Paul Rudd on Why Jack Black is The Best, Worst Auditions, Chiefs Fandom & Naming Your Nuts | EP 171

92%ers, welcome to another guest episode of New Heights! Today we are joined by actor, Chiefs Fan, and the first guest we ever had on the show, Paul Rudd! Paul and the guys discuss everything from why Jack Black is the absolute best, our new favorite phrase ‘Buffalo Sober,’ Kelce home movies, if Paul knows ball, why he still has joy for the Chiefs, his career as a Bar Mitzvah DJ, the little he knows about Avengers Doomsday, naming your nuts after your friends, his worst audition of all time, and more! Watch and listen to new episodes of New Heights every Wednesday during the NFL season and follow us on Social Media for all the best moments from the show: https://lnk.to/newheightshow You can also listen to new episodes ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. . . . Download the full podcast here: Wondery: https://wondery.app.link/s9hHTgtXpMb Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-heights/id1643745036 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/1y3SUbFMUSESC1N43tBleK?si=LsuQ4a5MRN6wGMcfVcuynw Take holiday gift giving to new heights at https://homage.com/newheights. Send something to the New Heights Mailbox. Don’t be weird though. C/O New Heights Productions 135 E OLIVE AVE, BURBANK, CA 91502 Support the show: AMERICAN EXPRESS: The refreshed Platinum card is here. Learn more at https://americanexpress.com/withplatinum. Terms apply. REESE’S TREES: Grab REESE’S TREES today, found wherever candy is sold. GILLETTE: Visit https://Gillette.com/NFL https://gillette.com/NFL for more information! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:21Speaker 01

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• 1:19Speaker 02

  Thank you to our partner Royal Caribbean.

• 1:22Travis Kelce?

  Dude, have you seen this? Royal Caribbean just dropped the Legend of the Seas. It's the biggest cruise ship on the planet. Like, nothing's even close to being this big. And it's sailing out of Fort Lauderdale starting this November.

• 1:38Speaker 02

  That's right. This thing is stacked. Seven pools, more places to eat than you can even count. I mean, they have something for everybody.

• 1:46Travis Kelce?

  Like, bring the kids, bring mom and dad. Shoot, bring the whole crew. Everybody's got a spot. That's what makes it special.

• 1:53Speaker 02

  And the entertainment? Latin music, ice skating, full-on Broadway shows. It's pretty amazing. Pretty much everything you want in one place. Oh, and did I mention there's a water park?

• 2:03Travis Kelce?

  You didn't, and that's, that'd be the kicker for me.

• 2:05Speaker 02

  I love a water park.

• 2:06Travis Kelce?

  But the crazy one? Crown's Edge, a ropes course off the side of the ship, not for the faint of heart, brother.

• 2:15Speaker 02

  They've also got Playmaker Sports Bar and Arcade, so that means games on every screen. I love a good arcade sports place combination.

• 2:24Travis Kelce?

  All right, Captain, get the family on the new Legend of the Seas sailing November 2026 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

• 2:32Speaker 02

  Visit RoyalCaribbean.com to learn more. One of your first jobs was as a bar mitzvah DJ? Yeah. What was on the playlist? I mean, you got Shout from Animal House, classic.

• 2:44Travis Kelce?

  Ooh.

• 2:46Speaker 02

  There was also, here we come now singing moeny, moeny.

• 2:53Speaker 02

  And then all the kids, they say, get laid, get [BLEEP]. All the grandparents go, hmm? What?

• 3:06Travis Kelce?

  Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. The Wondery Show, and we are your hosts. I'm Travis Kelce. This is my big brother, Jason Kelce, out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, University of Cincinnati grad. Shout out to all the Bearcats out there. And let's go Bearcats basketball. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Baby, let's go, man. Let's take the Big 12 by storm, baby, by storm. Subscribe on YouTube, Wondery Plus, wherever you get your podcasts, and follow the show on all social media, at New Heights Show with one S for clips throughout the week, or just to catch up on all the fun shit me and Jason have been doing. Jason wants to tell the people what we have coming up this episode.

• 3:41Speaker 02

  Ninety-two percenters, we got a great episode coming up. We got a great guest episode. That's right. Joining us today is the first guest we ever had on the show.

• 3:48Travis Kelce?

  Yes, sir.

• 3:50Speaker 02

  Paul Rudd is here.

• 3:57Speaker 02

  We're going to talk about everything from his new movie, Anna, kind of coming out, working with the one and only Jack Black. We're also going to find out if he knows Ball and so much more. So stick around. Check it out.

• 4:09Travis Kelce?

  All right, now.

• 4:10Speaker 02

  Here we go. In three, two, one.

• 4:15Speaker 02

  Alrighty, our guest today is an actor, producer, screenwriter from the University of Kansas. You know him from Nox. This is Forty. I love you, man. Anchorman, Parks and Rec, White Hot American Summer, and his upcoming movie, Anaconda. He's the guy who made Ant-Man cool, a diehard cheese fan, and the 2021 Sexiest Man Alive, and the first ever guest on New Heights. That's right. Please welcome back 92%ers, Mr. Hall.

• 4:45Speaker 04

  Hell, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's good to be back with you guys. Welcome back, my brother. Thank you for having me. It's good to see you. As it, it's always good to see you guys. Is that true first?

• 4:55Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, you wished me a happy birthday, man.

• 4:57Speaker 02

  Travis had a birthday.

• 4:59Speaker 04

  Oh, I remember that.

• 5:00Speaker 02

  And you surprised guessed it.

• 5:02Speaker 04

  You know what I remember the most from that? It was your birthday, Trav, and we were laughing, and then we started talking about our dads, and we just wound up crying.

• 5:11Speaker 04

  And we were all bawling our heads out.

• 5:18Speaker 04

  That's not why you wanted me on.

• 5:20Travis Kelce?

  It is. It is. It's exactly what I needed. I needed to get reminded that I have an amazing dad on my birthday. No, I had to thank him for that. So this is great, man. Well, I appreciate you coming back on. You're, you're obviously in the middle of promoting Anaconda, dude. Yeah. The last, I kind of remember talking to you a little bit over the summer about this at the Big Slick, dude. And you were, you were mentioning it, and I was like all giddy in the seat, like getting ready, like, dude, you guys are really doing this? Yep. This is so fucking cool, man. You and Jack Black, everyone's always fucking loved the duo. Seeing you guys just interact here and there, and now they get to see it on the big screen, baby.

• 5:59Speaker 04

  He's the best. He's the best. He's one of one, Jack Black.

• 6:03Travis Kelce?

  Dude, unbelievable. Multi-talented, multi varied, musical talent. Yeah.

• 6:09Speaker 04

  He does. He's like a, he's like a comedy tsunami. He's a, he's a tornado of talent.

• 6:15Speaker 02

  There we go. The alliteration god.

• 6:19Speaker 04

  He is. He's like, he's like the Tasmanian devil.

• 6:23Travis Kelce?

  I gotta know, who had this idea? Where did this come from?

• 6:26Speaker 04

  The guy who wrote this script is a guy named Kevin Etten. And he wrote it with another guy. He's kind of his partner is a guy named Tom Gormackin. They had done another movie previous to this called The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which I don't, I would highly recommend this movie. Nicolas Cage is in it.

