Transcript of Division Clinching Doinks, Eagles Passing Frustrations and Worst First Dates | Ep 114

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You gotta have a loose caboose, man. You can't let that you gotta keep your composure. Can't pucker up. Listen.

I don't play anymore. So now I just sit there and my butthole puckers because I have 0 control.

I have

control, but I'd have a loose butthole, but because I don't have control, my buck hole gets tight.

Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. A Wondery Show produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment and brought to you by Google TV. No more endless browsing. Google TV makes it easy to find what you watch. How about that, man?

Mhmm. TV. Did you have those

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I did. I actually think

I saw you in Google glasses. Wing contest in those things when I

I did. Long time ago.

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Sure thing, Trav. Coming up on this episode, we're gonna talk about the Chiefs doink of a win. Oh. And we're also gonna check out some of your voice mails now that Brandon actually has listened to them.

Nice. Thank you, Brandon, for being on top of those Heights hotline voice mails.

Yeah. Way to go, intern Brandon. By the way, Kylie let out Kylie let the cat out of the bag that intern Brandon is actually the executive producer Brandon, and that he's not actually an intern, which

That's fucked up, Kylie. The fuck? That's not nice. I'm a start telling everybody. I'm a start telling everybody about her show.

Get your own show, and then all of a sudden, you're letting out our secrets. And how she's

Yeah. You're right.

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Network. Film club poll results. We're, we're watching Christmas vacation, ladies and gentlemen. It's heavy change.

Twist my arm. I twist my arm.

That's a double feature review of Love Actually and Christmas Vacation.

How do we feel about this?

Is this right? Did we fucking did we

We did. I think ourselves into this? I think I handcuffed it. I think Kylie handcuffed us into this.

Not so she's calling out our interns, and she's

She's making us watch more than 1 video. This is

war This is war Kylie.

Yeah. I don't know what we're gonna do to get her back, but,

I guess we just gotta get her on, on new heights.

Well, she's going to come on and do love actually review. Nice. So we'll see how that goes.

Yeah. That'll be fun.

And then we're going to do Christmas vacation, Chevy chase, and what the 92 percenters wanted to listen to. So yeah, it should be fun. Is Kylie gonna be a part of the Christmas vacation review too?

I think we're both about to be a part of both.

Yeah. Interim Brandon said sure. So I guess yeah. Sweet. This is probably also going to be our Christmas episode for all of you listening.

I don't know what that means. I just know that we're probably thinking of some cool things. Who would decorate? Put some Christmas lights up in there.

You used to have the green and reds back there.

Any place that has Christmas lights year round is it's my kind of jam.

It's Sure. Kind of jam.

So anyways, the Christmas episode is gonna come out. It's gonna come out on Christmas, Brandon.

Is there anything?

Does around mean? Okay. Christmas episode is gonna come out Christmas Eve. That's gonna have Kylie on it. We're gonna review both of these movies as well talk about other things Christmas related.

Travis has, what, 3 games in 10 days? Is that what's going on?

I think that's the number. Yeah.

It's crazy. So Travis is gonna be pretty busy. It's gonna be a weird schedule, so we're gonna record this and put it out Christmas Eve, I think, is what Brandon just said. So if it's not that, blame him. Anyways, look forward to that episode and these film reviews coming coming then.

Yeah. Should be fun. It's going to be a blast. Oh, the Grinch came in second, man. I thought.

Doctor. I know. It's a great 1. I mean, the good thing about all of these movies, I'm going to watch all 4 of these anyways.

Doctor. It's a wonderful life. I don't think I would have I would have watched that 1. So I'll

say this. Have you we never watched this growing up. Have you ever watched A Wonderful Life? It's a Wonderful Life. No.

I highly read. I'm telling you, good. Give it a chance. It's a good movie. It's black and white.

So it's it's it's got some years on it, But it's it's a nice film. I really enjoy it. I watched it for the first time a couple years ago because I've everybody's always putting it up there with 1 of their favorite Christmas movies. Everybody. It's I mean, it got 13 it got more than Scrooged.

Like, it's a it it got a good amount of votes. It's definitely 1 from a different generation, but it's very good. It holds up. It holds up. Alright.

Alright. I'll think about it. I'll think

about it. Laura might just watch Christmas vacation. There you go. Well, Jason, we were spotted in Vancouver for the last stop on the ARRIS tour.

Vancouver? I wasn't in Vancouver.

Yeah. You were. Look at that belly and that beard, dude. Oh, what the fuck? You got the stat

I'm not fat. I'm not that's not what I look like.

That's what that's what I look like right now.

That is so good.

There was a mention of, of tight Jumanji pants. How about that? So good.

Oh my goodness.

How about it? I wonder, I wonder if Tay saw them in the stands. She, you can't keep it together if you see that. Like there's no way you're like in the middle of a song, and you see them walking around, and you're just like

I I mean, I would lose it. What is I love that I love that the 1, lady went mustache era Travis Kelsey.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. This is full on homemade jerseys. How do you even make that?

Yeah.

You don't buy that anywhere. Those are but that's, like, pressed on numbers and letters.

Yeah. That's very nice of done. There's

a lot of effort put in.

DIY for sure. DIY. Sorry. DIY? There it is.

Do it yourself.

Yeah. They probably had a blast. There was also this Andy Reid deal going on in the big red era.

Oh, nice. 2 Andy Reid. That's pretty good.

They're like 2 Andy Reid's that are 2 friends.

Nice.

What is it about Andy Reid that, like, anybody dressing like him is just, like, incredible?

Yeah. And everybody loves him.

He's just so iconic. That mustache.

That stash is just it just just

sweeps you

away, man. Doesn't it? Just Yeah.

Just a great nickname too. Big Red. I mean

Yeah. Kool Aid man.

There's a whole chewing gum named after it. Steubenville, Ohio. Big Red. Oh, yeah. That's right.

Shout out to Claris.

Shout out to Steubenville. Battery.

Gosh, it's a great name. Big Red.

Nice. Well, shout out to Tay, and, the unbelievable Ares tour has finally come to an end.

How dude. So how hold on. How long was the Ares tour? It was Was it 2 years?

Almost 2 years.

Almost 2 years?

March March of the year that we played

this role. Do you know off the top of your head?

A 149 or a 152. I forget which 1

it was.

Somewhere in there. A fucked up. So many shows. Is kinda how I sum it up.

149 shows in 21 countries.

Wow. It's insane. Absolutely insane. Over 10,000,000 people in the stands over the course of it, like accumulatively. It's pretty crazy.

Well, shout out to Tay. Shout out

to everybody that was a part of that show. Obviously, it's it's her it's her music, her tour and everything, but that that was a full production, man. That thing

Yeah. Fair enough.

It was the best tour in the world because of a lot of people and, but mostly because of Taylor. Alright. Shout out to everybody, buddy.

Alrighty. Walter Payton man of the year. I don't know if all of you saw, but my brother, Travis Kelsey, Kansas City chief is nominated for the Walter Payton NFL man of the year from chief's owner Clark Hunt through his new ignition lab, the growing 87 and running foundation in his partnership with Operation Breakthrough. Travis has impacted the lives of thousands of young people in the Kansas City region and beyond. Very few athletes in the history of the game have been have balanced the same level of team success, individual accolades, and community engagement.

Trav, how's it feel to be nominated? This is this is awesome. This is a huge award.

