Tickling Tonsils, Kiffin Drama & George Clooney on Pranks, Parenting & Jason's Batman | EP 168

92%ers, welcome to this week’s episode of New Heights brought to you by YETI! Today, we are joined by Hollywood icon George Clooney! But first, we recap Jason’s militia adventures in New England, break down our New Heights Belly Bucking tailgate at the Linc, we try to figure out how the Chiefs will be “tickling your tonsils,” Jason explains why he’s still hopeful for the Eagles, we go over the intricacies of NFL shit talk, and try and relate to Ole Miss as they head into the college football playoff without head coach Lane Kiffin. Finally, we sit down with George Clooney to talk about everything from his Cincinnati Bearcat roots, working with Adam Sandler on his new film “Jay Kelly,” his secret to a successful marriage, parenting advice, where he ranks Jason as Fat Batman, his new career low, and so much more! Check out George Clooney in 'Jay Kelly' on Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/title/81551446 To support Operation Breakthrough, visit https://amazon.com/holidaygiving to learn more and make your contribution. 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. Black Friday deals start today and run through December 1st. 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: YETI: Built for the Wild. Shop now at https://YETI.com XFINITY: Imagine the most intelligent WiFi at one price for five years. Guaranteed. Xfinity. Imagine That. Restrictions apply. Most reliable WiFi based on Opensignal Awards–USA: Fixed Broadband Experience Report May 2025 AUDIBLE: Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions– Available now at https://audible.com/HP1 GILLETTE: The Best A Fan Can Get is now available at https://Amazon.com/GilletteNFL DRAFTKINGS: New Customers Bet $5 Get $200 in Bonus Bets If Your Bet Wins. The Crown Is Yours! Sign up using https://dkng.co/newheights or through promo code NEWHEIGHTS. #DKPartner GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, (800) 327-5050 or visit gamblinghelplinema.org (MA). Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Please Gamble Responsibly. 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT), or visit www.mdgamblinghelp.org (MD). 21+ and present in most states. (18+ DC/KY/NH/WY). Void in ONT/OR/NH. Eligibility restrictions apply. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS). Pass-thru of per wager tax may apply in IL. 1 per new customer. Must register new account to receive reward Token. Must select Token BEFORE placing min. $5 bet to receive$200 in Bonus Bets if your bet wins. Min. -500 odds req. Token and Bonus Bets are single-use and non-withdrawable. Token expires 1/11/26. Bonus Bets expire in 7 days (168 hours). Stake removed from payout. Terms: https://sportsbook.draftkings.com/promos. Ends 1/4/26 at 11:59 PM ET. Sponsored by DK. 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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• 1:13Travis Kelce?

  Thank you to our partner Royal Caribbean. 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.

• 1:31Speaker 03

  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.

• 1:40Travis 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.

• 1:47Speaker 03

  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?

• 1:57Travis Kelce?

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

• 1:59Speaker 03

  I love a water park.

• 2:00Travis Kelce?

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

• 2:09Speaker 03

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

• 2:18Travis Kelce?

  All right, count me in. Get the family on the new Legend of the Seas, sailing November 2026 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

• 2:26Speaker 03

  Visit royalcaribbean.com to learn more.

• 2:29Speaker 04

  You know, we're gonna do another oceans. What?

• 2:31Speaker 03

  You guys are doing another one?

• 2:32Speaker 04

  But you know, now we're old. So it's gonna be like mostly just trying not to crap yourself.

• 2:38Speaker 03

  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.

• 2:46Travis Kelce?

  There wasn't much thrust in there.

• 2:48Speaker 03

  Get this. He told me to S his D. Did you just hear him? I think that should be a 15 yard penalty, sir.

• 2:57Speaker 03

  Is there an interim coach?

• 2:58Travis Kelce?

  Bring Eli back. Eli.

• 3:00Speaker 04

  Jason, I dig you, man. You're a Hall of Famer. Travis, you broke me, man.

• 3:07Speaker 03

  You take these big beaters you got, you put them into that middle of the chest. I'm remembering you telling me to put my beaters in his chest. I'm a basket weave guy myself.

• 3:18Speaker 00

  This is our greatest episode ever.

• 3:23Travis Kelce?

  Welcome back to New Heist. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of Wondery Show brought to you by Yeti. Oh, cooler is nice and on everything else that Yeti makes now. Gotta love those. Yeah, that was nice. We're your hosts. I'm Travis Kelce, my big brother Jason Kelce. Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, as most of you know, Cincinnati. Football hasn't been our, our year. These past three games really, uh, really took a turn for the worst, boys. But, uh, yeah, we're bowl eligible. So go, uh, go have some fun with the gang and, uh, whatever bowl you end up in.

• 4:04Speaker 03

  What was your favorite non-big bowl game you went to? My favorite bowl, low key, still to this day, you didn't get to go international bowl. It was in Toronto, Canada.

• 4:15Travis Kelce?

  Well, yes, because you went to fucking Toronto.

• 4:17Speaker 03

  We went to Toronto. I was still not 21 and the legal age for everything there was 18 and we just had a fucking blast.

• 4:25Travis Kelce?

  That's real nice.

• 4:25Speaker 03

  It was great.

• 4:26Travis Kelce?

  What gifts you get at the old international bowl?

• 4:28Speaker 03

  I had a duffel bag that was leather that I had for forever. I still might have it. It was a great.

• 4:33Travis Kelce?

  Leather duffel bag.

• 4:35Speaker 03

  Had a nice little maple leaf on the front of it.

• 4:37Travis Kelce?

  Oh, I do remember seeing that one. I was wondering.

• 4:40Speaker 03

  It was a good duffel. It was a good duffel.

• 4:42Travis Kelce?

  Let's get back into what we're here for, and that's the podcast. I'm Travis Kelce. This is my big brother, Jason Kelce out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, like we already said, and this is my, my brother being a militia member.

• 4:54Speaker 03

  That's right.

• 4:54Travis Kelce?

  Jason got up to New England this past Monday.

• 4:57Speaker 03

  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.

• 5:05Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 5:06Speaker 03

  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. I'm like, this thing didn't, I don't think it fired. And everybody's like, no, it fired. It fired. I'm pretty sure it didn't fire.

• 5:19Travis Kelce?

  This is hilarious.

• 5:20Speaker 03

  I was so excited. I mean, I still was.

• 5:22Travis Kelce?

  You're a little fucking stiff. Jesus.

• 5:23Speaker 03

  Well, I was trying to be militaristic in my stance.

• 5:27Travis Kelce?

  Is that a real word? Yeah, yours didn't fire.

• 5:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, but if you look where the pan is by my face, like that's where the gunpowder is that 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.

• 5:47Travis Kelce?

  Would hate to have that happen when you're in the line of fire.

• 5:51Speaker 03

  No doubt, no doubt. Fucking one of those dag gone 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.

• 6:02Speaker 03

  Trav, we need to go road bowling.

• 6:03Travis Kelce?

  Road bowling?

• 6:04Speaker 03

  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.

• 6:26Travis Kelce?

  I'm following. I'm following.

• 6:27Speaker 03

  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. You go out there and you just throw a fucking piece of metal down the road and then it'll get lost in the leaves and they bring out the magnets and they try and find it with the magnets.

• 6:48Travis Kelce?

  Hilarious.

• 6:48Speaker 03

  Dude, it was fucking a blast. It was so fun.

• 6:50Travis Kelce?

  Were you a overhand thrower, underhand thrower, sidearm?

• 6:53Speaker 03

  Everybody throws underhand. It's probably too hard to throw overhand and do it accurately.

• 6:57Travis Kelce?

  You just don't get the, you just don't get the same spin. You want the spin to.

• 7:01Speaker 03

  I think it's more that it's.

• 7:02Travis Kelce?

  Top spin. You don't want backspin.

• 7:04Speaker 03

  I think if you saw the heaviness of this thing, you would understand why. Here we go.

• 7:11Speaker 03

  That was a really shitty throw.

• 7:12Travis Kelce?

  I was gonna say that looked, that looked like.

• 7:14Speaker 03

  It wasn't good. It wasn't good. 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 it.

• 7:24Speaker 03

  Dude, they get into it, man. Fucking full extension.

• 7:26Travis Kelce?

  The crow hop into the skip.

• 7:28Speaker 03

  Bro, I might, I gotta get my form way better. It was not impressive.

• 7:32Travis Kelce?

  That, are you even a fucking athlete, Jason?

• 7:35Speaker 03

  Dude, it was, it was wet. It was slick. These guys are impressive.

• 7:38Travis Kelce?

  You gotta play off the ground. Oh, it's a better roll. You got your right hip through. That's a big part of it.

• 7:43Speaker 03

  I won one of them and lost another one.

• 7:45Travis Kelce?

  You won, you won of them? See.

• 7:47Speaker 03

  I think they kind of rigged the second one. The guy, they put a guy up against me. I was like, okay, this guy's.

• 7:52Travis Kelce?

  They put a child.

• 7:53Speaker 03

  He might've went to the bar before we came out.

• 7:55Travis Kelce?

  He's seeing a fork in the road. It's like, I don't know which way to throw this thing.

• 7:59Speaker 03

  We went to, dude, my guy Connie was down there. Every time you would throw 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 throwback.

• 8:14Speaker 03

  Fuck it. It was electric, bro. Now, I think that was half the reason the sport was fun. I don't even know if I want to go without Connie at this point.

• 8:20Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, no, it sounds like you, you need the environment.

• 8:24Speaker 03

  And then we went to this amazing pub, uh, the Irish, uh, 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, uh, D-line moves. Check this out.

• 8:48Travis Kelce?

  He has no idea what just happened. The push-pull is a shocking move.

• 8:52Speaker 05

  He still didn't really have it down.

• 8:54Travis Kelce?

  Because you did it right. When you do it right, the push-pull is like, what the fuck just happened? And that's what you just did to that kid. That kid just happened like, holy shit, Ninja just put his hands on me.

• 9:03Speaker 05

  Hold on, I'm gonna send another one. Check out this guy singing. When the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too. On this dark morn as I walk out, my thoughts will be of you. So gracious, hold me in your arms and let this moment linger. They'll take me out at dawn and I will die. With all my love, I'll place this wedding ring upon your finger.

• 9:46Speaker 05

  Now that's a bar. Goddamn, that was fun. It was a blast. Well done, Boston. I was going back and forth on 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 Malletta Buster Scruggs.

• 9:58Travis Kelce?

  Tell me it.

• 9:59Speaker 05

  You wanna hear it?

• 9:59Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 10:00Speaker 05

  Goddamn. As I was a-walking down by the loch.

• 10:05Travis Kelce?

  Going into a character here.

• 10:06Speaker 05

  As I was a-walking one morning of late.

• 10:12Travis Kelce?

  Okay.

• 10:12Speaker 05

  Who should I spy but my own dear comrade? Wrapped up in flannel so hard as he's fade. I boldly stepped up to and kindly did asking. Why are you wrapped in flannel so wide? My body is injured and sadly disordered.

• 10:45Travis Kelce?

  I can relate.

• 10:46Speaker 05

  Held by a young woman, my own heart's delight. Oh, had she but told me when she disordered me.

• 11:00Speaker 03

  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.

• 11:18Travis Kelce?

  Oh, no.

• 11:19Speaker 03

  Get six pretty maidens to carry my coffin. Six pretty maidens to bear up my pall. 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 will.

• 11:51Travis Kelce?

  Dude, that left me speechless, Jason. When the fuck did you ever learn that?

