You played golf today. How'd you play my approach game? No, my short game's getting a lot better. And then I go to night to Drone Betis's golf outing which I think is a sabonic up in the Hamptons The bus My favorite all-time That's so cool man and he is just the fucking best dude ever I ran into him I think he was actually down in Florida doing a foundation event I got to run into him at dinner and I was like I was like telling him about one like that Was a fucking beast. Yeah, yes, it's like he was Running dudes over and then I showed her a drone Betis highlight tape and she was like Why does he look like an offensive lineman Welcome back to new highs ladies and gentlemen boys and girls a wonder show brought to you by Adobe Acrobat We're your host some Travis Kelsey is my big brother Jason Kelsey out of Cleveland Heights oh, I was shout out to the heights shout out to the bear cats shout out to the Cincinnati baseball Get in the top 25 Let's fucking go man shout out to the boys subscribe on YouTube wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show and also Community at new heights show with one S for fun clips throughout the week We got a fantastic episode of Jason's about to tell you just how fantastic it is Well, not as you were says we got another great episode geared up for you guys right now We're gonna break down the 2026 NFL schedule at least answer some of your no-dum questions and talk a little MBA playoffs Yee-hee and the guest this week is just us The just you're stuck with just the Kelsey brothers a bunch of time foolery and shenanigans Let's get into it right now I had a new news new news is brought to you by American express first of all fuck you Jake That's right baby the cams heading back to the eastern conference finals to face the nicks the nicks already knocked off Philadelphia and took over our entire arena, which was unfortunate The cams are heading back to the eastern conference finals to face the nicks game seven was up low out against the pistons You see you good old Dan Gilbert sent 25 buses of fans and to Detroit for the game I did see that yeah started off. I think and I'm not sure if it started off in the beginning of the series But I know game five We sent a few buses up there and then I think that damn near doubled or tripled or Quite droopled. I'm not sure what it was, but I know I know 25 buses went up there full of fucking cast fans And that shit is absolutely electric game Gilbert the owner of the cast for those that don't know and I pretty sure He's a Detroit native so he wanted the calves a lot of proud of his hometown. Yeah, I mean listen. I'd like when Like there's a proactive effort to take over opposing arenas it did have filled out for you the nicks Got us at home. I obviously the sixers. I think are a little It's it's like a it's one of those where I think there's a lot of everybody was supporting them, but also there's Still some frustration with the organization and the nicks right now are very much full of themselves. They are They're feeling they're feeling again and they should Jalen Bronson is the freaking man Philadelphia As finest we will take credit for that at least a little trivia for you This will be the Cavaliers first Eastern Cavitz finals appears without LeBron James since I'm guessing it's the last time they Went to when we were at the steakhouse together. What year was that 20? What? Oh the first without LeBron James. Okay, so it's before LeBron James dude. That's a long time ago That's not that far ago. It's probably around around when I was born around like 1989-90 when Michael Jordan hit the shot. That's a long time ago I actually don't know. I actually don't know if that was the final. I don't know if that was the finals. Yeah If I think it might have been I think it was Well, let's guess you're gonna go 80. I'm gonna 89 8990. Let's see. Let's see what the review is. I have no fun idea That's about as good of a guest as I could hear. Travis our resident 1992. I think that is the game where you're thinking of though, right? No, it's not 1992 the prices right baby that gun. I mean that is that's still a long time ago. Try that's over 30 years ago Yeah, I mean it's so it's it's been a while forget how old we are Pretty fucking crazy. Well, it's really I mean we didn't have LeBron James for a large portion of the time in between there so Are we going to a gaming Cleveland or New York probably not to be honest with you But I am gonna watch on TV. I can't wait to watch series man I want to get to a game so fucking bad you know gosh going to Cleveland as she I've always wanted to go to MSG when the fucking nixer good and the stadiums rocking and this is it And I I just don't know if I'm gonna be able to get to a game Yeah, that's the squares an awesome place to go watch a basketball game or really do watch anything to be honest I want to go there watch the Rangers. I just want to go in the teams are good and New York's fucking cooking and sure enough. This is the perfect time to go so Might have to play hooky go back to the good old gun Dorena Even though they like to call it But are actually quick shout out to them shout out to them doing it doing it right he's doing it right man It would be fucking electric to see the calves, but we need you guys to hold it down baby Take care of the fucking nix man. I'm saying calves and seven. Let's fucking go All right We have an official date for the fourth annual beer bowl. That's right The festivities down at the shore. It will be held on Thursday June 25th at sea aisle yuck club That's right. It's been there for the last two years Had non-year three at the yuck club very excited about it If you want to participate tag us in a video with hashtag beer bowl Have a team name and theme demonstrate drinking prowess as well as why you should be included in this year's beer bowl The format will be slightly different it says that we're still figuring out we are but one thing that we do know Taking notes from every time we've done this in previous years We've screwed up. I