The Dumb Zone FREE - The Dumb Zone 6-20-24

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, I'm Dan McDowell, longtime professional broadcaster. Why subscribe to our Patreon podcast? Well, perhaps you support our struggle to get out from under the oppressive thumb of the man. Or, objectively, if you sign up at patreon.com slash the dumb zone, you'll get the two episodes per week that are available on all podcast platforms, like this one, plus an additional two episodes each week that are exclusive to Patreon. So subscribing on Patreon gets you four episodes per week.

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Starting point is 00:01:03 Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Leave me alone, because you have to f*** your mama. Hello, world. So, the reports are 20 quadrillion with regard to how many ants there are in the world. So 100,000 was a bit off the mark.

Starting point is 00:01:38 Hmm. I thought that was funny. Is it even that high of a number? I didn't know. I didn't know. It's obviously after trillion. The Q indicates. Like a gazillion. I don't think that's a real number.

Starting point is 00:01:52 No, I think. Is that a playground number? Yeah, I think that's a fifth grade playground number. Yeah. But your guess of 100,000. What about a bazillion? I don't think so. I don't think so.

Starting point is 00:02:04 But 20 quadrillion. I did know it was around 100,000. But that's not, it's not. It's not even close. All right. Like your guess of 100,000 is like the population of, I don't know, like Bedford. Anyways, do your intro. I don't have an intro.

Starting point is 00:02:33 I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jay Kemp. I'm Blake Jones. We also have Video Man and Rachel, the ever popular intern, because if you say anything like, hey, somebody got some bad feedback or a slight bit of negative feedback now it's all I'm getting is more Rachel. I'm getting a lot of email

Starting point is 00:02:51 that says the intern they're on board with the intern. Yeah, who isn't? Blake does not agree. Just by Blake's demeanor I can tell. It's all my burners. This intern sucks. She'll never take Blake's job.

Starting point is 00:03:01 It's all my burners. This intern sucks. Yeah. She'll never take Blake's job. Man, and it's Business Wednesday, the day after Business Wednesday. Yes. And one of the things we did on Business Wednesday was we're trying to get like a common run sheet that we can all access. So we kind of know what each other has. And now I have three run sheets.

Starting point is 00:03:28 This is like, I'm, I've been forever trying to become more organized. And now I have notes on my phone. I have another note app that I think is kind of good. I have notes. You know, I have this little,

Starting point is 00:03:42 uh, little book that I try to keep some notes. Like in the effort to become more organized, it's chaos. I think the people that ultimately end up being the happiest are those that just give up. They're just like, whatever, let it happen? How sad. Because here's a small example. I will go try to get socks for my daughter right and they're all just everywhere they're unmatched they're singles and and i have

Starting point is 00:04:16 to sit there for 15 minutes and match all the socks what does that provide me nothing yeah like they're on who who sees them who cares yeah but my wife will just put them in there and be like eff it just throw them in whatever we'll get them when we need them i hate that i know i hate it too but i'm telling you those people are happier that was a big part of uh my problem with the move to the rental is that nothing is in the right place. I don't know what goes where. The garage is a disaster. We're kind of just at the threshold of getting by.

Starting point is 00:04:58 Yeah, so now you need a certain container for the leftovers. You're like, where? It's supposed to be. Where's the top for it? Here, yeah. So you're the organizer at home? I tend to be, yeah. I'm not as organized as you are, but I'm more organized than I think the average person is. Yeah, it bothers me. But especially when you have kids, you should probably just punt.

Starting point is 00:05:27 It's not going to happen. You're not going to get it where you want to get it. Today's show is actually being broadcast live on YouTube. I heard about that. Are we trying Twitter too? We're on Twitter. It's live on Twitter. In Twitch.

Starting point is 00:05:42 Whoa. X. No one says that. I respect the richest man in the world. No, Rachel says no. No respect for a loneliest monk. Do you see he got really mad at that Amazon tribe getting addicted to porn story?

Starting point is 00:06:01 I did not. Did it turn out to be fake? Yeah. That was a ball sack. He was so mad. Okay. That was fake? You need to keep a list of we just had to give Blake more to do.

Starting point is 00:06:12 What else? A list of guys when somebody on the show gets ball sacked because that was Jake's. I had one the other day. Actually. Yeah, you had Russell Westbrook deep fake. I'm just saying I had that too. That was think that was Jasmine's actually Yeah you had Russell Westbrook Deep fake woman

Starting point is 00:06:26 I'm just saying I had that too That was a fun one I still kind of believe that I don't feel like that Amazon story That was not like oh here's a tweet It was in the New York Times That was being run with by Major news orgs

Starting point is 00:06:43 And it makes sense. So I'm going to create a list called ball sacks. Okay. Okay. Because I think Jake has got more than me. That's not true. He would want the public to believe that. I'm just on a run.

Starting point is 00:06:59 I'm just on a bit of a heater right now. And should it go both ways? Like when he's told Happy Gilmore 2 will happen and he doesn't believe it? Yeah, that counts. But you can't like bold it. Like if you're claiming it's ball sack, but then it's true. Right. It's the same list. Don't make two lists, bud.

Starting point is 00:07:18 Okay. You're good. Let's check this third run sheet now. Okay. Yeah, we did get some response from Tuesday on the paywall episode. It was exclusively behind a paywall. Patreon.com slash the dumb zone, by the way. That's what I've heard. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:42 We got an email. We talked about the fact that we're going to Cowboys camp. We got an email. We talked about the fact that we're going to Cowboys camp. We got the credentials. Got the thumbs up from the Cowboys. Yeah, come on out here, cover us, do stuff. So now it's like, oh, you called our bluff. We're going to go out there and what are we going to do? We don't know how we're going to get there.

Starting point is 00:08:04 We did discuss flying versus driving. Certainly one has a very much higher beating factor, but it also could be entertaining. Yeah. And you did get an email that somebody with an RV store says they might want to help us out. Not only with the RV, but he'll drive. He'll drive too.

Starting point is 00:08:28 Yeah. Which, trust me, you're going to want. I have a feeling that Video Man, who has 1,600 free solo jumps, could pull it off. But the one time that I ever rented an RV, I clipped a curb on the way out. Maybe that's why he wants to drive. It's his RV.

Starting point is 00:08:49 He doesn't want you. Yeah, exactly. And I thought, no harm, no foul, whatever. I got it to the people who needed to drive it, which was maybe half an hour. And then my more technically adept friends or mechanically adept friends drove it. But then whenever I returned it, there was a note. Was this a rental? Well, yeah.

Starting point is 00:09:11 Oh, okay. Well, I didn't know you borrowed to Buddy's. No, no, no. We drove to Gulf Shores, Alabama. And on the way there, it was awesome. What about on the way back? It was not awesome. It was not awesome at all.

Starting point is 00:09:25 Is it just because the trip's over and you just want to get home? You're ready to get home. Yeah. You're tired of everyone. And now, again, there were like 12 of us in an RV that probably should have housed six or seven people. So I'm not saying that our experience would be completely analogous to that. Well... But it was bad.

Starting point is 00:09:44 Because you've scheduled a vacation at the tail end of Cowboy Camp. You won't have to experience that terrible drive back if we do choose to drive. And to be very clear, I did not schedule that vacation until we— And maybe I won't either if I— It's just Rob and Blake. Great, so it's just me and the three of us. And the guy who offered the RV.

Starting point is 00:10:08 What if Rob and Blake don't either and we just let the guy drive back? So one guy drive the whole way? That seems like, wouldn't you want to trade off?

Starting point is 00:10:16 We had a couple trade offs in our trip, yeah. Should we just make a straight run? Don't stop? You've done straight from here to California. But the reason to stop is to stop and just take things in.

Starting point is 00:10:31 Well. You know, like Rob was saying, like Area 51 or, you know, just stop and do stuff. Vegas? The Breaking Bad house. Vegas. Vegas. Yeah. I think we had a listener hit us up saying, she kind of said, I'll hook you up. Oh, I got a Vegas. But I don't know what that means. Oh, yeah. I think we had a listener hit us up saying, she kind of said, I'll hook you up.

Starting point is 00:10:47 Oh, I got a Vegas guy. But I don't know what that means. Oh, yeah? Oh, I got a Vegas guy. Because I'd love to be hooked up. Yeah. I'd love to be hooked up with some things, but then some things I don't want any part of.

Starting point is 00:10:57 So you got to get a little specific there. You know what's funny is I was thinking about this last night, trying to plan out camp content. And this is something I've seen. We talked about it the other day. It's something I've seen as a producer for many, many years. The PR people will tell you to aim low, you know? Like Dak is probably going to do every station.

Starting point is 00:11:20 Jerry might do a couple. But outside of that, don't come to me and say, Jerry might do a couple, but outside of that, don't come to me and say, I want Jerry, McCarthy, Dak, CD, Tyron, Micah. They give you a little bit of an expectations type thing. My question, though, is that where does Zeke fit into that hierarchy now? Oh, yeah. He's right back at the top. Are you sure?

Starting point is 00:11:42 Yeah. Yeah. Your third string running back yeah uh he's come on he's taking the first carry of this yes he's going to start yeah so it was just funny to me to think about like as we were putting together a list like it sucks that he's back because the last play of his cowboy career was so golden hilarious the funniest possible play for a guy who's going to be in the end of his career.

Starting point is 00:12:07 He's going to be in the ring of honor to end his career. Maybe we get lucky. He was the goddamn center. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll tear his AC. The only offensive lineman. You know Bones had something

Starting point is 00:12:18 to do with that. Well, yeah. Put him on your, if football had immaculate grid for, you know, played center. You would do really well there. I'm sure it does. I also want to tell people, though, so just because one guy,

Starting point is 00:12:32 because this just happened with our first mention, one guy said he's got an RV, he could drive us and all that. Beat the offer. Yeah, yeah, don't give up. Hey, you got a plane? We'd love to hear from you. You got a PJ? PJ. You got a plane? We'd love to hear from you. You got a PJ? PJ.

Starting point is 00:12:46 How about a PJ? Are you going to let this guy get one over on you? Show him that you're better than him. Also, we appreciate you first, guy. Well, yeah. I feel like we need to thread this needle here and say we definitely appreciate you first, guy. But if somebody else... In fact, could you put him on the PJ with us?

Starting point is 00:13:08 We'll bring him. Fantastic, yeah. We'll just bring everybody. You can sleep in Dan's bed. The foot-to-head thing. Always foot-to-head. So I did, that is a solid bit of promotion. We need to tell people, like, we're going,

Starting point is 00:13:24 and if you have something we can use, keep letting us know. Love the first guy, but just don't want to cut things off right there. I had a brief topic for you guys that I wanted to discuss out of the gate because, as referenced, I am staying in a rental house

Starting point is 00:13:42 right now. That rental house, very close to your home, is in a cul a rental house right now. Uh, and that rental house very close to your home is in a cul-de-sac. So, um, the street itself, I would say it's like four and four on each side and then maybe four in the cul-de-sac. It's not a deep court, you know? And I haven't, court you know and i haven't i have noticed that there seem to be a high degree of people who appear to have made a wrong turn like they just come in and turn back around which is weird to me because i just assume everyone is using the ways or google map or but whatever, I guess. I have not personally noticed that speeding is an issue. I drive very slow.

Starting point is 00:14:31 Yeah, on your little street for sure. That's what I'm saying. That's why I said that there's really only like four houses on each side. Yeah, yeah. There's really nowhere to speed. It'd be hard to get up to, yeah. Yeah. speed. It'd be hard to get up to.

Starting point is 00:14:42 Yeah. But I have a guy or a family, rather, at the end of the street that put this up at the end of the street. And it's way out there. And what that is, is you've probably seen it before. It's a little turtle

Starting point is 00:14:59 indicating slow with slow written on him. And he's got a red flag there and a little baseball cap on. But I wanted to present the image to you guys to see, so you could see that's pretty far away from the curb. Like that's in the street. Yes. A couple days ago,

Starting point is 00:15:21 maybe five days ago, it was up in their driveway and now they've moved it. would say, a quarter to a third out into the street. Alerting, it's just for your street, too. That's the thing. Like, the message you're sending is to a very small amount of people. Again, perhaps if you expand it to the people that are coming in. But why would they be going fast if they're turning around? Maybe their kid is developmentally disabled.

Starting point is 00:15:50 It's possible. And their kid is just slow, and they want to tell everybody, our kid's slow. Maybe. I just find this to be aggressive, and I, you know, it's a type of guy. And I'm not that type of guy, but I'm always interested in types of guys. Would you take that down? Just plow through it?

Starting point is 00:16:08 Yeah. My wife will take down the little advertisement signs somebody will put up in the neighborhood, like at the corner. Like a garage sale? Not a garage sale, but if it's like a printed sign for you know uh oh yeah yeah i know what you mean you know it feels paint houses or something it's commercial we buy houses yeah yeah yeah she'll uh take those as she walks by she'll she'll remove it and lay it down jesus yeah that's that's an aggressive maneuver. She'll do that, and then she'll also hunt fuzzy caterpillars. Yes. And by the way, those have kind of gone away. She's just a menace on these walks.

Starting point is 00:16:54 Well, she's trying to help the neighborhood. Just destroying everything. She's wanting to beautify the neighborhood. Yeah. I just wanted you guys to be aware that this type of person exists. No, that person is in my neighborhood too. What does theirs say? It's the exact same thing. They have two of them, and they put it out when their kids play. I wasn't going to run your kid over. No, but it makes me want to.