• 11:55Speaker 03

  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.

• 12:05Travis Kelce?

  Tell me, tell me your honest opinion of them.

• 12:07Speaker 03

  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 children's books. I'm into the Dr. Seuss's, 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, you know, I. Give me the Caterpillar book. I like the Caterpillar book when I was growing up.

• 12:33Travis Kelce?

  Banger, yeah.

• 12:33Speaker 03

  What is it, Carl 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?

• 12:43Travis Kelce?

  Okay.

• 12:44Speaker 03

  So when you're telling the boy who 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 him. He gets all the sheep eaten because he couldn't fucking, you know, tell the truth.

• 13:04Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 13:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, right?

• 13:05Travis Kelce?

  Get anyone to believe him, yeah.

• 13:06Speaker 03

  So a lot of times I just end up telling those stories. Or I make stories up that are off of those old stories.

• 13:13Travis Kelce?

  That man, if we had a recorder for those ones, man, fuck.

• 13:16Speaker 03

  Dude, one, one night, cause 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, or like they want to be in the story themselves.

• 13:28Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 13:28Speaker 03

  And I'm like, all right, I'm about to do Pinocchio and Ellie's like, oh, put, uh, I forget what stuffed animal it was, but, put Slothy in the, uh, video or put Slothy in the story. I was like, okay, one night Ellie wished upon a star.

• 13:43Speaker 03

  And Slothy came to life and her eyes went just.

• 13:51Speaker 03

  She was just holding this stuffed animal.

• 13:55Speaker 03

  And I got through the.

• 14:01Speaker 03

  I had like a Jiminy the Cricket figurine. I had a whole conscience thing going on and everything. The only thing after the story, Ellie was just so terrified that she was holding.

• 14:15Travis Kelce?

  This is so good.

• 14:17Speaker 03

  Kylie was furious. She's like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

• 14:21Travis Kelce?

  She said, put her in the story.

• 14:23Speaker 03

  So anyways, while I do that, I also, if I hear a tune or a song that I like, I, uh, I like to sing.

• 14:29Travis Kelce?

  You remember it.

• 14:29Speaker 03

  Those, yeah.

• 14:30Travis Kelce?

  Nice. Well, you're a great dad for that. That's awesome stuff.

• 14:33Speaker 03

  Should we start the podcast yet?

• 14:35Speaker 00

  I'm just gonna leave it like this. I'm not cutting a goddamn word out. It's gonna be, we're going free form this week, folks. Is that structure? Not really.

• 14:43Travis Kelce?

  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 fun clips throughout the week. Jason, why don't you tell everybody what we actually have coming up on the show?

• 14:55Speaker 03

  All righty, we've been talking for over an hour and a half already, but coming up on this episode, 92 percenters, you're gonna hear a little recap from Thanksgiving week in the NFL, talk about the fat guy Fight Club that we started at the Lincoln. We've also got George fucking Clooney on the show today. How about that?

• 15:14Travis Kelce?

  George Clooney?

• 15:15Speaker 03

  Gonna be three Bearcats on this podcast later.

• 15:19Travis Kelce?

  Little do they know.

• 15:20Speaker 03

  We claim them. We claim.

• 15:21Travis Kelce?

  We're claiming, you can't, I don't care if it's for a week and he dropped out.

• 15:24Speaker 03

  I don't even care if he just got accepted, but he didn't ever took a class. He's a, he's a Bearcat.

• 15:30Speaker 03

  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.

• 15:35Travis Kelce?

  New news.

• 15:37Speaker 03

  New news is brought to you by Xfinity.

• 15:39Travis Kelce?

  Ooh, nice.

• 15:40Speaker 03

  Xfinity is bringing us new news and the first part of new news, we got a belly bucking champion. That's right. We had our first belly bucking tournament at the link this past Black Friday game at the, in the New Heights tailgate and no shirt Dom came out victorious. He almost 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, you're out.

• 16:04Travis Kelce?

  There's gotta be belly bucking rules somewhere online.

• 16:06Speaker 03

  So the ring was tight.

• 16:10Speaker 03

  Initially it was like, if you take one step out, we're gonna end the match.

• 16:13Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 16:14Speaker 03

  But it was, people were taking steps out all the way. We ultimately it was like, okay, if you get two feet out of this thing completely, then the round's over.

• 16:21Travis Kelce?

  Man, I feel bad for anybody that lost with one foot out.

• 16:24Speaker 03

  Nobody lost with one foot out. That's what they're, it was very apparent from the first one. It's like, okay, we can't do that. It became apparent who won each time. And no shirt Dom, he had a nice side step. At one point it looked like he was gonna lose and he kind of like readjusted and kind of got his belly back into it.

• 16:37Travis Kelce?

  That boy.

• 16:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, go figure, you know, a guy that is committed to not wearing a shirt wins the belly bucking competition. He's very belly positive individual. We also had Jeffrey Lurie stopping by.

• 16:48Travis Kelce?

  Oh.

• 16:49Speaker 03

  Yeah. Andrew Whitworth stopping by.

• 16:52Travis Kelce?

  Nice. Guy once had a belly, no belly anymore.

• 16:56Speaker 03

  That's right. Well, yeah, that's, he's still barrel chested like a motherfucker though. He's, he's still got that chest on him.

• 17:03Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 17:03Speaker 03

  We signed a copy of somebody's Twilight, that's right, book. And uh, yeah, we got some 92 percenters that asked some no dumb questions. I think I would redo the no dumb questions, Brandon, uh, for our next iteration of tailgating or really just going out with fans. I think we gotta bring the no dumb 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 a predetermined kind of things we want to answer.

• 17:29Travis Kelce?

  Put them on the spot where they don't get to think about this.

• 17:32Speaker 03

  You tell us how many holes a straw has and I'll tell you why you're a fucking idiot.

• 17:36Travis Kelce?

  Note taken.

• 17:37Speaker 03

  But the 92 percenters are great.

• 17:39Travis Kelce?

  Wow, you actually have a notepad?

• 17:40Speaker 03

  Intern Brandon is always working.

• 17:43Travis Kelce?

  Everything, I came with a computer. I don't have a notepad. I want a notepad. Oh, I got a computer.

• 17:50Travis Kelce?

  There you go.

• 17:51Speaker 03

  Why would I do a notepad when I have this?

• 17:53Travis Kelce?

  Jason, you got, you got, you got a little bit of a belly bucking in there. You want to tell everybody what the

• 17:57Speaker 03

  I was, I, I'm not gonna lie. I did kind of make the belly bucking 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 Dom. So this is no shirt Dom 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. I wish it would have been more of the bucking action. I don't think Dom was ready for it.

• 18:22Travis Kelce?

  There wasn't much thrust in there.

• 18:23Speaker 03

  But it was fun. I think that helmet was barely, was cutting off the circulation to my brain.

• 18:30Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. All right. Well, fun. What did you, what do you, what did you think was the, uh, the technique of the, uh, the bucket? What was the best technique you saw? Because in the video that we saw, there was a lot of thrust. There was a lot of thrust. Was it more just like a bulldozer deal or where, was, were guys trying to get leverage?

• 18:49Speaker 03

  Well, that's what I kind of mean. I, I feel like when you went, you, if you would have gone back to then thrust and that person stayed into you. 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 pushing.

• 19:04Travis Kelce?

  Buck. You got a buck.

• 19:05Speaker 03

  I know. I'm kind of with you.

• 19:07Travis Kelce?

  See, you gotta, you gotta lay that law. Lay that law.

• 19:10Speaker 03

  I don't know how to enforce it.

• 19:11Travis Kelce?

  If you're not thrusting, you're a gustin'.

• 19:13Speaker 03

  You gotta thrust.

• 19:14Travis Kelce?

  Let's see it.

• 19:15Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:15Travis Kelce?

  See it. Oh, there's a, there's a, there's a buck. Hell.

• 19:19Speaker 03

  My man.

• 19:19Travis Kelce?

  Get up in there. See, this is why you need to grab.

• 19:22Speaker 03

  My man Brendan was trying this.

• 19:24Travis Kelce?

  You gotta grab those holsters. You gotta grab those holsters. You gotta put hands in the pocket.

• 19:28Speaker 03

  Yep. Yep.

• 19:28Travis Kelce?

  I get why the original video showed a lot of that.

• 19:32Speaker 03

  Yeah. That's good technique though by Dom. That's good.

• 19:34Travis Kelce?

  He's using shoulders. That's why I like hands behind the back.

• 19:38Speaker 03

  Well, you can still shoulder with your hands behind your back.

• 19:41Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, but you can't like fucking keep them right here.

• 19:44Speaker 03

  You can't like roll it?

• 19:45Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 19:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, I see what you're saying. It's a good point.

• 19:47Travis Kelce?

  Finally, we're tipping up on the Amazon as a part of their holiday giving initiative. That's right. We're in the holiday season. How about it, man? It's December, um, and we're supporting an organization that is incredibly Close to our hearts. That's right. Operation Breakthrough in Kansas City is one organization that I've been a huge fan of and huge supporter of since I've been in Kansas City.

• 20:08Speaker 03

  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-

• 20:40Travis Kelce?

  And that's where it originally started. It was originally started for the families and the, 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 on to. 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, and really experience and latch on to and see if they love them. And that's what the, the beauty of this organization is, is it's giving these kids something that they wouldn't

• 21:25Travis Kelce?

  have otherwise. And it's awesome to, you know, have Amazon team up with them as well as New Heights.

• 21:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, I, Trav, you've been involved with 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 Car Jam, which Operation Breakthrough is a part of that as well. But recently, they're converting an old pickup truck to electric. The students and the faculty there at Mind Drive and at Operation Breakthrough-

• 21:53Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah.

• 21:53Speaker 03

  -converting an entire vehicle to electric diesel hybrid, I think.

• 21:57Travis Kelce?

  I was gonna say, it's a hybrid. Yeah.

• 21:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 21:59Travis Kelce?

  I was gonna say, if you even do this. So actually, it's gonna 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

• 22:17Speaker 03

  Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.

• 22:18Travis Kelce?

  Going on in my mind, but these kids and the, the, the adults that are helping and

• 22:24Speaker 03

  Shout out to Oz.

• 22:25Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. Shout out to Oz and really everyone over at Operation Breakthrough, but they're doing so much fun stuff over there and it's really, uh, it's really neat that, um, that they're doing these extracurricular 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, uh, use some help with the food and, uh, and just overall support. So.

• 22:48Speaker 03

  It really is a fantastic organization. So really happy that we can potentially help in any way possible, uh, for anybody in the Kansas City area or anybody trying to do something similar or looking to support these families, uh, check out Operation Breakthrough. And, uh, if you'd like to join us, Amazon has made it easy. Go to amazon.com slash holiday giving. 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 slash holiday giving to learn more and make your contribution. Thank you for being a part of this with us.

• 23:24Travis Kelce?

  All right now.

• 23:25Speaker 03

  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.

• 23:34Travis Kelce?

  Dude, there's only five games left, dude.

• 23:36Speaker 03

  Flying by week 13 in the NFL. Travel, let's start with, um, the one game that, uh, everybody was tuned into this Thanksgiving. I think it set probably like had to set records of viewership numbers, right?

• 23:49Travis Kelce?

  I don't, yeah, it's for, yeah, every holiday game seems to break every past record. So.

• 23:54Speaker 03

  Well, um, Chiefs 28 Cowboys 31. It was a great game. It was fun game to watch. I know it did not turn out in the Chiefs favor.

