The Dumb Zone FREE - The Dumb Zone 7-22-24

Episode Date: July 22, 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 into the wild world of political intrigue and pop culture. They kick things off with a shocking announcement about POTUS and a deep dive into Julia Louis-Dreyfus' timeless appeal. The trio also explores the implications of Bronny James potentially joining the NBA and how he might fare in the WNBA. Special guest appearances include Hulk Hogan's electrifying speech at the Republican National Convention and an in-depth review of the WNBA All-Star game, complete with Pitbull's halftime performance. Plus, listener mail, weekend check-ins, and a hilarious discussion about the practicalities of sitting down to pee. (00:00) - Open (43:34) - Sports: WNBA All-Star game, Dinwiddie signing (01:11:20) - Today in Twitter: Open putting hypothetical, Sketch (01:21:09) - Viewer Mail (01:30:50) - News (01:47:37) - Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Now, on to today's program. Don't hug me! I'm not leaving. POTUS is leaving. He's not going to run for a second term. I'm going to run. Oh my God! Oh my God!

I did not see that coming. Selena Meyer, she did look fire. Boom! Let's go to that f***ing room! Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright. Alright, alright, alright, alright, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. So apparently that is, or no, now it's art is imitating life.

Wait, life is imitating art. Art, yes. Because that was Julia Louis-Dreyfus. At her peak. On the hit television program. Maybe she hasn't hit her peak. She keeps surprising me, you know? You're saying hotter in this era than in the Seinfeld era?

Yeah, and I don't think it's just the clothes. I think she had to get cancer or something. Did she have cancer? I think she got sick. So she's cancer hot? No. Just general hot? Very much general hot.

I think people on Twitter have been going back and saying maybe she was hot all along. Yeah, I mean, for the era, it's hard to judge it, but she obviously has taken extremely good care of herself. Yeah, she had a double mastectomy and six rounds of chemo. Only good thing about that is she gets to choose what she wants to go with in the remodel. You know what I'm saying? Is that how that works? I think so.

They don't just leave you with nothing. Yeah, they did it to him. They ousted the sleepy man yeah are you surprised political science guy by the way I'm Dan McDonnell I'm Jake Camp he's adding the last name now to us

keep us on our toesies yeah I mean my level of political acumen is quite low these days but it's uh it's not unprecedented but it's pretty close and the fact is is that while people knew that he was declining and you hear the murmurs and the whispers and it's somewhat obvious when you watched him. The fact you can all trace it back to that night. The debate? Yeah. The night that we were all watching and immediately blowing each other's phones up.

Like, what the? So who does, doesn't he have, like, advisors? And when he's putting out, like, the tweet of, I want to meet Donald Trump. out the tweet of I want to meet Donald Trump. Did he think... Did they think Trump was not going to accept their rules for the debate or whatever?

In retrospect... Like they poison-pilled it and then it bit him in the ass? Yeah, in retrospect it was... Why were you so confident? Like, I want to debate him anywhere, anytime, pal. Like some tough Twitter talk or whatever. Yeah.

It's a... Well, you know where I come from. Take care of a bully. I mean, there's so many different... It's so hard to keep up with the lack of precedent over the last couple weeks of things that have happened because every time there's a huge event, there's 10 different theories about why it's happening. One of them being that his staffers knew

damn well what was going to happen and knew that it was the only way to get the wheels turning on getting him out of there. But also, they could have just put him at a rally or something. The whole thing is weird. And no, I mean, I've been telling TC when we talk about this stuff extensively, I'm like, dude, it's not going to happen because he's been saying all along it has to happen. What's not going to happen? Taking him off the ticket.

It just seemed like it was fait accompli and we're just going to have to accept the fact that he was going to get pummeled everywhere. And then the backroom deals of Nancy Pelosi, who Jason Whitlock, for a second breast reference of the day, once commented on her late career upgrade. But she got to work. And the New York Times yesterday, I think it was the Times, She got to work in the New York Times yesterday. I think it was the Times had a quote from an anonymous staffer that said that night she told them, I'm going to give you three weeks. To get your act together? To get him out.

Oh, I thought you meant to get out there, do some interviews, show that you're actually... That wasn't going to happen. Because even him doing the interviews did not inspire any confidence. He tried to go on like urban radio a couple of times and just botched the hell out of that. You know, I saw some people after the debate saying he should go on Hot Ones. I'm like, he will die

if you put this man... What's Hot... Oh, eating the... The YouTube series where you have to eat the hottest chicken wings on earth. I'm like, that's literally... He'll die.

That's why they wanted him there. Bad advice. So yeah, she got to work and the YouTube quote was, or the Times quote was like something to the effect of, she said they'd give him three weeks

and at the end of the three weeks, or maybe she said, you got three weeks to do this the easy way. And three weeks was winding up and she told them, because next week we're going to do it the hard way.

So it's Pelosi. It's all Pelosi. Running things. Oh, yeah. I thought it, because I don't know anything about this stuff, but I'm reading what seemed logical was once the donors started. Yeah, but a big part of the reason the donors start or stop doing what they're doing is because

of what she tells them because she is uh very good at making money for people including herself magically as brunig will point out one of the greatest stock trading records of the last 20 years along with her husband so that law will never get changed, that congressmen should be able to... Seems like the most basic thing we should prohibit. Such insider trading, yeah. She would literally go to China and in the course of a week or so, purchase a bunch of stock for something

and the news comes out that she had negotiated some sort of... Deal for that. Yeah. Yeah. So, anyways. Well, what are you going to do? I guess talk sports.

Talk about Julie Louis-Dreyfus. It is wild, man. I couldn't believe it. I thought it was fake. Is that how you think of everything when you first see something on Twitter? I don't know if you learned it on Twitter. I didn't learn it on Twitter. Okay.

That was a thing. Some of his staffers learned it on Twitter? I don't know if you learned it on Twitter. I didn't learn it on Twitter. Okay. That was a thing. Some of his staffers learned it on Twitter. Yeah, so I went to Twitter within 10 seconds of it showing up on television, but I was watching the end of the Open, the fifth major, the old winter classic. The Claret Jug? Yeah. And seeing Shoffley get his, you know, the jug and the speech and everything.

It seemed like... You're wiping your tears away. Almost immediately. I never thought he'd win two majors in a year. No. Let alone one? No. I was actually...

Saturday, I was at my parents' house house and I had it on in the background. It was very hard to explain to my mom that Xander Shoffley is not Scotty Scheffler. It is a rather confusing occurrence. These guys are both at their peak at the same time. So anyways, yeah, NBC cut to the news desk right away. And, you know, I saw the headline and I immediately went to the phone and somehow it was being reported first to me by Shams. Okay.

What's left? He does that kind of thing. He does. That brought about a lot of jokes, a lot of quote tweets that were like, does this keep us under the second apron? But yeah, it's wild. So you learned on Twitter twitter i almost called you

to let me know yeah because i know you're not as addicted to phone guys as i am unfortunately for me yeah i did call my mom though because she hates trump not that she's like a democrat or anything but she'd been wanting to get Biden out of the mix for a long time, and I knew it might take a day before the Pony Express got to her house with a letter to deliver the news. So I'm not a politics guy at all. But I'm seeing Hillary rumors. That can't be true.

And if it is, then we have to live stream the debates. You can't live stream the debates because you have to hear Trump body bagging her. See, I get all my speeches and news from Twitter. Same, yeah. So I only know pre-assembled sound bites. So I only know pre-assembled sound bites. And obviously Biden was terrible at the debate. But in all the stuff I've seen about Kamala, that doesn't look great either.

It's anybody else. It's anybody. Because when we watched the debate, didn't we say, if you just had somebody that could talk talk it seemed like there was some real easy like you could have reacted to what Trump was saying with a pretty easy hey that's blah blah blah

yeah and a big part of it is because as we said then and I understand people are going to disagree with me saying this but there is polling data to support it maybe it's less so in Texas, but most of this mainstream democratic platform is extremely popular across the country. Like reducing drug costs, things like, you know, making sure social security exists, Expansion of healthcare. Even pot.

Which is not part of their mainstream platform. But abortion. The Democrats position on that is way more popular than the idea of completely federally banning abortion. These things just pull very very well. Rent control. They pull well. You just can't have him up there trying to explain it. So, yeah, her record is not one that I'm a big fan of.

And I know there are people on the left, left, left, that are going to do the we won't vote for her, we won't vote for her, she's a cop. She put a lot of people in prison for pot in California. And a lot of those people are still in there. Ironically, I suppose ironically, unable to vote for her or against her if they wanted to as they are felons.

But you got the yeah, you got the the easy attack on her, I think is that it's one of the culture war catchphrases that one of the parties uses all the time is DEI. Hate DEI. There's a DEI hire for you right there.

Because didn't Biden say he is going to appoint a woman vice president? He shouldn't have said that. Yes, it was before he ever picked a vice president. That was a bad idea. Again, he doesn't know how to talk. He should have just said, yes, I am going to scour the earth and find the best candidate for vice president. And then even if you land on her, you could just say,

well, I got an argument. And they may still say what they're going to say, but at least you didn't tee them up for it. Yes. So that's going to be an easy... But a lot of people just aren't going to care. Most people still don't like Trump. His approval ratings are not high.

They just aren't. So it's almost... It's the anybody else argument. So is it definitely her? No, but pretty much. But Biden said... They have to put on a show. When's the Democrat convention?

It's mid-August. Okay. And I think Obama didn't immediately endorse her. Oh. Because he's always kind of trying to keep this air of like, hey, you know, do it above board. The other thing I saw people point out that is funny about the DEI thing is I doubt they're going to say that when they pick the whitest fucking guy you've ever seen in your life to be vice president.

Yeah, can they have J.D. Vance? Is that a DEI hire? Because you're like, we've got to get the straightest, most Christian, you know. Right. Something to not. Not offensive white guy. He's got to be on the ticket. What's his name?

Buttigieg. He speaks so well. He seems to have some great ideas, but he'll never be one of the candidates in our lifetime. It's tough to see. It's tough to see. Because he's gay. He is gay. Yeah.

He even tried to go to the military and stuff. What year will that be? America's first gay president. You'll be long dead. Here's a better question. Is it more likely that it's a sturdy lesbian

Absolutely. or somewhat effeminate I wouldn't even Absolutely. Or somewhat effeminate. I wouldn't even call Buttigieg effeminate, but he's not Fetterman. Is it more likely that it's a guy that looks like that or a woman who looks like Liz Cheney or something but is a lesbian? A 65-year-old powerhouse.

Yes, because people will equate that with her kind of being a man. Right. And so we can buy that. Right. Or will it be... Yeah, okay. That's the gay question. I was thinking the female question would be,

do you have to be married to... But obviously Kamala. Yeah, I don't know. That was a funny one yesterday, too, when the right started freaking out about, hey, you know, big red flag here. She doesn't have children. Of course, immediately, the first president that you point out that didn't have children was the first president. Oh, really? Yeah.

I didn't realize that. I don't think I did either. Oh, really? Yeah. I didn't realize that. I don't think I did either. But it's funny that it's... He was too busy kicking England's ass. That's right.

