The Dumb Zone FREE - The Dumb Zone 4-8-24

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

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We on? All right, we're done with the show, but we're doing the open of the show now. Okay. What was with the show, but we're doing the open of the show now. Okay. What was on the show today? What's coming up on the show today is what you're saying. That is the better way to say it. You are correct about that. Yeah, so let me throw that right back at you, Jake. Well, Dan, you went to a couple's dinner

and had some hilarious anecdotes from that. I moved out of my house. We went to the roof of our potential studio and watched the eclipse. That's right. These are eclipsed glasses. That is true. Talked some abs. Did what we do every Monday.

Talked women's college basketball and trans issues. Those are both staples of this program. What would we do without those guys asking those questions? Like we would have no content. Every Monday, you know? Yeah. And we had the news. You read a bunch of people's birthdays.

He told us he was dead. I mean, that's pretty much it. Wow, that doesn't sound that good. I'm not going to stay tuned. That's for the fan to decide. All right. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Happy Monday, Jake.

And to you as well, Daniel. Happy Eclipse Day. Is it? Text that. Let me know. People to you as well, Daniel. Happy Eclipse Day. Is it? Text that, let me know. People are buzzing. Oh, really? Yeah. What did they say?

Well, you know, they... Keep your eyes on the road? They eschewed any attempt at comedy today. They know this one's serious. Yeah. They simply instructed people not to just park on the freeway and get out and watch it. They simply instructed people not to just park on the freeway and get out and watch it. Which I wouldn't think that adults have to be told, but apparently they do. Well, I could see the excitement. I could see the allure.

I will tell you this, and I think I found out about this initially from you via the lady who cuts our hair. But the great Victoria. Main Street grapevine. Very busy for like 930 in the morning on a Monday already. It was a buzz. All those little bars and wine places down there having $300 parties. And it was a lot of people down there. We're in our temporary, possibly, what do we call it?

I think you nailed it. Permanent studio. Perhaps permanent. We're in a studio today. We are. And we're on YouTube. So if you're just listening on the audio platforms, you can head over to YouTube, see what Jake's wearing.

This is a... Looks like some kind of soccer. Iceland. Kit. Yeah, I guess I never understood if kit counted if it was only the top. But I have like this really stupid bit. Oh, kit is like the whole uniform?

I think, but I don't know kid's a fit I have this really stupid bit of buying the jersey of every country we visit okay I used to do the jersey of like a shirzy for baseball teams

wasn't that your bit whenever we went to the Rockets game I'd get a Rockets t-shirt thing yeah and then I became plain t-shirt guy except for today and I think we're gonna bring back wacky t-shirts on videos and maybe I was thinking about this and Jake and everybody. Okay. Maybe, I'm not too proud. I mean, I will be sold. I wanted to wear this today for our buddy who paid to be in the den with Trip U.

He organizes school trips or some such. And so I wanted to wear it to give him a little promotion, but I feel like this spot could be for sale. There's nothing that's not. I want to be very clear about it. See this? Of course. This hat?

That could have your company on it for an entire three-hour video. Temporary face tattoo? Oh, okay. Temporary temporary let's go temporary well yeah are you willing to go all the way well the only reason that i wouldn't be willing to go all the way is because if they only buy like a month and then somebody else wants that space a month later i need to have that available warm though okay well you got the plug in what's he going to promote next?

The eclipse The sun and the moon Yeah With his eclipse shirt But you got bits today That's what I mean If we're going to add video to our game He's got his Ben DiVinci hat I feel like bit t-shirts are going to come back

Sure But I do like the hat Alright, so on today's program. Do you know who is playing in the men's national championship tonight? Purdue. Mm-hmm. Typically two teams involved in this sort of athletic contest. I'm only worrying about the one that's going to win.

Who are they playing? UConn. UConn. UConn. All right. Should have known that, right? They're always good. It's always a good guess. We got Faul Ming.

Okay. On Purdue. Zach Eadie. Yeah. Do you like this headline on ESPN.com? UConn-Purdue title game has all the feels. History, one seeds, and big men.

Okay. Yeah, I'm in. It's tonight? It is tonight. Okay, I should know that. If we survive the eclipse. If we survive the eclipse. I was thinking this yesterday when I was taking the dogs out, and it was very hot.

I did a little yard work yesterday. Very hot outside. It was. As you probably know because you were even doing more than me. But why wouldn't Dallas have – why didn't they move the eclipse to yesterday? Because it was very sunny all day long. It would have been perfect. You got the day off anyway.

Sure. And now they move it to a Monday, or they kept it scheduled for Monday. So I don't think that was a good move. I mean, they moved Luka Doncic's day to July 6th. Right. Instead of 7-7. It might be 8. It's just not the day that a bunch of police officers were killed.

Yeah. So why be excited about it? First of all, Blake is not here with us. I'm Dan. Dan McDowell. Yeah, I'm Jake. I think that's... Yeah, there's Blake.

Probably pretty well. There's Blake. Blake is not here. He is left town. He is skiing in Colorado during the eclipse, during the path of totality. I've been very upset about this. I have been talking about the eclipse for like a year now. He's known when the eclipse is.

He chose to take a vacation out of DF, the very time there is an eclipse. I just want to reiterate a couple of eclipse stats for you. Okay. So this is 2024, so they say. The last time the city of Dallas was in the path of totality, a full eclipse, something you've only seen, you know, you've only read about or maybe seen pictures of, 1878 was the last time. The next time, like if you have the opportunity now to see it here in Dallas. The next time there will be an eclipse in Dallas

the year 2317. Are you capturing how rare this is yet? Are you feeling what a day this is? No, I mean, yeah, I woke up and knew something was different. It wasn't just

UConn-Purdue. Wasn't just that you were in a different house? No, it wasn, yeah, I woke up and knew something was different. It wasn't just UConn-Purdue. Wasn't just that you were in a different house? No, it wasn't just that either. I mean, I'm glad that people are excited about it. I like for people to be happy. I just don't care at all. Oh, my gosh. I can't even believe that.

At all. Now, I will tell you. I will just go ahead. Well, it probably seems somewhat hypocritical as we reference the Iceland jersey. I have mentioned many times that I thought it was pretty amazing that it was broad daylight at 2 a.m. and that it never got dark the entire time I was there. But that was like for five days. Does that mean you don't sleep because of the circadian rhythm?

Is it difficult? It can be and most of the houses there like the airbnb we stayed at both of them had like heavy heavy blackout lining and curtains okay there was no light getting into the house but then of course you know for part of the year their kids are going to recess and it's completely dark outside yeah looking at the Big Dipper. Sure. Orion. Yeah. The Big Dipper is really the only one I could ever figure out.

Or some major. Okay. But I just want to promote that we do have some sports on today's program. Actually, looks like more than I thought. The Mavs, I think we're all geeked about that as we emanate live from, uh, the DFW area. And if you are somewhat new to our show, we do cover the Cowboys and Luca very heavily.

Definitely. You can count on that. The Cowboys, Luca, the NFL, and then everything else, uh, including,

and if you know anything about us and you've listened to us over the years, you're not just tuning in. Then, you know, we're going to break down women's basketball for you. Sure. That'll be coming up today. And if you know us for five minutes, you also know that we're stoked on this other sport that has a big weekend coming up. A tradition unlike any other. That's right.

weekend coming up. A tradition unlike any other. That's right. Did you see that the word is that Tiger shot a 31 on his on the first round in the practice round today. On the first nine.

Again, I'm very excited for you. Yeah. How great would that be if Tiger did it again? What are the odds on that? Ooh. What can we what can What are the odds on that? Ooh. What can we wet the beak on that? Because I feel like... Plus 15,000.

For real? Yeah. I'm in. I'm doing it. You know, I like good value, and I got in on good value with Luka. Yeah, and I think last time you bet on him, he couldn't walk by the end of his Thursday run. Tiger, that's true, yeah.

He took a WD. That is true. But that was a lot closer to the accident. It's been years. He's had rehab. He's probably had new— Yeah, no, and he hasn't had any massive major medical scares mid-tournament in the last month or two.

You think he went to Germany and got like new blood and stuff like Kobe did? That was so awesome when that became like a common thing to hear about. Like, dude, you hear what Kobe's doing? What happened to that? They probably have some version of it now. I mean, if Kobe did it, wouldn't a lot of people be doing it? That they were going to like spin his blood or something? Yeah.

And put it back in? Yeah. Yeah. That landed really hard with like 18, 19-year-old me. that they were going to spin his blood or something and put him back in. That landed really hard with 18, 19-year-old me. This guy's insane. Did you think that could help you? I'd probably given up by that point, but there was a time where I thought Kobe would be considered better than Michael Jordan. I think that's how every kid grows up.

You just want there to be a guy who you can tell all your dad and his friends to f off about yeah i'm probably doing that with luca a little bit i definitely did it with lebron like you know graduated high school the same year as me and i remember you just wanted bob to be mad yeah oh yeah i wanted everybody older to be mad and i'm like this is gonna do it this is the guy now do you think that will eliminate you being able to be sucked in by Blake and others in generations to follow? No, I don't. I think time is a flat circle.

I have a very quick weekend update. Mine is easy. Because you know, well, you saw me for a bit of the weekend, but that'll spill over into your talk. Sure. You do know I left the show Friday a little bit down because, not because we did a program in Streetman, Texas, which is over the 100-mile radius from the Grapevine 9-11 Memorial. But we still did it because they were very good people, and it was a good time.

But it was a long drive back, like 2.15, maybe 2.5 hours. Yeah. And rush hour and all that kind of stuff, we hit it directly. And then I didn't get to go home because I had to go straight to a restaurant in Grapevine. Oh, no. And it's not just that I'm annoyed by couples dinner. I'm just annoyed by couples dinner when it's this group of friends of my wife

that I don't associate with at all, ever. She has this little neighborhood group of ladies, and they do stuff and things, and I don't really even know what. She starts to tell me, but I don't care. All I know is you're going to be out for a few hours, and that's great. And I am not like when I get home, she'll be like, oh, where'd you go? Who was there? Like a thousand questions.

I don't ask her. I don't care. Don't post game show. I don't care. She'll tell me about book club. And then that's the only reason I know there's one man, a guy, a man in their book club. But you better believe it. If I was in some kind of a book club and there's one lady, she would want to know all about that lady.

For sure. I don't care about this guy. In fact, I hope he's, you know. Tagging all of them. Yeah, sure. That's absolutely fine. Like, keep her for a little while extra. So it's, but it's, she wanted, like, for some reason, one of her little friends is like,

hey, I want to, let's do, let's invite the guys this time. And the guys don't really know each other. And what happened was very predictable first of all overall it was fine i got through it i'm here but after a lot and one of the reasons it was fine is we recently went to france it was fine is we recently went to France. So we have a lot to talk about. Those people had been overseas.

Now we can just compare notes and stories. And how much of the workload would you say was split to your half or your side of things between you and the wife? No, I carried a lot. I'm a professional talker, Jake. So I'll spin the yarn on you. So that took up a nice portion of the pre-dinner and then some of during dinner. But then, and I knew this would happen, they start all talking in their own little language. And they've got their little, like you me video man and blake were

somewhere together and with a bunch of people that weren't usually with us we would kind of revert into hey let's start talking about uh hey should we uh at least one sell advertising on my shirt should we like we one person would definitely be like you know we don't say that word anymore yeah and so we'd be like, oh, my bad. I was just kidding around. I'm just joking. He's like, yeah. That didn't really fly anymore.

So they kind of start into their own talk about things that they're really interested in. And now it's me and these other guys that don't have any common threads, except that we're with these ladies and we all got invited and so that was pretty uh that was the most awkward part and your beat it was about 45 minutes of real awkward of they are not paying attention to us they're having the time of their life and we're dudes so we don't really care what they're like if it was us three talking and our wives were jumping in they'd be like like, well, what's that? What's that? Explain everything that you're saying. We're not like, hey, I really want the backstory on whatever you're saying here.

Just want it to end. Yeah, we just all want it to end. So, you know, now it comes time. So it was actually three couples. So it wasn't a ton of people. so it wasn't a ton of people but which makes you know when you're an awkward small talk that's with a couple dudes who you don't have anything in kind you know one was like a doctor what do i have in common with this guy i don't know if you remember this like with your daughters but given that we have been successful enough to live in a moderately affluent area. When I go to the school,

I am, it's sad. It's doctors, it's surgeons, it's lawyers, it's men of finance and titans of industry, and then me. Yeah. And it used to be kind of cool if you worked for a radio station

that everybody's heard of. Yeah. But now they're like, well, what do you call it? You're like, oh, Dum-Dum. Yeah. Like what they're like, well, what do you call it? You're like, oh, Dum Dum. Yeah. Like what?

