The Dumb Zone FREE - Zack Martin retires, Wemby's clot, and Lady Eagles basketball | DZ 2-21-25

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

Hear the entire episode by subscribing to The Dumb Zone at dumbzone.com or Patreon.com/thedumbzoneZack Martin retires, Wemby's Blood clot, Jake at Repticon, and a check in with Lady Eagles basketball ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey now! What you are about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full, along with the full archive... Ah, shit. If you would like to hear this program in full, with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at DumbZone.com. Alright, so I'm going gonna close this with introducing you to a new good friend of mine. His name is McPheemy. McPheemy.

Otherwise known as the Roach Daddy. And he is... Does he sell roaches that these reptiles eat? He sells everything. And he works at a place called Curiosities, fine quality finds. Have you heard of it? Hobby store?

Yeah. And it's over, it's over off Garland Road in Dallas. And it is just a, I don't even know how to describe this. It's an antique mall, what do they call it? Like like tchotchkes type like just weird shit, man? It's just a it's not a thrift store It's not a collectibles place. It's just a weird place and this guy that's what he is So everybody kept saying like hey, you got to go talk to McPhee me So I find McPhee me in this back corner Present at his booth there were no reptiles. But it looked like it was like a full bookcase opened up,

you know, as like a display, with just the craziest shit you could imagine on it. So jars full of like mummified, like a mummified puppy. Like a real alchemist type feel to it. Like potions and he had like human skulls everywhere and he had spiders and he had roaches and he had a prosthetic leg and he had like a bunch of little kid clown dolls just so this stuff wasn't all here directly related to reptiles but it was things that he knew people who were stoked on reptiles are into yeah bingo he's a master of the macabre

he is yeah and he's a performer too and he had had the Raleigh finger. Handlebar mustache. Yeah, he had that up. That's perfect. He was wearing kind of like a brightly colored jumpsuit with a backwards hat. His wife was there with him, who runs the show with him. Just a sweetheart of a dude, man. And I really want to go check out his shop and or his home

And I honestly want to go to his house, and I want you to go with me Okay, and just film something there because did you get digits? Oh, yeah, okay In fact we actually had to talk to him twice because as anybody knows you're testing out new equipment We talked to him for a couple minutes the audio was not good, and that's when you get into the conversation of me and Danny You're like Getting the audio is that it was the good and that's when you get into the conversation of me and Danny are like getting the audio as it was the first time that's done it's not happening so now let's decide is 80% of the first time good or do we just not do this at all and I'm like that guy was too good we got to go back so we walked back over there and now he's like I'm warmed up now he's like

I'm full McPhee me and And yeah, let's just see. We can jump around a little bit here, but he's standing. And by the way, at this point, like there's a crowd. Because people are already kind of crowding around him. And then I'm standing there, there's a camera, I have a mic in my hand. So there's like an audience which McFee me loves. All right, we're here today with... McPheemy the Clown.

McPheemy the Clown, here of McPheemy's Odds and Pods, Roach Daddy, Isopod and Chill. Tell us a little bit about what you have going on over here, McPheemy. McPheemy represents a lot of culture that is salvaged, and it's vulture culture. Anything that comes from us is something that we pick up when we're just shopping a lot of it just comes to me There's energy and items and they resonate

Is that a plaque? Sounds like it goes trash-picking some people may say that yeah, but if you look at culture culture I've never heard that if you look at the I've heard culture like somebody to swoops in is like this is my thing now but yeah uh... curiosities antiques if you look at the website it's uh... get curiosities dot com you can kind of get a feel for what they have going on here but junk is a good way to put it uh... does that apply to uh... i don't believe you have some watches over here

you are the roach daddy what do we have so at this point he is a surprise me a little bit here and he now has he has shirt pockets on his crazy jumpsuit and now he's got roaches crawling out of his jumpsuit up onto his face and his beard all over his head he's just he's got you know I say ro, I'm talking like three to four, like huge. Yeah, he said it's one of the biggest roaches on the planet. They're from South America or Africa or something. They live on the forest floor. But he somehow can keep control of them.

They're like controlled by him. It's really weird, dude. But they're not running off. That's what I mean. Yeah. Oh, there he goes. Throw, whoa. That's a roach daddy all right tell us about this roach one of the largest roaches in the world it's called a peppered cockroach

beautiful they're from South America they live on the forest floor they repete like leaves on the ground okay, how did you come into possession of this? There was a gentleman that had roaches in the trunk of his car and I was at a reptile shop called DFW Reptarium have you ever heard of it? I actually have yeah that cool cool So Greg one of the co-owners came up to me and said hey McPhee me your roach daddy Why don't you take on these roaches? And so I went out there and the guy opens the trunk and I said what the heck, there's 20 species. I said how much?