• 6:44Travis Kelce?

  Yes.

• 6:45Speaker 04

  Playing himself. And Pedro Pascal is in it playing a guy who's just really into Nicolas Cage. And it's hilarious and it's this weird meta comedy. It's just so smart and original. And so I loved that movie. I saw it like four times. And when this script showed up, it was from these guys. I'm like, oh my God, they made that amazing movie. And I started reading it and started laughing just because it's similar in that people think it's a remake of Anaconda, but it's really not. It's, it's these, these idiots that try and remake the Anaconda.

• 7:24Speaker 04

  And so it's kind of, you know.

• 7:25Travis Kelce?

  The indie way.

• 7:26Speaker 04

  Yeah. And then while we're trying to make this, you know, we're not filmmakers. We were just kids that used to make movies together because it was fun. And then we're now, you know, all old and our lives are not, they haven't worked out the way we expected them to. So we kind of throw caution to the wind and try and recapture the magic and pursue our dream of finally making a movie. We're going to reboot, reimagine our favorite movie, Anaconda. And then we go down and then we start getting hunted by a real anaconda. It's.

• 7:54Travis Kelce?

  It's epic.

• 7:55Speaker 04

  It's so dumb.

• 7:57Travis Kelce?

  Epic dude, I fucking loved every second of it, man.

• 7:59Speaker 04

  Absolutely.

• 8:01Travis Kelce?

  I gotta, dude, so you mentioned a bunch of, a bunch of friends that used to make movies as kids.

• 8:08Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 8:09Travis Kelce?

  When you were a kid in high school and middle school, like, like, was there ever like a camcorder, like a house, like, family camcorder that you used to like do stuff like this in the backyard?

• 8:20Speaker 04

  Absolutely. This is like, this was, that was my favorite thing to do. I had the camera, you know, I mean, I'm a fossil, so I had, I had the camcorder that you put the videotape in the side of it and then close it. And then I would just, you know, hit the button to record. I would self-edit. Through the camera.

• 8:42Speaker 02

  Through the camera. Oh wow.

• 8:45Speaker 04

  As I edit. It's stop, start, stop, start. And so I would, yeah, I, we made, I made movies with buddies of mine. I did it all through college. And I thought they were so funny. And then I watch them back. It's like, these are terrible. These are.

• 9:06Travis Kelce?

  It was the experience though, man. You get your feet wet. Do you remember, do you remember any of the names of the, of the movies?

• 9:12Speaker 04

  One of the things that I, I used to do with, with a buddy of mine named Guy Garvin. And we did a series of, uh, they were Hey Garvin. They were the Hey, it was the Hey Garvin series. It started where it was like, Hey Garvin, toss me a beer, would you? And he would just always say, all right. And he'd be in another room somewhere. And then he, he would throw a beer and through these cuts, it would fly around corners and it was, you know? And then we did about 10 of them and they just got more and more elaborate, outside, inside, it, you know?

• 9:46Travis Kelce?

  This is gold. This is gold. I asked, I asked that because Jason did the exact same thing. You know, I'm going here. Jason had, and Jason, you can go ahead and tell them the, uh, the gist of it, but I just remembered the name of it being ribs of beef.

• 10:00Speaker 02

  That was one of the movies we made. We, I was in a satire class in high school and we like reimagined the Rumpelstiltskin movie. Our story as a movie about a king that just wanted KFC chicken. And somehow ribs of beef would spin something into fried chicken. It was so stupid. Looking back, I was like, what are we doing? But I used, I loved, we were the next wave of it. I, I would go on iMovie. I made Travis's highlight films. I would make like highlight films for the team.

• 10:32Speaker 04

  Oh, really?

• 10:32Speaker 02

  I loved mess. Oh yeah. We, we loved messing around with all that stuff. It was so fun. So watching this film, like the squash portion was like so just like, oh my gosh, this is hitting home right now.

• 10:43Speaker 04

  Yeah. I know. It's, it is a thing. I think, uh, a lot of, a lot of kids do. It certainly did kind of growing up and, and that's, you know, I definitely related to that part of the story. You know, when you're that age and you're talking to your friends, like we, we could do this. We should do this.

• 11:02Travis Kelce?

  You see us on the screen?

• 11:04Speaker 04

  People would freak out if they saw how good these videos are that we're making.

• 11:10Speaker 04

  I'm really glad that they're not on YouTube because I now it's like these are on watch.

• 11:17Travis Kelce?

  That's that was the fun of it though, because Jason's Jason's the same way. His was on the old school like family cam quarter or like the school cam quarter that he used. So this is like ancient artifact like you it sends somebody's parents storage that they just pop out every like few like decades and it's just like.

• 11:33Speaker 02

  Unless your dad records Law and Order over top. Which legitimately, we have family, a family video. All of it just cuts to the Law and Order intro in the middle of it. Like dad, are you?

• 11:50Travis Kelce?

  So good, man.

• 11:52Speaker 04

  Well, my wife was pregnant with our son, Jack, who you guys know.

• 11:58Travis Kelce?

  My god.

• 11:59Speaker 04

  Julie watch watches so much Law and Order, like it's on a loop all day, all the time. And then once when Jack was a baby, when Law and Order would come on, I mean, he couldn't even walk. He's like on the couch, kind of half sleeping when the dun dun dun dun, he would just pop up. And he was so used to kind of when he was inside hearing that theme. It was like a dog whistle for him.

• 12:30Travis Kelce?

  So good. It is a catchy tune, man. It is. You and Jack Black star in this thing. In terms of like how it came together for your guys' role, did you guys come together on this? Or did you take it to him? Did he take it to you? Did the did the writers already have this kind of like mapped out that that they wanted you guys to take this role on together or what?

• 12:51Speaker 04

  I got sent this script and I read it and thought it was really smart and funny and I hadn't really seen anything quite like it. But it was kind of still a work in progress. So I started kind of trying to work with them and start to develop it a little bit more with them. They were writing it. I didn't. I didn't write any of it, but we had talked about it for months and months and I was real gung ho to do it and.

• 13:18Speaker 04

  Something else had come up and it wasn't really set up. And then I got this message that, oh, Jack Black read it and he wants to do it. And I, I've worked with Jack a couple of times, but never like this. And we've done little bits, you know, in things in the past. And I really, I mean, I love Jack. He's the greatest, as we all know. And so I thought, oh, I gotta call him. Because if he's doing it, I really like this is, it would be so much fun. And so we were talking on the phone and we're kind of, yeah, all right, you're gonna do it. Yes, let's do it. And we talked for like a good 15 minutes. And, and then he, and he goes, oh, yeah. And then when you do this

• 14:02Speaker 04

  and this, and I'm doing this and this. And I realized as he say, like, wait a minute, which part were you thinking, thinking which?

• 14:13Speaker 04

  I was playing the director Doug, which is, he goes, I was gonna play Doug. I saw you as Griff. I said, oh, I was imagining, I was talking to you were Griff. I saw you. He's like, oh, I was, and I was like, ma, just play Griff. And then

• 14:29Speaker 04

  literally how it happened. We just like, all right, I'll just play that part. So we made this decision, never consulting the director.