only have a one event happened at a time that leads a lot to like you have to have a really good viewpoint of the game happening And a lot of standing around we're gonna try and have multiple events happening throughout the venue So that no matter where you're at you got action happening There's gonna be stuff out in the bay on the water There'll be games happening inside of tables and there'll be a whole round In the first round that is going to have multiple games and point acclimations to see if you get in to the next round So this is a long story of like there's been teams before where they've Done all this work to get there and they've only participated in one event and then they're eliminated On that first event and then it's like hey, I came all this way and got to do one thing We're gonna make it so that every team gets to participate in multiple different things Then there'll be a elimination round after that Of the teams that are good enough to get into the elimination route. Yeah, still I think a $50,000 Grand prize maybe we also have some other things being announced at the OD event There will be a beer aquarium. I have just gotten word of this from garage beer Holy shit. It's it's a 500 gallon aquarium Travis That's apparently 3000 beers somebody did the math on that and if the aquarium gets drank We will be donating a hundred thousand dollars to eagles autism. So drink for a cause it come down to the ocean dry Everyone's gonna be hammered not necessarily so of all the people that came last year the OD event There were 3000 people apparently that made their way through the bars During the time nice that's fucking epic. So as long as as long as you come down and get a beer from the beer aquarium I'm sure everybody just gets one beer just one beer to help families awareness research towards the autism cause and Of course you just have fun with your fellow man and woman And uh, yeah, I just sounded like a great idea. We're gonna have like little fishies for a minute Fishies apparently they got like a whole keg system underneath the aquarium That so it like funnels down into that so that it gets served cold But yeah, doesn't surprise me man garage beers on top of it as they always are so yeah, we got a lot of Between the Wednesday event at the OD and the beer bowl. We're gonna have a lot of fun this year We're trying to figure out a way to have the beer bowl broadcast live on new heights Um, I feel like I'm probably getting out of my realm of ability There's a lot of production that's involved the brand to come on in here. What are the chances to do alive? Uh Cast a variable. Fuck it. Sure. Yeah, you can do it if we if we say if we say we can do it It will just happen. This is a yeah, the whole show is about manifested. Just speaking into existence. Somebody Panicking right? This is even more preposterous than we can pull this off Uh, no, somebody other than me is probably panicking right now But I'm gonna keep very cool about that. Yeah, sure. It's something great. I'm sure there will be cool people everybody be cool Heart rate is not going up at all it's gonna be live broad carlies shake your head That's what Carly does she just shakes her head and it happens fine You need to you everybody needs a contrarian you need a contrarian and that's what we have in Carly We did just meet with Jim down at the CIO uh got club this past weekend in uh in CIO and uh we were getting the lay of the land of what's doable the grease pole will not be back But we will be making usage of the uh the docking system Brando we still got to figure out the game I know you can't I know you can't attend Travis But we would like if you can help us figure out some drinking games. Okay. All right. We need to look at Travis Kelsey event But I don't know what that is yet. We did think of
uh, jousting with a, um, paddleboard joust paddleboard jousting, right? Okay. Yeah. All right. And maybe, but I don't know the drinking aspect of that. Maybe you just have to be drinking the beer in one hand and you're jousting with the other, or you have to chug your beer and you can't start drinking. You can't start jousting until your beer's done. I like that. You can't start until the beer's empty. I like that. I think somebody's going to lose it too. No, but we're not hitting a lot of waivers. A lot of waivers being signed. Don't worry about that. We got lawyers jousting. So hilarious. I had one that I pitched to Jake that he really liked. There was, um, you know, those like reaction machines where you got to like grab little sticks that are falling. Oh, beers do those with beers. Do those with beers. Yes. I like that. I like that. Do those with beers. Okay. There's one. But we can also do the regular ones. The beers be the flip cop. We'll have the regular games incorporated as well. So that they're still drinking aspects. But there's also a physical How bad do you want? How bad do you want the championship? Do a little three, uh, three inning baseball game. We got it. It's going to be faster than that, unfortunately. Then do one inning of baseball game, one inning, one at bat, one inning at bat. Could we do that? I just like a swimming relay race for time. Swim. Get to the dock, chuck the beer. Next year, we just got to do what you pulled the hamstring last year. What do you want to do this? You're swimming. Swimming. You'll be fine. You'll be fine. Swimming. Okay. We got lifeguards. We'll be fine. We did have lifeguards. And then you go down and they all look at me and I was like, do something. They're like, he's fine. I mean, I made it back to the dock. You were fine. You were fine. You just went down and I got very nervous. And then we were like, let's put Cooper to Jean on a grease pole. And I was like, guys, I think he's an important part of the team. We do have Ross Tucker back for his third annual beer bowl as well. The legend, Ross Tucker, which by the way, Ross and I just completely dominated beer pong at the Super Bowl. Did you? We won like 10 games straight. We could not be beating the back of