Pod Insights New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce Playoff Preview, Rest vs. Records, and Blind Ranking the Best Plays of the NFL Season | Ep 118 About this episode 92%ers we are back with another episode of New Heights presented by Audible! Start listening today when you sign up for a free 30 day trial at https://audible.com/newheights
We’ve got a lot to catch up on this episode. Starting with recapping how we spent the Holidays, how Travis feels about the mayhem at the Mayo Bowl, Jason recapping his late night debut, and an incredible guest announcement.
Later, we get Travis’ thoughts on breaking Tony Gonzalez's TD record, how he feels about the debate surrounding the Chiefs resting starters, and if he was sick of the Chiefs being stuck on a plane.
We also touch on the Eagles resting Saquon, what Wild Card games are going to be the most electric, and try to blindly rank the top ten plays of the NFL regular season.
We will be back this Friday with another incredible guest episode! Tune in for details.
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0:39 Travis Kelce? That's true. Otherwise, you're just out there running cardio. Can't get open for a big play.
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1:45 Speaker 03 The wrongs we must right. The fights we must win. The future we must secure together for our nation. This is what's in front of us. This determines what's next for all of us. We are Marines. We were made for this.
2:05 Speaker 02 Being in company with a guy like Tony G has got to be just like surreal. But I gotta say, fuck that, dude. You're the fucking receiving touchdown leader in Kansas City Chiefs fucking history.
2:21 Travis Kelce? Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen. Happy motherfucking new year. How about that?
2:28 Speaker 02 That's right.
2:28 Travis Kelce? Too late to say that?
2:30 Speaker 02 No, it's great.
2:31 Travis Kelce? Yeah, it is. I haven't seen you guys in so long. Wondery Show, that's what this is. A Wondery Show produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment. If you didn't know, and a big thanks to our presenting sponsor, Audible, because who doesn't like to listen?
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2:45 Travis Kelce? Start listening today when you sign up for a free 30 day trial. What? Audible.com/ New Heights. Check it out. We're your hosts. I'm Travis Cousins. My big brother Jason Kelce out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Heights Tigers till we die.
2:59 Speaker 02 Yes.
3:00 Travis Kelce? Cincinnati Bearcats as well. Subscribe on YouTube, wherever you get your podcasts. Wondery Plus is our favorite. And follow the show on all the social media, at New Heights Show with one S. Jason, tell the people what we got coming up.
3:12 Speaker 02 We're back.
3:13 Travis Kelce? Yes, yes.
3:14 Speaker 02 I hope the 92%ers have loved the holidays and a Happy New Year's, but what's the cutoff for saying Happy New Year?
3:22 Travis Kelce? Just whenever you see somebody within the month of January, I think is a good Happy New. Man, it's maybe two weeks.
3:27 Speaker 02 A little far.
3:28 Travis Kelce? Maybe like a half a week.
3:30 Speaker 02 You gotta be within the same week of the Happy New Year.
3:32 Travis Kelce? No, no. I'm a big general like, yeah, yeah, Happy New Year.
3:39 Speaker 02 Happy New Year. That's the 10.
3:41 Travis Kelce? I mean, we still got a good 50 weeks left.
3:44 Speaker 02 You got a lot. Yeah, yeah. All right. I don't know what else to go with it for that. All right. Today we are going to talk about what we've been up to. Wrap up last week of the NFL regular season, look ahead to the wild card.
3:54 Travis Kelce? So much to talk about. So.
3:55 Speaker 02 And also, we're going to try and rank the plays of the year.
4:00 Travis Kelce? Ooh, blind rank them things.
4:02 Speaker 02 See how that goes. I like that. We did that for the Christmas movies. End up pretty good. All right, all right. As always.
4:08 Travis Kelce? And.
4:09 Speaker 02 New news.
4:11 Travis Kelce? New news.
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4:15 Travis Kelce? Ooh, oh, nice. All right.
4:17 Speaker 02 We're dropping some new merch from Amage.
4:19 Travis Kelce? Yes, we are.
4:20 Speaker 02 It's our ultimate fan favorite collection. I think we got Jets Jake here. He's got some of these shirts. He was in town for the first taping of The Late Night Show.
4:30 Travis Kelce? You.
4:31 Speaker 02 As a water boy, and now.
4:33 Travis Kelce? Woulda.
4:34 Speaker 02 He's going to show us some of these shirts. How about that?
4:36 Travis Kelce? Oh, is this Vanna White or is this Jets Jake?
4:43 Speaker 02 I know which one I think is better looking.
4:50 Speaker 02 There we go.
4:51 Travis Kelce? Out of the house.
4:52 Speaker 02 Couple of options, couple of options for out of the house.
4:55 Travis Kelce? Dude, I love those. I love those.
4:56 Speaker 02 What do we got?
4:57 Travis Kelce? What else? We got a little new. Oh, nice. A little Club 92. Salute all our Club 92 members.
5:04 Speaker 04 We're bringing back some fan favorites. We got the beard.
5:07 Travis Kelce? Oh, yeah.
5:10 Speaker 02 That's Travis or this?
5:11 Travis Kelce? No, that's you, Jason. Stop. Stop it. My beard isn't that dark.
5:17 Speaker 02 And Trevi door.
5:22 Travis Kelce? El Trevidor.
5:23 Speaker 04 And then we got what you're wearing.
5:25 Speaker 02 Oh, what I'm wearing? Oh, New Heights Film Club.
5:27 Travis Kelce? Yes, sir.
5:28 Speaker 02 I like.
5:28 Travis Kelce? Oh, that one's sweet. I want that one. Do I get any of these?
5:31 Speaker 02 They didn't tell me if you were getting or not.
5:33 Travis Kelce? I'll check the mail.
5:34 Speaker 04 They're at your house.
5:35 Travis Kelce? Oh, nice.
5:36 Speaker 02 Well, as you just said, uh, yeah, this is our ultimate fan favorites collection. The official shirt of leaving the house. Is this official? You did? Do we need a shirt for staying the fuck inside the house? As is all of Kansas City right now because of this crazy snowstorm.
5:54 Travis Kelce? Um, yeah, I'm kind of sick of that. I'm already sick of it. So no, I'm gonna say no, we need more out of the, out of the house.
6:00 Speaker 02 More out of the house.
6:00 Travis Kelce? More out of the house mentalities.
6:03 Speaker 02 Yeah.
6:03 Travis Kelce? To, to keep this city thriving, you know? It's playoff football. We gotta get the fuck out of the house.
6:10 Speaker 02 I'm, I'm with that. I'm with that. You can check out our ultimate fan collection right now at homage.com slash New Heights.
6:16 Travis Kelce? You heard the man. Yeah, let's, uh, let's catch up on some holiday stuff. Did you guys watch any of the college football playoffs? This is Brandon asking us, uh, Jason, did you watch any of the college football playoffs?
6:28 Speaker 02 I am not gonna lie. I've watched none of the football playoffs for college.
6:32 Travis Kelce? Did you watch any of the holiday football NFL games?
6:37 Speaker 02 I did watch a lot of the holiday football NFL games.
6:40 Travis Kelce? Nice.
6:41 Speaker 02 Including the Kansas City Chiefs.
6:43 Travis Kelce? Yes, you did.
6:44 Speaker 02 That was a good one.
6:45 Travis Kelce? That was a good one. That was a fun one.
6:47 Speaker 02 Very good one. By the way, you had a new pair of cleats on. We talked about this.
6:52 Travis Kelce? New pair of cleats.
6:53 Speaker 02 There's a new pair of cleats.
6:55 Travis Kelce? Same pair of cleats.
6:56 Speaker 02 It was a solid red. No, it was a different pair.
6:58 Travis Kelce? Oh, a different colorway. Nice. Same cleats, different color.
7:01 Speaker 02 Yeah, it looked, it looked like a little bit higher top. I think it was a different pair of cleats.
7:05 Travis Kelce? A little bit more of a boot.
7:07 Speaker 02 Yeah.
7:08 Travis Kelce? You're hilarious. Uh, I'm pretty sure Jordan makes them the exact same when they make them. They just switch the color out, but no, I hear what you're saying.
7:15 Speaker 02 Sometimes, sometimes the color makes a difference.
7:17 Travis Kelce? Think I looked a little lighter, a little quicker?
7:19 Speaker 02 You looked pretty, pretty quick out there. You had some good agile.
7:22 Travis Kelce? Somebody said, I'm, it looks like I'm moving in slow motion.
7:25 Speaker 02 That's a different cleat right there.
7:26 Travis Kelce? That's the exact same cleat that I've been wearing all year.
7:29 Speaker 02 No, that's, look, that's shinier. It's got like a, it's got like plastic around it.
7:33 Travis Kelce? It's padded leather, baby. Ain't nothing like a Jordan 11 with some padded leather on it.
7:37 Speaker 02 Let's keep those up. Let's keep wearing those.
7:40 Travis Kelce? You don't like the other ones?
7:42 Speaker 02 Yeah, no.
7:43 Travis Kelce? Yeah. Well, they didn't like you either. How about those Texas Longhorns? We know who put that in the fucking rundown. A shout out to the Longhorns. I'm not a Longhorn hater. I got some friends and, and shit. Ninety-two percenters want to know, uh, did you watch the Mayo Bowl? Jason, your favorite.
7:58 Speaker 02 I watched the clips of all the ridiculousness from the Mayo Bowl, but I did not watch the Mayo, the Duke's Mayo Bowl itself. Uh, I think Interbrand has a video, the patented.
8:08 Travis Kelce? That's not.
8:14 Travis Kelce? Get it off the screen.
8:19 Speaker 02 Wow. I mean, it's just a waste.
8:21 Travis Kelce? I'm sweating. Get it off the screen.
8:26 Travis Kelce? Oh, it's in his hair.
8:28 Speaker 02 What do you think countries that are struggling?
8:32 Travis Kelce? Not again.
8:34 Speaker 02 What do you think countries there that are like struggling for, uh, like food? Watch something like that. It's just like, how many eggs went into that?