It is. It is a huge award. I, you know, I love getting out here in the Kansas City community, man. I really do. They show up for each other so much, and they they do it with so much pride.

And, you know, that's the beauty of of having that relationship with the community was is always to, you know, try and make a a better world for the ones that, that support you on game day, man, or just or or need that help and that support in the in the, in the community. And I've just been so lucky that I came here to Kansas City and, got the opportunity from the Hunt family, and I realized real early on that they were a organization and and how they ran this organization was that they wanted everyone in the community, making sure the the people in Kansas City felt the support that we feel on Sundays. And the 1 thing that you see when you first walk in that building is all of the winners in all the winners of the man of the year in terms of, you know, how much, like, history Kansas City players have in this community and, and everybody getting acknowledged for that. And I don't do it for the awards. I don't do it for the acknowledgment.

I do it for the smiles on the kids' faces at the Ignition Lab and at Operation Breakthrough, and and to see what they do with, what we give them at their exposure.

You're not lying.

And, you know, and

it's just it's so it's so cool to see what they have done with with what they have to to work with over there. And this year will be the 1st year that we actually had the high school kids. A long story short, Operation Breakthrough is a beautiful organization in Kansas City that helps out a lot of the underserved kids, especially on the east side. And, yeah, the program when I first got to Kansas City stopped in 8th grade. And, and I really wanted to keep that going through the high school years because I know how much of a knucklehead I was and not having anywhere to to go or a safe haven or just somewhere to to, you know, perfect my craft, after school, I would I don't know where the heck I would have been.

So I really wanted to extend that for Operation Breakthrough, and that's when we created the, Ignition Lab. 87 to run the Ignition Lab, which is a STEM lab. It has everything from a mechanic shop, a muffler, a robotics lab, a entertainment studio, e gaming. It has everything you could possibly need, a kitchen for kids that wanna get into the culinary, world. It's

remarkable, honestly.

Yeah. It's unbelievable. And I couldn't have done it without the support from KC and, the support from everybody working at Operation Breakthrough. And sure enough, we couldn't have done this without the kids that actually wanna make a difference in with their lives. And, that's the beauty of it.

And that's why I do it, man.

Yeah. No. I think it's awesome. And, you know, you they they convert some of your vehicles to electric. They're converting my truck to electric, but 1 of the things we got to see was that fully electric Chevelle

that they're raffled on. This Sunday. Yeah.

That's what yeah. How'd that feel? Dude, it rolls. It's it's pretty gnarly. It's cool as

shit. It is cool. It a big guy like me, it's tough for me to get in those old cars if you don't put pull the seats back. But man, it is,

Chicky man. That thing is

sweet, man. I'll tell you, those old school cars are just so freaking cool, man. I think I got a 71 Chevelle that, some people have may have may have seen me drive before, but this thing was 1 of a kind. When you get in there, you can you can feel, how unique it is. Everything's kinda on that digital pad that they have.

It's like a little iPad or, just like a touchscreen that that you can put it in drive and reverse and neutral and everything. And then from there, it has some pickup. It has some pickup, man. It's got the it's got those electric EV batteries in there, and the kids did an unbelievable job, and I think it was a smooth ride into the stadium the other day.

It definitely doesn't have the rumble, and there's something that that, like, obviously, the old school gear heads, you know, they're gonna want. But I think there's something really cool that operation breakthrough is doing where they're they're taking these older vehicles. They're teaching these kids some of the things that is the automotive industry is going into and teaching them skills that not everybody really knows what's happening, especially in the EV world. So cool, man. It's it's really cool.

And on top of that, it's just a I mean, it's just beautiful. They did a great job with it. It's gorgeous in there. They have all the electric stuff, but they also have the old school knobs and whatnot and looks

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Very true to, like, kind of the way it used to be. So

Yeah. The seats. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is the this is the 1st year that, that the kids who started in the initial, Ignition Lab year, so that they're gonna be seniors going into Cali.

Yeah. They're all graduating. So it's, it's a pretty cool, to see kids, you know, start as freshmen and really latch on to things. And now, even going to going to college, you know, getting, getting an opportunity to be an architecture major and things like that in, in college. And it's just so cool, man.

This would, this is why you do it. Well Trying to have a good chance, man.

That's why you do it, and you can vote for Travis in the man of the year fan vote using Walter Payton man of the year challenges, hashtag wpmoychallenge plus at tkelsey on Twitter. Congrats, Trav. That's awesome.

I love you, big guy. I appreciate it, man. And, shout out to Ignition Lab and Operation Breakthrough for, for just being the awesome, opportunity for these kids that they are, man. Well, I drove in a, 69 Chevelle. Jason, you wrecked a helmet.

Yeah. Driving around in the little golf cart. I love it.

It's okay. It did. It made it out all right.

It passed the concussion test.

Oh, yeah.

Look at this dude.

Look at that.

Cruising. You're a Larry. Cruising baby. You're literally the Philadelphia mascot.

You've stopped traffic to do these shoots, which I'm just like, I'm like, this is

Jesus. This could

be a fun bit. It's

a fun bit. It's good.

I love it, man. Have you seen this golf cart before?

Yeah. So the Eagles have this 1. They also have a throwback 1, like a Kelly green version of it.

Yeah.

Kind of they kind of live in the stadium and we thought it'd be funny. So we're going to use this footage, not this 1, but we're gonna use this footage in conjunction with the late night show. Gosh, I just took that 1 swerve a little bit too hard and that

could of course correct. Oh, no. Dude, that that can get dicey.

No, for sure. Yeah. I mean, I stuck my arm out. It could have gone real bad. It could have gone horrendously bad.

I've actually seen this go real bad, like broken hand bad on a golf course. You were on pavement.

It's pavement. So I mean, it's nice and soft. You know, golf courses are pretty hard with all that grass. So

Oh, hey, gosh. You came out unscathed, man.

I got those wheels up and I was like, oh, dear. Here it goes. I could feel it

coming. Big man.

But luckily I had my helmet on

and came out unscathed. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness.

Came out unscathed.

Oh my goodness. Dan

always told us to wear helmets. He did. Whenever you're riding your bike, your scooter, you're gonna have a helmet

on the bus. Rollerblade and That's right. Put a helmet on.

Those helmets with the wings on have been protecting me for a while.

So good. Fly Eagles. Fly, baby. Well, we're all glad you're okay. And that's it for new news brought to you by Paramount Network.

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Yeah. Trav. Google TV makes it so easy to find what you want to watch since it brings all of your favorite movie shows and live TV channels across your subscriptions all in 1 place.

Nice. 1 of my favorite features and 1 that I know United 2 Percenters would love is that you can also get recommendations based on what you already like, including live sports content tailored just for you right on your for you tab. It lets you jump straight into the action and access live games from your favorite teams.

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That's right, Jason. You think you know the story of Mufasa, but you don't.

I don't?

This all new movie, yeah, this all new movie follows a young Mufasa as he meets his, adopted brother, Taka, the heir, to a royal bloodline and who you may also know by the other name, Scar.

Scar wasn't his original name. His name used to be Taka?

Yeah. And he was the original heir to be the king. I would love to see where he got the scar from because I think that's why they called him Scar. He had the scar.

Yeah. That makes sense. I've never thought about that. The brothers embark on a journey in search of their destiny, but their bonds will be tested as they work together to evade a threatening but deadly foe.

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We got Zazu. See where he came from.

Yeah. Zazu. Rafiki.

