Freddie Freeman on World Series MVP, Ohtani Media Mayhem and His Surprising Backup Career | Ep 109

92%ers, we are back with another episode of New Heights with Dodgers World Series MVP Freddie Freeman! In this episode, we talk about what it was like for Freddie to win his second World Series, how it felt to hit that iconic Game 1 walk-off grand slam, and what the team really said after Yankees fans tried to steal a ball from Mookie Betts’ glove. We also get his thoughts on LeBron’s misspelled shout-out, the backup career we never could’ve guessed, how the Dodgers dealt with the media circus surrounding Shohei Ohtani, if he thinks Anthony Rizzo should’ve pitched in the World Series, why Bad Bunny is his choice for walk-up music, and so much more! You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ on the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. . . . Follow New Heights on Social Media for all the best moments from the show: https://lnk.to/newheightshow Support the Show: SEAT GEEK: Use our code for 10% off your SeatGeek order*. https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/NEWHEIGHTS $25 max discount PARAMOUNT: Yellowstone, The Epic Return Sunday, November 10th at eight, seven central, only on Paramount Network. FARMERS DOG: Get 50% off your first box of fresh, healthy food at https://www.thefarmersdog.com/newheights. Plus, you get FREE shipping! MINT MOBILE: To get this new customer offer and your new 3-month unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to https://mintmobile.com/newheights DISCLAIMER: $45 upfront payment required (equivalent to $15/mo.). New customers on first 3 month plan only. Speeds slower above 40GB on Unlimited plan. Additional taxes, fees, & restrictions apply. See MINT MOBILE for details. 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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• 1:50Speaker 03

  Incredible moment, game one. Obviously, walk-off, grand slam homerun.

• 1:55Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:55Speaker 03

  How the fuck did that feel? World Series, bases loaded!

• 1:59Speaker 04

  I don't really remember. I've kind of blacked out.

• 2:07Travis Kelce?

  Welcome back to New Heights, a Wondery show produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment. We are your hosts. I'm Travis Kelce. It's my big bro, Jason Kelce. Subscribe on YouTube, Wondery Plus, or wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with one S. This is a very, very, very, very special episode of New Heights because today we've got World Series Champion joining us. That's right, Jason, please do the honors as you always do. Tell the people who we have on the show today.

• 2:39Speaker 03

  Of course, Trav. Our guest today is from Fountain Valley, California. He's an eight-time All-Star, NL MVP, two-time All MLB first team. He's won a Golden Glove, a Babe Ruth Award, the NL Hank Aaron Award, and he is now a two-time World Series Champion. Please welcome Mr. Freddie Freeman!

• 3:02Travis Kelce?

  Yes, sir!

• 3:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, baby!

• 3:04Travis Kelce?

  Don't forget that 2024 World Series MVP.

• 3:08Speaker 04

  Yeah, I appreciate you guys. Thank you. I like that hype, hype right there.

• 3:12Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 3:13Travis Kelce?

  You gotta have to bring it in with the, with the energy, baby.

• 3:16Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's, it's kinda, I still haven't really like have time to sit and even like kinda take it all in. It's been kind of a whirlwind. I did Jimmy Kimmel last night doing parades, trick or treating with the kids. It's nuts. So, but it's pretty cool, man. Like this is what, I mean, you know, you guys know, this is what you start out to do every single year when you show up for us in spring training. And it's so hard to win championships, as you guys know, and to actually have it happen. I think a lot of things have to go right. Health has to be on our side.

• 3:46Travis Kelce?

  Fortunate, isn't that? Yeah.

• 3:47Speaker 04

  Yeah, we were, we were fortunate. We were playing really good baseball at the end. So to get another one, especially I'm from Southern California, so to have one when you're, where you're from, it's pretty, pretty special.

• 3:57Travis Kelce?

  Fuck, yeah, man. That shit's gotta be awesome, man.

• 3:59Speaker 03

  I mean, if you're a big enough badass, health doesn't even have to be on your side. You just play through everything, it sounds like.

• 4:06Speaker 04

  Sometimes, sometimes, okay. The first couple of rounds, I wasn't playing so good. But yeah, health was not on my side, but we were able to push it through. And ultimately, when you do push your body through things and you come out on the other side of, with success, it just kinda makes everything that much sweeter.

• 4:24Speaker 03

  Of course, of course.

• 4:25Travis Kelce?

  Does this one top the, uh, top the first one?

• 4:28Speaker 04

  Ah, you know, I've been asked that. It's, I don't like comparing.

• 4:32Travis Kelce?

  Sure, understandable.

• 4:34Speaker 04

  Well, your first one's always special and that group of guys that we had with the Braves was pretty amazing. I don't know. I think just because my dad was able to see so much of these games, since we're all from Southern California. I wouldn't say, I mean championships are championships. It's, it's, they're both, they're both the best and the next one's gonna be even that much better than the others. I don't know.

• 4:58Speaker 04

  It's hard to compare, but two great teams I got to be a part of and hopefully with my time with the Dodgers, this is first of many.

• 5:05Speaker 03

  Love that man's mindset. What was the first thing you did after you won? When you got home? Like what is?

• 5:11Speaker 04

  Well, that's the crazy thing. We still, we went on getaway day. So we had to fly. We left Yankee Stadium at 3 a.m. Got to the airport and we flew home. So we landed at like 9:30 in the morning.

• 5:25Speaker 04

  It was Halloween and we had to get the kids, I had to get Iron Man, Hulk and Spider-Man ready to roll.

• 5:35Speaker 04

  Yeah, immediately into dad mode. And we had a blast. And then we had the parade the next morning. We flew the Patriots plane home, actually. You know, they, they let us have the Patriots plane.

• 5:45Speaker 03

  Shout out to Robert Kraft.

• 5:47Travis Kelce?

  There you go.

• 5:47Speaker 04

  And so we were gonna have like a big party on the plane and within an hour, everyone was asleep.

• 5:55Speaker 04

  Cause it's five o'clock in the morning and we just like, when you give everything you have, you're exhausted after these games. And then we celebrated in the clubhouse and you have to do all the interviews, media.

• 6:05Travis Kelce?

  That clubhouse, it looked fucking rocking in there. There was a lot of energy being released in there. Yeah.

• 6:12Speaker 04

  There was a lot and you just kind of spent, you know, you were spent. And so we thought we're like, oh, we'll just keep it going on the plane. And within an hour, I was asleep. I woke up after an hour, everyone else is asleep. And I was like, yeah, we'll, we'll wait for it after the parade to go, we'll, we'll try this again.

• 6:30Speaker 03

  Everybody just smells like champagne.

• 6:32Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's the smell of success.

• 6:34Travis Kelce?

  Beer and champagne being tossed on everybody.

• 6:38Speaker 04

  You don't really like the taste of it, but you're just pouring it in.

• 6:42Travis Kelce?

  It is. This is, this is what we worked hard for to go through this. I don't care if I like, I love this.

• 6:46Speaker 04

  I don't care if my eyes can't see anything because it's burning so bad, but I'm gonna do this.

• 6:52Travis Kelce?

  You gotta go in with the correct eyewear, man. Gotta go in with those goggles next time.

• 6:56Speaker 04

  Some guys just want the burn, you know, like Hershaw, he wants the burn. Like some guys love that stuff. I had LASIK. These things are like very, I need, I need to protect these guys.

• 7:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, pretty important for hitting a ball, no doubt.

• 7:10Speaker 04

  Hey, happy birthday.

• 7:11Speaker 03

  Oh, thank you, Freddie. Yeah, man, dude, it's a, where do you get, I feel like every birthday after like 35, it can't mean, like, I don't know, it's just downhill, right? Like, I don't know.

• 7:22Speaker 04

  Well, things just hurt more and more.

• 7:24Speaker 03

  Now I just get excited for my kids' birthdays.

• 7:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 7:27Speaker 03

  Like, what do you want to do for your birthday, Dad? Are we celebrating this? Like, what are we, are we gonna eat some cake?

• 7:33Speaker 04

  The pancakes that try to be Mickey Mouse, you make them and they don't end up being very good.

• 7:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly, right.

• 7:39Travis Kelce?

  Before the World Series, we had C.C. Zabathia on and we were talking some, uh, some baseball with him going into the, you guys and the, uh, and the Yanks battling it out. And, uh, he said that 30% of Freddie Freeman is better than 100% of anybody else. End quotes. That's what C.C. said, man. Were you at 30% going into the World Series?

• 8:00Speaker 04

  I, I would say I was a little higher than that.

• 8:02Travis Kelce?

  Nice, nice.

• 8:03Speaker 04

  Yeah, so we had a break between the NLCS and the World Series about five days and, uh, the first two rounds, it felt like, you know, here's the fence. I felt like I was always chasing the pain, trying to get on the other side of it.

• 8:16Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 8:16Speaker 04

  But those five days really helped me. I was able to treat it really mu- really, uh, really well. And I didn't run one time because I didn't want to flare the ankle up at all.

