Tickling Tonsils, Kiffin Drama & George Clooney on Pranks, Parenting & Jason's Batman | EP 168
1h 35m 7s
Travis and Jason Kelsey host a lively, freeform podcast episode blending humor, football analysis, and personal experiences. The conversation opens with a playful belly button competition at a tailgate, where Dom wins by refusing to wear a shirt, highlighting a fun tradition. They then reflect on the team’s current NFL season, emphasizing how close they’ve come to playoff contention despite losses due to critical mistakes, while praising their strong offensive production. A humorous segment features Jason’s failed attempt to fire a musket, illustrating the absurdity of early-20th-century weaponry. The hosts travel to Ireland for a road bowling experience, where they roll iron balls down the road, engage in betting, and bond over the game’s unique energy. They also share nostalgic moments at an Irish pub, where music and storytelling—like singing a *Ballad of Buster Scruggs* tune—create deep connections. The episode includes a thoughtful critique of modern children’s books, favoring classic stories that teach meaningful lessons. It concludes with a discussion on the NCAA’s coaching instability, using the hiring of Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss as a case study, highlighting how sudden coaching changes disrupt team continuity and fan morale. Throughout, the hosts maintain a light-hearted, conversational tone, celebrating both the absurdities and the emotional highs of football culture.
You were gonna do another oceans. - Why? - You guys were doing another one? - But yeah, now we're all. So it's gonna be like mostly just trying not to crap yourself. (laughing) - That wasn't really a bucket. That was an offensive lineman duck walk. Get the hips in there. I wish it would have been more of the bucket action. I don't think Dom was ready for it. - There wasn't much thrust in there. - Get this. He told me to S his D. - Did you just hear him? - I think that should be a 15-year penalty, sir. Is there an interim coach? - Bring Eli back, Eli. - Jason, I dig you, man. You're a hall of fame or Travis. You broke me, man. (laughing) - Did you take these big (beep) beaters you got? You put them into that chimino of the chest. I'm remembering you telling me to put my (beep) beaters in the chest. I'm a basket we've got myself. (laughing) - This is our greatest episode ever. - Welcome back to new highs. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the Wondry Show brought to you by Yeti. - Oh, yay, coolers, nice. And on everything else the Yeti makes now. - Oh my God, I love those. - Yeah, that was nice. - Where your host, I'm Travis Kelsen, my big brother, Jason Kelsey. - Hey. - At a Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati. Cleveland Heights, Ohio is most of you know. Cincinnati, football, has been our year. These past three games really took a turn for the worst, boys. But yeah, we're both eligible. So go have some fun with the gang and whatever bowl you end up in. - What was your favorite non-big bowl game you went to? My favorite bowl, Loki, still to this day. You didn't get to go international bowl. It was in Toronto, Canada. - Well, yes, 'cause you went to fucking Toronto. We went to Toronto. I was still not 21 in the legal age for everything there was 18 and we just had a fucking blast. - That's real nice. - That's great. - What gifts you get at the old international bowl? - I had a duffle bag that was leather that I had for forever. I still might have it. It was a great guy. - Another duffle bag. - Had a nice little maple leaf on the front of it. - Ooh, I do remember seeing that one. That one wasn't, that was what it was. - It was a good duffle. - Let's get back into what we're here for. And that's the podcast. I'm Travis Kelsey. He's my big brother, Jason Kelsey. I got to Cleveland Heights, Ohio like we already said. And this is my brother being a militia member. - That's right, Jason got up to New England this past Monday. - Yeah, they taught me how to fire a musket. I don't think I actually got anything to come out of the muzzle. Like the pan definitely caught, which is where you put the gunpowder in. - Yeah. - And that clicked. But I didn't see anything come out the end. And the whole time Michelle was talking about how much recoil these guns had. And I like fired it and I felt zero recoil. Like this thing didn't, I don't think it fired. And it was like, no, it fired it fired. I'm pretty sure it didn't fired. - This is hilarious. I was so excited. I mean, it still was. - Zero little fucking stiff. - Jesus. - While I was trying to be militaristic in my stance. - Is that a real word? - Yeah, yours didn't fire. - Yeah, but if you look where the pan is by my face, like that's where the gunpowder is. It catches the flint. So that ignited, but whatever was in the barrel didn't ignite. So I don't know what went wrong. I think this is probably pretty common with these older weapons. I think they misfired quite a bit. - Would hate to have that happen when you're in the line of fire. - Go down. - Yeah. - Fucking one of those daggone red coats across from you. And then you're trying to fucking put one right between his eyes. - I don't know what I'm talking about. - Trap, we need to go road bowling. - Road bowling. - So road bowling is a sport in Ireland. It's old as shit where they take what used to be a cannonball. Now it's a 28 ounce piece of iron ball. And you roll it down the road. And the goal is to go past a line in the road in as few attempts and throws as possible. So kind of like golf. - I'm following. - I'm following. - And there's a lot of Irish guys that yell things that you don't really fully understand, but it's electric as fuck. And part of the game is betting. Like that's, you don't play the game unless there's a stake put up. So everybody bets on the two teams that are bowling. When you go out there and use throw a fucking piece of metal down the road, then it'll get lost in the leaves and they bring out the magnets and they try and find it with the magnets. - Oh, there it is. - Dude, it was fucking a blast. - It was so fun. - Were you an overhand thrower, underhand thrower or a sad armor? - Everybody throws underhand. It's probably too hard to throw overhand and do like-- - But you just don't get the same spin. You want the spin to-- - I think it's more than a top spin. You don't want my back spin. - I think if you saw the heaviness of this thing, you would understand why. Here we go. That was a really shitty throw. - I was gonna say that looked like you had a hard ride. - This dude right here, Sean, he was my partner. Fucking awesome, dude. Some of these guys, like, styles for throwing. Dude, watch this guy, Darren, watch this. How did they get into it, man? Fucking full extension. - The Crow hop into the skip. - Bro, I got to get my form way better. It was not impressive. - That? Are you-- - Are you even a fucking half, you Jason? Dude, it was wet, it was slick. These guys are impressive. - You got to play off the ground. That was a better roll. You got your right hip through. That's a big part of it. - I won one of them and lost another one. - You won, you won, see. - I think they kind of rigged the second one. They put a guy up against me and I was like, okay, this guy's-- - They put my child up. - He might've went to the bar before we came out. - He's seeing a fork in the road. - It's like, I don't know which way to throw this thing. - We went to, dude, my guy Connie was down there. Every time you had thrown it in, it was a good, I didn't know, the only way I knew whether it was good or bad was just with how much noise Connie was making. Every time it was a good throw back, there you go, laddie, I was here. I was like, this fucking, this electric, well. I think that was after the reason the sport was fun. I don't even know if I wanna go without Connie at this point. - Yeah, no, it sounds like you need the environment. - And then we went to this amazing pub. The Irish, it was the Red Rose Irish pub, where, I mean, dude, I was getting so many flashbacks to Irish pubs going into, growing up. You could tell this is just like a community staple, great vibe. People are singing in the middle of the bar and then I got to teach this kid some D-line move, check this out. (laughter) - He has no idea what just happened. The push pull is a shocking move. He still didn't really have it down because you did it right. When you do it right, the push pull is just like, what the fuck just happened? (laughter) And that's what you just did to that kid. That kid just was like, holy shit. Ninja just put his hands on me. - Oh, I'm gonna send another one. Check out this guy singing. ♪ When the dawn is breaking ♪ ♪ My heart is breaking too ♪ ♪ Under stark morn as I walk out ♪ ♪ My thoughts will be of you ♪ ♪ So gracious to me in your arms and let this moment linger ♪ ♪ They'll take me out to town ♪ ♪ And I will die ♪ ♪ With all my love I've placed ♪ ♪ It's glaring up on your finger ♪ - Now that's a bar. Goddamn, that was fun. It was a blast. Well done, Boston. I was going back and forth and whether I was gonna sing a song, the only Irish song that I really know is one that I sing to the girls. It's from Ballad of Buster Scruggs. - Tell me it. - Now you wanna hear it? - Yeah. ♪ As I was a walking ♪ ♪ Down by the lock ♪ - Come into a character. ♪ As I was a walking ♪ ♪ One morning of late ♪ - Okay. ♪ Who should I spy ♪ ♪ But my own dear comrade ♪ ♪ Wrapped up in flannel ♪ ♪ So hard as his fate ♪ ♪ I boldly stepped up too ♪ ♪ And kindly did asking ♪ ♪ Why are you wrapped in ♪ ♪ Flannels so wide ♪ ♪ My body is injured ♪ ♪ And sadly disordered ♪ - I can't wait. ♪ All by a young woman ♪ ♪ My own hearts delight ♪ ♪ Oh had she but told me ♪ ♪ When she disordered me ♪ ♪ Had she but told me of it at the time ♪ ♪ I might have got salts ♪ ♪ Or pills of white mercury ♪ ♪ Now I'm cut down ♪ ♪ In the height of my prime ♪ ♪ It's six pretty maidens ♪ ♪ To carry my coffin ♪ ♪ Six pretty maidens ♪ ♪ To bear up my pole ♪ ♪ And give to each of them bunches of roses ♪ ♪ So they may not smell me ♪ ♪ When they go along ♪ And then I say, "Good night, Wyatt." And then I. (laughing) - That left me speechless, Jason. When the fuck did you ever learn that? - I like singing to the girls at bedtime. I'm a big fan of telling stories. Here's the thing, there are so many fucking kids books. And I'm gonna be honest. - Tell me, tell me your honest opinion of them. - Here's the honest opinion. Every rundown schmuck with a fucking typewriter can make a children's book these days. And I don't think that everybody should be having a children's book. I'm into the Dr. Seusses, the freaking three little pigs. I like the stories that have survived a long time. And there's a reason for these iterations existing. I don't need to know about the fucking pink cupcakes. I don't need to fucking. Give me the caterpillar book. I like the caterpillar book when I was going up. What is a car or whatever? I'm out on a lot of the newer children's books. What you're doing when you're reading kids books is your brain. You're hardwiring the software upstairs, right? Okay. So when you're telling the boy of cried wolf, you're trying to correlate, hey, lying makes people not trust you. And eventually, that's a bad thing to do. And here's a story that correlates why you shouldn't do that. And it ends up really bad for me. It's all of the sheep eating because you couldn't fucking, you know, tell the truth. Yeah. Yeah, right? You know, anyone to believe him. Yeah. So a lot of times I just end up telling those stories or I make stories up that are off of those old stories. The man. If we had a recorder for those ones, man, five, dude, one one night because they'll tell me sometimes they'll tell me. Sometimes the girls will tell me they want like one of their stuffed animals in the story. Uh-huh. Or like they want to be in the story themselves. Yeah. And I'm a guard. I'm about to do Pinocchio and Ellie's like, Oh, put, uh, I forget what stuffed animal it was, put, put sloppy in the video. And her put the sloppy in the story. I was like, Okay, right. One night, Ellie wished upon a star. And sloppy. So magical. Came to life. In her eyes went just. And she didn't know who she is just holding the stuff. And I got through the. I had like a chimney, the cricket figurine. I had a whole conscience thing going on and everything. The only thing after this