Rafiki, dude. Rafiki is the most underrated character in the original movie. It's

about God,

Rafiki is a good character.

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What's a orange ice pop? That's

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Alrighty. Let's move on to some bold topics

to wrap up. Week 14 of the NFL. Hey.

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Chiefs, 19. Ask you. Chargers, 17. Man, come on. What's going on?

Speak to me, Trav.

Some good old fashioned, AFC West division football, baby.

Oh, you ain't lying.

I think, I think the chargers are a fucking hell of a goddamn football team. Yeah. Harbaugh has got everybody's guys playing their tail off, playing with a lot of heart.

Chiefs with another 1 score win, another 1 that came down to a field goal. Yeah. Let's let's get right into the doink. So, new kicker.

Matthew Wright from Lancaster, PA.

Lancaster, PA. He's a PA guy. He's right

in the ocean. Yeah. He's right in the ocean. In Birch country. You know what?

I don't think so, but he kinda has that.

That's pretty easy to tell.

He looks like maybe 1 of them that, you know, just walked out of the barn and said, I'm good.

Double doink. Well, not double doink.

Doink in. Double doink. You're gonna go there. It's Matt Nagy. You're gonna go there.

Party. You fucking that was a low blow, man.

It's a Cody Parkie. Alright. Let's get to the last drive. Pat starts wheeling and dealing. It's the worthy throw.

Dancing around. Big 3rd down conversion on the 3rd and 10. Oh, we're gonna go into this. Look at this. We're gonna talk about some protections.

Good job, man.

P. Ry. Samaje came and he came. Let's just talk about Derwin. Derwin is not Derwin's not fucking around, man.

No. When he blitzes, he's he's taking the back straight over the back. He's he's done that he's done that to guys all year. And it not that he got put on his tail, but, I mean, that was a that was a football game. I I respect the hell out of this.

This is football right here.

Yeah. Peter on freaking look at that. Throwing their bodies in there.

Yeah. Pat steps to the left, drifts Look at that. Beats worthy for the first down. I mean, that was the biggest play of the game potentially right there. Yeah.

Next to this 1, there we go. We get a little boot action, Trav. It's been well recorded that you're supposed to keep running that corner route. You decide to sit Well recorded what? Just what?

Supposed to run a corner.

Travis, everybody said you were supposed to run a corner. Who's everybody? Everybody that was a I think Pat said it. I'm pretty sure Pat

said it. Fuck.

No. But seriously, obviously, you know what makes you sit right here.

I mean, corner over top.

You know the corner is not gonna be open.

I mean, not corner. The the corner the corner is actually playing the flat. This is cover 2. And there's you gotta think of, like, the voids in cover 2, like, the the voids are sidelines

and Yeah. The whole shot in between the safety

and the corner. The whole shot in between the safety down the sideline. I felt like I couldn't beat that safety there.

She had the leverage on you outside. Yeah.

The angle, like, wasn't like a sheer catch. Yep. So I started to just kinda like turn my shoulders, square it up to Pat and, Sure enough. And just kinda like felt that void, you know. I knew where the, the hook to curl defender was.

He was he then like chased Pat because Pat would look like he was about to run. Yep. And I was just like, let me just kinda fill that void. Yeah. Yeah.

Pat Pat made an unbelievable play to keep the keep it alive, making that first guy miss. And then sure enough, man, 15 is always gonna find the open guy, man.

Trav catches it kneeling. Doesn't even try to get up. Knows he's got the game 1. Just ball security. Don't do any don't don't drop the baby.

Just hold on to that thing. I knew the hit was coming too. I was like, the safety's right behind me. When's it gonna when where is it at? Where is it at?

Yep. You know somebody's coming. And, Yeah. That sets up the game winning field goal attempt, which, you know, pretty close 1. They're all hard though when the game's on the line.

And pull a little Tim Duncan action. Goes off the left upright and in.

Banks open on Sundays, baby.

There we go, baby. Yeah. What does this feel like?

I'm a big fan of just scoring touchdowns, man, and may enforcing the other team to have to score touchdowns. But I understand not even giving them a chance. And, and that's a very high percentage field goal right there. I think we're sitting at, like, 20 yards, 30 yards or something like that. Yeah.

It is what it is. I'm, I'm always here for what the team's decision is. That's why I didn't even think about getting up. I knew the situation we were in and what we were gonna wanna do. Once we got the 1st down was to kick a field goal and run the clock out.

Yep. So if that's what that's what the game plan is, baby, I'm all in.

Yeah. Well, we did find out that Andy is not a game winning field goal watcher. We have a clip of this.

Oh, you want this? A little superstitious

or just doesn't wanna watch? Yeah.

The crowd will tell them. Look at this. Wow. Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby.

Oh, man. You and my guy Pacheco back out there rolling downhill, man. Him and Big Red having a fucking good time after this 1. Division game, man. Division on the line.

Won the division for the what? Whatever year, against a a really fucking good chargers team. You can't tell me that Justin Herbert isn't 1 of the best fucking quarterbacks in the National Football League, man.

Dude, he's balling this year. He he's had some games. He can sling that pill.

I mean, he's balling every year.

It feels like with Harbaugh getting there, it feels like some of that swagger is back with that team.

You know, the the leaders in that on that team, the coaches coming in, coach Minner, coach Yeah. Coach Elston. Our guys, our guys

said, I

don't know.

Rick Minner's there. Rick Rick was with me in, Philadelphia. Was he really? Jesse's dad.

Yeah. Nice. Yep. I didn't know that. He's a he's a fellow Bearcat, he's a coach as well.

Yep. But, yeah, they they, they got that thing figured out right now. They're playing really, really good football, man, and they played us, played us pretty goddamn tough. Both times we, we got them.

Absolutely. Definitely. Pat had some postgame quotes. I truly believe we are close closer than we were last year at this point. I would agree with that.

I think it's a very good statement by Pat. I think at this point last year, it was you guys had just lost to us, and it was looking kinda down for the Chiefs and you guys got it going. I kinda think it is looking better. I think offensively At

this point last year, it was we didn't even know that it was gonna get worse. We we, you know, it's it it went all the way through Christmas and we we were lucky we had 2 games after Christmas to be able to figure it out, but it was a different situation.

I just think you guys have a good roster. You guys have I I think that I'll be honest. I and we've talked about it a little bit. I think the protections have been a thing that have thrown off the offense a little bit. I thought the protections were a lot better yesterday.

Humphreys look good. I don't know what his hamstring looks like, but he did a good job at left tackle last, this last game. He's came

in the building and been a fucking all star professional, man. He's just been the just a high energy guy, loves what he does, comes in, shows how much he loves this game, and how much he appreciates being in the being in the, in the situation to play football. I've just loved the guy for for that mentality and his, his hard work, man. It's it sucks that the first game he gets it, man. He gets the hamstring.

He'll be back. He'll be back regardless even if he's back this week or whenever. I think that's gonna help out a lot of things because it felt like that's been something that's thrown off the timing and rhythm a little bit, and it'll it'll help Pat out. It'll help everything out. I do wanna say this, though.

Pat is nearly unstoppable. It it is so crazy watching him in 2 minute situations. Before the half, you guys go and get a touchdown, end a game when you need to get a drive together. He somehow finds a way to convert and move the ball down so that you guys are in field goal range. Why are you guys just not always a 2 point just run 2 point offense?

Like, what are we even doing running the rest of

the offense? Just come back over to 2 minutes.

