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Episode Date: June 6, 2025

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Hey now, what you are about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full along with the full archive, ah shit. If you would like to hear this program in full with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at DumbZone.com. So why are they here? I really, literally I don't know. You're like, hey, they got some bit and I'm like, yeah, I don't care. DumbZone.com. So why are they here? Literally, I don't know. You're like, hey, they got some bit,

and I'm like, yeah, I don't care. They have an event to promote. Well, hang on, I have an observation to make. Yeah, yeah. The pacing of this show compared to the livestream that I've been involved in for three weeks now, extremely different. It's very different.

How so? involved in for three weeks now, extremely different. It's very different. How so? Very. It's hard to listen to their show on 1.25 speed. Their pace is incredibly fast? Well, the person that essentially leads the gang is fueled by Adderall and Bourbon. Yeah.

And it's just, you thought Metal Bats was bad. I mean, those moments. No,, those moments are every other minute. It's incredible. I told them last night when we got done, I feel like I've been in the ring for a few rounds. Like you take your headphones off, it's like, good God, what has happened? What have we made Why It Doesn't Suck two and a half hours?

It kind of made it feel like you're getting gang banged from an auditor. I think I like this, but it's a lot. Like against your will, like halfway through it. You were fine with it in the beginning, you realized, no, this was a bad idea. No, I'm enjoying the show. I enjoyed sprinkling in industry talk.

I enjoyed you guys rekindling my memories of one of the freak PDs that we had a lunch with or something. And I was going to ask you if you guys brought Big Dom with you today, because when we met him, do you remember that? Like the guy on the Eagle's sideline, Big Dom, who had, he's like, they're security guy. Big Philadelphia looking dude. And he got kicked out of a game. Well, when we met with that PD that had wacky, zany ideas,

he was like, I'm trying to get my guys right now to get Big Dom down here, get Big Dom to fly down, meet some Cowboys fans, he'll debate them. I thought that was a good idea. In theory theory like that Sure, but take me from point a to B how you're going to end the season well, I think somebody once had an idea that we just get big cat on or who was it the Portnoy like hey, yeah, you're on your show. Yes. He's in the same town as you like oh grab grab Portnoy

Let's go get Portnoy. No, the bit that that guy, he tried to sell Danny on was that Danny would go into the bathroom on the air, on the phone, and masturbate. On the air, just on the phone, calling in. Real masturbate. KT and Mikey. Yeah. And they were supposed to

He was a guy that wanted Set an over under on how long it would take me to come. Yeah. He wanted publicity. That would have got you publicity. Yeah, like if you can Yeah, if you can get fired and then not get fired, I think a lot of options are on the table right now.

This thing would skyrocket if I showed whole right now. 100%. We would do numbers. No, that's a lot of, that's a real humble brag. If anyone right here, if I showed whole, if anyone up here, anyone here right now, stood up, turned around and showed whole. I don't know, I don't think that'd be good at all.

On the stream, it would do numbers. I think it would get yanked down immediately. I see some crazy stuff on Twitter. I don think it would get yanked down. Yeah immediately I see some crazy stuff on Twitter. I don't think anything gets yanked down So is this live streaming on Fox for right now? No, yes, we're on Fox. Okay more 27 Okay, so I want to follow up on just a couple things from yesterday because we were at a Matt Dallas's house or Matt Grimm's house for his birthday and We were at Matt Dallas' house, or Matt Grimm's house, for his birthday. And, you know, I'm pounding water all day, so I had to hit the bathroom on the way out,

and I think I followed Jake. Did you not flush again? Jake went number two. You gotta stop doing that. Definitely did not go number two there. You sure? Positive. All right.

You wanna know how I know? I feel like there was remnants and it had like your signature on it. Cause my notes of stuff that I was gonna tell you guys yesterday was, before I got there, I went and there's a neighborhood Walmart like around the corner and I pooped there. And on the way in, there was a guy coming out.

It was a mailman. And I thought, boy, this was a guy coming out, it was a mailman, and I thought, boy, this is probably on his route, right? It was just, Walmart is always going to have a clean bathroom, unless it's a really rundown situation. So yeah, I went there, I didn't need to go at Matt's house. But I would've. Jake's an incredible number two-er.