• 14:38Speaker 04

  Not the right thing to do, but, but that's how, that's how it happened. And I think that we were both really excited at the idea of working together because, you know, we've talked about it for a long time. And I'm the number one Jack Black fan. So

• 14:54Travis Kelce?

  So fucking cool. I've always thought Jason had a little Jack Black in him.

• 14:57Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 14:57Speaker 02

  You know, I've been a fan of Jack for a long time.

• 14:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, no, you guys are kind of, you guys are kind of cut from the same cloth, I think. You have, you have that.

• 15:05Speaker 02

  I wish I had an ounce of that guy's talent, creativity.

• 15:09Speaker 04

  You do too, Travis. There's like kind of a, there's a, there's an alpha quality, but there's just like a good, there's like a good time Charlie thing built in, kind of hardwired in, in you guys. And, but Jack is on a whole other level.

• 15:24Travis Kelce?

  Like he's on another stratosphere.

• 15:25Speaker 04

  I remember seeing him, he, his first movie was this movie called Bob Roberts.

• 15:30Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 15:30Speaker 04

  This is in the nineties and I went to go see it. It's a Tim Robbins movie. And he was just, it was his first thing. He was like a small part, but I remember vividly, I'm like, who is that guy? Cause he was so Psycho and funny and, and he just played a guy who was just really into the politician, Bob Roberts. And, and, and God, a few weeks after I saw it, I had an audition and I went to this audition. There was like one other guy in the waiting room, waiting to audition and it was him. And I was like, oh, I got completely starstruck and like, hey, man, um, I just saw Bob Roberts. You're the guy from Bob Roberts, right? He's like, yep.

• 16:13Speaker 04

  And I said, you, you were so funny in that, oh my God. And meanwhile, and I gotta, we're auditioning for the same part. There's no way I'm getting close to this thing. It's going to this talent machine. Neither one of us got the part, but

• 16:28Speaker 04

  that was the first time that I met him. Yeah. I mean, that was probably, God, that was 30 years ago. Yeah.

• 16:35Speaker 02

  He doesn't feel like he's changed either. He feels like he's the same guy, which is like impressive to like maintain that level of energy throughout your entire career.

• 16:43Speaker 04

  It's really wild. I mean, we, you know, to be with him and you're just kind of like out in public, when people see him, they freak out, you know? It's like, it's like meeting a beetle or something. They're just

• 16:56Speaker 04

  to see Jack Black out in the wild. And everyone that kind of goes to, over to him and talks to him, he gives them a Jack Black experience. He's just, he just, he is, he's just pure goodness and energy. And yeah, I'm, I, I love the guy.

• 17:12Travis Kelce?

  And it seems effortless, man. It just, it oozes out of him, man. It's so smooth.

• 17:16Speaker 04

  Yeah. And, and you know, I'm sure it's like, he's got insecurities or fears or self-conscious about what, but he just, you would never know if he does, he just doesn't show it. He's just kind of, he really is about laughs and a good time and, and rocking and rocking hard. Cause he's, if he wasn't an actor, he's a rock, he is a rock star.

• 17:40Speaker 02

  Life's a good time in rocking is what this movie does. And they also gave us one of our new terms I had never heard. Buffalo sober? Is that a real term? Is that, did you guys invent that?

• 17:50Speaker 04

  Yeah, we're set. We live in Buffalo. And Steve Zahn plays a guy who's maybe, maybe had wrestled with some demons, has had some, you know?

• 18:02Speaker 04

  He's decided to really, he does, he's decided to really clean up his act finally. And so I asked, sober? And he says, yes, but he's, he's Buffalo sober, which means just beer and wine. And maybe a few, a few.

• 18:17Travis Kelce?

  Light.

• 18:19Speaker 02

  Lighter.

• 18:20Speaker 04

  Lighter liquor.

• 18:22Travis Kelce?

  Not all of them.

• 18:24Speaker 02

  I kinda wanna go Buffalo sober. I'm kinda in the Buffalo sober. This sounds great.

• 18:28Speaker 04

  We were driving the director and it was crazy because every time we would do that scene, he goes, Buffalo sober. And we just keep going, Buffalo sober.

• 18:35Speaker 02

  In the heart of America.

• 18:40Speaker 02

  That's great.

• 18:41Travis Kelce?

  What would the equivalent to, to Kansas City sober be? What would that be?

• 18:46Speaker 04

  Kansas City sober? Just Boulevard.

• 18:51Travis Kelce?

  Nice. Just Boulevard. And Rieger. Just Boulevard.

• 18:55Speaker 04

  That's right. Only local brews.

• 18:58Travis Kelce?

  Only Logan. You can only have Rieger when you're eating barbecue.

• 19:01Speaker 04

  That's right.

• 19:01Travis Kelce?

  There you go.

• 19:04Travis Kelce?

  Jason, what do you got? Philly sober?

• 19:05Speaker 04

  Oh, like there is such a thing.

• 19:07Speaker 02

  The citywide special, I think it's a shot of Jim Beam and a PBR, a canned PBR.

• 19:13Travis Kelce?

  Delicious.

• 19:13Speaker 02

  You should be able to get that anywhere in the city. You should be able to get that for like a dollar or something like that. Maybe it was two bucks. I don't know if that's still out there, but that was the citywide special for a long time. So.

• 19:22Travis Kelce?

  If you're looking to get out of a hole in Philly.

• 19:24Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 19:24Travis Kelce?

  There you go.

• 19:26Speaker 02

  Or go into a hole.

• 19:28Speaker 04

  Head over to Pat's.

• 19:30Speaker 02

  Patrigino's, Angelo's.

• 19:32Speaker 04

  Their gyms.

• 19:33Travis Kelce?

  There's a Tony is in there too. There's a Tony Luke's, I think it's called.

• 19:37Speaker 02

  Tony Luke's. Yeah. I mean, pretty much any Italian name and put cheesesteak after it. And it's probably cheesesteak in Philadelphia. Yeah. We did prep some questions for Jack. Do you mind answering for him as him?

• 19:49Speaker 04

  Sure. Yeah.

• 19:51Speaker 02

  All right. All right. What was it like to work with Paul?

• 19:53Speaker 04

  He sucks.

• 19:58Speaker 02

  Perfect.

• 19:58Speaker 04

  All right. A real diva. Pain in the ass.

• 20:03Speaker 04

  Always checking his hair, making sure he has the most lines. I hated him.

• 20:08Travis Kelce?

  He actually wanted to play Doug. Did he tell you that?

• 20:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, I tried to steal my part.

• 20:16Travis Kelce?

  So, uh, Jack, you went to high school with Maya Rudolph. What was, uh, what was that like growing up with Maya?

• 20:23Speaker 04

  It was, uh, it was in, it was incredible. She was, she was all over me and

• 20:34Speaker 04

  it was a little hard. She was always funny. I always really liked her. I would always, uh, I think it was that she would always hear me singing many Riperton songs who that, that's her mom. And, uh, because I'm such a great singer, uh, I was always in key and I'd hit that high C. And, uh, I don't know, it triggered something in her. So she was just always, uh, hanging around. It got awkward all through our twenties, but we're good now. We're cool.