• 24:03Travis Kelce?

  It was a tough loss.

• 24:05Speaker 03

  What are your thoughts? What are your thoughts about the game?

• 24:06Travis Kelce?

  You know, um, I'm sure everyone's sick of us saying it, but we're a few plays away from, from being a, you know, a one seed by mine. Um, and maybe that's a bit extreme. Maybe it's, you know?

• 24:19Speaker 03

  I mean, all of the losses are, all the losses are within one score.

• 24:22Travis Kelce?

  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, it's, it's hard and it's, you know, it's plays like my drop against the Eagles. It's, it's penalties that are, that 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 and 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. Um, I know some of the other stats aren't all

• 25:04Travis Kelce?

  the way up there, but at the same time, man, we're holding teams at the right moments. Um, in, and you know, on, and in other situations, we're just not scoring enough. And, um, 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, um, 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, uh, the mentality that, um, and the sense of urgency that we need to have to get this shit fixed and, and, turn those handful of plays that are losing us the game into a handful of plays that win us these games, man.

• 25:44Speaker 03

  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 in 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.

• 26:21Speaker 03

  There's only like one other team in the history of the NFL that's done that. 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.

• 27:06Speaker 03

  Like everybody's had their up games. Everybody's had their 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. Cause if you get in, you got a chance. And I know it hasn't gone your 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 Reid quote is pretty incredible, but Andy Reid was asked earlier this week about you guys, you know, having to win out. You need to win every single game. I forget what the exact question was. And Andy Reid 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 tonsils on every play, every game. That's the attitude that we're coming in with.

• 27:51Speaker 03

  And then you let the chips fall where they may. And I think that's, that's the attitude you gotta come in with. And I just love the tickle and the tonsils, obviously. That's a

• 27:58Travis Kelce?

  A nice alliteration, man.

• 28:01Speaker 03

  Is this a, have you heard Andy say tickling tonsils before?

• 28:04Travis Kelce?

  Never heard him say that one. Nope. That's a new one.

• 28:07Speaker 03

  It's the first one.

• 28:07Travis Kelce?

  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, man. He knows which ones really get the people going. Exactly. And that's some of the, that's the fun in which you get playing for them.

• 28:23Speaker 00

  I've never heard Andy rip it like that. I loved it. I'm fired up.

• 28:26Speaker 03

  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, he'll come up with little funny mannerisms, but the double entendre there is

• 28:35Speaker 00

  Talk nasty to me, coach. Come on, let's go. This is what I, this is now, this is my kind of football, bros. Let's go. This is how the coaches talked in high school. I'd have signed up.

• 28:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 28:46Speaker 00

  Didn't know y'all were doing that out there.

• 28:49Speaker 03

  There are some very sexual.

• 28:50Speaker 00

  Y'all just drinking from the hose. What are we doing?

• 28:52Speaker 03

  What are, what are other like sexual like?

• 28:55Speaker 00

  All of it.

• 28:56Speaker 03

  Metaphors that coaches have used in the past? You take these big ass dick beaters you got, you put them into that, to the middle of the chest. That's one of my favorite. Dick beaters is a great all-timer. You ever heard that one?

• 29:06Speaker 00

  Such a long way to just say hands.

• 29:09Speaker 03

  Yes. Hey, but 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 registers something in your head. If you say like, hey, put your hands in his chest. It's like, I don't even, that's already out my fucking brain. You tell me to put my dick beaters inside of his chest? I'm remembering you telling me to put my dick beaters in his chest. I'm not going to forget that one.

• 29:30Speaker 00

  Oh, my hands.

• 29:34Speaker 03

  I, I really only have one dick beater.

• 29:39Speaker 03

  Are you guys using both?

• 29:42Travis Kelce?

  He started looking around the room.

• 29:44Speaker 03

  Timeout.

• 29:45Speaker 00

  Definitely. Yeah. Beat, beat her.

• 29:46Speaker 03

  You guys are going lefty?

• 29:50Travis Kelce?

  No, no, no. Same time, same time, same time.

• 29:56Speaker 03

  I'm a basket weave guy myself.

• 30:20Speaker 00

  This is our greatest episode ever.

• 30:22Travis Kelce?

  Oh, man.

• 30:24Speaker 03

  So, yeah, anyways, the Texans are red hot right now. The defense is unbelievable. D'Amico Ryan, shout out to D'Amico, 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 divisional round. It's going to be about 20 degrees at kickoff.

• 30:52Travis Kelce?

  It's my kind of football, baby.

• 30:53Speaker 03

  Dude, I love when the cold weather sets in.

• 30:55Travis Kelce?

  My kind of football, especially after a weekend of rest.

• 30:57Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:58Travis Kelce?

  Go out there, fly around on the ice, man. Fuck, man. Take me back, baby.

• 31:02Speaker 03

  Fly around on the ice.

• 31:03Travis Kelce?

  That's what it feels. It feels like we're in the ice rink, man. 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.

• 31:17Speaker 03

  I always just felt like I didn't get tired too when it was cold. Like I just could run for days.

• 31:21Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. No, I, well, that's because you weren't running that much.

• 31:26Travis Kelce?

  You can still get very tired running in the cold. Yeah. It hits those lungs a little different too, but it's a, yeah, no, I'm with you though. I'm, there's something about the cold that I just, it just gets my excitement, man, for the, for the game. It's the beauty of football, man. You get to play in all elements and especially in Arrowhead.

• 31:44Speaker 03

  For sure, man. Yeah. Even being up in New England this past yesterday, Monday night game.

• 31:49Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah.

• 31:49Speaker 03

  I just love the cold, man. I like seeing my breath. It just feels like football.

• 31:53Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. The cold and your like Peaky Blinders outfit, man. That shit was sweet. It just meshed perfectly. Give a guy a musket. That doesn't work though.

• 32:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, right.

• 32:01Travis Kelce?

  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. A must need win against a really good football team and uh,

• 32:10Speaker 03

  Let's go, baby.

• 32:11Travis Kelce?

  The Fighting D'Amico Ryans, man.

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• 32:16Travis Kelce?

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• 32:23Travis Kelce?

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• 32:28Travis Kelce?

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• 32:33Speaker 03

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• 32:36Travis Kelce?

  Ooh.

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• 32:38Travis Kelce?

  It's a good green.

• 32:39Speaker 03

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• 32:50Travis Kelce?

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• 33:01Speaker 03

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• 33:15Travis Kelce?

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• 33:29Speaker 03

  I like a good beverage bucket.

• 33:30Travis Kelce?

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• 33:36Speaker 03

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• 33:54Travis Kelce?

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• 34:15Travis Kelce?

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• 34:30Travis Kelce?

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• 34:46Travis Kelce?

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• 34:57Speaker 03

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• 35:06Travis Kelce?

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• 35:18Travis Kelce?

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• 35:20Speaker 03

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• 35:21Travis Kelce?

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• 35:55Travis Kelce?

  Oh, the first audiobook.

• 35:58Speaker 03

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• 36:00Speaker 03

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• 36:03Travis Kelce?

  No, but you made me do the test that I'm in Gryffindor.

• 36:06Speaker 03

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• 36:08Travis Kelce?

  So why did I do the test if you already knew what I was?

• 36:11Speaker 03

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• 36:12Travis Kelce?

  All right, nice. The first audiobook in the series is available now and the new installments in the series releasing every month after.

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• 36:29Travis Kelce?

  That's audible.com slash HP1. Moving on to some Eagles Bears on Black Friday. That was a tough one as well for all those 92 percenters, assuming everyone is cheering for our teams. Eagles 15, Bears 24. The Bears are rocking and rolling, man.

• 36:46Speaker 03

  They are.

• 36:46Travis Kelce?

  The Bears are rocking and rolling, man. Ben Johnson's got those guys fighting and, and playing good football and.

• 36:51Speaker 03

  Taking his shirt off in the locker room.

• 36:53Travis Kelce?

  How about it, man? The guys are going fucking nuts. Golly, man, those guys are fighting for that. That's how you know, would you get a coach that comes in that just, he's relatable to all the guys, gets the guys to fight for him, man? It's a hard thing to fucking do and there's a special like madness to it that you have to be great at and some guys got it. And right now he does, man.

• 37:14Speaker 03

  Listen, and we've had it in Philadelphia. Nick Sirianni 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 running backs are 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.

• 37:50Speaker 03

  But you could tell, man, they, 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 eight and four, all we gotta 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 and playing together. They're gonna be helped.

• 38:19Travis Kelce?

  Man, yeah, that's tough.

• 38:20Speaker 03

  Lane Johnson coming back will be huge, even though Fred has done well, especially in pass pro. 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.

• 38:45Travis Kelce?

  The best.

• 38:45Speaker 03

  And you got these guys, look out. But right now, it's, you know, it's this guy here. It's that guy here. It's, you know, this guy doesn't come off of 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 Nico Ledge. That stalls out a couple of runs and then all of a sudden they run into it and they get a big one and, you know, it's just been frustrating, especially as a guy who knows how much time those guys put into it up front.

• 39:13Speaker 03

  Uh, how great Saquon Barkley is, how great Jeff Stoutland is. It's, 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. A.J. Brown's starting to get the ball and they're receiving. 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.

• 39:54Travis Kelce?

  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 thinking fast and all of a sudden you're snapping the ball while they're still trying to figure out how they need to adjust. And, you know, if you use that to your advantage, that shit's only going to make things way easier as a route runner and as an offense.

• 40:32Speaker 03

  That was one thing that really stood out with the Bears. I will say, I mean, Ben Johnson and how he utilizes the motions and guys moving around, he's just so good at it.

• 40:41Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, and they got a lot of good tight ends over there, man. So, and a good run game.

• 40:46Speaker 03

  And that's where like, I, the defense obviously gave up a lot of yards on the ground. There were, their office, the Bears offensive line played well. Like, I don't want to discredit them, but I, 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. He's got to improve in some of those areas. But I was impressed. I mean, like, for instance, like, they motioned a, like, double wing right into the boundary, right? So tight end receiver into the boundary. They did like

• 41:27Speaker 03

  a jet motion with the receiver. We rock and roll, right? So, Reed's down to the tight end on the motion, the safeties decide to rock and roll, meaning Reed goes back to the middle of field, and the other safety goes down to the three by side now. And the corner's got to come in now, all of a sudden, 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.

• 42:06Speaker 03

  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 Ravens. Think about all of these teams that we thought were going to 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?

• 42:45Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 42:46Speaker 03

  The Rams, the Rams, who I thought were the most consistent team in football, all of a sudden they lose to, they drop one to Charlotte. So, or Carolina.

• 42:54Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, I mean, same thing. Carolina is another sneaky one, man. They can, they can put together a game.

• 43:00Speaker 03

  It just feels like more than ever, the NFL is wide open. Listen, we're eight and four, we got time to figure this thing out. It's just going to take some like concerted effort from everybody. And I know these guys are going to be hard at work to get this done. I can't wait to see Saquon Barkley running again, man. That's all I want. I know everybody wants to see the passing game, something like, I want to see Saquon Barkley running through the fucking line untouched, all the way to the end zone. That's what I want to see.

• 43:25Travis Kelce?

  Using those Saquods to just fucking.

• 43:28Speaker 03

  Come on. If they get that going with the way they're playing defense, they will be a very tough team to beat by anybody. That's all I know.

• 43:35Travis Kelce?

  I hear you, man.