Starting point is 00:17:17 Because there are cars on both curbs, and so they put them on the insides of the cars. Now we have what? So now I have a very narrow area where I could fit my car in. You've made it worse with the signs. And I see the kids and it kind of upsets me. I used to always laugh where I live. There is a sign that says like drive like your kids live here. And I've told you guys this before,

Starting point is 00:17:42 but I used to always laugh thinking about like casey anthony driving by that and she's like just mashing the accelerator like well i know what i'd do if my kid lived here yeah run them over put them in a trash bag my non-sports item i wanted to bring up in the beginning of the show had to do with text threads. It's the opposite of what you guys always like talking about. The group text thread. But it's my mom text thread. I have a picture there, Video Man,

Starting point is 00:18:20 if you want to throw it up. We're on YouTube today. But so, yes, this is just... Last night she was calling, she called a couple of times and I like let it go to voicemail. You're a jerk. But then she, you know. How can you not answer

Starting point is 00:18:36 when your elderly mother calls you? I was, I got stuff going on. You just don't understand what I got going on over there. I have a pretty good idea. You think I have nothing happening? But I've got lots of things what and those were happening and so i couldn't answer the phone and then she texted me so i'm like what was the big deal like what was and i talked to her this morning about it there was no big deal she just had to tell me she was watching

Starting point is 00:19:01 master chef and there was a guy from Southlake auditioning. And then of course the second call was to tell me what her second text was last night. He didn't make it. Like if your mom, if you guys ever live in a different state than your mom,

Starting point is 00:19:20 anything that happens around like, did those tornadoes bother you? Yeah. Has she asked you about the hurricane? I heard it's really hot. What about ERCOT? She hasn't seen ERCOT, but she watches the Weather Channel religiously.

Starting point is 00:19:34 She loves the Weather Channel. Yeah. Older people love weather. That's probably why the local news just hammers the weather. Yeah, that's a good point but that is all my mom is into 24 7 weather she can tell you right now what it's doing how the weather is like in california yeah i i don't really i don't have a good explanation for that but does she think that all of texas like hits dallas because south texas is underwater. Hurricane Alberto. She will.

Starting point is 00:20:05 Yeah. Does she think that that's like we're underwater up in Dallas? It's like we're bigger than Europe. Yes. If she knew something about that, she would ask me about it, but she didn't. I do appreciate though.

Starting point is 00:20:15 And you won't know this unless you're watching on the YouTube channel or, or one of our other video streams. She did apologize for possibly not knowing how to spell the chef's name. She hit you with the SP question mark. No, that was nice. Yeah. Maybe I got it wrong. Can we talk about the picture?

Starting point is 00:20:32 The one above it, yeah. So she will take random pictures of things that I have no connection with. I've never seen this animal. I have more questions about this than the MasterChef. Way more. Must. So she wrote definitely Eden's cousin. There's a, it looks like a cat, maybe?

Starting point is 00:20:47 Looks like a cat, yeah. But somehow this animal is related to your daughter. Laying on a deck in the sun. Mm-hmm. And she says, it's definitely Eden's cousin, 90 degrees today, she wants to lay in the sun. So apparently this must be my brother's house and he must have a cat.

Starting point is 00:21:03 I've never met his cat. I haven't seen my brother in three years. That's sad, bud. It's fine. We're fighting through it. Does Eden love the heat? Eden does love to sit out on the deck in the hot sun, so she knows that. That's the context that you have to know.

Starting point is 00:21:20 But do I need? Do I care? Why do I care about this cat? Why don't you just not be a jerk i'm just asking and he didn't even give it a thumbs up clearly every mammal that likes the heat is related well i never did respond to that you didn't respond at all that was i'm not a big as you may know i'm not a big text guy i know and i learned that early on and when you when you lay that out people don't expect text back from you yeah it's true because

Starting point is 00:21:47 again i got a lot of shit going on man you guys do not understand the bullets that i am dodging left and right i still feel like i'm on the phone all day on business wednesday i'm still feel like you could respond to your mother but whatever she knows that i will speak to her each and every weekend and maybe the reason uh she doesn't get mad about it is because i'm responding to her so much sure yeah hell yeah that'd be really funny if i became your stepdad that'd be awesome man because i know you're a good gift giver. Yeah. You're a tender lover. Yep. Yep. And, yeah, I would love to see the— Get your AirPods every couple years.

Starting point is 00:22:37 Come on. Sit down over here, little Danny. On today's program, we have sport. I don't know what you guys have in sports, but I feel like I have a lot. I feel like now is the time, guys. We've been holding a lot of stuff back. Like, oh, I mean, we're in this Mavs playoff run. Let's just see how that goes.

Starting point is 00:22:59 In fact, Blake texted me yesterday. He said, you know what we got to do? Let's book William Pace. The time is now. So the things we've been like holding on, you know, all this gold that you've been holding on to. Yeah, I have nothing. Oh.

Starting point is 00:23:13 I spent an hour and 25 minutes watching Kendrick Lamar's concert last night. Or actually, I watched it this morning, which is a weird thing. Kind of felt like when Bob used to say that he would watch like True Detective at 8.45 in the morning, and I thought, that's really weird, because every time I watch it, it's 10.15 and I'm high. Mm-hmm.

Starting point is 00:23:34 And he's like, yeah, I just get on the treadmill and watch HBO shows. It felt weird to watch Kendrick Lamar. In the morning? In the morning, yeah. But that's what I did, and it was absolutely incredible was it yes was he going after Drake at all I mean he just did the songs you know but

Starting point is 00:23:52 it's it's a remarkable thing I'm trying to think of like a a proper analogy for it it almost would be like if every single other actor outside of Tom Cruise, when Tom Cruise was at his peak, was like, we just want to make a movie about how Tom Cruise sucks. Okay, then it makes a little bit of sense, right? Like, Drake is the most popular artist in the world. But everybody hates him. Everybody hates him. And they all just got together and were like, let's just have a night where we just talk about how much we hate this guy. Yeah, that is interesting.

Starting point is 00:24:28 And it was cool. And Amazon Video did it. And I don't think there was a whole lot of prep for it. They did like a live concert? Yeah, on Amazon Video. It looked really cool. It looked incredible. Is that what people are saying when when we decide to live

Starting point is 00:24:45 stream on youtube they're like i don't it's clear there wasn't a lot of prep yeah but it looks okay but yeah the look is good rob does a good job pretty much yeah yeah that and uh my my other sort of tie-in here is someone said uh the reason you hate jason Tatum is because he's basketball Drake and he didn't really even say anything else okay but you get it oh yeah yeah it makes a lot of sense it's all fake he's a collection of good different people have you seen the you've made a bunch of stuff

Starting point is 00:25:16 up the me I don't know if the meme going around but just what you were talking about the other day how he just imitated a bunch of other people's Kobe winning speeches somebody somebody clipped those all together and and that's what drake does like fake accent uh fake flow not fake but not his uh-huh so yeah it made sense to me and that's literally the entire email the guy sent me and i'm like damn yeah why didn't we

Starting point is 00:25:46 talk about his hair jason tatum you know it didn't jump out as me as much uh to me as much i heard uh i think i heard the musers talking about it and to me that's just like a hairstyle i see now really yeah like that weird comb down yeah but it's just like it's like long back here yeah like kind of puffy but then he just wants to cover his hairline in the front. It's strange. Dude, speaking of hair, have you guys seen Landon Donovan? Yeah, poor guy. I don't know how quickly you could find that.

Starting point is 00:26:16 What was that bit? I saw it. It was like shaved in the back or something. He got hair plugs, right? And he was told that the back of his head would not be shown on camera oh I thought he lost a bet so they take the hair out of the back

Starting point is 00:26:31 of his head and transplant it yeah well I've heard of that that's part of it but also they have to do it in waves so he ends up with this look right here yeah I mean just as bad So he ends up with this look right here. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:26:45 Yeah. I mean, just as bad. Yeah, dude, just shave it. Just shave the head. It's hard to shave the head as a man who has had to do so. There's a finality to it. Yeah. He does look very Hasidic, yes. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:27:03 yeah he does look very Hasidic yes yeah if I had Landon Donovan money and the sponsor might have said I'll do it for free I probably would have tried the hair transplant problem is it was a tough thing losing hair yeah and it turns really easy

Starting point is 00:27:19 because then you don't have to shower ever yeah I talked to this guy I talked to this guy two days ago and I'm'm like, hey, I need 15 minutes before I leave or before we can hop on the phone when I'm in the car because I'm going to shower. And he's like, I showered Saturday. I'm good. That was Monday, right? It was Monday, but still, it felt not great.

Starting point is 00:27:41 Again, he's been showering less. I know. I know. And it's empowering me. How? Because I'm natural smelling. The chicks really love it. Chicks?

Starting point is 00:27:52 Yeah, man. Yep, okay. If we're going to ride in an RV, I'm going to need you to shower. Where? That's a good point. Where are you going to shower in an RV? Just shower before you get there, please. Some of them actually have showers.

Starting point is 00:28:05 What if I just fly out ahead? What a jerk. All to avoid a shower. Would you guys hate me? You guys already hate me. Yes. No, I'm actually kind of partly expecting it. Yep.

Starting point is 00:28:17 That's a good point. Ah, man. Yeah, I'm trying to think of my excuse. I don't have one yet. You'll get there. Yeah, I'm trying to think of my excuse. I don't have one yet. You'll get there.

Starting point is 00:28:30 Let's do sports today. We also have a Blake Book Report. We do. From the wonderful world of sports, Radio Sports. Don't really want that. It's the first thing I said to him this morning. It is. It's what got you out of bed.

Starting point is 00:28:43 I'm like, what about a good morning? And he goes, no, no, no. Blake's Book Report, bro. He put his arm up. Yeah, he lives like two minutes away. He drove over. It was really jarring. He sprinted over.

Starting point is 00:28:53 And he wakes up so early. I know. He just pulls me out of bed. Pulls you out of bed. By the way, so today I'll see on run sheet number three, sports is brought to us by dumbzonemerch.com today. Okay. Because they have a bit.

Starting point is 00:29:11 You remembered it. Well, I wrote it down. Yeah. Look on the run sheet. Yep, I see it there. Did you see the common run sheet? I put it in the folder. Blake didn't see it.

Starting point is 00:29:20 Look at that lower third is right. I'm going to be honest. We got a lot of folders now. I know. We're going to work on the folders. Okay? I don't know which ones to check or what we're supposed to check. Dude, I got so many emails now.

Starting point is 00:29:32 I know. I have three different Gmails. We really got to consolidate. All right. Why don't we do this not when we're live and recording? Oh, okay. Let me go through the folders. So anyway, I'm mentioning dumbzommerch.com

Starting point is 00:29:45 because they got like a big July 4th bit. It's not confusing at all. It's great, and we want you to be in the contest. But he's got some cool new merch. I don't know if it's cool. You be the judge of that. Just the worst salesman ever. I wouldn't wear it.

Starting point is 00:30:01 I swear to God. But it has a picture of me on it, so why would I wear a thing with a picture of me? But most people want to wear pictures of us, Jake. Studies have shown. And it's a July 4th bit. And so in keeping with that theme, I actually have some July 4th news. You may have seen, and this is somewhat sports.

Starting point is 00:30:24 Yep. fourth news, you may have seen, and this is somewhat sports, that Joey Chestnut will not be in the 2024 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. He has won it 16 times in the past, and he will not win a 17th because he has signed up for a sponsorship deal with Impossible Foods. You know the burger, the plant-based meat? Yeah. And so he is promoting Impossible Meat, and I guess you have to,

Starting point is 00:31:01 you can't do that if you're going to be involved with Nathan's real all beef hot dogs. Yeah, this is one of those deals where it's kind of like, what was the HBO show that we, John Wilson? How To with John Wilson. Yes. It's kind of one of those topics where he would find out that there's these weird pockets of communities where there's just a lot going on. You know what I mean? Like there's an entire community of major league eating and what is and isn't okay and the sponsorship elements of it.

Starting point is 00:31:38 There's probably a lot of politics and a lot of drama. Stuff you would never even think. You just think that these are guys who dip hot dogs in water and eat them on july 4th but there's an entire machine and complex and industry behind it um and i guess he ran afoul of that which is a which is politics which is hilarious yeah the politics behind but it does make sense I mean, you know, it's kind of like Jerry with Coke or Pepsi, right? You better be pretty sure that you're able to do this on your own if you're going to try to do this on your own.

Starting point is 00:32:21 Like if the NFL were called Coca-Cola NFL, like if the NFL were called Coca-Cola NFL, Jerry couldn't have started promoting Pepsi at, you know, Texas stadium at the time. Yeah. I, I hate it. I don't.

Starting point is 00:32:34 Yeah. I'm not a guy who watches it, but I, uh, I like a good story. Yeah. And, and I liked George Shea like the first three times I heard it.

Starting point is 00:32:44 Yeah. But I don't know, dude, I respect it. Announcing his stuff, yeah. It's funny. I don't know, dude. I respect it. You know, it's a nice hustle. Him and I think his brother have built this into a brand and a business. So he's been banned from Nathan's. You ever had a fake hot dog? Mark that, Beth.

Starting point is 00:33:05 Rachel, you have? You've had a fake one Okay I definitely have yeah I've had fake burger I've not had fake hot dog You don't really want From a guy who eats Fake meat

Starting point is 00:33:15 You don't want the fake hot dog They haven't perfected that yet In fact I just find Fake meat weird I mean I've definitely Had a fake burger That I didn't mind. Yeah. But fake hot dog that I haven't.

Starting point is 00:33:31 Yeah, that's what I look for in food is I don't mind this. Don't you want to enjoy what you're eating? I would agree that that is not the goal. So did you hear that Netflix is taking advantage of this whole thing? So they are going to, on September 2nd, have a live sporting event, competitive eating, called Chestnut vs. Kobayashi. Oh, hell yeah. Unfinished beef. Where they will have the ultimate hot dog eating competition live on Netflix.

Starting point is 00:34:08 Is that the Predator meme? Monday, September 2nd. Huh? It looks pretty close to the Predator meme, yes. Yeah, the two fists joining together there. And Kobayashi, remember he was the guy, like he's the, whatever you would say, just the, that's the guy whose name you knew that's who put them on the map right yeah for sure yeah because he's kind of a small slight asian dude ripped by the name kobayashi yeah and yeah he was all of a sudden eating more than these

Starting point is 00:34:40 big fat guys that were in there like a ton ton more. Great documentary. And then, oh, I haven't seen it. I mean, it's... And then Joey Chestnut came and then changed the game again. Yeah, and then... It's kind of like, it's kind of a Jake Paul versus Tyson thing for the hot dog. You've got the legendary guy versus... Hot dog universe.

