The Dumb Zone FREE - The Mavs walked so the Lakers could run and Blake's softball stalker | DZ 6-19-25

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneOne of our listener's secretly attended every one of Blake's slow pitch softball games last season and delivers a season long recap for his Cardinals. Jake wonders why his electronics don't work and this is how you sell a team, Mark Cuban (00:00) - Open: Dan was gym before work guy today (18:36) - Blake's softball stalker (01:05:42) - Sports: Mavs pave way for how to sell a team (01:51:52) - News: Justin Frazell couldn't graduate this (02:10:52) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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I'm the first person to do that. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. It is Thursday, Juneteenth, huh? Huh. What do you think about that? Happy Juneteenth? Merry Juneteenth? Merry Juneteenth? You're free!

Not yet. Give us a few months. All teens matter to me. I don't think we should just celebrate Juneteenth. Okay. Anyway, today... I don't need March in my June. We are now broadcasting from our Game Day Men's Health Studio. Like we had a big announcement. New naming rights to the studio.

Game Day Men's Health. Where you can get 10% off your TRT treatment for life, if you just mentioned the dumb zone, for life! And they're helping you live longer. So it's a bad deal for them! Anyway, we sold the naming rights, they bought the naming rights, we've had an agreement for the naming rights, and we were in studio one day, and then like are we ever going to be back in that studio? That's the question. Yeah well the thing is with me personally Dan, Game Day Men's

Health Studio is just in me as it's coursing through my veins at 10% off so wherever I am that's where Game Day Men's Health is. Anyway we're not there we're high atop my garage today. As we have a sit-in, was this sit-in at the behest of any client or no? Is this just a sit-in because he kind of wanted to be here? What do we know? I think this is a sit-in that was a gift by his wife. Noice. Can we say your name?

What's your name? Scott. Scott. Is your last name the same as your wife. Noice. Can we say your name? What's your name? Scott. Scott. Is your last name the same as your wife's? No. OK. I already did it. Oh, you did it.

Because I looked at his wife's name, and I'm like, whoa. Are you a disgraced? He seems a little confused. He seems like a referee. Because of the NBA finals? Not a disgraced referee, but just a, yeah. Man, I don't know. Maybe more on that another day, if you care. Why is he not disgraced referee, but just a... Man, I don't know. Maybe more on that another day, if you care.

Why is he not disgraced? We know he was on the phone with a goddamn mafia head for 70 games right before and after one season. Write that down for Ethan Stroustok. The guy who's still the head referee on the NBA Finals. It's crazy. But isn't it because the NBA Finals. It's crazy. But isn't it because the NBA, they had to go to great lengths to say this is a one-man job. This is a one-man problem.

We've cut the cancer out. Everything else is very healthy. Because can you imagine this? It's a big enough scandal as it was. Oh, yeah. But if others are implicated But yeah, you're right, but this got not foster He kind of looks like was his name Pat O'Brien

the TV the TV news host guy who then was like office rocker drunk on that voicemail He just looks like a like a 90eties news guy you really don't want to mess with he looks well put together he's got a mustache he does it's what i'm saying i think that was like look great together it's be high solidarity is it nice unity has but i'm not a mustache caps i know how excited blake is this visit

it's humbling and It's humbling. You don't remember Pat O'Brien or am I crazy? No, I know what you're saying. Do you want me to? No, I'm just looking at it again. What should we do? We all nodded. No one even nodded. Isn't Jake right? Gosh, every day he's bringing up a cool reference.

His recall is amazing. Pat O'Brien. Didn't even get a pedo. I mean he's no pedo Brian. Yeah. Anyway, I wanted to mention that tonight we have our DZQBR. It is for our VIP subscribers. For now at least, the only way to do that is on the sub stack which you can find at dumbzone.com But I think in our meeting we might discuss whether or not we should open this up to the patreon subscribers as well because You know all subscribers matter

all subscribers all teens all things anyway That's at 6 p.m.. Tonight if you would like to be a part of that you can go to dumbzone.com get involved Let's see so we have Scott not Abby. I'm looking at my run sheet Was I allowed to mention your wife's name? I don't dump that Blake No, we are out like you could see Blake dressed up he thought Abby was showing up. Wore pants. Shaved. There's no one to escort to the door. I'll just sit here. That's right you'll be leaving on your own. Don't let the door splotches Scotty. We have a

bunch of sports it is Thursday so we got the big viewer mailbag stuff like that I don't know if you have closing remarks, but that'll be open for you if indeed. That's your thing What kind of a gift just random or a birthday birthday? Okay? Is that now that's now today today Oh, we actually got along the birthday. How many? You said your wife had been married before is this one or two for you. This is one one You said your wife had been married before is this one or two for you? This is one one Interesting how long was she married before I think a little over ten years. Are you jealous of that of? Her ex-husband yeah Like just that that exists. Oh that I missed that time with her. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know just the looming

That there's an ex-husband in it like it's different than an ex-boyfriend that you dated for ten years I would think but I don't know I think it would be with an ex-husband. It would be more civil Like it's an adult because hey we both moved Yeah, it was like the other guy might just be showing up all the time like yeah Yeah, drunk, and I actually remember that too like I remember when I don't like put your family business on the street But if you've been through when your parents get divorced, people from before show back up. You know what I mean? People from their past relationships or whatever. And then those, those, those you don't want. No, that's technically true of us though. Oh, we dated about 20 years ago. That's how my dad reconnected. Nice! That's how Chappy and my stepmom are.

That's a dream, bro. My dad made a run. He represented our father's day. He's like, you broke my heart when I was 18 that day. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of like that.

And then... Did you think she was the one that got away? For sure. We both felt that way. Dang. That's awesome. Yeah, she was thinking that during her marriage. That's awesome. You both thought it thinking that during her marriage. That's awesome.

You both thought it was a mutual split at the time? Yeah, we were just dumb and up our own butts and couldn't get out of the way to work things out but... Now, does she have kids from the previous marriage? Yeah. Okay. You don't like them then? Oh yeah, I love them.

They're great. They're fine. They're fine. I stepped just kidding. Fun agents. I stepped out of rocks. What'd you say? Five and 11. OK. Oh, I thought he was giving me how tall the kid was.

Like, OK. Yeah, he's five and 11. He's great. He'll get to six foot someday, bro. He's got like a 70 grade pop. Yeah, he's five and 11. I didn't know what he was saying. No, they're great.

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...of any pattern pattern his life after no late when I first for when I first met you and I realized you were an ally you were a 3 a.m. guy sleeping past noon I was like yeah that's one of it's one of us and it probably made him think this is sustainable for me yeah maybe that's why he's upset yeah yeah cuz now I'm getting up early cuz y'all are up early I gotta change my life. It's definitely seeing the 38 year old pitcher Can't can't quite get it up there anymore Blake's out here like oh wow it's coming for all of us. It is anyway

Woke up. I like to see the Sun so if you don't see any Sun coming through you know it little too early here. I know I'm going to have to now struggle to get back to sleep. It was actually 420 exactly, because I saw that on my phone and went, in my head I was like, yeah, bro. Of course I woke up at 420. Weed God. Yeah, you know, weed. Everybody knows that. So struggling to go back to, I couldn't go back to sleep and I'm thinking, you know what? I think my gym opens at five. Why not? Like Jake. Again, trying to be more like Jake.

That's what my wife would say. I'm like, you know what? I think I'll go to the gym. But before coffee... I'm a routine guy and I have it mentally trained that I can a routine guy and I have it mentally trained that I can't do anything unless I have coffee and yogurt and Whatever oatmeal that I drink or eat real thing that mental prep. Yeah, so anyway Then I actually kind of doze off. I didn't get up for that early morning thing but We've been prepping a lot of stuff,

and I kind of have a lot of the show prepped. So I came up, prepped the show, and all that. I got it all done, and it's like 10 o'clock, or 5 till 10. I'm like, what if I do a Jake? Just because I work out in the afternoon, usually. And it's a bit of a struggle. You've kind of done your whole day. You've been on a phone call.

I don't know how many afternoons. I have just left the parking lot because I'm on a sales call or something. And I just like, now it's like 5.30 and I'm really hungry. I want to eat. So I'll just leave. Yeah, it's a struggle the afternoon. You're a better man than I am.

So I'm like, you know what? I'm going to go to the gym right now. Jake does it. Like I can get that workout done in 45 minutes or so Why not? So I head to the gym made a call on the way Head to the gym and I got to tell you I thought oh it'll be dead in here Because it's 10 a.m. When I go usually for 430. It's packed with people getting off work dudes

It's packed at 10 a.m With ladies ah with milfy hot Suburban right keeping it together. I don't have a job I dropped my kids off at school. And now I am here at the gym making, setting up a, I've got this guy in my head. I'm married to this guy, but I've got a guy in my head that I used to date

that I hope I get back with someday. And I'm gonna keep working it, keep it together for that guy. Yeah, well don't, if you get a little, if you lose motivation, you can get some from your nice 25 year old trainer that you can pay there and hang out with you there so they have options but Because I calculated to we have the VIP event tonight So I'm like ah man that'll be really a beating get on and go work out and then have to go do I

Feel great now Let's see how I feel after the show and all that. But I feel like the morning workout, you guys got something, or you got something here. This ain't bad. Yeah, I mean, well, the first thing is like when I talk. If you've prepped enough. That's the thing is you have to just, I don't know.

I just do like a time budget. All right, I've got these three and a half hours this morning. Is there a 45 or 50 minute window in there? And I get beaten down by driving to the gym and then looking at like the parking lot. That's why I have to do the garage. But I think in the morning, I usually listen to a podcast or whatever. For the show this morning, I listened to a bunch of Cowboy Spares talk and you just work out and you feel better.

I try to time out like my meds, feel-good meds, for right now. Everything, just lay it out for right now. And then whenever we get done here, I'm useless. I think you'll keep your energy knowing that you don't have to go to the gym. That's huge. That's the thing. Yeah, you said the mental block is the thing.

That's what it is. It's downhill. Just coasting. That's great. You know There's just coasting. Yeah, like it's like watching those Twitter videos or whatever that's like, oh, I feel so good cuz I accomplished more. I actually do feel that like and I hate it. I don't want to feel like that. You're losing Blake. I don't want to feel like that. You're losing.

I know, I know. You're losing Dan to me in the douchebags. That's right. You know I had three days We're like a little way to our you know Sometimes he like takes his hat off and he's like oh, I thought I had a different hat on we're like a week away from Him being like oh, I forgot my weight vest on like when the show's already started Yeah, I saw a guy on a call walk in your neighborhood with a weight vest, and I thought you're approaching that It's just efficiency dude. That's all all it is. No, I'm,

I'm what, before we get to this next thing, I have to ask you guys a question. If I record people without them knowing out in public, can we just play that fine? Yeah, go ahead. Okay. Cause I'm going to start rolling on. I did yesterday. I rolled on the sauna for 15, 20 minutes. And I think I want to do a bit where I just say what I was thinking the whole time because my gym right now Dan at five o'clock If I go there, it's for sauna. It's always packed. It's extra packed now because our our it's a rec center, you know

You're at the gym for me that like if you have a reading camp, it's at the rec So I parked Everyone wreck so I parked Everyone's distracted. I parked And it felt like an hour away from the door there were 10 12 guys in the sauna all talking that once Olds Israel whoa Really, okay Israel Tennessee Supreme Court vote Israel. Whoa, really? Oh, OK. Israel.

Tennessee Supreme Court vote? That didn't come up, but there was obviously Israel. Russia came up, and ailments, the various surgeries. Are you chiming in? No. But I started rolling. Ailments? Oh, yeah, like surgeries, cancers.

Yeah, what if you had removed. This was awesome. I woulda loved it. I will say the only downside to morning workout guy is it'll hit me starting about after the show that I have to wake up early. That's the perfect time to get ready for bed. But see, I'm still not there yet. I still can't go to bed before 10. But I'll

have a stress in me in the evening knowing I got to wake up early. But you do feel better. So let's do some sports. Hold on a second. Should we work on a quick live read? It's not really a read. It's just us talking. Oh, we can do this one real easy because we want to promote tomorrow we'll be at the Constellation Club. Oh yeah. The Constellation Club is in Las Calinas. And what is it? Eventbrite.com if you would like to. RSVP. I think you can just show up, but they kind of want to know for food and all that kind of stuff So if you are planning on going like if you're not planning on it, but then it just strikes you tomorrow

Just go anyway, but if you're planning on it, you know, you're gonna go RSVP at event bright Com two dollar wings calm two dollar wings two dollar tamales one dollar drafts on a Friday afternoon from a cool spot so we don't do these too often come on out and Consume Yeah So yeah, join us there tomorrow three to six is the show we should mention that that's a different bit We don't usually do three to six

So In sports I have a lot I have a lot of quick hits We don't usually do three to six. So, in sports, I have a lot. I have a lot of quick hits. Oh yeah, I like that. I have some audio for you. I have a Cleveland Browns quarterback getting a ticket. But at the end of sports, we kind of have a big project. And we want to promote that with a guy that intern Henry just walked up here hmm intern Henry just walked a guy up here can you hand him the microphone this guy's name is Chris hey

Chris Chris boys nice to meet you let me ask Blake if you recognize Chris. Stand up. Stand up. No? Don't recognize Chris? Former athlete? Maybe stand far away. Oh, Blake's first look made me think that he was all the way in on this. Do you not recognize him at all?

Should I know you? Am I in the wrong here? I'm happy that you don't. He was very concerned that you'd recognize him right away. Yeah, this is good. Okay, good, thank you. So Chris emailed me, in fact, I have the first email right here. Well, he emailed quite a bit before this

because Chris is a supporter, early dumb zone supporter. But he emailed me in January and said, "'Please don't read this on the air.'" I think you meant then. Yeah, I'm sure, yeah. If you can get me a schedule of some of Blake's softball games, I will go out and get footage of his at-bats and share with you and Jake.

So we're like, I don't know. Sure, man. So then he emails me in... anyway, Jake sent him like the schedule, like the link to whatever online. You think this is gonna pay off? And then he says, hey I'll go out to his game video a game. So he then emailed me February 17th and he went and got a bunch of note and sent us notes and video. And like he wrote that this softball league, I don't know if you knew this, it's next level. I thought it would be dudes showing up with faded First Baptist Church t-shirts on. It's the opposite. It's the nicest softball facility I've ever seen. Every team has legit jerseys.

