The Dumb Zone FREE - The Dumb Zone 7-11-24

Episode Date: July 11, 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 dive deep into a variety of topics, starting with Dan's critique of Papa John's pizza (?) and a hilarious recount of Free Slurpee Day at 7-Eleven. The trio also discusses the peculiarities of remote podcasting locations and the logistics of running a podcast from a new spot in Waxahachie. They also touch on the hilarious prank idea involving a private jet and the dynamics of playground friendships. The conversation meanders through various subjects, including the latest in sports with a focus on the Dallas Mavericks' new addition, Klay Thompson, and the complexities of NBA contracts. They wrap up with a deep dive into Mike Gundy's controversial comments and a light-hearted discussion about the upcoming Olympics in Paris. Tune in for a mix of humor, insights, and the unique charm that makes The Dumb Zone a must-listen. (00:00) - Open (29:36) - Sports: Klay introductory press conference, Mike Gundy (01:05:35) - Viewer Mail (01:23:02) - Hard Knocks Lite, Olympics Update (01:36:31) - News (01:51:06) - Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Oh my, what a bargain. Now, on to today's program. I've had over 40 pizzas in the last 30 days, and it's not the same pizza. It's not the same product. It just doesn't taste as good. The way they're making the pizza, the way they're putting the pizza together is just not fundamentally sound to what makes a Papa John's pizza a Papa John's pizza. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right.

I never listen. John Schnatter. Is that right? Is that how you say his name? That is right. The Papa. It's a big day for him. Find out later why.

Okay. A little tease. Time spent listening. You will excel if we get that. TSL leads to itself. So today is a happy Thursday. Happy post-business Wednesday to you and yours. It's Thursday, July 11th. Do it.

Free Slurpee Day. Fantastic, yeah. I forgot. I believe they changed it up a little bit. I looked this morning. You get an extra small? No, well, yeah. They always give you the little cup.

No girls, just one little cup. And I think this year it is you get a coupon for another Slurpee later in the month. What? I'm not sure. You can't just walk in and get a Slurpee and walk out? That's the way it was in the past. But times are a changing.

I can't stand that. They do that with pizza now. What do you mean? They offer you a free pizza? Next week. Right. They know. Well, I a free pizza? Next week. Right. They know. Well, I don't want one next week.

I already feel bad enough about this one. I want two now. Yeah. My wife is out of town now. Yeah. She may not be out of town next week. Anyway, I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jake Kim.

I'm Blake Jones. Show number 198. So get excited, boys, for I guess Monday. Monday. Yeah. Monday will be a big round number. And maybe you can get your second smoothie then. I'm thrown off by him.

Not smoothie, Slurpee. What did I do now? By Blake Jones? Yeah, just like the fact that he's sitting at the bar. Yeah, so today we are not broadcasting high atop my garage. I believe we're at what might be termed a 960 remote, Blake? The first 960. How about that?

Because we're not in Grapevine. Right. Well, we did the 690 sit-ins and offered that as a remote. And I guess it's all, you know what business is? It's a game of supply and demand. Is there a demand? Yeah. And apparently the demand was getting to such a level where Blake said,

you know, we shouldn't just go out for, we should up it a little bit. So he upped it a little bit. It's really based, it's for Blake's pocketbook. He's the guy that does most of this stuff. He gets out here early. He sets it all up. He's here late. He's breaking it all down.

It's more of a beating for Blake, for sure. I got to the point where it was... He actually isn't making any more if we're doing these. Well, it was... More than he was making any more for doing these. Well, it was... More than he was, though. The process was, you know, hey, I'm interested in a 690. You know, what are my options?

Well, you can come to us, to the den, or we can drive to your house. And that just felt to me that those should not be the same price. They shouldn't be. Yeah. Fair. So, yeah.

I want my extra 50 bucks or whatever that we get off the top of it. Well, where we are is Waxahachie, which is well within the radius of 100 miles, or what is it, 96 miles from the 9-11 Memorial in Grapevine? Not a tough drive down. We have a lot of, I was telling Raymond yesterday

from E6 Sportswear on Business Wednesday. Thumbs on merch.com. I was having a little fun with him. Just a little ribbing. Like, hey, that sounds like a properly Raymond... A quite confusing contest

that you're running there. He's like, yeah, but it's not that confusing. All you have to do is... And I'm like, okay, I'm just joking around. But we do have a very confusing system for 690,

960, thing, video. No, if you host us, it's 960. If we drive to you, it's 960.

You come to us, 690. And then we also got sales, so if it's a business, now you gotta. See, that's not me. Yeah.

That's a whole different issue. Department. Yeah. Anyway, we're in Waxahachie, and we're here for Tom Vendrius. Vendrius. I know him as Tom. Grab the mic there, Tom. Hello, hello.

Hey, Tom. Hi, hello. Hey, Tom. Hi, Tom. How you doing? Very good. Strong supporter, a listener. He's got animals. A subscriber. Oh, my God.

He's got all the animals. Like, if you move to Waxahachie... Do you have to do it? Is that part of the... Yeah. It's not like a neighborhood association. It's like a city association. Like, you must own a rooster.

And you seem to have quite a few of those. We do. We have a couple of cocks here. Okay. He's been sitting on that all morning. I would imagine chickens, because you need somewhere to put those cocks, correct? That's absolutely true.

Do you like eat your own eggs? Absolutely. Yeah? Are you healthier eat your own eggs? Absolutely. Yeah? Are you healthier? You can taste the difference. For real? Absolutely. I'm hoping the show goes well enough that he gives me some to take home.

A few eggs? Yeah. Plenty of eggs. They have horses. He should put them in a couple of different baskets, though. Pigs. Because you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket? That's right.

Okay, yeah. That is the... Ridiculous. Yes, horses, pigs. You told me a tale of how you have... He has a rescue horse and a rescue pig.

That's correct. So if there's a wayward pig in Waxahachie and it shows up at your front door, which this pig did, you will take it in. Absolutely. And nurture it as your own own and you won't even eat it as my wife jennifer took me in is that what she

did yeah you showed up at her door uh and she could also uh beat your ass well that's a long line of uh people and including ladies that can do it. And I would like it. Fair enough. As we were walking up, you're like, oh, yeah, we have a couple of emus. Emu, did you say? Is it emu or emu? Emu. I think you say emu.

Okay. Who did emu? I did. Okay. That's me. I knew this was a callback. Yeah, I said emu, probably just because I played Pokemon growing up. And also, as we're walking over there, Tom is telling me about the emus.

And he's like, oh, yeah, they just hatched, and we took them and all this. And I was thinking, boy, this Tom's an idiot. An emu doesn't hatch out of an egg. Certainly you mean they were born, and then... How would you have supposed that they were born? I thought an emu was kind of... I don't know. The only emu I really am familiar with,

I know Dale Hanson had a couple. It's a bird. Well, I might not have known that. So the emu that I am familiar with is from Napoleon Dynamite. It's really big. Tina? Yeah, and it doesn't look like it could fly anywhere. No.

So you're thinking of... So I just thought it was born like a horse. Horses aren't in eggs, right? No, they're not. Good. No. So I just thought, yeah, it pl just, it plopped out and he meant that. And then, yes, as I saw when you have baby emu, which they have, a couple baby emus,

they look more bird-like. So then I felt, I felt shame. They took to me quite a bit. Oh, yeah. What'd you say? They really like Jake. Okay. They look to me quite a bit. Oh, yeah. What did you say? They really liked Jake. Okay. They look like little raptors.

Yeah. Birds are... Dinosaurs. Like the oldest thing, right? That and cockroaches? How's that look on a business card? On a t-shirt? I think that plays.

Yeah. Birds and cockroaches are the oldest? The oldest things. Like think that plays. Yeah. Birds and cockroaches are the oldest? The oldest things. Like, you know, look, my kids stopped paying attention to me when they got to be teenagers or so, but before that, that's what I would tell them. They're like, oh, what's a bird?

And I'd be like, ah, it's the oldest thing on earth. So speaking of that, I did want to run two things things by you one of which was uh yesterday we had the first time that we'd ever had kid friends over at the house okay like play date yeah okay like that weren't your friends kids no okay this was totally... Yeah. Yeah. And like the times that they've done this before, like they go to the park, right?

Like they go to Wall Ball, Par Park. I believe it's called Ball and Wall. Okay. And it bothers me every time you get it wrong. Okay, well... As a grapevine guy. I'm very sorry that I... You've offended William D. Tate.

But they were just at the house. And it was, I don't know. It's weird. It's like another parent's kids. And they hit me. And, you know, punch me in the stomach. And I don't know. And you punch them back?

I don't think you can do that, Blake. See, that's the problem. That's the problem with woke society. You used to. Yeah, when I watch Mad Men. You just slap him around a little bit. If they spill your highball, you got to give them a nice slap. I just remember your take on this was that it takes until about 11 or 12 before they start like laughing at you.

I'm still at the, they think I'm cool. Right. But I can feel that it's already moving. And feel knowledgeable. They think you know things. Yeah. And I think it's,

I think that 11 or 12 date, I think it's going to get lower. Yeah, because kids are getting smarter, right? Yeah. They're rolling through the iPads. Yeah. Have you even thought about what is your date for a phone? You own a phone.

For the kid? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean... Because the iPhone was created during my kids' lifetimes. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean... Because the iPhone was created during my kids' lifetimes. Yeah. And then the pressure was on immediately

because, as you will find out, every other kid in school has blank. Before yours. Whatever it is. Yeah. And yes, so my kids will still tell the tale of

we were... The last people that had an iPhone, the last ones that saw an R movie. Yeah. This line will move as Brooks gets older, but I don't know the point of it before a car. That's when I got mine. That line's going to way move.

Yeah, I can't remember the age right now, but certainly it was well before a car. Well before. Because they're at school, I guess. I can't remember the age right now, but certainly it was well before a car. Well before. Because they're at school, I guess. I don't know. Well, I mean, for them it's peer pressure, right? But for you, if you want to be a little practical, you don't need to be staying up in your room on your phone talking to your friends

or getting on the internet. Well, we did have plug in your phone downstairs when you go to bed. Yeah, and I think I'll do that. And that went to a certain time. Yeah, so I think there are two things about it. One is, it's like what we were talking about

the other day. People get way too concerned about is there going to be a school shooting? Like, so you think your kid needs to have a phone so that they can call you in the event that there's like a dangerous situation, but that's

what,.0001%? That's not going to happen. Yeah, that came up in the Columbine book a lot. Yeah. That you just didn't know where your kid was. Yeah. And that was the case for cell phones in that age. Yeah. And I think like a media.

Now it might be just a tracking system. You want to see that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And then the second part of it is just, isn't there a way that you can like have a kid phone that's not connected to the internet? Yeah, they're starting to come out with those.

I think I saw a billboard for one. But it would still make a phone call? Phone call, but no internet. No social media, but phone call. Probably to a set number of phones. Yeah. Maybe like five or six pre-programmed numbers in there you can call.

I'm telling you though, you're going to run your... They'll figure it out. No, but my friend had... No, I know. They telling you, though, you're going to run your... They'll figure it out. No, but my friend had... No, I know. They're allowed. No, you're right. He'll have a cell phone at six. I know it.

I just know it. Six. That dude rolls through that iPad as if... I could probably ask him how to... He already knows how to use it. Yeah. He's watched us put in the passcode, so he knows it. Yeah.

He knows how to get to Disney Plus and the downloaded movies. I mean, it did not take him very long. Nooks is how old now two and a half two and a half he was over uh last week i told you my wife really loves watching him and all that and um he set up my vpn i didn't know how to route it i'm like what you what? You can log in, and yeah, he did it. He said, Dan, this whole Governor Abbott thing, you might need this. Yeah, he's like, here. Here's what I found out.

That's awesome. We have a lot of sports on today's program. We also have some non-sports, and I wanted to start with a funny prank that I think one of our listeners could play on you guys. I had this idea last night, and I think it would be hilarious. Okay.

So, because we do have our California trip planned. We have an RV and everything. We got a great dude who's going to drive us. He's already sending emails. He's mapping out the trip. He's looking at hotels,

possible bits to do on the way. Like he seems to be more into it than we are right now, which is great. I think that's just you. But fine. Okay. I guess I haven't seen all those replies from you on how great the ideas that you have for the trip. This guy has big ideas. You're – All right.

Go on. Respond. No, I just feel like you're getting upset with me and I just want you to be invested in this trip. Well, I was thinking this funny prank.

Okay. So a listener, they could offer to and do it. You fly me on your private jet. Just me, though. Because before we were throwing out the vibe of, hey, what if somebody flew us all on a private jet? That's probably asking a lot.

Yeah. But how funny would it be knowing how mad these guys would be? And we're on a private jet. We're drinking champagne. We're doing stuff that you do on private jet. I'm just guessing what they do on private jets. Yep. Smoking cigars.

I don't know. You probably do whatever you want on a private jet. It's a private jet. Yeah, you fly me. Then the other guys have to do. Then we land. You guys get there and you're all tired and I'm fresh and ready to go. I've already had fish tacos.

