dad is yes we were very well was that a big moment when he went on the ticket i believe got homer Homer Call of the Year played for him. We'll play that during the break.

I believe our head football coach at the time had pulled a lot of us out of class to come listen to it. Oh, yeah? That's awesome. Hell, yeah. Okay. That's awesome. Was your dad treated fairly, or is this going to be one of these Julie segments? Oh, yeah.

I got you on, you were a big asshole to my dad. No. I remember your dad. He was great. The only thing that I remember from that is, I think my dad made an off-color joke

to Donovan. Oh. I said, well, no, and I ended up calling him and he's like, oh, dude. I said... Here, do you want a mic?

Yeah, we got... Up on there. It's got a long cord if you want to just bring it over there and lay it down i just uh it's on the recording uh of the when we came up did a couple segments but uh i just yes what i did i was a color color commentator not the colored commentator okay that might play out godly well no it was uh it was just off the cuff and uh yeah he uh no i didn't work on some new material yeah you wrote it yeah yeah so but uh then the other guys brought it up hey that wasn't good and i talked down he's like dude that was funny i thought it was great so donnie was cool about it yeah 2010 was a different time It was It was a different time

Alright well We appreciate you guys Being here Is it any Celebration Or birthdays Or anything I think it's AC's birthday

Right A birthday gift Yeah Birthday of St. Patrick's Day And It's tough to book us up Now these Yeah

I heard I know it Book till August now Is that true Blake Pretty much Book till August Yeah Maybe I heard. Book till August now. Is that true, Blake? Pretty much. Book till August? Yeah. Maybe I can sneak you in in July. And Blake did give you the opportunity

to go to our new possibly temporary, possibly permanent studio, but you guys wanted to be here instead? Yeah, I just wanted to see the mystique of the Dragon's Den. And? It's perfect.

It's exactly what I envisioned it. Oh, okay. Good. James got mad at me for closing the bathroom door. Yeah, he wanted the open door policy, which seems a little weird. Well, he's a nurse. Yeah, he is a nurse. He's like, hey, look, I've seen it before.

Let's take a look. Let's see if you have a hernia or not. Thoth. All right. You said I never write anything down, but I did. We're supposed to talk Jake pitching lessons. Yeah. I still have a phone call to make, but things are in motion yeah so there are a couple

of guys i can't remember one of them's name but the other one is former rangers pitcher tanner shepherds that work as pitching instructors bar fight yeah i wasn't gonna bring it up um but a buddy of ours parker uh is I don't exactly know his role, but he runs one of these elite, it's in Southlake. It's where they teach kids who play super select and everything. Is it DBAT or the former DBAT? It's not DBAT, but it's next to it. Oh, okay.

It's over there? Yeah, it's over there. I've been there before. It's a super cool place. There's two things about this one is um there are two kids I assume that they're brothers it'd be weird if they weren't because they live in the same house uh who throw in the cul-de-sac that uh where I'm currently residing like every night and they're probably like 15 or 16 and they're they're both just like humming it

like you can hear the glove pop from inside and i'm like damn that looks badass i wish i could do that uh the second thing my son is getting older and i have a feeling at least right now that he's going to be pretty into sports my daughter i never really thought it would be the case she's competitive but she's also not really but he wants contact and conflict at all times. And so – He's a little maniac. He really is.

And so I grew up – like I didn't start playing baseball until eighth grade, seventh grade. And then I only played for two years. And that's a really weird sport to get into when you're 13 because you need to learn how to throw a baseball. Swinging a bat, it doesn't look like I'm TC. Was your brother good at baseball? Yeah, but it was because he was so much bigger and more athletic,

like we talked about with the outliers thing, that even when he was a little kid, the coach was like, okay, obviously we'll put some attention on this kid, whereas I was like a twig and not that athletic. And is your dad just not into baseball? Not really. I mean, we would throw, but it was not like he was like, hey, here's how you throw.

I started playing football when I was five. You don't need to learn a whole lot to play football. Run, be aggressive, hit, be violent. I don't remember anybody telling me how to throw. I don't know, dude. I just never. And I would play, and I had a way to throw that was fine,

but it hurt my arm because it was very unorthodox. And you're a lefty writer, but you throw righty. Which may mean that I'm just left-handed. I'm not sure. Yeah, I wonder if you should have just started throwing lefty. It probably wouldn't have hurt. But so anyways, I had this idea of like. Dude, you could be a major leaguer right now.

I probably – yeah. Kind of at the tail end of your career. You're 38. But still, they need the guy to come in and get one or two better shots. Sure. These guys are only asking for like, again, like an inning these days. Yeah. So I want to teach my son one day how to throw.

And I want to strike Blake out one day. So I'm going to like spend the next few months – I'm going to give you number one. I'm going to spend the next however many. I'm going to give you number one. I'm going to spend the next however many it takes. Four, five, six months, and I will work on this. As you know, I will, like I did for Fight Night. Hours upon hours a week, I will receive training, and I want to learn how to pitch a baseball and throw a baseball at least normally.

You could be Tanner Shepard's biggest project yet. Yeah. Like I'm a muse, you know. Because you're already this age. Because I don't really know how to shoot a basketball. I shoot like Sean Marion. Like I can get by. Okay.

Played basketball for several years, but it was mostly a paint presence. Don't really throw a football that well. You're a scrappy player. I was a quarterback for four years, but it was just because I could remember the plays. But, I mean, the first time Dan ever saw me throw, he called me a slur. Yeah, well. And I would like to address that.

So this is my summer project. Let's play catch. Learn to throw. Not yet. We haven't even entered the lab yet. What were you saying? When the time comes. Oh, no.

It'll be a... We'll have a video series. Do you feel like they'll ever be able to strike you out? No. Okay, we need to... We need to plan and then set up a video show, a live stream show where this is all going down. I would agree.

Maybe we can get Tanner Shepard there. That would be the goal. And see if Blake can get a hit off him. Hey, no bunting. No bunts. So are you going to try to learn curveballs and stuff? We're just going to start with, can I throw a baseball and have it look normal?

You're not going to strike me out on four seams. Let's just wait and see. I play mind games. Okay. I don't throw it underhand either like you do in your little sissy ass Sunday league. Yeah. Yep.

I want to do this because Blake screwed everything up and deleted our show on Friday. On purpose. Well, no one said you did it on purpose. But, you know, it's still like I don't think we should celebrate it and pick you up on our shoulders or anything because you didn't do it on purpose. But we talked a lot because it was breaking news on Friday that here in Dallas, 97.1 The Freak went out of business.

Well, management fired everybody. From what I understand, except Ben and Skin, and I believe that's still up in the air on whether or not they're going to be sticking around. They may or may not. I'm not sure. I'm not either. But I am sure that all the other people there are no longer employed, at least the on-air guys. Mike Reiner was on with us, and we did save that audio, and that's very, very good. If you want to go back and check that out from our Friday program.

But I just want to talk about the freak a little bit. Again, I've had a little more time to think about it. Friday was like breaking news. I actually did a baseball stream thing with TC and Josh. I heard about that. On Saturday, and we kind of talked about it on there. But, you know, we, the three three of us didn't talk about it together on there and i didn't know if you guys had any other thoughts or even trying to remember back to you

know even your initial thoughts we didn't really get our stuff out there mike reiner got his stuff out there on friday yeah i mean more than anything it's just it sucks for the people you know that are getting let go. You don't want to see... There are people that I like to see get fired, but none of those people were those people. Yeah, I was... That was the main thing, I guess. I was kind of...

It made me sad, some people that were celebrating this, because... That's just part of the game. I know, but, I mean, just having been in their shoes to see a great opportunity arise like that, who turns that down? What were they supposed to do? That's always been a weird one to me, is if you're mad that people decided to make multiples more money than they were making before.

It's a little weird when fans of the ticket, if that's what we're talking about, are mad like that. But it's really weird to me when your friends who you've worked with for a long time, there are some people in the building that were kind of like perturbed that they did go and join this station

that was ostensibly to compete against the ticket and i guess any radio is competing but you know that was never right they never had this thought of we're going to take the ticket down they just kind of wanted to exist and i liked the thought that they were existing because uh for many reasons i believe competition is good. Number one, it was good for all the people inside the building of the ticket. Perhaps not management, but all of the people, you know, your board ops, your on-air people, whatever, because I am absolutely certain when contracts came up

for people that had their contract time come up during the period where the freak was on the air, I can tell you as a fact, it was an easier negotiation to get re-signed by Cumulus. Now, it's weird for us to say, because we're here. But actually, the monetary stuff actually was easier. They were more willing to talk and not like, you know, we've said this many times, but our stalemate came at a corporate level.

And it really wasn't with the local people at all. It was people that were out of town is what kind of stopped us in our tracks and ended up having us be where we are today. But the fact that the freak existed had them talking to us very, very early. had them talking to us very, very early. And I don't know if we've ever said this, but they were against negotiating with us together as a show. If you can in radio, what you want to do is sign guys separately because you have less value. Jake theoretically would have less value going off on his own and having another

radio station court him than he would with Dan and Jake together. And same thing for me. I shouldn't have just said you. You know, one of us, like, I want your show. I don't want just you because then if I hire hire just you and that's what you know Bob and Dan always were together on their contracts and Dan and Jake were not at first and we did actually approach them at one point saying hey we would like to you know negotiate together as a show we might not make the exact same thing like Bob and Dan did all the years

because we came in at different times. So kind of a decade difference. But still, we'd like to be matched up just so we know we're going to be a show together, same years. The contract starts on the same day and ends on the same day. And when we first approached them about that, it was pretty soon after COVID, and we tried to use our COVID goodwill that we thought we had in our bank.

Because during COVID, we voluntarily took pay cuts and everybody did. All the on-air people did across the board. And so we kind of went to them after that all went down

and said, hey, you remember how we did this stuff? And remember how we, you know, you came to us, approached the Bob and Dan show about splitting up? And then we kind of did without, you know, said, hey, this is good for the good of the station. We'll do this for you. Hey, we'll give up this much salary, you know, for you. And they actually wanted to furlough us at first. And we said, well, what if we just actually work but don't get paid? Like, we thought that's building us up some goodwill for later.

Next time, you know, it's time to talk contract. So we asked for, hey, what if you just matched up our contract dates? That's all. This is before the freak ever hit the airwaves. They said, no, we're not doing that. Why would we do that? Non-starter. And we kind of just said, well, yeah, but remember all this good stuff we did a little

while ago. I mean, again, we had this in the bank, right? The good feeling bank. We're all friends. We don't do that. No, we're not going to do that. Yeah, but you did it with Bob and Dan for a year. Yeah, but this is a different story, we're not going to do that. Yeah, but you did it with Bob and Dan for a year. Yeah, but this is a different circle. We're not going to do it. Fast forward to the next

time Jake's contract ended up coming up, or both of ours, I guess, were not coming up at the same time. But fast forward to the freak is now on the air, and they say, hey, it's time to talk contract. And we said, okay, how about this? We want to negotiate together and have the same start and end date. And they said, of course, absolutely. So the point – That's a really long way to go just to say the point is having competition out there was good for everyone in the building. Because it's like, oh, man, I'm afraid they might steal away this producer. I should make sure he's paid better and this and that you know like treat

people a little better blah blah blah it's also good i think for the listener in the long run because you do have another option and i don't think the freak ever posed that much of a you know obviously they never put together what they uh needed to to compete with the tickets, you know. Dominance. Dominance, just, you know, format, just things the way they did things. But when the freak came on the air, the ticket had internal meetings. You know, we had all staff meetings on, hey, let's take a real close look at what we're doing. Let's better our product.