He said 100 bucks, I couldn't get the $100 out of my pocket fucking hell. What a bargain. Yeah, yeah, I loaded them up and told my wife I was on my way home soon and she said with what? I said oh, lots of cool things and opened the door and there's lots of roaches. So I'm about to get into this with him here

but as you might expect in a antiques or thrift or, there's a community. So they, that guy knows, like, oh, I have a roach guy. The roach daddy. He would love to get these 20 species of roaches from the trunk of this car that some guy just handed me for a hundred bucks. He's like, yeah, I'll be there.

So when you say he knew, like, are you just, is there a community here and you're known as a guy? They just say, Hey, call McPhee, this, this and this. Yes. So we do rescuing. So I've always been the type of person that can take on an animal that hasn't been cared for properly. Absolutely.

All right. We're about to do the behind the music, how did McPheemy become McPheemy? Can I interrupt for a second? Check in, check in. I want to check in, because we're on a furious run here. Let's go. Looking at the score.

Come on. Afer at the top, Green, staring at a double screen. It's now 40 to 34. On the way to the left block, with the left hand, Wrigley lays it in. Is that a five point game? Four point. Green up to five, Argyle back down by four.

Back and forth we go here at Abilene Christian University. Dude, they were down by over 10. Shalva's left side pulls up from the baseline. That shot rattles home. Oh. D-up. That's a tough shot along the baseline off of the double team. Last 20 seconds.

Good defense, better offense. Last 20 seconds to go before the end of the third quarter. Score, stop, score. You could tell she just moves differently. And I have a feeling that she's going to have a lot to do in this fourth quarter. Eight seconds, Argyle's body language says they're holding for the final shot.

Green left open, left wing, three's on the way. Too strong. Hayford battles for the board with Cole. Cole throws it off of Hayford out of bounds. Nice play by Ambrosia Cole. That would have been big right there. But only 0.8 seconds remain in the quarter. So we're down six. Argyle big right there. But only.8 seconds remain in the quarter. Down six.

Argyle trails by six. Green steals the inbound. The shot before the horn doesn't go. But Argyle with a little bit of life. A 10-0 run in the third quarter to battle back. We've got a ball game here at Abilene Christian University. Monterey 42 Argyle 36. The fourth quarter on your

way after this message from the UIL. Let's hear. who's doing this. Melissa won't be doing this. Your interschool last exports called the last classroom of the day. It's the UIL ad. Because they teach students important life skills. Alright, back to McPhee, let's see what you got. Tell us a little bit about how you got into this as a youth or were you an adult at the time?

How did you first? I never had animals growing up. No reptiles, no insects. Wasn't comfortable with being around anything like this. When I was growing up I had a hard life and I ended up in a type of care where I didn't have people to support me and so when I actually got adopted by some of my family I ended up blooming into this awesome human that was able to find the beauty, inner beauty beauty myself because I was voted class clown in high school So now that I'm older I realized that I identify as a clown and then you do you work as a clown?

I do we do birthday parties, which is called face your fears face your fears So so I gather from that that the is now as a clown go by McPhee me He does he does and this is his alter ego, which is McPhee-me. Okay, so the cl- Confusing. Confusing to say the least. Let's just let him cook. Okay, so the clown, I guess I'm gathering what you're saying is you've got the regular clown act and then there's the face your fears element to it.

Tell us about that. So my wife and I, we do birthday parties where we show up to your birthday this is the type of setup that you'll see. Now do you dress as a clown as well ma'am? No. I am actually the bearded lady. Okay fantastic. She's she's just kind of there and she's very supportive and she's helpful she's not like the most she's not as ostentatious as he is but she's down. Okay fantastic all right so you show up your clown you got bearded lady and you and she's helpful. She's not like the most, she's not as ostentatious as he is, but she's down. Okay, fantastic. Alright, so you show up your clown, you got Bearded Lady, and you have... Well, you may eat a cooked cockroach, you might eat a cooked scorpion, a cooked...

They have like a fear factor element to their parties. You'll definitely get electrocuted with thousands of volts of electricity, and you'll have to endure your biggest fear if it's snakes. The IRS. Ah, human brains. All right. Oh yeah. Now he's showing me a human skull,

and he's also showing me a human brain in the liquid. I don't even know. Formaldehyde. Formaldehyde yeah okay and so you guys do the show together do you have you have children they are part of the show so I assume they have no fear when it comes to the I edit and what do you guys have as far as do you own reptiles? Okay I couldn't I know that I see the big the tarantula up here what's your what is your reptile situation?

We have snakes, bearded dragons, turtles, frogs, geckos, a little bit of everything. Our favorite frog is the pixie frogs, probably our favorite. They get about dinner plate size. All right, so now they're gonna tell me for another couple minutes about all the reptiles they have in their home. How many, okay, so how many reptiles are we thinking right now?