Wouldn't that be funny? It'd be hilarious. That would get you guys so good. That's a great prank. Yeah. So if anyone out there wants to contact me. But of the three of us, the person that would get the most mad they weren't on the PJ would be Dan. So it might be funnier if they took us and not you.

That's a really good point, Blake. Well, it's part of the fairness doctrine is Jake is already flying home. And I think everybody wants to see Dan and Jake be equal. Yeah. And because Jake already has such a leg up on Dan in so many different areas that we need to elevate me just a little bit. So just throwing it out there. I'm not spitballing.

I do think I know he's out. You may be in, though, Dan. For what? Disneyland. Why would Dan may be in? I don't know. I feel like you might just like to go hang out with the kid. You love kid stuff, especially when your kids aren't around.

Yeah. I like to just stand back and watch all the other kids. I'd like to see them ride that ride. Especially ones with braces. I don't know. I thought there was possibly a chance that you could like that. No. Absolutely not.

Why would I ever do that? Like, I don't mind going again. I don't know, just content? Huh? Just like from a content standpoint? Okay, if it's doing it for the show, and what's it like being a one guy walking around? But I don't think I want to go to Disneyland.

That seems like a high dollar content play, too. I mean, certainly I would pay for it. Like, what if we go to... But it's also not close. Yeah, what if we just go to Venice Beach? Yeah. I know we certainly I would pay for it. Like, what if we go to... But it's also not close. Yeah, what if we just go to Venice Beach? Yeah. I know we've done that before. You're gonna go to Disneyland? Your kid's gonna come out there?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, we're on a two-week trip. Yeah. And so Jake's bringing sand to the beach. That's right, yeah. That's what I call a bringing your to the beach. That's right. That's what I call bringing your little kid because there's so many great little kids you could have out in California. We're going to celebrate your birthday on the RV. That's true.

Well, that's right. You will be on the RV on your birthday? Yes. What day is that? Monday, August 5th. August 5th. Is it a big round number? No. I'm going to be 39.

It's kind of round, right? Three times 13? Yeah. Those numbers are round. Both of those numbers have various bumps on them that are round. They're not really pointy numbers. 8,585. Yeah.

Oh, okay. That's pretty cool. So I went this morning. Retire that number. I went this morning to, my son had the tubes put in his ears for ear infections, I suppose. And they asked me his birthday and I definitely didn't remember.

What is it? It's 10-7-20-23. 10-7-20-23. 2022. Oh. Yeah, see? Right? Yeah.

But they asked me to fill out like that's why you need 50 pages of paperwork you need an 85 85 I know right that's real easy yeah

wife forgot too so June 6th I didn't feel too bad Luca not day yeah not even close really

it's a month and a day off the tubes really work that's what I've heard what are we talking here Brooks had the same thing where every time he got sick he would get an ear infection yeah

where fluid fluid would just get in his ear and not be able to get out I guess and so the weird part is that they have to put him under, which is really scary for me. It is scary. And the funniest...

Did they use a big mallet? No. Yeah, they just smash his head in. Yeah, like a cartoon. The funniest part is, though, is I don't know if you've ever dabbled with pain pills, getting high. I have not. I've never been into that. I am not at all.

Yeah. But I have done it. RV? I have a buddy who, back in the day, if I ever got whatever happened and they gave me some pain pills, I'd just give them to him. Can you peel them off? Yeah. I'd be like, oh, okay, yeah. You like them?

I don't. He likes to have one with a nice beer. They put the medicine in his mouth, and within 10 minutes, dude, he is a different person. Like awesome? He's calm? He's just laughing. He's just like out of it. No, there's a big guilt for me.

I can't believe I'm doing this to a one and a half year old. Yeah. And I'm like trying to talk to him and he's just giggling. I don't know. It's kind of funny to see your kid high. He's learning that drugs are great. High at like 8 a.m.

Those are early surgeries. It was 7.45 in the morning and he was just giggling. And then I have a non-sports that's kind of sports as well. The wife the other night, had like a, I don't know what it was,

neighborhood ladies dinner, something, and it was great. Fantastic, yeah. And what comes with that is the post-game show, which she gave me yesterday. So it was like two nights ago, she went out and had the house to myself. It was great. And then last night, she went out and had the house to myself. It was great.

And then last night, she wanted to give me the postgame, which is the neighborhood Goss. Nobody's doing Goss. I think lots of people are. You're just not as hip as I am. It's possible. So the neighborhood we live in, you guys are very familiar with, but it's quite a mix. It's a very old neighborhood. Some would say it used to be a field.

But then they put a lot of tiny houses on it in this neighborhood, whatever, 60 years ago, 70 years ago. 60 years ago, 70 years ago. In fact, the lady that lives at the end of one of our three cul-de-sacs that I live on was born in her house, and she still lives there. Wow. Like that's – you've heard of people like this. Yeah. That have lived in one house their whole life. It's 1,800 square feet, and she's lived there,

and she's going to die there, and she's lived there and she's gonna die there and she's you know blah blah blah and it's worth like 10 times more than what her parents 10 to 20 times more 60 years ago we're talking about a million like i don't know yeah they probably just said i claim this you know yeah they just had to just, you know, kill a couple of pesky Native American. Well, that's probably a lot longer than 60 years ago. Yeah. The point is,

that's, some of our neighborhood is that. That's a lower percentage every day, though. Because people will come in and buy one of those houses and tear it down right away and then build a giant house. Yeah. Now, then there's like some medium houses. I consider our house, if you drove through there, to be one of the medium houses.

And then the little tiny ones were medium. And then they got these big giant mansions that are worth millions of dollars. Well, one of the fears from many of the people is that a developer will come in because a lot of people own lots of land, like Tom here in Waxahachie, but they'll own a few acres. But a developer will buy a few acres and say, oh, that's cool that you have one house on that few acres. What if I put like seven houses here or even more, like as many as local laws will allow for, and we stuff them all on there and then, you know, the neighborhood doesn't like that. It's a bunch of old people generally and like we're the young people in the neighborhood.

So anytime there is land for sale or one of these old people with a bunch of land dies, there's always a lot of worry. Now, sometimes some of the neighbors will band together and say, let's buy that piece of land so that it's not torn up. And then we sell it to somebody that we approve, which also seems a little civil rights-y, but I don't know.

But it's more to keep the developers out but it was there was some piece of land at the end of our street uh that nobody knows you know nobody knew how to anyway they were really worried for quite some time all the hand wringing has been about a developer the developer gonna buy that oh my god it's been Well, it turns out that the Rest Easy, one buyer, he's going to buy that land. He's going to rip down the house and build two houses on it, a mother-in-law house and then their house. and apparently this buyer is a former New York Met whose name

is Blake something. So they don't know if the first name is Blake or the last name is Blake. Like this is my wife yesterday was telling me, you know, this is the ladies' dinner.

She's like, oh, Melissa's husband. Is it not Blake Snow? He was not a Met. She's like positive it was a former New York Met. Blake Snow was definitely a Met. He was a Ray and then now a Padre. I wouldn't argue with Blake Jones on... That's a good point, Dan.

That's a really good point. ...current baseball players. Dan, I just want to be clear. His name is not Shinsu. No, it's not Chu because I asked. She was telling me which cul-de-sac it's going to be on. Because Shinsu Chu, similarly, a couple years ago, bought two houses and then turned that into one.

Like he bought two lots. Blake Tibieri, Blake? No, my guess is it's Blake Bevan. Local kid, pitched for the Mets. There's no way he made that much money, though. How much did Blake Bevan make? Look at the... No way he made that much money, though. How much did Blake Bevin make? Look at the... No...

No way, dude. I was just looking at today's War Games winner. He was some guy who played in the 50s you've never heard of. He had a 15-year career, and he made a total of $220,000. Blake Bevin made $518,000. He is not moving into your neighborhood. Well, he's not

just buying the two houses or whatever. The two house lot, yeah. He got a bonus though. He did get a signing bonus. Probably a couple million. That's my guess. I don't know. I was just trying to

think of local guy. I'm going to keep you guys informed on this. Thank you. I don't know. I was just trying to think of like local guy. I'm going to keep you guys informed on this. Thank you. I really appreciate that. I'm sure. In fact, my wife told me this. This is not me being misogynistic. It's her. She said so-and-so's husband definitely knows who he is. So we'll get to the bottom of this. But she did not have dinner with the husbands. She only had dinner with the husbands. She only had dinner with the wives. You know what's weird is I guess it doesn't really happen as much in Southlake, but in Grapevine, they have really, really strict laws about knocking down houses and building.

I don't know if it's a historical thing or- Yeah, downtown Grapevine. Well, you know how William D. Tate, we've always talked about him trying to keep it with that small-town feel. Yeah. So I don't think you could do a Shenzhou-Chu move. In fact, because I lived over by Yates in Grapevine. Yeah.

I think there was a lot of discussion when they were buying an acre across from Yates. Were they allowed to put four houses on that one acre or do they? Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways. All right. Anyways, indeed.

Now's the portion of the program. We would do sports. And Blake tells me that today's sports is brought to us by Prosper Ford. How about that? The great Chaz Gilmore, of course, owns Prosper Ford. I've known Chaz for over a decade now because did ads for a long time for Grapevine Ford. And then he said, you know, I want to make my own dealership. So, you know, Prosper used to be all the field and he bought some land and then put a new dealership up there called Prosper

Ford. It is a state-of-the-art dealership. It is just about brand new. It's wonderful. They've got new and certified pre-owned, of course, from electric cars and two-door coupes to full-size trucks and SUVs. The Ford F-150 is a huge seller, of course. I've been driving the Bronco Sport. Dude, you look so hot in that. I love it. You do. I actually have been driving the Explorer for a long time, but that's kind of because I had the two kids and a bunch of stuff always to

carry around. The Bronco Sport, though, is a nice little get you around, perfect size. I love it. Anyway, Prosper Ford is the place to go. Fast trade-in value, no hassle financing, and competitive specials. So check them out online at prosperford.com or up the tollway in Prosper. Go to Prosper Ford and give Chaz a big hug for us here on the Dumb Zone. Sports. Yes, sports indeed. It's kind of weird, right? Like the day that I heard that Clay was possibly going to become a Maverick I didn't love it

but then you can just like talk yourself into anything yeah I mean what's the option the thing is if if you had the you know what else were you going to do

retain Derrick Jones Jr. and just run it back. Would you rather have that? I don't know. But I know that they went 16-2 to end the season before they punted those last two, was it two or three games? Two at least. Yeah, the tank games.

Not tank, but rest. Don't care. So they went 16-2 when they made the finals. So what else I would do is see if that team could win again. And he's young. Yeah, he's like 25, 26. Yeah. Clay's 34 and considerably more expensive.

And Derek Jones can dunk and stuff. He can dunk and stuff, but that wasn't necessarily my impetus for wanting to keep him. It was just, I think that the team was pretty good. Yeah. And now,

they have Clay. So, I'm going to play you a little bit of audio from Clay. Yeah, they had their introductory press conference yesterday. Yeah, they did the whole thing. They did, so I'm going to play you a little bit of audio from Clay. Yeah, they had their introductory press conference yesterday. Yeah, they did the whole thing. They did Quentin Grimes, Najee Marshall, and Clay, which honestly feels a little bit weird. It kind of feels like whenever they had Dwight Powell and Rajon Rondo.

Yeah, and what was the other one? They had Tim Hardaway, KP, Sterling Brown. You're like, we really only care about one person. Well, that's probably because no one would go to the Quentin Grimes press conference, you know? Yeah, but then you got to ask him one question. What does it mean to you to come to Dallas? Yeah. But everybody's there to hear Klay Thompson.

Yes. Yeah. Which is a huge national story. Yeah. Like, I think it's bigger nationally almost than it is here. Because it's him leaving the Warriors. In fact, I heard Wendy kind of... Everyone's talking about it.

Yeah, their conjecture is it's going to be Warriors. It's going to be Mavs at Warriors on Christmas Day. Ooh. If you're trying to predict the schedule, which I think the NBA is really good about. Matchups? Yeah, they're very good at that, aren't they? KD's leaving.

LeBron left Cleveland. He's going back to Cleveland. We're going to put it on Christmas Day yeah then they they put Mav's sons on Christmas last year or two years ago

after the finals yeah or the second round of the playoffs yeah before you play your audio I think he's gonna look really weird in 31

because it's Terry's number it's Jet but I don't know it just looks like it's too big of a number for him. Is he 11? Yeah. Okay.

Which is Kyrie. Was Clay born on the 11th day of the 11th month? I think he's 11th point. Yeah. Yes. That's all I had. I mean, it is kind of a shooter's number, though. I mean, he did sight jet.

Yeah. He's like, I always dreamed about wearing Jason Terry's number. Yeah. Let me play a little bit of this. Am I up, Blake? Mm-hmm. All right. And I'm not up at all.

Might need that cable. Yeah, might need it. Might need that cable. Yeah, might need it. Well, I mean, whether you play basketball or work in the corporate world or whatever industry sometimes change just can spur greatness and a new change of scenery can do wonders. And I'm very grateful for my time at Golden State. just can spur greatness and a new change of scenery can do wonders. And I'm very grateful for my time at Golden State.

