Chiefs' First Win, Thiccest Sixes and Leonardo DiCaprio & Benicio del Toro's First Podcast | Ep 156

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what's up travis what's up jason how you guys doing man it's an honor being interviewed by you guys thank you our first podcast fellas this is the first one oh my gosh we don't know what's going on

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Jason, yeah.

I'm about to tell the people what we got coming up.

We got a fun one, man.

We have a really fun one.

We got coming off of two wins for this past week for the Kelson Brothers.

The Chiefs officially win against the New York Giants.

Officially win.

And the big Apple getting that monkey off the back.

We'll also get into the real reason behind the birds comeback, the rest of an insane week three.

And Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro are here.

So,

I don't know how the fuck we got these guys.

Yeah, this is kind of crazy.

I know, they're gonna talk to us about this show.

It's pretty crazy.

Oh my god, dude, we gotta make this feel a little more professional.

I don't know if we're gonna get there's anything we're gonna be able to do to make this better.

Actors, human beings, the best of what they do, dude.

We gotta, we gotta lock in, professional, yeah, gotta lock in

before we lock in.

Let's get to some of that.

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No doubt.

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Highly recommend it.

Is Operation Breakthrough going to be there again?

Yeah, right?

All the time.

All the time.

It's going to be great.

All right.

Now, last bit of new news.

Jason

got a new side quest.

jason

travis are you working on your saxophone skills it was the first time i played in a long time it was uh

i thought you crushed it well and this is how i know you crushed it because i didn't hear yours yeah no that's why it was good and as long as you don't either you were faking it or you were sounding good enough to where it didn't sound like a middle school orchestra where there was like that one fucking out of tune.

Oh, I was definitely doing it.

I was definitely doing it.

You just couldn't couldn't hear it because it wasn't a loud enough instrument on its own.

Dude, what an epic fucking song.

Are you kidding me?

Yeah, what?

Yeah.

When they were like, we're going to do the Monday Night Countdown theme, I was like, all right.

And I picked up the sacks that morning and I was like, all right, I got to see if I can play this thing.

I haven't played this thing in forever.

And the last time I tried, I just couldn't even make a sound at like this music store.

I was like, so bad.

Yeah.

And I picked it up and I'm like starting to play it a little bit.

And I'm like, all right, you know what?

I can do this.

What did you play?

A little hot cross buns?

Would you play?

I did, I did do a little bit of hot cross buns, a little

lamb.

Mary had a little lamb.

That was it.

I remember this shit like it was yesterday.

The easy ones.

And then,

and then I went right into it.

And like, for those of you that don't know, Barry Sachs.

Back to middle school when you practice every fucking day.

Barry Sachs for marching band is.

Whenever you're doing marching music and you're a bass instrument, you're pretty much just going bump, bum, bump, bum, bump, bump while the brass.

And everybody else are kind of doing the melody.

It was not the hardest piece of music, and I still found a way to fuck it up.

But it was fun.

It was fun.

Nobody knew you fucked it up, dude.

I fucking thought you crushed it.

The bit that they did

where they actually showed like the full song, bro.

I was a proud brother.

And I couldn't hear you fucking up.

So

you must have played it perfect.

That's good.

I mean, I just kind of fit in.

I was getting a lot of help from a a lot of the marching band members there.

So these guys are awesome.

Oh, we're going to play it.

Here we go.

That shit just got me fired up.

So badass.

I loved every fucking second of it.

Appreciate it.

I was sitting on the fucking couch

waiting to hear your take on the Eagles game, waiting to hear your take on the fucking Sunday night game.

And here you are with a fucking marching band.

Which I fucking tell everybody, you were a linebacker that had the most tackles in the game, a running back that had the most yards in the game.

And

you played in the most bad band.

You played the marching band at halftime, which you didn't do.

No, never.

Never did.

You could have.

You could have.

And I asked the question, why not, Jason?

Because I was making halftime adjustments.

All right.

And yeah, I thought there were a lot of halftime adjustments in the Cleveland Heights type.

That's right.

That's right.

I was trying to catch my breath.

But yeah, no, it was fun.

I put the hat on and it was like, I think it could have fit if I would have readjusted it.

But I was like, no, this is perfect.

It reminded me.

Do you remember the movie Drumline?

Do I remember Drumline?

The one guy right before

right before they get into the fight, they're doing it, and he's got the thing, he's too fat, and the thing's just in his teeth while he's doing it.

Is that what it is?

Yes, we can pull up that picture.

That was in my head.

Like, I put it on.

I was like, I feel like the kid, that guy in the fucking movie.

And I'm like, yeah.

And then they're like, we can, we adjust.

I was like, no, no, no.

This is the way it needs to be.

Don't readjust this.

We can't make...

This needs to be comedic in some way.

So, yeah, that was good.

Scott's just going to be in every marching band known to man.

Definitely not.

Not going to make this a thing.

Every marching band in the NFL, Monday night, Jason's hitting it.

I don't think there's many marching bands in the NFL.

I think the Ravens are the one that have a full marching band.

It's the largest marching band in all of the NFL, 150 people in it.

I'm sorry, what?

Yeah, it's a full marching band.

It was pretty legit.

And I like promoting the arts and promoting music.

And I have an instrument in my hand.

Like, I think a lot of the times.

You don't get to see that side at football.

You made it look so cool, dude.

I did not make it look cool.

I want to play play saxophone.

Yeah, you did.

I want to wear a hat with a chin strap on my nose.

Yeah, well, you just have a big head.

I do.

That's a Kelsey.

It's a Kelsey trait.

It is.

Thanks, Ed.

It was awesome.

It was a lot of fun.

They were more than accommodating and made it super easy for me, which I appreciate you guys.

Baltimore Ravens marching band, that was a lot of fun.

Hope you guys enjoyed it.

Sorry for being really shitty at saxophone now, but had a blast.

Do you want to see at all the pictures your mom sent us?

Mom had a bunch of pictures.

Yeah, that's what I was.

Oh, my fucking gosh.

So, when I was playing Alto Sax before I switched to Barry, this

to young Jason Kelsey practicing.

That's when I got the big guy.

Oh, dude, look at that.

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Do you miss them?

have them?

I kind of have one, I guess, for Monday Night Countdown.

Like, I kind of go do the 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 then I go on set.

I was just curious to see if you were putting that same game day energy into your new broadcasting routine.

That's all.

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.

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Thank you.

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All right, let's get to some bold topics brought to you by Gillette from week three.

Let's start with the Chiefs game.

Little Chiefs 22 Giants 9 on Sunday night.

Back in the win column baby back in the win column let's go does it feel good it does feel good that was that a great performance uh but a win is a win it's hard to win in the nfl man and uh i'll take a win anyway i can get it this is the first ever road win against the giants in franchise history it's pretty crazy our

franchise record against the giants is pretty insane what is it It was like 4-13 or something like that.

Wow.

I guess you think about it, like the Giants used to be good.

I don't think I've ever beaten the Giants up until today.

I lied, I beat them before.

When you got into the league, the Giants were just fading away from that, like Eli Manning Super Bowl-era Giants.