• 43:36Speaker 00

  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 in NFC and just look at the fact that the one seed has nine wins, the seven seed has nine wins. I think if Chicago loses next week to the Packers, they drop from one to seven. Like, that's how fucking insane this season is.

• 43:55Speaker 03

  It really is. Where's that at?

• 43:57Speaker 00

  It was just a little later. Scroll on down.

• 43:58Speaker 03

  Can we just use what you just said?

• 44:00Speaker 00

  You can. I don't like to talk too much on here.

• 44:03Travis Kelce?

  I think it's fun when you jump in and you show that much.

• 44:05Speaker 00

  A little, you like the stash?

• 44:07Travis Kelce?

  I do.

• 44:08Speaker 00

  You like a stash? You into it?

• 44:09Travis Kelce?

  Very Burt, it's very Bertie. It's either Burt Reynolds or Mario.

• 44:15Speaker 00

  Super Mario.

• 44:16Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 44:18Speaker 00

  Okay, I'll take Burt Reynolds, I think of the two.

• 44:20Speaker 03

  What is this Snapchat DM?

• 44:22Speaker 00

  You want to read those Eagles fans?

• 44:24Travis Kelce?

  It's actually kind of funny. That's what I was.

• 44:25Speaker 00

  Eagles fans are breaking up over, over the Eagles. Yeah.

• 44:28Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 44:28Speaker 00

  Yeah. Read that. Go ahead.

• 44:29Speaker 03

  All right. So apparently Eagles fans are breaking up over the Eagles.

• 44:33Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 44:33Speaker 03

  Had a little Snapchat DM here from a couple 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 date, 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 superstitionist here.

• 44:53Speaker 00

  Till the season's over?

• 44:55Speaker 03

  "I like you a lot, so don't take this as a dismal, as a dismissal. Just need to turn our luck around for the birds." And I think you'd understand that too. And then of course.

• 45:05Travis Kelce?

  She replied.

• 45:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean.

• 45:06Travis Kelce?

  Or she replied.

• 45:07Speaker 03

  Well, I mean, sure, for the birds. Way to go Eagles fans. That's how you freaking date responsibly.

• 45:13Travis Kelce?

  Did Kylie watch all the Eagles game this time?

• 45:15Speaker 03

  We were at the Eagles game and we were watching. Yes. She's gonna have to start turning her back.

• 45:22Travis Kelce?

  Kai.

• 45:22Speaker 03

  You're right. You're right.

• 45:23Travis Kelce?

  You gotta, you gotta buy in Kai. You gotta buy in.

• 45:26Speaker 03

  We need everything we can.

• 45:28Travis Kelce?

  Everybody needs everything they can. The table's wide open.

• 45:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 45:31Travis Kelce?

  Well, I'll say we get out of these two games and get to the rest of the league.

• 45:35Speaker 03

  Let's do it.

• 45:35Travis Kelce?

  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, they got a little, got a little personal over there, man. Jeffrey Simmons claims that Jaguars rookie running back, La Quint Allen, Jr., told him to suck his dick in the middle of the game.

• 45:59Speaker 03

  No.

• 46:01Travis Kelce?

  Jeffrey.

• 46:02Speaker 03

  Seems pretty standard trash talk to me. Like, I feel like I've heard that a bunch.

• 46:07Speaker 03

  Just saying, like, I don't.

• 46:08Travis Kelce?

  No, for sure.

• 46:09Speaker 03

  Suck my dick, motherfucker. Like, I feel like I hear that every game. I don't think that's, what are we all of a sudden upset about?

• 46:15Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 46:15Speaker 03

  Jeffrey Simmons is a guy that gets very upset in games. He's an angry football player, which I like angry football players.

• 46:20Travis Kelce?

  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.

• 46:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:26Travis Kelce?

  I looked over. I was like, what the fuck?

• 46:28Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:29Travis Kelce?

  He was like, what? I was like, suck my dick.

• 46:35Travis Kelce?

  I'm kidding. I don't talk like that on the football field. I'm a

• 46:38Speaker 03

  Fine gentleman.

• 46:39Travis Kelce?

  I'm a very nice man.

• 46:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:41Travis Kelce?

  Um, Tennessee player also claims that Jacksonville punter Logan Cook, uh, threatened to kill him.

• 46:52Travis Kelce?

  Which

• 46:53Speaker 03

  What's up with all these Tennessee players snitching? What are we doing, guys?

• 46:56Travis Kelce?

  Also, Jags players, man, you guys are fucking doing it right. You guys are in the head. You're in the head of the opponent across from you.

• 47:03Speaker 03

  Keep doing it, Jacksonville.

• 47:04Travis Kelce?

  Take it up a notch, take it up a notch. Tell them how you'd kill them.

• 47:07Speaker 03

  If it gets him out of his game. Cause you're not being serious. You're not gonna actually kill him.

• 47:12Travis Kelce?

  That's the thing. Sometimes the punters, they look creepy enough and like scrawny and like weird enough to where it's like, damn, he probably would fucking do some weird ass shit.

• 47:22Speaker 03

  No way. I've never thought that about a punter.

• 47:24Travis Kelce?

  No.

• 47:26Speaker 03

  Logan, a punter saying they're gonna kill him? Like, I would do nothing to me.

• 47:32Speaker 03

  I'll fucking break your neck right now. You realize I can kill you with my bare hands. I don't even need a weapon.

• 47:41Travis Kelce?

  McAfee is gonna fucking beat your ass.

• 47:45Speaker 03

  I would not want to fight McAfee. McAfee's a squirrely sum of a bitch. You're right. McAfee would be one guy. Who else wouldn't I want to fight? Um, Sebastian Janikowski.

• 47:51Travis Kelce?

  Janikowski. I was gonna say, you don't want to fight him because you just want to have a few beers with him.

• 47:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, but he's gonna headbutt me or something. He's gonna come out of something, a left field with something I'm not ready for.

• 48:01Travis Kelce?

  He's gonna Steven Seagal fucking, imagine if that hit your neck, what that'd do to you.

• 48:09Speaker 03

  Listen, I, 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.

• 48:21Travis Kelce?

  Fair game.

• 48:22Speaker 03

  Yeah. If somebody says I'm gonna fucking kill you, like, I'll fuck kill you. Like, I don't know what it's like. I don't know what the

• 48:27Travis Kelce?

  Not if I kill you first.

• 48:29Speaker 03

  I've never heard somebody say, I'll fucking kill you and be like, this guy just threatened my life. I'm gonna report him to HR. I don't know what's, like, what are we talking about right now? Yeah. Did you just hear him? He's threatening my life.

• 48:44Travis Kelce?

  He told me to put his dick in my mouth.

• 48:49Speaker 03

  He said, get this, he told me to S his D. I think that should be a 15 yard penalty, sir.

• 48:59Travis Kelce?

  To S his D.

• 49:00Speaker 03

  I just, I don't know, maybe, maybe the, in my two years removed from the NFL, talking shit to people is all of a 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. Like, I don't know what's happening.

• 49:23Travis Kelce?

  I will tickle your tonsils.

• 49:27Speaker 03

  Suck my dick. Yeah. You'd like to tickle my tonsils, wouldn't you?

• 49:33Travis Kelce?

  Maybe the biggest non NFL football news, um, taking it to the college ranks. Ole Miss Lane Kiffin, uh, finally took the head coaching job at LSU after weeks. And, uh, literally just like one or like a couple of days of speculation. Leaves Ole Miss as the team preps to potentially host a college football playoff game, which is, this is tough, man. It's tough on Ole Miss. It's tough on the players because Lane Kiffin's gonna wanna take everyone from his staff that has made him, you know, the, the head coach that he is today, that has helped

• 50:13Travis Kelce?

  engrain in the kids at Ole 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 Ole 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 squad. You know what I mean? Like you have GAs and you have guys that aren't gonna get invited with Lane to Ole Miss. And you're just gonna have to gather up people from around the university or however you need to do it.

• 50:56Travis Kelce?

  We were at the fucking Sugar Bowl with like guys dads helping with personnel on the sidelines.

• 51:01Speaker 03

  I don't remember that.

• 51:03Travis Kelce?

  Really? Dude, what? Who else did we have? We had fucking like GAs like helping.

• 51:08Speaker 03

  No, we had everybody other than BK. We had everybody other than BK stayed for the game. Right? There might have been one other person that would be.

• 51:15Travis Kelce?

  You know what? I'm thinking of when Butch left.

• 51:18Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:19Travis Kelce?

  When, when Coach Jones, when, yeah, when Coach Jones left, we had literally guys, well, that wasn't the Sugar Bowl. That was the old Bell Bowl. We found a way to find her out there.

• 51:31Travis Kelce?

  But we had like fucking GAs being, you know, the, the main, the lead coaches and whatnot. It's just, it's, it's a clusterfuck 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, defensive coordinator, things like that.

• 51:49Speaker 03

  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, and Mark Dantonio, where we played bowl games with interim coaches. Cause those guys took other jobs and I mean, listen, it's the way it's been forever. I mean, it's very, I, 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. Like, oh yeah, of course Brian Kelly went to Notre Dame. He left Cincinnati. Like, of course that happened. All of a sudden, Mike given does it to Ole Miss and they're like, oh, this is an outrage. How could he do this to his players? Like this fucking happened to me twice and nobody gave a fuck about it.

• 52:27Speaker 03

  And I couldn't transfer. At least these guys can fucking leave. I was just stuck there twiddling my thumbs. Like, I hope they hire a good fucking guy.

• 52:35Travis Kelce?

  That's so.

• 52:35Speaker 03

  So take your sob story and shove it up your asshole, 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 bowl games have been played out or before the playoffs have happened, but it's not going to happen because the, 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 Lane Given there, right? That's why all these guys need him to go before the bowl game. It's because they need to have good players on the team and they want to 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.

• 53:17Speaker 03

  You know, I think it, it sucks for Ole Miss. I'm kind of, I'm lying. I do feel bad for Ole Miss because I went through it myself with Brian Kelly and Notre Dame.

• 53:24Travis Kelce?

  It just sucks.

• 53:25Speaker 03

  And it's not fun, you know, and you've worked so hard as a team and as a group of men and kids to get to that point. And you know, it's, it's a deflating moment for what should be a joyous time. For everyone in that building.

• 53:41Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, and at that university right now.

• 53:43Speaker 03

  And, you know, we were undefeated, our best year that we've ever had at Cincinnati to that date.

• 53:49Travis Kelce?

  We were, I think it was two seconds or three seconds away from going to the national championship.

• 53:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, if Nebraska would have found out a way to beat Texas and Dominic Sue, if you would have got to the quarterback one more time, we might have been.

• 54:03Travis Kelce?

  It came down to a, to a rollout. We call it a heave ho in, in our building, but it's a play where you try and roll out and you try and exhaust the last seconds of the game by throwing it as high and as far out of bounds as possible.

• 54:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 54:17Travis Kelce?

  And, and Texas did that at the end of a game, but they were one second away from.

• 54:23Speaker 03

  Giving the ball back.

• 54:24Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 54:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, it was, we, I think we ended up the four seeds. 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 Tebow's last game.

• 54:36Travis Kelce?

  I was so upset that, that they didn't keep that in the Florida documentary.

• 54:42Speaker 03

  I didn't see that.

• 54:43Travis Kelce?

  Didn't see the Florida doc?

• 54:44Speaker 03

  I didn't watch it, no.

• 54:45Travis Kelce?

  It's about Urban Meyer and those, those couple of years, those handful of years that the, that he was there at the Florida Gators and, and when Tebow came in and.