• 21:02Speaker 02

  Jack, your parents, uh, Judith and Thomas were actual rocket scientists. How did they react when you told them you wanted to be an actor?

• 21:08Speaker 04

  They knew that I wasn't going to really be able to do much of anything else.

• 21:14Speaker 04

  They were just happy to kind of get me out of the house and focused on something. Really all I wanted to do was, uh, play video games and listen to Led Zeppelin and ACDC uh, in my room. So when I said I wanted to do something, it, I, I honestly, it's like I could have said, I wanted to be, you know, uh, a tax collector. I wanted to be a dog walker. I want to be, they just said, yeah, great. We support you. We support you. Get out, get out of the house. We're rocket scientists for God's sake. Obviously these kinds of brains are not genetic.

• 21:50Travis Kelce?

  That was fucking perfect. Golly. The funniest quote from my dad when I got drafted was that, "Both my kids have a job. I've done my part."

• 22:04Speaker 02

  Well, that's it.

• 22:05Travis Kelce?

  It's like, that's all there was to it. I won. Good luck. Thank you to our sponsor, American Express.

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• 22:20Travis Kelce?

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• 22:38Travis Kelce?

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• 22:45Speaker 02

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• 22:54Travis Kelce?

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• 23:04Speaker 02

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• 23:09Travis Kelce?

  It's time to thank our partner.

• 23:11Speaker 02

  Who's that?

• 23:12Travis Kelce?

  Reese's, or Reese's, however you like to call it. I'm pretty sure they would like us to say Reese's. So we're gonna say Reese's and their perfect holiday companion. Their Reese's Trees.

• 23:23Speaker 02

  Oh, they are so good. Nothing says the holiday like Reese's. Perfect peanut butter stuffed chocolate trees. They might be the best holiday candy ever. It's up for debate. Every holiday tradition is better when you add Reese's Trees.

• 23:37Travis Kelce?

  Holiday movies?

• 23:38Speaker 02

  Yeah. I mean, those go definitely better with Reese's Trees.

• 23:41Travis Kelce?

  Ugly sweater parties?

• 23:43Speaker 02

  I mean, who doesn't like chocolate stains all over their ugly sweater?

• 23:47Travis Kelce?

  I do skipping the ugly sweater party to watch football in your sweats instead.

• 23:53Speaker 02

  I mean, that's a no brainer. Of course.

• 23:56Travis Kelce?

  I mean, you throw on that ugly sweater anyways. Yeah. So celebrate the season with peanut butter perfection and be sure to grab Reese's trees today. Jason, why don't you tell them where to get them from?

• 24:07Speaker 02

  Well, it's found wherever candy is sold. Literally, you can find it everywhere.

• 24:13Travis Kelce?

  I think I called you Jason.

• 24:14Speaker 02

  Jason, Jason. All right, Gillette. Thank you to our partner Gillette.

• 24:20Travis Kelce?

  All right now, Jason, you've been retired for a full year. Uh, let's talk pregame rituals. Do you miss them? Still have them?

• 24:28Speaker 02

  I kind of have one, I guess, for Monday night countdown. Like I kind of, I go do the, uh, production meeting. Then I kind of iron out what's happening in the rundown. Then I go to the makeup lady. Then I go to the hair and, uh, then I go on set.

• 24:43Travis Kelce?

  Just curious to see if you were putting that same game day energy into your, uh, new broadcasting routine. That's all.

• 24:49Speaker 02

  Well, first and foremost, it includes making sure that this beard is looking real nice, which is finally starting to show some of my grays again. After dying it, I'm getting those natural colors back. Thank you. Thanks so much. Um, but yeah, I have, uh, some, some grooming individuals that make sure it's looking nice and tidy.

• 25:11Travis Kelce?

  If you were looking for a tool to help wrangle it in a little bit, look no further than Gillette Labs NFL licensed razor.

• 25:19Speaker 02

  Special edition razors have those long lasting Gillette Labs blades and the precision trimmer on the back. It's perfect for cleaning up this guy.

• 25:28Travis Kelce?

  Nice. I hear it's a must have for NFL fans this season and clearly you too.

• 25:35Speaker 02

  Sold available now 12 teams, including the Eagles and Chiefs. Get it while you can at Gillette.com slash NFL. Gillette, the best a fan can get.

• 25:46Travis Kelce?

  All right now, next segment, we're gonna do a little does Paul know ball, baby?

• 25:50Speaker 02

  Does Paul know ball?

• 25:52Travis Kelce?

  Our staff plays a game which wastes a lot of their time. It's called the NFL Harry Pick'em. You'll be given teams at random and have to select one player from the team to add to a fantasy lineup. All right, so you get points for their best fantasy season. And the goal is to get the most points possible. Make sense?

• 26:14Speaker 04

  No, I wasn't paying attention, but I'll figure it out.

• 26:17Travis Kelce?

  Basically, you just want to pick the best fantasy lineup.

• 26:19Speaker 04

  Yeah, I got you. Got you. Okay.

• 26:22Travis Kelce?

  So you get you get quarterback, running back, wide, two wide receivers, a tight end and two flexes. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, you could pick anybody from their roster.

• 26:32Speaker 04

  Anybody. Okay. And then so like if I were to go.

• 26:34Travis Kelce?

  Oh, no, no, no, no. You just you just pick the team? I don't even know how this goes.

• 26:38Speaker 02

  No, no, no.

• 26:39Speaker 04

  You're gonna pick a player. A quarterback throughout history from the Buccaneers.

• 26:43Speaker 02

  Correct.

• 26:44Speaker 04

  And so if I'm taking Tom Brady, the Pat, the Patriots stats don't count. It has to be when he was with the Buccaneers?

• 26:51Travis Kelce?

  I think he might have had his best season in Tampa Bay though.

• 26:54Speaker 02

  That'll that's true.

• 26:55Speaker 04

  Really? And then it's like.

• 26:57Travis Kelce?

  That's the name of the game. You gotta fight does Paul know ball?

• 27:01Speaker 04

  You know, Doug Williams, Doug Williams, I don't know if any of those stats were compiled for fantasy back in that day. I'll go with um.

• 27:09Speaker 02

  You can also go running back, receiver.

• 27:11Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, you can.

• 27:11Speaker 02

  You don't have to go quarterback.

• 27:12Travis Kelce?

  You don't have to go quarterback.

• 27:13Speaker 02

  Whatever. Like if there's a better.

• 27:15Speaker 04

  Oh, I got you. Oh, it's not the whole team. Oh, I see. I got you.

• 27:20Speaker 02

  Only offensive players though, so you can't take that great defense. They won the Super Bowl.

• 27:25Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 27:27Speaker 04

  Oh, man. I'll go uh, I'll go uh, Mike Evans for.

• 27:32Speaker 02

  There we go. Love it. Love it. Great pick.

• 27:35Travis Kelce?

  All knows ball. New York Football Giants.

• 27:39Speaker 04

  New York Football Giants.

• 27:43Speaker 04

  I'll go Giants. Oh, there's no defense in there, is there?

