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On today’s episode, Jason and Travis respond to your Holiday Hot Takes. We debate if Halloween has overtaken Christmas as the best holiday, try to figure out why we even eat turkey, and somehow we end up defending the honor of sweet potatoes.
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1:40 Travis 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.
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1:57 Travis Kelce? You didn't, and that's, that'd be the kicker for me.
1:59 Speaker 02 I love a water park.
2:00 Travis Kelce? But the crazy one? Crown's Edge, a ropes course off the side of the ship. Not for the faint of heart, brother.
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2:29 Speaker 04 Halloween is actually a better holiday than Christmas.
2:32 Speaker 02 You're a fucking idiot, Thaddeus.
2:34 Speaker 04 Christmas is cool and all, but Halloween's the best.
2:37 Speaker 02 I'm trying to think like what world somebody would think Halloween is better. And the only thing that makes sense is that their parents gave them a Christmas.
2:43 Travis Kelce? Don't you put that on Thaddeus's parents?
2:45 Speaker 02 I'm definitely putting that up that he's his parents. That's the only possible way Thaddeus thinks that is that his parents gave him a Christmas. If I'm just going to be honest, I'm kind of with that. Isn't this one? Apparently Brandon's parents gave him a Christmas as well.
3:00 Travis Kelce? Welcome to this bonus episode of New Heights, a Wondry show, and we're your hosts. Travis Kelce is my big brother, Jason Kelce. Subscribe on YouTube, Wondry Plus, or wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with one S. And Jason is now going to tell you what exactly you get in this bonus episode.
3:21 Speaker 02 That's right. Welcome to today's bonus episode. That's right. Maybe you're here because you stumbled across us on your phone or internet or whatever your device is. Maybe you're here to see Travis Kelce or listen to his voice. Just maybe you're here to listen to some holiday hot takes from some of the 92 percenters, call ins and other shenanigans about holidays and hot takes. All right, here we go.
3:48 Speaker 02 All right, we got a few options. The bold ones seem to be the ones that they prefer us talking about.
3:53 Travis Kelce? I say you just go ahead and hit the bold ones.
3:55 Speaker 02 All righty, holiday, Halloween better than Christmas? I can already know this is not accurate.
4:00 Speaker 04 Hey, this is Thaddeus from Kansas City.
4:03 Speaker 02 Thaddeus, great name.
4:04 Speaker 04 My holiday hot take is that Halloween is actually a better holiday than Christmas.
4:10 Speaker 02 Fucking idiot, Thaddeus.
4:13 Travis Kelce? You had us for Thaddeus and then you lost us.
4:15 Speaker 04 Just better all around vibes. You get to spook kids and play pranks and Christmas is cool and all, but Halloween's the best. All right. Take it easy.
4:27 Speaker 02 Take.
4:28 Travis Kelce? I mean, he does share your love of scaring children.
4:31 Speaker 02 It's a very hot take. I love Halloween. It's great. I'm very on board with Halloween.
4:35 Travis Kelce? You can spook kids in Christmas, too. That's the thing about spooking is that you can spook kids whenever.
4:40 Speaker 02 Yeah, Christmas is the greatest holiday on the planet. There's not even, there's not even something that compares to it.
4:45 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I'm just, there's just nothing that gets like people happy like Christmas does.
4:53 Speaker 02 It moves the stock market. That's how like influential it is like consumer products. This is so ingrained into our culture and so like unanimously, I knew Jewish people that celebrated Christmas.
5:09 Travis Kelce? Don't, don't say who they are because then they will be, they'll be frowned upon.
5:15 Speaker 02 I think it's pretty commonplace at this point. I think, I bet if you, it's, it's, it's, it's gone beyond religion at this point. It's like so ingrained in the American culture and it comes down to family, giving the holiday spirit, like all of it. Like it's just, it's a fantastic holiday and I love Halloween, but I mean, it couldn't sniff a fart of Christmas to be even close to it.
5:36 Travis Kelce? Give you two weeks off on Halloween.
5:38 Speaker 02 That's right. That alone.
5:42 Speaker 02 It's remarkable. It's a hot take. It's a very bad take. All right, next one.
5:46 Travis Kelce? Yeah, it's tough. Thaddeus, though.
5:48 Speaker 02 Great name.
5:48 Travis Kelce? Great name.
5:49 Speaker 02 Horrible take on Christmas.