They must have cost $75 each. These dudes are all serious about their fun. So he gave us a detailed just a point-by-point play-by-play. He starts off with game one of your season. Blake is legit. He plays shortstop. He doesn't just stand there. Anyway, a full detailed scouting report of each one of these games. Then he emailed me again like week four. Like he's, after one he emailed and said hey this is kind of fun I think the season's only five weeks long I'll go to every game and we're

like I'm not gonna ask you to do this dude like this one is awesome but if you want to do it do your bit. Then after five weeks he, oh I realize it's like 14 weeks, but I'm having a great time I think I'm going to keep doing this. And so what Chris has done is he went to every game that Blake played, videoed every at bat. How did you do that? That Blake was involved in and he would constantly email me about, where were you? I think he's on to me. I was doing my best to just hide the entire time and I would, so you know where the tables

are out in the little common area? Yeah. Whatever field you guys were on, I would just kind of have to be kind of, and okay, then when I would see your dad was coming up, I'd pop up and I would get kind of have to be kind of, and okay, and then when I would see your dad was coming up, I'd pop up and I would get to a position where hopefully you wouldn't see me. And then it was a whole lot of shady video. And I was so worried all season long,

and you and I nearly bumped into each other a couple times going in and out of the bathroom, and I was in full panic mode. And I just, because look, I don't blend in well I kind of stand out against white brick and yeah anyway you're very tall you're 6'5 yes sir yeah and you you would say especially on those games like 8 a.m. and 40 degrees there's no one else there except like you and another guy or something. Yeah, yeah, especially early on.

Blake, that first game of the season, it was late March and probably, I think it was 38 degrees and wind blowing in at 8 a.m. And there's no one else out there. And I mean, I looked like a tree in the middle of a field. And so I was just like, like well this isn't gonna last long It never crossed my mind. Oh, thank God and to the point like I don't even recognize you now He was worried had no idea now whether or not it's gonna pay off or not. I don't know

I mean, I've been worried about that since day one, but I committed to the bit and You know here we are you're in every game All but two. Should we just do this here? Let's just do it right here. That's a lot. I was there 15 out of 17 weeks. Every game. I'm blown away at your dedication. He was also at the Dumb Zone's generic summer

event presented by Qualis Roofing, which he was worried about attending because we thought he would run into you. Hey, I think he'll recognize me. And we're like, no, dude, go ahead. Go out there, whatever. Yeah, and I don't know why, but in my head, I was imagining like me when I was 25,

just I had an apartment by a softball field, some podcast I listened to, there's softball, I'll get baked and go over there on Sunday and watch. And then we met him and he's like a real adult. Yeah, with a job. Well put together individualized. Money. Like all of our listeners. And then it made sense because the reports he would send us,

he writes like Grantlin Rice. Like it's the best sports details and flowery. Yeah. He wrote a full. It was a joy every Monday morning to receive. At least a page or more notes every week. Because there's two games. So you'd have, yeah.

Unreal. They have, yeah. Unreal. Half a page. I didn't think it would be, you know, what am I going to do? Just go, Blake was, you know, three for four today. No. If you're going to do it, do it right. Yeah, that's exactly right. But you didn't stop, like, when you were driving to the field saying this is not worth my time?

Oh, no, no. I thought that every Sunday when I had to get up. Especially when I had to get up. Oh, no, no, I thought that every Sunday Stupidly I I thought when this whole deal started you live out near me and I just thought he's in a softball league near us It's 45 minutes from the house. Oh my god. Yeah, and so yeah, so for your 8 a.m. Games I'm cussing at myself or why did you do this because it's 630 on a Sunday and why are you getting up to do this? Yeah, why'd you do it week to like week one? I would think well. Here's why I told you I would do it. That's right That's right. Anyway, so let me give you some this is game one Early scouting reports like the first time you ever saw him

Blake is legit. He plays shortstop. He doesn't just stand there watching the play when the ball is nowhere near him. So he moves around. Runs out the play even though he knows it's an out. Now in this first game, things did not go well for the Cardinals. You're on the Cardinals? No game went well for the Cardinals. Okay, we'll get to that. Cardinals? No game went well for the Cardinals. Okay, we'll get to that. This was lost it looks like I don't know if it yeah I guess a walk-off Cardinals gave up a grand slam with two outs. They lost 11 to 15 15 to 11 And then his last note for game one Blake deserves better

Yeah, yeah, no, You'll see this as we follow, but I followed this like Blake was a distressed NBA star on a bad team. That was just having to carry the whole thing and the pressure's getting to him. Look, I'm scoring my points. So it looks like they lost 15 to 11 the second game as well. So very consistent there. Next week, week two. Yeah we have some of the video too if you want to go to our YouTube channel. Dude can bash, I don't think there's any question about that. Let me see, I want to make sure because I have a couple I wanted to pull out but not till week seven special but week two we go to

where he says there's a lot of more spectators BJ is at shortstop where else would he be? You like calling him BJ is that because of BJ on Righteous Gemstones? What is your thought on Blake? He does sound a little bit like BJ on Righteous Gemstones. I don't know. It was probably just... Easier to write? Yeah, I was just being lazy. BJ with a sliding plate to his right to grab a hard grounder.

It's unfair how casual he is, but it's just expected. We knew that you would receive this well because he's writing just glowingly about you. It sounds here like you are Barry Bonds on steroids. Let's see game two of week or in game one. BJ is automatic. I was wrong. He says I was wrong because I called the grand slam on video. Easy three run home run to left center. He says, after game one of week two, they just took a group picture after the game at home plate.

I tried to stand up and be in the background. Need to ask Blake for this picture at some point to see if I'm in it. Let me find it. See if you can find that and send it to Clayton. He also would update the stats of like your dad but also the fake your dad so that was confusing for me to follow as well there was there was Blake senior and there was fake Blake senior. So he's got you and

your dad your dad and another guy had the same number. Oh yeah and it bothered me all season long yeah but he was just fake Blake senior. That's funny. Yeah, he had a bad year. Okay, so he a Lot of this is about That you're a diamond surrounded by poo poo Okay, that you're clearly the best player and your team is not good. He does write Blake's third baseman has a glove at least He made some plays out there this week. He won't be a target when Blake goes all Columbine on them.

Like this is only game three and you're already thinking you are correctly identifying Blake and then the team. Game three down 13-6 after four innings with 11 minutes on the clock. That's right. They gave up 11 in one inning. Yeah, we'll do that. 11 minutes on the clock. That's right. They gave up 11 in one inning. Yeah, we'll do that. Here's his note after week two.

My one request is to coordinate with and have Sarah in studio if I get to come into the show for the video. We didn't do that. Yeah. But you get to meet intern Henry. That's pretty cool. And Scott. Hey, Scott.

Scott's pretty cool, yeah. How are you? Good. Is that you in the in the back right there? Green shirt. Week three temperature is 58 degrees of the wind. It's cold. As of this week Blake leads the team with 10 RBI, 583 average, 1788 Ops and 1250 Ops. What do you want him to do? Slugging. Yes, he did note fake BJ Sr. What's that? I said what do you want to do? I mean he's doing his part. No. He's scoring all the runs. He was doing more than his part and no offense to any of his teammates when they qualify all this.

But yeah, he was, I was all prepared for this just to be a, you know, let's get together and kick Blake in the nuts. And it was apparent from minute one that, okay, well he's an animal out there. This is just going to be a Blake tribute hour. Game two of week three down seven one after two Which seems to be that would be almost every one of your Blake with a solo blast you could tell he's pissed at the lack of offense and just decided to launch one to left-center Yeah, I'm glad you picked up on that because I did try to change my What my team needed from me try to get on base a little more as they moved me to the leadoff spot. Yeah. But I was stranded a lot. As you can see in the highlight video we're rolling, I actually noted that and you started basically just pulling everything right down the line that you wanted.

The funniest thing to me not knowing anything about softball level of what skill to expect. In the off chance the guy playing third is able to dig one of those hot shots out he thinks he's like Josh Young and he's just dude you're never making that throw like Blake is already like hands on his hips before the guy gets the ball to first. You're just shooting him down the line though like there's a number of times pinpoint accuracy. There were a number of times and it may have been on video because I couldn't help myself. I thought he murdered the guy at third. And if they weren't scouting beforehand and if they were on the infield,

I was genuinely worried that he was going to just hammer someone. You could tell like when he decided, all right, this is what we're doing. Couple things I noted watching the video that I didn't know about men's softball. So some guys will pull a net out there and pitch behind that. They all appear to be olds. Like they're afraid of what Blake might do to them. Not me. You know to like avoid the pitcher?

Yeah, I don't blow up middle. Some guys will. On purpose? Yeah. Like just to r avoid the pitcher? Yeah, I don't I don't blow up middle. Some guys will. On purpose? Yeah. Like just to rattle the pitcher? Yeah, he's not gonna stop it. And so if you just hit a missile up the middle, it's a guaranteed single. Or if it does hit the pitcher, they're not gonna throw you out.

Okay, I noticed something else. Yeah. When rounding the bases, and I think we have an inside the park home run to watch at some point But it looks like when you score I was like wait. What are they doing? They run There's like another home plate That's not at home plate. That's to avoid collisions at home Well, how do you get out then if the ball if the catcher catches the ball with his foot on the bag? Just like at first it's basically a force.

If you beat the runner home, it's an out. We have really woked up softball. Yeah. Softball already is woke baseball. Correct. And? So you're running around third. No, I saw it.

And then there's a plate 10 feet behind where the real plate is. And so if you get to that plate before he can catch the ball then you're you're safe Yeah, that was my question because the catcher is still guarding home plate right? I'm like why aren't they yeah? Yeah So there's there's a yellow marker along third base That's like your Your cutoff line like as soon as you cross the yellow you got to go Which keeps people from just like creeping down just to see if the catcher caught it the other thing is there is a mat over home plate and if the ball hits the mat, it's a strike and

so used to It used to be a judgment call for the umpire whether it was a striker now or not now if it just hits the mat It's a strike and so they're trying to take like all I wouldn't they say if it hits home Why do you have to put something on home? It's bigger than just home plate Oh, but they're trying to take out any sort of like what situation could cause an argument the umpires don't call balls and strikes There's no collision at home. The umpires don't call well I get has to do but it's not a judgment call anymore It just has to hit the man just has to hit it doesn't hit the mat then that's it right

Huh, so you're right. It is turning more woke. You know the funniest thing about this is that softball and all of its iconography, which involves a lot of beer, they look around and they're like, we have too many fights. What is wrong with the rules? Right. What are some things we could change and tinker

with on the edges here? Well, I remember my stomach though. Everybody here's had a 12 pack. My stomach used to really kill me, like burn after I drank, what is the, what's vodka and orange juice? Screwdriver. I can't remember that, oh, screwdriver.

The acidity. And, but that's what I would be like, you know what? That's softball juice. No, I should stop drinking the orange juice. So I'll just drink vodka. Like, I didn't think about the fact that I drank like 10 of these things. That may have also contributed to the whole thing,

but same bit. Too much vitamin C. We are now in week five where he's writing about the, Blake's third at bat had a lazy pop out the second to end an inning this is a one of the rare bad at bats reached way out to cover the plate I think being down 15 to 5 is having an effect on him yeah yep and they lost that one 15 to 8 No defensive highlights for me? No, those are too hard to get. I know, I know.

He knows when you're at bat. I know I captured them. Well, but I captured them in the show notes, but I couldn't. I was proud of a few plays this year. Right, he would have to have a camera trained on you the whole time. No, you made some famous. Oh, that's too far. You're criticizing this guy now?

Got it. He's driving at 6.45 in the morning on a Sunday to go see you play softball. He didn't get my- Why didn't you track me in the cage? He didn't get my highlight. We go to week six where Blake, at the end of the game, is in the batter's box and has to watch them go

one, two, three again. He sat there for 10 seconds after the last out in disbelief. Another Cardinal came up to him and had to have, had to give him a pep talk or an apology to get him to move. I've been there. Yeah, this season wore on me man. Must have been in the on deck circle, not the batter's box. And yeah. Cards lost that game it says here 14 to nothing. Our first time through the lineup,

I think this is the game. We had one hit and that was my lead off single and then for the next three or four innings, it was one, two, three every time. Chris is laughing. Yeah. We go to week seven. Dude, you got to see me really pissed off.

I know I did, yeah. And I try not to show that to most, but I can't help it. Does he ever get into it with other players? No, not at all. No, he was well not not from my distance. Not that I can see. I wasn't ever close enough to hear anything But no, he looked like just the consummate teammate the consummate professional out there. He really did. He had a mustache Yeah, just when you see Blake Blake I promise there's a compliment coming. I don't care.

You didn't tell me. No, no. I mean, because you're an average looking human being, right? Or an? Kind of short, a little stocky. Like, yeah, does this guy got anything? But when the dude is on the softball field, he is the alpha out there.

And it's just, it's, it shouldn't be that way. It just shouldn't. I agree. And by the way, it's not just softball. I mean, I, every sport I've played with him, I'm not saying he's still got it like this, but no, I feel like I've been around a lot of good athletes in my life and he was one of the more surprising ones. Right. Well, I can tell you this if you don't touch 85 in your own little endeavor, he is gonna murder you. I'm just telling you now. That's why he's looking forward to this. I know. And I am too.

It's starting to shape up in my head of what this could look like. But he's used to soft pitches. Yeah. He's not used to the heat. Right. The camp heat. Week seven, Chris's first note is, you could tell Blake is sick of this team. He didn't even mention softball during the weekend check. Boy, that fell off fast.

So apparently, yeah, it was a few weeks in, and you're like, yeah. Well, every- What'd you do this weekend? Huh? Nothing. Every time after that, that softball came up, it was just us.

How'd it go? And we knew you'd lost like 19 to 4 so the first five air Selected video I need Clayton is he did say week 7 was his worst at bat of the year and if you could pull that up He describes it as a Soft ground or too short fielder's choice to reach first base. So just wanted to note that he did tell us your absolute worst at-bat of the year. There are a lot of them. Because you're gonna have, your best at-bat is gonna come up at some point. Blake Doe killing it on D in that same game. Hard grounder up the middle, BJ with a

snag, steps on second and the easy for him throw to first for the double play. Apparently that's not easy for everybody. Solo doubles? No, again I don't know what softball is supposed to look like. So one of the favorite, my favorite parts of this was watching Blake just bomb balls to the warning track and then watch old guys try to make sense of making that play. They end up on the ground almost every time. They're just backtracking and stumbling. Yeah, there's almost no spatial awareness. None. And bang into the wall.

