The Dumb Zone FREE - The Dumb Zone 7-1-24

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

Hear every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to our Patreon - Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneIn this episode of The Dumb Zone, Dan, Jake, and Blake broadcast live from the VFW post in Grapevine, thanks to the efforts of dedicated subscriber Mike Patterson. The crew dives into a range of topics, from the intricacies of town politics in Grapevine to a lively weekend recap that includes kid gymnastics, birthday parties, and the bizarre world of youth sports. They also touch on the latest Dallas Cowboys drama, with Malik Hooker’s comments about Micah Parsons’ podcasting habits stirring the pot. The team explores the Mavericks' free agency moves, the impact of adding Klay Thompson, and the broader implications for the NBA. Plus, they celebrate the milestone of Jake’s 500th Kempspin with a special production. Tune in for hilarity, insights, and the unique charm that makes The Dumb Zone a must-listen. (00:00) - Open (28:09) - Sports: Cowboys teammates beef (51:11) - Mavs: Naji Marshall in, DJJ out (01:13:26) - June MBR (01:42:29) - Klay Thompson is a Mav (01:44:41) - Viewer Mail (01:51:43) - News (02:04:37) - Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Good for me. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. I never listen. I'm gonna listen. I wanna listen to the drums. Hey, happy Monday, guys. Hey, you too, man. I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jake Kim.

I'm Blake Jones. And today, we're out live on location. Grapevine. How about a grapevine remote? How about it? How about more grapevine remotes? Blake might disagree I mean, it's either driving to your house or over here It's not a big deal

Yeah, this is a little closer, right? Yeah Got to go up and see historic Main Street I drove past the 9-11 Memorial The Christmas capital of the world That's right, we Street I drove past the 9-11 Memorial The Christmas capital of the world That's right, we are very close to the 9-11 Memorial Main Street's cool It's especially cool if you have kids

Yeah, it's probably cool either way You got your olds there doing some antiquing Got a biker bar My parents have a business there So I can always kind of park for free doing some antiquing. Got a biker bar. My parents have a business there. So I can always kind of park for free. I guess you can park for free a lot of places down there. I believe Mayor William D. Tate

decreed that as long as he is mayor, and that seems to be forever, there will never be metered parking on Main Street in Grapevine. He wants to keep that small town feel. He thinks that's more important than a couple of dollars,

and I applaud him for that. He also disabled the red light cameras. He did. The guy's just a hero, honestly. That's why he runs unopposed. I think he's been, maybe with one brief break, the mayor since 1988.

Right. And there's a street named after him? Yeah. I want that. Not since Mayor Maine had a... Mayor had a street named after them. We're in a unique location today.

Have we ever broadcast from a VFW post before? Not to my knowledge, no. No. And we are here at the behest of a good subscriber, Mike Patterson. Are we having him on the show at some point today? Yeah, we need to. Is he closing remarks or is he joining us in the beginning? Anyway, what do we got going here today?

It seems to be some kind of a special event. Is anyone familiar? Yeah, but it won't really matter because we're not live. Oh, that's true. If you're not here now, it won't really help you. But yes, they are. Should I have promoted this on Twitter? I think we did.

We did. Should I have, though? Oh? I think we did. We did. Should I have though? Oh, what? The guy with the big account? No, Mike made a really awesome graphic for us. The rest of your little minions, we all promoted, but they have free lunch for veterans and all first responders. And that doesn't mean like I call you and you answer the first time you have to actually be someone who would respond to a situation. Okay, because generally on the show, I might be the first responder. If we send out a text, hey, can everybody do tomorrow at four? I would be the first responder.

Most of the time, yeah. That's going to be tough for us to deny, yeah. I tried to think of something. That's why the one time you didn't call us back, I thought you were dead. It was like a Sunday night. I'm like, holy shit, is Dan okay? But yeah, free lunch.

And they got you your own special little... Yeah. Your own special little fish. I guess Mike got some Eatsies. In fact, maybe even contacted Adam Romo himself. The big man. To hook me up with some Eatsies Market and Bakery, which is fantastic. Dan has his own rider.

I think there probably wouldn't even be a rider without me. Yeah, your section is definitely the biggest. Yeah. I scooted down so I could be closer to you, actually. Thanks, man. Yeah. Preach. Yeah so I could be closer to you, actually. Thanks, man. Yeah. Preach.

Yeah, but I've never been inside one of these before. My brother goes to the one in New Orleans quite a bit. Oh, I absolutely have been inside. Yeah, Kristen was telling me that she used to go

with her grandfather all the time. I guess I remember going in, you know, Southern Ohio small towns. Yeah. Just because there'd be meetings there and stuff

and drinking. Yeah, my brother goes'd be meetings there and stuff and drinking. Yeah, my brother goes and meets up with buddies at the one down there all the time. Smoking. Yeah, what happened there? I thought we could still smoke. Oh, you can. Okay. I was going to say.

Come on. So is this the one public place that the government has not touched as far as not allowing smoking? I am pretty sure that if you go – I was going to say there's two places on Main Still. I think Tap-In too, right? They did – oh, it's for good? So is that part of William D. Tate? It's like – No red light cameras, no pay for parking, and smoking as much as you want.

If you want to do it, you can do it. Will Hoyts, yeah. The biker bar. Sometimes. Well, anyway, it's cool to be here. It is. It's very cool. We will talk to Mike at some point.

It's the perfect new you start day. Are you guys familiar with this? Yeah, of course I am. I got my hair cut. I ran this morning. I'm like, cut the shit. You guys familiar with this? Yeah, of course I am. I got my hair cut. I ran this morning. I'm like, cut the shit. You know what? I took a little walk.

We're halfway through the year. There's still time to salvage this thing. I wanted to get me 3,000 steps before I did the show today, and I did. Yeah. I made a little breakfast. A little healthy. So it's the first day of the month, which is also on the first day of the week. Because often you want to time up.

I'll start my diet or I'll start the new thing. I'll wait until the first of the month. I can binge until then. But then if the first of the month is like on a Thursday, you're like, you know what, I'll wait until next month. Probably order a pizza and get a picture. You have to do it like on a Monday. And here it is. Monday, it's the first of next month. Probably order a pizza and get a picture. You have to do it like on a Monday. And here it is.

Monday, it's the first of the month. And this is very rare. There's no way to tell how rare. But it's also the first day of the second half of the year. I think this is cooler than the eclipse. Yeah. It could be more rare. I can tell you this.

It probably is more rare. I can tell you this. It probably is more rare. I can tell you this. The eclipse didn't make me want to cut out carbs and do chest. No. Did the eclipse make you get out and walk? No. You'll see Haley's Comet again before you see a day like this. You guys, dude, by the end of the year, you'll remember this day.

I'm walking shredded. Yeah. And today on the program, the MBR, the Monthly Business Review, because we're all about business. You've got a fan. One. No, one. One fan.

One's more than none. We will review that business. Uh-huh. Blake is at the helm of that. It's a free program, so welcome. Check us out at patreon.com slash thedumbzone if you like what you hear. That's right. You probably just heard that from Dan in the open.

You did. And he wants us to be more involved in that. I know. I know. Yeah, we should all record our voices, not just me. But I also think it's funny. I'm just a bad pitch man. You and I are just stalling.

Yeah, I'll get to it. Is that what's going on here behind the scenes? Shut up. All right. So many little two-man games running. I'll do it this week. I got you. I got you.

Yeah, it's like, oh, well, Jake left early. I guess I'll – we'll just do it tomorrow. Yeah. We're on remote. You do keep pushing it ahead. Tomorrow we'll be in our studio. We'll have William Pace on the show. That is right.

So exciting. And introducing to William Pace will be Mike, right? Is that confirmed? It's confirmed as much as Mike Reiner can be confirmed. I did re-text with him this weekend. He said he remembered, and he said he will be there tomorrow. Mike Reiner and Julie Dobbs. And William Pace.

What a powerhouse. I didn't retouch base with her. I just figured she'd be there anyway. What's she got? Golf camp. Yeah, she has zero. We just have to keep her off the sauce long enough to do a show. And on today's show, we, of of course have plenty of sports for you.

Apparently we got some Cowboys stuff heating up and the start of NBA free agency. But we would like to start everything with a weekend check so you see what everybody did over the weekend. Now you are mandated to have information

for a weekend check. You can't just walk in and say, oh. Oh, really? Yeah. You have to do something. Okay. So every weekend you have to do something. And then we'll judge whether it was interesting or not.

Well, Saturday we started Brooks in gymnastics. Hell yeah. Want to get some coordination down. And I think the key with any sport or really just being outside, you've got to learn how to fall. You've got to protect your noggin. So started him on that. That's pretty sweet.

Did you get him a Barbie too? No, his leotard was blue. It was a nice boyish color of blue, I thought. Did you guys watch Queer Eye for the Straight Guy afterward? Start him on the hormones or estrogen or whatever the...

Greg Abbott's never going to let him compete if he keeps this up. No, but it was cool watching him follow directions from someone else. They do that well. What is he right now? Two and a half. Two and a half, yeah.

That's about when we started doing something where someone else could tell him what to do. Yeah. It's a lot of can you do two things at one time? Can you jump while waving your arms? But the big thing I noticed, and Jake, I think you'll back me up on this. I noticed he has a seven-minute attention span. If I get to seven, I'm thinking the gods old and new. Because of Bluey.

Oh, okay, yeah. That show is seven minutes long? Yeah. Wow. And so he can follow directions and do pretty well six, six and a half minutes, and then he wanders. That makes sense. And I think it's just this generation of, oh, a quick YouTube video or whatever this is,

or the Bluey. They can focus for about five minutes at a time. Yeah, we tried watching a new, it's not Pixar, but a new kid movie on Friday night, and I would say she goes like seven minutes in a movie, 20 minutes just kind of dicking around. Yeah. Seven minutes if we get her back if something interesting happens.

But it's never a sustained, I'm into the whole movie. No. Never. The class is about 30 minutes with like, I don't know, 15 or 20 of free play. And by the end of the 30 minutes, I mean, he's done. Yeah. So he just can't really focus. That's cool though.

And then we went to a birthday party, and I'm here to report back that Capri Sun is not what it used to be. You mean when they started putting booze in it? What? They have like booze Capri Sun things now. Why? I don't know if they make them but they come in a pouch that looks exactly like Capri Sun. It gives you the straw so you get the nostalgia feel but it's like a spiked seltzer. Wow. Yeah. Interesting. No I just just had the normal kid's Capri Sun, and it did not taste very good. Do you think it tastes exactly the same, but you're now you? Well, that's, I don't know.

No. Everything sucks more now. It tastes like fake sugar. Yeah. You think they were using like real cane before? Well, they were using something better than they are now. It's Capri Sun. It used to be good.

I don't know. I have noticed that the kids are drinking the Capri Sun. It used to be good. I don't know. I do. I have noticed that the kids are drinking the Capri Sun though. And then had a squared away Sunday. Laundry done, car washed, car filled up, house cleaned.

That's good to do right before the first of the month. Yeah. Especially when the first of the month, it's a Monday. I just shaved my neck, showered. Did you go, you didn't go,

that's a once a month thing now. You didn't go in, did you? The haircut? Yeah. No. Okay. We need to talk later.

I did not. I shaved my own head. I don't want to give away too many details, but we may find ourselves in a very similar situation. Oh, okay. Yeah, no. They've got some good people over there. Yeah, some good people.

Right here on Main Street. You could probably walk to the... I've parked here at the VFW numerous times for Main Street days or Grape Fest or whatever. This is a very popular place to park and walk. I didn't do a ton over the weekend other than...

I will tell you about a birthday party, a pool party I went to yesterday, but first I have two observations. The first is going to be a little bit controversial, but I don't care. We're going to do it. I was dropping my kids off at my parents' house, and the people next to them were having their lawn mowed. Why have we never asked the question, when the white man goes outside to mow his lawn, he puts on a tank top or like no shirt? goes outside to mow his lawn, he puts on a tank top or like no shirt. But Latino guys, when they're mowing the lawn,

who are doing this all day are like completely covered from – Long sleeves, big giant hats. Like a huge hat, a hood. I don't know. Maybe they're smarter. There's two parts to this. One, the white man is trying to get a tan. And two, yeah. I don't think it's just that.

Maybe. To even out a little bit. I guess. Yeah. And then the other part, yeah, if you're in the sun all day, you can't be getting burnt or exposed for that long.

Yeah, but even being in the sun for an hour, you could get burned. It just seems like people that do this for a job have one way of doing it and the rest of us are like, I don't know,

I guess I'll just wear a tank top. Well, I think it's the difference of being outside for 100 hours compared to two. And maybe you don't want to have to keep putting on sunscreen all day. Yeah, maybe. So you just wear a long-sleeve shirt. But those guys don't look like they're struggling to me. They look more comfortable.

Which is always baffling because it's really hot. And sometimes, you know, you get the dry fit. Oh, yeah. Just like a dry fit, long-sleeve top. Dominic Robinson does that. And they're just the dry fit. Oh, yeah. Dominic Robinson does that. And they're just cooking. I golf in that. Even in the heat? Yeah, like in Scottsdale, it's 115. I have long sleeves on. Interesting.

So the pool party yesterday was a friend of ours. A couple were friends with party, but it was at somebody's house. And it was essentially a kid party. Everyone there had our kids there. Dude. Which means a mom party. Pretty much, brother.

Yeah, hey. Gymnastics, too. Oh, I bet. It's good being the good dad. Thank you. Like, if you're the guy who is at gymnastics with this kid. Oh, I wonder what happened to his wife. Is she dead?

Yeah, or something. Or he just loves his kid. This much. Yeah. It's I wonder what happened to his wife. Is she dead? Yeah, or something, or he just loves his kid. This much? Yeah. It's like a dog on steroids. Yeah. In fact, on the sign-up sheet, I signed him up, and so the first parent, whatever, on the drop-down menu, mother was first. Of course.

That's ridiculous. Yeah. Dude, I was with some people yesterday, and a couple of them are going to hear this, so I'm not going to be rude. There's no reason to be rude, but they had just come from All-Star Baseball, which they've been doing. They said they had a tournament five out of the last six weekends, and they start back up again.

Tryouts are in late July, and then their season starts again in September, at which point they will also be playing flag football. It's a group of dudes who were like kids who were like seven years old. I sat there and listened to a group of ten adults breaking down the players on their team and who they need to let go and who can't really give them anything offensively and who should be moved from third base. And, hey, there's a kid on another team who's available there's two of them you remember them and uh one of the grandparents who goes to every game was like that kid showed no progress dude

and i'm like he's fucking seven he's seven years old this is insane i'm embarrassed for being a part of all that too and they were really really, really into it. And I get it when the kid's like 12, 13, 14 or something. But my buddy and I who have he has a son who's about three, but neither one of us are in youth sports yet. We just looked at each other by the pool and we're like, what world are

we in where this is all... Dude, it went on for an hour. And it was the husbands, the wives, the grandparents, they were all just in it. And they're talking about other hour. And it was the husbands, the wives, the grandparents. They were all just in it. And they're talking about other kids. And I'm like, what is happening? Yeah, they're ripping them. Yeah.