And they still had Eli Manning, and they still beat us.

Yeah.

Yeah, but they weren't Super Bowl era Giants anymore at that point.

Because my

second year, 2012, was the second Super Bowl they got, right?

Damn.

You're like a dinosaur, man.

That was my second year in the league.

I remember Marty Morningwig.

When we went to the holiday party, we were kind of out of it already.

And I remember asking Marty, like, hey, who do you think is going to win the Super Bowl this year?

And the Giants are like eight and eight, like nothing special.

And he's like, honestly, I think the Giants are going to win.

They're peaking at the right time.

Their defense is stacked.

And he called that shit.

They went on a run and freaking won the whole damn thing.

Shout out to Spags.

Yeah, there we go.

All righty.

Well, you guys got it done this week in the Meadowlands.

Yes, we did.

A little frustrating first half.

It was a lot closer than it probably needed to be.

Chiefs settled for three field goals in the red red zone.

Is that right?

All of them.

It was a big red zone.

I think we got past the 30.

We got hit with a few penalties that put us in third and longs and kind of kicked ourselves once we crossed the 50.

But Harrison Bucker right there to punch him through for us and get points on the board.

I will say

it feels like we're rolling.

It feels like we're starting to get this thing going on offense.

Our defense is playing stellar both this game and last.

Absolutely phenomenal performances and stopping the run is the biggest thing.

And our DBs are playing really good.

We had a few turnovers.

And when you win the turnover battle, you typically win the game.

Helps out.

Helps out.

And one of the craziest plays I've ever seen in my entire career was the Pat Mahomes pass that ended up being a backwards pass that he then went and ripped it out of.

I don't think that any other quarterback makes this play, dude.

This was such.

What the fuck was that?

There was so much chaos in my mind over the turned around.

like what we got it back like what do you think is going into pat's head right there right when the ball hits the ground once he's fucked no but he's doing it do it in the right voice

he's like ah fuck

get it pop this was such an impressive play he covered so much ground and then just like who has the foresight to like jump at the ball like dude it was insane dude i told him afterwards i'm like bro i still don't know how in touch it's so insane from that angle.

It just comes out of nowhere.

That boy got heart, man.

It did feel like you guys are starting to get rolling on offense.

Defense, like you said, has been playing pretty dang well, right?

I mean, especially the last couple of weeks have been playing well.

And you got pop going.

You got the run game kind of active.

And then, you know, it felt like Pat started, especially in the second half, taking those shots.

We've seen Thornton.

open down the field for a couple games now.

He's been waiting for it to kind of happen.

And all of a sudden, it started popping for him.

Hollywood Brown made a couple big catches.

Hollywood's been playing fucking outstanding.

He's been that safety net for Pat.

And

I think we're going to keep getting this thing rolling, man.

Hopefully, we get Xavier back here soon and

got Rashid Rice back in the building.

I know we don't get to see him for another three weeks, but he'll get his

engine rolling

and practices and back in the building and get the swagger back of having the whole unit together, man.

God.

And even Juju Smith Sushi, I can't say enough about what Juju is to this team in terms of talking to

his

accountability.

He's always in the right spot, always there for Pat, especially in the rollouts.

Has a good feel for the game and the offense and just feeling out zones and being in the right place at the right time, man.

Just always accountable in the run game as well.

So I think we're starting to catch some momentum as an offense.

And, you know, I think that comes with, like you said, getting pop going, getting Kareem going, and these, these big guys up front being able to just get off the ball and move guys.

And that'll help out the pass game a lot.

And then it just felt like between Pop, the receivers, and every time somebody came a ball, got a ball thrown to them or they got a chance to make a play, everyone was fighting and running.

And there were broken tackles.

It felt back to like some vintage Chiefs, just like speed and energy and effort.

And it was just fun to watch.

It was a lot of fun to watch this past week.

Second half felt a lot more like Chiefs.

I still feel like in the first half, even though the points didn't get there, it felt like guys were breaking tackles.

It felt like guys were making plays.

You know what I mean?

Whereas if it's, it's felt like for the last couple weeks where it's, you know, even when the completions are made, it's like almost like a tackle happens right away or you know, Pat isn't able to find anybody, so he takes off a run.

It felt like now guys were going out making incredible catches, right?

Like that Thornton catch down the field was a fucking fantastic play.

Right after he

did he, what happened?

He got got a penalty, right?

No, no, no.

He caught the one right before, and as he's going down, as he's going down to the ground, Little.

That's what it was.

That's what it was.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And then to come back and to make that second one.

I'm like, the one that's

even harder than that.

I don't know how the hell he caught that.

Just puts the point up in the air.

Jock.

He's like, I got to.

He caught it through the defender.

No doubt about it.

Boom.

That is such a great catch falling and like

sticking your hands out, man.

He is, dude, he's been you.

I love that dude, man.

You've mentioned this kind of even on the side.

You've been waiting for this kid to kind of come on.

He was a steal.

I don't know how he got out of New England, man, but we're appreciative that they let him go because he's just a smart football player, sure hands.

On top of that, can run with the best of them.

A big body, long arms.

Yep.

You know, it's just, and he's a smart football player.

Smart football players are going to fucking thrive in this offense because Coach Reed is going to put you in positions to where you get those one-on-one matchups, man.

If you know how to attack it, good things are going to fucking happen.

And I think him, Hollywood,

Juju,

we've been rolling and we've been getting this thing kind of geared in the right direction.

And I think Pat's just going to keep dialing it in as we go, baby.

I can't imagine being a quarterback back there and trying to make decisions because

the amount of things you're trying to process

on a play-by-play basis is intense.

And the more you build chemistry with guys, I've got to think it makes those decisions a lot easier.

And with Pat, it feels like.

Yeah, if with Pat, it feels like obviously he has great chemistry with you.

He's got great chemistry with Juju because he's played together.

A lot of the other guys, like, that is still kind of being developed in games.

And, like, Noah Gray, another guy had

a bunch of fucking,

they didn't seem like big gains.

He had, he had about 30, close to 30 yards of

yards called back just because of penalties and stuff.

Still, the smaller, the short gains of like six to ten yards that you're seeing with just underneath routes and him getting vertical.

I mean, that kind of stuff gets it gets you a fresh set of downs.

It gets you a third and short.

You know what I mean?

You're manageable situations.

All that trust that you're talking about that gets built up in the offseason and training camp and just being accountable in games, that just makes 1-5's job so much fucking easier.

He doesn't have to think about, you know, where you're you're going to be or anything like that.

He can kind of just feel the game out from that point on.

And man, when he's out there just, you know, letting the game come to him and feeling the game out and just being the ball player he is, man, he's the best player in the world.

Yeah, yeah.

I'll tell you what, it's obvious that he's building chemistry with all the guys out there.

But I mean, the more he's building the chemistry with Taquan Thornton, I just think, you know, it's going to open up so much underneath if that big play, big strike ability comes up.

It makes it much, much harder to defend everything you guys are doing.

And either way, that moment was a spark.

And I think the spark probably had been litting for a while for the Chiefs, but it started clicking after that.