But I just felt like, you know, moving on could just re-energize me and do something special for the rest of my career. And Dallas was so attractive because of the young players they have, the style of play, the, you know, world-class treatment these players get from this organization and just a beautiful city who loves their hoops. So when I was watching the playoffs and I'm watching the Mavs, you know, make a run for the championship, I just saw myself fitting in really well with this team and the personnel. And they look like they have fun playing with each other and they play for each other.

And that was very attractive for me. And that's really all I needed to see. And there's mutual interest there. And that's why I'm here. I do think it's kind of cool. It feels good, man. It does feel good, right? Yeah.

Like, I do think it's kind of cool to hear him good, man. It does feel good, right? Yeah. I do think it's kind of cool to hear him say, it seems like these guys like each other. Yeah. Obviously, he's going to be saying good stuff. Yeah, but you don't have to say that, though. No. I mean, look across the Metroplex, and we're talking about the Cowboys with,

does anybody actually want to be there? And it does feel like and the craziest part about it is that it feels like it's all Kyrie based. Yeah, well they had it the conference finals run. I know. Theo Pinson standing there.

It's probably... Kid probably deserves a lot of credit. Who? Kid? Yeah. I guess. Kyrie's a big part.

I think you pointed this out a couple years ago even. I think players like him especially are saying, this guy, Luka, I'm going to be a better player because he's my teammate. He'll make me some money.

My stats, yeah, my stats will be good. Yeah. Because he is, you know, it's weird when you read the stuff about Luca, you know, every year midseason is like, do people like playing with Luca? Is he just a ball hog and this and that? And I think they do. I think Luka gets guys way big open looks. And you got to think, you know,

sometimes when it was just Luka and Kyrie on the floor, you're like, well, where else are we going to? Well, now if you got this guy over there too, you got to really be aware. You can't leave him open at all. And that half a step or whatever that you got to take towards Clay is going to leave Luca more room or Kyrie more room to do what they can do. I'm talking myself into it too, man.

Yeah, and I mean. Like just as far as consistently, getting open looks consistently, that's where you can say Clay versus Derek Jones or whatever. It's like, okay, I mean, Derek Jones, the track record isn't there. Clay can still shoot. Yeah. I mean, obviously the biggest part is the defensive, you know, step back, but whatever.

I mean, it's Clay Thompson. Yeah. but whatever. I mean, it's Klay Thompson. Yeah. So, and the other thing too about it is Derek Lively's about to become like an all-star. He kind of already was playing like that

at the end of last year. Yeah. So he's, what, 20 now? Did he just turn 20? Five years from now, what is Derek Lively? A top five center in the NBA? On a team with Luka? Expensive. You hope so. Very expensive, but also at that point, you're moving on from, probably from Kyrie and Klay.

Yeah, five years. They're just in a good spot. They're in a good spot. Yeah, no, it's very exciting, man. I'll play a little bit more of this. Tim Cato with The Athletic. Clay, you obviously were in the league when Luka entered and debuted. I'm curious your thoughts on first impressions of him and what you've seen from him

as he's gone from a rookie to to a superstar and then uh the other two Najee Quinton I'm just curious what your expectations are you know to play with Luca what what you think it's going to look like feel like be like y'all got it I did appreciate clay being like your your turn. Go ahead, guys. I know Luca is one of the top players in the NBA, so I feel like our job is to go out there, play as hard as we can, and just try to get back to the position that we were in last year and hopefully win the championship.

And then playing with Luca, he makes everybody else on the court job a lot easier for me as a shooter, just coming in and learning from Clay, one of the best shooters to ever touch a basketball. So playing with Luca will be fun because he draws so much attention defensively. So I'm ready to knock down open shots, make plays, and just do whatever I can to help this team win. And kind of like Q said, Luka's an amazing player. So just to learn from him and, you know, just to play with him, make the game easier for him. Even to learn from, like, Clay and Quinn, who are great shooters.

So I'm just excited to play with everybody, looking forward to it. But, yeah, Luka's an amazing player, and just to make the game easier for him. And I don't want to be here right now. I mean, Najee and Quinton said it, Luka. Even before you got in the NBA, you watch his EuroLeague highlights, and you're like, this 18-year-old is doing this to grown men? It's crazy. So the impact he had on a rookie too,

you could see that he had greatness ahead of him. I mean, I think pretty sure he gave us a triple double in Oracle, like in 2019 as a rookie. And I don't think that's happened to us since maybe like a LeBron or Tim Duncan. So you saw the potential early, and I think just playing off him, Kai, and the rest of the guys, I can help them space the floor and knock down shots

or play defense, whatever's needed. Still using us for the Warriors. Yeah. We'll have to get that out of the veneer. He'll always have that. And he also says them. For the Mavs? Yeah. Okay, I didn't note that. Yeah he also says them. For the Mavs? Yeah.

Okay, I didn't note that. Yeah, he says us and them. And that's not, I do like listening to those answers, so maybe it is a good question, but I'm like, that's a question that you're asking because you need to write words for your column. Yeah, but I also think it's cool that Clay remembers like a five-year-ago triple-double in the Bay.

Yeah. And I guess if it is a rarity, you'll remember it. Yeah. Clearly, he's the veteran who has been, you know, you think Kyrie. Okay. Kyrie's been there. He's done it once, you know, and it was monumental. And he's played with a great superstar before,

so he knows how to defer Kyrie. But Klay's got that exact same thing and even more almost because he's had to live in the shadow of Steph. I would say not almost. What? I would say he is the most level superstar ever. Right? Like, didn't Kerr say that?

Like, he called him the most low-maintenance superstar he's ever been around. Like, Kyrie's come a long way. Klay's always been this way. Right. Kyrie's still... You know what? There's always the 10% chance.

If I wake up tomorrow and he's, like, at a Proud Boys rally, I'm going to be like, well, well. He's Kyrie. Yeah. Yeah, but with Klay, he just does his thing. It's really, really cool. Yeah, and it really only started going downhill for him in Golden State this year.

And I think it was because he knew he wasn't getting a contract. Yeah, I mean, it really started going downhill when he missed two straight years. Well, yeah, that's true. But they also won after that. Yeah, and that was part of their calculation on when doling out the contracts. Yeah.

You know, and you had to wonder, probably the big thing for him, well, I don't know. We've all read that article, right? Is it Ramona Shelburne? Yeah. The whole, you know, Draymond got, obviously, Steph's going to be Steph. So, no one's Steph.

He's going to be maxed out until he's dead. Or whatever, you know what I mean? Yeah. Draymond getting maxed. There's a question there. I don't know. See, I don't even think that was it I think it was Jordan Poole

and then Jordan Poole is like hey here's your successor yeah he's gonna be the next one let's make sure we lock him up because we can't lose him

and then you see what happened with that that blew up his face Andrew Wiggins Andrew Wiggins kind of same thing he hadn't been there helping build this

brick by brick like so Clay is like it should have been a different order And then Wiggins got his deal. Andrew Wiggins, kind of same thing. He hadn't been there helping build this brick by brick. So Clay is like, it should have been a different order. I should have been in there. Yeah. And they were making the calculation that, you know, his age, his injury history. I mean, they paid him max money for a couple years to not play. But again, they paid max money then to a guy who turned out to be kind of a clown and a definite clown.

Yeah. So bull, you know, what's funny is I don't know that this would have like altered the trajectory of things at all, but you know how many times I've mentioned to you that like NBA, like MVP and all defense voting like alters contracts? Yeah.

Clay lost like $100 million. From what? Not being selected for second team All-NBA. Yeah. I think that was it. That's ridiculous. Again, I don't know that that means that he's going to stay there or anything like that, but it's just so stupid.

The Players Association did it. Yeah. I mean, that's what they negotiated. Yeah. And it was for the guys at the top, right? Yeah. Chris Paul was a big guys at the top, right? Yeah. Chris Paul was a big player in the Players Association. I think he was the president.

He was the president. LeBron is sitting around like, hey, wait. Best friends with Chris Paul, by the way, too. Banana boat. And it's like, hey, wait. I go to Cleveland and their franchise value changes by $400 million, yet I can only make 20 million a year

the same as like there should be a super max yeah and well how do we figure out who's the super max well I don't know what if you're all NBA

by the time you're whatever age I mean that really benefited Luca they just kept moving it yeah cause Luca's making well yeah

Derek Rose was the first one right before you were 50 right yeah so anyways I don't know moving it. Yeah, because Luke is making... Well, yeah, Derrick Rose was the first one. Portier 50, right? Yeah. So, anyways, I don't know. He's an interesting cat. Yeah, no, I can't wait. I can't wait to see how it works. Now, I guess the negative could be...

Like, let's talk the negative. Defense. Because we're all just... Defense. Shooting does fall off. He doesn't, you know, can't fit in because now you kind of got three guards out there. You know, you're not like we've already established he's not coming off the bench because that would be really something if he did. No, he's probably starting, and I think Jake has said they've said as much,

but he talked about Jason Terry a lot. Terry was the sixth man for that team. Terry did. And closed. Because that's what matters is who closes. Yeah. You can get sixth man of the year, get yourself that award. Sure.

Play 35 minutes or however many minutes a game. Yes. Yet you're not starting. Air quotes. Yeah. I you're not starting, air quotes. Yeah. I wonder if he'd do it. I wonder if they'd even bring it to him. Yeah, I just don't see it.

I just don't see it. I just think that would be the perfect go-between where Kyrie checks out five minutes into the game. Here comes Klay. Luka subs out. Kyrie comes in. Klay stays. Like, Klay is always with one of them. I think like Dan said,

you should never have a time where two of them are not on the floor together. Yeah, right. But that's going to be hard if they're all starting. That will be hard. Also, now Klay Thompson at 34 years old has to guard a wing. Well, he's going to

have to guard their best ball handler because that's what you lost in Derek Jones. And P.J. is a big. You want P.J. to guard a point guard? A shooting guard? That's what you're going to have to ask him to do.

Your deer and foxes and SGA's that's going to fall on. That's trouble. That's why I was upset seeing Derek Jones go because he was so good at that just score 130 a game well and that might end up being it's Derek Jones his fault because he switched agents

his agent situation and all that you know and who knows maybe he takes a deal real early with the Mavs and they don't even they don't go go after Klay. I don't know. Well, if nothing else, it'll be fun. I mean, watching him put up shots in a Mavericks warm-up yesterday

or whenever it was, Tuesday, that was awesome. Doesn't it feel good that he said no to the Lakers to come here? Like, somebody did it. Yeah. Someone came to the Lakers to come here? Like, somebody did it. Yeah. Someone came to the Mavs. Yeah. Like, ever. Right.

A big-name free agent, when they had other offers out there, like, everyone has always chosen the other offer. The Lakers are more money. Dad played there. He's a California guy anyway. Like everything was going against the Mavs there. Yeah. That's pretty cool.

But the narrative that people don't want to play with LeBron now, which there may be something to that at this stage in his career. People want to play with LeBron and Bronny. Bronny though. That's a new wild card. The Bronny thing is so weird, man. He's not very good. No, I don't think he played a lot at USC, right?

No. I think he scored five points a game. He got a four-year deal. Guaranteed. Have you seen the bit where people are alleging that ESPN is in bed with the NBA, which they certainly are, right? Sure. And that they're even more so in bed with the Lakers just like because that's their machine.

They're the Lakers, the Cowboys. So when their Twitter or whatever social media put out, like after their first summer league game, where I think one of Bronny's teammates, one of the other guys scored like 30, but they put out a picture of Bronny and it said 21, 4, and 2, something like that. And so you just see it.

You don't see what 21, four, and two means, but you think, oh, that's a good debut. Well, it was 21 minutes. Minutes. When you look at the fine print, four points, two rebounds. Okay. Yeah. Per 36, though.

That's awesome. Yeah. Other 36, though. That's awesome. Yeah. Other sports, Blake? Yeah. I'd like to play, what do we call it? Touch the Clip? What is that? I think I like it.

Okay. Is that the one where you take a clip of audio, but you expand it? Yeah. Yeah. So, I've got a clip here of Mike Gundy at Big 12 Media Days. Oh, my God. That's right.

That's going on in Dallas. No. Oh, wait. SEC is happening in Dallas. Sorry. Next week. Big 12 moved to Vegas. Okay.

It was always at AT&T. It was always downtown Dallas. Now it's in Vegas. Mike Gundy, the head coach of Oklahoma State, he's the guy with the mullet. He's been there forever. He was a man. He was always downtown Dallas. Now it's in Vegas. Mike Gundy, the head coach of Oklahoma State. He's the guy with the mullet. He's been there forever. He was a man. He was 40, 15 years ago. His... Go ahead. I have a problem with how much he's dying his hair. Mike Gundy? Yeah. It's very dark. Okay. I'm going to have to take a look at them. Do you think I should do that? Dye your hair?