8:46 Speaker 02 Water cooler of mayonnaise that we decided to dump all over somebody's head?
8:51 Travis Kelce? I mean, that's what dad mentioned all our childhood is that there's kids starving.
8:56 Speaker 02 In China, which I think China is a lot different spot than it was when we were kids, but.
9:01 Travis Kelce? I think.
9:02 Speaker 02 I don't know if that one still works.
9:03 Travis Kelce? Kids starving in every country at some level.
9:06 Speaker 02 I think that's probably true. That's probably accurate.
9:08 Travis Kelce? Kind of how the world goes unfortunately.
9:11 Speaker 02 Yeah.
9:12 Travis Kelce? But it's, uh, it's our job to help them by eating all our food. At least that's the message dad.
9:18 Speaker 02 That was what we were told is to be grateful. Anyways, no, we did not watch the Mayo Bowl. I mean, there's a lot of funny bits that they did with mayonnaise though. I gotta admit to that.
9:27 Travis Kelce? No, the best was the, the Pop-Tart Bowl. Can we get out of the ma- can we get out of Mayo? What the fuck is that?
9:36 Speaker 02 They're like bobbing for something. What are they bobbing for?
9:43 Speaker 02 I'm not gonna lie, man. I love mayonnaise. This is fucking gross.
9:48 Speaker 02 Like, it is just, it's very hard to.
9:53 Travis Kelce? Get this shit out of here, man. God damn it.
9:56 Speaker 02 Oh, my gosh.
9:59 Travis Kelce? It is fucking.
10:03 Travis Kelce? You're going in face first. Could you imagine getting that shit up your nose?
10:07 Speaker 02 Man, oh, man.
10:11 Travis Kelce? God damn it. I'm gonna shut the fucking computer down if you do anything more with mayo.
10:16 Speaker 02 I mean, that's not a challenge you want to do. I feel like we got another mayo thing coming up, but that's.
10:23 Travis Kelce? I don't want to know anymore.
10:25 Speaker 02 I'm kind of over it too, but now I just kind of want to see.
10:29 Speaker 02 Alright, that's it. Alright. That's the last of the mayo. Alright.
10:33 Travis Kelce? What the fuck is that?
10:35 Speaker 02 Those potatoes. They were getting potatoes out of there. It's fascinating.
10:40 Travis Kelce? I don't know where to even go.
10:41 Speaker 02 Brandon said the Pop-Tart bowl was good, though.
10:44 Travis Kelce? I thought they had the coolest mascots. The mascot was fucking around.
10:47 Speaker 02 They had the unveiling of it, like the ripping of the foil.
10:51 Travis Kelce? Yeah. What was your, what was your favorite Pop-Tart growing up?
10:55 Speaker 02 Favorite Pop-Tart, if we're not counting toaster strudel.
10:58 Travis Kelce? No, no, no, no, no, no. We're talking, I'm talking flavor of like the out of the wrapper Pop-Tart, silver wrapper.
11:03 Speaker 02 I mean, listen, it's hard to go wrong with the strawberry, but the brown, the.
11:07 Travis Kelce? Fuck is so good.
11:08 Speaker 02 The brown, what was it? The brown sugar one was like a nice change up. I didn't like it all the time, but when I had had strawberry too many times in a row, it was like a good little switch up.
11:18 Travis Kelce? It was a nice curveball, yeah.
11:20 Speaker 02 Was that what that was? Was it brown sugar? I think it was brown sugar, right?
11:22 Travis Kelce? It was, there was, there was a brown sugar one. I think there was a smores one.
11:26 Speaker 02 I know I don't fuck with smores. For some reason, I am not a big.
11:30 Travis Kelce? You're not a smores guy?
11:31 Speaker 02 No, not flavored. And really, if I'm being honest, not even like making them. It's just the messy. I just get marshmallow over my beard.
11:38 Travis Kelce? Yeah, it's fun, but I can't fire them. Dude, there's the sneaky one that came in as we were just like getting too old for to eat Pop Tarts every day.
11:45 Speaker 02 The blueberry one, which the uh.
11:48 Travis Kelce? Wild berry.
11:48 Speaker 02 Wild berry, yeah.
11:49 Travis Kelce? It was the purple with the blue.
11:51 Speaker 02 Yeah.
11:53 Travis Kelce? Dude.
11:53 Speaker 02 It's a good one. It's a very good one.
11:55 Travis Kelce? Fucking crack. Couldn't you, could you imagine a childhood without those?
11:59 Speaker 02 I don't know.
12:00 Travis Kelce? By the way, I saw one of the most disturbing videos ever of somebody torching Oreos.
12:07 Speaker 02 Torchings? I saw that. I saw where it's just like, it's basically flame retardant.
12:11 Travis Kelce? Are you fucking kidding me?
12:13 Speaker 02 Listen, man. That's what happens when you, when you, when you, when you eat heavily processed food, it's, it's pretty resistant. It's a resistant material.
12:22 Travis Kelce? It was torching an Oreo for like fucking thirty seconds. And the Oreo did not fucking even catch on fire.
12:32 Speaker 02 No, it was, it was like a heat shield. It like deflected it. It looked like the Oreo was, it looked like the Oreo was entering Earth's atmosphere. And it was just like plummeting and like was not disintegrating. It was just fighting off. Basically, if you, if you.
12:47 Travis Kelce? It was a comet.
12:48 Speaker 02 If you, if you threw an Oreo out of the space station, eventually it would, it would land. It wouldn't burn up in Earth's orbit, which is crazy to think about. They should just cover the space shuttles.
12:59 Travis Kelce? I, I don't know why. I can't eat them now. I can't. I feel like I'm just doing so bad, such, something so bad to my body. And I used to eat them by the fucking.
13:09 Speaker 02 Sleeve.
13:09 Travis Kelce? Bro, by the sleeve.
13:11 Speaker 02 Yeah.
13:11 Travis Kelce? Moving on, Jason is officially a late night TV host. That's right. They called it late night. They called it late night premiered last weekend.
13:21 Speaker 02 Yes, it did. That it did.
13:23 Travis Kelce? How'd it go, dude? How did it feel to, to be live?
13:26 Speaker 02 Oh, I just, you know, didn't look at the camera and played to the audience and did everything that every late night show told me not to do. So that was perfect. No, it was good. I mean, listen, I think we had Charles Barkley.
13:40 Travis Kelce? Fuck yeah, you did.
13:41 Speaker 02 Lil Dicky and Brian Baldinger. The, the crowd was electric.
13:46 Travis Kelce? I love that.
13:47 Speaker 02 It was a lot of fun in the venue.
13:49 Travis Kelce? And you do that in Philly, right?
13:50 Speaker 02 We do it in Philly. Yep. Union transfer. Yeah. I mean, we tried some delightfully stupid comedy bits that were fun to try. And we did some panel discussions and we had a fan contest for chugging beer to see who won, uh, who got some tickets to the Super Bowl.
14:07 Travis Kelce? I love that, man.
14:08 Speaker 02 I don't know. I'm learning. It was a good experience. I talked to my man Scott Van Pelt and he was, you know, just like, it's exciting to start something new, right? And you're, you're, you've worked a lot to get there and then you, you just keep on figuring it out. So it was, it was a great time. The guests were fantastic. The crowd was into it. So just want to thank everybody because I had a blast.
14:31 Travis Kelce? As long as you're having fun doing it, man, that's all.
14:33 Speaker 02 All I'm doing, I can't say it on this because the Will Ferrell thing comes out on Friday, but we're going full set. That's all I know.
14:39 Travis Kelce? Oh, yeah. Listen, everybody loves when Jason goes full set.
14:45 Speaker 02 We got Joe Buck and Michelle Beisner Buck coming on the show this week.
14:48 Travis Kelce? Oh, it's gonna be awesome.
14:50 Speaker 02 So that'll be fun.
14:52 Travis Kelce? Man, you have to, you have to ask him about what happened at the Super Bowl.
14:57 Speaker 02 Come on.
14:58 Travis Kelce? In 2019.
14:59 Speaker 02 We're not getting into this.
15:01 Travis Kelce? Felt so bad, dude. Get me out of here, man. Sorry about that, Joe. I love you. Um, yeah. And, uh, is this, are we catching up with, what are, uh, what did I, I went, uh, I didn't do anything for New Year's. Uh, stuck working on New Year's Eve and New Year's and yeah, that's all I got.
15:26 Speaker 02 Well, you went to New York.
15:28 Travis Kelce? I did go to New York. I had some delicious food and got to see the big city, which I fucking absolutely love. Love the big city.
15:35 Speaker 02 All right. Well, uh, last bit of new news. We're back with not just one episode this week with two.
15:40 Travis Kelce? Oh, yeah.
15:41 Speaker 02 That's right. You're gonna get two new episodes of New Heights this week. This Friday, we will drop a guest episode with the one and only Will Ferrell.
15:52 Speaker 02 Ah, favorite part of the combo. I do know. I don't know.
15:56 Travis Kelce? Dude, I mean, I think, I think his advice struck both of us as like gold.
16:03 Speaker 02 Yeah.
16:03 Travis Kelce? And we'll let you guys, uh, we'll let you guys catch up on that if they didn't already just completely deleted out of the scene.
16:09 Speaker 02 It was so fun to reminisce about all the characters he's played, like in the here, how he got started in it and, and just advice on, you know, how to be successful and funny.
16:21 Travis Kelce? Let's not kid ourselves. The best part of the show was him answering some of our New Heights call-ins.
16:26 Speaker 02 Yeah, you're right. Um, you're right. It was.
16:28 Travis Kelce? And you guys are not gonna wanna, you're not gonna wanna miss that. We got to see Will Ferrell in action, in person, off the cuff.
16:35 Speaker 02 We got to see, you know. Anyways, okay, I don't wanna, okay.
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16:47 Travis Kelce? Hey.
16:48 Speaker 02 Moving on to bold topics to wrap up week 18 in the NFL. All righty, week 18, the Kansas City Chiefs are in the playoffs.