the. I've never known you to be a good beer. I don't think I am. I think Ross is, he went and Cooper, him in Cooper 170. He has like a weird, like you know how I get for beer ball and certain games where I just get this look at my eye where I can't be defeated. Ross gets that way with beer pong. He's a very good beer pong player. He's not even that good of a shot. It's more just like an energy and an ability to get in the opposing person's head. It's a good that I respect a lot because I feel like he's only good because he's like turns into a complete neanderthal. Those seem to be the best any beer game players. It's my mind. Yeah. I've yet to see one guy be good at a beer game and there's a good energy to Ross. Shout out to Ross Tucker. All right. Oh, do we want to watch the video of the submission Brandon? Yeah, I'll play it. All right. He got the not going to lie. Suck my ass T-shirt on. Love that, Lily. Welcome to the vlog of my first garage beer. This is our first garage beer. I don't even know if I like beer. Whoa. New Heights hoodie. Yeah. High garage beer. Hi, Q. Nice, nice, unreasonably confident. New Heights told me to get my beer ball submission quick. Unfortunately for me, I do not have a team. So I've seen a list of potential teams for their consideration and I believe for our attention brings really unique strengths to the beer bowl. Team Suck My Ass brings a league chemistry, advanced tailgate capabilities and absolutely zero tolerance for nonsense. Hey. Team Thumble Rooskey specializes in trick plays. Oh, Travis, you've been called out. All of fame confidence levels. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah. The shotgun. Oh, that's actually pretty good shotgun. Oh, they're a very strange dangerous hungry dog energy and almost no volume control. Team interns gone wild excels in workplace distraction, corporate synergy and looking productive during complete chaos. Team the rebuild here. Specializes in a birthday gift. I love the tears. Optimism and continuing to believe. That's woman's hammered. She is hammered. This is great. Awesome creativity. Clearly she wants to come and she's willing to put in the energy and effort to making an awesome video. We don't know what your team name is going to be. I regret to inform you, Travis cannot attend, so he will not be there. I think unfortunately this year I'm going to be subjected to announcing beer bowl and Brandon and Jager are going to be instrumental in doing the beer bowl as well. So you still need to find a partner, but I do love where you're started and we will have a place for you. For everyone else, keep submitting those videos. We look forward to seeing your submissions. I think this is going to be the best year I really do. I think we finally are starting to iron this out. It's going to be a spectacle. You're going to want to be there. All right. I can't wait to see how hammered everyone is. All right. Last thing, space is filling up if you want to come to the new heights live in Los Angeles June 15th. So check the link in the description and if you want to attend do this ASAP, we cannot fucking wait. It's going to be fun. All of our live shows have been absolutely electric. And I, like I said, I keep saying a week after week. I'm going to shoot Jason in the face with a T-shirt cannon. I mean, I got quick hands. I feel like I can catch it. All right. That's it for new news. Brought to you by American Express. Thank you to our presenting sponsor, Adobe Acrobat with new features and PDF spaces teams can bring inputs into one AI powered workspace for faster prep. That's right. Brandon, get in here. 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But I think I like that we're advertising it this way. Is he gonna be back? That man's working his ass off. I know that all right That's a very corporate answer and fine. We'll accept it Monday September 14th because the Denver Broncos the the chiefs will be playing on Monday night ESPN and ABC at 715 p.m. I believe that's probably central time. They also will be prime time week two Sunday night on NBC against the Indianapolis Colts Also had an outstanding season last year back-to-back prime time games. Then you're slotting in for that one o'clock against the Miami Dolphins Miami and September let's fucking go. Well, let's talk about this. That's it. I think week five is the earliest buy you can get right? Yeah We're always week five a week eleven. I think we yeah, so I like I like the late I always like the late buys better, but How do you feel about the early buy it is what you do? Yeah, you know, and it's been a little bit different I actually don't mind the when I get the buys at this point. Obviously you early on in my career. We didn't play as many prime time games But this year if you look at later on in this schedule like closer to late November In December we have some some big prime time games We have a little bit of a buy after Thursday December 3rd. So there's there's gonna be some opportunities to get some time off The biggest difference of this year's schedule that it's kind of blowing my mind is It kind of starts a week late and we played two games in January, which is very different I feel like I've only ever played one game. Usually this one game Yeah, it's kind of the way the cookie crumble sometimes that is kind of rare I agree usually it's only one game and then you're into the playoffs. The Super Bowl is February 14th, which is all Times day. Yeah, little Valentine's Day. I don't think I could ever remember it being I don't know That late in February. I'm just like in my mind. I'm like is what's going on? Do I is it is it just kind of how The month of September starts here. I feel like we're always like in a single digit For the first game of the year in September and now we're September 14 I feel like I remember Valentine's Day being close to the Super Bowl again another year on it because I remember It being big news from men to be watching the Super Bowl on Valentine's Day. I think I remember that I feel like I always remember