5:53 Travis Kelce? This guy was getting cold for fucking presents every year.
5:56 Speaker 02 I just, the joy that Christmas gives you, just seeing the decorations, going to Christmas parties, the thanks, the joy of seeing another person open a present you give them, like what is this gonna be?
6:10 Travis Kelce? It's underrated.
6:11 Speaker 02 Like, I just don't know that there's any, I'm trying to think in like what world somebody would think Halloween is better. And the only thing that makes sense is that their parents gave them a shitty Christmas. Like, I don't know what else.
6:21 Travis Kelce? Don't you put that on Thaddeus's parents.
6:23 Speaker 02 I'm definitely putting that up Thaddeus's parents. That's the only possible way Thaddeus thinks that, is that his parents gave him a shitty Christmas.
6:30 Travis Kelce? Uh, he's just got to see it clear. He's got, he's got candy vision. He's got spooky vision. He's just got to see it for what it is.
6:37 Speaker 02 But Halloween has, I mean, Christmas has candy too. Candy canes.
6:42 Travis Kelce? You hate candy canes.
6:44 Speaker 02 I love candy canes.
6:45 Travis Kelce? What?
6:46 Speaker 02 You don't like candy canes?
6:47 Travis Kelce? Candy corn.
6:48 Speaker 02 Candy corn is shit. Yes, exactly. The candy that represents Halloween and the candy that represents Christmas is night and day better for Christmas.
6:58 Travis Kelce? They don't, they don't make a Christmas Reese's.
7:01 Speaker 02 Yes, they do. It's a Christmas tree.
7:03 Speaker 05 Trees. Yeah, they make them. Yeah.
7:04 Travis Kelce? But that's not a stop. It's the same.
7:07 Speaker 02 You put candy in the stocking. It's basically the same thing, but you don't have to walk to other strangers' houses. You just get them from your loved ones.
7:14 Travis Kelce? Nice.
7:15 Speaker 05 Thaddeus, you're kind of right, though.
7:16 Travis Kelce? Christmas candies, no.
7:18 Speaker 05 I'm kind of with Thaddeus. If I'm just going to be honest, I'm kind of with Thaddeus on this one.
7:22 Speaker 02 Apparently Brandon's parents gave him a shitty Christmas as well as.
7:25 Speaker 05 Oh, God.
7:26 Speaker 02 This is a failure. Anybody who thinks Halloween is better than Christmas, their parents have failed them.
7:32 Speaker 05 I had a great Christmas. I just, I've turned into a Halloween guy in my, in my old age. Uh, I don't know how that happened.
7:37 Speaker 02 Halloween's fine, but it's no, it doesn't hold a candle to Christmas.
7:41 Travis Kelce? What were you? What were you this year, Brandon?
7:43 Speaker 05 Me? Oh, we did it one battle after another. I was Benicio del Toro. I was Sensei.
7:47 Travis Kelce? Oh, that's right. I saw that.
7:49 Speaker 05 Lauren was in the Capri. Yeah. Great costume. The dog was Sean Penn from that movie. Great costume. Have you ever tried to put a wig on a dog on Christmas? See, that's a Halloween thing.
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8:02 Travis Kelce? All right now, Jason, you've been retired for a full year. Uh, let's talk pre-game rituals. Do you miss them? Still have them?
8:09 Speaker 02 I kind of have one, I guess, for Monday Night Countdown. Like, I kind of, I go do the, uh, production meeting, then I kind of iron out what's happening in the rundown. Then I go to the makeup lady, then I go to the hair, and, uh, then I go on set.
8:24 Travis Kelce? Just curious to see if you were putting that same game day energy into your, uh, new broadcasting routine. That's all.
8:30 Speaker 02 Well, first and foremost, it includes making sure that this beard is looking real nice, which is finally starting to show some of my grays again. After dying it, I'm getting those natural colors back. Thank you. Thanks so much. But yeah, I have some, some grooming individuals that make sure it's looking nice and tidy.
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9:45 Speaker 02 For those of you that don't know, we just said Reese's Oreo Cups. That's right. They also have regular Oreos with peanut butter in the middle.
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10:02 Travis Kelce? Wait a minute. Could Reese's Oreo Cups be like the Kelsey Brothers of candy? Which one of us is Reese's and which one of us is Oreo?
10:11 Speaker 02 Which one of us is Reese's and which one of us is Oreo?
