The Dumb Zone 5-16-24
The Dumb Zone FREE
No Puppet Productions
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Hear every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to our Patreon - Patreon.com/TheDumbZone
Step through the looking glass and enter a world where reality bends and time dissolves. In this episode of The Dumb Zone, the crew explores the curious case of the New York City-Dublin portal – an art installation that promised a window into another world but instead became a showcase for the world's oldest profession: exhibitionism. From flashing antics to obscene displays, discover how this portal of possibility quickly turned into a peephole of perversity, ultimately leading to its untimely shutdown.
But that's not all – the team dives into the fiery fate of a Frisco home struck by lightning, pondering the capricious nature of electric storms and the resilience of modern architecture. They also reflect on the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games, where the beds are designed to deter more than just sleep, and athletes' libidos are put to the ultimate test.
Amidst the madness, the episode takes a nostalgic turn with a birthday tribute to a beloved microphone inventor, a peanut butter cup pioneer, and a somber remembrance of the iconic Jim Henson. It's an episode that's as bizarre as it is brilliant, proving once again that The Dumb Zone is where the extraordinary becomes the everyday.
- (00:00) - Open
- (32:25) - Viewer Mail
- (48:40) - Cowboys schedule release
- (01:06:13) - Danny watches Dan on the William Pace Show
- (01:11:49) - Mavs win game 5
- (01:53:10) - News
- (02:04:45) - Today in History
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Dan McDowell, long-time professional broadcaster. Why subscribe to our Patreon podcast? |
| 0:06.8 | Well, perhaps you support our struggle to get out from under the oppressive thumb of the man. |
| 0:11.3 | Or objectively, if you sign up at patreon.com slash the dumb zone, you'll get the two episodes per week |
| 0:19.2 | that are available on all podcast platforms, like this |
| 0:22.1 | one, plus an additional two episodes each week that are exclusive to Patreon. So, |
| 0:28.9 | subscribing on Patreon, gets you four episodes per week. Oh my, what a bargain. Now, on to |
| 0:36.3 | today's program. |
| 0:41.7 | A strange bird is the pelican. |
| 0:44.3 | His bill holds more than his bellicin. |
| 0:47.4 | He can take in his beak enough food for a week. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm damned if I know how the hell it can. |
| 0:56.0 | All right, all right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right. Did you text him? |
| 1:00.0 | I want to listen to the drums on. |
| 1:04.0 | Happy birthday to Blake. |
| 1:09.0 | Did you text him? I text him. Happy birthday to Blake. |
| 1:12.7 | Did you text him? |
| 1:17.1 | I texted him midnight two nights ago. |
| 1:21.8 | Get yourself a little birthday haircut? |
| 1:25.6 | In preparation for my birthday, yeah. I got a... |
| 1:27.0 | Preparation! |
| 1:27.8 | I got my ears lowered. |
| 1:31.2 | Is that a dad thing? |
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