The Dumb Zone FREE - The Dumb Zone 6-17-24

Episode Date: June 17, 2024

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The Dunza, Dunza, Dunza. Uh-oh, guess what day it is? Guess what day it is, huh? Anybody? Kayla, hey, guess what day it is? Guess what day it is, huh? Anybody? Kayla, hey, guess what day it is? Oh, come on, I know you can hear me. Champ, champ, champ, champ, champ. What day is it, champ? Hey, Cash, guess what the day is?

It's game day. What, what? What? All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. I never listen. I'm going to listen. I want to listen to the drums. And Mike, Dan, Mike. Jake, Mike, Jake, Mike.

It is game day. It is. You might not have thought we'd have is game day. It is. You might not have thought we'd have a game day here on this Monday. I did not, no. That would be a fair take. Juneteenth penultimate eve. Two days before. It's always the best episode of Juneteenth.

Yeah. The one before the finale. Anyway, some know this, but some who are listening in the future don't know that we're actually live streaming today. I think we're going to call it a why not live stream. Okay. Like, why are you doing it? Why not? What's the thought process that went behind it?

I mean... Why not? Oh. I mean, how do you answer that? There is no answer to it. To why not. So, yeah, that's what we're doing today. We're live streaming to the world.

Don't be nervous. And we're trying to recreate as best we can the atmosphere of Friday. You guys remember Friday was game day, game four, and then everything turned out awesome. Yep. So what I've done is I've worn the exact same shirt. Of course. It's my favorite Mav ever. Kyrie Irving, I have brought the power of the 2016 championship hat.

If you remember, this Cavalier team had a couple things in common with this Mavelier team. They had... Nobody's doing Mavelier. They, of course, had Kyrie Irving. Uh-huh. And they were down 3-1 in the series. Now, were they down 3-0 and then 1? I just follow what I just said.

Okay, okay. I'll stick with the script. Follow what I just said. Okay, okay. I'll stick with the script. So, unlike Friday, we do have to welcome in... He's back. Look at our little champion.

It's Blake Jones. Hey. Hello, everybody. Your new favorite Maverick? I bought that. I was so upset I got this mail. He was mad you were not here the other day. It got here late. Yeah.

Because it's like from... China. Somewhere. Yeah, real far away. And I was so upset it didn't get here until you were already gone. And I'm like, well, I'll just have to wear it Friday. We'll see if we can channel the power of Kyrie. And it worked.

And now you're back and you get to bask in the glory of the Kyrie jersey. I mean, two years ago. Dan, one day you're going to have a Mavs Kyrie jersey. Not even. And he's going to be your favorite player. Not even two years. And I overpaid to rush it. Yeah, express for sure.

I had to get it. Yeah. I had to get it for you, for us, for the city, for Kyrie, for the tribe. Are you staying up late again for my tribe? No, let's not go that far. So you're not the same as Friday. No. So if indeed we lose tonight.

It's my fault. But that's kind of the way the show goes, right? Something goes wrong. It's not our fault. I'm Blake. Yeah. But what is also the same as Friday is we just said, you got to come back. Maybe it's all you, dude.

Over on the couch, Danny Bayless, the great Danny Bayless. Pull my audio up. Why am I not up? Why is there no snare in my headphones danny balis he stands at six foot four and previously delivered pizza he once smoked drugs that made him sleep for 30 straight hours. Let's talk about that. He's the Knock City Knocker.

He's a state champion. He can still produce children. And any team that selects him will probably not miss him when he's gone. Danny Bayless, Knock City. Used to deliver pizza. Could be delivering pizza. Sure. not why not yeah i think like uh there was a cowboys cheerleader involved or something yeah there was jake you're the one who just said let's talk about it i'm fine with talking about it i feel like we can do whatever

we want here we absolutely can like literally we can say what we want one time danny smoked meth and forgot what day it was i didn't smoke it do you really want to hear this story have you done meth one time wow it was an accident yeah yeah this is a way more kind of ron washington sitch yeah this actually was this is actually a way more common story than you think it is then okay real quick the reason i did this was i worked at pizza inn and there was a waitress that worked there who was adorable and she was also a dallas cowboy cheerleader. Now you ask, why would a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader be working at Pizza Inn in 1988 or 87? Well, at the time, the requirements to be a cheerleader were you had to be a full-time student or you had to have a full-time job. She had some legal problems,

maybe a little bit of a history. And it prohibited her from pursuing a higher education, so she decided to sling pizzas full-time as her full-time job to meet the requirements to be a cheerleader. And one night, she asked if I wanted to go hang out, and I was like, yes, I do. So we hung out, and she recommended that we go to this dude's house. That's always great. Had stuff. Yep. And me being a doe-eyed 19-year-old that had never really done anything in life was about to do cocaine for the first time. Yes.

With a cowboy cheerleader. With a cowboy cheerleader. Who says no? She could have probably had me injecting fentanyl into my arm that night. And you would have been like, give it a go. Of course I would. Why not? Yep. You could have probably had me injecting fentanyl into my arm that night. And you would have been like, give it a go. Of course I would. Why not?

Yep. And it ended up not being cocaine. It was crystal meth. Yep. And I stayed up for, I believe, about 30 hours. And then I slept for another 30 hours it's in the open and i lost an entire day of my life because of the sleep and well if you sleep that long your body really needs it it didn't need it that's what we tell and uh that's the only thing that i've ever put up my nose i've never done

for i've never i never got to do cocaine yeah because i decided at that moment i'm not never doing that stage absolutely i know a lot of people that do cocaine you're here in this room um but uh the funny the reason i knew that i lost a day of work is because i i lost a day of my life as i was walking into my job and there was a guy walking up at the same time and i said what are you doing here it's not your day to work and he goes uh i'm actually filling in for you i'm like why you missed a day of work no i was here yesterday he goes what's wrong with you i go no i came to work and hung out with liz he goes no that was two days ago so i missed uh i skipped a day of work and didn't call anybody because I was asleep. Drugs, don't do them.

Okay. So yeah, game five is tonight. We're going to talk. I got so many more stories just like that one, whenever you're ready. Extensively about game five. Yeah, late 80s pizza delivery when you're 20. I imagine that produced a... I've seen some videos regarding pizza delivery, guys. Mm-hmm.

Seems great. Like you're just hoping she doesn't have money. Wait. How are we going to complete this? How are we going to settle this? I'm going to give my weekend check first because I think it's probably the most boring. Okay.

And the quickest. Oh, don't say that about yourself. My, well, that's just the way my life goes now. I do want to set something straight for the polarizing intern, Rachel. I told her because I was telling you guys about my back problems that I've been suffering. It's getting better every day. Thanks for asking. It's all you can hope for. Nobody even asked when I walked in here. It's all you can hope for. I limped in. It's getting better every day. Thanks for asking. It's all you can hope for.

Nobody even asked when I walked in here. It's all you can hope for. I limped in. Apparently, Motrin, not Midol. I told her I was taking Midol. It was very confusing. And she asked if I was cramping. Yeah.

But Motrin, apparently, is what I've been taking. Okay. That makes a lot more sense okay is that better for the back yeah taking a little baby motrin feeling better so last night uh the one thing i did on the weekend that was interesting to me is i went to danny's area of town lake highlands former but yeah you are danny from lake highlands. And I went to the Cane Rosso, I don't know what they call it, soft opening. Friends and family. Friends and family?

Yeah. Okay. So I guess I must be a friend. Mm-hmm. Because I'm not related to anybody there. But I was on what they call a VIP guest list. That's right. When did you go?

Last night. Okay. Was there Saturday? Oh, you went? Yeah. That's right. When did you go? Last night. Okay. Was there Saturday? Oh, you went? Yeah. Oh, okay. I'm a friend. Jay didn't indicate

that he had seen you. Yeah, I just tried to sneak in there. Did you see him? I feel like the big jerk. I didn't know that two-thirds of the show were going.

Jay didn't contact me. The GM or somebody did. How do you think your name got on that list? Probably Jay. Yeah. He told me he invited you guys. He didn't know if you were coming. Yeah.

Set it up with Charlie. Okay. This is so perfectly Blake. Well, I deal with the owner. I don't know. I jump over the GM's head. You got emailed by Charlie, too. But.

Whatever. Anyway, wasn't it great? Connie Rosa is great. Great food. I wore my business shorts. It doesn't make sense.

What are business shorts? The khakis. So generally, I've been wearing these athletic shorts. By generally, he means literally every day. Don't put your hog on camera, Chief. We're live.

Hog is generous. But thank you. You're welcome. No, but I did learn that. So if you wear, like you say, these shorts every day for literally months, which I have. These kind. I have five pair. You should know that.

Yes, I do know that. I should have bought like five Kyrie shirts so they could all be clean. Anyway, though, the business shorts, a little tight. Really? You don't really know that you gain weight when you wear these shorts every day a little more forgiving but i feel like i've been gaining weight yeah so yeah we're business shorts and i just wanted to point out one piece of artwork that you would really like um do you have that pic rob uh this was on the wall. It's fantastic. What the fuck is that? It is Nick Cage being held or comforted by a baboon, I think.

Yeah, it's a snow monkey. Snow monkey? Yeah. All right, well, whatever. But yeah. The point is that Nick Cage is involved in it and a monkey. I would like to meet the person who made this. And that was up on the wall.

involved in it and a monkey i would like to meet the person who made this and that was up on the wall and i and he said uh jay jay jarrier who owns kane rosso said he would get us one of these for the studio what and i said jake will say what i was about to say i would say i was about to say i would pay a thousand dollars for that right right. Why don't you just work out a trade with that poster? Which one? The one that has the- The one we won't show? Yeah. Calm zone.

So that is my weekend check. Oh, I also want to thank, I don't remember who brought these to us, but I have- Dude, you got the shirt. Yeah. This is yours, bro. Yeah. We got the shirt. Yeah.

The OJ the shirt. This is yours, bro. Yeah. We got the shirt. Yeah. The OJ glove shirt. And also, I don't even really know what this is because I didn't. I may have to change. This is a viewer mail preview. Oh, someone else sent a viewer. Yeah. That's an OJ trying on the glove shirt. It's an OJ trying on the glove shirt. It's an OJ trying on the glove shirt.

Is he wearing Mr. T jewelry? He is, yeah. And he's got gold fronts. Okay. We all got different versions of it? Yeah, yeah. Mine says, I'm just saying. Yeah.

On the arm. And I believe the two of you have ones. Dan says Twitter world. Twitter world. That's right. Oh, okay. So my two weekend check moments, and then we'll let Blake close because I imagine his is the biggest. If this show only needed to be popular with people that will go watch Jordan Richardson play music for three hours, we would be billionaires.

Why is that? Because I went to do that, and I'm pretty sure every single person there was a listener. Wow. It was really, really cool. The great Jordan Richardson, former drummer of Ringo Starr's all-star band. Like, think of how good of a drummer you must be. The Beatles drummer's drummer. Yeah.

Yeah. And I met, I mean, I've met him before, but do you remember Dodie? Yeah. Yeah. And I met, I mean, I've met him before, but do you remember Dodie? Yeah. Dodie was a big part of the Hang Zone theme. Okay, yeah, he's great. We spent a couple days working on together. And we both poured one out for the fact that we'll never hear that song again. Is that intellectual property of your former employer?

Well, George is very good at tweaking things to make them now your property so that's i think it's possible to do that yeah it's possible but but that in its exact form we won't hear it again yeah but he played sam anderson uh from quaker city nighthawks played a solo set it was really not a solo set because george was just playing drums and they had different people up there and then jorts dj'd and he had a ton of technical problems which is awesome to watch when it's not you i love it because i know exactly what he's feeling in that moment where the computer's just not i know what jorts spins and i'm sure he was pretty upset when the, I don't know, the song Neutron Dance got interrupted.

But as long as it's not me, I don't care. Yeah. So that was fun. And yeah, met a ton of listeners out there. Like subscribers? Yeah, yeah. That's cool. Yeah.

And that's basically the only way to listen right now. Oh, you mean like not former ticket listeners? That's what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dumb Zone listeners. People that were like, this is a weird one. This one's free, right? Today is free.

Absolutely. Wherever you get your podcasts. But I mean, right now we're on YouTube Live, correct? We are on YouTube Live, yes. But like when people come up to you and they say, I'm so proud of you. You guys might not know this. I have no idea how to interact. I can't.

I don't know. Really? I'm not proud of myself. So that's an interesting turn. Yeah, no, Jay was saying that stuff too. He wasn't saying he was proud of us, but he was saying he relates because he left his corporate job at age 42 to just go open a restaurant. But he didn't have restaurant experience. So usually you would think that is the recipe for failure.

He did have business experience. Yeah. So that's where he's probably got a pretty big leg up on us. We have a little now, but none at the start. Then I had a dance recital this weekend. You were in a dance recital? I was not in it personally, but Nora had a dance recital. And I sat next to my dad.

Great weekend with the dad. We were at his house yesterday for for father's day and that was cool um and we spent pretty much the entire two hours that we were there coming up with hypotheticals of situations we'd rather be in than be there was that a long list is your wife on the other side of you? Bothered that you're talking? Yeah, we pretty much would. We kept it in hushed tones and mostly I would convey them and he would convey them when there was applause. So like the seventh graders finished clapping and I'm like, all right, it's December 6, 1944.

How many? I give you a 95% chance of survival, but you got to get on the boat. Okay, that's what you'd rather be involved in. Yeah. But June 6th. Oh, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. You're on the Higgins boat. That's right.

My bad. Or watch your sweet daughter's dance recital. Yeah. You'd rather storm Utah Beach. Yes. Yeah. And I swear to God, my dad goes, give me a gun. It's not about the daughter's dance recital. And I swear to God, my dad goes, give me a gun. It's not about the

daughter's dance recital. And that is the problem. So I said this to my wife. I was like, this doesn't make any sense. I hate this. This all went over really well. She was like, I don't really want to deal with you right now. I was like, I don't want to be here. I hate this.

I'm losing my fucking mind. Get me out of here. And she's like, this is no different than going and watching your kid play sports. And it is different. And here's why. Because whenever you're a kid and you play baseball or football or basketball, your parents don't have to go watch the entire league play their full schedule every single Saturday. Great point. So I'm like, why why am i here i've been here for an hour and a half watching 12 year olds do frankly pretty suggestive dances really yeah on father's day weekend no less do i need during a major during during a major i'm having to watch Casey from the sixth grade class dance from the window to the wall. Okay, is this-

Casey, K-A-S-E-E. Of course. It would be bad form to show up right before you know your daughter is going to go on and leave immediately after she's done. So you can't do it that way, but what you can do is leave when they're done. You're not supposed to, but a lot of people do it. Kind of a graduation sit. But you do kind of have to be there at the beginning, otherwise it's full. It was at Colleyville Heritage High School, and every seat was full.