We also got a shout out, 192%er who made it to the game, Erica

Duchaman.

Doucherman

hides your grandma's motherfuckers.

I was waiting for the touchdown.

Were you going to punch a grandma?

Did you have a grandma in mind?

I didn't see any older women or anybody.

Nobody was asking for it.

Like your grandma, yeah.

Everybody was hiding them.

Yeah, I really didn't have too many chances to

get a touchdown this game, but man, we were rolling as an offense.

And when you put up some big scores, man, who gives a shit?

Dude, the sign was, in fact, confiscated.

What?

I guess you can't cuss on.

You probably can't cuss or threaten grandmas.

I think both of those are probably prohibited at Meadowlands or most NFL stadiums.

We're going to get you to punch a grandma at some point this year.

Dude, I'm not punching anybody's grandma unless you dress up like a grandma.

I'm coming to a Chiefs game at some point this year dressed as a grandma.

And if you don't punch me, I'm going to be furious.

I can't wait for the NFL to find me for that one.

Go ahead.

Any thoughts on the rest of the game?

You guys got the Ravens coming up, coming off of a big wall.

Huge game.

Monday night.

They're going to be hungry, man.

They're going to be hungry and

pissed off, man.

I'm sure they felt like they've handed these last two games away.

Even though the Lions played a hell of a fucking game.

Honestly, I came away more impressed with the Lions than anything because I think the Ravens are legit, like unbelievable team they are and i still think they are yeah but the lions especially off of that week one thing that happened in green bay it's like oh yeah there's a lot of questions yeah they played better against chicago let's see how they do against baltimore they were

them dan campbell lions across the board like they didn't do they did some creative mindset but they also

yeah well they

they were They lost Frank Ragnow this offseason retirement.

Zeitler left, but they went back.

They were doing some creative stuff, but there was also just like, dude, they they were lining up and running right at him.

They were running duo up and down the field.

I don't know what play it was, some version of jab rub or just like.

There was some creative stuff off of it.

But for the most part, like it was pretty obvious.

They got a big edge and they ran right at him.

And there was not many things that are more like.

deflating, demoralizing than a team that just lines up and you know what's coming and it still is coming at you.

Like it was an impressive, impressive game from the Detroit Lions.

And you're right, Baltimore.

I mean, you know, John Harball.

He's in there this week.

Oh, come on.

I think they got enough guys and enough vets on that team to where it doesn't, I don't even think it takes Harbaugh to come in and challenge those.

Those guys are going to want to get that shit fixed themselves.

And

I expect them to be fucking rocking.

They're going to get their best coming in there for sure.

Yeah.

But

excited for the challenge, baby.

Excited for the challenge.

Excited to take a look at

the game.

This is why we play the fucking game, baby.

Let's move on to some other football news out of week three.

Some other big stories.

Eagles 33, Rams 26.

Let's get to your birds, brother.

Jason, you and Kylie were at the link for this game.

We were getting some updates on what was going on as it wasn't going well for the birds to start off.

It's terrible.

It's a terrible start.

Well, actually, to start the game, it went incredibly well.

Yeah.

They dialed up a,

I don't know what you, we called it a replacement blitz or a simulated pressure, which it feels like a blitz, but it's really only a four-man rush.

Zach Bond read Stafford's eyes, just like very well.

Hell of a player, man.

And like typical quarterback, like he felt the blitz come, throw where the blitz came from, should be a hole there.

And Zach just made an incredible play and started out, capitalized on that, scored a touchdown, a little tush-push action.

And all of a sudden, we're up 7-0.

I think this game, yeah, there we go.

Eagles are back.

And then it was proceeded to be about two-quarters of some of the most horrendous Eagles football I've seen in a long time.

It was bad, it was bad.

I mean, I've been the way it's ended for me, it wasn't great either, but I think we had five three and outs.

Like, you want to talk about like struggling, we were struggling, and uh, you start here in the booze or oh my gosh, second drive.

They, you know, it was like one of those where, like, it was like a third and long situation, and like, I feel like it's hard.

Like, what do you call it?

You go, you, you go to a screen, you go to a draw to like try and just get something back because you know you're not picking it up, and then immediately it's like, boo,

and it's like, yeah, I mean, I feel it.

I get you.

I get you.

But it was.

That's tough, man.

Fuck.

Listen, first of all, the Rams are a great team.

Their defensive line is stacked.

Their offense is stacked.

You know, they do not have a fucking top quarterback, and he's been doing it for a long time.

Devontae Adams, Puka Nakua, like they are loaded.

Kyron Williams was, I mean, that was the one thing that was the most surprising.

Our run defense has been pretty good, and Kyron was, he was giving it to us for a couple quarters there.

And

the Rams are playing a hell of a game.

They had a hell of a plan coming in.

And it feels like a lot of the times when you're caught in that moment where you're going three and out, you just need one play to kind of happen to get some momentum going.

And it just wasn't.

And you go into the game with all these openers and everything, especially first and second down.

And sometimes they're just not there.

And you're just waiting to get a play off.

and it just like it was just like a non-stop sack here you know they missed an assignment here the safeties rotated they're like goodness the worst it was like a perfect worst it was just like a never-ending just kind of misfortune as well as like poor performance ended the half with negative one passing yards which is I mean, impressive, but not the impressive stat that you want.

In times where that's happened before, one of the things I think the Eagles have done a great job, especially with Jalen, is just going on the ball.

Let's get into our bread and butter.

Let Jalen be point guard, right?

It was fun to watch in the second half because you got to see

what these guys are capable of when they are performing at their best.

And everybody's been waiting for A.J.

Brown to have a game this year.

It's been a frustrating start to the season for him, I'm sure, and for the entire team.

And for him to go out there and just like not even the first catch over the shoulder, he had like a third down catch where he's two yards short, right?

And he's throwing people off of him.

One of the smallest players in the league.

He is incredible.

Well, everybody loved watching the second half, except for Kylie.

Well, Kylie is very superstitious, as we all know.

And you know what?

Everybody doesn't mess around with these superstitions.

One of my favorite

TV show episodes of all time is how much the fan superstition really fucking matters.

And it was your episode on Always Sunny

Philadelphia.

And sure enough, she turns around one time and just says, you know what?

Go ahead.

Why don't you tell the story and how it how it all unfolded?

But honestly, we she turned around.

I think this was right before the drive to the with the big throw to AJ.

And I like we're all celebrating because we finally got something going offensively.

I look back and Kylie's seen it back.

She said, We got to change the Mojo up.

We got to change the Mojo up.

She started switching around.

And then we end up scoring that drive.

And it's like, yeah, Kyle, I'm sorry.

You're not allowed to turn around for the rest of the game.

it wasn't even me saying that like kylie was saying to me like hey jade sorry i'm gonna be turned this way watching the rest of this game can you give me some updates and then uh it was working out so well that hannah einbinder joined in right here she started looking the other way it was a uh a full team effort of anything they could do to try and send the juju their way i mean it was an awesome second half it's not the way you want to win in the nfl right like full disclosure the rams should have won that game like they outplayed the eagles but sometimes things aren't going to go your your way.

