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[3] All right, so I'm going to close this with introducing you to a new good friend of mine.
[4] His name is McFeemy.
[5] McFeemy.
[6] Otherwise known as the Roach Daddy.
[7] And he is...
[8] Does he sell roaches that these reptiles eat?
[9] He sells everything.
[10] And he works at a place called Curiosities.
[11] Fine quality finds.
[12] Have you heard of it?
[13] Hobby store?
[14] Yeah.
[15] And it's over off Garland Road in Dallas.
[16] Uh, and it is just a, I don't even know how to describe this.
[17] It's an antique mall.
[18] Uh, what do they call it?
[19] Like tchotchkes type, like just weird shit, man. It's just a, it's not a thrift store.
[20] It's not a collectibles place.
[21] It's just a weird place.
[22] And this guy, that's what he is.
[23] So everybody kept saying like, Hey, you got to go talk to McFeemy.
[24] So I find McFeemy in this back corner.
[25] Present at his booth, there were no reptiles.
[26] But it looked like a full bookcase opened up as a display with just the craziest shit you could imagine on it.
[27] So jars full of like a mummified puppy.
[28] Like a real alchemist type feel to it.
[29] Like potions.
[30] And he had like human skulls everywhere.
[31] And he had spiders.
[32] And he had roaches.
[33] And he had a prosthetic leg.
[34] And he had like a bunch of little kid clown dolls.
[35] So this stuff wasn't all directly related to reptiles, but it was...
[36] Things that he knew people who were stoked on reptiles are into.
[37] Yeah.
[38] Bingo.
[39] He's a master of the macabre.
[40] He is, yeah.
[41] And he's a performer, too.
[42] And he had the Raleigh fingers.
[43] Handlebar mustache.
[44] Yeah, he had that up.
[45] That's perfect.
[46] He was wearing kind of like a brightly colored jumpsuit with like a backwards hat.
[47] His wife was there with him.
[48] Okay.
[49] Who runs the show with him.
[50] just a sweetheart of a dude man and like i really want to go check out his shop and or his home and i 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 are like Getting the audio as it was the first time, that's done.
[51] It's not happening.
[52] So now let's decide, is 80 % of the first time good, or do we just not do this at all?
[53] And I'm like, that guy was too good.
[54] We got to go back.
[55] So we walk back over there, and now he's like, well, I'm warmed up now.
[56] He's like, I'm full McFeemy.
[57] And yeah, let's just see.
[58] We can jump around a little bit here.
[59] And by the way, at this point, there's a crowd.
[60] Because people are already kind of crowding around him.
[61] And then I'm standing there, there's a camera, I have a mic in my hand.
[62] So there's like an audience, which McPhemy loves.
[63] All right, we're here today with...
[64] McPhemy the Clown.
[65] McPhemy the Clown, here of McPhemy's Odds and Pods, Roach Daddy, Isopod and Chill.
[66] Tell us a little bit about what you have going on over here, McPhemy.
[67] McPhemy represents a lot of culture that is salvaged, and it's vulture culture.
[68] Anything that comes from us is something that we pick up when we're just shopping.
[69] A lot of it just comes to me. There's energy in items, and they resonate.
[70] Does that apply?
[71] Sounds like it goes trash picking.
[72] Some people may say that.
[73] Yeah.
[74] But if you look at – Vulture culture.
[75] I've never heard that.
[76] If you look at the – I've heard culture vulture, like somebody who just swoops in and is like, this is my thing now.
[77] But, yeah.
[78] Curiosity's Antiques, if you look at their website, it's – getcuriosities .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 believe you have some roaches over here you are the roach daddy what do we have so at this point he has uh surprised me a little bit oh dear 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 and all over his head.
[79] And he's just, he's got, dude, when I say roaches, I'm talking like three to four, like huge.
[80] Yeah.
[81] Like he said, it's one of the biggest roaches on the planet.
[82] They're from South America or Africa or something.