Dum Dum, it's online. And then you're like, well, actually we have a production company. It's called, oh man,

that sounds stupid too. Yeah, it's called Dragon Den Production. We got a new one. We do have a new company. But I don't know that it's any better

when you try to explain it to somebody. Do we want to announce that here or are we going to wait until 420? We can wait. We have a big 420 event coming up, and we can't really totally plug it yet. We're like, it's like a save the date. Like, save 420 at 420. We're going to be doing a live stream.

I will tell you it'll be at an Alamo Drafthouse near you. 420 at 420 we're going to be doing a live stream i will tell you it'll be at an alamo draft house near you uh but i just want to wait till the tickets get on sale till we really start but but you know just get ready for that so now we get to the end and the check arrives so i see birthday girl is pulling out her wallet and i thought i don't know maybe i had had a couple drinks I see birthday girl is pulling out her wallet. And I thought, I don't know, maybe I had had a couple drinks. But I said to other couple, hey, how about we'll just split it. We'll just split it down the middle.

And they were like, oh, that's a great idea because it's so-and-so's birthday. Now my wife is hitting me on the leg like, what are you doing? Why are we splitting this a pretty big bill? And she had the, I didn't, I had one drink. I don't want to brag, but I don't drink very often at all. But the other couples might have had more than one. They were all pounding a ton of drinks, and especially the couple I was splitting with. So now we're spending way more than the doctor. I've been there.

And then birthday girl did say to her husband too, hey, well, we're going to get the tip. We're going to get the tip. Okay, now we have it all settled. They'll get the tip because they didn't plan on this we're going to get our instead of just the check for the little stuff we ate

anyway doctor probably had a Wagyu steak you're over there eating kale yeah yeah yeah I didn't eat a lot I'm trying to watch the figure trying to really get in shape for this 420 event. Yeah.

We get the check, two separate checks, and I can't remember the last time I did this, if ever, filling out the check and then just hitting the line or zero for tip. Then I fill in the number and I sign it. And now, you know, they're going to give a tip. They're going to give a cash tip. Husband of a birthday girl. But somewhat, I think I tip very well for a couple reasons.

One, I think it's like good for the universe, my universe. Although lately maybe it's not really paying off, but I feel like overall in life I feel like treat people good, it'll come back to you, all that kind of stuff. I don't really believe in it, but why not do it? Yeah, I do it just to – It kind of makes someone's day a little better. You give a cup – I'll give one extra dollar on a tip,

my wife will be like, what you doing that's 22 and i'm like look that one dollar they're going to be like oh that's cool it's over 20 you know whatever right so now somewhere somebody is going through the receipts like oh dan mcdonald oh i know him oh wow oh my god zero tip that's really what i'm worried about yeah because the late you know the the server or whatever will know she got her tip it was all there together but someone is out there in the universe saying look at this guy who doesn't tip and they'll tell a story to their friends it could have been even more awkward if uh the other guy just did a little bit oh yeah like let me just you know i mean i know they're doing okay i don't do a little 10 and he may have he's a doctor he

may have yeah so that's my whole uh anyway the that that's my story um i tried taking a couple notes oh one i took for you my buddy who had friends in town the weekend before, and he said that's the only reason they ever go to the stockyards, went to the stockyards. And it made me think of your mom when he told me that they went to the John Wayne Museum. Is your mom stoked on that? Yeah. Are you very aware of the John Wayne Museum? I guess I don't know.

Okay. He's like, oh, it's really cool and i'm like really okay i don't think i'd think that yo she i mean yeah it was it felt like it was the only movies we had in the house for many many years we had a uh like a cardboard cutout of them like in our family room boy life size wow that's yeah and we also let your mind run wild on why that's there we also had um my mom kind of ran her business out of the house and she was work she worked in or still does sort of like upholstery you know so we had like staple guns that were you know compressed air powered and my brother would take my brother brother and I would take the John Wayne cutout into where those were and just light it up with staples. They would shoot at a very high power.

And we would just pelt it and then put it back in there and he'd be all effed up. And she was not happy about that. No. But it was hilarious. Shoot him in the dick. Mm. With a staple gun gun that doesn't sound very mature of you no i mean it's not like i did this last week probably 10 or 11 i don't know yeah

you would never do something like that no definitely not um yeah but people from out of town they do love the stockyards man well i think people in town love taking people to the stockyards. Yeah. That's probably a good point. But I remember I had a, uh, I had a professor in grad school and he used to work for, there's a hot role.

Now I would imagine he was like the tourist minister, uh, minister of tourist head for Israel. And he was teaching a class on public relations for countries. So how you're like, hey, we're going to blow your country up, but can you kind of be cool afterward?

PR for international diplomacy. And he was obsessed with the stockyards. He couldn't believe that it still existed. He's like, how did they keep this like this? You know, he's like, there's a real city around it. He's like, I've been everywhere in the world and these sort of things don't exist.

Did you teach him about tourism? No, I mean, he taught us. I thought he was the tourism guy. But he was very, very impressed with it. He's like, you know, most cities just all kind of look the same now. But they kept this together and actually have livestock that they parade through the streets, you know,

in the middle of the day. It's pretty cool. I guess I don't, you don't seem that stoked on it. No, no. I, I like it too.

You're right. Take people there. It's that, or yeah, that's the place he was shot. Yeah, no, that one a little different. And you just kind of, yep. All right. We're done looking over there. It's that or, yeah, that's the place he was shot. Yeah, no, that went a little different. And you just kind of, all right, we're done looking at it now.

You want to go stand over there? Yeah. Go to Hooters or? Spaghetti Warehouse. Yeah, those are the two things. Yeah, we did have a big weekend. We had to move out of the house. And I was already, we were already, yeah, it was a long drive.

The people were great, but I had to pretty much all day saturday and sunday it was just moving um because we're remodeling our house a little bit and uh you know we got two little kids so they got a bunch of crap and dan came over to help a little bit chappy was there chappy was there yesterday as well uh when the house is not too far away it's maybe 10 minutes away just a rent house exorbitantly priced such a grift which i think we determined is because of like what happened with wired will because most people who go to a house in the suburbs for three months um you either have the money to remodel your house or an insurance company is paying for it. So they set the rates like at crazy, crazy high because like Will was telling us, the money that his, I think we can say this,

the money that his insurance company was giving him was more than he even needed for rent and stuff. Because the insurance company is like, all right, well, it's what we do. Yeah. What is the house in your neighborhood called? Yeah. I don't even know, dude. No, I mean, that's what they say. Yeah.

They're like, you live there. Yeah. You have to make it equal. Exactly. But we're paying for it ourselves, you know. It's kind of rolled into the refinance, I guess, a little bit. But the house is fine. It's much smaller. Oh, really?

Yeah. Okay. I assumed it would have been the same size. And she did say, your wife said, it was the cheapest one she could find in this area. Yeah, and that was still quite, quite pricey. But yeah, you've got to get basically everything out of the house. So you've got to pack everything up. And we had kind of been chipping away at it for the week before, but it's like my least favorite

thing in the world to do. Okay. Well, I can, I can confidently tell you that last night at the end of the night, I was so dead and just like, I don't ever want to do this again. This is where you had you, I can offer very little advice that is of use, but you absolutely, anytime you're moving, pay Packers. Yeah. You mentioned that the other day. People are like, they just think that means movers. Oh yeah.

We're paying movers. No, no, no. Packers. Yeah. To come in, box up everything, label it. This is everything here from the kitchen. And they, you know, they're going to break a few things. Yeah, but you might as well.

You might do the same. Yeah, you're probably going to break a few things too. They're pros. And yeah, and you guys kind of had big giant boxes, which if you fill one of those with dishes, I don't know. It just seems like they would have smaller boxes for certain things. Yeah. Because the packing is the worst part of moving

i would i will help move that that ain't that bad just moving boxes from here to there yeah but the tedium of packing and on you know as i you saw the only thing i really did is unscrew the 50 screws that are in the baby crib yeah dan took Dan took a look at this thing and was like, I can have this done in five minutes. And I went back in there probably 40 minutes later, and he was still screwing with it. It took like an hour. It is a beating, though.

It's a beating. But then Packers would do that. Even with the Packers, they don't unpack for you, do they? Well, now that's big money. If you're Larry David, you have everything delivered and then unpack. No, but unpacking is not bad because now you can go through everything. I'll throw this away. I'll get rid of some of this.

I'll keep this. And you put it where you want. Unpacking you have to do anyway. Yeah. So, yes, just Packers. Well, whenever we move back out of here into the home, that's something I will absolutely take. Because it seems like you guys didn't start until Saturday morning.

We had started some stuff, but, yeah, the bulk of it, you know, it's kind of hard. We're both kind of working and got to take care of the kids. You should definitely not be here today. Yeah, I'm whipped. Because I was whipped because I kind of helped you for three hours in one day and then the other thing about it too is um yeah i mean you're right i'd rather do the unpacking than the packing but we basically what we achieved yesterday was we got all the stuff into the new place most of it 95 of it There are a few things that she's got to go pick up today. We don't have to

take all of our clothes because the bathroom in our bedroom is staying intact. I'm not going to pack up all my winter clothes. Okay. So that helped a little bit. But now it looks like a bomb went off in the house that we're in. You can still go back in there, right? Yeah, but at some point it's going to be difficult. Because, I mean, there's going to be some pretty heavy-duty work going on in there. But now, like I got up this morning, I don't know where anything is. You can write whatever on the boxes all you want.

But it just, you know how it is with the kid stuff. It's just crap everywhere. And I don't, I'm not i can't operate like that like i'll probably stay up super late tonight messing with it and then just be equally tired tomorrow because i can't i need things in this right place it's very important to me and it just i was walking around the house this morning was was like, I feel like I'm about to have a panic attack and break out in hives because this is so messy. Yeah. I hate it.

It'll probably take you as many months as you're going to be there just to finally get everything unpacked. Well, not if I can help it, but yeah. Because, you know, you pack up all the dishes and silverware and stuff. How many do you actually use? I know. Do you use one-tenth of all the dishes and silverware and stuff. How many do you actually use? I know. Do you use one-tenth of all the dishes that you own? Yeah. Don't you use the same two cups every day?

We definitely had a cup final solution over the weekend. Oh, my. We thinned out the herd quite a bit. Buzzy's took the hit. Yeah. Your split-lip barbecue cup. Yeah. That's gone.

You know what's really funny, though, is we got there yesterday, and I had seen pictures of the house, but I hadn't been there yet. She had been there a couple days prior. And it's in an old neighborhood. It's in Southlake, but it's a really old neighborhood. And it's a small-ish house. It's not like a two-story or anything crazy the backyard's not very big talking to ranch it's a ranch style dan talking to ranch there's

a putting green in the backyard wow not fake grass um no it's fake yeah yeah it's fake but like it's decent size okay it's got a couple like it's fake. But like it's decent size. Okay. It's got a couple like little pen placements in it. Perfect for Masters Week. I know. I was kind of hoping you would have been there for the second day. Perfect for you.

Yeah. I'm going to walk over. What if I just. I can walk there. It's like a mile away. 20 minute walk. Yeah. And it's a nice walk too.

It's a nice cool area back there. But what if in like three months I just have like a dynamite short game? Because we don't have a pool. That's how you make your money. Or dough. I putt. That's what I do. So anyways, it was a complete thrashing of a

weekend. However, I did do one thing. You christened the new house? No. Dude, I was asleep at 8 o'clock last night. I could not go any longer. We were done. U-Haul's back. Everybody leaves.

And then it was just, I'm out. So I probably shouldn't have done this from an energy standpoint and trying to get off the sick fully standpoint. That's right. You sound better it was it was a long day it's super stressful your arms get all tore up you know from bumping into box and damn yeah and so uh our buddy brian damaris who used to do stand-up comedy off and on for 20 years, I believe is the drop says. He hit me up and told me that Andrew Schultz, who he opened for in front of like 50 people, some five, seven, eight years ago, I don't know, but they've known each other a while.

Andrew Schultz co-hosts a podcast with Akash, our buddy, and Andrew's a big deal. podcast with Akash, our buddy. And Andrew's a big deal. And he was in town. He's touring. And Brian was like, hey, do you want to do this? And when he said it to me in the middle of the day, I'm like, there's just no way I'm going to have the juice for that because it was going to be the late show. He asked you that day?

I can't remember if he asked me Friday or Saturday. Okay. I assumed you had this on the books for months. No. Because. No, he either asked me Friday night or Saturday morning. This was spur of the moment. Because I was with you Saturday, and I couldn't believe you were going.