Whether that be, you know, they would always throw out breaks on time or something, but I wasn't that concerned with that. But it was just kind of like, hey, let's make sure at the beginning of your shows, you know, you're looking at all the stuff you have for the day, and you're tightening your shit up. You want to, let's just, it was just a refocus. And there's nothing wrong with that. You know, there's nothing wrong with a nice meeting being called to say,

hey, let's just don't forget. Let's not meander on things. Let's get to the point on topics. So the point is that competition emerged and everybody kind of like got together and said, what can we do? Let's come up with some new ideas. Let's try to kick some ass. Let's make sure we beat these guys.

So you're getting a better product, you as a listener. Yeah, more Gordon. More Gordon. Might have been one of the things that kind of came out of those meetings, right? Yeah, I mean, you've pretty much said all of it. I don't know. And then I wanted to say this too, because I've had a few days to think about it and it's kind of like a retrospect you know where did the freak go wrong Mike Reiner again was on Friday and said some things and he thought you know they could have used a bit more support or perhaps you know iHeart which is a music company didn't really realize uh and I've said this many times. I really believe in local talk radio. Local talk radio.

I think music radio is dying, and I think the premise of The Freak is a great one. iHeart is a music radio company, but they see. I have satellite radio in the car. Why would I ever turn on a local station just to listen to music if i'm going to have to hear 20 minutes of commercials in that same hour when i could go listen to 70s on 7 or yacht rock which is what i uh well i'm well aware i usually would do you know why why my kids i have never seen them turn on a radio and their dad is on the radio uh or what they will instantly plug in their phone and spotify and they got their curated lists and whatever you know it's and so why is any like

the future i do believe though that local news local happenings local things there's always going to be a market for that it might be like TV where the overall pie is shrinking, but live sports is still a thing. So even live sports, the ratings are not what they were 30 years ago, but they're still really good within the world of TV. Yeah, they're outpacing all the other options. And I really believe that the future of local talk radio is that. I think local talk radio will remain a viable thing.

So I don't think the ticket's dying anytime soon, but I think the music stations around town are. And that's why I think there is room for another local talk station. Now, what did they do wrong? My opinion, as I'm looking back, one of the things is I remember listening early on. And they were all pretty fired up about being able to do this and not doing it like the ticket. And I think in a sense, that's great. But I almost think this all could be BS, but I was thinking this over the weekend.

I almost think they tried too hard because I got to show you that we're not just emulating the ticket. I almost think they tried too hard to do no sports. And they didn't grow... Like their comfort zone, all those guys, is sports. Because we can do anything here, obviously. But I think we talk about what we're kind of into and what our comfort level is, right?

Like, so we're in, you love the Mavs. Sure. You love the Cowboys. We love watching the games. We love talking about it. I love Zeke stories. Yeah.

So, but I feel like early on, they kind of like really efforted hard. Like, hey, I got to show everybody that I'm not the ticket. So we're not going to talk any sports at all. And I've never believed in like, you know, a ticket weekend shows would say they have like a ratio. I got to talk three sports segments for one non-sports or whatever.

You know, they're told that. I've never believed in a ratio. I believed in, well, what's right? What feels good? Is there real hot news? Like, we'll go whole shows with nothing but sports, right? Sure. But we will also –

Some with very little. And so I just remember that listening early on, and it was kind of like they're reaching for some topics that – and I don't know. Is that true? I don't know, but I do know early on. And they also – Mike Reiner and – was it Mike and Saroy for like a month? Yeah.

Mike Reiner and Mike Saroy. But then Danny added a month later. And that, I think, also might have played into this because the big name there is Mike Reiner. He's the splash. I'm tuning in because Mike Reiner's back on the radio. Oh, my gosh. I tune in. But then this is not the show that it would become.

But then this is not the show that it would become. You know, it was kind of like, were they horny to get started, you know, earlier because of revenue or ad sales or something instead of saying, well, let's wait one more month until the whole show's together and start it every day. That makes sense to me for sure. That's some Monday morning quarterbacking that may or may not be true, but it was just some thoughts I had over the weekend. But I'll go with what Blake started with too.

It's not good to see your buddies lose their job. That sucks. Yeah, and I haven't thought about it too much, to be honest with you. I mean, I've talked to some of those people. You've got a lot of shit going on. Yeah, Tom Brady style. But, yeah, I mean, I've been thinking about it a lot over the last six months, kind of seeing the way that things were going.

But at this point, it feels like it was almost a foregone conclusion, at least based on what we'd heard over the last couple months. Yeah, with the ratings where they were. The book is the book, you know? Yeah. Not much you can do about that. Yeah. Moment of silence?

Moment of silence for the freak in Dallas. Okay, there it was. Yeah, very quick. I mean, moments are moments. True. 30 seconds of silence, that's not a moment. That's like a, I don't know. What would you like to get into now?

Do you want to talk Mavs? Let's slide right into Mavs. What were you guys doing Friday night? Let's start there because that was really fun. It was really fun. We were going absolute apes. I mean, getting to see the ejections and the – How awesome – is P.J. Washington like one of your favorite Mavs now?

He's got to be. Like maybe the favorite? He's got to be. One of the things I wrote about the next morning, I went home and watched most of the game again and then the rest of it in the morning. For a long time, I did Mavs postgame when they sucked. Even when they were good, they were pretty much just good

because they were shooting the piss out of the three ball and scoring at an unbelievable rate. But there is a different energy when you feel like your team is kind of badass. Like people get way more rowdy and raucous for that than they do just, oh, you score a lot of points, you make a lot of threes. I mean, it's great to have Luka and Kyrie. That gets people fired up as well. But the group of guys they have, even down to, what, Markeith Morris

trying to jump in from the bench every time something's going on. It's a fun crowd, man. It's a really fun crowd, and it's a fun team to root for. So that was awesome. And it started a little slow. I mean, the first half was a slugfest. Neither team was scoring very well. But Kyrie had

two points in the first half, right? Yeah, but there was this nervous energy in the building, but then once they started picking up in the second half, I mean, that place got rocking. About as loud as I've ever heard it. It was pretty awesome. Starting lineups was insane. Yeah. Yeah. It's a Friday night, dude.

It's a Friday night playoff game against a quote-unquote perceived rival with a bunch of hateable players on it. God. I forgot how much I can hate. Yeah, well, they've got a whole boatload. Yeah, who do you not hate on that team? I think I like Paul George.

I respect Terrence Mann a lot, despite the fact that he's clamping Luka right now. But Paul George is annoying to me, too. Zubats is annoying to me. I love seeing Paul George score seven in a game. Yeah. Yeah. That. Yeah. That'll happen. But, yeah, it's – I don't know.

Obviously, Russell Westbrook. Westbrook. Even though he looks like Bodie. Oh, yeah, and he's, you know, grabbing Luka's arm and flinging him around. Dude, that was awesome. The whole thing. It was really, really cool. And then P.J. Washington standing there.

Gafford once in the mix. And how do you not hate Harton? I mean, he plays for your team. I think that's about the only way. I don't know. I might still hate him. I can't ever see him liking that guy. Well, that's true.

There are a lot of people, Mavs fans, who get really annoyed by Luka. So there's probably people, Rockets, Sixers, on down the line, they get annoyed with Harden. Did you see, jump ahead to yesterday, Kyrie imitating Harden? Like into a break, right? Just the snapping his head back. Oh, yeah. Like this is all he's doing.

Luka got called for one of those fouls. Yeah. And I guess he's brilliant because he knows the refs are morons, and if the ref is over there behind Luka, I'll just snap my head back and I'll get a whistle. He didn't even touch him! The flip side of that though is watching Paul George do PJ Washington's pose.

After a big three. Yeah, when it was like a 25-point lead. That's what makes these things fun, though. Yeah. I'll tell you a weird thing, too, because I get pretty excited at live basketball games. None of this is new to Blake now. I love it.

We've been to a number of games together. I am now conscious of being memed. Like you're worried someone is filming you? Well, like that the broadcast might. You know, like if the broadcast goes to the crowd. You know, all the games. See somebody crying or something? All the Mavs games I went to before,

I would sit on press row. Even if, though, internally I was excited, I would not show really much of anything at all. I guess I haven't been to that many other sporting events other than maybe college football games over the last handful of years. The Stars, I don't get – I love going to stars games i really do but i don't get as anywhere near as excited to where like you know they're gonna speed give me like a when such and such be like type meme and it's just me looking like a complete asshole as i'm rubbing blake's hair

like my arm around him like you see what your daughters have done to him? Just worried about the public? Culture in general, but it's something you definitely didn't have to think about before. I mean, ask... I would love you to get meamed. Ask CryingOUKid. That's going to... He was one of the first ones.

That was 20 years ago. People still bring that up to him all the time. I think he's a subscriber. I think you're right. Yeah. Yeah. But can you imagine all the subs we'd get if you got memed? It would probably depend on the

context. If it was something where I looked real cool, maybe. But if I were crying or something, or falling down as I jump up and down. This homo. But then, yeah, yesterday it sucked, but it was also one of the more exciting basketball games

I've ever watched in my life. Man. Kyrie, man. So good. The Kyrie shots. And if you want to just reset the momentum argument for the world, just the – It's all I can think about.

The whole point is, my point on momentum not existing is, if Kyrie, after the Kyrie shot with 214 left, which was one of the great shots I've ever seen anyone ever make, better than the Jordan hand up, pull it down, left hand up, right? Yeah, three defenders. Because there was no one on Jordan. Watch him do that. That was not – you weren't faking people out.

You were just being Jordan. And it's awesome. But, yes, look at that slow motion shot of six arms, five arms, like outstretched and Kyrie is up against all that in the trees and somehow did, like, a double, triple clutch, falling down, and still it went in perfectly. It's like he pauses in midair. It's incredible.

He just hangs there. He can stop on a dime. He can pause in midair. He can... My God. He's incredible. But the momentum thing is, had the Mavs gone on to then build up like an eight-point lead and win,

if you were to alibi for the Clippers, you would have said, well, what were they going to do at that point? The Mavs had all the momentum. They were demoralized. To lose a 31-point lead and see it evaporate, like, you can't, and the crowd,

you can't fight against that. Because I've been on the losing side of that, and maybe this is where our argument started, was when my on-air partner, not you, might have said something like, well, there's nothing to do at that point. I mean, you couldn't have stopped that momentum. Yes, you can. You always can by making a play. And that's all James Harden just did. I mean, do you think Harden believes in momentum? Or did Harden say, well, no, I'll just

go make a play now. You can still go make another play. You know, you can make a great shot. Like, the Mavs had all the momentum, but somehow effing Paul George at the very end of a shot clock ends up hitting a fallaway corner three and

sticks a dagger in you. Like, you know, there's always a chance. So, you know, there's always a chance. So, you know, you can say there are ebbs and flows in a game, but the point is you can't ever say, oh, we couldn't have done anything at that point because they had all the momentum. So that is my argument against momentum. I do sort of think it can kind of carry over in a series, though.

But even then, I'm not even really sure I believe that. But you know what I mean? Like I think there's a chance that they come out on Wednesday night and they look like they don't want to be there because they expended so much. And part of that is that Luke is hurt. But they climbed so high back up to the top of that hill to try to get back in contention to that game. And then when it didn't happen, now you go back to L.A.

and you're like, that was our shot right there. We had every opportunity to go up 3-1. But then, you know, they'll say, like, in baseball, the momentum only goes as far as the next day's starting pitcher. Yeah. So, you know, if they come out on Wednesday night and they look like, you know what, we actually should have won night and they look like, you know what? We actually should have won that game.

Let's get this one. Then people will say, well, they actually have the fortitude to fight back within a game, and that proves... It's always a thing you can attach at the end. There's very little predictive value to it. Right. You look back, and then you can go, oh, wait, that was the momentum point, or that was the point, or that...