• 27:48Speaker 02

  No.

• 27:49Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 27:54Speaker 02

  Travis would go.

• 27:56Speaker 04

  Who Jeremy Shockey?

• 27:57Travis Kelce?

  I love the Shockey, man. Shockey was my guy.

• 28:01Speaker 02

  I knew you were going Shockey.

• 28:02Travis Kelce?

  You might want to take a flex.

• 28:03Speaker 04

  Got OBJ in there, of course.

• 28:06Speaker 02

  OBJ. I like OBJ.

• 28:08Speaker 04

  I'm gonna go OBJ in my flex.

• 28:11Travis Kelce?

  Odell Beckham Jr., baby.

• 28:15Travis Kelce?

  Early in primal.

• 28:16Speaker 02

  Indianapolis Colts.

• 28:20Speaker 04

  I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, um, oh, man.

• 28:27Speaker 02

  What to do?

• 28:27Speaker 04

  I mean, here's where I'm way, um, here's my, I'm weighing between Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison.

• 28:33Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 28:34Travis Kelce?

  It's tough. Peyton did set the record.

• 28:37Speaker 04

  I'm gonna go Peyton Manning.

• 28:39Travis Kelce?

  When he was in Denver.

• 28:40Speaker 02

  Take the quarterback when you can get him. You don't want to be stuck all of a sudden here. Yeah. That's where you go.

• 28:46Speaker 04

  Peyton Manning.

• 28:47Speaker 02

  The sheriff.

• 28:49Travis Kelce?

  The sheriff.

• 28:51Speaker 04

  Seattle Seahawks. Uh, I'll go Sean Alexander running back.

• 28:55Speaker 02

  Ooh, great pick. Yes, Paul knows ball.

• 28:59Speaker 04

  Cardinals. I'm gonna go Larry Fitzgerald.

• 29:02Travis Kelce?

  Yes. The hardened pride of the Big East.

• 29:08Speaker 02

  Pittsburgh. Denver Broncos.

• 29:12Speaker 04

  Denver Broncos.

• 29:15Speaker 04

  I will go, uh, Terrell Davis in that last flex spot.

• 29:19Travis Kelce?

  Ooh, TD.

• 29:21Speaker 02

  Coming down to tight end.

• 29:23Speaker 04

  All right.

• 29:23Speaker 02

  Wouldn't it be all too coincidental the Kansas City Chiefs showed up?

• 29:28Speaker 04

  All right. I hope so.

• 29:30Speaker 02

  Right.

• 29:32Speaker 04

  Cause I got two great picks for that.

• 29:34Speaker 02

  You say, oh, there we go. You can go multiple, go multiple directions in that.

• 29:39Speaker 04

  He's not.

• 29:40Speaker 02

  How is Terrell Davis not an option?

• 29:42Speaker 04

  Oh, it doesn't go back to, let's.

• 29:44Speaker 02

  They got a bunch of running backs there that you could go.

• 29:46Travis Kelce?

  Clinton Portis.

• 29:47Speaker 04

  Portis did have a, uh, some.

• 29:49Travis Kelce?

  Peyton Hillis.

• 29:51Speaker 02

  Oh, you go, uh, you could go tight end here, tight end here.

• 29:55Speaker 04

  Peyton Hillis had his big year in, uh, Cleveland.

• 29:58Speaker 02

  He did.

• 29:58Travis Kelce?

  He did. Yeah. Made the mat.

• 30:00Speaker 04

  You can go Shannon Sharp in there too.

• 30:02Speaker 02

  Shannon Sharp, yep.

• 30:04Travis Kelce?

  You can always go Unc.

• 30:06Speaker 04

  Who?

• 30:07Travis Kelce?

  Unc, Shannon Sharp. Oh, yeah. I call him Unc. Like my uncle.

• 30:10Speaker 04

  Oh, right, right. Of course. Um, I'll go Clinton Portis. Clinton Portis.

• 30:15Travis Kelce?

  That's a solid. That's a solid.

• 30:17Speaker 02

  Very, very good pick.

• 30:20Travis Kelce?

  Oh, Billy for tight end, baby.

• 30:25Speaker 04

  I mean, I think.

• 30:27Speaker 02

  There's only three choices.

• 30:30Travis Kelce?

  We got Chad Lewis. Brent Sedgwick.

• 30:34Speaker 04

  All these guys.

• 30:35Travis Kelce?

  Baby.

• 30:39Speaker 04

  Oh, man. Earth.

• 30:42Travis Kelce?

  Earthy, man.

• 30:43Speaker 04

  Those are good choices.

• 30:44Travis Kelce?

  Earthy, baby.

• 30:45Speaker 04

  I'm going Earth.

• 30:46Speaker 02

  And that's the right statistical choice.

• 30:48Travis Kelce?

  He still has the record for all time catches is a tight end.

• 30:51Speaker 02

  This is a great team.

• 30:52Travis Kelce?

  Dude, this is a solid fantasy.

• 30:53Speaker 02

  What is, I don't even know what we're looking at. What is, is that a good score?

• 30:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:58Travis Kelce?

  Oh, no ball. What was the score? What was the score?

• 31:00Speaker 02

  Two thousand two hundred and sixty nine point nine.

• 31:03Travis Kelce?

  Oh, no ball.

• 31:05Speaker 02

  Oh, no ball.

• 31:07Speaker 04

  You know what it is? Here's, here's the thing. The flex, those are the ones that probably lowered me a little bit.

• 31:13Speaker 02

  Look at how much Portis and Odell got you.

• 31:16Travis Kelce?

  That's a crazy amount.

• 31:17Speaker 02

  Easter.

• 31:18Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:18Speaker 02

  Like they were more than Mike Evans was, which is crazy to think about.

• 31:22Travis Kelce?

  Crazy to even think about like that.

• 31:23Speaker 02

  So it's only off of their best season. That's what is, it looks like. It was off of one season.

• 31:28Speaker 04

  I was thinking about when also, you know, Doug Martin had a really great season at running back for, in the, for the Bucks.

• 31:35Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 31:36Speaker 02

  All right.

• 31:36Travis Kelce?

  Doug Martin had one for sure. Yeah.

• 31:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:38Travis Kelce?

  One hundred percent. He was a fucking running through shit.

• 31:41Speaker 02

  I would have gone freaking, uh, uh, oh my gosh, Mike Alstott. That was my freaking, I loved.

• 31:47Travis Kelce?

  Four, four, baby.

• 31:48Speaker 04

  He's a bowling ball.

• 31:49Travis Kelce?

  Just, yeah. Might not, might not add the fantasy points, but.

• 31:52Speaker 02

  He's not gonna give me many points in the game, but yeah, it'll be good.

• 31:55Travis Kelce?

  What are these for intimidation?

• 31:58Speaker 02

  Well, Paul does indeed no ball.

• 32:00Travis Kelce?

  He does. Well done, baby.

• 32:02Speaker 04

  Thanks, guys.

• 32:03Travis Kelce?

  And now we get into our last segment. Before we get you out of here, it's called, we gotta ask, brother. And it's, uh, questions that we feel like we have to ask you and you can just either answer them or tell us to fuck off.