16:59 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
17:00 Speaker 02 Here's what the Chiefs have been up to since we recorded our last episode. Travis is now the all time leader in receiving touchdowns for the Kansas City Chiefs. How's it feel, bubba? Huh?
17:12 Travis Kelce? It feels about the same as when I was tied with Tony G.
17:17 Travis Kelce? I've been very, you know, I feel like towards the end of your career, um, when you hit these milestones of, you know, anybody playing past 10 years is gonna hit some type of milestone, whether it's games played or whatever it is statistically. And, you know, it's, it's cool, but I'm, it's cool, like, being recognized for, you know, whether it's just greatness of being out there on the field or touchdowns or something, stats or anything, something like that, but. I feel like I'm sitting such a mode of like trying to be trying to be better than I was yesterday. I've just, I'm always thinking of I need to be better. I need to be better. That when I pass or I do something like this where I hit a big milestone in my career.
17:57 Travis Kelce? I'm just like, yeah, but I need to be better than that. I need to be, you know, I'm not about to sit here and, and think about, you know, how far I've come when I'm still striving to go somewhere that's even greater than where I'm at. Over the past, like when I first got in the league, stats were fucked. I mean, that's everything. That's how I judged somebody's, you know, greatness. And I think it just goes so much further than that for me now, you know, not necessarily because I'm not putting up the same stats as I used to, but more so is I know how to influence a game more than just what the what the stat book says. Sure. And, uh, and I've kind of prided myself on that now.
18:37 Travis Kelce? And it's, um, it's just, it's when I, when I see that I've achieved stats like this, it's kind of like, yeah, man, it's cool to, it's cool to be in the conversations of the great ones like Tony Gonzalez. And don't get me wrong. This is only what Tony accumulated in Kansas City. This, I'm still like another hundred or 40 touchdowns away from catching his all time, uh, career touchdown record or touchdowns. It's a, it's cool to be in conversations with him, knowing that he's been the guy that I've said at the, the top that I've been chasing in terms of his greatness every single day. Um, I remember the legend of Tony when I first got here, just trying to fill his shoes in terms of how hard of a worker he was.
19:18 Travis Kelce? Everyone raved about, you know, the time he spent in the building, the time, the focus he had on his nutrition. The, uh, the, the amount of hours and the amount, the amount of catches that he had on the jugs before practice, after practice, when guys weren't in the building and things like that. And it's just the, the legend of him was, was so, you know, unachievable that I, I just started to like every single day, try and become that version of myself. You know, they just spend the time in the building, find, find ways to keep getting better and find ways to, you know, be the best version of yourself. And I'm just so fortunate that I had Tony G sitting on top of the pedestal and trying to fill his shoes my entire career because I think that helped me motivate motivate myself and
20:04 Travis Kelce? helped me really appreciate the situation I was in here in Kansas City.
20:08 Speaker 02 Yeah, I mean, listen, I think I think you and I are both on the same page with stats. I mean, you you coined the whole term LeBron stat. I think that they can be very misleading at times and not telling the whole picture.
20:22 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
20:22 Speaker 02 You know, being in company with a guy like Tony G has got to be just like incredibly surreal, especially from like watching him play and knowing how dominant he was. But I gotta say, fuck that, dude, you're the fucking touchdown receiving touchdown leader in Kansas City. Chiefs fucking history. That's fucking crazy. That's an entire franchise's history. You're the number one receiving. And I know that it's been building up. So it's not like, you know, it's come out of nowhere. But I think when you look back to being a third round pick, when you look back to like in college, you know, you know, having struggles or whatever, playing quarterback, then going to tight end. It's just been a crazy career arc.
21:07 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
21:08 Speaker 02 And it's something that I think is awesome. And I couldn't be more proud of you for having that record. Shout out to Tony for formerly having it. And obviously he went on to have more successful things and other teams. But I ain't shortchanging this shit worth one goddamn second. This ain't a LeBron stat. This is a Travis Kelce stat and it's fucking dope.
21:30 Travis Kelce? I appreciate you, brother.
21:31 Speaker 02 Tony G said he'd pay the fine if you did this. You went up and dunked in Tony G fashion on the goalpost.
21:39 Travis Kelce? Sort of.
21:40 Speaker 02 Did you get fined? Did they? Did the NFL? Did the NFL determine it to be a dunk?
21:47 Speaker 02 That's the real question. Who cares what anybody else is? Did John Runyon say it's a fine?
21:52 Travis Kelce? He did. Yeah, they all did. They said, since I touched the goalpost.
21:56 Speaker 02 Just touching.
21:56 Travis Kelce? It was a fine. Yeah.
21:57 Speaker 02 When you were doing it, were you trying to throw it up to avoid the fine? Or were you trying to dunk it?
22:02 Travis Kelce? Trying to get my fucking old ass up there, man. Shit. Fourth quarter of the game, I fucking legs are tired after like a like a 10 play drive. I'm over here trying to just like, I'm just like, screw it. I'm gonna send it. One time for old for old time's sake, man.
22:17 Speaker 02 That that looked like a Jason Kelce attempted dunk right there.
22:21 Travis Kelce? Yeah, that was me slapping the backboard. That wasn't me actually flushing it, man. It was the McAfee said it best. It was the angle. I gotta come around. I gotta hit that thing straight on. It was a funny angle.
22:32 Speaker 02 It was a funny angle. You went from the baseline.
22:35 Travis Kelce? Yeah, well, back in the day when I actually had, when I had bounce, man, I could never matter what angle it was.
22:40 Speaker 02 We got some clips for sure.
22:42 Travis Kelce? I don't know where they are, but they're out there somewhere. They're on a VHS tape somewhere.
22:47 Speaker 02 Yeah, the NFL has announced that it is a 14,069. Is that in honor of John Runyon? The 69 at the end? 14,000, 14,069 dollars for unsportsmanlike conduct.
23:00 Travis Kelce? I think repeat offender. I think I'm a repeat offender. That's why it's so high.
23:03 Speaker 02 Ah.
23:05 Travis Kelce? Yeah, that'll get you in America.
23:07 Speaker 02 That's where they get you.
23:08 Travis Kelce? Yeah, that'll get you. They get you on the repeat offender in America. Oh, and Tony, last thing, you don't have to do that, dude. It was so cool to hear you even say it, dude, but you don't have to help me pay that fine. It's all going to good cause and Jason said he'd pay it.
23:22 Speaker 02 I did not say that.
23:23 Travis Kelce? Dude, you literally just said it.
23:26 Speaker 02 No.
23:26 Travis Kelce? We've recorded everything, so we can definitely.
23:29 Speaker 02 Please play it back where I have said that.
23:31 Travis Kelce? All right, we'll do. We'll do. Good thing there's AI.
23:34 Speaker 02 The Chiefs also clinched the number one seed in the AFC, resting their starters or the majority of them in Week 18. Was there ever a chance you guys were gonna play in the game? I don't know why I'm asking this.
23:46 Travis Kelce? Well, our our offensive line started the first drive and then we kinda we.
23:51 Speaker 02 The whole offensive line started?
23:53 Travis Kelce? Just about, except for a.
23:56 Travis Kelce? No, Tooney was out there.
23:57 Speaker 02 The fuck? Why'd they do that?
23:58 Travis Kelce? Huh?
23:59 Speaker 02 Why'd they do that? Oh, it's because Humphries is back and they wanted them to like get like a...
24:03 Travis Kelce? I'm not sure why they did it. Listen, I'm not, I'm just, I'm just here. They might have...
24:07 Speaker 02 You know why that it happened?
24:09 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I was about to say, yeah, no, I mean, either way, it doesn't fucking matter whether they played one snap or no snaps. We got our fucking asses kicked and that wasn't a fun game to be a part of.
24:18 Speaker 02 Well, there's, there's some people alleging that it was a purposeful letting get your ass kicked.
24:23 Travis Kelce? I ain't scared of fucking nobody.
24:25 Speaker 02 I'm not alleging this.
24:26 Travis Kelce? I wanted them in the fucking playoffs.
24:27 Speaker 02 I'm not alleging this.
24:28 Travis Kelce? I wanna, I wanna slay every dragon one by one like Mortal Kombat. I don't even want this to be like, uh, we play the lowest seed. Just give me the best teams.
24:36 Speaker 02 I'm not, Travis, I'm just telling you.
24:38 Travis Kelce? AFC, NFC. Give me all of them, Mortal Kombat style. I'll go through every fucking one of them, just giving them my best fucking effort. I ain't scared of a single soul, man.
24:48 Speaker 02 You didn't want to see the Bengals in Borough Head or in Cincinnati?
24:51 Travis Kelce? I'll play them at the Walmart parking lot.
24:54 Travis Kelce? I don't give a shit. We can, we can have our own game in the offseason. We really duke it out again. I, listen, I love competing against the greatest. The Bengals were a fun ass fucking team to watch there towards the end of the season. And, uh, it's a shame they didn't make it in the playoffs because they would have made the playoffs that much fucking crazier and that much more fun.
25:11 Speaker 02 Did you see they fired Lou and Rumo?
25:14 Travis Kelce? I don't know what the fuck is going on over there. That is, uh, that was a wild, wild move I did not see coming. Because I thought that, you know, from the outside, their defense was playing really fucking good towards the end of the year.
25:27 Speaker 02 They, they definitely played better. I just think Lou, I don't think they had the horses on defense that they've had in the past. And Lou got handcuffed. I don't know that it made sense. He, he's proven how good of a D coordinator he is with good players, but whatever.
25:40 Travis Kelce? I'm with you, dude. I'm with you. I've always respected the hell out of them. I've also respected a lot of the, the players on that side of the ball. Uh, you know, given who they had this year.
25:49 Speaker 02 I mean, Borough put up over like, what, like 4,000 something yards? Like it was something crazy. He had a great year. Chase and T.
25:56 Travis Kelce? That was one of the wackiest years of football I've ever seen from a, from a team, uh, that I thought was...
26:01 Speaker 02 It was crazy.
