The Best Thanksgiving Side Dish, Dry Ass Turkey & Is Halloween the New Christmas? | Heights Hotline

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plus or wherever you get your podcast and follow the show on all social media at new heights show with one s and jason is now going to tell you what exactly you get in this bonus episode that's right welcome to today's bonus episode that's right maybe you're here because you stumbled across us on your phone or internet all right man or whatever your device is maybe you're here to see travis kelsey or listen to his voice just maybe you're here to listen to some holiday hot takes from some of the 92 percenters call-ins and other shenanigans about holidays and hot takes all right here we go um all right we got a few options the bold ones seem to be the ones that they prefer us talking about i say you just go ahead and hit the bold ones all right holiday halloween better than christmas i can already know this is not accurate hey this is thaddeus from kansas city that is great name my holiday hot take is that halloween is actually a better holiday just better all-around vibes you get to spook kids and uh play pranks and christmas is cool and all but uh halloween's the best all right take it easy it's a hot take i mean he does share your love of scaring children it's a very hot take unless i love halloween it's great i'm very on board with halloween you can spook kids in christmas too that's the thing about spooking is that you can spook kids whenever yeah christmas is the greatest holiday on the planet there's not even there's not even something that compares to it yeah i'm just there's just nothing that gets like people happy like christmas does it moves the stock market that's how like influential it is like consumer products this is so ingrained into our culture and so like unanimously i knew jewish people that celebrated christmas don't don't say who they are because then they will be fine they'll be frowned upon i think it's pretty commonplace at this point i think i bet if you it's it's it's it's gone beyond religion at this point it's like so ingrained into american culture and it comes down to family giving the holiday spirit like all of it like it's just you know it's a fantastic holiday and i love halloween but i mean it couldn't sniff a fart of christmas to be don't give you two weeks off on halloween that's right that alone it's remarkable it's a hot take it's a very bad take all right next one yeah it's tough thaddeus though great name great name horrible take on christmas this guy was getting cold for presents every year i just the joy that christmas gives you just seeing the decorations going to christmas parties the thanks the joy of seeing another person open a present you give them like what is this going to be it's underrated like i just don't know that there's any i i'm trying to think in like what world somebody would think how halloween is better and the only thing that makes sense is that their parents gave them a shitty christmas like i don't know what else don't you put that on thaddeus's parents i'm definitely putting that on thaddeus's parents that's the only possible way thaddeus thinks that is that his parents gave him a shitty christmas uh he's just got to see it clear he's got he's got candy vision he's got spooky vision he's just got to see it for what it is but halloween has i mean christmas has candy too candy canes you hate candy canes i love candy canes what you don't like candy corn candy corn is shit yes exactly the the candy that represents halloween and the candy that represents christmas is night and day better for christmas they don't they don't make a christmas reese's yes they do it's a christmas trees yeah they make them yeah that that's not a stop it's the same you put candy in the stocking it's basically the same thing but you don't have to walk to other strangers houses you just get them from your loved ones nice thaddeus you're kind of right though christmas candies now i'm kind of with thaddeus if i'm just going to be honest i'm kind of with that isn't this one apparently brandon's parents gave him a shitty christmas as well as oh god this is a failure anybody who thinks halloween is better than christmas their parents have failed them i had a into a halloween guy in my in my old age uh i don't know how that halloween's fine but it's no it doesn't hold a candle to christmas what were you what were you this year brandon me oh we did it one battle after another i was benicio del toro i was sensei oh that's right i saw that lauren was in dicaprio yeah great costume the dog was uh sean penn from that movie great costume have you ever tried to put a wig on a dog on christmas see that's a halloween thing thank you to our partner gillette all right now jason you've been retired for a full year uh let's talk pre-game rituals do you miss them still have them i kind of have one i guess for monday night countdown like i kind of i go do the production meeting then i kind of iron out what's happening in the rundown then i go to the makeup lady then i go to the hair and uh then i go on set just curious to see if you were putting that same game day energy into your uh new broadcasting