I don't know if everyone has had rotator cuff injuries out there, but Blake is one of the few that throws the ball correctly it like everyone like you can attest to this almost everyone out there throws the ball with their elbow down below their shoulder and like they can't get any kind of rotation on it right and yeah none of them know what a cutoff man is so you're playing the Braves in week 7. And Chris writes, there's an asshole that plays for the Braves that is chirping the entire game at his team on how to hit and defensive alignment. So you've always got that, right? The one guy that's, yeah, he's the pro baseball player slash, I don't know if you can remember that

now yet then he writes a couple innings later blake soul has to be leaving his body they're getting hammered by a shitty team now they're down nineteen to three after one and a half innings god they don't cap the ending no like with an angry home run the left center. He still got it.

They lost 19 to 10. Week 9. Oh, your best at bat's going to be coming up here. He says, BJ with a stinger at the third baseman's face. I nearly saw a death on the field. Shouldn't have been standing there. Between games, he writes. Bonus coverage. We have a Brooks sighting.

On the field with Blake between games, as a dad whose son played a decade of serious travel baseball, seeing him on the field with the little man makes my old heart happy. I'm not gay, you're gay. Shut up. This is so nice. It's just a jerk. He got invested in the season. He's reflecting on fatherhood

We're here. You saw a lot of bats off all yeah I'm sorry don't think about it like seasons in hell or whatever These are the stories that stick with us from the world of sports he apologizes for bad camera work for your first at-bat Barely caught him smoke a hardline drive over the left fielder's head a stand-up triple clearly the spare in left field Didn't know who Blake is he knows now And then we go to BJ's second at bat may have been his best of the year Big outs do we have that big outside in swing drives a twisting fly ball to centerfield The guy had zero chance at it

Drives a twisting fly ball to centerfield the guy had zero chance at it The man on first correctly held up waiting to see if it was a fly out by the time he sees it It won't be caught Blake is running full speed and is five feet behind him on the base pet base patch It's very keystone cops Blake almost beat him home yeah like checks up cops Blake almost beat him home yeah Blake checks out so yeah and inside the park home run he says much like those that were there when Nolan punched Ventura I will brag about this day to others that I was there Dan watch this one again if you can play it again Clayton this no I've seen it okay I just want to run it one more time yeah the guy at the wall and then Blake on the bases he says very random observation you will see three to four fake. Joba Chamberlain's out here every week

Yeah, boy, that's accurate Tubby white guys with out-of-control beards are common. Yeah And then he wants to give a shout out to the city of Alan Parks Department Nicest public bathrooms. I've had the pleasure ofing in. A shout out to Jake as well. Definitely will poop here again soon. Thumb ups, five stars. That's awesome. Let's see, random observation he wants to give about your league I guess. Standing about 10 feet from me there's a grown 65 year old man in a Yankees uniform pants and jersey loosening up and taking practice swings right out in the common area where people are walking around the

Yankees are not playing right now no so yeah that fits how full uniform huh some yeah yeah okay oh this is week 13 I might have I mean like pants pulled up Stirrups the whole the whole nine yards. Okay. This is I labeled this because I watched all these videos The cockiest home run of the year. It is a week 13 He says Blake with another bomb. He knew it was gone as soon as it left the bat I hope the video caught it. We're down 13 to 10 and I think yes the swing and just the walk like oh My the just the cockiness of that's so gone I don't even need to and then in softball you don't have to run the bases right if you know no no

No, and he's really taking advantage of that God, that's arrogance. In that game, you lost 16 to 10. I want you to do that. Give me a jog out of the box. No, I want you to do exactly that. I want you to look disgusted that you just had to park that baseball on the other side of the fence.

No one is helping me. They lost 16 to 10, he says. The cards made at least six fielding errors. Yeah. He does have you in week 13 now that you're hitting first. He says I swear the life this team is draining the life force out of our hero. They're down 8 nothing after three innings. Nothing. Instead of Jake killing a cow with his bare hands I'd like to have you come out come and choke out everybody But the Jones is on this team

With all due respect to his teammates. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. It's great guys 16 minutes left on the clock down nine nothing game over shutouts More than anything. I'm glad that little little Brooks isn't old enough to see his dad being broken down by this season. Yeah Week 14 God God Almighty, he writes... This is among... You gotta understand, he's got 30 points per game. I'm just highlighting a few of them. Holy... the dedication.

God Almighty, they're down 15 to 1 after 4. Holy crap, they got run ruled with 15 minutes still on the clock. Blake only had two at bats this game. So what is a run rule? Ten after five. Okay. Which happened more than a handful of times for us. That's probably in there. In game two in week 14, oh my god. Blake with a legit Willie Mays play, springing in the left field to catch a bloop fly ball looking over shoulder Sliding to make the catch. Sorry. I don't have it on video. I do

How do you have that The team were playing pretty sure the Reds videos the game and I went back and I pulled it Roughly so said SG that he pulled it or did they do it? That they do it. I see it a lot now. It's younger kids. But I've seen it happen where a kid got mossed and a guy on our team was like, can I get that? And he's like, what's your snap, dog?

So I guess. He says there's always jersey instability out here, but there's a guy playing with the Expos this week who's wearing an Israel jersey. No, what? I'm sorry. Yeah, that, uh, yeah. You've seen the Israel jersey before? Yeah, because it's a Jewish league.

Ah, the Shalom softball league. So one year, they try to spice up the All-Star game, and so they did Team Israel versus the World. Team, oh, Mohamed? Whatever, yeah. Fighting causes. He was a part of that team and has been very proud of it ever since. Huh. israel versus the world team of obama whatever uh... he was a part of the team and has been very proud of it ever since okay

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beating if it's messed up. So TXTrid calm Jeremy will take care. Yeah, we're in week 15 Chris notes that Blake hustles on the base pass to he gets from first to third in the heartbeat And then he says I'd like to see a 40-yard race between Blake and Jake Blake has wheels Yeah, no I would say that for Blake has wheels Yeah, no, I would say that for all of the time that Blake has been alive He's been faster than I am but we're approaching a possible Jake Lindsay Lohan when she was on crack thing Although now he's not fat anymore, but there was a time Where he was getting fatter and I think it was getting closer

In this particular game against the Dodgers after four innings the Cardinals are down 13 to 3. Chris writes I feel really bad for Blake seriously he's coaching third base and has both hands on his knees most of the time and is staring at the ground like he's holding back a vomit. Don't love the body language for a leader but... And apparently that is a they got run ruled. Once we finish five you're still down 13-3 and we'll just... let's just end this. The message wasn't resonating anymore. I didn't know what I didn't know what else to do.

Yep. Yeah, that's week 15. We We're not fixing this so in week 16 Chris writes I've just been told every team makes the playoffs and there's some kind of round robin thing So I assume it means you lose twice before eliminated. I wonder if Blake will be playing praying to the underdog story or The quick death to end the season in any case. This means I'll be back here next week So this is 16 weeks in. Couldn't believe it. He's committing to week 17. Also, what I didn't know about softball these days,

because Chris writes, the heat blowing in off this turf is noticeable. And I'm like, turf? It's awesome. It's an artificial turf field for softball. Yeah, no maintenance. Yeah. Which is great. No rainouts. Is that actual dirt or is that turf too? No, it's all turf. Everything is turf. So the brown stuff is also just turf? Yeah. They just color it to look like that. Yeah. Interesting. No, it's awesome. We didn't have any rain outs. You could play in a light drizzle. No mud no

Bad grass. It's perfect. The batter's box doesn't have a giant hole in it where everyone digs their cleats in Yeah, I mean it's not really like part of the the game play that much and no bat hops it short That's got to be the biggest thing. Yeah, but that's fast though. I Can do fast I can't have one hit me in my the biggest thing. Yeah, but that's fast though. I can do fast I can't have one hit me in my chin. Okay. Yeah You know, I took like baseball coaching in college because that's one of my things I thought I might want to do and It was taught by the you know

coach of the college team. And he, you know, they thought they were kind of teaching us all to, you're probably going to be a high school coach at some point. And so his thing was when he was a high school coach, he didn't believe in base paths. So the whole infield was grass. They did a circle around home plate and a circle for the mound. But everything else was grass. They did a circle around home plate and a circle for the mound, but everything else was grass and he said it was because you spend so much time on the maintenance of a field. Like that's what he's like half the time as a

high school coach he's like you don't it's not like you have a ground screw it's you. You chalk in the lines. And so yeah that's why he's saying you should just have a full and I guess you know back then They weren't envisioning that high schools would be able to just afford artificial turf for everything But now they do that's wild and that's a big reason why every high school football stadium will have turf You'd play your JV game the night before your seven on. I mean it does soccer. It doesn't matter. You're not gonna tear it up Okay, so every team makes the playoffs the heat on the turf Oh

Now we've got a little opinions are seeping in Chris. Not everything on Blake's game is perfect as He says Blake with a long fly out to left If he just tried to hit opposite field once in a while, he'd be unstoppable. I don't know never saw it Never saw it once. This is my this is my Run the ball of softball is I'm gonna hit it as hard as I can and that means I'm pulling it I'm not gonna do this gay little hook shot to right That's not why I got out of bed I got out of bed to hit the f'n ball hard to make Steve Buzz be proud

So if you put you can put all around you can put all eight fielders in left field I would hit it to left field as hard as I can. Later in this game, Blake with a hard line drive over second for a single. Holy shit the next batter hits a bomb for a two-run homer. Finally someone else steps up. Wow. And we lost 19 to two. Well, you're building. You ended up losing 18 to 10. What's the vibe in the dugout?

Like are these, cause again, I don't know this scene. Like we would be, I would quit to be honest. I couldn't, I wouldn't join a team that was gonna get the shit kicked out of me for 15 weeks. No, as the season went on, I got more, or I got less and less excited to go, but it's, it's... You still have fun? It, for the most part, yeah. I mean, I enjoyed the guys that I play with and honestly I wouldn't play if I wasn't playing with my dad.

Yeah. So I tried to enjoy those moments. Brooks went with us the last half-ish of the season. It was cool just getting him around the game and around how, look, we hit, we go field, we sit down. I want him to observe all that. But as far as if I was just gonna go out there and compete, no, I had a horrible time. Yeah.

A horrible time. But I tried to soak in playing with my dad and playing with a good group of guys, but we were just Atrocious and teaching Brooks were to poop Yeah, you got about that. Yeah, you were there for that weren't you I actually held him up and put him Wait, what happened? I don't remember when Brooks pooped in a urinal It was me the whole time so that was the nicest

Nicest public restroom for a while. Yeah, if you had to do in a urinal, it might as well be that one. Like, did he just sit on it? I guess. Where other people were just? That's what I said that day. He is all over his butt. Yeah, well, I'd said it would be funny to actually see him

do it. Like, if you're walking in the restroom and there's a kid there doing that. Reading the paper? Yeah. Do you know how he got up there? I don't know, but it was just squarely on the urinal cake, just this long deuce.

Jesus. And I think it was Jimmy who said it, but yeah, the guy came up to me and said, hey, I think your kid took a shit in the urinal. Like there was any suspect there. No, yeah, it was my kid. Or some other guy. Yeah, not the 40-year-old.

In a Yankee uniform. Yeah, the full six-five guy. It's either the six-five guy with a camera. Chris says, I just saw the most men's softball thing I've ever seen at this point. The Cardinals have a guy that's pretty muscled up. He hit a weak infield fly to first base sort of flexed and hit the bat with his fist. I Think you can picture the scene. I don't know. What do you mean by that? Just I

Guess it's kind of hard to describe he was just a big muscled up dude and and just pissed that he yeah It was like it was the bats fault or like he was he was it's hard to clearly I didn't describe it well enough but yeah it was it was something to see so they lost 18 to 10 to didn't have a lot of momentum to go into the playoffs but we get to the playoffs on June 1st Chris writes 8 a.m. start this week our 8 and 18 cards are pitted against the 8 and 18 pirates. Oh, we got a round of 68 type thing overcast with rain looming And he says pretty sure you have to lose twice to be eliminated

so Take care of that pretty quickly. We lost the day to 9 o'clock. Yeah, then Chris writes a note about himself pretty quickly. We lost the day to 9 o'clock. Then Chris writes a note about himself. Seriously, what kind of idiot would think up some dumb bit like this and actually follow through with it? You boys really need smarter listeners. I love it. So 8 and 18 versus 8 and 18. This sounds like an even match. Let's look at the notes. The Cardinals are visitors. Blake ends the regular season with a 649 batting average. He also led the team in RBI while batting first or second in the season, or all season. Says serious looking storm clouds coming in from the north.

A rain out would be about right to mercifully end this season for our hero and Then he writes next note is holy shit cardinals are down 11 to 2 after two innings against the evenly matched Pirates temperatures have dropped quite a bit Here's a picture from the field between innings. It just got so dark out here They turned the field lights on at 8 45 in the morning So this was how it all ended. Yeah, the lightning Meters were going off and we just thought let's just let's keep going

Let's get this over with got Israel on our side. So yeah, he sent some photos of that In typical Blake fashion photos of that. In typical Blake fashion, let's see, the dude just puts his head down and keeps moving forward. He was the first one to his position in the field after he made the last out of the inning. All right. That's just leadership right there. Good Lord! Blake plays such deep shortstop, almost into the outfield, he just ranged over to his left, picked up a hard grounder on a dead run and fires an absolute dart to first for an out. Savage.

Cold Glove? Maybe. In game two, he says, Chris writes, this is the final game of the season, not to spoil it but oh, okay, what was that first game? They lost 11 to 7. 7. They throw it under They lost 11 to 7. 7. They throw it underhand. We scored 7.