26:02 Travis Kelce? 10 times better than what their record showed, uh, and that, and I know that, uh, just playing against them. But yeah, we, uh, we didn't fucking throw any game. All right. Guys were out there competing their ass off, trying to get a win. Um, unfortunately, we just, you know, we couldn't, you know, put drives together. We couldn't stop Denver. Um, and it just, uh, it wasn't a, it wasn't a fun game to be a part of. And I'm just sitting here on the sideline like, hey, boys.
26:26 Travis Kelce? Don't let this shit ruin our fucking mojo. When we got our, we got, we got everybody rolling and, and you know, it's, uh, it's go time. We gotta flip that switch and, and know we're the biggest, baddest team out there.
26:37 Speaker 02 Well, I mean, you guys went 15 and one, so you guys, uh, technically are the biggest, baddest team in the NFL. Fifteen, oh yeah, I forgot. So now you are tied with Detroit. Uh, 92 percenters reached out and asked us, please write the script for this week, a section Travis can talk about being stuck in a plane. I want to know what it was like in there with grown men, probably two bathrooms. I guarantee Travis will just say, I was asleep.
27:07 Travis Kelce? How did you know?
27:08 Speaker 02 I mean, Jesus Christ, she called. I text you right at the beginning of it. You text me right, right after you guys took off.
27:14 Travis Kelce? Dude, I was fucking, when I get on these planes, I eat my Chick-fil-A and I fucking recline my seat. I put on my headphones and I fucking, I'm out. I could sleep at a fucking rock concert. It doesn't matter where I'm at. I don't know how I got this trait, but I am literally, I have the ability to sleep anywhere at any time. As long, as long as I'm comfortable, I can just shut it down. I was out for about three hours on the runway. While everybody was kicking it, having a grand old time. I heard some old linemen were wrestling. I heard everybody's telling war stories and having a good old time. And I woke up as the plane was taking off and I was like, what the fuck? It feels like I've been asleep for forever. And I looked at the time and I'm just like, where the fuck, what just happened?
27:59 Speaker 02 Right.
28:00 Travis Kelce? And, uh, yeah, got briefed and I think there's, um, there might be some pics and some videos of me just absolutely.
28:07 Speaker 02 Just completely knocked out.
28:08 Travis Kelce? Yeah. Somebody might've got me. They might've sniped me. I think the, the more frustrating part with not being able to come back to Kansas City. We had to stay in Denver for another night. Not that Denver isn't a beautiful city and I don't love Denver because I, I do find that city really cool. But it's not fun sitting around in a hotel room and.
28:26 Speaker 02 You guys didn't go out and celebrate? Dude, if I, if I would've been stuck in Denver, I would've been out.
28:30 Travis Kelce? Vibes weren't real high. We just got waxed like.
28:35 Travis Kelce? Thirty eight, nothing. So, you know, we kind of felt bad for some of the young guys and some of the guys that, you know, were we were rooting for to try and have a good game. And Coach Reed doesn't fucking like losing. I know going out and fucking having a grand old time and maybe getting caught on a video doing something stupid wasn't the best idea. So we all just kind of hung out and just grabbed dinner together.
28:57 Speaker 02 All right. Well, congrats. You guys have to buy much needed rest. It's coming at Dubai and the playoffs makes such a big deal. So that's a that's huge.
29:10 Travis Kelce? It is huge. It is huge, but it's a it's a lot of time off. I've had already, I think, a week and a half, almost two weeks by tomorrow. So it's like, yeah, yeah. So hopefully we can we can get into the in in in the shells, put our put our helmets and pads on over the weekend, get some get some good contact in and and work our craft and find out who we're playing next week.
29:36 Speaker 02 Fuck yeah.
29:37 Travis Kelce? You're ready to rock and roll, baby. Nothing better than playoff football, man. The punch start take it to the dance and now it's time to fucking dance, baby. I love this shit. I fucking love it.
29:46 Speaker 02 Perfect.
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30:45 Travis Kelce? Dude, have you seen this? Royal Caribbean just dropped the Legend of the Seas. It's the biggest cruise ship on the planet. Like. Nothing's even close to being this big and it's sailing out of Fort Lauderdale, starting this November.
31:00 Speaker 02 That's right. This thing is stacked. Seven pools, more places to eat than you can even count. I mean, they have something for everybody.
31:09 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.
31:16 Speaker 02 And the entertainment, Latin music, ice skating, full on Broadway shows. It's pretty amazing. Pretty much everything you want in one place. Oh, and did I mention there's a water park?
31:26 Travis Kelce? You didn't, and that's, that'd be the kicker for me.
31:28 Speaker 02 I love a water park.
31:29 Travis Kelce? But the crazy one, Crowns Edge, a ropes course off the side of the ship, not for the faint of heart, brother.
31:38 Speaker 02 They've also got Playmaker Sports Bar and Arcade, so that means games on every screen. I love a good arcade sports place combination.
31:47 Travis Kelce? All right, count me in. Get the family on the new Legend of the Seas sailing November 2026 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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31:59 Travis Kelce? Uh, keep this thing moving to the rest of week 18, an action packed week 18 that decided some teams on whether or not they were going to Cancun or fucking going to, going to the playoffs.
32:09 Speaker 02 Yeah.
32:10 Travis Kelce? Eagles also rested their starters instead of trying to get Saquon to break the NFL season, single season rushing record, which somehow creates, created some controversy. Barkley only needed 101 yards to break it. I don't think you guys realize how fucking hard it is to get 100 yards rushing in the NFL. It is not just like, oh, you put him out there, he'll get it. Like that's just not how that happens.
32:36 Speaker 02 Yeah, he would have got it. The New York Giants, Trav, he would have fucking blew that thing out the door.
32:41 Travis Kelce? Yeah, but instead the Giants came to fucking play.
32:46 Travis Kelce? Good point.
32:46 Speaker 02 I think he definitely gets it if he plays, but I, I, you can't, I think, look at, do they, did they release what Zay Flowers injury is yet? Did they release whether he's coming back for the first week?
32:57 Travis Kelce? They said that it's not season ending, but that it is, it is a serious issue. So they don't know if he's, they said it's. I think it's a doubt that he'll play this week, but uh, hopes that he'll play next week if they advance.
33:10 Speaker 02 I mean, listen, I think what did I want Barkley to go for the record? You're goddamn right. I think it would have been awesome to watch it happen. Because it's a fucking rushing record. Why would I not want to watch that happen? But I think that it's the right move to not play him.
33:22 Travis Kelce? It's always gonna have an asterisk.
33:24 Speaker 02 Why? Why would I have an asterisk? Why?
33:26 Travis Kelce? It's 17 games.
33:27 Speaker 02 He's less carries. He's got 40 less carries than Dickerson did.
33:32 Travis Kelce? See? No, you're right.
33:34 Speaker 02 Yes, he does.
33:35 Travis Kelce? He got me.
33:35 Speaker 02 Yeah. And he could have had the same amount of carries Dickerson would have had through 16 games. He would have set the record there too. And we don't put an asterisk on this to Dickerson who broke OJ Simpson's record at 14 games or whatever it was. Who broke Jim Brown's at 12? Or whatever that was. I just, dude, I think the rushing record is awesome, but I think it's obviously the right call. He gets hurt. You gotta put the alignment out there. One of those guys get hurt. The aspirations of the team are a Super Bowl. They are not just like sneaking in. They're legit contenders. And it's, you know, they needed this buy. They didn't get it for being the number one seed. If they would have had the buy wrapped up. I could see maybe making the argument to go for it, but because they didn't, they gotta rest. They gotta get healthy.
34:15 Speaker 02 And make, they got four games now left to try and go get a Super Bowl. Right? Well, one at a time, but they, they gotta put their best feet forward. They're starting to play great ball right now. They're rolling. They did put their backups in and still beat the brakes off of the Giants. The other thing that I want to say about Saquon in this, and I do think the rushing title is the coolest record in football. I don't think there's anything better. And I don't know. It's because we grew up in Cleveland with Jim Brown, but like, there's something about the rushing title record in the NFL, like. Passing yards leader, not, don't give a crap. Receiving yards leader. Cool. I don't know. I mean, it's cool, but it's not cool as rushing yards leader in a season. I don't know why it's not, but it's not. And then maybe it's because of all the offensive linemen.
34:58 Travis Kelce? You earn more of every yard.
35:00 Speaker 02 Yeah. Like there's something about it that is cooler. Like you're the baddest dude in the NFL. If you got that, that's that. And.
35:06 Travis Kelce? I hear you.
35:07 Speaker 02 He had a chance to set that record. He had a chance to do it in the city of Philadelphia for the Eagles. And he had a chance to do it against a team that literally did not pay, like, did not value him. They let him walk. And a bunch of, against a bunch of fans that were burning his jersey just earlier that year. Like, he's playing in the game before they're burning his jersey in the parking lot. Like. This could have been an all time storyline, historic moment in the NFL. So yes, I would have loved to have seen it, but. It's the right call. It's the right call. I want to emphasize that.
35:36 Travis Kelce? It still is a storyline and honestly, if, yeah.
35:40 Speaker 02 What's the storyline?
35:41 Travis Kelce? It's a slap in the face that he didn't even have to play in the game.
35:44 Speaker 02 What's, that's true. That's true, but it's not the storyline.
35:48 Travis Kelce? This is why we should have kept it at 16 games.
35:52 Speaker 02 Looking back at the rushing titles, there's so many guys, there's a few guys that have broken 2,000 yards and you forget that they even like Derrick Henry broke 2,000 yards. I didn't even remember that Derrick Henry did it until we started talking about it this week.
36:04 Travis Kelce? You're insane. I'm pretty sure I played him. That's why.
36:06 Speaker 02 Yeah. Then freaking, uh, uh, he almost did it again this year. I think he's the first back to ever have over like 1950 or something too. Yeah. Something like that. Did Chris Johnson do it?
36:18 Travis Kelce? Yes.
36:18 Speaker 02 Yeah.
36:19 Travis Kelce? I mean, I remember all of these.