But consider how much money they're spending. But like Jake said, they are seven only. Yeah. I'm still embarrassed that I was in it. But at age 12, we were doing that same stuff. And I know because one of the dads, it wasn't really my decision. It was, you know, a collective thing. But one of the kids that was on our all-star team one year kind of ousted her to get,

because one of the, like we got like the best player from another team. That's the discussion that was being had yesterday. Yeah, but the girl was like friends with the group. And then she wasn't on the team. That's the discussion that was being had yesterday. Yeah, but the girl was, like, friends with the group, and then she wasn't on the team, and it wasn't communicated to her. Like, she found out some other way. But I... And then, like, after learning that,

I was like, I'm not cut out for any of this. Like, I don't... Because then the dad, I'm not cut out for any of this. Because then the dad, I don't know. I wasn't like a good friend of the guy, but from what I heard, that guy stopped inviting people to his get-togethers. That is the job of a coach at a school. You know what I mean? I mean, it was the all-star team.

The stakes are high. He gave that poor kid their 13th reason, Dan. Oh, that's dark. Is that for shooting the place up or something? What are you saying? Wasn't it that show where that girl got really sad? Yeah. Anyways.

I don't know. I saw an opportunity. I think when you get to school sports, that's why some coach can just be like, hey, you're not good enough. And then you go home to your parents. Even that, I wouldn't like to be that guy. Well, no, but that's what they signed up to do. Being a parent and you're friends with the parents, the kids come over to your house, and now you're like,

you know, your ops kind of dipped below 600 last year. But, dude, I would be there on a Friday night making out the lineup. No, no, no, you know what? Let's move her from here to here. And they were telling me stories about how, you know, it making out the lineup. No, no, no. You know what? Let's move her from here to here. Yeah, yeah. And they were telling me stories about how, you know, it was balls hot yesterday. Oh, my God. And how there was some fight over one team got there a little bit earlier

and took the shaded dugout, even though they had already been assigned to the hot dugout. So when my guys showed up, they were like, get out. I've been there. And this created apparently a huge problem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're now yelling at each other in front of their second grade kids. Got to go to the dugout you're assigned to. It's insane.

It's just yet another reason to not have kids. There are many. Yeah. There are many. So, yeah so that was I just kind of stood I mean this went on for a very long time

and if it stopped it was picking back up five minutes later now everybody's had a couple of drinks in them and it's just like we gotta get we gotta get Casey

off this team I got a couple just quick hit notes so we went on a dog walk I think it was Friday evening and I wish I was Friday evening.

And I wish I was rolling. I can't always record when my daughters are talking. But on this particular time, I don't know why. It had something to do with something I had to do. And we were talking music lyrics and something. And then my daughter, you know how they are. She was like, what do you think he's doing? Getting ready for ticket stock? Like she said that to my wife.

And she goes, nowadays, he's getting ready for laughing stock. Like making fun of what we do. That's a great line. She's like, now that I don't have a real job. Like, I'm, not that I was respected previously. But when we worked at the Ticket, there was some air of like, oh. Their teachers knew

who, oh, you know, like, when they found out, you're, your dad, oh my gosh, yeah, like. My husband listens, yeah. Right, now it's just, it's, again, it's just embarrassment, left and right. I don't know what we're going to do. But I thought that was a good line. That is a great line.

I wish I would have come up with it. Last night in the shower, I had like 12 great ideas for the show. That's where I have all my great ideas. And I forgot 11 of them. The only thing I could remember when I got out of the shower was the fact that once you said that you

wanted to invent shower notes like some kind of an or something that would be hooked up to us neurologically, right? Yeah, yeah. So that we could just record what we're thinking. Because, again, I could have taken this show to such new heights. But now, we're screwed.

Because, you know, the shower is kind of like the bathroom. It's one of those rare places in the house where you're just by yourself and no one can really bother you. Well, I do think eventually we will have brain notes via Elon Musk and Neuralink. For starters, there's got to be some sort of tablet with a stylus that's waterproof. Well, I once did get, I don't know if somebody sent it to me or I actually ordered it on Amazon. There is like a waterproof writing pad and it just kind of laid in the shower forever. Like once I got it, I never had another idea. All the ideas died.

Yeah. I never had an idea. It was just laying there. Yeah. And so, yeah. So I don't know what to do about that. But then my last thing is I spent the bulk of my weekend. I got a new Mac, as I told you guys, and opened that up.

It's a new Mac. It's black, just like yours. Oh, that's cute. We're a little team. There were a lot of seams. It was not seamless? It was not seamless. My weekend of Mac issues, and part of it is because I'm me.

I started doing, I did the time machine backup on an external hard drive, but then I talked to Brevik for a moment, and he said, apparently now there's a way just to go computer to computer. Yeah, that's what I did. And so Brevik said, I said, which way is better? He goes, well, you know, it might be a little faster if you go computer to computer and blah, blah, blah. And I thought, a little faster? I want that. And so I set that up like at noon on Saturday.

And I walked away. Went to do my things. Went to the gym. Hell yeah. Got a little pump on. It might look like I got a lot. You were getting an early start. What's that? You were getting an early start on 7-1 Monday. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Wet the beak a little bit. It never stops. So I got back and getting dinner ready and everything. It

was like six o'clock and I noticed it still had nine hours left. Yeah. Oh. Yeah, I remember mine taking a full day. But I had stuff to do. So I had to cancel it. Oh. And start over with the external hard drive. But I also then hit the wrong button. So I ended up with like a third of my stuff on this computer. And so then I had to re...

I called Brevik, but he wasn't there, so he's our Apple guy. So then I just went online to search how do I... And it said, like, erase the whole computer. So then I did that,

but then I erased all the programs that had already come on the computer. Dang. And I had to read that. So I'm spending, like, four hours with this on Sunday. Because Saturday I was just lost. And then, anyway, there were a lot of sames.

Doesn't it hurt to see your hero get old? It really does, yeah. It's not like I would have been killing this 10 years ago. He's got broccoli here. He goes to a warm glass of milk at 8.30. You could always handle technology pretty well. It's going to happen to all of us. Compared to everyone else in my house, I can't.

Or most rooms I'm in, I'm the Apple store guy. But now, anyway, it was a big problem. I do stuff like that with my daughter. I'll turn off her iPad and tell her it's broken. It's not an iPad. It's like a little learning tablet. I'll be like her iPad and tell her it's broken.

It's not an iPad. It's like a little learning tablet. Right. I'll be like, what is wrong with this thing? I just turned it off. Yeah. And then I'll mess with it for a few minutes, and then I turn it back on, and I'm like, fixed it. She's like, oh, my God.

I'm like, yeah, your dad's good at this stuff. That's a great bit. Yeah. Yeah. I wish I had done that. It works. It works quite well. Yeah. But I think we're up and flying. And actually, great bit. Yeah, yeah. I wish I had done that. It works. Works quite well. Yeah, but I think

we're up and flying. Actually, just in case we weren't. You didn't bring the other Mac, did you? I brought a backup Mac. Oh, my gosh. So I got my other Mac.

You are such a snob. He is. Right here. Just in case, if it didn't work and I got the audio, right? Yeah. Who's going to play the open?

That's my value. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. My value to the show. I'm the one with the open? That's my value. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. My value to the show. I'm the one with the open, and I won't let anyone else have it. I've noticed. And, yeah, but now it's got all the little things, like just, it's like it wasn't reading my email password, and I had to reset that.

I just want to be clear that this is like Dan's big problem while we're here at the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Well, they did what they do so I can do this and complain about it. My program doesn't work.

This is going to take nine hours. I don't have nine hours. Oh, this is going to take nine hours. I don't have nine hours. Oh, it's sad what I am. Yeah, all of us really. But at least I know a guy whose brother is a veteran of a foreign war. That's right. At least you, by third order, have me. Yeah.

So there's the weekend check. Elsewhere on the weekend, there was sports. If that's what we're ready to get into. Sure. From the wonderful world of sports, Radio Sports Scoreboard.

Okay, so this started making noise on social media on Friday. Malik Hooker, Cowboy Safety, went on Keyshawn Johnson's podcast, which apparently exists. And there was a clip that went viral where they were talking about Micah's podcast. And this is something that I've thought

was weird for a while, but I guess as I get old, I'm just thinking, I guess this is just the way it is now. Draymond Green has a podcast. I mean, there's tons of athletes now that they're going to get their message out there on their own their way. It seems really weird to me, especially to do during the season. And Micah kind of took it to a new level because he would do a breakdown of the NFL every week.

He would talk about the Cowboys game. He's not shy to give extremely hot opinions about the NFL. It's not like he's doing an interview show. to give extremely hot opinions about the NFL. It's not like he's doing an interview show. And it's not like it's Jason and Travis Kelsey who are legitimately funny as brothers together. Mike is basically doing first take. Which is, yeah, it's really weird.

But I like it. Well, I'm not sure if Malik Hooker does. Because eventually at some point, the Cowboys players were going to be asked about this. And to Keyshawn's credit, he did ask. So I'll play this from my computer, I hope, Blake. But before I try to hit play, I'm going to make sure that we're set up. And we are.

So you're a veteran now and whatnot. How do you feel? And be honest with me, though. And I ain't trying to get you in trouble. I really don't care. But I got to ask you this question. How do you feel about Micah having a podcast during the season? How do you feel about Micah having a podcast during the season? How do you feel about that?

Do you think right there we're – Yeah. Yeah. If you thought it was great, you'd say, great, it's fine. Yeah, it's cool. Or I don't care. It doesn't affect us at all. Yeah.

Honestly, man, like, and this is me, like, I'm one of those guys like i i'm not into that type of stuff you know some guys it works for you know like you see the jason the jason kelsey's guys like that who are successful with the podcast as well as performing on the field and having success with it so i don't have a problem with it i feel like a lot of these guys though they just get on there sometimes and they start falling into the part of you know just saying stuff that you know for the clicks and you know having people to come you and stuff like that so i mean i don't have no problem with it my thing would be though uh for michael my advice would be for michael would be you know just make sure we're all right you know

well and being where your feet are because if we're not working you know the run game's terrible but you're doing a podcast every week and you, the run game is terrible, but you're doing a podcast every week and you know the run game is terrible, then, you know, what are you really caring about? Are you caring about the crowd that, you know, is watching your podcast? Are you caring about the success of our team and the Super Bowl that we're trying to reach? So there's more, but I think you kind of get the point.

So he's not that much older than Micah. I was trying to think of that. He's 27. Yeah. What's Micah? Probably 25. He was pretty young, so let's look. 25.

Just turned 25. Okay. So they're not that far apart. Because I was thinking that could be part of the disconnect. So basically what he's saying, it's Romo and Cabo. It's appearances. I don't think he thinks it really affects the run-stopping game. I think that's what he's alluding to.

Yeah. If you're defense. Yeah. But it does sound like, it's like, yeah, hey, do you need to be doing it now? Like, you are Micah Parsons. You're one of the top handful of defenders in the league. You know, one of the best. Could you make the case that's why it's okay?

You know, if, like, whoever. I mean, obviously quarterbacks can't do it. If Overshown had a podcast, he'd be like, oh, okay, it's just some spare in the back end of the roster. Although he may play a lot this year. But you know what? I mean, Micah is performing. But I also would prefer

him not do this. I'll play a little bit more. See what I'm saying? So, I mean, like, but also, you know, a lot of people got to remember, Micah's young. You know, he's still trying to find his way. He's still trying to grow into who he's trying to be. So, I give him grace, you know, honestly. Like, I always hear people say stuff that he just said on the podcast

or something silly he just said. But people got to remember, like, Mike is still a big kid. Mike is still a big kid. And, you know, you can't fault a big kid for, you know, trying to expand as well as experiencing still stuff that they ain't really been through. Because Mike only been in the league four years. Like, they're still experiencing stuff that he been through.

He ain't never been through real varsity yet. Okay. I thought that was pretty interesting where he's like, yeah, people tell me some silly stuff he said or something. To me, that indicates that more than just Malik Hooker is like, man, I'm tired of hearing about whatever this guy's doing or said. Because you think Mike takes notes and has a run sheet? No.

He sits down, they turn on the camera, and he's just like, here's all the stuff I saw on Sunday, and here's what happened in our game. He just talks trash. Well, not talks trash, but he just sits there and chops it up. He just shoots the shit. But that does take some sort of preparation, because he did admit he was watching games before his game. Oh, I think he's football obsessed for sure.

I just mean I do think sometimes he says things without thinking, how will this look if somebody told my teammate that I said it? I was also thinking about the difference in age, but when he said he's been in the league four years, has he completed four? See, I thought it was just three. This will be four. This will be four, yeah. And Malik Hooker has completed seven years. Has he completed four? See, I thought it was just three. This will be four. And Malik Hooker has completed seven years.

And to me, that's... That's more than the age difference. That's a world, yeah. That's like almost double, like he's had the second contract, well, he got traded or whatever, free agent, right? And being on the second team. Yeah, so he's been around a bit more, seen a lot,

whereas Micah's still kind of in the honeymoon phase. So, of course, Micah took this in stride and didn't tweet about it at all and didn't really have any comment that he would then have to later delete on Twitter. Whoa, really? Yeah, because I just went and tried to find it on his Twitter. Oh, it was deleted very quickly.

It's embedded in the John Matroda article. He said, he quote tweeted somebody who said, Malik Hooker is absolutely right and had the little 40 second clip of the video. This is one of those situations where, what were we going to call it? Touch the clip? Something?

This is one of those situations where when you go and find the full three minutes, it doesn't get better. Oh. The 40-second clip, you can listen for another two minutes and 20 seconds, and he's still just like, yeah, I think it's weird. Maybe you shouldn't be doing it, but I don't have a problem with it. Trying to backpedal. So Micah said, just wish you –

Okay, so you're saying the bit of you hear a 40-second thing, but if you hear it in full context, he's not ripping you. Yeah. But in this case, he is. Yeah. He pretty much just keeps going. Okay. Is Micah tagged in the original tweet?

No. Or did he have to go find this? Of course. Or somebody sent it to him? Yeah, and it was really viral. Okay. The clip that Keyshawn put out or that some Cowboys fan put out, he probably name searches, but his name's not even in the tweet.