Like, I don't even know why we're wasting time.

A little uptempo. It does you know what uptempo does?

2 minute. Not even

2 minute. You can huddle.

Just huddle. Just go do 2 minute. Just tell Pat before every drive, Pat, hey. We got 2 minutes left. Like, Travis,

we just

started the game.

All that sounds good. All that sounds good until, you know, the thing is is when you go 2 minute, it's typically a little bit more basic plays. Right? It's kind of like set plays. The defense is running very simple defenses and it kinda simplifies everything from what you're seeing.

For

sure. I can find voids easier. I can you know, I see what the defense is in before the snap because they they can't dick around at the line of scrimmage or give us a crazy look at the line of scrimmage while we're in 2 minute. Right. Yeah.

So it's just it it definitely makes the game easier, but at the same time, you can't do that shit all game. That shit will get fucking stopped in a heartbeat if you do that shit all game.

I don't know. I haven't seen anybody stop Pat yet. It might be worth trying. I'm just saying. Just let that go out there and be a point guard.

V ain't lying, man. Patty Mahomes, baby.

The big Yeti got another milestone. Travis Kelce became the fastest title in NFL history. 172 games to reach 12,000 career receiving yards. Previous record was held by none other than Tony Gonzalez in 210 games. LeBron stayed a real stat.

Damn. I think that's pretty real stat.

And 10 games?

Well, he got he played more than that. It took him 210 games to get the 12,000 Dude. Career receiving yards. He ended with 15,000. So fucking So he played a lot of games.

Tony played a lot of games.

That's that's almost 40 more games. I don't know if I played 40 more.

Well, I mean, listen. That's a lot more games. Fuck. Again, Tony played more than 210. Tony played I mean, he got 15,000.

Yeah. That was yeah. That's insane.

Tony's longevity is is insane.

How did he fucking do it? Goddamn.

I remember he had, like, some type of protein that I used to take. Maybe that was it. He was into spearfishing. Maybe he was harnessing the power of the sun.

I think he was There you go.

270. 1 with the coal. It's so many games.

That's so many games. It's crazy. How how many did he play altogether? Can we get that thrown up for him?

It says right here. He played 270 regular season games.

He played a whole 100 more than where I'm at right now.

Yeah. No. It's outrageous.

Yes. No. It's you. Oh my gosh. No fucking chance.

Built different. I don't I mean, that's so impressive.

Dude, he got I'm pretty sure he got into the league before he was 21. And then on top of that, he played until he was 30, say, 36, 37.

Oh, he played longer than 36, 37.

I don't know, man. I'm pretty sure it was like 17 years. Yeah. Insane is what he did.

He's 48 now.

Why? Why did we need to know that?

We're trying to do some math. When did he retire?

You could just Retired with the Falcons

when? Like Right before they retired. Probably. Right? About 38 years old.

Right? 37, 38? Yeah. 10, 13, 11 years. Yeah.

You're you're a 1000%. Right? Alright. I'll stop talking. Either way, unbelievably impressive.

Chiefs only

now won the AFC West for 9 straight seasons.

The I just before we move on, I'd it's so funny being on this list on these lists with Tony, because it, every single time I, it puts in perspective what he actually did when he was in the National Football League. Yeah. And it's fuck. It'll never be touched. It's a much different league too.

There's no way. There's no way. It's like it's it's so fucking mind blowing that he did that in in back when football was football. I mean, he did it You could literally get your head

taken off. He played that long in a league where there was 2 a days during training camp. The, you know, the the hitting, they would take your head off as a safety. I remember that Dawkins clip on Algae Crumpler.

Dude, what? That was legal. You cheated. Cracks. They You better be that is check.

You can do that.

They used to actually teach you head on a swivel. I don't even think they teach head on a swivel. My first because it doesn't matter.

You don't even need to have a head

on a swivel. There's no repercussions. Nope. If you get that's a mistake. Just run

around aimlessly.

It's a penalty and a fine and a hefty fine at that. Back when they were just in AstroTurf, which is just a carpet rolled over fucking cement.

Do you remember playing on Lakewood High School? Yeah. That had the AstroTurf? That was outrageous.

The worst.

Who did that?

These guys played whole NFL turf.

And then we tell everybody to bring gym shoes instead of cleats. Yeah. Dude. Yeah. You have to bring basketball shoes.

Speaker 1: No. Have you ever run on your carpet in your living room? That's exactly what this is.

Baseball diamonds. Everybody had a joint stadium with the baseball teams.

You're just talking about the vet.

Absolutely insane, man. Football was crazy back in the day.

Yeah. Well, it's still pretty crazy. You know what else is crazy is the Chiefs have won the AFC West 9 straight seasons.

Yes, sir. Dude, this

is outrageous. I mean, talk about domination. Sorry to the rest of the AFC West, but this is unbelievable. The last time Kansas City didn't win the division, Patrick Holmes was still playing college baseball.

It's pretty fucking That's a great fucking stat.

That's a LeBron stat if I've ever

heard. That's funny as hell. Nice. That's we'll talk about perspective.

Week 15, Travis is headed back to the 216. That's right. They take on the Browns. Yes, sir. And potentially the greatest sound bite quarterback of all time, Jameis Winston.

You excited for the homecoming?

I am, man. I am, man. You know, we're Cleveland guys to to Harden to to the core. So it's

Yep.

I've I've played there once, and I am so excited to be able to get back there. It was, it was a dream come true playing in front of Cleveland.

There once?

Yeah, man. I've only been I've only been back when it was FirstEnergy. Dude, I went

to that game. Somehow, I was able to go to that game. Kareem Hunt was his 1st year with the Browns. He had just been with the Browns. No.

No. No. No.

No. Guys still?

Kareem Hunt had it. It was a

double comeback to clear it.

Kareem had 3 touchdowns and I had 2.

Got it.

Yep. It was a it was a deep green kid type of day. Yeah. But, yeah, it was a it was it was a dream come true to score in the end zone and be right there in front of the dog pound. A little different catching some some birds, some, some middle fingers, some boos, and some some barks All

in friendly faces.

From the enemy side of perspective. But, I still love Cleveland Fort, man. And, it's such an honor playing back in Cleveland, and it's, it's gonna be a it's gonna be a fun day, man. It's gonna be a fun day. And hopefully, we can go in there and get into a dog fight with the, the dog pound and have some fun, man.

Well, interim Brandon's gonna be in attendance. Does that add any additional pressure to this game?

No. Love Brandon, though. Thanks for coming, man.

That's cool. What is why why are you gonna be in Cleveland, Brandon?

Why not? Why do you sound

like that? Why do you

say it like that, Jason? Why wouldn't that be

in Cleveland? A beautiful December. Yeah. Are you kidding me?

Can we stop?

Flip the club. Do you see how fast I flipped that on you, Jason?

Can we stop? Judoed you. Just fucking put

you in a blender.

Alright. Do can we can we explain why we're actually gonna be in Cleveland now?

Friend of a friend has a connection to the Browns. He was like, do you just wanna go to the Browns game? I was like, sure. Fine. I'll do 36 hours in Cleveland.

There you go. Where are you staying? No. Just neighborhood. Neighborhood.

Yeah. We're staying close to stadium. We're staying close to stadium.

So you're gonna

stay downtown?

Yeah.

Downtown.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What should I do? What should I do?

I have 36 hours.

Dude, check out the art museum. Ohio City. Ohio City. Check out the art museum.

Art museum.