• 8:26Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 8:27Speaker 04

  So the first time I actually ran was in introductions into game one. And as I was running, I was like, whoa, I, I think I can do this.

• 8:34Travis Kelce?

  Feeling good.

• 8:36Speaker 04

  Yeah, I was giving high fives and I make it to the trainers because everyone gets introduced and everyone's so excited. Like, did you, like, you're not limping, Freddie. I said, I know, this is great. But by the sixth or seventh inning of every game, like, my heel would start to hurt where the Achilles is, attaches into the heel. That's, that's where it was starting to hurt because the spike of my cleat was going into my heel.

• 8:58Travis Kelce?

  For sure. That sucks.

• 8:59Speaker 04

  By the sixth or seventh inning, it was kind of hurting, but the adrenaline would take over by then. But I would say I was probably around above 50% because my rib was okay by then and I, I broke my finger too in August. So that didn't really help, but things were, yeah. I, it's just so many energy injuries. It's just crazy.

• 9:20Travis Kelce?

  We're kind of talking about it. You have to be fortunate to be able to make these deep playoff runs, man.

• 9:24Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:25Travis Kelce?

  And, and you guys, you guys were battle tested in that regard more than anybody in the league, it seemed like.

• 9:30Speaker 04

  Yeah. Yeah. We lost Glasnow, you know, Kirsch came back and then got hurt again. We lost Gavin Stone, who was huge for us throughout the course of the year.

• 9:39Travis Kelce?

  Yep.

• 9:40Speaker 04

  We just, we were just losing relievers left and right. We lost Evan Phillips, who was one of our better relievers all year, right before the World Series. Uh, Joe Kelly got hurt. We had a lot of unfortunate injuries, but great teams overcome those kinds of adversities and we were able to do that. And it seemed like we hit every speed bump possible on a road and we just somehow managed to overcome those.

• 10:02Travis Kelce?

  I'm, I might just be speaking out of, out of mind here, but doesn't that make it seem like it's so much more of a family of a team? When you can battle through those kinds of things, it just seemed like you guys were so much more of a team than the Yankees, man. And I don't know what, I'm not saying anything bad about what the Yankees had over there, but it just seemed like the togetherness, the camaraderie, the chemistry. It just seemed like you guys had a little bit more of that than, than what was going on in the other dugout.

• 10:26Speaker 04

  We had a lot, we, and it started early because you signed Shohei and he has everything that he had to deal with. Like when we were in Korea to start the year. So.

• 10:36Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 10:36Speaker 04

  Rallying around a new teammate, that's quick and that as a group that fast, I think it only helped us, you know? And you know, if we can rally around Shohei and help him get through the, probably the toughest time of that he's had to deal with, then we could deal with all our other little things that we had to deal with and. And then obviously with my family in late July, them rallying around us, it just, we had a lot of things were as a group to rally around and it was so fast and so special to see the group of guys and how we came together over and overcame things. It's, we just had a lot that made us that close throughout the course of the year. And unfortunately, we had it really early on with Shohei

• 11:16Speaker 04

  and his thing, but sometimes that's better, you know, to kind of come together as a group that like we did.

• 11:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, man. Adversity always brings people closer. Speaking of your, your family, your,

• 11:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:28Speaker 03

  your dad was a big part of this, right?

• 11:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:30Speaker 03

  He had a great, I thought probably the best quote I've seen in a while between like a dad and his son, Freddie, this is not worth it. I know you love baseball. I love baseball, but it's not worth what you're going through. And your answer to him was, it only hurts when I miss. So I'm just gonna have to stop missing, which is perfect.

• 11:51Speaker 04

  Yeah, that was, that was N L D S. I was going through a lot to play, um, obviously with my fractured rib and doing a lot of extra things with more than just treatment. So, um, after the game three of N L D S, I got a call from my dad about like 11 o'clock at night and I had a talk like that with my father in a long time. And it was kind of just a little upset, you know, like, hey, you need to look out for yourself down the road. And that was the first time I really took a step, because I'll do anything to be on a baseball field. I think anybody that knows me, I'll just, I, I put blinders on, I'm gonna get out there. Yeah. And that was the first time I was like, okay, whoa, what, take,

• 12:32Speaker 04

  let's take a step back and I, you know, I'm married with three kids. So like, and that, and I sat out the next game. I sat out N L D S game four. I just couldn't do it again. I physically was just not able to put myself through what I was going through again. I think when I hit the grand slam in the World Series and he was front row, I think he was, I think he was happy I didn't stop.

• 12:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, of course. No doubt. Oh, yeah. Thank God that guy didn't listen to me.

• 12:59Speaker 04

  I listened to him a couple of times, but, uh, yeah, I think it's just special. Like I, I would, when you go through all that, that you For me to get on the field and then actually come up and be successful in the World Series on the biggest stage, it it made everything I did a couple of weeks earlier worth it, you know, in my mind. Well, we'll see how I am when I'm 55 or six years old, you know, but.

• 13:24Travis Kelce?

  Who needs ankles when you're 55, man?

• 13:30Travis Kelce?

  They're making all types of new shit.

• 13:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 13:32Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, they probably have hydraulics in these things next coming up soon. No, we we both grew up with a fucking amazing father and he got us into everything, man. I'm talking about.

• 13:44Speaker 03

  Coaches in baseball.

• 13:46Travis Kelce?

  He coached us a lot in baseball and really all sports. He was always kind of.

• 13:50Speaker 03

  I think. It's hard because I was always older, so I was definitely better growing up. But Trav.

• 13:56Travis Kelce?

  I played more competitively.

• 13:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, at every like milestone, he was better. So I would say Trav.

• 14:01Travis Kelce?

  I was, I had the cheat code. I was my dad and Big Ed Kelsey would go to all the teams that Jason was on and he'd be and he'd be like, hey, just put this guy on your roster. You never know when you're going to need an extra body. And sure enough, I would play at least a handful of games, two years older, and I'm facing guys that are like, yeah.

• 14:18Speaker 04

  That always. I had two older brothers. That's what made me so much, you know, made me be who I was too, you know? That's all it is.

• 14:25Travis Kelce?

  You find a way to to get through it, man. But our our father was so responsible for our our love of sports, our love of, you know, just competing. How much was your dad responsible at getting you into baseball?

• 14:36Speaker 04

  Oh, I wouldn't be here without him.

• 14:39Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 14:39Speaker 04

  Obviously, I have two older brothers that love baseball too, but obviously my dad is the one that loves baseball to the core.

• 14:46Travis Kelce?

  Nice. Was he always a Dodgers?

• 14:47Speaker 04

  Uh, no. So we grew up actually in Orange County. So I grew up 10 minutes from Angel Stadium.

• 14:51Travis Kelce?

  Wow.

• 14:53Speaker 04

  But my dad is from Canada and he grew up a Tigers fan because he grew up on in Windsor, Ontario, in Canada. So right, right across the border. So he was a big Tigers fan.

• 15:03Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, fuck yeah.

• 15:04Speaker 03

  That's right.

• 15:05Speaker 04

  And then my grandfather moved to California. So that's how we came to be in California. But I grew up an Angels fan. My favorite player was Garrett Anderson, growing up, just that left handed, beautiful, sweet swing from the left side. So.

• 15:17Travis Kelce?

  Hell, yeah, baby.

• 15:18Speaker 04

  When people ask me like, what advice do you have for my 10 year old? I said, it's not for the 10 year old. It's for you, the parent, you know? Like, my dad loved practicing and throwing batting practice and doing those kinds of things with me every single day. So.

• 15:33Travis Kelce?

  So cool, man.

• 15:34Speaker 04

  When you have a parent that loves it just as much as I loved it, it kind of match made in heaven. So my dad was the one that led me to baseball and then obviously I just loved it.

• 15:44Travis Kelce?

  He was fueling that fire, man.

• 15:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, and he's, he, you know, he still throws me batting practice to this day.

• 15:50Travis Kelce?

  Is that right?

• 15:50Speaker 04

  In the, yeah, in the off season. So like right now, I'll take about two months off of, of baseball activities. I start working out tomorrow, but baseball activities, I don't pick up till January and I'll go to my high school in Orange County and we'll go and spend an hour together and I work out with him and he throws me batting practice. He's 69 years old and he still throws and the last two years he goes, Freddie, I don't, I'm not very good anymore. I said, but that's the thing. I said, Dad, it's not about that. It's about the hour we spend together, you know? Like, I'll figure it out in spring training. Oh, I hit every day there, but I just want to hit with you and this is our thing, you know? And

• 16:27Travis Kelce?

  So cool.

• 16:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, he's still throwing. He, he's, he thinks he's not very good, but I think he's great.

• 16:32Travis Kelce?

  Nice, man. He's getting somewhere over the plate. Hell yeah, man.

• 16:35Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:36Travis Kelce?

  That's so fucking cool, man.

• 16:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, you, you guys have shared an incredible moment, game one, obviously walk off, grand slam homerun.

• 16:43Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:44Speaker 03

  How the fuck did that feel?

• 16:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 16:47Speaker 03

  World Series bases loaded. Like, what does that feel like?