• 32:14Speaker 04

  All right.

• 32:15Travis Kelce?

  As a brother and a Chiefs fan, I love you. I'm sorry, but how are you feeling as a Chiefs fan right now?

• 32:19Speaker 04

  Ah, I'm thinking about you, brother.

• 32:22Travis Kelce?

  Ah, I know. You shot me the text. I appreciate you, man.

• 32:25Speaker 04

  I am so happy to be a Chiefs fan. The joy.

• 32:31Speaker 04

  And the memories and everything that the Chiefs have given me with my family, with my kid, it's been an embarrassment of riches. And it's just right now. It's like this, you know what? This wasn't the year, but that's okay. I know it's tough. I'm excited for whoever does it for their fan base that they get to share the same kind of things that I got to share with my son, for all three of those victories. And even the losses, you know, it's, it's the, it's the best. So I'm, I'm thinking about Patrick. I'm wishing him a speedy recovery and everything for the club. But I, I'm okay. And I'm excited. You know what? I'm excited for some of the players to get maybe a little bit of a summer vacation. I

• 33:15Speaker 04

  mean, my God, it's like you've, you've played an extra season of football compared to everyone else. And so I'm like, oh, good. You get a break and a chance to kind of rest up. And so, yeah, I'm not too, too upset.

• 33:30Travis Kelce?

  I appreciate you having that positive mindset. The, uh, the Chiefs Kingdom, baby. We, uh, we love you and we're, we're always working our tail off for you. Obviously this year, man, all those close one point or one score games and stuff like that just didn't end our way, man. But, uh, we're, we're still rocking and rolling, man.

• 33:46Speaker 04

  It's a, I mean, it's a great team. And you know, you guys, it's, it, look, it's, it's tough. It's a tough thing to sustain. And sometimes something goes your way. Sometimes you score a touchdown and they call a fan a face mask.

• 33:58Travis Kelce?

  Crazy, crazy.

• 34:01Speaker 04

  There's lots of things that happen and it happens to every team, not just, you know, but, um, it's, it's a game of inches. It's all right. You know?

• 34:09Travis Kelce?

  We still got three coming though, that we're gonna have some fun and make sure that we represent everybody that, uh, that, that shows up every week like you do. And, um, and yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna finish this thing off the right way with some integrity, baby.

• 34:21Speaker 04

  You're the best.

• 34:22Speaker 02

  One of your first jobs was as a bar mitzvah DJ.

• 34:25Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 34:26Speaker 02

  What was on the playlist?

• 34:28Speaker 04

  Uh, great question. I mean, you got shout from Animal House, classic.

• 34:34Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 34:35Speaker 04

  And then, and then there was also, uh, here we come now singing moany, moany. And then all the kids, there was this moment, they say, get laid, get fucked.

• 34:54Speaker 04

  Let's go.

• 34:56Speaker 02

  What did I just hear?

• 35:00Speaker 04

  There was that, there was also, uh, can't touch this.

• 35:05Travis Kelce?

  Oh, classic.

• 35:05Speaker 04

  And then you gotta sprinkle on top, round it out with a little, I'm too sexy for my shirt.

• 35:13Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 35:14Speaker 04

  Right set Fred.

• 35:17Speaker 02

  That is a heck of a playlist right there. That would get me going.

• 35:20Travis Kelce?

  You're getting, you're getting this going right now.

• 35:22Speaker 04

  Playlist will guarantee a mediocre party.

• 35:32Speaker 02

  Get laid, get fucked.

• 35:34Travis Kelce?

  It's hilarious.

• 35:39Travis Kelce?

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• 35:42Speaker 02

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• 35:46Travis Kelce?

  That's true. Otherwise you're just out there running cardio. Can't get open for a big play.

• 35:53Speaker 02

  But it's not just football. There's a lot of things you need to prevent before they start.

• 35:57Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, like in your mouth.

• 35:59Speaker 02

  My mouth specifically?

• 36:01Travis Kelce?

  I mean, probably yours too, but I'm talking everybody's mouth. There's bacteria in there that can lead to oral health problems like cavities, gingivitis.

• 36:12Speaker 02

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• 36:23Travis Kelce?

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• 36:31Speaker 02

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• 36:38Travis Kelce?

  Now that's the squad you want fighting for your mouth.

• 36:41Speaker 02

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• 36:49Travis Kelce?

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• 36:52Speaker 02

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• 36:55Travis Kelce?

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• 37:06Travis Kelce?

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• 37:19Travis Kelce?

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• 37:25Speaker 02

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• 38:02Travis Kelce?

  Dude, you're in the upcoming Avenger Doomsday.

• 38:05Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 38:06Travis Kelce?

  Which is fucking badass, man.

• 38:07Speaker 02

  We don't want to get you.

• 38:08Speaker 04

  I'll tell you everything.

• 38:09Travis Kelce?

  I was gonna say. But basically, can you tell us the plot?

• 38:15Speaker 04

  I'll be honest, I'm not really sure what it is.

• 38:20Speaker 02

  All right.

• 38:21Travis Kelce?

  This is welcome to Hollywood, baby. We're all just making it up as we go.

• 38:26Speaker 02

  Is it true your character in Anchorman named one of his testicles after the real life owner of Char Bar in Kansas City?

• 38:33Speaker 04

  That's absolutely right.

• 38:35Travis Kelce?

  No way. Way to keep it home.

• 38:42Speaker 04

  So my, uh, my left testicle, not my right one.

• 38:47Speaker 04

  My left one is named James Westfall, who also happened to be my roommate in college. What?

• 38:54Travis Kelce?

  Oh, that's so cool.

• 38:55Speaker 04

  Also my roommate. Yeah. And so my goal was that I would say, you know, name check them. And then he would just go see the movie and say, what? Oh.

• 39:10Speaker 04

  Kind of what happened. The best now is like, yeah, he owns Char Bar as well as, you know, beer kitchen, like a few restaurants in Kansas City.

• 39:18Travis Kelce?

  Awesome ones. Right there in Westport, man. They're awesome restaurants.

• 39:21Speaker 04

  Awesome restaurants. And by the way, the Burnin's at Char Bar.

• 39:24Travis Kelce?

  Ooh, even though I like the wings too.

• 39:27Speaker 04

  Oh, great. Great. Yeah.

• 39:28Travis Kelce?

  You're getting the whole wing.

• 39:30Speaker 04

  And, uh, and so it's fun when he still, you know, has to do business with people. And, and then he introduces his name. He's like, I'm James Westfall. And he says, sometimes there's like a, just a pause and then some, then they'll say, have you, have you ever seen Anchorman?

• 39:50Speaker 04

  And then he gets to say, I have, and I'm the actual ball.

• 39:56Travis Kelce?

  That's so fucking good.

• 39:58Speaker 04

  That's the most fun part of doing this is embarrassing your friends by naming your nutsack.

• 40:09Speaker 04

  That's why I would do it.

• 40:10Speaker 02

  True friendship right there, man.

• 40:11Travis Kelce?

  Absolutely classic. You own a candy store called Samuel's Sweet Shop. Give, give us your Mount Rushmore candy from that store.