Like, you were already hammered beats. You had been sick all week. You have another day to do tomorrow. Which was going to be an even longer day. I couldn't imagine your wife's reaction to, Hey, I'm just going to leave and go do a comedy show. We'll see you. Good luck with all these boxes. Well, so that was the thing.

One, she knows that I don't really do too much with friends anymore. So if it had been the early shows, she might have pushed back. But I didn't leave until like 9 o'clock. The kids are down she had given up on packing for the day all right she was done and she did what I probably should have done which was just chill out but I had never seen Andrew I love going to comedy shows um and I wanted to I wanted to see him so I just I met at Fair Park, went to Fair Park Music Hall, and watched Andrew. Got there right when he was starting.

Brian was at a little beer bar next door. So I just met him. He came outside. We walked over. Didn't really have any interest in seeing the opener. Okay, you didn't see the opener. I mean, I know that's rude, but I wanted to leave as late as I could. Yeah.

And Andrew was awesome. Like 40 minutes of his set, which was probably tiresome for some people. Maybe it was more like 30 minutes of his set. It was about going through IUI and IVF with his wife. Okay. Which I obviously did twice. And I think there are a lot more people who deal with it than you think or realize and i had that confirmed for me somewhat based on the reaction to the jokes and it's really

kind of weird when he's when someone's like um hey who's been through ivf you're like yeah like how do you register that you experienced it in any other way than like clapping yeah i didn't because you know they'd be like if somebody's like hey is anybody from oklahoma in here right kind of clap but it's like hey um did you spend forty thousand dollars on the off chance that you could have a child and go through a very horrible traumatic experience yeah yeah um but yeah he he was like it was so weird dude because i think i've memory holed a lot of that experience. It's like we did it and it was done, but then it was like reliving it completely. But I suppose, too, you know, I guess I can't speak to it because I didn't see his thing, but like John Mulaney does 40 minutes on being a drug addict, being in rehab.

Yeah. Yeah. And you're like, this is awesome, a drug addict, being in rehab. Yeah. Yeah. And you're like, this is awesome, but I've never been in rehab. Yeah. So, and I think people in general, he obviously, he made it funny, but just like thinking about doing the shots every day. I can't believe I did that. You gave your wife shots.

Every day. Yeah. For several months. I remember that. And it was like so many of them that she would bruise and I had to, you know. Did you start doing it like under the toenail and stuff, like the heroin ad? We didn't have to go quite that far, but it is like in your butt. Uh-huh.

Which at some point, if you're putting a needle in someone's glute every day, you have to find new places on the butt. Uh-huh. Move around. But yeah, then. And then that leads to sexy time, on the butt. Move around. But yeah, then. And then it leads to sexy time, right? Yeah, right there. Right there. Needle's still in.

But like I said, Brian knows him pretty well. So we did like the little green room thing afterward. Okay. Akash's brother was there who we've met a couple times. Nice. I didn't know what it was going to be like because it was probably like. Has he heard of us since Akash is. Yeah.

His co-host. And because Akash was heavily featured in our legal drama. Oh, okay. He was aware of that. All right, great. Yeah. And I always feel weird in those situations because, like I said, there's 15, 20 people back there. You know, there's wasn't like a full food spread, but there's 15 20 people back there you know there's

um it wasn't like a full food spread but there's like beers and waters whatever and um i always feel like you're kind of just standing there like when the talent comes in like doing a pick me come over and shake my hand and i don't want to be like an ass whip you know yeah because he probably knows all these people in here but i'll be damned dude if like he didn't make a beeline for brian and probably stood there and talked to us for 15 20 minutes and not anybody else really and other people there like who are these yeah idiots and eventually he's like hey i'm gonna i'm gonna say what's up to some of my other friends who were here and i left and b stayed, but he was awesome. He was very aware of our whole deal. He was asking me about the show and the lawsuit and, you know, cause their show is massive. Yeah. Like they're a massive, massive podcast. And I was like, we're kind of a, maybe we eventually are regional, but we're not

like a national show. Like they are, um, we're mid we're national show like they are. We're mid. We're mid. But he was super, super nice, and it's always shocking to me. I guess I've heard people say this about you to an extent. Definitely this is the case with Akash because Akash's act is pretty over the top. Like he's using the word bitch to refer to his wife or women a lot but then like afterward he was the sweetest husband i've ever been around in my life almost to a point where i was like is this fake right right no like you're just doing this because we're here yeah it's not

and andrew is a very it's a very offensive show like he's hardcore and then you meet him afterward and he's just like he was the sweetest nicest most engaging dude like that you could possibly imagine he's doing a show i know it's trying to make people laugh that's funny it's just weird because i don't know if you've seen his like current haircut but if you think oh yeah it's like a slight alt-right thing going on here no his that's a wild looks shaved on the side looks like if hitler was a hipster in 2024 and you know he said at one point he's like um i don't know how he started talking about religion he's like any any jews in the house and again people whoo okay yeah and he's like you really want to cheer and identify yourself to a guy with this haircut right now so he leans into it but uh yeah it was a great time

and then i definitely without even really like drinking uh woke up saturday sunday morning was like i don't know if i should have done that like i wasn't hung over i was just like i slept for four hours and it was weird because when I was with you on Saturday, I thought this guy has nothing left in him. Yeah. And then I talked to you on Sunday and you sounded great. Sounded like $100. Yeah, I rode the wave until about 5, 6 o'clock last night.

And then today you seemed fine too. Hit a freaking wall. Well, you know, the deal today is, Dan, it's the eclipse. It's the eclipse. You're juiced on the eclipse. It's booing me. So what we're going to do in about, I don't know, the deal today is, Dan, it's the eclipse. It's the eclipse. You're juiced on the eclipse. It's booing me. So what we're going to do in about, I don't know, maybe less than half hour. It's pretty easy to chart.

Yeah, there's our new logo. We're going to go outside. So we are at our studio. We've hinted that it is in downtown Dallas. We can tell you that. And we will wear... I had a... Someone sent me eclipse glasses.

And so we have our eclipse glasses. I might go full Trump. This is approved by a NASA partner, it says. This blocks 100% of the harm UVIR and visible light. It doesn't say harmful.

NASA's not really into English. Yeah. They're into space. Yes. So we will go out and watch the eclipse. We're going to live stream it. Yeah. And the problem is it's like totally cloudy, right?

It didn't look good on the way in i wonder what that's gonna do i've never seen a see this is what blake is gonna miss the experience we get to see what does an eclipse look like if there's clouds because certainly it won't be as light out boy yeah that's not a great sell but i I'll roll with you. We're going to have video, and I think we might even play, then we'll, in post, Video Man will put that video of us going to watch the Eclipse in as our break in the show, and then we'll do a little Eclipse post-game show. I have a video that I need you to watch that I gave to Video Man. This doesn't play great for the audio

because it's mostly just text, but I think I want you to describe it. It was posted this morning on Truth Social. How do you like a little music behind us, by the way? I like it quite a bit. I thought I'd bring a little of that up. Yeah, I approve. All right.

That's all I want. This was posted on truth social by you guessed it donald trump who i believe is the only person who does post on truth so i never see any posts they go viral or get mentioned on the news ever yeah other than by donald trump because of course he owns it and do you have an account i don't but you don't need one do you need one to post but just to look at it kind of like with account I don't but you don't need one do you need one to post but just to look at it kind of like with Twitter you don't need it all right so I saw this video and I wanted to play it and you kind of describe what you see

okay the most important moment this is the the text. There's a sun. Text over the sun. In human history. All right. And now a group of people staring up. People staring up at the sky with their eclipse glasses. It says, is taking place in 2024

Looks like the moon is moving in Yeah something is Moving over the sun Covering the sun Again huge crowds of people looking up In anticipation they're cheering They're excited they're smiling There it is covering half of the sun now

Three quarters of the sun And now you see it's a... Is that the moon? It looks to be a silhouette. People are screaming it is a silhouette of the big man himself, Donald Trump, covering the sun. And then it says, we will save America. And there's dancing.

To be clear. And a black lady, a native American, a white guy, a Hispanic gentleman. Yeah. And then fade back to the Donald's as the moon silhouette. Oh,

that's the greatest thing I've ever seen. Now I would, to be clear, um, the most important event in human history was not the eclipse. It's the election. Trump 2020. It's his campaign this year.

So he somehow cucked the moon. I love that. That's the most amazing promotional move I think I've ever seen. He made the eclipse about him. That is so great. Incredible. Do you want to keep jerking around and do a little viewer mail and stuff? And then we'll do sport.

We have a lot of sports. Kind of a lot of sports. Anyway, we also have the eclipse. So, Leia, let's do this. Hey, everybody. I have viewer mail for you. It's time to answer some of today's viewer mail. What I have is, actually actually the first piece of viewer mail

is not email it's real mail this was sent to us at the den and i've been holding on to it for a week waiting until we had another video program and And this is 9-11 related. Remember Friday, we heard from the guy who actually owns the Mesa Mexican Cuisine? Yes. Very near your to-be-renovated house where the grapevine 9-11 memorial sits in front of that. Yes. grapevine 9-11 memorial sits in front of that.

Yes. And so this is kind of related from Spencer who says, you'll soon receive a package containing, well, here it is. It is the Dumb Zone's own, very own 9-11 Memorial. Okay. Spencer. He just says, you know. Never forget.

I thought you'd like to join the list of landmarks displaying and honoring our national creed. Never forget. Yeah, and there's a little. I want that on my side. You want it on your side? Here. Take it right now. Okay.

See if you notice the Easter egg that Video Man set up for you on your shelf. Oh, my girl! Who do we got? Paige. Paige Buecher? Is that the women's basketball player that you want to crush like a walnut? No, I want her to crush me.

Oh, you want her to crush your head. Yes. She's like 6'4". Okay. We could dominate front courts forever if we simply made it. Quite a few birthdays. Do you think I need to speed through this stuff? I think I want you to do what you want to do.

Number one, we have Nima Shabazi. You got to get that one. The great Nima. It's his Willie Parker birthday. I can't pull that one. Claim to fame is roofying bad radio, forcing them to go to Niagara Falls. Leaders are double-stuffed Oreos

and Jake's text about a radio host basketball opinions. Move on. That is from Naveed. Well, we know him as well. But Nima. Happy birthday to the great Nima. Somehow I feel like that guy has 10 birthdays a year. We have Chris, Commissioner of the free play arcade oh nice killer queen league

so he's i don't know if he's associated with the free play arcade oh that reminds me i know a guy named chris from free play that guy called me when we first got into our thing and said hey make sure you call me when you're up and flying okay well. Well, we're at least up. Right. Jury's out on, yeah. Freeway Arcade. Don't forget that video, man. We're more of a Boeing 737 flying right now where pieces are falling off the plane. But it's up there.

Yeah. Anyway, he has run into Jake before, maybe at the Alamo Drafthouse he probably did not smoke a cigarette with him from Nate my name is Eric day 30 something day one hangzoner you're my leader Blake more Blake blah blah blah

it was my birthday on the 3rd oh he's offering to smoke us out at our 420 bit. I don't think... We're going to be working, sir. I don't think there'll be any smoking out. But happy birthday. I appreciate the offer.

Dumb Zone, it's my 47th birthday. I'm thrilled to share it with space. Let's see. I have no connection to texas but somehow find myself listening to texas radio 15 years ago via internet uh let's see i'd like okay anyway what's his name gordon in seattle Seattle. Gordon? Gordon in Seattle. Let's see. What do you say about this one? Andrew

wanted us to promote that he got engaged. I don't know, man. Those things fall through quite a bit. Oh, this might not work out? Yeah, I would say even married we'd be like I don't know questionable but engaged okay he never really gave her name

well then it's probably already off to a tough start Jared Cowell is a day 7 subscriber in Fayetteville and I turned 46 today. More Jake. No puppet. And we have happy eclipse day to those who observed.

It is my tall friend and member of the exclusive Has Smoked With Jake Club member day one, DF number 50, Tanner Hutz, Seth Curry birthday. That is a good man right there. I went to Arrowhead with him, with them, to go see Patrick Mahomes, and then he didn't play. Got to see Matt Castle, though. Or no, Matt Moore.

Former Cowboy His leaders are the salt on Mr. Jones' McMuffin Jake getting ball sacked Which happens often It does Matt Moore and the ghost of Yogi Ferrell It's a fun player That's from Landry Atkinson Who sent a picture of Alex Bannister.