Valentine's Day being like the NBA all-star weekend. Yeah, I mean the schedules changed now. There's 17 games There's 18 weeks eventually. There's gonna be 18 games This whole thing is gearing up for the Super Bowl to be on that president's day weekend that they keep talking about Which would be the following week or two weeks after that And if they add in a buy whatever Right now you guys do get a little help with those Thursday games back-to-back later in the season week 12 week 13 Bill's is that Thanksgiving of every 26? Yes, Bill's this Thanksgiving night up there in Buffalo in that beautiful new stadium. They got Nice nice, so that'll be electric obviously pat my homes in Josh Allen There's always an instant classic band so that'll be a fun one on NBC and then we follow up with the our Thursday night game on Amazon Out there in Los Angeles How about that? How about that? I want to play Maddie Stafford in the in the Rams. Go from New York to LA Yeah, then get a nice little minibies what they call that after the Thursday game and take on your long Rivals at this point the Cincinnati Bengals Joe burrow. Hopefully we'll be back in full effect those four games right there I'm really five six seven damn. Do we got a nice little stretch? In in November to finish off the season and Playing a lot of big-time games, man. I can see all those games being meaningful. No Christmas day game this year You will have Christmas to be able to celebrate with family. Yeah after after we go out and practice have a nice It'll be Friday. They'll be fast Friday practice All righty. Well, how do you feel about the six-pride time games? A lot of us being made of the schedule the streaming services A lot of people with the Eagles fanbase is upset about The net rest days if you heard about this net rest days Am I saying this right Brandon? Yeah, net rest is the like difference between you and your opponent in terms of average Rest day so some teams on average will be more rested than who they play some teams Go ahead It's it thoughts about how much rest anybody gets figured that was the answer. There we go Well, I mean, apparently it's it is a big deal though facing teams that have more rest than you do I mean it's been shown show and they've proven they've been proving it through numbers and stuff nice There you go Everyone gets a Thursday night game and I believe Not everyone gets a Monday or Sunday night, but the Thursday games everyone gets one of those which means you have a short week and you have a longer week after that I think that's fair. I don't I don't really buy into you know the net rest and all that man the schedule is there Obviously the the you know, you have to be fortunate in the NFL to stay as healthy as possible It is what it is that's half of the battle and the fortune that comes in with the NFL season is being able to Stay healthy or if you do get banged up get healthy by the next week and I think it's it's just a part of the Fucking NFL, you know madness y'all is and and I don't think anybody's at a disadvantage That's what I thought to until I saw this net rest What was the net? What was the number one team that was disadvantaged by this Brandon it was shocking how many more days Their opponents get than they did for rest so the Chicago Bears their opponents are they're going to be facing opponents this year and have an Plus 15-day rest differential meaning Their opponents throughout the season will have 15 more days of rest than they will. I feel like that number feels high You know what I mean all the way around they'll have the bears will be go to the mind is more rested Yeah, go to the minus is the Charters that was the one minus because I was about to say the Eagles are high in this category as well They're right there. Yeah, that's where I feel like once you start getting Like to a certain point it feels like that's probably a little bit much But and then the other thing EOS fans are upset about is a Christmas Eve game, but like you just say that's a Thursday game and it's Christmas Yeah, the Christmas Eve game everybody's upset about in Philly. There's just the way the Thursday game fell this year, right? Why are they upset about a Christmas Eve game because Christmas Eve you're supposed to be with family people don't want to like spend time thinking about the football On Christmas Eve I get it I do but at the same time this is the way I mean the first I don't know why I don't know why I'm hard Press to believe that that's not the majority. I think Chris for some reason Christmas Eve I feel like the birds fans and fill the Philadelphia's are going to get excited For a game like that. I don't know. I don't know why I'm like Maybe I'm catching that wrong. I think Christmas Eve for some reason at night feels like That is like prime time where you're with the family. You're getting everything ready the presents are getting ready to put under the tree By Santa so I think it's a big you're at the house watching the game, but there's The Thursdays are sold from Amazon, so it's not like they can move somebody's gonna be on that Thursday His Amazon's about to write the Thursday and this is where as players you get used to playing on holidays You just realizing that's part of the gig. Yeah, I don't know why I'm like that's the you're gonna be at home getting ready for Christmas the next day watching The birds play football. I feel like that's like a bonding family experience I like the holiday games. We've been on record is that I like I love the holiday games I like watching Christmas with the family. You get to watch some football Thanksgiving you get to watch the football all of this is just people aren't getting frustrated with the league in general There's more streaming platforms that are There are costing fans money to watch the games It's harder to watch their every game you want of your team than it's been in a long time or ever You know, I think there's more international games you had JJ Wat talking about he had this tweet International games late is nearing the