routine that's all well first and foremost it includes making sure that this beard is in the right place and that it's in the right place is looking real nice which is finally starting to show some of my grades again after dying it i'm getting those natural colors back thank you thanks so much um but yeah i have a some some grooming individuals that make sure it's looking nice and tidy if you were looking for a tool to help wrangle it in a little bit look no further than gillette labs nfl licensed razor special edition razors have those long-lasting gillette razors and they're going to make sure that they're going to make sure that they're going to blades and the precision trimmer on the back it's perfect for cleaning up this guy nice i hear it's a must-have for nfl fans this season and clearly you too sold available now in 12 teams including the eagles and chiefs get 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wrong with a bucket of chicken a good game or movie or just some good times with friends and family everybody's gonna love it if you show up to a thanksgiving meal with extra crispy chicken from kfc people are gonna love you especially a bucket of it if you come with a bucket of extra crispy fried chicken from kfc you're gonna get some thank yous this year skip the turkey and celebrate with kfc's extra crispy chicken how do you show i would like to eat give an extreme hot take to the damn season and that is turkey is one of the worst dishes on thanksgiving of all time hard agree it's so dry and people who like it just so weird thank you listen i'm full this is why i fry turkey i it's hard to eat turkey unless it's deep fried and like you know boiled in fat grease we never had turkey we agree we we purposely never had turkey mom would make pork chops or some other meat i love everything else about well i take that back i love most of the turkey i love most of the turkey i love most of the turkey i love most of other things about thanksgiving fair right i'm a big mashed potatoes guy i'm a big corn guy collie makes a badass green bean casserole fucking love that dish um mama kelsey dinner rolls like everything else about thanksgiving is so fantastic and then it gets kind of muddled down with for the most part the way most people make it a dry ass bird that you gotta splatter gravy and cranberry sauce on to redeem anything about it i mean it's just the honest you gotta fry it you gotta fry it or you gotta be in that thing non-stop injecting it with like you gotta fry it or you gotta fucking spatchcock that sucker there you go spatchcock it yeah or or what you haven't tried yet it's turducken you gotta stuff that thing with the duck you're right i have not tried the turducken but i'm very in on it the premise of it sounds incredible what um i'm out um what else was oh the other thing that i don't um pumpkin pie is okay but i think it's also commonplace for a lot of people maybe i'm wrong on this apple pie around thanksgiving i'll go on this apple pie it's got to be the most overrated dessert on the fucking history of top shelf desserts it's got to be there's got to be a fuck ton of cinnamon in that thing it's got to be a fuck ton of cinnamon and butter and i got a fucking that's got to overpower the apple i'm just not apple pie just doesn't i like ice cream so like when you put it with ice cream i'll do it that's the thing that's a another thing i am definitely more of a cake guy than a pie guy although um steve and cookies down the shore they make a mean blueberry pie it is fucking incredible see blueberry pie different type of pie and this is they do it weird to it like isn't as like i guess like jello-y you know what i mean like a lot of the pie is like a texture thing that i just don't really warm fruit doesn't make me excited i like cold fruit noted i'm trying to think there are pies that i like though pumpkin pie is not bad pumpkin pie is not bad pumpkin pie is not bad pumpkin pie is not bad key lime is the only key lime cold fruit key limes a cold pie cold pie key lime pie is the closest thing to like cheesecake that i'll ever have i feel like raspberries would be good in a pie it's got to have a little bit more like tartness for it to be good apples just don't bring that like note that really makes me enjoy it that much i need something in the inside that doesn't just like give me like a comp you know i mean like a like a like a comp you know i'm talking about come i think it's c-o-m-p-t-e is what you're thinking about there it is yeah but it's is it compote it's compote c-o-m-p-o-t-e right there you go i think it's i think i know either way i don't like that that stuff i'm out on i don't mind if it's cold i just there's something about the warmness of pie that i'm just out desserts i don't like warm desserts were you ever uh uh apple that's not true that's not true i'll take that back uh what were you ever a caramel apple guy no i don't like it i like apples i will eat an apple by itself i don't like caramel i'm not a big like dressing i like apple and peanut butter i'll throw some peanut butter on that apple so you don't like caramel is what you're saying i like caramel on certain things i just don't really the other thing is like a caramel