Yeah. So, but anyway, that was... I thought it was cool, too, though, that the... Wonderful. The crowd didn't seem like they ever completely gave up. the point or that yeah so but anyway that was i thought it was cool too though that the wonderful the crowd didn't seem like they ever completely gave up yeah the broadcast made mention of that multiple times like when kairi got him to like within 19 or something right second quarter the place was like on fire yeah on a sunday afternoon which they don't seem to be real big fans of yeah is is there kid brought that up actually if you want to hear it is that facts yeah i didn't afternoon, which they don't seem to be real big fans of. Yeah. Is there –

Kid brought that up, actually, if you want to hear it. Is that facts? Yeah, I didn't know. Is there actual stats to back that up? It does feel like that. I don't know. I know that I've definitely noticed that Luka will take a non-prime time or non-premier matchup off from time to time.

But this is still the playoffs and it's the Clippers. But he's not right right now. So I think the idea, if people want to time, but this is still the playoffs and it's the Clippers, but he's not right right now. So I think the idea people want to know, do you need to just give it to Kyrie earlier rather than letting him try to save this thing once you're screwed in the second half? Jason, you, you talked about, you know, you talked about the slow start a little bit. Um, you know, is, is, is there anything specific that, that, that you see that this is happening again? Is there a need for Kyrie to be more involved sooner? Is there just more force that needs to be shown early in the game?

Yeah, this is like game one, early game. For whatever reason, we just haven't played well. We've gotten off to slow starts. We've played better in the second half, so that's just something that we've got to talk about as a team is if there's another afternoon game, we've got to make sure that we're ready to go from jumping. We can't wait.

He's not saying much there, if anything. But the idea, which he didn't even really specifically address, is that you might just have to put the ball in Kyrie's hands earlier and let Luka be a secondary option. Rather than let Luka try to set it up and then when Kyrierie subs out, Luca subs out, now Kyrie's running the show. They don't have the latitude to wait until the second half for Kyrie to go berserko mode. Yeah, and I mean that's the testament to how great Luca really is, that you can end up with 29-10-10.

Yeah, but you're right. The stat line looks great. But everybody knows, even him, he's at the end of the game. Kyrie, they're all commenting on it. We know, like, boy, that was not a good Luka game. No. Two early fouls definitely hurts because – Yeah, then he's got to kind of ole every time.

And he's hurt. Carden's around him. So did he pick up fouls because he was hurt? They were hunting him. They were definitely hunting him. Is he picking up fouls because he's hurt, or does he get the fouls, and now it's even harder for him to defend with the fouls, plus the fact that he's hurt?

Either way, he was useless in the second for most of the late in the game and early for sure. It's interesting, though. On the defensive end, completely useless. But it's not like they can get him rest. Like at the very end of the third, there was like a minute and a half left, and they had kind of fought back, and I think they were down two. Mm-hmm.

And then so Kidd takes Luka out seeing, okay, I can get him out here for this timeout, and I'll keep him out through the end of the quarter, and then that'll be like extra you know there was like a timeout and just the point is they had to bring him back like 30 seconds later because all of a sudden the Mavs are down six it's kind of like what what's our answer if Luka's off the floor it's still very bad even this Luka. Yeah, you really could use just one random game that Tim Hardaway Jr. plays in and just hits like seven threes. Yeah. Because he's usually good to give you one of those every few games.

The rest of them are going to be pulling teeth. But if you just could have some little stretch of the game where he just can't miss for seven minutes. Yeah, who's your guy off the bench right now that can do that if there's no harder way? That really doesn't exist. Last thing from yesterday, and I'm sure we'll talk a ton more about it. Is that what we thought Hardy would be?

Yeah. That has not gotten any better this year, really. Josh Green's been very uneven, but that's not really him either. I mean, is that on Kidd a little bit? I thought we were going to develop Hardy. There's still time. That's been a big argument from Mavs social media. What?

Just where's Jaden Hardy been? Because when he gets in, there are flashes. But maybe it's just defensively. Yeah, because it does seem like if anybody could do, just come in and light it up right away, that would be the next guy, I'd say. Yeah, he's certainly not shy about it. But we don't even give him a shot.

And now it's probably too late. Well, okay, go ahead. Because I don't want to get off this game yet. Well, the end of game thing with Maxie. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, I mean, I'll play the kid thing for you if you want, actually. It's only a minute.

That's the rest of the audio. It's, it's where James Harden is just. It's floater after floater after floater from five, seven, eight, four feet. Just.

I mean, how much, it was kind of like a, all right. It's the Gus Malzahn thing argument, right? Like you keep. Don't run it again. He'll just keep doing it over and over and over

until you prove you can stop it. Well, that's where you do something, Jason Kidd. Like, is that a, you know, the in-game adjustments don't seem to be there from Jason Kidd. Obviously, the fourth quarter, they did most of their damage in the paint. What was the thought process of staying small with Maxie for those last ten minutes instead of bringing back Gafford or Lively?

Yeah, just understanding offensively we needed to space the floor. Maxie did a really good job there. Understanding with the options that we have of being able to play Maxie, being able to stretch the floor was the option we went with. Living with twos in this league doesn't hurt you. Threes kill you, and threes killed us this afternoon. We've got to be better. You know, when Harden is taking twos,

it's better than a step back or him shooting a three and just understanding where they were shooting from the three in that first half. So you got to give up something. They're talented. We gave up the twos. Contested twos. They made them. But they gave us a chance to get back

in the game and actually take the lead. He's not totally wrong about this. I at least buy his logic that when there's eight minutes left in the fourth quarter, he doesn't want a big out there clogging up the lane because he just wants Kyrie to keep doing what he was doing. And it kind of worked because they came back and they got back in the game. But then once they're back in the game and it's three minutes left,

that might have been the time to take a timeout and get Maxie out of there. Yeah. Like it was working. He says living with kills doesn't kill you. Twos doesn't kill you. It did kill them. It did, yeah. Because at that point, yes, if it's a tie game,

you need – you got to have a stop. You know? And that's – it just throws after the fourth one. Like, let's just – like, you can't just keep doing this and doing this and doing this. In fact, per the Hoop Collective podcast, Harden had hit 11 floaters the entire season.

He had five in the fourth quarter. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it's not really a shot he takes. You know, he wants to step back and he wants a layup. And then Kidd went on there to say, I mean, contested twos. No, they weren't. No. Because he's getting easy around Luka because Luka has five fouls at that point.

Yeah. Yeah, it was frustrating at the end, but this is what it's about. Would you have rather been – This is playoff basketball. Do you wish they'd just lost by 20? No. It was frustrating at the end, but this is what it's about. It's playoff basketball. Do you wish they'd just lost by 20? No. It's a classic debate, but I don't know.

If you do believe these things carry over game to game, and I tend not to because, I don't know, to me that's like momentum. They finish strong that game. I don't buy that at all. I think this is a whole new day, a whole new game. Three days of rest for Luka. That sounds nice to me. I guess the best thing that would come out of it, if you were to take the lose like this instead of by 20 or 25 option,

is just seeing what Kyrie is capable of in a playoff game. Just to remind you you always know that's there and because that's the only reason they I mean defense stepped up second half but the only reason they were in that game is because he went to the moon and just being reminded that hey there is another guy here there's not a third guy but there is another guy that at any given time just looks like the best player in the world. So I'll take that, I guess. And you would think the Mavs' three-point shooting is going to show up at some point.

Yeah, and you would have to also think that the Clippers aren't going to shoot 63% from three ever again. Yeah. That's insane. The Mavs make three out of their first ten. Yeah, and the Clippers missed two more. There's a lot of difference. They were 0 for ten, though.

And in the game that Jake and I went to, they started 0 of 8 in the first quarter. Yeah, and the Clippers missed two more. They were 0 for 10, though. And in the game that Jake and I went to, they started 0 of 8 in the first quarter. Yeah. So there's some balancing here. But we are to understand that they're not just a team that relies on the three anymore. And they didn't have to. I mean, they won Friday night and they got back in it yesterday, despite the fact that they were putting up bricks. What do you think of the Mavs' mental approach that Kawhi is out? Do you think there's a little bit of a...

I don't know if it's so much of a let up on their end as much as it is an elevate from the Clippers' end. Like it's better for the Clippers not to have him out there. He was really bad Friday night. Yeah, I got to the point where I stopped watching the ball and I was just watching Kawhi, and he just couldn't move. Are you just kind of waiting for playoff Kawhi, or Paul George doesn't? So Paul George's mindset is, I have to do some taking over here.

That's what it looked like. He was an absolute liability the other night. It's kind of hard to watch because he was a player I loved. So he won't be back? It does not sound like it unless they move on and maybe it's two weeks from now, maybe. But it sounded bad. Dude, he's so busted.

Yeah. And he played like 65, 70 games this year. Can the Mavs beat this team without Kawhi? Because they've lost the two. Yeah, I don't know. I don't love the idea of having to, like if it turns out that game seven is another Sunday afternoon game. Is it really?

There's no time yet. Is it L.A., Dallas, L.A.? Yeah. So it'll be Wednesday, Friday? Yeah. Is it LA, Dallas, LA? Yeah. So it'll be... Wednesday, Friday? Yeah. Wednesday, Friday, Sunday? Mm-hmm.

And it would be there. Yeah. That's, in theory, better. Well, it's, like I said, it's an exhilarating time. Is it late Wednesday? Yes. Yeah. Why wouldn't it be? Yeah. I think it's 9, 9

15 because it's out there. Unless there's a game in Denver too or something. I don't know. I do believe it's a late start. Alright. Go Mavericks. Go Mavericks indeed. Alright. How about a break? Okay. Ba-dum-za

ba-dum-za ba-dum-za All right, how about a break? Okay. Okay. The Dunza, Dunza, Dunza, Dunza. The Dunza, Dunza, Dunza. You know nothing against me. Here it comes, Godly Wildcat fans. Here we go. And Pileuponk Bearcat fans. Three seconds.

Wildcats up by two. Field goal attempt by Ruben Martinez. Is that his name? I think. I can't remember. He's got a good leg. I do know that. Here we attempt by Ruben Martinez. Is that his name? I think. I can't remember. He's got a good leg. I do know that. Here we go.

Into the wind. Number 13 to hold. There's the snap. Kick is down. It's good. And it's good. Oh, God dang. Pallet Point wins.

Pallet Point wins. Wow. What a football game. Wow. That is a great game. That is a great game. That is a great game. That is a great game. That is a great game. That is a great game.. What a football game. Wow.

That is, wow. Your final score, your godly Wildcats, 24. I mean the Bearcats, 24 to 23 by your Wildcats. What a game. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. That's your dad, huh, AC? Oh. AC McGahee's sitting in with us today.

That's a cool name. That was your dad, huh? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was my dad. It does have gay in it. I bet you made fun of that when you were a little kid. Yeah, that was a big player in the elementary school playground. No, Puppet!

Couldn't name the rhymes, though. Kind of. I told Dan when he told me your name it sounded like a mid-90s Southwest Conference running back. I thought Blake wrote the name wrong. I thought it was Ace. Either one. What is your name?

What's on your birth certificate? So Ace is my middle name but I'm the fifth so I've always gone by my middle name. I think my mom liked that better than having two Jameses in the house at the same time. Okay. The fifth. So, yeah, that's... If you're the fourth...

Kind of want to stop it? Yeah, but are you a jerk if you stop naming the kids, you know, what your great-great-great-grandpa did? You know Bob, Bob Sturm? Do you know his bit? He broke the line, right? He was like a Robert Arnold, Robert Arnold. Like his great-great-grandpa was whatever. Robert, his son was Arnold.