realm of traveling circus as opposed to occasional showcase I mean, I get what he's saying. It is the one area still trying to grow the game internationally I'd like the international games and I've always liked playing in them. I love the international games But as a fan it's gonna take a home game away from somebody well that it's taken now It's taking away the home game for the age of the night. Yeah Yes, thank you. Thank you either way. I think the international games are a blast. I think you That NFL is smart by You know Visiting new new countries new cities and building countries that are fans of the game like there's at this point There's a bunch of games in London and They have a big hunger to see the game with football played right American football. I guess as they would call it Yeah, I was over in Dublin last year for the game in Ireland awesome experience Ireland was Fucking loving the game and it was at a awesome park. Oh my gosh It's like a historic Stadium that's in Dublin. Yeah, I'm not gonna do it any justice anyways And we have a bunch more way obviously the first game in Australia is happening in Melbourne Another game in Rio de Janeiro Paris Kylie and I love Paris. Oh my gosh Madrid Munich who doesn't love going to Germany. I've never been you didn't that was one you actually said you didn't like as much Is that fair to say? You said you didn't like the food. It was too many tubular meats. Well time out
- Wow, that's, I just don't like sausages. I never said anything like the schnitzels. The schnitzels were delicious. - The schnitzels are good. - Yeah, I've had a bunch of fun out there in Germany. - I'm very fair enough. - And I'll say they have their pilsners are very smooth. - I do think, this is the one thing that I feel like the NFL needs to hold onto that. I feel like we're starting to drift away from. - What's that? - I don't think we're there yet. Sunday is the day of football, right? Outside of going to church in the morning, if you're still religious and you do that. Sunday is like where so many games happen and that's what you grow up and you gear your entire week around watching football on Sunday. - Yeah. - It's an institution at this point, the NFL playing games on Sunday. With every day that we keep adding in there, we're getting away from that just a little bit. And I worry that I think the game got big. One of the reasons it got so popular and big was because all of the game, it was an event. Sunday is the NFL and everybody set their week apart to tune into their games that were happening on Sunday. And you're watching kind of all of them now take place across the, I mean Sunday ticket, right? I worry that we're getting away from that just a little bit by building too many of this. - Well, all the international games are on Sunday, except for the first one. - Right, correct. I'm not, this is an international game. - Sunday morning. - I think I'm more talking about the Christmas Eve game now. The Thanksgiving Eve, there's a Wednesday game now before Thanksgiving. - Everybody's sitting around. What do I get in, I'm just saying. - That's the house. - I'm just saying, one of the things. - I don't think that'll ever change. I hear what you're saying, but I think they're very, they're very few far in between outside of the holidays. That is, there's not just like a random Wednesday game in September. I just looked at our schedule, we got four games that aren't on Sunday, and we probably have the higher end of that, not playing on Sunday. - For sure, right? - Yeah, it's not there yet, but it's close, and to some people it probably is there. - I think it's awesome, man. I honestly do, as somebody who's played on Christmas, who's played on Christmas Eve, or played on Thanksgiving Eve, Thanksgiving's played, you know, in a lot of like, awkward, short, weak moments, I think it's fun, man. And I don't think it's, you know, as taxing as it may seem, because it's the NFL, man, you're living out your dream. You're gonna get, if there's a chance to play on a fucking prime time game, which all these one-off games are that aren't on Sunday, I'm fucking getting so excited for those opportunities, man, because those are the opportunities you really get to show yourself. - The schedule is appearing to go in that, continue to go in that direction, right? - NFL owners are voting Tuesday, that's a day before you guys seeing this, on whether to increase the international slate from eight to 10 games per year. Again, I like the international games, and as somebody who likes to travel, it's fun to go see the games in another country, you tie it in, has a full trip, I get that everybody can't do that, I get it takes away the home game, but I like it, and I like that as a player, but I get it's not for everybody. The prime time games are continuing to get up. Five teams have zero prime time games. Have you looked at this? Don't look, don't look, don't look, can you guess? - No. - All right, I won't look. Can I guess? - You look. - Jets, Arizona. - Jets, Arizona. - I knew that Jets were on it. - Yeah, yeah. - I mean, I would say Cleveland, but I don't think that's right. - That was not. - Oh my gosh, who else do I not think? Jets? - Top five. - Top five takes this year. - No, yeah, that's right. That's pretty much what it comes on. Jets, dolphins, Raiders, Arizona. - Yep, and one more. - One more? - Yep. - I can't think who is it? - Titans. - Titans. All righty, well, the Los Angeles Rams are in the Kansas City Chiefs era with seven prime time games. Got Green Bay, KC, Buffalo, and Seattle, all type of six. Philly is gonna come in with five, as well as Dallas, Chicago, New England, San Fran. 