As he will do. Yeah, all right. Happy birthday, tan man. Do you think someday we want a Yawal in our studio? I think it'd be funnier if it was that, but it was just dudes with their shirts off. Okay. Like listeners to our show. Yeah, because we just think that'd be funny.

Yeah, just whatever. I don't, I don't, I think it'd be funny to do that. I mean, yeah. I don't want pictures of hot guys in there. Especially if you're, like, ripped. I think that'd be hilarious. If you had oil on, that would be, like, the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life. I'd be laughing if you, like, shaved your chest and stuff.

And you're real tan. Yeah, and you're wearing a Speedo. That would be, yeah. Pulsating. Oh, and did we talk about the cult thing on the show? I don't know, because we've talked about it a lot, but I can't remember if it was ever actually on the show it says

hello leader my sister and her brand new au pair from South Africa are recently at a bank they sat down with one of the bankers to set up a checking account for the au pair unprompted the banker said want to know something unusual about me I grew up in a cult in Mexico my dad had 13 wives and ordered the murder

of both my uncles and quite a few other people. There's a documentary about us on Hulu. We have talked about this. Okay. I could not remember. And I still have to go through the rest of the episodes. Yes, I have not finished that either.

But yes, we were talking about my banker was in a cult. I wonder, and I suppose it's to each their own. It is odd that you just offer that. Yeah. She said she thought it was weird her second day in the U.S. that this is what she's learned about. The au pair?

She thinks it's going to be great. Yeah, like, man, people here are cool. Don't worry. It was Mexico. Yeah, it was Mexico. Yeah, it was Mexico. But yes, I was interested on, well, you know what, I don't want to say anything else.

That's from Mark in Plano Day 1, number 36. He says, P.S. Jake has vape voice. I might. So maybe that's what's going on. Alright, let us move on before we get to eclipse stuff to this

broadcasters used to just like intentionally smoke though right like when I was sick the other day and it sounded so cool I feel like you shouldn't be afraid although I don't know the rules of the building we're in. I was going to say, you know, in the old days, they'd have an ashtray and a...

Why don't we just not talk about it? A cigarette. No, but I just thought you should openly vape. Yeah. You don't do this. The noise is annoying. How do you vape? The noise is annoying, right?

You do it with your two fingers or a finger and a thumb? I'm more of just like a hold the... Oh, like you kind of try to hide it. Yeah, I guess. No, it makes that noise. I listen to a couple of podcasts where the guy will just openly vape into his mic, and it's distracting. Let's talk Mavs.

Okay. And then after the break I'll play you some women's basketball audio Which amused me over the weekend But I feel like we're all pretty stoked on the Mavs right now Yeah, I mean Check out those NBA standings They're a game back from the four, right?

That was an incredible game Sunday Unbelievable That they had no business winning No business I guess if you're going to get down 22, make it in the first half. Yeah. And I guess today's NBA, Jake. It is today's NBA, but they also have an absolute fourth quarter assassin. So that's insane. I don't really ever feel that they're totally out of a game and Houston's not bad. I mean, they had lost four in a row going in,

but they were above 500 a week ago. They play tough. They've been eliminated. Yeah. Yeah. But they're not bad. Like they've been in years past. They're not Charlotte who they see next.

Um, they play tough and they could not freaking miss early yesterday. And then here comes Kyrie. Dude, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. Because there's games like last night where you know that he's one of the most skilled passers in the NBA, but on a game like yesterday, he's like,

look, I'm getting buckets. He had two assists. And he just kind of played, it's time for Kyrie to win this game mode in the back half of the third and the fourth quarter. I think Luka loves that. Oh, he's got to, man. It just takes load off Luka.

That's one thing I wrote in the last Mavs thing I wrote was just that Luka seems as fresh as he ever has at this point of the year. I feel like there were times, not even just last year, where things all went to hell, but every year, basically, he just looks like he's limping to the finish line.

And so then people are like, oh, he's out of shape. I'm like, nobody's doing what this guy's doing. And the question was, is that bad? Is it sustainable? And then maybe related to that was, would he ever actually give up the ball a little bit if he believed in someone else? And lo and behold, it looks like he does, has, and it's working out very well.

They could win the championship with this team. Well, they're definitely out of the play-in, right? Or do they still have a couple games? They have a pretty easy schedule going in. But, I mean, they're not going to be seven or eight. No, I don't think so. That was always the worry throughout this season. Do you feel like you're going to get two of the four?

You'll be favored at least in two of the four, at Charlotte and home to Miami, and then you'll have Miami, or excuse me, home to Detroit, and then you'll have Miami and Oklahoma City. So I'd love to see them get to 50, and that now seems very doable if they just win those two games against teams that have punted on their season. What do you make of the fact that, although the odds are much better and it would really help me financially,

that Luka still, did you see, who is it? Bon Temps, I think. Tim Bon Temps will have some kind of a poll with media members just to see where the wind is blowing on the MVP. And it's like Jokic by a landslide. Luka got like one first place vote. Yeah.

Which seems insane. It's weird to me too. I know he moved up in most trackers to two. We talked about that. Like he passed Shea. Yeah. But I don't know. I would have thought there'd be Jokic fatigue.

Right. That's – I think – Don't you get that? It's Luka's time. They did that for Barkley with Jordan. Yeah. Luka's having the best year of his career.

Steve Nash got it instead of LeBron or Kobe, right? Yeah. So, yeah, it's weird. I don't know. It feels like it should be much, much closer to me. Because – This is the best season he's ever had. He's so good.

They're good. Imagine the team without him. All that kind of stuff. You know, the other thing, too, is I think I saw Nick from Locked on Mavs tweet this out last week. I don't remember the exact parameters of it, but people forget how hurt this team has been all year. They've been really lucky since the trade deadline that most everybody outside of Lively

has been healthy. But before that, man, they were losing the most man games of any team in the West. Had they just had average health, I think they'd probably be at the three seed right now. Is it just because they might end up at six that Luka has lower odds? Because that seems silly to me. Watch the games.

Yeah, and seeding, that seems ridiculous too. Didn't stop everybody from voting for Russ. Russ, well, and he had an anomaly season, though, right? Yeah, but Lucas is not that far off. Yeah, I know, but it was the first time it happened since Oscar Robertson. He was the first to average a triple-double since Oscar Robertson, and that just stood out to everybody until later. Historians would look back pretty quickly after that and be like,

yeah, he was not the best player in the league that year. No, he wasn't close. Yeah. And Luka's at 9.2 rebounds and 9.8 assists while also scoring 34 a game. So, yeah, I don't know. I know he's not the greatest defender, but neither is Jokic. Jokic is fine, but it's because he's huge. He's not a stopper.

So do you have an opinion on where you want? Would you rather be sixth or fifth? Because it looks like the way things are, the Clippers are going to stay at four. You could get to four, but you need the Clippers to lose some games. And you'd still probably end up playing the Clippers. And it looked like the Clippers were going to lose on Sunday. They had a huge lead against the Cavs. Or excuse me, the Cavs had a huge lead on the Clippers,

and somehow the Clippers came back. But if you get to four, it probably means that they're at five. Yeah, it just means you have home court. Which could be important, I don't know. Man, I don't know. I mean, on one hand, I'm really tired of playing the Clippers. Really tired of it, even though. But would you like to exercise that demon?

That's part of it. And Oklahoma City is so freaking talented. So that's who you'd face if you got six. Yeah, probably. Probably locked into that. I guess I'm looking ahead, too, to who would you – well, right now the Timberwolves are the number one seed. Dallas can beat the Timberwolves in a series.

And the Nuggets are the number two seed. That one could obviously pose problems. So the two you really have a problem with are the Thunder and the Nuggets? Yes. Don't feel that bad about Phoenix? No. I don't. Now, they could get hot at any time

in a series and just have the talent, but they have no depth. Dallas does now. Dallas has got depth. They've got length. They're tough. They're getting in fights

there's a way I mean it's just way different it's a completely different vibe of any Mavs team I think certainly in the Luka era like they can win without having to hit

all their threes they can defend when they have to late in games they're doing most of this right now without Lively and if he's healthy in a playoff series, get a 19-year-old

springy backup center to go out there and block shots. They haven't had anything like that in forever. Maybe ever. Where are you at on Jason Kidd these days? I don't know. I think about that a lot when I'm trying to write something Mavs related. I don't even know what to say anymore. I do know that I know we need to give Nico a lot when I'm trying to write something Mavs related. I don't even know what to say anymore. I do know that I

I know we need to give Nico a lot of credit. The Kyrie thing has worked out. Let's talk about that real quick. The Kyrie thing? I think we've compared him to the Beltre experience a couple weeks ago

because when the Rangers acquired Adrian Beltre, baseball people that I trusted and it doesn't mean they were wrong, were like, you better watch out with this guy. Because he does not play well in the locker room. And he was great. And obviously Kyrie's stuff is more than just the locker room. But as I've said before, I don't really know that NBA players care that much about his political or social opinions. They might share a lot of them and just don't publicly share them.

But it is very clear when you watch them get a big win last night, like last night, that he is like the vocal leader of the team that everyone looks to. He's the locker room guy. He's the veteran presence that Luka isn't. Right. Like Kyrie has won a championship. Yeah, and he's super, super down the middle. And not just won a championship. It was a big part of it.

It was one of the main reasons, yeah. Yeah. And, you know, I don't know if you can have Luka at this stage of his career be the guy you're looking to for calming influence. No, no. Kyrie's just the opposite end of the spectrum. It's been really fascinating to watch that part of it because I don't think Kidd is that guy really.

I don't know. They're winning games, so I don't want to be too critical, but I still don't know that he's going to be the best coach on the floor in most playoff series. Yeah, you wonder when it does come down to really close teams and now the adjustments, the X's and O's really matter. Is he the guy to do that? Just even the way he would complain about his roster, even last year when some would say, well, maybe you need to adjust your style of play

to the players you do have, like Carlisle did. Carlisle turned them into what? A three-point gunning? At one point, Carlisle, who loves defense, just like Jason Kidd, Carlisle loves defense. But at one point, didn't he kind of say, all right, we suck. We can't do it. We're just going to outscore everyone.

And then they led the league in scoring and efficiency and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, he would play three point guards sometimes. And he didn't like that. No, that wasn't. And Barea just getting ragdolled out there. And he's like, I have to play him because he can shoot. Yeah. And then that worked.

By the way, do you know who leads the NBA in offensive rating and points per game? Points per game? Well, Luka leaves in points. Team. What team? Yeah. No. Indiana.

Oh my gosh. Are they doing much the same? It's pretty similar. I mean, they've got some great talent there as well, but yeah. If you needed any proof that he could just kind of show up somewhere and immediately get league-leading offense out of them, he can. Yeah. Back to Kyrie just for a second before we take an eclipse break.

We did always say if he's available, it's going to be great. But he's got a history of not being healthy or just not being on the court for a certain whatever reason. Could be his sister's birthday. Yeah. But I believe I heard this. Did I hear Mark Stein say it? I'm trying to remember.

But Kyrie currently has the most consecutive games played he's had in like eight years. Like he's been on the floor. And it's all working. Hell, they even won Friday night without Luka. Yeah. That's something you just don't see. No, never.

Boy, yeah, I guess I didn't realize he has played like 28, 29 straight games. Yeah. So. And think of that, man. Boy, yeah, I guess I didn't realize he has played like 28, 29 straight games. Yeah, so. And think of that, man. If he had not, you know, that's part of the deal with him, like you said. But even if he had played five, six, seven more games this year, which he easily could have done. Yeah, maybe there.

Yeah, but win four or five of them, and you're the three seed. Let's go watch the eclipse. Okay. Sounds like a plan. The Dungs Up. The Dungs Up. The Dungs Up. So we have eclipse glasses because today in Dallas, Texas, we are in the path of totality, Jim.

The path of totality. And we're going to watch the solar eclipse. Right now, it is 1.30, 1.30. So right now, obviously, it's still very bright. We are well lit. Yeah. But is it going to be totally dark? Will it be like night?

I mean, I think that's the expectation. No, I mean, this hasn't happened. I can't remember. What were the numbers I gave earlier? It was like 1878. 1878, and the next time this will happen is going to be in the year 2300 and something, in Dallas.

And so you are truly experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime situation here. You know, the other thing is it's getting cold. It actually is. So there's validity to the sun is warm. We're here to report that? We've just done an experiment. Do you think anybody will full release right at the moment?

Absolutely, Jake. Wouldn't you say that'd be a cool thing? Sven, are you going to have sex during the total darkness? Here we are. Wow. Someone's honking at the moon. People are cheering. The lights are now on

on the buildings in Dallas. Do you think Reunion Tower's all lit up? It has to be, right? Yeah. Do you think on the side of the Omni, like they did when the Astros won, it says, congrats, moon? You did it.