His firstborn was Robert. His firstborn was Arnold. The funniest part about that. I think it was Bob. His son was Arnold. His firstborn was Robert. His firstborn was Arnold. The funniest part about that. I think it was Bob's turn to be Arnold. His kid's supposed to be named Arnold. The funniest part about that is breaking the tradition for a football player. Brett. It is Brett.

And, you know, he got Brett Hull too. Yeah, I don't know what's weirder, you know, you've got Brett Hull, too. Yeah, I don't know what's weirder, you know, breaking or perpetuating the name line or just naming your sons after all the guys who knocked you up. That's what my mom did, yeah. Oh, did she? Is that why you're saying it? Yeah, I was named after my dad, and then my brother was named after his dad. Yeah, our biological, my biological father, yeah. She's not creative at all. after my dad and then my brother was named after his dad. Yeah.

Or biological. My biological father. Yeah. She's not creative at all. Let me whip through this. Okay. Just some quick... I'll try to be as quick as I can, but...

We have a few that got lost on Friday Am I allowed to mention that Blake? Yeah Are you going to be a little bitch about it? I'll probably be a little bitch Because I feel bad Well That's really the only weapon we have against you is to try and make you feel bad. It was one of the first things I said.

Because we need him! On Friday is one of the first things I said to him. Oh, I know he's... I was like, look, dude. I know he's torn up about it. Don't worry. But what are we going to do? Don't worry.

Not like we can ever get rid of him. We need him. Give me that fucking ticket back. I'm giving it to someone else now. I was afraid. If the Clippers won on Friday, I think you would have kicked my ass outside the AAC. I did think about telling him, like, hey, dude, somebody else needs a ticket now,

just as a prank. You may have heard some of these on Friday, Blake. Had the same great reaction. My son David is 13. This was Friday. From Mom, Dad, and Zelda. I'm going to have to do these kind of quick, folks. Zelda?

Hmm. Yeah. That's badass. My co-worker Lance Marshall is Dirk minus one today from Clint. He says more Blake. Is Zelda actually the female character? What's his name, Link? Link, yes.

My Jerome Bettis birthday. I figured the guy in the Stars jersey might know the answer to that. This is Brian. He says, Frank Cowley, one of our great lawyers, gave me a shout-out as one of the DFs who had their emails read in court. That's pretty sweet. Sweet, Frank. Let's see.

My daughter Elizabeth Ewart Pronounced like Stuart That's from Gretchen Ewart you say? Ewart By the way

She says Stuart like Yeah I saw She's 30 Hey what's up Elizabeth? You guys looking at 2025 NFL mock drafts? I saw one

What the hell? Shadur number one? Yeah Number one or just top ten? I saw one. What the hell? Shadur, number one? Yeah. Number one or just top ten? I saw one where they said he was top ten. So the Cowboys are getting the number one overall pick? Okay, maybe he's not one. But you know who's up there pretty high?

Speaking of Ewert. Quinn? Everyone I've seen, he's in the top ten. everyone I've seen, he's in the top 10. Despite basically doing nothing so far. But hey. My brother Weston's Woodrow Wilson birthday from Ryan Ducks. And we have, these are all from last week.

I'm not looking at you. I'm looking at Pops. He might have a better handle on history. Oh, let me look at AC. So Jeremy's birthday, day one-er. Jeremy. You know what day you were, AC? I'm a shameful day two. Okay.

You got here as quick as you could. We'll still allow you in. Jeremy, though, is a day one-er. He says it's his Steven John's birthday. 28? You don't know, do you, AC? I don't.

That's shocking. Especially with that Starz sweater. That Starz kit. We also have and I I just want all you people that I read

their birthday on Friday boy on Friday we gave you each like seven minutes. Yeah, and I retold the whole Norm, Steve, and John thing. Yeah. It was a big laugh. Read them all. Went through Woodrow Wilson's plan during presidency.

That's right. His first hundred days. Remember? Oh, my gosh. We broke it down. All right. Now, day 78. A little downturn, but he would come back.

I think we learned that before Woodrow Wilson, there was a president named Chester Arthur. You learned that. Yeah. I don't know the numbers, but I know most of the names. If we're talking about cool names. James Priest, I'm a man, I'm 40. Oh, wait, I'm 5'1".

Why are you sending... Okay. Why don't... Here's what I should be mad at. I'm going man. I'm 40. Oh, wait. On 5-1. Why are you sending... Here's what I should be mad at. How about me? I should be mad at me for not reading it ahead. Preemptively say he's on the good dude list. James Priest? Yeah. You'll be the judge of that. He does say he wants more

Roof Snow Joe. Everybody wants more Roof Snow Joe. Everybody wants more Roof Snow Joe. Yeah. No one ever asked for more me. Or more me. Let's see. My sister Jill. Today is her Devin Harris birthday. Alright. 34.

Right? Yeah. With the news about the Freaks, she would be excited if you joined forces and added Julie to the mix. Can she do, like, engineering stuff? Teach her. Although you probably don't want me teaching. Yeah, let's have you teach her,

and then we'll be like, no, no, we just want you to teach her just in case you're not here. A woman dealing with complicated... See, we are a comedy no. We just want you to teach her just in case you're not here. A woman dealing with complicated electronics. See, we are a comedy podcast. Who could ever? Jake just said that. Silly.

My sister Jill, this is signed Carter Kemp. Yes, I share a name with Jake's son. And his email address is Carter D. Kemp. So what's your son's middle name? Lewis. So totally different. Two totally different people. Why Lewis?

The whole expedition to the West? That's right. No, it's spelled L-O-U-I-S. Grandpa? Grandpa. Yes, yes, Kristen's grandpa. Oh, Kristen's grandpa. Yeah. You got cuffed on that one. Yes. Yes. Kristen's grandpa. Oh, Kristen's grandpa.

Yeah. You got cuffed on that one. Cajun. Louie. She didn't go for Des? No. Did you even try? Like, Louis. Luca sounds like Louis.

Yeah, and I think it's kind of, yeah, her grandpa's name was Louie. He went by Louie, but I tried Des before Nora, before we knew the gender, or whatever the word for that is now. Desiree. There are girls named Des. Gender, sex, plumbing, as you might call it. But, yeah, Desiree sounds way too strippery. I'm sorry.

And I know that we have a good listener who actually made all the cookies. Oh, really? For our 420 show. I think that's her name. It's my boyfriend Tyler Gonzalez's Alex Goligosky birthday. 33. Could you guys shout him out and also tell him he's a bitch from Becca Foster? She, her.

Fourth grade teacher. Yeah. Tyler Gonzalez is a bitch. I did promise I would shout them out. Who? The cookie people. I mean, I shouted them out

by paying them, but they're called Baked in Dallas. I thought they were like in Houston or something. No, they ran into us down there for Akash, but they were actually just in town for the same show we were in town for. Oh. Yeah.

Did they drive those cookies down? Yeah. Just for y'all? Yeah. Cool. Baked in Dallas. And the cookies were really good too. Does she have a brick andand-mortar place?

That I don't know. Okay, but you can search it or some such? Mm-hmm. Baked in Dallas. Like what, on the internet? That's right, yep. That's right, H-T-T. Captain Hotmail, it is my buddy Chase's DJ Burns birthday.

What are we doing? DJ Burns. Burns birthday. What are we doing? DJ Burns. He says, we have booked us a 690 sit-in for our birthdays, but your popularity pushed us to July. Congratulations.

Not much to offer, so we'll keep our mediocre comments to ourselves. Doesn't stop us. Oh, this is from Bill. More Dan. Oh, yeah. And more Sarah Heppler. DJ Burns was the fat kid from NC State in the tournament this year. Like he had one week of notoriety.

Jeez. And Tio Correo Caliente. Okay. My wife and I had a baby girl today. Lucia. Lucia. I hope I'm her leader. Congrats.

No one else has ever done that. From Brian. Oh, okay. Well. And then I got one more. This is not a birthday, though. From Tracy Belcher. I would like to recognize Dan's growth as a person, she says.

If a producer had, quote, lost a show 20 years ago, he would have screamed at them. Yeah. Now he just sounds sad. She doesn't know that that didn't happen, though. I also, in that email, thought it was weird that she put lost the show in quotes. Like, Blake had somehow had some dastardly plan to screw the whole thing up. For what?

Not where I put it. I'm going to tell you what. Blake wouldn't have lost that one because he was kind of on fire Friday. Like, I thought we all had... Didn't you have a... Like, you had your own viewer mail segment. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to read a couple. had your own viewer mail segment. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to read a couple.

Okay. If we have time. Yeah. The first, Rosalie informs us that it can actually be dog fur or dog hair. It just depends on how many coats the dog has. I'd like to see her credentials. Nobody's ever said dog fur. She might have done her research online.

We could ask Anna Kay, the decapitator. Oh, yeah. She's the deciding voice, I would think, on all things animal. It says here, P.S. You do not have a gay voice. You have a very nice voice. Aw. What do you think about that, AC? It's Rosalie.

Eh, gay. Anson writes in, have I missed the review of Pineapple Express? I figured Dan would have a movie review ready. Yes, I did miss the first 20 or so minutes because of being real famous out in the lobby.

But otherwise, gold. Great movie. Awesome movie. It's a thousand times better than any Cheech and Chong movie I've ever seen. That makes me happy. I've seen the movie a lot. But it was really special getting to hear Dan laugh out loud at some of the parts in the movie. Especially when James Franco puts his thumb through his pants and says, hey, hitchhiking with my cock.

Dude, how funny was that? He's like, look at it. Look at it move. And then finally. I'm a big James Franco fan. He may have done some stuff that I shouldn't be his fan anymore. I have to probably look into... But yes, all of that aside...

Yeah, I don't know exactly what he did, but his... This is the end of one of my favorite movies. Maybe not The Artist. He'll do some weird stuff on you, but... Again, in addition to that other stuff. But yeah, he's... you know who his brother is? Julio. No.

Come on, guys. No? Good sports joke? Thank you. I got one piece of support there. They're asking for more Dan, and I'm going to give it to him. His brother's name is Dave Franco, and you may know him from a cameo role where he says to Evan,

come on, get in the game. We're down two points on a soccer field, to which Michael Cera turns to him and says, calm down, Greg, it's soccer. Dave Franco is Greg. I did not know that. That's great. And then last one.

Didn't have that one for you on Friday. Last one. Oh, you recently found that out? No, I just probably wouldn't pay attention. All right. Blake Johnson writes in, heard y'all talking about the Jerry Press Conference with Jane Slater and wondered if she's on the Kemp spin list.

I can't do this whole one again, can I? I think you have to. I don't even remember. So this doesn't, it's not anything negative necessarily per se about her, but she did have a tweet that went viral once. Could have been made up. Probably doesn't matter because it was funny. Where she said that she found out that a guy that she was dating was cheating on her because they had a shared, like, fitness app.

So probably just like the Apple Watch because Whoop doesn't do that, I don't think. But she noticed that when he said he was at home, like at 2 a.m. or something, his heart rate spiked considerably for like a 20, 30 minute period. Okay. And he's like, I'm home early. Something like that. And then the other one was she definitely had an anti-intern working for free rent, which we don't have to re-litigate that whole thing. She's from the Hormel Chili family. No, she's pro-interns working for free.

Okay, excuse me. Anti-paying interns. Yeah. And so she's had a pretty... Now, what's the Chili thing? I think her family created Hormel Chili, like her grandfather or something. Really? Yeah, she's got a nice family setup.

So when you are that person... You scouted right on that front, didn't you? People... Your wife's family's doing okay. Yeah. My wife's family is destitute. And the coolest thing about my wife's family is they're doing well and they're extremely cool.