• 16:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, I, I don't really remember. I've kind of blacked out.

• 16:56Travis Kelce?

  I can only imagine.

• 16:57Speaker 03

  We talked about it all the time.

• 17:00Speaker 04

  You're trying to

• 17:01Travis Kelce?

  I got really excited. I can't

• 17:02Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 17:03Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 17:03Speaker 04

  I can't remember the feeling. It's, but when they walked Mookie intentionally, which I knew they were going to left on left. I just kind of, you kind of figured the situation out and I started replaying. So I watched Shohei's at bat against Nestor Cortez, because every time Shohei walks into the box, the pitcher feels like he's back's against the wall. So I was like, what is he going to throw? If he, if he thinks his back's against the wall, which it was.

• 17:28Travis Kelce?

  This is brilliant, man. Fuck.

• 17:29Speaker 04

  Love this. And he was throwing cutters and sliders away to Shohei and then like heaters in and up and in. So I usually look away to just drive the ball to left center. And I was like, you know what? I'm going to switch this up and I'm going to look closer to me. So I don't swing at the cutter or slider away. So I was looking heater in to like up and in and I guessed right.

• 17:51Travis Kelce?

  That's fucking perfect dude.

• 17:52Speaker 04

  He threw it right.

• 17:54Travis Kelce?

  So good, man.

• 17:55Speaker 04

  Spot I was looking and I mean, you, you, you still gotta hit it and you still got, cause you can make, you miss mistakes all the time. But I just hit it and I, I knew it was gone right when I hit it. You know, those are the ones where you just hit. And I don't know why I went Statue of Liberty or anything like that. I just, it was just. Cause I don't like, I don't pimp home runs. I don't do that. I just usually hit them and just run around the bases, but. No, that's, that's one. Slam in the world. That's what you style on. Yeah. That is one to style on. That's the only style I got is walking and pointing my bat. I got nothing else.

• 18:26Travis Kelce?

  Dude, and was fucking awesome, dude.

• 18:29Speaker 04

  Yeah. And so I just ran around.

• 18:30Travis Kelce?

  We got a picture sitting up right here, dude. That is so fucking iconic, man.

• 18:34Speaker 04

  So good. So I, uh, usually we wave at the bullpen, but when I looked at, when we come around second base and we lay, waved to our bullpen guys, they're going nuts.

• 18:43Travis Kelce?

  Nobody's even looking at you.

• 18:45Speaker 04

  They're not even at the bullpen anymore at that point, right? If it's a walk off, they're out the bullpen. That's why I just went like, ah, like started screaming at them. And then I obviously got the home plate. Miguel Rojas goes like, Freddie, stop jumping. Like I don't want you to get hurt. And if you see it, there's a, I look at him and says, I don't feel a thing. I was screaming at him.

• 19:04Speaker 04

  And then, um. I knew my dad was sitting front row cause he, he was sitting right, right in the front row of the seats. And, uh, for some reason, I don't know. I just, I was like, you know what? I'm going to share this with him. So I ran over and just screamed in his face. There was no, no words, no nothing. And we were just screaming at each other.

• 19:21Travis Kelce?

  There was a lot said, there was a lot said in that scream.

• 19:22Speaker 04

  It was a lot of, it was all understood. It was an hour conversation in those two screams, you know? Yeah, right.

• 19:29Travis Kelce?

  I love it.

• 19:30Speaker 04

  It was, it was just like, you can't script it. I mean, bottom 10th. Series Yankees Dodgers. Everyone's been talking about it all week and to walk it off and be the first one to do it on a grand slam. That was, you know, it's, I wish I could feel, remember that feeling though.

• 19:46Travis Kelce?

  Dude, you're giving me chills just thinking about it, dude.

• 19:49Speaker 03

  It's like a legit Kirk Gibson moment. Like this is, it's crazy, man. It's unreal.

• 19:54Speaker 04

  Kirk actually reached out and said, congratulations. So yeah, he's a good, he's a good man. He, he does radio, uh, TV for the Tigers now. So I get to see him quite a bit, but it's, it's the link together now is pretty special because you know, he came out and hit that, that home run against Dennis Eckersley. And they won the World Series that year. Um, but then like Joe Davis calling that, I mean, couldn't have asked for a better call on that.

• 20:18Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:20Speaker 04

  It's all about the announcer. Sometimes if they nail it with the call, it makes it that much better. And luckily we have, we have Joe Davis all year round and then to have him for Fox too. And that was special. It's just, everything just went perfectly together.

• 20:34Speaker 03

  Well, I want to go back to what you were just talking about because I don't, I love nerding out about, I guess, players process. So when you say you're looking in, what do you mean by like, you're still looking at the ball coming out of his hand though, right?

• 20:46Speaker 04

  Yeah. So I pick, so I'm a lane hitter. So like, say here's the, let's just put a square up. So usually I'm looking outer a third of the plate, just so I can stay in and just line everything to left center because I'm left-handed. So instead I X that out because if I'm looking out there, I might swing at the cutter and slider going away.

• 21:06Travis Kelce?

  Going away from.

• 21:06Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 21:07Speaker 04

  And I, and I don't want to swing at that because that's just, I'm, I'm going to be dead if I do that. So instead I looked on the inside part of the plate, so closer to me. And so if I'm looking there, if anything's middle to middle away, I'll just check off of it. I won't even like attempt to swing at that.

• 21:24Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 21:24Speaker 04

  And so that's why I went closer because if he throws the cutter or slider in that lane, then it's going to end up middle, middle.

• 21:31Speaker 03

  Right.

• 21:31Speaker 04

  And then I can still hit that, but I wanted to be, bring it closer so I could be, so I wouldn't have to swing at any pitches going away from me. That's why I did that.

• 21:40Travis Kelce?

  That's brilliant.

• 21:40Speaker 04

  Yeah. It's, it's, it's weird, you know, it's just, it's just lame.

• 21:44Travis Kelce?

  It's awesome.

• 21:45Speaker 03

  It's science.

• 21:45Travis Kelce?

  I hear you. It's a theory.

• 21:49Speaker 04

  It's science in here. Sounds crazy when you talk about it.

• 21:53Speaker 03

  It doesn't sound crazy. It actually sounds awesome.

• 21:55Travis Kelce?

  Dude, what were the reaction from the kids? How crazy was that seeing the little ones after you hit a homerun like that?

• 22:01Speaker 04

  Yeah. So Charlie, my eight year old, he's like, so I hit the homerun and he, that's all he's asking is daddy, are you going to be the MVP? I said, Charlie, it's been one game.

• 22:14Speaker 04

  The only thing that eight year old cares about. I said, oh no, Charlie, there's a lot of games left, but my three year olds don't really understand what's really going on. So, but they were all excited. They don't care if you go over four. That's the beauty of it, you know, over four, four, four. They're still, you're still bad, but Charlie is really into baseball like, and like knows everything about it. So he was pretty fired up after the game.

• 22:38Travis Kelce?

  Hell yeah, man. You gotta start throwing some BP with him if you haven't already, man.

• 22:41Speaker 04

  Oh yeah. He's got practice tonight. I'll be taking him too.

• 22:45Travis Kelce?

  There we go.

• 22:47Speaker 04

  I'm gonna, might need a mask and stuff to hide, but.

• 22:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, right. Yeah.

• 22:51Travis Kelce?

  Dude, we gotta talk about this fucking in my mind, absolutely hysterical moment in the world series. One of the fucking Yankees fans tried to take a ball out of Mookie Betts' glove, dude.

• 23:04Speaker 03

  He didn't try to, he did.

• 23:05Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 23:07Travis Kelce?

  Oh my fucking gosh, dude. How fucking absurd was this?

• 23:13Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:14Travis Kelce?

  Like, what were you guys saying in the bit? Like, was that like motivation? Like, these motherfuckers are fucking yanking the ball out of our gloves. Fuck these guys.

• 23:24Speaker 04

  So I'm, I'm in first, you know, and I'm watching and going, I'm yelling, you got room, you got room. Just, he can't hear me anyway. I don't even know why I was saying that, but that's just what you're taught to do.

• 23:36Speaker 04

  And so.

• 23:38Speaker 04

  And then I see him like his, he's not coming back into play.

• 23:42Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 23:42Speaker 04

  I'm like, what is going on? And then I could see, I could see them like trying to rip his glove over and then I see the ball.

• 23:52Speaker 04

  I was like. I was like, what just happened? And then all I'm thinking about is this, is this, is this an out still? I don't know. Like, I was worried about that.

• 24:04Speaker 03

  Did he catch it or not? Like, what just happened?

• 24:06Travis Kelce?

  I've never seen this before. Is this in the rule books?

• 24:09Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 24:09Travis Kelce?

  Have they found a rule for this yet?

• 24:11Speaker 04

  Is he out? Yeah, you know, like, so afterwards, he goes, I think he said, that's like one of the only couple of times I've wanted to fight someone, you know?

• 24:21Travis Kelce?

  Muggsy's a great dude, too, man. You don't see him as, you don't see him as like wanting to, wanting to fight somebody.