A great natural history museum, actually. Oh, really good. Really good. Rock and roll

history museum. Yeah.

Yeah. The science museum is down to this. It's like the, the Rock and Roll Museum is phenomenal. There've been a lot of museums. Okay.

Big big time of

the year. Tour.

Big museum.

Big museum people. Alright. Yeah. I'll do a museum tour. I'll report back next week.

Nice. Oh, this is a fun time of year because Great Lakes has come out with their Christmas ale. Yeah. Make sure you go to a restaurant that is serving Great Lakes Christmas as a very Ohio thing. They put, like, this, like, spice thing on the rim.

Oh. You're gonna enjoy it. It's very good.

Go over there to Ohio, Ohio State. Brewery.

They do it at the brewery. Yeah.

Just go to the brewery.

I'm just

gonna say be there. Just go

to the source. Get underneath the tab. You'll be fine.

It'll definitely be there, but I'm a big fan of the Christmas sale.

You can also always hit a town hall right next door, 1 of my favorite spots in Cleveland.

Oh, okay. Great Lakes Town Hall. Alright. I'll be there. I'll have a bunch of those, and I'm gonna go jump in the dog pound.

Go check it out. I would say there's so many places that Jason, just come.

Just show up. You show up everywhere. Just drive your little helmet car over and just show up.

I mean, I am I was gonna spend maybe some days with my kids this week, but you know what? Fuck it. I'll go They got

they have so much time. You have so like, you have so much time

with them. Jesus. The delivery on that line is so good.

Just show up. You'll be

alright. God, man.

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Alright. Let's get to some Eagles Panthers, man. The birds are flying around, man. Initial thoughts on the game, Jason.

Well, they got the 9 straight. It was, not, the cleanest game for the Eagles, but they found a way to win. And I think that, you know, right now, they're listen. They've been playing so good, and the, like, level has been so high of, like, everybody's excitement for this team.

Yeah. I actually think it's

really good that this game was close, and they got brought back down to earth. The panther that the Panthers have been doing this to a lot of teams recently. Bryce Young is playing a lot better, made a hell of a lot of plays scrambling and making plays down the field.

Oh, I know.

They've been playing teams close, including, you know, 1 of the teams in the AFC West. So I think this is all in all, obviously happy the Eagles gotta win, and I think that they'll get out of this game and they got 9 straight. You know? I mean, it's hard to win football games. Right now, they're sitting at 11 and 2, so it was it was a lot of fun.

It was also fun to actually go to a game. I haven't been to a game really that many this year.

Oh, nice. You went to it.

Yeah. We went to it. We took the kids.

What?

I know, dude. It was awesome. It was awesome.

How was, how were the girls at the games? Did they enjoy them?

They were great. They didn't give 1 crap about the football game, but they had a blast eating a bunch of food and popcorn and running around all over the place like crazed lunatics. So, yeah, it was it was really cool.

What is this text?

Yeah. We were on a group chat text, me, Jake, and Brandon. Yeah. This is on the, Leggett, looked like he caught it and rolled into the end zone, on their last, you know, drive.

Yeah.

And, yeah. I think everybody in the stadium before you saw the replay thought it was a touchdown because he came up with it pretty clean.

Mhmm.

And, Jake said, this.

Holy shit. That was close. You replied with, butthole puckered up a bit, Yeah. You gotta have a loose caboose, man. You can't let that you gotta keep your composure.

You can't you can't pucker up.

Listen, I don't play anymore. So now I just sit there and my butthole puckers because I have 0 control. If I have control, man, I'd have a loose butthole. But because I don't have control, my butt hole gets tight. That's the way it works.

Well played. Biggest story coming out of the Eagles game are, unfortunately, comments from AJ Brown. Yeah. When asked about the issues facing the offense, he simply said passing. He thinks passing is, is the issue.

Also admitted that it's incredibly tough for the receivers to get into a rhythm when the offense is only passing the ball 20 times a game. Succinct. Well, AJ, I don't know if you know this, but, Saquon Barkley is arguably the MVP in the NFL.

Super good.

Handing him the ball a lot is kinda like a really good thing.

It is.

Yeah. No, it works out. I understand. You're really good too. And, getting you the ball a lot is a really good thing.

Yeah. I mean, I personally, I just think, you know, listen, he's frustrated after a game, right?

Yeah.

They barely beat a team that they know they should have performed better. There's been a lot of stuff made about this, comment from AJ. A lot of stuff made about Jaylen's comment about, like, offense and, like, synchronization and whatnot. And ultimately, I just think it's 2 guys that are frustrated after a game in which they didn't meet the standard that they hold for themselves, and they know the offense doesn't meet the standard that it holds for itself. And unfortunately, we live in a day and age and we both know this very well where things that you say, you know, I don't know how long AJ sit there and talk to reporters, but it's probably like 10 minutes I bet.

And this is the only thing that really trends. Right? All the other stuff that gets said doesn't.

Yeah.

The reality is when you're frustrated after a game, sometimes you, you know, you you you're you're you're answering things in a heated moment, and I know I've been there. I know everybody I've damn near played with has been there, and, you know, this is what happens when you have highly competitive individuals that know that they can be contributing more or know that the offense can be better than it is or that the team can be better than it is. There's also BG had some comments. I know AJ Brown is a tremendous teammate and a guy that I loved being on the same team with. He's a guy that's highly competitive and wants to win and have an impact on the game, and I think that that's what you want in a star receiver or player in general of that caliber.

Yeah.

I know Jalen Hurts operates in a very similar fashion. They've also played a lot of ball together. They played a lot of ball in the NFL. Nick Sirianni is a great coach. Kellam Moore has done a phenomenal job with the offense.

These are things that happen. There was, you know, there was somebody saying, like, I think 1 of Jaylen's comments was, like, should you be still figuring this out week 13 in the NFL? And he said no. And I understand why he said that because, like, you know, you're you're you're almost to the playoffs. We should be getting have everything dialed in.

But the reality is you're always figuring this out. This is the way the league works. Like, you're even no matter where you're at, you're constantly trying to iron things out, make things better. That's the only way you become 1 of the best teams in the NFL. Yeah.

That's only what yeah.

Is by the continually going through that process. Yeah. Like you just said, this team has an identity right now, and that identity has been running the ball with Saquon Barkley and exposing the secondary when they commit to stopping that run. And they have all of those pieces able to do that. I understand that balance is going to help.

That's just the reality. I think as an offense, you wanna have balance, but I really like where the identity has been. For the most part, it's been really good and has led to them beating they I mean, they just beat the Ravens. Right? 1 of the best teams in the NFL in Baltimore.

I know they're frustrated with this game, but let's not lose sight. The defense is playing lights out. We're 1 of the best teams in the NFC, and all of these guys are really, really good. I tend to think that these comments and all this media stuff is only gonna bring these guys closer together. That's where I look at it.

I when stuff like this happens, I think that these guys are gonna be galvanized because they realize how good they are. Kellen Moore and all these guys are gonna keep growing this offense to be the best dialed in machine it can be by the postseason. And, you know, I've I'm very excited for where all this stuff is headed.

Unbelievable talent. Yeah. On that football team, especially on the offensive side, only 1 football, bub. You only got 1 ball to get her get it around. And whether you're running it, you're throwing it, it's, it's going to 1 guy.

Unless you're lateral. Then it goes to 2 guys.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. This that's and that's why I lateral because I'm just trying to Gotta

spread the ball. Spread the ball.