I always imagine if you had a father-in-law who had a boat that he would be like a dick and he's not. He's awesome. Sorry. Yeah, well. Well, what can you do?

Alright, I would like to move on to a little more basketball, and then we'll move on to a little Cowboys, and then I guess kind of wrap things up. Since you have some basketball audio that's very good and a good basketball ender, have you read anything about the Phoenix Suns this morning? They're going fishing. They are.

They are going fishing. Do they get swept? Yes. Damn. And there's an article in The Athletic this morning and another one on one of these hoops-something website aggregators. Durant, not happy. I wouldn't imagine.

Not happy with the role in the offense. And he doesn't believe that they've done enough to feature him rather than Booker and Beal. So, yeah. Before we look at Durant's history, when do you say Durant happy? It doesn't appear there's a whole lot of looking in the mirror. Yeah. Bradley Beal.

He wanted the trade there. Oh, yeah. He picked his spot. He wouldn't go anywhere else. Yeah. Bradley Beal. He wanted the trade there. Oh, yeah. He picked his spot. He wouldn't go anywhere else. Yeah. And they gave up a ransom for him. Bradley Beal declined to waive his no trade clause last offseason, so he will make $53 million next year, and they can't trade him.

So their super team just got swept in the first round, and there's already reports this morning that Durant, he wants out. He's disgruntled. He's never really been gruntled. Well, certainly you would add Durant if you could. Yeah, I guess. But everybody's been saying that. Well, do you just look at, like, how good Kyrie has been? Just to say, look, just because.

There's a past. Yeah, I mean. It can work. At some point, I guess, in somewhere, it will work. It obviously has. He's not young anymore, though. No. He's 35. He's not young anymore, though. No. He's 35.

He's 35? Mm-hmm. Wow. A couple good years left? A lot of wear and tear on that body. Yeah. I just know you love the super team that everybody puts together and then immediately everyone's pissed off about it.

It just happens more times than not. Yeah, well, I was thinking about the NBA, man. It is so, it's just stacked. Yeah. I mean, look at LA. The Clippers are a super team. Well, this is part of the reason why they will be adding teams. When's that happening?

Do you know? It's in the next couple years. Is this where the theory is that LeBron's getting one of them, like with an LA or a Las Vegas group? Yeah, Las Vegas is going to get a team. And that will be headed by LeBron? That'd be funny. What's the other place, Seattle?

That sounds right. Unless somebody back there knows. Seattle. I know Vegas was for sure. Yeah. Yeah, I think it will be Seattle. They can bring old KD home. That's right.

Bring the Supersonics back. You know where he's going to go. Golden State? Oklahoma City. Nah, I don't think so. Do you see that? He wants a homecoming. He's already made the call.

You think he wants what? Oh, my God. Yeah, of course it's his MO. I guess so, yeah. They're a super team. Oh, you're the one seed? Okay, yeah. I'll come play with you.

Now I'll join you. But he doesn't want to take low salary to do so No, but Thunder have enough picks Yeah, he's a Thunder So the thing I have is This was all the rage, this went viral Charles Barkley Colin Shaq fat

I don't think this is that They're on fire. They are so on fire, man. They're so, so good. This was right after the Pelicans, in fact, went down to Oklahoma City, three games to none, and they kind of got drilled. And, yeah, this is the first thing that happened. So this was Saturday, I believe.

21 in game two. That's coming your way shortly. Back here inside Studio J, Ernie Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, Chuckster, Mitch Carter here for Kenny the Jetsmith. What? Disappointing. Where they going, Chuck? Galveston.

That dirty-ass water. We're not even going to sit in the Cancun. We're going to sit in the Galveston with that dirty ass water being washed up on the shore. People think they're in the beach. Y'all located. We're not going to sit in the Cancun. Y'all drive. Y'all quit. Drive your ass

down to Galveston. Come on, man. They don't even drive, man. We're not getting them no plane tickets to the beach. We're sitting there as the Galveston, Texas, right where that dirty water washed up on the beach. They can't even get in the water.

Come on, man. Oklahoma City. 185 in game three. It's 3-0. You saw Al LeForest waiting for an interview postgame. Kind of got hijacked there, but she was in time able to talk to Jalen Williams. Boy, when Shaq really gets going and starts cough laughing.

Shaq, though, is... Like he's mid-cigar blunt. On this show show I've noticed because a lot of times it is like but it's Shaq setting you up so he

they talk off the air he notes like he writes it down what do you say Chuck yeah disappointing where they going Chuck Galveston

like he they were he always sets him up with a hey you got this story and then he goes and then Shaq just sits there laughing. He was the former host of the Shaq comedy roast.

So, yeah. He knows how to play it. By the way, the thing they referenced there, did you see the Ali LaForce thing? Loved it. It felt very Grant Standy. When they first went to her. Yeah, for Josh Giddey, they all like.

All the players were doing like local TV or something. They all get interviewed together all the time. Yeah. Like that's kind of their bit. And they all were like, wait, we're going to him first. Yeah. I mean, I guess. But it just kind of felt very Oklahoma City to me.

Yeah. Local TV's been with them the whole season. Have you ever been to a game there? No. You certainly have. It's a wild experience. It's incredible. You should go there for a playoff game.

Pre-game prayer? Yeah, but the prayer is different for sure, but people... No one gets up during the game. It's almost like North Korea. If they put a shirt on the chair, everyone's wearing the shirt. Oh, I was going to ask you guys that about Friday. I didn't wearing the shirt. Oh, I was going to ask you guys that about Friday. I didn't wear the shirt. Because I saw some criticism like, hey, Mavs fans aren't going along with the bit.

Did they try a whiteout? No. From what I observed, the bottom section was dark blue and the top was white. How cool would that have been? You can't do that in Dallas, can you? No. Because you're there to see and be seen. You need buy-in from everybody. In Oklahoma City, that is not a problem. Every single person is

wearing the white shirt. And they will stand until they score or whatever it is. There is no like going to get food during the quarters. They're all so into it. And yes, the pregame prayer, might I say, it's a little creepy. Just because the whole building is dead silent.

Yeah, you don't... It is very North Korea. Yeah, you might be... But it's all their bits. You could probably make the case that any... Not the pledge, but the anthem kind of feels... But there, it's just to a different level. However, they're very, very bought in.

Yeah. Yeah. And now they're very, very bought in. Yeah. Yeah. And now they're badass. They're really, really good. So this was the next day, or it could have been that, it might have been that day later in the show, they're going to break

and they're going to show a video that, because these TNT people are on it. The second that these guys say something, they'll have like, you know, Barkley in an outfit or something, and it's like photoshopped. And so it's a photoshopped video, I think, of like Barkley down like a lazy river, but it's brown. This river is mud. By the way, I also love how like really third rate the videos that they make are.

Oh, you can. Like they're obviously trying to make them look ridiculous. There you go. Well, you know, the way the NBA is today, it's like we make three if we win. I would love to see somebody come up with a plan B and try to win a game another way, not just making a bunch of threes. I'm looking forward to it. Galvis took Cole.

That's the way it looks. That's exactly the way it looked down there. The Rockets tricked me. They told me we were going to the beach for training camp. They took me to Galveston. You couldn't even go in the water. Dirty-ass water. Chef's time.

All right. I was wondering in my head, like, how did he ever end up in Galveston? I'm a fan. What's his beef with South Texas? So the third one that I have is yesterday. And here's a problem with YouTube TV. That, you know, when you had TiVo or when I had DirecTV, it was just I'll just record a game and put an extra hour and a half on it

or something, and I get the whole postgame. I get everything. YouTube TV, though, will cut things off right when it's over. And then you have to hit plus, like you're adding to your library, the TNT postgame show, which is called Inside the NBA, I believe. Well, it turns out Shaq and Barkley and Kenny and EJ are on a pregame show too, but they call that different. That's called NBA tip-off, and I had not hit the plus on that.

So on NBA tip-off the next day, I'm giving you an excuse, Blake, why the audio is not the extended version like we like to find. If somebody sends us a clip or we see a clip that goes viral, we'll go find the extended. Let's hear all the context in it. This is kind of just clipped, but this is from yesterday and the pregame show. And you know who latched on to the conversation?

Who is that? Beyonce's mom. Beyonce's mom? Yes. Chuck, we don't play about Galveston, Texas. Watch it, sucker. Our water might not be blue, but it's still the beach and we love it. What did she tweet?

Jay sent this to me. An Angie B. yesterday. He asked us if we're going to let him talk about our city like that. All good. We got a great laugh. So you never know. You never know who you're gonna impact. Miss Nose. I don't want that smoke. I don't want the beehive and Jay after Chuck.

Miss Nose, I apologize. I do not want the beehive and Jay after me. So how do you like Galveston now? It's beautiful. We're not going there. Would you go on a vacation? Oh, hell no. I ain't going on a vacation. You've got a chance to wipe the slate clean here. I would go to Galveston. Let me tell you something. If that water's so dirty, I'd rather go to San Antonio.

I'd rather go to San Antonio. Okay. Sorry. Like I said, it's clipped, but from what I understand, he went to he wanted to go down with them big-ass women with the churros. He brought it back out. For sure. Playing the hits.

Elsewhere in sports, I believe Blake actually has audio. This is from day one of the NFL draft, right? Yeah. Michael Parsons was at it again, doing a stream of the NFL draft for some reason last year I think it was just him this year it was him and CJ Stroud

they also had a guy from PFF there that really knew his stuff and then a host but it was just the four of them for five straight hours just commenting on the draft and Micah is Micah at some points of this but he's actually pretty good at it commenting on the draft. And Micah is Micah at some points of this,

but he's actually pretty good at it. Like, you know, we've brought up how well he knows the NFL and how plugged in he is and whether that's an issue or not, depending on when he's watching the games. But here, I'll take you to the second pick, which was Jaden Daniels. And, you know, they would kind of try to do a guessing game of where's this team going. And Micah just knew Dan Quinn so well that he was just able – he had an insight to where DQ was leaning, and he was right. Who do you think Dan Quinn wants here? I think, honestly, bro. The pick is in.

Just off of Coach Quinn. I'll let you guess. And everyone he knows. I think they're definitely going quarterback. I want to say Jaden Daniels just because of how high he is on mobile quarterbacks. He always talks about how much they're a pain to deal with. And the pick is in. And the commanders are taking Jaden Daniels with the second pick,

getting a clap out of C.J. Stroud. How about that? Aiden Daniels with the second pick getting a clap out of C.J. Stroud. How about that? But he just remembers DQ saying guarding mobile quarterbacks and how much he loved or hated stopping mobile quarterbacks. And I thought that was cool. He just knows so many people around. And he obviously DQ is in Washington. And I guess I missed this, but Aiden Dirty, the defensive line coach,

is in Seattle. Oh, yeah, because Seattle hired someone else too, didn't they, from the staff? That I don't remember. But I think AD is their defensive coordinator. They were after Dan Quinn. That was the hot name there. Yeah. And same thing.

He knew AD so well that he called the pick. I think it's interior. I think it's interior or edge. You know, with – Dallas Turner's still there. Dallas Turner, Brian Murphy. The other thing here is just listen how he's able to rattle off the Seahawks depth chart. Told you.

There it is. I figured, you know, you got Leonard Williams. Who thinks he's like a prophet or something? No, I think about, because you guys forget, our defensive line coaches now, they're new D.C. Oh. So A.D., I'm very familiar with him. I know his play style.