You're going to,

what you expect and prepare for, it doesn't happen and you struggle.

And to be able to, you know, get a win when you play like that.

And the game gets dictated like that, to not quit when you're down 26 to 7 in the third and to keep fighting and clawing to the very end and to come out victorious, I just thought was an amazing outcome for what otherwise was an abysmal day for the Philadelphia Eagles, right?

So

they get to move forward now.

And I guarantee they're going to be hard at work fixing this, right?

They're going to be hard at work.

How do we get out starting better?

And it's one of those where one of the problems when you win is that things kind of get masked.

And one of the great things about when you lose is like everybody's motivated to make all these corrections because we just lost a football game.

This is one of those where it feels like we lost.

So I feel like a lot of the coaches are motivated to correct some things.

But at the same time, we didn't lose.

We won with one of the most spectacular finishes to a game I've ever seen with Jordan Davis.

I mean, blocking, not only blocking it, picking it up and running it back for a touchdown.

And by the way, like...

At 300 and whatever fucking pounds he is.

What a fucking beast.

And I could not be happier for this kid.

He is such a workhorse.

He has matured so much.

He started hitting the weave.

He's like, dude, I know I'm getting caught.

You love it when it happens to good dudes, man.

And not only were the Eagles fans going crazy because the Eagles just won, the spread was three three and a half.

So even if it's just a block, like most of the fans in that stadium are losing because they're taking the spread as well.

And all of a sudden, his man picks it up, runs it back for six.

A lot of Eagles fans were extremely happy on that.

SVP bad beats.

Bad beats.

That is a definition of a bad beat.

Oh, fuck.

That's a great play that's illustrated how far he's come.

You know what I mean?

Like, he's always had the potential.

And to see how he's gotten his second year, third year, third year, third-year guy?

Oh, absolutely.

I'm actually

might be fourth.

Is he a fourth year?

He was the year before Jalen.

I played a year with Jalen.

This is Jalen's third year, so it's got to be his fourth season.

Interesting.

So JD,

he came in like a young kid.

And I just think that you see the maturity and the growth that he's had as a person and a player.

He's gotten his weight under control.

He's in better shape than he's ever been in, and it's paying dividends on the field.

He is playing lights out in the middle of the defense right now, and that was just like an awesome moment to really solidify him on the national stage.

So happy for Jordan Davis and everything he's put in to get to this point.

And happy that the birds were able to get a win, man.

How about it?

Fat guy TDs, man.

Most exciting play in football.

Every time.

It'll never not be the most exciting shit you'll ever see.

Fat guys running, period, man.

It's the best.

You get some big boys fucking hauling ass, man.

That is one of the great things.

It's one of the great things about football is that on one side, you have like Tyree Kill, who is just like the most agile human being I've ever seen.

And then on the same field, you have this Jordan Davis, 340 pounds, and he's still like an incredible athlete in his own right.

I mean, I'm even outside of that, you got offensive linemen that can't even get up to like 15 miles an hour running out there.

And

it's just the disparity of athletes and body types in the game of football will never like get old to me.

It's just so fun to watch.

It's a beautiful thing, baby.

Final thoughts on the game?

Final thoughts are, I think I'm happy that we won.

Damn happy that we won.

We got a lot to fix.

But again, it's one of those things I think it's encouraging when, you know, it just felt like one of those days where a lot of things are going wrong.

We weren't playing well.

Let's face it, the Rams have spent all offseason trying to beat the Philadelphia Eagles.

They lost the playoff game.

So all offseason, they've been dedicating resources and everything to defeating Philadelphia.

And I thought they had a great plan coming in.

Their players played hard.

And for the Eagles to win despite a lot of bad play and

things not going their way, I mean, that's kind of about as good as you can ask.

And now they get to make the corrections moving forward.

Half of our fucking wins were like this last year, dude.

Seriously, there's something about teams and players and i know the jalen thing has been brought up like everybody just says like all this dude knows how to do is win and i really do think that the eagles are uniquely positioned in their mindset of like they want to win and they're collectively motivated in how they prepare and perform and everything is designed to just increase the optimal chances of that happening And it's one of the reasons why they ended, oftentimes end up getting it done.

The Eagles game also gave gave us a new football term.

The wrong game dickhead.

Wrong game dickhead.

Wrong game dickhead.

What's that?

Anybody who wears a jersey that's not Eagles or Rams is a wrong game dickhead.

Like, like, that's what it is.

Fair point.

Offense guy right there.

He's a wrong game dickhead.

Or the guy with the Amani Tour jersey right here.

Why would you go to an Eagles or Rams game and wear an opposing jersey like that?

Like, it makes no sense.

Wear a white t-shirt.

Wear a black t-shirt.

If I see that, i'm gonna call you out you're gonna be on my instagram as wrong game dickhead

can people follow that somewhere at joeyd3444 instagram for all the wrong game dickheads follow that

that's pretty good i can get on board with that i get on board with it too i mean it that's like um you know you go over to like london or some of these international games that's a different that's a different world they don't get to see football as much and it does feel weird when you're at a game and you see a jersey that's not of one of the two teams playing it's like what are we

what are we doing here?

You're just announcing that you don't care about this game?

Like,

I don't understand what the purpose of this is.

Like,

you're a Justin Jefferson fan?

I get it.

You're, yeah, this is great, but this isn't the time to be.

I'd rather you just wear another sport at that point.

Like, just wear like a New Jersey Devils jersey.

What the fuck are we doing?

Like, I don't know.

That's fucking funny.

Anyways, I can get on board with that for sure.

We also have an insane witching hour in the span of 15 minutes.

Talk about one of the most insane

15 minutes of NFL football watching Sunday from this past week.

The Eagles obviously blocked a field goal, then scored a go-ahead touchdown, then blocked a game-winning field goal with a scooping score.

That was an insane 15 minutes, but also in that same time frame, the Browns down 10-0, tied it at 10, then blocked a game-winning field goal from the other team, only for a few plays later to kick their game-winning field goal.

The Jets were down 23-6, and Tampa is kicking a game-ceiling field goal to go up nine.

The Jets blocked the field goal score to go ahead 27-26.

Baker then, of course, like Baker does, leads another fourth-quarter game-winning drive.

Seven game-winning scores in final three minutes on Sunday ties a record for a single week.

In total, it's better than it's ever been, baby.

I mean, it's

why it's the best.

This is why it's the best.

It's better than it's ever been, man.

Fuck.

In total, four blocked field goals in the the fourth quarter on sunday is the most in a single day since at least 1991 have you guys been talking about this like why are the block kicks feel like they're way up why are people trying to get rid of kicking what are you talking about punts no dude everybody's like over here like why is kicking apart because it's a fucking electric play well it is when you block it it's not electric when they just are making 60 yarders like it's nothing still electric no but the the it's electric because you're sitting there waiting to see whether he's going to make this 60 for the game or it's going to get blocked.

That's everybody's point, is that it's been too easy to make these longer field goals now, and people are tired of it not being like, oh, is he going to make it?