[83] They live on the forest floor.
[84] But he somehow can keep control of them.
[85] They're like controlled by him.
[86] It's really weird, dude.
[87] but they're not running off that's what i mean yeah oh there he goes whoa the roach daddy oh yeah all right tell us about this roach this is one of the largest roaches in the world it's called a peppered cockroach it's beautiful they're from south america and they live on the forest floor and they repeat like leaves on the ground okay now 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.
[88] Have you ever heard of it?
[89] I actually have.
[90] Yeah, cool, cool.
[91] So Greg, one of the co -owners, came up to me and said, Hey McFeemy, you're a roach daddy.
[92] Why don't you take on these roaches?
[93] And so I went out there and...
[94] The guy opens the trunk, and I said, what the heck?
[95] There's 20 species.
[96] I said, how much?
[97] He said, $100.
[98] I couldn't get the $100 out of my pocket.
[99] What a bargain.
[100] Yeah, I loaded them up and told my wife I was on my way home soon.
[101] And she said, with what?
[102] I said, oh, lots of cool things.
[103] And I opened the door, and there's lots of roaches.
[104] So I'm about to get into this with him here, but as you might expect in antiques or thrift, there's a community.
[105] 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 100 bucks he's like yeah i'll be there so when you say he knew like he are you just is there a community here and you're known as a guy yeah they just say hey call mcphemy we know this this and this Yes, so we do rescuing.
[106] So I've always been the type of person that can take on an animal that hasn't been cared for properly.
[107] Absolutely.
[108] All right, we're about to do the behind the music, How Did McFeemy Become McFeemy?
[109] Can I interrupt for a second?
[110] Check in.
[111] I want to check in because we're on a furious run here.
[112] Let's go.
[113] I'm looking at the score.
[114] Come on.
[115] It's now 40 -34.
[116] Left elbow all the way to the left block.
[117] With the left hand, Wrigley lays it in.
[118] Is that a five -point game?
[119] Four -point.
[120] Green up to five.
[121] Argyle back down by four.
[122] Back and forth we go here at Abilene Christian University.
[123] Dude, they were down like by over ten.
[124] That's a tough shot along the baseline off of the double team.
[125] Last 20 seconds.
[126] Good defense, better offense.
[127] 20 seconds to go before the end of the third quarter.
[128] Score stop score.
[129] Say it like a dude.
[130] Say it like a dude.
[131] Eight seconds.
[132] Argyle's body language says they're holding for the final shot.
[133] Green left open.
[134] Left wing three is on the way.
[135] Too strong.
[136] Hafer battles for the board with Cole.
[137] Cole throws it off of Hafer out of bounds.
[138] Nice play by Ambrosia Cole.
[139] That would be big right there.
[140] But only .8 seconds remain in the quarter.
[141] Down six.
[142] Argyle trails by six.
[143] Green steals the inbound.
[144] The shot before the horn doesn't go.
[145] But Argyle with a little bit of life.
[146] A 10 -0 run in the third quarter to battle back.
[147] And we've got a ball game here at Abilene Christian University.
[148] Monterey, 42.
[149] Argyle, 36.
[150] The fourth quarter on your way after this message from the UIL.
[151] Let's hear.
[152] Who's doing this?
[153] Melissa won't be done.
[154] It's a UIL ad.
[155] Because they teach students important things.
[156] Tell us a little bit about how you got into this.
[157] As a youth, or were you an adult at the time?
[158] How did you first?
[159] I never had animals growing up.
[160] No reptiles, no insects.
[161] Wasn't comfortable with being around anything like this.
[162] 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 of myself because I was voted class clown in high school.
[163] So now that I'm older, I realize that I identify as a clown.
[164] And do you work as a clown?
[165] I do.
[166] We do birthday parties, which is called Face Your Fears.
[167] Face Your Fears.
[168] So I gather from that that the—now, does the clown go by McFeemy?
[169] He does.
[170] He does.