Just a wild... Such a wild... Was it just last week? Trump had got shot right before that. Yeah. And the week before was the debate? Close. Just such a wild few weeks here. Insane. That we just moved on to this. Moved on to this. and the week before was the debate? Close. There's a couple weeks

in between, but yeah, we've... A few weeks here. Insane. That we're just moved on to this, moved on to this, moved on to this.

That's what we have to do now and it breaks my brain. I have a hard time with all this. It's kind of awesome. It is kind of awesome. And then you got training camps opening.

I mean, geez. Oh, I did like... The NHL draft at the Sphere? The sports... I saw a funny

sports thing regarding... I think it's regarding Biden. It didn't say it was regarding Biden, but it says so he's not returning next season, but they're going to let him coach the bowl game. I like that. Is there something weird going on with me coach the bowl game. I like that. Is there something weird going on with me, Blake?

No. Okay. The other funny sports thing was just I saw a lot of people, especially over the last couple weeks, but it really obviously landed home yesterday, was a lot of people in politics are about to find out what it's like to be a sports fan. Like, you know when your coach is getting fired.

It takes a couple weeks. Votes of confidence. Yeah, once the ball starts rolling in the direction it was, you're not coming back next season. We've all seen this movie. Unless you're Jason Garrett. And then usually you do come back next season. Yeah.

No, it's crazy, man. Really crazy. And here's the other thing. We'll have some audio from this later. I was all fired up over the weekend to come in here and play you guys audio from the Republican National Convention on Thursday night because we didn't have a show on Friday.

That's right. So now that's another thing in the past three weeks. I'm just going to tell you now. Yeah. So while you're watching that, and I'll play the mostly or all Hulk Hogan audio later because it's insane. As you're watching the convention,

did you see the people that are doing the support with the bandage on their ear of Trump? Again, I saw some pictures on Twitter, and it looks silly. Okay. A lot of theories about that whole injury, too. We've just moved on from that already. Possibly glass, possibly teleprompter. Possibly grazed by the bullet, but the

bandage wasn't worn the day before golfing. And the doctor came out and said he didn't even need stitches. Yeah. And my Twitter algorithm says there was a second shooter. Oh my gosh, second shooter? Yeah. And it was the sniper on the water tower that took him down.

I can't handle it. Why didn't the Secret Service react quicker? I can't handle it. Why didn't the Secret Service react quicker? I can't handle it. So, see, all these people, these political dorks, that would go to a convention and have their little signs, and, hey, I'm delegation of... And a lot of them had a bandage over their ear. So I'm at our favorite car wash spot on Saturday. It's one thing I got done this weekend.

You feel squared away? Dude, the kid scene, I mean, the amount of crushed up goldfish, Doritos, Cheerios, toys, you know, it's the greatest feeling. Yeah. It's better than like an actual shower. So I'm in line there at Mustang Car Wash. Now, again, this is in Grapevine, so I'm not that

shocked, but I look over at the guy who pulls up next to me in the car and he's got an ear bandage on in his car. But that's not covering his ear. Not at all. See, that's something I didn't see, like the

Trayvon Martin hood or whatever. Yeah. People doing that online. That would have been funny. Or the Luca thing for the playoffs. Oh, yeah. The avatar. That would have been a funny thing.

I fell for that one. If people would have started doing it. So I was trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, but when I went in to pay, I waited for him to sit down, and I just kind of took a little stroll to the bathroom that I didn't need. There was no injury there. No. That's awesome.

That is awesome. Go news. So on today's program, we do have sports. It says here WNBA. Uh-huh. And you'll never guess who called for that ball. The woke one. I think we have a little golf.

And you've already teased wrestling because Hulk Hogan is somehow on the show. I have a little brawny stuff for you. Great. If we have time for hard knocks, I don't know if we will. We got more shows? We do have more shows this week. In fact, we should promote what's coming up this week. On Friday, we will have a special show in the den where we have –

we had just mentioned it, but then somebody stepped forward and said, hey, I've got a new microwave for my kitchen so I have this old microwave that still works and you guys can beat it up or do whatever you want with it so we're going to experiment with a microwave on Friday and hope that we still have a den on Saturday

in fact we just had a Monday morning meeting where we discussed things we could put in the microwave that's what we do in the meeting. If you have an idea, we tried and Bodhi does not fit. So we cannot

put my toy poodle in the microwave. Carter's way too big. Yeah. And then tomorrow you'll be gone. You have a scheduled day off. Actually, you have a scheduled day off actually today is your scheduled day off too yeah we ended up not going out of town

because I was telling you guys the hurricane smashed not only the house my parents stay in but the house we were going to stay in in Louisiana I mean they're not inoperable not salvageable but they can't stay there

so I figured alright I'll just do the show on Monday when I was supposed to be off, and Tuesday actually go to doctor's appointments that I've needed to go to basically since we left the station. And then on Thursday, we have our one-year anniversary. Wow. Thursday, the 26th? 25th. The 25th. So the 25th, last July 25th was our first ever program. The 24th, but business Wednesday and all. Okay. I mean, I guess we could put it

out when, no, I need more time. I need Thursday. Okay. But yeah, Thursday is the one-year celebration. Going to take a listen to a little bit of the first episode, some highlights from the year. And yeah, it'll be a birthday celebration for the Dumb Zone. You didn't mention who's going to be here in my steed tomorrow. Both Danny Bayless and Lawrence. That's how hard it is to fill Jake's shoes. Got to have two people.

That's right. So, yes. Be a fun week. Yeah. Well, we'll see. Let's check in on Friday and see if it was. Write that down. I want to hold him to that.

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And after his very masculine gymnastics class on Saturday morning, where they learned to fist fight and push and shove and stuff, definitely not balance beam. Balance beam is the most important thing you could be doing at that age. Can you do the rings? No, not yet. Not yet. His school was putting on like a kind of book fair kind of thing,

and their special draw was they had Clifford the Big Red Dog there. And I had not exposed Brooks to Clifford yet, and so last week I just started putting it on the TV, trying to get him ready for Saturday because I needed him to be excited because I wanted to stay there for a long time. Was that big with your daughters, Clifford? It was known. I don't know that it was big.

Yes, if they had seen Clifford out in the wild, that would have been a cool bit. Yeah, we've seen it. All right. But it's not the Cocoa Melons or been a cool bit. Yeah, we've seen it. All right. But it's not the Cocoa Melons or anything of the world. It ain't bluey. And it's definitely not bluey. But it was cool because the first time I showed it to him, he's like, no.

Because the animation is from the 90s or whatever. It's an older show. Then he began seeing like, okay, he saw the comedy in that the dog is way too big. It's kind of the premise. So in the open, when Clifford has outgrown the house, he's got his head out one window and his tail out the other. He laughs. Clifford taking up the whole boat. He laughs.

So he began to warm up to it. And on Saturday, he was effing stoked to see Clifford. Okay. and so that was cool seeing the progression of this sucks okay not bad oh my gosh it's Clifford and so that was cool I got a text from my wife on Saturday and I know we're idiots but she was said that she had just put a leech on one of her patients and i thought for sure we were not doing that anymore no i've heard fairly recently for what blood like you i thought there's no way we're still doing this 1883 right yeah i mean yeah they probably started doing that

thousand or thousand years ago right so without but i thought the last time yeah okay without getting too detailed if you need to encourage circulation into areas for instance fingers you put a leech on them yeah i'm pretty sure every hospital has a fresh batch. Really? They get them per shift, so she sent me a video of the night shift leeches. And they're just in this jar. Where do they stay regularly? They stay in the jar. You could just live in a jar?

I guess. I don't know. I was... Dirt? Yeah, where do you get a leech? Where would you go get a leech? Right now, you've got to go find one out in the wild. I don't know.

By the lake? The swamp? The swamp, I would think, would be... I don't know where you're going to find it. Like a river bottoms type situation? But no, I mean, I don't know where they get them. They're certainly not out there with a net. But yeah, like, for example, I know that there are places,

and this is a little bit different, but when I tried to pull my high school prank, I was able to buy several thousand crickets from a hobby and pet store because people would feed them to their whatever, snakes. Leech is a little bit different, but certainly there's labs somewhere

that just grow them. They mate them. Yeah. I wonder if you have an option labs somewhere that just grow them. They mate them. Yeah, that stuck with me. I wonder if you have an option to decline it. Like if you're the patient, then they'd probably be like, yeah, well your finger's going to fall off.

I wouldn't be able to look at it, that's for sure. Yeah, I can't imagine what the feeling is. Slimy? But just on your finger, do you feel it pulling on you? Probably. Yeah.

Anyway. But it probably hurts less than a needle, though. Yeah, okay. I don't know. I don't think I want to know. No. But then I kind of thought, hats off to the 1800s doctors. They were on to something.

Very few things have survived that field. Yeah, but they did. And then I went to a wedding on Saturday night. Boy, you go to a lot of weddings. He's wedding age. My second one this year. But I'm

slowly aging out. Yeah, you are.... He's wedding age. My second one this year. But I'm slowly aging out. Yeah, you are. And they used to be a lot more fun. Yours was fun. Remember, Dan? Thank you. I do not, because I did not attend Blake's wedding. You didn't mean that.

No one will ever... Let me live that down. What do you mean? I don't know. Now it's like you've seen how many, what is it, ceremonies, receptions? I forget which one's which. And they're all the same. They're all lame.

Look how great love is. And you're thinking. You're just older. Now you're thinking like. If this was your first one, you would have been like, this is cool. Yeah. And I'm drunk. Sure. That's, I give it. If this was your first one, you would have been like, this is cool. Yeah. And I'm drunk. Sure.

That's a part of it. My big gripe of the night was ceremony was over 630, but they didn't serve food until 845. Unacceptable. Because you got to wait for the pictures. You got to wait for the wedding party to do all their stuff. They got to get situated. That was horrible. gotta wait for the pictures you gotta wait for the wedding party to do all their stuff they gotta get situated and that was horrible gotta be eight at the latest or in our case i believe we started some light fair like right away yeah they had their tiny little the soup they had chips and

the soup that i loved the soup maybe but you know maybe a little crostini with a little shrimp on it. There you go. Something a little more than just chips and hot sauce. You'll remember Jake. 8.45 is still out of bounds. At my wedding, we served food immediately because I was not going to have people wait for me to eat. You would have loved it. And I tell you, you know, it was one of my family members. So it was a bunch of family, you know, it's, it's, it was,

it was one of my family members. So it was a bunch of family, you know, that I don't see very often. And it's always kind of like, you kind of keep your distance at first. Hey, good to see you,

whatever. But it's just, you know, you keep your distance until you have something to gripe about. And I think the best thing for family bonding is griping about the same thing. Because it's 7.30, grandpa hadn't eaten yet. Come on, where's the food?

And then it trickles down, my dad's upset. How can they not serve until 8 o'clock? My mom's pissed, everyone's pissed, but we're all pissed together. And hungry, yeah. Yeah, and so it creates that bond. My parents are slowly becoming really addicted to their phone, and they love to play games on their phone.