Yeah. So if you don't show up at the beginning, you're not getting a seat. So is this like full-on JonBenet Ramsey pageant shit? Describe the scene. You said it's suggestive dance. I'm assuming they're all in full makeup. Oh, yeah. Nora was in makeup and lipstick.

She's five. Okay. Yeah. It's disappointing. I've lost the plot. Yeah, don't some people limit makeup until you're older? I mean, she doesn't wear it as a matter of course. It's more like a costume.

It's for stage. It's just for that, yeah. So the people in the back can see your feature. And I do think it's a really cool dance just in general because it does teach them, and she needs this a lot, like fine motor skills and memorization. She could pull off this dance uh in the living room and she enjoys it it's all very i like that it's mimicking sports it's giving sports dan but i don't like anything else that comes with it and i don't know how old the oldest girls there were but they were too old for me to be sitting there watching them, so I just put my head down. Because they're wearing body suits,

and I feel like they're probably 18, and I'm not Bill Belichick. How about Bill Belichick, huh? Did we buy that? We need to talk about it at some point today. Oh, okay. What happened? Bill Belichick is dating a 24-year-old that he met three years ago.

Okay. Bill Belichick? That's him on the ring camera. Come on. It's got to be. Like when he first met, or when he first won that Super Bowl with Tom Brady. She was in a crib. Yes. Yeah. But yeah, I think the whole thing

is too sexual. I don't like it, sexual I don't like it And I don't like being there for that long And that's why I was Otherwise It's fantastic She did a great job Also I met

I just want to shout this guy out Even though I don't remember his name I met the son Of the Teacher of my daughter's dance class, and he's a huge listener. And he's 16. So we're... Okay.

We're getting that young demo. Yeah. We're not just playing for the life insurance crowd. I love how when Dan points out age disparity between older men and younger women. He always takes it back to when the girl was in the crib and what the man was doing at that time. And it does kind of put it into a more creepy context. I think that's the goal. Yeah.

So, yeah. And I do a lot. 72 and 24. I do a lot of self-inventory when he does that. I do a lot of self-inventory when he does that. And I don't feel good about myself at all. Oh, that's her? Yeah, Danny's got a little history there. And why not?

For her, why not? What? Would it be cool if that was your daughter? I'm going to have to go back and listen to that. Wait, put that back. I missed it. If that was your daughter and Bill Belichick showed up. And you're like 50? That's her now?

Yeah, that's her now. She's like Instagram famous. Let's say my daughter. My daughter's 20. Why? Here's Bill Belichick. Hell yeah, man. I'm a piece of shit.

I'm not that big of a piece of shit. Yeah, I know. It's really weird. I mean, we can do it now if you guys want. You're Belichick. They apparently met on a flight. She's a former college cheerleader, so she does competitive cheer. Okay.

Which is where most of those dance phenoms are headed, right? That's the goal is to be able to get a scholarship for cheerleading or dance, right? I would imagine. So anyways. They have cheerleading scholarships? Oh, yeah. For sure.

She's 24, he's 72. They met when she was 21 on a flight from Boston to Florida. So I assume this is like him going to his vacation home. And he's in first class, so she has to be. Yeah, of course.

So at 21. And they apparently bonded over discussing her. I don't know if it was a thesis, but it was termed homework in the article, which is way more infantilizing. Yeah. Whatever that word is. Her philosophy homework. He was teaching her not long division. Philosophy homework. He was teaching her not long division. And I swear to God, the TMZ article actually says that they kept up and stayed in touch and talked about the X's and O's of her cheer routine. Excellent.

Yeah. I'm keeping these mental notes. I just don't think that this comes out if it's not true. It would have been debunked by now. Because it came out like friday or you would have it would be it would be like uh what was the lady who uh the baby recently what um the lady wasn't there like a like a rumor about somebody had had oh uh mark davis right that was oh yeah it was like mark davis is. Right. That was fun for two days. Is that that Raiders owner with the kick-ass haircut?

It is. Yeah. Yeah. Supposedly he had impregnated a young Instagram model and they had just sat next to each other at one game. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure. That's Bill Belichick's girlfriend.

Yeah. Okay. Why not, man? Go Bill Belichick Okay It's definitely homework She's not writing a thesis It's philosophy though By the way we never followed up on this

The actual father Of the kid That's not Mark Davis' kid Joey Gallo Oh yeah yeah yeah father of the kid that's not Mark Davis's kid? Joey Gallo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think we ever. We did.

I think we mentioned it. We mentioned that part of it? Yeah. Okay. Sorry. We do a lot of shows. Yeah. But yeah, Bill Belichick, 72. Wait, not Joey Gallo.

Chris Davis, right? Crush Davis? Or is it Joey Gallo? I'm pretty sure it's Joey Gallo. Oh, I thought it was Chris Davis. Chris Davis is old now, dude. That would be a weirder story if it was Chris Davis. Right? Is it Joey Gallant? I'm pretty sure it's Joey Gallant. Oh, I thought it was Chris Davis. Chris Davis is old now, dude. That would be a weirder story if it was Chris Davis. Really?

Yeah. Yeah. What's he doing now? I don't know. I just remember thinking it was a Rangers masher who struck out a lot. Chris with a C or a K? C. Oh.

And let go into Baltimore. Because remember the K stood up in front of the locker room and said, I'm going to get this thing to the playoffs. Yeah, and then I think they lost like 18 of their next 20. And then he got DFA'd. Yeah. He wasn't on the team two weeks later. That will happen.

It's Chris Davis time, said Chris Davis. Yeah. So, yeah, shout out to Bill Belichick. Big weekend for him. There's a picture of Joey Gallo Well Why not, you know How about a weekend check

Or probably a week check, right? Yeah From old Blake Jones Why did you still dress like you're golfing? Yeah, you're I thought you'd be in Mavs gear It's a nice studio You all fired up?

Yeah I don't know Danny's gonna be here Intern Rachel is in Mavs gear. It's a nice studio. You all fired up? Yeah. I don't know. Danny's going to be here. Intern Rachel is in Mavs gear. Why do you keep coming up with foolish reasons to wear a collared shirt? I don't know. We're at a lawyer's office. Hey, Danny's here.

You're catching on. Hey, Chappy's here. Yeah. Yeah. All right. chappies here yeah yeah um all right so i spent the last week in scottsdale arizona on a 24 person guys trip 24 because we did a 12 v 12 rider cup style tournament all in one house all in one house so this this trip has grown it started with four of us, then 12, then 16, and now 24. And I think we've reached the limit.

I think we're going to go back down to 16 because 24 guys in one house is a lot. What if we go 64? Have a full tournament. No. I don't know that many people. Well, that's going to be an interesting play because you're going to have to cut people. So how do people find out? Is this like The Bachelor?

We've started our trim list yeah oh and who gets to be on the power council of composing trim list is an interesting the original four get to decide okay you're the the elders sure it's our trip okay this is different than my trim list all right yeah no one's he waited for it. I was expecting it immediately, but he definitely allowed the comedy to simmer for three seconds. I've missed you. Okay, so we golf

with these- With 20 guys. They had to be- Oh, my gosh. Yeah. That had to be the dirtiest place you could ever be.

Scottsdale. And you stayed in like, what, a big Airbnb? Yeah, and so it comes out- For 24 stinky dudes? It comes out. It comes out 24 stinky dudes. It comes out to like 300 bucks for four nights.

That's the best. So many of you. Yeah. Like the trip we're going on in August that recently we added the sea cow to. It's like several million dollar mansion. Yeah. So how much was the Airbnb? We end up getting out for like 600 bucks.

I can't do 24 times 300. What does that mean? I don't know. Five or six grand? I don't know. I can't do that math. A night. How big was this place? Six grand a night. Yeah, I don't know. I paid my $350. That's what I know. I mean, Scottsdale is basically the Highland Park of Phoenix. Yeah. So you probably

had a pretty... Yeah. It's nice. Okay. For sure. Yeah, the house was i mean great at uh tennis court basketball court 8400 bucks a minute uh miniature course uh or putt putt course in the backyard i mean it had everything you wanted and a ton of bedrooms but there's like three guys to each bedroom and so it comes out to be really affordable um and so we go off at these really cool courses because we're playing in just the dead of summer nobody's there right uh one of the employees told us so we played the uh tpc scottsdale stadium which is where the mace uh waste management open is where they go crazy on super bowl sunday the normal tea time uh for that is 550 bucks we played it for 150 dang and so a

lot of these courses i mean it's a severe discount because it's 115 degrees outside, but every day is, is very similar. You're up at five 30. You're at the course by six 30, you're teeing off by seven. And so you're done by noon. So the weather is actually not that bad. It's really not. And then you grab lunch, you go back to the, to the house, you either get in the pool or take a nap, and then you go to dinner and hit the casino. Next day, you do it over again. And it's a wild ride. That sounds incredible. For the golfers out there, we played Greyhawk Raptor, which is where the junior college tournament used to be.

That sounds like an AI-generated golf course. Just wait. How about this? True North Pinnacle. Okay, yeah, This is getting worse. Both Wicopaw courses and then, of course, TPC Scottsdale Stadium. I know you wanted to know about the format. Day one was a scramble. Uh-huh.

You and your partner each hit, you know, pick your best ball. Best ball. Day two was best ball where you and your partner played. Wait, I thought we just did best ball. Nope, that's a scramble. Best ball is you pick your best ball of the hole. So if I got par, Jake got bogey, we're going to take my par. But you play your own ball through the hole.

Now, Dan. Okay, you don't play the best ball of each shot. No. Dan, do you have a question about the? The Stableford scoring system? So day one was scramble. Day two was best ball. Day three was the Stableford scoring system. For day one was scramble. I thought that would be by day four. Day two was best ball. Day three was the Stableford scoring system.

For real? We actually did it. Did you invent this? No, we didn't invent it. It's a golf word that Dan and I know. And any time someone brings up golf. You should always hear that growing up. Are they doing Stableford?

And they use the Stableford scoring system. I've never known what it is. The reason we did Stableford, which I want to say partly, but it's because if you have a really good teammate, obviously he's going to probably make par on every hole. My ball's not going to matter. You were never going to take one of my holes. So at least for the Stableford, it takes account for both teammates.

Of course it does. I mean, that's why people love it. Yep. And that's why we played it. There it is. So then we did. Now, did you go Stableford or modified Stableford? It looks like we went.

It looks like we just did normal Stableford. Okay. Well, look into the modified for next year. We'll look into the modified. Any albatross? You want the most points. Yeah, yeah, that's how this one works. Over 18 holes.

Yeah. And then we went back to best ball day four, and then day five, of course, individual matches. Match play. That's where the bulkier points are made. Yeah. So we had a total of 36 points up for grabs, and I'm a part of Team Rats.

We had a rough year. Oh, no. We lost a team coach 23 andats. We had a rough year. Oh, no. We lost a team coach 23 and a half to 12 and a half. Wow, that's a routing. Now, here's the problem. I got three of my team's points, and our captain got four. That's seven of the 12 and a half. Yeah.

We needed some help. You've got 11, or excuse me, 10 people left. So we're looking to trim some fat. Yeah, maybe we're taking a few people off of Team Rats. Tell them to kick rocks. You're not up for this tournament. It happens. So the golf is cool if you're into that,

but the most fun you have at the trip is obviously at the house. So could I, if I was ever invited, which I wouldn't be. You wouldn't be quiet if you were. Would you let me just stay and not play golf? We had a guy do that. Oh, okay. Yeah, he stayed at the house and just hung out with us and went to the casino. Yeah, I think that sounds good. But he Yeah, he stayed at the house and just hung out with us and went to the casino. Yeah, I think he paid the same

$350 everybody else did. But you didn't have to pay for rounds, though. No. Yeah. But that actually helped lower the house cost. But I'm pretty sure that next time we have the group ski trip, I'm just going to go and not go. Come on. Because I got a buddy who does that. I'll stay back. I'll clean the dishes up.

Burns a J at noon. Get everything ready. We just hang out in the mountains. You had one guy that didn't golf and just stayed at Masturbation Castle for five hours every morning? Yeah. He would go to the casino. Then he doesn't have to wake up early with the door to.

He stayed at the casino until 2 a.m., woke up at 11, and was just with us the rest of the day. That guy is my hero. He had the best time with anyone. For sure. Yes. He doesn't have to lose money golfing. He can only lose money at the casino. Yeah.

I think he probably had the best time. Maybe go get a massage. I mean, whatever you want. Bagel? What time were you guys in bed? Wait. Like 10? Wait.

A bagel. Why would that be the other best option? Well, either a massage or a bagel. Those are the two things you could do if everybody else was gone. In Scottsdale. The two things that people usually bring up for relaxation are massage and bagel. Yeah, I'm just saying. Enjoy your breakfast alone.

Oh, man. alone uh oh man the first thing you have to adjust i guess is how you talk oh there's no doubt because i got home my wife started yapping and i just wanted to go at her just like i did all the other guys yeah you gotta dial it back We've talked about this before when you've come back. Yeah. You curse significantly more. And you're ready to jump on someone for a dumb statement? Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Because, yeah, my wife will be like, you're not on the air. Oh, we've all heard you're not on the air. I got in an argument.

Write this down for my arguments with my wife. I love these. Because she got up later than me. So I got up and I went up to the den and I started doing, you know, prepping for the show or doing whatever I do up there. And then she got up like a half hour later

so I hear her right down below and she goes, Hi. Hi, Dan. I said, Hey. And that was it. And about 15 minutes later, I was walking down to get some coffee

and she goes, oh, hi. I go, how many times do we say hi? I go, just like, she goes, I don't know, every time if I want. Why do you have to be like this? What are you, Trey? Yeah, I've told her that before. She really hated that. Because Trey at the station, every time you would see him, he'd say hi.

How's it going, man? He'd even reach out to shake your hand sometimes, like twice in a day. I saw you like two hours ago. And if I see you every day, like when he would produce for us, if I see you every day, I just don't need to do the whole thing every day now. Yeah. Like, we're going to talk. We're going to be in a meeting.