Game 2 though, he says, we will play the hated Reds. I just know Blake is on to me at this point. I'm like a giraffe on the Serengeti out here. I stand out. I have a backstory prepared if he confronts me, but I hoping it doesn't happen okay what was it it's probably not a good backstory but it was the only one that I come up with I work for the city of Allen they just want me to come out here and just to be a presence by the way shout out to a young man named Mason out there who would let me duck in the

little equipment room yeah because that one field over there it would have been too I would have been spotted too easily and so every once in a while he would let me duck in there and so he was he was in on the bit so shout out Mason amazing you know how many people I've told about this bit in the last three or four months, I'm sorry explain it again That's it. Yeah It's like for me to tell someone why I'm getting up to go to a softball field and Alan to watch a guy who I don't know and Record him so he doesn't see me

Yeah, I've gotten some looks well then even like you know you know, I wanted to have Chris to our Game Day Men's Health Studios, which is downtown Dallas. But we couldn't coordinate. We wanted to do this bit today and he's like, yeah, I'll make the hour drive. He drove an hour to get here just for this. In this final game, rain is absolutely coming down as they start this game Blake with a hard line drive to left to start off with a single these maniacs are still playing He's got photos of that as well. I think of the Doppler radar or something. You were just indicating It was just a terrible terrible weather day this final game Game pause for now. They pulled everyone off the fields

They're down five to two after three they're down eight to six after four He writes if these assholes win this game and keep playing like you wanted to leave at this point Yeah, I mean it was wearing don't blame you. Yeah Writes about Blake all he does is hit a double left field the cards get some offense They're up 9-8 after five and a half. Yeah, they'll hold it Can they lock down the Reds to stave off elimination parentheses stave is an anchor word. Yep It really is it's on there. So they're up 9 to 8 after five and a half innings

He 9-8 after five and a half innings He Then writes how the Cardinals pitcher has walked two straight with one out This is getting tense walked to eight and nine hole hitters and Then he says that's more like the cards. We've seen all year. They're now down 16 to 9 Damn, it was right there And a quick three outs to end the game and the season. He says, I've done a little digging, I think, amongst all the players that played at least 24 of the 26 games, Blake was top five in batting average.

That's in the league. In the league. Blake's final stats in 27 games, 77 at bats, 50 hits, 8 of them were home runs, 40 RBI, 36 runs, a 649 average, and 1836 Ops. I projected this over 162 games. Of course. Where Blake had 479 at bats. For context, in Major League Baseball,

it was like 600 some at bats led the major leagues last year. So this is an abnormal amount of at bats led the major leagues last year so this is an abnormal amount of at bats in those 479 at bats over 162 games Blake would have had 311 hits 49 home runs 249 RBI and 224 runs scored it's an all-star And I think what I want to do... Are you gonna come film the all-star game? Sure. Is there an actual all-star game? Yeah, July something.

Wait, how come we didn't get the vote out? They already voted. Who voted? The captains. Oh, I thought maybe there was a fan vote element that we could... There's a coach's poll or something. Yeah, I'll go. Okay. Do you want to ride? something. Yeah, I'll go.

Okay. Do you want to ride? Yeah, yeah we can ride to her, yeah. So. Great job. Dude, amazing. Great job by Chris. Phenomenal bit, yes, very pleased.

I respect the bit. I feel bad your time was wasted. No, it wasn't wasted. No, I mean look, you guys have given me so many years of Entertainment the least I can do is spend 60 hours To put together a simple little bit. That's great Respect to you. Thanks, man. That's great That is good stuff

Since I mentioned the gameameday Men's Health Studios, let's at least let you know a little bit about what Gameday Men's Health is. It is testosterone replacement therapy. Right? Therapy? Is that what the T, the extra T stands for? I think it's kind of a... Treatment?

...you get to choose. Testosterone replacement. I know that's one. But then the last T, it's choose your own. It's a question mark? Yeah. That's what I did there. You did some vitamin therapy there.

They have all sorts of options for men's health. They just want you to feel the best you can, physically, mentally, emotionally. And it's quick, too. I set aside about half an hour to go in there the other day. I was there for two minutes. You're in, you're out, that's it. The initial appointment, they're going to take your blood, figure out your T levels,

whether you even qualify, you know? But they're there for you if you do. And they're there for you all over the Metroplex. They've got tons of spots to go to the website, which is right in front of me. Where is it, Dan? I don't know. Well, it's Game Day Men's Health. So check them out mention the dumb zone you get 10% off TRT for life game day men's health yeah want to do some other sports sure what would you like to start with um let's start with some Cowboys of course the news of the offseason everyone's talking about the pay increase for the

Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders that that one yeah okay wait the they have a pay increase yeah no I'm kidding oh they do have they do have a pay increase it is a small story that I don't think anyone really cares about because as you're going to see I believe this is a raise from 15 to 70 dollars an hour. That's not what the headline said. It is not and that's what I want to talk about. So of course there was the America's Sweethearts Netflix show that I don't know was it directly lifted from Sarah Hepple's podcast or or was it just used as research? Like when they started that Netflix show,

it seems like that was on the heels of Sarah's podcast, and they had the TV show on CMT for a long time. I didn't know there was a new season, but there's a second season, and in the seventh episode last night, you have to pull me up here now, Blake, I don't know, there was a little conversation that made news. I was not at uniform returns.

I was home. I really didn't know if I was going to come back at that point, but with the new changes, I do plan on returning for a fifth season. On Tuesday, I heard from Kelly that she wanted to kind of reconvene, have another conversation about our pay. Myself, Armani, and Megan, we got an email. They asked if they could meet with us. And they basically just thanked us for everything that we told them and for being very open and honest.

Our efforts were heard and they wanted to give us a raise and we ended up getting a 400% increase, which is like life changing. Happy isn't even the right word for it. OK, so that's what is in the final episode of the second season of the Netflix show. That gets aggregated to these headlines. That's how I found out about this was a tweet. So there's a New York Times story about it

because that is the only thing that was said. We got a 400% payment increase. And we've heard for years, there was that lawsuit back in 2019 where a former cheerleader had sued saying they're not paid enough. Everybody knows that they, they're deriving a lot of their quote unquote

compensation from exposure. That they don't get paid that much hourly. It was $15 an hour. deriving a lot of their quote-unquote compensation from exposure that they don't get paid that much hourly was $15 an hour and then there was some number for games that was not very high so the only thing that really has been confirmed the New York Times called a a cheerleader I believe is current that they're going from $15 an hour to $75 an hour Which is a 400% increase, but I'm not sure it's life-changing

Unless you plan to work, you know what I mean? Like they don't, they're not working hourly enough to where that's not life-changing. And that's also not typically how you would say. You didn't go from 20,000 to 200, well whatever. Yeah. It's a big percent, but there's no more details about it. I guess that's what we'd have to know is how much do they make in a year off just cheerleading. Yeah. And so the New York Times called this cheerleader. They're the only ones who has How much do they make in a year off just cheerleading? Yeah, and so the New York Times called this cheerleader. They're the only ones who has any original reporting on this. She said that she was making $15 an hour and 500 for each appearance.

I don't know how that works. She said now she would be making more than $75 an hour. But I don't know how that works with, you know, whatever. But I just thought it was an interesting media story that they're talking to this girl on a reality show and she's like straightening her clothing with a steamer and she's like, I got a 400% increase. And then there's just news stories about it.

And nobody really knows, the Cowboys for their part, declined to comment, would not confirm any details regarding the wages. Yeah that would indicate that it's not as great as and like let's just leave it at the headline. Yes and I also I have not watched this show I was interested in the first season but as I was skipping through looking for this audio today there's no way I can I can do it. I'm glad it's there, it's an interesting topic. I can't watch it.

Too aggravating for me. But they're highlighting heavily how much cool stuff they get to do by being on the show, or by being on the staff, on the team and I searched it on Twitter And that's like a common review is it after the first season when everybody was like damn they work really hard They don't really get paid that much that was the narrative The second season is really a lot of showing like but look at all this cool stuff

They get to do because they're cowboy cheerleaders You know I forgot this is a pretty sweet gig So this is like a Charlotte deal, right? Yeah. And she's probably got final say on how it actually comes out. Like Jerry is the executive producer of his Netflix documentary. So you're not going to get the stripper in Vegas, the picture in Vegas with drunk Jerry, right? On that, you're going to get all the other stuff. So you're right, that's a great analysis. They watched season one, everybody's complaining about what they get paid and how hard they

work because Charlotte's mind was probably, hey, let's highlight how hard they work so they get some appreciation. Yeah. Well, and then everybody's like, yeah, but why aren't you giving them that appreciation? Well, now let's highlight all the cool places that we do take them so now we can get some appreciation. Yeah, and when this dancer athlete says I got a 400% increase, just leave it at that.

Yeah, let's just put that in there. Yeah, you know, what's interesting is Blake got a bigger raise than Dak Prescott. Yeah. That's actually factually true by this. Yeah. Yeah, this is pretty common to radio. Oh, yeah.

I mean, you're making nothing, but you think to yourself, well, I get to go to training camp and have a cool job. Yeah, a lot of jobs like that. So that was my cowboy story for the day, Dan. Elsewhere in sports, there's an interesting note. Do you see the Corey Perry note? Yeah, and I didn't know that people, I guess whenever he was here, I didn't

know that there was quite the level of hatred of him that people were gritting their teeth biting down hard and just oh yeah I went through it I mean I knew people didn't like him I didn't know that it was that Because when he was here he was not bad no but before he was here Yeah, yes, I remember that from my stars postgame days. That's as the hated Corey Perry dude where is like it almost felt weird As the hated Corey Perry dude where is like it almost felt weird Having him on your team like that kind of a guy different than like Pavel ski Similar level of rival and guy on a team. Yeah, but just he's an asshole right type guy Like you you don't want to play against him. I don't know

What's that then? But yeah that he lost his fifth Stanley Cup final in the past six years. Now he has won the Stanley Cup, so you've got to think, man, this guy's been in the Cup. He's been in the final six times. That's pretty incredible. But I guess he's been on Edmonton for two years. They've lost two years in a row, and he actually set the NHL record last year by being on

a fourth different cup loser. Four different teams. Was he on the Dallas team? Yeah. Okay, yeah the bubble team. Yeah. So he was on Dallas. That was probably his first loss. Montreal in 2021. Tampa in 2022. Skipped a year.'t lose the cup finals, and then two years in a row he's lost the Stanley Cup finals. The Lakers have announced a sale, or they've announced that they're close to it, right? Yeah. I don't think it's official official. But as to one of their minor minority owners who already owns

20% of the team or something like that another the valuation that he is purchasing a majority of the team would have the team worth 10 billion dollars right now I think he's like paying an extra 4.8 now or he paid 4.8 pre whatever it is That's what all the buzz is that the Lakers are worth 10 billion dollars Which kind of makes you think that's where you start the conversation if you want to sell the Cowboys That's what I've always thought but 10 I I'm thinking it's gonna be more though, right? You start at 10 the Cowboys I think itself for for 20 billion dollars however Now I saw this It's gonna be more though right you start at 10 the cowboys. I think itself for for 20 billion dollars however

now I saw this Put out there by like an ESPN reporter And I also saw this when the Mavs were sold put out there by reporters But maybe they followed this one a little closer because of the Mavs thing it says here Guaranteed as part of the agreement that Jeannie Buss will remain in charge for the foreseeable future. Mark Walter is the guy that's buying it,

has fully endorsed this plan. So she'll remain to run the team, as far as the personnel and hiring and firing the GM and all that kind of stuff. But she's just getting a cash grab. You know it's funny, I think it's like being a Supreme Court case or something. The fact that the Luca trade happened and every single element of it was so F'd up and this specifically we're talking about Cuban's sale and the lack of clarity

on what his level of autonomy was going to be. All the way to just trading Luka himself. This whole thing is just going to be used as a case study in sports business of how to not screw things up. So every single time somebody sells a team now, if they want to have some level of control over it, they're going to say say we probably need to talk about that like what's it how's this actually going to work and then there'll be new conversations about it that's probably how the Celtics agreement you know was made sure that they crossed the T's and

dotted the I's the Mavericks screwed up so bad they just taught everyone else how to do business Jeannie bus is going to ask different questions because Mark Cuban experienced what he did. Didn't Cuban though later kind of indicate actually the NBA nixed the language that we wanted in there? Listen he's had a lot to say about it he had a lot to say about it at the time and then Some different things to say about it over time, but I remain Absolutely convinced that if he wanted to ensure that he was going to mate remain in control of personnel There's a mechanism by which he could have done that

So maybe they tell they told him it can't be in this deal Okay, and then they said well you have to sign a contract. Well, if at that point he said, well, I don't want to do that, okay, well, then you're no longer in charge of the team. But they should tell you that, and if you make that decision, then that's it. Because when they announced it, it was, I'm in charge of the team and I will be. And we were all like, oh, okay, cool. Who cares? Right. So now every time now is Jeannie Busser Whoever says that the anonymous source who gave comment to the athletic just straight-up said this cannot be Mark Cuban

She will continue to run the team for a significant number of oh Wow, they even said that yeah Well something else that made me think that Cuban did have that was the fact that those in the no said, because like I said, this guy who just bought the Lakers, he gave like 4.8 billion, but that means whatever percent he bought, the value of the Lakers is 10 billion. Whereas when Cuban sold whatever percent, they said the valuation was extremely below market value. Do you recall that? Yeah. This is like the market value he sold it at was like 2 billion or something.

It was just below market what many were saying the Mavs should be able to Get there's a couple especially with a superstar like Luca Yeah, there's a couple different theories on that one is that it was part of him like it was a bargaining chip for him to stay on That's what I'm saying, but also that if I get to yeah, I mean in charge. That's why I'm charging you less But also they didn't really have a market because they didn't. They he was only selling it to them, which is naturally going to deflate your price. Well, I don't know that the Lakers opened up the bidding.

I don't know. All I know is the Mavericks didn't. Usually there's some level of. Like, oh, we got multiple people trying to get in on this, but the Mavericks didn't have that at all. No, but I don't, again, was there any? I don't know. We don't know behind the scenes what was going on at the Lakers. But this guy already was.

No, but listen, what I'm saying is out of all these sales that are happening, commanders, Celtics, fuck the Broncos, the Mavericks seem suspiciously low. So as you're saying I think it's two things one they didn't really have a market and we're speculating but you think that Cuban might want to stay on board but in all those other cases almost all of them somebody's still staying on board and they still got a ton of money I think you just lost a deal folks

Which is really weird he's like our business leader, you know, I mean he's teaching about valuation on Shark Tank He's like make sure you do this make sure you do that. That seems weird You know what? That's actually the essence of his business advice. Make sure you do this Shadoor Sanders, I got this email from mom.com. Don't you have a once a week newsletter? About an 18 minute. That you keep unsubscribing to but it still sends you emails. Scroll down to the weather. Oh shit, there's something I forgot to tell you guys about. Please let me do this right now cuz I will forget it sure in your gmail

Did you know that there is now a managed subscriptions tab Wow? What does that mean it means if you just go over here? I'll put it I don't think it's if you go over here to manage subscriptions You can unsubscribe From everything that you're subscribed to. Incredible. All the spam type stuff? Yeah. You know the 300 emails you get a day where you're like,

alright, you know what, I'm going to take five minutes and try to unsub. And then you click it, it pops you into the page, into your email, and you're like, I'll never ever be able to keep up with this. I got it down to the 10 I want. I had to mute keywords. That's sometimes a thing too. Muted Trump, muted Elon, muted Musk. In your email. Yes. Yeah. Because it was non-stop every day. But if you have Gmail this is a game changer. Much like Zookeeper. Yeah, that's great.