So it just says Malik Hooker's absolutely right. Micah said, just wish you said this to me, but instead on some podcast. That's not a real sentence, by the way, but that's okay. But he's talking to Malik Hooker here. And he says, and you got my number, family. And then he adds Malik Hooker, and you my locker mate. So you could have said this any day. And you do realize I shoot the podcast on our off day.

Why ain't we talking about everyone's preparations and focus leading up to game week? I mean, I can point out a lot of other things, but I'm just not. Okay. That's kind of weird of like, hey, you could be doing more. You know. Or somebody could be. Just to retort here, he could also just call Malik Hooker. Yes.

That's exactly what I was going to say. Yeah. I think it's weird that Malik Hooker did this publicly, especially since he's talking about going on a podcast and saying things that could affect. But it was also like kind of out of the blue. He didn't prep that. Yeah. They asked him, and he said what was on the top of his head.

Micah Parsons had time to sit, think, listen to Malik Hooker. But then instead he quote tweeted. And then called him, yeah. Everybody who follows him could see it. And added him. Yeah. Yeah. And then called him, yeah. Everybody who follows him could see it. And added him. Yeah. And so, yes, I mean, you have, that's again reading the room,

the room being the internet, and knowing what is this going to do if I do this? This is going to make it way bigger. And that's perhaps part of Micah Parsons just being in the heavily online generation. Yeah. Big kid, as Malik Hooker called him. Now, I agree with Malik on this point.

I like listening to Micah because it's good for our show, but I don't think it's something that makes a whole lot of sense. Maybe you do the whole offseason and you pop up in the bye week. It's weird to me. It's a little bit weird. It's weird to me when they do it before a playoff game. Yeah. And he's done that twice, right?

He at least, Micah? He slowed down, I'm pretty sure. He slowed down for playoffs, but he was back for Super Bowl week. Yeah. Well, I mean, pre-Cowboys in a playoff game. I don't think so. The week leading up, he did one, didn't he? I don't think so. I don't know. Not did one, didn't he? I don't think so.

I don't know. Not two years ago? Maybe two years ago. I'd have to check. But Draymond does them mid-playoff series. They're playing the Mavericks, and he's like, oh, Luca gave me problems last night. It's weird.

Point to the rings or the banners or whatever. That's very true. Very true. So what's weird about this is I agree with Malik Hooker here. It's weird. Micah needs this. Yeah. Whether he'll take it or not remains to be seen.

However, later in the podcast, Keyshawn starts asking questions that really if Malik Hooker were to take his own advice, he should not answer. I know we got to let you run, but I'm going to ask you this last question. And don't be giving me no bullshit. I don't talk about people's money and all that. Who should they pay first, man? Okay.

Now we're getting into the sort of thing that Micah would be like, oh, let me see, and immediately answer it. And everyone would be like, no, that's what we're telling you. So Malik Hooker goes on this rant, three-and-a-half-minute rant about, like, hey, young guy, you got to give him some grace. But, I mean, he'll get there. He'll grow up. And instead he's like, who should they pay?

You got three, four dudes out there. You got Zach Martin. You got – That's the first alarm bell for me. I didn't look this up, but I'm pretty sure the restructure they gave, you know, when he held out of camp. Last year. Just last year.

He signed up for quite some time. Okay, so Keyshawn not totally doing his research? No. I would say that, yeah, he signed up for at least two more years, and then they have a voidable year. But, I mean, he held out last year. He's not a pending free agent, and he's 35. Okay.

This is very similar to when he thought that the Mavericks could get a little rim protection in the playoffs out of JaVale McGee who was on the team last year I think that was him, that might have been Perk you got CeeDee Lamb, you got Micah Parsons you got Dak Prescott who should they address

right before training camp, all of them should get their money but who should go first ok, so all of them should get their money so he's just get their money thing. He's just like, alright, let me think about it. Yeah, isn't the answer here, I don't know, that's not my job. Yeah, I come to work every day. I just want

them all there. I'm not here to give an opinion on Yeah, that's, if he was to heed the advice of himself. Ten minutes ago, Malik Cooker. Instead, he's just like, let me think about it. I'm going to just go ahead and say this now. Mike, it should be he was to heed the advice of 10 minutes ago Malik Cooker. Yeah. Instead, he's just like, oh, let me think about it.

Well, I'm going to just go ahead and say this now. Micah shouldn't be yet. I wouldn't put Micah yet. I feel like Micah – I feel like we still got a lot to prove from – Micah still has a lot to prove. Like, he's done a great job his first couple years in the league. Don't get me wrong. He's a fantastic player.

But I feel like Micah still has a surface that he don't even know that he can scratch. All right, wait. This ain't going to help this relationship at all. No. Like if I'm Micah, I'm more upset with this than I am the other stuff. Yes. Like, wait, I got a lot to prove. I'm all pro.

I'm like almost the MVP? Yeah. The fifth player of the year three years in a row, like in the running for it. Yeah, all pro. Yeah. That doesn't mean like one of the, I'm not pro bowl. Yeah, I'm not going to play flag football.

Like I'm one of the two, yeah. Yeah. His point here is that he still has a lot of room to grow. He tries to soften it with that. He can get better, yeah. Yeah. He don't even know that he. He can get better, yeah. Yeah. He don't even know that he can scratch as far as what he's doing. So I would say Micah.

I would say Micah's last. Jeez. For that reason. I'll probably say Zach Martin would be after Micah. So it's one thing, and I guess it's not his job to know, but does he not remember the Zach – Keyshawn might not know. Yeah. Malik Hooker doesn't remember that Zach Martin wasn't at camp last year

and they got a rework deal to guarantee last year, this year, and next year. And he's like, oh, let's go Zach Martin. Yeah, he shouldn't even be on this list. It should be – the main guys they have to worry about are CD. The only three that everyone's talking about. Yeah. But I was thinking, like, would it have been weird for him to correct Keyshawn in that moment?

No, this is what you want. You want him unaware of what players' contracts are, right? Yeah, no, I do, but I, yeah. As opposed to Micah? Yes, yes. After Micah, for the simple fact that, like, Zach, you know, he's done what he's done in the league, and, you know, he is who he is. Like he is. He's going to be there. I would probably

say CD first. I'll probably say CD. It's like the college football playoff reveal. That's very, very interesting that he would even say that. This will now cause people to say, well, I mean, what kind of a leader is Dak? Yeah, well. Wouldn't any really good quarterback, all their teammates are like,

I really want the only – if we lost Dak, we'd be dead. You have to lock up Dak. Okay, well, to Keyshawn's credit, that set off an alarm bell for him too, and he followed up when he was done with his list. So you'd rather pay an offensive lineman. Again, fake argument. He doesn't need a contract. So you'd rather pay an offensive lineman than the quarterback?

Yeah, I feel like because of the simple fact of when Zach Martin ain't out there, you see how it is for him? I feel like because of the simple fact of when Zach Martin ain't out there, you see how it is for him? It's rough because not only just for his performance, that confidence for guys around him. Zach Martin gives a lot of those offensive guys confidence to go out there and be able to perform how they do. Little do a lot of people know, like, yeah, they're great, but when Zach Martin's out there, it's a different type of confidence.

Like, I know he's going to do a job. I know he's going to do everything to a T to make sure that he's protecting that. And I'm not saying – All right, that's one of the – maybe he's about to say this, but I was going to say that's one of those quotes that it's like if you say – if you said last year, man, the routes were run much better and the play calls were in real quick. Nothing against Kellen Moore.

Right. So that's kind of the – nothing against Dak. Yeah. But actually, Dak doesn't inspire confidence around him and doesn't make other players better. Zach Martin does. Yeah. And when have you ever heard that about any team anywhere,

that the offensive lineman is more important than the – well, if it's Tyrod Taylor or somebody, you might say, yes, I'd rather. Sorry, Tyrod. Yeah, no, listen. I'm not saying other guys isn't. I'm not saying that. I just feel like guys like that, Zach Martin, those guys, like you, man, once you got those guys and you know you're lining up with them guys, man,

that's a dog right there. Like, it gives you that much more confidence. Even me as a defensive player, like, I love lining up. And we're about to come out the tunnel and I see Zach Martin right there because I know it's going to be a long day for whoever's across from me. Damn. How is this not the big clip out of this whole thing? I know.

That's why I told you I wanted to listen to the whole thing. Wow. Yeah, and he has a couple of other comments about the difference between Zimmer and DQ that are interesting. Because I don't know if you saw the quote at OTAs where Micah said that he said probably 20 words to Mike Zimmer. Yeah. Or Mike Zimmer said 20 words to him. Yeah, it's that, right? They didn't talk at all.

Whereas he was Dan Quinn's best friend. Best friend, yeah. Yeah, and Malik, I didn't cut that part off, but he's kind of like, look, it is different. He's like, the scheme will be pretty much the same, but Quinn was very player-friendly in that, you know, if you couldn't do something trying and trying and trying again and you couldn't get it right, he would dumb it down for you.

Like, he would bring it to your level, whereas Zimmer's like, get off the field. Uh-huh. Old school. Yeah. You would count, call that old school. Yeah, so different. But, yeah, man, the whole thing's action- get off the field. Uh-huh. Old school. Yeah. You would call that old school. Yeah. So different.

But yeah, man, the whole thing's action-packed. Wow. Yeah. Plus, I thought, because I thought originally he was going last to first. Yeah. And I thought he would correct Keyshawn when he says, oh, I didn't say Zach Martin's more important than Dak. I was like, hell yeah.

But in fact, he did. Doubled down. So his list is CeeDee Lamb, Zach Martin, more important than Dak. I was like, hell yeah. But in fact, he did. Doubled down. So his list is CeeDee Lamb, Zach Martin, who doesn't need a contract, Dak, Micah. Dang, man. So now you got Micah mad at you because he's ranked fourth. Yeah.

You got Dak mad at you. You got the national media. Again, I can't believe this isn't the viral thing, but this will be picked up. Oh, and dude, this is going to be, like I said, no matter if they think they squash it before camp or not, this is going to be all over camp.

And by the way, CD won't be there. So the guy who he ranked as... You think he's holding out? Oh, yeah. Like he hasn't been at the OTAs or anything? No. Oh. No. And I think what helps him is Jefferson got his deal.

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That's right. Yeah. So the guy who's not – That's another Cowboys late to the party. Yeah. The guy who's not there will be the guy who they're debating.

You said that he was the most important player to be paid. It's funny. It's more Cowboys, Bolsh. And can you imagine? Are they going to go through this season without Dak having a contract? Yeah. Is he going to be $40 million on the cap? Is it not more than that?

I thought that was dead money if he leaves. Yeah, I think that he's more than that this year. But yeah, no, he's... Because if you plan to have him... Did you mean $56 million on the cap? This year? Yeah. And then nothing if he walks.

Right. Nothing if he walks, but... So the whole thought is, if you plan to have him pass this year... Then you would have signed him and pass this year, it would be ridiculous. Which they can still do. Yeah, no, but they're not getting the benefit of doing it.

Yeah. It's all of the wrong ways to do things. I almost hope he gets to walk. I do too. I don't want it for my cowboy soul because I love him. I would like to walk. I do too. I don't want it for my cowboy soul because I love him. I would like to see what the market is.

I mean, obviously somebody will want him. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. He's loved. But I would kind of like to see what he's like in another offense without a stacked offense around him.

Yeah. Well, I'd also like to see what their plan is if that happens. You got a former number two overall draft pick. Number three, right? You've got to stop bringing that up. You would have to pay

first, right? Yeah, because his options coming up. You can't even watch him play like the Packers did with Jordan Love. You'd have to pay him. You'd have to pay him for one year. Yeah, but – You have to do it this year, pick up that option year for $20 million or whatever.

God, are you going to want to do that? I mean – Well, yeah, can they on the cap now? I don't – They could figure it out. But, I mean, they could also just try to work a deal out with him next year if they tell him you're going to be our starter and it's not going to be much. Speaking of Tyrod Taylor,

although Tyrod Taylor had a bunch of wins. Will... Jordan Lance has virtually zero. Right. And he's already, yeah, with a stacked team, he didn't look good. Brock Purdy was better. Will CD be

in camp by the time we're at camp? Because we're going for, like, the later half of camp. If he's going to be there at all, it'll be then. I mean, look, I've been wrong a lot lately, but I would be surprised if CD shows up day one. And if anything, he won't practice. He'll be in the building to avoid the fine. Yeah, the hold-in.

Yeah. That's a popular term over the last couple years. Yeah, that's interesting. But I don't think he'll be participating day one. Yeah, that's interesting. I talked to the guy this morning who is threatening to drive us to camp. Threatening. Yeah.

RV boys. Yeah. And it seems like he's wanting to try and pick that bill up for us, and I said we'd have a nice bed for him that he'd have to share with Blake. Oh, I called Blake. That's fine. He said he's not. Whatever he'd have to share with Blake. I called Blake. That's fine. He said he's not. Whatever.

Everybody wants to sleep with Blake. Yeah. But I did tell him, I did tell him, if we get that call from somebody who says they got a PJ, we'll kind of back out of this. Yeah. But otherwise, it looks like we're driving to training camp. I'm not.

Can you imagine any bigger beating in your whole life? Yes, I can. This sounds amazing to me. Driving there and driving back. Oh, you guys got to drive back? Yeah, we're going to drive back. Oh, that's tough, man. I'll be at a lake in Idaho.

Uh-huh. Jake is a jerk, man. He is. He's bringing this up all the time. No, I'm not. Today in the meeting. You guys know, you guys, I think it's all of us, you know, those being people with male genitalia, don't really care about our birthdays.

But we will be on the road on my birthday. Like a full day of just celebrating my birthday in an RV with Dan and Blake and Rob. What are we going to do? What do you guys got planned? I don't know. F you. We're going to allow him to fly home. Thank you.

Wake up with a pillow with soap in it. Ha ha, yeah. Thank you. Wake up with a pillow with soap in it. Yeah. One more sports, I think, thread we have to get on is just the opening of NBA free agency. Sure. And all that that means. Trades. It was nice knowing you, Derek Jones.

How about Derek Jones Jr., man? They said that that was the last, or that was like the what? Priority 1A and 1B. Yeah, Niko. But I'm a little confused by how this is all going down. I remain confused. I wrote about the two additions they might be looking to replace him for D Magazine today. Dmagazine.com, just click sports. And I'm confused by it because the story was that, so,

Derek Jones Jr. switched to clutch. Yeah. And they said. Is that LeBron? It's Rich Paul. Rich Paul, yeah. And I didn't know about this rule. And judging by the looks of it, I don't know that anybody knew about this rule.