The love, man. You gotta spread the love, man.

We gotta get Saquon lateral into AJ. Get this thing going.

Get this thing going. Siri, honey, let's go, baby.

Anyways, my man Grant Calcaterra caught his 1st touchdown pass in the NFL this week. Dude, I so not only was this video of his family going nuts, it kinda went viral. Here we go. Check him out. Check him out.

Nice. Nice.

Well, it looks just like him, so that would add up.

I was about to say Yep. Were they watching this again in the, in the bar after the game? I thought that was him.

Not only were these guys going nuts on the video, but I, went down on the field afterwards and saw us he had a bunch of family that was there. His dad was there.

His mom was there. Nice.

And everybody was fired up about Grant getting his 1st touchdown pass. This is 1 of the guys too that, like, the whole team gets fired up about when they get their 1st test. Like, Dallas got us out. Grant's actually had a a number of, like, big seam catches. He's he's having a really good year for the Eagles Nice.

Especially as a pass catcher. And he's been a guy that's always gone in there and done the dirty work over the last couple years, doing slice blocks, running counters, like, doing all the stuff that, like, no other tight end wants to do. Whenever a guy like that, gets rewarded and all of a sudden the start is catching a touchdown pass, I think that that's something that everybody gets fired up about.

It fires you up, baby. Hell, yeah.

Including his, football family, not just his regular family. So congrats, Grant. Yeah. It was awesome.

Hopefully the first of many for you, brother. Yeah, baby. Yeah. Next week, the Eagles are hosting mister unlimited. Mister Russell Wilson and the Steelers.

Probably probably worth noting that the last time the Eagles played the Steelers, AJ Brown had 6 catches for a 156 yards and, scored 3 touchdowns. So, yeah. Maybe it's time to go back to

throw we should pass the ball.

Maybe it's time to go back to throwing that thing.

That's what AJ he just knew we were playing the Steelers next week, so he's like, alright. I'm a I'm a put this out there.

Set this shit up right now.

I'm a put this out there right now. We need to work on passing.

Yes. Yeah. I like that.

We did a voice mail question about the Steelers, that we are going to answer. Are we doing that now or is that is this happening in voice?

We're doing it now. Okay.

Hey, fellas. This is Patrick from Pittsburgh, longtime listener, first time caller. 2 quick questions. First 1 is more so for Travis. Travis, as the greatest tight end to ever play the game, what is your honest opinion of Pat Friarmeuth?

And second, what is it like to be standing on the field at Acrisor Stadium in the Q4 whenever they play Renegade?

Oh. Talk to

you guys later. Bye.

Dude. There we go.

So first of all, it's Heinz Field. I'll I'll never not call it Heinz Field. I'm not I'm forever behind it too. With this nonsense. You only get 1 stadium name when it first comes out that I'm sticking to it.

I'm over the corporate name and renaming. It's over. It's it's

it's

Heinz Field.

You don't like Arrowhead, it's g h a j.

Just like I don't care who pays for Jacobs Field's name. It's Jacobs Field.

I don't give a fuck

what you call that thing.

Aggressive, but yeah.

It's not. It's Jacobs Field. That's where, dude, that's where Arrowhead gets it right because it's always the at Arrowhead. So Arrowhead always remains

the same name. I can't deal

with this like I'm not whatever. I'm not doing I'm I'm not doing it. I'm not I'm not re like, you can't

Heinz Field is a fucking special

They had the tomato ketchup bottle going down. Like, what are we talking about? Yeah.

So good. It is such a special, place to play, man. And I'm pumped I get to play on Christmas out there, man.

So anyways, listen, as my, professional, you know, 13 year career, and and nothing to do with tight end play. I think Pat Faramuth is a hell of a tight end. I think he's doing a tremendous job.

Nice. I think he asked me that question.

To work on his he needs to work on his footwork a little bit. So clumsy footed.

He is not clumsy footed.

Sometimes sometimes

Why are you taking shots with

that now? Sometimes when I watch him play, he looks like a a Friar South. He looks like a Friar South, not a Friar Muth. I don't even know where the fuck I'm going with this. Alright.

You take it. Go ahead, Drew.

I see you're trying to you're trying to have some fun with it, though. Yeah. No. Pat is actually he's 1 of my favorite tight ends to watch, man. He's, he's savvy in his route running.

He's very he's very, like, tight or quarterback friendly, which he knows angles coming out to where he knows he can get a guaranteed catch and quarterbacks fucking love it when you you come out your breaks in cert with certain angles, depending on where the defender closest to you is.

You come out at an angle specific to the leverage of the defender, not just running the route that's on the paper.

Exactly. And, and he does a great job of, filling voids like that and feeling how how he needs to get in and out of breaks. And then on top of that, he's just a tough football player, man. I think he embodies the the Steeler kind of way to play, which is like that steel curtain, that that that toughness that you gotta play with, man. He's willing to, you know, stick his face in the fan and

Yeah.

Do whatever he needs to do for his team, man. I think he, yeah. The Pittsburgh like toughness like, when I think of Pittsburgh tight ends, I think of, like, Heath Miller. Okay.

Heath. Heath.

And when he used to catch the ball, he would just Heath. Yeah. Big him and Big Ben were always on the same fucking page. They would fuck they would just, like, in the middle of a run, he just give, like, Miller a fucking wink, and he just run, like, a little seam route and he just, toop, quick 10 yards. Just fucking truck everybody.

Now don't get me wrong. They're 2 completely different players, but they do have that same Pittsburgh toughness. But, yeah, I think it's fast

for the sport. Those those, like, tough fan bases.

Brave future. I don't know. What what

is it about those fan bases that really love tight ends? I think you're honest. Because when I think I thought of the same thing with everything you were just saying. I thought of Heath Miller. Like, when I think of Pittsburgh, I think about tight ends.

I think it's honestly, when I think about the Eagles, I think it's tight ends. I certainly think about tight

ends with Kansas City. Oh, who's your who's your who's your who's

your favorite Eagles tight end? My favorite Eagles tight end? Don't make me do this. Don't make me do this. Come on.

I'm not doing this. Because I got too many buddies. I got close friends. I can't pick 1 or the other.

Alright. Alright. Alright. Mine is Zachary's, but I do love, I do love Dallas. I can't

wait to tell you like he just said that. He's gonna be so pissed at you.

Chad Lewis is another favorite of mine.

Chad Lewis, I should have just gone pre my teammate years in, you know yeah. Anyways.

So many good ones, man. So many good ones. Selzy, come on. We already know he's at the top of the list. Yeah.

I think, I think the second part of the question, I don't even remember answering. Oh, the Renegade.

Renegade.

That

is Oh, my Mohammed fear for Sucking electric. From the long time of the Lord.

If you're if it's a really close game, you feel that Yeah. Like tension build in the stadium. It's pretty dope. If it's the other way around, then you don't really feel it like that.

Yeah. But usually, their defense is really good. Their defense is really good. So usually, it is close. So usually, you feel it a lot.

Yeah. And the whole stadium gets into it. This is another thing that Ryan Clark pointed out to me when we were there. Everybody wears, like, their team's jerseys, but it feels like Pittsburgh is, like, even like that on a 1,000. Like, I don't think anybody goes to that game without wearing an actual Pittsburgh Steelers jersey.

They all wear the jerseys throughout the day in the city.

Oh, man. I

see it. It's Terrible.