Yes, the head coach is calling a defense, but A.D., what they like, they like dogs up front. Byron Murphy's a dog. He plays that three-down Texas defense. He's able to take on double teams. And what would they ask him a lot? You think about Baltimore. You think about Seattle, Dallas. We had great defensive lines. They want dogs up front. Guys who create pressure, openings for other guys. And Byron Murphy's a great guy they just extended Leonard Williams they played they paid their other uh outside linebacker rusher last year so you know they're just completing the front you know I think they got a great trio of DBs and man you just add into

the front I think they're trying to create a simulated uh you know Baltimore defense and you you add also in the thought like they're playing against the 49ers. They're playing against the Rams. Guys who like to run the ball, so why not go get you a run stop and a guy who could convert on play action? Yeah, that's good. I would expect him to know offenses more. Yeah, but he knew – But to know all the – like you said, the depth chart and contracts.

He knew they extended – Yeah, contract years. He knew their secondary. He knew their division mates. Yeah. He's obviously, for some reason, watched film on Byron Murphy and what defense they reign at Texas and what defense they're going to want to run in Seattle.

Are you surprised that Aiden Dirde is a coordinator? It just feels like that's pretty high level for a guy that – Is from England? That speaks like that. Yeah, like could he be... He's from Middlesex, England. Whatever that is. That's a city.

Well, I think once Mike McDaniel's a head coach, pretty much all bets are off. Get this out of the bag. The A.J. Brown extension came down during the show. And what's the first thing Micah does? Happy that some guy got paid? Or upset that it's Philly? Or I don't know.

Talk about CDs contracts. He pulls out his phone and tries to figure out what's 97 divided by 3. Lefkoe, we got some news that you might be interested in. Oh, crap. About wide receivers. A different one. Eagles just signed A.J. Baxter through your extension.

Oh, wow. How much? Our guy. I don't know where they're finding this money from, but they're paying it out right now. Why are you shaking your head? He's not really using a calculator for 96 by 3. He just divided 96 by 3. Yes he did. Hey, Chitch.

I'm sorry. They're both, both of those numbers. Because that's easy math. Yeah, that was bad. I'm sorry. You guys did this, dude. You're crazy. Yeah, that was bad. I'm sorry. My father just did you crazy. Yeah, he just did you real crazy. That was my fault. You know, you just see high numbers real quick. So they just signed A.J. Brown.

They already re-signed Devontae Smith. They locked up Landry. He's going to get into the wide receiver market. I want my dog C.D. Land to get the most money possible. Yes. But, you know, after Devontae Smith, I felt like we had a chance. That number kind of scares you a little bit.

You know, that's $7 million richer. The prices went up. And then Amon just did $30,000, so now that he jumped to the $32,000. Jay Jedis is probably going to be highest paid.

I mean, with this, I think, you know, and I think Jay Jedis is going to probably do about $34,000, $35,000 at this point. Wow. The receiver market is,

I think, it's going to jump... It's a blessing. In the next two years, it's going to be around $40 million a year for these receivers. I think it's a beautiful thing that wide receivers are getting the bag. So, obviously, he's just bringing that up

because CD's going to get his money, and then it's Micah's turn. And he wants to know what CD's getting. I feel like he's smarter than the cowboy front office on how these things work. Yeah. The timing matters. Like even Micah is saying.

Thought he should have – CD could have got signed before. It wouldn't be up to 35. It's just so weird to hear a current player talking so much about other players' contracts. I kind of like it. I don't know if I like it for him being focused on his job. And maybe that's just perception. I'm really excited to play you this clip because I think this is really telling of Micah

and his thoughts on the DAC extension because he is a big believer in the building around a team in the rookie quarterback window. And he's got some thoughts. They just capitalize. I think they capitalize with at least four or five blue chip players. And that's so rare. And they have the draft.

And it's so rare because they can have a run for the next four years. Because of the contract for Caleb. Because of the contract for Caleb. You restarted that QB contract, right? You got Caleb on a rookie contract. He's going to make $30 million to $40 million, whatever his deal is, with his fifth-year option. Yes. And then you have...

Your first round pick last year was the offensive tackle. You got DJ Moore, Darnell Wright, Keenan Allen. And now you get Romeo Duzia. So you got, and reminder, you know, the Panthers probably still eating up dead cap for DJ Moore. I don't know how that works. But they have so much room to work with. Whether Keenan Allen stays or whether he goes next year, they have so much room because they don't owe the QB bill.

And that cap is just going to keep going up and up. The Bears could still be aggressive next year in free agency. They could build a dynasty over the next three, four years until they've got to pay Caleb Williams. Well, the Cowboys could be pretty aggressive in free agency if we didn't have this Bozo quarterback wanting $60 million a year. Basically what he's saying. But, yeah, I wonder how often he's hearing that of,

well, we got to get Dak done first, or Dak is going to be needing this much. How many times is Micah going to hear about the pie? I'm sure his people are already hearing about it. Yeah, they're telling him already. But that's not the way it works. Here's a guy that is about to get paid. He wants his.

Yeah. And he wants to do it here. And is in a situation where... And he sees that Dak is... Yeah. Yeah. And now he's just looking over at the Bears like, man, they don't have to pay their quarterback.

Right. They could just pay me all the money. All right. Some weird stuff because Micah's a weirdo. This threw me off. Dan, have you ever seen the movie Norbit? No. Eddie Murphy?

Eddie Murphy? Yeah. I'm familiar with it, but I don't think I've seen it. Apparently, it's Micah's favorite movie. You know, we've had this ongoing conversation. This is Stefan Diggs. Especially since my brother's been in Texas. It's been a conversation biweekly about I see you soon.

So hopefully it's on Thanksgiving. You know what I'm saying? So we can figure out who eating turkey and who not. I love that. Stephan. One of us is going to be eating turkey. Another one will be eating stuffing. Do you ever watch Norbit?

Like, Norbit one of my favorite movies. Sure. Random. He's going to be eating. I'm going to eat the leg. He's going to be eating turkey ass. I'm going to be dressing him up. He's going to be eating. I'm going to eat the leg. He's going to be eating turkey ass. I'm going to send him a piece to his locker room.

I'm going to send that turkey butt over to the locker room to let him know how I feel about him. Okay. Maybe we'll watch Norbit. Hey, you ever seen Norbit? The guy eating turkey ass. Random. So they had Anthony Richardson on, the Colts quarterback, who is

a rapper, I guess. I mean, who's not now? So they asked Micah, if you were an artist, who would you be? Who does CJ sound like? Who does he... I'm going to say some typical L.A. rapper. No, CJ got a nice flow. He flow. He like

skips over it. Yeah, like he's like a talker. It's an flow. He, like, skips over it. Yeah, like, he's like a talker. Like, it's an L.A. thing. So it's smooth. It's smooth. He flow. And what are you like? I'm more like...

I'm more like an artist. What the fuck? What does that even mean? Like, I'm like a singer-rapper. Like, I'm an artist. Oh, you're like Prince. Like, I'm like a singer-rapper. Like, I'm an artist. You're like Prince. Like Michael Jackson on steroids.

Bro, this is a dip. This is a dip. You heard it here first. You better argue it on a regular, bro, because y'all let him get away with this stuff, bro. Yeah. He just said he's Michael Jackson. On steroids.

Come on, man. What are you talking about? I'm 250. Michael Jackson was 165. Michael Jackson was 165. You make no sense, bro. What are you talking about? I'm 250. I have a Jetson 165. Get out of here, dog. You make no sense, bro. I'm like 250. They had way too much time to fill. Yeah, it's the draft.

Way, way too much time for these just to be three or four people. Yeah, and there towards the end, like, C.J. Stroud was majorly checked out, and Micah was getting tired, too. By the end of it, they were just talking out of their ass. But for some reason, Micah was on the draft stream, so. Dude, I mean, that whole Bleacher Report app is leveraged heavily around his show. Around Micah? Yeah.

Like, when you pull up HBO Max now, there's another option that says Bleacher Report Sports. They put Stars games on there sometimes, actually. He hasn't done a podcast since the very end of the season, though. No, but he hit it super hard at the Super Bowl. If you remember, he did like a daily show. Oh. He's not going anywhere. Nor bit.

All right. Thanks, Blake. What does Blake do? That's it. Thanks, Blake. What does Blake do? That's it. What does Blake do? Here's Jay with the Dumb Stuff News. Are we doing news today? We are.

So it's always been fascinating to me how they work this with big venues where you have to plan concerts far, far, far in advance, where there are also sports teams that play there. Now, I cannot say that I'm a fan of Bad Bunny. I'm really only vaguely aware that Bad Bunny exists. Luca likes him a lot. Yes, he's very, very popular. He's mentioned him in post-games. Worldwide. I mean, he's popular here, too. He was at the game the other day. He was. Was it yesterday?

Yeah, maybe. Well, he was slated to perform at the AAC on May 3rd and May 4th, but the team now needs the arena for the Friday night game. So they have to move it up to a Thursday-Saturday. You have to figure there are some number of people for an artist of that size who travel. You know? That's a human being's schedule.

And they're planning on getting all turnt on Friday night. Now they gotta go on Thursday. Yeah. And go to work on Friday. It is wild how all that works and gets put together. Like, I mean, we know like a much smaller version of that. Speaking of the stars,

is just what Stretch had to deal with, of just trying to piece all these different schedules for everything together for flight and when do we need to be to this city by and when are we leaving. And then you add in the San Antonio Rodeo, where they have to schedule two weeks of road games or whatever the case is every year? Chicago has something, too. Wokeness? I forget.

Probably wokeness. Around all the murders, they have to schedule something. So, yeah, Bad Bobby. Bad Bunny. Not Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny will be moving a show. HEB is recalling some ice cream because it, quote, may contain metal. Doesn't that mean it's great?

Like real metal kick-ass? Yeah. Hell yeah, man. Give me the metal ice cream. Sold in stores in Texas and Mexico. What are we talking here? Like steel beams from the World Trade Center? No, it doesn't look like that.

I've never seen these before, but they're called creamy creations, but it kind of looks like... I'll give you a creamy creation. I bet you will. It kind of looks like, you know, like at your school, you would have the small spare Blue Bell cup that was like three bites. The little thing with the wooden spoon?

Yeah. I hated that wooden spoon. Because you could taste it. Yes, horrible. You got a splinter in your tongue? Yeah, the texture of that, yeah, drove me crazy. But yeah, you could eat like six of those. No problem.

Man, and at one point they upped us to like, I don't know the sizes. It might be a half pint. But it was a lot of ice cream for a kid to just eat at lunch and then wonder why I'm vomiting at football practice every single day an hour and 45 minutes later. Maybe it had metal in it. But I enjoy this note in this story here. It says, customers can return the ice cream for a full refund or call.

Oh, thanks. They list a dumper. Shouldn't they also offer a little something better? Yeah, I mean, maybe a class action lawsuit. No, I mean, a gift card, something. Yeah, a little something better? Yeah, I mean, maybe a class action lawsuit? No, I mean, a gift card, something. Yeah, a little something extra. Yeah, but I just can't imagine what the line of people who are like, I'm taking this $8 of ice cream back to HEB.

Oh, my gosh, yeah. You'll just throw it away. Is this Blue Bell? No, it's their brand. Oh, it's not? Okay. Now, when Blue Bell gets involved, people die. Yeah, Bluebell was, I was just going to say, they've got bad bits going on.

But there's still, still feels like they're going strong. People are like, yeah, I still love Bluebell, whatever. A couple people died. Yeah, I bought my tickets. Things happen, yeah. Yeah, I was like, damn, I mean, that makes me want it more. Because you're a side of danger? Yeah.