I wanna know what you thought Jake's signature was. You could just kinda tell. kind of like write his name Yeah, like wall or like it's a frappuccino. Whatever like I leave a little the tape. Yeah. Yeah, you ever hate La Bianca It had a little dumb zone logo Was right there and milk. No Jake's great on business Wednesday. We were having a zoom meeting about something it was just me and Jake on there for a while and having a Zoom meeting about something. It was just me and Jake on there for a while. And he said, I gotta break,

because we had been on for an hour or something. He's like, I gotta go number two. He used more crass language, but I thought, oh, okay, good. I can go number one. Been drinking a lot of coffee this morning. He was back before me. Wow.

Yeah, I'm quick work, man. It's incredible. And you were in your above garage. It doesn't have a bathroom. You don't have a bathroom. I had a bathroom three feet away from me. Wow. I'm quick work. It's incredible. And you're in your above garage. It doesn't have a bathroom. You don't have a bathroom. I had a bathroom three feet away from me. I can get in and out quick. You barely notice me. It's like those commercials where the Marines are there and the shore goes down and they're gone. That's the way you shave. And then to prepare for the Dumb Zone Generic Summer Event, which is tomorrow. I got a little wind of my sails. So last night, you put stuff in,

like I have so many different lists, but one of them is of course the calendar on your iPhone. And last night, I got the 24 hour alert, because it's gonna hit tonight at like five or six or whatever. So my phone popped up that 24 hour alert now. Oh, and it says wife gone in evening. Whoa, dude, to stack that with you being gone for work Saturday night.

Right. It's going to be great. So I don't and now I don't know where she's going either. I don't know if you guys do this. So I used to write down, ooh, wife book club, wife ladies night, whatever, neighborhood party. And then I realized I don't need that information. I don't care about that. Well, the only pertinent information

is that she's gone. Because the second she's like, hey, Friday night, I won't be here from 5. And then she goes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, what she's gone. Because the second she's like, hey, Friday night, I won't be here from 5. And then she goes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, what she's doing. Straight up. And I don't hear any of it, because I just heard that you're leaving at 5.

Drifted into euphoria. I'm going to get railed by Danny and Skin. Hey, one of my, yeah, is that OK if I'm gone for that? Yeah. You just said you're going to be gone, right? Actually, I'm going to a thing for one of my friends that's a hostage in the Middle East. We're getting together and kind of try to raise some, oh.

Cause now in my head I'm thinking, all right. Do I go to ETs? I think you do. I want to know where she is solely. Austrian porn, Scandinavian. Solely to gauge whether or not there's a chance that it's lights, camera, action time in the event. You know what I mean?

Like if there are certain outings where I'm like, I may want to be up when she gets home. Oh, okay, cause she's out, gets a little liquor. Otherwise, she's ready to roll. I'll take care of this on my own and go to sleep at eight, four. That's a good point. That's a good point.

But if she's going out, It's probably going to be. There's no doubt she's drinking. There's no if she's going out. It's probably gonna be. There's no doubt she's drinking. There's no way she's going out to study, you know. Yeah. Whatever. She's, there's some drinking involved. And yeah. So anyway, I just wanted to brag to you guys.

That's big. At tonight. She gonna be there tomorrow night? God, I hope not. I don't think so. Yeah. I kind of told her about it, like last week, I told her about the event, and then I said, it'll be on YouTube so you can see it too. It's fantastic.

I don't either, I got enough going on. We don't need to. But much like Dan, when he tried to explain to her what he was doing, it just went to wop wop wop wop wop wop. That's fine. I hope it is that. I just don't think it is.

And I used to try to know, is she going to book club? Then because when she comes home, I can then ask, oh, hey, how was book club? And then it seems like I'm an attentive, caring husband, creating that illusion. But then I realized she's gonna come in and tell me all about, no matter if I ask or not, she's going to spill exactly what she was doing. You ever fall asleep when they're talking?

Oh yeah. That's a really tough look. Yeah. That's happened, you know, like you're, all right, I guess we have to have this deep conversation at 11 o'clock and you just fall asleep. Oh, don't you give the Heisman on that? She's like, hey, and then she starts,

and you can tell it's a deep conversation, and you're like, look, I can't, no. And you know what the, well then when? You know what, now that- Well then when? Now that TikTok exists- My God, not now. Are y'alls wives not on TikTok?