We're going to be on the show together all day. Yep. How many times do we have to say hi? We live together. We've been married. I don't need to just say hi to you all the time i thought one of the great things about being married is you can have silence and you can have you know you know each other now i thought it was honking boobs honking boobs is one of the great one of yeah okay yeah so there are many the fact that i can reach out and no we've all heard uh what do you think you're doing

the show right now? You're not on the air. You're not on the air. Yeah, like you said. It's a big one. But yeah, like if I start really rolling on something, oh, you think you're doing the show right now? If I was on the air, you'd know it. Yeah.

I think there's an understanding, at least for me. I'd start reading the comments on you. At the ticket, unless I was working on a show with you or in a control room or you know studio with you for the for my shift if i saw you one time and gave you a greeting i don't want eye contact with you the rest of the day i don't care if we walk past each other 50 times in the hallway this is why dan has always said that despite the criticisms that were volleyed his way that pat production was our hero the best co-worker i've ever had. The best coworker I've ever had. The best coworker we've ever had because.

He won't even acknowledge your existence. No. Bathroom, hallway, break room. If he hasn't seen you in four months. Nope. No talk. And you've given him a present. He won't even say anything.

And then when it's time to do business and he needs you to come to a production room and read some copy. Hey, can you come in here and do this? Quick. And then we do it and then we leave you walk in there and he's getting he's ready he's rolling he's not doing like oh how is boy cowboys really blew it yet doesn't want to know about my kid no retrospect that is so true because anytime that i had any interaction with him outside of doing a job

it was all i had to break the ice. Hey, Pat, how's it going? Hey. If you got that right, you were lucky. Yeah. But there was no time for small talk. A to B. Yeah, he's the best. A to B, and I loved it.

If I could bottle up one thing, I think it's how I feel with 23 of my buddies around. It's pretty great. It's pretty great. Somebody gives me the side eye. What's up? You got something to say? Yeah.

That is nice. I mean, that's a big difference. Going through the airport, somebody's being a dick. Hey, why don't you pipe down over there? What, are you going to fight all of us? I mean, there's a big difference in Pat. You have Pat on one hand, who's just doing grunt work, and then you have your GM,

who will ask you what you think of dac's contract while he's taking a shit you know hey what's the deal with dac i don't know dude i'm just trying to get out of here as quick as i can but yeah i mean i remember uh i guess it was two years ago the montana trip we went to the bar and restaurant at night, and that's when a couple of the fellows ran into Johnny Football. This isn't the same trip you ran into Stephen Jones? No. Okay.

You saw Johnny Football smoking a cigarette. Yeah, yeah. KJ and David Ruff from Circling Back took a picture. Wow, he was, I think, going on podcasts saying it was comeback season, and he was on his way back to the NFL. And he looked like he weighed about 140 pounds soaking wet and was as drunk as we were, and it was like 5 o'clock. I can tell you were next to your dad yesterday because you said 140 pounds soaking wet.

That is a dad thing. That is a very dad thing, yeah, for sure. Very chappy. Osmosis. Oh, by the way, happy Father's Day. Hey, thanks, man. That is a dad. That is a very dad thing. That is. For sure. Very chappy. Osmosis. Oh, by the way, happy Father's Day. Hey, thanks, man. You too.

Okay. Speaking of chappy and Father's Day. Anyways, I was just going to say, the feeling of walking into a bar with like 15 of your friends is just,

Blake's right. You feel untouchable. We're taking, we have now, it's basically like eminent domain. This is our town. We have essentially assumed this's basically like eminent domain. We have essentially assumed this is our property now, which is worth the price of admission. So you can kind of understand the early North American settlers.

Of course. Like, look. They mobbed up and showed up. Like, look, this is ours now. That's a good point. Here's some blankets. My dad goes on the trip. Whoa.

And I think we talked about this last time And that was really weird for you guys But I wouldn't act any differently if he was around or not Your dad was on the trip In fact he did more gummies than I did I was going to say you still do a little Oh yeah I mean it's on every corner

Did you do the whole Beatles thing where you all sit in a circle Nope didn't do the circle jerk Beatles Didn't do that circle jerk. Oh. Beatles. Didn't do that. I was trying to go euphemism it. Heard. Okay. They did. Just get real disturbing. Is the gummy kicking in yet? In fact, I forgot.

I forgot that story is in the John Lennon book that I read. I read a McCartney book and a John Lennon book by the same guy. And it's real extensive. And I forgot until just last week, my daughter wanted to borrow it. And she's 18. And she's like, yeah, I'm three chapters in,

and then they're describing that, She's like, yeah, I'm three chapters in, and then they're describing that, the whole where the Beatles would sit in a circle and laugh and challenge each other to finish first and all that. And apparently that's in the book, and I forgot when I handed it to my daughter. And it's early? It's like early? Yeah, it's like right away in the book. That's no good.

The book's just going to let you know What it's all about from the beginning I guess so Kind of like the Sarah Heppler book Trying to just grab you Yeah Real early Yeah I suppose so

Yeah I suppose so So during downtime A guy in the house and me Have started a tradition where During nap time or downtime We try to watch Like military movies

Alright man Weird You lay on the couch. As a material to encourage your circle jerk? Lay on the couch. You got the fan going. You're just trying to relax. Just pop a movie on to fall asleep.

But it has to be military. That's just, that's what we've been doing. Okay. That's just kind of how it's grown over time. If soaking wet is a dad thing, then pointing out that one of the features is that the fan was going. These houses have really nice fans.

The comments on the airflow in that house were were stellar it was the fan in fact in one of the houses we were looking up the model of the fan because it was that good jeez that's dead well the movie this year hacksaw ridge i'd never seen it gene hackman right no gene hacksaw uh gene hacksaw no it's uh that's a clint eastwood it's clint eastwood produced for Hacksaw Ridge. I'd never seen it. Gene Hackman, right? No. Gene Hacksaw? Gene Hacksaw? No. Clint Eastwood. It's Clint Eastwood produced for sure. Yeah, I don't remember many of the actors. Is that the one that's from the Japanese perspective? No. No, it's the one of the guy who didn't

use a gun. Yeah. He was a combat medic and saved over, I don't know, 75-100 people from Hacksaw Ridge. He was a conscient medic and saved over, I don't know, 75, 100 people from Hacksaw Ridge. Yeah, he's like a... He was a conscientious objector. Exactly.

He was a religious... Yes. Yeah. Yeah, Vince Vaughn was the platoon leader or whatever. Okay, then I've never seen it. Really good. And I typically just don't watch movies during the year. And so I hadn't seen this one.

It was really, really cool. And then the next day we watched... I don't watch movies, what? During the year? During the year. But like I hadn't seen this one. It was really, really cool. And then the next day we watched... I don't watch movies, what? During the year? Like during the year, but like on vacation or hanging out with the boys or whatever. I know what he means by that. Because I don't watch, I really don't watch movies at home much at all, but as I told you guys, the last guy's trip I went on, we

knocked out Predator, Under Siege, and Lethal Weapon 2 in like one day. Because what's his name? The Alamo Greatest Hits. What's his name died that weekend, right? Yeah.

Apollo Creed? Apollo Creed. Carl Weathers. Yeah. Yeah. And we watched Happy Gilmore as well. That's right. Yeah.

Then the next day we watched Anyone But You, the new Sidney Sweeney movie. Oh, you. All right, dude. Even I skipped that. That's when they had the circle. You're right. Just bros. I thought there was a military cool theme here.

Listen to all the movies I just named and how badass they are. Yeah. Did they have Sidney Sweeney's tits in them? That's a solid counter, but I just don't think that's worth watching with your friends. Yeah, and you're right. That movie was horrible. Of course it was. Of course it was horrible.

She's a terrible actress. He's a terrible actor. Yeah. I was thinking about this the other night, actually. I don't remember what we were watching, but we don't have any legitimate leading men anymore. Like, even Leo was... Oh, we were talking about... My wife and I were talking about Ben Affleck for some reason.

Well, they're all in their 50s, the ones that are... I know, but the new ones suck. Like, Glenn Powell, I'm not buying it. What about Ryan Reynolds? He's older, too. Jake Gyllenhaal's a solid point. That's a good one. But I mean, he's getting over there.

We used to have like five to ten consistent, bankable, leading men. I mean, who's the biggest one? It's got to be... I mean, Glenn Powell is cooking. So you're saying I got Leo, I got Brad Pitt. The guy from Ken and Barbie. Tom Cruise.

Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling might be 50 right now. No, he's not that old. I bet he's early. So you need some leading men in their 20s. You just didn't remember the Titans. 43. 43. What about them guys that were in all them vampire movies? Robert Pattinson? Yeah.

He doesn't really do much. No? I guess another one that's young is that Aussie that was in Euphoria, the real tall dude, Jordy, what's his name? Nelson. No, no. No. Jordy Nelson of Kansas State Wildcat, yeah.

Jordy, what the hell's his name? Okay, well, I trust you. Elvis and Priscilla, he's a bunch of stuff. And I guess you. He played Elvis in Priscilla. A bunch of stuff. And I guess you have, like, Austin Butler. Gerard Butler. Gerard Butler. What the fuck is that guy's name?

Brett Butler. Jimmy Butler. Brett Butler, the former, not the actress. I regret this line of conversation. Yeah, sorry. A couple more things. Wait, one back to your dad? Yeah.

Only dad? Jacob and Lordy is who I'm trying to. Only dads? No, there was a few of them. But, I mean, they don't bring down the party at all. It's still a wild. It has to be the right dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but the wrong dad wouldn't go.

That's what I mean. Yeah, yeah. It has to be the right dad. I don't't think there's gonna be a dad who shows up that you're like oh this guy's killing the vibe can you imagine chappy on a trip he would actually i have been for the past five years he would be he would fit in really well it would be great yeah it would be it would be based on my my day with him yesterday i'm pretty sure was he flasking at the dance recital no i wasn't doing that but i mean he like a giant blast would he gummy up i don't know i have heard rumors i don't picture that bother you would it bother you if you saw him flaming up like passing a joint um we've talked about this really really only because

i i don't think smoke yeah but if he like took a you know a little edible it would be weird but it wouldn't really like bother me does your dad smoke or just gummy just gummy yeah that bother you smoke i would love it if you saw him rolling one up i would love it yeah because we've talked about that in the past, you know, when... How it's like okay for people to drink? Yeah, like you think that's a rite of passage, having a beer with your dad, whatever, that's normal. And even though I think, you know, alcohol is worse than marijuana. Sure.

Like overall, like I think if they were both starting now and there was no finance behind it all, you would just say, hey, based on all the pluses and minuses, I think marijuana should be legal, alcohol shouldn't. If one has to be legal. Right. But I can't envision myself passing my daughter a joint, but I can envision having a glass of wine or beer or whatever. I don't know.

Yeah, one of the nights we both had a gummy and then laid up watching Duck Dynasty. That sounds... Does he ever like sit there all high and he's like... Like the greatest Father's Day ever. Man, I remember when you were this big. No, it doesn't...

I changed your diaper. Did you guys do... Now look at you. Did you guys do skin to skin when you were watching Duck Dynasty? No. Because he missed out on that. It was a different time. It wasn't really a thing back then. Blake hates that. I know.

Yeah, I know. I just didn't want to be shirtless when the nurses are coming through. That's the best time. Why? Look at you, man. Well, I've seen a lot of movies that indicate that is a good time. You see my fat ass on the couch shirtless? No.

I've got enough to do. That's when she's like, oh, it looks like you have a lot of stress, Blake. Yeah, with the wife laying right there. Oh, so exciting. And then Arizona is a cool place. They got weed, and then they also have sports books. They do. So we watched game three at the new DraftKings sportsbook.

And that was so cool because many of us had a lot of bets on, like, first score, first quarter spread. My buddy nailed the Maz Buy one at half, and he turned his $15 bet into $330. Dang. And so I don't know if you all remember, PJ gets fouled. It's tied. He splits at the free throw line, and we were all just going nuts.

It was a really, really cool watching experience. And then we had funny flight attendant on the way back. I was just going to say real quick that yesterday when I was watching the Open, well, I think they call this one the U.S. Open, right? You're not allowed to call it the Open? I thought the British Open was the U.S. Open, right? You're not allowed to call it the Open? I think the British Open was the Open. It is. Yeah.

When they started, and I was watching it with my dad before they teed off, like Rory was like three back. And I was like, man, I think I'm going to put a little something on this. He's like, what are we talking? And I was like, I don't know, probably 20 bucks. And he like burst out laughing In front of me Exactly like you guys do He's like 20 bucks

What's the fucking point But you never do walk in here Real dejected because you lost your mortgage No but he was like You bet 20 dollars I was like shouldn't you be happy Shouldn't you be like proud That I don't have a problem here? Yeah, that's...

If I gamble, that's what I'm doing. Your dad's calling you a pussy. Pretty much. That's my face on Father's Day. Those guys have problems, the dudes I used to work with. All right, fun. You're aware of this, right? I'm quite aware.

Real quick, you were talking about the dynamic of not imagining yourself being able to share a joint with your daughter. Maybe this will drive you crazy. When I met my birth mom, the first time that me and my oldest son went up to Massachusetts to see her all together, this was probably, I don't know, maybe 10, 12 years ago. We all shared a joint. Okay. So grandma and grandson with dad in the middle, and it was passed to me and then passed to my then 21, 22-year-old boy in that setting, and it was pretty cool.

That seems awesome. That's really cool. Yeah. It seems awesome. What do you think about that, Dan? Yeah, maybe a boy is different. Maybe. You know?

Maybe that's different than... I don't think my mom would have cared if I was a girl or Josh was a girl. I think it would have mattered. Yeah. She's fond of the... Well, she grew up in an era where that was her childhood, especially up there in that liberal New England. Yeah, I'm surprised I've never really heard anything about your mom's smoking.

I'm sure she was into it, but I never... All the Uncle Gary summers of love. I never ran across it myself. How old was your... You were born in 68 or 69? 69. Okay. My mom was 19 when she had it. Okay, my mom turned 20 two days before I was born.

Yeah. So our moms are relatively the same age, if not exactly the same age. That's wild. I think it's weird. Yeah? I think it's probably weird for me because, uh, like my mom was so anti, like so, so anti speaking of chappy. I remember one of the things like whenever they were, this is a really healthy thing that people do when they get divorced,

where they need to run PR campaigns against one another. Yeah. They just tell you how bad they were. And I remember my mom telling me, like, your father, the first time I met him, had a pot plant. Sleepy chappy. I was like, I think you think this is doing one thing, but it's doing the other.