It's like watching NASCAR. That's how good it is. It's worth it. Heard this story on WFAA last night. Now, we talked to some Mavs earlier in the show, and we were trying to figure out, you know, what went wrong. Why do they have these slow starts in the first half? Is it the afternoon

games is Luca just banged up and then I was made aware of the real reason that the Mavericks have were so flat yesterday afternoon this weekend the first ever emotional support dog for the Dallas Mavericks and the entire NBA died her name was Bailey she was was a Bernadoodle and she was only two years old. We featured Bailey in a story in March. She was brought on to help reduce stress in the hyper competitive NBA environment. Bailey's caretaker posted on social media she was taken away way too soon. Heartbreaking for a lot of the fans of the Dallas Mavericks who had fallen in love with Bailey as well yeah definitely heartbreaking I have about 10,000 things to say the first one I like the idea and we've actually known people who had like you know small businesses and they would just keep a dog there all the time it was just the guy would bring his dog every day and everybody loved it it

was chill and it makes people feel good to be around the dog. Like I wouldn't, we have dogs here. That's basically what they are. The second thing though is I would love to know what like Red Auerbach thought about this. Is they have like this little. Yeah, let alone a team psychologist. Yeah. They have like this dainty little, hey, it's Bailey, a something doodle.

And don't you get a, like a younger dog if it's like your first? They said it was only two, though. Oh, it was only two. It died at two years old. This is a tragic death. Okay, that is tragic. Yeah, so it's like, you know, they showed it running around the facility and players holding it and stuff, and it just kind of lightens the mood.

It's just really funny to think about conversations about mental health and sports and how far they've come. Now, isn't this the dark side of this? Bob Knight punts it into the 300s, like after a turnover. Could this explain the slow start yesterday? That's what I'm saying. So, yes, it's all great. You guys all heard me say that.

Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I didn't catch that. No, that's what I'm saying. So, yes, it's all great. You guys all heard me say that. Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I didn't catch that. No, that's what I was thinking. Last night they did the story with Joe Trahan pretty early in the 10-10, and they're like, tough game. We'll talk more Mavs later. And then, like, two blocks later in the show, well, we have a very sad story regarding the Dallas Mavericks here.

And then tell me if you feel like she can prove this. Heartbreaking for a lot of the fans regarding the Dallas Mavericks here. And then, tell me if you feel like she can prove this. Heartbreaking for a lot of the fans of the Dallas Mavericks who had fallen in love with Bailey as well. Well, I'm a pretty big fan and I found out he was existed,

that he existed when I found out he no longer existed. Yeah, well now you're heartbroken. Sure, that's true. You had fallen in love in the first 12 seconds of that story.

Right. And now, heartbroken. Right. Basically what clearly happened was That's true. You had fallen in love in the first 12 seconds of that story. Right. And now, heartbroken. Right. Basically, what clearly happened was they did the story on the dog a year ago or however many months ago, and they found out about it. Because she said something like, we featured Bailey here on WFA. It's not really a news story. I mean, I go to all these local news channels and all these local sports sites every day.

Never heard of it. Or her. Right. This isn't Herb Street's dog. But do they... What's her name? Ben. Ben.

Or even Harala Bob's dog. Harala dog. They made an editorial decision that they felt like they had to follow up and tell their audience the dog was dead. And I find that interesting. They should have blamed the loss on the death. Yeah. I think they went on to say the last person to pet it was Russell Westbrook.

Okay. Did they really say that? No. Oh, that was a joke. Sorry. Sorry. Joke! Sorry.

Who knows? Comedy podcast. Look, the word comedy is subjective, right? So this is a... I love these type of stories. A Collin County District Court has dismissed charges against a state representative. His name, Frederick Frazier. From your favorite show.

Yeah, you are a big Frazier guy. Yep, I'm always just talking about Niles and Frazier and the gang. Daphne. God, I remember he was telling us to watch the reboot. Oh, yeah. It's like, dude, you won't believe it. They brought him back. Game changer.

I enjoy all of your comedy, but I cannot tell you how much I hated that show. And I don't know where along the line I got it in my head that you were stoked on Frasier. It's the weirdest thing ever. But somewhere. I've never ever mentioned that. It's like Doak Walker and... Yeah, at least that one's close. Sammy Ball or whatever it is. They're both awards, right?

Yeah, but there's some show around that time period that you liked, and I don't know what it is. I liked a lot of them. Yeah, maybe it's... Home Improvement. Could be that. Maybe it's that. Frasier just felt snooty to me. Of course.

That's the whole bit. I know, but as a kid, I didn't know that that was the bit, necessarily. I just... Even the fact that he was in radio and stuff, I just couldn't... They had a British lady, which I'm not a fan of. Yeah. You're still allowed to say that. Anyways, this guy in Collin County had his case dismissed.

He was being charged with impersonating a public servant. Just like Sports Mayor. Okay. I like that. So what was his – he wasn't a cop. They would just say he's impersonating a police officer and that's why i initially got interested in the in the headline because you know we do see cases like that every now and then who do you consider a public servant your local mayor maybe yeah i mean

i think any elected official for sure law enforcement so who was he impersonating does it say um it does i think he was actually using it to uh to enforce like city code right like so he would go to uh like a place where there were campaign signs and he's like i don't like that guy and he would say like he puts on his code hat oh okay and you got to take you got to take that down and people are like, well, we checked with the city. He's like, well, read the hat. It says code. Which is, I mean, not as cool as impersonating a cop. Yeah, because then you can pull people over. A lot lower stakes, but you're still getting... And then what?

You know, you could do a little quid pro quo to get out of this ticket or, you know, all kinds of things. I've told this story before, and I'm pretty sure my buddy still listens. His family was from Arkansas. That's, I think, important. And I think it was his cousin, maybe, who got pulled over. I don't know that it was phrased as a quid pro quo, but she had sex with the police officer like right then.

Wow. That really happens. And got pregnant. Whoa. And I'm pretty sure they eventually got married. That's beautiful. But I think it started with coercion. I don't really know that I have the money to pay for this ticket.

Okay. Then the implication. Right. I'm glad those kids have found the – that's a weird way to find your soulmate. Yeah. But – See what speeding can do for you? That's right.

Dan's just – please don't pull me over. Please don't pull me over, sir. All right. There's your news. Okay. I wait until he's all the way back. The Dumb Zone News. Like and subscribe.

The Dumb Zone presents Today in History. Yeah, it's Monday, April 29th. We have a lot of Cowboys draft audio, but we're going to get to all that tomorrow. So the last time you told us about this buddy, you hinted that she may have been driving drunk. I mean, I said it was Arkansas Arkansas but I don't recall I can't afford a DUI what can I do that sounds right

but I don't know the story's been told a hundred times over the years there's just nothing you can do it's out of my hands once I pull you over are you sure wait anything I mean, any, I mean, any, wait. Anything? Dan's daydreaming right now.

Today's Monday, April 29th. On this day in 1913, Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, New Jersey, got a U.S. patent for a separable fastener. They would later call it the zipper. Speaking of getting pulled over. Yep. That's a contribution right there. Yeah, what was everything button fly before 1913?

Yeah. On this day in 1916, Charles Wiegman, he was the owner of the Cubs, introduced a new concept. He would allow fans to keep balls that were hit in the stands. They were going to run out. Before that, you had to throw them back. Maybe someday they'll do that in the NFL.

We can only dream. What's the that in the NFL. We can only dream. What's the rule in the NFL now? I mean, they go get it, right? Every time? You don't keep a ball unless, like, Zeke gives it to you. I guess they don't end up in the stands that often, so I've never really thought about it. Yeah.

On this day in, oh, 1945. That's why they actually changed the kickoff rules, because they were running out of balls. 1945, this is the very end of World War II, where American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp. What is that? There is a show. Is it Band of Brothers?

It might be Band of Brothers. Yeah, Band of Brothers. You guys have seen it? Been a long time, but yes. It's badass. I remember I gave the DVD set a friend of my Uncle Gary's. Wow. Stormed the Beach at Normandy.

And so I got to asking him about favorite World War II movies and this and that. I gave him the DVD set to watch. And he reported back that it was unbelievable. He was on board. Yeah, I know that was the deal with Saving Private Ryan, right? There was a rash of veterans vomiting.

Yeah, yeah. Or just leaving. Like it was too realistic. Yeah. Anyway, so. Or just leaving. Like it was too realistic. Yeah. Anyway, so it's the very end. You know how they did that? The shooting of the scenes? They recorded everything in slow motion

and then sped it up. That way every frame caught like every speck of dirt and everything flying. That's how they got it to be so crystal clear. I feel like the Spielberg character might make it. He may know the thing or two, yeah. But very end of World War II, you know it's over. Closing in on the bunker.

So on this day, Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun. So they, all right, I'll marry you. Okay. Like finally, she's been asking and asking. And so Hitler designates Karl Dönitz president. He's like, look, I know you've been wanting this promotion for a long time. Guess what? Guess who's in charge of Germany now?

You. It's going places. I'm on my honeymoon. You do your thing. I mean, get this thing in order, okay? I left it pretty good. It's fine. I'm excited to see where you can take it, though. Yeah, yeah.

I've got a lot of faith in you, son. What a jerk, this Hitler fellow. On this day in 1992, a jury in California acquitted four L.A. police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. The verdicts were followed by cheers for the justice system. There was a lot of accolades. Oh, wait, no, no. It says here, rioting in Los Angeles resulting in 55 deaths.

Yeah. And resulting in two other deaths that were not justice actually carried out on those when OJ killed them. What do you mean? How do you relate these two things? I've always heard that that was, you know, that the racial temperature was very high

in that three or four year window after Rodney King. Oh, okay. You know, Black America wanted to win even if they knew OJ was guilty. OJ was found not guilty. So I don't know what information you were going with here. I thought it was his son. It could be.

That's right. And on this day in 19, excuse me, 2010. 2010. Okay, not that long ago for sure. The Navy announced they were ending a ban on women serving on submarines.

It took until 20... What did they think would happen? I mean, you're... What if... Sharks? Sharks?

That's a good one. It's attracting sharks. Oh my gosh. Think about... We're surrounded by... Think about the way that they can alter the tides. You're in the water, and now all of a sudden the waves... Everybody's going to know we're here because of you.

Yeah. Then they're going to eventually ask to drive the boat. We can't have that. 2010. Okay. This is a very ignorant question. I don't know anything about submarines, although I have always wanted to do a submarine roundtable.

Where we get three or four guys who spend extensive time, or ladies, on a sub and we just talk sub life. Because that's terrifying to me. Claustrophobic. Don't like it. Like how long do you stay under? And what is it, you know, how does it all work? I thought our, Bradley Folsom, didn't he? He was on a submarine.

That's right. The author? Yeah. And then I brought that up and I? He was on a submarine. That's right. The author? Yeah. And then I brought that up, and I think Dan papooed on it. That's because you brought it up. I papooed it. What do you mean? Because I asked him.

First of all, papooed is funny. I asked him, what was being on a sub like? And he was like, a long time underwater, huh? And then you're like, yeah, that went nowhere. Which you were right. Okay, well. But I was trying to lead him into talking about sub life. We should at least consider this.

Let's try to give the benefit of the doubt to those at Naval Command. Do all of the women end up on the same cycle while on a submarine for nine months to a year? No doubt. Like, do astronaut ladies do that? Are there a lot of astronaut ladies? I think there are a healthy amount of them.

There are for all mankind. Yeah, I know. The Apple television program. I'm familiar with one of them who drove across the country in a diaper to attempt to murder her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend. Lisa Nowak. Speaking of Apple TV...

Anyways, I think this is a real question about the submarine thing. Does that actually occur where 20% of the workforce there, whatever it is, are all experiencing... Well, why is that bad? Is that going to ruin things?