• 24:26Speaker 04

  He is as good as it gets. Happy to go lucky all the time.

• 24:29Travis Kelce?

  Hell, yeah.

• 24:30Speaker 04

  But then I see the afterward, because it's hard to see it in the moment, you know, I didn't have a great angle of it. I just see the ball flying out and, but afterwards you could like the still picture is the fan. One fan is holding his wrist, you know, and then the other one is like trying to pull his glove open. I was like, wow.

• 24:51Speaker 04

  It was like the first or second inning and those.

• 24:53Speaker 03

  Super inconspicuous. It was very smart.

• 24:57Speaker 04

  They, they were there for two innings, spent $10,000 probably on those tickets and kicked out, you know, I'm just like, geez, that's a waste of money.

• 25:03Speaker 03

  I just kicked out. I think they got a lifetime ban.

• 25:06Travis Kelce?

  They got a lifetime.

• 25:08Speaker 03

  Never gonna be able to go back to a ballpark.

• 25:09Speaker 04

  They didn't, they weren't allowed for game five, but I don't know about, they're season ticket holders, I guess, for the Yankees and that's, and they, I heard they said if any of that, they were planning that forever as season ticket holders. Like if that ever happened, that's what we're gonna do.

• 25:25Travis Kelce?

  I mean, it looked like they had that thing premeditated.

• 25:27Speaker 04

  It was perfectly planned out and it just happened in the World Series on the biggest stage.

• 25:33Travis Kelce?

  It's insane.

• 25:34Speaker 03

  You're gonna grab his arm.

• 25:35Speaker 04

  I'm gonna go for the ball, rip his glove open.

• 25:40Speaker 03

  We got this down. All right, break.

• 25:47Speaker 06

  It's said everything happens for a reason, but maybe everything happens for a recess. Take noise cancelling headphones. Do they block hearing to heighten taste? Hmm. That sound seems to show everything happens for a recess.

• 26:02Travis Kelce?

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• 26:05Speaker 03

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• 26:10Travis Kelce?

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

• 26:16Speaker 03

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

• 26:20Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, like in your mouth.

• 26:22Speaker 03

  My mouth specifically?

• 26:24Travis Kelce?

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

• 26:35Speaker 03

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• 26:46Travis Kelce?

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• 26:54Speaker 03

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• 27:02Travis Kelce?

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• 27:04Speaker 03

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• 27:12Travis Kelce?

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• 27:16Speaker 03

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• 27:18Travis Kelce?

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• 27:23Speaker 03

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• 27:29Travis Kelce?

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• 27:37Speaker 03

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• 27:42Travis Kelce?

  And if you get the black card, unlock recovery amenities. Uh, plus bring a friend with you every single visit.

• 27:48Speaker 03

  Get started today at Planet Fitness or learn more at planetfitness.com. Let's talk a little bit about the Dodgers team. We were talking about the adversity you guys went through all season long. You still ended up the best team in baseball through the regular season, 98 games.

• 28:04Travis Kelce?

  So, yeah.

• 28:05Speaker 03

  Do you prefer being the favorite or the one seed? Baseball is weird. Like I guess you guys are the third team. In what was it like 15 years or something like that? What is it 13?

• 28:16Speaker 04

  It's been a while that two number ones.

• 28:19Speaker 03

  95. Yeah.

• 28:20Speaker 04

  Yeah. Two number one teams to be in the World Series.

• 28:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, there's some crazy stat.

• 28:25Speaker 04

  But the last three years, they changed it where if you have the best record, you get like five days off or whatever in between.

• 28:33Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 28:34Travis Kelce?

  Man, that's huge.

• 28:35Speaker 04

  The previous two years, we lost in the first round and the year before we got swept. And then the year before that, we won the first one, but then lost three in a row. So there's always this talk of what's best, what's smart. Do you want, I'm like, but as we want to be the best team. You want to be, we wanted to be the one seed because we got home field, home field advantage the whole playoffs, you know, and and you could see we started off at game one and two at Dodger Stadium in the World Series. Why, why would you want to start on the road? You know, like that doesn't sound great.

• 29:09Travis Kelce?

  Especially in a jungle like New York, man.

• 29:11Speaker 04

  You know, and get your own fans.

• 29:13Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah.

• 29:13Speaker 04

  You're sleeping in your own beds, you know, you're not in hotel beds. There's so many different, so many more pros than cons than doing that kind of stuff. So I think it was just a lot of talk about, because we didn't play very well the previous two years. So let's maybe be the two seeds. Let's get this, instead of get this matchup. No, if you just play good baseball, you're gonna like, and you have a really good team, you're gonna ultimately most likely win. It's just baseball is so hard to predict. Like last year, Mookie and I went one for 21 in the playoffs. So it's like, you can't really predict that kind of stuff. So it's, I say be number one seed.

• 29:51Travis Kelce?

  It's just a different game, man.

• 29:52Speaker 04

  Yeah. Be number one seed, be the best, get home field advantage throughout the course and do things differently like we did. So during those five days, we watched the Padres games and like kind of a watch party of the, like the Braves and Padres to see who we were. And we just stayed together, you know, we watched them together. We practiced together. Usually we would just do our practice and then go home. The previous two years, this year we switched it up and stayed together as long as we could. Try to keep it as a unit.

• 30:21Speaker 03

  Oh, that's interesting.

• 30:22Travis Kelce?

  That's awesome, man.

• 30:23Speaker 04

  I, I think we, we were just trying to do some things differently.

• 30:25Travis Kelce?

  All of it paid off, man.

• 30:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, you know, it's just like we said at the beginning of it, it's one month, just grind this one month, like, no kids at the, because we, the Dodgers are great. They let us bring our kids to the field before games during the regular season. Uh, hang out all day long if you want, but in the playoffs, we were like, let's just ax that and let's just focus on each other, focus on this group in the clubhouse. And we can give ourselves for a month to this and you know, ultimately it paid off. And obviously we played really good baseball with it too. So a lot of things just worked in our favor.

• 30:57Travis Kelce?

  That's awesome, man.

• 30:59Speaker 03

  I've heard a lot about like the, um, the buy, like baseball is such a rhythm sport, how much that affects it. And then it's a short series afterwards, but I think, I like what you said about home field advantage. Like dude, just focus on being the best team. Don't like just win, win games, win baseball games. And the rest of it takes care of itself. I think that's.

• 31:16Speaker 04

  Yeah. It's just like, I know that Jason, you're a huge Phillies fan and stuff. So it's like, if we were to go into the bank on games one and two and like say the NLCS, that how can that be good for someone? You know, like it's not like you'd rather be at home as much as you possibly can. So just be the one seed and, grind it out and figure out that five days. And we ultimately did it this year.

• 31:38Travis Kelce?

  Baseball season is so fucking long. I can't even imagine having to play that many fucking games. Day in, day out with just a little, like maybe a day or two here or there where you're not actually playing the game and it's unbelievable.

• 31:52Speaker 04

  And you're usually traveling on those days. So it's.

• 31:54Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, exactly. And it's just, I can only, yeah, it's, uh, it's definitely the most grueling in my mind in terms of having to find your routine. Right? Can you speak a little bit on like what it really, I mean, you said training camp is kind of where you get, you get the, uh, get locked in and get the load of, but you went to Korea and it's like. How crazy is it starting in Korea and like knowing that you got an entire 160 games left in the sea? It's like it's insane.

• 32:23Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's it's a lot. Luckily, this is next year will be my 16th year. So I've kind of gotten used to it. But when you I've never started internationally like we did this year. And so we had to go to spring training about two weeks earlier than we normally do this year. And then we were playing real games in mid March in Korea and

• 32:43Travis Kelce?

  It's crazy.

• 32:44Speaker 04

  It's okay for position players, but it's more of pitchers like they're ramping up to be full throttle mid March.

• 32:51Travis Kelce?

  You gotta be faster. Yeah.

• 32:53Speaker 04

  And that's a lot. When you think about, we still have eight more months, pretty much to go.

• 32:58Travis Kelce?

  Right.

• 32:58Speaker 04

  And you can see it like we lost Glasnow and Yamamoto both pitched in those two games in Korea, and they both got hurt this year. So it's kind of you don't know if that's kind of a correlation of ramping up too fast, but it's it's a lot under body to fly.

• 33:14Travis Kelce?

  Especially overseas. Fuck yeah.

• 33:15Speaker 04

  12 hours, 13 hours to Korea and then play and fly back. And we actually flew back and went back into spring training after those two games. So we were playing, we played three games that didn't matter really, but it it's crazy. And we're gonna do it again next year. We start in Japan next year, and we're playing the Cubs, two real games in Japan. So we're gonna have to do it. Luckily, we have some experience now, but it it's just a lot, you know, and you get into the routine and you kind of understand the flying, getting to how your body is going to recover. And I mean, you guys, you guys know, you guys know, everyone knows their bodies pretty well. So whatever you have to do to get your body ready, you just do it. And you just kind of think

• 33:59Speaker 04

  about everything else later. And

• 34:01Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 34:02Speaker 04

  It it yeah, 162 games is a lot. I've never really thought about it, you know, you just do it, you know, like, it's you just wake up and go.