story, Ellie was just so terrified that she was holding. This is so good. Ellie was furious. She's like, what the fuck is wrong with you? She said, put her in the story. So anyways, while I do that, I also, if I hear it's a tune or a song that I like, I, uh, I like to sing. Do you remember those? Yeah. Nice. Well, you're a great dead for that. That's awesome stuff. Should we start the podcast yet? I'm just going to leave it like this. I'm not cutting a god damn word out. It's going to be. We're going freeform this week, folks. This is the structure. Not really. Subscribe on YouTube. One dream plus, wherever you get your podcast and follow the show on all social media, add new heights show with one S for fun clips throughout the week. Jason, why don't you tell everybody what we actually have coming up on this show. All right. We've been talking for over an hour and a half already, but coming up on this episode, nine to two presenters, you're going to hear a little recap from Thanksgiving week in the NFL, talk about the fat guy fight club that we started at the Lincoln. Oh, shit. We've also got joy, fucking Clooney on the show. How about that? George Clooney, you're going to be three bear cats on this podcast later. Little do they know. We claim them. We claim or you can own care for a week. I don't even care if you just got accepted, but he didn't ever took a class. He's a bear cat. All right. Before we get into that, let's start with what we always start with. And that's a little bit of that new news news news news is brought to you by Xfinity. Oh, nice. Xfinity is bringing us new news in the first part of new news. We got a belly button champion. That's right. We had our first belly button tournament at the link this past Black Friday game at the in the new Heights tailgate. And no shirt, Dom came out victorious. You lost. We were kind of making up the rules as a win. It was a tight ring. Initially, it was like, if you just stepped outside the ring, belly button rules somewhere online. So the ring was tight. Initially, it was like, if you take one step out, we're going to end the match. Yeah. But it was people were taking steps out all the way. Ultimately, it was like, okay, if you get two feet out of this thing completely, then the rounds over. Man, I feel bad for anybody that lost with one foot out. Nobody will lost with one foot out. It was very apparent from the first one is like, okay, we can't do that. It became apparent who won each time. And no shirt, Dom, hit a nice side. But one point, look, he's going to lose. And he kind of like readjusted and kind of got his belly back into it. That boy. And he go figure. You know, a guy that is committed to not wearing a shirt wins the belly button competition. He's very belly positive individual. We also had Jeffrey Laurie stopping by. Oh, yeah. Andrew Whitworth stopping by. Not a guy once had a belly, no belly anymore. Well, yeah, he's still barrel chested like a motherfucker though. He's still got that chest on him. Yeah. We signed a copy of somebody's a twilight. That's right. Book. And, yeah, we got some 92%ers that asked some no-dom questions. I think I would redo the no-dom questions, Brandon, for our next iteration of tailgating and really just going out with fans. I think we got to bring the no-dom questions to the fans. It was hard to get them to think of them on the spot. I like the idea of like, let's go in there with the pre determined kind of things. We want to put them on the spot where they don't get to think about this. Tell us how many holes a straw heads. And I'll tell you why you're a fucking idiot. No taking. But the 92%ers are great. Wow, you actually have a no pad. In turn Brandon is always good. Everything I came with a computer. I don't have a no pad. I want a no pad. Oh, I got a computer. Hey, why would I do a no pad when I have this? Jason, you got you got a you got a little bit of a belly bucket in there. You want to tell everybody what the I was. I'm not gonna lie. I did kind of make the belly bucket competition just so there was something that at one point I knew I would eventually get in there and get in a belly action. Little belly on belly. Me and no shirt down. So there's no shirt down right here. He was our champion. We decided to have a little friendly one. The only thing that wasn't really a bucket. That was an offensive lineman, you know, duck walk, you know, get the hips in there. There wasn't much thrust in there. But it was fun. I think that helmet was barely cutting off the circulation of my brain. Yeah. All right. Well, fun. What did you what did you what did you think was the the technique of the the bucket? What was the best technique you saw? Because in the video that we saw there's a lot of thrust. There's a lot of thrusts. Was it more just like a bulldozer deal or were were guys trying to get leverage? Well, that's what I kind of mean. I feel like when you went you if you would have gone back to then thrust in that person stayed in India, when you went back, you were going to go backwards. So it felt more like guys were kind of like getting their hips and bellies stuck to each other and then just kind of you got to go. No, I'm kind of with you. See, you got to you got to know how to enforce it. Don't you have to lay that law? I don't know how to enforce it. If you're not thrust in, you're a gust. You got to thrust. Let's see it. Yeah, see it. Oh, there's them. Here's a there's a buck. See, this is why you need to grab my man. Brandon was trying to use grab those holsters. You got to grab those holsters. You got to put hands in the pocket. Yep, yep. I get why the original video showed a lot of that. Yeah, that's good technique. No, by Dom. That's good. He's using shoulders. That's why I like hands behind the back. Well, you get still shoulder with your hands on your back. Yeah, but you can't like fucking keep them right here. You can't like roll it. Yeah. Yeah, I see you're saying it's a good point. Finally, we're keeping up with Amazon as a part of their holiday giving initiative. That's right. We're in the holiday season. How bad a man is December. And we're supporting an organization that is incredibly close to our hearts. That's right. Operation breakthrough in Kansas cities with an organization that I've been a huge fan of and huge supporter of since I've been in Kansas City. That's right. Amazon is working with an incredible organization across the country to support local communities by providing essential items, books, toys and gifts to families who need them during the holidays. And we're honored to be highlighting Operation Breakthrough because of all the work they do every single day in the Kansas City area. For those of you that don't know what Operation Breakthrough is, Operation Breakthrough is kind of like a school teaching these kids, all of these trades and skills and things that they can be ready to go into the workforce for straight out of high school. Some of them even are entering it while they're in high school. It also supports their families like there's food. There's there's that's where originally started. It was originally started for the families and the kids that needed it around the Kansas City community. And they help with meals that go home to these families. Not only is it like an actual school, but it has after school care for the kids. And during this after school care, they get opportunities to learn and these extracurricular activities that they get to kind of latch onto. And that's where I've been able to help support it with the foundation that I have on help giving them those skills like stem lab skills, science, technology, engineering, math, all these different avenues that they can go down and really experience and latch onto and see if they love them. And that's what the beauty of this organization is. It's giving these kids something that they wouldn't have otherwise. And it's awesome to have Amazon team up with them as well as new heights. Yeah, I mean, I, Travis, you've been involved in Operation Breakthrough for a long time in Kansas City. I recently just got involved last year. I mean, I've been to like the car show before Kelsey card jam, which I've Operation Breakthrough is a part of that as well. But recently they're converting an old pickup truck to electric. Students and the faculty there at mine drive and an Operation Breakthrough. Oh, yeah. Converting an entire vehicle to electric diesel hybrid. I was going to say it's a hybrid. Yeah, we're going to see if you even do this. So actually it's going to get more miles to the to the gallon per se because or the battery because it's going to be able to fuel the battery to recharge itself in a sense and you'll get longer mileage, which is fucking it's a lot of things being going on in my mind. But these kids and the the adults that are helping and and yeah, shout out to Oz and every really everyone over at operation breakthrough. But they're doing so much
fun stuff over there and it's really neat that they're doing these extra curricular stuff, but we were just talking about how they help out the families. This holiday season alone operation breakthrough is going to help support over 3,400 local families that could use some help with the food and just overall support. So it really is a fantastic organization. So really happy that we can potentially help in any way possible for anybody in the Kansas City area or anybody trying to do something similar or looking to support these families, check out Operation Breakthrough. And if you'd like to join us, Amazon has made it easy. Go to Amazon.com/holidaygiving. You'll find a curated list of items that Operation Breakthrough and other charities need every single item you purchase ships directly to that charity. Again, that's visit Amazon.com/holiday giving to learn more and make your contribution. Thank you for being a part of this with us. All right. Now that wraps up new news brought to you by Xfinity. All right. Let's get some bold topics to wrap up week 13, dude. It's week 13 already. Man, there's only 5 games left to fly by week 13, the NFL. Travel, let's start with the one game that everybody was tuned into. This thing's given. I think it's set probably like had to set records of viewership numbers, right? I don't. Yeah, this is for the every holiday game seems to break every past record. Well, Chiefs 28, Cowboys 31. It was a great game. It's fun game to watch. I know it did not turn out in the Chiefs favor. Travel. What are your thoughts? What are your thoughts about the game? You know, I'm I'm sure everyone's sick of us saying about where a few plays away from from being of, you know, a one scene by mine. And maybe that's a bit extreme. Maybe it's, you know, I mean, all of the losses are all the losses are within one score. All the losses are within one score and there's a handful of plays within those games that are determining the outcome. And it's hard. And it's, you know, it's plays like my drop against the Eagles. It's it's penalties that are there are keeping us behind the sticks. It's, you know, it's it's coming away with three points instead of touchdowns in some games. It's, you know, it's crazy that you you watch the film and you see what's real. And what's real is that we're fucking this close, man. We're this fucking close. You look at our offense, you look at Pat Mahomes production this year, top in the top in the league. You look at our defense in terms of points allowed. I know some of the other stats aren't all the way up there, but at the same time. And we're holding teams at the right moments in, and you know, and in other situations, we're just not scored enough. And it's tough, man. It's tough to be a part of this reality right now, because we're six and six and we're fighting for our lives, you know, find a way into the playoffs. And what's real is that we still have a chance, baby. And that's all the fucking matters to me is that we got a chance. And I'm going to keep coming into work with the the mentality that, um, and the sense of urgency that we need to have to get the shift fixed and, and turn those handful of plays that are losing us the game into a handful of plays that win us these games. Yeah. I mean, listen, I think you're saying what everybody else is saying. It's the truth. I mean, you guys have been in all of these games. And I think you're having it like one of the most unlucky, like seasons and recent memory. I know that we