I was like, that guy sounds like he rules. Yeah, she's thinking she's going to tell you how bad he is. Unfit to be a fighter. I didn't know he was that awesome. Can't pass the cognitive test because he's stoned. So we had a layover on the way back, and for some reason we had to de-board and get back on, and I mentioned we had funny flight attendant. He had the exact same routine.

I thought maybe they would mix it up a little bit, depending on the crowd, but no. They just have their set, and they have their script. Got to hear that twice. Do you have it? The same guy. Yeah, same guy. He was on two legs of the flight with that guy.

Same guy, painted fingernails, long earrings. Well, you got to admire it sometimes. What airline? What did I do with the stand-up film? Southie? Southwest. All right. Yeah, the flight attendants look a lot different than they did in the early 70s.

Have you seen those outfits? Yeah, I have. Quite fond of them, but things have changed. His biggest punchline, I think, you know, no matter where you got your bag, whether it's Target, Canal Street, Amazon, Timu, let's be honest, you didn't buy a Louis Vuitton because you're flying Southwest. It needs to be under the seat in front of you. Okay, a little shot at

the employer. I like it. Yeah, that hit a little bit. It's not bad. Yeah. Not bad. So it was the same flight attendant, and he just regurgitated his shit. Oh, yeah. Look, Paul McCartney's not changing his set list when he's playing in New York or Detroit. I mean, Dan's right.artney's not changing his set list when he's playing in, you know, New York and Detroit.

Yeah, I mean, Dan's right. I know, but you want to test different material, right? Run the hits. Yeah. But it is a little bit disappointing to feel that that was not like a unique experience

the first time. Nothing is. That's probably true. Yeah, yeah. Nothing is. All right, let me leave you with two Scottsdale observations. Does your golf week

have a name? Well, we still call ourselves the Dirty Dozen. Wow. So the name hasn't changed from when we made it when we had 12. observations does your golf week have a name well we still call ourselves the dirty dozen wow so the name hasn't changed from when we made it like the big 10 man who are the ad wizards that came up with that i don't know um all right scott's tale observations one the homeless there are extra wild they're hot yeah the heat gets to them they're just they're going nuts. But every single one of them, walking in the middle of the street,

they have blood all over their shirt. They're just tweaking real hard. Blood. But you're so close to California. What are you doing in Arizona? Just keep going, young man. Keep going west. Not that close.

They're going to walk to L.A.? You're closer than you are if you're in Ohio. You're one state over. For sure. Catch a bus or something. You've got to get out of that. Right? Yeah.

I remember the homeless is a pretty big deal in Phoenix, the Phoenix-Tempe area. Yeah. It was a lot. Yeah, they were wild. There was a lot fewer in Austin than I was expecting. You can't tell the difference. Maybe that's the case. We're all hanging around coffee shops.

And then the final, the West Coast time zone is the best. The Mavs game started at 5, and it was over by like 8.15. Now you sound like me. I mean, just think of your work day. Like you're done, 4.35, you get home, and then the game is on. Okay, can I say something? I would love that. Something really, really dumb?

Yeah, but football season? Does Arizona? 10 a.m.? That's not bad. I think that'd be cool. Yeah. Okay, so it wasn't that dumb then. Arizona doesn't change, right?

Correct. Okay. Okay. Yeah, during the time, we were two hours behind. Okay. Yeah. That's pretty sweet. No, my dad used to love it when he lived in Vegas.

He's like, you know, I get up and get ready for NFL at 915, 930. Game's kicking in half an hour. Why don't you just get rid of time zones? Why can't it just be noon everywhere, but your noon is dark? I mean. I don't like that be noon everywhere, but your noon is dark? I mean. I don't like that. I could get on board with that. I've told these guys this story a million times,

but like when I went to Iceland a year, year and a half ago, it never got dark. And the wildest experience, pound for pound, I've ever had in my life was listening to master of puppets at max volume shit faced at two o'clock in the morning in broad daylight where were you at a bar in iceland yeah at the bar like yeah you ever get wasted people in iceland love metal yeah at a at a dark bar and you walk out you're day drinking And you walk out. Day drinking. And you walk out at 2 p.m. I have, but this is a different experience because it was never dark in there.

Okay. You know what I mean? Like, they had the windows. There were no, like, blinds or anything. So, like, the bar was light the whole time. And it's midnight. And it's 2 o'clock in the morning when they close. And they're just, you know, I got Lemmy over here yeah shredding how many hours of uh night time do you get zero like that time it does i mean it does it ever appear like

dusk or is it just like the sun's just not above your head the entire barely barely barely wow barely and then the flip side of that is that you know in the other, I guess in the winter. For a couple of months, it's dark all the time. 23 hours a day, 23 and a half hours a day. Yeah, I wonder how that HBO show. I was talking to a couple people there that had kids, and I'm like, so you're kidding. Which is based on real life. Yep. They didn't get this from an HBO show.

Like talking to parents there, and I'm like, how do you get your kid together what about your circadian rhythm there you go whatever they say that that was pretty good yeah i think uh the sun affects you the biggest thing is that every place we stayed when we were there they had like hardcore blackout lining yeah so it didn't like hotels here could learn a thing or two. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Nothing better than a dark hotel.

The best. Cold. A cold, dark hotel. I used to always complain about the fact that the curtains wouldn't overlap, so there'd always be that thing. Didn't you start bringing something? Well, for a while I learned the hack of the hotel uh hanger where the with the clip that you can hang your pants on you can hang that up and clip the uh drapes together smart and then i realized what

if i just brought an eye mask and i don't i can wear it yeah whatever and so that's what i do now and i bring a blanket. Do those things fall off your head when you're sleeping? Mine's pretty solid. Considering one of these. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you could just put a little, like a thing of duct tape around your head.

You know what I actually, what I recommend is actually, if you go to the grocery store, just put a bag and then just kind of tie it around your neck. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But definitely not a clear bag. No, get a dark bag and see how that goes for you. You sleep in an eye mask even at home? Oh, yeah. I try to.

Sometimes I forget, but I try to. I love it. Yeah. I have one. It's in the nightstand. Is it fuzzy? No, it's not. No, it doesn't have felt or any.

Did you have one more Arizona thing or? That's it. That was it. That was the end. I thought it was really good. That was a great story, Blake. Hey, wait. Yay.

What now? You guys want to do Mavs or you want to take a little pause and get a little bathroom and stuff? Take a break. Oh, well, I guess or you want to take a little pause and get a little bathroom and stuff? Take a break. Oh, well, I guess everybody else wants to take a break, so I guess we will try and do that. Yeah, all right. The Dumb Zone. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. Give me one of these. The Dumb Zone. You're listening to The Dumb Zone.

Give me one of these. The Dumb Zone. The Dumb Zone. The Dumb Zone. The Dumb Zone. The Dumb Zone. The Dumb Zone. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What'd you get for Father's Day? Nothing. Okay. Okay. Nothing at all. Did you did you well you have little kids so did wife make sure that they see that mother's day is a couple weeks earlier so she can kind of it's unfair one once again guys have it tougher but your wife can kind of gauge well what do i need to do for him based on what was done for me oh is that how that's supposed to work it can oh okay she didn't

it's always a little something i got a little something i got i got a i got flip flops new flip flops from the greatness of Hari Mari, which I needed. How do you not have a closet full of those from the old days? Because I do. Well, I throw

things away. I have no idea. I've given away more than I have. I've given away a bunch of them. Then somehow I didn't have one. Then I got a 1967 Dallas Cowboys pennant. Okay. For the potential new Jake Den. Okay.

Okay. It's always weird when they buy you stuff that you're going to put up. You have to put it up. You have to put it up. there's some stuff if you walk around my office you're like why is this up here i didn't do it um it was a gift and now i have obsessed with superman yeah yeah it's kind of cool i wonder i hope my kids someday are like blake is to his dad whereas they will just know oh what if I just get him some gummies? I was going to say, yeah. It feels like your dad's really easy to shop for now.

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game five pre-game show all in one all at once i'm surprised you want to talk any game five preview at all you're not why it's not typically preview man i'm more of a post post view man it was awesome just for one night to be reminded of how great they can be when it all works. But at the same time, and I hate that I even had to, I felt that I had to put this in the column. For all the like, hey, this team has their back against the wall, well, that means the other team doesn't.

So if you're going to acknowledge one side of like the psychological or mental aspect of sports of like, hey, this is it for us, then you have to acknowledge the other side of the other team thinking this is not. So I don't want to take anything away from the fact that they were up almost 50 points in an NBA Finals game because it's hilarious. The biggest margins of victory ever, right?

Would have been, yeah. Yeah, and I think it was the biggest lead at the time. They were up 48. But, I mean, the Celtics know. Yeah, it was good to see so many, because you know they all

flew their family in. Yeah, no. I'll tell you what I loved. I loved that Dave Portnoy was there. Okay, he's a big Celtics in. Yeah, no. And their friends. I'll tell you what I loved. I loved that Dave Portnoy was there. Okay, he's a big Celtics guy? Oh, yeah. And I... It only could have been better if Simmons was there, right?

That would have been, yeah. That's about the only thing, yeah. A buddy of mine sent me a video of Portnoy leaving with like eight minutes left. But they have all their family, their friends, their kids, like, oh, and they're planning. They certainly had somewhere rented out. You would have to think. To celebrate.

I know like. Maybe Twilight Lounge. From reading the Belichick book, like that's where he would have found that and then just read the reservation to the team beforehand. I don't know if that stuff ever works. Doesn't seem like Kidd is that kind of guy. But, you know, the big thing that you say at the end of this game is

if Markeith Morris played, it was either great or terrible. Same with Omax, right? A lot of people were like, wait, that guy's not a coach? Yeah, no. I mean mean he's probably not that far from jared dudley in age like jared dudley was in the league like three years ago and i definitely watched those two people play against each other for a long time i was expecting them to throw sham god in a uniform at some point why not where's pants dj but i mean they only hit what do they hit 15 threes did they hit? 15 threes.

So they hit one more three than Boston. Like, you would typically. And Tim hit five of them within three minutes of the end of the game. Dude, that was incredible. How about game three, bro? Yeah, where were you then, Chief? Or ejected or, you know, bowled out. And that's what we needed.

Had you come in and done that, it's easy when they're... And how about a mindset? Zero pressure and you're playing against five white people. Good point. With Sam Housers out there. So your mindset, though, if you did this in game three, and then game four, you had a really tough, close-fought game. Luka fouls out and Winhurst does his thing.

And you lose. Don't you feel a lot better? Yeah, I do. Why is it that different? Is it because of the mental letdown that you're aware that boston had to have i think so i don't think boston went into the game already with that that subconscious mental uh state of but i think once the writing was on the wall that the mavs had what they had that night their foot was off the gas yeah that's probably what it is you fly your family in because you're expecting to win but then by the end of the first quarter, you're like,

this is probably not going to happen. Point being, if the roles were reversed and they saw themselves down by 20 when they were, they would have worked a lot harder than they did to close that gap because at no point did they ever even make a semblance of a run to do so. No. At all. So Dallas is up 26 at half, and they had hit five threes.

I think by the end of the night, Luka and Kyrie only had one three combined, right? Luka went 0 for 8, I'm pretty sure. So yeah, if you would have told me that there's a game where the Mavericks at some point will be up almost 50 points where Luka has not hit a three, because I went back and looked at this. I mean, obviously what it felt like was the Phoenix closeout game from two years ago where you're just like, how in the hell is a playoff game this lopsided?

The Mavericks shot 48% from three that night. Like, Dinwiddie made a butt- of them jaylen luca that's the way that they used to have to win so this was just kind of a nice reminder that they are a team that doesn't have to just shoot a ridiculous clip from three to win they dominated the paint lively was everywhere lively i told you you weren't here when we talked about this last week, Blake, but that's my best case or best chance scenario for the Mavericks to get better over the next couple years is for Lively to turn into a stretch five. They say he's good at it.

Yeah, he's been doing it all year. In practice, like I said, you just watch him. He attempted two shots, two threes all year. No, no, no. Yeah, I didn't mean in the game. But he's been working on that all year in practice. He was open, and he ripped it. And it looked completely normal.

It looked normal. Yeah. I think he went two for 13 at Duke. Yeah, his Duke numbers are really, really weird, which is why I wasn't that fired up when they picked him. But- Lively- Seems like a leader.

Lively. Seems like a leader. Lively. I heard Simmons mention this because he was worried about Derek Lively. And so I went and looked at the popcorn machine.net at the flow chart. So if you add up the second

half of game three, which is where they're taking a lot from that, like, hey, we did some stuff there, and with Przingis out, we kind of unlock some things there that we think we can carry forward. And you never know how that works. I don't believe in carrying forward momentum,

but if you carry forward, you have some actual things that you're figuring out, add up and then the first half of game four, Lively had six points, 12 rebounds in the second half of game three, six points,

10 rebounds in the first half of game four. In the last full game, if we add those together, 12 points, 22 rebounds, he's doing stuff that he wants. He's a sideshow lob. Yeah, the lob game was back a little bit.

A little bit. They had five or six dunks compared to Boston's one. So it felt like... It felt like regular season Mavs. Like the end of the regular season Mavs. Get out and run with a little pace, long Luka passes. Gafford's still playing well. He had a lob dunk.

He blocked a Tatum three. That was awesome. I feel like I love that Reggie Miller called it the Twin Towers, which is not appropriate because they're not out there at the same time. No one says that around here. The two-headed monster or whatever. I noticed their bench players, role players, Exum Green, Jones Jr., it seemed like they played with a lot more confidence and decisiveness

than they had in the first three games. Like they all looked like they had finals jitters. Yeah. How much of that was. It seemed like they shook a lot of that off. These are guys who have never been at this stage before. Boston, all of them have. And they've all, you know, taken it in the shorts.

So they realize like we've, you know, we've got the shorts. So they realize like, we've, you know, we've got to take that next step. Like those guys you just mentioned, are they kind of like, maybe was it game three, second half? You stood, they start to,

okay, we can, we belong here. We can do this. I don't know. You get a game like that. It wasn't like a, they squeaked one out.