Oh my gosh. Do you know what your parents are playing? I know my mom does Words with Friends because I play her. She's one of the two people I actually play. And I get concerned if she hasn't done a move in two days. Yeah. No, I don't know what my mom plays. But I know that she, I believe she's phone person, phone game person, at least at night maybe.

Maybe I'm wrong. So my mom will do the Candy Crush or Bejeweled. Is that one of them? She's one of those. But my dad, I was looking over at him he was just sitting playing a game on his phone and he'll normally play like golf games or whatever that are pretty dumb but he's playing a game where the objective is to shoot the other person with a bow and arrow that rules and it's a live game and just like, you set your target and your angle and your power,

and you just try to shoot the other person with an arrow. It's interesting. They're playing that in public. They had to wait for the food. They don't care. And that's just, when they get bored, they'll just fire up that game wherever they are. And I just thought that was... Because I was trying to, I was in line at Central Market this weekend, and I had to tell myself,

don't pull out your phone and look at it. Yeah. Because that was the first thing. I had 30 whole seconds I had to stand somewhere without doing something, and I started to reach in my pocket to pull out the phone just to kind of... Why?

Why do I need to look at it right there? I'll be home in 10 minutes if I really need to look at my phone then. And I lost the battle with my head. I pulled it out and I kind of, okay. Yeah. But even nothing. So depressing.

Nothing's going on. Since I was in the car 15 minutes ago. Yeah. And for me, I can't leave it in the car because I have my list on there. I like the list that you can tap. Yes. And, you know, the to-do list. And even if I want to listen to something in the store.

So it's a lost cause. But even when I first got my phone or iTouch, you know, just I was very aware of playing games in front of others because I didn't want to be judged for it. Yeah. What are you, six? I won't play my games on the plane yeah i don't like people looking at what i'm doing but yes he was just sitting posting up shooting people with bows and arrows at this wedding and i love i kind of loved it and then last thing the uh phones are great great for note-taking and all that kind of stuff but if you're given a

best man speech or something i feel like it's almost sort of disrespectful to do it off your phone like shouldn't you memorize that like it's the it's an honor to do that and this guy remember what i went with just nose down in the phone just reading no inflection, no emotion. He just wrote it and read it. You've been a best man? Because I've never been a best man. I was once.

And I thought, oh, this is huge. I'll memorize it. I guess I haven't. Who was your best man? My brother. Okay. So you're just waiting. You think he'll probably return that favor if indeed he gets married. I guess I haven't. Who was your best man? My brother. Okay. So you're just waiting.

You think he'll probably return that favor if indeed he gets married. If indeed. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I thought we could be better than that. No chance. Why? The only thing you should be happy about is that mid-speech he didn't uh slide over and start trying to fire his bow and

arrow at a guy that he was playing live checking twitter because your dad had told him about the game i don't know i just thought that was kind of lame man like that's that's kind of one of the few things you look forward to in the wedding is like oh yeah roast this guy yeah but nothing that's a very solid weekend check because i got almost nothing oh i had a squared away sunday i thought can i add a mow the grass on that is that on there of course it even feels squared away if somebody else does it yeah i mean it's fine but i tried yeah i got uh i was irrationally happy when i got the the lawn mowed before it started raining. Oh, yeah.

And just like every old white guy. We had ours done Saturday. Walked inside. Just in time. Priceless. I got the solid car wash, and then I watched golf way more than I would care to admit. And then I watched the WNBA All-Star game. Oh, no. Okay.

I didn't do a whole lot. We'll get to that. I got outside a little bit. So, no. Okay. I didn't do a whole lot. We'll get to that. Got outside a little bit. So, my wife was out of town. My daughter came home. And I picked her up from the airport on Friday. I could tell. Because there was just a suitcase lying randomly in the floor.

In the middle of the kitchen floor. And any time I mentioned it to her, she just says, I knew you'd be upset that it was, like, in the worst place it could be. It's not against the wall even. She acknowledged it. Yeah. And then she laughs and walks away. And then I just laugh, too, because she's pretty funny.

Like, we were on the phone with her mom, my wife, I think driving from the airport because she wanted to check on her or something as we were driving back and going somewhere to eat. And my wife was talking to her and talking to her, and she just hung up. What? Just hung up in the middle of it. She had had enough God, that's awesome I was like, what are you doing?

She's like, what? I'm done She did it to be funny So Dan's kid She did it to be funny Well, it was It was funny and then we didn't have to listen to her yammer on anymore. Now you've got to hear about it, though. Probably, yeah. She was funny.

But, so, Saturday we did the... You've heard this before. Did the exact same trip. Half Price Books on Harwood Road. Then we go to Chan's. In fact, I may have texted you that we were heading to Chan's.

And then Andy's. A little ice cream to wash it all down. I want to triumvirate. So, and as you know, I have three, four now. Look to your left. I've made a little bookshelf back there. Because I have such an overflow of books. So I always have a few to bring.

So I had a bag of books that I brought to Half Price Books. Did you hit it big? I think we hit $8 to $10, somewhere around there. Solid.

Which is not bad. So I bring in this bag. It's very heavy. I set it down. And she says, the lady at the counter do you want to sell these today? I'm like yeah

yeah I do and I thought of some smart ass things to say and I just said yeah and so she takes your license if you've ever been to Half Price Books for some reason. Is the other option just donate?

So I said to her, after she's taken down the info, I thought, you know what? I'm going to do the smart-ass thing. I'm kind of feeling good. About to go to Chance. What a night I'm going to have. So does anybody say no? Like, do they just come up here to get it appraised? Like a ring or something, you know?

Like, what else? And then she said, well, some people just choose to donate. And then I felt like a jerk. But if you really need $8.32. Store credit. But so then I feel like a jerk and I'm like, oh, I guess I'm the idiot here for even asking that.

But then as I'm leaving, driving around and telling my daughter that I felt bad, even the daughter was like, look, it's not a charity. It's a for-profit. They're making, they're not like taking every, so much from each donation and giving it to whatever.

This isn't goodwill. Yeah. This is half-priced books where they are making a ton. I gave them, whatever, 15 books, and they gave me $8. And I'm sure one of those books, if they just sell two of those books for $4 each, they're doing great. I don't know if they will, but they're probably making very good money at half-price books.

I'm trying to think of how they can navigate that option other than just removing it, because she didn't say, would you like to sell or donate? Right. So if they have that option at all, it's going to confuse some people. Yeah. Anyway, and then one other thing that we'll talk about more in the days and weeks to come.

But I have to tell you now just to whet your appetite because you're going to be excited. because you're going to be excited. And I did this on Sunday morning by myself because my daughter on Saturday evening was going to go to her friend's house, her movie friend. She has a movie friend that they like watching movies. And they were watching the third in a trilogy. And then my daughter said,

you're not going to need to see all three, but you should probably see number one because it's iconic, part of whatever. Just the culture. Really hope this isn't what I think it is. They're into horror movies. This is her and her little movie friend. And so

Sunday morning I took in Human Centipede. I freaking knew it. The third one? No. Oh, the first one. I just watched the first one. She said, don't worry about watching the whole all of them, but you need to watch. Sunday morning

you watched Human Centipede. That's right. While some were in their houses of worship. A little cup of coffee, a little blanket on the couch, a little sunshine shining through. Yeah. I had the coffee. I had the yogurt. I had the big bottle of water.

And yes. Why must you torment me so? I'm happy I did it. When's the review? Stay tuned. We'll talk about it soon. There's just too many other things to get to today. Well, Jake has to be here for it.

Jake has to be here so I can't do it tomorrow. So it may come your way Friday, but then I believe my daughter would be happy to give her thoughts on all three as well. So maybe we'll just get her up here too. Maybe we do it on a video show so we can show Jake some of the scenes you're talking about. Yeah. I'm sure YouTube would love that. I actually, I want to book.

No. I want to book the middle girl. Hey, what was it like? No. The middle girl. Why do you hate it so much? I don know i'm not into gore faces of death guy over here i'm not into that sort of thing like it's i know it's hard to explain that i would watch the torture of some political prisoner or something like that but just involving feces and the mad scientist element of it and the imprisonment element of it,

that stuff has always given me the worst kind of nightmare. I will say you don't need to see it. Thanks. Whatever you think about it. I was not going to. Whatever you think about it is what it is. If you read the Wikipedia review or rundown, you know what it is. There's not a lot of extra.

It's kind of right there in the title. Yeah. Yeah. From the wonderful world of sports, Radio Sports Scoreboard. Oh, yeah. I like that. Thanks, Jeff. So I have a little bit.

I was thinking about Bronny this weekend, and I think this will lead us to WNBA talk, since you wanted to talk WNBA. Mm-hmm. But I was thinking about Bronny and the whole nepotism thing, that people are decrying the nepotism of Bronny. And the reason this is different than front office nepotism is that this affects the team on the field.

This affects the team on the court. Like that's a slot that could go to somebody else. And the money that they're paying could go to someone else. So that does affect the Lakers. Now, you could also argue, well, it affects the Lakers because they wanted to keep LeBron, and that's the best way to make sure we keep LeBron and to keep LeBron happy and all that kind of stuff.

LeBron and to keep LeBron happy and all that kind of stuff. Boy, a lot of LeBron stuff eking out from the Olympics as well. Yeah, what are they doing? Messing around with South Sudan. Did you see that LeBron said he was humbled to be chosen as the flag bearer for the... No. I did not see that. I saw him save their bacon. He carried twice.

Come on. They almost lost to South Sudan. They should have lost until he took over. Overtime. Yeah. Is Sudan a country and then South Sudan is a country? That's not a question I have the answer to.

Okay. Good. I thought you guys would look at me like, of course, South Sudan. Everybody knows South Sudan. They're way better than North Sudan. Anyway, isn't though if you hire your son to be the GM of the team? Doesn't that affect things worse?

That was going to be my rebuttal. Than a player? How about you have a lame duck quarterback and your receiver's not going to show up to camp? That seems kind of bad too. It just feels like that could really... But at least the fan or the media screaming about the LeBron nepotism that we've never seen something like this before

is that, yeah, but that's a player. It's a player on the court. That really affects things. I think it affects things more if you're the GM. Yeah, especially because he's not really going to play. Now, if they started, like started forcing him into crunch time minutes, I would have a problem with that. So is he the worst player in the NBA?

Because that leads me into my next thing. I was trying to think of who is the worst player in the NBA, and I wouldn't even know the worst player in the NBA because they have 12-man rosters. Maybe the worst player who averages at least two minutes a game. I don't know how we would determine the worst player in the NBA. But as I'm watching, so you texted us, hey, I'm watching, you guys aren't going to believe this,

but I'm going to have some WNBA audio because I'm watching the WNBA All-Star game. So apparently this was the All-Stars versus or whatever All-Stars are left versus the Olympic team. Yeah, so they've built the Olympic team. They've competed. USA Basketball does it. And then the players who are left the best form another team,

the WNBA team. That's cool. That's interesting. When I tuned in, at least, the WNBA team. That's cool. That's interesting. When I tuned in, at least, the WNBA players, which had Kaitlin Clark and Angel Reese, because they were famously left off the Olympic team, they were kicking the shit out of the Olympic team. Cool.