never like to say lucky, whatever. Yeah, we like to control it. Somebody, I think Gordo with ESPN, shout out to Gordo. I think he said something like, you guys are plus 70 or something like that in your score differential over the season. You're the first team to not have a winning record with that plus differential. There's only like one other team in the history of the NFL. It's nuts. I don't know what it is. And I'd rather like get the actual number. But it's something outrageous. Like you guys are actually performing really well on both sides of the ball. It's just like these crucial mistakes and end of game scenarios, which you guys have been so good at for so long, just have not fallen your way this year. Like last year, they all fell your way this year. They just haven't. And it's been a weird year in the NFL in general. Like, especially the AFC, like who is like the top of the AFC right now is Denver and the Patriots. I don't know that anybody has shown a ridiculously better version of football than any of the other teams in the AFC. Like everybody said they're up games. Everybody said they're down games. Who is the complete team? I don't really see one. And it seems like it's up for grabs. And when it's like that, if you're an AFC team, all you want to do is get into that dance because then if you get in, you got a chance. And I know it hasn't gone. You're guys way yet. You're not happy with where you're at. But it all still is in front of you. Like I mean, this Andy Reek quote is pretty incredible. But Andy Reek was asked earlier this week about you guys, you know, having to win out. Do you need to win every single game? I forget what the exact question was. And Andy Reed came back with this banger on the confidence this team could win the final five games. He said, we're going to try to tickle your titles on every play, every game. That's the attitude that we're coming in with. And then you let the chips fall where they may. And I think that's, that's the attitude you got to come in with. And I just love the tickling of the titles. Obviously that's a, and that's a little race. Is this a, have you heard Andy say tickling titles before? Never heard him say that one. No, it's a new one. He's got a bunch of bangers in his pocket, though, man. He's got so many. And he's been doing this for so long. And he knows which one's really the people. Exactly. And that's some of the, that's the fun in which you get playing for him. I've never heard Andy rip it like that. I loved it. I'm fired up. Well, the thing is Andy didn't mean it like that. Andy was just trying to say shove the ball down the throat, which he will say. And he'll come up a little funny mannerisms. But the double entendre there is talking asked him to be coach. Come on, we go. This is what I, this is, now this is my kind of football, bro. Let's go. This is how the coaches talked in high school out of signed up. Yeah. Yeah. Didn't know y'all were doing that out there. There are some very sexuality. Y'all just drinking from the hoes. What are we doing? What are, what are other like sexual like all of it? Metaphores that coaches have used in the past. You take these big ass dickbeaters. You got, you put them into that chimono of the chest. That's one of my favorite dickbeaters is a great all-time. You ever heard that one? That's a long way to just say hands. Yes. Hey, but that's sometimes you come up with a little bit, stout would always call it like a hook. Like you need something that like you can't just say something. You need to say something that register something in your head. If you say like, hey, put your hands in his chest. It's like, I don't need it. That's already out my fucking brain. You tell me to put my dickbeaters inside of his chest. I'm remembering you telling me to put my dickbeaters in his chest. I'm not going to forget that one. Oh, my hands. How did you know? I, I really only have one dickbeater. Are you guys using both? It's starting looking around the room time out. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, beat you guys are going lefty. No, no, no, same time, same time, same time. I'm a basket. We've got myself. This is our greatest episode ever. Oh, man. So yeah, anyways, the Texans are red hot right now. The defense is unbelievable. Dimeco Ryan shout out to Dimeco, one of my former teammates. Those dudes are playing on both sides of the ball, but especially on defense. They are very good. You guys are in a situation where every game counts, even more so at this point, because of the record and what it is, Texas four game win streak coming into this one. The last time you played Houston and was in 225 in the division around. It's going to be about 20 degrees of kickoff. It's my kind of football, baby. Did I love on the cold weather sensor? My eye kind of football, especially after a weekend arrest. Yeah. Go out there, fly around on the ice, man. Fuck, man. Take me back, baby. Fly around on the ice. I sort of feel it feels like we're in the ice ring. That's why I love those games more. There's something about being in the cold and sweating that I feel my most athletic self. I don't know why that feels like it's like my like sanctuary, but I was just feel like I didn't get tired too. And it was cold. Like I just could run for days. Yeah. No, I will. That's because you weren't running that much. You can still get very tired running in the cold. Yeah, it's those lungs a little different too. But it's, uh, yeah, no, I'm with you though. I'm just something about the cold that I just, it just gets my excitement, man, for the, uh, for the game. It's the beauty of football, man. You get to play in all elements, especially in arrowhead. For sure, man. Yeah. Even being up in New England this past yesterday, Monday night game. Oh, yeah. I just love the cold, man. I like seeing my breath. It just feels like football. Yeah. The cold and your like peaky blinders outfit, man. That shit was sweet. Just mesh perfectly. Give a guy a musket that doesn't work though. Yeah, right. All right. Well, let's get out of here. Um, we'll see you guys up at arrowhead. And hopefully we come away with a fucking win. It must need win against a really good football team. And, uh, let's go, baby. The fighting to Mikko Ryan's, man. Alrighty. Thanks to our presenting spots. Or that's right. Oh, Yeti. Fuck yeah. I love these things. Who doesn't love a good Yeti? Check these things out, dude. I do a podcast with one and a drink out of one. Check these things out. Right.
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And there's a special madness to it that you have to be great at. Some guys got it. And right now he does, man. Listen, and we've had him fill it out for you. Nick Sireon, he has had that. Like, that's what's frustrating. Like, I think right now the Eagles are trying to figure this thing out. They're trying to get this offense going. And it's, you know, playing the Bears, who really, they're clicking on all cylinders right now. They're playing so well. Their offensive line was rolling. Their run-and-back is running hard. And you can feel that energy and excitement the team has. And Eagles, I mean, eight and four, right? We've had a great season. And I know that it hasn't lived up to the potential, especially on the offensive side of the ball. The defense has been great for the majority of the season. But you could tell, man, they want to get this thing figured out. And everybody's frustrated. And, you know, the good thing is we've put ourselves in a situation where being an eight and four. Like, all we got to do is just keep fucking working, man. Keep grinding it out. Keep asking ourselves how we can improve it. Coaches, players, everybody. I still think they got the pieces there. I still think they got the offensive weapons. The offensive line is starting to get some continuity in playing together. That's a thing, man. Yeah, that's tough. Lane Johnson coming back will be huge, even though Fred has done well, especially in Passpro. I think the run game is close. I really do. I know it hasn't manifested yet. And it's frustrating watching because you know it can be so much better. I think it's getting closer. I think that with the health that is starting to come, it'll only improve. And that's what makes the run game so hard, man. And when it's clicking and everybody is on the same page, and you got these guys look out. But right now it's, you know, it's this guy here. It's that guy here. You know, this guy doesn't come off the linebacker. And that is a difference in a huge run. The safety rolls down and is unhatted. And that kind of ruins this one. They're bringing nickel edge that stalls out a couple runs. And then they'll suddenly run into it and they get a big one in. You know, it's just been frustrating, especially as a guy who knows how much time those guys put into it up front. How great, say, Juan Barclay is. How great Jeff Stoutland is. It's been frustrating to watch, to be honest with you. But I do think it's getting closer. And I think once that thing gets going, if there's a positive to take away, it's a brown start to get the ball in the receive. And the passing game feels like it's getting better. And you're seeing the routes now move around more than they were earlier in the year. Like that was a big complaint everybody talked about. The route trees and all this stuff that I don't quite frankly look as much into a lot of the times. But it's very apparent that they're making a concerted effort to get players moving in different areas and not being as stagnant in the area in which these guys are running routes. I guess if that makes sense. No, 100% does and it makes life on being a receiver so much easier. That's the one thing. When you watch the chiefs play, you see me moving around all the time. I'm moving from one side of the line to the other side of the line. And it's like what that does is for the defense is it changes passing strength. It changes rules on how they're going to pass off routes. It changes rules on how they have to fill gaps. So get the get the defense think in fast. And all of a sudden you snap in the ball while they're still trying to figure out how they need to adjust. If you use that to your advantage, that's only going to make things way easier as a route runner and as offense. That was one thing that really stood out with the Bears. I will say Ben Johnson and how he utilizes the motions and guys moving around, he's just so good at it. Yeah, and they got a lot of good tight ends over there, man. So and a good run game. That's where the defense obviously gave him a lot of yards on the ground. The Bears offense line played well, like I don't want to discredit them. But watching the tape back, like there was a lot of just like, you know, we just need to fit this a little bit better, right? Like we got to handle this motion. If we're in the right spot here, if we squeeze down, don't play the boot as much here, like it was a lot of that stuff where it felt like this defense is better than the way they played. And what the stats looked like at the end of the day. So I felt good after watching the tape. We just got to improve in some of those areas. But I wasn't pressed. I mean, like, for instance, like they motioned a like doubling right into the boundary, right? So tight end receiver into the boundary. They did like a jet motion with the receiver. We rock and roll, right? So reads down to the tight end on the motion. The safety's the side of rock and roll. Meaning it reads goes back to the middle field. And the other safety goes down to the three by side now. And the corner's got to come in now. But now he's fitting the C gap. And they got a big hit on that one. It was just a lot of stuff like that where it was like, they do a great job of manipulating the gaps, manipulating the tight end movement, doing the boots and like really trying to mess around with guys' rules and responsibilities in the run game, especially all in all. Again, similar to the AFC. You think about every team has shown weakness at this point, right? Every team has had their games, ups and downs. And I just think at the end of the day, the Eagles have great coaches and they have great players. And eventually they're going to be peaking at the right time. I got faith in that. And you look at the top eight teams last year. Lions, commanders, Eagles and Rams. Like Chiefs, Texans, Bills and Ravers. Think about all of these teams.