But apparently if you change agencies, you can't negotiate for 15 days. Which probably just means you can't sign because all this stuff is handshaking behind the scenes. So when I saw that or heard that, I was like, oh, okay, well, that sucks. They can't just wait on him. And then he signed with the Clippers

like three hours after the Mavericks were apparently out. So, I don't know. I'm going to try to find out from people smarter than me perhaps for tomorrow's show but it doesn't make any sense to me. But, if the Mavericks thought there was any chance

that they weren't going to get him and while they waited to find out other good players went off the board, then I commend them for being like, we got to go now. We got to go now. Because so many times in years past. They've been bit. Oh, the Cuban way was just.

We're clearing cap room because we're going to go get. Fill in the blank of 2010 decade stars. Yeah. They did it so often. They were doing it for Giannis one year. Go down the list. In fact, that cost them something more, didn't it? That's the reason Brunson didn't get the deal?

No, they didn't get Giannis. They didn't take Giannis because they wanted to move back so that they would have money to sign Dwight Howard. Oh, okay. So, yeah, that beat them there. So, Dwight Howard. Oh, okay. So, yeah, that bit them there. So, Dwight Howard, Hassan Whiteside, Darren Williams. There's been a ton of them. Yeah, there was like a Heat Center at one point.

Hassan Whiteside, yeah. No, someone else. DeAndre Jordan. DeAndre Jordan is one, but not – I'm thinking of a different Heat Center. Was it morning? I don't call. That's a little bit – I'm thinking of a different center. Was it morning? I don't recall. That's a little bit before I'm locked in on it. Anyway.

This time they didn't do that. This time they said, well, if we think we might be wavering a little bit here and maybe he just wants to go to L.A. or maybe he wants a different role there. I mean, he started a ton of games. I don't know what that would be about. What did he get signed for? Three for 30.

And that fits under the mid-level exception? It's less than, but not too much less than. But, I mean, they got Najee Marshall for this same deal. Three for 27. Yeah. So they definitely could have done it. You like Najee Marshall? I do now.

I can't tell you I knew a whole lot about the guy. I mean, I knew who he was, but I'm not locked in on the Pelicans. But after spending a couple hours on him this morning, there's a lot to like. The only thing I knew about him before this was he tried to choke Jimmy Butler. Awesome video. If you haven't seen it, it's linked in my piece, but go watch it. There's about a four-minute video where he tries to fight Jimmy Butler, and it turns into a melee. Yeah.

From people in the know, Luka is not going to be touched with this guy around. Yeah, and I remember we said that about whoever the MMA fighter was, the guy who fought MMA a couple years ago. I don't remember who it was. They brought somebody in who was going to be gooning it up, but they never played. And we thought Grant Williams could be that. Yeah, and people even wanted Markeith on the floor at times this year

because it's like, oh, okay. He'll at least rough somebody up. But this guy plays. He's not a starter, but he plays 20 plus minutes and he can shoot it a little bit. He had a career year from three last year, which is a little bit of a problem. You always got to be worried about

regression on that front. Sorry, I'm distracted because Dan's watching the Jimmy Butler Johnny Marshall. I'll help you. He shot 41% from the corner, which is what he's going to be doing. Yeah. The Mavericks shot more corner threes or a higher percentage of their shots were corner threes than anybody last year. Now they got a guy who was drilling from the corner last year.

He's not as good of a defender as Derrick Jones Jr., I don't think. He's bigger. But he's a better shooter too, at least a more – I think he's a more bankable shooter because Derrick Jones Jr. was kind of careering last year as well, I believe. He looks cool. Yeah. He'll look cool next to Sideshow Lob.

See, he goes back at him. They wanted it done, and then he did the fake like, I'm cool, I'm cool, I'm cool. So him and PJ, two little badasses? Yeah. They want to fight? Yeah, and I think there's a decent chance he starts. And we can talk about the Clay thing in a minute, but I saw this quote when I was doing a piece this morning

where their head coach was at Willie Green, I think, right? Did I have that right? Yeah, Willie Green was asked. I only know the baseball managers. Willie Green was asked, I think it was sometime the season prior to this most recent one. I think he had called Larry Nance Jr. their Swiss Army knife. And so some media member was like, hey, if Larry Nance Jr. is your Swiss Army knife, what is Najee?

And he was like, a knife. So they started, like when the Pelicans would tweet about him, they would always put the knife emoji. And like the fans started calling him knife. If you go to his basketball reference page on his nickname, it just says The Knife. So I don't know. I don't know why that seems cool, but.

It does. But. Yeah, so that's a nice piece of business. But he can't jump like Derek Jones could. No. That's going to be sad to watch. No. Or, like, something to miss.

Who can? Well, no. Yeah, I know what you mean. I mean, he could get the crowd electrified in two seconds. The viral clip. Yeah. I can't tell you how many times

I've watched that. I watched it like five this morning. But the Luca, the slow-mo one with the music, Luca diving, sliding, traveling. Oh, yeah. There's a lot going on in that play. They should have called that.

But the perfect no-look pass to Kyrie in stride. And then the same perfect pass, Kyrie over the defender. Derek Jones Jr. so high. Top of the backboard. He's leaping. What a – I like watching the crowd. Like seeing Cuban in slow motion like, oh.

And then your favorite, the Luka lob from half court where Derek Jones is at the three-point line when Luka throws it. Was that him? Yeah. He's the only one they had that could do that. That does hit a little bit. I wonder... My preference would have been to bring him back.

I wrote that last week. I know he's got his warts, but... I wonder why they couldn't just get that done. It felt like he wanted to be here and they wanted him. I don't understand this 15-day thing at all. I mean, like Tim Cato was saying, like, hey, that was a big impediment because the Mavericks wouldn't be able to sign him until or negotiate with him until July 11th.

So did he work out the deal with the Clippers on his own without an agent? But, yeah, and. I'm confused by it. I'll try to get some clarity on it, but I have no idea. I honestly have no idea. You can negotiate with your own free agents at first.

Why would you have changed agencies right at this time? I bet he didn't know the rule, and I bet they didn't tell him. Clutch? Yeah. Maybe they just wanted him to time, I bet he didn't know the rule and I bet they didn't tell him. Clutch? Yeah. Maybe they just wanted him away. They thought that if they could get him away from Dallas, that he could get more

than the mid-level on the open market. And then once Dallas moved on, now they're like, oh, there's not like a $15 million a year deal out here for this guy. We're kind of in a take what they'll give us mode now. Yeah, there's not like a $15 million a year deal out here for this guy. We're kind of in a take-what-they'll-give-us mode now. Yeah, it's too bad.

Yeah. Also, didn't really talk much Quentin Grimes at the time, the guy they got back from Tim Hardaway Jr., but he can play too. He's a solid shooter, solid defender. I saw you reference your favorite Simpsons episode ever. Yeah, old Grimey. Solid defender. I saw you reference your favorite Simpsons episode ever. Yeah. Old grimy. So, I don't know. I mean, they got two guys here who they fit the mold.

It's clear that they're like, all right, we've got Luka and Kyrie, but everyone else pretty much, outside of like what, maybe Jaden Hardy, has to be able to defend, run, and shoot it a little bit. Helps if you can put it on the floor. Yeah, I love what they've done in the past couple years. It's kind of incredible. Yeah. They have a whole new identity, and then Luka and Kyrie get to go do their thing.

And both these two new guys kind of fit that. The only thing about the Derrick Jones Jr. thing that bothers me is if this is in any way related to Klay Thompson. What do you mean? If they thought, well, what if we have to go to like 12 or 13 for Derrick Jones Jr. because we need to save money for Klay Thompson. I'm not sure that he's $4 million a year better than Marshall is, speaking of Derrick Jones Jr., but if that's their reason,

I'm not super high on the Clay thing. I know Blake was pretty fired up about it the other day. No, I was anti. Oh, I thought you were saying, like, oh, what if we had all three of those guys out there? No, no, no. I just don't get how it's going to work. Is he coming off the bench?

Because if you want to talk about identity, Clay Thompson at one point was an all-world defender. He's 35. He wants a three-year deal. By the end of that, he would be 37 or 38 as a two-guard. What's he like as a defender now? Man, I saw a lot last year that was not good. He's old.

He's old, and he missed two full seasons, and one of them was in Achilles. And they always say that people are better the second year back from an Achilles, so maybe this year will be better. He shot poorly for Klay Thompson last year, but poorly for Klay Thompson is still pretty elite. So the news would say that LeBron called him the second that free agency opened. As if he didn't call him the week before.

Right. Or meet him in Malibu or something. I mean, he's an L.A. guy, right? Yeah. His dad played there. So, yeah, it seems all accounts seem to say it's between the Mavs and the Lakers and that the Mavs have the upper hand in the whole thing. That feels like Woj carrying water. Now, Mark Stein wouldn't do that.

Mark Stein seems to be going with that, right? Yeah. I don't know. They could be at the same info. Don't they want to do like a sign and trade with them? Mm-hmm. So how does that work? Wouldn't the Mavs have to do that?

They have a fairly large trade exception that was created by the Tim Hardaway Jr. trade. And for the Warriors, it's pretty much like, can I get anything for this? Because he's going to walk. So you'd probably be looking at Maxie, Josh Green. I would hope not Jaden Hardy for a 35-year-old. But Maxie and Josh Green, maybe Powell, and then fill the rest out with – because it depends on how much Thompson's going to make.

But those guys are certainly gone if they have to trade. Because Josh Green just got signed to not a big deal, but it's like 12 a year or something. My point, though, is let's just talk basketball. What's he going to do? Is he just the new Tim Hardaway Jr.? If he's sixth man, I like that. Yeah, and sometimes they can play all three.

But he's not wanting to leave for sixth man money. Well, he's not going to get much more than that. The Lakers can't offer more. The money will be the same between the Lakers and Mavs. It's just a matter of where he wants to play. Because you're going to have to sit somebody. Don't you think at least initially he'll be inspired and want to prove the doubters wrong

and prove Golden State they should have paid him and this and that? I hope his Achilles... Also wants to prove the Dodgers wrong. Obliges. So are you happy if they do nothing else? I think they have. I haven't looked at what else is out there, but they still could definitely

use a little more scoring punch. Although both the guys they just signed shoot it pretty well. Maybe that's what Hardy becomes. Could you have had Najee and Derek Jones Jr.? I don't think that would have been possible.

Okay. I don't think. And they both do the same thing. There's some redundancies there for sure. But, you know, we'll see what happens on the Clay thing.

To me, it feels like there's something going on where everyone's making it seem like it's Dallas. All those scribes who are getting agent info for whatever reason. Yeah, that usually does blow up, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. If it's going to blow up, it's going to blow up.

I would say in the Lakers' favor, but I'm kind of like, okay. The Lakers are going to sign another old guy that you've heard of. Maybe he can coach up Ronnie. And then One Mavs Non-Mavs NBA thing I think we should just mention

Paul George That's a pretty big deal It's a massive deal So he ends up going They didn't even do His sign and trade right He just Left as a free agent

Going to Philly That freaking What's the GM's name over there? Are you talking about Daryl Morey? Yeah, Daryl Morey. Just keep firing. He will spend other people's money. Keep firing.

And, yeah, the Clippers, the great experiment was a complete and utter failure. That, you know, it was they had a good base, a good team built. They somehow lured the top free agent on the market. They made a trade because without that trade, they don't get the top free agent on the market. Yep. And that trade has already been one of the worst trades you could ever make, only because you sent away SGA.

They didn't know. You didn't send away a pick that became SGA. Yeah, him. You actually had the player in your building. And five more picks. Yeah. First-round picks. In fact, I think they still haven't paid all that off.

They still have some. They're going to be paying for that. Yeah. Another first next year. They still haven't paid all that off. They still have some. They're going to be paying for that. Yeah. So. Another first next year. And another first in 2016. Or 2026. Yeah, you're right.

And. You built the team that finished the one seed with one player. And I've heard like Windhorse and others talk about this. The whole new CBA is because of Steve Ballmer. Because he has so much money. If it was just a second apron, you've heard that term a million times, it's not just monetary. Like it's about freezing draft picks, freezing, you, freezing you're not allowed to make certain trades.

Once you go past that second apron, it hinders you for the next couple years. You have to be able to say, this team can compete and win a title now. That's why I'm willing to go into the second apron because I don't need to make any more moves. Yeah. And apparently had they done that with the Clippers, you know, they've shown nothing in these since they put them together to indicate that they are ready to win a title now. They just got bounced in the first round.

That team made it to the conference finals once. Yeah, right. Was that the LeBron year in the bubble? Yeah, but that was the year, one of the years they beat the Mavs, but then Kawhi got hurt in the second round or something like that because they were playing without him. I mean, just such a spectacular failure. I love it.

Well, that was their problem. They built around the wrong guy. I mean, Kawhi was hurt every single year they went to the playoffs. Yeah, and they knew that when they got him. But, you know, they tried the load management. We won't play them that much, and it didn't matter. I mean, when Kawhi played this year, they were really good. Paul George was really good.

He is good, yeah. He's also 34, and they just signed him for four years. I mean, I don't know. The apron's going to go up and up and up and up, so maybe it won't really matter. But I don't know. I just like watching other teams screw things up. It's fun for a while.

Yeah. And I like – I don't know, man. I think the player movement stuff is fun. Yeah. More fun than ever. There are olds that will say, oh, no, I long for the days when you just knew this guy was going to be – I don't know. It seems like every offseason is awesome.

And sometimes during the season. This now gives a real, real solid contender to Boston. I hope so. I've drank that Kool-Aid before, so I'm going to be... Yeah, I was glad he went out east. I'm going to be hesitant there.

Yeah. All right. Sports. Oh, wait. Let me... I have to turn back on my audio because... You were watching Jimmy Butler get choked. I was watching Jimmy Butler. I turned the audio down for you guys.

Thank you. I'm pumped to say hello as Clippers to Paul and Kawhi. Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Get up! Come on, get up if you're as nice as I am! Get up! Yeah!

You're listening to The Dumb Zone. Yeah! match my not knowing hop to it girl. Oh, hop to it. Yeah, I saw this on your Instagram. I didn't know what the hell it meant. That's the kids bop version. Hop to it girl. No puppet.

So here at the VFW, I think you can really tell who's here for us. Yeah, they stick out a little bit. And who is a veteran of a foreign war. Yeah. There's military here, then there's Jameson. Then there's a guy in a Hawaiian shirt. This guy over here has no idea what it's like to face the bullets flying.

But if called upon. But he probably does know the struggles that I went through trying to set up a new Mac over the weekend. I mean, it was seven years old. Yep. My old Mac. It's pretty much the same as being at war. By the way, big weekend for Hawk Tua Girl, by the way.