Did it end up that way as well? Yeah, and they were not ahead, I don't believe, at half. They were definitely not ahead in the second quarter, and I feel like they were down a little. Who, the All-Stars? Yeah, a little bit in the third. And then a lady who plays for the Wings went freaking ballistic. Okay.

Not Kaitlyn Clark, though. Arike Agunbowale. Oh, yeah, the Notre Dame. She won the MVP. That's impressive. She hit the big shot. She won the All-Star MVP like. She hit the big shot. She won the All-Star MVP like two years ago

maybe, three years ago, and then she won it again this time because she went Steph Curry. She couldn't miss. She scored, I want to say 21 or 22 in the third quarter alone, and then they just buried them. So, really more wind in the sails for the people

bashing the Olympiclympic committee for not putting caitlin clark maybe not putting angel reese this yeah this this girl on there whatever they got embarrassed and it doesn't you don't have the excuse that the men have is hey we just put together this team they're still getting to know each other how to play together. South Sudan has been playing together every day for years and they blah, blah, blah. Well, you don't have that excuse because Angel Reese hasn't played with Caitlin Clark and this other girl, you know, whatever. These are two teams that are just slapped together. So you would think the Olympic team would be a bit better.

But my question was, so you made me tune in. Not made me, but you just said, hey, I'm watching this. So I thought, okay, I'll tune in right now and see what's going on. I watched for like two or three minutes. I'm like, I just don't want to watch this. And in my head, I was thinking, I don't want to watch this because I'm trying to think where would, let's say Kaitlyn Clark. I was trying to, Kaitlyn Clark, where would she rank if she were a boys high school basketball player?

Would she be the 50th best one in the nation? No. The 200th best? High school, like worse than that probably that's what so that's that was my basic thought in my head is i don't want to watch it because i'm just not watching whatever top competition and then i thought who's the worst player in the nba is it brawny because brawny NBA? Is it Bronny? Because Bronny wasn't even that good in college. He averaged like four points a game in college for a really, you know, Division

I school. Would he win the WNBA MVP if you allowed him to play WNBA basketball this year? I think he would be an all-star, but I don't know, man. He's just not

good. They had a dozen shooters out there better than him the other night. And I know that's a much bigger part of their game, but he could not beat, let's just say half a dozen. There's half a dozen women that were out there the other night that he could not beat in a three-point shooting contest.

I would put money on that. Okay, but obviously he can maybe body him and take him to the hole. Possibly. He is only 6'2". That's the thing, is that if he were 6'5", it would be pretty tough. But Brittany Kreiner is almost seven feet tall, right?

I mean, so if she's at the rim, she's bigger than almost anybody he saw in college. And she's not alone, you know? Like, let's see how big. So there are, in theory then, some WNBA players that could be in the NBA? No, it's just, no, I don't think so. It's just a matter of, I know like logically this might not all make sense. What I'm saying is that he, on a night-to-night basis, would be very good.

But if he showed up in that game against the best that they have, I don't think he would just take over. If he took like the 25 or 26 best WNBA players and created two rosters and then he just gets dropped in, he would be very good. But I don't think it would be just like, oh, he can just get 60 whenever he wants. Okay. I don't think so. And I'll tell you something else, too. The WNBA team was definitely trying very hard, but so was the Olympic team. And it was, dare I say, kind of cool to watch because I've at least heard of like half the

people out here. They were playing a high level of basketball. And this is one thing that's going to really piss people off. Because I was thinking about this when you said the top 200 high school players. The best version of WNBA basketball, which is what that was the other night, is so much more pleasing to the eye than a random college basketball men's game to me where it is just like just trying to get blood out of the turnip to get a bucket like they just pass the ball so much and nothing happens in the college men's game and i find it

oh i can't do it i can't watch them score 16 points and a half because none of them can shoot. Now, it's a different line. But still, I mean, there's multiple times where they're running in the WNBA All-Star game straight up NBA sets and executing them well and then getting what would be a dunk in an NBA game but an easy layup or a wide open three and they just drill it. And they're not as big so there's more space on the floor. For sure, yeah. But a couple of them are, I guess I don't really know how big most of them are. I would imagine six foot would be about average. Brittany Griner's only 6'9".

Maybe I'm wrong. She's having a child by the way Her wife is Yeah She corrected the interviewer for Saying are you excited to be a mom She was like Nah pops

Dad Yeah Okay You don't have two moms Okay It's probably different in every situation Whatever you want So I noticed pretty early on that I was very entertained by their play-by-play guy.

A female color commentator, a male play-by-play guy. I'm sure one of our people will weigh in and tell me who this guy is. I never even wrote the name down, but he's kind of a wild ride, This guy is, I never even wrote the name down, but he's kind of a wild ride. And he's really trying to sell you on what a big deal this night is for the WNBA. And the WNBA is here. And look at the stars they're out. And he's, I guess, calls a lot of WNBA games.

I think he's the main, like he's their Breen, I guess. Because he's really into the league and really into the game. And he's going to let you know about it. So the first cut I have here, Cheryl Miller, legend, was coaching because the game was in Phoenix. I guess that's where she was first coach or don't ask me. Something. She was coaching the WNBA team, and there was a lot of mic'd up situations going on,

especially in the huddle and she was trying to illustrate a play but she wasn't doing it on a whiteboard like normal. So you can hear her talking and she's pointing at Kaitlyn Clark and she's like, you're going to come off this screen, do it at this time and this angle and that's where we pick it up. Alright, it's got to be quick.

All my guards, spread out in eyesight. Let's go, let's go, Let's go. Pick your own. Let's go. Let's go. They need to get Cheryl Miller a whiteboard for those who are visual learners. Like myself. Like, draw this up for me, coach.

That wasn't that funny, first of all. That's Ryan Rucco. Ryan Rucco. Okay. You're a friend of his? No. He does a lot of NBA, too. Okay.

He's one of their. I knew I recognized his voice, but – I can tell from his laugh. Like myself. Like, draw this up for me, coach. What are you doing? The Decker Gubike helping to explain it to Cheryl Miller. And the marker doesn't work.

Okay, so now Cheryl Miller is coming over to the broadcast table and yelling, and the marker doesn't work. Explain it to Cheryl Miller. And over to the broadcast table and yelling, and the marker doesn't work. That's the noise that caught me where I said, I'm going to start rolling on everything this guy does tonight. I was attentional. Absolutely. guy does to me. He did it again! He did it twice. Oh, okay. I thought that was like a drop. No, he did it

twice in a span of like six seconds. A man, you should never, a noise you should never hear a man make. So get her a new marker. Absolutely. Absolutely. Cheryl said, come on, Rebecca. We are having so much fun in that. I think you might have done it again.

Hold on. He did. Come on. Cheryl said, come on, Rebecca. Cheryl is just so beloved. She was the first ever coach of the Phoenix Mercury. Okay, so I'm going to take you now to halftime. They did a little quick highlight package,

and I had heard them teasing this, so I knew what was coming, but I'm not going to tell you guys what it is. I'm just going to let you enjoy this coming back from break. Welcome back. It's halftime. A two-point lead for the women's national team behind Breanna Stewart, leading all scorers with 14 points. She also has five rebounds.

Well, it is time to have some fun. To help us get this halftime party started, we send it to public address announcer Patrick McGreed for a special performance. Fans, are you ready for your all-star halftime entertainment all the way from the 305? Make some noise for Grammy Award winning global superstar Pitbull. Oh, great. They got Pitbull.

Now it's Pitbull time. All right. And I'm telling you, dude, he's up there with six dancers, female dancers. And normally, when you see the NBA dancer, even though they're dancing very suggestively, they have like booty shorts on, right? Almost volleyball shorts. Yeah. They're very tight.

Pitbull's dancers had skirts on, like of that length, which a lot of times when women do that, they'll wear a skirt of that length and then some tight shorts underneath. They were not. It was basically underwear. Okay. Somebody sent that to me Saturday night at the group tags.

I was like, I can't believe this is happening on ABC. You could just see full ass. Pit bull. Tree falling in the forest though. That's true. Very true.

I thought Blake would enjoy this mic'd up with her. Just a little bit of a talk of who's in the stands. I have a mic on. Just so you know. I gotta guard Angel. Oh, I ain't guarding him. I don't want

a guard, too. Hey, they looking for that over the top every time. Oh my god, Ty Dolla $ign here. Who? Hey, they're looking for that over the top every time. Oh, my God. Ty Dolla $ign here. Who? Ty Dolla $ign, the rapper. Yeah. Oh, my God.

I don't know if you were ever into him. But, yeah, it's like she's a swoon. Oh, my God. Ty Dolla $ign here. Oh, my God. Like, I'm not sure he could get courtside seats at an NBA regular season game. That's not true. But at the end of the first half break, they got Holly Rowe there.

And she does an interview with, I guess it's Breonna Stewart. And she starts the interview in the tunnel, almost near the door of the locker room. And then they conduct the interview walking down the tunnel, and it wraps up basically at the baseline. It was weird. I thought, why not just let her walk down here and do a stationary interview like everyone else does? May not have time.

They may have gotten more time this way, I think. Maybe Aaron Sorkin is producing the broadcast perhaps boy do you see he had a big weekend no why just because it seems like a west wing episode no because pretty much everybody's tired of his shit and tired of the west wing like philosophy and politics you've hated it forever. From day one. And he wrote maybe an op-ed in one of the big papers that said something of like how I would write the Democrats' plan right now

for drama or for television. And his big suggestion was that next month at the convention, this is before Joe had been axed, they should not nominate Joe Biden. They should not nominate a Democrat. They should nominate Mitt Romney. Most of the reaction was like the one you just had.

All right. So let's go to that Holly Roe interview and get a little juice from the play-by-play guy here. How much fun is this environment and all the eyes that are here tonight? How much fun are you having? How much fun? Your dance favorite question. You having a good time? How much fun is this environment and all the eyes that are here tonight?

It's an incredible atmosphere. Obviously, Phoenix has been an amazing host for this all-star game. Just continuing to make sure that we go home and get ready to go to London and get this done. Thanks so much. Good stuff with Stewie. Thank you, Holly. He just sounds condescending. He's meaning to come off excited and stuff, but it's not.

Sounds family guy-ish. Well, if you weren't beaten yet, this is somebody that they welcomed into their huddle in the second half in Cheryl Miller's huddle. Well, we saw Cheryl Miller call on Annie Myers-Drysdale earlier. Now her and Annie call on Ted Lasso. They bring Jason Sudeikis in for the fourth quarter huddle with Team WNBA leading after three over the USA Women's National Team.

They go to a shot of him in there doing his Ted Lasso bit. But that checks out, right? The fans of the WNBA definitely love Ted Lasso. He's doing everything he can to avoid saying the word gay. And I like Jason Sudeikis. Yeah. That's what's bothering me about this whole Ted Lasso phenomenon. Yeah.