we thought we're gonna be the best teams coming into it. And like all of them have shown signs of being really good and then other weeks have had big letdowns. The two best teams in the league right now consistently have been the Broncos and the Patriots, right? - Yeah. - The Rams won though with the most consistent team in football, all of a sudden they lose they drop on the Charlotte. So, - Charlotte? - Yeah, she's got the same team. Caroline is another sneaky one, man. They can put together a game. - It just feels like more than ever the NFL's wide open. Listen, we're eight and four. We got time to figure this thing out. It's just gonna take some like concerted effort from everybody. And I know these guys are gonna be hard at work to get this done. I can't wait to see Cyclone Barclay running again, man. That's all I want. I know everybody wants to see the passing games of the day. I want to see Cyclone Barclay running through the fucking line untouched all the way to the end zone. That's what I want to see. - Using those sake wads is just fucking. - Come on. I think if that goes on with the way they're playing defense, they will be a very tough team to be by anybody. That's all I know. - I hear you, man. - While we're on that topic, do you want to just jump ahead to that like NFC standings that I put in there later? If you look at the top seven teams NFC and just look at the fact that the one seat has nine wins, the seven seat has nine wins. I think if Chicago loses next week to the hackers, they drop from one to seven. Like that's how fucking insane this season is. - It really is. Where is that at? - It was just a little later scrolling down. - Can we just use what you just said? - You can. I don't like this. - I think it's fine too much on here. - I think it's fun when you jump in. - You like the stash? - I do. You into it. - It's very Bertie. I see the Bert Reynolds or Mario. (laughs) - Super Mario. - Yeah. - I'll take Bert Reynolds, I think of the two. - What is this Snapchat name? - You want to read those? Eagles fans have it now. - It's actually kind of funny. - Those fans are breaking up over the Eagles. Yeah. - Oh yeah. - Read that, go ahead. - All right. So apparently Eagles fans are breaking up over the Eagles. - Yeah. - Had a little Snapchat DM here from a couple of individuals. Derek says, okay, so I know this is going to sound absolutely crazy, but I was noticing since we started talking daily and went on our day, the Eagles have been shitting the bed. I don't want to hate you to hate me or block me, but I think maybe we just need to not talk until the season is over. I love the superstitiousness here. - 'Til the season's over? - I like you a lot, so don't take this as a dismal, as a dismissal, just need to turn our look around for the birds, and I think you'd understand that too. And then of course-- - Sure, I love it. - Yeah, I mean-- - Or should I reply? - Well, I mean, sure, for the birds. Way to go, Eagles fans, that's how you freaking date responsibly. - Did Kylie watch all the Eagles game this time? - We were at the Eagles game, and we were watching. Yes. She's going to have to start turning her back. - Kylie-- - You're right. You're right. You've got to buy in, Kylie. You've got to buy in. - We need everything we can. - Everybody needs everything they can. The table's wide open. - Yeah. - Well, I'll say we get out of these two games and get to the rest of the league. - Let's do it. - We got a big week for shit talking. That's right. A lot of shit talking going around the league. That is the nature of the NFL. Some of the best parts of the NFL, if you ask me. Titans Jags, though, had some-- We got a little personal over there, man. Jeffrey Simmons claims that Jaguar is working running back a liquid Alan Jr. told him to suck his dick in the middle of the game. - Oh, no. - Man, Jeffrey's dick. - Seems pretty standard trash talk to me. Like, I feel like I've heard that a bunch. Just saying, like, I don't-- - No, for sure. - Suck my dick, my fucking. Like, I feel like I hear that every game. I don't think it's, what do we all have a set and upset about? - Yeah. - Jeffrey Simmons is a guy that gets very upset in games. He's an angry football player. Which I like, angry football players. - Yeah. - I'm pretty sure, at one point, I was at the bottom of a pile and he was grinding his knee into my ankle. - Yeah. - I looked over, I was like, what the fuck? - Yeah. - He was like, what? I was like, suck my dick. (laughing) - I'm kidding. I don't talk like that on the football field. I'm a fine gentleman. - I'm a very nice man. - Yeah. Tennessee player also claims that Jacksonville punner Logan cook threatened to kill him. (laughing) - Which might be Tennessee player snitching. What are we doing? - Yeah, also Jacksonville. - Come on, you guys are fucking doing it right. You guys are in the head. - You're in the head of the potent across and you. - Keep doing it, Jacksonville. - Take it up a notch, take it up a notch. Tell him how you'd kill him. - If it gets him out of his game. 'Cause you're not being serious. You're not gonna actually kill him. - That's the thing. Sometimes the punners, they look creepy enough and like scrawny and like weird enough to where it's like, Tammy, you probably would fucking do some weird ass shit. - No way. I've never thought that about a punner. - No? Logan, a punner saying they're gonna kill him. Like I would do nothing to me. (laughing) I don't fucking break your neck right now. You realize I can kill you with my bare hands. I don't even need a weapon. (laughing) - McAfee's gonna fucking beat your ass. I would not want to fight McAfee. McAfee's a squirrely son of a bitch. You're right, McAfee would be one guy. Who else wouldn't I want to fight? Sebastian Janikowski. - Janikowski. (laughing) - You don't want to find him. 'Cause you just want to have a few beers with him. - Yeah. - He's gonna headbutt me or something. He's gonna come out and something I'll let feel with something I'm not ready for. - He's gonna steal his skull, fucking. - Imagine if that hit your neck. What that'll do to you. - Listen, I think that there's a very clear, as long as nothing being said is either racist in nature or attacking somebody's family that's not playing the game. I feel like it's all fair game. - It's a fair game? - Yeah. If somebody says I'm gonna fucking kill you, if I fuck kill you, I don't know what it's like, I don't know what the-- - I don't fuck kill you first. I've never heard somebody say I'll fucking kill you. I'm be like, this guy just threatened my life. I'm gonna report him to HR. I don't know what's happening. Like, what are we talking about right now? - Yeah. Did you just hear him? He's threatening my life. He told me to put his dick in my mouth. - He told me to put his dick in my mouth. He said, get this. I think that should be a 15-year penalty, sir. (laughing) - S is D. - I just, I don't know. Maybe the, in my two years removed from the NFL, talking shit to people is all the sudden off limits, but I feel like both of those things happened a litany of times. And most of the time, no one is literally saying to suck their dick. (laughing) Like, I don't know what's happening. - I will tickle your toes. (laughing) - Suck my dick, yeah. You'd like to tickle my toes, wouldn't you? - Maybe the biggest non-NFL football news, taking it to the college ranks. Old Miss Lane Kiffin finally took the head coaching job at LSU after weeks. And literally, just like one or like a couple of days of speculation, leaves Old Miss as the team preps to potentially host a college football playoff game, which is, this is tough, man. It's tough on Old Miss. It's tough on the players because Lane Kiffins is gonna wanna take everyone from his staff that has made him, you know, the head coach that he is today, that has helped ingrain in the kids at Old Miss that, you know, this is the style of football that we need to be playing. And I get it if you're Lane Kiffin. I mean, there needs to be some sort of rule by the NCAA that you can't start looking for new job opportunities until after the season. Because Old Miss is gonna go into the college football with someone's dad as a fucking like helper. You know what I mean? Like, you don't just have extra coaches on the practice score. Like, you have GAs and you have guys that aren't gonna get invited with Lane to Old Miss. And you're just gonna have to gather up people from around the university or however you need to do it. We were at the fucking sugar bowl with like, guys' dads helping with personnel on the sidelines. - I don't remember that. - Really? - Dude, who else do we have? We had fucking like GAs like helping. - No, we had everybody playing in BK. We had everybody other than BK stayed for the game. Right? There might have been one other person that would BK. - Oh, I'm thinking of one butch left. - Yeah. - When coach Jones, when coach Jones left, we had really guys. Well, that wasn't the sugar bowl. That was the old belt bowl and we found a way to find her out there. - Hey, get it, hey, hey. - But we had like fucking GAs being, you know, the main, the lead coaches and whatnot. It's a cluster fuck. And it's definitely putting the team and the players at a disadvantage when you don't have, you know, your head coach or like your offensive coordinator, defense of coordinator, things like that. - Yeah. I mean, it sucks. We've been through it obviously with Brian Kelly, and butch Jones. Well, you went through with Butch. I went through with Brian with Ann Mark Antonio where we played bowl games with interim coaches because those guys took other jobs. And I mean, listen, it's the way it's been forever. I mean, it's very, part of me is mad that it takes Ole Miss happening too for all of a sudden everybody to realize how fucked it up. And it's like, nobody gave a fuck. I'm like, oh, yeah, of course, Brian Kelly with the Notre Dame. He left Cincinnati, like, of course it happened. All of a sudden, Mike Given does it the Ole Miss. And they're like, oh, this is an outrage. How can he do this to his place? Like, this fucking happened to be twice and nobody gave a fuck about it. (laughing) And I couldn't transfer. - Yeah, exactly.