Yeah. Who was she up? She was Hawk Tula Girl, by the way. Yeah, who was she up, she was up on stage or someone. Zach Bryan. And then, go to Shaq's Twitter page if you have time

and you'll see that Shaq was in Nashville this weekend and said something like, look who I ran into and it's a photo of Shaq and Hawk Tula Girl. That's great, man.

Good for her. She's essentially at this point a cultural icon. Yeah. There's going to be kids who didn't even know what Osex was, and they're going to think that that's just how it goes based on TikTok memes and recreation. Will she be at one of the conventions?

The RNC or the DNC? Presidential convention? You know. She doesn't seem political. No, she doesn't. She seems like she could unite us all. Yeah, she's not like the homemaker lady who was just dropping the N-word left and right

and then thanked everyone for getting her into conservative media. I don't think that's going to happen. She just wants to get down. Yeah. And who doesn't want that? Hey, we're going to do monthly business review. MBR is brought to you today by Frankel & Frankel. They are a big sponsor of ours.

So we're not saying go get in an accident so that you can call them. But if you do get in an accident, they are the ones that you call, I guess, immediately, right? Immediately, yes. There's a woman here who told me that when I was running in my neighborhood once, I had my headphones on and wasn't paying attention, and I ran into her husband's car. Now, that's not a situation where I'm going to call Frankel, nor is he. But if that situation had been reversed... Like if he ran over you. If he ran over me, I would have immediately called 214-817-333-3333.

Yeah, especially if you're in a wreck and you're not running. You're in a car. Yeah. Then you have to try and get insurance money. Insurance companies try to take advantage. They're trying to not give you money. Frankel will fight for your rights. When you call, you'll talk to a partner, either Mark or Scott Frankel or Gene Burkett.

You're not going to just talk to their Blake or whatever, you know. You're going to talk to one of the big ones. One of the big dogs. That's right. So Frankel and Frankel, 214 or 817, all threes. It's pretty sweet how they got that phone number. That means they're legit. Yeah.

use. It's pretty sweet how they got that phone number. That means they're legit. Yeah. So for the monthly business review, our old friend Grady sent this last month, which would be June.

Like June 2nd he sent this. Well, pick a lane and bless my star. Mr. Jones is in VR. People listen near and far to Blake Jones' NBR. Monthly Business Review.

Which I thought was great. All right. By the way, going to see Grady this Thursday. Are you really? I think I am, too. In Hearst? Are you going to see the work? I'm only there for Grady this Thursday. Are you really? I think I am too. In Hearst. Are you going to see the work? I'm only there for Grady.

Grady Spencer? Yeah. He's playing a 4th of July thing. Yeah. So he sent us that right away. Now last week I got an email from Rob Schindler. You know him from making many of our opens. He's also great.

And he said, boy, I hope no one else has sent you something. He in fact called out Jameson by name. Said, I hope Jameson hasn't sent you anything. So he got that hope. The strategy was correct there, that Jameson did not send something. But Grady did. But here is what Rob Schindler sent us. It's that time of the month. It's time for the dumb zones monthly business review

and now the king of all note takers here's blake jones all right yeah i like that too i like them both why not have a rotation we might have to rotation i'm uh I'm on board with that. Anyway, here's Blake. Yeah. All right, let's review the month of June. Now, can you reset what this bit is? Do we have to do this every time? I'm just kidding.

I just like trolling you from notes of our former employer. Rob also sent me a couple extra things. So rather than me tell you what I'm doing, how's this? Things Dan and Jake want. Okay. We are so over production.

I love it. Let's go back to June 6th. Things Dan or Jake want here in the June NBR. Dan wants Jake to assemble all the videos that Jake watches on his buddy's trip. So the movies, the YouTube videos, everything that you guys huddle together and watch,

Dan wants that so he can go through it. I feel like a big player on this year's trip is going to be this slap league they got going. You just watch a guy slap the ever-loving shit out of another dude. And one of them is usually from like Norway. They got a nickname. Yeah, and then he always gets bounced by a guy who looks like me. It's awesome. But yeah,

I'll put something together for you. What's it called? The SL? The NSL? National Slap League? It's something like that. Dana White runs it. Okay, NSL, let's say it is. Of course he does. Is there a WNSL?

Because I feel like... I feel like I'd... You'd rather watch that? Now, what would be really funny... What would be really funny is if a trans person got involved in that competition. That's not fair. Get hormoned up and then just...

June 17th. That might be my breaking point, by the way. This gender thing, I don't know. Maybe they got a point here. June 17th, Dan wants to say Vester for investors. No, we're not doing that. You just said... Rotate. We're doing that.

Rotate. Vester. June 18th, Dan wants a side hustle like Jake and Blake. And I think we settled on one. I do, man. And I was upset like Rob this morning. Oh. Jameson reports that, in fact, they do have a women's slap league.

Okay. That's excellent. I know they have one that on sites I can't access anymore. Thanks, Governor. So I was talking to Rob this morning, video man, and he's going to be out of town and then then he's going to Utah to set up.

He's got a side gig. Everybody is making more money. We are his side gig. Yeah, we essentially are his side gig. Yeah. You could sell candles or something like the wives do. All I know how to do is talk. I can't do anything else, so I might have to just start a competing podcast.

I will sue your pants off. Boy, I wonder who our lawyers would go support. They'd probably support you. You'd probably have a... Phillip would ride with you, but the rest... Maybe Matt. But I got Liz and Frank in the pocket. I'd call the Cuminous lawyers.

Right? They can all be bought. Lawyers aren't... They'll just work for whoever. Well, they're in-house counsel, but still. They'd probably prefer to be paid. What was the idea we gave him? Dan's digitization. Oh, yeah. Where you can digitize your stuff or get a digit.

Oh, okay. Where you can digitize your stuff or get a digit. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, that's good. But I need you to have a physical storefront. Dan's Digitation. Digitize your digit. Walk in. You need the happy reception lady from Jake's thing.

Yeah. Where she can say okie dokie. Okie dokie artichokie. And then two on June 20th. Dan wants to be bought out and Dan wants to be hooked up. Bought out does seem like a sweet deal. Yeah, like you're paid a bunch of money to not do what you're doing. Yeah.

Yeah. Let's go. Okay, it seems like there's more production here. Time capsule go. I don't. Okay. It seems like there's more production here. Time capsule. Okay. Time capsule. I got a stinger for each one.

June 7th. Jake doesn't think the Mavs will be back in the finals in the next couple of years. I mean, that's just playing the chalk, right? It's very hard to do what they did. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was your point. Look at the Rangers.

Tell me about it. Although, Wyatt Lankford last night. Hold on. What did Wyatt Lankford do last night? It's incredible. What did Wyatt Lankford do? What Wyatt Lankford did. What did he do last night?

I'm so glad I saw this fact this morning, Blake, because I knew this was going to come up. All right. He couldn't have hit for the cycle. I would have heard about that. He threw a no-hitter. He's an outfielder. I know.

That's why it's such a note. No, are you super sure you would have heard about it if he hit for the cycle? He hit for the cycle? Yes. Oh, damn it. I should have just guessed that. First rookie to do it in Ranger history or something like that. Huh.

How's Seager's arm? They came back negative. X-rays were negative. Okay, nice. Thank you for asking. The same day, Jake says Paul Skeens will have Tommy John by 2026. Again. These are just things to monitor that you've said.

I think we're playing the chalk. And then another thing that Jake said that I really hope is true, June 20th, Jake thinks somebody will put us in their will. I could see somebody doing a bit like that. I really could. Now what do we get? I don't know, maybe headphones. 690 bucks.

Pool table? We take it. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's possible. Go do it now. A foosball table for our new cool place. Yeah, man. We're going to build our own little office.

With the Danettes. I actually like the idea of us stealing the Dan Patrick bit and calling ourselves the Danettes. Dan of the Danettes. I'm not even familiar with that. Dan Patrick calls his crew, yeah. The Danettes. That's no good. We're not...

I was going to say we're not stealing anything, but I'm not going to say that. Come on. We will absolutely steal. Jumpspins. Jesus Christ. Isn't that cool? It is cool.

504 total. 504. You hit a big one, which we'll get to here in a minute. But a couple of the new ones that have been added. Carl Everett. Well there

yeah I mean the main one is that he believes that human beings buried dinosaur bones to fool people into not believing in

religion. Like dinosaurs never existed. Yeah dinosaurs never existed. And correct who was the guy who went up

after JD? Like went into the stands after a game when the crowd was gone. Something like that, right? I don't think it was him, but I don't know. Okay. I can't remember. Stephen Collins? That's the seventh heaven dad.

Oh, yeah, okay. I just call him seventh Heaven dad. Oh, yeah, okay. I just call him Seventh Heaven dad. He has like a three-decade career as a pederast that came out after Seventh Heaven ended. But it was bad, and it had been going on for a very long time. Perhaps when he was the dad on the show of Christian Family where he was the pastor. He was also in Star Trek, the movie. Awesome. That's Dan Spin.

Nerd Spin. This is a funny one. Wayfair. Yeah, for like a weekend, this is kind of in like the QAnon. Somewhat QAnon, somewhat like Epstein,

which is somewhat related. For like a weekend, people thought that Wayfair was actually shipping children. The furniture company. And that they had like code names for which furniture sets would get you like which kid. And I got to be honest, there was about five minutes where I bought it. It's like a Friday night. I'm laying in bed.

I'm like, holy shit. When did this come out? Recently? It was a few years night. I'm laying in bed. I'm like, holy shit. When did this come out? Recently? It was a few years ago. Okay. Yeah. Back at the height of Q, probably. Just this company will ship you a kid.

Did you just know? So was the height of Q years ago? Wasn't now? Not now. Okay. No. But you just got to know some CFO or some analyst at their company like wakes up on Sunday morning.

He's like, let's check the financials, get my cup of coffee. What? What the – Why? I haven't heard about this. Well, because of this rumor. How? Yeah.

He's like, what do we do? And the Kemp Spin List had a very, very special moment this month. As you hit a milestone i'm sure you never thought you could reach no i never thought you could either honestly when i started this list i thought we'd get to like 60 they they all said couldn't do it yeah it couldn't be done right but you hit kim spin number 500 earlier this month and uh here it is this was uh live on the show he's certainly never been like a headline player. And also, I don't know

if this is risky because I don't know if we have the production ready. And it's probably already on the list. But also, Deadspin had a story back when he was in college that he had an abortion contract with his girlfriend. A contract? Explain that. Reddick has agreed that once lopez has terminated said pregnancy and has provided medical proof of said termination satisfactory to reddick included but not limited

to direct access to her medical files and records of the clinic uh that like basically he wanted her to get an abortion but he made her sign a contract that said you gotta get an abortion like you can't just tell me hey i'll do it like there was a contract presented like yeah and i believe pre sex no i wait post what do we have here in the annals of time, celebrities have done some pretty fucked up shit. Jake has taken it upon himself to catalog those dalliances and short-sighted events deep inside the recesses of his tiny ferret brain to never be forgotten and be accessible at the snap of a finger you have now witnessed kip spin number 500 what a moment kevin kt you got to be here for this hold on here comes the cake

wow Wow. Yeah. Let us never forget the abortion contract. Yeah. I really hope that one wasn't already on the list. Nope. Two is in there, huh? Thank you guys so much.

Yeah, so that was June 25th. Kim's been number 500. What a moment. I like that open too. F'd up S equals dalliances. Yeah, that's not really... It's kind of a normal... It happens to people.

So there we go. There's Kimspin number 500. Congrats. Let's go to notes from the show. June 3rd, Jake's flag football team lost their first game since the Trump administration. And that's just for you guys. Yeah, it has.

When you say it like that. Norm. Yeah, that's great. I didn't know how to. Yeah, no, the combination of coming off of our first loss and it being a Monday, the first back half of the year, I'm as locked in as I've ever been. The motivation has never been higher. Okay.

You guys are doing well now? I mean, this is kind of a little dead period here. You've got a holiday. Give you a couple weeks off, but I like the heat, so I like playing in the summer. June 3rd, Jake had a Volkswagen Passat seat warmer that burned his pants. That 100% happened. It 100% happened.

And that's why when you throw that thing in the mail that's like hey we got a recall which is bullshit anyways because when you take your car in for the recall have you ever done this yeah like i called once ford sent me something and i'm like hey i need it and this is no this is where they do it everywhere it has nothing to do with ford they're like well it's going to take at least two days. I'm like, oh, okay. So in this situation, are you provided a rental? And they were like, no. Yeah.

What am I supposed to do? Give me a Mustang. So in that case, I kept getting letters from Volkswagen. And I was like, whatever. Recall. And then my leg caught on fire. The same day, we learned that Jake will eat half of a sandwich diagonally. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it's not pre-cut. No. Like, if you cut it diagonally, then you eat that. That's okay. But just to eat your sandwich, it just seems weird. Yeah, he'll go from a corner to a corner, which was weird to me. I'm basically cutting it with my mandible. And then, yeah.

Gabe. Sandwich this. A small sandwich, too much. You'll get to the rest of it later. Yeah. It's not like an Eatsies big giant hoagie. No. It's a teeny little four bite.

Then you save it. Same day, Dan hates the lyrics to Lonely Boy. I forgot about that. It doesn't make any sense. It's illogical. It says in the summer of 53, he was born, and then it was like

the summer of 55, they get a sister, and he's really against it. It's like he's two. He has no idea. It's like if you presented little Brooks with a sibling right now,

as if Brooks would run away crying. Like, he doesn't know. He's an idiot. That takes about another year and a half. Oh, okay. It does happen eventually. Just the lyrics are not logical. June 4th, this was a day where Dan was mad at people at the gym.

And he gave us three reasons. One, a lady was walking down the stairs the wrong way. There's a... It's very clear. A handle in the middle, whatever, a thing, in the middle of the stairs. Hand rail. The hand rail, yeah.

And so it's... Yeah, so I start walking up the right side, but then here she is. And I'm like, okay, I got to kind of go back. Yeah. People weren't spaced out on the bikes. Right. There was three of them right against each other.

Interesting situation I saw on. They were spaced out by three, so I had to pick one to sit. You could have gone every two, and I'd have an easy place to sit. I'm not bike guy, but I went on Saturday, and there's one part of the Grapevine one where there's three bikes, and a guy sat on the middle one. And I'm like, oh, man, I thought about you. I'm like, what would I do if I wanted to get a little spin in here? It's a tough spot.

And then you didn't like the teenagers that will just loiter on the machines. God bless. Dude, it's bro workout summer. It's really because kids are home from college. It's the worst. They have nothing really because kids are home from college. It's the worst. They have nothing to do all day, and that's all they're doing is... Being more fit than you. Yeah, but on the one machine.