Because I now want to not like him. And then, yeah, here's a review of Pitbull from the play-by-play guy. This was maybe later. Wait, I wonder if he had a problem. Was that good maybe? Technical issues. He didn't play my favorites. You know, I thought the set list could have been a little stronger.

Too short. Yeah. Out of bounds off of John Quill Jones. And it will be the USA Women's National Team ball. Oh, yeah. A little slow-mo dance move there. Okay, so they showed like a little clip of the crowd that it looked like it was from the concert.

It was a really confusing cutaway because it was mid-play or, you know, after a made-or-miss basket. And they had like kind of slowed down the crowd dancing to Pitbull. And it lasted about three seconds. I have no idea why they did this. How are you not terrified by this thing? Oh, dude, I didn't even know about it. See, like, it's just flying above my head.

We'll take care of it in the break. It's got a stinger. We'll take care of that in the break. That's a mud diver. He's fine. And Dan's just going to put him on his shoulder for the rest of the show. Yeah, he's fine. You should try to get him on a leash like on Jackass.

Get a little string and tie a knot. He would just sit there and let you do it. That's how cool he is. All right. We're almost done, Blake. We'll take care of this. We have a wasp in the den here, but it's a mud dog. How did they get in?

Okay, hey, look. I'll watch your six. You've got to watch mine. Got you. All right. And it will be the USA Women's National Team ball. Oh, yeah. A little slow-mo dance move there.

A pit bull was terrific at halftime. Absolutely outstanding. Tarasi can't hit the three. She's still playing. I left all that in there for you just so you could tell. The analyst gave him nothing. Absolutely. Yes, yeah.

And then it was right back to it. Okay, and then this last one. It was... I imagine the ratings were solid. You know, I think we can at least acknowledge that the WNBA is as popular right now as it has

been in quite some time. Kaitlin Clark's a big deal. The rivalry with Angel Reese is a big deal. It's Olympic season. I don't know. They're selling way more tickets than they ever have before. It feels like it's probably the peak. Yeah.

I was going to say, I know maybe early on, the early excitement for it. A lot of them are hot now. They're all posting thirst traps on their entrance to the game. They're all posting thirst traps on their entrance to the game. So there were more celebrities there than maybe in years past, but I stacked this up to like an NBA game. The stars are in the building at Phoenix. Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe here.

So a lady who just used to play basketball. Sue Bird. Not just used to play basketball. Megan Bird. Not just used to play basketball. Megan Rapinoe is always going to be in the mix at these things. Soccer? Yeah. How about Paige Beckers, Cheryl Swoops, Kim Hampton in the building, Vanessa Bryan here. Now these are all players or former players?

Yeah, all women. They're all, yeah. And now here goes to... These aren't surprises yet. No. Oh my gosh, I can't believe. That's how you say Paige's last name? I thought it was Bukers. I've actually heard it both ways. I'm going to trust this guy.

Yeah, he's... I'm Cam Brink, though. So. This is weird to me because I feel like it was a shot of Vanessa Bryant and one of their daughters, but maybe there's also someone named Vanessa Bryant, but I don't think that's a name that you would be messing up.

Kim Hampton in the building. Vanessa Bryant here with her daughters. No T? Yes. Yes. Kathy Engelbert, the commissioner of the WNBA with her daughter. They got the commish. So Kathy Engelbert, first of all, have you ever heard that name before today?

Of course not. I've never seen her. Like when they panned to her, I'm like, okay. But is it funny we have to also say they're here with their daughters? Oh, that's a big player here. Can they not be? They're trying to kill a weekend too. Did their son say absolutely not?

Yes. Like, how about just in their kids? It's got to be in their daughters. In the building, and so is Adam Silver with young 7-year-old Louise. A little daddy-daughter trip to the WNBA All-Star Game. Shannon Sharp gets to the action court side. This has become such an iconic event. You know, I feel for Aubrey Potter.

Shannon Sharp, ESPN employee, right? Yeah. Okay. Doesn't count. Still? Yeah. Right? Now, the name you're going to hear here next is at least a big deal to us

because we love her for many, many things. It's Shane. Oh, a lady. And they cut to her on the sideline, and she has crutches. And they're messing with, like, a bag of ice on her knee. Such an iconic event. You know, I feel for Aubrey Plaza. She came this weekend with a healthy knee.

She's leaving with a torn ACL thanks to a hearty game of knockout at the Mercury practice facility. I did not know it was possible to tear your ACL playing knockout. Look at Super trying to help her with her ice. Gourmet K off the delivery from Gray. So they cut over to Aubrey Plaza and she's

looking as Aubrey Plaza as ever. She's got a backwards hat on, a big t-shirt, couple drinks right below her. But she's got kind of a knee thing on, and she's on crutches. Okay. Go home. You would think. Well, she came there for that.

She has sunglasses on, so she was definitely partying. Yeah. I'm pro-Aubrey Plaza for sure. I am too, but I don't know that it's good for the women's game for anyone to point out that a woman can tear their ACL by not doing it. She's showing up but I don't know that it's good for the women's game for anyone to point out that a woman can tear their ACL by not doing it. I wouldn't have said that part. Alright.

There's my review. It was a fun time. Nick, if it's about loving this great game. Yeah. Thanks to the crew. As I affectionately and respectfully call you the workers. They put the pictures out. We do the rattling. We have an easy job.

Thank you all. I'm a single child, and I found at 65 three brothers. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Nick. Bless you. You could only see what was in this tower. This is surrounded by his CBS family and our families.

Thank you, Nick, for gracing this booth and our lives. And now you and Linz will go to your happy place. To the big sky of Montana. Yeah. God bless you, Nick. I'm ready. Thanks, my friend. I'm ready.

I'm ready. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. Anything from collarbones up, fat. Jeez. If her first picture is a group photo, she's the ugly one. Oh, if it's a far away picture, like she's doing something like, look at me, I'm shooting a gun or something.

She's ugly. Because hot girls will show off. So yeah, big sunglasses. That's a doe. You know what's under there. No, Puppet! Okay.

I want to see if you remembered. Yeah, no, I was just going to forget. We've got some sports news. What do we got? Dan Witte is back. Oh, yeah? Yeah, they got it done. Yeah.

I'm on board. Once they had narrowed it down to Dinwiddie or Dennis Smith Jr. That's the problem. Less great memories. I was going to be fine either way. Might have preferred DSJ. For defense? Yeah. I just think this limits Jaden Hardy, and I wanted to see more out of him.

Yeah. And I think that's the problem with Dinwiddie is we all remember how great he was, which was, I want to say, the anomaly of his career. Like, didn't he shoot better than he ever had before? He definitely shot better. Because he's with Luka. You say that's Luka, though. Well, we'll see. If he can reca before. He definitely shot better. You say that's Luka, though.

If he can recapture that, yeah, cool. But to have a third ball handler like that? I feel like that's a pretty big deal. Yeah, this is cool. Yeah, good vibes. Can we book him? Probably. He was a great guest.

You want to do goatees again? Probably not. Oh, that's why we had goatees? Yeah. For Dinwiddie in the playoffs? Yeah, the Dinwiddies. I know. I see some pictures floating around like when we had goatees.

I'm like, why did we do that? We have a little of this. The Dumb Zone presents Today in Twitter. I know you have something. I just saw some kind of a golf hypothetical on Twitter that I was going to bring up to golf guy over here. Jake? Being Blake Jones, who?

And it had to do with, I guess, the greens were a treacherous place this weekend. Is that true? Very tough greens? Typically are, yeah. But I can't judge that. That could you win the open

if somebody else placed it but you had a 10 foot birdie putt on each hole, they would obviously pick a very tough 10-foot, but it's a birdie putt. From 10 feet away, would you win the British Open? It's on every hole. Every hole. You just walk right up to the green.

They have to drive. What did Xander finish at? It was either nine or ten. I think it was nine. So basically, I have 72 tries to make nine birdies? Yeah. No. I don't know.

At ten foot, you play it a little safe? They're lightning fast. And that's if I two-put all of my misses. You played a practice round. So you're familiar with how the greens play. I don't think so. What level of golfer would you have to get to say yes? I don't know.

Maybe college golf. I don't know. I don't think the average person understands how fast and treacherous those kinds of greens are. Because, I mean, I could easily four or five put on you, and that would take me out of the running. No, no, I don't think so. You'll get those back.

No, I don't think I will. You'll get them back. Someone is going to – multiple people are going to hit us up and say this is the dumbest – this is dumber than Brawny wouldn't be the NBA MVP. WNBA? Excuse me, yeah. I don't know. No, I mean, the average amateur.

Like you said, too, you would have to then say, I am two-putting every other hole for sure, which is not necessarily a given. No, because if you miss, you blow it by, you're not going to make that putt. Yeah. You got to play it safe. I don't know.

You want me on the bag? You could two-putt everyone, maybe, if you play it real safe. Maybe. Okay. But then you're not nine under. The percentage of pros making 10-foot putts two years ago was 41%, and that's on average greens so this is not good let's say i'm just half as good which is not true i'm making 20 of those putts right and then probably less

because of how hard they were so i'm making five percent no there's no way yeah but you're but if you're making 20 it's two out of every 10. That's 14 under. So let's just... Yeah, I don't know. I still don't think so. Don't be a pussy. Did you have it today on Twitter?

Yeah, I didn't know if Blake knew anything about this. The story's about a week and a half old now, but it is kind of interesting to me. Because I believe it was... I think it was Brent, one of our high school football coach buddies who was in here. And in his closing remarks, he was confusingly to me at the time telling us, hey, you guys got to check out this kid on streaming sites, Sketch. It was like, he's hilarious.

We were kind of like, okay. I'm pretty sure that's who he brought up. Yeah. And we were like, that's really random. He's like, yeah, he's an early 20s or something streamer, and all my players love him, and I think you guys would think he's funny. And I was really confused by it at the time. And then from then on, I started to see multiple pro

athletes engage in celebrations that were an homage to Sketch and his streaming. He's apparently one of the biggest streamers in the world. Bryson DeChambeau, I'm pretty sure, did it. A couple baseball players, a couple basketball players. He's got an interesting look dan and i haven't really been able to figure out how much of it is a character or not but um he seems at least autistic i was that's what i was looking up i was like he's yeah but i don't think he's you know necessarily beyond that mentally disabled and i watched an interview he did with uh from Barstool, a one-on-one thing, and it was funny, and it didn't seem like they were poking fun at him.

It seems like he plays up kind of a dork, weirdo, twitchy, no pun intended character. He's got a partnership deal with the Houston Texans. He's massive. Born in Dallas? Yeah. I knew he was born in Texas. I didn't know he was born in Dallas.

I guess he became popular for streaming Madden first, and he's got a couple of, like I said, sayings that he'll do. Let's see. We've got the Guardians, Bo Naylor and Houston Astros player, Kyle Tucker, have done his celebrations. I think Bryson, one of them. The kids on my, or dudes on my flag football team are all very aware of him. Be an interesting question for one of the Rose Twins. twins. Well, I say all this to say that about a week and a half ago, a YouTube account called Pocketbook

posted a 17-minute video that included screenshots from his previously active gay OnlyFans. And it does appear that he's at least performing in one of these. Kind of grainy, but I didn't look at all of them.