apple for me with a beard to eat is just like sounds like the biggest disaster of all time like it's gonna be fucking everywhere i'm not yeah yeah you could cut it up i suppose i just like i like caramel in certain things i like caramel with chocolate i don't like caramel with apple no all right nice noted yeah anyways i don't know where that even yeah so yes we agree turkey sucks all right sweet potatoes let's go let's hear it okay so my thanksgiving holiday hot take is that sweet potatoes have no place in the thanksgiving menu um whipped mac uh roasted they are just the least of the least they're the worst thing on the table maple syrup it just it's a dessert yeah you're you're right to uh pumpkin pie already trying to watch your calories put a marshmallow on top put a meringue both but you don't need sweet potatoes on your menu you've got you could do roasted root vegetables you can do your mac roasted root vegetables other things carrots honey glazed carrots i'm in on honey glazed carrots now you're just getting carrots to dessert you basically in a whole bunch of savory stuff you're not gonna put your gravy over your sweet potatoes you're not gonna you know take a brussels sprout and dip it in your sweet potato this is weird you can't he's all over the place or anything it's got marshmallows maple syrup and uh that's it it's it's wrong it should not be on a uh thanksgiving table um that's that's my best hot take well you're wrong sweet potatoes and marshmallows and freaking i think potatoes and sweet potatoes both you don't need to have one or the other and sweet potato fries if somebody made sweet potato fries i'd be fucking jazzed personally i don't understand the roasted root vegetable like this guy walks fucking where the fuck he's the uh that is you want to talk about a hot take you want beets in here like what are we talking about and then he said like you can't you can't candy up the sweet potato but you can have candied carrots with honey glaze on them listen if you gave me the choice of honey glazed carrots or sweet potatoes i'd be fucking jazzed i'd be fucking jazzed i'd be fucking jazzed there's a marshmallow on him i'm taking the sweet potatoes a marshmallow all day some roasted honey carrots are good though man i don't i'm not in on the honey carrots dude i got you yeah no carrots when they get roasted they just get mushy they get too mushy for me no you still gotta have that crunch a little bit but it's hard yeah if it has if it's cooked perfectly i could do it yeah but i just i prefer carrot cake that's how i prefer my carrots see now we're talking green cheese i didn't know you were a carrot cake guy next time you're in the city i got a place dude get these little carrot cupcakes and make you feel like you're not doing too much i'm not a big frosting guy the only reason i think i like carrot cake is because of the cream cheese frosting dude i got the place it's good it's so good the place for you like what do we make an apple pie for just put the carrots in there jack stack has one of the best carrot cakes ever dude it's so good that people like just like go in and get the carrot cake like cupcakes just so that they don't feel too bad about getting the entire fucking mammoth of a cake that that you could get there we have a couple spots around here that we'll go and specifically just get the carrot cake and then we'll eat it like two fatties all day it's the best the best and they do they just slab that fucking cheesecake uh icing on there it's so fucking good no doubt we're big um stocks people as well in philadelphia that's a big dessert one for us i don't know how we keep getting back desserts we keep getting back to desserts all right we're talking about sweet potatoes sweet potatoes are fine they're good they're fucking awesome i mean i don't know how we keep getting back to desserts we keep getting back to you can have sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes i don't think you have to differentiate between these two and i disagree like you can do sweet potatoes with marshmallows and the maple glaze and then at the end of the day you can have your dessert too like what do we we're not calorie counting on thanksgiving no that's not what we're doing here we're making the most delicious thing possible if that may be throwing marshmallows on top of it bring it on brother bring it on throw that shit on top throwing roasted root vegetables like that's fucking gonna get it done unless you're throwing fucking marshmallows this guy's coming with beets i don't even know if i'd like that yeah i don't even know i mean i like beets but that's if you like put it with goat cheese and smother a bunch of fucking salad dressing on it i just had a beat beer in las vegas it was like a beet sour it actually wasn't bad curiosity to know what shit tastes like it wasn't bad blows my mind the fact that you actually had i'm in a beat you'll draw you'll try any kind of fucking beer and it's absolutely disgusting you had you brought you gave me a fucking blueberry beer one time and i wanted to shoot myself probably great it was disgusting i like experimenting i like a little citrus lime or something or like a little garage beer lime i got you i like it