• 54:54Speaker 03

  Had some dogs.

• 54:55Travis Kelce?

  Just how amazing that those teams were and 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 SCC. And it's like, that's not how their season ended. Their season ended by Tim Tebow throwing for seven touchdowns and 500 yards against the Cincinnati Bearcats in the Sugar Bowl.

• 55:17Speaker 03

  We got absolutely fucking killed. We were so, and to be honest, like it sucked not having Brian Kelly, but I could tell you very confidently, it would not have mattered if Brian Kelly was going to shoot that game.

• 55:30Speaker 03

  We were so much less talented than them.

• 55:32Travis Kelce?

  I ran a little wildcat in there, got my two plays in there.

• 55:36Speaker 03

  We did.

• 55:36Travis Kelce?

  Thing I didn't, I didn't get into.

• 55:38Speaker 03

  I made Carlos Dunlop's highlight reel on draft day.

• 55:42Travis Kelce?

  Did you?

• 55:43Speaker 03

  Because I gave him the sack.

• 55:43Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. What the fuck were you doing blocking Dunlop?

• 55:48Speaker 03

  Every time he would line up as a three technique in, when I was studying tape that week, he kept running a U stud or a TE.

• 55:55Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 55:56Speaker 03

  He would, 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.

• 56:02Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 56:03Speaker 03

  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.

• 56:14Speaker 03

  So yeah, that wasn't good. Tony, Tony got crushed on that play. Sorry, Tony Pike.

• 56:18Travis Kelce?

  Shout out to Los.

• 56:19Speaker 03

  Yeah. Anyways, uh, yeah, it sucks. It's, it's the way it has been for a long time in, in football.

• 56:26Speaker 03

  It is kind of funny to me that like now they're like a bigger program, it's happening to them. I'm supposed to care more than what happened to me and you two and three times and happens to little small universities all the fucking time.

• 56:38Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 56:38Speaker 03

  Um, Ole Miss fans had his clothes in the parking lot by the end of the day.

• 56:41Travis Kelce?

  It was hilarious, dude. The fucking fans outside the private jet, dude. Oh man, it was good.

• 56:50Speaker 03

  Well, sorry that you're going through it, Ole Miss. I know what you're going through. It sucks.

• 56:53Travis Kelce?

  Can't wait to see Ole Miss versus LSU next year though, baby. Here we go. Here we go.

• 56:57Speaker 03

  They've still got some playoff games going.

• 56:59Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, but at the same time, it's like.

• 57:01Speaker 03

  That's all you want to see?

• 57:02Travis Kelce?

  I want to see, I want to see Lane Kiffin. I have to go back to LSU.

• 57:06Speaker 03

  What if they play better? Who's he? Is there an interim coach? Is he for sure going with Lane Kiffin?

• 57:10Travis Kelce?

  I think they, I think their season just ended.

• 57:12Speaker 03

  Well, no, they're going to the playoffs, aren't they? Isn't that why this is a big deal?

• 57:15Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, they are. You're right. We have no idea.

• 57:19Speaker 03

  Maybe Pete Golden does really well and they offer him a bunch of money.

• 57:21Travis Kelce?

  Their special teams long snapper, uh, father is actually going to be doing, doing the signals for them in the playoffs. It'll be great.

• 57:31Speaker 03

  I mean, I think SEC has a little more resources than we had in Cincinnati to handle.

• 57:41Travis Kelce?

  Fucking good. Bring Eli back. Eli, go take charge for a college football playoff.

• 57:47Speaker 03

  That's great.

• 57:48Travis Kelce?

  Just get somebody in there that fucking represents the 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.

• 57:58Speaker 03

  It's an amazing app. It's amazing platform to learn, be entertained, you name it. A lot of, a lot of good stuff on Audible. All right.

• 58:07Travis Kelce?

  Nice.

• 58:07Speaker 03

  Nominees for stamp of the week. We got Giants holder Jamie Gillen for making the best out of whatever that was. I mean, he actually, he's the reason that it happened.

• 58:16Travis Kelce?

  Is this the field goal kick?

• 58:17Speaker 03

  This is the kicker where 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.

• 58:29Speaker 03

  I do think he also just fucked up though. Even if you see that, why do you do that?

• 58:33Travis Kelce?

  I think that lead step's just a little too far out in front of that, that football. He's got to, he's got to, cause when you get too far out in the football, now you gotta be steep at the ball.

• 58:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 58:43Travis Kelce?

  And I think, I think you gotta, yeah, you gotta kick, and then you gotta bring that left, 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. You want to keep that, that lead step right even or a little bit behind us. You can get through the ball. Get through the ball.

• 59:03Speaker 03

  Either way, I'm not giving Jamie a stamp of the week because it wasn't a great hole.

• 59:08Speaker 03

  Puka Nakua for this insane catch. Let's check this one out.

• 59:11Travis Kelce?

  This was insane indeed.

• 59:18Speaker 03

  Little OBJ action.

• 59:21Travis Kelce?

  Puka.

• 59:21Speaker 03

  Reverse backhanded catch. Very impressive.

• 59:24Travis Kelce?

  Man, if we're gonna go catch, I'm going tight end Brock Bowers.

• 59:28Speaker 03

  It's a good one. It's a good one.

• 59:30Travis Kelce?

  He gets my stamp of the week at least twice a year because of how fucking good he is, but this is an insane catch.

• 59:39Travis Kelce?

  Oh.

• 59:40Speaker 03

  Wow, that's impressive.

• 59:41Travis Kelce?

  Off the fucking turf. That boy just loves ball, man.

• 59:48Travis Kelce?

  What a goon, man. Oh, draped all over him, snow cones it.

• 59:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, baby, snow cones it, I liked it.

• 59:56Travis Kelce?

  Just.

• 59:58Speaker 03

  Brandon, stop putting Archie Manning in this fucking stamp of the week thing.

• 1:00:02Speaker 00

  No, no, I won't. Good for you, Arch.

• 1:00:05Speaker 03

  It's 79 yards.

• 1:00:06Speaker 00

  I'm watching you, baby. Lock in.

• 1:00:10Speaker 00

  What?

• 1:00:10Speaker 03

  Pantsless Jets fan, let me see this one.

• 1:00:12Speaker 06

  Oh, we got security presence now.

• 1:00:16Speaker 06

  I wonder why.

• 1:00:21Speaker 03

  That's great. I got, I would love to give that stamp, but I think you gotta draw the line there. You gotta, no shirts funny, no pants, that can go south. That go south real quick.

• 1:00:32Speaker 03

  All right, I'm gonna go with the Ernest Jones pick six. I know it's not original, it was a great pick. Uh, it was a fucking wild play.

• 1:00:41Travis Kelce?

  Yes.

• 1:00:42Speaker 03

  Sorry to, Max Brosner, rough first outing.

• 1:00:47Speaker 03

  I mean, he's playing really good defense. It's gonna be hard to have a good game against those guys.

• 1:00:52Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:53Speaker 03

  This fucking play is.

• 1:00:54Travis Kelce?

  This is insane.

• 1:00:55Speaker 03

  I just.

• 1:00:55Travis Kelce?

  Can't do it.

• 1:00:56Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:00:57Travis Kelce?

  Can't do it. Can't do it.

• 1:00:58Speaker 03

  Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it.

• 1:01:02Travis Kelce?

  But it was an electric play.

• 1:01:03Speaker 03

  It's an electric play, Ernest Jones really didn't have to do much, but it's an electric play.

• 1:01:07Travis Kelce?

  Other than be ready, you just gotta be ready. Sometimes that's half the battle, man, you gotta be ready.

• 1:01:11Speaker 03

  Be prepared.

• 1:01:16Travis Kelce?

  Fuck.

• 1:01:17Speaker 03

  Alrighty, that does it for stamp of the week, brought to you by Audible.

• 1:01:20Speaker 00

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• 1:03:02Speaker 03

  And now a tale from our partner, Gillette.

• 1:03:05Travis Kelce?

  'Twas the night before game day, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except for a kels, loud as a mouse.

• 1:03:14Speaker 03

  The stockings were hung by the chimney with flair, but I'm still debating what holiday gift to put there.

• 1:03:19Travis Kelce?

  Another macaroni necklace? Masterpiece?

• 1:03:23Speaker 03

  That, or Gillette Labs' official Eagles razor for shaving with ease.

• 1:03:27Travis Kelce?

  Can't go wrong with either, but I hear in KC, the Chiefs razor is top of the wish list, including for me.

• 1:03:34Speaker 03

  Now, let's check in with our clean-shaven crew, Jake and Brandon. Give us your review. Oh, that's why the mustache has been here.

• 1:03:42Speaker 00

  There you go, yeah.

• 1:03:43Speaker 03

  Now I'm understanding.

• 1:03:44Speaker 00

  Yes. It's good shaving. Good to clean up the top ear, clean up the neckline.

• 1:03:48Travis Kelce?

  You guys are good.

• 1:03:49Speaker 00

  I had to grow this out during Movember. I shaved for Halloween and then Yeah, that's nice. Gillette made me look like Big Red, but not quite as impressive on the mustache. The shaving gel smells incredible. But let's get back to our, our Christmas shaving story.

• 1:04:03Speaker 03

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• 1:04:11Travis Kelce?

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• 1:04:18Speaker 03

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• 1:04:30Travis Kelce?

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• 1:04:41Travis Kelce?

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• 1:04:48Speaker 03

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• 1:04:53Travis Kelce?

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• 1:05:00Speaker 03

  Get started today at Planet Fitness or learn more at planetfitness.com. And now it's probably what you've waited this entire episode for. That's right. We're going to talk.

• 1:05:09Travis Kelce?

  And we

• 1:05:10Speaker 03

  How the fuck did this happen?

• 1:05:12Travis Kelce?

  I don't know how we even got to this point in life, Jason.

• 1:05:16Speaker 03

  Yeah. I don't even know how to talk to people of this stature.

• 1:05:20Travis Kelce?

  Well, because they talk to you and

• 1:05:23Speaker 03

  They're just so much smarter and like better as human beings.

• 1:05:27Travis Kelce?

  He's so good at just like being a cool person. He does it so effortlessly.

• 1:05:32Speaker 03

  I know.

• 1:05:33Travis Kelce?

  You said it best. You said it was like, if, if that's, if that's what a movie star is.

• 1:05:40Speaker 03

  Jesus Christ.

• 1:05:41Travis Kelce?

  If that's what a superstar is, I'm fucked.

• 1:05:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:05:44Travis Kelce?

  Because I don't have that.

• 1:05:45Speaker 03

  No, just sitting there. You know, he's a superstar. He doesn't even need to say anything. And then he starts talking and he's like way better at conversing. Yeah. I was like, this is what I do for a living. You're already like, can you not be great at everything, George? Jesus Christ.

• 1:05:59Travis Kelce?

  You guys are going to see George Clooney take over this podcast.

• 1:06:04Speaker 04

  So, uh, are we on? You going? All right, I'm gonna, I wanna start off.

• 1:06:09Travis Kelce?

  Oh, God.

• 1:06:09Speaker 04

  And I'm gonna start, I'm gonna start off, not you guys, I'm gonna start off. Jason, I dig you, man.

• 1:06:15Speaker 03

  Oh, wow.

• 1:06:16Speaker 04

  You know, you're, you're, you're NFC, you're Hall of Famer. You know, I can, I can, I can show some love for you.