But now, yeah, I mean, listen, if people are blocking four field goal kicks, yeah, I'm in.

Let's fucking go to it.

I'm all in on this.

There's nothing more exciting than a block kick, especially a block kick for a score.

Like, that is such a huge momentum shifter to end a game on that.

I mean, that's better than a walk-off home run.

Think about the end of your game,

blocking your kick, picking it up scooping and scoring that is like a walk-off of all walk-offs right there that is insane 100 it is yeah gosh that's epic um all right is any sport ever going to come close to nfl no it's not because no other and here's why

no other sport plays this many games at one time

Like the NFL one o'clock time slot and the four o'clock time slot, you know, you're going to get so much action in the span of eight hours.

It's the greatest.

That's why everybody looks forward to it every single week.

It's all at the same time.

I'm sitting in the stadium and I'm trying to watch the game.

And I'm also on my app watching YouTube TV, other games.

I'm checking the scores on ESPN.

I'm like.

Dude, being a fan, you don't know this yet because you're still playing.

Being a fan is fucking incredible.

You can watch so much.

I've been a fan first.

You're acting like I haven't been a fan of this my entire fucking life.

You're going to find out.

You're going to be seeing it a lot more when you're fucking at the game on one o'clock and all this shit's happening across the league.

And you're fucking.

I was at your fucking one o'clock games.

All right, whatever.

You're not, but you don't appreciate it the same way until you're done.

You're still so focused into the Chiefs.

And I still love the Eagles, but now I'm looking at more of like everything happened across the league.

One o'clock on Sunday is like, fucking, let's go, baby.

God damn, that's a fun time to watch.

All righty.

Last thing from week three.

This tweet was during Thursday night football, but we thought it was important to address it.

From Got CTE from playing peekaboo.

That's funny.

Ineligible man downfield penalties are fat phobia to offensive linemen, letting the big men roam where they damn well please.

I love the tweet.

I think it's hilarious.

Hilarious tweet.

But as much as I would love to go downfield, I do think it's pretty unfair if a lineman is downfield engaged with a linebacker who's supposed to be covering like a hook the curl.

I think we can agree that we should not allow lineman to.

I would love to run a shallow cross with Creed Humphrey blocking the guy that I'm running away from.

It seems a bit unfair from a play action standpoint on what linebackers, as if what linebackers are being asked to do isn't hard enough.

We're going to make this impossible for you to tell whether it's a run or pass.

Epic.

So, yeah, no, I'm very happy that it is a penalty.

If anything, I think they could make it two yards.

It used to be one yard and a healthy two.

Now

they go more by the letter of the law of like, no, you get a yard and that's it.

We're done with the RPOs going a little bit further.

I do think there's some that are called that are borderline enough on screens or whatnot where it doesn't really impact another player that end up getting called.

And I think that's kind of bogus.

Also, if you guys,

if the offensive lineman engages within a yard.

Yeah, you can block him as far as you want.

Yeah.

Yes.

So, I don't know.

I think the rule is just fine the way it is.

But sometimes defensive players know this now and they can disengage with you and you can still get called.

That's happened to me before where you start blocking a D tackle at the line of scrimmage.

You got him two or three yards on the field and he'll throw you.

And now that I'm not engaged, I'm technically downfield.

But the only reason I was engaged is because I was blocking a guy within that yardage.

I think that shouldn't be a penalty personally.

But either way, the rule's good enough.

I think offenses really pushed the limit on this stuff a couple years ago.

And I think the league, rightfully so, to make it fair for defenses, got it back in line with where

the rule and the intent of what it's trying to limit does.

What would happen if everyone's eligible to catch a ball?

I mean, I don't know.

If everyone was eligible to catch a ball, it would be.

You would just, it would have to drastically change how defense is taught.

And the creativity for offense is so great already.

If everybody's able to catch a ball, it would open up a lot more creativity.

And

it just feels like it would be too much.

I'm not a fan of it.

Part of that's probably just because I know the game and the way it is right now.

But like thinking of a guard sloughing off and like somebody having to be responsible to like guard him in case somebody throws him the ball, it just feels like that's a bit too much to me.

So I think it's fine just the way it is.

I'm also in favor of ineligible numbers.

Like, I don't want to see offensive linemen starting to wear number one.

I fucking hate that the NFL changed the rule for defensive linemen.

Like, I used to love these iconic numbers that defensive ends used to wear, linebackers used to wear.

And now I see a DN and he's wearing number one or number 11.

I'm like, fuck off.

Like, wear number fucking 98 or something like that.

Like, I'm not into this.

If you're a big body, you're playing on the line of scrimmage.

You should have a big fucking number.

I don't want to see this skinny fucking number bullshit.

I shouldn't be calling out number 11 he's a fucking good player but

i don't even know it's 11 you're talking about well every every offensive tackle in the nfl does mr micah parsons well he's not a fat boy if you're playing on the line you're playing a fat boy position and you need to be playing with it i just don't like the whole numbers i really liked that you could tell just as like a fan i really liked by like even like watching a jersey looking at a jersey quarterback i want a quarterback to wear 99.

see i don't want that i liked looking at a jersey and knowing without even fucking knowing the guy what position that guy played.

There was something about the numbers signifying what position you played that I just liked.

I just, I don't know.

I just was a fan of it.

I don't like that now the numbers mean nothing on defense.

Anybody can wear whatever the fuck they want.

And then on offense, you still have ineligible numbers.

That's kind of fat shaving.

Now that's fat phobia.

Just offensive linemen are restricted to wearing these fucking 50 to 70?

Is that what it is?

50 to 80?

79.

That's bullshit.

Everybody should be restricted.

No.

Receivers are restricted from 80 to what, 100?

What was the old rule?

Receivers could wear 80 to 100 or like 1 to 10 or something like that?

80 to 89 and then 1 to 10.

Through 19.

1 through 19.

And then running backs were 20 through 40.

20 through 39.

49.

49.

20 through 49.

Linebackers were 40 through 59.

Yeah.

I thought

it was 30.

I think they could wear 60 because Chuck Bandero goes 60.

60s.

Yeah, they can go to the 60s.

Anyways, I used to like that.

I don't know, man.

I dug that history of it and that the numbers had some type of specific reason to why you were wearing it.

You don't agree with you?

I don't really.

I haven't put too much thought into it.

No.

Well, that does it for bold topics.

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How are we feeling, Jake?

All right.

So it's a divisional matchup.

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I'm going to take the under in this game, even though it's a relatively low under, but Thursday night, short week, I'm taking the under here at 43.5.

I like the under too.

The Cardinals have been playing really good defense.

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Seahawks offense has probably been putting up some points, but I think Cardinals keep this under below that total.

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What else?

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Let's do some anytime touchdowns.

Those are always fun.

All right.

Marvin Harrison Jr.

I think that since he's struggling, I'm assuming they're going to try and force him the ball and have some plays designed to get him some touches and some touchdowns.

If it was somebody else, I would say maybe avoid it, but I think for some reason, I feel like they're going to have some plays designed specifically for him.

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Let's take a look at Seattle.