But yeah, it's screenshots that he would post of him doing dudes. And they posted it. And they don't really have a reason for it other than they said being LGBTQ plus is not a career ender. So like, hey, what's the big deal? I'm comfortable posting this. But he told his followers, Sketch, after it came out, that he was, quote, living under, or excuse me, that he was dealing with addiction at the time. And facing addiction issues while While creating those videos.

And he's been living under the threat of that. Coming out for two years. And said that his family. Got him through that time. Otherwise he wouldn't be talking. On the live stream he was on at the time. And the interesting thing about this is. The response has been.

Basically nothing but support for him. I think whoever this YouTube channel is going to be like, oh, I'm jealous that this guy's got all these followers. I'm going to out him as a guy who used to perform on dudes, on OnlyFans, and it's going to ruin him. And instead – Now he's bigger than ever. Tons of these pro athletes have tweeted about him.

Big Cat from Barstool tweeted like, hey, we support the of these pro athletes have tweeted about him. Big Cat from Barstool tweeted, like, hey, we support the guy. Sauce Gardner tweeted about him. Said, Sketch handled the situation better than a lot of people would have. Big Cat joked or said, Sketch is awesome, and I hope he knows the majority of people, myself included, have his back. The founder of FaZe Clan. Okay. Who is apparently a big deal i know tyree kill i think likes this guy yeah does a celebration so like pretty much everybody that finds him cool which is apparently a lot of pro athletes and people in the sports world somewhat to my surprise

i didn't see a whole lot of jokes about it. I just saw people being like, hey, somebody was dealing with something at the time. We support him, and we think his stuff's still funny. I think we ran into this guy whenever we were pulling schedule release videos because I think he did something for the Texans because he's a huge – You're right. He's always in a Texans jersey. He's a huge Texans guy, and he's like a part of their exposure.

Yeah. But now I think that was the weird part for a lot of people was this is an extension of your marketing department, this kid's sketch, and here's a video of him sucking a wiener. Yeah, but I mean people do things, and if it's something he's moved beyond, it doesn't even necessarily mean it was illegal either. It's like who he is and how these things come out matter too. If it came out because someone was just trying to... I don't know. Yeah, if it came out because he had in present day assaulted somebody sexually,

then somebody would say, hey, actually this has been going on. I thought it was interesting that people kind of just gave him the space. Part of his allure, he's just like an innocent kid. Like you mentioned, I don't know what he's got. Looks like he has something. Threw up a little bit of a force field there for you? Maybe.

Look, I was going through some addiction problems, some mental health problems. Still can be true, though. But I think that was the jarring part is this is a very G-rated kid, and then you see these videos, and it's like, oh, it's very alarming. Nothing will be more alarming than the time that I saw Blippi taking a massive diarrhea shit to the Harlem Shake. But they're both up there.

Yeah. All right, there you go. Let's do some mail. Hey, everybody. It's time to answer some of today's email mail. Wow. We haven't done a soad since Thursday. This guy moves to the top

because his subject line is I sent a birthday Venmo. Did I check that? Nah. I'm just gonna believe him. Tyler? Hey Dan, my name is Tyler.

Yeah, okay. We got it. I'm a lowly day three subscriber. My leaders are Dan's War Games and Blake's Forever Hard Nipple. I sat next to Jake at the Polyphonic Spree holiday extravaganza. Cool. I said, sup, man. But I did not smoke a cigarette with him.

No. Today is my bro Dustin's Leroy Kelly birthday. Would love it if Jake could say he's a good dude because he's one of the best I know. Well, don't know if you're going to get that. No, I'm just playing

a good dude. Dan, I too love Eddie Rabbits. I love a rainy night. Okay. Growing up, my dad looked a lot like him. So much to the point where people would ask for an autograph. And if he had a few drinks in him, he'd sign autographs. And even at times, play guitar and sing at bars.

He and Chappie would be good friends. Jake is now upset at the length of this email, but more everyone and keep kicking ass from Tyler Trammell. Thanks, Tyler. Uncle Hotmail, Friday was my juice birthday. 32. I understand you're business people doing business things on Fridays. My leaders are Surfside Jake, Cray Trey, TC Driving Hookers, Big12Blake, and Dan.

Tell Jake if he needs any local reccies next time he's in Galvee, let me know. I don't, but thank you. Thanks and gig'em from Travis, the Galveston Dumb F. I don't know if it's top five, but it's top ten, Travis. What? Aggie name. Oh, Aggie name? Day one, number 388.

He says, I didn't buy in. I'm authentic. Okay. It's going well, by the way. Okay. P.S. More Austin Gunnery. I think he might mean guttery. Guttery, yeah.

Unless there's a guy named Austin Gunnery out there that we haven't had on enough. Love to meet him. Tio Caliente. Birthday shout-out to my father, Steve Zach, who turns the magical 69 today. More Blake. From number 215, Philzack.

Guten Tag, Fuhrer. Sunday was my John Smoltz birthday. It's the Rangers. Says here number 29, since no one's going to jump in. That's a bad pitcher number, though. More Who Wants to Be a Millionaire music and more war games from Robert Boyd. Uncle Fuego's Sunday was the Sean Bradley birthday for Davey Holmes,

also known as Wavy Gnomes. His leaders are Danny, Heart Attack Man, and Jerry the Owner, not the GM. From his friend, Ali. Pronounced like Ali the Boxer. There was no confusion. Now let's get out of here before it turns into a zoo. P.S. More Dutch pentameter.

Dead. He died. Uncle Hotmail, first time, long time. It is my Chucky Mullins birthday. But,

since Jake and Blake insist that Ole Miss fans don't exist in Dallas, maybe I should just stop listening to this podcast in your estimation. Is that fully what we said? I just said there were

probably less than like Baylor and Tech fans, but... I know a couple Ole Miss fans, but... I know a couple Ole Miss fans in Dallas. I got a buddy. This guy wants to get mad about it because they haven't been good in 35 years. It's not

even really true, but I love it. My leaders are Heart Attack Man's Bank Robber Disguise, Dan's Burner Accounts, and Leather Jacket Jake. More Julie, more Haralabob, more Dream Team. Keep doing what you're doing, Playboys,

and chase that Blake money. And then he says, instead of touch the clip, how about clip play? From Austin. And two pieces of viewer mail that are not birthdays. At least for me.

Subject line, sitting down to pee. Okay. He said, Dan, I heard somewhere, kings sit while the common folk stand. So you keep sitting, kings, from Paul. You could just say random things you've heard and say them as fact? I actually

conducted a little experiment over the weekend and did one standing up and I felt this is just uncivilized. This is insane. I kind of stopped so I could turn around and do it the right way. You didn't feel like a man? No.

Why turn around and do it? Just kind of, as you're going, ease down. And then you're facing. How TC handles himself. Or Butters, right? The laptop on the back of the. Doesn't Butters put a little stuff up there? Butters is a full undresser. Pants to the ground, shirt all the way up.

But yeah, that was a South Park episode. And then I got one, a very long email. Yeah, I wanted to make sure we got to this one. But the long story short is that he's just wondering if anybody out there listening could help with his passport situation. He got himself in a situation where it's his stepdaughter and they are supposed to head to Australia Wednesday, is it? Yeah. Wednesday evening.

To see his uncle who bought them the tickets. But they didn't look. He's got cancer. They're ill. Kid step situation maybe sometimes. We threw in that you've got cancer to maybe get somebody. And trust me, if we pull this off, we'll be

looking for proof of that. So yeah, he said we're spending all day Monday in the Dallas passport office, no appointments. Got an appointment in Houston Tuesday. So if anybody knows any way to expedite this, if you work at an office anywhere in the state,

as he points out, there's a lot of people who do much more important things than us that listen to this show. I want you to hit him up. It's getwilla2australia at gmail.com. So get... Oh, speaking of Willa, do enjoy the the picture of uh connor floating around oh yeah we don't we don't have a tan rested ready right here we don't have a conheads i liked it and also roy is uh gonna run for president now. He's the third-party candidate. Sorry. And also, the email address again is getwilla, W-I-L-L-A, to australia at gmail.com.

So hopefully – Or hit us up. I'll send it over to him. Willa and the family make it. Yeah, John is his name. He says, if you show that you have a listener in Sydney over the next two weeks, you know that we made it. So good luck with that. I'll tell you how you can really expedite this is be on an NHL team. Yeah, that's true.

Because I've seen that done. Oh, I wanted to do one more quick one too. We were talking the other day about the sting names that they come up with for operations. Yeah. All the fun ones like Operation Slapshot was the hockey gambling one. Operation Varsity Blues was the school admission

scandal. This guy named Lance. I don't think this is top. I don't think that's top 10 because he did go to A&M. One of the chime in on the whole law enforcement op name discussion when i was at a and m tabc ran a sting operation at random bars on northgate that's like their main bar area called operation bottoms up where they were ordered where they would order drinks at a bar and then test the

drink to determine whether or not their bar was watering down their drinks. Turns out they caught three bars watering down their drinks. Okay. Operation Bottoms Up. So it's a really weird spot. TABC trying to keep the bar honest by not ripping off college kids, but also thereby promising they get more effed up. Yeah. No, I really appreciate that they were doing it.

Yeah, that's cool. A little quality control. Operation Bottoms Up. As I've gotten older, I'm happy that drinks get watered down. I can't handle it. You can just water it

down yourself. Yeah, I guess you could. Yeah, you should probably get your full price. But that used to always be a big thing. Yeah. Just being worried about, hey man to always be a big thing. Yeah. Just being worried about, hey, man, that place waters them down.

Yeah. All right. News? Yeah, sure. Here's Jay with the Dumb Zone News. Man, I'm getting a lot of spam, man, the last two days. It's insane. Just today.

Like phone calls, right? Yeah. San Antonio. I'm getting another one right now. Three, four, five, The last two days. What's going on? It's insane. Just today. Like phone calls, right? Yeah. San Antonio. I'm getting another one right now. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven today. Almost all mine are political, which is a freaking hellhole. Yeah, so we talked about the Biden thing off the top. We don't need to go back through all that.

A couple things, and we'll close with Hulk Hogan as part of the news. The big outage on Friday was a crowd strike. I've seen people that were freaking out about this. I went to Starbucks, and they couldn't run my credit card at first. I should have mentioned that in weekend check. And the line was around the building, and then some. And the lady that I go, when I go to that one, she looked like she was at the end of it.

Her wit's end. And it was 6.45 in the morning. Oh, man. Yeah. The airport was bad. Yes, my daughter's flight. Both daughters were flying back to their respective places from Cleveland, and they were both heavily delayed.

They finally made it. But, yeah, she had a five. Supposed to land at five. She landed about seven. Got delayed a couple of times. And then my other daughter said, just at the airport terminal, even looking up at the flights, it just said, like, you know, computer air loading or something like it just. Yeah, it was a big problem at banks.