• 1:06:24Speaker 03

  Thank you, thank you, George.

• 1:06:25Speaker 04

  Travis, Travis, you broke me, man.

• 1:06:30Speaker 04

  I'm a, I'm a Bengals fan, dude. I grew up in Cincinnati. You've broken me so many times in your pretty face on GQ and I have to, the other times I've thrown like a hoagie at my TV at your face, you've broken me.

• 1:06:48Travis Kelce?

  You got, you guys, 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 guys, they took a tight end ahead of me in the draft and I felt heartbroken. I was a Cincinnati Bearcat. I was sitting in the backyard.

• 1:07:03Speaker 04

  That's right, you were a Bearcat, man.

• 1:07:04Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:05Speaker 04

  You were literally in the backyard.

• 1:07:07Travis Kelce?

  I was, I was.

• 1:07:08Speaker 04

  Off of Straight Street, off the back of Cincinnati. I used to live on Straight Street.

• 1:07:12Travis Kelce?

  How about it, really?

• 1:07:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:14Speaker 03

  We had this in the rundown, but while you brought it up, we have conflicting reports. We always, at least if you go to the University of Cincinnati, you're told as a student that George Clooney went to UC. Is that true?

• 1:07:25Speaker 04

  Yeah, for a minute. Yeah.

• 1:07:26Speaker 03

  That counts, right?

• 1:07:27Speaker 04

  I was in it for a minute.

• 1:07:28Travis Kelce?

  It counts.

• 1:07:29Speaker 04

  I lived on Straight Street on, on the hill, you know, where if it snowed and you parked, the cars would all end up at the bottom of the hill.

• 1:07:37Speaker 03

  I know exactly what you're talking about.

• 1:07:38Travis Kelce?

  Hell, yeah. If 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 to fucking practice.

• 1:07:47Travis Kelce?

  You're calling it up.

• 1:07:48Speaker 04

  You went down to the King Quick at the bottom and you just got Doritos and a beer and you just sat there until it snowed.

• 1:07:54Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:07:55Speaker 04

  That's all you could do, man.

• 1:07:56Travis Kelce?

  Over the Rhine, baby. That's some good shit.

• 1:07:58Speaker 04

  Over the Rhine, you remember that area? That was like tricky, remember?

• 1:08:01Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah. Now it's clean. Now, now it's a lot better. It's a lot better than clean.

• 1:08:04Speaker 03

  Well, there's still, there's still pockets.

• 1:08:07Travis Kelce?

  Pockets is a great way to put it.

• 1:08:09Speaker 04

  I was back in SISI a couple of weeks ago and it was funny, I went back. And the owner of the Cincinnati Reds came out, I was doing, I was speaking in front of a couple thousand people, owner of Cincinnati Reds came out and you know, I had a couple of tryouts for the Reds when I was younger and he came up and read like my scouting report and it was the most humiliating thing.

• 1:08:34Speaker 03

  He's got no arm, he's got no speed.

• 1:08:38Travis Kelce?

  Tell you what, though, he puts a jersey on, man, the guy looks like a ball player.

• 1:08:44Speaker 04

  I had a hat, dude, I look good.

• 1:08:47Speaker 03

  I believe it, I believe it, I gotta see those.

• 1:08:49Travis Kelce?

  That's too good. Was it just like high school tryouts or like?

• 1:08:53Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was, you know, they had a, they had a thing where they were taking people out of high school for, you know, you know, anybody who was playing well in high school and they took you out and brought you in and let you, let you try out for.

• 1:09:04Travis Kelce?

  Like a little combine or showcase, yeah.

• 1:09:06Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was fun, but boy, it was, it was pretty humiliating in front of all those people.

• 1:09:10Travis Kelce?

  That's too funny that he had it in there. He still had the, the detailed report, man. That's too funny. Well, nice. Now, now we can get it out there. He, were you in the DAP program at Cincinnati for, for a little bit?

• 1:09:22Speaker 04

  No.

• 1:09:24Speaker 04

  None of that.

• 1:09:25Travis Kelce?

  Well, once a Bearcat, always a Bearcat in my book.

• 1:09:30Speaker 04

  I also, you know, I was a UK kid too. I loved UK. So, you know, I had a, we had, you know, I would side with the UK for basketball because, you know, you kind of wanted to have a winner and you're.

• 1:09:41Travis Kelce?

  Hell, yeah.

• 1:09:42Speaker 04

  And I'd been a Bengals fan for a long time and, you know, we'd lost an awful lot of games.

• 1:09:49Speaker 04

  There was a lot of losing. For a while, we were, I think, the losingest franchise in, in football. And then we kind of got a little better, you know?

• 1:09:56Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 1:09:56Speaker 04

  Back in the day, it was Kenny Anderson was the quarterback.

• 1:09:59Travis Kelce?

  How about it? How about it, man?

• 1:10:02Speaker 03

  I'm gonna 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, and a two-time Academy Award winner. You know him from his roles in E.R., Syriana, Out of Sight, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Perfect Storm from Dusty Dog, Michael Clayton, Bird After Reading, and Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, and there's probably more coming. He's the star of the upcoming film, J. Kelly. And unlike myself, he actually won Sexiest Man Alive twice.

• 1:10:43Travis Kelce?

  Twice.

• 1:10:44Speaker 03

  Ninety-two percenters. Please welcome Mr. George Clooney.

• 1:10:50Travis Kelce?

  Fucking welcome.

• 1:10:52Speaker 03

  Oh, my gosh, man.

• 1:10:53Speaker 04

  Oh, man, guys.

• 1:10:54Speaker 03

  That is a head of a laundry list.

• 1:10:57Speaker 04

  I never won a Tony, but, you know, I'm glad you said it anyway. Get it out there, and the people will think I won, and that's even more fun.

• 1:11:03Travis Kelce?

  You did now.

• 1:11:04Speaker 03

  Dang it.

• 1:11:04Speaker 04

  Just say it.

• 1:11:06Speaker 03

  I appreciate the honesty.

• 1:11:08Travis Kelce?

  We gave him. Did we miss anything?

• 1:11:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:11:11Travis Kelce?

  Did we give you one?

• 1:11:12Speaker 03

  Many. We missed a bunch, I'm sure.

• 1:11:14Speaker 04

  Yeah. It's okay. I'm fine. I'll be okay.

• 1:11:20Speaker 03

  Well, guys, how's it going, man? We're doing great. Thank you so much for taking the time to hop on, George. This is an incredible honor for us. It is. I still can't believe that we're getting guests of your stature on this thing.

• 1:11:32Travis Kelce?

  It's insane.

• 1:11:32Speaker 03

  This is, yeah, it's incredible.

• 1:11:34Speaker 04

  Stature now. See, I get gray, and I have stature.

• 1:11:37Speaker 03

  Well, I mean, no, you get distinguished. Dang it.

• 1:11:43Speaker 04

  Distinguished, I know.

• 1:11:44Travis Kelce?

  It's coming from a guy that's turning gray as well, and I'll tell you what, he embraces the grayness. He embrace, he can't wait till he goes full white.

• 1:11:51Speaker 03

  I'm right. Damn right.

• 1:11:52Speaker 04

  Dude, it's coming. It happens fast.

• 1:11:54Speaker 03

  Okay, perfect. I'm looking forward to it. I'm full Santa Claus here in a couple of years, man. It's gonna be epic.

• 1:12:01Speaker 04

  Your wife will be so happy.

• 1:12:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, she'll be thrilled. She'll be thrilled. All right, let's, let's talk about Jay Kelly. How about that?

• 1:12:07Speaker 04

  All right, bring it on.

• 1:12:08Speaker 03

  Initial thoughts. First of all, incredible film. Loved every second of it. And I know you've already, 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.

• 1:12:30Speaker 04

  Well, I mean, look, you know, we're the same height and the same hair.

• 1:12:38Speaker 04

  The guy's kind of, you know, he's kind of a mess and I hope at my age that I'm not quite in that much of a

• 1:12:47Speaker 03

  Fair enough.

• 1:12:48Speaker 04

  Crisis mode. But, you know, listen, look, this is a guy whose kids hate him and, you know, dad doesn't like him. So, yeah, I got eight year olds and they still dig me, you know?

• 1:12:58Speaker 03

  Perfect.

• 1:12:59Speaker 04

  That's going to change, as you know.

• 1:13:01Speaker 03

  Teenage years are coming.

• 1:13:05Speaker 04

  How old are your kids?

• 1:13:06Speaker 03

  Dude, they're, they're all young. I got six, four, two, and a brand new one. So we're in the early stage.

• 1:13:13Speaker 04

  It's coming, man. And 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.

• 1:13:20Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:13:21Speaker 04

  Like I'd say like, hey, you know, your dad's a big star. She just rolls her eye.

• 1:13:26Speaker 03

  Yeah. Sure, dad.

• 1:13:30Speaker 03

  How do you handle that? Let me ask you that. Are you a, like, like, do you, are you a strict or do you get on? Like, what's your parenting style?

• 1:13:37Speaker 04

  I'm, I'm probably, I'm a little strict. I'm not like, you know, I'm not a nutbag about it. My kids are pretty good. My kids are 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, I like some guy, you know, cut me off. And I was like, fucking asshole. And I'm, I'm driving and like about five minutes later in the backseat, I hear, fucking asshole.

• 1:14:14Speaker 04

  Same tone, same delivery.

• 1:14:17Speaker 03

  Oh my gosh.

• 1:14:18Travis Kelce?

  And you know they're gonna say that and my wife's gonna hear it.

• 1:14:22Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:14:22Travis Kelce?

  And then I'm dead.

• 1:14:23Speaker 03

  Yes, exactly.

• 1:14:24Travis Kelce?

  There's no, there's no way I could.

• 1:14:27Travis Kelce?

  So you're, you're learning as you go.

• 1:14:31Speaker 03

  That's amazing. All right. Well, to summarize the movie for everybody that needs to go watch this thing.

• 1:14:37Speaker 03

  George Clooney plays a famous actor, Jay Kelly alongside, and this is an awesome moment. His manager, Adam Sandler, the Sandman.

• 1:14:44Travis Kelce?

  Man, baby.

• 1:14:45Speaker 03

  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.

• 1:14:54Speaker 04

  It's so much fun. You guys, do you guys know Adam at all? Have you ever met him?

• 1:14:58Speaker 03

  Well, Trav, yeah, Trav was in Happy Gilmore 2.

• 1:15:02Travis Kelce?

  I had the pleasure of being on set with the big guy.

• 1:15:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's right. You were in the movie. By the way, he didn't ask me.

• 1:15:07Speaker 03

  He didn't ask me in the movie. That's a missed opportunity, Adam. That's a missed opportunity.

• 1:15:14Speaker 04

  I told him, man, I work cheap. Not, you know, like Travis.

• 1:15:19Travis Kelce?

  So I'm doing this thing for free. Just let me be on set, man.

• 1:15:24Speaker 04

  He's such a good egg. You know, he's such a fun cat and fun to, fun to, you know, work with. He and I have been playing basketball together for about 30 years and, you know, just a chance to get a chance to, to work with him was what a blast. What a fun thing to be able to do, you know?

• 1:15:37Travis Kelce?

  Just the best, man. Adam's such a good dude, man. I was, I was, I'm still forever thankful that he, 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 that, I think the movie might have been 10 times better, man. Fuck.

• 1:15:54Speaker 04

  Dude, I, I, I, I play a great waiter. You have no idea.

• 1:16:00Travis Kelce?