Your hair is jet black, dude. Ten years from now, it's not going to be. Are you afraid of graying? I'm not. Maybe you have to do it now. I think it looks cool to be gray. Didn't Cuban say he started- Look it up, dude.

gray. Like didn't Cuban say he started... Gundy, like, look it up, dude. Like, he looks, like, suspiciously black haired. And everyone saw him going gray. Well, you got millions of dollars, right? What's he make a year? But he

fits Oklahoma State. Oh, for sure. Look at that. I mean, that checks out. Boy, that's a nice mane, though. He's got great hair. Look how thick it is. Yeah. Go ahead.

Okay, his starting running back is Ollie Gordon. He's one of the better running backs in college football. And a week ago, he got pulled over for a DUI. Okay. Which led everyone to believe, like, okay, he got pulled over for a DUI. Okay. Which led everyone to believe like, okay, you got to suspend him or, you know, fine him or whatever. You know, you're going to have to... Discipline. Yeah, discipline him for something.

Maybe the old, he doesn't get to start against... You know how college football always does these things. Yeah. You guys sit the first half. Was it Duke? It was Manziel. Yeah. First half. No, it was the first drive. Yeah. Something like that.

He went out there and threw like 75 passes. Rather than do all that, Gundy's like, well, who among us? Here's the clip from Mike Gundy, Big 12 Media Days. I want to play you the clip. So this went viral?

Yeah, and I'm going to play you the full answer, and let's see if this was taken out of context. So I looked it up on my phone. What would be the legal limit? Like in Oklahoma, it's.08, and Ollie was.1. So I looked it up, and it was based on body weight, not to get into the legal side of it, but I thought really two or three. No, he wasn't.1.

He was 1.0. Right? You'd be dead. What did you say,.08? .08 is the legal limit. But.1... .1 is just a little above it. That's like...

No, it's not. Yeah. Yeah, it is. 1.0 is way above it. Okay, okay. Yeah, you'd be dead. .1... My bad, my bad.

That's what I'm saying, though. .1 is slightly above, but that's just in the world of one through ten, that's slightly above? Right. But in the world of alcohol consumption, it's a lot above, right? I feel like he's about to, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's going to guess of how many beers he had.

Not to get into the legal side of it, but I thought really two or three beers or four i'm not justifying what all he did i'm telling you what decision i made well i thought i probably done that a thousand times in my life and and i'm you know it's just fine so i got lucky people get lucky all he made a um a decision that he wished he could have done better but when i talked to ollie i told him, I said, you're lucky you got out light. So that's going around because Gundy's like, who hasn't had four beers and drove?

You've done that a thousand times. Well, and okay, and is he right? Are we talking about two or three beers? Yeah, I mean, look look it is very weird to me that bars are primarily just a business where you can go drink and drive to them and drive there yeah i mean i think if you have if you have two or three glasses of wine or two or three beers, you're going to be over 0.08. Okay. I thought he said 0.01 at first, so that's why I was confused.

0.08 requires an average adult male to consume about four beers over two hours. And, I mean, let's say that you have two in 90 minutes. You might be there. Okay. Because it is based on body weight. Body weight and duration. And somebody's.08 is way different than somebody else's.08.

And also just not the sort of thing that you hear a college football coach just come out and be like. That's the point. That's the point. This is media days. I've done that a thousand times. So are you going sit ollie gordon

for a drive hell no i mean i did it yesterday no um and it's funny too how he's like i looked it up yeah on my phone why does that matter where we were winning because it uh there's context here in the full answer of why he looked it up. So yeah, all right. So there was the 43 second clip that everyone heard. Here's the full, it's about three minutes. We can stop and start, but here's his full answer on Ollie Gordon. Two questions.

What's his status and why did you want to bring him today? So the college football is changing, we all know. And we can say these guys aren't employees, but they're really employees. These guys get paid a lot of money, which is fine. But there needs to be a side to what they do that they have to be able to, for lack of a better term, face the music and own up to things. And when I looked at it— This is, you know, pause it. Sorry.

Okay. This is not really relevant to it it but it's just funny how the tone has changed now hey they're employees yeah they're employed like now that they're making money we're employees and we can stop the uh i'm trying to grow them as a man we can we can just be like look he's the rules is gone yeah yeah it's just it's funny how they were kicking and screaming the whole way and now that it is it just like, okay, now we can just do it. That's what they have been the whole time anyway. That's important to keep note of because he's going to bring that up a lot.

He's basically an employee of Oklahoma State. Be real honest with myself first, and then make the best decision for what I think is good for Ollie, our university, and our team. And then I start thinking about being a parent. I have a 28, I have a 23, and a 19. And first I thought, okay. So I looked it up on my phone.

What would be the legal limit? Like in Oklahoma, it's.08. So he told you his kids' ages because he does this with them a lot. He doesn't say it in this answer, but on a walk-off, he explains like, boy, my boys drink and drive all the time. Geez, yeah. I mean, maybe we want to teach them to not. I mean, isn't that the whole point of these laws?

You're making all this money. Maybe you just get an Uber. Four beers can, yeah, impair you enough that you're not as, you can drive. You can get away with it. A thousand times, he said. But I mean, you, again, I think even in this answer, he's going to say he got lucky or something. Yeah. Like, you end up getting lucky on those times.

Yeah. Like, the whole point is that is a 2,000 pound death machine. Piece of steel that is moved. Yes.

That you are now in charge of and especially if you're Mike Gundy or Mike Gundy's kids, you have the means. You're making 8 million a year,

$6 million a year. I don't know what he makes. I'm sure he's making quite a bit. He'll get to money. I'm off. He'll get to money. But an Uber can happen, and there is the social,

and the worried about your wife yelling at you later, but look. Yeah, she's got to drive you to get your car. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's a thing. I mean, seriously, dude.

I was talking to my daughter last week who was going out at night. It wasn't because of drinking, but she's had trouble sleeping lately, and she didn't know if she wanted to drive to her friend's house in Keller because she was just worried how tired she'd be coming home. And I'm like, look, if you've got to call me, I will go get you, and I won't be upset. I won't tell Mom. That whole thing.

She's like, well, Mom will know because my car will be there tomorrow. I'm like, all right, well, look, I'll deal with her. Wake up early. Yeah, like, well, I would get up early. And first I thought, okay, so I looked it up on my phone. What would be the legal limit? Like in Oklahoma, it's.08. In Olley, it was.1.

So I looked it up, and it was... Also, I don't know if that flies. He was almost there. Right, that's what I got to do, the control. So we said.08 is possibly four beers in two hours. I wonder what.1 is. Go ahead. I mean, it's probably just one more.

That's it? Okay. I would assume. Or a little bit less time. Not to get into the legal side of it, but I thought really two or three beers or four. I'm not justifying what Ollie did. I'm telling you what decision I made.

Well, I thought I've probably done that a thousand times in my life. And, and I'm, you know, it's just fine. So I got lucky. People get lucky. Okay. This is where the clip ends. Okay. So here's, here's some, some meat they left off. Ollie made a, um, a decision that he wished he could have done better. But when I talked to Ollie, I told him, I said, you're lucky you got out light because you make a lot of money to play football. So back in the day, being able to cover the cost of what he's going to

go through would be difficult for a college player. It's not for him. Now I'm not speaking for him, but I'm just saying that's not an issue for him. So nobody got hurt. I found that part a little odd that

you're lucky, not because you didn't kill anybody, but you're lucky you make so damn much money that you could cover the cost of this DUI. That's why he's lucky. Yeah. Back in the day. Who got hurt? Nobody. That's the thing. That's really the lesson here at the end of the day. Who got hurt? Nobody. That's the thing. That's really the lesson here at the end.

Is these meddling cops got in the way. Yeah. When no one even got hurt. But it's much of the same for the next couple minutes. But it's basically like, Gundy's point is he wasn't that far over the limit. And thank God he makes this NIL money to cover the cost of it. Because if he would have been around 15 years ago, how would he have paid for it?

That would have come out of the university's pocket. So oftentimes we play the clip and the full answer kind of gives some added content. No, it just got worse. And not this time. Here's the other clip that I wanted to play because people wanted punishment. How are you going to punish him? And his answer was, I'm just going to give him the ball more. Your punishment is going to be facing the facts.

That's why we brought him here today. I said, you're not going into hiding. You're going to face the music. You're going to have to stand up and talk to people and answer questions. And hopefully, more than football, you can learn from the situation you've been in. Because if not, then we have a real issue. But he's going to play, and I'm going to do what I think, what we think is best for Oklahoma State football,

and I think it's best for Ollie to play. If there's any punishment, it's make him carry the ball 50 times in the first game. What? You're not sitting the first game. What? You're not sitting the first half. You're playing every damn snap. So your punishment. We're going to feed you the rock and make your draft stock. Yeah, you're going to have 220 yards.

You're going to be the Heisman favorite after week one. You're going to score six touchdowns against Southeast Oklahoma. Here's what you have to do, though. Mm-hmm. Number one, are you sitting down? Because I'm... Don't smile. I'm serious here. This is your punishment.

First thing we're doing is we're taking you to Vegas. Okay? And then you're going to have to talk when reporters are going to ask you about this, and you're going to have to talk when reporters are going to ask you about this and you're going to have to answer. Oh, no. And tell them that you did it and that you're in Vegas.

We'll give you a sweet. You're going to have a sweet. You're going to have, we'll probably slide you some chips, whatever. And look, you don't have to drive, so have all you want. Yeah. Just walk up to your hotel room.

You'll be able to drink as much as you want. Four, five, whatever. But I want you to think about this. Are you thinking? Yeah. And yes. And then we might, in fact, help your draft stock early in the season

because we're going to be playing, like, you know, UNT or just somebody... Sorry, Blake....that's not in the league because we're going to be playing like, you know, UNT or just somebody. Sorry, Blake. Not in the league that we're in, and we'll destroy them by 60, and you're going to have to carry it all the time. You have to play the whole game. That's our punishment, not sitting you out of game. Not suspending you.

You're playing more. Yeah. Yeah. And getting more touches. Dude, that's great. There's your update on Big 12 Media Days. That's awesome. Before a break, let's do this.

I want to get some email out there for you. Oh, yeah. Wait a minute, Uncle Hotmail. Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, Uncle Hotmail. Uncle Hotmail, look at me. You guys remember Prophets and Outlaws? I do. It was so fun.

You think they still like us? Gross. Probably not now that we had Grady Spencer on the show. Oh. Yeah. Feuds. Huge rival. So our first viewer mail.

Oh, you know what? I actually got other mail that has come in since I assembled this this morning. So let's take a look at that. But this is from Will, who says, shout out to Kyle Cox. He is the DF who you read from on Monday in viewer mail. He had a successful brain tumor removal operation. Heck yeah. I'm guessing removal.

Implementation would be a weird. Be ballsy though. If he had any guts. Can you guys put a tumor in my head? Yeah. What do they do with it? You know, that's a, that's a, that's actually a really good question. Do they put it in a jar?

I remember Tom Green got his testicle given to him. What, he had a cancer scare or something, and they had to remove one? Yeah, they did a full episode. No way, the guy that humped everything got testicular cancer? Fair enough. And then he kept it? I don't know if he kept it. I assume he did, but he definitely got it from the doctor.

He's Tom Green. Of course he kept it. I would assume so. Yeah, it's probably hanging around his neck. He said he had a successful operation. He's recovering in the hospital. Doctors are really happy. He should have a smooth recovery. He was recovering in the hospital. Doctors are really happy. He should have a smooth recovery.

He was pumped to have y'all read his note. So really, maybe... We pulled him through. We are the ones who got him through this all. Then Will says, thanks for the support and the good vibes. Seems like Jake's prayers were answered. So maybe it was Jake. Yeah, could be.

Look at that. Because Jake knelt down next to So maybe it was Jake. Yeah, could be. Look at that. Because Jake knelt down next to the bed. Whoa, good God. Fight like dogs and cats. Cats and dogs. We just had a dog run into the

run into the door. I'm sorry. That freaked me out a little bit. And then, yeah, Kyle then did email since I So his brain works. Apparently so. And then, yeah, Kyle then did email since I left. So his brain works.

Apparently so. Yeah. This is from Kyle's email. Okay. He says, survived. Okay. Thank you for reading the email on the epi. I got visited post-op by the head of the nursing department,

who is also a DF. How about that? Why do these people listen to us? Doesn't make any sense. He has a real job. He's smart. He's a genius. And he listens to us.

And then again, he singles out Jake. Thank you for the prayers. So Jake is really getting all the credit. Hero. For Kyle Cox. Not the neurosurgeon. Yeah. But Jake, for lying on a podcast about the fact that he prayed for you.

I 100% prayed for him, so. Dear Uncle Hotmail. Yes. Shout out to my husband, Kevin Harnish, on his Dirk birthday. He's a week one top 100. I don't know if this works the same as... I feel like there was 100 in the first day.

Numbers don't... He might have to be our one. Yeah. I'm not sure if this works the same as last year when I emailed and you were, quote, on vacation. But his leaders are Dan's daughters, Goo Goo Gaga. I am sending this from Europe on a work trip.

I can't afford a 690 sit-in. So, Blake, would you have William Pace sing Happy Birthday to make his day? This is from Erica Harnish. So, William Pace singing Happy Birthday. Do we have Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday

to you. Happy Birthday to the Dom's on. Happy birthday to you. There you go.