Starting point is 00:35:02 Versus the new guy. And then Kobayashi was banned, and he showed up and crashed the party and got arrested. Oh, really? And that was awesome. Yeah. He was just in the crowd. It would have been like if we went to Ticket Stock. I think I've actually made that reference before.

Starting point is 00:35:22 So if we went to Summer Bash and made a big scene? Yeah. And then get arrested. Who's like the provocative YouTube guy, goes to Dallas meetings, he has DM'd me. Video man, what do you got? Alex Stein. Alex Stein, there you go. That's the kind of thing

Starting point is 00:35:45 If we were him we would do that 100% And then get a ton of pub out of it Probably more We would do better for ourselves if we would do something like that Everybody would be pissed off at us We would make more money We should do that

Starting point is 00:35:59 Will you do that Blake because I don't want to do it I feel like that's just not me I think you have to buy tickets now. To Summer Bash? Yeah. It's just... But then, you know, get arrested. And I said that was the hassle.

Starting point is 00:36:15 That's not the hassle. No. The hassle is the getting arrested part. Yeah. All right. Well, so plan... Maybe we live stream this. Maybe we watch the eating can i read you this watch us watch somebody uh i'm a huge fan and this is a big week for this especially

Starting point is 00:36:35 with juneteenth being yesterday oh yeah happy juneteenth guys yep you're free i got you that's a weirdest holiday i've ever heard of. Yeah. Do you say happy Juneteenth? I don't know. Sorry about Juneteenth. But it's a good thing. It is good. But it's kind of a sorry. But it was bad.

Starting point is 00:37:02 So this comes up a lot on Juneteenth and it came up um in a roundabout way it's just like the the oddly constructed public relations statement and uh impossible foods had to put this out or impossible meat we love joey and support him in any contest he chooses it's okay to experiment with a new dog meat eaters shouldn't have to be exclusive to just one wiener. Kind of a sex play there that they're making. I like it. I knew you'd like it. Sure.

Starting point is 00:37:34 Yeah. I mean, you know me for five minutes. You know I love sex. Yep. Oh, one hockey note. First of all, who is in the NHL Finals, Blake? The Oilers and the Panthers. Okay.

Starting point is 00:37:53 Whoa. Solid. Mr. Hockey. So apparently the Oilers... No. Who's winning the NHL Finals, Blake? The Oilers were on the brink of getting swept, but then they won back-to-back.

Starting point is 00:38:08 Oh, okay. 3-2 Panthers. Are you building to they found the Oilers girl? No. Okay. We did that while you were gone. Oh. Yeah, Oilers girl is out there.

Starting point is 00:38:17 Her 15 minutes kind of came and went already. Yeah. It seemed fake. Did it? Them or it? That video. Them. Yeah. She Them or it? That video. Them, yeah. She's wearing the same exact thing.

Starting point is 00:38:27 There's a weird echo on the recording, and she's what, under a bridge? I don't know what he's talking about right now. Oh, so somebody had her on their show. I did know that. But then you're talking about she was on Twitter under a bridge saying, this is my favorite place to come think and something.

Starting point is 00:38:47 I don't know. It's stupid. She didn't show her boobs, so I was like, what? Why did I watch you for 50 seconds? You just skimmed it. I watched you for 50 seconds talking. Is there anything more sad? And perhaps you could say that this applies to doing a podcast

Starting point is 00:39:01 after you no longer work at a radio station. But is there anything more sad when people who capture a little bit of viral fame try to squeeze it out a little bit, like a little bit longer? And it's like, yeah, we kind of like the first thing. Yeah, like, that's

Starting point is 00:39:17 what we're here for. That's why you got viral. We didn't get viral because you were telling us about your feelings and stuff. Yeah, We didn't get viral because you were telling us about your feelings and stuff. Yeah. Now, sometimes- Oh, you're sad? Okay. Somebody does that, and to reference a ticket event, you fly them down and have them play their viral song at Summer Bank.

Starting point is 00:39:34 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But in general, it is kind of sad to watch people try to- But if we fly her in, which we will do, and she doesn't fire those things out, then what are we doing here? That's why you're viral. Like, if you're going to get Tay Zonday, you've got to sing that song. You've got to sing Chocolate Rain, bud. I don't care if you hate it anymore. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:39:55 The hockey I have for you was a, it's actually not really important, but it was an empty net save. Did you see this? Oh, I saw that. Yeah. Okay. Let's take a look again and act like you didn't see it then. Who is it? Matthew Kachuk? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:40:10 Unrelated, by the way. That's incredible. Yeah, just diving. One of the more athletic things you'll ever see. I mean, I guess it did matter if you still have 20 seconds on the clock and you're hoping like, I've never seen anything that close. It would be cool if they didn't score three seconds

Starting point is 00:40:26 later. He did his job though, man. Yeah, no, that's awesome. What, they got an empty netter three seconds later? It wasn't three, but it wasn't. Didn't they score in the video? Yeah. He took it in the you know what?

Starting point is 00:40:43 Oh, okay. They scored. It wasn't three Yeah, I don't know. Oh, okay. He scored. It wasn't three, but it wasn't much. Okay. Well, Blake clearly knows a lot more about the NHL Finals than I do. I just know that that video. No, it is. That's awesome.

Starting point is 00:40:55 How are the Rangers doing? I think not good. Not good. Don't help him. Who, me? Yeah. Okay. They're very bad. They're well under 500. Maybe 10 games now. Who, me? Yeah. Okay, they're very bad.

Starting point is 00:41:07 They're well under 500. Maybe 10 games now. Eight, 10 games? Not 10, but I think it's like six. Eight. Eight? I'm wrong? Oh, and you're the guy.

Starting point is 00:41:17 Yesterday they were 33 and 41. Don't help him. But Scherzer back this weekend. I did see that Scherzer was coming back. And Wyatt Lankford is a badass, apparently. Did y'all see that? Yeah, did you see his first Major League home run and they ghosted him? They did the silent

Starting point is 00:41:34 treatment? Yeah. Is that getting too old? Yeah, they're 34 and 40, so why don't you guys all kiss my butt? Wow. Okay. He takes four pitching lessons and he missed a baseball. Oh, that's right. That usually happens on Business Wednesday.

Starting point is 00:41:50 Yeah, my guy had a kid thing. I threw in the garage a little bit. That's two weeks off in a row. I know. But, dude, I've got... The commitment is dying. He's going to lose it. 100% not happening.

Starting point is 00:42:04 You guys know that I will stick with a bit to the dying end, even if it's not good. I'm seeing it fading right in front of me. I'm still throwing. They sent me home with a bunch of those rubber balls. Maybe that's why they put that slow sign, like, slow down. This guy's got a little too much heat. Your neighbor is like, man. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:42:23 Why was your water bottle in a gift bag so i had to bring a big bag why do you refer to things i'm doing off the air because they're funny to me they're funny to me this is a very strong bag and i i bring two water bottles to work and my post show apple okay yeah yeah this is that's that's whys? My wife is also mad at me because I'm- Is that your mom's bag? It's my wife's bag. I don't know where she got it. Oh, World Market.

Starting point is 00:42:51 Yeah, I was close. It's the market of the whole world, and we're on the World Wide Web today. Yeah. And every day. Anyways, that was just a weird move you made over there, but I respect it. Anyways, that was just a weird move you made over there, but I respect it.

Starting point is 00:43:11 So I have some basketball and I have Sark. Let's do Sark. Let's go with Sark first. You and I were on the same page. I love it. So I have some audio I wanted to play for you. Coach Sark was on with Joel Klatt. Joel Klatt.

Starting point is 00:43:29 Joel Klatt. And let's see. He was just talking about a lot of different subjects. One was, you know, what kind of player he likes to get at the University of Texas. So let's listen to that. I want to say this because you guys are my— Wait, that's not him. Mm-mm. That's Charles Barkley, which I will get to soon.

Starting point is 00:43:54 Here you go. Why did you choose to come to Texas? Right? And there's a formula to that. If you lead with NIL to get a young man to come to your school then that's why i came there then a year from now what's he going to ask about first nil and so our our kind of perspective on this and our approach to this is we've got an amazing product here the history and tradition of te of Texas football is second to none.

Starting point is 00:44:26 The education, the quality of education at UT is incredible. The coaching staff we have, the development of our players, the trajectory of what we've done from year one to year two to year three of our program, the city of Austin, all these things that we're talking about, that's why I want you to come to the University of Texas. NIL doesn't come up. That should be the last reason to choose to go to a school, whether it's Texas or any other school. And then if you take players predicated off of NIL, that you want them so bad that you're willing

Starting point is 00:44:58 to go to whatever length and whatever degree to get that kid from an NIL perspective, of course that's what he's going to talk about the very next year when you bring him into your office. And so we try to create a culture that is a little bit different that way. I think we've got a healthy NIL program here. Our Texas One Fund is fantastic, but I got a lot of players that could probably go to another school and make more money. But I think we've created a culture that they like being part of. more money but i think we've created a culture that they like being part of some of what he's saying is complete bulsh and some of it is true

Starting point is 00:45:38 i do think that the college coaches in this era do need to sell more than just money because everybody's got money so i do think there's something to, like, hey, we can get you to the NFL or we have a cool city, you know, we have a good education offered to you. But also at the end of the day, like, you can't say this the week that you posted the video where there's, like, 10 Lamborghinis outside of the practice facility and you're blaring, they not like us. So did Texas post that video? We have it. That's the NIL video. I mean, yeah, somebody did.

Starting point is 00:46:12 I don't know if the university posted it. I think they might have. So yes, they have a bunch of Lamborghinis parked in a row outside the football center so that when you walk in, you're walking by all that. And then you're walking in, parked in a row outside the football center so that when you walk in, you're walking by all that.

Starting point is 00:46:28 Yeah. And then you're walking in, you're a new recruit. Like that is what you're being wooed with. But we don't leave with it. As well as they don't have like the fat co-eds walking you around camp, right? They've got the hots. They've got the whole game day outfit,

Starting point is 00:46:47 probably wearing the boots and the skirt. Sorry, the short skirt. Yeah, I mean, it's tough to put this out there and then be like, NIL comes last. And of course they walk in on the orange carpet. Yeah. But yeah. And this is not really something that I'm qualified to speak on, to be honest with you.

Starting point is 00:47:10 But a lot of people were pointing out, I mean, that song, that song really is kind of like, it's a black culture song. Like it's a pro-black statement. Well, they need a pro-black song to counteract. Well, that's the funny part about it, yeah. Like if they actually put that out there while making their team sing a racist song. Right. Isn't that funny how that went away? Or it's been charged by some people as to be a racist song.

Starting point is 00:47:41 I don't know. But remember when the players banded together and demanded, we're not going to do appearances, we're not going to do appearances? We're not going to help? Yeah, and then they stopped doing it, didn't they? No, they actually just kind of did what they were told. Like we thought would happen. I can't wait to see a coach turn down, though, more money

Starting point is 00:47:58 somewhere else because of the... He just loved Austin. In the culture. In the culture and really what everything the University of Texas stands for. I'm sure that that's how he, you know, when he was looking across all of his options, he decided this is just the best thing for me. It's not the most money. Just like the lake.

Starting point is 00:48:16 I mean, if you're just going to get a coach hired for money, they're just going to probably go asking for more money later once they have a little success. Well, they can't just leave, can they? Actually, they can. They have to sit out a year. They get bought out and they leave right away. It'd be really funny, though. There's a social media manager out there

Starting point is 00:48:31 that needs to hear me right now. And it might not work great with your higher-ups, but it'd be very funny if, like, Ulamon or ULALA posted a video where it's just nothing but accords. Yeah. Or, you know, whatever. Just like an old Jeep.

Starting point is 00:48:54 Why don't we do that? That's a great bit. Somebody could have a lot of fun with that. Yeah. A Division II team? Yeah. So have you heard about dia bell uh i guess not apparently he's one of the top recru he is the son of raja bell wow that's insane the former dallas maverick yeah and 12-year nba veteran and i'm trying to find somewhere besides one place, but one place was saying that they, he got a $9.2 million NIL deal offered to him.

Starting point is 00:49:51 What? Through Texas. With a $2 million bonus on signing day and annual payments of $1.6 million. I don't know if that's, I've been ball sacked or not. if I've been ball sacked or not. The point is, though, when someone commits from the class of 2026, you're not really committed, right? No.

Starting point is 00:50:14 And you're not seeing any money either. Yet. Yeah. Yeah, like you might in 2026. Yeah. But I just thought that's a funny story, if indeed that is true, that they kind of money whipped him to go there. And then you would have Quinn Ewers, then Arch Manning, and then Diabell, which is a pretty good trick.

Starting point is 00:50:34 Quinn Ewers, speaking of him, did you see he just got into a new NIL agreement? He's already in, let's see. He's already got like five or six other sponsors. Kombucha. Is that how you say that by the way? Okay, thank you. Rachel says yes. But he has signed up with Nicholas Air. PJ?

Starting point is 00:51:00 A PJ. How'd you know that? No, it just sounds like it. Yeah, it's a private jet specializing in private jet travel. That's awesome. Good for him. The company says the agreement calls for viewers to collaborate with Nicholas Ayer on various marketing initiatives, promotional campaigns, and community engagements to gain access to their impressive jet fleet. So he just has to go shake hands, and he gets to fly on one of those jets.

Starting point is 00:51:33 They said the partnership will not only provide the opportunity to amplify his personal brand, but will also empower him to make a positive impact beyond the gridiron. Via an association with a private jet company. This is somehow empowering. Quinn says, I'm fired up for my new partnership with Nicholas Air. I bet he is. It is a first class organization and a perfect match for my travel needs.

Starting point is 00:52:03 You know what's weird? Mine too. Their attention to detail and commitment to high-level service for their members is second to none, proud to represent their brand. Although, you know what?