Maybe more than every 150 years. Dude, if I was a native and Columbus or Magellan or someone is telling me that I got to give them all my shit or else they're going to extinguish the sun and I'm looking at this. Yeah, your tribe is over. Starting to light up again. Temp starts to go back up.

Yeah. Crazy, man. Yeah, that's how you do it too like you're columbus and you know exactly how long it lasts and you're like all right i'm telling you you got three minutes to agree to everything i tell you and i can make that thing go away if you don't it stays there forever right and you time it out perfectly and then it goes and then you have all their riches and spices yeah were there skeptics like nah it does seem though that dallas was silent yeah for quite some time and now like the city is getting back to okay let's get back to stuff it is there is something very funny about cheering like you're at a sporting event where the moon does its thing moon moon moon moon moon moon man eclipse is blake like one of the clips four people that left the Metroplex during this?

Like voluntarily. Some people, I got to go out of town for work. I have a funeral to go. I have something that makes me leave town. He saw this months in advance and was like, let me schedule my vacation for right then. And it wasn't because he wanted to monetize his home. Just kind of doing a band. Very little payoff.

What a jerk. All right. Well, thanks. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. And let me play Drops. Bang, go on over here, bro. Is that Apollo Creed? Just random.

Optic. Buy a hat. He was paying boys for sex. Okay, don't make me watch your video. She told me she was a fertile myrtle. Boy, you do look blind. What? Why are you doing blind mouth?

He was betting more than you do. Did it just happen? That's crazy. You look so blind. We are more important than a Jackie Robinson statue. Oh, yeah. That's crazy. Kind of a aloof smile.

Are those awards regular season awards? I saw them in Vegas. Stevie Wonder? Man, I'm glad I took the glasses off. Hey, pull your phone out or go to your iMessage. What an experience we had. Before we get into that, somebody posted. My mom texted me.

We'll get to that. We'll get to that for sure. A crazy Path of Totality video. I'm not going to play it on the screen. It'll take too long. I just want to send it to you real quick. Okay? Alright. You haven't texted yet? Oh, there we go.

How do I have the sound of that? Oh, you're sending it from your computer. Check out this Eclipse video I got from the Path of totality. Is it us? No. Oh gosh.

Why are you doing that to me? That's an old thing, isn't it? I've seen that before. Somebody hangs their sack over the sun. It's not the eclipse. It's just a guy with a testicle. A testicle just emerges from the bottom third of the screen as the moon would. We will not be playing that one on the YouTube video.

Why don't you guys grow up? That's just terrible. Oh, man. Eclipse post-game show. Pretty sweet, dude. I'm not going to lie. It's better than I thought it was. Yeah.

I'm glad we were up there. I think if you go to our YouTube page, well, you're possibly there already, but on our YouTube page, we'll have the live stream replay up. And I think you'll see that you had convinced me. You're right. This ain't going to be that big of a deal. And then I turned around and thought it was a really big deal. Look, I'll admit when I'm wrong.

I can't believe that. Blake left. I can't believe Blake left. I can't believe we're never going to see that again. That's what's cool about it, to think of it like that. Yeah. Like a Cowboy Super Bowl. Hey, yeah!

I'm telling you. I mean, we were cheering for the moon. That part was hilarious. Some of the audio was probably in the break we just played, and like you said, you can see the whole thing, the live stream on YouTube. But there were some really funny parts. I thought it was cool, but when people started cheering for the moon like it had just hit a game-tying three.

Because we were pretty far away from any crowds. Yeah. But we heard, it's kind of like when you're outside the stadium or something, you're like, oh, something must have happened. Yeah, there's people on top of a roof near the building we are, and as soon as the moon achieved its full uh full blockage it was like yeah moon moon moon moon moon moon go moon go yeah and then i was correct about the fact that i mean i don't know if it was just if it was necessarily crime related but there were a ton of emergency um

vehicle sirens immediately yeah right up Right leading up to it and after. I don't know if it was just mayhem in downtown or what. I just hope everyone's okay. Surely. That's really the kids more than anything. Safety is the key to all good times. You know, we used to talk about how when Trump would say something really dumb, you and I would be in the back of the crowd like,

what a moron, and have no idea why it was dumb. Right, yeah. Oh, I know that. Yeah, sure. I was thinking about my kid being at school. She's five. Because I kind of wanted to look right at it for at least a second or two. Oh, my gosh, yeah.

Just to see? Yeah. So you think they're able to keep five-year-old boys who are knocking the kids down and like well you could look right at it during but during the but as it was total kind of happening there were times where i wanted to take the glasses off and just just to see and i kind of gave it a little glare so you think like first graders aren't like, whatever, teach. Can't tell me where to wear.

It feels like that would be a tough. Especially in this day and age, right? Yeah. Don't you feel like there's never been an age more where you just don't do things people say to do? Sure, yeah. They're not wanting to take five years or so, yeah. We've changed a lot in the last five years, and I don't think you're recognizing it. Well, that was cool.

Glad we did it. That was cool. People were stoked. It feels weird to continue the program, but we do have some time left. And I do have some audio for you. So let's just slide right back into women's basketball. It's all the rage right now. If you would like.

The Friday night game drew 14 million. Really? More than any other NBA finals game last year. What do you think went into the decision to, hey, let's make the championship game sunday afternoon instead of prime time like to do it sunday night yeah yeah i don't know it's a good question i would think that would have been a better idea should have put the eclipse there to you know i know man man i'm so glad the clouds cleared that That was wild. Because all morning it looked terrible. When we got up there, it looked terrible.

Yeah, right, yeah. Within 10 minutes, it was destiny. Maybe I'll go to church this Sunday. Couldn't even. Couldn't even get that out? Okay, women's basketball. Here, I want to find the audio for you. So I got a couple things for you.

Number one, this is ridiculous that this is a thing. I'm going to play just a couple seconds, and then I want you to tell me if you know what's going to happen here. Okay? Okay. Dan Zekczew, OutKick coach. Yeah, of course. I know exactly what's going to happen. Even if I hadn't already seen this story, if you had told me it's a women's basketball press conference and someone from OutKick has a question,

given what all the rage in the culture war is now, I would have known immediately. That's what they do. Well, it must be because it's a story and there's a player on the opposing team. No, actually it was not. It's just complete hypothetical to get her to wade into his... Well, I'm sure it's maybe not against the opposing team, but I'm sure college basketball is just overrun.

No, there's none that I'm aware of. With guys that couldn't make the men's team, but then they just claim they're a woman just so that they can have 70 rebounds a game. Yes, okay. Let's go ahead and play the whole thing. This is Dawn Staley, the championship coach. South Carolina? Yes.

Not Iowa. No. That's what we know for sure. Dan Zakrzewski, OutKick coach. You just talked about what a massive weekend this is, obviously, for women's basketball, women's sports in general. One of the major issues facing women's sports right now is the debate, discussion topic about the inclusion of transgender athletes, biological males in women's sports. now is the debate discussion topic about the inclusion of transgender

athletes biological males in women's sports i was wondering if i love that that's also framed as this is one of the major issues in women's sports yeah it's not no it's not affecting very many people if it ever affects one person like that was it max mac Mac Beggs? The local wrestler. It was a huge national story. You know why? That's like the only, there was one person. Yeah. So if you think there's a ton of college players,

think of how many high school wrestling. Yeah. There's a handful. There's like a couple swimmers in college. Right. But it is not, it's not the story that everyone is being affected by the way that he frames it. Biological males

in women's sports. I was wondering if you would tell me your position on that issue. Damn, you got deep on me there. She's just been for 20 minutes answering questions about Iowa,

Kaitlyn Clark, the fact that they hadn't lost a game all season, they have an incredible win streak, all this kind of stuff. The sort of thing you would expect her to comment on. At a basketball press conference, yes, and now she gets this, and so that's why she's like, oh, okay, well.

I'm on the opinion of if you're a woman, you should play. If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play that's that's my opinion you want me to go deeper do you do you think transgender women should be able to participate that's your question I mean you want to ask I'll give you that yes yes so now the barnstorm of people are going to flood my timeline and be a distraction to me on one of the biggest days of our game. And I'm OK with that. I really am. yeah she started out with a pretty generic non-opinion answer knew that she was probably going to get a follow-up so just went ahead and did it yeah and yeah she answered the question

and then he probably went and wrote an article about it i don't even like talking about it so much because it is such a deep hypothetical and should it ever reach a certain level but i feel like there is a logical conclusion to uh to this in the in the middle of it all don't you it's just a it's a really confusing the logic party that i want to run on does not care if you're a democrat or republican it just wants you to break it down. But as far as when kids transition and hormone therapy, and they've even tried to put thresholds where they'll test and see how much testosterone you actually have in your body, and if you're below that, you can play as a woman.

But have you built up muscles already? Yeah. Because you were a man until you were 18. And they've also had women in the Olympics, biological women who were not taking any drugs or hormones, who tested basically as males. Right. And they couldn't compete.

Because they're freak athletes that have a lot of testosterone. And so there's just no easy, I don't know that there's an easy answer. I just know that the main reason it gets brought up a lot is because it allows people to get really fired up about it and take it to the Fox News or whatever. And see, that's the thing about me. I'm pretty left-leaning, but these are not really things I care about that much. Right, because it's not an actual issue. My left-leaning stuff tends to be more about you know, the economy

or the workplace. That is an actual issue that if you made changes or changed some people's opinion on things, would have a legitimate effect on a great amount of people. I don't think you should die from being

sick if you're homeless. That's a crazy one, but I feel like that's the things that I'm more interested in and this is just the red meat that they have to throw out there. He knew what he was doing. Although I will say this, I did enjoy, and I should have texted

our dear friend Bob about this, but I did enjoy a couple weeks ago when caitlin clark was really cooking the people on twitter who decided that was a time to be like tell me why caitlin clark can't play in the nba oh dude and i don't think they were trolling or kidding like they're really yeah i mean i think there are people who don't know anything about sports okay and they consider themselves you know strut or ardent feminists and they're like this woman's amazing why couldn't come on dude yeah no she wouldn't score a point she probably would not score a point

you're like well why can't you just shoot i mean she's never get the shot off yeah you want to take it into the lane a couple times again Again, how would she do in the McDonald's All-American game, high school boys? Not well. Yeah. And that's not bad. No. That's why I want to. Because they're bigger, they're faster, they're stronger.

That's why I want to keep women's sports in the place where it is. It's fine. It's a thing. It's interesting. Some people like it. I don't. I'm not into it at all. I like to watch the better sports. I don't. I'm not into it at all. I like to watch the better sports.

I don't like men's college basketball either. I'm with you. They're inferior products. Let's watch the pros. Nothing wrong with a little amateur tab every now and then. Okay, so... Oh, man. I got

caught by the hub this weekend, bro. You forgot? I forgot. Went there, and the hub this weekend, bro. You forgot? I forgot. Went there, and there's this big, long thing. And then I thought, you know what? I'm going to figure this out. And then I started into it, and then I thought I just bailed. Yeah, that's a sad existence. I ended up bailing.

Like, I'm just going to go. If you get primed for action time and then just give up, that's, like, more sad than the moment if you actually did it and you're just like looking at yourself. I just bailed. I couldn't figure out how to get my identity. Like even at the store, when you're buying beer or something, they're not even going through that charade anymore with me.

You get to a certain age, and it's a little sad, but now my computer doesn't know how old I am either. Stuff world. Look at me. I know. Come on, computer. You might have to remove the tape up there on the camera that you've been rocking so long.

That is a, what is this called? That is a, what is this called? It's a little round black thing that, I don't know what it's called, but I bought a whole slew of them from Amazon. Put it right there. You are not monitoring me. That's where the man monitors you. Yeah.

The man cannot see me right now. Lynette Woodard, do you know who that is? I saw this story. I wish I hadn't. But yes, I'm aware. So in the late 70s slash early 80s, she was a great woman's college basketball player for Kansas. And in fact, she owns the scoring record that was broken this year by Caitlin Clark. And I guess Iowa had her out there when Caitlin broke the record, and she said lots of nice things about Caitlin Clark,

and they honored her and gave her her flowers, all that kind of stuff. So now she was at some kind of a speaking engagement. This was not a huge event, but somebody recorded this on their phone. Cell phones are everywhere now, Jake. Yeah. Crazy. And here's what she had to say. I am the hidden figure, but no longer now.