Yeah, I guess there's a lot. I think she's still probably on Instagram. My wife has not talked to me since TikTok came into existence. And sometimes I'll say something to her and I'll look over and she's got earbuds and she's like, what? That's why you kneel before Chairman Mao,

the Chinese government, just take her off my hands. Let's keep this thing going, man. So she does the earbuds. Does she do the, because I was doing this this morning. I'm listening to, I was listening to Bill Simmons and Pablo Torre to cut up some audio for it. So I'm listening as I'm walking around and she starts, she asks a question, but she clearly can see I'm listening to something.

So you do the... What? You reach over and you pause it and you go, what? So condescending. Can you repeat that? Yeah, maybe sprain your wrist all the way down. And then she has something like, oh, I didn't know if... Like nothing. It was nothing.

Does she apologize? Oh, no. The second I hit pause on anything, my wife apologizes. Yeah, no big deal, but what at what? Yeah. She's only been home for a week, Dan. Oh yeah, he's got a whole summer of this. He's got summertime.

Yeah, she works at a school. She's all horny. Well, speaking of calendars, these guys have an event on June 28th. That's a good segue. It's a segue. Speaking of calendars. Well, this is a perfect time to promote it here on June 6th.

Well, I gave them options. This is the option they selected. OK. Yeah, Dan. What's your bit? Take it, Jeff. Well, it's interesting you guys should ask. The guy to my right, Daniel Bayless has a new musical project called Sir Daniel Esquire and I'm very excited about

it and we are releasing it on our record label Skylark Soul Company. Yeah, does this thing work where if I reach down and grab something? Yep. Go ahead, dude. Thanks. Oh Well, well time dick joke This is Danny's new record, sir. Daniel Esquire Wow literally a record. It's a record That's a press sick that sick cover that is not Available for months. You That is not available for months. You can't get it for months, not even on the black market, unless you come to our record label showcase June 28th at the Kessler Theater in which Paul Shalda will perform, Michael Lee in the Wartime Limousine will perform. Josie Records will be in the house.

Luke Sardello will DJ. And this man right here, Danny Bayless, will have this record, Sir Daniel Esquire, that you can only get on vinyl. It's not streaming. It's not anywhere in the universe, but you can come to the show and get it then and have it before anyone else.

And dare I say, this record is wonderful. I'm very excited. What iteration of Danny's musical mind are we getting? This is where it gets weird. What would you expect? It depends. How much funk is there? It's not a funk record at all. Okay, is it like Brit-ish? Brit-pop-ish? Maybe more French. French. Okay, no, I'm heating up here.

Look, Phoenix was, is it poppy? It's exactly like the last Phoenix record. It's nothing like the Phoenix record. It is something that I made largely at home in my home studio. I outsourced some piano and some saxophone and trumpet. Vibraphone. Vibraphone. So think modern kind of like cocktail lounge, madman music, music from the mid-century, late 50s, early 60s, but it doesn't sound like it was made back then. It sounds like a modern record,

but it's kind of influenced by a lot of that stuff. I kind of tried to describe it in our little bio, they're making me write. I'm so excited. I'm so mad at this shit. I'm uncomfortable right now hearing him say anything about me. He loves talking about himself. I hate it.

But it lives somewhere, I described it as somewhere in between Chet Baker and Radiohead. So it's got some cool modern, or analog synth stuff, but the song craft, the song style is more, it's crooner-y, it's Frank Sinatra-y, it's got kind of like that element to it. It's definitely not country. It's not rock.

It's not funk. Is it all? It's like lo-fi drum machines. Okay. The analog instruments would be like vibraphone and he mentioned some horns or some piano on it. Some double bass, also electric bass that he plays, but then there's also some like,

you know, kind of moments. Pink Floyd type synth stuff. Yeah, some cool analog synth stuff. But it would be inaccurate to say that it's like loungy or exotic or cocktail. There's elements of that, but then there's elements, you know, it's like, I'm sure you guys listen to a lot of Chet Baker.

I mean, I'm familiar. Yeah, because you saw the movie in which Ethan Hawke played him. Nobody saw that movie except me. Did not. Yeah, I saw it. Was that Training Day? Uh.