They're all going to be in a bad mood at the same time. They are anyway. Yeah. I think AC could probably help me with this but uh my wife says that on the unit at the er icu like they'll all kind of go on at the same time yeah that's yeah really so even in a hospital yeah so definitely you're not underwater for nine months so maybe if you're about to go under the knife you might ask hey is this a good week to

for me to get a surgery? Or is she going to be a little short with you? Yeah, AC some weeks is like, God, everyone's being a bitch today. Birthdays today. No comment. I love all my coworkers. Ron Washington is 72. Washington. Wow.

I love Ron Washington. How are they doing? Not well, right? No, but they're not good. More expected to be. Yeah. No. I think he held a closed-door team meeting after game three.

Oh, no. If I remember right. Either game two or three. Former Ranger pitching coach Tom House is 77. Why don't you get him to teach you? Yeah. He could teach you better than Tom House, and we know him. Yeah.

I don't know if he's here most of the time. The only times I've seen him here was when he was there to work with Mahomes. God Shamgod is 48. Is he still a Mavs coach? Yeah. Are you surprised there's not more people named God? No.

Like, Jesus is not an uncommon thing. Yeah, but Jesus was a person. How come there's nobody named Jesus? Like, just a dude. Like, your neighbor or something is named Jesus. That's also, I guess that's a good point. It does appear to be culture-specific.

And, you know, what's weird about it is it's all of many, many other names we take from the Bible. I mean, I'm a New Testament family. Daniel's in the Bible, I think. Mm-hmm. Is he new or old? New. New?

Right? I don't know. Sounds new. Everyone's saying no. Not a big church family here. Okay. What about the book of AC? And I thought Blake goes to private school to learn this stuff.

Yeah, tell us about the Bible. Daniel in the coat of many colors. It's Bible Blake. I thought that was a new testy. I don't think they can do a new testy. That sounds too dirty. But there are two testes. They should do, like, you know how they do many different versions of the Bible,

and you'd have to make sure, you don't know, but you'd have to make sure you got the right one for Sunday school. I know of a recent one. That's right, yeah. So if that lane is available, they should do a version of the Bible for people around your daughter's age where they talk like them. Oh, yeah.

And like the text. Maybe we'll read a verse to them and they have to just translate it in their language. I think this could be a big hit. Okay. Jay Cutler is 41. What was that word we got obsessed with for a while? Was it like if Jesus is calling one of the apostles

Real choogy Because he's a basic Stuff like that Judas was giving jealousy That's very good Andre Agassi is 54 I'm reading his book For the last seven years I say his name wrong because of Byron Jones Because he said Agassi is 54. I'm reading his book for the last seven years.

I say his name wrong because of Byron Jones. Because he said Agassi? Yeah. So you say it? Yes. Did you read the book? No, I just was obsessed by your segment on it. And remembered how he got breastfed by his grandma.

It's a good book. That's a Blake spin. And then he dated Brooke Shields? Yeah. Married. Married. And he was mad that she licked Joey Tribbiani's fingers in the show? Yes. On friends.

And then, in fact, she had invited him to the set. He stormed off and drove back to Vegas without her. And then broke a bunch of his stuff in his house. Like, I kind of give him credit for admitting all that. Yeah. It helps a lot if you have a major drug problem. Because now you're at it. Yeah, he didn't, right?

Oh, yeah. He did? I thought he was into meth. Was he at that time? I don't remember. I think he got pretty far out there. Well, I sure wish somebody read the book that could remember stuff. I was like, didn't you read the book?

Willie Nelson is 91 today. Proving. Pot good for longevity. Plants over pills. I can't believe Willie Nelson outlived Toby Keith. I'd never thought of it that way I just heard the song Beer for My Horses and I was like man Willie Nelson still kicking

Jerry Seinfeld 70 Eve Plum is 66 Blake do you know who that is no if I say her Blake, do you know who that is? No. If I say her television character, will you know who Jan Brady is? Is she on the Brady Bunch? There you go. Have you watched the Brady Bunch?

Certainly you have. Yeah. Not a huge fan. They used to run it on Nick at night. There was no Green Acres. Slightly different era, but... Uma Thurman, 54. Kill Bill?

You like? Yeah. Yeah. Master P is 54. Negotiated Ricky Williams' first NFL contract. Which I think was like 95% incentive-based. And, yes, so many other players were like, what a great deal. I want in.

Please be my agent as well. No, I don't think they were. Didn't he play summer league ball or something? He's running CAA now. Yeah, he had some level of semi-pro basketball career. Mark Stanley is 36. The Cubs. Says here, Grin in Game of Thrones. Grin?

Too many characters to... Okay. I thought you might know. Nora Dunn, 72. I should know. And Crystal Hefner is 38. That is Hugh Hefner's last wife. Hugh Hefner.

Oh, this guy's a spare. The founder of Playboy. Should I not have read that one? It just said Game of Thrones, and I thought... No, no, no. I'm glad you did. I just... I thought I would remember all the characters, but...

His last wife is 38 today. Today. That's incredible. When they were married. She was 26. How old was Hugh Hefner? 82. Give me 78.

AC? AC? Gotta say like 80. There was a... Well, let me just put it this way. Yeah, there was a guy who went to a... Yes, there was a man who went to the hospital one day looking for his next wife.

Or a future wife. He went to the hospital when he was 60 years old. Dang. 86. He married her when he was 86 years old, and she was 26. I do have a lot of questions. If I have a goal in life, that's it. No, you don't.

I want to marry a 26-year-old when I'm, let's just be reasonable, 80. Okay, yeah, let's not bite off more than we can chew. I do, I'm genuinely interested in how those things work. Like, is he just shooting? Are they ever doing it, or is she just eye candy and it's fun to hang out with? Oh, man, I feel like there was a documentary or something recently. Plume of dust that comes out after they... I think one of his wives described it was like at the same time of the night, he would

take a pill, they would drink a glass of wine, watch TV, and then when it was time, he would just lay fully clothed on the bed, she would get on top and he would watch the mirror on the ceiling as she did the act. It was the same way every single time. Just like that. She's just waiting for him to die? Yes.

Would they do it every night? I don't know how often. If they were going to, that was the ritual. It was the ritual. Yes, it was the exact same thing. With the pill, the wine, and then he would just watch the mirror. That doesn't sound that bad.

I was going to say it sounds really dark. Yeah. But if you can do it, if you can get that arrangement, and you're a dude, go for it. Or a lady, really. Or if you're a lady and you can get that arrangement and you're a dude, go for it. Or a lady, really. Or if you're a lady and you can get that arrangement. Born on this day, now dead. Dale Earnhardt.

Three's up. Put your threes up. Timothy Treadwell. That's Grizzly Man, right? Of course. And then died on this day, we have Alfred Hitchcock and Albert Hoffman, who invented LSD. Oh, yeah.

Your dad is nodding over there. He's like, yeah, bro. Yeah, big fan. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah? AC. College is fun. In a different time.

Yeah. Yeah. And that fun. In a different time. Yeah. Yeah. And that's pretty much all I got. And that was Today in History. Well, we've come to that point of closing remarks. Oh, I have gifts for you all. Oh, wow. Is it acid? Unfortunately not.

That friend hasn't been in town in a while. We're now at a few notes. We're grabbing the box. And we have the notepad. Oh, you just glanced at the notes. We're grabbing the box. And we have the notepad. Oh, you just glanced at the notes. You've now got them committed to memory.

Dan, I believe this one's yours. From AC McGahee. Thank you. Your dad's kind of ripped. Jake. Dude, everyone's got me... What do you got there? A six-pack of what?

They've got me a pen, man. This is Code Red. That's gaming fuel right there, bro. Is it difficult to acquire? Why do people keep bringing you that? No. He's not going to treat himself. It's harder to find than I thought.

I thought it would just be at any grocery store. So it's Mountain Dew? Yeah, it's Mountain Dew to treat himself. It's harder to find than I thought. I thought it would just be at any grocery store. So it's Mountain Dew? Yeah, it's Mountain Dew Code Red flavor. And it's also... It's like Jake's guy at the 7-Eleven buying lottery tickets or something. You don't want to go into the convenience store buying Code Red. Yeah, or come back from a family grocery shopping trip.

And so if somebody gifts it, that's great. That's house money. Okay, but you don't want to be seen buying it. No. Okay. No, so this is wonderful. I got a shirt. Oh, wow, it's going to be a hit.

I have a Baby Billy Bible Bonkers t-shirt. Oh, nice. Y'all wouldn't know a hit if you bit your own ass. That's awesome. I was trying to find if I could see a... Oh, you a cat boy. Oh, you a cat boy. Let's see if I can understand this.

This is a... Is it just this? There should be a hat in there for you as well. Oh, okay, there's a hat. That says P-O-W-M-I-A. Yeah. If you'd like to marry a P-O-W.

You are not forgotten. Yes, because she would never be able to complain about me. Right? Correct. Okay.

Well, you know where this is going? Where's that? It's the studio. Our brand new studio. Yeah, nice. On the new wall. Thanks, AC McGahee.

You really outdid yourself. Yeah. Very welcome. Really, really good gifts. Yeah. Appreciate you, pal. Not a problem. Appreciate y'all.

Appreciate your dad and your silent friend over there. Yeah, brother-in-law Robert, and thanks to mom and dad for the birthday gift. So you guys are... Oh, mom and dad gave you this. You guys are... You're actually friends, unlike Blake and his brother's-in-law. Yeah, I got pretty lucky with the in-law situation.

Well, Blake feels like he's lucky because he looks great compared to those a-holes. Sometimes they offload a dog on you. Did you have notes? Just a few. The guy made notes. I don't want to... Yeah, if you had notes.

I will say that's the worst bit about nurses and first responders is you've got to have the 24-hour clock on your phone just to prove that you're in health care. I did it in high school because I used to always mix up the AM, PM on my alarm. Since then, I've just never mixed it up. That's why you got into the field. I thought you just wanted to let me know

that you get off at 1900 every day or something. So, will the archived IJB episodes ever be available? I think there's probably a time for that now. To be totally honest with you, it wasn't a deal of trying to hide stuff. There's probably a few things we don't want out there, but

we had some sort of server switch and we would have to manually upload 400 or 500 episodes and write the descriptions again. Someday. Nice. More pro-generation

kill, so that would be great. I think y'all would love that. I think y'all would watch one episode of that series. I know they would. I think we were supposed to watch that. That's right. But he was going to watch

The Morning Show, though. I tried it. Yeah. You only give 30 minutes. Yeah, that doesn't count. Did you see the guy from The Morning Show in Shogun? Who?

The Spaniard is from The Morning Show. The weather guy? Yeah Oh good for him Once you look at him My wife pointed it out Okay I was like oh yeah that is him I just watched episode one of Shogun

Sorry AC These are your closing remarks Not mine No just one more question Have you been to Brooks Ranch? What does that sound What is Brooks Ranch? Brooks Ranch.

Oh, I've not. I've not. He always just seemed like a mythical character. He is a mythical character, and he's had one of the more insane careers and lives of anybody you'll ever meet. I mean, he used to be, like, Wiz Khalifa's touring manager, and now he grows cattle on a ranch in South Texas. So that's a pretty strange life.

Who? My buddy Brick. Oh. Mason. Cowboy Brick? That's pretty good. I like that. That's a good ender.

All right. Thanks, dude. Thanks, y'all. Adios, everyone. Adios, mofo. Hideo no more No more pitch and no runners come home Hideo no more Number 16, Hideo no more

Hideo no more Ideo no mo, H-I-D-E-O-N-O-M-O Ideo no mo, Ideo no mo Ibeo deo, Ibeo no mo Nono che non c'è, nono c'è solo Thank you. It's like the only one It's like the only one