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Let's get it going, Brandon, let's see what we got. - First game, rank 'em one through 10, as they come up. - Kip. - Falcons at Saints, week four, Monday night football. A lot of people speculating this would be the 20 year dome coming anniversary game. That would be the 20 years when the Saints came back to the Super Dome after Katrina. - I'll let Trav rank this one because I feel like I have too much, what is it when you recuse yourself because you have a. - Come on. This is gonna be electric. - This is, yeah. - Oh no, I think, I don't know. - I don't know. - Rival repurposes, this will be an electric game, yes. I think this will be an incredible atmosphere if this is what this is. - I'm not gonna put it down for football reasons, which is fine, this is why we play the game. - Yeah, I was gonna say in terms of excitement for football, I'm not a big fan of like. - The Saints ended the year pretty hot. I'm not like, I think there's some excitement to this game, but knowing what's coming later, I don't know the least. - I'm probably gonna put this at 10. - I was about to say 9 or 10. It's gonna go maybe 9 just because maybe there's some, a game worse in this year on this. - I mean, you're probably gonna have to give me like, and I understand it's my night football. - Well, I might be electric, but that's all right. It's why I play the game. - Saints ended the season hot last year. I actually am looking forward to seeing how they progress in Kalamore second year. - Falcons, I mean, they still have B-john, so it'll be a, I mean, that guy's always fun to watch play. - I just don't, I don't know if I've ever been so distant from a rivalry in the NFL. Like, I've never, I can't remember getting excited for a Saints Falcons game. - There's real hatred here. - All right, well. - All right, let's see if we go now. - Let's go now, let's go now. - Let's go nine, go nine, okay. Next game, Packers at Bears, Christmas. - Christmas, I mean, Jesus, I have friends. - I'm gonna give.
pretty fucking pump for this one. - I just, there's actual hatred. There's like Ben Jackson is the fool for hate each other. What goes better like as a backdrop for the most joyous holiday of all time, than with pure hatred? I'm gonna go, I mean, listen, it's hard for me to not go with an Eagles game as number one, or a Chiefs game as number one. I'm very much looking forward to this game. - I'm talking about this, let's go three. Just say three, just say three. - Side three. - Side three. - Three, interesting, okay. Bears at Lions, Thanksgiving. - I mean, it's another good one. Obviously you got the Ben Johnson, Dan Campbell. I mean, the NFC North has got some freaking bangers. - They're gonna have a bunch of those, yeah. I'll say Thanksgiving. - I'm gonna put it below. I'm more excited for the Packers game, but I am very excited for this game. I'll go forward. - I'll give it a six. I'll give it a six. - Six? Oh, I was looking forward more than that, all right. - Lions, it builds week two. This will be the Bill's new stadium opening day. It'll be big pop and circumstance, but I don't know about the football. - So time, the last one, do we go six, or do we go five or four, what do we do for that one? - Sounds like you want to go five, so we can-- - No, no, no, I'm genuinely asking what brand to put, because if you said you put it down for six, I'll put this one in five. - You think this one's more exciting, all right? - I'm excited about the new stadium, and I'm happy that the Bill's kept the stadium outdoor. So I actually am very much looking forward to this game. - Definitely pumped on the new stadium. - So we're at right now. We have Packers, Bears, Christmas at three, Bears at five, Lions, Thanksgiving at six, Falcon Saints at nine. Okay, we'll go back. - You could have just said we put the game at six, and we would be further-- - I was finding out myself. Lions at Bill's week two. - Five, he just said, right? - Okay. - Patriots at Seahawks, week one. - I mean, I know it's a super building match. - They're doing that week one. - They've done this before, where week one is a superbow rematch. I don't know why I'm not, I mean, I'm not as excited about this game, even though it's a superbow rematch. - Yeah, I feel like Seahawks lost a lot of key pieces. - The pets, I don't know why they're obviously a fucking great team, but it's not like exciting. - I don't feel like the Patriots and Seahawks are like a huge rivalry. That's what it comes down to. Like I don't, and I guess the Lions Bill's isn't either, but the Lions Bill's, at least there's like a stadium happening. There's a superbow rematch, but like, I mean, the Seahawks dominated the game. It's not like we're seeing like some like Barnburn or like redone. This is like Mike Tyson knocking somebody out in the first round and we're gonna see that run back again. I mean, I don't know. - Yeah, I mean, I can see the pets winning in. I'm probably, do you want to go eight? - I feel like it's a superbow rematch. This feels a little disrespectful to pets and Seahawks fans. I'm just not that geared up about it. I don't know. - All right. - Do you want me to go eight? - Yeah, eight times. - I want to go 10. - Eight sounds good. - Chiefs at Bill's Thanksgiving. - Come home, baby. New stadium. - This is one or two for me. - Now, right now. - The nightcap on what triple hitter Thanksgiving? - I don't know Philly's schedule, but I'm gonna say this is probably, this is number one for me, baby. - Because you are still playing in the actual game Travis, I will defer to you and we can put this as one. - All right, put it as one. - Ooh, our number one. Cowboys and Eagles Thanksgiving. - Now, I feel like can we revert? Can I have takes back seats? Can I have takes you back seats? - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I mean, listen, I'm really geared up about this. I mean, the Cowboys are unfortunately a very good team. They've made a lot of adjustments. Offensively, they're really good. Defensively, they're getting better. - It's such a funny phrase. - You're unfortunately a good team. - So I'll go, I'll go to, I'll go to. - Yeah, I mean, yeah, one, two. - One of the biggest rivalries. - It's gonna be so good. - Yeah. - NFL did such a great job with Thanksgiving this year. All right. - Yep. - Rams at Seahawks, week 16, Christmas. - See, this is what's weird. I'm more excited about