Sure Hotmail has it. I was going to say the ball is in your court now Hotmail. Let's let's see what you can do So should do her Yeah, so my mom actually texted me two things last night and it was right around the time when her local news must have been on so She will keep me informed. She lives in Cleveland, of course. That's where I'm from. And she's still there. One text, text number one, a crew member at the baseball stadium got caught under the tarp

when they were covering the field. Oh, no. He got himself out. Good. So I was worried at first. Very Wise County news. And then we got out. Yeah, it's just very matter of fact.

She just had to tell me about that because she thought, you know who likes baseball? Sure. The little Danny. And then she writes, Sander's son stopped for speeding 101 miles per hour in Strongsville. Girl following him stopped, in parenthesis, 92 miles per hour in Strongsville. Girl following him stopped in parentheses 92 miles per hour and that's the whole text. Okay you've got a new story now. Now I need to go look this up and the only other outlet that had the detail that she had seemed to be TMZ. So I don't know if my mom is just on TMZ.

Maybe she's on TMZ Sports, but she does know that I'm interested in Shador Sanders News. And it turns out TMZ also had some audio. And the longer I don't live in Ohio, the more I hear Ohio accents. Dude, when you were playing this to your speakers earlier, it was jarring for me. Because now I'll talk to good friends of mine on the phone. I talked to someone the other day, and I'm like, gosh, I can't believe how she sounds.

Yeah. Whereas did I sound like that? Do I sound like that now? I don't know. but the emphasis on certain were... anyway, here is... so the police officer, they've pulled over Shador, they've talked to him and he's back, I think, in his squad car, kind of running the license, talking to his partner. Yeah, I'm sure he's good. Deon Sanders kid. Yeah. 101! That's already so

Midwest. They couldn't believe it. Oh geez. 101! No, it's his girlfriend. Is his dad driving in front of him? So there's another car I guess and that's where my mom is indicated girl following him It's should or Deon Sanders, it's his middle names Deon Hey, it's a really nice truck it It's one of those supercharged rams. So like say when he says rams, rams, that sounds rams. So it's a supercharged rim. Yeah, he's been real cool. Other than he didn't think he was, I'm like, you were 100% going that fast. It's all on camera,. You're flying past everybody God bless, Ohio

This is like at midnight or 1 a.m. This isn't this is his younger one not the one that got drafted, right? You're in Cleveland, yeah. How do they not know? Why would not the guy on the Browns be here? I think that there was still some confusion, because Shador's name is Shador Dion, but there's also Dion Jr. And I don't think either one of those guys were on the same page there.

How do you not know Shador's name? Both Dion's kids have Dion in their name? It was news to me to learn that Shador's middle name is Dion. I didn't know that either. Butur's middle name is Deon. I didn't know that either. But there's definitely Deon Jr. Right. Okay, now this is a mix I think.

Or maybe this is all just, oh this is the cop talking to Shidur then. What's Shiloh's middle name? Okay. Well I'm gonna cut you a break. I'm not gonna give her a ticket. Like I said, I got her at 92, but 101 I got a dash cam and stuff, man. Like... I don't know what you're talking about, but 101, I got a dash cam and stuff, man. Like... I don't know, but I'll take your word for it.

Okay, all right, I appreciate it. It is gonna be waiverable, okay? Your state where you're at has an agreement with Ohio that if you don't take care of the ticket, they will suspend your Mississippi license, okay? So there's a full number and all that on the back. If you just want to sign here by the X it just stating that you're going to take care of the citation if you don't they can suspend you license okay yeah just

pay it or call it call the number on the back you like since it's under there too you don't drop it I turn to the side to the side in the front, and then right there next where it says member of RNVC, there's an X there if you want to sign it there. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Alright, man, appreciate it. Okay, so what's gonna come up here, TMZ didn't really know what this was either, it's Shador pulls out some kind of a card and gives it to him. So I don't know, you know, like, hey I know the police chief and here's his card or something, it's something like that.

Lawyer maybe? Well, no, based on, based on what the officer is going to say here It sounds like you're a thief for life. This is a get out of jail free card or something But listen to what he says how fast do you think you're going if you don't think you're at 101? So I know this truck supercharger will do it well. He's fired up about this Those new supercharged like he loves the Dodge Ram. The only spoiler is he's not saying souped up. Like he's actually saying Supercharged.

Oh, he gave it to me a little late. Who's it from? Okay, so yeah, so he handed him like a card. Oh, he gave it to me a little late. Who's it from? Is that from Boykin? Yeah, who are you? me a little late. Who's it from? Is that from breaking? I can't read it. I don't know who that is. You already wrote it, man. You got to give that to me before. I'm gonna give your girl a break, okay? So he's like, you got to give that to me before I write the ticket. Oh. But I'm giving your girl a break. Like, they did

not ticket her. she was going 92 probably after she saw You know he she slowed down after saw him getting I don't know I I know that's a small throwaway detail But I'd actually really like to know the card Yeah, I mean cuz you know that you know I mean especially around Dallas We know that sort of stuff exists your ballers stuff that sort of thing. Yeah It's like a courtesy card some police officers have them Like your higher-ups and they can call and do a you know Check on you like hey, is this guy legit or whatever?

I'm learning this from chat No from watching police cop shows growing up. Blue Bloods. So you can give that to somebody and say, hey, if you ever get pulled over? I think so, yeah. I know my uncle drives around with all of my cousin's state trooper cards, business cards, and his... Smart.

It's more than likely a PBA card. PBA, that's, I think, what TMZ wrote. What does that mean? Uh... Pro Buller. Pro Buller. Penivellin Association. I don't know. It does make me think though of, you know, because people ran to write the opinion columns

of he's entitled and he thinks he can just show up, they can cut him. Which is true. But... We quickly forget that, like, the... quarterback of America's team, who is the most leadership, you know, buttoned-up guy you can imagine, got a DUI a month before the draft. After he graduated college. Or gra- This is spading!

I know. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. what I'm saying yeah I haven't seen anything like like that is that is the most put together quarterback franchise quarterback you could ever possibly imagine and one month before the draft where he was no sure thing he was popped for for drinking and driving late at night. There was the fight that one summer that he was in and which happens but I don't know I don't I think Chidur Sanders problems are that he's a little short not that he drove really fast. Chidur's middle name is Dion. Chidur Dion Sanders. Shiloh's middle name is Shiloh Dion Sanders. Okay and what about Dion Jr.? It's just Dion something else. Oh. But isn't it

weird that Dion gave his name to both of his kids? Well all three. All three but in different ways yeah. But they have the same middle name, isn't that weird? That is weird. Okay. Blake, stop yelling at me. I don't know what you want. I've never known brothers who have the same middle name. She sat there like a fish. That's crazy. I thought you would at least give me an eyebrow

razor something. Here, let me hop on and make an AI song for it. All right, let's take a break. Blake. Ba dum da dum da dum da dum da dum da. Hey, Claire, you remember that one time the Frankles got me that huge car accident settlement? Oh Cornelius Falcon, how could I forget?

Yeah, that was super dope. Was that a fart? Please stop talking. This is my Father's Day present from my granddaughter Gwendolyn. It indicates I'm the big cheese. On Monday's Just Wondering with Warren Hitchcock, what are the Rangers thinking as the time for trades approaches in midseason of the baseball season? Be with us on Just Wondering Monday. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. I like to promote other local podcasts.

Yeah. Where we go one, we go all. That's what I always say, Clayton. You guys didn't ask me about my big night last night. Go on. I left and told you guys I had a- No wife, no kids. No wife, no kids no wife no kids

It's pretty sweet man first thing. I did you know you can find me Things out at the Apple bar Apple genius bar down there where I post up Sit for 90 minutes, and oh yeah tiny computer again Yeah, and then they're like you need to leave your computer here here and I'm like I knew that 89 minutes ago and so did you mmmm so did you how long till you get it back I think three days just get a new one I bought it two and a half years ago I know you should get a new one but the way you are on it this is this is under warranty but from there it's a beating though to have to be without your computer for like a day even Listen, man, we're making it work I'm not gonna spend another three grand because this computer is a problem for me every now that I'm just gonna bitch about it

Let me teach you how to wrap a cable then I went and got it's not the goddamn cable. That's just so unfair You just chuck your shit your bag. It's no wonder doesn't work. I don't like the way you wrap your cable either I don't stuff works. We take care of it. You just throw your shit in your bag. It's no wonder it doesn't work. I don't like the way you wrap your cable either. I don't. Our stuff works, we take care of it, you just throw your stuff in your bag. This is both fair and unfair, okay? I would like to learn about the proper way to roll the cables. And you know that because I told you that before today's episode. So for you to now bring that up in an attack of me... Oh, yeah, I'm the first person to do that.

Well, I'm just saying, that's a little bit out of bounds. The computer is not effed up because I wrap my cords up bad. No, but that's indicative of your treatment of it. Okay. Ooh, nice. And then that, while that's fair, my treatment of it can't result in me just being like, yeah, three grand a year, we'll just buy a new computer every 14 months.

Yeah, but that's the life cycle of a computer that you own is every two or three years. That can't be the case. Then treat your stuff better. Let me show you how to wrap a cable. Your life will improve. Such pain in my ass, man. Anyways, then I went and got a haircut, Dan. I do know that because you indicated that to me. Congratulations.

Yeah. Fantastic. I love a nice Wednesday haircut, especially. Dan and I have a little thing running. Yeah, we got the same haircut place. But we won't be seen there at the same time. Does your wife know about this? That would be weird.

Yeah. That we go to the same place? We have a lady we like and then a lady we really like you just like her cuz Dan does It's been brought up. She's the best. All right, that all reminds me what reminds you of what Dan? Could I guess? Well, I'm hoping that you would guess the thing I have up on my screen in front of me Which is one day texas.com slash promo 30 that is the website To get a buy one door, get an extra one free.

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It's Andrew Bogot. It's the one day doors bogey deal He's gonna love this spot listen. It's really more. You're buying two doors both at half price Ooh 50% off doors twice only if you go to one day texas.com Slash promo 30 it is a super cool idea if you're doing remodels This is who you want to call one day one day doors they do your closets they have the ability to measure the do the 3d measurements right there on site cut them right out front they look great we've seen some of the mock-ups of these and it just looks really cool it's a

nice upgrade makeover for your house at one-daytexas.com slash promo 30. Oh yeah, wait a minute, Uncle Hotmail. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Ah, yes, we have some viewer mail for you. Look at me. Is there any mail in your box for me? I start with someone who signed anonymous. He says, please keep me anonymous,

or it could be a her, I suppose. I have a weird situation I love for the three of y'all to debate I've been married to my wife for 19 years now lover to death we're 42 she's beautiful and still makes me horny okay bud awesome she's been converting some old videos to digital. The other day she showed me a video of her when she was in high school. She was 16 years old playing in the drum line. I saw the video and she was maybe like 20 pounds skinnier and totally hot. Can I say she's hot? My question is, is it wrong to think your wife was smoking hot in high school?

Even though you all met you met when you were in your 20s When you were 20 and you got married at 23 I kept watching the video over and over and I was thinking how hot she is Okay, we're getting I say that is this wrong am I a pervert please debate? Man that's a great question. He's got a lot on his side, like the fact that he knew her when she was 20, you know, that they got together so quickly. Like, if he was watching this now, and this was like his second wife that he met when she was 45,

and he's like, god, you were hot when you were in eighth grade summer. Because you wouldn't be looking at anything you actually resent remember not even close Yeah, like 20 to 16 he kind of knows so is it okay to look at a? Video of your high school girlfriend now even if you haven't seen her since then and if you're watching her and you're thinking oh Yeah, and I think you should feel weird. Yeah, not saying don't do it, but if you're like right now Just staring at your high school girlfriend when she was in high school It's problematic

Problematic Rick says dear fear of the fur burger. This is the title subject line of the email closer to 2050 than the year 2000 Do you remember this debate? Wasn't really a debate But he says I've done the math on this You and a hundred others we got our quants on the case with leap years and all it will be July 3rd 2025 when the Rubicon is crossed and we will officially become closer to the year 2050 Than the year 2000

It will then he says it eight thousand nine hundred and fifty days Into the thing if you want to get super specific it would actually occur at one second afternoon on July 2nd That'll presumably be a business Wednesday You would have no way to mark the exact second unless you can get someone to sponsor the episode and do it live consider This challenge your faithful servant from Rick, okay? We're actually gonna be not Isn't that like one of our two weeks off this year we're gonna take that week off we will have something out there for you but it will

not be live shows that that week so maybe we'll schedule something to go out right at noon on that day I don't know something crazy from a hot air balloon something crazy like that Oh Scott's drinking a tall boy. Oh, yeah, no doubt No, he's that that's not even a toy. That's the tallest of boys right there star tall boy It's the Travis Gafford of tall boy. That's right That's a I brought my own lone star tall boys cuz I've only got the normal height lone star What do you call them? Not a tall boy? I don't know. I don not think you'll ever say that anymore

This I got one from Roger Roger's a frequent emailer I Don't know his exact situation. I know we discussed it before but Rogers bedridden But I don't know the exact nature of Roger's ailments but he uh he's on he's on he's bedridden okay it's not just because his wife works and yeah no I don't think it's cuz he's cuz I think someone in my house might be bedridden it's not that this is injury bedridden, not sweatpants. We're just having fun.

Sweatpants, bedridden. His email here is interesting because I'll give you the rundown. He has to get a rub down for a bath. And when he's on that, when he's starting that service, they ask you male or female. Right? So he said female. Because he's always said female. Massage, chiropractor, he's like, I'm just a dude who's very afraid of getting a boner with a dude rubbing me down. And it's just weird and I don't want to do it. So he's like, every weekday I get a bed bath But one day this week. I got a substitute aid substitute aid and it was about a 45 year old black lady who was huge and So this lady wakes him up. He's never met her and he's in his head thinking this used to be a man He said that she sounded like Michael Clarke Duncan and she had man hands and that she was, you know, rubbing him down. And I get the sense this guy might have a

lot of time to himself obviously, right? And he's like, oh, I made the joke to myself that it seems like Marilyn's name probably used to be Melvin. And he said, then I asked myself, am I a transphobe for thinking that's a dude? Am I even allowed to ask? But this is the part I thought was interesting. He said, if I was asked if a trans woman would be okay, I would decline. I mean, isn't there a reason they ask you

for your preference in the first place? So that's the part I think is interesting on this. If a place said to you, do you want a male or a female? You're not a bad guy or like a horn ball either way. If you say I want female, people are like, oh, that's cool. You're comfortable with female. You want male, you're comfortable. But if they were like trans male and you were like, absolutely not. Then all of a sudden you're...