Yeah. Like they showed, we can dominate this team in different stretches. Now how can we keep it together? It's really difficult to try to unlock this mystery on what to think about, not only tonight, but you really can't think beyond tonight. Because it's not impossible, but it's as unlikely as anything could be unlikely that the Mavs could somehow

win this series. Were you surprised? But a boy can dream, right? And if you are dreaming, what are those keys? I don't think it's that unlikely. It's the most unlikely thing that's ever happened in sports, Dan. I feel like... At least in the NBA.

I feel like... I've talked about this many times. Stan, at least in the NBA. I feel like I've talked about this many times. I think with player empowerment, that has caused more parity at the top of the NBA than I ever remember in my whole lifetime. Like there's more teams with a chance to win it going into every year. With the way the three-pointer has changed, you know, in a small sample like certain games,

but certainly make it just a little bit of a bigger sample. That's a seven-game series. The three-pointer has changed things tremendously. There will be a team. There's going to be a team that's going to come back from a 3-0 deficit. And Luka kind of is the kind of guy that if you're going to be that team, you're going to have a Luka, a guy that is too young to care about any history and all like he just there was no history of a guy playing like luca or being like luca and he just does his

i feel like i feel like the mavs are going to win the title this year you're out of your mind dude but you actually feel that way? How about this? Whoever wins tonight wins the title. Okay. You already did that in game two, though. Oh, I did? But this would be the hardest round to do it in because theoretically you're going against the second best team in the league. Like, maybe a 3-0 deficit would happen

in the first round. It has happened. The first round? Why? No, that would be when you have the biggest difference. But if a seven seed gets up 3-0 on a two seed, things could normalize. Okay, that's unlikely, though, that a seven seed would. But the second best team in the league losing four straight. That seems like those odds are impossible.

But these are two teams that are very closely matched. In the last, whatever, 30 games of the regular season, they were 1-2 in a lot of the metrics. So these are very closely matched. In the last, whatever, 30 games of the regular season, they were 1-2 in a lot of the metrics. So these are very close teams. I think that they're not that far away from Boston. You're right. The metrics are there. It can happen, and it won't be that crazy. Through the first few games, there were just

little pockets of the game where the Mavericks lost the plot a little bit. But they were right there. They've been close. But beating four straight, being bossed in four straight times. You can't think of that, though. Again, if you were down 3-1 because you won game three big, it would be a thing that you've done, that's been done. Kyrie's done it.

So Kidd was asked about that, and I'm a huge Tim Cato fan. I read everything he writes good friend of mine but he did ask kind of a long question here uh so kid i remember this yeah tim cato the athletic uh jason with with you guys playing like this is there um you know is your view of it that this version of this team could have come sooner and what emotions accompany that is is it frustration is it does it just have to be you know kind of a a looking forward and an ability to continue this okay so i want to be clear i know what he means like are you thinking about this it's almost the same hypothetical you just put forth dan where you're like are you pissed off that this didn't

come earlier because now you know it's here, right? Like are you upset with yourself thinking we know that we can beat this team, we can route this team, but it's just – it took a really long time. So I'm going to play it again. Tim Cato of The Athletic. Jason, with you guys playing like this, is there – is your view of it that this version of this team could have come sooner? And what emotions accompany that? Is it frustration?

Does it just have to be kind of a looking forward and an ability to continue this? Can you say that again? That's a long-ass question. He laughed over the... A looking forward and an ability to continue this? Can you say that again? That was a long-ass question. Fair enough.

Fair enough. Yeah. That was a long-ass question. You generally don't want to answer the question in the question. Yeah, that's a tough one. You don't provide the recipient of your question an option let me play you some of the kid pre-game okay uh before game four mike curtis dallas morning news jason what's the message um to your guys going into this game for

how do you i guess keep their minds off of the 30 deficit or is it something that you kind of want them to embrace and just take it? You don't do that. You just don't do that. You end with what's the message, and now you answer the question. Don't give him the answer. Or is it, yeah. This I thought was a – this is a bad question,

but I think Jason Kidd kind of gives a good answer, so maybe it's a good question. Jason, which one's more accurate? Do you think that because you know where the series is, is that freeing mentally in some ways, or is it just pressure of the back against the wall and you have to win tonight to extend this thing? Similar.

Yeah, I would not have called that a good question. But I like what he said i think yeah i think um tim when you talk about um the record or the series you know it's 3-0 um somewhere in this game there's going to be a point where um either team is going to have to make a stand or they let go of the rope. And so that's just human nature. And so if it happens to be us in the sense we're down or we're fighting to get back in the game, there's going to be a point if there's going to be a fight or do we just concede. Or vice versa where Boston goes, well, we got another one on Monday.

Or vice versa, where Boston goes, well, we got another one on Monday. So that's what, you know, there will be a point in this game where someone's going to have to make a stand or they let go of the rope. And so we'll see when that point comes. And the announcers were referencing that a little bit. The rope. Yeah, the rope. He's right. And they did.

And they let go of it early because they didn't have to keep fighting yeah did you were you surprised they benched their starters so it was the third quarter yeah i mean given everything that you said about the way that the nba works now with you know leads being erased a little surprised but i'll take it i mean lucas scored what two points in the second half four maybe maybe four it's incredible yeah well 25 in the first and once they took all their starters out kids like oh okay yeah i was a little worried like both go home how strong is their their bench? Apparently, it all worked out fine. You know why?

Because to use this phrase for the fifth time in one week, it was Tim Hardaway Jr. time in Tim Hardaway Jr.'s mind. Real quick, I jokingly tweeted about kind of mocking Doris Burke because she said, pose the idea. Do the Mavericks go to Tim Hardaway Jr. earlier in the game than they normally would in game five and I basically posted that quote and said the world says no or something like that it was brought to my attention that think about this though he went on a heater he's the only guy out of those that that cluster of bench players that Boston will guard.

They don't guard Josh Green. They don't guard Jones Jr. They don't guard Dante Exum. But when Tim's in the game, because of the nature of who he is that can get on a heater and stay on it, just like he did at the end of game four he has to be accounted for you're not wrong and is that something that you would do to stretch stretch their defense a little bit to have him out there earlier in the game just because they've got to put a body on him. Because if he gets cooking, it could bury them early.

Blake, last week when you were gone, before game three, Dan and I were like, maybe it's Timmy time. No, good hard work. Stop little Timmy. And then he was awful. Game three, I think he was 0 for 5. He was the only reason Boston got back into the game. He played a lot of minutes, too.

Yeah, he played way more than he should have. More than Derek Jones. Yeah. But you can see the thinking because good Hardaway Jr. is really good. That's what we thought. And Danny's right. These role players can't create for themselves. So when Luka and Kyrie are just expending all they have,

they need that extra guy. So, yeah, if he comes out in game five, hits a three or two, and you can tell we may have a good Timmy night, I mean, it's worth finding out. Didn't he just set the NBA record for most threes in a quarter in the finals? With five? Yeah, I believe he did. Yeah.

Let's ride this wave. I believe he did. Yeah. Yeah. Is there anything. Let's ride this wave. Is there anything to the amount of rest, too, between games three and four? It's the only gap where you only had one day off that will happen in this series. And I don't know what that means.

Does it mean that the Mavs have absolutely no time to reflect on anything and it's right there in their face like like every other series up to the finals it was one day off and that rhythm seemed to work for them now i think it benefits them now to have two days off because obviously it's a travel day and for you know to the amount of energy that they had to utilize in game four, I think the extra day of rest is going to help them as well because that was max defense ever. They never let up either. The last thing I'll say, Dan. I don't know.

You know, it's funny. You mentioned Scott Foster being the series extender the other day. Yeah. And then the Mavericks had like 10 more free throws than Boston did. Like Boston never got to the line. Hmm. So when I see stuff like that, sometimes I'm like, well, the refs probably know people think this,

and are they going to cut the other way with it? He did not at all. They called him in to do one job. One last job, Scott Foster. Give us a game after the weekend weekend and the bottom line is if the mabs lose tonight then game four all everybody will just say oh boston let up they let up you know they didn't have to win it they wanted to win it at home in front of their fans the mabs aren't losing tonight so jason kidd dropped in something in the pregame as well that he just wanted to say.

Wet the beak? I'll wet that beak. Okay. The beak is already wet. The beak is doused? Or, you know, winning it all and my Luka MVP. Anyway, he wanted to say this. No one even asked him about it.

He was talking about the team. You have to train to play into June. And so these are a lot of lessons, not just for Luca, but a lot of my guys are learning. And so, you know, tonight, injury or no injury, we have to go out there and play our best basketball and find a way to win. And Luca has been incredible up to this point

and has still been incredible up to this point um and it's still been incredible and for whatever reason um there has been some personal attacks on him um but um he will learn from him and he will be better when he comes back from it okay so no one asked him about personal attacks so i thought that was kind of interesting he is the one that brought it up and now I think media members can ask good questions and this is a good follow-up a couple minutes later hey Jason is there a particular uh personal attack or narrative around Luca that specifically bothers you and as a player who went through all this himself and personal attacks how have you helped guide him through that?

I think those are great questions. Yeah. Yeah, I think when you look at today's athlete, the game of sport is not to be perfect. Hold on, by the way. What is the game of sport? That is a hilarious turn of phrase. It's just, you know, to win. And when you look at what's come out here in the last day or so,

if you've watched the Mavs, Luka's improved his defense. But we're asking him, or some are asking him, to be a shut down defender. He's talking Windhorst. He's talking Windhorst, yes. He's been on an all-defensive team. He's too aware of... He's been on five all-pro teams, first team, so that means he's one of the top five players in the world, and he's playing the game the right way, where he can find open guys. I don't know what that means. But when you're on the biggest stage, there's got to be – someone's got to poke a hole. This will only make the great ones better.

And that's, you know, when you look at – we talked about it yesterday with LeBron, Michael, the greats, the GOATs, they've all, you know, were poked at and they came back stronger and better. And I truly believe Luka will come back stronger and better. Some criticize that he could never get this far, but he's here. And unfortunately, as a team, he said it best. We win together and we lose together. And that's, you know, we lost three in a row we're

trying to find a way tonight to win but sometimes when you are a free agent in the media business you got to say something crazy to get a new contract or likes or clicks i don't know he really cracked himself he didn't think that was funny i don't i think he lost his his way a little bit there very meandering yeah I don't know. Boy, he really cracked himself up there. He didn't think that was funny. I think he lost his way a little bit there. Very meandering, yeah. Is he always out of breath? Yeah, when he's got a long statement like that.

I think it's that he's just a breathy talker. Seems like in all this audio, he's just... So I thought that was a very good follow-up. It's tiring to talk about the game of sports. But I'm going to say this is a bad follow-up. Or likes or clicks. Listen. Last two questions, back, left, and up front. Jason, Stefan Bondi from the New York Post.

I was going to ask about your personal attack comment. Is there one thing that you felt was over the line? I guess you kind of alluded to it just now. Yeah, I think he actually answered the exact same question. Yeah, that's not alluding to it. Yeah, he flat out addressed it. Or is he wanting to say the word Wendhorst? He wants him to say Brian Wendhorst.

Okay. But he's not going to do that, and he did everything short of that. So it's asked and answered. Yeah. Okay. That's, yeah. No, I think it's just, you know, everybody has, this is a free country. Everybody has the right to.

I love when he does the free country. I love it. Sometimes we might take it a little bit too far, right? Too much freedom. Put yourself in that person's shoes could you stand up to the barbecue don't know what he's talking about sometimes we we want to fry someone but if you reversed it and it was you being fried would you like it most likely not right that's just the nature of the business but this young man has done nothing to anyone

but play the game of basketball and when he's asked the question he's never run from it he's answered it true i guess he's 25 years old and uh you know and i think that's that's what i'm more disappointed in is that we're at the highest stage where we have one of the best players in the world playing the game the right way, but we want to criticize some of the things that he does not do well. I don't know if you've followed sports a long time, Jason Kidd, but I mean, it feels like Dirk got this, like every single person gets this. Let me be clear, if there was a shark in a battery... Until they win it all.

But yes, I always thought that was incredibly unfair for Dirk. He would score 28 and pull down 12 rebounds. And there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there. By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately. Did you notice that? I did notice that. I mean, it happened to Kidd.

But dude, this is all performative. All this is, is him trying to make sure. He needs for Luka and the guys to know he was battling the media for you. Yeah, and I did hear Kyrie in the postgame address that. But when he does do them well, are we going to come back and want to talk to him? And then when he says, no, I'm going to pass, then what happens? I don't know what that means. Sometimes unfair or warranted to be able

to say those things. No one in this room is perfect. He does that. He loves to do that. Give my man a break. Let him play the game because we're all here to watch him play. Let's just enjoy it. He's

25 years old. He will be it i mean he's 25 years old um he he will be better hopefully he's better tonight he's so weird i know that whole barbecue so weird metaphor that was real trumpy i i liked it because it it put Windhorse in a food based situation. Barbecue. Which we're fond of. I also, yeah,

it's the job of the media to be critical. You want to hear Luca post game? Sure. Or at least just on court post game. Yeah, yeah. Oh, actually, yeah, so here's all I have from the game broadcast. You weren't here last week, so let's reset for you and anyone else who's just tuning in. It's a bad booth.

Yes. We've turned on the booth. It's terrible. Yeah. I kind of like Redick. Doris lost me. I like Doris. Oh, really?

I individually like them, but I hate the booth. It's too much talking. I don't know what it is. Doris is Oh, really? I individually like them, but I hate the booth. It's too much talking. I don't know what it is. Doris is talking way too much. And then because Reddick is the young analytic guy, Doris is trying to be analytic guy, and I got to impress him. It's all. They both know a ton and are very good.

They're great. But together, there's something weird happening. At volume levels. Yeah. Yeah. When I was leaving Friday, you said you missed Reggie Miller. Okay. All right.

I already did this a little bit. That's tough. Damning. Actually, you alerted me to this. But so in game three at halftime, they had what we're calling the worst halftime segment ever. Like, this is their whole segment on ESPN. Second segment. Welcome back to the Kia Halftime.

Let's check out our Kia Halftime highlights here, Paul George. Kyrie Irving had his fifth career 20-point half in the finals. What did you see from him? What did you see from Kyrie? I just see Kyrie just being aggressive. They're going to need a little bit more of that in the second half. This halftime report is presented by the All-In-One. There's a whole report.

They have an open and an out-go. Good Lord. A sponsor. The whole report. Yeah, as Video Man pointed out theand-go? Yep, a sponsor. The whole report. As Video Man pointed out the other day, the funniest part about that is he goes, Huh? Like he had to stop eating a hot dog halfway through. Okay, so they decided, you know what, Paul George.