Starting point is 00:52:13 Actually, it's interesting he points that out because there are a lot of people whose travel needs really more matches up with 38B. Yes, I need a delay. Yeah. I need to not be able to find my luggage i need to park a mile away yep lose my bags i need to return in a term at a terminal different from the one i

Starting point is 00:52:34 parked in that's my needs at like one in the morning so i can really not be able to even get a ride over there what a bunch of foolishness. So anyway, Quinn, you were worried about how he was going to get around. I've told you before. Rest. Everything happening with college sports right now are the

Starting point is 00:52:57 main things that have made me feel like I am getting really, really old. I feel like I can hold out for a long time. I'll listen to new music made by 20-year-olds. I will learn the term scabibity or whatever that was. But when you tell me that Texas is in the SEC and their 2026 quarterback has been offered $10 million,

Starting point is 00:53:27 my brain effing breaks. I mean, this is what we wanted. We wanted players getting paid, but somehow – I'm not even saying I'm mad at it. Somehow schools have figured out to get players paid without actually having to lose any money themselves. And I think that's going to change one day. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:53:47 But you know what's going to happen in conjunction with that, like we talked about a couple weeks ago, is private equity is just going to invest in those funds for the schools. So it won't be like your local burger, barbecue joint, or car dealership. It'll be, again, like BlackRock. We'll just own part of a school's you know fund and that also freaks me out i'm not mad at it i'm happy everybody's getting paid who's producing revenue for other people i think that's generally a good thing but i'm confused by it just make sure you don't put that in a statement after you get sued.

Starting point is 00:54:27 You've been recently unfrozen. Do you guys have anything else before we go to basketball? No, not really. Let's do basketball. Okay. Basketball. We don't have to do it every single time but i mean we can okay we can dunk it it's there so basketball give me give me give me the ball because i'm gonna Cameron Brink has a torn ACL. Brother, I know.

Starting point is 00:55:09 I know. So does that ruin our... Didn't we have a real loose plan of going to see Cameron Brink play at whatever arena they play? Yeah, she's coming to town. Yep, and I'm probably still going to go just so that we can get a little FaceTime. Yeah. I think she'll appreciate seeing me. You think we can get some dentures? Creds is

Starting point is 00:55:34 just so easy. Are we letting him get away with that? We are. I mean, I can get one for sure because she'll usher me in. Would that be the lowest moment of the show if we couldn't? Yeah, well, maybe of this one. But you may remember we were denied a tight five with Carrot Top.

Starting point is 00:55:56 That's true. That's Blake's fault. No. Blake was poor producing there. No, wasn't me. That was as bad as it got. Pass that off to Killer too. That was so bad. He was as bad as it got. I'm going to pass that off to Killer, too. That was so bad.

Starting point is 00:56:05 He was the one that booked him. That was so bad that Brian Curtis of The Ringer put it in his article about Meteor Road. Like, man, they couldn't even get Carrot Top. How do you like the Monty Williams story? I don't know it. Oh. Tell me. You know who he is?

Starting point is 00:56:23 The head coach of the Detroit Pistons? Yeah. He was. He got fired. If you remember, last year. Did he get extended? In May of 2023, he was fired by the Suns. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:56:39 And he got a $20 million buyout. Yeah, so he's had. Two months later, or one month later, hired by the Pistons, six year, $78.5 million. The largest coaching contract in NBA history. He has been fired, and he has $65 million left to come to him. Great bid. I knew that he had a huge deal, and that was a weird situation. Like they have a new GM or a new president or something that

Starting point is 00:57:07 put his stamp on it. And the same thing really kind of happened in Phoenix. You know, they had new leadership. And that was a weird one too because I'm pretty sure his wife died. Who? Monty Williams. Am I wrong about this? Look it up, Blake. Jesus Christ, I ask you to do one thing and you give me that book.

Starting point is 00:57:36 I was wondering if this is a special Kim spin or not. No, no, no. It's not anything nefarious or anything. It was just that when the Suns fired him, it was kind of like, you know, your team was pretty good, and this guy's got to... Yeah, this is back in 2016. Okay. Well, still, I mean, he's had tragedy. So had he been involved in her death, he'd be a Kemp's man.

Starting point is 00:57:57 I would say so, yes. I do remember him getting a massive, massive... Because I think we're sitting on 499. Yeah, we're waiting. In Detroit, but I don't know. NBA teams, man. I guess teams in general just giving up that quickly. Would you trade your wife dying for $65 million?

Starting point is 00:58:13 Yes. Honey, I think you might be watching. Yes. She would want you to. Of course. Can you imagine your kids, your grandkids, her family? Everybody's going to be. Let me flip it for you.

Starting point is 00:58:28 I'll do it. I'll do it right now. You would be killed or you will kill her for $65 million? Either one. I'll do either one. Yeah. If my kids have $65 million in a trust tomorrow, I will kill myself today. I don't know if you can say that on YouTube or not, by the way. That would ruin the show.

Starting point is 00:58:48 I don't care. I'll peel off 10 for all four of you. Can you wait until Saturday? Okay, yeah, let's do it. Yeah, wait till what? Saturday. Why? Probably need a couple days to find replacement and stuff.

Starting point is 00:58:58 No, he's going to peel off a bunch of money for us. You don't have to work anymore. Yeah, but we'd have to work Friday, probably. Probably, I think we have a sit-in. That may be an issue. Yeah, we do. But outside of that, without even thinking about it, yeah. But that's just... I wouldn't,

Starting point is 00:59:13 because I'm in love with my wife, and I... I just love my kids, so maybe you don't. Mine aren't that good. Giving a coach that level of buyout is insane like a player you might be able to be like all right they're injured or it's not coming back a coach couldn't you like try to squint and see this guy was a coach of a conference finals team two years ago yeah you're gonna find somebody 65 million dollars better like that's a that's remember the the BS story about Dan Hurley?

Starting point is 00:59:46 Yeah. Like, oh, the Lakers are going to make him an offer he can't refuse. Like, they made him an offer to be the sixth highest paid coach in the NBA. Yeah. Like, they had to look at this contract and beat it to be able to say, we're trying to lure the best coach ever. And they're moving on from that. That's bonkers. Like how much

Starting point is 01:00:05 money is in the world? Is there more money than ants? From the guy who bought you how many ants? How is all this money just thrown around and we're just like I mean what did Jimbo get bought out for?

Starting point is 01:00:22 It was like. Like it was nothing compared to this. 20 million or something? Oh, man, I think it was more than that, but it wasn't this much. Oh, maybe it was. 75. Really? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:00:35 Yeah. 77.6. I want to get bought out. Yeah, when we get fired fired we have to pay money Yeah it's I'm not fired I'm sorry we weren't fired We're not doing anything right

Starting point is 01:00:49 Please nobody get mad at me You know what We're not going to hear this again for a while I hope Oh no I thought we were done Well we're at the end So I just wanted to give you some SportsMayer update. Eric Johnson from Dallas wears a hat. Not really sure what he does.

Starting point is 01:01:22 Provides us content. He tweets, what a season for our Dallas Mavs. Beyond proud of how far we got. We'll come back better and stronger next year. Well, actually, they have no cap room. So they're probably going to be about as the same. Well, you don't know. He says we'll.

Starting point is 01:01:38 So clearly he's part of this organization. He's on the council. He reports to Miriam. Congrats, Celtics and Mayor Wu. Apparently the Boston mayor. Some of Dallas's finest barbecue from Pecan. I probably said it wrong again. Pecan Lodge is headed your way.

Starting point is 01:01:56 You've never said it right, so don't start now. Pecan. Pecan. All three of you agree? Yes. Sometimes northerners have to come down here and teach you guys the right way to do stuff, and I'm trying my best.

Starting point is 01:02:11 I've been trying for 20 years. So, anyway, he didn't even... He didn't bet anything of his own. He's not losing anything out of this. Yeah, so this is... unlike with the Edmonton situation where he had to put on the jersey and... At least that he had to kind of do something. Did we ever play that video?

Starting point is 01:02:34 I have it right here if you want. The Edmonton video? Yeah, if you want to pull me up. I don't have... I'm going to have to play it. The Oilers fan? Yeah. The Oilers chick?

Starting point is 01:02:46 Yeah, he wants it. Oh. He's saying you're playing another audio? Well, let's hear it all. All right, yeah. That's all right. As much as I cover the draft... Yeah, this is good.

Starting point is 01:02:57 That was the first sign that you knew that the Washington commanders were going to go ahead... I just wanted to see if it was porn. Yeah, it was porn. ...is when they agreed to trade Sam Howell to the Seahawks. Ooh, Sam Howell. Former Raider Marcus Mariota now. What is he watching? I don't know.

Starting point is 01:03:11 Is he backing up Jaden Daniels? Pop-ups? I hate you guys. All right, we'll get to sports, Maryland. Let's do it now. Hi, I'm Eric Johnson, the mayor of Dallas. Now, I know what you may be thinking. Why the mayor of Dallas...

Starting point is 01:03:26 If you're thinking, I want to slap you... Then you're right. Why is the mayor of Dallas wearing an Oilers jersey? Well, to be honest, I'd prefer not to be wearing this, but a bet's a bet, and I promised the mayor of Edmonton, Amarjeet Sohi, that if the Edmonton Oilers beat the Dallas Stars in the NHL Western Conference Final, I would wear an Oilers jersey and record a good luck video. On that note, I want to extend my best wishes to the mayor of Edmonton and the entire city of Edmonton as the Oilers gear up to face the

Starting point is 01:04:05 Florida Panthers in the NHL Stanley Cup final. Edmonton Oilers, consider this your official Texas-sized pep talk. Go out there, give it your all, and good luck in the Stanley Cup finals. All right, yeah, I'm going to kill myself. That's why they fell down 3-0. I love sports. Yeah. All right, yeah, I'm going to kill myself.

Starting point is 01:04:23 That's why I fell down 3-0. I love sports. It's just bad, man. It's not good. And if you want to learn about a pet peeve of mine, it would be that the WFAA website randomly plays locked-on podcasts from, like, Indiana. That sounded like Washington. That doesn't make any sense.

Starting point is 01:04:50 I know, but they have a partnership, which is really cool. Love partnerships, but I'll just be reading a news story and it's like, what are we going to do with Jonathan Cain? And I'm like, what are we? I like partnerships with TV stations. Sure. Sure. Just let me choose when I want to play it. Oh, then my other story was this kind of was a weird thing.

Starting point is 01:05:18 Let me play you this Charles Barkley audio. Yeah. So this, to me, it kind of came out of nowhere, but he was on NBA TV. This was Friday night after the Mavs' huge win. Was it Friday? Yes. Yeah. Their big, giant win that we were all very excited about.

Starting point is 01:05:37 I might have got too excited. You might have got a little too excited. They looked really good, though. 48-point lead. So, I mean, I thought that's where Timmy got activated. I thought, okay, now we're going to get that Timmy game we've all been waiting for. And then, anyway. So, yeah, it's like NBA TV post-game, and Charles Barkley does this.

Starting point is 01:06:03 I want to say this because you guys are my family i really love tnt all the people who work here nba television you guys been great to me for 24 years and i just want to say thank you to my entire nba family i love you guys you know there's been a lot of noise around our network the last few months and i just want to say I've talked to all the other networks but I ain't going nowhere other than TNT but I have made the decision myself no matter what happens last next year is going to be my last year on television and I just want to say thank you to my NBA family. You guys have been great to me.

Starting point is 01:06:47 My heart is full with joy and gratitude. But I'm going to pass the baton at the end of next year. I hope the NBA stays with TNT. But for me personally, I wanted you guys to hear from me because I'm not doing any more interviews. Don't y'all be calling me. Nobody calling me. I'm not talking about this again,

Starting point is 01:07:06 but I want to tell my NBA and NBA TV and TNT family that I'm not going to another network, but I'm going to pass the baton to either Jamal Crawford or Vince Carter or you, Steve. But next year I'm going to just retire after 25 years. And I just want to say thank you. And I wanted you all to hear from me first. That was good. Wow.

Starting point is 01:07:29 We got a whole year to celebrate you. Oh, I can't wait. Next year is going to be the best year ever on TNT. And like I said, I don't know what's going to happen. I hope we stay with TNT, but I want to tell you all personally, because I'm done doing interviews. This is going to be my last time on television until Lake Tahoe, and I'm not doing any interviews. I'm not going to talk about this crap anymore because I'm done doing interviews. This is going to be my last time on television until Lake Tahoe, and I'm not doing any interviews.

Starting point is 01:07:49 I'm not going to talk about this crap anymore because I'm tired of it. But next year is going to be a great year no matter what happens, and thank you NBA people and TNT and NBA TV and everybody. Yeah, it's a little bit strange considering that we're like two weeks removed from whenever he went on dan patrick show and said that he was thinking about firing it up on his own yeah like starting his own production company and i'll hire he already has the production company in place like i'll hire kenny and shack and ernie yeah we'll do it we'll just do our own thing i mean he i thought that was a real possibility when you brought it up a couple weeks ago. I kind of still think it is.

Starting point is 01:08:29 It's weird, man. Although, I mean, that seemed pretty declarative. It really did. But then it got lost in the news. Like, it kind of was there. I saw Brian Curtis remark on it as he's been writing about this. But it just seemed it came out of nowhere. It didn't really go anywhere.

Starting point is 01:08:51 Do you have an opinion about announcing your retirement a year and a half before you retire? I hate it. I absolutely hate it. Is this the, didn't you get bit by the Elton john tour or something yeah he came back through on his farewell tour three years later as i sat there and cried thinking oh man the piano man i'm seeing him for the last time and then he was playing like globe life like 30 months later

Starting point is 01:09:21 so i was i think it's a weird bit i was a little kid when Kareem. Kareem. That's like the one that I always, yeah. Was retiring. And I just remember every arena would have a big thing for Kareem. And, you know, like they would give him something. Like he'd get a motorcycle at one place. Yeah. And then he'd get a watch at one place.