Like people couldn't send and receive money because I guess I don't understand how any of this stuff works. So I'm not even going to try to explain it. The Microsoft software that I guess powers all these PCs and devices and these point-of-sale services and stuff, they got an update from CrowdStrike and it caused the largest IT outage in history is what it's now been called. I don't know what CrowdStrike is. I guess they're just like a security firm. They're a company that protects your servers. When they gave you an update to protect it,

it accidentally knocked everything off of line. When I'm first learning about this, I know nothing about IT. The name of the company is ominous to me as is. I don't know that I would trust them. Sounds like they'd try to me as is. I don't know that I would trust them. Yeah.

Sounds like they'd try to take you out. Yeah. But they're your friend. Yes. Well, they were. The good guy with the virus. Was it really Russia and they're covering it up? Probably.

China, perhaps. And then another story we missed on Friday was First Baptist Dallas Fire. Man, that was crazy. It was built in 1890. You could see the smoke cloud from Wiley. Could you really? Mm-hmm.

I saw a bunch of videos that our friend Cash was posting from his place because he lives not too far from down there. I mean, it's one of the most iconic, beautiful buildings in the city. Especially the part that burned up. I mean, they have a modern – It's behind it. Yeah. Yeah. They have their, like, modern service in the, you know, modern building,

but they kept the original chapel alive, and they held the traditional services in there. I mean, wood, everything, the stained glass. I mean, it was... And they held it up really well. But the fire went on for so long. And it seemed like a lot of what they were trying to do, the firefighters, were to contain it

from burning a bigger portion of downtown. I mean, yeah, it's jammed in there. How'd it start? They don't know yet. Investigation ongoing. Fl'd it start? They don't know yet. Investigation ongoing. Flicking a cigarette? I mean, I think the conspiracy

minded, if you're like the Righteous Gemstones or something, you start thinking, what if we could just get an insurance bag here? That's the first thing I thought. But you wouldn't do that with a building like that. It's worth more than whatever money they a building like that. No, if they wanted to. It's worth more than whatever money they could get for it. Yeah, my conspiracy brain was like,

maybe they wanted to remodel it, and enough people were like, no, you can't touch it. Hmm. But I don't know. No injuries. And their pastor, Robert Jeffress, who I don't know if we've ever played audio from him,

but he's, he've heard of that name. He's very big on politics, for example. Yeah, he'll go on Fox News a lot. Yeah, he was on Fox News this weekend. And he's a big Trump guy. He's asked the flock to vote for Trump. Trump. Has that always been a thing?

No. I don't feel like to that degree. What? Just religious leaders stepping out? Or pastors? To endorse candidates? I don't know that I've ever... that I remember being quite to this degree.

Yeah. Well, yeah. A lot of the... I don't know. It seems like a lot of the battle points are religious-based now as far as abortion and gay marriage. Yeah.

I read some of the... I know that this is just how people talk and you just have to accept it. People have different faiths and beliefs, but my eyes glazed over when I was reading this article and he said, we cannot allow Satan to have the last word.

Granted, if you're going to ascribe Satan to something, a big fire. Yeah, it seems up his alley. granted if you're going to ascribe Satan to something a big fire yeah that seems up his alley regarding so it was Satan on that not the election

okay yeah yeah Satan said if we allow if we allow that thing to remain in ruins it will look to the whole world

like we have been defeated by the evil ones so we are going to rebuild need a little money insurance are going to rebuild. Need a little money. Insurance is going to hook him up. However, I'm sure he said that's enough. He called on worshippers to redouble their efforts to spread the word

in response to the tragedy. And he, in his statements, is like we will rebuild. We will save the facade of the building and i really hope that they do because it's awesome and i'd love to see what they could do with the place uh but then you read the quotes from the firefighters and the fire chiefs and they're like that thing's done let's not get ahead of ourselves here we're in a far buddy uh jimmy was there he might have been did you see the fire truck i was there. He might have been.

Did you see the fire truck that's going? I was going to say, he might have also been one of the four firefighters who was injured in a fire truck just fell off 635. I guess they took a turn too hard and hydroplaned and fell off 635 and onto the dart track. During the range yesterday? It was Sunday morning. Was it Sunday morning? It was raining. You said hydroplane.

Yeah, I think it must have been a little bit moist. And you hate the word moist. I do. Why was 635? How much did it rain over there? I don't think that was rain related. Okay, it was pouring here in the morning. Oh, was it?

Yesterday morning, yeah. Yeah, but it didn't last that long. Well, it was just moving through, and it could have been there an hour before. But have you seen the 635 videos? No. It was a river today. Yeah. One side of 635 was so flooded today that there were cars up to their tires trying to get through it.

Oh, wow. Yeah, I don't know. Like at Garland Road or something, maybe. Huh. Do you get afraid? Yes. I'm thinking of, let's say, you're on

114, and then you get on 820. And it's the real high. You ever get 820. And it's the real high. You ever get afraid like it's a real high? I don't like it. Okay, you know what I'm talking about. I do. Like, if you just don't look down, you don't even know it.

You think you're just on the road. But if you kind of look over there, you're like, man, we're really high up. I could just. It's one lane? Yeah. Yeah. I don't even like thinking about it. This, however, I'm excited

to tell you about and think about. And that is the Republican National Convention. As Friday, Thursday night, one of their big speakers was... Kid Rock?

Hulk Hogan. The star power this time was definitely upped a little bit, as I believe last time around for Trump in either 2020 or 2016, one of the biggest names was Scott Baio. So you're saying Hulk Hogan is a bigger star than Scott Baio? That's the dumbest thing you've ever said. I realize you have a wrestling blind spot, but Hulk Hogan is one of the most famous people of the last 30 years

all over the world. The world? I remember when I watched him on the 700 Club, he said that he can go anywhere in the world, and kids know him if he's got the bandana and the mustache. He's like, they don't know who Tom Brady is. He can go anywhere in the world, and kids know him if he's got the bandana and the mustache. Okay, we did play audio for that. And he's like, they don't know who Tom Brady is. They might know Michael Jordan, but after that, it's me.

Did he have his Republican bandana on? What do you think? Yeah. And you'll hear some of, he came out and he had a shirt on and a jacket, a blue blazer jacket, and then the bandana. I saw the memes of we are in idiocracy now. That's the whole idiocracy. It's so insanely close. Except that Hulk isn't running for president.

Isn't running, yeah. And now we have more of the speakers, it looks like, who are going to be underway, including Hulk Hogan. Let's see. Okay, so at this point, when he comes out to the USA Chants, he's doing his famous thing that he used to do in the ring when he wanted people to be louder, where he winds it up by the ear, gives you one of these, and then winds it up on the other side. Let's hear it over here.

Let's hear it over here. Let's hear it over here. And he's flexing. Had to leave a little bit. Let me tell you something, brother. You know something? When I came here tonight, there was so much energy in this room. I felt maybe I was in Madison Square Garden getting ready to win another world title. Or maybe I thought the vibe was so intense, the energy was so crazy,

it felt like maybe I was going to press that no-good, sticky giant over my head and slam him through the mat, brother. Referencing some of his bigger moments from his career. What I found out was I was in a room full of real Americans, brother. And at the end of the day, with our leader up there, my hero, that gladiator, we're going to bring America back together. One real American at a time, brother. Has he always had a brother phase? Oh, yeah. He's the original.

You know something? I've seen some great tag teams in my time. Hulk Hogan and ooh yeah, the macho man Randy Savage. Yep. RIP. I see the greatest tag team of my life standing upon us, getting ready to straighten this country out

for all the real Americans. That of course being J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. Skip ahead a little bit here but what happened last week when they took a shot at my hero and they tried to kill the next president of the united states Enough was enough. And I said, let Trump-a-mania run wild, brother. Let Trump-a-mania rule again. Trump-a-mania. Let Trump-a-mania make America great again.

Dude, these people are absolutely losing their minds in the crowd. And the thing is, they're, again, mostly just a bunch of dorks. Got the chant back up with that one. They're using their minds in the crowd. And the thing is, they're, again, mostly just a bunch of dorks. Got the chant back up with that one. Yeah, who goes to this besides media and, like, delegates? Party organizers. Yeah, people who work for the party or big supporters or volunteers, activists, that sort of thing. It's not open to the public? Like, can you buy tickets?

Yeah, I think you probably could. Okay. Yeah, but they have like – those people that I'm speaking of are in their specific areas and they're decked out in their best red, white, and blue suit. I think this is where he tries to bring the room down a little bit with this. You know something, Trumpites? That's what he's calling me.

I didn't come here as Hulk Hogan, but I just had to give you a little taste. You know, my name is Terry Bollea. And as an entertainer, I love you too. So he's kind of flipped characters a little bit, right?

Entertainer, I try to stay out of politics. But after everything that's happened to our country over the past four years, and everything that happened last weekend. Okay, so you can tell the tone has shifted a little bit. All right, skip ahead again. He's speaking normally. Let's see how long he can keep that together. You know, guys, over my career, I've been in the ring with some of the biggest,

some of the baddest dudes on the planet. And I've squared off against warriors, ooh, yeah, savages. And I've even, like I said, body slammed giants in the middle of the ring. So we're going back. And I know tough guys. But let me tell you something, brother. Donald Trump is the toughest of them all. Yep, I'm sure.

They've thrown everything at Donald Trump. Okay, yeah. So that's pretty much it, other than this thing that I made that I thought you guys would enjoy. Well, let me tell you something, brother, and slam him through the mat, brother, was I was in a room full of real Americans, brother. One real American at a time, brother. Let Trump-a-mania run wild, brother.

Just made a little brother montage for you there. He ripped his shirt. Oh, yeah. I saw the thing how He ripped his shirt? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I saw the thing how he ripped his shirt off. Yeah, it's – That's the only thing I saw. He doesn't say anything about it. That's the only political coverage I – I think it's at this part.

It's at the part where he's doing the run wild. It's like – But what happened last week when they took a shot – This was the peak, peak before he's like, I'm actually Terry. All right. At this point, he goes with like the. And they tried to kill the next president of the United States. Enough was enough. And I said, let's Trump-a-mania run wild, brother.

This was on at the restaurant I was at. And the worst part is the Democrats are going to have, like, Jon Stewart. Yeah. You know what I mean? Sorry, go ahead. Rachel Maddow or some dweeb. And, I mean, I knew it was the RNC, but, you know, I would look back and Kid Rock is performing. That happened. Hulk Hogan is there.

I was just like, what is this? What is going on? I happened to turn back at the exact moment he was doing that. This is insane. Yep. Yep, it definitely is. There's five spam phone calls today.

830, 1150, 1155, 150, and 212. The Dumb Zone News. Like and subscribe. Brother. The Dumb Zone presents... I thought I said maybe a lot. ...in history. Well, you did.

Let's not move on from that. You're like, oh, I can't believe I had baby a lot. Well, you did. Let's not move on from that. I can't believe I had a brother phase. No, he looked back at his brother phase and said, I need to bring this back. If I ever left. Well, baby. You should bring it back. Well, baby.