this game than I am for the Patriots Seahawks game, right? - Yeah. - I'm with you. - Like, these games were so close last year. Either of these teams could have won in that NFC championship and I think they probably. - And it's Christmas. - Don't forget about Christmas. I kind of want to go for, too high too soon. - High, I mean, it's our own thing. - It's either seven or four, seven four. We have four, seven and 10. - I know. - Seven would still put it above the, the shoe ball rematch. Do you want to go seven? - Yeah, I think seven is nice. - All right, seven. - Back to Seahawks at Rams Week 18. - Cool trick. - Such an ass. - Cool trick. - I do like, come on. - Come on. - I do, I do like, I do like that we shit last week. - I do like that we put the Rams at Seahawks at seven so that we could put the Seahawks at Rams at 10 because the better game is definitely in Seattle. - So, and on Christmas. All right, cool. - I don't know, but we, but Week 18 could be a massive playoff probably. I think they did this on purpose and I think Week 18, this could settle one division in maybe like the conference. I agree, I agree, but I'm not putting it in four. - It's always gonna be a divisional game. So they made it worth our while for sure. - I love that they did this to him too. - You might have just talked me into, do we go four? - Stop. - Ravens at Steelers Week 15. First meeting since the Ravens, I missed a fuel goal to give the pit, the North title. - I don't know, man, NFC, I AFC North, man. I fucking like this. It's Steelers, Steelers, Ravens are up there with fucking Eagles and. - First of all, I don't know about that. The Ravens haven't been a team long enough to declare that, but they are a big rivalry. The AFC North, I love AFC North football. - Week 15, late in the season, playoff implications will be there. - I mean, there's only one more spot. They have to be four, right? - Yeah, they're four and I like this. I like this a lot. - I wish we were lower. - Did we get 10? Did I fuck up, not put 10 on here? - No, we got 10. - No, it's 100%. - Okay, there we go. This is our final rankings. How do we feel looking at it? - I love it. - Unless I think Ravens Steelers is too high. I think it's nine of those teams. - It's nine of those 18 at 10 is so big. - That's what I'm saying. - Neither of those teams, what? Neither of those teams were that competitive last year. So like, yeah, I like watching those two teams play. The Ravens and Seahawks were not, well, the Ravens and Steelers, like I like them. I love the fan bases. I love all that, but to say that's number four, until they prove that they can get like Lamar back. I like Jesse Minner. Like, I'm excited to watch the game, but to say it's the fourth game I'm excited about, I don't love that. I would have, I'm much more truthfully excited about the Seahawks and Rams games. - I'm probably also. - But AFC Northerner in me is saying, I'm more excited for that rivalry out in the way. - I don't want to get it. We grew up AFC North. - Yeah. - I also think Bears and Lions should be above it. - This is blind ranking. This is why we blind rank. It makes it fun. - Us having the 10th game of Seattle against the Rams, week 18 in this blind ranking. He's gonna come up. - People are gonna give us some shit about it. We're gonna get some comments. - We're gonna get a week 18 big matchup there. And it's gonna be a, turns out this is the game of the fucking year with all the balls on it. - People are gonna remember this list and come back to it. - All right, let's stamp it. Let's stamp it and see how we're doing at the end of the year. - Stamp it, we'll get, stamped. - And that does have a bold topics brought to you by Reese's. You gotta love those peanut butter cups. Chocolate peanut butter cups. - All right, he's time for No-Dum questions. No-Dum questions is brought to you by Sleep Number. - See what David Pitner has to say over on X, despite NFL efforts to avoid it, teams occasionally play a regular season opponent in preseason. This year, the chiefs play the Rams and the Seahawks, two marquee mashups, preseason and regular season. How does this affect preseason game planning in play? I'll tell you what, I've never had this happen. And this kind of ironic thing's happened, really. Not that I can remember. Maybe once we played like Green Bay, I think in the preseason. But to have two games like this is blowing my mind right now. So we play both of them in the preseason and these are like two of the best teams in the league. And I'd like to think that the chiefs is one of the best teams in the league. So I think these are like essentially four games where we're gonna see these guys. So I always thought the preseason games were kind of one-offs came that you don't really see the other opponent during the season. - Definitely the way it usually is for sure. And I don't know why this year I get two of the best teams in the league in preseason. I would assume that it will kind of change the game planning, but more so, the guys won't play in every single game. - I feel like when we did this, before I think we did this with the Steelers one year, maybe the Jets another year. 'Cause the Steelers and Jets are like just two teams we always played in the preseason. We always play like our last preseason game almost every time against the Jets. And then we would always have a Steelers game usually. And a couple of times we did play them in the regular season and you just end up, I mean, you're not showing anything in these preseason games anyways. Like you're doing a very rundown vanilla offense. You're not doing specific plays that you would try to run against these guys in the regular season. You're just kind of doing generic things. - Yeah, you're talking me wrong. You're still trying to win the game. But more so, you're just trying to get your fundamentals in, you're trying to, you know, get lined up, see how the other teams presenting itself and getting in sync with the guys in a live situation. - It does seem like teams are doing more in pre, like defensive court and he has, I see running like zero blitz in preseason games now. And I see like them doing more chaotic stuff. What you used to like, - You used to get in the game with me. Like I remember Marty Morningway wanting to fight a defensive coordinator one time in the preseason because he did a blood zero. It's like an unspoken rule that you aren't gonna do a lot of that stuff both. - I've never heard of that rule. - That's absolutely, it's not a rule anymore. - I feel like I've seen it.