Starting point is 01:09:42 Boots. Yeah. And I can't remember. I don't remember if it was Cleveland, but I remember caring about it when I was a little kid, and the Cavs gave him the same thing that the Pistons did or something. Did we do this for Cal Ripken? That's another one that seems like I've heard about before.

Starting point is 01:10:03 I feel like, did Jeter say? Did Jeter tell a year ahead of time? That sounds right, too. Yeah. Yeah. And like Tony Parker or Manu. There was a spur recently. I know Duncan did the...

Starting point is 01:10:16 Or maybe it was Duncan. No, he left right after the season and no one knew. And that's why they were saying Dirk will probably do that, but then Dirk announced it, what, a couple weeks before the end of the— Yeah, and if you know anybody who knows how that all went down, they forced him, dude. Like the cubes are like, I need the revenue? No, I don't even think it was revenue.

Starting point is 01:10:38 It was more like—it's really not that dissimilar from when he went to the tunnel after the title and Scott Tomlin had to go grab him and be like, dude, you've got to be out here for this moment. I think they wanted to tell Dirk, look, we know you don't like this, but we have to honor you. I mean, I don't know. Have you ever been in this situation with a family member? I don't know if somebody got you a Wonder Woman poster or something.

Starting point is 01:11:08 This thing sucks, but I appreciate you getting it for me. But no, I don't. I think it's a weird move from Barkley, and I don't think he's done because there's money on the table. Yeah, it's just a negotiating ploy. Yeah, which is weird because threatening to retire and like going on this long speech where you thank all these people for yeah i mean negotiating ploy is strange to me it did feel very final but yeah he's not threatened

Starting point is 01:11:36 to retire before this sounds like he's announcing it like i'm announcing it don't ask me any more questions yeah but if you announce it and say it's a year from now... Right. That's different. Yes, if he said, I'm done now, and I'm not going to be there next year, that would have been huge news. Yes. Okay. You guys ready to fire a break? I'm looking at you guys, because you have the break, right? Yeah.

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Starting point is 01:12:42 to you live via tape from the heart of DFW. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're live today on YouTube. Like most people, I think, when they're listening to me say this, we will not be currently live on YouTube, right? Put this out as the recorded podcast later and all that, but I guess we're on YouTube, Twitch, and today, Twitter.

Starting point is 01:13:12 Or X. How about that? But we don't, just, we've never done that before. We're trying new stuff. We're tired of missionary. YouTube is missionary, right? Yeah, I guess so. And I guess Twitter is

Starting point is 01:13:29 slightly freaky. Who knows? Maybe someday we'll be on kick. Isn't that right? Blake was very fired up about kick early on. It was kind of like eight months ago you were really stoked on kick. Bro, we've got to be on kick. They were signing all these big people and they were paying them well.

Starting point is 01:13:48 Optic is really into kick. No, no. That's not what I said. And then it kind of just went away. The allergies today, Blake? You know what I think it is? It's just being around...

Starting point is 01:14:03 I wasn't around my kid for a week. That's 100% what it was. And now I'm back in that little. Now you're sick. Breaks. Yeah, it just gives me everything. Yes. All right, let's try to roll through this, and then we'll do a book review.

Starting point is 01:14:15 Hey, everybody. Or something. It's time to answer some of today's viewer mail. I have an exceptional amount of birthdays. Too many birthdays. Okay. But people are paying us for it now. Some people are, like, sending money.

Starting point is 01:14:32 Which, should we not accept money? I think we should not accept money. What? I'm just saying, we're not asking for money. But if you just send it to us, you can't say no. Okay, good idea. We give it all to the intern. That's a big meeting type thing.

Starting point is 01:14:54 Okay, I just don't want people giving $15 to be like, I love my wife. I thought that was y'all's idea. Start charging for it. In hindsight. Jake, I thought I'm the guy who's bad at promotion. Hey, you know. You're bad at business, bro. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:15:12 You don't have to tell me. Let's start with, hey, fellas. I just want to let you know we lost an incredible human this weekend. Cody Allen, at ApexCody on Twitter was a day one DF number 367. A long time fan of Dan and Jake. He knew that Blake would get his

Starting point is 01:15:34 ass kicked by a bobcat. Cody was a beloved member of the P1 and Dumb Zone communities. He will be greatly missed by those who are fortunate enough to know him. He was without a doubt a good dude. This is from Jason from the internet. Great dude. Great dude.

Starting point is 01:15:51 He only said good dude. Made me laugh many, many times on the, on the social. And, uh, yeah, just one of those people that I've interacted with for a very, very long time. And he was always really funny and really cool. So I don't know what happened. I've, I've interacted with for a very, very long time, and he was always really funny and really cool. So I don't know what happened. I've asked.

Starting point is 01:16:08 I don't think that they know yet, but... Moment of silence for Cody Allen. Okay. That was a moment. So there's a shark 10 yards away from the boat. 10 yards. He would have wanted it this way. Could have been that.

Starting point is 01:16:27 Could have been a shark. Yeah. Now, would you support if somebody wanted to put us in their will? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. That feels a lot. I can be like, oh, let's give it all to Rachel. What if it's worth it?

Starting point is 01:16:49 Somebody will put us in their will. See, when we worked in terrestrial... It won't be much, but somebody will cut us in a little bit. When we worked in terrestrial radio, it was like we'd be sad unless you were 55. And we'd be like, oh. Or if it was like a lady. Oh, a lady listener died?

Starting point is 01:17:08 Okay. But now we care about everybody. Tough break. 60? Who cares? Yeah. It's a tough one. We care about everyone now.

Starting point is 01:17:15 Where did he live? Lives. What? Denton County? No, Denton County played, but. I don't know that it says where he lived. No, no, no. That's what I'm saying.

Starting point is 01:17:25 Oh, okay. I'm a big listener, but I live in Baton Rouge. Right, okay. Oh, man, I'm sorry you died. Today is my 40th birthday, more commonly known as the Bill Gates, Gail Sayers, or Harrison Barnes birthday. Here's a picture of the woman I hooked up with in Mexico while on vacation. When I got to the resort, I fired up the dating app, set my search to a three-mile radius, Oh, okay. Well, of course.

Starting point is 01:18:03 Why do you think she's not smiling? While I would never search either of the braces tabs you guys mention so often, my senorita does have the mouth braces, and it's kind of hot. If she had leg braces, I don't think I could have done it. Either more Blake or just replace him with Rachel and pay her 80 cents on the dollar. Let me know if you need more business advice from Wes Harding. Yeah, well, first of all, I think

Starting point is 01:18:30 it's 70 cents. Yeah. We're not giving 80%. I believe that that is the workforce disparity is 70 cents, right? Yeah, I think it's 70 cents. And it used to be like 50 and they're still complaining.

Starting point is 01:18:45 I know. Yeah. I know. And as someone who doesn't have great teeth myself, I'm not going to hate on this, quote, senorita too much. I think you'd be hotter with braces than leg braces. Well, thank you. Dear Amsterdam, Dan, please wish me a happy fast Willie Parker birthday.

Starting point is 01:19:09 39. My leaders are Gary the masseur and Kit. How is Gary? I should find out. I haven't seen Gary in a long... I've only seen Gary once. I got time this weekend. Speaking of

Starting point is 01:19:26 Amsterdam, ask Jake if he has wet the beak on the Copa America from Adrian Day One, number 570. My guess is that that is related to soccer. So the answer is probably no.

Starting point is 01:19:41 Hello, Hotmail Leader. Shout out to my brother Walter for his Drew Bledsoe Cowboys plus Ezekiel Elliott old number plus Sean Marion Mavs birthday. I'm just not doing it. Let Jake take that for a spin. He shouted me out for my birthday on May 5th. As two white males, the irony is not lost upon me that both of our birthdays fall on ethnic holidays. Just more plight for the white man in this woke society. A zoo. Steve Kung, happy Andy Pettit birthday. I know how much Jake hates this bit. He's a day one DF.

Starting point is 01:20:30 Dan is leader. And we watch, okay, Jessica. One of my youth pastors was really good friends with Andy Pettit. Really? Yeah. Did that make him cooler to you? The pastor? It didn't really make him cooler to me, but I thought it was hilarious because it was before Andy Pettit had been rang up on roid charges. And so, like, when that happened, I thought it was awesome.

Starting point is 01:20:56 I'm like, yeah. Guy sucked the whole time. Although I would have taken steroids if I were a pro ball player at that time, without a doubt. T.O. Hotmail, it's my O.J. Simpson birthday. My leaders are Ohio Dan Baby, Jameson's musical talent, and not looking into something I've never heard of, that's

Starting point is 01:21:15 Walter from Princeton. Day two, number 941. Where's Princeton? Princeton is... Just a little north of Wiley. East of Allen. We got a mascot? I was just thinking, it might be Lions?

Starting point is 01:21:35 It's a safe bet. Not the Alberts? Hell yeah, dude. Pretty good, right? Yeah, that was really good. If Jacob Saylors already has a birthday request, please disregard, but today is his Ron Washington birthday. Or if you're hardcore, his Ryan Drees birthday. Princeton Panthers.

Starting point is 01:21:56 Feline. I don't know about his heroes, but he really hates the intro. And we both have smoked cigarettes with Jake. Yep. From Brad Calhoun. Yep. Definitely happened. Uncle Hottie, birthday of DF Brian Temple.

Starting point is 01:22:14 Let's see. He's a fellow North South Lake slash Grapevine guy from William Hawker. Boy, this is a lot of birthdays. I know. Three more. My Dat Wen birthday. Cowboys, not Agg this is a lot of birthdays. I know. Three more. My Dat Wen birthday. Cowboys, not Aggies. Good friend of mine.

Starting point is 01:22:31 That's right. You do know Dat Wen, don't you? Yeah. I've corralled his dog multiple times and put it back in his backyard. I've been enjoying the occasional lady sit-ins you've had lately. 690 sit-in Megan deserves a shout out She knew the bits, had great chemistry And was the very essence of scabidi

Starting point is 01:22:51 I think it's You know what, I gotta I gotta text from Jason on this My leaders are everyone asking Jake to say no puppet when they meet him Or taking a shot every time Dan says wiener. More 690 sit-ins who let the game come to them. Makana hey hey hey to

Starting point is 01:23:12 you all and have a scabidi day from Gary Chance. Sports Fuhrer, it's my Dirk plus Darian Hatcher birthday. I'm doing this bit because I love Jake's disgust with it. Well then keep going. That was not my neighbor.

Starting point is 01:23:45 38. McCann. That was not my neighbor. And today is Matt Miller's Jeff Heath birthday. 38. His leaders are Blake's buddy's golf trip and Blake's reaction to the sports mayor theme. Tell Blake to make a spin wheel a la the McConaughey wheel that will pick a random Kemp spin for Jake to do on the spot. Oh, a spin wheel.

Starting point is 01:24:01 Okay, like a Kemp spin. We can do it anytime you want brother more danny more nomo songs from jason anytime you want those are all the birthdays i have now i do know we have some actual mail and then we have some uh other viewer mails but are we running out of time do you want to just get to i I said we go to book report. Oh, okay. I was excited to open mine. You can open yours.

Starting point is 01:24:31 Go ahead. Since you're all excited. Somebody finally sent Blake a little something something. I know. No one sends me anything. Alright, this just says... A large box. It just says Blake Blake has a large box. Just says Blake, dragondin. Okay, let's get some box opening music.

Starting point is 01:24:50 Probably could have prepped it a little bit ahead of time. I'm just building anticipation for my new weather station. This man's going to measure inches. Not only can I find out rainfall total, wind speed, where it's coming from, the dew point. What does that mean? And the moon phase. The moon phase. Everything you need to know in this weather station.

Starting point is 01:25:21 That's incredible. Who's it from, does it say? Some guy. You opened it like me. These were mailed to my house. Yeah. All right. That's pretty cool.

Starting point is 01:25:38 The humidity. Yep. Barometric pressure. I'm so excited. Okay. Yep. Barometric pressure. I'm so excited. Okay. Yep. Thank you, whoever sent this. Oh, Brian.

Starting point is 01:25:58 Okay. Brian lives in Murphy. He should have just given it to me. Yeah, that would have been great for the show. lives in Murphy. You should have just given it to me. Yeah, that would have been great

Starting point is 01:26:03 for the show. Blake's book review today is sponsored by Frankel & Frankel. How about that? Personal Injury Attorneys. You know, someone

Starting point is 01:26:16 in Viewer Mail had a suggestion for the Frankel spot. Okay. Because you were talking about how they used to be insurance agents

Starting point is 01:26:24 in the past. They worked for the insurance companies, but now they know all the tricks of the insurance companies, and they use that to your advantage. He said it's kind of like when Belichick was like a defensive genius. That's a great, great comp. But then went on to be extremely successful offensively because he knew what the defenses are trying to stop. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:26:50 So, Frankel and Frankel, the Belichick of law firms. Without a doubt. Chosen by the people feared by the insurance companies for that very reason. They're based, where are they? Is it? Right here in Dallas. Oh, okay. This is no – they're no Yankees.

Starting point is 01:27:10 They're no Yankees. They're not from Houston. They're from Dallas, Texas. They're based in Dallas, Texas. When you get in a wreck, it sucks. You're freaked out. Your adrenaline's flowing. But if you call 214-817 and just keep hitting threes and then hit call,

Starting point is 01:27:25 you'll get in touch with a partner, either Mark, Scott Frankl, or Gene Burkett, and they'll hook you up. They'll tell you what the next steps are. You don't know. You don't know what you're doing. You just got in a wreck. Right. You're probably all just disheveled, but it's real easy to remember that number,

Starting point is 01:27:42 214-817, all threes. That's right. With over 100 years of combined experience, they know how to craft a case to drive maximum outcomes for you. Do you want minimum outcomes? That'd be ridiculous. Call somewhere else. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:27:55 Do you want maximum outcomes? What number do you call? Blake? 214-817-333-3333. Ooh, I like the way he does that, like where he splits up the three. Sounds a lot better. That's a good bit. So what did we read?