[171] And this is his alter ego, which is McFeemy.
[172] Okay, so the— Confusing.
[173] Confusing, to say the least.
[174] Let's just let him cook.
[175] Okay, so the clown—I guess I'm gathering what you're saying is you've got the regular clown act.
[176] And then there's the face your fears element to it.
[177] Tell us about that.
[178] So my wife and I, we do birthday parties where we show up to your birthday.
[179] This is the type of setup that you'll see.
[180] Now, do you dress as a clown as well, ma 'am?
[181] No. I am actually the bearded lady.
[182] Okay, fantastic.
[183] Okay, fantastic.
[184] She's just kind of there, and she's very supportive, and she's helpful.
[185] She's not as ostentatious as he is, but she's down.
[186] Okay, fantastic.
[187] All right, so you show up, you're a clown, you've got Bearded Lady, and you have what?
[188] Well, you may eat a cooked cockroach, you might eat a cooked scorpion, a cooked...
[189] They have like a fear factor element to their parties.
[190] You'll definitely get electrocuted with thousands of volts of electricity, and you'll have to endure your biggest fear if it's snakes.
[191] IRS.
[192] Ah, human brains.
[193] All right.
[194] Oh, yeah.
[195] Now he's showing me a human skull, and he's also showing me a human brain in the liquid.
[196] I don't even know.
[197] Formaldehyde.
[198] Formaldehyde, yeah.
[199] Let's keep it.
[200] Okay, so you guys do the show together.
[201] Do you have children?
[202] We have three little girls, and they're part of the show sometimes.
[203] They are part of the show, so I assume they have no fear when it comes to the...
[204] And what do you guys have as far as...
[205] Do you own reptiles?
[206] Okay, I know that I see the tarantula up here.
[207] What is your reptile situation?
[208] Our favorite frog is the pixie frogs.
[209] Probably our favorite.
[210] They get about dinner plate size.
[211] All right, so now they're going to tell me for another couple minutes about all the reptiles they have in their home.
[212] Okay, so how many reptiles are we thinking right now?
[213] Yes.
[214] I think she said 100.
[215] I think she said a bad at hunting.
[216] And do, is this a crazy question?
[217] Do people who, do you have dogs?
[218] Three.
[219] Two and a half.
[220] Oh, two.
[221] Two and a half.
[222] We have a pet sit.
[223] Okay.
[224] Now, do they get along?
[225] Not the dogs, but the dogs with the reptiles?
[226] Yeah, we have a reptile.
[227] Okay.
[228] And this is why I want to go to his house.
[229] Listen to this.
[230] We have a reptile room.
[231] We have Halloween items.
[232] It's curated in this style.
[233] And we incorporate it because Odds and Pods is our whole home.
[234] So our living room is full with every religion, every culture.
[235] We have a clown kitchen.
[236] And every room is a walk of life.
[237] There's something.
[238] There's a living animal.
[239] We have fish.
[240] We have hedgehogs.
[241] We have, I don't know, 40 species of isopods.
[242] How big a hedgehog get?
[243] You think I'm listening to it?
[244] How big a hedgehog get?
[245] A little bit bigger than a softball.
[246] Lives inside.
[247] They run around the whole house and get the rings.
[248] What do we got?
[249] We got a tie ball game in Abilene, folks.
[250] Let's go back to it.
[251] Let's see.
[252] I might be a little behind.
[253] Lexi's got another one.
[254] Kinsley's got another one.
[255] Yeah, you might be getting quicker updates than I have.
[256] Don't spoil it for us.
[257] As Monterey leads 48 -44.
[258] Cole spins off the double team.
[259] Johnson with the offensive rebound.
[260] Her put back goes with the foul.
[261] It's okay.
[262] I kind of bailed out.
[263] Is it 50 to 44 now?
[264] Still counts.
[265] What?
[266] Jesus.
[267] This was an insane stat I've ever heard.
[268] Still here nearly by Monterey as Monterey deflects it off of Landry Murphy's knee.