10:13 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
10:14 Speaker 02 Are we talking about Oreo with peanut butter in the middle or Oreo with white in the middle?
10:17 Travis Kelce? Just regular Oreo.
10:19 Speaker 02 I mean, I'm clearly Oreo. I'm a little bit darker.
10:25 Travis Kelce? You gotta love it. So grab these Reese's Oreo Cups today, wherever candy is sold. Better yet, grab them right now. Or we're going to grab them first because they are seriously that good.
10:37 Speaker 02 They are. And we wouldn't lie to you. They're, they're very good.
10:42 Speaker 02 Thank you to our sponsor, KFC. Are you a dark meat or a breast kind of guy?
10:47 Travis Kelce? When you get KFC, you can get it all. Just put it in that bucket.
10:50 Speaker 02 It's true. Thanksgiving is coming up and KFC is starting a little holiday debate. Turkey or chicken? Not much of a debate if you ask me.
10:57 Travis Kelce? Yeah, let's be real. It's the, you need gravy to survive at bird. It's beige of all
11:03 Speaker 02 Let's be honest, is it really worth spending eight hours cooking a turkey when you could just get something better, especially if it just causes you to go through a drive through and get a bucket of it, maybe?
11:12 Travis Kelce? How about KFC's extra crispy chicken, juicy, crispy, and always finger licking good, baby?
11:19 Speaker 02 Extra crispy does sound good.
11:21 Travis Kelce? The underdog choice for all your holiday gatherings.
11:26 Speaker 02 KFC is saying cluck turkey this Thanksgiving. That's right. We're inviting all of you to give dry turkey the bird.
11:34 Travis Kelce? It's time to ditch the dry boring bird this holiday and order KFC instead. You can't go wrong with a bucket of chicken, a good game or movie, or just some good times with friends and family.
11:46 Speaker 02 Everybody's gonna love it. If you show up to a Thanksgiving meal with extra crispy chicken from KFC, people are gonna love you.
11:52 Travis Kelce? Especially a bucket of it.
11:54 Speaker 02 If you come with a bucket of extra crispy fried chicken from KFC, you're gonna get some thank yous. This year, skip the turkey and celebrate with KFC's extra crispy chicken.
12:03 Speaker 06 Hi, Mr. I would like to give an extreme hot take since it's the damn season and that is turkey is one of the worst dishes on Thanksgiving of all time.
12:11 Speaker 02 Hard agree.
12:12 Speaker 06 It's so dry and people who like it just go weird. Thank you.
12:16 Speaker 02 Listen, I'm fully, this is why I fry turkey. I, it's hard to eat turkey unless it's deep fried and like, you know, boiled in fat grease. We never had turkey. We agree. We purposely never had turkey. Mom would make pork chops or some other meat. I love everything else about, well, I take that back. I love most other things about Thanksgiving fair, right? I'm a big mashed potatoes guy. I'm a big corn guy. Kylie makes a badass green bean casserole. Fucking love that dish. Um, Mama Kelsey dinner rolls, like everything else about Thanksgiving is so fantastic.
12:50 Speaker 02 And then it gets kind of muddled down with, for the most part, the way most people make it, a dry ass bird that you gotta slather gravy and cranberry sauce on to redeem anything about it. I mean, just be honest. You gotta fry it.
13:04 Travis Kelce? You gotta fry it or you gotta be in that thing nonstop injecting it with like.
13:09 Speaker 02 You gotta fry it or you gotta fucking spatchcock that sucker.
13:12 Travis Kelce? There you go.
13:13 Speaker 02 Spatchcock it.
13:14 Travis Kelce? Yeah. Or, or what you haven't tried yet is turducken. You gotta stuff that thing with the duck.
13:19 Speaker 02 You're right. I have not tried the turducken, but I'm very in on it. The premise of it sounds incredible. What, um?
13:26 Travis Kelce? I'm out.
13:28 Speaker 02 What else was, oh, the other thing that I don't, um, pumpkin pie is okay, but I think it's also commonplace for a lot of people. Maybe I'm wrong on this. Apple pie around Thanksgiving. I'll go on this. Apple pie has gotta be the most overrated dessert on the fucking history of top shelf desserts.
13:44 Travis Kelce? It's gotta be, there's gotta be a fuck ton of cinnamon in that thing. It's gotta be a fuck ton of cinnamon and butter. And I gotta fucking, that's gotta overpower the apple.