Yes. I bet my numbers are different from hers. I would think. I think that, I think she said a hundred. I think she said about a hundred and do is this crazy question do do people who are you do you have dogs? Okay Now they get along the not the dogs but the dogs with the reptiles This and this is why I want to go to his house. Listen to this. Yeah we have a reptile room that's we have Halloween items that's curated in this style and we incorporate it because odds and pods is our whole home so our living room is full with every religion every culture we have a clown kitchen and every room is as a walk of life. There's there's something there's a living animal

We have fish Hedgehogs we have we have I don't know 40 species of isopods Big a hedgehog get you think I'm listening Big a hedgehog you think I'm listening Big a hedgehog Inside They run around the whole house get the rings What do we got we got a tie ball game let's go back to it let's go we do it I might be a little

behind yeah you might be getting back quicker updates than I have Monterrey leads 48 44 Cole spins off the double team Johnson with the offense rebound her put back Johnson with the offensive rebound. Her put back goes with the foul. It's okay. Well it kind of bailed out Monterey that time. Is it 15 to 44 now? Cole threw up a wild shot.

Yeah. A spin move and a shot while she was spinning. Still counts. Mary Johnson right there with another offensive board. 90% of her buckets, we're told, this year have come from offensive rebound. What? Jesus.

That's the most insane stat I've ever heard. 51-44. That was big, and a block out. Still here nearly by Monterey. As Monterey deflects it off of Lainery Murphy's knee. It's not good. Alright, let's wrap up with the theory. If I didn't agree, would it matter? I like that.

And have you ever owned a sword? A bad mini sword. Ah, yes! That seems to be a common theme. Yes, we have swords at our new shop, Curiosity's The Garage. They've built race cars since the 1950s in the garage. I kind of cut them off. Again, I want to do a video on this.

There's a lot going on, but let's wrap it up. If you weren't doing this, what do you think you'd be doing? Stocks, Wall Street? I would still be hanging out with this guy. OK. Oh, absolutely. And sometimes I ask, am I going to keep on doing it? I just don't know.

But everybody tells me I need to keep on trucking. The world needs a McFeamy in family. Well it's nice to meet you brother. Take it easy. There he goes. One of the more interesting people I've met in a long time. McFeamy. Yeah, I'll go to his house for sure.

McFeamy, go to Get the Curiosities. I don't know if we want to just go there and do a video or do we we want to go and Set up and actually do a show it would be really fun man. I bet you his kids are a hand like just super interesting My guess is they go to a school at home Just if I had to guess yeah, but he's a sweetheart of a guy Yeah, he would kind of tell you like so he's the leader of the whole place. Yeah, he seemed Oh, he was commanding attention. Yeah, he was and of tell you like he's the leader of the whole place. Yeah, he seemed oh he was commanding attention yeah, he was and he was just like I said, he was a sweet guy like I had a rough life and now I just like to Care for like he this is a type of guy

You think you don't throw anything away? Like this guy's house might give me high yeah walk into I'm gonna do some cleaning up this weekend Marie Kondo on. Five by five. Landry can make this a one possession ball game with two free throws here. Second team foul, third, yeah, second team foul against public Monterey. Get that straight, Andy.

Murphy's first free throw is good. And I gave you the stat a few games ago. In every game that Argyle has lost this season, they shot under 70% from the free throw line. Murphy made both there, Argyle now up to seven of eight. So need to keep that percentage where it's at. What a stat. It's not a really good transit of stat, right?

Honor eight leads 51-48. Like I think he's trying to tell us if they keep this up, they will win. Yeah. Cole nearly loses it, kicks it out to Chavez on the right wing. Chavez will have to reset. Who's the star, Chavez? Yeah, Alicia. A Wrigley Green steals the pass away, and a whistle in the backcourt as Wrigley Green is fouled.

Thank you. And Argyle has the possession, trailing by three, 415 remaining. Damn dude, this is exciting. Well, Argao nearly created another turnover off of Leah Chavez. Here's Jay with the down. We'll check back in. Okay. Can't listen to the whole thing.

All right, let's get back over here. I got down a little bit of a little bit of a rabbit hole on the Texas lottery this morning. So there is a bill that is being introduced by what's his name? Elon. McLovin. McLovin's boss, Dan Patrick. McFeely. And it's about something, it's related to something called lottery couriers. Do you know what this is, Clayton? Not a big lottery guy.

Okay. Forgive me for asking. I feel like. Give me your coins, guns, your friends, right leaning stuff. I feel like nobody's like, how could you after that one? So I guess that the way you can do lottery tickets now is you can buy them online or in an app, and you use a service called a courier service,

do you have it? Jackpocket, yeah. So maybe you can tell us how it works, but then they go pick up the tickets for you, and then they work with you on whether or not you want it or not. I don't really understand it. It's owned by DraftKings, but Dan Patrick actually went to this physical store where these tickets

are I guess being sold and was like, hey this doesn't seem legal. He said, do you not see an issue where the public might lose confidence if the courier service somehow just happened at this one location in the entire state of Texas. They sold an 83 million dollar winning ticket and they also own the location that printed that ticket.

So I guess this is a place that prints lottery tickets and you can also get this app, this courier app, to just go buy your lottery ticket from there. And they've sold like a hundred times as many lottery winning tickets at this location in a very light foot traffic area than anywhere else in the state. Huh. So we're looking into it.