i like a cider i'll drink a cider ciders i'm i'm not a big cider guy it's too much it's too sweet but beet beer was good it was it was okay i wouldn't want to drink a bunch of it but for one glass it was a unique flavor profile it had like a borscht soury kind of thing happening it was not all right that's all i got for his sweet potato take yeah the sweet potatoes i mean that was a rough take that was a rough take uh this is my last question coming from me just based on that conversation oh gosh really quick no though this is good this is good last question real quick what is the best thanksgiving side dish one two three go ready green bean casserole travis and cheese mac and cheese yeah okay i knew i knew it was more of a travis on this one i knew we were locked in the problem with mac and cheese is it's not no that's where you're wrong the problem there is no problem the end well here's the problem here's the problem if anything it's an everyday like not the way not the way you make it on thanksgiving yes it is you guys make it all the time you guys are like you guys are not just doing out of the box you do it i've had a bait a thousand times too yes like i don't it's not always out of the box i'm not green bean casserole is like an exclusive thing to thanksgiving really i mean pretty much not mine the sweet potatoes travis is having it every goddamn day i'm having it never travis is not having green bean casserole that's true i mean it's mac and cheese i'll go one step further mac and cheese the day after get that congealed i'll go one step further into mac and cheese is the most overrated dessert or a side item it's not i'm not a big mac and cheese guy travis has always been a mac and cheese guy i've never been a big so now we have canada mad at us we have the mac and cheese fans mad at us we're just going down it's okay i just think it's overrated it's not there's a thousand other things you can have cheesy and i would prefer i think when you get it just right and it's got like that baked crust that is yeah i hear you it's not bad if you get the crunchies to it get the crunchies it's good it's good you also can fuck it up real good too i've seen some people deliver some wet ass noodles it is not good i don't like shit too cheesy that green bean casserole goddamn i can't wait wait does kylie make that what's in this green bean what do you make on thanksgiving jason what do you help with i fry the turkey and kylie doesn't even eat that so i pretty much make a turkey for myself this guy's so fucking funny she doesn't trust me cooking this shit cooking it right what's in this casserole i believe i i could be wrong because i've never made it uh green beans are a component i believe it's um like this mushroom uh oh my gosh what's it called it's like a cream mushroom thing that's like the base of it yeah it's like a creamy texture with green beans and then it's got uh fried onions on top of it basically like it's across the board i think travis is not a big fan of green bean casserole i think when i was there i tried it just because i was appreciative and thankful like my dad always taught me but i'm looking at pictures of it i know travis is out on this this is the anti travis kelsey dish one thing we never had growing up that i'm a big fan of is cranberry sauce but kylie only likes the like canned cranberry sauce she's correct i don't like the canned cranberry sauce as much as i like like an actually made cranberry sauce yeah because canned isn't actually made well it's it's like more i like a fresh cranberry sauce made rather than a cranberry sauce that's i want to see the ridges i want to see the outlet i don't want to see the ridges i want to see the ridges brother i'm out on the ridges i want that thing to call them plopping out and don't even touch it just let it sit as a cylinder like spam yeah that's what it looks like let it be nasty all right so you like jello exactly that's what it is jello is technically cold fruit i always steered clear jello because it was always like hospital food that is a little weird i feel like pudding's more hospital food in my mind i would like eat the jello packs like they were fun dip but i wouldn't i wouldn't fucking i wouldn't i wasn't very very in on that's very funny just dipping your little finger like that's like a kool-aid play that's odd you would do that with jello packing you know what you know what that might be no i think it was jello i think it was jello i think you could technically do it jello too it's just sugar and fruit powder yeah little travis kelsey with just green ass fingers like i wonder what he's been doing all right that wraps up another edition of heights hotline that's right we'll have some more bonus content for you all in december so stay tuned for what that might be and now once again new heights a wondry show please follow the show on all social media at new heights show with one s and uh we give a big shout out and a thank you to our production crew for always making this so much easier and so much more fun than it could ever be and thank you to the 92 percenters for listening to us talk about absolutely nothing but kind of something all at the same time we love you guys happy thanksgiving you