• 34:10Travis Kelce?

  And then you play an extra 30 if you if you're lucky enough, you play an extra 30 on top of it.

• 34:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, and like we did. And then you have a spring training games. So you're playing pretty like I played probably over 210 games this year, you know, it's And now you get a couple of months, we played all the way through October. And so now our offseason is even shorter because we have to go to Japan next year. And I mean, spring training is in three months for us. And it's just like,

• 34:36Travis Kelce?

  It's absolutely.

• 34:36Speaker 04

  Wait a second.

• 34:38Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 34:39Speaker 04

  I need more than that. I need more than three months off.

• 34:41Travis Kelce?

  Especially going into 16. I hear you, brother.

• 34:43Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 34:44Travis Kelce?

  Do you think baseball gets to that point? Is it, do you think it's going to be an international league?

• 34:48Speaker 04

  Um, I, I think it's hard.

• 34:51Travis Kelce?

  I mean, obviously the expos were, you know,

• 34:53Speaker 04

  Yeah, we saw the Blue Jays. Uh, I think it's just more of the flying, like, so we do like a London series, um, every year now, and it's hard to, because you have to fly over there and play and then come back. And your body clocks are off. You just don't have enough time, I don't think, to be able to fly to these countries all over. I think it's still a North American game, just for the travel aspect, because then if you're going internationally, you're affecting other schedules and teams and stuff like that. So,

• 35:26Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 35:27Speaker 04

  I think it's just ultimately be like the couple of games here and there in different countries to grow the game, which I think we're doing a great job of.

• 35:34Travis Kelce?

  Hell, yeah.

• 35:35Speaker 04

  To have a team in England, I just don't think it's really possible because of the travel of that.

• 35:44Travis Kelce?

  Makes sense. Yeah, absolutely.

• 35:45Speaker 04

  If I'm commissioner one day, we'll figure it out.

• 35:48Travis Kelce?

  There we go. There we go. Miss Freeman. Get him dialed in, baby.

• 35:55Speaker 03

  Did you catch a shout out from LeBron?

• 35:57Speaker 04

  I heard, and he spelled my name wrong.

• 35:58Speaker 03

  Did he?

• 35:59Speaker 04

  The first time. Yeah. He spelled it with a Y.

• 36:01Speaker 03

  There it is.

• 36:04Speaker 04

  I'm very particular about my name. I just spell it right, you know?

• 36:08Speaker 03

  Please, right?

• 36:08Speaker 04

  But I heard, I heard he corrected it.

• 36:10Travis Kelce?

  He did.

• 36:10Speaker 04

  He put, yeah, he put the IE on it. Um, because a lot of people, I think, started correcting it. I don't know why I'm particular about my name, but.

• 36:17Speaker 03

  What was your name?

• 36:18Travis Kelce?

  It's a good, yeah, it's a good thing to be particular about it.

• 36:21Speaker 04

  There we go. Yeah. Yeah. LeBron's come to a couple of games, you know, throughout the course of the regular season. Um, so it's, it's pretty cool. I mean, as athletes, you just respect everybody and like LeBron is the greatest basketball player of all time. So it's kind of, it's pretty cool. Yeah, it's it's special. You just, I guess you just means you've done something really good, you know, people, you know, you know, like, hopefully, we can keep doing it in the city of L.A. with him. We're go I think we're going to Laker game on Friday. So the Dodgers.

• 36:50Travis Kelce?

  So we'll be there. Guys gonna be on the floor getting recognized. That's awesome.

• 36:54Speaker 04

  Yeah, I think they're because it's the first home game since we we we won it. So I think a few of us are gonna go and, you know, we'll we'll get to see LeBron.

• 37:01Travis Kelce?

  The lake show, baby.

• 37:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's a fun to them and A.D. You know, it it it's gonna be cool.

• 37:07Speaker 03

  Speaking of L.A., what was the parade like? I know the last Dodgers team missed it, right? Because it was the COVID year. So what was what was it like?

• 37:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was pretty, pretty amazing. We did it kind of around City Hall, about a mile long. There was fans on light poles, just every trying to just get a glimpse. Yeah, and I was on the bus with Walker Buehler. So and Kike Hernandez. So our bus was a little crazy.

• 37:36Speaker 04

  It was just, I think they haven't they haven't had a parade for Dodgers since 1988.

• 37:41Speaker 03

  Right. God damn.

• 37:43Speaker 04

  I think it was a long time coming. So 2020, they didn't have it. So I think there's a lot of making up to do with the fans.

• 37:49Speaker 03

  We're going celebrations. Yeah.

• 37:51Speaker 04

  Yeah, they they put it all in one. I think when we won, they were they went nuts the night we were in when we were in New York, they were going crazy in L.A. So they I think they're still celebrating because I think Kike did raising canes like he was out there like kind of doing that kind of stuff. And they were in full force. Dodger fans are so great. I mean, we have 53,000 people every single night. It doesn't matter if it's a Tuesday on June 2, you know, they are out there in full force. So it's just a special group of fans and they were waiting a long time for this.

• 38:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's crazy. After you win. That was one of the things I've missed when we won the Super Bowl up in Minnesota, you see on social media that like the entire fan base is taking over the city of Philadelphia, like Broad Street just lined up people. Man, that would have been so cool to be.

• 38:38Travis Kelce?

  Buses are being set on fire. Everything.

• 38:44Speaker 04

  I think there's a couple of things set on fire in LA over the night we went to.

• 38:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, hey man, listen, it's the time to do it. Nothing says celebration like public vandalism, it's the best.

• 38:55Speaker 04

  That's why I don't, I don't want to speak any of that into out there and have them go for it.

• 39:01Speaker 04

  I think both of you are parade pros, you know?

• 39:04Speaker 03

  Big parade guys, big parade guys.

• 39:07Speaker 04

  The Kelsey loves the parades.

• 39:11Travis Kelce?

  I'll tell you, did you have any, did you have any beers thrown at you?

• 39:14Speaker 04

  Uh, yeah, we actually had one hit one of our wives.

• 39:17Travis Kelce?

  See dude, that's what I'm saying.

• 39:18Speaker 04

  It actually gets a little dangerous.

• 39:20Travis Kelce?

  We gotta not throw full beers.

• 39:23Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 39:23Travis Kelce?

  All right, we can't, it's like a fucking, it's a grenade.

• 39:27Speaker 04

  We can't do that. Yeah. One of our wives got hit. Yeah, it got stitches and yeah, it's cause you don't, you can't see all them all. So like there's.

• 39:36Travis Kelce?

  Are you kidding me dude? I, I never see a flying beer coming. It's ridiculous.

• 39:41Speaker 04

  At all. And then they throw the little like, um, little.

• 39:45Travis Kelce?

  Fireball shooters.

• 39:46Speaker 04

  Fireball shots and you're just boom, getting punked in the head all over the place. And then I had my kids with me. So I'm like trying to like block them and.

• 39:52Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 39:53Speaker 04

  Yeah, but it's dangerous, but yeah, I think she, she took it like a champ. She got the stitches and moved on.

• 40:01Travis Kelce?

  We're from Cleveland, Ohio. We think of LA, New York, like these are like the mecca of sports, right? All the, the Dodgers, the Lakers, the Yankees, the Knicks. That's like, it's kind of like the, the legends. I mean, Gretzky played both, both sides. He played for the Rangers. He played for the Kings. You're literally one of those like coastal legends that have ever played the game. Like dude, you're probably going to have a statue outside of Dodger Stadium of you holding up the bat after you hit the fucking World Series homerun, dude. How fucking cool is it to like play in like a big market like that? And to just reap the benefits of like having 53,000 in the stadium every single game?

• 40:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's, it's special. When I first came over here in 22, the, the Freddie chants from the first time I got there, like it's hard to even really put into words.

• 40:55Travis Kelce?

  So cool, man.

• 40:56Speaker 04

  It, it, it really is cool and. Uh, the last, these three years I've been here, just like you, when you, okay. So when I was with the Braves and we came in to play the Dodgers, it was like the energy level of the, of the stadium. It's just like you, you raise your, your senses and you're, you want to play that much better when you walk into, in, into Dodger Stadium, their speakers feel like the speakers are like inside, like they're like, it's the base is, and it's just, yeah, you really can. And it's just an incredible fan base. Everyone has eyes on LA and how we're going to go about it. And then you sign Shohei, you spend like we spent this past offseason. So now really,

• 41:38Speaker 04

  and it's almost like people are waiting for you to see if you're going to fail with all that that you've done. And for us to go out there and not fail and win the whole thing.

• 41:47Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 41:48Speaker 04

  That makes it a little bit sweeter. Cause I think everyone's waiting like, oh, there's their flaw. There's their fly.

• 41:52Travis Kelce?

  Right.