It was I mean, I see a lot of jerseys in there.

Pretty crazy, the amount of Steelers fans that were in legitimate jerseys at the game. I think that's something that they that's like a thing. I mean, every fan base wears jerseys, but a lot of jerseys in Pittsburgh. So especially when Renegades go in, it's

I don't know what it is about I just I think it was growing up wearing black and gold and ex doting lights. I mean,

that's Cleveland Heights. I just gold has always been a favorite.

Recognize it more. I don't know what it is. I don't know what everybody does.

Color combination. Black and gold is just a good color combo.

It's so good. It's so good. And then you add that that cool fucking old school Steelers logo in there. Like, so iconic.

What's what are the what are your favorite color combos of of teams? My like, black and gold is 1 of them. I'll say this. I love I've always loved the color green, not just because I'm an Eagles fan. I just love the color green.

Yeah.

1 of my favorite color combos,

I don't have anything to

do with the team. Oakland A's. The green and yellow is just a it is a

awesome comic, dude.

Like, I know I mean, Green Bay Packers, but I for some reason that Oakland A's,

like, yeah,

It just, like, stands out as, like, 1 of the coolest Slaps. Yeah. It's just a dope ass.

They're the Sacramento A's now.

I think of the same thing with the the superstars. Be

the Vegas A's.

Oh, they're they're moving out too?

Oh, yeah. They're out of there.

Everybody's leaving Oakland for Vegas.

It's unfortunate, man. Oakland's a, it's a beautiful sports town.

Yeah. Maybe there's just green and yellow because I thought of the the Supersonics jerseys and, like, stuff like that. Those are some dynamite freaking

I think they're trying to bring a team back to an NBA team back to Seattle too.

What's what's another? What are your favorites?

My favorites? I'm an old school Cavs, 90 nineties Cavs.

Blue, I knew you were going to go there. You're talking about are you talking about blue and orange? Are you talking about I kind of like the blue and black.

I like the splash the splash jerseys, the 1 where it looked like they had paint going across their jerseys.

I gotcha.

You know what I mean? Like the Yep. That very end of the Mark Price years, the the Sean Kemp years, the 96, 97, 98.

They had the blue and black on that on those ones. Those are my favorite too. I think I'm with them.

I love those ones.

There's something about blue and black where it kinda clashes, but it works.

And then the then the hint of that orange in it has that orange in there.

I'm a big orange guy too. Is that because of the Browns? Are we just subliminally been affected our whole lives?

We have.

That was 1 thing. Like, I like Broncos jerseys because I like brown. I like the color orange. I just like oranges. Yeah.

Like, Oreos. Oreos have a good color combo because I like the orange.

I don't know what it is. Oreos are another goddamn. Right?

That's a

good 1 right there.

Yeah. I think it just like you've been like, the pirates are black and gold. This is all just comes back to our childhood.

Penguins. Yeah.

Does everybody else feel this way, or is it just us?

I don't know. Talk to us 92 Percenters. And that does it for, for catching up with the Eagles and Panthers. Shout out to the Eagles for, finding a way to get a win against a sneaky good team. And, thank you for your voice mail, man.

I'll be excited to hear Renegade in the Q4 on Christmas.

Alrighty. Let's hit a little bit more from, the biggest stories from week 14 in the NFL starting

is going on this week.

Yeah. Starting with the gambling Dan Campbell. Lot of talk about Dan Campbell declining to kick and keeping his offense on the field on 4th and 1 up 3 at the Green Bay 21, with 43 seconds left. I don't I mean, listen, 4th and 1, you go for for it. I'm I'm a 1000% in on Dan.

And they're starting to see this. We're gonna get to the Rams game, but they did it on 4th and 5. They were like, yeah. We can't give Josh Allen the ball back. And I think that,

you know Not Josh.

Dan's been criticized a little bit about those 4th down decisions last year in the playoffs. But this gambling Dan Campbell, man, that's why he has been where he's been. These lions win a lot of games because of these decisions of being aggressive and because they're a really good football team. Dude, there's just something that's so likable about this guy.

Dude, he was I Check out this thing. I've said it on here before. He was 1 of the guys he was down at Miami as a tight end coach Yeah. Back in 2013 when I was coming out. And I was like, man, I wanna fucking play for that guy.

That guy seems like a fucking great coach. He seems like he gets the best out of guys. He seems like he's all in. Tough son of a gun. And, sure enough, man, you could see, you know, as the years go on how great of a coach he really is and, how he can really embody get guys to embody that toughness and play for him.

And, and, yeah, it's a it's it's a dagger when you when you see guys running the ball like this, big points in the game and converting it, even with their quarterback fucking tripping over his feet. God, that was crazy. Yeah.

He got

a Shout out to golf, man. Hell, yeah. He found a way to hand that fucker off, man. Golly. More power to it,

man. Your feet out the way. O line's gotta do a job. Come on.

Yeah.

Also, shout out to Dan Skipper. I love I I love that Dan is just like there's always these sound bites that Dan Campbell gives towards Skip. Let's do it.

I told you, you'd never forget this game. You will never forget this game. We don't have to talk about how tough we are. We don't have to talk about how resilient we are. We live it, man.

We've been living it. Where's our defense at? Offense, that's the way to step up, man. That's the way to step up. There you go, Skip.

Keep throwing up. Whatever you're doing out there.

How could you not love that guy? I mean, Jesus.

Just a football a football legend, man. Hell yeah.

Just exudes passion for his players, for the sport. Freaking Dan's over there, giving it everything he's got. He's throwing up. Gosh.

That was a great freaking

yeah. They got a lot of great stuff going on. Green Bay's got a lot of great stuff going on too. They've been playing lights out, and, I mean, that was a hell of a game to watch. Lions, found a way to get it done.

Against Green Bay, but they got a huge 1 next week against the Buffalo Bills who just had a huge loss to the Rams.

Yes. Big loss.

A lot of people are saying game of the year, maybe?

Dude, it was insane.

I think It was a a 40 two-forty 4. Like that's, I mean, that's a high powered 2 high powered offenses going at it right there, man.

It was. It was. It was. What it was was high powered quarterback play. Play.

These guys were playing out of their mind. Matthew Stafford and Josh Allen were going off. The Rams dominated the majority of the game. I kinda hesitate to say that, but they did. They were winning for the majority of the game.

They're winning by more than 1 score, the majority of the game. Josh Allen at the second half was impressive Yeah. To say the least. He was scrambling. He was making big throws, whether it was to Mac Hollins or, what is it, Shaquir.

He was a man on a mission to come back and will the Buffalo Bills to victory. And we're just talking about the 4th down decision with Dan Campbell. The 4th down decision by McVay in the 40 in the Rams to go for it on 4th 5, which ultimately led to a play. A puka touchdown was act absolutely enormous.

Hell of a route by Atwell coming across the middle of the field.

Hits Atwell, then all of a sudden the, Puka scores on a screen. The very next play, Puka went off. He that catch on the sideline, the toe tapper. What the heck?

Dude, that dude is so good, man. Yeah. Storm and Mormon, man. Rams are coming on.

Now that they're all healthy, Kupp

is back, Puka's back, O Line is healthy. Matt Dusaver could still sling that ball. My god, DeMarcus Robinson having a fucking hell of a year this year. D Robb, man. Fuck.

I love you. Go to Marcus. Go to Marcus. Are the Rams a NFC sleeper team or are they everybody nobody's sleeping on the Rams?