36:21 Speaker 02 Like, I just feel like none of these got, but none of these are like notable. I'm just being honest. Like everybody thinks it's a difference. I'm just being honest. Adrian Peterson is the only one because he was like seven yards away.
36:33 Travis Kelce? Dude, Chris, when Chris Johnson was, dude, that year was insane. You're crazy.
36:38 Speaker 02 It wasn't an insane year, but it's not historic because he didn't break the record.
36:42 Travis Kelce? I think it was more that.
36:44 Speaker 02 Unless you get the record, it's just another great year. You get the record, you're the best, you're the baddest dude on the planet ever to play the game. Regardless of what anybody says about 17 games, 16 games, you get, hey, I got the all time record, brother.
36:56 Travis Kelce? But either way, I hear what you're saying. I think all those years were equally as memorable as this one.
37:03 Speaker 02 Yeah, they are equally memorable as in not being historic.
37:06 Travis Kelce? What? Do you think people are just going to not remember Saquon's story of going to a new team?
37:12 Speaker 02 They're going to remember it, but they're not going to remember it as if it was the record breaking year. Like it's not going to be, it's not going to be this heralded season by the entire NFL standard.
37:23 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
37:23 Speaker 02 It's just not going to be that now.
37:24 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
37:24 Speaker 02 Which is whatever. I mean.
37:26 Travis Kelce? That's, that's the point of the record being the record. Yeah.
37:28 Speaker 02 Yeah. And eventually though, the record will get broken and the more important thing for Nick Sirianni and his entire job, the entire staff's job, the entire organization, the entire city's job is to try and put themselves in the best position to win a Superbowl because that's the ultimate goal. And I get that. I'm not negating that. All I'm saying is it would have been fucking awesome to have that record. That's all I'm saying. And I would have loved to see the Eagles have it, Saquon have it, and Jeff Stoutland in the O line have it. That would have been something that would have been cool.
37:55 Travis Kelce? I don't know. Maybe if, you know, Jason Kelce was out there, he would have got it in the seven, 16 games he played.
38:01 Speaker 02 Listen, Cam Jergens is just fine. As a matter of fact, Cam Jergens made the Pro Bowl if we're.
38:06 Travis Kelce? Jergens is a fucking dog.
38:07 Speaker 02 Yes, he is.
38:09 Travis Kelce? I fucking love watching those dudes, man. Three Eagles, Cam Jergens, Jalen Carter, and Zach Bond also made their first Pro Bowl. Shout out to the boys making their first.
38:18 Speaker 02 Yeah, baby.
38:19 Travis Kelce? Jason, how's it feel to see the Kelsey replacement get his recognition?
38:24 Speaker 02 I don't, I'm not calling him Kelsey replacement. I think it's awesome. Listen, we've known Cam Jergens as a great player in the Eagles organization. He's got all the tools. He's athletic, he's strong, he's, he's got long arms, he's big, he's smart, he's explosive. I fully anticipated Cam having a phenomenal year. And now he's been, you know, awarded the Pro Bowl, which is amazing. It's hard to do that your first year. Like usually it takes you, you know, you usually get it on your second year. But he's had that good of a year, the line has been that good, Saquon was the rushing leader, like all of these things, and he's been dominant. Like he is a big reason this number is where
39:07 Speaker 02 it is at. And I think he's rightfully been awarded the Pro Bowl. So you could not be happier for Cam. Listen, there's similar traits, but everybody's going to be their own unique player. And he can't try and be anybody else than Cam Jergens. And that's the way every player's got to play the game. And you, there are things that he is much better at than I ever was at. And like, there's always going to be, every player is unique, no matter how similar the traits are. He's the replacement for anybody that ever played center for the Philadelphia Eagles. Like, I just don't think that that's the way you look at the job. You look at the job like, he's, he's the starting center for the Philadelphia Eagles this year.
39:46 Travis Kelce? Next man up.
39:47 Speaker 02 You know, how does, how are we going to move forward with a line that operates successfully? And I think Cam's done a phenomenal job of, you know, being Cam Jergens, the dog that he is, and the tremendous player and teammate that he is. So couldn't be more proud for him. I gotta say. Very happy for Cam, Lane Johnson, Lane and Dickerson. It's a fucking joke that Jordan Malat didn't get the Pro Bowl. And listen, there's great tackles in this league and I don't know who he would have made it over. I'm not trying to make that statement because there's Lane, Tristan Wirfs and um, uh, oh my God, the third one's a great player too. Sewell, Penny. Gosh, why did I blank on that? So like, it's in good company, but I think Jordan Malat has been the best tackle in the NFL this year.
40:32 Speaker 02 He's so freaking good, but anyways, they should have had four guys in there, which is crazy to think about. That's how good these guys have been.
40:38 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I hear you, man.
40:40 Speaker 02 Everybody that's in it, as far as I'm concerned, deserves it because they got voted. That's the way the thing works. It's a, it's in some ways a popularity contest, but it's also reflective on who you are as a player and what your career has been and season. I don't believe in this like snub, like there's so many snubs every year.
40:57 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
40:58 Speaker 02 Because there's so many guys that deserve to go and unfortunately there's only so many slots. Moving on, it's officially playoff season. Let's talk a little about wild card weekend. Okay. Playoff picture. Are we going to display this graphic, intern Brandon, so that people can see it? Okay, so obviously the Chiefs have the buy, Detroit Lions have the buy. Dude, by the way, I was a little bit. I was kind of questioning Dan Campbell's decision to play his starters versus the 49ers. I'm like, why did he do that? Like they're going to be on a short week. Now they're going to have to play.
41:31 Travis Kelce? Oh, you're talking about like the Christmas week?
41:33 Speaker 02 Yeah, like they're going to be on a short week now, then they're going to have to play the Vikings who are peaking right now. And then they might not get a buy and they go out and beat the live in donkey dick out of the Minnesota Vikings. Like just pummel them. And I'm like, okay, well, I should just shut the fuck up because Dan Campbell's clearly got this shit figured out.
41:53 Travis Kelce? He's got to figure it out.
41:54 Speaker 02 Yeah.
41:55 Travis Kelce? He's got the boys rolling.
41:56 Speaker 02 Chiefs with the buy, Detroit Lions with the buy. Eagles, the number two seed in the NFC face the Green Bay Packers at home. The Buffalo Bills are number two seed in the AFC West face the Broncos at home. Packers in Washington had some interesting things shake out to see who is going to be the six or the seven seed.
42:15 Speaker 02 Bucks moved up to the three seed. Yeah, one to the loss. Yeah. So there was a little bit of shuffling here. What team you most surprised didn't make it?
42:24 Travis Kelce? Surprise?
42:26 Speaker 02 I think going into the season, the team I'm most surprised didn't make is probably the Bengals with Joe Burrow, T. Higgins, Chase, healthy. You know, you thought maybe you thought they'd probably be in the playoffs. The team I'm most surprised made it in his first year as the coach. I'm the most surprised with the Chargers. Maybe Broncos.
42:45 Travis Kelce? I'm not really surprised that, I mean, after playing the Broncos earlier in the year.
42:50 Speaker 02 Talking about early in the season.
42:52 Travis Kelce? From the beginning.
42:53 Speaker 02 Obviously, all of these guys aren't surprising that they made it as the course went on, but before the season started, which teams has surprised you the most?
43:01 Travis Kelce? The most?
43:03 Speaker 02 Actually, I'm gonna take this back. Washington is the most surprising to me.
43:06 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I mean, Washington, the two rookie quarterbacks, Washington and Denver.
43:09 Speaker 02 Denver, yep.
43:10 Travis Kelce? Honestly, I didn't, I didn't, I don't know why I didn't think Minnesota was gonna be, you know, that,
43:16 Speaker 02 That dominant?
43:17 Travis Kelce? Yeah, that dominant. I mean, Sam Darnold's playing his tail off.
43:22 Speaker 02 Yeah, just playing Washington over the last few seasons, and I mean this with so much respect for Dan Quinn and even respect, like, I think Rivera is a phenomenal coach as well. But that team with like the whole organizational thing happening with Dan Snyder, they felt like it was gonna take some time to rebuild that culture and chemistry there in Washington. And it just goes to show, when you hire a great head coach and you get a, you hit on a rookie quarterback like that, who's playing at this level, how fast it can happen. Like, they're already in the playoffs. I do think that they lack some of the pieces to really compete for the Super Bowl this year. That's my own opinion.
44:05 Speaker 02 But I think it's remarkable that they're in the playoffs that quickly, and it's a testament to Dan Quinn, Kingsbury, and all those players. They went out, hired some, they went out and signed some really good veterans, Bobby Wagner, Zach Ertz.
44:20 Travis Kelce? Ertz.
44:21 Speaker 02 I just think that they really did a good job of getting pieces to, to help shape that culture with some veteran guys, bringing in the right coaches, hitting on draft picks, and.
44:34 Speaker 02 It's just been a remarkable year for the for the commanders.
44:38 Travis Kelce? 100% I'm right there with you. Bigger rookie surprise, I'd probably say Bo Nix, man. I think Jaden Daniels won Heisman winner. You kind of saw.
44:47 Speaker 02 The flashes.
44:48 Travis Kelce? Yeah, you saw the flashes. Not that Bo Nix didn't have any flashes. I just think.
44:53 Speaker 02 No, but there are a lot more, to your credit, there, sorry, I did not mean to cut you off.
44:56 Travis Kelce? No.
44:56 Speaker 02 There are a lot more people downing the Bo Nix pick than the Jaden Daniels pick. So I think that that's the reality of it.
45:03 Travis Kelce? When you look back on it though, man, I mean, you watched Bo Nix in college, man. The dude can fucking ball.
45:09 Speaker 02 And I'm telling you, the moment I saw him fired up on the sideline, throwing it back at Sean Payton. I love that. I mean, in the right amount, like it can't be all the time.
45:20 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
45:20 Speaker 02 There is something about.
45:22 Travis Kelce? Throw it. Yeah, you know, who knows how fiery that even was, but you already know.
45:26 Speaker 02 Who cares? All I know is that he cares. That's why I like to see it.