I know this team just kicked our ass like three series ago. Why am I even here? Number one, I watched the first segment. I could have told you Paul George would have nothing because Paul, why is Paul George on here? A hundred percent. Draymond Green. I get it. I thought you had entertaining. He's got some personality. Like how about a guy that says something? I thought you had to go to like a, like broadcast camp in Bristol or something. Right. Or they like figure out which of you or like, I swear to God, they do that. Well, who's entertaining in the post-game interviews?

Who's got a little Riz? Whose Riz game is good? We need Sizzle! Draymond, for sure. Paul George never thought of it. What, Anthony Edwards? Yeah, that'd be great. Let's get him up there.

Let's just get somebody that we've... CP3? Throughout history, you've been like, there's a guy that's got a little, he'll say something. Yeah. Paul George? Anyway, so now they get, they figured, let's go to the other end of the spectrum. Let's go to Kendrick.

They're going to use him on the halftime for game four. And I'll include the commercial, the end of the commercial, just so you can realize, again, how incredibly short this segment is. Applebee's late night because half off is just more fun. The vets eat good in the neighborhood. Welcome back to the Kia Halftime. Let's check out our Kia Halftime highlights. Kyra Irving, 11. I want to point out, she just said highlights.

Plural. Yeah. Perk, let's check out our key halftime highlights. Kyrie Irving, 11 points in this first half. Kyrie balling. Look, right here in the sweet spot. He said he was going to come out firing. He did just that in the first half following Luka Lee.

The Mavericks up big. Second half coming up after this. That was the whole report. Was this going to break? It's literally 15 seconds. Now, at least he was paying attention and was ready to say something. But they showed one slow motion Kyrie mid-range shot. That was it.

It's a weird run. That was the highlights. I will give you that. Let's watch the highlights. The structure is very strange. Here's Luka on the court for the post-game interview. Luka, it was total domination tonight from the opening tip. Just how did you guys make it look so easy? We know we have to get. We can't lose no more.

Like we always say, we're're gonna believe till the end what was different tonight about the deep he says that a lot that's a crutch of his he's like like i always say he'll always say like i always say but amazing and i give him the english third language uh what was different tonight about the defense and the mindset i think our energy our energy was way higher. Everybody was locked in on defensive end. And then we played with higher pace. Luca, you heard a lot of criticism, fair or unfair, after game three. Just what was it like hearing all of that?

See, now this one, now he's right there. It felt like their energy was better and their pace. Like, I think Luca looking to push is good, but maybe you can't do that as well if you are giving up a made shot. Yeah, it's tough to push when you're taking the ball out of the basket. Push it right away, but this is almost like, hey, remember we're in this ESPN ecosystem and our guy is the one who kind of criticized you and they have to make a story

out of what we say that's the way i take this anyway look you heard a lot of criticism fair or unfair after game three just what was it like hearing all of that i'm good i don't i don't pay much attention uh there's always going to be criticism no matter what uh you know i just stay focused and help my team win i hope that's true that he doesn't pay attention. Kyrie also mentioned that in his postgame, that he like, you know, they're like, oh, what great advice do you give to the guys? Well, if they're not paying attention, then isn't it kind of silly to say that they feed off of the negativity to fuel their comeback performances

when they don't perform? True, but he's not saying that. He didn't say, hey, I'm feeding off it. That's what Kidd does. Yeah. Kidd plays both sides of it. Yeah. Like, wow, we don't hear any of it, and we hear everything you say,

and I don't want to play back. Kidd does that all the time, and it drives me crazy. Can we also say, real quick, going back to that useless 25-second halftime report? If that. back to that useless 25 second halftime report if that that is nothing more than a little bubble created by the network to shoehorn in another kia mention yeah that's all that is don't pull back the curtain well yeah and then it's a five minute break before and a five minute after so it's like no we didn't have a 10 minute break we had a second you have to force some fake content in there to you know put put it in the middle of the sandwich of the Kia bread.

So it looks like, oh, we're getting some real content here, but basically Kia. That's all it is. That's all it is. This is just one win, but it feels like it could have been a statement win. How do you take this game and the momentum that you got here tonight, how do you take that to Boston for Game 5? We've got to play the same way. We know how tough it is to play there.

I know their fans, they're going to be loud. So we got to stay focused. We got to do the same things we did today. All right. Thank you, Luca. Congrats on the win. Yeah. Not much there.

Rarely is. No, but you got to grab, Luca. But when he's on with the TNT guys afterward, that usually produces something a little fun. Oh, yeah. He can give you something, even if at times it's just the sound of him making a right turn. Blake, will you join us?

When we had him on, it was just the blinker. You weren't here. Uh-oh. But I had these guys uh tell me that they will join me we're all gonna do the tb12 diet stick to it get boy already you will not be eating any uh real ice cream you will eat avocado ice cream if you ever do. You will eat grapes instead of cake on your birthday. You will eat kale. For how long? A year. One year.

Next year, when you go to opening day, you will not be able to consume a yard-long margarita. You're doing this for the Mavs to win the title. Jake will no longer be able to drink Bourbon Street hand grenades at his daughter's dance recital.

That's right. You must vow. That's exactly right. And we're all doing it? Yes. Okay, I'm out. Why do you suck so bad? Why are you doing this?

Because this is going to will them to win. But Tom Brady. Do you remember? Wait, wait. I want to be clear about something. We're only doing it if they win.'re willing them to win so when they lose tonight are y'all done yeah we're not even doing it now yeah we're not starting yet it doesn't stop they're not going to lose tonight so i need you to eat heartily just for a few days until they carve up

bro carve up marathon man because you're about to go in a wrap. This is going to help them to win. My vow. Yeah, right there. Bison? I love bison. My vow on Friday. Mahi-mahi? I'm in.

Look at all that yummy food. Look at all the different kind of peppers you could eat. Bell or jalapeno. Why is that funny? Why is it funny when he says it? Look at all the peppers you can eat. Bell or jalapeno. Come on, man.

Let's be part of the show. Rob already said he wouldn't do it. Look at all those snacks. Hummus is good. But Rob likes to be behind the scenes. Doesn't like to be in the trench. I'm a grass-fed beef jerky. I might just do this anyway.

Dude, it's grass-fed. And how great are you going to look after a year? We're all three just hot as hell. You're going to be getting so much tail? All four of us, really, yeah. Yeah. Can you imagine? It'll be the best calendar you guys have ever made.

Yeah. Okay, look at that. I can drink hemp. There you go. I didn't even know that was possible. Or water. Look at that. Even water you can drink.

Man. Come on, man. This is going to be great. They're going to win four in a row. I'm doing this. They're going to become the first team to come back from a 3-0 deficit. Luka is, like, think of Tatum. In NBA history, like 50 years from now, they're going to be like,

all right, yeah, he was a player. Luka is going to be thought of as one of the top five players in NBA history, and he's starting to write that narrative right this second. Can you imagine? The first guy, the first guy that comes back from 3-0 down is going to be Luka, and his mentor is kind of walking in front of him, burning sage so that the sage can be all over the court and the aura. It's going to be great.

Come on, Blake. To help propel the greatest basketball player on earth, I have to eat kale. That's right. You don't even have to eat it right now. You're figuring this out, Blake. You just have to vow that you're going to do so. Putting forth the idea that you will sacrifice,

if he is able to sacrifice and win four straight games, which I think, as you would admit, is a pretty significant feat. All you would have to do is wait for the next year to live in a very miserable fashion, and we all have to do it.

But it will be worth it, because you're going to have this title. You've already got me over on the Kyrie bandwagon. By the way, leading it. I'm driving it. You've got this on the screen. It says foods to minimize. It doesn't say eliminate. There you go.

That's a good point. So if you're drinking a 12-pack a night. Yeah, just minimize it. Just minimize it a little. Just six. That's minimization. That really is. Is that a word? I think so. Okay.

Man, I'm going to be so anti-inflamed. I'm going to be horny and fit. Yeah. It's going to be great. It's rocked up all the time. And Blake's not going to participate. Come on, man. Be a part of the show. And Blake's not going to participate. Come on, man. Be a part of the show. And we're going to all look like Tom Brady,

and there's Blake over there in his polo shirt looking like Paul Giamatti. Robson. It's not bad. They got to win four straight to do this. Like, think of the odds. But if you say you're in, that might be what puts this thing over the top. Blake, Blake, Blake. Come on, man.

Blake, Blake, Blake, Blake, Blake. Almond, milk, guacamole. Avocado, ice cream. Let's go. We don't pay Rachel, so I don't think we should even put her on the spot here. All right, thank you. That's what I thought. You're in?

Yeah, of course he's in. Minimize. It's just minimize, dude. Min, thank you. That's what I thought. You're in? Yeah, of course he's in. Minimize. Just minimize, dude. Minimize the alcohol. It's hard for some. You're in for sure. Yeah, I mean, if y'all do it, I'll do it. Yeah, we're all doing it. Dude, oh, say something. Oh, you didn't say I could have dill. Hey, everybody. It's time to answer some of today's viewer mail

So you got that Somebody mailed that other OJ shirt to my house Wait do I have to tongue kiss my son? No we're leaving that part out Yeah we'll do that You don't have to win the Super Bowl And you don't have to kiss your son. Karate instructor doesn't have to sleep with my wife.

Doesn't have, nope. Don't have to get roasted. Do you remember in 2011 where I, was it 2011? Yeah, I think I abstained. You did. From? Oh. From self-pleasure throughout the Mavs playoff run.

Oh, two weeks? It was a big deal I know I didn't say I'm going to abstain for the entire year afterwards No I mean, I'm a human Let's not be silly So, like, you didn't do anything?

Not self or Well, I mean, the other part was kind of With a friend Spoken for Yeah, the other part is taken care of Yeah It wasn't a Did you at least I've been married a long time Well, I mean, the other part was kind of spoken for. Yeah, the other part is taken care of. I've been married a long time.

Did you at least bring yourself to almost? And then you go, I've got to stop now. That's really weird. Edging himself? Yeah. That's super strange. For two weeks. Dear Uncle Hoddy, I'm a day 72 subbie because I like to wait until after 69 to, you know, come.

Okay. It's my lady's OJ Simpson birthday. More Jasmine and Blake. From Jared Beeks. He does not give his lady's name, so apparently she's 32. And so if you're 32 today and your man is Jared Beeks. And he thinks 69 is funny. Happy birthday. Uncle H.M., it is my Adrian Beltre birthday.

There you go. That's acceptable. Simple, straightforward. 29. My leaders are Dan's eclipse enthusiasm. The two-week life of the dumb phone. Yeah, remember that? Not all ideas work.

What's the dumb phone? See? We set up like a voicemail line and I'm just sort of like, yeah, it's not really worth it. And facts about Picasso living in modern time, like the fact that Picasso and Dan were alive at the same time from Omar. Who would have thought? I was trying to impress my daughter last night because I'm watching a show called The Offer. Are you familiar with it? Maybe.

It's on Paramount+. It's about the making of The Godfather. Ah, yes. I have heard about this. It's very good. I have heard about this. Miles Teller, right? Three episodes, yeah.

Is that old? Like, not old, but a couple years old? Yeah. Okay. Anyway, then I was telling my daughter about the Picasso bit. I'm like, hey, when do you think Picasso was alive? And she's like, you know, I just took an art class in France. Like an art history class living in France.

So I'm pretty aware of that. He wasn't alive in 1600. Yeah. I told her to go to her room and shut up. You didn't do the, you know, he saw the dolphins go undefeated. Well,

that's what I was starting to tell her about, how he saw the godfather and then saw. But once she cuts you off at the pass, like the second part of the bit is probably useless. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to wish a happy, dirty, Martin Brodeur birthday to my son, Michael Roop. He's a second generation DF.

That's cool. His leader is Jake's reliance on the verbal crutch, like, from Michael Rupp. It's gotten worse. You think so? I'm trying to stop it. I'm sorry. I also, I don't know. I hate when somebody will point something out to me, and then I listen, and I'm like, oh, yeah.

And there, there I just said it. Yes, of course. Okay. How do you stop? How do you change the way you talk if that's the way you've talked for a decade? What I used to do was, and this is foolish, but I would...

And I'm glad you never saw this. I would put a Post-it note on my computer. So that it would remind you? Mm-hmm. You become mindful of it once you are self-aware that you do those things? Yes. And then... Crazy, but then you can...

You'll introduce more pauses into your speech. That's been our point all along. I think Blake might have been the first one who pointed this out about Greg Olson. He has a very odd meter, and I think it's because he doesn't want to sound like he doesn't know what he's talking about. So he'll introduce these pauses, and then he'll go to the next point. You know what I mean? It's weird. Firing over a few dollars to get the shout out from my father, Morris Vester Johnston. Johnston, he hates his middle name, so I like to bring it up as often as possible.

I read this email about four times and thought, there's no way that that's actually his middle name. Vester? Is it a nickname for Sylvester? It feels like the sort of thing that Dan would say as a short word for investor, thinking it was cool. Oh, that is cool write that down for business wednesday investor i'm gonna use that on the phone with a couple

vesters also shout out to my father-in-law joe their leaders are dan's value bets and jake hating the birthday numbers bit more intern from Philip. Wow. I feel like intern Rachel is polarizing. Oh, is that so? Some will say more. Some are anti-intern Rachel. That's the way somebody that's good on the air should be, right? 100%. That's my other verbal crutch.

But also, how do you know why are you doing this because I'm getting birthday emails they might say less if it's email then that's fine but in the last two years don't be upset if I went to the reddit page I learned from him

so at the start of my career I was way too invested in what people thought about me and time and time and time again guy would say, it doesn't matter. He's the king of I don't give a fuck. Yeah. And I eventually internalized that, learned it, and then we got sued. And I said, I don't want to see any of this.

And I've followed through on that. And now he gets up and checks. He's got a Google alert for his name. He's checking every single social media site. He's got a Reddit burner. Yeah. It's insane. I'm posting on there.

Jake sucks. I'm posting more Dan. I appreciate it. I think it's because he's now. But it's just weird that he turned into this person. Well, it's because he now works for himself. He's the owner. He works for himself.

He's the owner of the company, and he wants to hear what the people want. Speaking of Kanye, that used to be, Jay got famous for that a couple times. Like local write-ups. Jay would go on there and just straight up battle on Yelp. Oh, really? Like if somebody had a nonsensical bad review, he would just flame them. He'll do that on Facebook too. I follow him on Facebook and he will post all of the negative reviews and his replies.