Like, I've only got one thing I'm going to do, and I've got to sit and wait a half hour to get on it. June 6th, Dan learns that people roll under on toilet paper because of cats. Yeah. That's after I corrected somebody at their house. You were on a mission. I thought I was helping. that people roll under on toilet paper because of cats. Yeah. That's after I corrected somebody at their house. You were on a mission. I thought I was helping.

That's such a power move. I'm a good guy. You go grab your apple out of the fridge. June 7th. Dan says Daniel is better to say at a Chinese restaurant because Dan can turn into a million other names. In fact, anywhere I order now. If you hear me order somewhere, I will order, and they'll be like, what's the name?

Daniel. It always works. There's no thing you can think my name is. I've never tried that because Jacob is pretty straightforward, but I get a lot of weird stuff with Jake. I've got jigs before. Use Daniel. Feel free.

Thanks, man. June 17th, we learned that Dan and Jake sleep in eye masks. Yeah. That's great. I haven't seen mine in a couple days, and I've definitely been able to tell. Is that common? I'm in the laundry. Are people sleeping in eye masks?

I like it. I don't know, dude. You need total darkness. I learned from LeBron. I need it. I got those pods that we got, those Bose sleep pods. I use those. Again, we're at the VFW. I know. They were in trenches.

I know. I need your little eye mask to sleep. And a little Calm app. I could have done World War II. Easy. Yeah. As long as I had a Calm app. And, you know, just the right amount of water.

Yeah, and I need a protein drink in the morning. And you need to sit down to pee. We are such pussies. June 17th, Chappie couldn't help himself but laugh at the boys dancing at their recital. Yep. Yep. That's going to become an annual

tradition for as long as... Yeah, don't take him to the gymnastics recital. No, I think do take him to the recital. June 20th, Dan's mom texted him to let him know that someone on MasterChef was from South Lake. Right? She followed it up with telling me that he lost. I love mom texts.

Spoiled it. June 24th, Mark Cuban made Jake use CyberDust to book him, which still baffles me. Didn't mind. He was trying to get it off the ground, and if I had a communication app and someone wanted to contact me, I'd be like, do it this way. Dust me.

Sure. Dust me. June 25th, Dan wishes he had a cooler last name for things like Tepperpalooza. Yeah, that one's perfect, though. Tepper? Yeah. There's just not much you can do to beat that.

Yeah, but no. But McDowell just can't. It's nothing. But I don Tepper? Yeah. There's just not much you can do to beat that. Yeah, but no. But McDowell just can't. It's nothing. But I don't think Kemp is either. Kempa Palooza, I guess that kind of works. I mean, Kemp Spin is cool. Yeah, that's true. You just can't do anything with my last name.

Actually, you're right. My name's awesome. June 27th. Jake forgot Chappie's birthday. God dang it. Which is weird because I saw it in my phone. Oh, you have it in your calendar? Oh, yeah.

Did you wish him a happy birthday? No, because I knew Jake would. Shut up. I would never miss my dad's birthday. Actually, I can't even say it. But you know what I used to do with my mom or my dad early in my radio career? I would call them on the air. And so we could have just called Chappie.

I know. Okay, because then they care more about that. Like, oh, my, I'm on the air. That's a bigger deal. And that would be my whole present. If it wasn't from the public radio station I worked at in college, one of their mugs. One Christmas, everybody got a WOUB mug. I hooked my dad up with a bunch of merch, and I

wasn't even able to call that a gift. I should have been able to back-time that. Right? I couldn't shirts and stuff. Yeah. That was in February. I think he would appreciate you saying that, too, because he is a frugal man. June 28th,

Dan got a new Mac, and I don't think you knew the problems that were headed your way. Look, they're very slight. You know there's going to be little bumps in the road. It happens. Everything's fine. But it did take up a lot of my weekend when I could have been. I mean, cancer could be cured by now.

Sure. Had I been focused on that this weekend. Sure. Time for my favorite. Change has a buddy. Time for my favorite. Jake has a buddy. Oh, my God. We've got a fat list this month. I will hustle through it.

Jake has a buddy who snuck out of Jake's house at a sleepover, and Jake didn't go because he was scared. Jake called him after they snuck out to tell him that their parents knew about it, and they had to come back, and they did because Jake was bored. It's a low point in my life. It's a low point in my life. I was scared. I was very, very scared of authority at that time,

even though his parents would not have really been that mad. But I was like, no, man, I don't know. What if we get caught? What if we get caught? Especially weird coming from the man with the points for sex list in the future. Yeah. Yeah. You know?

You weren't always this badass that we see in front of us. No, but really it was more like things that, stuff like that. It was like, oh, it's at school, you know, whatever. But sneaking out at night, man, I was terrified if my mom found out that that happened. I would have been in a world of trouble. World of trouble. So that's happened. I would have been in a world of trouble. World of trouble. So that's fine that I didn't go, but then the fact that I was like,

dude, your dad's up. Y'all got to get back here. Yeah, that's, yeah. Just an all-time low moment. Jake has a buddy who was a female who worked at Chuck E. Cheese and permitted him to buy pizza to take home. You hit that Chuck E. Cheese right there

by Grapevine Mills Mall, my man. Jake has a buddy who is Travis Heim who will respond to negative reviews on Yelp. Dude, how does that even count? We all know Travis. We were talking to... What other restaurant person were we talking to? Adam Romo.

No. Jay. Jay Jarrier. It doesn't matter. Whatever. John Schnatter. No, it was not Papa John. Jake has a buddy who sent him a video of Dave Portnoy leaving Game 4 with 8 minutes left. How do you want me to say it so that they don't end up on the...

Jake has a buddy who doesn't ski but stays in the house with him. Dave Portnoy. Jake has a buddy who doesn't ski but stays in the house with them. Dave Portnoy. Jake has a buddy who has a Sprinter van. I don't think they own it, but yes, they travel in it as a band. Jake has a buddy who was a local grapevine dad and he saw him sampling alcohol at noon at the grocery store. And Jake has a buddy who nailed a girl in the small room. All right. Roseanne's, we added one.

Who knew Roseanne? For a long time, the only Roseanne on the Roseanne's list was Travis Tritt. Yeah. But now you've added Marge Chott. Chott. Chott. Yeah. Look it up.

She's a Roseanne. So now we have two. Email me with your Roseannees, male or female. Just kind of looks like Roseanne-ish. Dan wanted to start this list, our ball sacks. Yeah. Dan bought the female Russell Westbrook. Deep fake.

It's so good. Look it up. I fell for Hawk to a Girl being a teacher and getting fired. And then the big one. Dan thought Tim McMahon was selling MacBooks on Twitter.

And it was one day after I had bought this, I was like, I gotta return it. I could have got one for $600. And I'd be helping out my buddy, Tim. And his new business idea where he sells MacBooks at an 80% off price. That one's awesome. And then finally, Dan's fights with his wife.

Okay. June 17th, how many times do you say hi a day? It's a good question. It's a good question. It was like her third time, and it was 10 a.m. Yeah. It's like, all right. Yeah.

I've lived here with you for 10 years, yeah. And then she hung up a Wonder Woman poster in the den without asking you. It was a gift. I got to say, though, Jake said something last week that I nodded and agreed. He's like, kind of like the Wonder Woman poster. Yeah, it does fit. Yeah. It feels good.

And maybe because I told that story, now it makes like it's a thing that you want. It's a destination now. You want to go see it. So I feel like I'm really happy with it being there. But it's only because of the cool story I told. Can't give her a single one. And it's either going to be hung there or in the trash. So that's good that you rescued it from the garbage.

Could have taken it to the studio. No, I'm saying she got it out of the trash. Oh, yeah. And had she forgot and she just gave it to me, it would be in my trash at some point and not right away. Like I'd have to keep it in the closet for a while. But, yeah, she just took it upon herself to hang it up. And it actually looks good there. I like it.

There's your June. Not totally. This is actually happening. Intern Rachel gave me a few things. Some NBR notes for Blake. Because if you notice in NBR, nobody ever mentions Blake. Yeah, nobody reviews his business. I got none. June 24th,

Blake thought the grid is messed up because of NFL cheerleaders. Yeah, because they're all flocking to Texas trying to make the Dallas Cowboys cheerleading squad, and then they're just squatting and taking our grid. Taking our grid? Yeah. Yeah. June 20th, Blake's favorite book is All the Light We Cannot See.

For now. Until Dan reads it and pooh-poohs all over it, then I'll change it to something else. I am going to read it. I'm not. You shouldn't. And June 17th, during Blake's guy's trip, he watched strictly military movies, and he loved the fan in the house so much that he and his buddy looked up the

model of the fan. That's weird. The airflow in there was immaculate. You couldn't walk into the room without noticing. Hey, am I the only one? Oh, you got to close? Hit it. That's a good close, right? Maybe we could use them both. Sure. Mr. Jones is in VR That's a good close, right? It's pretty close. Maybe we could use them both.

Sure. Okay. Y'all know this show is called The Dumb Zone, so... I gotta present something to you guys. Does everyone else flip their fans? Yes. Okay. No, I know you're supposed to, like in the winter... Well, because I would never use the fan in the winter, even if, you know, I just don't use it.

It'll, yeah, the airflow, yes. Push the heat down. Yeah. Yep. Yes. And in the summer, you're supposed to pull it out. Yes. Yep.

So the problem is the fan in the living room at the rent house, it's going the wrong direction, and there's no ladder there. Ah. So we just don't have a fan. I mean, it feels like it still probably affects the room in some positive way. It does not. Oh. It does absolutely nothing.

Oh. So I don't know. I got to borrow a ladder or something. I just learned about this a few days ago and I'm like, holy hell. That there's that little switch? Yeah, I can see it. Hey, Clay Thompson signed with the Mavs. Yeah. That's done, huh? Yeah.

So all the stuff we said earlier is... Well, it wasn't so much about him. We only spent a few minutes on that, but yeah, apparently it's a three for 50. 50. That's pretty cheap. Right? Yeah, it's pretty cheap. Right? Yeah, it is pretty cheap in the modern NBA. In today's NBA, yeah.

Yeah. I mean, it's like half of what Hardaway makes a year. So it's a multi-team sign and trade with Josh Green going to Charlotte. Just Josh Green? I mean, that's all that's been reported so far. Okay. Yeah. Now, it says three-year, $50 million deal with a player option.

I assume that player option is in year three, and it's not like a three plus one. My guess is that 37-year-old Klay Thompson will not be declining any options. Yeah. So he's probably just here, and I guess we'll figure out what they intend to do with him. And if he's so good that he options out, then that's great.

Yeah. All right. Well, we'll always remember that one Josh Green game in the finals. I just think it's really weird that people are just projecting Klay as their three. He's never played the three. I mean, even though two and three are whatever in the NBA, the difference between having Derrick Jones Jr. in P.J. Washington or Klay Thompson in P.J. Washington defensively,

I'd almost rather start Marshall and bring Klay off the bench. If you told me that he's going to be the sixth man, I think I would be in on that. And then close games depending on how the game is going. Occasionally play all three of them, but man, I feel like they've built this identity as badass. And now it's... Maybe he's still got something left in the tank. At one point, he

was a dog on defense. I don't know if that's here anymore. But he is. You technically did upgrade Tim Hardaway Jr. Yeah if that's here anymore. Well, I guess you... But he is. You technically did upgrade Tim Hardaway Jr. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I mean, you get him some wide-open looks, and Klay Thompson's still going to nail those, right?

I would think so. He still shot it pretty well last year, but... And, you know, he gets to play with Luka. Nobody suffers from that. Hey, everybody. It's time to answer some of today's viewer mail. Wow. A bunch of birthdays today.

Dumb fan number 709 here, leaders of the roast twins, and off-mic laughs from intern and camera guy. I'm in the Army Reserve, and I had my annual training in Poland for a few weeks this year. I listened to you while driving in Poland. More baseball, Blake. Adam in Fort Worth. We've got some baseball, Blake, today, right? That cycle.

Amazing. Incredible. First rookie to ever do that. Ranger's history. Incredible. First rookie to ever do that. Ranger's history. Oh. My hot wife, Brittany, happy 39th birthday. I would normally use an obscure WNBA player's number, but I don't want to upset my college house Eskimo brother, Jake.

College House Eskimo brother Jake. Brittany's leaders are 421 Lindsay Deck Parties and Homemade Memorials to Local Explosions from Danny Jeans. Oh, yeah. My guy. 421. Uncle Hotmail, my daughter Eleanor Early is eight. Eleanor. That's not a hot name.

I meant to say that's a cool name, but it is kind of actually when she turns older. No, I never really thought of that. It's like, I guess it reminds me of the word elegant. It's a cool name like Nora, though. Like it feels like an old-timey name that's coming back. I like it. You get the alliteration, Eleanor Early. I think you name that's coming back. I like it. You get the alliteration. Eleanor Early.

I think you got out of that hole. I don't. That you started digging. Her leader is Chappy. Oh, nice. From Russ Early. Oh, my gosh. This is a long one.

I didn't read this through. T.O. Hotmail. Don't read a long one. I didn't read this through. T.O. Hotmail. Don't read all of it. I won't. Wish my son Towns Harris Shelton a happy Danny White minus Raphael Septian birthday. What was the name again? Towns Harris Shelton. That guy will play country music at one point in his life.

Towns Shelton. Or Americana or something along those lines. Leader is Me Too'd Doug Townsend. He's immune. Dan Salmon Burps in Jake's Lincoln Frederick

Douglas debate. It's on display out here. But yeah, they made a sign for us. It's on display out here. They put it up. But yeah, they made a sign for us. It'll be in the studio. More hot-sounding intern lady. Speaking of me too. More overly served 690 host commentary

and more Blake. As long as he promises to delete his portions of the show so we don't have to hear them. I like that. Yeah, nice little setup delivery. This is from Jeff Tiny Fist of Fury Shelton. Your son's name sucks. Happy birthday to good dude Nate Wallace.

Arsenal, Point Break, and Three Ninjas are his leaders. Oh, Three Ninjas. I'd like to know when Jake will stop being a little bedtime bitch and come play basketball in Denton. Dan and Blake are also welcome from former intern Clifton. It's probably not happening, Cliffy. I appreciate that every time I see you, you ask me about it, though, for five years now.

Let's see. Sean Thomas. Shout out to Sean Thomas. He is nearing Cam Lowe's 2013 Chicago Cubs number. Good God. Cam Lowe had a snake, right? Was he the one

who had a snake? That sounds familiar. So Sean Thomas. This is from Mike Wilson's Chris Connor. Yeah, he did. Wow. Hey, that doesn't go on the list, I don't think, but solid recall.