13:53 Speaker 02 I'm just not, apple pie just doesn't, I like ice cream. So like when you put it with ice cream, I'll do it.
13:59 Travis Kelce? That's the thing.
13:59 Speaker 02 That's another thing. I am definitely more of a cake guy than a pie guy, although, um, Stephen Cookies down the shore, they make a mean blueberry pie. It is fucking incredible.
14:09 Travis Kelce? See, blueberry pie, different type of pie.
14:11 Speaker 02 And this is, they do it weird to it. Like, isn't as like, I guess like jelloey, you know what I mean? Like, a lot of the pie is like a texture thing that I just don't really, warm fruit doesn't make me excited. I like cold fruit.
14:25 Travis Kelce? Noted.
14:25 Speaker 02 I'm trying to think, there are pies that I like though. Pumpkin pie is not bad. Pumpkin pie is a.
14:30 Travis Kelce? Key lime's the only one.
14:31 Speaker 02 Key lime, cold fruit. Key lime's a cold pie.
14:34 Travis Kelce? Cold pie. Key lime pie is the closest thing to like cheesecake that I'll ever have.
14:38 Speaker 02 I feel like raspberries would be good in a pie. It's gotta have a little bit more like tartness for it to be good. Apples just don't bring that. Like note that really makes me enjoy it that much.
14:51 Travis Kelce? I need something in the inside that doesn't just like, give me like a comp. You know what I mean? Like a, like a, like a comp. You know what I'm talking about?
15:00 Speaker 02 Come, I, I think it's C O M P T E is what you're thinking about.
15:04 Travis Kelce? There it is. Yeah.
15:04 Speaker 02 But it's, is it compo? It's compo. C O M P O T, right?
15:09 Travis Kelce? There you go.
15:12 Travis Kelce? I think I know either way. I don't like that. That stuff I'm out on.
15:16 Speaker 02 I don't mind if it's cold. I just, there's something about the warmness of pie that it just out desserts. I don't like warm desserts.
15:21 Travis Kelce? Were you ever, were you ever a, a, a apple?
15:24 Speaker 02 That's not true. I will do some desserts. That's not true. I'll take that back. Uh, what?
15:28 Travis Kelce? Were you ever a caramel apple guy?
15:30 Speaker 02 No, I don't like it. I like apples. I will eat an apple by itself. I don't like caramel. I'm not a big like dressing. I like apple and peanut butter. I'll throw some peanut butter on that apple.
15:40 Travis Kelce? So you don't like caramel is what you're saying?
15:42 Speaker 02 I like caramel on certain things. I just don't really, the other thing is like a caramel apple for me with a beard to eat is just like, sounds like the biggest disaster of all time. Like it's going to be fucking everywhere. I'm not, yeah, yeah. You could cut it up. I suppose I just.
15:57 Speaker 02 Like I like caramel in certain things. I like caramel mixed with chocolate. I don't like caramel with apple. No.
16:03 Travis Kelce? All right. Nice. Noted.
16:04 Speaker 02 Yeah. Anyways, I don't know what we just.
16:06 Travis Kelce? I don't know where that even.
16:07 Speaker 02 Yeah. So yes, we agree. Turkey sucks. All right. Sweet potatoes. Let's go.
16:12 Speaker 04 Okay. So my Thanksgiving holiday hot take is that sweet potatoes have no place in the Thanksgiving menu. Whipped, mashed, roasted. They are just the least of the least. They're the worst thing on the table.
16:28 Speaker 02 You're fucking out of your mind.
16:30 Travis Kelce? Fucking idiot.
16:30 Speaker 04 Maple syrup. It just, it's a dessert.
16:33 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
16:33 Speaker 04 You're, you're.
16:34 Travis Kelce? You're right.
16:35 Speaker 04 To, uh, pumpkin pie already.
16:37 Travis Kelce? What are you trying to watch your calories?
16:39 Speaker 04 Put a marshmallow on top. Put a meringue on top. But you don't use sweet potatoes on your menu. You've got, you could do roasted root vegetables. You can do your mashed potatoes.
16:48 Speaker 02 Roasted root vegetables?
16:49 Speaker 04 All kinds of other things. Carrots, honey glazed carrots.
16:52 Travis Kelce? Honey, I'm in on honey glazed carrots.