45:30 Travis Kelce? I give a fuck, yeah.
45:30 Speaker 02 Because like, you know, not that it's the right way to handle, you gotta be controlled as a quarterback and you gotta be poised. So you can't do it too much. But every once in a while, in the right moment to do that, it's like, okay. And it's not like over the top. It's not a ridiculous amount. It's just like he, you could tell he wants to win games. He wants to be great. And that's a huge part of it.
45:50 Travis Kelce? And if it is over the fucking top, realize it in the fucking moment. Talk to the, talk to whoever you just went above and beyond with and fucking get it right and let them know, listen, man, I just fucking want this shit.
46:01 Speaker 02 Yeah.
46:02 Travis Kelce? I'm with you. I'm with you.
46:03 Speaker 02 He's a killer, man. And he, you could tell he's competitive as hell. And dude, when you take great traits and you take your competitive individual, usually that leads to a good football player.
46:12 Travis Kelce? I hear you.
46:13 Speaker 02 Okay, other teams with home games, what's the toughest place for a playoff game to play at?
46:18 Travis Kelce? Ooh, that's a good one.
46:20 Speaker 02 Yeah, I think you gotta go Arrowhead. I will say.
46:23 Travis Kelce? No, this is, this is wild card. This is wild card.
46:25 Speaker 02 Okay, if we're just going this round, Buffalo's obviously got crazy home field advantage, one from the fans, but also two from the weather. I'm, I'm a homer. I'm gonna be a homer. I think the link is a hard place to fucking win a playoff game in, and I think it's been that way.
46:40 Travis Kelce? All these games, the link is probably the one that I think is the most hostile environment.
46:44 Speaker 02 It's fucking loud.
46:45 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
46:46 Speaker 02 It's cold because it's in the Northeast. So some of these southern teams come up, although Green Bay's not going to be dealing with too much. They're not going to be nervous about the cold. I think the link is hard to win a football game in.
46:56 Travis Kelce? Yeah. Especially playoff game.
46:58 Speaker 02 I mean, we lost in Tampa Bay last year, but I, I think it's, I'd probably go Buffalo or, or the link. Are my top two. What's harder, the link or Arrowhead?
47:07 Travis Kelce? I mean.
47:08 Speaker 02 Let's move on, let's move on, let's move on.
47:11 Travis Kelce? Don't even go, you want to fucking, you want to step into the loudest stadium in the world?
47:17 Speaker 02 I think it's equal.
47:18 Travis Kelce? It's like the loudest, nicest stadium in the world, or the almost loudest, and you just got a fun bunch of.
47:24 Speaker 02 People are just gonna tear you apart.
47:26 Travis Kelce? Bunch of motherfuckers.
47:27 Speaker 02 Throw rocks at the buses. All right. Hypothetical, please don't do that, Philidobians. Hypothetical, all the games are on at once. What games are the YouTube TV quad box? Okay, well, this is.
47:40 Travis Kelce? Shout out to YouTube TV and the quad box.
47:43 Speaker 02 No doubt.
47:44 Travis Kelce? I'm going.
47:47 Travis Kelce? I think, I think that Bucks, Washington game is going to be fun to watch. I think that fucking Vikings Rams game is going to be fun to watch.
47:56 Travis Kelce? As much as I think Buffalo is a, you know, is a better team. I think Denver right now is, is playing really fucking good football. So I'll probably watch that one. And I think for me, the game that I'll probably end up like playing the winner of is the Chargers versus Houston game. So I'm gonna watch that one.
48:20 Speaker 02 Oh, man, I don't even know. I'll probably, so I'll definitely watch Eagles, Green Bay.
48:25 Travis Kelce? They'll, they're gonna fucking blow them out. I'm not gonna watch that game.
48:28 Speaker 02 I mean, do Green Bay, Green Bay's surprising. Matt LaFleur sometimes can dial up some stuff.
48:31 Travis Kelce? Dude, I got all the respect in them.
48:33 Speaker 02 Yeah.
48:34 Travis Kelce? I just don't see it.
48:35 Speaker 02 Jordan Love, when he's on, he can sling it. I think that game, I don't think it's gonna be a blowout, but I do think the Eagles win. I'm definitely watching Baltimore versus Steelers, because I'm an AFC North kind of guy, and I think that that matchup is always intense, even though the Steelers are floundering right now, like they are struggling. They're limping to the finish line, but I can't help myself. Bills, Broncos, and I'm probably watching Tampa Bay, Washington.
49:05 Travis Kelce? Really?
49:06 Speaker 02 Yeah, I mean, the Vikings LA one is interesting to me. The one that I'm definitely not watching is Houston versus Chargers. I don't know why that one's like not even, that's the least interesting game to me. Is that fair?
49:15 Travis Kelce? I, I, I'm watching it because I think that's probably who you're playing. Teams I'm gonna play.
49:20 Speaker 02 Yeah, right. Yeah. Well, this is a
49:22 Travis Kelce? Just based off the seeding.
49:24 Speaker 02 The reality is I'm watching all of these games because playoff football is the fucking best. But if they all played at once and I have to watch only four, that's probably the form goal.
49:32 Travis Kelce? That's probably the best way you can answer that.
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54:04 Travis Kelce? Now I'm done. I'm kidding. I'm back. And we're doing some blind rankings of plays of the year. That's right. All right. Let's uh, let's move on. And we want to take a minute to recognize some of the most incredible moments from the regular season this year. And what better way to do that than our new favorite game, Blind Rankings?
54:24 Speaker 02 Yeah.
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54:31 Travis Kelce? Love that. Make sure you do your fucking taxes. All right. Here's uh, here's how it works. In case you missed us doing this on Christmas episode, we'll blindly rank 10 of the best plays from the NFL season. And this is as about a true blind ranking as possible because I really don't remember a lot of the great plays.
54:50 Speaker 02 Yeah, we haven't even discussed it.
54:52 Travis Kelce? We will only see uh, one play at a time and place it on the list before seeing the next one. So one by one, we'll just throw it uh, one through 10 on where we think it resides. And uh, one change, uh, me and Jason will have one veto each. All right. So we can veto each other one time.
55:09 Speaker 02 You can veto the play. Like we can say like it doesn't belong in the top 10? I'll give you one.
55:14 Speaker 07 One veto each of this is not a top 10 play. I have backups ready to go.
55:18 Travis Kelce? One change is me and Jason will be able to veto one play out of the entire top 10. So if we think this play is dog shit and Brandon did a terrible job of bringing 10 plays in, uh,
55:29 Speaker 07 They can hear me on this recording.
55:31 Travis Kelce? Oh, they can't. Perfect. Nice.
55:34 Speaker 02 I just really hope I remember these plays. All right. Let's, uh, let's take a look at the first play then, Brandon.
55:40 Speaker 07 First play from week 16 Lions Bears.
55:44 Speaker 02 Oh, oh my.
55:46 Speaker 07 The fake stumble.
55:47 Speaker 02 Oh.
55:50 Travis Kelce? Pretty good. Pretty good.
55:53 Speaker 02 I mean, the only reason I want to, I want to almost veto this cause like, I don't think the stumble affected fucking anything like, I mean, can we rewind it? Let me see what the linebackers do. Does anybody react to this thing?
56:07 Travis Kelce? I mean, they definitely don't react. They definitely don't just retreat.
56:10 Speaker 02 You know what? All right. I'll, I'll leave it in there.
56:13 Travis Kelce? I mean,
56:14 Speaker 02 The entire sideline was screaming too. I think it, it deserves to be up there just for the creativity and the amount of like bought in from like everybody, including the sideline.
56:25 Travis Kelce? That's a great trip. It looks like he's
56:28 Speaker 02 It looked like he was falling.
56:29 Travis Kelce? Yeah. It almost looked like the week before where he did fall to, to win the game on fourth down.
56:35 Speaker 02 I just think that the lateral to Penny Sewell was a much better Lions play that never ended up going in the lateral to the tackle, the hook and lateral to the,
56:44 Speaker 02 to the right tackle. All right. Anyways, okay. Where do we think this is? We can't put it too high.
56:48 Travis Kelce? You can throw it a 10. I think 10 is a solid.
56:50 Speaker 02 Right. It's, it didn't determine a game. Like it's a fun trick play, but it wasn't like that. I'm with you. We'll go 10.
56:56 Travis Kelce? 10. Throw it in 10.
57:00 Travis Kelce? Had some awesome plays. So I think there's going to be another Lions clip up here.
57:03 Speaker 02 There better be.
57:04 Travis Kelce? Pretty soon.
57:05 Speaker 07 Play number two from week 13 Bills Niners.
57:09 Speaker 02 Oh, this is a great
57:10 Travis Kelce? Lateral. This is a good one. Just backyard ball right here. The old snow game.
57:15 Speaker 02 And Josh, this was the first time a player ever threw and ran.
57:24 Travis Kelce? He had a completion and a receiving touchdown.
57:27 Speaker 02 Yes. All in the same play. Right?
57:28 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
57:29 Speaker 02 And it was the first time that's ever happened.
57:30 Travis Kelce? Yep.
57:31 Speaker 02 I think, I think you gotta put this high.
57:33 Travis Kelce? No, no, no, no, no, it's not. No, it's not. Marcus Mariota did it against the Chiefs in the playoffs. He threw a ball to somebody, Darrel Rivas smacked it down and he then caught it and went into the end zone.
57:48 Speaker 02 Yeah, but that's not a, this is a, that's not a rushing touchdown to be smacked it down, right?
57:53 Travis Kelce? No, this was a receiving touchdown.
57:54 Speaker 07 This was a receiving touchdown.
57:56 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah. Either, okay, either way, rare that this happens.
57:59 Travis Kelce? Semantics. Yeah, I think this is awesome play. Um, I think, uh,
58:05 Speaker 02 Can't go too high.
58:06 Travis Kelce? Can't go too high, can't go too high.
58:07 Speaker 02 They're winning 21 to three.
58:09 Travis Kelce? This is just a heads up, but it's.