I'm the hidden figure. A little tough to hear. My record was hidden from everyone for 43 years. 43 years. I don't think, I'll just go ahead and get the author out of the room. I don't think my record has been broken because you can't duplicate what you're not duplicating. I don't think my record has been broken because you can't duplicate what you're not duplicating. So unless you come up with a men's basketball and a two-point shot, hey, you know.

Spicy, the crowd loves it. But just for you, so you can understand. So if you can help me spread that word. Yeah, she's just telling this small gathering. So she's saying apparently they must have played with the men's ball. It was news to me when I saw this story. And, of course, you know they didn't have the three-point shot. Yeah, I mean, we're not that far removed from didn't they just play a half-court game?

Sometime in the mid-20th century. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, no three-point shot, which Kaitlyn Clark obviously... But also, would I not be able to argue, do you not think the competition is a bit stiffer these days? Sure. Do you think that possibly she was the only girl in her whole hometown that even played basketball? Probably so.

I'm sure they were winning games 80 to 4 or what you know whatever the used to see crazy you know scores a lot more often i think than you do now sure the discrepancy in talent was much much higher i think it's funny that she's basically giving another version of what if i would have played in one of those sling itit-around offenses. She was the first female Globetrotter, and she was in the first-ever WNBA draft at the age of 38. She was drafted by the Cleveland Rockers. Where? Cleveland.

Well, no. I didn't know. Was the talent so bad that they had to take a 38-year-old at 1-1 or something? I think it was a first-rounder, but no one really knows no those records cannot be found um and had she stayed in cleveland and she would have enjoyed the path of totality right about now by the way i checked the traffic i think we're we're easy we were very concerned we were going to take the dark downtown and all this stuff to just because we had heard there's road closures and I think it was

that was overblown the experience itself was not overblown but I think that was overblown I don't know if like 35 and 45 are going to be I don't know maybe those are really bad right now if people traveling you know those are big interstates but it looks like normal but yes that is a funny story okay so If people traveling, those are big interstates, but it looks like normal.

But yes, that is a funny story. Okay, so I actually have an extended Today in History with a lot of sports stuff in there. You don't know the follow-up on that story? There's more? She kind of walked it back. No. On social media. Once people actually found out.

What's her name? Lynette Woodard. Okay. I didn't see the follow-up. I had this story this morning, yeah. Because she was, again, she was telling it to a little gathering of people thinking this won't get out. It was funny, too, in that audio.

It sounded like watching the crowd in Maury, where somebody drops a bomb and all the women in the crowd are like, ooh. To clarify, my remarks made it an awards ceremony Saturday. No one respects Caitlin Clark's accomplishments more than I do. That's like the basketball or sports version of no one is less racist than me. What about her dad?

I feel like he respects her accomplishments. This is why I accepted their invitation to participate in her senior day. My message was a lot of... Graciously accepted. Yeah, a lot has changed on and off the court, which makes it difficult to compare statistical accomplishments from different eras. Each is a snapshot in time.

A little more nuance than that one. Yeah, she got dragged. Yep. Are you ready for some news? Yeah, it's pretty much all eclipse. Here's Jake with the Dubs Zone News. It is the thing. Yeah, there were expected to be 4,000 people at Mesquite Park today.

And the news was out there last night. People were camping out. Tents. Camping out in the park. I wonder if people were doing that in our area. I think this story is actually from Saturday. You said Grapevine Main Street is pretty hopping. Yeah, but I think that was

partying. These are hardcore people. If you're sleeping outside for the weekend at bounce houses, who doesn't love that? So you're doing it for the community of it. Yeah. You're not doing it because you have to be there. You could just go out in your yard and do it.

Yeah, I think part of this, the parks that people were trying to pinpoint were to be away from tall buildings to make sure that you had a really good view of it. Like, I saw Clyde Warren was packed, but I was thinking that could be a problem. What do you mean? There's just a lot of skyscraper-y type buildings around there. Okay. Yeah, but it's pretty much straight up in the air.

Yeah. Around 130. I imagine there were some places where if you're at ground level, it would have been kind of tough to see. I thought you were going to say all those people on Clyde Warren would cause the tunnel to cave in. Yeah. You're always worried about that?

Collapse. No, but doesn't the highway go under Clyde Warren? It does. Yeah, there you go. Do they have a weight limit? That's a good question, actually. Is Clyde Warren named after a kid? I think so, right? Yeah. I don't think you want to go too much further on that one. Oh. Especially since Blake's not here to add something to the list.

That could be a bear trap. I was going to say let's book Clyde Warren but maybe that's not something is remembering a kid do you think there's any scenario where it's named after a kid where it's not a bear trap I mean rich guys like throwing their money around but you're right it's got to be my sick kid.

Yeah. All right, strike that off in the record. I mentioned this during... That was all off the record. Okay. If anybody hears that. That just gave me a flashback to when you and I had to get a crash course. You interviewed...

It was mostly me kind of instructing you. crash course. It was mostly me kind of instructing you. Not like I have it all down, but I'd be like, Dan, no. We stop right now. This is now all off the record. Being interviewed a lot. Being interviewed by

somebody from the Somewhere Observer. Maybe it was the Washington Post. Yeah. We're going to have to go off the record here for a minute. Yeah, that's weird. It's very weird, but sometimes you would just kind of start talking. I'm like, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm just a guy who talks, man.

I just want to hang out, have fun. So as I mentioned, whenever we were up on the roof doing a little live stream during Eclipse, there were a lot of fake glasses being sold on Amazon. I saw a story this morning where they put out like the ID number, I guess like the product number, so that you could check and see if you had one of the ones that was going to burn your eyes. It just goes to show, and we'll have more stories about this tomorrow, I'm sure. In the days and weeks to come.

There's not a single event that doesn't get marred by grift. In some way, shape, or form. Yeah, 9-11. 100%. Somebody gets cancer, we're going to take advantage of that.

And not even always negative type grifts. There were probably a ton of people around selling stupid T-shirts. Someone in the last hour has purchased an I Survived the Eclipse 2024, and all I got was this T-shirt. Don't we have a E6 sportswear? Oh, we have a Dumb Zone shirt. I think there's an E eclipse with the Dumb Zone logo getting slowly covered up.

We got to get in on it, too. Yeah, so if you would like that. Do we have an E6 sportswear graphic to put on our videos? That would be a good bit. Anytime we mention it to sell. Write that down, Blake. Everything that happens today is just into the ether. I know. Blake's not

here to write down. Do you think he'll listen back to it? No chance. What are these guys saying about me today? Are you aware of Morgan Wallen, Dan? Why do I know that name? He is a country megastar. Okay, yeah.

And he was in trouble. He didn't do the Applebee's thing, did he? He talking about Applebee. We had that guy on. Don't forget that. No, that was not him. Morgan Wallen was first making headlines for those of us who don't follow country music a couple years ago because

he was caught on a ring doorbell camera yelling the N-word. And I believe he was set to perform on SNL like in the next week or two after the video came out. Well, certainly that hurts your SNL career. Well, I can't tell if you're doing a joke or not. Does it hurt your country music career?

It did not. And SNL canceled it. And he was on like three months later. Oh, okay. They pulled a Shane. Yeah, he got his training, his sensitivity training. But he's just a wild card of a dude. This is his most famous song on...

What's it called? Last Night. I can't stand this sort of country music, man. Is this like new country? Let's see once we get into it. This is pop music, Dan. Yeah, bro country. Let's see, what's this?

But he's massive, massive. Should I play this song forward or backwards? This is called Cowgirls. Hooray for me. Yeah, I like it. It's a theme for the day for you. Oh, that's right. That's the way you could both watch the eclipse together while having love.

That one doesn't really feel like love, but that doesn't mean it's not great. That one sucks. Let's see. You know, I don't really care. Oh, all right. You just care that he said the N-word? Well, he's back in the news.

He was arrested. It's terrible. Okay, back in the news. He was arrested last night. That's a tough scene. That's going to flag this for being played on YouTube. Yeah, don't. It was Saturday.

No. It was last night. I was going to say, like, if you get arrested and the news story says Sunday, usually it means you got arrested at 2 a.m. Sunday morning. He was arrested at 1230 this morning. A little Sunday night partying in Nashville down in Broadway. That's their entertainment district. He threw a chair from a rooftop bar down into the crowded street.

It is a six-story restaurant. That could easily, like the chairs we're in right now, if you threw that from six floors up and it hit somebody, they could very easily die. For sure. Very unfortunate for him. How high do you have to be up if you drop a penny that it could go through your skull?

Empire State Bank, for sure, right? There's no way that's true. I guess I've heard it would be embedded into the cement. But I suppose that makes me assume that it would go into your skull. What is the penny drop myth?

You've heard of like back in the old days when they didn't have anything to do? They would toss, they would throw a baseball off a high building or a. And see if you could catch it? Yeah, or out of a plane. Like they actually had, or like there was a couple. Didn't you and Bob like broadcast from one of those one time or something? No, I did it off the Stonely.

Okay, it was a basketball? In Dallas, tried to catch a basketball. And my big concern was that it would go through my hands, hit the concrete, and hit my chin. I mean, it did go through my hands. But it didn't create a headshot? No, somehow, I mean, I didn't catch it. Who could believe that?

So he throws this chair six stories. But Washington senators would catch off the Washington Monument, I believe. I have heard of that. Somebody threw a baseball. Yeah, so he's very lucky, and in general, it's a lucky situation that it didn't hit anybody, because two Nashville police officers were standing in front of the bar right when

they saw the chair drop and it landed about three feet from them. Damn. Yes, because if you kill a cop it's even worse, right? Considerably. Do you have an opinion on that? You look like you're contemplative. I agree with it.

How does that work with the logic party? All lives matter. Almost as much as blue. That's what I say. Security footage later reviewed that it showed Wallen lunging forward while throwing an object from the six-story rooftop. So it's not like he just... He can't blame another guy. No.

His fall guy can't take it. And he was hammered. Yeah. And he's had a lot of problems with the drink before. Is that what caused the N-word yelling? I think he said that was, yeah. And there was also another time... Where it played a part.

I saw recently... He had like a sold out show and he sells out like amphitheaters so whatever they call the one and you know is it still dosekis starplex is what i call it place is full and as his set's supposed to start they put up a thing on the screen, like a message from him saying that he's under the weather, his voice doesn't feel good, and he's got to bail. That night? Like, that minute. With, like, 20,000 people there.

So at the time, he's throwing something off a building. No, no, no. Okay. Wait. What are we saying here? When you said that night, I thought you meant like when did he tell the crowd. He told them that night. But no, this was like a few months ago.

Oh. But yeah, it's not like he told them a couple days beforehand and said, hey, you'll get your money back. His set was about to start. Oh, okay. So you're already seated. Yeah. Yeah.

Full on. And then I think he checked himself into something. Oh, okay, so you're already seated. Yeah, full on. And then I think he checked himself into something. Oh, man. Rehab or exhaustion or something. But, yeah, he's... You're heading to exhaustion rehab. Yeah. I do wish that there was...

I said this a couple weeks ago, but I really do think I could benefit from just a few days of doing absolutely nothing. It just turns out that's not great when you're trying to, A, build business, and B, have family. Yeah. It never ends, Dan. It is kind of funny because I knew you'd love this element. When he did get caught with the slur,

country radio said, we'll stop playing your music for a little bit. So kind of similar to what happened with SNL. But the people wanted it? Yeah. The people demanded it? I remember hearing at the time, whenever we were still in the radio game,

that it was either DJs or PDs, oftentimes one and the same at a music station. They were getting hammered on the phones. People were just really upset that they had caved to cancel culture. Yeah. Do you remember when the Michael Jackson documentary was on HBO or Netflix? Yeah, and people stopped playing Michael Jackson music? It seemed like there was a couple more Cuban radio operators out there who wanted to be the first ones.

Yeah. And you'll always remember us because we led the charge. No longer going to play Michael Jackson. And that died down pretty quick. That one was insane, though, because while that documentary was... Damning. It was damning. It wasn't shocking.

Right, we all kind of think that. The first thing in my lifetime, I don't recall ever not thinking Michael Jackson was a pedophile. Yeah. Like, as soon as he entered my consciousness 30 years ago, the jokes on the playground were already like, he likes little boys. Has Macaulay Culkin ever commented? I think he's denied and defended, man.

Okay. Well, and maybe he didn't diddle Macaulay Culkin. Yeah, but there were other kids there that said that they are positive he did. You remember how one of the kids he would make go to the corner of the room and bend over? Yeah. And he would just stroke it? I do believe. I'll stare at his little boy b-hole.