  Seeing you, seeing you chest bump Xander Schaafle.

• 1:16:04Speaker 04

  So wait, now is this gonna be, is this gonna be the, the thing now, you know, when you retire? I know you're not gonna retire. When you retire, is this gonna, are you gonna go into some show business? Are you gonna act more?

• 1:16:16Travis Kelce?

  Listen, as, as long as I'm getting asked by, by guys like Adam Sandler, you know, my hero's growing. What up, man? I'm gonna be there in a heartbeat, man. I don't know. 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 for damn sure.

• 1:16:34Speaker 04

  That's exciting, man. That's gonna be fun. By the way, Travis, you were in Lake Como, weren't you?

• 1:16:39Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Me and Tay danced around Lake Como for a little while, man. I loved it out there.

• 1:16:43Speaker 04

  That's my, you know, I got a place there out there.

• 1:16:46Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They love. They love to point it out whenever you're doing the, whenever you're on the lake.

• 1:16:51Speaker 04

  I'm part of the tour.

• 1:16:54Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's a funny thing. And now you look to your left, you see a Jorgie Glode House.

• 1:16:59Travis Kelce?

  I'll tell you what, it sits perfectly on that water, man. It's a beautiful place and a beautiful area. Everybody out there is so lovely, man. I was every morning, I was throwing my, 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 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.

• 1:17:22Speaker 04

  Had you spent time in Italy at all?

• 1:17:24Travis Kelce?

  No, that was my first time.

• 1:17:25Speaker 04

  Cause you know, what you'll see is there's, there's a version of life that they lived. It's pretty interesting, you know, they, they really celebrate dinner. You know, it's two hours and you're eating with, you're 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.

• 1:17:42Travis Kelce?

  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, in a, in a corner of a cove and it's just the, the best posse you could ever imagine. And just the best, it is such a cool place. I recommend, I recommend that place for everybody.

• 1:18:00Speaker 03

  Love it. Love it.

• 1:18:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's good.

• 1:18:02Speaker 03

  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 beck and call of this movie star.

• 1:18:15Speaker 04

  Hairstylist. You know, like, like Travis does.

• 1:18:21Speaker 03

  It's very similar.

• 1:18:24Speaker 03

  How accurate is this portrayal? Is this an accurate Hollywood trope?

• 1:18:28Speaker 04

  Well, I know some actors who have pretty big, you know, pretty big 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.

• 1:18:38Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, I hear you.

• 1:18:40Speaker 04

  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, all the gang from Oceans that I, you know, Brad and Matt and Julia, they actually have fairly normal lives, considering sort of who they are.

• 1:19:00Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 1:19:01Speaker 04

  Not me, I have like 40 people.

• 1:19:05Speaker 04

  There's someone sitting directly behind me, holding my face back.

• 1:19:14Travis Kelce?

  Oh man, that was a banger. 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.

• 1:19:25Speaker 04

  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.

• 1:19:34Travis Kelce?

  Oh yeah.

• 1:19:34Speaker 04

  And I do it like 30, like 30 takes, you know?

• 1:19:37Speaker 03

  Oh my gosh.

• 1:19:39Speaker 04

  I go to the director, I go, you know, I'm, I'm six and four.

• 1:19:44Speaker 04

  And he goes, well, I'd just like to see you run faster.

• 1:19:48Travis Kelce?

  No way, no way.

• 1:19:53Speaker 04

  And here's something I learned from Jason. Rather than running faster, I just pumped my arms faster.

• 1:19:59Speaker 03

  That's right, that's right, that's right.

• 1:20:01Travis Kelce?

  There you go.

• 1:20:02Speaker 04

  That's something Jason taught me.

• 1:20:03Speaker 03

  Smarter, not harder.

• 1:20:04Travis Kelce?

  Oh yeah.

• 1:20:09Speaker 04

  So wait, where are you guys? You're in, you're in KC, right?

• 1:20:12Travis Kelce?

  Yep.

• 1:20:13Speaker 04

  And Jason, where are you?

• 1:20:14Speaker 03

  I'm in Philly, man. I live here, but 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 wasn't another option. I don't know if we'd be able to do what we do.

• 1:20:26Speaker 04

  Do you guys battle it out over who's got the coolest podcast? Do you get into that? Do you fight?

• 1:20:33Speaker 03

  For sure.

• 1:20:34Travis Kelce?

  It's everything. You already know, you got to, you gotta, you gotta go after every bit of like bragging rights at the dinner table during Thanksgiving, man. It's, it's never stops.

• 1:20:43Speaker 03

  What, let me ask you this, as a Cincinnati fan, Burrow's coming back, like, does that inspire you? Or is it just like this defense is so bad, it doesn't matter who's playing quarterback?

• 1:20:51Speaker 04

  Well, I worry. I mean, you know, it's not like Flacco wasn't putting up good numbers. So what do you do? Listen, it's been, it's, it's an interesting time.

• 1:20:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:21:00Speaker 04

  No, it's an interesting thing to be a Cincinnati fan in general. You know, I grew up, when I was growing up in Cincinnati, we were in Kentucky, but across the river. I was, you know, so in 1975, I was 14 years old and we had the big red machine. You know.

• 1:21:18Speaker 04

  And it was like, I didn't think, I thought we were always going to be the, Cincinnati's going to be the epicenter of great sports.

• 1:21:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:21:26Speaker 04

  I didn't realize that that was sort of going to be our, our swan song.

• 1:21:33Speaker 03

  Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, those, that fricking.

• 1:21:36Speaker 04

  Joe Morgan, Ken Griffey.

• 1:21:38Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:21:39Speaker 04

  Think about the, I mean, we had a team.

• 1:21:43Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 1:21:43Travis Kelce?

  Have you, have you met Joey Burrow, the smooth guy at Ohio native?

• 1:21:47Speaker 04

  No.

• 1:21:48Travis Kelce?

  Haven't ran into him yet?

• 1:21:50Speaker 04

  No, and I, you know, and I'm a, and I'm a big fan. I know that you, you guys like to harm him. I know that.

• 1:21:58Travis Kelce?

  But. Listen, he's harmed us. He won, I think, the first three games ever played against us. I remember it. I remember it.

• 1:22:05Speaker 03

  Rename the stadium.

• 1:22:10Speaker 04

  Between Burrow and our, you know, 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.

• 1:22:26Travis Kelce?

  Are you guys gonna win it all this year? That's the, 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.

• 1:22:37Speaker 04

  When you've won Super Bowls, is it every team that comes in is, is gunning for you guys then? Is that how it feels?

• 1:22:44Speaker 03

  For sure.

• 1:22:44Travis Kelce?

  That's, that's the pride. That's the, that's the honor that you get though, when you win it. You know what I mean? Like I, I'm a competitor where I want everybody's fucking best. I want, I want, I get excited about those games when the moments are huge and you know what 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.

• 1:23:03Speaker 04

  It's exciting.

• 1:23:03Travis Kelce?

  And it definitely, when you play in good quarterbacks like Burrow and, and Josh Allen and those guys, like it's every game.

• 1:23:10Speaker 04

  Oh man.

• 1:23:10Travis Kelce?

  You know what I mean? Like you know, you gotta play at your, your top or else you're gonna get smoked.

• 1:23:14Speaker 03

  I got, I got a question. George, do you guys ever, do actors get competitive like athletes?

• 1:23:19Speaker 04

  Oh, it's funny.

• 1:23:20Speaker 03

  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 gonna outdo yours or? How does that work?

• 1:23:30Speaker 04

  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, to sort of succeed, you know, in a weird way, but 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 Matt Damon shit.

• 1:23:52Speaker 04

  He deserves it, by the way.

• 1:23:53Speaker 03

  Absolutely, absolutely.

• 1:23:55Speaker 04

  By the way, he's a Patriots fan and the Patriots are playing well. I can't live with it right now.

• 1:24:00Speaker 03

  It's bad.

• 1:24:02Speaker 04

  That's all I hear about.

• 1:24:03Travis Kelce?

  Brable, they let up, they let up Ohio, Ohio guy get it, get it their realm, man. I'm just saying, Ohio ball player, man.

• 1:24:09Speaker 03

  Crazy how much coaching can make a difference.

• 1:24:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's huge though. And then, and you, and Pitt's a Kansas City fan. So you guys got Pitt.

• 1:24:16Travis Kelce?

  Oh yeah.

• 1:24:17Speaker 04

  So you know, the whole oceans, the whole oceans team is breaking me, man.

• 1:24:23Speaker 04

  You know, we're gonna do another oceans.

• 1:24:24Travis Kelce?

  What?

• 1:24:25Speaker 03

  You guys are doing another one?

• 1:24:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, we're gonna do another one.

• 1:24:28Travis Kelce?

  Oh.

• 1:24:28Speaker 04

  But you know, now we're old, so it's gonna be like mostly just trying not to crap yourself.

• 1:24:36Travis Kelce?

  Dude, I can't fucking, I can't fucking wait though.

• 1:24:38Speaker 04

  It's like every sneeze is a gamble now, you know?

• 1:24:42Speaker 03

  Is this already, like, are you guys getting ready to film it? How's this work?

• 1:24:45Speaker 04

  No, we're scouting locations.

• 1:24:47Speaker 03

  Everything's been agreed to?

• 1:24:48Speaker 04

  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 gonna be fun, fun to work, get those guys back in the room. It'd be fun.

• 1:24:58Speaker 03

  Oh, hell yeah. Well, it's been pretty damn good so far.

• 1:25:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:25:02Speaker 03

  Do you think you'll ever get back in, on screen with the Coen brothers? I gotta say, oh brother, we're out now, hail Caesar, they can burn after reading, come on now. Oh my gosh, love it.

• 1:25:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, that was a pretty funny thing, you know, I remember when I was doing, oh brother, where art thou? 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.

• 1:25:32Speaker 03

  Quite the assumption.

• 1:25:35Speaker 04

  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 Constant Sorrow. In the, literally in the recording studio.

• 1:25:45Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:25:45Speaker 04

  And I sing it like I'm 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, ooh.

• 1:25:53Speaker 03

  We're gonna have to.

• 1:25:55Speaker 04

  And they come, let's play it back for you, George, they're hoping, and it just sounded like a cat caught in the wheel well of a car.

• 1:26:04Speaker 04

  It was 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.

• 1:26:18Speaker 03

  Talented.

• 1:26:19Speaker 04

  They kind of, they're not, they haven't been working together as much right now, but if they get something back together, I'll do it. I, 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.

• 1:26:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 1:26:31Travis Kelce?

  We got one last segment here for you, George, man. We know you're on a tight schedule, brother.

• 1:26:35Speaker 04

  Hey, baby, I'm ready. Come on.

• 1:26:36Travis Kelce?

  We, uh, we appreciate the time, but this is our last segment. We gotta ask, but you don't have to answer. You could tell us to kick rocks or you can, uh, have some fun with us in the question.

• 1:26:44Speaker 04

  Ask them away, man. Whatever you got.

• 1:26:46Travis Kelce?

  You claim that you and your wife haven't gotten in a fight in 10 years.

• 1:26:49Speaker 04

  That's right.

• 1:26:50Travis Kelce?

  Are you lying?

• 1:26:51Speaker 04

  No, I'm not lying.

• 1:26:55Speaker 04

  Travis, shall we ask you the same questions?

• 1:26:59Travis Kelce?

  Well, it's only been two and a half years and you're right. I haven't gotten an argument in two.

• 1:27:05Speaker 03

  All right.