I don't know, I'm not into film. Yeah, but anyways, I love it. I think it's an amazing record. Is it all your vocals? Yeah. That's awesome. It's 10 songs, seven of them vocal, and three instrumentals.

The thing about Danny's musical career to me is that really no matter which part it's been at, it could have required a suit at any juncture. Like the King Bucks were a suit band, but they were a country band. Yeah, instead of ties, we wore BOLOs and hats. Yeah. Basterds suit band.

I don't feel like Sorda would have been out of place in some like cocktail lounge suits. I think I wore a suit a couple times with them. Yeah. Good times. It's, I mean, he's not going to say it. It's a great record. I can't wait. Thank you. And uh, are you going to play live at all ever? I'm working on forcing him to do that. I hate playing live. I've never enjoyed it. It's not something that I ever aspire to do again. If I can avoid it, great. But I understand that there are,

it's a necessity to promote. Now that he has no interest in getting chicks, he doesn't want to play live anymore. That's gotta be all that is. He's like, I'm done trying to get chicks, so I'm not gonna play live ever again. I'm gonna start a podcast with Mike Saroy. Dude, this is pussy heaven.

Why are you done getting chicks, bro? It's just not worth the time, man. Because he did, and then he's like, oh God, I had a kid at 50. Yeah. Burn your hand. Yeah, there's so many. Do you guys think, you know, we're doing a podcast,

this is an audio medium, and then Jake's like, what kind of music is it like? What if you like had 30 seconds to play? What would that be? Well, it's not out yet. Wait, we can't give you a taste. We said a tease, didn't we? I sent a track up if anybody wanted to play it.

I found a way to breathe every day. No more disarray. When I think of you, it's not perfect, but I found a way. Does that sound like a guy that's out trying to get some ass no do you want to see the lyrics I'm not gonna show them to you don't don't read lyrics yeah yeah let's step in the other direction let's read them look at look at the back does it mean that's very cool and this cool looks like a planet and stuff oh that's not sir Daniel that's that's silver

skylar it's called I found a Way. Patrick Reeves does the cover. Oh, yeah. I saw him at the Stars and Ends. I gave him direction, and he did this on his own. That guy's great. Turn that up. Is that the guy that paints murals? The Mavs murals?

Different guy. This is definitely something I could see Dan vibing to. You absolutely have to wear a suit. Hell yeah, man. He's got a highball glass with a craft ice feature in it. Some brown liquid. It's not like full Herb Alpert, but there's a little something. It's swingers.

A little swingers-y. Mellow swingers. Yeah. A little swingersy. Or mellow swingers. I've found a way to breathe every day. It's making love music. Yeah. I'm the only one I think of. It's not effing music. It's making love.

You know what it is? It's like, honey. Great record to fall asleep to. I was going to say, it makes me want to have a drink on a boat. Yeah. Lay down. I think this is in I think this is Drinking while having for play music like it's not going to lead to actual penetration Well eventually but the penetration won't happen while this music the problem for me with Danny's art on tool

Listen for that today at 510 on my show 5'10 on my show. The problem when I hear Danny's art is I've just heard too many bits. I know. Like, I'm like, when does he get to sing about the Dallas Stars scoring a goal? What is grandpa about to do? That's a huge issue for me because number one, most people that try to sing don't like the sound of their voices. I'm super critical of my singing voice and every time I hear it, trying to do something serious or awesome, it just always connects back to some bit song that I've done at the

Ticket or with you guys or now with Cirque du Sorroy. And'm like the people that are around here are probably hearing the same thing and I'm never going to be taken seriously. You have to get out of this market where they've never heard any of that other goofy stuff to even have a chance or even know whether or not it's likeable. So I have no perspective. I'm envisioning him doing a live show and he's three minutes into it and some 55 year old dude in a Hawaiian shirt on the front row goes play I made mud and he's up there like ah fuck man I was gonna do my song. And all of a sudden it's just all bits.

Yeah. Yeah. Captain Doodle. I paid for the song writing. This is I'm gonna be his flavor flav. This is a great record. We're we're we are very very proud Of course, you would say that you're the label. Yeah, I know I'm the man in this scenario also You like the Mavs too. I like where they're headed