16:54 Speaker 02 Now you're just getting carrots to dessert.
16:57 Speaker 04 And they just don't go well. They don't melt well.
17:02 Speaker 04 Basically in a whole bunch of savory stuff. You're not going to put your gravy over your sweet potatoes. You're not going to, you know, take a Brussels sprout and dip it in your sweet potato. That's just weird. You can't.
17:13 Speaker 02 He's all over the place.
17:14 Speaker 04 Or anything. It's got marshmallows, maple syrup, and, uh, that's it. It's, it's wrong. It should not be on a, uh, Thanksgiving table. That's, that's my best hot take.
17:26 Speaker 02 Well, you're wrong. Sweet potatoes and marshmallows and freaking.
17:29 Travis Kelce? I think potatoes and sweet potatoes both should be on the table.
17:32 Speaker 02 You don't need to have one or the other. Sweet potato fries. If somebody made sweet potato fries, I'd be fucking jazzed personally. I don't understand the roasted root vegetable like this guy walks fucking.
17:42 Travis Kelce? Where the fuck did he go? Where the fuck is the, that is, you want to talk about a hot take?
17:46 Speaker 02 You want beets in here? Like, what are we talking about? And then he said, like, you can't, you can't candy up the sweet potato, but you can have candied carrots? With honey glazed on them?
17:56 Travis Kelce? I'm in on that though.
17:57 Speaker 02 If you gave me the choice of honey glazed carrots or sweet potatoes or marshmallow on them, I'm taking the sweet potatoes or marshmallow all day.
18:03 Travis Kelce? Some roasted honey carrots are good though, man.
18:05 Speaker 02 I don't, I'm not in on the honey carrots.
18:07 Travis Kelce? Dude, I got you.
18:09 Speaker 02 Yeah?
18:09 Travis Kelce? No.
18:10 Speaker 02 Carrots, when they get roasted, they just get mushy. They get too mushy for me.
18:13 Travis Kelce? No, you still gotta have that crunch, a little bit of that.
18:16 Speaker 02 Yeah, but it's hard. Yeah, if it, if it has, if it's cooked perfectly, I could do it.
18:20 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
18:21 Speaker 02 But I just, I prefer carrot cake. That's how I prefer my carrots.
18:24 Travis Kelce? See, now we're talking.
18:25 Speaker 02 Cream cheese frosting.
18:26 Travis Kelce? I didn't know you were a carrot cake guy. Next time you're in the city, I got a place.
18:29 Speaker 02 Dude.
18:30 Travis Kelce? Get these little carrot cupcakes and make you feel like you're not doing too much.
18:34 Speaker 02 I'm not a big frosting guy. The only reason I think I like carrot cake is because of the cream cheese frosting.
18:40 Travis Kelce? Dude, I got the place for you.
18:41 Speaker 02 It's good. It's so good.
18:42 Travis Kelce? I got the place for you.
18:45 Speaker 02 Like, what are we making apple pie for? Just put the carrots in there.
18:48 Travis Kelce? Jack Stack has one of the best carrot cakes. Ever, dude. It's so good that people like, just like go in and get the carrot cake, like cupcakes, just so that they don't feel too bad about getting the entire fucking mammoth of a cake that, that you could get there.
19:03 Speaker 02 We have a couple of spots around here that we'll go and specifically just get the carrot cake and then we'll eat it like two fatties all day.
19:09 Travis Kelce? It's the best, dude. It's the best. And they do, they just slab that fucking cheesecake icing on there. It's so fucking good.
19:16 Speaker 02 No doubt. We're big, um. Stocks people as well in Philadelphia. That's a big dessert one for us. I don't know how we keep getting back to desserts. We keep getting back to desserts. All right. We're talking about sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are fine.
19:28 Travis Kelce? They're good. They're fucking awesome.
19:29 Speaker 02 I mean, you can have sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes. I don't think you have to differentiate between these two, and I disagree. Like you can do sweet potatoes with marshmallows and the maple glaze. And then at the end of the day, you can have your dessert too. Like what do we, we're not calorie counting on Thanksgiving.
19:46 Travis Kelce? No, that's not what we're doing here.
19:48 Speaker 02 We're making the most delicious thing possible. If that may be throwing marshmallows on top of it, bring it on, brother.
19:53 Travis Kelce? Bring it up. Throw that shit on top.