Yeah. I feel like my buddy Travis Heim learned. Went to that same school. Why not? You already had a bad time. So should we get into the Reddit page and just start firing away at people? I don't want to do that at all. But if you want to, you're free to.

Why don't you do it? No, I don't want to post. Video man seems pretty all over the... Yeah, let Rachel do it. I just like to... I'm a voyeur. I want to sit in the corner. Yeah?

With what's-his-name? Does he know what I'm thinking? Jerry Falwell Jr. He does know what I'm thinking. Of course he does. Come on. Day 120 DF from Andrew McCraw. He says,

Yesterday was my Ray Allen on the Heat birthday. This is a great bit, Jake. Calm down. Okay. The highest war for an MLB player wearing my age number is Randy Johnson at 101.1. Damn. That's insane. Let's see.

Dan, I also flew to Paris recently. The airport is the worst airport I've ever experienced. I never want to fly there again. What's with Europe charging money to use public toilets? Is that done? Yeah, well, I mean, with a lot of places, you at least, you can't just go in and use their bathroom. I recall going to McDonald's or a coffee shop or something and there's a code on your receipt.

Oh. Interesting. You can't... So even if you just walked in there and... That makes sense. Why doesn't Starbucks and everybody do that when they say you have to buy something? The code? Yeah. Do the code thing. Yeah. It works.

Bathroom doesn't work otherwise. You know, I got a code on my door, the office at my house. I did not know that. I got it put in when, yeah. Remember I told you I locked it when Trey was there. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

I got it put in when, because A1 Locksmith hooked us up. We did the front and back door. And then I said, hey, why are you here? Like my brother was visiting with his kids a week later. I was like, what if you just put one up there on that door? And they're like, oh, okay. Weird. And then I could just lock it and.

Really don't usually put these on interior doors. My grimy. Yeah, it's an outdoor thing. My grimy little nephews couldn't get into the den. And then I could just lock it and... Really don't usually put these on interior doors. My grimy... Yeah, it's an outdoor thing. My grimy little nephews couldn't get into the den. Smart. That's how much he hates them. Smart. More Julie, more Sarah Heppola, and more Blake.

That's from Andrew. Why are we scared of Reddit people? I'm not. No, no, no. But do you understand, like, you can get in a Twitter fight with somebody or say whatever you want, but there's something about Reddit people that I'm kind of afraid of. They seem smarter, don't they? They definitely seem smarter.

I think it's that they're very online. But they can be. They're even more online. But they're more mean. Like, they will rip you apart on Reddit in a way that they won't do on more public uh uh platform the reason that i don't really look at that stuff anymore is because most of the time when i do and it's something negative i'm like fuck they're right yeah you know the few times that i've seen it they're usually on point like yeah that that one tracks. And Rob, I have one VM picture I wanted to use.

This is Uncle Hottie. As strong DFs, my husband and I could hardly believe our eyes when we saw that there is a Chisholm Trail in Wichita, Kansas. We instantly thought of you and, you know, jizz. To make things even better, my husband happened to be wearing his Dumb Zone shirt that day. We thought y'all might like to see the photo evidence. That's incredible. Is it possible that there are as many Chisholm trails as 9-11 memorials in the U.S.?

No way. Well, it's an interesting one. My husband and I thought of you and jizz. She signs off with more intern Rachel from Shannon and Andy Reid. Oh, Andy Reid, huh? Yeah, Andy Reid. So, like, Raymond is doing a contest. It's on whatever that website is that you told me,

and I said that's really easy. I won't forget that. It's dumbzonemerch.com still. But do you think there could be a thing where we have, if you take a picture by the 9-11 Memorial, wherever you are, or the Chisholm Trail of your choice. So previously when we talked about this, you said it was already a little bit too complicated for your liking. And this is your modification that you would like to...

I think they're all great ideas it's a cool photo you want to do some news sure let's do it here's jane with the dumb so new but i gotta tell you about this first i'm on the freeway this morning. Yeah? Some maniac almost hits me. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, well, it didn't happen. It wasn't me. I didn't have, no, and they didn't throw an apple at me like you did the other day. And the good news is I did not have to call Frankel and Frankel at 214-817-ALL-THREES.

But had this maniac hit me, that's the first thing that i would have done after calling the proper authorities i would have talked to a partner you know who i wouldn't have talked to some guy in russia no no no do you know they're dallas-based of course i do so there are others you know they're texas-based but franklin franklin they're here big state they're here we know what you're trying to sell there so you you're going to talk to Mark or Scott Frankel or Gene Burkett. They're the partners. Great dudes. And they're a family-owned law firm with a client-first mission.

A lot of these fly-by-night operations, client-forth. Yeah, they're actually first, and you're the client. Not this one, Danny. Yeah, they have the experience and knowledge to win in the courtroom. And they will not rest until they have maximized your outcome. What do you think that means? It means that it's not going to get better. It's not going to get better.

And I actually did not know this, but when Gene told us that they actually have, like if you get in an accident, I never thought of this like if you get in an accident i never thought of this but you get in an accident now you're on a police report and these other you know like i said fly by night type attorneys they will hawk you and call you because they're just hunting yeah that's not what you're getting with franklin frankl yeah they used to uh work for insurance companies so they can use that experience to advocate on your behalf. They know how sneaky they try to be over on the other side. I like that.

So they'll work for you. I like that a lot. 214-817-333-3333. And now, here is the news. Okay, so this is a weird one. It's what Dave Chappelle many, many years ago would have termed when speaking of Bill Cosby and antique rape. But are you aware of Gateway Church in Southlake? I imagine you are.

Yeah, especially when they're letting out. Yeah. Isn't it the one over there, right? Between Kimball and Carroll? Yes. I think that's it, yeah. Yeah. Mega church.

It is a mega church. And yes, it is the size that needs police whenever they let out on Sunday. So their pastor has been accused of sexual abuse. But here's the thing. The woman is 54. And she says that this abuse occurred between the ages of 12 and 16 so we are talking about a 40 year old uh incident or altercation not to say it didn't happen or anything like that it's just didn't he kind of acknowledge that it did right i thought they had some kind of statement um then you know more than I do, which is unfortunate for the guy presenting the news.

I didn't read it or watch the video, but I know that he did, on camera, I think, address this. Okay, yeah. He, yeah, okay. Kind of like, eh, you know. He said, the statement that the church put out said that he's been open and forthright about a moral failure he had over 35 years. That's right. Yeah. That's not a good defense.

No. Moral failure. No, it's not. Especially, it's interesting because the term moral failure, it feels like that could cover so many different things. Like cheating on your spouse, perhaps. Okay, whatever. Maybe. Having sex with a 12-year-old, I feel like moral failure doesn't really cover it.

Yeah, I was trying to think of some other things. That's like a crime. Right. Moral failure doesn't always have to be illegal. I thought they were giving me a $1 bill has changed, and they gave me a $20. Yeah. And then I just kept it. Yeah.

Moral failure doesn't always have to be illegal, but all illegalities are moral failure. Exactly. Very square rectangle. Hey, I asked for water and I got a tea. Add a little bit of a moment of moral failure. Not the same as having sex with a 13-year-old.

It just feels like you should have to quit. Even if it happened 40 years ago. Because I've done a bunch of really messed up stuff in my life. But I can promise you, nowhere in there was anything close to I was preying upon a child. So you've had moral failures? Daily.

Hourly. Hourly. so you've had moral failure failures daily hourly hourly but i just yeah i mean this one feels like the sort of thing that nobody can really take your word when it comes to telling them how they should be living their life and that's basically what religion is right i mean they're they're providing you a guide for how you should live your life. Well, if you're the type of person who has it somewhere in you to have sex with a 12-year-old. Oh, so you're perfect, huh? I was trying to do my Jason kid. Nobody in this room is perfect. Because it was kind of a weird Trump's, like, on Quaaludes type voice.

I wasn't really sure where he was. Yeah. So you're trying to cancel this guy is what I'm hearing. Well, I mean, I believe he should be fired. Yeah. I believe that. Can he fire? I thought he runs it.

Well, they have elders, which is interesting. Elders. That's always weird. Yeah. That word doesn't have good connotations. Not at all. We need to speak with the elders. That's always weird. That word doesn't have good connotations. Not at all. We need to speak with the elders. No. I feel like

the elders are not the type of people to run you don't, yeah. So he said it was kissing and petting, not intercourse. I wasn't going to put that up there, but thanks. It was when he was like in his early 20s, right? Yeah, and I think he was staying with the family.

Yeah. Yeah, bad bit. I'm against it. If there's anyone, though, that is probably going to turn a blind eye to what this man did, it's a team of people called the elders. And they're all in robes.

They look like Jedi. Say these phrases and you will be forgiven. You can all in robes. Yeah. They look like Jedi. Say these phrases and you will be forgiven. You can't see their faces. Cool. Rockwell County Sheriff's Office is looking for video and information to help track down a stolen trailer. This trailer was stolen from a dance studio. It contained all of the props. And let me tell you, there's a lot of props.

I'm recently familiar with the props and the costumes. Oh, did you also know you have to buy them flowers? You familiar with this bit, Rachel? Yeah. What, so? Like, I had to go to the grocery store, and my mom already had some. So she got a double bouquet of roses.

So you went grocery store, they're not selling them there? I was thinking that's how they double dip. That's a good idea, but no, I don't. Did you ever go to one of those things? Did they have a DVD for sale? Come on, of course. Okay, yeah, because they'll set up, and they'll tell you, don't open your phone because we're going to have a DVD for sale,

and you have to buy it. Yeah. Memory. Like DVD. Where am I going to watch this? What would I put this on? My projector. Yeah, that is an interesting one.

It's all Venmo now. Yeah, it is an interesting one. Like, it's all Venmo now. Yeah, it's a scam. But I am surprised nobody has set up the flower grift, but that is... We should do that. We're looking to make more money. I like it. Can I have that idea? You need some ideas.

Well, I need some money. Right. Right. Just let me know when the send me a schedule of all of the dance recitals jake in the tri in the tri-county just for flower sales just for flower sales yeah that's it yep yep yep it's just a business let's just go raid trader joe's and just charge double it it is kind of funny like uh i think i told you this last year um so when my dad and i were were swapping stories on what we'd rather be doing than being there for another two minutes and taking on 88 cannon fire we had some good ones on omaha beach was preferred overseeing

your daughter perform a dance it wasn't to see preferred. On Omaha Beach was preferred over seeing your daughter perform a dance. It wasn't to see, preferred over seeing her. It was preferred over seeing everyone else. But, like, my dad's a, he's, you know, he's a, I wouldn't say he's, like, a conservative, but he's certainly not what I would call progressive. And, like, he can't not laugh at a little boy dancing. I always knew he was funny. Like, so, because most classes will have, you know, 10 to 12 girls.

And the boy, who's usually, honestly, like, a phenomenal athlete. Like, what they're doing is phenomenally athletic he'll be a yell leader though someday but they're also wearing the male version of whatever the females are wearing and sometimes that means that they're dressed like a little bumblebee and my dad cannot handle that he's not not yet still not mature enough no he's giving me the elbow. Hey, man. Check that out. Fucking kid's a bee.

I'm like, I see it, Dad. He just can't process it. It's like Blake's grandpa with the HIV medicine commercials. I could be on Blake's golf trip right now in a beetle circle jerk, and I'm here watching this goddamn kid dressed as a bumblebee. And then a restaurant and farmer's branch.

I think we've actually heard from people who work there. Barrel and Bones say that if Dan's prediction comes true and the Mavs win in game five on Monday night, everyone eats for free. So, this is a brilliant move, right? You go to dinner there tonight and you just rack up a tab because you have to stay until the end of the game.

So wait, if they win tonight? Yeah, if you're there tonight. They don't have to win the series. No. It's just tonight's game. And you have to be there when it happens, and they will basically – Do you remember some bar did this for one of the – was it the baseball, was it? I can't remember.

Yeah, it might have been one of Jerry's bars maybe. I can't remember. Maybe it was football, Green Bay against the Cowboys. Yeah, yeah, I think that's what it was. Okay. The Green Bay bar and – Genius move though yeah yeah and then so you get your yeah okay

that's great so I mean it's a 730 tip the game will be over by 10 you know so are they actually rooting against the Mavs it was it was the Green Bay Bar watching Monday Night Football and Aaron Rogers got hurt it was free drinks if the Jets lost, and then Aaron Rodgers got hurt on the third play,

so everyone started just hammering. That's awesome. And then the Jets won. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's awesome.

So, yeah, it's an interesting dynamic, though, if you're there tonight. Like with each made three, you're like, more cheese sticks. Like are you just getting a little bit more confident as the game goes on and then you just start ordering more and more and more. Let me get the – To-go desserts. Exactly. Yeah, I feel like we've been there.

Have we done a show there? We had a meeting. Yeah. Oh, we had a meeting there. That's right. A lot of meetings. You know what? We've had more meetings in the last year than

we've had in the 10 years prior today. Alright, there's your news. Ooh. Got him! You get me every day. Why is this so strong? No, a couple times you've been quick on the draw over there. I don't like it.

He never sets up the news conclusion. No. He says it super fast. It doesn't. Oh, I know. There's a reason for that. He's a bad guy. Yeah.

Are you talking about moral failures? He just failed me morally. Just wait for this Reddit post in like two hours. Oh, no. What, when I'm posting? Yeah, when Dan hops on his burner. Jake always abruptly ends the news, and I don't know why. I should get in there and just start bitching about you guys.

Typing away. Help the Mavs lose so they don't have Bayless back again. More important host of DZ69420. Yeah. It's going to be Braces69. Braces. Braces. Oh, God.

How about a 69-year-old with braces? You in? No. Today is Monday, June 17th. It's the... I don't usually tell you what day of the year it is, but it's the 169th day of the year. How exciting is that?

It's super exciting. On this day in 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to make a transatlantic flight as a passenger. That's the one that drove me insane. Go ahead and reduce the importance of this monumental occasion, Jake. Well, she didn't pilot the flight.

She did in the future. Yeah, but when it was included in my daughter's book of women leaders throughout history, this is the first thing that they put on the note. And I remember reading it and being like, so you were basically a flight attendant. You didn't fly the plane. Is that kind of like the first guy to scale Mount Everest? Yeah. He had a Sherpa with him?