• 41:52Speaker 04

  That's what's wrong. Oh no, they can't do that. And I think that's what they were waiting for, but to do something where like, so I went to Jimmy Kimmel last night. We got picked up and our, our driver goes, you, you made me cry three times this year, you know, and it's like, one was the grand slam, obviously with my son Max and my, the story of my dad. So it's just when you have people that care so much and for you to be able to do something to make people happy. And uh, that's what's, that's why we play sports. It's to bring joy for three hours, four hours to people and to be able to bring that to households around LA, California, Dodger fans all over. I think that's what's more

• 42:37Speaker 04

  cool to me, um, after all this time. And to bring a championship to Southern California where I'm from, that's, that's pretty special too. And for my dad and my family to be there. Yeah. I don't know about the statue. I feel like you have to play more than six, seven, eight years with one team, but we'll, we'll see.

• 42:54Travis Kelce?

  That's, or, or you just gotta hit a grand slam in the World Series.

• 42:57Speaker 03

  Nick Foles, Nick, Nick Foles has a stand.

• 42:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, just walk off grand slams every year. I'd rather not do that. I'd rather just win 10, nothing every time, you know?

• 43:04Travis Kelce?

  There you go. There you go. Dude, what was it like? Was it the circus that everyone felt like it was going to be bringing Shohei Ohtani to LA? How crazy was it when he first got there? Did you like feel the attention kind of go up a little bit more or what?

• 43:19Speaker 04

  Oh yeah. So the first day I showed up to spring training, Shohei was already there and I'm pulling in and you know, I've already spent two years with Dodgers. And when I pulled in, there's probably a hundred cameras just filming every car that drives in, you know? And because they don't know which one Shohei or Yoshi Nobu, you know, Yamamoto. So it's mostly all the Japanese reporters and

• 43:44Travis Kelce?

  Sure.

• 43:44Speaker 04

  I've never seen so many cameras throughout the course of the year than I did this year. It was mayhem everywhere we went. And so Shohei started leading off at the end of the year and we have Mookie hitting second, me hitting third. And it is, it, it, this, Mookie and I started laughing. So it's like, say it's the top of the eighth or top of the ninth, Shohei has his last at bat. 15,000 people are just immediately get up out of their seats and just walk out of the stadium. They're like, oh, Shohei's done. So.

• 44:15Travis Kelce?

  Whoa, stop it.

• 44:17Speaker 04

  And Mookie and I are on deck and we're like, geez, they don't care about us at all.

• 44:22Travis Kelce?

  That was quick.

• 44:25Speaker 04

  Man, okay. And that's what it's like. Shohei is such a like global superstar.

• 44:32Travis Kelce?

  Right.

• 44:32Speaker 04

  And everywhere he went, every city, it's, they want to see him, rightfully so. I mean, he went 50 50 this year. He's going to win first MVP as DH. It's, it's, it's, he's just incredible. And what people forget is that he rehabbed, he's rehabbing Tommy John. And so he was rehabbing and getting his arm and then he goes out and hits 50 home runs. It's special and to watch him go about his business every day. It's crazy. And he's going to be pitching next year and he just, it's just, it's mind blowing. It really is. That's what we do in like little league and he's doing it and you know, in the big leagues, you know, like. Yeah, it's it's mayhem everywhere we go because of Shohei.

• 45:15Travis Kelce?

  It's gotta be fun as hell, man, and probably a little bit sweeter when you when you can, you know, find a way to come together. And I know he he had the shoulder there at the end of the World Series. So finding a way to win it for him, knowing all those cameras are on him and Yoshi, man, that shit had to be cool, man.

• 45:30Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, we don't, but like, even though he got hurt and we were able to bring it home for him, like NLCS, the home run he hit off the seas in the LDS, like, there's so many moments and that we would never be where we were without Yoshi and Shohei. And, you know, for Shohei to get hurt at the end of game two, and for us to still go out there and win it, that just shows you how good our team is, and it will be for a long time. It should be a special few years, hopefully.

• 45:56Travis Kelce?

  You guys got a good culture, man. It seems like everybody's in it for the right reasons, man.

• 46:01Travis 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.

• 46:19Speaker 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.

• 46:28Travis 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.

• 46:35Speaker 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?

• 46:45Travis Kelce?

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

• 46:47Speaker 03

  I love a water park.

• 46:48Travis Kelce?

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

• 46:57Speaker 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.

• 47:06Travis Kelce?

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

• 47:14Speaker 03

  Visit royalcaribbean.com to learn more.

• 47:18Speaker 01

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• 48:03Speaker 01

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• 48:26Travis Kelce?

  Freddie, we end every interview with a segment called "We Gotta Ask." You don't have to answer, though, so you can tell us to fuck off if you don't want to answer it. It won't be anything too crazy. And it's exactly what it sounds like. We're gonna ask you rapid-fire questions and you decide whether you want to answer them or not. So, Jason, jump it off.

• 48:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, if you didn't play baseball, what sport would you have played?

• 48:48Speaker 04

  Ooh, probably wouldn't have played a sport.

• 48:50Speaker 03

  Wouldn't have even done it. Did you play any other sports?

• 48:53Speaker 04

  No, I wanted to be a CPA.

• 48:55Speaker 03

  Timeout, nobody wants to be a CPA. What are you talking about?

• 48:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, my dad owns his own CPA firm with my uncle, his brother, for me to be a CPA.

• 49:06Speaker 03

  Okay, shout out to Friggin' Free.

• 49:09Speaker 04

  Yeah, I've made my dad retire, though, so he's not a part of it. I wanted to be a CPA. I know it sounds crazy, but I was gonna be doing your taxes, you guys.

• 49:20Speaker 03

  Do you do your own taxes now?

• 49:21Speaker 04

  Uh, no, I don't.

• 49:25Travis Kelce?

  I gave up on that dream a long time ago, guys.

• 49:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, that ship sailed 20 years ago.

• 49:30Travis Kelce?

  Nice, that's so fucking funny. That I'm not gonna lie, was not expecting that.

• 49:36Speaker 04

  You weren't expecting CPA.

• 49:37Speaker 03

  No, not one second. That's amazing.

• 49:40Travis Kelce?

  I think and the last time probably.

• 49:43Speaker 03

  In 2017, you defected to the Canadian national team.

• 49:46Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 49:48Speaker 03

  How do we get you back to the US? How do we get you back on the US team?

• 49:52Speaker 04

  I wouldn't say defected.

• 49:54Speaker 03

  Right?

• 49:56Speaker 04

  So, I mean, if anybody knows my story, both my parents are Canadian. They're born and raised in Canada. I lost my mom when I was 10 years old to melanoma skin cancer and she never became a US citizen. She was Canadian through and through, so I do, I represent Team Canada on the national stage to honor my mother.

• 50:16Travis Kelce?

  That's beautiful, man.

• 50:17Speaker 04

  I don't know if that's what she wants, would want me to do, but that's what I feel like I should be doing. So unfortunately, I don't think I'm gonna be coming back to the United States and that it's just, I do it for my, for my mom who passed away when I was 10. Yeah.

• 50:31Travis Kelce?

  A story like that, man. Hell yeah. Go ahead.

• 50:34Speaker 03

  That's as good as a reason if I've ever heard, eh?

• 50:36Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 50:39Speaker 04

  CPA and defecting to Canada.

• 50:45Travis Kelce?

  In April 2021, you were struck out by Cubs first baseman. Big riz, man. Anthony Rizzo.

• 50:52Speaker 04

  Jeez, yeah.

• 50:54Travis Kelce?

  Should the Yankees have maybe just thrown him in there at the game when the bases were loaded there in the World Series?

• 51:01Speaker 04

  He actually said that to me in Yankee Stadium. I think it was game three or four. He goes, you know what? I should have pitched, you know, against you.

• 51:10Speaker 04

  You know what what's worse about that? I was four for four with, in that game with a homerun and I struck out against Anthony Rizzo. And I was like, you ruined my whole night, you know, like.

• 51:21Travis Kelce?

  Throwing meatballs, man.

• 51:22Speaker 04

  I was doing good. But it's like, it's so hard to hit against position players because you lose your approach and you just like, and Anthony is a friend of mine. So I'm just laughing at the mound.

• 51:33Travis Kelce?

  The fact that, yeah.

• 51:34Speaker 04

  He starts flipping up 50-mon or curveballs. I'm just like. What are we doing?

• 51:40Speaker 04

  And I shook out and I'm like, this is embarrassing, you know?

• 51:44Speaker 03

  Reminds me of what was that? Uh, uh, oh my gosh, it's not Rookie of the Year. What's the one where like his arm has to get fixed? Yeah, you're right. And he has to do the underhand one at the end.

• 51:55Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, he looks under his glove and sees it's his mom's glove.

• 51:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 51:58Travis Kelce?

  It's his mom's softball glove, so he throws a softball.

• 52:03Speaker 04

  And she's nodding in the stands and he just lobs it.

• 52:05Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, yes. You know what to do.

• 52:11Travis Kelce?

  Classic.

• 52:12Speaker 03

  All right. Shohei Ohtani signed the largest contract in professional sports history at 10 years, $700 million.

• 52:20Travis Kelce?