19:56 Speaker 02 Throwing roasted root vegetables like that's fucking gonna get it done.
19:59 Travis Kelce? Unless you're throwing fucking marshmallows.
20:01 Speaker 02 This guy's coming with beets.
20:04 Travis Kelce? I don't even know if I'd like that. Yeah. I don't even know.
20:07 Speaker 02 I mean, I like beets, but that's if you like, put it with goat cheese and smother a bunch of fucking salad dressing on it. I just had a beet beer in Las Vegas. It was like a beet sour.
20:19 Travis Kelce? Your curiosity to know what shit tastes like.
20:23 Speaker 02 It wasn't bad.
20:23 Travis Kelce? Blows my mind. The fact that you actually had.
20:27 Speaker 02 I'm in on it.
20:28 Travis Kelce? A beet. You'll try, you'll try any kind of fucking beer and it's absolutely disgusting. You had, you brought, you gave me a fucking blueberry beer one time. And I wanted to fucking shoot myself.
20:40 Speaker 02 Probably great.
20:41 Travis Kelce? It was disgusting.
20:42 Speaker 02 I like experimenting.
20:43 Travis Kelce? I like a little citrus lime or something or like a.
20:46 Speaker 02 A little garage beer lime. I got you.
20:48 Travis Kelce? I like it. I like a cider. I'll drink a cider.
20:50 Speaker 02 Ciders, I'm, I'm not a big cider guy. It's too much. It's too sweet.
20:55 Travis Kelce? But beet beer was good.
20:58 Speaker 02 It was okay. I wouldn't want to drink a bunch of it, but for one glass, it was a unique flavor profile. It had like a borscht soury kind of thing happening. It was not bad.
21:08 Travis Kelce? That's all I got for his sweet potato take.
21:11 Speaker 02 Yeah, the sweet potatoes. I mean.
21:12 Travis Kelce? That was a rough take.
21:13 Speaker 05 That was a rough take. Uh, this is my last question coming from me, just based on that conversation.
21:17 Speaker 02 Oh gosh.
21:18 Speaker 05 Really quick. No, no, this is good. This is good. Last question, real quick. What is the best Thanksgiving side dish? One, two, three, go.
21:26 Speaker 02 Green bean casserole.
21:27 Speaker 05 Ooh.
21:29 Travis Kelce? Mag and cheese.
21:29 Speaker 05 Mag and cheese. Yeah, okay. I knew. I knew it was more of a Travis on this one. I knew we were locked in.
21:33 Speaker 02 The problem with mac and cheese is it's not.
21:35 Speaker 05 No, that's where you're wrong. The problem, there is no problem. The end.
21:38 Speaker 02 Well, here's the problem. Here's the problem.
21:40 Travis Kelce? If anything.
21:41 Speaker 02 It's an everyday.
21:42 Speaker 05 Not the way, not the way you make it on Thanksgiving.
21:45 Speaker 02 Yes, it is.
21:45 Speaker 05 You guys make it all the time. You guys are like, you guys are not just doing it out of the box?
21:49 Speaker 02 You do it. I've had it baked a thousand times too. Yes. Like I don't, it's not always out of the box. I'm not, green bean casserole is like an exclusive thing to Thanksgiving.
22:00 Speaker 05 Really?
22:01 Speaker 02 I mean, pretty much.
22:02 Travis Kelce? Not mine.
22:04 Speaker 02 The sweet potatoes.
22:05 Speaker 05 Travis is having it every goddamn day.
22:08 Travis Kelce? I'm having it never.
22:10 Speaker 02 Travis is not having green bean casserole.
22:12 Speaker 05 That's true. I mean, it's mac and cheese. Mac and cheese is the answer. I'll go one step further. Mac and cheese the day after. Get that congealed.
22:18 Speaker 02 I'll go one step further into mac and cheese is the most overrated dessert or a side item. It's not, I'm not a big mac and cheese guy. Travis has always been a big mac and cheese guy. I've never been a big mac and cheese guy.
22:27 Speaker 05 So now we have Canada mad at us. We have the mac and cheese fans mad at us. We're just going down.
22:32 Speaker 02 It's okay. I just think it's overrated. It's not, there's a thousand other things you can have cheesy and I would prefer.
22:38 Speaker 05 I think when you get it just right and it's got like that baked crust, that is.
22:43 Travis Kelce? I hear you. I hear you.