Anytime touchdown, Kenneth Walker or JSN.

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I'm going to think, again, we've been talking about the running game.

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We've been talking a lot of nonsense.

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Be prepared for the least professionally done interview of all time.

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You guys are going to love this one.

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cool.

Play it cool, guys.

Leo and Benicio.

Let's go.

And what's up, Travis?

What's up, Jason?

How you guys doing, man?

It's an honor being interviewed by you guys.

Thank you.

Our first podcast, fellas.

Are we going to go into Wisconsin?

Listen, this is the most unprofessional podcast there has ever been.

We act as amateurs over here, anyways.

All right, here we go.

Jason, you want to do the honors, my brother.

Oh, baby, our guests today between them have four Golden Gove Awards, two Academy Awards.

They have starred in 13 films that have been nominated for Best Picture.

Combined, their films have grossed almost $14 billion at the box office.

You know them from their iconic roles in Sicario, Traffic, the usual suspects, 21 Grands, Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as Titanic, the departed, Inception, The Revenue, Waffle Wall Street,

and now the stars of the new movie one battle after another.

What's up, fellas?

What's up?

Oh, my goodness.

Thank you.

That's an intro.

That was an intro.

That was tough.

That was tough.

That was like the WWF.

That's what we go for here.

All energy, baby.

Hall of Famer intro, baby.

How are we doing, fellas?

Doing good?

Good, man.

Doing great.

Thank you.

Coming to the end of this press tour for this movie, we've been all over the world, haven't we?

LA, London, Mexico City.

Now we're in New York.

We appreciate your time, man.

The movie is fucking amazing.

I can't wait to hear everybody's reviews when it comes out this Friday, man.

You two in the movie, your dynamic is so fucking good.

And Leo, you mentioned that it's political without like

feeling like you're taking medicine.

And I feel like your guys' dynamic of making it fun and making it like the banter is great.

The characters are so great.

You feel like you enjoy all the characters.

When you saw the script, did you see the comedy aspects in there or like the hints of like comedy that are in it?

I think the comedy came from the writing and the situation that Paul set up.

I mean, he based this on like revolutionaries from the late 1960s, put in a modern day context.

And then you have my character who's just trying to raise a daughter who can't get off the couch, who's too stoned to get off the couch.

He can't remember the password from his past, and his only homie he can go to is his daughter's karate teacher.

The comedy just came from that whole setup.

And then I just continue to fail over and over.

You think I'm going to use these espionage skills from the past and I just fall off the roofs.

We're drinking and driving.

I mean,

dude, yeah.

That is one of the greatest parts of the movie is like, but beneath like this very heavy setting of like revolutionary things happening and like bad actors and the government and all this, like, really, it's a, it's a movie about a father and a daughter.

And it's like so relatable on that level.

And then it's also relatable.

I'm like, you're doing the best you can, but you keep fucking up.

Like the password scene was just brilliant.

And like, it's now time.

All these safeguards have been put in place to actually help protect us.

And we can't even get it done because we can't remember the protocols.

He's got to deal with horrible customer service.

It's so good.

But yeah, there's something about, I mean, I'm a sucker for any movie about a father and a daughter, father and a son.

Any way you strike it, like there's just something very like visceral

when you see a character trying to protect their child.

And you guys just, you did it wonderful, Leo.

Benicio did a great job of keeping the cool.

Had to keep Bob in line.

Always had a beer for Bob when you saw him man his father was the OG.

I'm man's best friend.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That all best friends.

Paul, though.

I mean,

Paul was writing this for 15, 20 years.

He wanted to do a movie like this that was, you know, that was politically charged.

But at the heart of it, it's, it is a story about a father protecting his daughter.

I think it was very personal to him, too.

He wanted to do a story because he was thinking about about his own daughter in this crazy world that we live in, right?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Well, Leo, you were kind of mentioning before we even started this thing that you had always wanted to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, man, and he's one of the greats.

And a guy that, you know, for those that don't know, he writes, he directs, he works a lot of the cinematography.

Like there's a lot on that guy's plate going into it.

What was it that really made you want to like be a part of something or work with him on a project?

I mean, he's one of those generational filmmakers that come along, you know, once in a lifetime.

I remember seeing Boogie Knights for the first time.

I was like, damn, this, this is a cultural moment.

I remember playing that, that CD in my car for months afterwards, just thinking about that movie, the visuals, just the fact that he like, you know, he delved into the world of porn and made all these, all this humanity out of it.

They created human beings.

And then he just kept improving himself after that.

I mean, from that point on, Magnolia, Punch Drunk, Love, There Will Be Blood was a masterpiece.

You know, he's one of those, you just want to be a part of his filmography.

You know what I mean?

He's one of those great artists that you say, man, I just love to be a sliver in that man's filmography.

Wouldn't you agree?

Yeah, absolutely.

I think that

he's one of those few filmmakers out there also that is like totally original.

um unpredictable and also you know

like you said it's a he brings that human condition, which means he cares about the process of the actor, too,

which makes every actor in this film is fantastic.

From small parts, big parts, everyone is fantastic.

And that's, that's him.

We got to work with a lot of non-actors too, which was cool.

You know, we were in El Paso.

We were in

at the border in Tijuana.

We were in.

Borrego Springs, Northern California.

And he brings in a lot of people that have these real jobs that are real real shop owners, corrections officers,

military, brings all these people in and informs, you know, the story.

Like, what would you do in this circumstance?

And what would you say?

So we got to work with a lot of people that I think informed what we were doing in a lot of ways.

Yeah.

It shined through in the movie.

It really does a great job of humanizing some very heavy things throughout.

And it's...

I always love that when you're seeing both sides, everybody's acting in like self-interest, human interests, and really letting that shine through is just, it's spectacular when a director nails it as well as he did in this film.

So well done, fellas.

Thank you, man.

Thank you.

I kind of wanted to jump on the director bandwagon here.

Benicio, you worked with Wes Anderson

in the Phoenician, and I fucking love that one.

Thank you.

It was so, I love the difference.

in in how both of these guys kind of um directing their own worlds and and the the the the symmetry and everything wes anders what is the biggest difference from a director like paul and a director like wes in terms of on set and uh just for like the viewers that yeah dream about being on a set with these guys and you guys yeah i think that wes is a little bit um

he's got everything mapped out

and um paul

is mapping it out.

He's got a playbook too.

Paul has a playbook.

You know, he knows what he's going to do, but he allows the actors to go in and

find,

he's trying to catch the reality in the moment.

Wes is finding the, he's trying to find the reality in a contained manner, but you can still bring yourself into it.

It's just a little bit more rigid, you know, because it's, I think Wes is a little bit more like theater

and Paul is a little bit more like a documentary.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So if you do a play, you got to know your lines.

You got to like, the blocking's got to be pretty much staged.

And then I think Paul tries to catch that lightning right there on the spot.

You know, he tries to catch it right there.

I mean, we did many things that, you know, are not in the film.

Yeah.

But, but, you know, he's just pushing you to like.

not to you you get a chance to improvise quite a bit but i mean with wes's films you don't as much but with paul you do get to improvise a little bit.