I think that people might've been sleeping a little bit when they were injured, but I think everybody now is definitely not sleeping. You know, Stafford and McVay have been proven to be very, very good. They can put up points with the best of them. So, yeah, these guys are now that they're all healthy, now that everybody's back, you can tell they're getting dialed in again. It's gonna be interesting to see how the NFC West plays out, but the Rams are are are are full bore.

And for some non football news, how about that? Getting into some non football news. Juan So to just signed arguably the most ridiculous fucking contract I've ever heard in my life.

Oh my god. Is that real?

Yes. I mean, it's we're, like, 5 to 10 years away from seeing, MLB player make or sign a like a $1,000,000,000 contract. 15 years?

I remember what he

was saying.

It's a 15 year. That is just seems like so outrageously long. How old is he? How old is Juan Sotto?

I think he's only 25. He's under contract with the New York Mets until he's until he's 40.

The Mets? That's a big gamble. That just seems so outrageous and it's all guaranteed. Right?

Baseball's guaranteed. Yeah. It's 41. He's 26 right now. So he's, he's under contract until he's 41.

How the fuck does this good job.

I mean, the baseball union. I don't know how this they've finagled this stuff, but wow.

They've been around for years years. And they've been around for fucking years. Unions getting

such stuff together. 15 years. That seems like a joke.

It does.

You know what I mean? Like, that just doesn't even seem I'm not

sure I'm not sure if the 15 years or the $765,000,000 that comes with those 15 years.

To me, it's less of the 765,000,000. I mean, that's outrageous numbers.

You're expecting him to play as good as he's playing right now until he's 41.

That's what just blows my mind. I mean, I I in 15 years I guess the the thought is in 15 years or even just in 10 years, the salary cap is gonna be drastically different because inflation and how that works. But it just feels like I mean, it's an outrageously long contract.

It's mind blowing. I'd my

mind can't really wrap my head around it. Per Pat McAfee, he's gonna make $5,902 an hour for the next 15 years. That's a pretty good salary. Goddamn it. It's pretty good.

Pretty good.

Pretty good. Pretty good. Congratulations, Juan So to. Yeah. And he was I mean, I got to see it live in action.

That dude is a fucking beast.

Yeah. He's he's really I mean, there's a reason I mean, region he's got paid $765,000,000 over the next 15 years.

God. Pretty good. Damn. Is it is it a vanilla contract, though? How like, what's it who did it's just a fur.

All sorts of stuff in

that regard until he's, like, fucking 80?

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Okay. Let's get some voice mails, Trav. Let's do it. Before we get out of here, we're gonna answer some not dumb questions that came to the Heights hotline. No dumb questions is brought to you by Disney's Mufasa, the lion king.

I love these kind of movies, man. It's like that, like, CGI, like Live action? Yeah. I love that shit, man. I'm so in on this.

I don't know what it is about movies where fucking animals are talking, but I love them. I don't care whether it's live action, whether it's cartoon. I just fucking love them.

Let's get to the 1st caller, intern Brandon. What's

What's up, boys? My name is Jason, and this is my question for hashtag no dumb questions. Now you guys have probably been asked this a 1000 times, but what is the worst, and I mean the absolute worst place you could take a woman on a date? Like, bottom of the barrel. Like, there's no way in hell you're getting a second date if you take a girl there.

Alright now, boys. Take care.

Nah. Nah. I got a few coming to mind.

Anything that she has no idea was fucking going on? Yeah. I don't know, man. What is a worst? I've I've only thought of, like, good date ideas.

I've never thought of the worst date ideas.

I mean, I feel like a lot of the times, it's really what you make of it and your attitude and stuff that really made me. Yeah.

I feel like I can make anything shake. Maybe don't take her. Don't take her to the strip club. I don't fucking know.

That's a good 1. Definitely don't take her to strip club.

Don't do that. Although some strip clubs do have really good wings. I have heard. Yeah, me too.

Don't know anything about it.

I think I got some to go 1 time. Yeah. Strip club. Definitely don't take her to the strip club. That's definitely the

worst answer.

If she's not into sports, don't take her to a fucking sports game.

No. Take her to a sports game. If you're into it, I

don't want There's nothing worse than trying to teach somebody about something that they don't wanna be taught about.

Well, listen. If she doesn't have the open mind to freaking go, then you don't wanna go on

a second date with her. It's okay. Nice.

I mean, I'll go listen. I I don't don't wanna watch Love Actually, but I'm gonna watch it because Kylie wants to watch it. So we're gonna watch Love Actually. That's part of being an open minded, considerate partner.

It's a good point. So I guess what we're trying to say is there's no real worst date. It's just, you know, picking the right woman to go on the date with.

Yeah. The worst first date location is to take her to some place that you don't wanna go. Like, if you're the 1 activating it, like, you're saying we're going here. This is

why we just had to find it out. Yeah. We found

it. Go someplace that you wanna go that you think you'll be you're excited to take her.

Yeah. I think that's it. There you go.

Worst is the opposite of that.

You got it, Jason. Alright. Not you. Not you. They owe to Jason.

Next caller. Next caller.

Hey, guys. I was listening to this week's episode on my way to work. I'm about to go into the office, and I was just wondering why no 1 in the NFL plays, does the annexation of Puerto Rico play from Little Giants? I hope you answer this because I've wondered it for a long time. Thanks.

Well, thank you for listening, first of all. Appreciate you listening on the way into work, and I hope your day at work was that much better because you listen to us. And, because you, asked about the annexation of Puerto Rico, I'll let you know right now that it is arguably the worst play that you could ever run-in an actual football game. It works so perfect because there were kids, and it was a movie. And there's no fucking way in hell.

I will take this back. I I have seen it done in college games, and I don't think it ended up being a game winning touch down, but it did get some yards.

Can we I don't remember

Some of those years. 1 off it's where they snap it. Snap it.

It's a fumble roostie.

Put it they put the ball on the ground, act like it's a toss. Yep. And then somebody else picks it up, puts it like, I don't know.

The center like sits on it like he's doesn't see where it's at.

Something like that.

I got to see if it's a legal play. It's 1 of

those old, it is a legal play for sure.

Okay.

Maybe. I'm not sure if the, I don't know. I don't remember if the formation actually in hand, like, yeah, the initial like snap is changed his possession because it has to

It has to actually be possessed by the quarterback.

Yeah.

For it to count as a legal snap.

Yeah.

Or to somebody.

We've seen it happen a lot. Some of these trick plays like the annexation Puerto Rico or is there like a reverse pass or a funky formation.

Some of

them are just it's the NFL. Like the people guys aren't getting fucking tricked.

I mean, guys get tricked all the time, Travis.

I don't know, man.

That's like you're a flanker. That's your entire career has been tricking people.

Nope. Not like that. Not like that.

Well, I think Travis is on to something. It's probably not a play that's gonna work very well in the NFL.

Mhmm.

Fun to watch in a movie. What's the kid's name that designs it in Little Giants?

No idea. Yeah. 4 eyes?

I can't say what that thing is.

That's wrong character, but that guy is awesome too.

No, that's the same character. No, it's not. What do you? Yes, it is.

No, it's not. He's the he's like the coach essentially.

Wow. The Fumbi Russki.

Alright. Well, I need to go back and watch Little Giants again.

What are these for? So the the guys at the morgue can identify our bodies. No. What are what are these for? Intimidation.

So fucking good. We got a remake little giants, man.

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