22:44 Speaker 02 It's not bad. If you get the, if you get the crunchies to it.
22:46 Speaker 05 Get the crunchies.
22:47 Speaker 02 It's good. It's good.
22:49 Speaker 05 You also can fuck it up real good too. I've seen some people deliver some wet ass noodles. It is not good.
22:53 Travis Kelce? I don't like shit too cheesy.
22:55 Speaker 02 That green bean casserole. God damn, I can't wait.
22:57 Speaker 05 Wait, does Kylie make that?
22:58 Travis Kelce? What's in this green bean?
22:59 Speaker 05 Kylie, what do you make on Thanksgiving, Jason? What do you help with?
23:02 Speaker 02 I fry the turkey and Kylie doesn't even eat that. So I pretty much make a turkey for myself.
23:08 Travis Kelce? This guy is so fucking funny.
23:13 Speaker 02 She doesn't trust me cooking this shit, cooking it right.
23:15 Travis Kelce? What's in this casserole?
23:17 Speaker 02 I believe, I could be wrong because I've never made it. Uh, green beans are a component. I believe it's, um. Like this mushroom, uh, oh my gosh, what's it called? It's like a cream mushroom thing that is like the base of it.
23:29 Speaker 05 Yeah.
23:30 Speaker 02 It's like a creamy texture.
23:32 Travis Kelce? Clam chowder with green beans.
23:33 Speaker 02 And then it's got fried onions on top of it, basically like it's across the board. I think Travis is not a big fan of green bean casserole.
23:40 Travis Kelce? I think when I was there, I tried it just because I was appreciative and thankful like my dad always taught me.
23:44 Speaker 05 I'm looking at pictures of it. I know Travis is out on this. This is the anti Travis Kelce dish.
23:49 Speaker 02 One thing we never had growing up that I'm a big fan of is cranberry sauce. But Kylie only likes the like canned cranberry sauce.
23:57 Speaker 05 She's correct.
23:58 Speaker 02 I don't like the canned cranberry sauce as much as I like like actually made cranberry sauce.
24:02 Travis Kelce? Yeah, because canned isn't actually made.
24:04 Speaker 02 Well, it's, it's like more, I like a fresh cranberry sauce made rather than a cranberry sauce that's.
24:10 Speaker 05 I want to see the ridges. I want to see the.
24:13 Speaker 02 I don't like that.
24:14 Speaker 05 I want to see the ridges, brother.
24:16 Speaker 02 I'm out on the ridges.
24:17 Speaker 05 I want that thing to come plopping out and don't even touch it. Just let it sit as a cylinder.
24:21 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
24:22 Speaker 02 Yeah, that's what it looks like.
24:24 Speaker 05 Let it be nasty. All right.
24:25 Travis Kelce? So you like Jell-O?
24:26 Speaker 02 Exactly. That's what it is.
24:27 Speaker 05 Jell-O is technically cold fruit.
24:28 Travis Kelce? I always steered clear Jell-O because it was always like hospital food.
24:32 Speaker 05 That is a little weird.
24:34 Speaker 02 I feel like pudding is more of a hospital food in my mind.
24:36 Travis Kelce? I would like eat the Jell-O packs like they were fun dip. I wouldn't, I wouldn't fucking, I wouldn't, I wasn't very, very in on.
24:47 Speaker 02 That's very funny.
24:51 Speaker 05 Just dipping your little finger.
24:55 Speaker 02 Like, that's like a Kool-Aid play. That's odd. You would do that with Jell-O packets.
24:59 Travis Kelce? You know what? You know what that might be? No, I think it was Jell-O. I think it was Jell-O.
25:03 Speaker 05 I think you could technically do it with Jell-O too. It's just sugar and fruit powder. Yeah. Little Travis Kelce with just green ass fingers. I wonder what he's been doing.
25:12 Speaker 02 All right. And that wraps up another edition of Heights Hotline. That's right. We'll have some more bonus content for you all in December, so stay tuned for what that might be.
25:22 Travis Kelce? All right. Now, once again, New Heights, a wondery show. Please follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with W N S. And, uh, we give a big shout out and a thank you to our production crew for always making. So much easier and so much more fun than it could ever be. And thank you to the 92 percenters for listening to us talk about absolutely nothing, but kind of something all at the same time. We love you guys. Happy Thanksgiving.
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