Come back around. Sure, baby. Only one man. Everything's cyclical. Today is Monday, July 22nd. Is that right? Yeah. On this day in 1796, Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleveland.

So, there's Native Americans living there. I thought it was invented by Moses Cleveland. But it's by Moses Cleveland? Yeah! He's the guy who invented Cleveland. Yeah. So... And then Tom Hanks was born there. But you could just walk up back then and...

You know, I think I'm going to invent a town here. Look, I have founded this town now. And then Tom Hanks was born there. But you could just walk up back then and there's a bunch of people there. You're like, look, I have founded this town now. Well, no, no, no, wait. We've been here for 100,000 years. Who knows? I don't know. Nope. What are you going to name it?

I'm going to name it after me. Yeah. MeLand. On this day in 1933, aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world. It took him seven days, 18 and three quarters hours.

So think about that when we're in an RV heading to California. Like, it's not that bad as this guy had it. How often do you think you had to stop? Wait, did you say consecutive?

I'm just thinking of fueling. It just says first solo flight. Yeah, yeah. And it took seven days. I guess you just don't stop. I just would not have thought of plane of, like, that. You have to stop pretty often. But then.

You can't not stop for seven days. Well, that's what I'm thinking. That was dumb. But what I'm saying, though, is I wonder how many times, like, was he just kind of chipping away at it a little bit each day and then taking his time by the pool? Yeah, it stopped in at a Best Western. That doesn't seem like it works to me. Maybe he had some listeners along the way, like we do. Mm-hmm.

No, I was not proposing mid-air refueling a hundred years ago. Where are we? On this day in 1957, Walter Morrison applied for a patent for a flying toy, which would become known as the Frisbee.

1957. The Frisbee. 1957. The Frisbee was invented. And then they looked over at the Native Americans and they were like, we've been throwing this thing all 200 years. Native Americans played Frisbee golf. On this day in 1991, police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who would confess to murdering 17 men and boys. Another thing, the man has it tougher in life than the female. Yep. On this day in 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin.

That wasn't the one where he was in the laundry basket, was it? Possibly. Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. That wasn't the one where he was in the laundry basket, was it? Possibly. He had one, too, where they just, like, built a tunnel. But they left him a motorcycle. Was that a good show? I liked it, but I didn't stick with it. I watched the first two seasons.

Me, too. But then I think they kind of changed it a little bit in the third season to be El Chapo, maybe? It's a great book. About, is it called Killing Pablo? Yeah. Yeah. The one where he's on the roof. Yeah. Yeah.

And on this day in 2019, Old Town Road remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a 16th week, which tied the record, which was set by Mariah Carey and Luis Fonsi. Yeah, definitely a classic song of the summer. Who's Fonsi? That show. Yeah. Watched a little Grease last night. Channel surfing.

Oh, yeah? Yep. You just have to stop on it, don't you? Kind of, yeah. He says, WNBA, no. Red Sox, Dodgers, no. I'm just saying earlier you were talking about the types of people who like, what was it, the WNBA and what was the second thing?

That there's a lot of crossover? Yeah. It doesn't matter. The point is there's a lot of crossover there with Greece too, bub. My takeaway from the one segment that I watched, Danny Zuko is trying to play sports to impress Sandy. Yeah. He's never played baseball before.

Walks up with a bat. The first time he swings, he laces one out the right field, but it was foul. He said, nah, no more baseball because you flipped the umpire's face mask. If that was his first swing, he could have been the greatest baseball player ever. He did rope one.

His first swing. And all of a sudden, he's in the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Yeah, he didn't know how to do anything. Missed opportunity there. Didn't know which way to run. Birthdays today.

Ezekiel Elliott. He's going to be younger than I think. 29. I was going to get, I swear to you I was going to say 29. A lot of tread left on those tires then.

I can't believe he's back. Yeah, you can. It all makes so much sense. He's back. Get him on the RV. It's going to be second and two. He's going to run for four yards, and he's going to do the feed me. Did you guys say he's getting the first carry of the season?

Yes. I did, yeah. Like first play of the whole season? Oh, yes. Of course. The crowd. Will he be center? Well, he'll be in Cleveland.

Two consecutive plays. What if that becomes like the new Landry shift? When they have a victory locked up, he snaps it to Dak, he just kneels the ball and they go to the handshakes. So, it's going to be Zeke and Rico Dowdle? Yeah, they signed someone else, remember? Ronald Jones? Yeah. It's the scouts.

Deuce Vaughn? Yeah. Did they sign? I don't like any of those. Well, don't worry, because they're going to sling it around. Former Cowboy Sean Lee is 38. Who am I thinking of, Blake? Nickname?

What was it? Snake Lee. Snake. Oh, okay. Keyshawn Johnson, former Cowboy, is 52. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Recently heard a lot from him on that interview with Malik Hooker, right?

Former star Sergei Zuboff is 54. My favorite non-Mike Medano Dallas star of the Cup team. Because of your interactions with him? Yeah, I liked him. Actually, I liked it before that. I just thought he was awesome. Okay. He could play a million minutes.

They said he was stronger than anyone on the ice. Never worked out. Smoked a cigarette in every break. Every period break, whatever. He was just awesome. Yeah, they signed Ronald Jones last year, and then I knew he didn't play, but I didn't know they had already cut him before the season even started. Oh, that was last year?

Yeah. Jason Robertson is 25. So who's the guy this year? They don't have one. Tim Brown is 58. Very nice in my interactions with him. Oddly enough, never a cowboy. I always felt like he'd be a cowboy at some point.

Today's War Games winner with 56.4, Dave Steeb is 67. Never heard of him? No. Big Blue Jays pitcher. Mike Sweeney is 51. So once when we had Gabe Kapler on the weekly show, apparently he was friends with Mike Sweeney.

Or maybe he had a bit going with one of his other teammates, like Frank Catalanato or somebody. Anyway, he was asking us about Mike Sweeney if we liked Mike Sweeney. He'd be like, yeah, I don't know. And he'd laugh.

And he'd be like, do you think Mike Sweeney's kind of big? Like, I don't know. What are you saying here? Definite baseball locker room humor. It's because of Mike Sweeney. Gosh. Dang, I wasn't putting that together. He did it to us for like five minutes.

And we're like, what? I don't know. Yeah, Mike Sweeney. Yeah, he's good. You think Mike Sweeney looks good? Yeah. Gay. Okay.

And he's the assistant GM of the Marlins now? What's he got going on? You ever see the veins bulging out of Mike Sweeney? I don't think he did that. Actor Terrence Stamp is 86. He is Zod, who you must have nailed before. Kay Bailey Hutchinson is 81. Danny Glover is 78.

How old was he in Lethal Weapon? He must have been like 30. But he was retiring. Yeah, he's so old. Yeah, he was like late 30s. S.E. Hinton is 76. The author. David Spade is 60.

So an angel's in the outfield. Like, I swear he's playing like a 50-year-old, but he was in his 30s. The grizzled manager. Yeah. And Selena Gomez is 32. I think she's from here. Born in Grand Prairie. Born on the state now dead, Emma Lazarus.

Who's that, Blake? I don't know. First, I'll tell you she's a famous poet. She has a famous poem. All right. In a very important spot in the United States. What does that mean? Her poem is on the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Oh. And Alex Trebek. Born on this day, now dead. Remember when Aaron Rodgers was almost going to take that job? Absolutely insane. And now, how many millions of miles away is he from that? He'd never get that job now. Just based on who he is.

Now he's RFK's VP. Dead on the stay, still dead in 1633. Tringy, maybe that's how you pronounce it, Kiever. They say the tallest woman ever was 8 feet 4 inches tall. Now, she could have stopped browning at the rim. Died at the age of 17. So maybe that disease where your pituitary gland doesn't have any cork on it, right? Yeah, but didn't the guy who was one of the tallest ever, didn't he?

He may have been much later than that, right? I think later than 17, but I don't know that he was that old. You don't want to be too tall or too short. No, there's no doubt. Do you see 80-year-old 7-foot short? No, there's no doubt. I mean, I think... Do you see 80-year-old seven-footers? No. That almost never happens.

I'd be interested to find out what the oldest one was. And conversely, not a lot of 80-year-old one-foot fibers. Yeah. Although, that sounds funny. You would think, yeah, that that would last longer. Also, died on this day in 1992, Wayne McLaren.

He is the actor who played the Marlboro Man. He died of lung cancer. Life imitated art. Died on this day in 2003, Uday and Kuse. Life imitated art. Died on this day in 2003. Uday and Kuse Hussein. In 2008, Estelle Getty.

She was the mom on the Golden Girls, although I don't think she was even the oldest one there. No. I remember being shocked by that. And on this day in 2011, Tony Sperano. Not Soprano. I believe he authored one of my favorite football bits of all time.

When he was... Was he the interim head coach of the Raiders? Do you have any info there? Of course it auto-corrects the Tony Soprano. That's gotta suck. That sounds right. So when he was there, all-time great coach bit. I remember this being filmed.

He had the team go out to practice. And, of course, I don't know if you've ever heard, but the old Raiders practice field was terrible. Dirt and stuff. And he had shovels. And maybe a dozen or two dozen guys on the team took the shovels and buried the previous schedule up to that point. Oh, yeah.

They had something like that at Clemson. Really? Where, like, they buried a football of a bad game or something. Like, yes, it's all performative and cheesy, and you never really hear about it unless it, like, works. Yeah, I mean. Like, remember Parcells' bit? One game they had a big game, but it was after the Cowboys had been,

like, they turned the corner, and they're a good team, and they beat a good team or something. Oh, yeah, the cheese. Yes, he put cheese on everybody's stall in their locker room. And it was like, I didn't want them to take the cheese. Like, is there any doubt that some – You're 22. Like, what? What is this?

Cheese. Is there any doubt that some insane either basketball or football coach, probably like in the VHS era, has stood in a meeting room and lit a tape on fire? And been like, guys, we're burning this one. And actually gassed it. I think that's how then they accidentally got the flag in there with the... Yeah. What's his name? It was cheering. They accidentally got the flag in there with the... Yeah. With Seattle. What's his name?

It was cheering. They accidentally got the flag in there. Well, yeah, because they just carry a flag around there, so... Yep. Boy, that was a great bit. And that was Today in History. This was the old school day. I was trying to think of the last time we've done a show with just the three of us.

With no one else in here. Yeah. Yeah. And the next time is... We don't even have one on the books, right? No. No. The only reason we have this one is because Jake's vacation got postponed.

Yeah. Because of Beryl. Because of a terribly named hurricane. Well, cool. Adios, mofo. Fun times in Cleveland today. Cleveland. Come on down to Cleveland Town, everyone.

Come and look at both of our buildings. Buy some food that's prepared near the street. Who knows, you might even see this guy. You should come on down to West 6th Street. It's the perfect place if you're a douchebag. Watch the poor people all wait for buses. Who the f*** still uses a payphone? Here's the place where there used to be industry.

This train is carrying jobs out of Cleveland. Cleveland leads the nation in drifters. Here's a statue of Moses Cleveland. He's the guy who invented Cleveland. Yeah!