Starting point is 01:28:12 You're really on a good pace. He is on a good pace. My reading has fallen off so much. He's over here playing Halo, pretending to be a father. Going on month-long golf trips. Well, you forget I had two plane rides for the golf trip. And then, yeah, a little downtime at the house before the nap. Yeah, I just fired up.

Starting point is 01:28:33 Fired up the Kindle. So this month, I feel like I'm on a book-a-month phase. They still make those? Kindle? Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know. It's really simple.

Starting point is 01:28:43 I feel like a book-a-month is a fast pace to be on for you. Oh, it's fast? Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know. It's really simple. I feel like a book a month is a fast pace to be on for you. Oh, it's fast? Yeah. I think that's impressive is what I would say. Yeah, but. Yeah, no, I would hope to get 10 in a year, but that's not going to happen. Well, people like Tim Kalashow make me feel bad because he reads a book like every third day. Right.

Starting point is 01:29:01 But what's he got? Nothing. He's like writing one column every couple days. Yeah, you're right. He's never at the Stars games. Does that TV thing. Doesn't go to the Stars games. Won't ask questions.

Starting point is 01:29:12 That's right. So our last book report was on May 23rd. That was None of This is True by Lisa Jewell, if you would like to catch up. Speaking of Jewell. This month of June, I read My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing. And the cover, if you're watching on Twitter, YouTube, or whatever, you can see the cover right there. It's very fitting. I read this because...

Starting point is 01:29:38 Hold on, what does it say on the side? Will shock even the savviest suspense readers. I feel like I'm a pretty savvy suspense reader. Are you one of the more savvy suspense readers? Yeah. Were you shocked? We'll get to that. Okay.

Starting point is 01:29:57 So I found this book because I... Because my wife told you about it? Side note. I am upset how accurate your wife is about my reading habits. Because I found this book because I clicked on an email that said, 17 must-read thrillers. And so I clicked on it, and this was on there, and I was like, oh. Did it say for ladies?

Starting point is 01:30:19 It didn't specify. Okay, because you like the books for ladies, right? As you can tell. Okay. Yeah. specify because you like the books for ladies right as you can tell okay yeah but like literally when my wife is mid book and she's telling me about it and i'm like i don't know i don't i don't really care the only thing that makes me perk up is she's like you got to tell blake about this one where my full barrel bail on a book do you bail on a book or you just stick with it

Starting point is 01:30:43 i haven't bailed on very many. Where are the recommendations? I haven't heard any from her. I don't pass them along to you. No. My wife reads a lot. And she's like, Blake would love this one. Alright, here's the Amazon synopsis.

Starting point is 01:31:00 Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams and our darkest secrets and then we got bored we all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive ours just happens to be getting away with murder hey now so i'm pretty intrigued and then i see another synopsis dexter meets mr and mrs smith okay dexter yeah he's being's Blake Bingo. Yep. Dexter is my favorite show. I was sold.

Starting point is 01:31:28 I couldn't wait to get to this book. What I liked about it, you had one unnamed narrator. You never find out the narrator's name. And I didn't really piece this together until the very end, but kind of into it. Yeah, because this was something you had a problem with previously, right? The last book, none of this is True by Lisa Jewell, you had the unreliable narrator where she was telling her truth, which may not have been the full truth.

Starting point is 01:31:55 Like at the end, is it a dream? And then, yeah, at the end, just everyone kind of gives their perspective and you don't really know what happens. That was my problem with None of This is True. However, this one, very reliable narrator, you just never find out his name. What I did like about this book is I feel like now books like to switch timelines and perspectives and you're bouncing from this was three months ago to now present day and then one day they'll merge at the end. I did enjoy that this was just one straight path. i pretty much have to have that because otherwise it's hard to keep up because those books i feel like are slanted towards the

Starting point is 01:32:31 people that hammer through the book in like two days that can keep up with all of it yeah but with me i'm coming back every third day or so i like the straight path uh the characters were really good um and i think the interesting thing about this book is the main character is not the narrator. The narrator is kind of a boring guy. And you're obviously reading it through his perspective and his conversations and stuff. But really, you're reading his perspective

Starting point is 01:32:58 to find out about what his wife is up to. Like his wife is the main draw of the book. And so it was just a weird kind of you're following the narrator but you're really just kind of waiting to hear about what she's doing and that was a kind of a cool interesting thing to me this guy's becoming like a literary critic like these are these are things that i would not normally think of and it's probably because i don't really read any fiction yeah but that's an interesting point though for sure i did enjoy the build because a lot of the books i've read recently obviously there's building towards like one event at the end this one kind of had several it hits about 60 percent gives you another one at 75

Starting point is 01:33:40 another one at 80 90 and i i did enjoy there were multiple kind of payoffs there towards the end overall on the blake scale 8.5 out of 10 wow uh no book outside of my all-time favorite will ever get a 10 it's not a nine because there's not a ton of depth and there is some inconsist inconsistencies uh but really really enjoyable read uh that i devoured in less than a month follow-up follow-up my follow-up question my all-time favorite uh i i think this is largely due to this was one of the first books i read when i decided i was going to try to read again the notebook it's all of the light we cannot see which they've recently done a series on that i don't want to watch because i just want the book to live like i don't want i feel like i'm

Starting point is 01:34:33 but what is it it's uh historical fiction about this uh this boy and girl kind of meeting through like in world war ii france he ends up kind of helping the Nazis. She's trying to escape the Nazis. That doesn't sound good at all. That must not be the one I'm thinking of. What's your favorite book of all time? I don't know. I was actually having a favorite movie of all time conversation with my kid last night.

Starting point is 01:34:58 I mean, it's a silly question. I went top five movies. Depends on the mood. I don't like being asked, like, what's your favorite movie? Yeah, I don't like that either. But I do. I feel like with book, it's easier. Really?

Starting point is 01:35:11 What do you got? There's a book called The Places In Between by Rory Stewart. He's like a British. At the time, I believe he might have been ex-military or something. But basically, in 2002, he walked across afghanistan like during the invasion and it was kind of like to prove the point that these people are not like anti you their religion will result in them letting you into their house and i mean i told you guys not that long ago about like when we were

Starting point is 01:35:45 on vacation in in morocco it's like a muslim culture thing of like if somebody comes to your house you let them in welcome them in and he was just i think he i can't remember if he was scottish or irish british whatever but he he walked across afghanistan during the invasion. And it was awesome. But I can't tell you the last time I read a fiction book. Like, I don't know that I've ever read one that somebody didn't make me read. And what got me on this reading kick or whatever is... It's good for your brain. You got that.

Starting point is 01:36:22 Excuse me. I was on a North Texas flight after a game or whatever and i kind of settled in my routine where i put my headphones on i'm listening to danny brown or somebody and i play tablet games you know i'm like a six-year-old on a plane and i look over and like i just noticed that all the people that I looked up to, like intellectually, were reading. And I thought, that's what I need to be doing. Because I need to be trying to get better here. And so I just tried to start reading.

Starting point is 01:36:55 And I just kind of got, excuse me, drawn to fiction. Because like we'd mentioned, like we're so into sports and we read a lot of articles. And that's kind of the real world, whatever, nonfiction. And i kind of need a step away from that at the end of the day or whatever and so i like these girly books this is your escape yeah a little bit of romance thriller and probably some murder somewhere um suspense so yeah that's kind of how i fell into this all right uh give me 60 seconds i'm gonna read you the i'm gonna read you the plot line with spoilers so for the two of you out there that may read this book because i reviewed it i'm going to spoil it so here we go 60 seconds here's the plot this boring guy marries this eccentric redhead named millicent after they meet on an airplane millicent after

Starting point is 01:37:41 teasing it for a while we find out that she was bullied by her older sister to the point of where she purposefully got them into a car accident, really injuring Millicent. After her stay in a mental hospital, she visits the couple in their home and the husband kills her with a tennis racket after he thought she was about to attack Millicent. That turns her on. They hide the body, but someone that worked with her after she got out from rehab comes by the house asking what happened to her sister. Millicent kills her. Okay, so blood on both hands. They discover that they like this. So they decide, all right, we're going to start to kill as a couple. So they resurrect an old serial killer who got off on a technicality and decide to follow his pattern and let the police pin it on him he does the stalking she does the

Starting point is 01:38:25 capture and torture all while they are raising two teenagers at home then the police find their torture chamber with the husband's pseudonym written in a victim's in victim's blood except the one who was recently murdered never met him that lets him know that she is pinning this on him so he pieces together that millicent set him up to get back at him for sleeping with two of the women they stalked. So then it flips the entire book on its head. Okay. It was always the two of them.

Starting point is 01:38:52 Now it's just mono e mono, except he's got nothing. She's planted his sweat at the crime scene and behind his back, captured and killed three other women that have ties to him. The public discovers it's him and it's over. So he waits out a week or so and decide he's gonna sneak into his house and kill her he gets there at an early hour of the morning and she's awake waiting on him with a gun they discuss every detail and he's angry that she has

Starting point is 01:39:15 set him up she's angry that he cheated on her and made a fool of her uh only problem was that uh their kids overheard everything this the son stands in the way of the dad to keep Millicent from shooting him, but she tries to force him out of the way, and the daughter charges her with the knife that she kept under her bed because of the paranoia that they had created. She stabs the mom. The dad gets the kids out of the room, goes over to Millicent. As she opens her mouth, he stabs her again so she won't get the final word.

Starting point is 01:39:44 Respect. And that is My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing. Okay, yeah. It's a great book review. I like it. There's probably few things hotter than killing somebody with your spouse. Yeah, you can see why I was... Like if you both know that the job has to be done type thing

Starting point is 01:40:03 and you have to work together. And if you both have that big secret to hide. Of course. You're bound forever. Yeah, there was a lot of mystery to Millicent. I loved her. But as often as the case, a wandering eye can affect even this couple that you would have thought they were as locked in together as any couple could be.

Starting point is 01:40:31 And look, I'm just having sex with her before we kill her. What's wrong with that? What's the problem? Well, she got mad. Like, you want to get a guy? I wonder if he would have been fine with it the other way around. Yeah. He would have, you think? Probably, as long as it's for the job dudes are cool yeah they rock

Starting point is 01:40:53 are we going to post these anywhere we probably shouldn't blake's book reviews like just the the list because yeah I can do that. You've done a few. I've done a few, but you can tell I've fallen off. I will give you a book report when I'm done with a book. I think I did one last year. Dude, I've been slogging through that 1619 project. I listened to that.

Starting point is 01:41:18 I mean, it's funny. A real knee slapper? Yeah. But it's just... Well, you did the Belichick book. A real knee slapper. Yeah. But it's just... Well, you did the Belichick book. No, I've done quite a few books since we've been doing this iteration of the broadcast.

Starting point is 01:41:31 Still waiting on the Sinbad review. Did the Sinbad, but... Yeah, man, it's just too much business, Jake. A lot of business. Too much stuff. And a lot of kids. All right. Great job, Blake.

Starting point is 01:41:46 You're the best. Thanks. Here's Jay with the Dumb Zone News. Well, speaking of Blake, dollar days at the Dallas Zoo are almost here. Tickets are on sale now. What does that mean? Why Blake? Because Blake loves when I talk zoo.

Starting point is 01:42:03 The zoo. It's almost the zoo. Look at that graphic. Look at that kick-ass graphic. Look how official we are. Look at that kick-ass graphic. The admission price at the Dallas Zoo drops to $1 for anyone three and older. That starts in July.

Starting point is 01:42:21 July 18th to August 6th. Dang, he's not three yet. Is it free then? Oh, what a deal I know I know dollar days huh yeah yeah and I think we have pretty great and I think we have pretty great zoo reputations around here. I feel like Video Man probably goes to the zoo a lot. I don't know if that's a compliment. No. What? I don't know. Skydiving guy? You like being outside?

Starting point is 01:42:53 Is that the craziest thing I've ever said? I feel like I don't do the zoo unless I'm with a kid. Well, we talked about this recently, and I got a couple emails from guys who said that they did. I believe both of them said they were highly impaired mm-hmm they were very hot interesting and that it was awesome but you know doing kids stuff being highly impaired is fun it's It's in our H2O.

Starting point is 01:43:25 I went, when we went, whenever it was, seven or eight years ago, we were all pretty torn up. And it was awesome. Like shrooms? There's a lot, a lot. Just a lot of thing on thing? Yeah. I once did shrooms and went to uh an amusement park as an adult and it was that sounds horrifying i feel like unbelievable you're like this is why i loved roller coasters yeah like you

Starting point is 01:43:56 felt like love of the game because i feel like and that made me theorize that when you're a little kid it's like being on shrooms because Because everything is just such a wild experience. Yeah, it could be. You're not worried about the outcome. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. That makes a lot of sense. So anyways, let's take our kids to the zoo together, Blake.

Starting point is 01:44:18 Okay. That'll never happen. Nope. I still gotta make those biscuits. Grapevine is taking part in the world's, quote, largest swim lesson. Are we trying to set a real record? Of course. It's so Grapevine. It is pretty Grapevine.

Starting point is 01:44:36 Where? In Grapevine Lake? It is at Pleasant Glade Pool. So what this is is a PR email that ended up as a news story, but I wanted to present it to you guys. Um, it's basically that there are locations all over the globe that are doing this at the same time.

Starting point is 01:44:56 Oh, so it's geez. Sorry. If you hate the story that much. Yeah. So it's not even really that there's going to be that many people there. They'll be at max capacity at this location, but there are free

Starting point is 01:45:10 swimming lessons all over the world at this time. Here we go. We've got some video for it here. I'm sure those people are fired up about their life. We're pretty delayed on the video right now today, aren't we? Taking shots?

Starting point is 01:45:27 Oh, this is the pool thing. I thought he was doing a video of the zoo. No. Sorry. It was like two seconds later. Sorry, video man. Hey, you're allowed to take shots too. We are thrilled to be part of the world's largest swimming lesson and to bring this important event to Grapevine.

Starting point is 01:45:41 Water safety is a top priority for us. That's that Grapevine pool? I don't think that was. But they do have some pretty kick-ass water accommodations in Grapevine. That sounds vague, but I also kind of believe you.