And he might just catch something that was never scripted.

Yeah.

Yeah.

To add to what he was saying, I mean, there's a lot of sequences.

I mean, this is his first kind of action movie, Paul Tamir.

And like we said, he's a master filmmaker.

So I was curious what he was going to do in this genre.

But he had a lot of stuff, action TBD, you know, road trip TBD.

That's to be determined.

This guy comes in straight from Phoenician Scheme and is like, okay, this is what my character is doing.

This is what he's not doing.

He's got an underground railroad situation for immigrants.

I know this person in the hospital.

And if you kill this guy, I'm not helping him.

And we're like, wow.

So we went, all this stuff that was what was so cool about working with Paul, we went on a, we just went on a road trip for a week.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I had to, I had to set the pick.

He had to roll.

He goes.

Yeah.

I just went in there.

I knew I had to set the pick, you know.

I knew that.

All that driving stuff with the Medello, that happened in two days.

Paul's Paul's like, all right, let's get a new car.

Let's get some sort of a building for him to have this system.

We just went on a little road trip for the movie because Paul's open to that.

You know, I mean, he's not.

A lot of writer directors, I feel like, are very rigid in exactly what they want their film to be.

He let us, the actors, really shape the characters and just said, all right, let's go somewhere else.

Crew, we're moving out west.

Go.

That had to be so refreshing, man.

And that's so fucking cool.

That's got, I mean, that's got to be not only a badge of honor because he trusts you guys and your professionalism, but that had to be like refreshing coming from other sets.

I'm assuming.

Hey, he trusts me driving that car going 35, 40 miles an hour with this guy, our protagonist, LD,

sitting on the edge of the window.

And I'm driving.

Every now and then he will look at me like this.

Hey, are you okay?

You know, it was that eye contact right before.

Yeah.

But, but, you know,

he trusts his actors a lot.

Yeah.

I was going to ask

who signed on to this one first between you two?

I did, man.

I did.

I got to.

Paul is interesting.

He's, he starts like a conversation with you.

You don't know if you're doing a movie or not doing a movie.

He's like, let's go have dinner.

I'm like, all right, cool.

Let's go have dinner.

We're out in Tarzana, some strange restaurant.

Just starts talking to you.

Then he took us both to dinner, starts talking about ideas.

Then he'll maybe whisper about something that he might be involved in.

You're like, okay, give me a call when that happens.

Then four months later, there's another dinner, right?

And then I get a picture.

This is the character you're going to play.

And he sends me a picture of a tiger.

You know, it's a poster.

It's a tiger dressed in a judo kimono.

And that's sensei.

Yeah.

And I'm going, okay,

I get it.

Okay, I get it.

I get it.

Oh, yeah.

There's hints of that throughout the movie, too.

I remember seeing that in the...

In the apartments.

Benicio, are you an actual sensei?

Do you do martial arts?

No, I did a little bit when I was younger.

I did a little bit of taekwondo and i did a little bit of judo okay which uh judo was kind of like interesting uh there's a couple moves there's a couple moves you know the sweep that is like it can get you out of a lot a lot of jams but uh

but i'm not a sensei i'm not a sensei leo i gotta ask you about the taser scene that was a little bit too good acting dude like you beat me to it dude

you gotta ask have you actually been tased before did you gotta have felt that to be able to do that that good.

I just felt the shock of what it must be like.

But no, that was not real.

Watched a few YouTube videos.

A lot of people are like, did you do your own stunts?

I'm like, hell no, I didn't fall off that roof, man.

I would not be sitting here.

I was in tears, dude.

I would not be sitting here.

I was in tears, man.

That was the cool thing about this character.

Every time we got up to the point where, okay, when does Bob do something heroic?

And we just were like, nah, let him fuck up with this.

Yeah, yeah.

He's just, he's on his couch getting stoned.

And then he finds out his daughter's gone.

He's paranoid, man.

He's not going to be able, he's not going to be mobile enough to pull anything.

All the way to the end of the movie, we still didn't have what the ending was going to be.

You know, we're like, is this where Bob does a heroic moment?

And then Paul right there is like, no.

What you did is moved on to the next generation.

She has to accept the trauma of your actions.

You're going to do nothing heroic except be her dad and say.

And never give up.

Yeah.

fucking brilliant man is it harder to act like you've been tased or high on qualudes what's harder there

well i gotta say that qualude sequence i didn't know when i was shooting it but we were there for three or four days i thought it was like a couple shots and marty had 50 shots set up for me crawling around up and down stairs falling getting into the car i was like damn i didn't know this the tased thing was like 20 minutes we were all right there you go yeah

boom nailed it you guys have both worked with obviously we already talked about the two

Anderson directors, but Martin Scorstesi, Steven Spielberg.

Is there anything that

all these guys have in common in terms of all the greats you guys have worked with?

Is there one common denominator?

What would you say that one common denominator?

I would say that the ability to listen, to collaborate.

I think the ones that I

that I've that I consider like

greats,

they will listen,

They're willing to collaborate.

And,

you know, some less than others, but I think that, you know, I think it would be like a coach, you know, that listens to what you're on the field.

Yeah, exactly.

You're playing it.

You can sit on the sidelines and, you know, and imagine what it would be like, but it's different when you're walking the line, you know.

So I think that the directors for me are the ones that will allow you to like, that will listen to what you say regarding the actual game you know and i i would just add that you know some directors you have to fit into a context or a perception of a world they create you know what i mean there's a lot of plots that are hard to unravel that are very intricate that doesn't allow a lot of movement but Even those directors,

if they allow you as an actor to say, you know, Scorsese says this all the time, I don't care about plot.

I don't care about plot.

He goes, I want to go with the emotion of what the actor does because that, that's the story to me.

Sometimes it could be less, sometimes it could be more.

But those are the, when I watch a movie, those are the moments that I remember.

You know, I don't think about, oh, this happened in the plot.

That happened.

I was like, that moment with those actors, that felt like real life to me.

It's funny.

It's crazy.

Joe Pescian, good fellas, that moment.

He's trying to capture those moments of real life that make you, I don't know, that make you feel something, that, that make you feel like you're a part of the story in a way.

I mean, every every movie is different, every story is different, every co-star is different.

So, imagine you guys playing with a different team and a different coach almost every other game.

The actor has to be flexible,

you know, because otherwise you'll break.

On the flip side, is there a common denominator for the actor to have for like all these different directors?

I mean, you guys have been with some of the best directors ever to do it.

You know, is there a common denominator for you guys that you like you go in knowing that you, I don't know you've you've kind of you have your style of acting but is there any like bend in in in how you approach things depending on who that who that director is yeah I think for me yes for me yes I hey the bottom line is you have to be prepared yeah you know you can't expect a director to be there for you if you're not there for them too so you have to do your preparation your you know whatever it is understand the story where you are in the story because a lot of movies are shot you know out of order so i think that you know there's there's a lot of things that go into play but i think you know you have to also be prepared it's like condition training we got to know our lines that's like the basic fundamentals go in there know your lines and you know you're going to adapt to different actors and the and their style of doing things you know some people want to go more by the script.