Yeah, a little starfish. Yeah, no, it was damning. But the radio station PD, he's like, what? Right. Pull the Michael Jackson. Ridiculous. So the comp I made was Mark Cuban, when Kobe died, vowed that the Mavs are retiring his number.

They've never really hung a banner. He never really followed through on that, did he? No. They might not give the number out. Yeah, and I was like, well, which one? But if Luca wants it, he gets it. I have... If Kyrie wants it, he gets it. Ooh, I don't know about that.

Interesting. I don't know about that, but I'd love to see Luca try. I'd like to see Kyrie try, and then Kyrie could say I want to honor my hero. Yeah, which it was. Right. I have long wanted Luka to go into contract negotiations and say, I want to be here. But there's one thing you got to do.

I'm wearing 24. Just to put Cuban in that spot. I think that would be great. Because obviously Cuban would sell it as like he's honoring him too. Right. But. What if Shohei wants Jackie Robinson? Have we talked about this?

No, but that's a good one too. I don't think they do that. He's like, all right, I'll go play in Japan then. Man, that would be great. But everyone else... Because MLB wants to be performative here. But everyone else still wears it on Jackie Robinson Day. It's just his regular number also.

Yeah. That'd be really funny. He wants to make it Shohei Day. Can I tell you what your local news is going to be full of tonight? Probably in like the C or D block. And tomorrow morning as well. Just like at the start of school, it will be your cool Eclipse kid pics.

Not like the drawing program, but like, hey, here's the third grade class at such and such elementary with all the glasses on. And here's a dog with eclipse glasses on. There would absolutely be a dog. Yeah. I promise you every local news channel will hammer that tonight.

Cute eclipse stuff. I walked in here thinking how could I put my eclipse glasses on Baker and it just won't really work I don't think. He doesn't need them. Nah, he can do anything. Nobody believed in him. He'll just make another one if he wants to see it again.

I'll do a little recon tonight and see what the local channels do because there will be nothing else on the news tonight. Oh, yeah. There was nothing else probably last night except for getting ready. Yeah. All right, there's your news. What a jerk. The Dumb Zone News.

Like and subscribe. Bop, bop, bop, bop. The Dumb Zone presents... Oh, yeah, some audio for you. ...Today in History. Well, I don't have to tell you today is Monday, April 8th. Just because of the whole eclipse thing. We've been preparing for this for quite some time.

The 99th day of the year. Ooh, tomorrow. That's a big one, Jake. Mm-hmm. Day 100. I know how you do it every year. I take off. Your day 100 party

So on this day in 1864 The United States Senate passed The 13th Amendment to the Constitution That abolished slavery That's great isn't it? Certainly everybody was fully on board with That's great, isn't it? Certainly, everybody was fully on board with... That's unanimous. Oh, wait.

38 to 6. Yeah. Six senators voted against it. And... I think I have this right. We're still in the Civil War. Yeah. Right? Civil War. Yeah. Right?

1864. Yeah, 61 to 65 is your... So we're not even dealing with the Confederate state senators. These are... Does that make sense? Yeah, let's look. Does that make... If you have two senators per 38 to 6,

that doesn't make sense. That'd be 44. Yeah, 22. Yeah. Okay. That does make sense. Yeah, six voted against it. By the way, so then I read a little bit about this morning trying to find those six.

Then they had to send it to the House of Representatives. Of course. It did not pass because they need two-thirds vote. It isn't just a majority. Right. And it took until the next January for it to actually pass, or maybe even the next April. Dude, this is crazy.

So there's a government website you can go to, and it lists basically transcripts of debates you know you've seen that before like c-span has a website where you can see political speeches and the like they have the proceedings from january 6th 7th 9th 10th all the way down to the 31st in 1865 of the debates in the House of Representatives. Like, they've got reports on it. Like, what were the pros and cons then? You can see what they're saying? Yeah.

That's awesome. I could go through those sometime. You know what's really cool? What was it, the 13th Amendment? Really cool to me me and i haven't done this in a while but maybe it'd be a good bit to revive when i had a subscription to the atlantic um that publication has been around forever like i do believe it was around in the late 1800s and you could go if you you had an actual active subscription,

you could go read issues from then. And it was fascinating. Like, find out what the cons were? Why we're not into this? But not even just stuff like slavery. You know, like, what were they worried about that they would write about? Because now the Atlantic is like, is AI going to kill us all?

Yeah. But they were writing in 1904, is the country going to hell because of fill in the blank? Or women, should we let them vote and stuff? It's crazy. Okay, I'd like to see that. It's really, really interesting, and it's not a summary.

It's word for word. What they were writing. Yeah. The woke Atlantic. All right, so trying to get it passed through Congress, one of the dissenters, Representative Chilton A. White. Oh, That just sounds

Yeah I guess his name is White It says here among other opponents So he's just stepped forward to be the mouthpiece He warned the amendment Could lead to full citizenship for blacks And that would be Come on Look I know it's a couple

steps down the road, but what if we get there? Everyone who was voting for it was like, yeah, dude, that's what we're trying to do. Also, do you know Lincoln was pretty stoked, and maybe he did actually debate Frederick Douglass on this one, but he

I think he was trying to look for a good political answer to all of this where I could get both sides kind of happy here. He had, his original plan was to round them up and send them back. That is true. Like he just, like, what if we just get rid of all black people? So, but by this time, of course, many generations of black people, they were American. But let's just send you to Africa, drop you off. Like, that was a plan that he thought, well, then people who are anti-slavery, well, we don't have slaves anymore. And people who don't like black people and stuff, well, we're not

going to have them anymore. You don't hear about that plan as much. No, but then that wouldn't have worked out in the end, right? Because they ended up kind of with a quasi-slavery anyway afterwards. Yep. Oh, well.

Let's see here. On this day in 1974, Hank Aaron of the Braves Hit his 715th career home run Breaking Babe Ruth's record Who caught that ball? Don't know You've interviewed him I wonder if we talked to him about it

I just got reminded this morning Looking at this The man who caught the ball In the Braves bullpen Was Tom House Oh We have talked to him about that, actually. Did we?

Mm-hmm. Let me skip this one in 1987. I'll come back to it. In 2013, kidnapper-slash-rapist John Jemelski, who had imprisoned five women and girls as sex slaves inside a makeshift dungeon in DeWitt, New York, was arrested, pled guilty to five counts of first-degree kidnapping, serving 18 years to life in a maximum security prison, which doesn't seem like that long of a sentence.

Like if you could potentially get it in 18 years if you're really cool. But you've never heard about this guy because at this point, Like if you could potentially get it in 18 years if you're really cool. But you've never heard about this guy because at this point, we didn't have YouTube and we didn't go viral for being a neighbor, and that's why you've heard of the Cleveland guy. That's right, Charles Ramsey. Dead giveaway. And on this day in 2019, Chris Davis, at this point he is a Baltimore Oriole,

former Ranger, set a major league record by going 49 at-bats without a hit. People were not on board with Chris Davis, if you remember the end of his career. No, he got a massive, massive contract, too. I go back to 1987, where we will take a trip into some audio. Because on this day in 1987, Al Campanus, video man didn't really remember Al Campanus until I jogged his memory. Certainly you certainly do, right? Indeed.

You're Kemp's been. Yeah. Al Campanus was the vice president of player personnel for the Los Angeles Dodgers. And on this day, he resigned. Because he had appeared on ABC's Nightline a few days before to commemorate the great occasion where Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. And of course, you know, Campanus had been with the Dodgers. In fact, I think he even played with Jackie Robinson for a while. The short story is that he said on ABC's Nightline

that blacks might lack some of the necessities for becoming managers in baseball. And especially if you hear this, let's say, in this day and age, you might say, oh my gosh, woke. The guy said one thing, and you might have taken it out of context. You will see that very often right now, right? What about the whole thing? Like, what was he saying?

How did they lead him into it? Well, actually, it's even worse. So Ted Koppel, the moderator or the host, he has three guests or two guests. He has Al Campanus to celebrate Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. Journalist Roger Kahn, he was a well-known baseball writer. I think he wrote a book, a bestseller. Might have been called Boys of Summer. Don't know, but I know he was pretty famous back in the day.

And Al Campanus, who was with the Dodgers. So... Who was the third guest? Just two guests, sorry. So three people. It's Koppel, Al Campanus, and author Roger Kahn. And Koppel asks Kahn, how come, well, I guess he's asking about black managers,

like are there current black managers type thing? Currently? Currently. I don't believe so, but more significantly, are there any black general managers, managers or employees, are there any black club owners? Jack, I asked Jack once, would you like to manage after he was through playing? And he said as a matter of fact although he had some tough

associations with baseball, yes he thought he would, thought he'd be a good one, and he said once I got a call from Vancouver which was in the deep minor leagues, and they asked if I'd be interested, and I told them I would be. They never called me back. So although we all can rejoice in the progress that baseball has made in integration, I think if Jack were alive today, Jack would say, how come there are no blacks running ball clubs?

Mr. Campanus, it's a legitimate question. You're an old friend of Jackie Robinson's, but it's a legitimate question you're an old friend of jackie robinson's but it's a it's a tough question for you you're still in baseball why why is it that there are no black managers no black general managers no black owners well as a couple there have been some black managers but i i i really can't answer that question directly the only thing i can say is that there might have been one previous to that. I'm not sure.

Maybe a couple. Cito Gaston was the Blue Jays manager, but that was the early 90s, wasn't it? That's when Joe Carter hit the game-winning home run for the Blue Jays. I'm trying to think. Frank Robinson was, of course, for the Indians.

He was the first black manager and that was until the mid-70s, and he was a player manager as well. There's a bit of an asterisk, I think, when you include that. Very few, if any. Anyway, let's let Al Campanus keep talking. Correctly, the only thing I can say is that

you have to pay your dues when you become a manager. Generally, you have to go to minor leagues, there's not very much pay involved, and some of the better known black players have been able to get into other fields and make a pretty good living in that way. Yeah, but you know in your heart of hearts, and we're going to take a break for a commercial, you know that that's a lot of baloney. I mean, there are a lot of black players. There are a lot of great black baseball men. I feel like Ted Koppel is squarely on the right side of history on this one. There are a lot of great black baseball men who would dearly love to be in managerial positions.

And I guess what I'm really asking you is to, you know, peel it away a little bit. Just tell me, why do you think it is? Is there still that much prejudice in baseball today? No, I don't believe it's prejudice. I truly believe that they may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager or perhaps a general manager. You really believe that? Well, I don't say all of them, but there certainly are short. How many quarterbacks do you have? How many pitchers do you have that are black?

How do you think this is going for Al Campanis? Do you think he's talking himself out of it yet? Not quite. How many quarterbacks do you have? How many pitchers do you have that are black see i gotta tell you that sounds like the same kind of garbage we were hearing 40 years ago about players when they when they were saying ah not not not really not really cut out you remember the days you know hit a black football player in the knees and you don't know that really sounds

like garbage if you if you forget that must have been something that I've never heard of. I wonder if Chappie knows about that or somebody older. Yeah, I mean, I don't know the specific incidents. To keep blacks out of even playing, it was, well, they're not as tough. Yeah. They would be refereed differently. Yeah. If you forget what I'm saying. It's not garbage, Mr. Koppel, because I played on a college team in the center field who was black,

and in the backfield at NYU with a fullback who was black, never knew the difference of whether he was black or white. We were teammates. So it just might be that they, why are black men or black people not good swimmers? Because they don't have the buoyancy. It may just be that they don't have access to all the country clubs and the pools. But I'll tell you what, let's take a break and we'll continue our discussion in a moment. He thinks he's killing it.

Definitely. You know, I mean, it's just like how they can't swim. They don't have the buoyancy. What does that mean? That is obviously hilarious because it seemed as if he was going down the path of trying to say they don't have the intellect, right? Pitching, quarterback, he's trying to say, without saying it, that he believes that even if given the opportunities of education,

that black men are less intelligent. And somewhere along that, he remembered that he thinks they can't swim all that well either. See, also, yeah. There's a variety of things black people can't do. He just had to throw that one in there. The buoyancy thing really. Is that something that people were saying? Oh, I'm sure.

That's why, ted coppel's like yeah maybe because they yeah maybe because uh you know you know why is it whenever they attempted uh to go to pools hotel owners would throw acid into the pool or that's real oh yeah my gosh you never seen No. Yeah, there's a family of a black family. You could probably guess where it is. It's somewhere where you think it is. And they're in the pool. And the owner comes out and starts.

He's got like buckets, paint buckets. And he's like dumping acid in the pool while the kids try to get out. It's a very horrific scene. I don't know that I need to add that last part. I don't think you were thinking it was a fun scene. That was very unnecessary. I mean, did they start tripping and watch their hands go? No, it wasn't LSD.