Probably more than one Sherpa. Who had been up and down a dozen times already? Yeah. It's exactly the same as when people came to America and thought they had discovered it. So they're in this. They're like, oh, no, we live here. So here's the author's problem. The author is like, I just named this book Ten Great Women, and I'm trying to find the ten.

Oh, my God. Yeah. I'm going to have to cast a wide I got Harriet Tubman. Yep. See the other it was funny too because they included Hillary.

They included Hillary. And I was like yeah most known for losing the most winnable election of all time. Like even Biden. Your fuck-ups resulted in donald trump they hated you more than yeah how is that possible and that was in the book it's like she ran for president i'm like well that that didn't go well at all i'd put monica lewinsky in there you should You should. For saving that dress.

On this day in 1994... Also, it's funny that Amelia Earhart died because she got lost. Oh, is that right? It's pretty much true. Like she wouldn't ask for directions? On this day in 1994, after leading police on a slow chase

On Southern California freeways OJ Simpson was arrested and charged with murder In the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole And her friend, Ronald Goldman That was a day long ordeal Even after he got back to Rockingham It took him like three hours To get out of the fucking car

Yeah Me and Marcus Allen went over to see nicole he was found not guilty so like it's true what he was found not guilty yeah that's true how are you failing me on have you have you done a tour of that area before jake i have not i was curious if you ever walked over in that in those Now, did they tear down Nicole's house or is it still there? Oh, yeah. I wonder how you haven't been there. I'm pretty sure they tore it.

Yeah, because we did see it on the TMZ tour, the dreaded TMZ tour that I went on. It was great. Yeah. On this day in the year 2000? I tried to do a Conan real quick. I feel like you killed it. You absolutely killed it. Chuck Knobloch of the Yankees.

I know where this is headed. Had a wild throw. His 13th error of the season. He had the yips. Something happened to him. But it went into the stands over the dugout and hit Keith Olbermann's mom in the face.

It's a really funny historical mad lib that has always tickled me a little bit. Because I don't really want to hit anybody's mom in the face with a baseball. But if there were a list of people, Keith Olbermann would be on it. See, that's your moral failing right there. Or Hitler. I would hit Keith Olbermann's mom in the face with a baseball before Hitler's mom. Wow.

Yeah, not a fan. Famous wedding on this day in 1977, Joe Biden married Dr. Jill Jacobs. I don't know if she was a doctor. She was 26. He was 34. That's in play.

That's totally fine. She was 26? Yeah. He was 34. He was 34. Yuck. He's a good man. He's just dying in public.

On this, like, see, today's birthdays, Amari Cooper is 30? 30. That just feels like, dude, he's been around forever. Like, when they moved on from him, he was 27. Drafted at the age of 15. Now, I think you've exaggerated the story just a little bit, but you're on the right track.

Former Mav Popeye Jones, 54. Big fan as a kid. Isn't his son an NHL player? He is, Seth Jones, yeah. Who? Former Indian Joe Charbonneau is 69. Do you have a history? He was Rookie of the Year when I was a little kid.

Hmm. And he was wild. The big thing with him was he could open a beer bottle with his eye socket. Somehow that's extremely Cleveland, even though I imagine this person is not from Cleveland. And I think he was out of the game within a couple of years. No way. And in fact, he was a minor league player for the Buffalo Bisons when they filmed the movie

The Natural. Okay. And he was one of Robert Redford's teammates. Those are some super good facts. You're going to impress a lot of people at parties this week, Dan Venus Williams is 44 She's the not-hot Williams sister

Not true Barry Manilow is 81 Don't get it, never got it Newt Gingrich is 81 Divorced, it's on the list already, Blake, so you don't have to worry about it I'd still like to read it He disputes this But the report was

Is this a poem for you? I love this one He informed his wife that he would be leaving her At the hospital While she was dealing with cancer So he went to the hospital to tell her Like hey Doesn't look like this thing's turning around on

you so i'm gonna get out now and i want you to know which is a real dick move i was gonna say though that he went to the hospital is that's something good let's go silver lining dan's more of a glass half full guy. He could have just written her a note. And what's she going to do if she gets mad? She's not going to chase after you. No. No, I think she was in poor health at the time, Danny.

She'd have to carry that rack with her. Should he have just cheated on her and not forced her? Okay. A hundred percent. He should have just done whatever he was going to do anyways. And then. Yeah. Why, why go through telling him? Yeah.

Plus the attorney fees. Yeah. Bad move, Newt. Thank you. I convince you that Newt Gingrich might be a bad guy. Yeah. Just because it's just not logical. Joe Piscopo is 73.

John Grease is 67. He is Uncle Rico. Wow. Not much else. He's been in a million things. For real? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're right. I actually remember looking this up somewhat recently. It's a damn show that's been really popular recently that he was in. Oh. White Lotus. White Lotus, yeah. It was great. That's a fun show, Jake.

I've seen it That is one I actually did watch Trucking through the bear right now too buddy I'm loving it Oh you're going season 2 huh I'm loving it Where you at Midway I think the guy in

The Godfather show I'm watching The Offer The lead guy Kind of has a face like the lead guy in the bear The Godfather show I'm watching? The Offer? The lead guy kind of has a face like the lead guy in The Bear. Kind of a smushy... A little bit of a smush face. I do agree with you that in general, there are like 10 types of faces for each race. Please expound.

Take all the time you need. Pay attention and you'll know what I mean. For each race there's like 10 different, like I see people sometimes and I'm like, that guy looks like Blake. He doesn't really look like Blake, he just has the same type of face as Blake. Or Dan.

Or me. And I think it happens with women too. Now that this information is out there in the world you're all going to be hearing a lot more and more about it in the coming days and weeks but you're basically describing what I'm talking about Miles Teller and Jeremy whatever don't really look alike but they have like a similar face right Right. They both, yes. So there's something to what I'm saying. Like Danny and I kind of have the same general structure of face. I mean, look, there's only so many options. Unless you're deformed, there's two eyes, there's a nose.

Yeah, see. There's a mouth. You got to look at these two actors side by side and you'll understand. Eventually you're going to get some similarities because there's probably a finite number of ways you can configure these things. Did you see the... Before you start seeing redundancies, right, Jake? Yes, and I'm the one who's brave enough to have pointed that out. You're almost saying that there's like 10 different templates, though.

Yes, that's exactly what I... Like there's 10 stamps. Yes. Like building a house. Yes. Like, did you see the chick online that looks exactly like Russell Westbrook? No. Did anybody see that?

No. Search it. Girl Russell Westbrook. You're going to go nuts. I'm not sure I will. I can't wait to watch. You are. And I'm saying that for Blake, the guy who doesn't go nuts over anything.

Thank you. Bobby Farrelly is 66 of the brothers. over anything. Thank you. Bobby Farrelly is 66 of the brothers. Thomas Hayden Church is 64. From Sideways. Yeah. Seems like a cool dude. Yeah, he does.

Greg Kinnear is 61 from The Soup or Talk Soup. He did that show. I don't know that. Was he the first to do it? He might've been the ridge. Will Forte is 54.

Hilarious. Awesome. Yeah. Kendrick Lamar, 37. Damn. Remember when you introduced me to him, Jake?

That's right. It's like, Oh my God, this is amazing. My daughter's really into, I think I? That's right. I was like, oh, my God, this is amazing. My daughter's really into, I think I told you guys this, but she's really into They Not Like Us. It's like her favorite song right now. It's not that interesting of a note, really.

Probably just move on. Take it, Dan. I'm searching for the female Russell Westbrook. Yeah, I couldn't figure either. Try on Twitter. There you go, Dan. I'm searching for the female Russell Westbrook. Yeah, I couldn't figure either. Try on Twitter. There you go, yeah. Holy shit. Did I say it?

Are you going nuts, Blake? Yeah, she looks like she could brick a couple threes on you. This lady just wrecked my team's cap sheet. She looks exactly like Yeah What's going on with her? Okay It is? That was?

I don't want to hear that It has to be That was too much Dan got ball sacked I'm just very glad Don't give me the original She's white How did they do that?

She looks nothing like russell westbrook nope there's damn it i got ballsack dude who sits down and sees this video and says let me make her into russell westbrook listen i'm worried about myself i'm worried about where society is headed when it comes to my daughters but i am real worried about him. Who, Dan? Yeah. That's awesome. If we're going to keep working together for the next handful of years. I've been ball sacked less than you lately. That is, okay, lately you might have made the window small enough, but this stuff, this deep fake stuff, this AI stuff, I think you're in trouble. You can see you could see the cheekbones though yeah you could see where somebody originally thought okay but jake let's

go back to step one when he thought the brady jugs video was real dude or the brady hole in one brady okay it's not that it was tom brady it's that it's a jug machine it doesn't work backwards you guys don't even know if a foot ever reverse switch. He's so accurate. And how about this for some full circle? Jerry Falwell Jr. is 62. Does he have a chemspin? Moral.

He had some moral failings. Yeah, quite a few. Manny. Wasn't his name Manny, the pool boy? That sounds right. Born on the stay now dead, Art Bell. Don't doubt me. Oh, man.

He was ahead of his time, wasn't he? Great. I've read a book of his. I used to listen to him all the time, driving back and forth from San Marcos. He moved to, like, Manila. Is that right, video man? Okay.

But he was doing his show from, like, the Philippines or something at some point. What, to escape the feds? I mean, he would definitely sell it that way of, like, I know too much. I've got to leave the United States. And you were like, oh, man. He does know a lot, so that makes sense this checks out his show is so good man so good just sit there by himself i was never listening and talk the theater of oh god it was good uh also born on this day now dead geormack, he invented Wheaties Ruth Wakefield

She invented the first chocolate chip cookie It says here Ruth Wakefield Didn't both of those things exist independently? Ruth is on one again She's putting chocolate chips in cookies now Lost her damn mind And Otto Hitler.

He is Adolf's brother. Who I would not hit with a baseball. Died on this day. Still dead. I forgot Rachel's a member of the tribe, and that's why all this has landed. Keith Olbermann is a bad person. But for Rachel, I would hit Hitler's mom with a baseball instead of his mom. You've really changed your tune in about 15 minutes.

That's how it goes. Forget who you're around sometimes. Died on this day, still dead. The women jokes all still stay. In 1631, Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj Mahal named after her. She died during childbirth. She was 38 years old. She was delivering her 14th child.

That was a really weird sequence of things when you said she died during childbirth. She was 38 years old. I was like thinking that she had gestated. How does someone die during childbirth despite being 38? 14th? I'm trying to do the math here. When did she start? I don't think I ever knew that that was named after anyone.

That's interesting. Her death was ruled as a suicide. I'm out. You're just like, I'm out. Died on this day in 2015. John David Crowe. The Aggie Great, so they say. I'm sure he never played against the black man.

It's unlikely. Died on this day in 2012, Rodney King. Died on this day in 2016, Ron Lester. You ever been beaten down by him? I have. And it was one of those moments. It's probably very similar to Mel Hall with you, outside of the pedo stuff, where you would be blown away that you could meet this person as an adult.

And then they won't stop talking to you, and you just want to get away from them. Because he was Billy Bob from Varsity Blues. I don't know why I said it weird like that. From Varsity Blues. Billy Bob. was Billy Bob from Varsity Blues. I don't know why I said it weird like that. From Varsity Blues. Billy Bob. From Varsity Blues. Yeah, he did a screen. We had him in studio and then he did a screening

for his movie. For Varsity Blues and his movie. Which I believe he termed a faith-based racing action comedy. And then he did a Q&A afterward, and it was very clear that the only people in the audience who were asking questions were friends that he had brought, which was... I have no idea who this dude is. Billy Bob? You've never seen Varsity Blues?

No. You would love it. You mean Varsity Blues. Growing up where you grew up... Varsity Blues. Playing a little 1A ball. You would love it. You mean Varsity Blues. Growing up where you grew up. Varsity Blues. Playing a little 1A ball. You would love it. Is James Van Der Beek in it?

Oh, yeah. Oh, I'll definitely watch it then. It's a snack. It's a great movie. He's a middle-aged snack. Paul Walker's in it. And finally died on this day. Well, died on this day, still dead.

It's Eugene Weldman. Weldman. So he was the last person to be publicly guillotined. Holy. In France. I think that was filmed. In what year was... Well, Danny just gave a hint.

Oh. So that might have been... He ruined it. I would have said like 1900. Okay. Yeah, I would have thought early 1800s. It feels like they're more progressive over there. Like they were ending slavery earlier than us.

Yeah, but they created that thing, though. The guillotine? Yeah. I'm pretty sure. 1931? Blake, you want to play? It's a fun game. It's not really.

There's prizes. It's 1939, actually. Okay. Did you guys start House of Dragon? Yes. Yes. Did you do the other one? What do you mean?

Dragon 2, whatever. House of Dragon. House of the Dragon. Yes, i watched season one of dragon two i re-watched season one i feel like it's just too much too much dragon oh this one's hitting dude it's really good did you re-watch season one to get caught up uh i read okay like i just read some stuff and two weekends ago weekends ago, I just took the time. Yeah. A lot of free time. Rolled through 10 episodes of the first season. So, last night I was primed.

This thing is going to be insane. Yeah. It's got the potential to be as good as the best seasons of Game of Thrones. Mm-hmm. It's just kind of weird because they, like, shifted time a little bit. Anyways. Does it got that hot Khaleesi in it or whatever her name is? No.

Different Khaleesis now. Yeah. Are they hot? What do you think? They must be or else you guys aren't watching it. Well, the weird thing, too, is they had a... You're not watching a brute Khaleesi. The new Khaleesi they had on there last night actually looked exactly like Russell Westbrook.

exactly like Russell Westbrook. And that was Today in History. Just dividing the red keep with bad chemistry. Yeah. I can't believe it's fake. I really am like, gosh, that does look just like him. Well, yeah, it does. Because it's him. All right. because it's him alright

fire alarm's over so yeah we actually did a live stream guys how do you feel cigarette yeah why not hey is Mountain Dew code red on the minimize part of the TV12 thing

I think you can minimize the code red but I don't think you have to cut it out. I think you'll be fine for when you want to play Nintendo with your friends late at night. Yeah. Okay, good. There's a Mountain Dew Code Red. That's the name of it? Oh, don't play coy with me. I have no idea.

Dude, that's all he drinks. What does it taste like? Is it like Strawberry Mountain? It tastes like Code Red. Don't you know what red tastes like? Yeah, it's like a cherry flavored mountain. Are we still recording? Are we done? Like, why? Adios, mofo.