[269] It's not good.
[270] All right, let's wrap up.
[271] If I didn't agree, would it matter?
[272] I like that.
[273] And have you ever owned a sword?
[274] I've had many swords.
[275] Yes.
[276] That seems to be a common theme.
[277] We have swords at our new shop, Curiosity's The Garage.
[278] They've built race cars since the 1950s in The Garage.
[279] Kind of cut them off.
[280] Again, I want to do a video on this.
[281] There's a lot going on, but let's wrap it up.
[282] If you weren't doing this, what do you think you'd be doing?
[283] Stocks?
[284] Wall Street?
[285] I would still be hanging out with this guy.
[286] Okay.
[287] Oh, absolutely.
[288] And sometimes I ask, am I going to keep on doing it?
[289] I just don't know.
[290] But everybody tells me I need to keep on trucking.
[291] The world needs a McPheemy and family.
[292] Well, it's nice to meet you, brother.
[293] Take it easy.
[294] There he goes.
[295] One of the more interesting people I've met in a long time.
[296] McFeemy.
[297] Yeah, I'll go to his house for sure.
[298] McFeemy, go to...
[299] I don't know if we want to just go there and just do a video, or do we want to go and set up and actually do a show?
[300] It would be really fun, man. I bet you his kids are just super interesting.
[301] My guess is they go to a school at home.
[302] Just if I had to guess.
[303] Yeah.
[304] But he's a sweetheart of a guy, and yeah, he would kind of tell you...
[305] So he's the leader of the whole place.
[306] Yeah.
[307] Oh, he was commanding attention.
[308] Like I said, he was a sweet guy.
[309] He had a rough life, and now I just like to care.
[310] This is the type of guy, you think you don't throw anything away?
[311] This guy's house might give me hives just to walk into.
[312] I'm going to do some cleaning up this weekend.
[313] Put your Marie Kondo on.
[314] Landry can make this a one -possession ball game with two free throws here.
[315] Second team foul against Monterey.
[316] Get that straight, Andy.
[317] Murphy's first free throw is good.
[318] And I gave you this stat a few games ago.
[319] In every game that Argyle has lost this season, they've shot under 70 % from the free throw line.
[320] Murphy made both there.
[321] Argyle now up to seven of eight.
[322] So need to keep that percentage where it's at.
[323] What a stat.
[324] It's not a really good transitive stat, right?
[325] Like, I think he's trying to tell us if they keep this up, they will win.
[326] Yeah.
[327] Who's the star?
[328] Chavez?
[329] Thank you.
[330] Trailing by three, 4 .15 remaining.
[331] Damn, dude.
[332] This is exciting.
[333] We'll check back in.
[334] Okay.
[335] Can't listen to the whole thing.
[336] All right.
[337] Let's get back over here.
[338] I got down a little bit of a rabbit hole on the Texas lottery this morning.
[339] So there is a bill.
[340] That is being introduced by, what's his name?
[341] Elon.
[342] McLovin.
[343] McLovin's boss, Dan Patrick.
[344] McFeely.
[345] And it's about something, it's related to something called lottery couriers.
[346] Do you know what this is, Clayton?
[347] Not a big lottery guy.
[348] Okay.
[349] Forgive me for asking.
[350] Give me your coins, guns, your fringe right -leaning stuff.
[351] I feel like nobody's like, how could you after that one?
[352] I guess 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.
[353] Do you have it?
[354] jack pocket yeah so maybe you could tell us how it works but then they go pick up the tickets for you and then if it's then they work with you on like whether or not you want or not i don't really understand it um it's owned by draft kings but dan patrick actually like went to this physical store where this these tickets are i guess being sold was like hey this doesn't seem This doesn't seem legal.
[355] 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?
[356] They sold an $83 million winning ticket, and they also own the location that printed that ticket.
[357] 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.
[358] 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.
[359] Huh.
[360] So we're looking into it.