Starting point is 01:45:57 No, for real. They have the parks. I told you, Nora's been going to a camp at the lake. And they sort of just like, is the word cordon? Like, they cordon off, like, an area of the lake where you can. I feel like cordon is a word, but I'm not sure. I was going to say cordone. How do you spell cordon?

Starting point is 01:46:16 I would have said C-O-R-D-O-N. Yeah, I've heard cordon off something. Yeah, but they, like, so they. Like the movie theater things? You can cordon off an area with a velvet rope. And that's what they do in the lake. And so the kids can swim there, and they have multiple splash pads. They have grapevine solid when it comes to water entertainment.

Starting point is 01:46:36 Cordon off. There you go. See, I wasn't wrong. And they're not woke water either. No. In some places. No. Nope. No. In some places. No. Nope.

Starting point is 01:46:47 No. You voted for that. So we've talked about this story with Robert Morris. I call him Romo, the pastor from Gateway Church. Guy who's petting? Yeah. He was doing some petting. We talked about this on Tuesday. Heavy petting? Yeah. He was doing some petting.

Starting point is 01:47:05 We talked about this on Tuesday. Heavy petting? It was pretty heavy. Pretty heavy. We didn't know at the time what the conclusion of this story was going to be. He's gone. And he may end up getting charged. Yeah, you can't do that. He's 62. And he may end up getting charged. Yeah, you can't do that.

Starting point is 01:47:28 He's 62 years old. And he is accused of abusing a woman who is now in her 50s when she was between the ages of 12 and 16. So I can't recall the other day if we had whether or not he was actually stepping down or not. But yeah, okay. So yeah, he's... He put out... Actually, the elders put out their statement and now it's... The elders.

Starting point is 01:47:53 The elders. We have ruled. With our gavel. The Morning News story says, State lawmakers may consider changing statutes of limitations to varying time frame within which a person can bring a lawsuit or criminal charge can be filed against somebody during the next legislative session.

Starting point is 01:48:15 So if they change the laws next time they're all voting, he could be in trouble. Civilly, I suppose. Yeah. Blake, why are you laughing, Blake? I don't think we need the victim's photos up. He's just trying to add context. Now you're ripping video, man.

Starting point is 01:48:41 He's helping the story. Look at the victim. Look how hot she was. He didn't say that. You're the one who said it. You are projecting real hard right now. He's putting the picture up here. Would you pet this?

Starting point is 01:48:54 No. Nobody said it. I didn't even think it. I know what he's doing back there. I didn't even think it. And he put up a picture of her when she was a teenager. That's exactly what he was doing. She's a victim.

Starting point is 01:49:08 She's a victim. That's a good point. And you are not honoring her. She was a victim. Well, I think you're always a victim. Are you? That's the victim mentality. We are not going to accuse

Starting point is 01:49:28 former victims of child sexual assault. No, that's not who I was talking about. Retaining victim mentality. I was talking about your mentality. That doesn't make any sense. And Blake's looking at you like, oh man, look how hot he is.

Starting point is 01:49:44 Because that's what Blake does to victims. Anyways, there's your news. I'm done with this. Donald Sutherland died. You're not going to bring that up? I don't really know what to do with that. You can say exactly what I said. Which is what?

Starting point is 01:49:57 Donald Sutherland died. Okay, then Donald Sutherland died, yeah. What do we know him from besides Kiefer's dad? Adventures of... Adventure? This is why I didn't do the story. He was in

Starting point is 01:50:16 Animal House. He was the professor. It says he was in MASH. The Dirty Dozen? He was in MASH the movie. Which came out before MASH the TV show. Oh, did it? Oh, it did? He said that.

Starting point is 01:50:32 Now I'm on you. Yeah, get up, Rob's ass. Let's everybody take a turn. Someone else take a kick at Rob. This guy doesn't know what he's doing back there. The problem with Rob is if he threatens to quit, he's like, oh, wait, wait! No one else can do anything that you do.

Starting point is 01:50:51 Like if Blake threatens to quit, we're like, alright. Rachel, move over. Slide over. Me, Jake, we could lose any of us. Yeah. I mean, I told you guys earlier. 65 mil. Dunzo.

Starting point is 01:51:08 You'll kill yourself. For us. I'll do it on... For us and your family. That might get you guys banned, right? That's fine. They even got like... You're still going to give us money then.

Starting point is 01:51:18 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ban me. Let's see. Oh, yeah, we're doing that. That's what got one of the Pauls in trouble, right? Going to the forest. I mean, I'm not saying that he killed himself, but he was... They did a video in the suicide forest. Yeah, sort of glorifying.

Starting point is 01:51:35 That really hurt his brand. Would you go to the... Think we could take an RV to the suicide forest? I think there might be some logistical issues, but I'm willing to try. How about a PJ? Where is it? I think it's in Japan. Oh, that's too far.

Starting point is 01:51:56 How do you? You don't even know where Japan is. It's still over there. I know. Oh my god! You would have said it was too far if we would have said it was in Waco. It's an hour and a half, man. Yeah, that is a long drive. Traffic, 35.

Starting point is 01:52:08 Forget that. Why doesn't anybody care about this operation? Today is Thursday, June 20th. On this day in 1782, Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States. Not just the seal. The Great. Featuring the emblem of the bald eagle. On this date.

Starting point is 01:52:27 Can I just say this? It is kind of weird. I was watching. This is going to sound really creepy. But there are two cardinals that spend a lot of time in my front yard. Are they wearing like the robes? No, and they're not. What is Nolan Arenado and Nolan Gorman doing in your front yard?

Starting point is 01:52:46 Jake Plummer's not there. See, I was going with the leaders of the Catholic Church. Yeah, yeah, you all did your part. I went with the St. Louis Cardinals. Yep, yep. Eric Metcalf is not there. Kyler? Nope.

Starting point is 01:52:59 And it just made me think, they're really, really cool to watch, and they're really pretty. Yeah. Just how weird it is that we just decide, yep, this bird matters more. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, we have talked about this is where you got in the dodo situation.

Starting point is 01:53:16 Yeah. If you are going extinct, and I thought the bald eagle was kind of like on the edge there. No, we're good. We got lots of bald eagles? I don't know if we have lots of them. There's one at White Rock. There's one family at White Rock. It's like killing them though

Starting point is 01:53:27 is a federal offense. That's what I'm saying. Like how stupid is that? Especially because you can kill so many other things. Like cardinals. Or like a beautiful deer. Yeah. I'd love to kill that thing.

Starting point is 01:53:44 We see a lot of deer in our neighborhood and that's what I always say. Wouldn't it be great to kill them? If I ever love to kill that thing. We see a lot of deer in our neighborhood, and that's what I always say. Wouldn't it be great to kill them? If I ever come to your house at night, I drive slower than even slow me. Yeah, there's a lot of deer out there. Yeah. On this day in 1901, beginning on this day, and it would end in 1906, Jack Taylor pitched 188 consecutive complete games. Jesus, Pete.

Starting point is 01:54:18 Playing for the Cubs and the Cardinals. So the Cubs are like, eh, I'm not impressed by that, and they trade him to the Cardinals. 1,727 innings without a reliever coming in. That's insane. I wonder if he was good. Look up his war, Blake. Jack Taylor played in 1901 to 1906, at least the streak. I would think you'd have to have some pretty good war.

Starting point is 01:54:42 streak. I would think you'd have to have some pretty good war. And on this day in 2006 I don't know if I should mention this at all. Yeah. 31.5. That's not near as much as I thought it was going to be for that level of a career.

Starting point is 01:55:02 Like what was his best season? Two and a half? 9.5. Oh, okay. He must have had some lean years then. Every year is just over 300 innings pitched. That's insane. Have you had a chance to contemplate it, Dan?

Starting point is 01:55:19 On this day in 2006, the Heat won their first ever NBA championship. Oh. Yeah, that was a really, really tough day. I cried. I cried laying in a friend's front yard. I'll bet that's not the only time you could use that phrase. You're probably on to something. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:55:47 Front yard is a really weird place to lay, too. Like, the backyard you can kind of see. Everyone else can. But just out the whole neighborhood can see you. I wanted to be away from the group. It was tough. It was so tough. Birthdays, Dave Elmendorf is 75.

Starting point is 01:56:05 Hit me. Former Aggie. Don't know it. Was the Aggie radio analyst. Maybe still is. Are you familiar with radio analysts? How that's your gig too? I thought his name was Dave South.

Starting point is 01:56:17 Dave South was the play-by-play guy. Oh, okay. That guy's great. He was very fun. Dave Elmendorf was also in the the NFL LeVar Arrington is 46 the linebacker yeah what's his bit why are you laughing could he not read or something no I don't think you're thinking of the guy who went to Oklahoma State no LeVar Arrington was just it was funny because we used to always conjure up situations where he was married to Corby's wife.

Starting point is 01:56:47 Oh, okay. But no, you're thinking of a different person, I'm pretty sure. Darren Sproles is 41. The great Darren Sproles. Yeah, man, I always loved him. Dude. Deuce Vaughn is going to be just like him. Yeah, you know.

Starting point is 01:57:03 We're trying. We're trying. You know, that's all you can do you know. We're trying. We're trying. You know, that's all you can do is try. Mm-hmm. Darko Milicic is 39. Arguably the biggest NBA draft bust of all time. If you look at, do you have it pulled up? No.

Starting point is 01:57:22 If you look at that draft. But he was the first overall pick in 2003 like if the pistons take uh first i want to say second oh it says second sorry yeah because it's it's lebron's draft oh so then you then you went like duane wade, then Carmelo? Carmelo, three. Bosh, four. Wade, five. Bosh was ahead of Wade. Yes. But if the Pistons had taken Carmelo Anthony, history would be very, very

Starting point is 01:57:53 different. You want to hear his basketball reference nickname? The Human Victory Cigar. Like if they put him in? You know the game's over? Automatic dub. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:58:10 And you know what? That's like a... Or like at the end of the game. That's when Red Arbok would smoke his victory cigar when you knew you had the win secured. When Darko goes in. Yeah, you're up 30. And I remember... That's our...

Starting point is 01:58:20 Who's on the team now? I mentioned it. Markeef. Markeef Morris, yeah. I remember watching a thing about Greg Oden recently about the same sort of deal. They're just depressed for the rest of their life. It just takes a lot to overcome every single person that comes up to you being like,

Starting point is 01:58:40 and really, you're one of the greatest athletes to ever walk the face of the earth. That's kind of like a Twilight Zone wish. Yeah. I want to be the number one overall draft pick. Oh, okay. Yeah. But then you suck.

Starting point is 01:58:52 Yeah. And I think Darko had a hard time. You want to know who was six? Hmm. So we said LeBron, Darko, Carmelo, Chris Bosh, and World of Wade or whatever he tried to make us call him. Six was Chris Kamen. You still would have done better with that. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:59:12 You really couldn't have done worse. Eight, by the way, a guy who was once pitched as a guest, TJ Ford. It was his birthday. They were in the tournament. Actor James Tolkien is 93. He is the principal in Back to the Future. Oh, he was in Top Gun too? That's him?

Starting point is 01:59:40 I didn't know that. Look, video man makes a comeback. He's off the mat, folks. Actor Chelsea Ross is 82. He was in Major League. He was the old man pitcher. Bob Vila, 78. Briefly gave me confidence as a young man

Starting point is 02:00:06 that I would be able to learn how to do things. You know, it didn't work out, but... I thought there was a chance. He was Bob Vila. John Goodman is 72. What's the bowling movie I've never seen? The Big Lebowski? Yeah.

Starting point is 02:00:25 He's in that, right? Still makes me insane. What? That I haven't seen that? You would... I mean, I don't want to say. I've already... I've said it enough.

Starting point is 02:00:33 You want to say you would love it? I think you would love it. Well, let's do it. If the Alamo makes a comeback, let's do it. Can you just watch it either way? Because I've asked you like a thousand times. I got a lot going on, man. I'll watch it on the plane to California.

Starting point is 02:00:53 Hey. Cowboys training camp. Figured. I'll watch it on the plane home. I'll play you the game. Yeah. The thing that's going to really bother me is I'm going to be in that RV on the way home knowing that Jake is firing one up with 10 of his buddies.

Starting point is 02:01:13 And I'm still like, I'm in day two of the RV. We're in New Mexico. Yeah. I don't love it. I haven't showered in a week and a half, which is normal for you now. Right. I don't love it for you guys at all. But I'm with five other guys.

Starting point is 02:01:28 And then the guy who drives the RV, he turns out to be the worst guy we've ever met. Drives 55 the whole way. That's what I mean. Appreciate you offering up your RV. I'm just doing fiction here. We're doing a playlet. Be real clear that we appreciate anyone.

Starting point is 02:01:53 Brandon Aubrey gets cut and you have to drive him back. Oh, man. He's whipping your ass the whole time. He wants a job. I don't know, dude. Margins are pretty tight. He wants a job Yeah he's like I don't know dude I don't know man We're trying to I mean we got a salesperson Margins are pretty tight

Starting point is 02:02:07 We're trying to Yeah He wants a job Kicking and more With Brandon Aubrey On No Puppet Productions He immediately gets more subs Than we do

Starting point is 02:02:21 Immediately Immediately Nicole Kidman is 57 What happened to her? Immediately gets more subs than we do. Immediately. Immediately. Nicole Kidman is 57. What happened to her? I guess she was in... Is y'all Scientologist up with Tom Cruise? Don't think so. Two new shows.

Starting point is 02:02:41 Okay. Then, you know. Oh, yeah. She was in one with Reese Witherspoon. Yeah. The one that every wife watched. I watched it, too. Yeah, it was based on a book, wasn't it?

Starting point is 02:02:56 It was a pretty good show. Was it based on a book? I feel like it was. Big Little Lies? Yeah. If you put Reese Witherspoon in an Apple show, I'm going to watch it. Yeah. Are we done with the...

Starting point is 02:03:08 Did we finish the one? I did. The morning show? Is that all over? Yeah. Jon Hamm had sex with Jennifer Aniston and I was out. I finished it 10 minutes into it. I know you did.