It absolutely does. Today is my Super Bowl Eli versus Brady birthday. The first one that Eli won. I just... I can't. He's 42. Leaders are Church Blake,

Dan's quick-witted humor. Oh, how about that, Blake? What? He says, for example, comparing Ariel Castro's situation to zoo animals. What does that mean? As best I can tell, they were both held in captivity.

Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper. You didn't have to read it. Oh, I know what he's talking about. I didn't read these ahead of time. You didn't have to read it. Oh, I know what he's talking about. I didn't read these ahead of time. We got in a discussion about,

I didn't think it was that bad that we keep animals in zoos because they're all taken care of and stuff. Oh, okay. And then you said, yeah, I'm sure the aerial castro was telling. Yeah. They didn't have freedom. They fed them and stuff. Right. Barely.

That's from Dustin Rowland. Rowland, probably. Right. Barely. That's from Dustin Rowland. Rowland, probably. Yep. And, uh, this guy says he sent a Venmo.

Prove it. Um, I am William Genovese. Genovese. My two brothers and I are

subscribers. Connor and Derek. I'm day 25. Anyway, please wish Derek a happy Troy Aikman times LaDainian Tomlinson TCU minus Jason Kidd, Mads rookie year, plus Eric Montross birthday. Out of control. He said, that's 35 for you, Dan, after the frustrated sigh I could hear from Jake already.

Say Kevin Durant. That's no fun. Neither was that. Good point. He says, more gay book reviews from effeminate voice Blake. We can do that. Then he says, PS Jake, can you unblock me on Twitter?

I'm at gopokesdzdf. I don't know what I did to get blocked, but it was probably some form of sarcasm. And I caught you while you were on the rag. He's not really helping his case. No, he's not. No, but I made a promise. Okay.

So go pokes, DZDF, DZDF, right? Yeah, I don't know. Look him up. It's not coming. It's fine. I'm going to unblock you, but also fuck you. Whoa. All right.

Let's do some news. All right. Here's do some news. All right. Here's Jay. Whoa. What's up? With the Dumb Zone News. Probably my fault. Here's a follow-up.

We talked last week about the Royce City Dance Studio. This is how we got to talking about my dad. Yeah. They had a dance that had their trailer stolen with all their props and all their sets. And they were about to compete in some big national competition. This is a dance and arts connection. A nat comp? A natty compy.

They recently received some good news. This story is actually kind of old, but I just saw it and wanted to follow up with you because there's an interesting note. A couple weeks ago, they got the trailer back. Now, here's where I got some questions. The son of the owner of a business next door found the stolen trailer. In like... Like two hours away. Weatherford.

Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Yeah. He said he called and something like that. Yeah. Yeah. He said he called and was like, you're never going to believe what I found. Yeah. Yeah, did you say where? On the shoulder of the highway.

On the shoulder of the highway, yeah, like an hour and a half, two hours away. Just so happened to be driving by. I was driving back. So I don't know. I mean. Yeah, you should have told someone else about that, dude. Just thought that was an interesting...

There's no way they'd buy that, right? Well, I mean, they have it on video, the initial heist. So you'd have to figure that he would have used a different car than the one that is in the video, as opposed to the one he owns. So I don't know. It just seemed really weird to me. I mean, maybe coincidence happened So I don't know. It just seemed really weird to me. Maybe coincidence happened, but you know.

Are you guys aware that there was a big SEC celebration over the weekend at UT? I heard something about that. You see this? You hear about this, Kev? Yeah, I think I saw something on Twitter about it. They were celebrating that they're going to the

SEC, and to do so, when you move conferences and you've got a situation that big, you've got to call in Mr. Worldwide, Pitbull. So Pitbull's there. And the money they throw around, man. Because what's it cost to get him there? Million? I don't know if it's that much, but it's a lot. I mean, he's kind of

on the tail end of things. Yeah. But still, I mean, they put on this huge party for what? We all know you're going to the SEC. Like, do you think

it would Grady Spencer cost less? Yeah, considering he's opening the Hearst Fireworks Festival on Wednesday night, which I'm very excited about, I think they could have got him for less.

However, and maybe that would have been a good idea because as great as Grady's music is, I don't think there would have been a crowd stampede that killed one person. Whoa. That's what happened, huh? Yeah.

Yeah. Well, I think in Austin, you're allowed to drive into crowds and kill people, right? No, that didn't happen in Austin. That wasn't Austin? Wait, oh, you're talking about the... The guy that ended up, I think Abbott pardoned him or something? That guy shot a protester. Oh, I thought he drove into a Black Lives Matter crowd.

That was in Charlottesville. Not a protester. Oh, I thought he drove into a Black Lives Matter crowd. That was in Charlottesville. In Austin, it was a Black Lives Matter rally, and a guy who was armed was messing with a guy's car who was trying to get through, and the guy in the car shot the protester. I think I should get some points for kind of knowing some of these stories.

Yeah. The committee does not agree. Yeah. I think it said six injuries and one death. Now, Dan, you're not, I don't know if you ever really were. I don't think you qualify for this either, Blake. But but huge concert guy and definitely not festival guy. I don't like going to concerts. I don't love it anymore

unless it's the right situation. the thing... Like seeing Grady Spencer in VIP tent. Yeah, exactly. You gotta have a mobile IV set up for me, combat-y hangover. Helicopter, in and out. Going to go see Jorts and Sam the other night, small club like that.

I still like that. I'm probably out on the festival game. It's just – and here's part of the reason why. Are you sad about this? You're all sad when I start going to bed early and eating right. Yeah, but those were things that I had in common with you. Oh, okay.

I don't care about that, music festivals. Because this is a big difference from early Jake. Dude, I'll go to... It was every year. I'll be at this festival until I'm 80. No, I got disappointed when he bailed on media pickup basketball last Thursday. Because it affected you.

That bothered me as well. I would never have done that. There's a time, here's what's funny. There was a time when we showed up at Hangout one year and me and my friends from my childhood and then Machine and KJ and TC, we're all pretty much the same age. And there one year we went the last year we went where we were like man we're too old now we just the bands they're aging us out of the bands all the girls look like kids you know it

just doesn't feel right and soroyan corby were, let's book next year now! There are some guys that will never age out. And it's amazing. They were so excited. I'm like, dude, I gotta go home and hug my family and take a bath. Yeah. He's what, 65 or something? Probably close, yeah.

And he's drinking as if he was 18. And then he's fine. Yeah. Well, he's got a helicopter in and a. And then he's fine. Yeah. But then I've experienced... Well, he's got a helicopter in and a mobile IV. He definitely has the IV. Yeah, they've got that IV number on speed dial. They probably just have their own guy.

Or female. I've been in some situations, especially at festivals, where it's at night and you work your way to the front. This is before the days of VIP. and it's at night and you worked your way to the front. This is before the days of VIP. And it starts probably on a little something making you nervous and it starts to feel like I'm going to die up here. Like I couldn't get out of here if I wanted to.

And I got a little claustrophobia anyways and then the crowd just keeps pushing and pushing and pushing. Like that one in Houston, right? Yeah, Astroworld. People died. Yeah. But weren't you 19 in mosh pits? Yeah, mosh pits aren't really like that.

Mosh pits you might get punched in the mouth, but you have space. You're running around punching. That seems insane to me. Why? You're just in a fight with a crowd. Yeah, everyone is into it. That's never made sense to me. It was pretty exhilarating.

You just run around in a circle and kick and punch. People jump in and push each other. See, this is why there should be marriage contracts. You're not that person. You're nowhere near that person, I think. No.

No. And so sometimes you get married at 18 or 20. I might get a nap in this afternoon if I can. Yeah, my gosh. If I could work in a few minutes. Yeah. I mean, not crazy. 10-minute nap.

Yeah. Just a little power nap. It really, the way you feel after is, I feel like $100. I found out this weekend in researching sleep that... What? See, that's another thing. I'm sitting here researching.

That Nate... Somebody here could probably refute this, but like that Navy SEALs, well, they have like an eight-minute nap thing, and that the quickest way to fall asleep is basically, imagine like laying on your back on the ground and then putting your legs up at a 90-degree angle like on a bed. So basically you're laying on your back, bring your knees to your chest, and have something that your legs are supported for right there.

And the circulation created by that makes you fall asleep faster. Really? And that's how they train them to take like extremely small naps that can give them what they need. Wow. So try it. Let's see here. This is an interesting one.

Everything seems like it's being built at Grandscape in the colony. You're aware of this? What do you mean? It just seems like the Tiger Woods golf thing just got built there, right? Which I would love to go try if you guys want. For sure. It seems pretty awesome.

I have friends that went and... You know, when I moved here, it was all a field. Yep. Yep. I don't know. There's just a ton of stuff out there. They got a Portillo's now. That's where the Portillo's is.

I don't know what that is. It's like the famous beef and hot dog place. It's kind of like literally not just because we were just talking about this. It's kind of like what they would serve on the bear. Okay. It's the first place TC has taken me that I've gone every time I've gone to Chicago. Okay.

It's legendary. And then they built one down here and they built it there. And now they are building. They have beyond? I don't think they have beyond wet beef, beyond Italian beef. Impossible. Yeah. So there's a new place opening up there.

It's called World Springs. It is the largest experience of its kind in the country, and it is basically a 12-pool spa for soaking. Is that legal? Not the BYU soaking. No. Oh. No, it's not where you lay on top of someone, and then your friend bounces the bed, so you're not actually having sex.

But they have a replica of the thing I did in Iceland, the Blue Lagoon, where there's like silica in the water. It's like things to refresh you. Okay. And most of the world does this. You've heard about like the bathhouse type and saunas and whether it's in Eastern Europe or in Russia or in Asia.

For whatever reason, it just doesn't really play here. It doesn't seem like. Is this an outdoor thing? Oh, yeah. It almost looks like a theme park, but there will be different temperatures. They do have a kids area, and they got food and drink, but... So what's the Tiger Woods thing?

It's like... It's not just putt-putt or mini-golf, right? I mean, I think they have mock-ups of courses. Putt, putt, or mini golf, right? I mean, I think they have mock-ups of courses. I heard somewhere in Fort Worth, or at least this is a couple years ago, that they were making a nine-hole par three that you play at night. Like neon? No, it's just like lit.

Okay. Like it's got stadium lighting. Okay, I thought we were talking about like cosmic golf. Would you be into that? Night golf? Nine hole par three? I don't think so. Oh.

Like a par three, that'd be great. Nine is fine. It is just putting, but it's challenging putting. Yeah, there's like a bunker three, that'd be great. Nine is fine. It is just putting, but it's challenging putting. Yeah, there's like a bunker in the middle of it. Yeah. So it's an 18-hole course, but it's not putt-putt. It looks like this.

Okay. And they've got food and drink and whatnot. I still want you to the pool thing. I still want you. I want both of you to go together. Hell, all three of us could go together. I want you guys, I want us to take a show trip to one of those like King Spa or Day Spa,

the places I've told you about before. For what? I want you guys to experience it. They've got like 20 rooms that are all at different temperatures and have different lights. Sounds like it'd be dirty. I tell you what, it probably is. When I walked in, because it's gender separated in the pool, like in one of the pool areas, like the hot tub area where they have probably three rows of six hot tubs.

And all you really have on is like a mesh cloth. Like mesh whitey tighties but they're mesh. And I walked out of the locker room and I swear to God, dude. Every one of those pools had four to five dudes in them. And some of them,

they were like splashing each other. I was like, oh, it really is gay. It really is. So there's a hot tub and is there like an ugly tub? All right, there's your noose. Do I have to take my shirt off? No one liked that.

No one liked the ugly tub. That guy loved it. You do have to take your shirt off. And jacket. Do you want to bring Mike Patterson over here for this final part? I would love that.

He's the guy that booked us out here. Hey, round of applause. We introduced Jake today. We introduced Blake. Mike Patterson gets a huge round of applause, though. That's how...

We wouldn't be here without him. I drink here a lot. That's why. Look at this. You got a seat and everything. Here, Mr. Patterson, of applause, though. That's how we wouldn't be here without him. I drink here a lot. That's why. Look at this. You got a seat and everything. Here, Mr. Patterson, your seat, sir. What's up, boys? Hey, thanks for having us.

Yeah, it's cool, right? Yeah, very cool. This is cool. I was just going to come to your house, Dan, and then we kind of started kicking it around here, and more people wanted to go, and we were like, why don't we just do it here? It's like a mile from everyone.

Yeah. So here we are. If it was the Wiley do it here? It's like a mile from everyone. Yeah. So here we are. If it was the Wiley DFW, I would not, or VFW. Come on. I would not be so on board. But we could do the show here

every day. Yeah. I'd be fine with it. Yeah. It's a good crowd. Fetish. Jake could smoke. Yeah.

Speaking of. Yeah, you can smoke. And you know what they say. This is for all the haters. If you smoke, you poke. I hate the Jewel song. Yeah, and I smoke. And you know what they say. This is for all the haters. If you smoke, you poke. I hate the Juuls song. Yeah, and I do. Again.

I do. I poke. We're at the VFW where they probably smoke real cigarettes, not your cute little vape. Little teeny girl stick. Yeah. So it's Monday, July 1st, the first day of the rest of your life, Mike Patterson. You can change everything today. He looks pretty comfortable with who he is though. And like the three of us who were like, ah, God, no purpose. What am I doing here? You feel good in your own

skin. You're not about to start a diet today. Boy, I would try every day and I fail every day. It's okay. I'm married to an Italian. What are you going to do? I don't even know what that means. and I fail every day. It's okay. I'm married to an Italian. What are you going to do? I don't even know what that means. Yeah, you do.

Okay. Today is Monday, July 1st. On this day in 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act took effect. This used to be called Dominion Day. It's now known as Canada Day.

What a give up. So is it like their Independence Day? I thought that was Boxing Day. I don't even understand what the deal with Canada and England is. No, why do they have like the queen kind of?

Yeah. And like we have to defend them completely? Like, if somebody wanted to invade Canada, what's happening? They're definitely calling us for help. You're like, ugh. We'll go.

But are they a good buffer for us? Like, if you've got to invade us, you've got to get through them first. And that'll take a while. It's all a lot of land. Where are you coming from? The North Pole? Yeah, that's a good point. I had a bad point there.

On this day in 1903, the first Tour de France began. I bet a bunch of people got hurt. Yeah, probably. I almost don't like watching that. I hope they did. Even just in clips. Was that the giant wheel bicycle with the big front wheel? There you go.

Twitter fronts on that. So on this day in 1984, it was the first ever PG-13 movie. Because before they just had PG&R? Or what? Yeah. That's right. Wow. Red Dawn, and we've seen that at the Alamo.