Will you send him the video, please? No. Why? That's an inside joke. William Pace emailed and texted me probably 20 times. Once a video? About. He put it on his YouTube channel.

Yeah, so the day, though, that we did it, he emailed and texted me. And then I told Blake, and Blake sent it to him right away. he emailed and texted me. And then I told Blake and Blake sent it to him right away. And then the next day he's texting me and Rob and Blake. And he's like, Hey, can you just send me the, and we're like,

okay, did, but I'll send it again. And then by the weekend, he's like, is this like a prank? Like, I feel like you guys,

I'm praying to the Lord above that we could have this by tomorrow because I want to put it on my page. But I think now that you are, I'm praying to the Lord above that we could have this by tomorrow because I want to put it on my page, but I think now that you are, like he thought we were being mean to him on purpose. Oh, that's unfortunate. Jake, he said, I'm afraid I've been duped. That sucks. We would never dupe anybody. No.

Or dup. Yeah. Unless somebody flew me. Like that would really dupe anybody. No. Or dupe. Yeah. Unless somebody flew me. Like, that would really dupe you guys. Oh, you got us. Man, you guys would be like, oh, he got me. Oh, man. Tio Carne Cortina.

Don't know what that means. It's my wife Erica's Kevin Durant birthday. Uncle Meat something. Uncle Meat? Yeah, or Aunt Meat. And like Kevin Durant in 2011, she's going to get rocked by this tall German tonight. Her leaders are Blake's Book Club

and his suicide line of humor for the VFW vets. So edgy. Sorry about that. More Dan. Trevor, day two, number 1313. That's a good number. Okay. Ben Bridgeman.

Do you remember him? Ultra marathon guy. Oh, wow. We were in his house. Yep. He had the cool map. He says, Uncle Hotmail, today mine and my daughter's... Excuse me.

My wife's daughter, Harper, turns one. Probably not going to say that. That's a weird way to say that. Mine and my wife's daughter. My stepdaughter? Anyway. I would think. Her leaders are the roast twins.

She's a regular listener on our daily commute to work and back. Hashtag all listeners matter. So are we to learn that Ben Bridgeman drives to work with his wife every day? No, I think he's... He says our daily commute. Yeah, they do work together. Oh. If I remember right.

That sounds terrible. We asked him about it. I thought he was saying he drives with Harper. But I perhaps misunderstood that email. He says thanks... That's a really cool name, though. From Ben Bridgeman, aka Ultra Runner Douche Guy on Reddit after hosting you boys at our

home. Yeah. And we have Kyler. Wait, what day is today? This is for next week. Next week? Not even tomorrow tomorrow saturday i have one from

wit blake i'm sending this to you because dan and jake don't understand long story short my wife and daughters leave for a vacation to visit her dad july 17th i return home july 18th from a work trip i will have the house to myself from July 19th to July 21st. Why those dates are important is because NCAA 25 comes out on July 19th. Wow, 72 straight hours then. So I'm not getting the early release because of the work trip, but how would the dumb zone maximize 72 hours of spouse and child-free college football gaming?

I have already taken PTO July 19th in order to be unburdened by the shackles of the man. I gave Witt to us. If your wife finds out that you took time off when she was gone, I believe that would really... Buddy, he's not going to be the only one. Yeah, Blake's right. So I sent Witt...

The economy may crash it'll be down for a couple days I sent wit about a paragraph that I wanted to share with our audience as well my advice to wit you're gonna need to stock up fridge full of your drink of choice

mine was always Mountain Dew in all of its affiliates code red game fuel and voltage start the night with an energy drink and then move to soda I now have a mini fridge next to me but before I did I went cooler next to me so I didn't have to waste time between games one move I always utilized was over order on pizza and pasta because they're good leftover also make sure you have cereal and fresh milk because that shit slaps the morning after a gaming session if you need a late night run Taco Bell is obviously the way to go. But keep in mind Dunkin' Donuts because of their late hours and their caffeinated beverages. Plus, if you time it right,

about 3 a.m., the overnight crew has begun making donuts for the next day and you can get them fresh. I always try to store up sleep the night before because you don't want to crash early or sleep away a lot of the next day. No matter how late you stay up, you have to be back on the sticks by noon. Lastly, I sometimes tried to plan a physical activity for the next afternoon. Pick up basketball, ultimate frisbee, backyard football, pool basketball, whatever. That way you get a little exercise and you come back refreshed for night two mentally and physically because you'll feel like shit. I mean... That's my advice for the 30-somethings

hitting NCAA. I can't hate on it, to be honest. That's what I've learned from my experience. That's how you maximize your gaming sessions. Okay. I love it. Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to do it. Maybe on the RV.

Tristan writes, again, these were just trickled in here to Waxahachie. It takes a while for the email to get to Waxahachie. Carrier pigeon, yeah. The subject line, ooh, it's July 11th. I'll just ignore that one then. It's a whole month off. July 11th I'll just ignore that one then It's a whole month off July 11th?

Oh, excuse me Isn't that today? Yeah Then why are you not doing it? Oh wait, today is the 11th Yeah I'm looking at the 9th on my Never mind

Today's a slurpy day Damn it 7-11 Alright, I can go back to Tristan She writes Slurpy Day. Damn it. 7-Eleven. All right. I can go back to Tristan. She writes, Hey, I know you guys do birthday shout-outs. I would so... A lot of O's.

Yep. Appreciate if you would give my husband a birthday shout-out today. And she has the little parentheses, colon, which is, I think, a smiley face. A smiley face, yeah. He absolutely loves y'all and has followed you guys from the beginning and is a diehard fan. His leaders are Jake's Big Phone, Dan's Bathroom Soaps,

and Blake's Hooker Makeup. Or Danny Bayless. Did you see what they were rocking here? What do they got? Clear skies. They had foaming soap and the other... Yeah, whatever you want. Wow.

I don't know what you call the other soap. That's hospitality. Wow. That is hospitality. She says, thank you guys. Tell him his wife loves him so much. Thank you. And no matter how many times I look at this email,

I can't find this husband's name. So her name appears to be Tristan Dotson. Now, is that her married name? Or, you know, some ladies will still have their maiden name on their email. So if you're married to somebody whose first name is Tristan and last name either was or is Dotson, and it's your birthday. Happy birthday.

And you're 27. She claims to love you so much that she sent in her leaders and then didn't include your name. It's a tough break. But she thought about us. And then I have, it is my Shekinah Strickland for the Atlanta Dream birthday. Jake?

No, I'm not doing that. And my dad Gene's Larry Cole birthday. Nope. 40 and 63. I'm sure my stepmom woke him up in that special way. Yeah. I'm pretty sure I've seen a documentary about that. Hopefully, I'll be taking the moose down Chisholm Trail later,

if you know what I'm saying. Leaders are Jake's Fastball, Dan's Shower Habits, and The Last 10% from Ryan Payne. Yikes. What documentaries are you watching? I got a couple more real quickies. They are not birthdays. It is this one entitled Jake's Drive from Houston.

As I sit here in Houston with the roof torn off my house, water in the walls, and with no power for 36 hours and counting, I just want to say I feel so bad for Jake's little driving experience. Listening to the pod up on the roof from Garrett. Oh, man. Yeah, you had a tough little eight-hour drive. Mike Renfro says, I saw another random 9-11 memorial. This was on a golf trip to Hot Springs Village in Arkansas.

I hope you're all doing well. Where Uncle Gary moved. Did he move from Arlington to Hot Springs? Yeah. I didn't know that. You do know that because I own a piece of property there. Oh, yeah. My mom bought a lot across from him. Like a quarter acre lot, right?

My mom bought a lot across from him. It's a quarter acre in this... There are thousands of acres in this and she bought... They were selling them. Don't you have to pay like $10 in taxes every year? I paid $10 in taxes, but then the neighborhood association fees are like...

More? Probably about $400 for the year. Whoa. See, I've owned it for 10 years now, so I paid $4,000 for something I'm never going to... $400 times 10? $4,000 for something I'm never going to... 400 times 10? 4,000. You got it.

Yes. Anyway, there's a 9-11 memorial. It's a bench. Okay. It's like a park bench that you sit on outside one of the holes, but it has some Twin Towers steel on it. And it says it's very spare, especially when you notice the company advertises their website

in the bottom right-hand corner of the bench. That's pretty cheap. And Nick in Washington rounds out email for today. He says, hey, Dan, listening to yesterday's SOAD, you asked Jake to rule on a potential Roseanne. May I suggest that you call this the Roseanne bar? As in, does this person pass the bar to be Roseanne? That's good.

That's pretty good. Thanks for continuing to play the William Pace open that I voiced for you guys. Keep doing what you're doing, Playboy Nick in Washington. I do think it's good. Thanks for continuing to play the William Pace Open that I voiced for you guys. Keep doing what you're doing, Playboy Nick in Washington. I do think it's good. Yeah, that's solid. Yeah, we can come up with that. Is it over the Roseanne Bar? Yeah. When I'm at Cowboys Stadium or sitting at home

And I hear Papa John's Pizza for Jerry Jones Yo, it lights me up like a Roman candle With toppings and flavor almost too good to handle Cowboys, five stars, what I get It's like a Papa John's Pepsi, double threat Get a Papa John's Large with up to five toppings And a two-liter Pepsi, people are swappers Cause there's no better value, y'all catch my rhyme Cowboys, five-star a two liter Pepsi. People are swallowing because there's no better value.

Y'all catch my ride. Cowboys five star combo for $10.99. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. I think France girl went and told... We bought, bought, bought, bought, bought, bought, bought. Like it was the funniest thing i've ever read

that is embarrassing no it's so embarrassed no puppet are you like me and when you hear their voices you just get stressed out yes yeah it's so bad now it's summer and when you guys do a show at my house now which we do occasionally high atop my garage um you know blake i don't know if you even know this bit but blake will bring his food but he doesn't eat right away yeah and he'll warm it up after the my garage. You know, Blake, I don't know if you even know this bit, but Blake will bring his food, but he doesn't eat right away. Yeah.

And he'll warm it up after the show. Yeah. Well, now he has to venture into the, into the kitchen. I know. And then, you know, he looks over there

and there she is. Headphones on. Headphones on. I know, which then I don't, do I acknowledge her presence, say hello, or do I just ignore her because she wants to be ignored? I don't know what to do.

I made a massive error the other day. I said, hey, thanks for keeping the cat alive. Oh, I heard that. She looked at me with a level of disdain that. Well, she told me later, she goes, Jake never talks to me. She was thrown off by Jake actually talking to her. She says, Kristen does the communication.

Yeah, and like I told you, I mean, she sent her like a five-paragraph text and he even replied with a thumb up. Right. So I don't know. I mean, I'm in the fits. She will worry. She doesn't flippantly do that.

She will walk over to me and go, what should I say? What should I do? How should I reply? Like she wants to, you know. I was just trying to be friendly, you know. She fed the cat for four days and and I said, hey, thanks for what you did. She can't lob the grenade that it's weird Jake has teenage girls in his phone and then get mad at him that he's not the one communicating with them.

Thank you. Look, if you want logic, you're not going to get it. Yeah. From her point of view. Actually got the girls together yesterday, and we do have now in the can another review. Fantastic. They have reviewed someone's song. Oh, no. Somebody else heard that and thought,

yeah, I want that for my song too. Yeah. No, they might have liked it. Time will tell. It's just a review. You'll'll have to find out so that's kind of a tease i'd also like to tease um i want to do a little more sports stuff and then we'll get to the news but uh tomorrow i'll save my hard knocks audio for tomorrow i watched hard knocks i watched the first one after you guys kind of put me on it the other day. Yeah, I didn't watch the first one because you guys, we already talked about it and stuff. I figured, oh, let me just get episode two.

Yeah. I don't know, man. It seems to me to be a documentary or a puff piece. a documentary or a puff piece, like Jordan is the one who commissioned, right, the last dance and it made Jordan look, Jordan's always going to look good, but it made Jordan look real good and all that. Yeah.

It seems like the guy who was behind this is the GM of the Giants. Right. Like even the opening part where they're like, dun, dun, dun, dun. Like it's a big inspirational thing in the beginning it's this nerd on the phone he's like oh you want to should we move up to you know i've got six and uh i just want you thinking about us if you're at the number three like it's just

it all seems to be about trying to create a superhero out of uh Joe Schoen Shane Schoen I saw the clip with Brian Dable and Drake May that definitely looked like it was created to make Brian Dable look like

he was not a complete fuck up I've got more of that tomorrow I have some audio for you but the one thing I wanted to say was not a complete fuck up. I've got more of that tomorrow. I have some audio for you, but the one thing I wanted to say was, so then, you know, after watching it and getting the audio ready,

it's a few minutes clip and I think we're going to spend too much time on it. I mean, for today. But I thought, okay, whose cousin is Joe Shane? Oh, no. And it kind of looks like no one.

Okay, fantastic. Yeah, that was covered in the first episode. He played college football at DePaul, DePaul with a W. Not DePaul. Right, DePaul. So you've kind of heard of that, right? Yeah, typically around March Madness. DePaul with a W. Not DePaul. Right. DePaul. So you've kind of heard of that, right? Yeah.

