The Dumb Zone featuring Dan McDowell, Jake Kemp and Blake Jones. A Dallas based podcast covering sports (Dallas Cowboys, NFL, College Football, Dallas Mavericks) news, and entertainment. Does it belong in the comedy category? How about you subscribe and determine that for yourself.
A podcast called The Dumb Zone made its debut on July 24, 2023. While the podcast was indeed new, its hosts, Dan McDowell and Jake Kemp, were familiar personalities to pretty much anyone who listened to that inaugural episode. Until just before that introductory episode, the pair had been popular voices heard on The Hang Zone, a long-running show on 1310 The Ticket, the dominant sports-talk station in Dallas. And the guys had only officially announced their days at the station were over just four days beforehand via YouTube. Contract negotiations had not gone the way McDowell and Kemp hoped, thanks mainly to the corporate bosses considering the host's requests to occasionally record their own video streams or podcasts outside of company time to be a non-starter. In short, that first Dumb Zone episode was the start of a new era for the nationally recognized, award-winning radio station that made stars out of its hosts for three decades, but also for the new podcast hosts that dove into unfamiliar waters head first. - Kelly Dearmore, The Dallas Observer
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