Oh, you said acid. Okay. How cool would that be, man? For free? Yeah. What if we had an eclipse now? Oh, there is now. Like, if you're on acid.

All right, let's just kind of continue. Let's continue after the break. I'm sure he, you know, got his senses together, and things will be a lot better after the break. Continuing our conversation now with Al Camp and roger connor's con how much courage to the take on branch rick is part that took it took a enormous courage and he was threatened with the ostracize ostracism by all of the other owners uh...

the people that read smith used to call the fat heads who run baseball what that phrase comes to mind because i think the real reason there are no black general managers is that there are a sufficient number of fatheads running baseball who think blacks aren't intelligent enough to be general managers. Al Campanus has been a friend for 40 years and he doesn't only have my respect, the Dodger record tells us what kind of a baseball man he is. But let's say what it is, that there is a sense that the black can work in the field. He can work in the cotton field, he can work on the ball field. But ask a black to use his brain, run a team, plan a team?

Oh, my goodness, you're talking about real integration there. Yeah, Al Kempis, from everything I understand, you're a very decent man there yeah i'll come back somewhere from everything i understand you're very decent man and and and i highly respected man in baseball i confess to you before we began this program baseball is not one of my areas of expertise i'd like to give you another chance to dig yourself out uh... because i think you need to know well let me let me just say this was a couple how many

uh... executives you have on a higher level or higher echelon in your business? Okay, so during the break, he thought, I got some other arguments that are better. For sure. Instead of reconsidering the whole thing. What do you have on a higher level higher jalan in your business you're not in the t t v i mean that you're absolutely right or i can't imagine how many uh... black anchorman the app fortunately is fortunately there are about unfortunately there are a few black anchorman but if you want me

to tell you why there are any black executives i'm not gonna tell you it's because the blacks aren't intelligent enough i'm gonna tell you because he did he is that because it is that whites have been running the establishment of broadcasting just as they've been running the establishment of baseball for too long and seem to be reluctant to give up power. I mean that's what it finally boils down to, isn't it? He does not agree with that. Shocking. But then we go another ten minutes or so, and then we're going to wrap up.

Well, I don't think this is the exact wrap-up, but I just will fast forward to just what continues the Al Campanis career-ending interview. And the thing is, too, of course, and this is why I think retiring Jackie Robinson's number across baseball is silly. Because I think it's performative. And I think that all of this is performative. Because now this guy is actually coming out and you're hearing, he ain't the only guy in baseball.

Yeah. And he's with the Dodgers. And he played with Jackie Robinson. So he's the supposed most woke or most progressive franchise that's going. This is how he really feels. the whole Jackie Robinson thing is supposed to represent all black players, but, you know, they all, you know, Larry Doby with the Indians went through the exact same stuff that Jackie Robinson went through, but you're not retiring his number, you know, because Jackie Robinson wore it publicly,

but Larry Doby had teammates that wouldn't share stuff with him. We've interviewed one of them. That's also true. You know, he got his got the N-word. He had to stay in different hotels. He was spikes coming high when he had to cover the bag or whatever. So anyway, let's just give you one more little piece. It seems so strange to me that we're able to see that kind of integration on the field

and yet not be able to visualize it in the field and yet not be able to visualize it in the clubhouse, not be able to visualize it in the managerial suites. And in all fairness, Mr. Campanus, you're right, not be able to visualize it in the executive suites at the networks and in some of the major newspapers. We've all been much too slow. What reasons do you attribute that to, Mr. Campanus? Well, Mr. Koppel, I think that Jackie Robinson probably did more for the acceptance of a black athlete than anyone that I have seen or known. But what you've got to realize is that when you had the problems from the Civil War... I thought he had it.

Okay, yeah, let's back up in here. He just mentioned the Civil War. I thought he had it. Okay, yeah, let's back up in here. He just mentioned the Civil War. Okay. But what you've got to realize is that when you had the problems from the Civil War. Remember the problems? It becomes a thing that doesn't happen overnight. I think Robinson and Jackie did a tremendous job in making the black athlete acceptable in the areas which had never occurred before, namely playing professional Major League Baseball. And if you look back and think about the fact

that it took so long for an athlete, you've got to realize it's going to take a little time also for executives and managers. They have to sort of get into this just about the rate that Jackie did, which took a long time. I guess I don't need to remind you, Mr. Campanus, when Jackie Robinson joined, you were a kid. No, no, no. We played together. Neither were you. I mean, but you were a kid. You were a youngster, right?

You were what, in your 20s? I was in my mid-20s, right. Mid-20s. All right. Well, you're a man in your mid-60s right now. How many generations is this going to take, do you think? Well, I don't have the crystal ball, Mr. ball mr coppel but i can only tell you that i think we're progressing very well in the game of baseball we have not stopped the black man from becoming an

executive they also have to have the desire just as jackie robinson had the desire to become an outstanding ball player geez yeah so like if the dodgers had offered Jackie Robinson a GM position or, you know, assistant GM or whatever, he certainly would have turned that down. He didn't have the desire. He just didn't really want it. He didn't have TWTW. That's insane. It's incredible because I, you know, was sports conscious at this point,

but I didn't really realize, again, I've just always realized, it's the little clip. Okay, if he said they lack the necessities, but I do watch the news now and I see one thing gets turned around and it's like, that's not what they were saying. But that's what he was saying. It wasn't taken out of context and cancel culture and all that silly stuff.

Birthdays of famous people? C.D. Lamb is 25? About to get paid. I would think so, yeah. Before Micah, right? Yeah, he's one year before Micah. Shaka Smart, 47. Marquette.

Felix Hernandez, 38. Kind of fell off fast, huh? He did fall off fast. But man, there was a time. That was must-see. Yeah, I looked at his stats today because I'm like, he's only 38? Yeah, that's surprising. There are guys pitching that are 38, still pitching well. He fell off.

Sometimes you have to, let's just be honest, question the age. Well, no, I mean, even American born are a certain age, like just still performing well. But do you question? No. Or do we question Felix's age, are you saying? Yeah. Oh, okay. So maybe he's actually older. He might. Sorry, my bad. I don't think that's racist because it's actually been proven with a number of Latin ballplayers. Like no one has a clue how old albert pooh holes is i don't know if he knows and they have said you know they want to tell scouts if they tell a scout that you're uh 19 they're like oh that's a little late right yeah yeah uh jim lampley is 75 do you know the bullet point on Jim Lampley?

I think we've done this before. I mean, I know who he is. I learned this on the rant with Gordon Keith many years ago. Search Jim Lampley wife. Because I believe this is where the whole discussion of having a lobster claw comes in. Oh, she's Brie Walker? I believe so. Okay.

What is a lobster claw? Is it like you actually have two fingers? It probably varies. Are you looking at it? No, I mean... Yeah. Alright. She made it to TV right uh made it to tv she made it to tv yeah all right

uh tim the tat man is 34 he's a very famous twitch and youtube streamer oh wow 34 seems old for that well he got really famous. Yeah, I guess that's true. Now he's living off his millions. He's old. Yeah. John Schneider is 64 from the Dukes of Hazzard. He has some wild opinions.

Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah. Racist? It's just... Just anything? Yeah. COVID-y. Richard Hatch is 63. I know. It's shocking that one of the actors. COVID-y. Richard Hatch is 63?

I know. It's shocking that one of the actors from the Dukes of Hazzard has some... Sometimes life imitates art. Some political social opinions, yeah. Richard Hatch was the first winner of Survivor. Taxes. Back when I was... I mean, Bob made me watch it, but I was not anti-watching Survivor.

I wasn't either. I liked it a lot. It was... it, but I was not anti-watching Survivor. I wasn't either. I liked it a lot. You might say I was stoked. I don't know what year that was, but I was old enough to like it was family viewing. Yeah. We were really into it. Yeah. For a little bit.

Learn stuff. Kind of think. Could you do it? Oh, you got to play political games. Mm-hmm. That's when they were first kind of figuring that out, too. Dean Norris is 61. Is that Hank?

Hank from Breaking Bad. Robin Wright, 58. I think Dean Norris accidentally tweeted a porn link once. Damn, Blake isn't here to write that down. That's another Kemp spin.

It's actually even funnier than that. Somehow. This was in May of 2018. And at Dean J. Norris probably was trying to search in a search bar for images, but instead just tweeted sex gifs. What do you get when you search that? I don't know. Yeah.

Sex gifs. It has 12,000 retweets. It's still up? Well, it wasn't the time of this article. Respect if that's still up uh robin wright from princess bride uh patricia arquette is 56 is she the one from escape from danimora yeah she's great it's a great little show emma caulfield is 51 i believe buffy the vampire sl. And keeping with that theme,

musician Ezra Koenig is 40. Vampire Weekend. Cut that back. Born on this day, not dead. A lot of people, including Chris Kyle, the U.S. Navy SEAL sniper. I believe there was one... I think we can tell the U.S. Navy SEAL sniper. I believe there was one. I think we can tell the story.

I believe there was one. I want you to tell every story when you hesitate and go. I think mostly I have. I don't know this first or even secondhand, but there was some speculation. People had said that Grego had said that he knew him pretty well and was at the funeral, and I believe even carrying the casket because he was off work the day of the funeral, which I believe was at Cowboy Stadium.

And I don't believe that was true. Wow. But, you know, there was a time where there were a lot of tall tales being told. Yarns being spun. Yeah, really. I mean, it's obviously

a very tragic story. But really kind of a weird move to take a guy that you know is really having a tough time depression has suicidal ideations and your form of therapy is to take him to a gun range yeah no it's that's um almost a little victim blaming there they do it for sure and it does work you know chris kyle took lots of the

guy who would kill him yeah but it's a common thing in the military So you were just saying It just doesn't seem ideal That it's a very serious story And all that kind of stuff And I was trying to think in my head Real quickly come up with a way How could we make the Chris Kyle story

Into a comedy What do you got Well I don't think there is a way But I was thinking drops the casket okay maybe but it ain't gonna work buddy yeah i'm with her but i was what flashed in my head was because you said it's a tragic and all that and i said yeah and i i nodded agreed but um hogan's heroes was a comedy about a German concentration camp in World War II. It's true.

Or POW camp, I should say. Concentration camp. I'm not sure you can find. Probably not. If 60s TV couldn't find the funny in that, then it can't be found. Yeah, I would agree. But Hogan's Heroes was legit a comedy. I mean, the Germans, they're pretty bad.

I can't imagine being a POW of the Germans was that great. Anyway. Died on this day, still dead. Let us know what you come up with. Sometimes I just throw it out there just to get the people thinking. Okay. Ryan White, Margaret Thatcher james hellwig i only have this on there for ty have you seen the uh norm mcdonald margaret thatcher clip

i saw something floating around what is it funny yeah but the audio doesn't totally sell it but you can try uh-huh um let's see if i have it here it's from his podcast oh here i got it let me pause it here we won't be able to do the video but you'll have to set the scene a little bit i have to set the scene well it described what you see afterward because it doesn't all come through i don't think in the audio this is my promise okay to the people of the video podcast network world i will not eat a single morsel of food until margaret thatcher is dead and buried she died three weeks ago oh now he's just diving into a big giant bucket of fried chicken. Yeah, sitting there.

The way he attacks the bucket is so funny, too. Like, there's no hang time in between. She died three weeks ago. Also died on this day. I won't tell you what year. In fact, I want Video Man to yell out the year. Because I don't think he's familiar with this. He was 92.

Pablo Picasso. What year would you say? Give me a window. You don't have to get the year. Give me a two or three decade window. Maybe even a hundred year window. I just remember when I first learned about this, I was surprised at when he lived. What do you got?

Early 1900s. That's a lot later than I thought he would have guessed. Yeah. Because I was thinking... We were like 16, 1700s. Might have helped Michelangelo. Maybe. With a project or two.

Yeah, could have been even further, yeah. Who was the other one I saw in Amsterdam or France. Well, whatever. Monet. Might have painted him with Monet. Actually, Pablo Picasso, he might have gone to see Paul McCartney and Wings. This is how long ago he went. He saw Nolan Ryan pitch.

Yeah. He didn't only see the Godfather, he saw him win the Academy Award the next year. He died in 1973 on this day. And I just feel like you say Pablo Picasso. Definitely. And you think of Rembrandt. He saw the Dolphins go undefeated.

Yeah. Amazing. And that was Today in History. We survived the eclipse. That was cool. Yeah, I guess it was. Now what? I gotta go unpack stuff.

Adios, mofo.