Typically around March Madness. He was a big fan of Joe Kemp. Well, I don't know who imitated who. He started as a quarterback as a freshman and then moved to wide receiver for his final three years. Joe played two years, but fantastic. Graduated, began his career as a scouting assistant for the Carolina Panthers

the year he graduated. Hired as an area scout in 2002. Joined the Dolphins as a scout in 2008. Got promoted to assistant director of college scouting, promoted to director of player personnel by 2014, so six years there with the Dolphins.

Then he gets hired by the Bills as their assistant GM. And then, you know, once you're with a team that's doing well and winning and stuff, they're like, oh, who's the assistant? Take him over. Yeah. And so he ends up getting the Giants job. And then, you know, he ended up taking Dable from Buffalo. I mean, respect.

Yeah. It doesn't seem like he knew a guy. It doesn't seem – I mean, yeah. It doesn't seem like his mom was dating Eli Manning or anything. The Mike B. Danny one is kind of a tough one. He did grind. Sure, and a lot of guys are great at what they do, but... That's not the same as being the son of the guy who founded FedEx.

But he still gets the door opened. Yeah. Again, all these guys. They got the door opened. Joe Buck is great. He got the door open pretty wide. Yeah. There's other people who could be as great.

Yeah. But they did not have anywhere near the access to the door. This is coming soon, so I want to get us going. Oh, geez. It's going to be Olympic time soon. Oh, no. When is the Olympics? Next week?

I think so, yeah. Black Olympics. My team didn't make it, so I'm not really that into it. Oh, by the way. Black Olympics. This is the Marty B theme. All right. So we know.

So the U.S., USA Basketball won their first game last night somehow, So the U.S., USA Basketball won their first game last night somehow. Mm-hmm. Overcoming the two points from Dwight Powell to defeat Team Canada. Dwight Powell is Team Canada's starting center. Why? SGA is. Why are you laughing at Dwight Powell? Did you know SGA is Canadian?

Yeah. Huh. Okay. And Dylan Brooks. Should I have known that?ne is Canadian. Yeah. Oh, okay. And Dylan should I have known that? Well, okay. Anyway, um, but the account, uh, did Dwight Powell get hit in the face tonight? Got a rare summer appearance.

Yeah, he did. Right. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, if you're interested in USA basketball and seeing LeBron become a champion again, that's really what we're all here for. Disgusting.

The mayor of Paris. Do you remember I was telling you about this? This was actually a big topic at the barbershop of the weekend. Oh, yeah. Gonna swim? The mayor of Paris told French radio yesterday that she would swim in the city's River Seine

next week. And I was talking to my daughter about this and I said, because she was in France. That's Eden went to France. What's the mayor of Paris look like?

To study. Jake is interested. I'm interested. Yeah. It's the mayor of Paris, right? I mean, you gotta, you can't be rude if you're,

it's Paris. Yeah. City of love. Oh, God. Anyway, my daughter had been in Paris all spring and she's like,

they're gonna swim in that? She says it's disgusting. There was no sign to her of them doing a $1.5 billion cleanup, which they claim that they have done. And the mayor said, remember, like, she had vowed to swim in the river because I guess they're doing some events, not the, you know, the 100-meter butterfly or whatever. It's like the decathlon.

You're going to be swimming in the river. Yeah. What you just said, you don't know what that means. No. I just want to be very clear. Triathlon. Okay. Not the decathlon.

Decathlon, you don't swim. Not. Do you? I think you do. I don't know, man. In the decathlon. The decathlon you don't swim. Not. Do you? I think you do. I don't know, man. In the decathlon? The triathlon you swim. What do you think?

Look up decathlon. It's where you don't have any cath, cath, cathleen. No? No one says decathlon. Ten track and field events. There's no swimming, I think.

Two consecutive days. But I'm guessing. Triathlon. Okay. There will be swimming. The mayor said, because people are really questioning. Like, really? They're going to have it?

Like, this river is gross, man. There's no way that people can swim in this um so she had said she would swim in the Seine uh so did the leader of the country Macron Macron um like a month ago she postponed it to like last week and now she postponed it again to next week. Macron was smart. He did not ever set a date. She keeps setting a date, so people keep going, hey, look what day it is.

And then she's like, oh, yeah, I'm going to do it next week. I'm busy. So last week she said the Sen is not the priority right now because of the snap election campaign, which you might have to explain to me at some point. Was it a quick election they didn't expect to have? Yeah, so I don't know that much about it. I feel like we talked about this the other day. Maybe it was off the air,

but they can just have an election. Like, hey, we need an election now. This guy sucks. Let's get an election. Yeah. It's not the same as it is here. Can't they do that? I think some governors have had that happen in California.

Well, you have a recall. Okay. That's how Willis or somebody, right? I don't know what you're saying right there. Was it Webster? Somebody ran for governor who was a black midget. I'm sorry. Oh, you're thinking of Gary Coleman?

But do you not recall that? No. Ran for governor. No. Yeah, and I believe that's actually around the time that Arnold won. Okay. Yeah. Well, anyway, they do say that tests last week for the first time

showed acceptable bacteria levels. Would you go in something if somebody said to you... Acceptable. It's acceptable. It's acceptable. I feel like I want way higher bar than acceptable bacteria levels. Yeah. And so, yes. That doesn't seem great.

We apparently are going to get the mare that Blake is highly interested in in a bathing suit in the Seine next week. All right. In a bathing suit in the Seine next week. All right. But it'll probably be like some super lame French bathing suit. Yeah. I thought they invented the bikini, man.

Yeah, but like... And then they do topless stuff, right? That's what I always hear. But, you know, she's going to have something way too tasteful on. Wouldn't you expect? The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics will take place on the Seine on July 26th

if the currents are not too strong. A recent rehearsal on June 24th was cancelled because of strong water flows caused by heavy rainfall. And that's today's look at the Olympics. Here's Jake with the Dumb Zone News. A popular social media personality with over 155,000...

Thank you. I don't know if... It's not Dan McDowell. Oh. Over 150,000 followers was arrested last week in Flower Mound. Police say he shot his girlfriend in the face following an argument. Brings up the question. What happens if I commit a crime?

Or you, or you, or even you. Yeah, we've done this. We did it yesterday. Tuesday? Tuesday. This is the exact same question you brought up. Okay. Yeah.

Sorry. My bad. But he shot his girlfriend? Yeah. I don't remember hearing that detail. Yeah. Yeah, because in looking him up. So that was like the new detail of it today. Not that

he was just arrested. He shot his girlfriend. Ouch. Because a lot of his content was girlfriend related. I would say ouch, sure. No, I just... That's smarts. They just did a lot of like couple stuff. How's smarts doing? I don't think well. You don't think so?

Can't say I've heard it ever really. That's smarts. Sorry, Blake, what were you saying? You're making this great point. Thank you. No, I just, in looking this guy up and looking at his content and stuff, it was a lot of, like, couples-based stuff.

Yeah. So it just seemed like maybe he just got tired of her. And, yeah, that's the thing is you just don't want to become a wife guy. A wife guy? Yeah. Where you're showing people you love your wife? Yeah. Because when you kill her?

Or whatever. See, that must be such a weird tightrope to walk for the young guy that's dating now. tightrope to walk for the young guy that's dating now. Like, there's probably a lot of pressure

for the avatar or, you know, just to post pictures of you guys together. Yeah. And if you're not, especially if you're a guy who's got

some level of following, like, oh, you got over 100,000 followers. Like, I might want a little of that clout. So I'm going to give you this little home base access. And now I, you got over 100,000 followers. Like I might want a little of that clout. So I'm going to give you this little home base access. And now I, you know, when am I getting up on there?

Up on there? Up on your site, you know, on whatever. I thought you meant on. You were probably a little older, but you probably went through that little phase of Facebook, right? Where you got to. Yeah. In a relationship with, you change your profile picture and all that.

I definitely was in that phase. Yeah, I definitely did have some level of that, but then I met Dan and he made fun of me. And you deleted Facebook. And I just deleted Facebook. Because didn't you put a picture

of you and Kristen on there? And we pointed it out some Monday, like, oh, look. Whatever it is. He says I like, oh look. Whatever it is that you remember it to be, it's not that. Oh, come on. That's fun. But I do

think that I put like in a relationship. That's it? Yeah. I thought it was her picture. No, I mean I think I put in a relationship and then by like two months later it was you take off your mother-in-law's birthday

yeah like you took off yeah you guys celebrate the day that you told social media that's right and then yeah like if you break up what do you do and some breakups are like you kind of know you're going to get back together but what if you break up. What do you do? And some breakups are like, you kind of know you're going to get back together.

But what if you totally, you know, then do you take her pictures off of your. Yeah, you scrub. Do you have, because you're a gram guy. Do you have pictures of any previous girlfriends on the Instagram? No, I was a scrub guy. We've talked about this. Yeah, he scrubbed.

You leave me or whatever, we break up. I'm not scrub guy. We've talked about this. Yeah, he scrubbed. You leave me or whatever, we break up. I'm not good enough. Like, no, I don't want a record of you at all. Okay. So you don't, see, that's why social media or looking back through it to determine someone's life is probably skewed. It's the life that you want us to think that you have. You want to remember.

Yeah. But I mean, the other thing is, is like if you're like an obsessive type, that's all you'll us to think that you have. You want to remember. Yeah. But the other thing is if you're an obsessive type, that's all you'll do is just stare at it. What do you mean? Oh, look at these good memories I used to have back when I had her. Or if you have an obsessive type as your new lady, she's certainly going to be wondering why these are still on there. It's just best to just get rid of it, in my

opinion. Or, like Jake, just not have it. Or just delete it. Or like Dan, and never put it up in the first place. That's probably the way to go. Yeah, but I mean, he skated era-wise. Although, no, because now, my era

is on Facebook. That's true, too. My wife knows I'm on Facebook. That's true too. My wife knows I'm on Facebook, but I never, like I truly check every few months or something. But she once sent a friend request and I just didn't, I pretended I didn't see it.

Didn't even accept your wife. She's never said anything about it because I'm friends with some people that she's friends with. Yeah. I pretended I didn't see it. Didn't even accept your wife. She's never said anything about it. Because I'm friends with some people that she's friends with. Yeah. Like I'll get a friend request from Steve or something, you know, Jennifer's husband. And I'll be like, oh, okay. I like Steve. And then Jennifer is like, oh, I see Steve as friend to Dan.

I'll friend Dan. Oh, absolutely. And I'll go, okay, Jennifer. Yeah, I'm friends with her. I'll friend Dan and I'll go, okay, Jennifer, yeah, I'm friends with her. And then my wife will see, hey, wait, my friends Steve and Jennifer are both friends with my husband. I should just add him and see what he's doing on there. No.

I get enough of you already. I can't bring sand to the beach. No. Of Facebook. And I don't do anything on there. I just thought it'd be weird. Did you guys know that Shelley Duvall was from Fort Worth? Um,

I may have heard that at one point. Well, she's dead now. Olive oil. Shelley Duvall. The Shining. The Shining wife. Have you seen The Shining? No. Ooh.

I don't know if it's good or not, but it's interesting. I mean, I'm not like a horror movie guy, you know? Is that the one where Jack Nicholson's a little crazy? Yeah, it's one of those. He's a little crazy. Yeah, it's one of those. He's a little crazy. Yeah, I guess that does not narrow down the Jack Nicholson movie. No, it does not.

No, it does not. I'm more of a fan of the movie than I am the book. That's weird. I have since learned that Stephen King hates the movie. Oh, really? Because he doesn't like how, you know, they'll reinterpret it a different way. Yeah.

The book is very, I think I might have told you this before, the book pretty much has literal ghosts that do stuff. Whereas to me, the way the movie is and the way I think of it is you're going up to this remote area where you're locked in and you're stuck

for six months, right? And you have no access to the outside world at all. And you are driven crazy by this. Yeah, so it's all psychological. Yeah, Jack Nicholson had a, you know, his character had a former, actually had some mental issues or whatever. Right.

Heading into it. And then he takes this job where he's watching over this old hotel for the winter. And it's you can only access it by one winding mountainous road. And once the winter hits, though,

you cannot get up there or get back down, unless like a snowmobile or whatever, helicopter perhaps. The thing is, though, so to me, that's cool. Like you get driven mad. By the isolation. In the book, it's that. You get driven mad. By the isolation. In the book,

it's that the hotel is actually haunted and he's going crazy and he chases his wife with an axe and everything and she ends up locking him in the cooler, the refrigerator or whatever. In the book, a ghost unlocks it and then he gets out

and you can chase him again. And I thought, that sucks. Yeah. Like, this is supposed to be a— That feels like a narrative device that is unnecessary. Like, it's supposed to be he thinks he's seeing ghosts. Right. He's so crazy that he's talking to—but the book lays it out, and so Stephen King is mad that they turned it into a, you know, he just goes crazy.

And I'm agreeing with Stanley Kubrick on this one. You're a purist. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know that that's the way you'd label it. But I like it. I like the word. Makes me sound cool.