- Fuckin' leave. I was just stuck there, twiddling my thugs. I hope they hire a good fucking guy. - That's so cool. - So take your sob story and shove it up your ass, Ole Miss. I got no fucking pity for you guys. But I just, this is the way it works. I do think that there should be rules in NCAA that prevent coaches from leaving before the bull gains have been played out and before the playoffs have happened. But it's not gonna happen because the national signing day is so close. All of these schools are in the heat of recruiting right now. Like that's the reality of it. Like that's why LSU wants Link Giffin' there, right? That's why all these guys need him to go before the bull game is because they need to have good players on the team and they wanna be able to sell the program. And I mean, it just sucks. You wish there was a way that he could accept the job but also still coach the game. You know, I think it sucks for Ole Miss. I'm kind of, I'm lie. I do feel bad for Ole Miss 'cause I went through it myself with Charlie Notre Dame. - Yeah, it's just this sucks. And it's not fun. You know, you work so hard as a team and as a group of men and kids to get to that point. And, you know, it's a deflating moment for what should be a joyous time for everyone in that building. - Yeah, and at that university right now. - And, you know, we were undefeated our best year that we've ever had at Cincinnati to that date. - We were, I think it was two seconds or three seconds away from going to the NAS. - And the champion shift. - Yeah, if Nebraska would have found out a way to beat Texas. And now I'm good too. If you would have got to the quarterback one more time, we might have been-- - It came down to a rollout. We call it a heave ho in our building but it's a play where you try and rollout and you try and exhaust the last seconds of the game by throwing it as high and as far out of bounds as possible. - Yeah. - And Texas did that at the end of the game but they were one second away from-- - Giving the ball back. - Yeah. - Yeah, I mean, I think we ended up the four seats. I don't know that we would have made it anyway but either way, we were the fourth ranked team in the country and we got our Dicks absolutely shoved in by the Florida Gators and Tim Teebo's last game. - I was so upset that they didn't keep that in the Florida documentary. (laughs) I didn't see the Florida doc. - I didn't watch it though. - It was about Urban Meyer and those couple of years, those handful of years that he was there at the Florida Gators and when Teebo came in and had some dogs just how amazing that those teams weren't how they fought in the ups and downs that they went through and it was cool but then they ended it with the regular season ending at the SEC and it's like, that's not how their season ended. Their season ended by Tim Teebo throwing for seven touchdowns of 500 yards because it's an epic catch in the sugar bowl. - We got absolutely fucking killed. We were so, to be honest, it's not having Brian Kelly but I could tell you very confidently, it would not have mattered if Brian Kelly was catching that game. (laughs) We were so much less talented than ever. - I ran a little wildcat in there. Got my two plays in there. - We did. - I didn't get into that. - I made Carlos Dunlop's highlight reel on Draft Day 'cause he was like, yeah, what the fuck are you doing blocking Dunlop? - Every time he would line up as a three technique and when I was studying tape that week, I kept running a Houston or a T.E. He would pick the tackle and the end would loop around. So I'm getting ready to punch the shit out of him to try and put him out on Jeff Lincoln box. And right when I go to punch, he hit me on an inside spin move so fast. I was like, oh, they aren't doing this in the big east. (laughs) So yeah, that wasn't Tony got crushed on that play. Sorry, Tony Pike. - Shot off the lows. - Yeah, anyways. Yeah, it sucks. It's the way it has been for a long time in football. It is kind of funny to me that like now that like a bigger program is happening to them. I'm supposed to care more than what happened to me and you two and three times and happens a little small universities all the fucking time. - Yeah. - I hope his fans had his clothes in the parking lot by the way. - Dude, it was hilarious, dude. The fucking fans outside the private jet, dude. Oh man, it was good. - It was good. - Well, sorry that you're going through it Ole Miss. I know what you're going through it sucks. Can't wait to see Ole Miss versus LSU next year, though, baby. Here we go. Here we go. - There's still got some playoff games going. - Yeah, but at the same time, it's like. - That's all you want to see. - I want to see, yeah, I want to see Lane Kiffon have to go make it. - What if they play better? What if they play better? Who's the, is there an interim coach? Is he for sure going with Lane Kiffon? - I don't think they, I think their season just ended. - Well, another going to the playoffs, right? Isn't that why this is a big deal? - Yeah, they are. You're right. - Yeah, that's really well. They offer him a bunch of money. - Their special team's long snapper, his father is actually going to be doing these signals for them in the playoffs. It'll be great. - I mean, I think SEC has a little more resources than we had in Cincinnati to handle. - Just go to the point. - Just get, bring Eli back. Eli, go take charge for a college football playoff. - That's great. - Get somebody in there that fucking represents a program. - All right, let's wrap up football with some of these stamps of the week. Stamp of the week brought to you by Audible. - It's an amazing app. It's an amazing platform to learn, be entertained. You name it, a lot of good stuff on Audible. - All right, nice. - Nominies for Stamp of the Week. We got Giants Holder, Jamie Gillan for making the best out of whatever that was. I mean, he actually, he's the reason that it happened. - Is this the field goal kick? - Does the kicker, the way he kicked the turf? The snapper was actually, the ball slips when he puts it down and he has to readjust it. And I think it spooked the kicker. - I do think he also just fucked up, though. Even if you see that, why do you do that? - I think that lead steps just a little too far out in front of that football. He's got it, because when you get too far out in the football, now you got to be steep at the ball. - Yeah, and you're here. - And think you got to, yeah, you got to kick, and then you got to bring that left hip out of there. He kept it a little too far closed in. And now you're really getting down there. You're not allowing yourself to get through the ball. Yeah, you want to keep that lead step right even or a little bit behind us, you can get through the ball. Get through the ball. - Either way, I'm not giving Jamie a stamp of the week because it wasn't a great goal. (laughing) - Pukin' Akua for this insane catch. Let's check this one out. - Yes, was insane indeed. (groaning) - OBJ Action. - Puka. - Reverse backhanded catch. Very impressive. - Man, if we're going to go catch, I'm going tight and Brock Bowers. - It's a good one, it's a good one. - He gets by stamp of the week, at least twice a year, because of how fun he is. But this is an insane catch. - Oh, wow. - That's impressive. - Off the fucking turf. - Boy, it just loves ball, man. (laughing) - What a good man. - Aw, draped all over him, snow cones it. - Yeah, man, snow cones it, I liked it. - Just, Brandon, stop putting Archie Manning in this fucking stamp of the week thing. (clapping) - No, no, I won't. Good for you all. - If you all don't watch, you baby. - Pukin'. - What? - Pantless Jets, man, let me see this one. - Aw, we got security presence now. - I wonder why. (laughing) - That's great. I would love to give that stamp, but I think you gotta draw the line. Again, no shirts funny, no pants, that can go south. That can go south real quick. All right, I'm gonna go with the Ernest Jones pick six. I know it's not original, it was a great pick. It was a fucking wild play. - Yes. - Sorry, Max Brosner. Rough first outing. I mean, it's playing a really good defense. It's gonna be hard to have a good game against those guys. - Yeah. - This fucking thing. - This is insane. - This isn't insane. - I just can't do it. - No. - Can't do it. - Can't do it. - Don't do it. Don't do it. - Can't do it. - But it wasn't an electric play. - It's an electric play, Ernest Jones really didn't have to do much, but it's an electric play. - Other than be ready, you just gotta be ready. Sometimes that's half the battle, man. You gotta be ready. - Be prepared. - Oh fuck. - Alrighty, that does it for stabbing. We brought to you by Audible. - And now, Jason Kelsey, with a word of more partner draft games. - Thank you to our partner draft games. 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And now it's probably what you've waited this entire episode for. That's right. We're going to talk. How the fuck did this happen? I don't know how we even got to this point in life, Jason. Yeah. I don't even know how to talk to people of this stature. Well, because they talk to you. And they're just so much smarter in the way. And why is he so good at just like being a cool person? He does it so effortlessly. I know. You said it best. You said it is like if that's what a movie star is. That's what a superstar is. I'm fucked. Yeah. Because I don't have that. No. Just sitting there, you know he's a superstar. He doesn't even say anything. And he starts talking. And he's like way better at conversing. Like this is what I do for a living. You're already like, can you not be great at everything, George? Jesus Christ. You guys are going to see George Clooney take over this podcast. So are we on? Are you going? All right. I want to start off. Okay. I'm going to start off. Okay. Not you guys. Jason, I dig you, man. Oh, what? You know, you're you're George. You're NFC. You're Hall of Famer. You know, I can show some love for you. Thank you. Thank you, George. Travis, you broke me, man. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a Bengals fan, dude. I grew up in Cincinnati. You've broken me so many times and you're pretty face on GQ. And I have to, many times I've thrown like a hoagie at my TV at your face. You broke me. You got, you guys had your run. You guys broke me. You guys broke me. I'll tell you what, the Bengals broke me coming out. They, they took a tight end ahead of me in the draft and I felt heartbroken. I was a Cincinnati bear. I was sending the backyard. That's right. You were a bear cat, man. Yeah. I was straight street off the back. I used to live on straight street. How about it? Yeah. We had this thing to run that way. We brought it up. We have conflicting reports. We always, at least for you, go to the University of Cincinnati. You're told as a student that George Clooney went to UC. Is that true? Yeah, for a minute. Yeah. That counts, right? It counts. It counts. I lived on straight street on the hill. You know, where if it's snowed and you parked, the cars would all end up at the bottom of the hill. Exactly. We were talking about hell. Hell yeah. You lived at the bottom of the hill. If you lived at the bottom of that hill when it snowed, you ain't making it the fucking practice. You're calling it up. You went down to the King Quick at the bottom. You just got Doritos in a beer and you just sat there until it snowed. Oh, yeah. That's all you can do, man. Over the Rhine, baby. That's a good shit. Over the Rhine. You remember that area? That was like tricky, remember? Oh, yeah. Now it's clean. No, now it's a lot better. It's a lot better than clean. You're still pockets. Pockets. That's a great way to put it. I was back in Cici a couple of weeks ago and it was funny. I went back and the owner of the Cincinnati Reds came out. I was speaking in front of a couple of thousand people. On a Cincinnati Reds came out and I had a couple of trials for the Reds when I was younger and he came up in red like my scouting report and it was the most humiliating thing you ever did. That's too good. He's got no arm, he's got no speed. Tell you what though, you put the jersey on, man. The guy looks like a ball player. I look like I had to. I look good. I look healthy. I believe it. I believe it. I got to see those two. That's too good. Was it just like high school tryouts or like? Yeah, it was, you know, they had a thing where they were taking people out of high school for, you know. Anybody who was playing well in high school, they took you out and brought you in and let you try out for it. Like a little combine or showcase, yeah. Yeah, it was fun. But boy, he was pretty humiliating in front of all those people. That's too funny to have it in there. You still have the detailed report, man. That's too funny. Well, nice. Now we can get it out there. Were you in the DAP program in Cincinnati for a little bit? No. None of that. Well, once a bearcat, always a bearcat of my book. I also, you know, I was a UK kid too. I loved UK. So, you know, we had it. Yeah. I would side with the UK for basketball because, you know, you kind of wanted to have a winner. The hell, yeah. And I'd been a Bengals fan for a long time and, you know, we'd lost an awful lot of games. There's a lot of losing. For a while, we were, I think the losing is franchise and football. And then we kind of got a little better, you know. Yeah. Back of the day, it was Kenny Anderson was a quarterback. How about it? How about it, man? I'm going to get this intro going and we'll get this thing officially started. I know. All right. Here we go. Our guest today is a Hollywood legend from Lexington, Kentucky. A four-time Golden Globe winner, a four-time screen actors guild award winner. A Tony award winner in a two-time Academy Award winner. You know from his roles in ER, Seriana, out of sight. Oh, brother, we're at the perfect store. From Dustin O'Donnell, Michael Clayton, Burn After Redo, and Ocean's 11, 12, and 13. And there's probably more coming. He's the star of the upcoming film, Jake Kelly. And unlike myself, he actually won sexiest man alive twice. Twice. Nineteer to sinners. He's welcome. Mr. George Clooney. Fucking world. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, man. Oh my gosh, man. Oh my gosh, man. That is a hedgehog. Just for the fabrication. I never won a Tony, but, you know, I'm thought you said it anyway. We could get it out to the people who think I won. And that's more fun. You did now. Just say it. All right. I appreciate the honesty. We gave you this. Did we miss anything? Yeah. Did we give you one? Yeah. You missed a bunch. I'm sure. Yeah. It's okay. I'm fine. I'll be okay. Okay. How's it going, man? We're doing great. Thank you so much for taking the time to hop on George. This is incredible honor for us. It is. Still can't believe that we're getting guests of your stature on this thing. This is incredible. This is incredible stature. Now, see how you gray and I have stature. What? No, you get what you get to distinguish. I know. It's coming from a guy that's that's turning gray as well. And I'll tell you what. He embraces the grayness. He can't wait until he goes full white. I'm right. Damn right. Dude, it's coming. It happens fast. Okay. Perfect. I'm looking forward to it. I'm full Santa Claus here in a couple of years, man. It's going to be epic. All right. Your wife will be so happy. Yeah. Should be thrilled. Should be thrilled. All right. Let's talk about Jay Kelly. How about that? All right. Bring it on. Initial thoughts. I love the film. Love every second of it. And I know you've already -- Every second of it. I'm sure you've been asked this by anybody else talking to you about this film. Did this film feel extra personal to you? Being about a blockbuster actor and everything happening behind the scenes. There had to be some type of personal connection to you in this film. Well, I mean, look. You know, we're the same height and the same hair. I was happy. It was so good. The guy's kind of, you know, he's kind of a mess. Yeah. And I hope at my age that I'm not quite in that much of a -- It's fair enough. -- Crisis mode. But, you know, listen. Look. This is a guy whose kids hate him. And, you know, dad doesn't like him. I got -- So -- Yeah. I got to eight year olds. And they still dig me, you know? Perfect. That's going to change, as you know. [ Laughter ] Teenage years are coming. [ Laughter ] How old are your kids? They're all young. They're all young. I got six.
four, two and a brand new one. So we're in, I'm telling you, dude, it's like, even at eight, I've got like my daughter rolling her eyes now, which is a new thing. Like I say, like, hey, you know, your dad's a big star. She just rolls her eye. Yeah. Sure. Great. How do you handle that? Let me ask you that. Are you a, like, do you, are you a strict or do you get on? Like, what's your parenting style? I'm, I'm probably, I'm a little strict. I'm not like, you know, not bad about my kids are pretty good. My kids really well behaved. But you know, I have to say it's a, it's a pretty funny adventure raising kids, you know, because they're, you know, you don't realize, you know, how, how much they're listening to you. Like I was in the car driving to school the other day and, you know, I like some guy, you know, cut me off and I was like, fucking asshole. And I'm driving. And like, about five minutes later in the back seat, I hear fucking asshole. St. Tony. St. Delivery. Oh my gosh. They're going to say that and my wife's going to hear it. And then I'm dead. Yes. Exactly. There's no way. You're learning as you go. That's amazing. All right. Well, to summarize the movie for everybody that needs to go watch this thing. George, who plays a famous actor, Jay Kelly alongside, this is an awesome moment. His manager, Adam Sandler, the same man, man, baby. And you guys go to Europe to kind of, as a sabbatical, almost to kind of re-find out, you know, what are we doing here? And a little midlife crisis kind of moment. I thought it was fantastic. There's so much, but you guys, you guys know Adam and all of you ever, Adam? Well, yeah, baby. Yeah, Travis are happy to give him more too. I had the pleasure of being on set with the big guy. Yeah, that's right. You're in the mood. By the way, he didn't ask me. He didn't ask me in the mood. That's a misdemeanor. I told him, man, I worked cheap. Not, you know, not like Travis, who's a friend. So I'm not feeling this thing for free. Just let me be on set, man. He's such a good egg. You know, he's such a fun cat and fun to fun to, you know, work with it. Well, he and I had been playing basketball together for about 30 years. And, you know, just a chance to get a chance to work with him was what a blast. What a fun thing to be able to do, you know, just the best, man. That was such a good dude, man. I was, I was still forever thankful that he even sent the ass to allow me to be the waiter. But honestly, looking back on it, if he would have asked you and you would have been that waiter, god damn it. I think the movie might have been 10 times better, man. Fuck dude. I play a great waiter. You have no idea. I'm such a good man. Seeing you go really well. Seeing you a chess bomb, Zander Shafley. So wait, now, is this going to be, is this going to be the thing now, you know, when you retire? I know you're not going to retire. When you retire, is this going to, are you going to go into some show business? Are you going to act more? Listen, as long as I'm getting asked by, by guys like Adam Sandler, you know, my heroes growing up, man, I'm going to be there in a heartbeat, man. I don't know how much skill I have. But I'll be the best teammate on set and have some fun with you. If you hire me, that's a damn sure. That's exciting, man. That's going to be fun. By the way, Travis, you were in Lake Como, weren't you? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, take your dance around Lake Como for a little while, man. I loved it out there. That's my, you know, I got a place there out there. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They love, they love to point it out whenever you're doing the, whenever you're on the lake. I'm part of the tour. Yeah, it's a funny thing. And now you look up to your left, you see a joke including us. I'll tell you what, it sits perfectly on that water, man. It's a beautiful place. It had a beautiful area. Everybody out there is so lovely, man. I was, every morning, I was throwing my shoes on, running up and down the water. And we had gloomy days. We had beautiful days. And it was just every single day. It was just a new epic like realization what's really around the world. And I had never even imagined that place, you know, in my dreams. Had you spent time in Italy at all? No, that was my first time. Because, you know, what you'll see is there's a version of life that they live. It's pretty interesting. You know, they, they really celebrate dinner. You know, it's two hours and you're eating with you eating with a 10-year-old and you're eating with your grandparents and it's a, you know, they, they, they do it right there. There's so many little spots that are just so fun to go to dinner too, man. It's like, it's like you're, you're, you're going to a place that has like 10 seats in a, in a corner of a cove. And it's just them, but the best pasta you could ever imagine. And just the best, it is such a cool place. I recommend, I recommend that place for everybody. Love it, love it. Yeah, it's good. Well, one of the things in the movie here, George, is that there's the entourage of Jay's character is immense, right. Not just Adam, like everybody that is, like, that is at the beckon call of this movie star style is, you know, like, like Travis does. That's very similar. Thank you. How accurate is this portrayal? Is this an accurate, how long trope? Well, I know some actors who have pretty big, you know, pretty, pretty crowd around them. It doesn't seem like it'd be all that fun. But I do know a few that have it. It seems like a lot of work to me. Yeah. I hear you. But I, you know, most of the gang that I know are pretty, actually, live a pretty normal life, believe it or not. I mean, it's sort of surprising. But, you know, most of the guys, like, all the gang from oceans that I, you know, Brad, Matt, and Julia, they actually have fairly normal lives considering sort of who they are. Yeah. Not me. I have like 40 people. Ha, ha, ha. There's someone sitting directly behind me holding my face better. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, man, I was a banger at the George. Did you have to do some sort of, like, like, long distance training you're running in, like, the entire second half of the movie? You're just sprinting across fields. Okay. So here's the thing. First of all, we were trying to run like a big goofball. But, you know, I'm, I'm 64 years old. And we do, like, it's like a couple hundred yards sprinting. Oh, yeah. And I do it like 30, like 30 takes, you know, oh, my gosh. One point. I go, you know, I'm, I'm 64. And he goes, well, I just like to see you run faster. No way. No way. And here's something I learned from Jason. Rather than running faster, I just pumped my arms back. There you go. There you go. There you go. That's a little smarter, not hard. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, gosh. So wait, where are you guys? You're in, you're in KC, right? Yep. And Jason, where are you? I'm in Philly, man. I live here. My, we settled here. My wife is from five minutes away from where we live. So we got a lot of support with the kids and everything. So there were, there wasn't another option. I don't know if we'd be able to do what we do. Do you guys battle it out over who's got the coolest podcast? Do you get into that? Do you fight? It's everything you already know. You got to, you, you got to, you got to go after every bit of, like, uh, Bracken writes at, uh, at the dinner table. They're in things given, man. It's, it's never stops. What, let me ask you this, it's as a Cincinnati fan. Burrows coming back. Like, does that inspire you? Or is it just like this deep at the so bad? It doesn't matter. Who's playing quarterback? Well, I worry. I mean, you know, it's not like flack. I wasn't putting up good numbers. So what do you do? Listen, it's, it's, it's an each time. Yeah. No, it's an history thing to be, uh, a Cincinnati fan in general. It, you know, I grew up, when I was growing up in Cincinnati, we weren't talking about across the river. I was, you know, so in 1975, I was 14 years old and we had the big red machine, you know, and it was like, I didn't think I thought we were always going to be the, you know, Cincinnati's going to be the epicenter of great sports. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't realize that that was sort of going to be our, our swan song. You know, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench those, uh, that freaking Joe Morgan, Kate Griffey. Oh, yeah, I mean, we had a team, man, absolutely. Have you, uh, have you met Joey, bro, the smooth guy at Ohio, name, you know, having ran into him yet? No, and I, you know, and I'm, uh, and I'm a big fan. I know that you, you guys like to harm him. I know that. But, uh, listen, he, he's armed does even one that I think the first three games ever played against. I remember it. I remember it. We named the stadium. Between, uh, burrow and our, you know, and we have some amazing receivers and chase and those guys where, you know, we really do have a, you know, it's fun to watch again. That part's fun. It's just heartbreaking to, you know, try to stop a run. Are you guys going to win it all this year? That's the, uh, that's the plan. Big guy. We got some things to clean up. That's for sure. So I won't, I won't just go ahead and say that we're, we're going to, but when you've won Super Bulls, is it every team that comes in is, is gunning for you guys? That's for sure. That's, that's the, that's the, that's the honor that you get, though, when you win it. Like, I'm a competitor where I want everybody's fucking best. I want to, I want, I'm excited about those games when the moments are huge and, you know, I mean, it's a, it's a close game and you need to be your greatest. Like, I fucking love those moments. Those are my, those are my favorite games to be a part of. And it definitely, when you play in good quarterbacks like Burrow and, and, and Josh Allen,
And those guys like, it's every game, you know what I mean? Like, you know, you got to play your top roast, you're going to get smoked. - I got a question. George, do you guys, do actors get competitive like athletes? - Oh, it's funny. - Like everybody's gunning for the chiefs and the Eagles, for the Super Bowl. Like, do you get competitive with some of these other guys? Like, my film's going to outdo yours. (laughing) - How does that work? - No, I don't think so. 'Cause we're kind of, you know, there's not a, you know, I don't have to beat out somebody or they don't have to beat me out. So I, you know, to sort of succeed, you know, in a weird way. - Sure. - So there isn't really that kind of competition. You know, I mean, I do enjoy like, you know, I'll give those guys shit. I love giving them that damage. - Yeah. - You know, that's good for them. - And you deserve it, by the way. - They're excellent. - Yeah, absolutely. - By the way, he's a Patriarch's fan and the Patriarch's are playing well. I can't live with it right now. It's bad. - It's bad. (laughing) - I just have to hear about it. - They're able, they let a Ohio guy get it, get it the realm, man, I'm just saying, Ohio ball player, man. Crazy, how much could you make a difference? - Yeah, it's huge though. And you, and Pizzah, Kansas City fan. So you guys got Pizz. - Oh yeah. - So, you know, the whole ocean, the whole ocean's team is breaking me, man. (laughing) You know, we're going to do another oceans. - What? - Yeah, we're going to do another one. - Oh, but you know, now we're old. - So it's going to be like, mostly just trying not to crap yourself. (laughing) Dude, I can't fucking, I can't fucking wait though. - It's like every sneeze is a gamble now, you know? (laughing) - Is this already, like you guys getting ready to film it? How does this work? - No, we're scouting locations. - Everything's been agreed to? - Yeah, the only, the main thing is just finding the time for those in the schedule to figure out when we can all do it. But yeah, we've got a really good script and it's going to be fun. Fun to work, get those guys back in the room. It'll be fun. - Oh yeah. - Well, it's been pretty damn good so far. - Yeah, yeah. - Do you think you'll ever get back in on screen with the Cohen brothers? - I gotta say, whole brother, we're out now. Hail Caesar, we're going to burn after readings, come on now. Oh my gosh. - Yeah, that was a pretty funny thing, you know? I remember when I was doing whole brother, we're out now, you know, they came to me. My aunt was this famous singer, named Rosemary Clooney, great singer, and back in the '50s. And they kind of assumed because I had an aunt who could sing, I think they assumed I could sing. (laughing) - Okay. Quite good. (laughing) I assumed I could sing too, by the way. And then I got down, they took me down to Nashville and they had me singing "Man of Constantinero" in the literary and the recording studio. - That's a great tune, yeah. - And I sing it like all out, you know? And I finish and I look up and no one will look me in the eye. You know, they're all looking down like me. - Oh me, we're gonna have to. - I mean, coming, let's play it back for you, George. They're hoping, and it just sounded like a cat caught in the real world. (laughing) - They were so bad, so humiliating. So then they brought another guy and they dubbed me. But, you know, those guys, I mean, some of their movies are just some of the best films. I mean, "Raising Arizona", you know, from early on, they were just good filmmakers. - Talented. - Talented. - They haven't been working together as much right now, but if they get something back together, I'll do it. You know, if they call, I'll go. I've never, I think I've done five films with them. They're fun to work with. - Yeah, absolutely. We got one last segment here for you, George, man. We know you're on a tight schedule, brother. - Yeah, baby, I'm ready, come on. - We appreciate the time, but this is our last segment. We gotta ask, but you don't have to answer. You can tell us to kick rocks, or you can have some fun with us in the question. - Ask 'em away, man, whatever you got. - You claim that you and your wife haven't gotten in a fight in 10 years. - That's right. - Are you lying? - No, I'm not lying. (laughing) Travis, Joey asked you the same questions. Well, it's only been two and a half years and you're right. I haven't gotten an argument at two. (laughing) - All right. - Never once. - Honestly, neither of us are gonna win the arguments or why you get in. - There we go. - There you go. - That's a smart man right there. What's the secret? Just not just staying out of the argument altogether? - Dude, I'm 64 years old. And what am I gonna argue about at this point? You know, I met this incredible woman that, you know, she's beautiful and smart and she stands for all the most important things that I believe in in the world. And I can't believe how lucky I am. So what am I gonna fight about? You know, I like to create an answer. - You're not saying that's a good one. - Too late to do it. - Yeah, you can use that if you want. - I'm just taking notes this whole time big guy. You don't even know. (laughing) - Exactly. Come on, bring me another one. What else you got? - Come on, Travis. - That's Batman. Where do you rank Jason as Fat Batman? Do we have the picture for it? - Let's see that. - Oh nice. (laughing) - I could remember that picture coming out. - Oh gosh. - You know, very unfortunate that you can see this. - You could be one of the, one of the bad guys in the film. By the way, you and I, both of you and I know that I was the best Batman. You know that, right? - Absolutely. - I mean, there's no argue. I mean, Ben Affleck. - Come on. (laughing) - I put, you know, I was the only one that comes in. - There it is, yeah. - That's where that competitiveness comes in. Yeah. - You know, I'm the only one that had rubber nipples. - You have rubber nipples. (laughing) - Dude, what? - Rubber nipples. - It tasted and it comes through. - It comes through right there. - That is competitive. - It tasted and it come through enough on the suit. - Yeah. - Yeah. - When it got colder, it was like two done lap tires going out. - Ben's looking. - Is it true that you once stole Bill Clinton's stationary and wrote a fake note to actor saying, - Oh no. - So it's president. - All right, I got it. - Jimmy Kimmel gave me a stack of stationery with a presidential seal in Bill Clinton's name on it. - All right, all right. - And I would send notes to all these actors from Bill Clinton. I'd sign it. And I'd find a movie that wasn't a great film. That was my job. I love you in this film. And I'd write these notes. And I'd send them, I send them like 30 different actors. I guarantee you some of them are framed and some of their own. - Oh my God. (laughing) - I mean, they still don't know. - Oh, good. - That is amazing. - They now they know. - Now they know. - Oh my God. - Holy crap, so much fun. - Oh wait, I did that, I do that a lot. Like, I have, I had Brad Pitt stationary. - Yeah. - And I sent, you know, I told a couple of you this before, but I, Brad Pitt stationary that Kim will give you again. And I sent, somebody sent me this book of dialects, like CDs where you could do an Irish accent or you could do a French accent. It was a guy who teaches, and I had this big book. I don't know why I had somebody send it to me. And so I take a note with Brad Pitt and I send it to Merrill Street. And I go, "Dear Merrill from Brad." - Yeah. - I go, "This guy helped me in my accent "in the movie Troy." And I thought, "Maybe you could use it." And I sent her this book of pants and so on, Brad Pitt. (laughing) - It's so awful. (laughing) - I saw it. - Like four years later, right? - Four years later, I see her. And I tell the story, yeah, he knows it now. - Four years later, I see Merrill. And I tell her the story. And she's like, "Oh