58:11 Speaker 02 Piss out of them.
58:11 Travis Kelce? Yeah, it's only the first half, though.
58:13 Speaker 02 So.
58:14 Travis Kelce? Says third quarter right there.
58:15 Speaker 02 Third quarter, second half. Okay, let's go. What do you think? Three or four, maybe?
58:19 Travis Kelce? What? No, let's throw this a five. Let's not get too bold.
58:23 Speaker 02 I'll go five, I'll go five.
58:24 Travis Kelce? Not get too bold.
58:24 Speaker 02 Yeah, leave some space, leave some space. I think this is a dope play.
58:27 Travis Kelce? There were some other Josh Allen plays this year. I could, I could feel it.
58:30 Speaker 07 Week 10, Broncos, Chiefs.
58:32 Travis Kelce? Oh, that was fucking electric.
58:35 Speaker 02 Yes, it was.
58:37 Travis Kelce? I mean, you gotta play that. You didn't even let us watch the entire thing.
58:48 Travis Kelce? Kevin Harland on it too, dude? Shout out to Harland, man.
58:53 Speaker 02 It's so good. It is so good.
58:54 Travis Kelce? So epic, dude. His voice, he might be one of my fa- I mean, he's up there as one of my favorites.
58:58 Speaker 02 He is really good.
59:00 Travis Kelce? Dude, honestly, a little biased, but I think, I think that goes above Josh Allen's lateral.
59:08 Speaker 02 I kind of agree. It's a dude blocking a field goal to win a game. Like as a walk off and not only like kind of getting lucky, but like they like knew exactly what they were doing. They knew where, like it was like thought out. I'm pretty sure Chanel called it, like said, like, we're gonna go block this.
59:26 Travis Kelce? He did.
59:26 Speaker 02 So all around, I think it's just a fucking crazy play.
59:31 Travis Kelce? There were a few, there were a few big block field goals this season though. So I don't know if
59:36 Speaker 02 I'm just being biased, but. Do you want to go four or three on this?
59:41 Speaker 02 Or do you want to go higher?
59:42 Travis Kelce? I think it's either four or six. It's either four or six. I'll let you call it.
59:46 Speaker 02 Just because the, it ended up in the only reason the Chiefs won the game and the Josh Allen lateral was like up 21, three, I'll put it at four. If we're going four or six, I'll go four.
59:55 Travis Kelce? All right.
59:56 Speaker 07 From week 12, Cowboys, Commanders, 99 yard kick return.
1:00:02 Travis Kelce? Oh my God.
1:00:03 Speaker 02 I mean, it's a chirp it is fast. Hit that B button. Hit that B button on them.
1:00:10 Travis Kelce? Shit. Dude, this was electric.
1:00:13 Speaker 02 It's a dope play.
1:00:14 Travis Kelce? I mean, this has got to be up there. This has got to be up there. Three or two. It's got to be up there. If not one, I don't know. I can't remember what play would be better this season.
1:00:24 Speaker 02 You think this is
1:00:26 Travis Kelce? Dude.
1:00:26 Speaker 02 Better than that block kick to win the game?
1:00:29 Travis Kelce? Dude, a kick return with three minutes left in the game?
1:00:33 Speaker 02 Yeah. I mean, it's a dope play.
1:00:37 Travis Kelce? Fumbles the ball. He picks that shit up on the one yard line with everybody 10 yards from him.
1:00:44 Speaker 02 All right, I'll go three. I'll go three.
1:00:45 Travis Kelce? Oh my.
1:00:46 Speaker 02 I don't think it's as good as the Josh Allen play, if I'm being honest, but I'll go three.
1:00:49 Travis Kelce? You're insane.
1:00:50 Speaker 07 Week eight, Washington, Bears.
1:00:55 Travis Kelce? Walk off?
1:00:56 Speaker 02 Yeah, well, it's the fuck up. The only reason I can't give this one that high is because like it's an insane amount of luck and the Bears fucked it up more than they even got it right. So it's like.
1:01:10 Travis Kelce? That's a good shot taken. Listen, he did his job. He did his job. He was the tip guy. He was in the back.
1:01:16 Speaker 02 He was right where he needed to be.
1:01:17 Travis Kelce? This is what, this is teach tape right here. If you're, if you're in a football locker room.
1:01:21 Speaker 02 And it was to win the game. So it's, I mean.
1:01:24 Travis Kelce? Yeah. I'll give it a nice solid seven or eight. Seven sounds good. Seven sounds good.
1:01:29 Speaker 07 From week 15.
1:01:32 Speaker 02 Let's go.
1:01:33 Speaker 07 Believe this is.
1:01:35 Speaker 02 You can just put the Saquon hurdle at one already.
1:01:38 Travis Kelce? There it is. That's what I was thinking of.
1:01:40 Speaker 02 I do love, dude, I do love a big man.
1:01:43 Travis Kelce? Oh, that was electric. Oh.
1:01:46 Speaker 02 I mean, it's a great play. It is a great play.
1:01:51 Speaker 02 It's so good. It's so good.
1:01:53 Travis Kelce? Dude, a big man pick. Are you kidding me?
1:01:55 Speaker 02 Is that a pick or is that a?
1:01:58 Travis Kelce? Fucking strip. Yeah. Oh, that stiff up. Do you know how hard it is to stiff arm a 300 pound fucking offensive lineman?
1:02:04 Speaker 02 I just love you hit some of the shush shush at the beginning of that. Go back to the start of that. Get that shush shush in there.
1:02:08 Travis Kelce? Bing bing.
1:02:09 Speaker 02 He goes right here. He hits it and then right away gets the ball up. Shush shush.
1:02:18 Speaker 02 Set up the block.
1:02:19 Travis Kelce? Hit the highway. Oh, so good. God damn, that's good.
1:02:23 Speaker 02 It's a great play, but we I can we can't put it up.
1:02:26 Travis Kelce? We gotta hold. We gotta hold two and six. I think eight is a solid spot.
1:02:29 Speaker 02 I think it's eight or nine play.
1:02:30 Travis Kelce? Nice.
1:02:31 Speaker 07 All right, from week nine, Jets Texans.
1:02:35 Speaker 02 Week nine, what happened on this play? Oh, this catch was great. That's a great catch.
1:02:40 Travis Kelce? Didn't count. It wasn't a catch.
1:02:42 Speaker 07 Jets Jake, Jets Jake rule.
1:02:44 Speaker 04 It counted. His shin goes down.
1:02:46 Speaker 02 Yeah, I thought it got overturned, right?
1:02:48 Speaker 07 It did. It did. It counted.
1:02:49 Travis Kelce? It counted his what was it?
1:02:51 Speaker 07 His shin. His shin was down.
1:02:53 Speaker 02 They called it. They called it a touchdown eventually.
1:02:55 Travis Kelce? I mean, if that's a catch, that's a two. That's you gotta throw it a two.
1:03:00 Speaker 02 That's a fucking insane catch.
1:03:01 Travis Kelce? God damn, that's insane. I mean, if that's in the for a touchdown too. God damn, that's nasty.
1:03:08 Speaker 02 We we going two?
1:03:09 Travis Kelce? Yeah, we gotta go to. That was a fucking unbelievable. That's yeah.
1:03:13 Speaker 02 That's pretty insane.
1:03:14 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
1:03:15 Speaker 07 All right. You've been waiting for it from week nine. Hold on Eagles Jags.
1:03:23 Travis Kelce? Slide.
1:03:27 Travis Kelce? Number one, there's no, there's no way there's any play.
1:03:30 Speaker 02 Crazy.
1:03:32 Speaker 02 It's so crazy.
1:03:33 Travis Kelce? I could watch this shit all day. This is fucking poetry.
1:03:36 Speaker 02 Somebody backwards.
1:03:37 Travis Kelce? The spin move alone would have been in the top 10 of this list.
1:03:41 Speaker 02 Oh, God.
1:03:42 Speaker 07 All right, keep it going. Yeah, week five. This is Saints Chiefs.
1:03:48 Speaker 02 Oh, being Sir Banky. I'll go nine. I love the play.
1:03:52 Travis Kelce? Sir Bank. Ah, get up on the hover, look at it.
1:03:55 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:03:58 Travis Kelce? I fucking love that dude, man. Shout out to Sir Bank. Top 10 play of the top 10 play of the year.
1:04:04 Speaker 02 I go nine on Sir Bank. It's right below the sweat play. I feel like that's a good spot for it.
1:04:09 Speaker 07 All right, and this will be number six if it holds. This is from week 16 Chargers Broncos.
1:04:18 Speaker 07 The free kick.
1:04:20 Travis Kelce? Yeah, we'll veto.
1:04:20 Speaker 02 Veto.
1:04:21 Speaker 07 God damn it.
1:04:23 Speaker 02 Genius use of the strategy, but no veto.
1:04:26 Speaker 07 Okay, it's out. It's out.
1:04:28 Speaker 02 Who's using the veto?
1:04:29 Travis Kelce? I'll use that. This shit was buns.
1:04:33 Speaker 07 All right.
1:04:34 Speaker 02 The guy just did a practice kick that he did a warm ups all.
1:04:38 Speaker 07 Listen, you only see it every 60 years.
1:04:42 Speaker 02 It was a, it was a great job by Harbaugh to utilize a stupid rule, but.
1:04:46 Speaker 07 Okay, we are going to our first backup play of the year. It is from week 16 Bengals Browns. It is the Borough Horizontal TD.
1:04:59 Travis Kelce? I mean, that was a fucking hell of a throw.
1:05:01 Speaker 02 I want to veto this one, too. This isn't that like.
1:05:04 Travis Kelce? Yeah, shout out to Joey B.
1:05:05 Speaker 02 It's a, I mean, listen, Joe deserves to be up here, but.
1:05:08 Travis Kelce? I don't know if that's the one.
1:05:10 Speaker 02 That's not better than the Washington Hail Mary. So I got to veto it and hope that something better than these, than these ones are in there.
1:05:16 Travis Kelce? I mean, I know one Bengals play right now that's better than.