Yeah. You're anti-trans. Yeah, it's interesting. But... To his point, he's like, they asked me about all this other stuff, but not that. And it's just weird to think about a guy who probably has to navigate a lot of these sort of things without having a whole lot of control over it. Yeah, they wouldn't call you homophobe if you didn't want a man.

No but if they were like hey you want a gay dude? You're like yuck. Or even if you just said politely no, that would come with context. Would he feel more comfortable getting a boner in front of a gay dude? Because like hey that was the gay dude he's used to that. He was coaxing it out of you with his spells. With his gay. His black magic rise I

Got a Roger subject line mustache talk boy. This is nice with Scott here Is this from mustache email that you were teasing yesterday? I got a whole folder Yeah, I do too. I'm just gonna give you one Jack from fitness packed He's the guy that started that app. Yeah. Good dude. He says this isn't ad related, it's bigger than that. As a mustache owner and operator, I feel I can speak on this, I believe that almost every mustache starts as a joke. Whether it's because you lost a bet or did it for Movember or just to get a laugh. For me,

I was in quarantine for weeks during COVID prior to going to a rig, oil rig he's referring to, he works on an oil rig, and I wasn't shaving so I thought, F it. I leave a mustache, I go to the rig and everyone will get a laugh. It sort of does that initially but then someone says, oh you have a mustache looks good on you and that's where society falls apart. Because what is one to say to someone with a mustache? It's so bold you can't ignore it. Something has to be said. So most people, even those that are not inclined to be so plying will say, oh, you have a mustache, it looks good, and then so they're addicting. In summary, you might as well hold a moment of silence for Blake's upper lip,

because it's not coming back. He might be on to something, they all start as a joke. How about you, Scott? Maybe you just haven't had a mustache. I normally wear a full beard and whenever I've, every once or a few years, shaved it off, I'll do it in stages to see what the different possibilities look like. I never felt like I should pause at the full mustache, but since Blake's doing it, I thought it would be fun for this week. Okay, so it was a joke.

I love it. Yeah. I love it. But there's a possibility, Jack's saying, possibly in a month, you'll still have a mustache. My wife feels very differently than Jack about this. Well, I'm just saying, when he walked in, he was commanding respect with that mustache. That's why I say he looks like a news director who just did a little Coke.

No, I put away the gummies. Oh, yeah. I was like, eh. Let's see here. Oh, here's this could be a gummy thought. Let's do, since I mentioned gummies, early bird CBD. Don't they got a deal right now? Like kind of anticipating there could be storm

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National Sex Offender Public Website, which made me curious. The site explained further that Drew Sojin was a young woman who was the rape and murder victim of a previously convicted sex offender who had just been released prior to Drew's murder in 2004. So to honor Drew's memory, they passed a law to create the website and name the website the Drew Sojin National Sex Offender Public Website. The question, would you want your murdered daughter's name, quote, honored by having

a National Sex Offender Public Website named after her? her I Don't know this seemed like something. I need a dumb zone ruling on I see the intent But I'm not sure the result was what they wanted never punt from LBB It's a great question It's a great question if your daughter was raped and murdered You want every time somebody else is? Looking up somebody that rapes and murders that they see your daughter's name?

Well the best example I can think of is like the Amber Alert, right? Which has saved countless people's lives and also wasted a lot of time of me getting up and looking out of the blinds for someone in Victoria, Texas. But do you think they're happy with that? The Hagermans? Yeah. So, that one you probably do feel like, okay, that's worth it. Because, I mean, they're getting...

You think... But you also... Hold on. Do you think Amber Hagerman's parents have the Amber Alert thing taken off on their phone? Yeah. Because most their phone. Yeah. Because most people do. Interesting. But they certainly would have it blocked if they weren't feeling it, right?

But they never would have approved it, I would imagine, if they weren't into it. I don't know, I guess what I'm saying is it depends on what it's making you think of. Do they think, oh, we're saving someone every time they think of Amber Alert, or do they think of you know their mutilated child I don't know but I'd never heard of that website before now my line of work doesn't require me to look up the sex registry so it's not like it's a household thing what do you think I think it's a good gummy thought but I don't know that I have a ruling on it. Would you want something named after your daughter, and every time somebody's looking

up a heinous crime or something, they see your daughter's name? The Ember Alert is kind of about alerts. It's about telling, I don't know. You're trying to help people. The registry is to help people. Is that it? Yeah, but. What are you? Yeah, the registry is to help people.

What do you guys think it is? Like, pro football reference? Where they just put their stats up there? Yeah, yeah. Why? You can see their location. Why else would it exist? Two murders.

Traded midseason. This week's top leaders. We've got a. But when you get the Amber alert, you're going to help somebody. Nine-year-old finger plus. If you're... When you get the Amber Alert, you're going to help somebody. Nine-year-old finger plus. If you're trying to go to the offenders list, you're trying to find someone that's bad.

Which is on a hundred point scale. You guys are idiots. No. I get what you're saying, the Amber Alert is, you've still got hope about the outcome. Yeah. This list is passed out. How about this guy who says,

hey, what are your opinions on it? Oh, that's your opinion? It's fucking horrible. No, not horrible. It's fun all right well that is some viewer mail for you today we could do the news whoa feels loud and it could be brought to us by how about let's give a little love to Frank on Frankel one of our early sponsors, for sure. Good dudes.

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And will be going to prison for six years. What did he uh, okay what was the original thing and what was the violation? In 2022, Frisell, who was uh... Who I used to see every day at work. He was a traffic... what was he doing when you saw him? He worked, I think he worked for Cliff, so I would see him down in the cafe, not the Cumulus Cafe, what was the old one called? At-

Maple Deli. The Maple Deli, yeah. I would see him down there, or like getting to work about the same time. Or he was leaving, I think. He would be done with his traffic shift, and I would be getting there, yeah. Yeah, so he was, for me, he was the guy in the helicopter growing up

Yeah, he was the traffic guy that and how he probably wasn't even in a helicopter But he's doing this. Yeah, we're up here and he'd sign off with it. We'll see you down the road 800,000 feet I don't know. Yeah, how high four meters? Both about yeah In 2022 he pled guilty to a crime that occurred back New Year's Eve 2020. It's a sexual assault of a 17 year old girl that was at a party at his home, I believe. So, from our series of men, that doesn't seem like the right sentence. He got seven years of deferred adjudication.

Probation, no guns, no drugs, alcohol testing. You feel like that's light? No jail time? But I will say. I guess it depends what's sexual assault. Was it grabbing a boob? Because that could be called sexual assault couldn't it I? Feel like if I recall correctly it was more than that and that there was alcohol involved

And then maybe he had provided that alcohol but Regarding the sentence I will say the parents and the victim Signed off on it. Okay, that is kind of the one thing you always. And should that matter? I don't know. Probably not. That's probably like letting baseball seasons

be decided in seven game series. That's what they say. Does it really matter? This victim's family is the one where we're like, are you cool with it? You're rational right now. Well, what if they weren't? Do we have to now give them the death penalty if they but so he got he got seven years deferred adjudication

And again the girl was 17, but this ain't like oh he was 25. She was 17 He was in his 40s or you know late 40s and he's 51 now so I'm thinking if I got away with that. I'm like I Got to keep it clean How did I famous person on the radio who everyone now knows diddle to 17 year old make it through this? I should probably do everything they tell me to do including the treatment that they've

Required me to undergo and he just didn't do it and now he's going to jail That's like the easiest part jail, prison for six years. His most recent gig was as a host on the ranch at downtown Fort Worth station. Yeah man, just go to your thing, go to the treatment. You would think the harder thing would be staying off the drugs and alcohol or whatever. Or at least for some of us. Yeah, and this is... and for him it's weird. It was sex offender treatment that he skipped. What does that mean? It's not like they're putting electrodes on your balls or something, right? They're just talking to you and stuff.

Yeah, what you just described does happen, but I don't think that's what was happening here this is just show up to the meetings but then that's a thing too you know obviously I haven't been to any sex offender treatment but you know when you go to treatment or when you go to outpatient or for sure when you go to AA that's why you got to it's important to find a good group, like people that are just there to sign a sheet, you know, or get their seat signed. You know. And he couldn't even do that! For don't be a pedophile anonymous! That can't be that hard of a class to sit through.

Yeah, man, that... Now you're going to jail! That fear of prison, man. Like, real prison yeah and my guess is you're not viewed as a pedophile if you're 45 and there's 17 in prison but is everybody gonna check for sure hey you want to ask like hey what was your what was your pedo scene is he on the true Drew Sunjian website probably is. Had he registered himself, we wouldn't

be having to talk about this. This is an interesting turn in the crack down on the illegal sale of THC. I was wondering, could we take Blake's stats? Yeah, we talked about it. So the thing is you have to have like a defensive component and there's a bunch of other stuff that I was basically Just gonna understand. It's great I know but I was just gonna kind of enter like no or like zeros to produce one

But it would have been a lot of work. It was an incredible offensive season that we will all remember forever That's what you need to know way to go Blake so an amount too much, uh It's team game We just talked to you about our friends at early bird whatever is going on with the laws and the news Governor Abbott could still veto the the bill in front of him What's happening now is? Like what happened in the case of Alan and their police department

The police departments I feel like are doing bigger and heavier crackdowns and raids to try to convince the governor that this is a bigger problem than it is and they the spokesperson for the police department Allen straight-up said that like they know that this thing is in limbo right now and They can probably bust some warehouse full of Quote-unquote legal THC that's being sold illegally any day if they want to and then they can send that to the governor be like see This is why you have to sign it because it was a huge bust in Allen What did this guy say that indicated that? Because it was a huge bust in Allen.

What did this guy say that indicated that? Like he said we're doing this because we want Abbott to see it? He said, I've spoken to mothers of children who will never have the same quality of life because these THC products are devastating at a young age. Speaking of the governor, we are hopeful once he looks at the data he will come to the same conclusions. There's no way to regulate this. It would be impossible.

We do not have the manpower. So he's saying there's no way you can regulate this industry. It will ruin all children's lives from the day that they first see a vape shopper store and no regulations would ever be doable. And it's probably going to pass, unfortunately. Probably but it's not going to be based on this guy's pleas or this bust. It's going to be based on what's the most economical for Abbott. What's right? No, not necessarily.

Really? Well, it depends. There's like the political economy. If you mean economy, like what would just make the most money for the state, then I don't think this is that. But he has political capital to protect like he can't just what keeps his donations coming in right I thought you meant the state. I'm in his economy Yes, the him economy will be trucking along quite nicely by not pissing off everyone who has made his career happen

Like for all of them. I thought you meant the state. Right. Like Oklahoma engaged with THC because they're boys. No, I think they could make more money with gambling. Yeah. But I don't know that that'll pass. Yeah. Unless the people that want it passed, you know. Like they always say, you know,

the Adelsons have so much money and they could kind of money whip them, but so that's where I think that it could happen. But you got to contribute heavily right yeah or lobbyist lobbyists man I saw say these words and then I figured I know but that's how we all I saw some video this morning of it might even have been fake but it was like somebody in a store and a bottle of thing a simulac formula was like $52. It was some mom. And she was like going on,

doing what moms do on the internet, talking about how like the companies that make that stuff lobby against paid work leave for moms. Mm-hmm. And then charge $50 for formula. This is a fun story. A truck driver was headed from

Nintendo of America in Redmond Washington to GameStop headquarters, which is where Blake Very fun right down the street. Okay. I thought you were at one point. Yeah Now that you say it. Yeah, I did drive by it a lot I'm pretty sure when my brother was living here He went to like a shareholders meeting at the GameStop headquarters So invested during the height of the hold your GameStop and Macy not Macy's what was the movie? I'm sorry Dan So anyways

truck driver headed from the GameStop up in Washington State to Grapevine carrying Nintendo Switch 2s. Those are hot on the street right now. Well these ended up on the street because in a scene straight out of like, you know, Fast and Furious, they got jacked. Whoa. Yeah. You know fast and furious they got jacked Yeah, like just on the road Guy got pulled. Yeah got surrounded pulled over and yeah photos posted cool to play Mario Kart

To sell Mario Kart yeah And just steal one of them It's nice to know that's still going on though. I know, but it's amazing it has that much value that you would rip a truck with those in them. But no, I mean, I saw the videos, people were lined up outside of Best Buy two days beforehand to get one. That's not you anymore?

I wouldn't do it for a Switch. Well, that means you'd still, the question is would you do it for anything in the video game space? Oh, I did it for my Xbox 360. What's coming down the pipeline? What do we have next? They're in a bad spot.

It's just all PC now. 360 was a ways back though. Did you do it for the Series X? No. Okay, so you passed it. Do you have one? Series X? Yeah. Okay.

I'd use my Best Buy rewards card for years. Five, eight, ten years. Just stacking everything. Of course you did. And I was able to use all of my reward dollars for like a decade and I got my Series X for free. Wow. So this run the ball thing doesn't happen overnight.

There are signs along the way. It looks like they're staying in the heavy personnel package here on third and eight. We'll see how they plan to attack this down. Little seven-man protection doesn't hurt anybody. Little extra time. Man, you're the best. Been trying to follow the Diddy trial. Just every day, what's going on in Diddy trial to let you guys know when there is a little something.