Starring Patrick Swayze. Great movie. It's just weird that they had like a rating that... The rating system was, listen, if you have a 7-year-old, might not be okay. And then they went all the way to 17. Right. I didn't think there was anything developmentally between 7 and 17

you might want to look out for. On this day in 2018, LeBron James announced he would sign with the LA Lakers, leaving Cleveland for the second time in his career. God, it's been that long? I only left Cleveland once. Yeah.

Got here as fast as you could. And on this day in 2019, Jake, at a Southlake Hotel, 27-year-old Tyler Skaggs was found not alive in his room. The medical examiner found he had a toxic mix of alcohol and fentanyl and oxycodone. Yeah, and they arrested the guys that sold it to them. Just like with Mac Miller. And who got...

Their PR guy got nailed for that? Yeah, he was someone in communications, I believe. Yeah. In today's birthdays, former Ranger Nelson Cruz is 44. He's now retired. And he retired a Mariner? Yeah.

I think so. I mean, if you've played for Scott Service, you feel like you're going to be with him for life. When Nelson Cruz retired, he was fourth. Excuse me. He was fourth, excuse me, he was fifth in the major leagues in all-time hits. So current player with the most hits, he had just over 2,000 career hits. So there are four guys

who have more hits than Nelson Cruz. Don't play the... I knew it. We're doing a little war games here. So four current players with more hits than Nelson Cruz. That's right. I'm going to go with

Andrew McCutcheon. That's number four. Okay. That's pretty good, isn't it? Yeah, because I think we talked about this a few months ago. McCutcheon. It's number four. Okay. Pretty good, isn't it? Yeah, because I think we talked about this a few months ago. I forgot he decided to keep playing. Can I go with Paul Goldschmidt?

Ooh, he's number five. Damn it. Great guess. Trout? That's not a good guess at all. Well, he's 12, so I guess it's a pretty good guess. Trout has 1,648 hits. Jonah hung. All right, now we're doing this.

In inverse order, I'll give you Joey Votto. Yeah. So it's McCutcheon, Votto. Jose Altuve. What? I would not have thought that. I wouldn't have either. And Freddie Freeman.

Wow. Okay. Is the current major leaguer with the most hits. How many years has he played? 15-year career. Damn. Freddie Freeman. I would just like to say that was a good bit.

He was in the big leagues at 19. Jake hates it. I love it. Thanks, Blake. And Nelson Cruz, third in war games today, but it was two guys who were born in the 1800s are ahead of him. So does that really count? No.

Elsewhere, Nancy Lieberman is 66. Because the replacement player in the 1800s was a cow. Drop. Garrettman is 66. Because the replacement player in the 1800s was a cow. Is that a drop? Garrett Gilbert is 33. It is now. Garrett Gilbert. Man, that was a tough scene. Had to come in for Colt.

Things kind of went downhill from there. Number one player in the country. Cowboy. He wasn't briefly a cowboy, wasn't he? He started against the Steelers. Boy, I don't remember that. Gary Brown is 55. Former

cowboy running back coach. Oh, yeah. Patrick McEnroe is 58. That's got to suck. They say one of the greatest doubles tennis players ever because I think he holds the record for most Grand Slam wins

in doubles tennis. His partner was Patrick, or excuse me, was John McIntyre. Brian George is 72. He's an actor. He was Pakistani restaurateur Babu Bhatt in Seinfeld. Okay. You ever watch Seinfeld?

No. Don't try. And if you do, skip the first season. You think he'll rip it? It's no King of Queens? We already know that. Singer Victor Willis is 73. He's from the Village People.

Which one? He was the lead singer and the cop. Oh, Jake. Yeah. I like his look. No, you were the gay biker. Oh. Yeah, but it's still leather involved.

I feel like it's closer than native. Dan Aykroyd is 72. Greatness. The greatest of greatness. He was in the We Are the World chorus singers. The only non-singer, I believe. Although he is a singer. With the Blues Brothers.

Yeah. Pamela Anderson is 57. A lot of socks lost in that war. Anderson is 57. A lot of socks lost in that war. Missy Elliott is 53. I'm a fan. David Duke is 74.

I'm not a fan. I was going to see if you kept saying that. Just roll right into it. The KKK leader. Yeah. And Alan Ruck is 68. What was he in? You might know him from Speed.

You might know him even better from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, or you really might know him. Oh, okay. He's con. From Succession. Yeah, he was Cameron in Ferris Bueller. Born on this day, now dead. He's also in, did you ever watch Spin City? No, surprisingly, because it always looked really good.

Yeah, I was just thinking about it. Michael J. Fox? Yeah, the radio head brought Michael J. Fox out on stage. Before he started laughing, he can play guitar sitting down. And it was really cool. Did you ever see the... I can't remember who was saying it that Michael J Fox like a couple days before he's to host a what

is it muscular dystrophy mm-hmm before a fundraiser he will stop taking his meds show you what it looks like and he will, and then he raises a lot more money, because I think the first time he had a fundraiser, he was just up there like, hey. Yeah. Yeah, I've got muscular dystrophy, but apparently it's somewhat controllable. I don't think that's shady.

I think it's showing what this can do to you. But even on his meds, I think he still has some issues. But yeah. Tom York, I think, said that this band would not exist without Back to the Future. So they brought him up there. That's what made me think about Spin City. It was just one of those shows I'm like, am I getting to watch an adult show?

Did he expand on how Back to the Future? I didn't read the whole quote. I think it's just the idea of futuristic shit is like Radiohead's kind of whole bit. It was cool. Cool to see him up there. That's my whole story. Spin City.

I like it. Thank you. Born on this day, now dead, David Prowse. Hit me. He was in Star Wars. He was Darth Vader, the body. And he was in Clockwork Orange as well. Out, out.

You seen either of those? Nuh-uh. Nuh-uh. You've never seen Star Wars? No. I think I've seen bits and clips on TNT or something, but I'm okay. Thank you, though. It's like my daughter.

I was asking her if she's seen The Godfather because she's really into film. Like she's going to school for filmmaking and slash radio TV production. So who knows? And she said she's seen The Godfather just clips on YouTube. How do you consume The Godfather on TikTok? She's like, I get it. I get it. And Princess Di.

She was born on this day. She's not alive anymore, though. Nope. Died on this day, still dead. We have Tyler Skaggs. Yep. And speaking of the Godfather, this is why I was talking to her about it. Marlon Brando.

He died on this day in 2004. You probably know him best as Superman's dad in the original movie Superman, but he was also the godfather, Vito Corleone. And I am real stoked on the godfather right now. You're watching the Making Of thing?

What's it called? Now I forgot. It's on Paramount Plus. Not Jeremy Renner. The guy... Miles Teller, right? Yes, the main actor... Yeah, the offer.

The offer. The offer. The main actor looks like the guy in The Bear. Kind of. He's got like a smushy face. Yeah, but the guy in The Bear is uncomfortably hot. Yeah, but just their face. Yeah.

Like it looks like someone hit him with a frying pan. Are you subscribing to my theory right now? What's that? That there's only a few types of faces. Well, certainly that's one of them, Smush Face. Yeah. You got Bee Sting Face. Mm-hmm.

Slash Cry Face. Yeah. Anyways. I don't know. You got like a pointy face. Slash cry face. Yeah. Anyways. I don't know. You got like a pointy face. Like a ferret. Horse face. Sarah Jessica Parker. Rat face. Kind of like a little... I got the ferret cornered.

Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, Princess Di died. And the author is really good. But it makes me want to watch The Godfather. Watch it on YouTube. Two minutes at a time. Anyway, now we're here with Mike Patterson,

who has himself a, it looks like a self-made dumb zone shirt. Actually, you can thank Raymond. He's from the 4th of July special. I'm glad you brought that up because I'm kind of going to spin into how my main gift to you guys

ended up being shirts that you'll never have, but Raymond sold a bunch of them, and so I guess they sold. He said they sold. I just sent him up with an email

and I said... We'll get a slice of that. Yeah, so I hope they made you a lot of money. Raymond from eSix... Yeah. What is it? eSix Sportswear? DumbZoneMerch.com. Yeah, so I hope they made you a lot of money. Raymond from e6sportswear.com

Dumbs on merch. Man, it's hard at the top, isn't it? There's so many things to promote. It's a funny thing, though, because I just shot out an email. I was like, hey, man, we're going to have him out. I was thinking about making some shirts. I thought you just might print them. Here's what I was thinking. He was like,

I love this. Can we just run with this design? And we're like, oh, yeah, do whatever you want. So wait, you came up with the 4th of July shirts that he's selling right now. Yeah, yeah. I think the sale's over because we've already passed the threshold of no return. So go buy your shirt that you can't buy anymore. Maybe it'll be on Poshmark for $150.

You never know. Okay. But that started so there's your main gift, right? Yeah. A gift to... A royalty check. And yeah, you made signs. Yeah. These are awesome. Do we get to keep the signs? Those are yours, yeah.

And he just kind of threw that in as a... I was like, think about doing a poster. He's like, definitely do a poster here. Because I would like to sign... Here they are. Hang those up in our studio. Absolutely. And he has the file of that if you want to make it smaller.

Are we supposed to... You can. Yeah, open it. Is this the sign or... That's both. There's two. There's one of each of you. And if you want to open it, I don't know if you saw it earlier.

There's an Uncle Hotmail. I saw it hanging here. Okay. There's two. There's one of each of you. And if you want to open it, I don't know if you saw it earlier, there's an Uncle Hotmail. I saw it hanging here. Okay. It's an Uncle Hotmail, Uncle Sam. So this is in a nice carry case. I don't want to have to open it. Yeah, you don't have to, for sure. And then there's an Abraham Lincoln Jake where he's going to debate Frederick Douglass.

Because why wouldn't he? And then I felt bad. I mean, they were friends. They were best of friends. Why not debate each other to the death, you know? And I do debate Jake a lot. I didn't want to show up empty-handed since those were kind of your main gifts. So I did add a little something that I brought just for today.

So that's for you, Dan. Okay. You go ahead. You can open it. You can read it and open it or however you want to do it. I know the financial strain of becoming a small business owner. You're a fellow small business guy? I don't know. I do some stuff.

That sounds incredibly vague. Can't imagine these substantial legal fees that you've incurred throughout your journey to independence. I hope this gift provides some much needed financial release from Mike Patterson and friends. He gave us a coupon

for 10% off lunch or dinner with purchase of a drink at Chan's Mongolian Grill. Don't spend it all in one place. I will attempt to use this at Chan's and see their confused look. It's an item so rare you can only get it directly on their website. I'll be like, what? I got, yeah. I bought a drink. Yeah.

You know. Hey, Diet Soda. Jake, I got you one too. Okay. Thank you. So we got here. You know, I've always been such a big fan of

Since you're such a huge fan. television show, Frasier. Everyone knows season five is by far the best season. Oh, it's just season five. Don't just watch it all in one sitting. You might want to split it up. Do you have commentary on that, boy?

Surprisingly, readily available at your nearest movie trading co. Who could say why? And then on top of those, I think the VFW does have something they want to give. What? The VFW? Just hey, thank you guys for coming. This is a cool place.

I started coming here. I'm just kind of a local music guy. And we would come here after shows just to hang out and drink $1.50 Ziegenbox. Now, are you a man who has served? No, I'm not at all. I was not a veteran by any means. And we just came here because the beer was cheap. And then we kind of started meeting the people.

And this place has a ton of heart. Thank you, sir. And there's a lot of really good people. And they do a kind of started meeting the people. And this place has a ton of heart. Oh, thank you, sir. And there's a lot of really good people, and they do a lot of good for the community. Thanks. Oh, I thought you were just going in for the... Thank you, man. Okay. Okay, so there's a ritual here.

Got it. Appreciate you. Oh, cool. I feel like a real man. You're a good man. Wow. How about that? Thanks for being here. Yeah, so thank you guys for being here. Thank you for having us. And a good man. Wow. How about that? Thanks for being here.

Yeah, so thank you guys for being here. Thank you for having us. Yeah, you live around here? I actually live in Arlington, but we just play Grapevine so much, and this is kind of

home base for us, so I'm running up and down Main Street a lot. What do you play? I have a band called Ashmore that we've had for like 20 years. We used to write music and tour and stuff,

and then we decided we wanted to be home at night. So now we just kind of play like Tolbert's down the street. We'll just do cover stuff and just kind of tour regionally. Yeah. Okay. So it's a... What's your opinion of the Sprinter van?

You know what? I have the big trailer truck set up, and I wish every day I had a Sprinter van because I could park in a normal spot, and you can just less. Everything about it is less. What do you think about a Sprinter van for four dudes park in a normal spot and you can just less. Everything about it is less. What do you think about a Sprinter van for four dudes for 22 hours each way?

Never going to happen. Mark it right now. It will never happen. Five dudes possibly. Dan will be on a plane. Oh, I fell. I can't. There will be something. It has to be. Hey, you know what? I think that would be a good bit. Wait, wait, wait.

Wait, wait, wait. wait, wait, wait. Hear me out. So we already know you're flying home. I'm not flying home. I'm flying on a vacation that we already had booked before we knew about camp. But I'm saying, what if I fly out, and then I hear all your fun stories, and I'm the guy you get to tell the stories to, and I'm the audience? We have an audience.

I'll be like, hey, don't watch this show. I'm going to present it to you so that you can ask questions as if I'm the audience. What did you do? What? What did you do? I feel like Mike Patterson just had a great idea here. PJ, all the way, PJ.

Oh, look, I accidentally fell in this private jet. I'll see you there. And the best thing of all is we could have the business pay for me to fly out there. Absolutely not. And so it's first class. Absolutely not. I mean, you want me as fresh as possible. Absolutely not.

Then I'm all ready for you when you get there and like the stuff. And have your nice 10% off meal at chance. Go to the airport just fueled and ready. With purchase of drink. Yeah. Well, thanks, man. This has been awesome. Thanks, guys. Thank you fueled and ready. With purchase of drink. Yeah. Well, thanks, man. This has been awesome. Thanks, guys.

Thank you guys for coming out. We appreciate it. Yeah. You don't have to do that. Adios, mofo. You're talking about drugs. You're talking about drugs and sports, blah, blah, blah. This is purity, baby.

Stop playing that fucking drop, baby, baby. Stop playing that fucking drop. Baby, baby. Stop playing that fuck. Baby. Baby. Baby. Fuck. Swag.

Baby. Baby. Swag. Swag. B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? Swag! B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? Swag! B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? Stop playing that fucking joke!

B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? Fuck! This is a foul! You! B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? B-b-b-baby? Just a little puke! Stop playing that fucking drum!