1:05:19 Speaker 07 Go ahead. All right. Well, let's get to our next two alternates. Next two alternates. Give me, give me a break here.
1:05:24 Speaker 02 You got, how is Lamar Jackson not on here anywhere?
1:05:27 Speaker 07 It wasn't on the list that I stole from.
1:05:30 Travis Kelce? Dude, you're ridiculous. His fucking touchdown like two weeks ago.
1:05:34 Speaker 02 Stiff arm, the Bengals. Yes, that one should definitely be on here. And this would be the perfect slot for it.
1:05:41 Speaker 07 All right, do it.
1:05:43 Speaker 02 We can't. Brandon, that's not how the blind ranking works.
1:05:47 Speaker 07 I'll give you one. I'll give you one. I'll give you one.
1:05:50 Speaker 02 No.
1:05:50 Travis Kelce? Let's hear it. Let's see what you put up here now.
1:05:53 Speaker 07 All right, all right, all right.
1:05:55 Speaker 02 What are we stuck with?
1:05:56 Speaker 07 From week two Vikings Niners 99 yard touchdown reception.
1:06:02 Speaker 02 Jefferson.
1:06:03 Travis Kelce? I mean, it's electric.
1:06:04 Speaker 02 Yeah, I think this is good. I'm fine with this. As a number six.
1:06:09 Travis Kelce? I mean, it can be up there. I don't know if it's.
1:06:11 Speaker 02 I don't, I think we're leaving out some other top ten plays.
1:06:14 Travis Kelce? We 100% are, but it's a blind ranking.
1:06:16 Speaker 02 We presented. I feel very good about this list.
1:06:18 Travis Kelce? I feel better about this list now. Yeah.
1:06:20 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:06:21 Travis Kelce? I'm with you though. The Josh Allen lateral probably could have been a little higher.
1:06:24 Speaker 02 Very solid.
1:06:25 Travis Kelce? Solid list. Some plays, some plays that could have probably been up here. We just talked about the Lamar play. Bengals cornerback interception week two against us. I don't know how the fuck Brit even caught that fucking ball. I'm still confused on how he caught that fucking ball. Um, that was one of the best interceptions I've ever seen in my life.
1:06:44 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:06:45 Travis Kelce? Yeah. Other than that.
1:06:48 Travis Kelce? Shout out to everybody. Please send any play that we missed to, uh, at J chat 85 on Twitter and, uh,
1:06:57 Speaker 02 Good luck with that one.
1:06:58 Speaker 07 Good luck, buddy. His DMs are open, guys. Get in there. Let him know what he got wrong.
1:07:03 Speaker 04 They're not open.
1:07:05 Speaker 02 They're not open.
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1:07:26 Speaker 04 Hello, brothers. Merry Christmas.
1:07:28 Speaker 02 Merry Christmas.
1:07:28 Speaker 04 I have a very, very important question to ask. I'm here watching, uh, some football and hanging out with family and we started talking. And I have a very, very important question to ask. And I think you two are the only ones that can answer. What happened to the jockstrap? Seriously. I don't think you boys wear them anymore. You just see everything hanging and moving and running and oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. What happened to the jockstrap? All right. Take care.
1:08:02 Travis Kelce? Not as aware.
1:08:05 Speaker 04 It's a lot of fun. Bye.
1:08:06 Travis Kelce? Not as aware as this woman at, uh, what's going on with the genitals throughout the game, but, uh, you know, watch the game for wherever you watch the game for. You know, I'm not here to judge why someone's watching the game and whether or not they're checking out which guys got what jock straps on or.
1:08:23 Speaker 02 What happened to the jockstrap is they invented compression shorts and they're just way more efficient at holding everything in place and better.
1:08:29 Travis Kelce? And it eliminates the chafing that could possibly go on.
1:08:32 Speaker 02 Correct, but I.
1:08:33 Travis Kelce? So it's like you knock out two birds with one stone. You gotta fucking gold powder your gooch and your, your thighs every fucking day. You could just throw on some compression shorts.
1:08:41 Speaker 02 I still wore the jockstrap. I liked, there was something I liked about the jockstrap.
1:08:44 Travis Kelce? Nice, I mean.
1:08:45 Speaker 02 And I only wore it on game day, though. And I would walk around the locker room making my pre-workout and nothing but my jockstrap and I thought it was funny.
1:08:55 Speaker 02 So maybe that's the reason I wore it, but.
1:09:02 Speaker 02 I also thought it like cupped my butt cheek nice and it made my butt look better.
1:09:05 Travis Kelce? I didn't realize you were going for a nice look.
1:09:08 Speaker 02 I needed help because I don't have a great ass, so.
1:09:13 Travis Kelce? Alright, there you go. I think, uh, yeah, the, the compression shorts came in.
1:09:18 Speaker 02 Yeah, they're a little better at doing the job.
1:09:20 Travis Kelce? Nobody, nobody's, well, it also, not, not a lot of guys wear cups anymore and the jockstrap was initially to hold the, the cup.
1:09:26 Speaker 02 Well, that's how we always use it, but I do think there, the jockstrap was also utilized before compression shorts to hold the junk. But once you have compression shorts, you didn't need that.
1:09:37 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I hear you.
1:09:38 Speaker 02 Alrighty.
1:09:39 Travis Kelce? Glad we could help you out.
1:09:40 Speaker 02 By the way, get your mind out of the, what was that woman's name? Do we remember?
1:09:43 Travis Kelce? No, she just said Merry Christmas.
1:09:46 Speaker 02 Merry Christmas to you. Just watch some football, you know, you get a free. She's acting like she's not happy about it.
1:09:56 Travis Kelce? It's so disturbing seeing everybody's junk just jump around on the TV.
1:10:03 Speaker 02 All of this phallic meat bouncing from thigh to thigh.
1:10:08 Speaker 07 I'm gonna throw one at you that I just hate this question and I hate people ask it. So I want to see how you guys feel.
1:10:14 Travis Kelce? Perfect.
1:10:15 Speaker 04 Hey guys, this is William from Montgomery.
1:10:18 Travis Kelce? William Montgomery?
1:10:19 Speaker 04 I just wanted to know what your opinion is on fall weddings.
1:10:23 Speaker 02 Fall weddings?
1:10:23 Speaker 04 Uh, me and my girlfriend have talked about getting married and, um, she pay, she wants a fall wedding and I told her, good luck with that.
1:10:35 Speaker 02 Oh my gosh.
1:10:36 Speaker 04 I'm gonna be at a football game. Um, so I just wanted to know you guys' opinion on that. Appreciate it.
1:10:44 Speaker 02 Sounds like this marriage is gonna work out great.
1:10:47 Travis Kelce? I actually don't know. People who've gotten married in the fall because the all the weddings I've been to and all my friends always do it in the summer, I guess.
1:10:57 Speaker 02 Yeah, we can't go usually.
1:10:58 Travis Kelce? I think Jason's pretty spot on with you guys gotta be more in sync on things. You gotta be willing to, you know, find a weekend where the team isn't playing anybody good, maybe. Also, if you really do have a problem with that, maybe it's in her best interest to not have it in the fall so that she knows you're invested in the anniversary every time it comes around. I think you guys should duke that out. I don't think we have any say on what you should be doing here. And yeah, I mean, I've seen weddings in fucking February. I've seen weddings everywhere but the fall. So I'm not sure if the fall is a good wedding season.
1:11:38 Speaker 02 Brother, I'm gonna tell you right now, do the fall in the wedding and avoid this frivolous fight that means absolutely fucking nothing. You can watch the football game, another like record it and watch it again. Like, I don't know what you want me to say. Like, there's certain things that are more important than football. And if the wedding isn't more important than football, we got some bigger issues here. Like, I get what you're saying. You can do it another time. Just speaking from a experience.
1:12:04 Travis Kelce? Unless we got a big parlay. Unless we got a big parlay. And we got a fucking sweetie, we gotta make this money.
1:12:11 Speaker 07 That's how we pay for the wedding. Unless that's how you're paying for the wedding.
1:12:15 Travis Kelce? How do we pay for the booze at the wedding if I can't make sure this parlay hits?
1:12:19 Speaker 02 I just don't get, there's a lot of days in the fall that there's not football. We can't find a.
1:12:25 Travis Kelce? Light name one.
1:12:27 Speaker 02 Well, depending on whether he goes to college and NFL games on Sunday, like you can go on a Friday, you can have a wedding on a Friday.
1:12:35 Travis Kelce? Yeah, but it's a weekend thing.
1:12:38 Speaker 02 It's a little, it's a little inconsiderate for travel.
1:12:41 Travis Kelce? Don't make my friends have to not go. They go, everybody's got season tickets. All right? Don't make my friends have to choose whether or not they have to sell their the tickets that week.
1:12:49 Speaker 02 There's a lot more important things than footballs and weddings happen to be one of them. And not arguing with your wife is high up there with more important than football. So I would just do the wedding whenever she wants to, uh, because, uh, that's kind of your job now.
1:13:06 Travis Kelce? Football, football is life. Football is life.
1:13:09 Speaker 02 Alrighty, that was No Dumb Questions brought to you by Mint Mobile. And that wraps up another episode of New Heights. That's right. Make sure you subscribe on YouTube to the New Heights channel. Follow New Heights on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. We will be back Friday with our Will Ferrell episode. So be sure to tune into that. You can listen to new episodes of New Heights early and ad free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
1:13:36 Travis Kelce? That is, uh, correct. Uh, uh, once again, New Heights, a Wondery show produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment and brought to you by Audible. Who wants to read when you can listen? Follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with one S. And thank you to our production and the crew and the production crew for, um, everything. We appreciate you guys, except for Brandon. You keep putting us in terrible situations and I don't know.
1:14:01 Speaker 02 I disagree. I disagree. I disagree. I disagree.
1:14:04 Travis Kelce? Okay. Thank you, Brandon. And, uh, thank you to all the 92%ers for tuning in. We appreciate you guys greatly for, uh, enjoying these, uh, podcasts with us. See you next week.
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