And today there's not really much of anything other than it is a reminder when you follow a trial like this what a mess our justice system is. Just the process by which we select jurors and then they can be kicked out. Or if a juror gets sick. I mean just this is a gummy thought for you stay with me on this one. So you've got these you've got jurors right you've got nine jurors you've got 12 jurors and somebody gets sick and they replace that person just with a completely different type of person and that decides if someone lives or dies and that's just

how things work just this is how we have to do it in this case we had a guy who is removed from their jury because he has been a little bit shady about where he lived. I think I told you guys about that one the other day maybe but you have to write where you live. They have to try to know what sort of information you're interacting with. You know how the jury pool has been tainted. This guy was also kind of running his mouth that he wanted to be on this trial. So that's the other thing that you have to look for right? People who want to be in the trial. So they have six replacements that guy's being replaced. The guy yesterday was sick, had vertigo. What is it folks? I don't know know I've always heard people say they had yes someone in Major League Baseball once had that I imagine like Ryan Klesko or somebody like that Some brave. Oh, yeah, you're right. And I always thought about

That's the only person I've ever heard that has vertigo besides there's a movie called vertigo I think like Alfred Hitchcock or something, but I never saw it Movie called vertigo. I think like Alfred Hitchcock or something, but I never saw it And I don't I think it means that you don't have your balance like it feels like you're falling You go like there's some kind of oh, I Don't know so it sounds like something to do with distance But so somebody just comes down with that yesterday and they're being replaced. But yesterday was also the day where they give the jurors headphones and they just show

them videos of the quote unquote freak offs. Or quote unquote hotel nights. Okay. Now we're talking. This says LeB james suffers from it well again do you do how do you do this day and how do you support it uh... is exhausting

you know that the p p b i i have to robert and i intended i was looking up there was no vertigo until they i went for a layup and i fell and it's diagnosed me with got a vertigo This is not really a story I think it's because it's more of an anniversary but NBC's website today has a Note on an event that took place in mid Lothian That was simply to remind everyone that they still haven't caught the person who killed missy beavers

that the fitness instructor something morning ten years ago and yet had more on that monday that's all i'd nice our guest one day was uh... private i guy yes in theory as a jr juries uh... guy. Yeah, he has some theories. That's a theory. No, it's been 10 years and they had

an event yesterday to market. And there's a, I think there's like a true crime podcast ongoing right now about it maybe? Called True Crime Broads. Okay. But yeah. Ten years ago. Okay. But yeah, ten years ago. Is it really called True Grime Broads? Yes. So I call them broads and it's... I know. That's offensive.

They do it and it's fine. And then I did the same routine as Chris Rock. And then all of a sudden I'm a racist. And one more here real quick, Dan. It's really a tough day for, I don't know, minor league hockey marketing guys everywhere who have just been waiting in the weeds. Because Gary Glitter has had his parole denied by the parole board in Thailand. Is it Thailand?

Explain minor league hockey guy of waiting. What does that mean? I imagine that all over America there are minor league hockey teams with wild ass marketing and promo guys that the second Gary Glitter is freed or like fuck it we'll do it we'll have him here we'll have him do the song live it doesn't matter the art from the artist it doesn't matter that he was a pedophile do we play the song right I don't I bet you don't hear it in NHL arenas anymore dude no dude all you hear in a chill arenas now is like but a bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit you it's

fucking Skrillex all day that's it's crazy laser music I swear I heard it recently somewhere not dude does anybody else feel like they hear that song anymore? It used to be. It went for a long time. Like Jock Jams. Oh yeah, oh. For sure. I swear to you, I've heard it recently. And I remember thinking this is a bad time to play it.

And as I'm thinking about it, it might've been at a high school game. Maybe it's back. Where they had like the middle school kids run out there to Gary Glitter. And I thought the irony there was really weird. Oh, I could see it's back. Where they had the middle school kids run out there to Gary Glitter, and I thought the irony there was really weird. Oh, I could see it still being used. They're running from Gary Glitter. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. There's your news. All right. Well, here's the clip.

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of their stats. You could choose like home runs or strikeouts total bases So much more Unfortunately, they don't cover What is the Allen men's softball at what league league are you in? Oh, no, cuz I would have been taken higher on the Blake smash for sure playing on underdog is a can of corn That's absolutely not in the copy. It is Look at the copy. I'm looking at the MLB part Just download the app then pick higher or lower on player stats

They say it's a can of corn and they've always like that's an old-timey phrase which meant it was like an easy Pop up or something. Why I don't know because the corn used to be on the top shelf And so you'd get like a stick or something and poke it? I don't know. Because the corn used to be on the top shelf and so you'd get like a stick or something and poke it off and just catch it. Oh, sick. Nice job. Lunch something new every day. You know what else?

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Damn it. Boom. Everything was perfect. And it was on purpose for you to just have it Damn it. Everything was perfect. It was on purpose. You just have it set up. It was great. No, I had the finger on the wrong thing. No, I didn't. I wanted to make that really cool and smooth. I'm not going to do them fast anymore.

I'm just saying I messed up. And then he moved his cursor over. Homer Simpson fingered it. Why would you say I'm intentionally trying to make you look bad? I would never do that. Because when we have Jared on, you run his volume up and down and it confuses him and then later he's like, is everything okay on the volume? I'm like, no, it's good, dude.

Didn't hear it. No, I didn't take something. So a couple of viewer mail birthdays. We have Dear Dan, please wish me happy Kenny Pickett with the Browns times Dylan Gabriel with the Browns birthday. More Dan, more bad beats. Can we get an update from the Blake Jones Facebook group? And is Jake ready to retire from flag football from Adrian Vazquez?

Let me see how the Blake Jones group is doing. Blake is in a Facebook group with other people named Blake Jones. How many people were there? Last count. There was like 50 or something. Let me see. So people from across the nation and you just say stuff to each other like, hey Blake. Hey, how you doing Blake?

Yeah, when Key and Peele did the Balaque thing, we were just bitching about that. Everyone calls us Balaque now. I could see that. Dear Grand Excavator of the Unmentionable Depths, Please wish former Bowie volunteer great and proud owner of the largest calf muscles in Arlington ISD history, Alan Mashekek a happy anniversary Let's see his leaders are Dan's naked sleeping habits and Jake's post sportsgasm clarity more Sarah Heppala, please

Beep Gillespie, Georgetown, Texas We're getting more and more more Sarah's It's so weird since her I don't know GSE Dear Dan day to 1017 here. I have a few requests Okay, well It is my wife's birthday shout out for her her name is Megan. She's 34 Julie is her leader Megan I will let my can of snakes go off on her tonight. I think Jake helps a

Couple conceive a child somehow a while back I Don't remember the details on this, but if he works that same magic for us I'll dedicate the baby to the dumb zone maybe even name the baby something dumb zone related and I'm starting two fan clubs first the flag Flaggots great to have you club for Cooper flag Yeah, but the thing is I don't think you really have to do the it thing for flag, but he's doing Kip.

Oh yeah, second, I don't know who John Kukla is at Fox 4, but you reference him so often I'm starting his fan club. I want in, I'll be the treasurer. The Kukla clan. I'm sure his bosses will love that. Nuck Fico, the QB who cries after losing to Washington. And... Good luck, kids. Yeah, so today, do some on this day, Thursday, June 19th.

Juneteenth. Where did Nico end up? It's Juneteenth because on this day in 1865 Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War was over and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free and events celebrated to this day. As Juneteenth, a thing I never heard of growing up in Ohio did not know something such as Juneteenth even existed. We didn't know you didn't know. We thought everyone knew. Yeah, that was not taught to us.

Yeah. Now, was it taught to us in framed in a... Boy, this seems to have been a little shady. No. It was like, this is awesome. It was like, well, they were just telling them. They got there to tell them. On this day in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York in pieces. It was a gift from France.

The base was not a part of the gift, and that required large public donations to be built. That's a bitch move from France. Yeah. Hey, here's this really cool statue. Oh, OK. It's going to cost you about five grand to get it up and running, dude. And I brought you all the, and also you're going to have to pay the gift tax.

OK, thanks. That's a brother-in-law move. On this day in 1974, Steve Busby threw a no-hitter. Hard to believe. I know. Hard to believe old people once weren't old It's shocking man like that picture of Chappie. I'm like holy crap. That's Joe is awesome I He'll be weirded out because he listens to our show But I saw a hunter cannon our friend hunter cannon former norm intern at basketball the other night

Mm-hmm, and he doesn't look old or bad He looks good, but I've known him since he was like 19 and now he looks like a man. Yeah. And it's super weird for me. Like this guy just looks like an adult man. Our interns grow up. On this day in 2015,

Alex Rodriguez had his 3,000th hit and it was a home run off Verlander. The home run was caught by someone named Zach Hampel. He's the author of a book, How to Snag Major League Baseballs, More Than 100 Tested Tips That Really Work. He has thousands of buttons. Like I went to his website today like, really? What? I didn't ever hear of this guy. And yeah, he got like Mike Trout's first home run ever. Like somehow, like I've been going to games forever and that was my whole thing.

I'd bring a mitt to a game. Every game I never got a foul ball or a home run. I wanted a home run. I didn't want to sit in foul territory. I thought that would suck. Well, this guy actually, you say he went to his Wikipedia page. Yeah. He became a thing. We talked about this at the time, and he had a number of controversies.

Oh. Just the ways he was getting into games and ways he was getting balls to people of course Are not gonna love the gators. Yeah a lot of haters he'll fight you online on this day in 20s or Let's go to 1999 first Brett Hall scores at 1451 of the third overtime As he dial stars win the NHL Stanley Cup Finals beating the Buffalo Sabres 2 to 1 second longest overtime game in Stanley Cup Finals history. It's funny to me that Lindy

Ruff was the coach for the Sabres and during their parade or whatever he's like, oh no goal. And then as soon as he's hired by the stars some beat beat reporter, hey, do you think it's a goal now? It's what they gotta do, Blake. They have to churn the shit machine. I guess, just really lame. On this day in 2016, Jake knew that he would have to wear a full Cleveland Cavaliers uniform at Cowboys training camp

Amazing as LeBron And the Cavs give Cleveland their first title since 1964 coming back from a 3-1 finals deficit. That's when we made the bet right? At down 3-1. Yes, I didn't make the bet till they were down 3 to 1. I think that's correct Cuz I know my sports bro, yeah dream on would be suspended for game 6 You're saying that's the only reason they want I played a factor I think You know else played a factor another hater Kyrie Kevin love Dan Yeah, and I want you to You know who else played a factor? Another hater. Kyrie? Kevin Love. Dan.

Yeah? And I want you to acknowledge that. Were you wearing a Kevin Love uniform? No, I just think you put you Chris Bosh Kevin Love. They're both awesome. And they both are just spares to you. They might as well have been Chris Kamen. Well, part of it might be then that they re-upped him.

Yeah. Clearly they shouldn't have. You know that old? Hey, you know that old. Hey, you know how we lost Kyrie and LeBron? What if we just paid Kevin Lovell? Good dude hometown $40 million discount. Yeah. Yeah.

Can I read you a quick Zach Hample Wikipedia page thing? So in 22, he entered a prohibited section at Coors Field where you needed a specific ticket to try to get an Aeronauta home run ball They told him you got to have a ticket he said no They tried to eject him he wouldn't leave And usher also said that Hample had grabbed a ball dropped by a young fan refused to return it Leading to Chicago Cubs pitcher Marcus Stroman criticizing him and quote, calling him a loser.

So he's just that guy. You know the guy that baseball players are like, dude, stop. Tom Greaves hates him. Oh, yeah. I support him. Let's get him on. No, he's just you. Like that kid.

I've been going to games. 40 years old, I've been going to games forever. This little kid who's eight will have no appreciation for this baseball. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Uh, birthdays today, famous people birthdays. This would certainly be our birthday of the day but you know how that birthday of the day is a floating kind of a thing

but today is the 47th birthday of Dirk Nowitzki man I will not let that make me sad it's sad because he doesn't like the Mavs. Dirk is one of us. Jacob deGrom is 37. Ace, very fun to watch. A joy. For now. You know. Anthony Kim is 40. If a guy just wanted to enjoy sports. the tweeting golfer Is that him? Yeah, I forgot about are you sure? Yeah, I thought it was Michael damn it Didn't you at some point is that him? No, hold on. Are you sure? At some point in our little interaction there didn't you like the alarm? Boy, Jake seems to know more about this than he normally would. No.

I'm just saying, like, I don't know, but I actually... You don't know anything. I had this confusion just the other day of like, isn't there an Anthony Kim? It's not him. Okay, so this is the guy... that... got some kind of an injury in 2012, and had a life insurance policy, which guaranteed him

like $15 or $20 million if it was a career ending injury. So he stopped playing. Yeah. Then he's been recently signed by the Liv Tour, and he plays Liv golf now. Dude, I randomly was. So I don't know if he had to give that money back or what? I randomly was in some of it, but it was also still being,

like, maybe Liv was going to underwrite some of it. I randomly was in some of it, but it was also still being like maybe Liv was gonna Write some of it. Yeah, I randomly was in the car one Saturday morning and heard the t-box talking about this and it's fascinating Cuz he like couldn't recreationally golf You know, I'm so sad for you, yeah, no, but I'm just saying like that's a I also don't know of course obviously But like there he had to almost it's not faking it You know what I mean, but you're like I have to stay hurt right to keep getting this money Jason white is 45 the quarterback the former senior Wow quarterback Jordan pool is 26 He got punched and paid Salman Rushdie is 78.

People wanted to kill him for a long time. They still want to kill him? Felicia Rashad is 77. Where does Jason White rank for all-time worst Heisman winners? You know what, I think I've seen his name on the list. Are you an OU guy by any chance? Yeah, I think I've seen his name on the list. Are you know you guy by any chance? Okay? Yeah, I think thank you boy My biggest fan back here

You got a qualis roofing shirt, did you get a roof or just a shirt Just buy a shirt. He was at the event at the qualis pro shop You can only buy him there. Yeah was at the event at the QALYS Pro shop You can only buy him there. Yeah, I got a keychain Paula Abdul is 63 a lot of Paula Abdul in my home girl girl Mia Sarah is 58 That's Ferris Bueller's girlfriend and Ferris Bueller's day off. You ever see that movie Blake? No Dude, okay. This list must be based on like how they performed in the NFL. What are you looking at? Worst Heisman winners? Yeah, cuz anybody who's put an Eric Crouch at number one didn't watch college football Eric Crouch was a monster

Zoe Saldana is 47. Who's that? actress What's she in? Just some stuff Monster Zoe Saldana is 47. Who's that? actress What's she in? Just some stuff Mac Lamor is 43 When I was young I thought I was gay But then it turns out I was black But now I'm white

Do we have a Henry birthday of the day I'm surprised that wasn't it Why have our I? Have our birthday of the day, but I don't think this will be Henry's so I'll save mine Because mine's funny What do you got Henry? Can you slow it down a little all right all right all right? It just feels like there was no urgency in that at all. I was just letting you go through your bit Urgency in that at all. I was just letting you go through your bit Okay, so for mine today, we're gonna go with

wildly famous youtuber KSI Even I hate him. You know what I know about him Dan. I believe he got beat up by Jake Paul They fought. Oh, yeah,, one of them fought him. In a real fight. Can we even know if that wasn't scripted? That's, it's a real fight in the sense that it's on a US boxing card. I do know that.