it more so towards the end of games, if the game means like the game is coming down to the wire with the young guys in there because you you sense I want to see how a quarterback reacts. I want to see how players go up and make plays in that situation to get them ready for a live, you know, in season moment when the bullets are really flying. So in terms of planning and play, I just think it's it's obviously going to be different just because it's the preseason. The other thing is if you have a joint practice, usually you won't do a joint practice with the team that you're playing. Like I haven't almost, I don't think I've ever seen that. Maybe I'm wrong. I thought that's what you do. You go, oh, you're talking about joint practice with somebody you play during the season. Correct. Nice. That's one that I feel like is because you are showing, usually that's why the coaches like to joint practices is they feel a little bit more willing to do some of the things that they've been working on and you're going to you're going to show a little bit more because it's not nationally broadcasts in the practice, although coaches do talk. They do be talking. I do think I feel like that would be something I would avoid for sure if I was I was playing the team in the regular season. All right. Do we want to do one more? Yeah, let's do it. All right. This one is one of your top three favorite schedule release phase. I'm not going to lie. We do not watch schedule release videos. Did hear that mom was a part of Kansas City, so shut up mom. Oh, shut up mom. mascots. Which NFL teams mascot would survive the longest to wait if mascots had to play one down in real football, which NFL teams mascot would survive the line? What does that fucking mean? And which one would instantly regret its life choices? So which one would dominate the most in which one would get killed? That's what I'm taking away, shout out to Tyler Garmin for the tweet. Right off the bat, the one that's the most reckless with like the the Peewee games is the Colts. Oh, dude. I'm all in on big blue. I think him doesn't the Jaguars guy like zip line in. He does some gnarly shit. The Jaguars mascot does do some very cool stuff. Casey Wolf is a goofball and I fucking love him. Yeah. I'll throw him up there. Not necessarily intimidating, but definitely not he's not going to be a little bitch. Same with swoop. I'll go swoop on that as well. You know who I think is going to get just I don't know part of this just is like the animal that it represents. I feel like the Cardinals just going to get absolutely obliterated. I mean, this thing is a little baby bird. The one that's going to last the longest is big blue. He's showing the most recklessness of all the mascots. Here we go. No. Oh, yeah. Look at this highlight. Yeah. Yeah. Just really that's a hell. Oh. Yeah. This kids is. Oh, nice. Get him. Get him. Team fight. Team fight. Oh. Oh. Look at the Viking coming in. I would have had so much fun if this was a real thing and. Yeah. I think one of the little kids might have ripped it off or did he take it off? Yeah. Oh, I got ripped off. Nice. That's a good move. It's a good move by two. That does it for no dumb questions brought to you by sleep number reminder. You can pre order our no dumb questions book on Kelsey Clubhouse right now right now and that wraps up another episode. New Heights reminder there are still tickets available to new Heights live show in LA on June 15th. Check out the link in the description and make sure you're subscribed to new Heights channel on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Once again, new Heights of Wonder Show brought to you by Adobe Acrobat. You're going to want to download that after it's going to make your life a whole lot easier. Follow the show on all social media at new Heights show with 1s for fun clips throughout the week. We're going to have a few. I'm sure. And thanks to the new Heights production team for always making us look better than who we are. And always thank you to those 92% as we'll see you guys next week. Peace. All right, let's move on. That's enough schedule talk. Well, we've, okay, sorry to be a dick here, but we kind of covered a lot of these. Um, yeah, fuck, we already kind of answered all these questions. Ha. Well, I mean, it is. It is. That's because you're looking at two dumbasses, Brandon. We think we think of the dumb questions, we, we want to be fair. The questions weren't like that wild. Um, let's ask AI a dumb question. No. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced 1 to 1? What? 22, 30, 30 Brandon, are you understanding what he's saying? Oh God, damn it. I get it now. Yeah, I took that, did not connect that fucking boomerang around the room for a minute. Jesus. I got it. If you're in a boat in the middle of a lake and you throw an anchor overboard, does the lake get deeper? Yeah, it's got, right? No. I mean, yeah, but like by fraction in perceptible amount, yeah, it's got to go up like, you're adding something to the volume of the lake. Wait, but no, it doesn't because the anchor is already factored into the buoyancy in the boat, right? That weight is already in the boat. So it's already displaced. So the boat's already pushing down on the top of the water, moving the water out. And the anchor was in the boat and when you move the anchor from the boat in, it just kind of nets out. Right? I think that's how that works. I wish I wasn't stupid. That's actually a pretty good one. It's pretty good.
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