my God, I was wondering why the fuck "he's saying to me." (laughing) - So awful. - That is epic, that is epic. - We've done a lot of terrible things to each other. He's done terrible things to me, man. So it all comes out. - It all ends out. - That's so good, man. Speaking of Brad, he told us a story when he was on New Heights, not too long ago about how he ate so many beans during a scene, right before a scene that he, or during the scene. I'm sorry, I didn't know. - He ended up clearing the set. - He cleared the set. - Yeah, he cleared the set for what he said. What's your worst moment on set? - I think right now, just exact moment, right now. (laughing) I don't think I can sink to a new or low. (laughing) I can think, I'll tell you, some of my worst moments, I said, I remember when you, so when you're younger actor, you get a movie and you think it's gonna be great. I remember being on the set of Batman and Robin, (laughing) which is famously one of the worst films of all time and I'm terrible in it. And I remember there was like the director, I'm laying in a rubber cowl and you can't move 'cause it weighs like 75 pounds. And you're like tucked down into it. You're on a board laying down like this. And you're waiting for action in the director. Most shumak is like going, okay, here we go. And your parents are dead. You have nothing to live for and action. (laughing) I'm Batman and they drop you back down. And I remember thinking, you know, I was so excited to get the part and then I realized I was the worst thing in the movie. So it was a pretty humiliated, oh my goodness. - It was humiliated. - Greatest Batman of all time. Can't tell me any different. Dude, I'm telling you, that's Batman ever. Come on. Michael Keaton, come on. (laughing) - Well, you talking, speaking of for that moment, do you have a welcome to Hollywood moment? We ask a lot of our guests, it could be good or bad. Like you're kind of like first moment where you're like, man, I'm in it. I'm in Hollywood. - Oh, I don't know. I have to think about that. Like, yeah, I mean, like I remember media,
Paul Newman, you know, and it's like, you know, I grew up with him, right? I'd seen him in the driving theater in Maisel, Kentucky, and like, you know, butch Cassie, the Sundance kid, and all this stuff. And then like I remember being on the lot of Warner Brothers driving, going by in a golf card, and there was Paul Newman, I stopped and I go, Hey, and he goes, Hey, man. And he came over and he had a beer and a cigarette, and he goes, You want a beer? And I was like, Yeah, I was a beer and I was earning that down. And I, I was still working, by the way, and I was like, Yeah, I'll take a beer. And I just wanted to drink a beer with Paul Newman. And I, I sat there for like an hour and a half outside the sound stage with him just talking. And I remember going on and thinking, Dude, I just, I just hung with Paul Newman, man. It was like, I remember that being like, you know, there was that era of actual proper movie stars, you know, Gregory Peck and I became friend. And it was like that thing where you go, these guys are, they are actually bigger than life. And it was, it was a real thrill, you know, his eyes were bluer in person than they were on screen, you know, it was really something. Well, you know, man, I appreciate you for being the fucking coolest guy on the goddamn world, man, we had a fucking whole lot of fun reaching your new low on new heights. And we can't say enough good about you. And yeah, and everybody go and see Jay Kelly coming out on Netflix here soon. And man, can't thank you enough for your time, brother. You're the fucking best and good luck. Good luck. Bang goes defense. Oh, yeah, hurt me one last shot to the chest. All right. That does it for George Clooney. I hope you guys enjoyed it. We sure did. We still are way out of our league. Yeah. Way out of our league. And many ways and many ways. We recorded that a while ago and I'm still thinking about how I could have, you know, came off cooler to Georgia, came and like tried to do something to bring something to that conversation, but George just took it away. I mean, I was in shock the whole time. So good looking and charismatic. It was glowing. It's why today, does they have better lighting than us? Why does he? Why was he glowing like that? I think he's just aura. He's just walking around with a glow. I think whatever his spirit is inside of him, it's manifesting in ways that mine just doesn't have the ability to do. Yeah. You'll see him glow. Go ahead and watch Jay Kelly. You'll see him glow. Yeah. Yeah. The whole movie. It's an outstanding movie. Really is Adam Sandler and him. They just the dynamic between those two is fantastic. It's a great book. It's very good. Highly recommended. Check it out. That wraps up this episode. New Heights. Hey. Thank you to George Clooney. Make sure you subscribe to new Heights channel on YouTube and follow new heights in the 1-3-F-4 wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes of new heights. Add free right now by joining 1-3-plus in the 1-3-F-4 on Apple Podcasts. Once again, new Heights of Wonder Show brought to you by Yeti. That's right. Yes. Coolers and those brought to you that just make Yeti at the temperature. Bring it on. All right. Now follow the show on all social media at New Heights show with 1-S for fun clips throughout the week and thanks our new Heights production team for always making us look better. And if we're making this way easier, then we could have ever imagined it to the 92% of us. We love you guys. We'll see you guys soon. I still remember that purple minivan, me and Ben Bloom would lower all the windows and open the sliding door in the trunk and cruise around the parking lot, playing Al Fats. I didn't came down. It's loud as the stock speakers who come on thinking that like anybody else can hear this. They heard you guys, they heard you guys in there laughing more than they heard the actual music. Honey came down, honey came down, honey, honey, honey, honey, honey, honey came down, hey me now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It'll be selective from superior, they be coming down. That song made it into Madden. It did. You're right. That is a such an obscure song to make it into Madden. Yeah. Well, LeBron showed up at Al Fats is what they ended up calling him, but Fatt Al's a- Well, he was Fatt Al initially, and now he's Al Fats. Yeah, you got big enough to where copyrights came in and said, hey, I don't know. There was another song that was really popular that year. My neck. My neck. It wasn't that one. It wasn't that one. That's not too. When I thought you were students. I didn't have the confidence for that one. That one, Jason Kelsey. You know. You know how little confidence I had when we were out more in college, didn't it? That was more once I kind of built up a more bigger self-esteem.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The hosts, Travis and Jason, reflect on a fun, freeform podcast episode filled with humor, football commentary, and personal anecdotes.
They discuss a belly button competition at a tailgate event, where Dom won by staying committed to not wearing a shirt, highlighting a lighthearted tradition.
The episode touches on a broader theme of football struggles, with Travis emphasizing how close the team has come to playoff success despite near-misses due to critical plays.
Jason shares a humorous experience trying to fire a musket, which failed due to a misfire, leading to laughter over the lack of recoil and the absurdity of the activity.
The hosts travel to Ireland for road bowling, where they engage in a unique game involving rolling iron balls and betting, creating a memorable and energetic experience.
A strong emphasis is placed on community and tradition, such as their visit to the Red Rose Irish pub and the emotional connection formed through music and shared stories.
They critique modern children’s books, favoring timeless classics like *The Very Hungry Caterpillar*, and share a story they made with their daughter Ellie involving a magical stuffed animal.
The episode concludes with a discussion on college football, including the sudden coaching change at Ole Miss and the ongoing issues with interim coaching, which disrupts team stability and fan excitement.
Summary:
Travis and Jason Kelsey host a lively, freeform podcast episode blending humor, football analysis, and personal experiences. The conversation opens with a playful belly button competition at a tailgate, where Dom wins by refusing to wear a shirt, highlighting a fun tradition. They then reflect on the team’s current NFL season, emphasizing how close they’ve come to playoff contention despite losses due to critical mistakes, while praising their strong offensive production.
A humorous segment features Jason’s failed attempt to fire a musket, illustrating the absurdity of early-20th-century weaponry. The hosts travel to Ireland for a road bowling experience, where they roll iron balls down the road, engage in betting, and bond over the game’s unique energy. They also share nostalgic moments at an Irish pub, where music and storytelling—like singing a *Ballad of Buster Scruggs* tune—create deep connections.
The episode includes a thoughtful critique of modern children’s books, favoring classic stories that teach meaningful lessons. It concludes with a discussion on the NCAA’s coaching instability, using the hiring of Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss as a case study, highlighting how sudden coaching changes disrupt team continuity and fan morale. Throughout, the hosts maintain a light-hearted, conversational tone, celebrating both the absurdities and the emotional highs of football culture.
FAQs
Dom won the belly button competition at the tailgate with a close, tight match. The rules evolved from stepping outside the ring to requiring two feet fully out of the ring to end a round. Dom was praised for his commitment to not wearing a shirt and for his strong technique.
Jason tried firing a musket but didn't hear any sound or feel any recoil. He believed the gunpowder ignited, but nothing traveled down the barrel. The experience was described as humorous, with Jason questioning whether it actually fired, noting it was likely a common misfire with older weapons.
Road bowling is an old Irish sport where players roll a 28-ounce iron ball down a road to pass a line in as few attempts as possible. The game includes betting, and players often use underhand throws. The ball is eventually found using magnets when it gets lost in leaves.
They went to a pub called the Red Rose Irish Pub in Ireland, where they experienced the lively atmosphere, heard Irish music, and even taught a young boy a 'push pull' move, which left the boy stunned. The trip was described as fun and full of energy.
Operation Breakthrough is a Kansas City-based organization that teaches high school students trades and life skills, provides after-school care, and helps families with food and essentials. It supports over 3,400 families during the holidays and is a key part of Amazon’s holiday giving initiative.
The hosts noted that despite a strong season, their team has been plagued by critical mistakes and close losses, especially in end-game scenarios. They emphasized that while the team has top-level talent, consistency and execution are still key to making a playoff push.
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