Okay. KSI, Dan. Also, the man that made one of the worst rap songs I've ever heard called thick of it I don't know if y'all have heard that or not but he's he does like multiple things are we still on KSI yeah okay sure yeah I thought he's moving to sell like that's what I'm saying. KSI. He's wildly popular and equally terrible. Worth 20 million. At the same time.

OK, next one? Or do you have another one? No. We'll call it. OK, KSI. That's a good one. That would not have been on Dan's list. That is approved.

You're right. That is not my birthday of the day. I did say I have one more. Our birthday of the day here will be 57 year old today Chris Del Conti oh wow CDC dude I was that's that he's on the episode of tires I saw last night oh they're just having different funny yeah yeah didn't hit but still That was a great moment in Gribble history Guys gotta have Chris Delconte on he's hilarious Yeah, we were gonna broadcast out in the parking lot or whatever tailgating at TCU

And he was just pitching Pitching the TCU athletic director who must have been pitched to him or else. He's not pitching it does sure He's like no no he's real funny I've seen him in some interviews. Oh okay. I'm over there playing Seinfeld drops under every everything you guys see. Yeah we're at another section of the north end zone. And then the thing is it's kind of funny how he's actually the only athletic director I ever hear about in the news now like he went to UT kind of an a-hole like Even so he used to work for TCU when TCU visits UT

They would make their band sit in the very very high like the worst place in the stadium Whereas usually you give the band, you know quick access to the field all that like he he's an antagonist but Tom might have been right this history usually shows yeah born on this day now dead Nancy Marchand who died the day before her birthday yesterday? We had her as dying remind me Tony Soprano's mom Oh, yeah again Also born on the stay now dead you have Lou Gehrig and Is this am I getting it right if I say this was an argument? Oscar Tavares.

Yes, I think so. That one was actually... That's the Cardinal... now that was his death day that got Jamie Newberg and Coop into... Correct. Yes. And despite, you know, his early career struggles, turns out Pro-Far was a better prospect. Yeah. That's right, they won that one. JD won that one. Yep. Dead on the Stay Still Dead, you have the singer of the greatest Christmas song that's out there jingle bell rock who's that Blake? That's right Bobby Helms James Gandolfini died on this day Manute Bowl And on this day in 2018 a

Western lowland gorilla who was taught sign language at an early age Eventually learned more than 1,000 words Including suicide right He learned suicide because he was sad he I think they used like eliminated or something. He died on this day at the age of 46, Coco. Fucking man. Coco the Gorilla. And that was today's history.

I don't know, it remains remarkable to me. What else did... Hey Coco, the stock market's down. Like how much bad news did they give it? So let it live. Anyway, that's a sick backpack. I may have to consult with you on that. Sure.

I got a trash backpack that these guys are gonna blame me for saying the backpack sucks. This one doesn't have great protection for your laptop though so you might not pass muster. Yeah. We're now going to be at closing remarks. We could say closing remarks is brought to us by It's Game Day Men's Health! Game Day Men's Health, how about that? GameDayMen'sHealth.com is the website. And if you mention the dumb zone, they'll give you 10% off your TRT for life.

Forever! Forever, ever? Forever in your life. Scott Foster, yeah, who do we start with? Because I think Chris wanted to have some closing remarks as well. We got time Do you got something Chris? Or no, did you not want a closing remark? Yeah, you've had enough give that Mike Henry You have had quite a few remarks already

Yeah, I don't get on to the boards or anything but I'm sure they've blown up about he's had 15 minutes so that's fine. No, I just wanted to thank you guys for doing what you do. I know how cheesy that sounds. For allowing you to wake up at 6 a.m. every Sunday morning for 17 weeks in a row. No, I mean, you guys have been with me for 15 whatever years and I just wanted to tell you thank you.

I mean this is the first time we've really ever met and I just wanted to tell you guys thank you for whatever it is you do and having all of us along for the ride. Like I said earlier I'm a realtor and I spend a lot of time in the car and you know way back when with the ticket. It just made my day easier that I knew that I had three hours with you guys every day. So, yeah, so that's about it. Other than that, Sarah, give me a call.

Oh, that's why he wanted to close your mouth. I might have been the one that she made the reference to that someone asked her out on Instagram. Nice. So I might've. Okay. So did you approach her at the? I introduced myself and then apologize for doing that.

Yeah, but then she was like, Oh, quite a height discrepancy. XL snack. Although she might be just the right height for a six foot five. Anyway, but yeah, so I actually apologize to her. No, it's okay. You don't have to apologize. It's That's one of the things is back is they have to say no twice now No, that's I don't think we're supposed to say like that's very rewarding and cool to hear but it is very rewarding and cool To hear so I appreciate it. Come on. I know are you in for next season? So do you asshole?

He already said he would do the All-Star game. We're gonna go. We're gonna mic you up. We're gonna be talking to you like I'm Carl Ravitch over there. When is the All-Star game? July 13th. Yeah.

Yeah, I'll be there for the All-Star game for sure. Is that a Sunday? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Should we broadcast? We'll be there. Let's do play by play. Something, for sure.

He's so good. Yeah. The tradition unlike any other fucking midsummer classic, yeah I'll be there. Could that be our Monday broadcast? Like if we did that and then Well, the problem is we kind of need him for most everything we do. That's right I'm gonna set it up and then leave you know There's all the kids a problem all the kids who have been rooting for their shitty Garza Cardinals team They know they only get one player And this is the only time of the year that they're gonna get to see their guy on the big stage

I should also stop talking. It's gonna be a million degrees. I'll be there. No I'll be there Set everything up and be no we don't know what a full day out there. No I'll be there. Just to set everything up and be sweating our balls off. I don't think we want a full day out there. Yeah. Clayton's like look I do not want to go out there. But we'll be there in some form. So thank you Chris. Just to wrap it up I'm not a big fan when everyone comes in and gives you guys gifts but I'm gonna do it. So Jake this one's for you. Oh, you're still a recovering dude. I'm going to have one right now. Zero point zero. These are good. And I'll tell you why.

Here's what I've discovered, because I stopped drinking in a's up until about a month ago. It's because they're good when it's hot outside, because what I'm looking for is not the effect of beer. I'm just looking for the taste and the like the cold and it really you can really only get it in a bottle So this is perfect. All right these I'm still drinking these and I don't know if they're still a sponsor Well, there's still a friend. Okay. Well, then if there's still a friend that I brought Tito's for the rest of it. Nice Oh, okay. Yeah, we can do a little shot for you in this.

All right. So thank you so much. Are you talking about a shoddy? I think he puts his, like a hint of lemonade or something. I don't remember what he said. That's a shoddy. Well, thank you, Chris. Cheers.

Yes, thanks for your work. Scott, who is not an NBA referee and does not have the mustache unironically. And didn't put in the work. Yeah. That Chris did. No, but was this a worthy gift from your wife? Oh yeah, she knew I'd been talking to her about this idea for a while. But we live in the Austin area and I missed you guys when you were down there, whatever

it was now, six or something weeks ago. And I had just talked to her in passing about, I wonder if there's, you know Blake hates to drive but I wonder if there's any way since they've proven they can make it to Austin that we can get them down here for a sit in. I didn't know, she was doing things in the background so it was kind of a last minute surprise when I found out but it was maybe the day after she told me, hey I've booked this so I'm only telling you now so you can make arrangements. Like the very next podcast I listened to you guys were talking about doing the show

outside in the heat and I don't like the heat either so it totally resonated but it was a little bit hysterical because Blake made some throwaway comment about no I don't want to be in your fucking backyard in the middle of June in Austin and I was like I wouldn't want to do that either no wonder Tams like no AC it's high on the rider. Do we still have the rider? Yeah we do and you guys don't appreciate the amount of times, hey can you drive to Austin

for a sit in and now he's here on the couch. Well obviously your tactics worked because I'm here. Yeah, I still close the deal. We will be back in Austin I would say every few months. Yeah we need to that was a lot of fun. Yeah anyway I definitely want to echo Chris. I told you guys I married this long-lost love that was very recent so I was single for the first whatever 49 years of my life and

as all the friends are getting married and having kids the relationships get more distant and the podcast and the ticket kind of becomes like your constant companion. It's hazy now because it's been a long time but I vaguely remember driving I think I was going east on 635 when I heard Super G live. I've just been following that shooting star ever since. I was in a parking lot, Walmart parking lot, on my way to go canoeing, probably already drunk. And Bob and Dan had us on to play It's Just Banters

four hour review of the guest booking league. That was the first time TC and I, you guys were like, what the heck are these guys and then I thought it was so Started I met a guy at the DZ GSE who said he's been doing a podcast. Yeah Which was like dumb dumb zone extra. Yeah, and they would just do a podcast about our podcast Yeah, the dumber zone. I think that is, something like that. That exists, you know. And I was like, that is awesome. That is the whole genet.

Like, when I first heard that IJB is doing a whole podcast about the guest booking league, I had to, like, these people are talking about us. It's a very quick way to get the host to notice you. It was very cool, but I thought it was a great breakdown. You broke it down like you would break down the draft. Yeah, that's cool. And it was...

Who wants this? That's crazy you were listening to that. Yeah, and you were ripping us. It wasn't like you were saying, this is great. You were saying, this sucks. These guys suck. They're old. Why would you want this idiot on?

And I thought it was hilarious. And yeah, I want the guy... I got to look that up. The Dumber Zone? Yeah. There's supposedly a listener out there. They were nice guys, very cool. Doing a podcast, yeah, okay, anyway, sorry.

That's just a cool moment to think of. Oh, gang, gang, yeah. Yeah. Real quick story for you, Dan. Well, I think all you guys will appreciate it but you talk a lot about book club or having the opportunity to get some alone time and my wife and I both have had very explicit conversations about that for the last couple years just talking about not understanding couples that don't get why it would be valuable to give the other

person some time. But it still managed to surprise me. So she told me about having booked this sit-in and then I was you know I was excited about it and I was like okay so uh or she asked me a few days later like what have you you know have you made the arrangements for your trip? I said, well, you're coming, right? I want you to meet the guys and it's my birthday, we can hang out. She's like, oh no, I'm sure you would enjoy it much more. Have it all to yourself. I was like, oh, okay.

And she was like, I didn't pay for two sit-ins so I don't think I can be there and I don't think we could afford another. And I was like, do they bring guests? Does it cost? So whatever. And I'm, day's getting closer and I'm thinking, okay well, I don't really want to book a hotel and stay in Dallas for now. I'll just drive up in the morning and drive back and then we can like have the evening

together. And then I, she asked me what I was up to and I told her, well I think I'm just going to drive home, you know home after the pod's done. And she was like, well I was thinking I would have a day to myself. You could. Oh. Here's the gift, go up there and stay there.

The double birthday present, yeah, the present for her. That's right. That's nice. So now you got a hotel to stay or? Yeah, okay. Yep, works out for everyone. And now you know in the future that maybe that is what she wants, just to be by herself. And you'll know that ahead of time.

Yeah, I have no problem with it in general. I just caught me off guard in this particular instance. That's like a lie you tell your kid. Oh, I can't go. I'd have to pay. Right, right. You can't afford for both of us to go. Like we've had guys bring five or six guys.

Like we're Southwest Airlines or something. Yeah. Oh, whoa. Pay for the scene. Anyway, I thought you guys would appreciate that. You either have to pay or you have to go to 17 softball games. That's right.

Yeah, that's how you can get in here. It's a hard bargain. Yeah. And then I had a bunch of questions, but I guess really just one. You can ask all of any and all questions you'd like. Why I don't want to beat you guys down. Too late, bro.

Oh, no, I'm just kidding. Dan's already worked out, man. I did walk in the door. Yeah, he's got nothing to do. Overtime, baby. That's right. Well, the main one, I think, like the most important one for people that have been listening

to all the early one, I think, like the most important one for people that have been listening to all the early, following this whole journey, you guys had a lot of kind of audible angst for obvious reasons as things were starting up in the transition from the ticket. And it sounds like things are going much better. This place, like, you guys are clearly like in a form, seem to have this all down to a science at this point relative to where it started. But do you guys feel like you're in a much better place? Like, for the people that were concerned for your financial welfare and how all that stuff was going,

all the stressors, is that feeling significantly improved, or at least on a good track? And no comments, fine. I'm not trying to pry. I'll say both of those things. You just answered it. They are improved and it feels like it's on a nice track, but it's all a house of cards sometimes in my head.

Like I just don't know. Like you talk about ratings, pressure or whatever, like that's, you have zero idea what that means unless you're out here and like this is actual, you can actually have numbers. You literally see exactly how many people are listening. It's not a guess that you can then go sell to a bunch of people. And yeah, not having the security of like a contract,

a guaranteed deal, all that kind of stuff. Or you know, something like insurance. Those things are bothersome, So yeah, I think but but you know, it is like people that we've met are awesome in the Advertisers we've hooked up have been awesome. So yeah, I think it's looking alright Yeah, I think we think yeah, I don't know I think But you don't want I think don't forget Winston Wolf is my thing. I never can. For sure.

And I appreciate that about you. But I think if it was audible that there was tension or anxiety or whatever before, I hope it's audible now that this is just a lot of fucking fun. Like I just love doing this, I love being around them. It's just a lot of fun. It's way more fun than anything I've ever done To Dan's point though. I do think I have like a different fear about like the quality of anything we do Cuz like there's definitely if you have a contract you Kind of show up and do your best that day whatever but I worry a lot if it goes bad it goes bad

I worry a lot more now that the it goes bad I worry a lot more now that the show sucks than I ever did before like I drive home and I'm like that might have been terrible but I never I didn't do that before but it's also way more fun so I don't know we've met like great people this feels like a cool thing not that it wasn't a cool thing before but that's your question yeah absolutely no I mean it definitely sounds sounds different and I was definitely, you know It's a long time ago now, but I was really happy when when Blake joined you you guys it felt like the chemistry that was on The previous show kind of snapped back

Yeah, no, I mean I wouldn't say like we wouldn't have done it without him, but it was Pretty much like it was gonna happen or it wasn't going to happen. When we left, we had to get played. That's awesome. And what, 400% of your old salary? What do we have here? Yeah, something about something like that. The thing that jumped out to me about that story is that the Cowboys were paying the cheerleaders less than Blake pays Angelo before this race.

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