• 40:22Speaker 04

  Ooh, that's a great question. So, uh, my favorite candy is a seasonal candy that we have, although they've kind of laid back in the last couple of years and haven't made them, but it's a sour Santa. Sour Santa. It's like a cherry sour candy. But it's like the perfect, it's a gummy candy. But it's, it's like the perfect consistency gummy candy can be, you know, there's a wide range of like, you know, it's the right firmness and all that. You know. The great cherry taste, but with not with a nice aftertaste. That was my favorite. So I go with the, I go with the sour Santas. We do a thing called Claude Hoppers,

• 41:07Speaker 04

  which is like a peanut butter, chocolate, pretzel mix. All right. In these bags and it's, those are my two favorites, but we also do these like licorice laces and we'll do sour laces and we do a grape one. That's really nice. And then, uh, yeah, I'd say the laces are, are, I put those three. That's my, that's my, that's my rush more.

• 41:30Speaker 02

  So are you more of a sour guy or a sweet guy? You're showing a lot of sour.

• 41:33Speaker 04

  I like, I like fucking everything.

• 41:39Speaker 04

  I have like the tastes of a nine year old.

• 41:44Speaker 04

  Like little kid candy and I love chocolate.

• 41:49Speaker 04

  And yeah, I like it all. Were you a big Warhead fan growing up? I liked Warheads. I think those, yeah, when it's really, really sour and put them on your tongue, see how long you can stand it. Make your eyes water. Yeah. All natural ingredients in Warhead. People don't know that.

• 42:07Speaker 04

  This is a little bit of plutonium. Hot tamales, Mike and Ice, Spree's. I liked all that garbage. Bottle caps. That's an old school. Buying me up.

• 42:16Speaker 02

  Do you have a welcome to Hollywood moment, Paul?

• 42:19Speaker 04

  Yeah, I have a, I have a few.

• 42:22Speaker 02

  I don't know. Something that made you be like, you know, I'm here. I'm, I'm in Hollywood.

• 42:26Speaker 04

  The very first week I got to.

• 42:31Speaker 04

  I got to California. I live in New York now, but I went to an acting school. I went from KU to this acting school. And the first week I was there, I went, I was at like some restaurant and I saw an actor named Courtney Gaines, who was the redheaded guy in Children of the Corn, Children for the Corn. Wow. And he was also in Hard Bodies. And his big scene in Hard Bodies was, he could flip you off in 41 different languages. That's a banger. And I'm like, damn, that's Courtney Gaines over there. So there was like, I knew I wasn't in Kansas anymore. There you go, Dorothy. There it is.

• 43:13Speaker 04

  And then I got, and then I got, I got an audition, one of my very first, very first auditions, to play kind of like this tough dude. And I hadn't really been on an audition before, but I heard this story that when Danny DeVito auditioned for the role of Louis De Palma in Taxi, that he went into the room with all the people and said, who wrote this? And it was garbage. He threw it down. He jumped on the table. He didn't really audition. He just was the guy. And he was hilarious. And they all laughed. And I remember hearing that going, that's how you get, that's how you get a job. You don't do what you want you to do. You do. And so I went, I went to this casting director's

• 43:56Speaker 04

  office and it's just me and this woman, nice woman, behind her desk. And I'm like, and she goes, hello. I go, yeah. I felt so uncomfortable. I'm trying to be tough. And she said, so did you get the pages? Uh huh. And you've been working on it? Yeah. Yeah. She's like, okay. Well, start whatever you want. And I had a cigarette. I didn't light it. I didn't smoke either, but I had it as like a prop. And then in the scene of where, and then I threw it on the ground. I stubbed it out into her carpet. And then it was over. She said, okay, thank you. And I left. And I left and I was driving back and I thought,

• 44:41Speaker 04

  I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna get that job. I had an agent, it's like my first agent. And I got back and she called me and she just said, what happened?

• 44:56Speaker 04

  And I told her and she just said, well, I guess you've got to learn.

• 45:03Speaker 04

  Welcome to Hollywood. This is not how you do it.

• 45:05Speaker 02

  That is incredible.

• 45:09Speaker 04

  I was driving back just picturing her or her assistant. She's like pulling tobacco out of the carpet.

• 45:14Speaker 02

  She's like, what the fuck just happened? This guy just came in here and threw a cigarette? He didn't read a single line.

• 45:24Travis Kelce?

  Oh man, my face fucking hurts. God damn it. That was gold.

• 45:28Speaker 02

  That was awesome.

• 45:28Travis Kelce?

  Tell the family we said Merry Christmas and, uh, and, and you know, uh, we'll keep the, the good fight going with the Chiefs, but thank you for coming on and everybody make sure you check out Anaconda in theaters this Christmas.

• 45:40Speaker 04

  Thank you for having me back. I love you guys. Happy, uh, holidays. Merry Christmas. Your families. Yeah. Have a, a great rest of the season and always, as always, I just want to say, you know, you guys support Children's Mercy Hospital and Big Slick, the, the event that we do in Kansas City, you always have and you know, you know how much Philadelphia and Kansas City love you guys, but they don't love you just for the players you are. They love you for the guys you are. You're the best. I love you so much. Thanks again for having me on your show.

• 46:10Travis Kelce?

  Love you, man.

• 46:11Speaker 02

  Complete honor. Thank you, brother.

• 46:13Speaker 04

  Love you too. See you guys.

• 46:16Speaker 02

  That wraps up another episode of New Heights. Thank you to Paul Revere joining us. Reminder, if you haven't checked out the latest episode of New Heights Film Club that dropped last Friday, where we review Home Alone with the one and only Kylie Kelsey. It is available and out now, so go check it out. We've also got a full holiday spectacular with Kylie Kelsey dropping this Wednesday on Christmas Eve. Don't miss that. Make sure you subscribe to the New Heights channel on YouTube and follow New Heights on the Wondery app or wherever you use your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes of New Heights ad free right now by joining Wondery Plus and Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.

• 46:49Travis Kelce?

  Man, that was a lot for Jason right there. I'll close it out with a little shorter segment here. Once again, New Heights, a Wondery show. Follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with what as for fun clips throughout the week of this amazing episode with Paul Rudd. Thank you to Paul Rudd and happy Hanukkah. Sorry, I wish you a Merry Christmas. Thanks to all the New Heights production team and thank you to you 92 percenters. Hope you guys have a happy holidays, whether it's Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or you're just celebrating that you love people around this time of the year.

• 47:30Speaker 02

  It's really only their best season and it's all like.

• 47:33Speaker 06

  It's their best season ever with that team.

• 47:36Speaker 02

  And with fantasy touchdowns count for more.

• 47:39Speaker 06

  Yes, yeah.

• 47:41Speaker 02

  Typically, like.

• 47:42Travis Kelce?

  I mean, that all it all definitely counts like.

• 47:46Speaker 06

  All right, Jason, give it a whirl. Give it a whirl. Good roll. I'll hit restart for you.

• 47:48Speaker 02

  Jaguars?

• 47:49Travis Kelce?

  There's only one. There's only one.

• 47:54Travis Kelce?

  And you gotta take them.

• 47:56Speaker 06

  Blake Bortles.