Nobody ever, like, forced that upon you? Not, like, ghost sex but uh watching the movie no no my dad was more into like blood sport yeah for sure he wasn't a movie critic by any means look you guys know my dad yeah it's not like he's over here watching Clockwork Orange. A woman who was recorded up her skirt by an Irving voyeur has spoken out with Fox 4 News.

Oh yeah? Yeah. What'd she have to say? What she had to say was Say that again? It was thrilling. What a ride. I'm just I'm humbled She was in a Dallas Walmart. that he would want to look up my skirt. Say that again? It was thrilling. What a ride.

I'm just, I'm humbled. She was in a Dallas Walmart. That he would want to look up my skirt. What did Charlotte say? So, obviously, that's like the first thing we all think of. She said, the halftime show on Thanksgiving will be... Kane Brown. Hope you're enjoying the Netflix documentary. It was...

Boy, I forgot. I got to get back on Cheerleaders. Yeah, I watched like two more after we had Sarah on and then kind of a little bit, but it's really good. Here's what's really funny, though, is I wanted you guys to see this photo of this guy. He's just like, yep, I did it. Yeah, that is a very...

You got me. Yeah, he doesn't look remorseful. He does not. You know the photo we want, though. What's that, Dan? The lady. I knew. Let's just see if...

Should she say she's humbled and honored? So he was sentenced to one year for secretly recording her on two separate occasions. That's probably a lot less than Ethan Couch got for running over. I think that's true.

She was four to five months pregnant at the time. Hey now. Okay. This is according to an interview that she did this morning with Fox 4 News. At first I was thinking, why do you go back? Was it dilating?

Right. What changed? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. To be honest, I don't even really know what that means. I always thought it meant the hole's just getting bigger. Does it? Right?

Because they keep giving you centimeters and stuff, and now it's bigger. You're like, oh, okay. I guess the baby will fit now, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's like a sinkhole. A sinkhole? Yeah.

Then they stitch it back up you guys like did you know anybody in in high school or whatever that was like I'm gonna try to take an upskirt photo you're like that's patently disgusting no I knew the kid never know anyone who would glance. It was always like a... Like a... Somebody would have like a shoe mirror. I mean, you've always heard about it.

I've never thought that that's... That's disgusting. I've never been attracted by that area of the body to tell you the truth. Like, I like the uptops. I mean, it's...

I don't want to look down... Down there, it's just... Go. Go ahead. I mean, it's... I don't want to look down there. It's just... Go ahead. I might have grown up in more of a jungle era than you as well. It might be more pleasant to look at these days.

It's not. It's really not. How do you guys, how does your era not get, especially Blake's era, not get labeled as pedophiles? If you're saying that I could be labeled as a pedophile because I'd say I'd rather have mouth braces than leg braces, when we're going full waxing down there, it's like, hey, let's try to make it look as much not like an older person as we can.

I don't really think full wax is like a... That's not really what's happening anymore. Just full... It's not all linoleum down there. There is a small... Linoleum? Just a little carpet. Yeah, I think Jake would have more info on this.

Why? You seem to know more about what women have going on and the trends down there. I mean, the porn community would... I just think pubes are still a thing. Now, is it like it was 35 years ago? No. No, and you could thank us for that

because we started that. Yeah. Like, we were the first generation that said, hey, got this beard trimmer. It doesn't have to be just on your face. What if we did a little sculpting down there? Yeah. So you're welcome, dudes. Thanks, Dan.

Yeah. Wasn't it more of like an odor thing? Oh, my God. Well, I don't think shaving takes that away, does it? I think it helps. I mean, fish don't have hair. All right, there's your news. I'll save the rest of it.

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Gene? At least Gene. Gene's a big man. He's fairly tall. He's a very tall man. If Jake is saying that, then you know he's tall. He could At least Gene. Gene's a big man. He's fairly tall. He's a very tall man. If Jake is saying that, then you know he's tall. He could probably dunk on me.

Hey, do you want to join us for this? Tom is... We're at Tom's house here in Waxahachie. I would say this is an estate. It does feel like an estate. What kind of acreage we got here? Ten acres. Ten acres.

Have you ever walked at all? Absolutely. Oh, okay. Yeah. How long does that take? You ever mow at all? I used to, before I had horses, I used to sit on the very cathartic to sit on that mower for a couple hours

and have nice hot temperature and smell the grass and love it. This is a great place, man. Is that what Kathy says? Cathartic? No, hers is, she needs a cigarette after. Well, Tom, today is Thursday, July 11th. We all know that. 7-11 day.

Get your slurpy. On this day in 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr was in a duel with Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. So that's how they used to settle stuff. Mm-hmm. A pistol duel. What? I mean... I guess... Could you be in a different kind of a duel?

Maybe swords? I suppose slap. Right? A slap? Muskets. Musket? I don't know. So does that mean you take ten paces this way and you turn and shoot?

Like that type of thing? That's what I've always thought. Anyway, he shot him. Vice President Burr was the better shot. Shot Hamilton. Hamilton would die the next day. Or would Hamilton die? Tune in tomorrow.

You know what? You know what? That's not to spoil tomorrow's end of the show, but that's actually impressive to me that you could stay alive 225 years ago for a day with a gunshot wound. But it probably was a superficial wound. It was a wound that today, they would get it out of there, you'd live. But they didn't have, right?

Yeah, that's probably true. Yeah. That's probably true. On this day in 1989, Nolan Ryan became the oldest pitcher to win an All-Star game. He was 42 years old. On the telecast, former president Ronald Reagan did one inning of color commentary. The American League won 5-3. Oh, he was with the Rangers at that time, huh?

89? This was the first All-Star game featuring a designated hitter. Witchcraft. Now they got... Everybody's got designated hitters now, right? Yeah. Trans people play. So, Jake, you know about this.

On this day in 1995, the National League defeats the American League in the All-Star Game 3-2. Yep. Just talking about this. At the ballpark in Arlington. Yep. Do you know the starting pitcher for the National League that day? Was it not?

Hideo, Hideo. No more pitch and no runners come home. Hideo, Hideo. No more 16, Hideo, no more. Hideo. This is the acapella version. You know I have like six versions. We got it. One strike, two strikes, three strikes. It was pretty awesome, man.

At the Home Run Derby. you didn't go to the game. I didn't go to the game, but I went to batting practice and stuff. So I got to see Nomo do long toss. So you do the same long toss? You had to pause? Legitimately, yes. Oh, really? Yes.

Legitimately, yes. Oh, really? Yes. On this day in 2014, LeBron James, who had left Miami, or excuse me, Cleveland for Miami in 2010, announced he was returning to the Cavs. Remember that? I do.

All those people had to piece their jerseys back together. He put it on Sports Illustrated's website. My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now. I remember exactly where I was. We were upstairs. In the meeting room?

The upstairs meeting room? Yeah. It was a Lee... What's his name? Lee Thompson? What's the writer's name? S.I. Ryder. Hunter S. Thompson. No, it wasn't Hunter S. Thompson. Lee Greenwood? Lee Majors.

No, it wasn't Lee Majors. Anyways, whatever. Bruce Lee! Lee Stevens? Say Lee Puck. That was a bad one. I ruined it all. That was during the era where I moved our meeting upstairs

because I didn't like the fact that I can say this, right? Yeah. Yeah, I didn't like the fact that our boss's office was next to our meeting room. So I just like commandeered a room upstairs so we could speak freely. Also, there was a lot more room up there. I liked it. There was a lot more room.

Yeah. Much bigger room. Huge table. And it was unused. Yeah. Yeah. there i like it was a lot more room yeah big much bigger room huge table and it was unused yeah yeah and it felt like kind of like it feels like our studio now it was like our place yeah like yeah yeah everyone else meets in this other room we meet in this one yeah i didn't do much for bad radio but i did get the meeting room moved. You got us all digitized. There's a clear date of when...

That's true. Bob will text me, hey, I'm looking for this interview. We did. He wants to replay it now. And I'll be like, that was 2010. Pre-Jake.

Right, pre-Jake. I think Jake was like 2013, 11. 12, yeah, something like that. Yeah. Anyway, on this day in 2018, John Schnatter. Why does this keep coming up? The founder of Papa John's resigned as chairman of the board of the pizza chain and apologized for using a racial slur during a conference call in May.

Yeah. and apologized for using a racial slur during a conference call in May. Yeah. But did the quality of the pizza remain the same? You know what? I don't think it did. I don't think it did. It was the fundamentals, right?

The fundamentals of pizza making. And on this day in 1877, a famous wedding where scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell at the age of 30 married Mabel Hubbard. Uh-oh. Mabel ain't coming back. No. You sure? Nora seems to be a cool coming back name.

Mabel, though, just feels like that's going to stay there yeah it feels fat anyway she was no one disagreed with me no yeah Tom liked it

she was 19 that's but if you're 30 150 years ago 19 years big deal 30 marrying a 19 year old just feels

weird but I suppose yes in 1877 that was was ripe childbearing age. There's nothing wrong with that at that time. At that time, you've thrown on the caveat. Like, right now, you would think that's a little wild. Yeah, I mean, I think, as I've told you before, the girl who was like the hot senior in your class who had like a 25-year-old boyfriend.

Damn, I'll never forget. Didn't love that. Never forget. Didn't love that at all. But 1877, come on. You know our hot girl that was dating a 25-year-old? I've seen her on Facebook. This is why it's still on.

It didn't go that great. Didn't hold up. It didn't go that great for her. No, people that peak in high school. I dodged that bullet. Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking about this the other night.

Not that, but just like the guy who was the best athlete in your grade, in like eighth or ninth grade. Dude, ours... It never works out. Our two best athletes, yeah, they ended up... They never really kept growing and they ended up... Peaked early. They were fair soccer players.

Yeah. But they weren't like, they were dominating everything up until... Yeah. Yeah. That's what's somewhat weird about my brother. Because he dominated... From like four years old.

From birth. Yeah. But that's very uncommon. How is your brother? I think he's good. We heard on Tuesday that he bets on Bobby Witt Jr. to hit a home run every day. He does do that. Did you see the Bobby Althoff news?

Didn't we just do this? Now you're telling me that I'm forgetting stuff? No, I think this happened on Tuesday night. Yeah, there's new news. She got hammered or something? I think this was this happened on Tuesday night. Yeah, there's new news. Like she got hammered or something? Carried out of a restaurant or something. By Sean Murphy Bunting.

Very confused by all of that. We'll have to get into that tomorrow. Write that down. Yeah, is she the I don't want to judge, but it seems like she's kind of the worst mom ever. Yeah. But I'll save the rest for tomorrow.

I could fix her. No, you couldn't. Former Cowboy Dalton Schultz is 28. Good friend of mine. Former Cowboy Dale Hellestray is 62. Is he the one that's in the pot? No. That is Mark...

Two in it. No. Step is Mark... Two in a... No. Stepnoski? Two in a... Stepnoski. Dead. He would have been better off. Right.

With just in the pot. Yeah. Right. Other than the speedball. Former cowboy Phil Costa is 37. Is he in the band? He dated someone famous, right? It was Hulk Hogan's daughter.

And yes, he was in a band called Free Reign. R-E-I-G-I-N. Nice. With Leonard Davis. Hoke him. Yes. It was a very rare black guy

in a metal band. And who was the other one? Damn it. I don't remember, but you're right. Yeah. Oh, Mark Colombo. Mark Colombo. There you go.

Was Mark Colombo the guy that everybody said had a real modest... No. ...home in Flower Mound or something? Louisville? Mowed his own lawn? No. I'm getting that white lineman mixed up with another white lineman. Yeah.

It says here for Mark Colombo on the Kimspin list, which you can check for yourself at Kimspin.com. It's fantastic. Yeah. At training camp, Dan asked him what his first band was, and he wouldn't admit it was called Black Muff. It was called Black Muff, yeah. This is going to drive me crazy, though, now, Dan. Did I mention the white lineman who was unassuming? I don't think it was Mark Colombo.

I don't think it was Phil Costa. We should call Bob. We can. I don't think it was Mark Colombo. I don't think it was Phil Costa. We should call Bob. We can. I know. Joe Pavelski is 40. Joe Pa. That's what they call him. That's right.

They took down his statue. Do you think that's a regretful career move from Al Pacino? That movie sucked, right? What movie? Am I crazy? Did he do a Paterno movie? I don't remember that. But I'm not movie guy.

Okay. Sorry. Was it the one where Jack Nicholson was a little bit crazy? No, it wasn't. Okay. Yeah. But called Paterno. Yeah.

Hmm. Who knew? Screw me. It was a very popular movie at the time. It says here Pacino regrets filming the scenes with the boys. Yeah, I could see that. Eduardo Nahara is 48. Nahara. Joey Bosa, 29.

Zeke. Patrick Peterson is 34. Pat Peet. Where's he now? Out of the league? Yeah, he had a year or two in Pittsburgh, and I think he's done. Yeah, I think so. Boy, that flame burned bright, man.

Oh, dude. Is that what happens to cornerbacks? Yeah. You just can't lose half a step? No. You're either great or you're out of the league? Yeah. That's too bad.