Starting point is 02:03:17 And said, this show's terrible and I'm not going to support a hateful, hateful person like Reese Witherspoon. And you wonder why he won't watch The Big Lebowski. She's the one who got me into Bitcoin. John Glazer is 56, actor from Parks and Rec. Dreamo Walker is 38. I don't really know who that is. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Starting point is 02:03:39 We initially thought we were going to have a movie guy in studio today, and that's why I marked this. And Christopher Mintz-Plasse is 35. Is that McLovin? Yep. It's McLovin. 35. I mean.

Starting point is 02:03:52 Do you feel old yet? It's been a minute. Guys, like, does that – do other people learning how old they are make you feel older than when you find out? Like, when you think about how old you are. When I find out how old I am? You know what I mean, though? You ever, like, sit and think, oh, my God When I find out how old I am. You know what I mean? Yes, I do know what you mean.

Starting point is 02:04:06 Oh my God, I'm 38. Without a doubt. I never get moved by that, but I get moved by my daughter now drives. I'm like, holy. Yeah, yeah. That's got to mean I'm really old. Yeah. Even though we did have her in high school.

Starting point is 02:04:21 I was 14. Okay. I mean, the classic one is just athletes, right? But then it becomes coaches. So, like, once you learn. This coach is younger than me. NFL coaches. Like, oh, my God.

Starting point is 02:04:36 Like, all right. I'm such a loser. I'm cooked. Because you always think you have a chance to not be a loser. Right. Until, like. It's driven home for you. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:04:45 Then you're like, yep. And Lionel Richie is 75. I was telling you about Lionel Richie because he was a big part of the We Are The World documentary that I've recently watched. It's very good. Maybe better if you were conscious of what's going on around you in the 80s like I was.

Starting point is 02:05:12 But I think it would be good either way because it's an amazing story about how they got all these huge names together for charity. And one night, it was one night of recording i never knew that and the night was the night of the 1985 american music awards so the amas

Starting point is 02:05:35 and during the video during the documentary i made a couple notes because, oh, that looks weird. Like, Prince was winning for Best Black Artist or Best Black Song or Best, they had Best Black Album. And I was like, wait, that's really weird. So I went this morning thinking, I gotta go look at that.

Starting point is 02:06:03 So I looked at the Wikipedia page of the American Music Awards 1985, and it says Prince won favorite soul R&B album and favorite soul R&B song. I'm like, did I see this wrong? So I went and searched the video, search for video of, because I swear this stood out to me so we got some video to roll the the thing so lino richie was the presenter that night you see what happens here huh when doves cry prince so look it'll say up on the screen

Starting point is 02:06:41 read it when it says it jake what he actually won here comes prince So look, it'll say up on the screen, read it when it says it, Jake, what he actually won. Here comes Prince with his bodyguard. Prince, favorite black single. It's kind of funny. Watch this acceptance speech. Thank you very much. And he's off Like notoriously weird dude

Starting point is 02:07:11 Yeah There's a lot going on here The first thing Outrageous Outrageous Lionel Yeah outrageous outrageous Lionel just saying about Prince's speech

Starting point is 02:07:31 Prince you stay in your seat babe you stay in your seat okay so many many things here obviously the lead is that they have edited Wikipedia that's the thing we're changing So many, many things here. Obviously, the lead is that they have edited Wikipedia. That's the thing.

Starting point is 02:07:49 We're changing our history. This is kind of like the, do we change Mark Twain? Do we take the N-word out of this? Or they've done it on Netflix. They've done it with Disney. They've done it with Disney. Some movies, they've actually changed the movie within the movie. I've seen recently they changed a Netflix header or some movie service header for the full metal jacket.

Starting point is 02:08:12 Have you seen that lately? So the movie poster has a helmet that says Born to Kill on it and a peace sign. And on the Netflix or whatever movie service, they have taken off the Born to Kill. And the point of that, like Matthew Modine weighed in with, hey, that's the whole point of the movie. The contrast between...

Starting point is 02:08:41 We're sending over protesting peaceniks that have to kind of be trained to... Like, it's the do-out, the... Yeah, of course. That's the whole thing here. But you're taking that away because you don't want to offend. That's ridiculous. Who's offended by that? The Vietnamese?

Starting point is 02:09:01 And so, like, we don't want to admit... I don't understand, like, who would be offended by that? We don't want to admit that we had something called Favorite Black Song. Like, boy, that makes us look bad. That wasn't that long ago either. Right. That's why it even looks worse. So let's just say we called it Favorite R&B Album.

Starting point is 02:09:23 Soul. Let's just say we called it favorite R&B album. Soul. Which is just a hilarious euphemism because nobody would have construed Prince as soul. Right. At all. Or R&B. But also, I just want to point out, that's the funniest looking bodyguard I've ever seen in my life.

Starting point is 02:09:43 You'd have to see the video, but it kind of looks like Hulk Hogan. I was going to say Hulk Hogan-ish. You'd have to see the video, but it kind of looks like Hulk Hogan. I was going to say Hulk Hogan-ish. This tiny little black guy who's wearing felt has just this massive white guy in a tank top follow him up to where he receives his- Take his award. Yeah. It's absolutely hilarious if you- Yeah, he's wearing a tank top. Blonde hair, blonde coat.

Starting point is 02:10:06 And overalls or something. It's a really weird outfit. And why does the bodyguard need to go up there? I mean, it's not a common thing. So here's my theory on what happened somewhere in the 80s. Somebody, NAACP, somebody was complaining, saying, AMA is so white. Like Oscars. And the AMA said, well, we can solve the problem if we never give best artist to a black guy.

Starting point is 02:10:37 Or, yeah. Or best album never gets won by a black guy. What if we have favorite black album? What if we have favorite black album? What if we have favorite black female? And they actually had that. They gave it to Tina Turner, I think it's her. Yeah, very good. Yeah, Tina Turner won.

Starting point is 02:10:58 So, like, that's how they solved that problem. Yeah. And look, we had 10 black winners this year. All right. how they solve that problem yeah and look we had 10 black winners this year all right that's that's also why i i don't think you're ever going to see the end of the uh best actress like because we we now term all of them actors and that makes sense but if you just eliminate the category best actress and best supporting actress then too many times the award is just going to go to a male. Yeah. And it's going to ultimately...

Starting point is 02:11:31 Because males are the only ones that can act. Yeah, well... I don't know. I've got a lot of acting going on in my home. Know what I mean? There's the full metal jacket graphic. Anyways. Oh, wait.

Starting point is 02:11:44 Rob's now watching cheerleader videos. Wrong tab. Wrong tab, chief. Gotta watch what you're keeping open. That is weird. Also, Lionel Richie, I always thought he was kind of a joke.

Starting point is 02:12:05 He's the Commodores. Well, I don't know what that means. Oh, man. I'm pretty sure my mom was a fan. Okay, I don't know anything about the Commodores. They're legit. But I always thought Lionel Richie just kind of had like a Casio keyboard and synthesis. Like, he's not a real, there's no band.

Starting point is 02:12:24 There's no, like, whatever. What is he doing? It's just 80s schlock. Yeah. Watch this documentary. He was brilliant. He was the guy who wrote all of that. He put it all together.

Starting point is 02:12:34 Him and Michael Jackson ended up doing it. But he was awesome. He... Thumbs up to Lionel Richie. I'm pretty sure he's, like, in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He's my cracker of the day. Can do that? Like what's his name does? I mean that's better than the alternative Antonio Brown does cracker of the day

Starting point is 02:12:54 And he does some alternative things of the day But I'm gonna say Yeah let's count this as a win He's my dummy of the day Yep Born on this day, now dead. John Mahoney. He was the dad in Say Anything, or you'll know him as the dad in Frasier,

Starting point is 02:13:19 because Jake loves Frasier. Jake loves Frasier. That's all he's talking about. That's the strangest narrative you guys have ever constructed. I guess. I mean, yeah. He loves Bulldog. Was that a guy's name?

Starting point is 02:13:35 I know the main character. I know Niles, Frazier, and Daphne. Yeah. See? Yeah. Classic. Blake's more of a Daphne. Oh? Yeah. Classic. Blake's more of a Daphne. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 02:13:51 I mean, always thought that. Born on this day, now dead. Come Posey. I swear this guy comes up six times a year. Yeah. It's like the first hit. Yeah. Debut, birth, death.

Starting point is 02:14:12 Now his full name was Cumberland. Yeah. Do you feel like... People didn't call it cum back then? Just like today, you know. Yeah, they called it chism. Just like, like there's no Richards being called Dick anymore, correct? I always thought it was great when I had an uncle named Dick, and it was like... And he kind of was. Mm-hmm. It just worked.

Starting point is 02:14:36 Yeah. But I never knew a kid named Dick. But I would imagine if you grew up in the 60s, you knew a bunch of dicks. Yeah. You know? Yeah, and I don't know that, like, did they think it was funny at the time or not? There's no way that when Cumberland Posey was out there playing with the boys that people were calling semen cum.

Starting point is 02:15:01 Right. Wonder what they were calling it back then. You should ask your grandma. Seed. They're all dead. Get a Ouija board. A Ouija board? If you had the technology, yeah, that's the question you'd want to ask.

Starting point is 02:15:24 Go to a... The palm reader or whatever in New Orleans. Be like, I want to raise my grandma. Okay, yeah, let's do this. Grandma, what did you used to call gum? Yeah. Jeez. Died on this day palm reader's like that was actually pretty interesting i didn't know either thank you that's the first time somebody didn't want something uh died on this day in 1947 bugsy sie, the gangster who created casinos in Las Vegas.

Starting point is 02:16:07 Another person to make you feel like a loser. What, he did it when he was 17? He died when he was at the age of 41. Wow. But had built Las Vegas before. Yeah, that's crazy. So you have three years left to do something to that level. However, I will say, whatever photo we just put up there of him, he looked a lot older than 41, so I'm at least going to take my win on that front.

Starting point is 02:16:29 People did used to look older. That guy's 34. People used to look older. Yeah. Died on this day in 2015, Jack Kilby. He invented the handheld calculator. That's my husband's cousin. Whoa!

Starting point is 02:16:44 Intern Rachel's husband's cousin invented the handheld calculator. Do you get any handheld calculator money? Yeah. Like when someone dies? How long did it take for someone to put 80085? Oh, yeah. It doesn't work as well with the iPhone calculator. With the phone calculator?

Starting point is 02:17:02 Yeah. Is that boobs? Phone calculator? Yeah. Is that boobs? Come on, bro. It's the only one I know. Yeah, you got to put the five first. Do you ever put shell oil? That's not as fun as boobs.

Starting point is 02:17:17 I don't know as much about that one. Prodigy, the rapper, died on this day in 2017. How did Prodigy die? It just says the age of 42. I don't recall. I wonder if it was similar to Bugsy Siegel. But he was on the beat that turned into

Starting point is 02:17:35 the end of Blake's favorite movie, 8 Mile. Do that! Live! We're live today. It's your chance. Got one shot. Do that. Live. We're live today. It's your chance. Got one shot. One opportunity.

Starting point is 02:17:48 Got one shot. It sounds like Rachel's going to do it. Yeah. I love it. I'm pretty sure I could have that wrong, but whatever. Ann died on this day in 2011. I saved this till the end because I wanted Jake to actually be able to contribute to the show. Okay.

Starting point is 02:18:07 And I think so far... A plus. What a show Jake has had. Hey, thanks, man. Really appreciate it. But be ready tomorrow to handle a bigger load because he might not be able to even get up tomorrow. But don't be upset that he died, Jake. Just be happy that he lived. Died on this day in 2011, Ryan Dunn. How did that?

Starting point is 02:18:29 We just did this. Didn't we just do a Ryan Dunn story like a week and a half ago? We did. Yeah. I remember it. All right. It was his birthday. He almost had a closed loop.

Starting point is 02:18:45 At least he got to see 34. Talk about a guy who... And I bet he thought he wouldn't. Yeah, no. I mean, he was definitely always one of the ones where it was like, this guy's not going to make it. I mean, and that's the point. I guess it was all of them.

Starting point is 02:19:03 Yeah, if you're Ryan Dunne... Look at that car. That was, and that's the point. I guess it was all of them. Yeah, if you're Ryan Dunn. Even among, look at that car. That was his car? Yeah. That's when Jake called Don Dunn. Yeah. If you're Ryan Dunn.

Starting point is 02:19:12 Exactly. That's when I played it for Papa Joe. And you died in a fiery car wreck. You died of natural causes. Yeah, I don't know. Doing what you loved.

Starting point is 02:19:22 Just being hammered. Yeah. He's Ryan Dunn. Isn't that how anybody from Jackass, that's why you're upset that the other guy, Steve-O, got clean. I'm not. You are.

Starting point is 02:19:34 And that was Today in History. Like if I die on a private jet, it'll be the same thing. I would like you to die due to a chainsaw. You know, I hope I die in that RV on the way home. I hope I'm the only casualty. I hope everybody else lives. I'm the only casualty, and then you feel really bad about it.

Starting point is 02:20:00 I won't. I won't at all. I'll be in Idaho having a phone with my friends. Then I'll come home and do the new Dan and Blake show or Jake and Blake show. I won't care at all. Adios, mofo. Wake up in the morning and see the sun. Let's take a deep breath, get real high and I scream at the top of my lungs.

Starting point is 02:20:30 No puppet. One more time, a little louder. Wake up in the morning. I take a deep breath. Scream at the top of my lungs. No puppet. Alright, everybody, to the right. Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Starting point is 02:20:51 Left. Hey, hey, hey. Tap your arms. No puppet. Alright, now stomp. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Alright, now just bounce a little bit. We got this, we got this.

Starting point is 02:21:11 No puppet. All right, now put your hand on your heart. Take a deep breath in. Inhale, two, three, four. Hold, two, Three. Four. Exhale. Two. Three. Four.

Starting point is 02:21:28 Hold. Two. Three. Four. No puppet!

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