  Damn.

• 52:20Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 52:21Speaker 03

  Does he ever make you pick up the check?

• 52:26Speaker 04

  We actually split the last one, so.

• 52:28Speaker 03

  Oh, there we go.

• 52:30Travis Kelce?

  Good teammates.

• 52:30Speaker 04

  So we, we did a team dinner in New York and yeah, Shohei and I split and with Kershaw. So a lot of that's deferred. So he's not really getting paid, you know?

• 52:40Speaker 03

  That is, I didn't, so they still do deferred contracts in baseball and that helps?

• 52:44Speaker 04

  68 million of his 70 million a year is deferred.

• 52:48Travis Kelce?

  And it's like through like 2050 or something like that, right?

• 52:51Speaker 04

  Well, me, Mookie and Shohei are gonna be like 50 years old.

• 52:55Speaker 03

  Still getting checks.

• 52:56Speaker 04

  You know?

• 52:58Speaker 04

  But I heard he makes a ton off the field, so I think he's doing.

• 53:01Speaker 03

  He's doing all right.

• 53:02Travis Kelce?

  You have any juice for us? What's something people would be surprised to hear about Ohtani? Because it's still very much a mystery because he's, uh, he's still like kind of learning the English language, right?

• 53:12Speaker 04

  The only thing I could say is when he gets on the plane, he literally just reads comics the whole flight.

• 53:19Travis Kelce?

  Oh, really?

• 53:20Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 53:20Travis Kelce?

  Are there, are they, are any like, is he like Charlie Brown in it or like what kind of comics are these?

• 53:24Speaker 04

  It's like anime comics and that's what he reads all flight.

• 53:29Travis Kelce?

  There you go. And Jason was a big anime guy.

• 53:32Speaker 04

  I wanted to be a CPA, you know, so he wants to read comics, you know?

• 53:36Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 53:37Travis Kelce?

  I get it.

• 53:37Speaker 03

  Get down with some Dragon Ball Z.

• 53:39Travis Kelce?

  There you go.

• 53:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly.

• 53:45Travis Kelce?

  Can you tell us the story of Chipper Jones saving you on an ATV?

• 53:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, okay, so this is 2014. Um, we're doing like kind of a Braves caravan. So you go like kind of before the season starts and in Atlanta, you can get snow every couple of years uh in the in the winter time. Of course, it decides to snow that one day and uh my wife's and I house is about forty minutes from Turner Field, the old stadium, and that's where we were where we were during that caravan and when they decided, okay, it's snowing, we all gotta go home. So but we go out and they had let everyone out in Atlanta at the same time, schools, work, everyone like go home and it just it just became like Snowmageddon. That's what they were calling it. So I lived forty

• 54:31Speaker 04

  minutes away and Chipper and I lived about, you know, like point one miles from each other. So we were pretty close and I made it to about, I would say, ten minutes from our houses after about twelve hours.

• 54:46Travis Kelce?

  Stop it.

• 54:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, so I was trying to get home and you just got cars going up hills and sliding back down. So you really couldn't really go anywhere. So I pulled into a parking lot about ten minutes from our house and I had like one percent battery left of my phone. So I texted my wife a picture of where I was and I was like, I'm just gonna sleep here uh and just wait, you know, till the next morning. And my wife was actually at Taylor and Chipper, his wife, their their house and um Chipper decides to go full camo.

• 55:20Travis Kelce?

  I ain't fucking doing anything, buddy.

• 55:22Speaker 04

  Yeah, he goes, I'm not leaving him out there. So Chelsea shows Chipper the picture and goes, oh, I know where he is. And within thirty minutes later, Chipper's coming on an ATV like into the parking lot, like skidding through, you know.

• 55:38Travis Kelce?

  Here to save the day.

• 55:39Speaker 04

  And I was like, no way. This is just unbelievable. And he brings me a jacket and he ATs me home, ATVs me back to his house and has the fire on. And I'm like, I was not wearing clothes suited for snow and I am just shivering and. Yeah. Thankfully he didn't got me. I would have been sleeping in a car, you know, all night, but yeah. And so they made bobble heads and did all that kind of sorts for it.

• 56:05Travis Kelce?

  You pulled up on the ATV like Lloyd Christmas on Dumb and Dumber.

• 56:10Speaker 04

  Exactly. I was, I was, I was literally like holding up, shaking. Yeah, it's a good story now, but at the time I was not, not very good.

• 56:21Travis Kelce?

  Dude, I'm not gonna lie though, that had to be pretty epic. You see the ATV coming right at you like, what the fuck is this?

• 56:26Speaker 04

  And he like slid it into, it wasn't just like came up and just stopped.

• 56:29Travis Kelce?

  Let's go.

• 56:31Speaker 04

  He was having so much fun with it, you know?

• 56:33Speaker 03

  Eighteen miles to the gallon, this hog.

• 56:39Travis Kelce?

  Traded it to a kid a few miles back. Oh man, that's fucking gold.

• 56:44Speaker 03

  All right, you were voted friendliest infielder to chat with on base by your fellow major league baseball players. Did that surprise you? What is, what happens at first base? Do you even have this be an award?

• 56:56Speaker 04

  Yeah, I didn't know that was an award until I got told that I was voted that. I mean, I'm friendly. I like to talk to everybody. If you get a hit and get to first base, I always tell you, nice job, nice hit. This game's hard.

• 57:09Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 57:10Speaker 04

  Life is hard, so I'm gonna, I'll, I'll pick you up and a lot of them, since I've been playing so long, I've gotten to know a lot of people. So most of the time, like, we're just kinda like just talking about life. And obviously this year, everyone kept asking me about, you know, my son Max and it's just conversations. But usually around August, people start talking about fantasy football at first base, like who you're gonna take and stuff like that. It's just, I'm just, I just talk to everybody because sometimes when you do talk to someone, you can pick someone off and. Thought, so I'm not trying to do that. I'm actually.

• 57:49Speaker 04

  I just generally like talking to you, but if we do pick you off, I'm sorry, but no, I just, I just talk to everybody that gets to first base. It's, it's fun. Sports is fun. It's not football. I'm not trying to like hit someone, you know, it's, baseball is different, you know, it really is.

• 58:03Travis Kelce?

  Pick those battles too in football. You don't want to get anybody too fired up, too or out. Guy like Max Crosby, you only want to talk so much shit to Max. Max is going to turn into absolute fucking havoc if if you say the wrong things. Who's who's the guy that you would vote for is the friendliest?

• 58:19Speaker 04

  Like Lindor, Francisco Lindor, when you get the second, always great. And then like Ozzy Albies, brave second baseman is wonderful. Rizzo, obviously at first. Joey Votto was another very talkative guy at first. So there's a lot of guy, a lot of guys in baseball are just friendly and kind of just talk. But being a first baseman, you encounter everyone. So there's a lot of good guys in sports. But I go with Lindor at second base. He's probably the next friendliest.

• 58:46Speaker 03

  Have you ever pulled off a hidden ball trick?

• 58:48Speaker 04

  No.

• 58:49Travis Kelce?

  Do you think, do you think it's like, dude, I don't want to go that low. That's kind of.

• 58:53Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's I kind of, I think it's.

• 58:57Speaker 04

  I wouldn't do it. No.

• 59:00Travis Kelce?

  I would have beat you fair and square.

• 59:01Speaker 03

  Coach is like, we're doing it this week. We can pull it off.

• 59:03Speaker 04

  I'll just tag you and throw it back. More because if you don't pull it off, you look like an idiot just trying to tag someone on the base or waiting. It's just, come on, just throw the ball back to the pitcher.

• 59:15Travis Kelce?

  Good. What's your, what's your least favorite pitch?

• 59:18Speaker 04

  I think the hardest pitch to hit is a well located fastball. Like, to be honest, if you can locate your pitches, pitching always is going to be better than hitting. If you can locate your pitches, you're always going to get us out. It's so hard to hit that. But.

• 59:33Speaker 03

  Hardest thing in sports.

• 59:35Speaker 04

  I just don't like cutters. Stuff moved from right hander moving in, even though I did hit a couple of them in the World Series. But.

• 59:44Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 59:44Speaker 03

  Just a few. Good way to answer it. Just the pitches that you're really nailing.

• 59:48Speaker 04

  I don't want to tell people.

• 59:50Speaker 03

  Fastball right down the middle of the plate. It's the worst.

• 59:55Speaker 04

  See like 90% cutters next year, you know?

• 1:00:00Speaker 04

  But the best pitch is a well located fastball, because if you pitch off your fastball, then it sets up all your other pitches. And so that's kind of how it works. But it's so hard to hit your spots. And that's why, you know, we we make what we make, because it's hard to hit those spots three times in a row.

• 1:00:18Speaker 04

  But I say well located fastball hardest pitch.

• 1:00:20Travis Kelce?

  Nice. Well, speaking of well located fastballs and pitching, Jason thinks they should move the mound back in baseball. He says.

• 1:00:28Speaker 03

  Thought it might be, it might increase offense a little bit more, you know, just a bit, just like maybe one foot.