• 48:05Speaker 02

  Gosh dang. I mean, I feel like you gotta take Fred Taylor, right? Like, I don't know who else.

• 48:11Travis Kelce?

  I mean, you can.

• 48:13Speaker 02

  Maurice Jones Drew. Trying to think of who else with the Jaguars.

• 48:22Speaker 06

  Fournette, ETN, Bigsby, QBs, you got Bortles, Burnell, Garard, Lawrence.

• 48:28Speaker 02

  I'm not taking any of the, I'm not taking any of the QBs in that list.

• 48:31Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 48:33Speaker 02

  Go to receivers.

• 48:45Speaker 02

  You also can skip one team. You can skip a team? I'm skipping the Jaguars. Okay.

• 48:49Travis Kelce?

  That wasn't very smart. Maurice Jones drew.

• 48:52Speaker 02

  MJD?

• 48:52Travis Kelce?

  Nuts as a flex.

• 48:54Speaker 02

  Chargers.

• 48:57Speaker 02

  LT. Does that count even though it's San Diego? Running back?

• 49:02Travis Kelce?

  No, it 100% counts.

• 49:03Speaker 02

  Alright, I'll go LT. I don't know that it matters, right? LT's one of the best picks.

• 49:07Travis Kelce?

  LT's the greatest pick you could have ever got.

• 49:13Speaker 02

  Dolphins, can I go damn Marino or is that pre, it's too old? Too old. Alright, um.

• 49:20Travis Kelce?

  Dude.

• 49:21Speaker 02

  Uh.

• 49:23Travis Kelce?

  I don't know how you're even still thinking about this.

• 49:26Speaker 02

  How I'm thinking about it?

• 49:27Travis Kelce?

  Jason doesn't know ball.

• 49:29Speaker 02

  I don't know ball. I mean, is it a, let me see, keep going.

• 49:44Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. What are you waiting on Larry Zonka to show up?

• 49:48Speaker 02

  Well, I'm trying to, I mean.

• 49:52Speaker 02

  I feel like Ricky's better years were in New Orleans.

• 49:56Travis Kelce?

  You're in the wrong.

• 49:57Speaker 02

  I mean, if I go receiver, I feel like, uh.

• 50:03Speaker 02

  I feel like Tyreek had an incredible year. I don't know that.

• 50:06Travis Kelce?

  Yes.

• 50:08Speaker 02

  Alright, fine.

• 50:08Travis Kelce?

  Dude, and absolutely he had 2,000 yards, I think.

• 50:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, but I mean, does he have a lot of touchdowns? It's all about touchdowns. Good pick.

• 50:14Travis Kelce?

  376, it's Eden Norv, yeah.

• 50:17Speaker 02

  Alright, Buffalo Bills. There's one here.

• 50:21Travis Kelce?

  You probably should have.

• 50:22Speaker 02

  I mean, do I go to quarterback right away?

• 50:26Travis Kelce?

  You know, Josh, nice.

• 50:27Speaker 02

  Josh has got a bunch of rushing and throwing touchdowns.

• 50:31Travis Kelce?

  You're right. You said it best. Take the QB.

• 50:34Speaker 02

  It's either, it's either Josh or you wait for like Lamar or Jalen, even Jalen with how many rushing touchdowns he has from the tush push and everything like that. Or like a Cam Newton.

• 50:44Travis Kelce?

  Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Okay, Cam.

• 50:46Speaker 02

  But Buffalo.

• 50:49Speaker 06

  Do you want to see your options at flex here?

• 50:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, let me see. I like the, that's kind of a cheat that you can see the names, I feel like. But I'm definitely gonna look at these. Yeah.

• 50:58Travis Kelce?

  Stefan Diggs. He had a great year with him. Couple of years.

• 51:04Speaker 02

  Ooh, should I go to Sean?

• 51:07Speaker 02

  Um. I'll go Josh Allen, just because I don't want to get stuck with a bad quarterback. I feel like it's easier to fill out these.

• 51:12Speaker 06

  Josh is a good one. That's a good one.

• 51:14Travis Kelce?

  400.

• 51:15Speaker 06

  Jets. Oh, boy.

• 51:19Speaker 02

  Man. Yeah.

• 51:21Speaker 06

  No, there's one, there's, we know the answer.

• 51:23Speaker 02

  I'm gonna go with Curtis Martin. In the flex.

• 51:28Speaker 02

  Well, I don't know who else would there, really would be.

• 51:36Speaker 02

  Huh?

• 51:38Speaker 02

  Rams.

• 51:39Speaker 06

  Rams.

• 51:42Speaker 06

  There's a good one here.

• 51:42Speaker 02

  Tori, I mean, I feel like it's gotta be Tori Holt. Um. Is it Tori or who? Isaac Bruce, Tori were the two in the Greatest Show on Turf.

• 51:53Speaker 06

  I'm begging you.

• 51:53Travis Kelce?

  Oh, wow. Wow.

• 51:58Speaker 06

  Tori Holt.

• 51:58Travis Kelce?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 52:00Speaker 06

  Are you?

• 52:00Speaker 02

  Tori Holt. Sorry. Yeah, he is. Um, you're begging me with your.

• 52:03Speaker 06

  There's, there's, there's one that should jump out.

• 52:04Speaker 02

  Oh, Marshall Falk, Marshall Falk.

• 52:06Speaker 06

  Sir.

• 52:06Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 52:08Speaker 06

  Bucks.

• 52:09Travis Kelce?

  Dude, he's.

• 52:11Speaker 02

  Bucks.

• 52:12Speaker 06

  Wide receiver, tight end.

• 52:15Speaker 02

  Fuck.

• 52:23Speaker 06

  The receivers.

• 52:24Speaker 02

  Let me see these tight ends.

• 52:27Travis Kelce?

  Big Bob Brunk.

• 52:29Speaker 06

  I mean.

• 52:29Speaker 02

  Yeah, Rob, he didn't have any great, he didn't have great years there.

• 52:33Travis Kelce?

  Colin Winslow?

• 52:38Speaker 02

  I just don't know.

• 52:41Speaker 06

  You're gonna have to.

• 52:41Speaker 02

  What's an easier one to find at this next? Team.

• 52:45Speaker 06

  Tight end's always the tough one to leave for the last, if I'm being honest.

• 52:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, but I feel like it scores the least amount of points, no matter what.

• 52:53Speaker 06

  It does. Yeah, there's only, there's like.

• 52:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's like Tony Gonzalez, Travis Kelce, Rob Gronkowski at the page. Like, it's a very finite amount of teams that are gonna get you in points. Um. I will go.

• 53:10Speaker 02

  Go down again. Listen, these guys. I mean, it's gotta be, I'll go Mike Evans.

• 53:18Speaker 06

  Not bad.

• 53:19Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 53:20Speaker 06

  Bengals.

• 53:21Speaker 02

  Fuck my life. Not good.

• 53:27Speaker 02

  Eifert.

• 53:30Speaker 06

  You beat Paul. New high score. There you go.

• 53:33Speaker 02

  New high score.

• 53:34Speaker 02

  New high score.

• 53:37Speaker 02

  First time playing.