• 1:27:05Travis Kelce?

  Never once.

• 1:27:06Speaker 04

  Honestly, you know, neither of us are gonna win the arguments, so why get in it?

• 1:27:10Speaker 03

  There we go.

• 1:27:11Travis Kelce?

  There you go.

• 1:27:11Speaker 03

  That's a smart man right there. What's the secret? Just not, just staying out of the argument altogether?

• 1:27:16Speaker 04

  Dude, I'm 64 years old and what am I gonna argue about at this point? You know, I'm like,

• 1:27:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:27:21Speaker 04

  You know, I've met this incredible woman that, you know, is, you know, she, she's, uh, beautiful and smart and she stands for all the most important things that I believe in in the world and I, I can't believe how lucky I am. So what am I gonna fight about? You know, I like,

• 1:27:38Speaker 03

  That's a great answer.

• 1:27:39Travis Kelce?

  God damn, that's a good one.

• 1:27:41Speaker 04

  Too late to do it. Yeah, you can use that if you want.

• 1:27:43Speaker 03

  I'm stealing it for sure.

• 1:27:44Travis Kelce?

  I'm just, I'm just taking notes this whole, this whole time, big guy. You don't even know.

• 1:27:49Speaker 04

  Exactly. Come on, bring me another one. What else you got?

• 1:27:52Speaker 03

  Come on, Trev.

• 1:27:53Travis Kelce?

  Uh, as Batman, where do you rank Jason as fat Batman? Do we have the, the picture for him?

• 1:27:59Speaker 04

  Let's see that. Oh, nice. I think I remember that picture coming out.

• 1:28:05Speaker 03

  Oh, gosh.

• 1:28:06Speaker 04

  You know,

• 1:28:07Speaker 03

  Very unfortunate that you can see this.

• 1:28:09Speaker 04

  You could be one of the, uh, one of the bad guys in the film. By the way, uh, you and I, both of you and I know that I was the best Batman. You know that, right?

• 1:28:19Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 1:28:19Speaker 04

  I mean, there's no argument.

• 1:28:20Travis Kelce?

  Best.

• 1:28:21Speaker 04

  I mean, Ben Affleck? Come on.

• 1:28:26Speaker 04

  I put uh. This is where that competitiveness comes in.

• 1:28:29Travis Kelce?

  There it is, yeah.

• 1:28:30Speaker 04

  This is where that competitiveness comes in, yeah. You know, I'm the only one who had rubber nipples. You have rubber nipples?

• 1:28:39Speaker 04

  Rubber nipples. That's commitment right there. That is commitment.

• 1:28:42Travis Kelce?

  Did it come through enough on the suit?

• 1:28:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, it did. When it got colder, it was like two Dunlap tires going out.

• 1:28:54Speaker 04

  Bad look. Is it true that you once stole Bill Clinton's stationery and wrote a fake note to actor saying, how much President love? All right, go ahead. Jimmy Kimmel gave me a stack of stationery with a presidential seal and Bill Clinton's name on it. All right. And I would send notes to all these actors from Bill Clinton. I'd sign it like, and I'd find a movie that wasn't a great film of theirs and I'd be like, you know, I love you in this film. And I'd write these notes and I'd send them. I sent it like 30 different actors. I guarantee you some of them are framed on some of their arms. Oh my gosh. They don't even know. They still don't know. That is amazing. Now they know. Now they know. Oh my gosh. Holy crap.

• 1:29:40Speaker 04

  By the way, I did that. I do that a lot. Like I have, I had Brad Pitt's stationery. Yeah. And I sent, you know, I told a couple of you this before, but I, Brad Pitt's stationery that Kimmel gave me again. And I sent, somebody had sent me this, this book of, of, of dialects, like CDs where you could do an Irish accent or you could do a French accent. It was a guy who teaches it. And I had this big book. I don't know why I had. Somebody sent 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.

• 1:30:21Speaker 04

  And I sent her this book of accents from Brad Pitt.

• 1:30:32Speaker 04

  It's so awful.

• 1:30:36Speaker 04

  Like four years later, I, like 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.

• 1:30:54Speaker 04

  So awful.

• 1:30:55Speaker 05

  That is epic. That is epic.

• 1:30:56Speaker 04

  We've done a lot of terrible things to each other. He's done terrible things to me, man. So it all comes out.

• 1:31:01Speaker 05

  It all evens out.

• 1:31:02Travis Kelce?

  That's so good, man. Well, speaking of Brad, he told us a story when he was on New Heights not too long ago about how he, um, he ate so many beans during a scene, right before a scene that he, um, or during the scene, I'm sorry, that he ended up, yeah, clearing the set.

• 1:31:17Speaker 04

  He cleared the set.

• 1:31:18Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, he cleared the set from what he said. Uh, what's your like worst moment on set?

• 1:31:22Speaker 04

  Uh, I think right now, just exact moment.

• 1:31:28Speaker 04

  I don't think I, I don't think I can sink to a new or low.

• 1:31:34Speaker 04

  I can think, you know, I'll tell you, some of my worst moments, I said, I remember when we, so like, you know, when you're a younger actor, you get a movie and you think it's going to be great. And I, I remember being on the set of, uh, of Batman and Robin, which is famously one of the worst films of all time, and I'm terrible in it. And, uh, I remember there was like, uh, the director with, you know, I'm laying in a, you're in a rubber cowl and you can't move because it weighs like 75 pounds and you're like tucked down and you're on a board laying down like this and you're waiting to for action and the director, Will Schumacher is like going, okay, here we go. And your parents are dead. You have nothing to live for and action.

• 1:32:23Speaker 04

  I'm Batman. And they go, cut. 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, uh, it was a pretty humiliating.

• 1:32:36Speaker 05

  Oh my goodness.

• 1:32:38Speaker 04

  It was humiliating.

• 1:32:39Travis Kelce?

  Greatest Batman of all time. Can't tell me any different.

• 1:32:41Speaker 04

  Dude, I'm telling you, best Batman ever. Come on. Michael Keaton had nothing on.

• 1:32:51Speaker 03

  Well, you're talking about speaking up 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, I'm in it. I'm in Hollywood.

• 1:33:03Speaker 04

  Oh, I don't know. I have to think about that. Like, yeah, I mean, like, I remember meeting Paul Newman, you know, and it's like, you know, I'd grown up with him, right? I'd seen him in at the drive-in theater in Mayville, Kentucky and like, you know, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and all this stuff. And then like, I, I remember, uh, being on the lot at Warner Brothers, driving, going by in a golf cart 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.

• 1:33:40Speaker 03

  Turning that down.

• 1:33:42Speaker 04

  And I, I was still working, by the way. And I was like, yeah, I'll take it. 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 soundstage with him just talking. And I remember going home 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 friends. There's 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 are bluer in person than they were on screen, you know, it was really something.

• 1:34:20Travis Kelce?

  Well, that's you now, brother.

• 1:34:21Speaker 03

  I'd say the same thing.

• 1:34:23Travis Kelce?

  That's you now, man. I appreciate you for being the fucking coolest guy in the goddamn world, man. We had a fucking whole lot of fun reaching your new low on new heights.

• 1:34:34Travis Kelce?

  And, uh, we, we can't say enough good about you. And everybody go and see Jay Kelly, uh, coming out on Netflix here soon. And, um, man, can't thank you enough for your time, brother. You're the fucking best.

• 1:34:46Speaker 03

  And good luck. Good luck Bengals defense.

• 1:34:48Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, you already know.

• 1:34:51Speaker 04

  Oh, you hurt me. One last shot to the chest.

• 1:34:58Speaker 03

  All right. And that does it for George Clooney. I hope you guys enjoyed it. We sure did.

• 1:35:03Travis Kelce?

  We still have.

• 1:35:04Speaker 03

  Way out of our league.

• 1:35:05Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, way out of our league.

• 1:35:07Speaker 03

  In many ways, in many ways.

• 1:35:09Travis Kelce?

  We recorded that a while ago and I'm still thinking about how I could have, you know, came off cooler to George or came like tried to do something to bring something to that conversation. But George just took it away. I didn't, I was in shock the whole time.

• 1:35:24Speaker 03

  So good looking and carries magic.

• 1:35:27Travis Kelce?

  It was glowing. It's why did they, do they have better lighting than us? Why is he, why was he glowing like that?

• 1:35:34Speaker 03

  I think he's just, it's his aura.

• 1:35:36Travis Kelce?

  He just walks around with a glow?

• 1:35:38Speaker 03

  I think whatever his spirit is inside of him, it's manifesting in ways that mine just doesn't have the ability to do.

• 1:35:48Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. Well, if you want to see him glow, go ahead and watch J. Kelly. You'll see him glow the whole, the whole movie.

• 1:35:53Speaker 03

  It's an outstanding movie. It really is. Adam Sandler and him, they just, the dynamic between those two is fantastic. It's a great movie. It's, it's very good. Highly recommend it. Check it out. That wraps up this episode of New Heights. Thank you to George Clooney. Make sure you subscribe to New Heights channel on YouTube and follow New Heights and the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes of New Heights ad free right now by joining Wondery Plus and the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.

• 1:36:18Travis Kelce?

  Once again, New Heights, a wonder show brought to you by Yeti. That's right. Those coolers and those cups that just keep everything at the temperature you want. All right now. Follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with one S for fun clips throughout the week. And thanks to our New Heights production team for always making us look better and for making this way easier than we could have ever imagined. And to the 92 percenters, we love you guys. We'll see you guys soon.

• 1:36:53Speaker 03

  I still remember that purple minivan, me and Ben Bloom would lower all the, 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.

• 1:37:09Travis Kelce?

  I didn't came down.

• 1:37:11Speaker 03

  As loud as the stock speakers could come on, thinking that like anybody else could hear this.

• 1:37:15Travis Kelce?

  Barely could hear it, yeah.

• 1:37:17Speaker 03

  The Chrysler stock.

• 1:37:18Travis Kelce?

  They heard you guys in there laughing more than they heard the actual music.

• 1:37:22Speaker 03

  I didn't came down, I didn't came down, hot and hot and hot and the hot and the came down, hate me now.

• 1:37:28Travis Kelce?

  So.

• 1:37:29Speaker 03

  Had to skip a couple of words in there.

• 1:37:32Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, yeah, we gotta be selective.

• 1:37:34Speaker 03

  From Superior, they be coming down.

• 1:37:36Travis Kelce?

  That song made it into Madden.

• 1:37:38Speaker 03

  It did, you're right. That is such an obscure song to make it into Madden.

• 1:37:43Travis Kelce?

  Well, LeBron showed up at, Al Fats is what they ended up calling him, but Fat Al's a.

• 1:37:49Speaker 03

  Well, he was Fat Al initially, and now he's Al Fats.

• 1:37:52Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, he got big enough to where copyrights came in and said, hell nah.

• 1:37:55Speaker 03

  There was another song that was really popular that year.

• 1:37:58Travis Kelce?

  My neck, my back.

• 1:38:00Speaker 03

  It wasn't that one. That didn't start till.

• 1:38:02Travis Kelce?

  That's the one I thought you were.

• 1:38:03Speaker 03

  I didn't have the confidence for that one yet.

• 1:38:05Travis Kelce?

  That's more of a Jason Kelce.

• 1:38:06Speaker 03

  You know, you know how little confidence I had with women.

• 1:38:10Travis Kelce?

  More in college, didn't it?

• 1:38:11Speaker 03

  That was more once I kind of built up a more bigger self-esteem.