• 1:00:33Travis Kelce?

  Go back to Commissioner Freeman. Do you, uh, would you, would you ever consider moving them back in baseball?

• 1:00:40Speaker 04

  I do not agree more because I think it would cause more injuries to pitchers.

• 1:00:44Travis Kelce?

  Oh.

• 1:00:44Speaker 03

  Oh, really?

• 1:00:45Travis Kelce?

  Guys would probably want to throw harder.

• 1:00:47Speaker 04

  Harder, uh, because they're even a foot away. They might try and throw harder. And I mean, you could see like, there's a lot of injuries in baseball and pitchers. And I mean, we're throwing 95 to 100. Every guy's doing that. So.

• 1:00:59Speaker 03

  It's crazy.

• 1:01:00Speaker 04

  If you move it back even a foot, I feel like you're going to try and throw it harder. And I think just more injuries would happen. The only thing I say if I was commissioner is getaway night games should be illegal.

• 1:01:12Travis Kelce?

  No night games.

• 1:01:13Speaker 04

  On getaway days.

• 1:01:14Travis Kelce?

  Oh, nice. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got you.

• 1:01:16Speaker 03

  CC said the same thing.

• 1:01:17Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. CC said the exact same thing.

• 1:01:19Speaker 04

  There's like, there's, we, we're getting in at 4am. Like there's no way our bodies are good enough. And like the next day you're just grinding, you know, and you're not your best self. So I think we should do get it with, that would be my only thing, but I get the Sunday night baseball and stuff like that, but.

• 1:01:34Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. The league should do that, man. That seems doable.

• 1:01:37Speaker 04

  But I get it. It's like, it's a Thursday and whatever city you're in and you have a one o'clock game, people can't come, you know, because they're in work. And I, I, I do get that, but it's hard on us, but.

• 1:01:49Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:50Speaker 03

  They want to capitalize on prime time on TV and all that stuff.

• 1:01:53Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:01:54Travis Kelce?

  Well, you're fair. You're a fair guy.

• 1:01:56Speaker 03

  We've asked a bunch of guests this following question. Uh, do you think there are any major league baseball players that could cross over into another sport? Whether it's the NFL, NBA.

• 1:02:06Speaker 04

  Oof.

• 1:02:08Travis Kelce?

  I saw Mookie running some routes before. I've seen Mookie run some routes. He can do, he's, he's pretty athletic in a lot of different sports.

• 1:02:14Speaker 04

  Could do it, but Mookie is also 155 pounds. So.

• 1:02:20Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:02:21Speaker 04

  If he got hit, I don't know how Mookie is gonna get back up. I would say Mookie bowling. He already does it.

• 1:02:28Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:29Speaker 04

  He's already a professional, pretty much a professional bowler. I think there's guys that could do it. It's two sports is so hard, like at the highest level. I mean,

• 1:02:38Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:38Speaker 04

  You guys, like, there's no way we can go in there and run a row and catch a ball with someone coming and gonna take our heads off. I'm gonna be running straight to the sidelines.

• 1:02:50Speaker 04

  There's, it's just, what you guys do is special, what we do, what basketball players, like, it just, there's a reason why you guys are the best and let's just stick to one sport.

• 1:03:01Speaker 03

  That's smart.

• 1:03:02Speaker 04

  I can just crazy, crazy talk. Maybe, I'm sure there's golfers, like pitchers and golfers.

• 1:03:07Speaker 03

  Dude, there's, yeah, that's a whole thing.

• 1:03:10Speaker 04

  Golf is crazy too. Like, like, those guys are so good.

• 1:03:13Travis Kelce?

  It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous how much control they have of everything.

• 1:03:17Speaker 04

  I know. And the ball's not moving and you think you should just hit it perfectly every time and it just slices 300 yards the other way.

• 1:03:25Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:03:26Speaker 04

  I can hit them on moving, but I can't hit them on staying still.

• 1:03:30Speaker 03

  I have no one to blame but myself.

• 1:03:34Speaker 04

  Oh, big wind gust. Wind gust came and knocked that one out.

• 1:03:39Travis Kelce?

  All right, we got one last question here, brother. We heard that your son actually picks your walk-up songs.

• 1:03:45Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:03:46Travis Kelce?

  Can you tell us about that? Or which, which one was your favorite that he's chosen so far?

• 1:03:50Speaker 04

  Um, okay, so Charlie picks my walk-up songs every year. Uh, he started this in 2021 when he was around four years old. I was driving to the field one day and he goes, I said, when you're old enough, I'll let you pick my walkout songs. And he goes, well, daddy, I'm old enough now. And I said, okay.

• 1:04:10Travis Kelce?

  Nice.

• 1:04:11Speaker 04

  It's, he loves Bad Bunny, uh, loves.

• 1:04:14Speaker 03

  Nice.

• 1:04:16Speaker 04

  So he, he's grows, he's grown up in, you know, clubhouses and Spanish music's all over the place. And he has, I, we actually took him to a Bad Bunny concert in spring training this past year.

• 1:04:27Travis Kelce?

  So.

• 1:04:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, I've had Bad Bunny as my walk-up songs, um, for four years. And the first year in Dodgers, he picked a different one. He picked Baila Comigo, which means Dance With Me. And that's kind of the song we've kept. But then another, he has another one. He picks Bad Bunny every single year. So.

• 1:04:46Travis Kelce?

  Does he, does he speak Spanish?

• 1:04:48Speaker 04

  Uh, no.

• 1:04:48Travis Kelce?

  Does he understand the songs?

• 1:04:50Speaker 04

  If he knew what, if he knew what Bad Bunny was saying, I don't.

• 1:04:54Speaker 04

  I, I, I wouldn't allow him to listen to the, to the music anymore. There was one song he picked and I was like, I told Chelsea, I was like, we can't play this.

• 1:05:06Travis Kelce?

  I can't walk up to the player.

• 1:05:07Speaker 04

  Because everyone, like Dodger fans speak Spanish. So I'm like, I can't, I can't walk up to this. And I'm like, I'm a married man of three kids and what he is saying doesn't correlate with me.

• 1:05:19Travis Kelce?

  Way to do your homework though.

• 1:05:19Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:05:20Travis Kelce?

  Way, way to do your homework.

• 1:05:21Speaker 04

  Lyrics and I said, Charlie, we can't pick that one.

• 1:05:23Travis Kelce?

  You got to, yeah, sorry, bud. Sorry, bud, actually you're gonna have to stop listening to that. I can't have you out here just singing those lyrics.

• 1:05:29Speaker 04

  He actually did say, he goes, Daddy, I might pick something else other than Bad Bunny next year. So I'm like, whoa, he's, so we'll see.

• 1:05:37Speaker 03

  If he picks, uh, my neck, my back.

• 1:05:40Speaker 04

  But it's been Bad Bunny for four straight years, so we'll see what.

• 1:05:43Travis Kelce?

  Hey, it's working.

• 1:05:44Speaker 04

  I know, right?

• 1:05:45Travis Kelce?

  Maybe you gotta stick with it and Bad Bunny is a great dude, man. I got to meet him a few weeks ago, man. He's awesome.

• 1:05:50Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 1:05:51Travis Kelce?

  He's picking some good, he's picking, picking good dude, good, good guy's music.

• 1:05:55Speaker 03

  Well, brother, that does it, man.

• 1:05:57Speaker 04

  Yeah, that was fun, guys.

• 1:05:58Travis Kelce?

  Freddie.

• 1:05:58Speaker 04

  You guys are awesome.

• 1:05:59Speaker 03

  Thank you, Josh.

• 1:06:00Travis Kelce?

  Thank you so much. Congratulations, World Series MVP. Couldn't be happier for you, man. Family guy, go ahead and enjoy this off season.

• 1:06:07Speaker 04

  I appreciate it.

• 1:06:08Travis Kelce?

  And, uh, all the doors that open up when you, you know, I'm working for it, baby.

• 1:06:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:12Travis Kelce?

  You know it, man. I'm gonna start listening to some Bad Bunny right now.

• 1:06:18Speaker 04

  All right, guys. Appreciate you guys.

• 1:06:21Speaker 03

  All righty, and that wraps up this episode of New Heights. That's right. Thank you, of course, to our guest, Freddie Freeman.

• 1:06:28Travis Kelce?

  Freddie Freeman.

• 1:06:29Speaker 03

  Make sure you subscribe on YouTube to the New Heights channel and follow New Heights on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. We'll be back with a new episode on Wednesday, of course. And, uh, that'll be to recap week 10 in the NFL. Reminder, you can listen to New Heights episodes early and ad free now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.

• 1:06:50Travis Kelce?

  You heard that man? Go ahead and join the Wondry Plus, man. Let's hear about us, talk about some film reviews, or you know, just the old Heights hotline. That's right, ladies. All right, once again, New Heights, a Wondry show produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment. Follow this show on all social media, New Heights Show. That's with one S. And thanks to our production and crew. We love you guys and to the 92%ers, we love you guys too. Thanks for tuning in this week, man. We'll see you guys next week.