I'm really not ready for there to be a white one. Or did he finish in Minnesota? He definitely finished in Minnesota. Okay. Yeah, there is a white cornerback now, right? Cooper Dijon? Yeah. Isn't it perfect?

He plays for Philly? It's too perfect. Nadia Sewellman is 49. Octomom? Octomom. I didn't know if anybody would know that name. Come on, bro. Sorry.

Now, what's Octomom? Put some respect on my name. She just had eight kids? I think she had like 13, but she had eight at once. Oh. She's on the list. That thing's dilating okay fair enough yeah eight at once i think in you know it's something you and i have talked about before too like i'm pretty sure she was

heavily knocked up on fertility drugs what's up with... Remember John and Kate plus eight? Yeah. He... I think they both cheated pretty hard. Well, she should have. He was nothing. I thought she was out of his league. Yeah, but...

She was pretty good. She had all them kids. She did have all them kids. Mm-hmm. And she came up with that goofy-ass haircut that everybody copied for a while. And I think they, like, got famous, and then he... Just started tagging everyone in their orbit. Yeah.

Hey, it's me. I'm John. Man, I want that. Do you? Yeah, I want to tag everyone, man. I don't believe you. I'd be everyone, man. I don't believe you. I'd be so into it. I don't believe you at all.

I think you'd get to like two and then be done. My bedroom arsenal. I've been saving up so much. Like there's a lot of tread left on these tires. I haven't been wearing them out. I still have that pink horsepower or whatever it's called if you need it. It's like your arm. Yeah.

All the 90-mile-an-hour fastballs you have saved up by not throwing them all these years. Mm-hmm. My ranger guy said if you could prove that you can throw 70, he'll put your name in for the first pitch that day. Okay. He can't. There's no way you could throw 70.

No way. Why are you shaking your head? I just... Because you're too nervous to do the first pitch? No, I... Nervous? Me? I'm not nervous.

I just... They got to have Jonah Heim set up before the plate. I wish that there was a time in my life where Dan believed in me. Like, don't pitch off the mound, dude. No, just stay in front of the mound. No, he absolutely can throw 70. No doubt. Come over the top. Yeah.

But he doesn't. He's all elbow. Dude, I was winging the shit out of it. See, Jake doesn't understand the reverse psychology I'm using on you. All right. Middle C, you guys want me to play you a little tune over here? Can we get a guy with a gun? At his place.

We have the gun. We may need video proof. Yeah, we need to get out there. You go out. I don't want to scout. I just want to show up as is. I don't want you there. Yeah. No. I don't want to I don't want to scout I just want to show up As is I don't want you there Yeah

No I don't want to see your arm angle When it goes 12 to 6 I want you to be You're not throwing curveballs You're going to be lucky To hit 60 Okay

I know my ball Actor Bruce McGill. What's he got? He's from Animal House. He was born in San Antonio. I think that movie holds up, but I'm not sure. And I'd like to watch it again sometime in a theater near you. I'm not a huge fan.

But that's possibly more like on my end. It might not hold up. Yeah. Like I used to defend Dumb and Dumber and then I've watched it and it's like, ah. Yeah. Holds up. I mean, I sat next to you at Coming to America and I wasn't arguing with you when you were like, where's the good part? Like, this isn't what I remember.

Yeah. Richie Sambora is 65. Bon Jovi? Bon Jovi. I think he's... Is he married to someone famous? He was. Heather Locklear?

Is that it? That sounds right. Yeah. Northeast guy over here knows. Scott Schreiner is 59. Don't know it. Weezer. Jesus Christ, man. What?

You think that's low level for me to bring up? No, I just feel like if the people in Weezer are 59 then I'm about to die. Oh, yeah. Well, you are. That hurts. And two Lil rappers. Lil Zayn, 43.

Lil Kim, 50. She's fat. She's not fat. She's perfect. It's from a movie. Oh. What movie? Since we don't watch your movies and you don't watch ours.

Meet the Parents? I thought y'all were in on that. Don't remember that one. He will bring up a really obscure line, though, and then he'll prove it to me the next day it was in there. Like the Stepbrothers bit. His luggage got lost. He needed some clothes from Danny.

It was in his room because Danny was smoking weed on the roof. Comes in. There's a little Kim poster. He's trying to act cool and he's like, Lil' Kim, she's fat. That's great information. Born on the state, now dead. John Quincy Adams, U.S. President number?

Six. Very good. His dad was two. He was six. Didn't they make a like an HBO show about him? I think about the dad. Oh, for real?

Yeah. It was with the son of A. Bartlett Giamatti. Paul Giamatti. Paul Giamatti? Yeah, wasn't he John Adams? He's commonly just known as Paul Giamatti? Yeah, wasn't he John Adams? He's commonly just known as Paul Giamatti. And Ludwig Stumpfegger.

Born of a standout eddy. He's Hitler's personal physician. Fart guy. Died on this day, still dead. George Gershwin. Okay. When did he die? George Gershwin okay when did he die a lot later than I

I assume yeah oh is that am I telling yeah I think so 1980 I would have thought

yeah he he and Beethoven were friends perhaps yeah maybe Christ yeah

Brahms right that's a name Friends, perhaps. Maybe Christ. Yeah. Brahms. Right? That's a name? Yeah. He died in 1937. That's a lot later than I would have thought. Yeah.

Yeah. And died on this day in 1987, Tom Waddle, the founder of the Gay Olympics. I don't know, dude. It's kind of like we were talking about the choir the other day, you know? Like what? If you're in the choir, probably don't. No, no, no, no. Probably don't need a gay choir. You're just saying the Olympics was the gay Olympics? And that was Today in History. Oh, man.

Sorry. Oh. Well, we're now at that point. Tom Vendry. How do you say your last name? Vendrys. Vendrys. Yes, sir.

It's probably a lot easier than I made it out to be. Thanks for having us, man. This is a good bit. Love your house. This is a great house. It's been fantastic having you all here. Can I move in? Absolutely. You guys can have your show here anytime.. Can I move in? Absolutely.

You guys can have your show here anytime. And you can move in if you want. Work out. I think I'm getting kicked out. Of the Brent House? Just from my life. Oh. Tom emailed us on July 26th, 2023.

Man, how they couldn't figure this out, I don't know. Same. You're pros. And then he wanted us to come back to broadcasting on a different platform. And then we saw that email and we're like, ah, what a good idea. That's a different platform. And then we saw that email and we're like, ah, what a good idea. That's a fantastic idea.

I had not thought of that at all. And then interesting, Tom, then you went dark on us until like June of this year and then you've peppered us with emails recently compared to none. Well, as things changed, the place you used to work at,

I don't need to say who that was, I became more disenchanted and disenchanted. Stay in front of the mic, kind of. Can you hear me okay? Yeah, yeah. All right, sorry. I became more disenchanted with it. And when the freak came about, I said, okay, let me get behind this.

And when that imploded, I followed you on and off. But when that imploded, then I got all in behind you. See, it's funny because we were... I'm interrupting you sorry but we've been we

I've been looking at the sub numbers and everything and it did have like a nice bump of a few hundred and I looking back

I'm saying the freak ending gave us a big bump and now it's a we're crawling along again. We're not generally going down, but we're not going up by 300 in a couple weeks. And so I know we were trying to figure out at the time, like, hey, we're doing some new social media stuff. We're doing this and that. And I think we just need more radio stations to go off the air.

And I think that's the real key well i think it's you know what we all experience when we're all trying to make something happen and and grow uh is going to require a lot of patience and grinding i mean it just does and what you all have accomplished so far, because I started to look at the situation from, I don't really know anything about the podcast arena, but I just went into some numbers. I'm sure you all know the numbers inside and out, but I don't know if a lot of people out there do.

But 90% of podcasts that start don't make it past three episodes. And you're at 198. Wow. Okay? So this isn't an accident. This isn't like, oh, you know, we just got lucky. You guys are pros. You're coming in from a starting point where most people will never get to.

I mean, you're seasoned producers. You're seasoned announcers on the top five market in the country and you're very successful so this all makes sense to me the next stat that really jumped out at me that only 10% make it to 50 episode 50 episodes which is an amazing stat, I thought you just gave 90% don't make it past three. 90% don't get past 10. And then 10%.

And then, yeah. That makes sense. 10%, yeah. Well, if you get past 10. Oh, you're saying so of that 10% of the original 100. They only make it past 50. Yeah.

Only 10% of that 10%. And they don't have the content. They don't have the talent. And the other thing I noticed because I just, I tuned into a couple of different podcasts. I'm not a big podcast guy. I don't know how you guys consume as many TV shows and podcasts as you do. Just from my job and what I do, it's very time consuming.

So I have to kind of pick something and go with it. consuming so i have to kind of pick something and go with it and uh i really do only have one or two podcasts that i regularly listen to the whole thing yeah and then others i will chime in at like uh i'll listen to windhorse every week but like jake will be like did you see the low post no i didn't then then i'll go if there's someone that i'm interested that's pretty much how i am yeah yeah so there's a lot there and and i. That's pretty much how I am. Yeah. So there's a lot there. And I think it's your experience and your preparation. People are not willing to put the time in. And you are.

And this is true of just about every business I've been involved with. And in my experiences is that there's a lot of people that say what they want to do and they never really do it. And you guys stepped away from a situation which was very safe, and others are going to be on the outside looking in by the time you're done. There's no doubt in my mind. So I just think it's fantastic. I wish I had his confidence. I know. I was going to say, this guy's got a cool house.

His wife is hot. I didn't have a cool house 25 years ago. I didn't have any of that. But just staying focused and working your ass off and being relentless, it really is the key. And I know a lot of people say that. I don't know if we have those things. You do.

No, you do. And what's amazing to me is that over the years of listening to you, sitting in my car, you know, after getting my ass kicked or whatever, trying to, you know, make something happen, then you come up short. And at first I thought it was shtick. You know, you have, I almost feel like the way you handle a lot of situations, when somebody comes at you as something you know just a fact they'll say they'll say it as a fact and you'll say really you really think so because i think this is almost like dirk with a step a step back shot nobody's gonna block that and i i don't know if that's a great analogy or not but the way you come across from when i first started listening to you i never would have thought you would have walked away but the more i come across from when i first started listening to you i never would

have thought you would have walked away but the more i listened the more i listened i says yeah and actually i thought you were going to leave when it was bob and dan when you had an offer which i believe was was for more to go elsewhere and you stayed yeah what happened with that dan yeah no you're right uh we were offered more to go elsewhere. Like, I've mentioned this a couple times. This is, I'm not good at this. I keep taking the road to get paid less. With less money, yeah.

Like, this would have made sense, all the sense in the world, if Dan and Jake left because they were going to double their salaries. Yeah. When in fact... What about a third? There's only one guy here who's doubling his salary.

Damn it. Wow. And the only punishment he gets is he has to admit that on the air and say, damn it, and act like he's upset about it when he goes home and... Count money. He's got a fur sink and a gold toilet. and say damn it and act like he's upset about it when he goes home and yeah he's got a fur sink and a gold toilet fur sink

well as I said before the sound quality from listening to other podcasts and listening to this is top shelf I will say that well thanks for having us man and can I just give you

a couple of gifts real quick? Of course. I'm sorry Jake was trying to usher you on. I'm really not. This is closing your room. You can't turn me against Jake or anybody in this room. This is closing remarks, and these are yours, Tom. The first thing I have, and I wanted Jennifer to be here for this first one,

and this is for the den. I think that that's very appropriate. Hell yeah. That is a six-pack of moosehead beer. Yes. With giant moose on it. Can I put that in our studio? On the shelf behind me?

This is for you. Yes. Although I could drink those during the Cowboy Stream. I understand that none of you are big drinkers, and clearly neither am i um but jake's a bit of a drinker but i i wanted to give you i went out to the store and there's gifts i didn't know what to get but i if any of you drink tequila this is a fantastic tequila patron uh it's an agave cooked over charcoal for a smooth, smoky taste.

That's the thing about the charcoal, Dan. Smoky. Yeah. Right? And maybe it's for the guests that come. Oh, nice. There's a little goose. Yeah.

A lot of goose. If you like the goose there. I would do vodka before I do tequila generally. Jake said rather. Because you can drink a vodka at Orange Juice and be healthy. And maybe for the guests when they come to the den, we give them a little extra beer for that there. This will last us an entire football season.

You can have any beer you want. As long as it's a Corona. A huge case of Corona. Yeah, cheese, dude. Yeah, and on top of that i i really think if any of you drink tequila and you don't like it try this because it might turn you okay all right so you're trying to encourage us to drink more you're like hey guys i didn't know what else to get you i'm not cool enough to go out and find this you know perfect thing But my favorite was the moose head. I lit up when I saw that because that's big in this household.

So there you go. Moosing? Absolutely. Where's Jennifer? Well, thanks for having us. Thank you for being here. Appreciate it. I hope to do it again sometime. And I'll say

this. Duke the other night, if we're still on, Duke the other show on, I think it was on Tuesday. Yeah, Duke. He was outstanding. When he read off to you, it was all true. That was beautiful. Okay. Good job. Thumbs up to the other, the

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