Some people, for example, like Jonah Hill.

I mean, this guy's the greatest improvisational actor I've ever worked with.

The guy will

take the scene off to left field, and you got to somehow reel it back in and understand what the hell.

We have an ending to this scene.

You know what I mean?

This character's got to get from point A, and Jonah Hill will just talk about whatever the hell he wants.

And you just got to react.

You got to be on your toes.

You know, there's different actors.

in all these different films that have different approaches.

But I'm sure there's a bunch of magic that happens when Jonah does that.

And like, I think, I don't know, there's so many similarities when hearing hearing you guys talk about directors and coaches and teams in football.

And that's how us two idiots think about the world.

But like, you know, the best coaches find ways of creating structure and putting in plays, but at the same time, allowing the personality and the uniqueness of their individual players manifest through that, right?

Like, that's when it becomes special is when you have guys who are talented.

And like, how can we utilize these guys to their strengths?

Travis Kelsey, Pat Mahomes, and all that.

So it just rings so true.

And it also makes, not to crap on any director-specific style, but as a player, I just love when you get input and you get ownership over what is being created, right?

Like that's what always makes me feel much better about it.

And that sounds like exactly the way this movie went down with you guys.

And that's got to be just like such a great feeling to know that this thing's coming out and the world's going to see it.

And that you are such not just a part of being an actor, but a part of actually making the creative piece in a more holistic way right yep part of a team part of a team let me ask you guys a question are some of these coaches way more structured and rigid and other ones allow you to improvise more how does it work or is it leo there are some assholes out there man

i've had the fortune of only playing for one coach jason he's gone through uh the a handful of them so he's got a he's got a bunch of different understanding of it all i guess yeah go ahead jason well just between college and the pros and i was fortunate I had one offensive line coach in the NFL.

And I've been, listen,

I'm a good teammate.

I'm a good player.

I've liked, in some capacity, every coach I've ever played for.

There's things you like about every single one of them, and there's things that you wish were different.

But I just, I've been a part of the micromanaging coaches that want everything done their way and militaristic.

And I just don't think that that leads to much creative, like it just doesn't ever become what it, the maximum potential that it could be.

And the coaches that know how to

like get the most out of people and how to motivate them, let their personality show.

There's something Andy Reid, that's one of my favorite things.

He always says, like, let your personality show.

He wants his guys to go out there and be themselves because you know he's going to get the best version of them.

Instead of trying to make them fit this specific thing, let's find a way to incorporate this guy into the offense.

So it's, it's just done and it feels better.

It sounds like acting, man.

There you go.

Welcome to Hollywood.

There you go, baby.

It's exactly like that.

I will say this,

Coach Reed came in to Kansas City and he kind of had to break a culture.

So my first taste of Coach Reed was very much, you're doing it this way.

You're doing it this way.

And once we kind of recreated that culture into where he could trust us and we could collaborate and we could make it, that's when we really got the train rolling and started to have a bunch of success, as well as getting a guy like Pat Mahomes.

Everyone starts on that totem pole of like, you're going to do what you're told to do right now.

And then as they get to know you, as they get to know your strengths, then you start getting, like, you know, they start giving a little bit more.

Like as stout start, my offensive line coach starts to understand me and we start talking the same language.

I feel more empowered to be like, hey, what if we did this, this, and this?

And it's like, hey, that's a good idea.

I like this.

Let's start.

Let's try it out.

And then it's just it starts developing into a relationship at least you asked

yeah i don't yeah sometimes you you can't ask you know you just gotta earn your rights you gotta earn your rights and party yeah there we go here we go baby oh god

baby here we go you know baby yeah i was saying that sometimes the bullets are flying and you can't ask you just got to do it you gotta just go induit them in the middle of a whole situation you can't you gotta do it yeah yeah and some some directors are like very structured too.

And you got to find your way within their structure.

Yeah.

Some of them are rigid like that.

They have a playbook of exactly how they want the stories to go.

And there's not a lot of room to play in that.

But I think the funner ones, funner movies to do are the ones where you get to come in with your own ideas and

change stuff around.

And, you know, you know, there's something about having an experience, right?

So you work with an actor like Leo.

For me, he's been around for a while.

So I know we can, we can move, you know, a look will mean something.

You know, you know, if he wants to go again, I'll get out of the way.

So he goes again, you know, so there's that.

And that helps a lot sometimes.

But we had the experience of working with a lot of non-actors in this film.

And it was kind of funny because I think that helped Leo and myself

bring bringing the energy.

and getting these non-actors to get behind us and believe what we're trying to make them believe.

And it was really funny.

They jumped right in line.

They didn't came in and

it set the tempo for Leo and myself that we were both like

part of a team.

You guys ever gone off script and had a director looking at it and it's like, Come here, son.

Come over here.

Oh, yeah.

Get over here.

Don't ever do that with the football ever again.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I had a director once come up to me and say, don't ever take off an article of clothing while you're talking.

Why is that i guess for the sound oh for the sound because the mics because it mics

audio guys yeah audio well i don't know but it was like wow what the hell do you guys have like a a welcome to acting like we ask athletes this and it's kind of like when you first start get started Like I was playing with Michael Vick and I grew up watching Michael Vick.

And it was just like a holy shit moment for me that I'm actually playing football with this guy.

When you guys first got going, like, were there any holy shit I'm on set with X or I'm doing a movie here, or I'm a part of something.

Like, what were your guys' kind of holy shit moments for acting?

Like, holy shit, in a positive way, or like, a holy shit,

whatever stands out, you know,

I probably had more negative ones than I had positive ones.

I remember auditioning when I was very young.

I was like a child actor.

My stepbrother was an actor, and there were these acting agents that would line you up like cattle.

And they just go, and I was a break dancer.

I'd break dance for like money money on the streets sometimes.

I had like the step haircut.

Oh, let's go.

Let's go.

I was like, Yes, yes, no.

And they look at me, no, and then a yes, yes, yes.

And they all got agents.

And I remember saying to my dad, this is horrible.

This is, and I went back and they did it again.

Yes, yes, no.

No.

And I just remember my dad saying, you know, someday you're going to have your time, son.

Just keep at it.

Keep at it.

And then, you know, I got to do, oh, and then another thing that was funny.

I first got my, these aren't holy shit.

I'm just thinking about my whole.

No, this is great.

This is holy shit to me.

This is holy shit for those agents.

Those agents right now are like, what the fuck are we taking now?

And then they gave me my, you remember your first photos that you had headshots.

Yeah.

And they said, your name is too.

I finally got an agent.

They said, your name is too ethnic.

I go, what do you mean?

It's Leonardo DiCaprio.

They go, no, too ethnic.

They're never going to hire you.

Your new name is Lenny Williams.

I said, what is Lenny?

I was 12, 30.

I said, what is Lenny Williams?

We took your middle name and we made it your, now you're Lenny.

And my dad saw this photo, ripped it up, and he said, over my dead body.

Really?

Or Benny Dell?

Benny Dell?

Benny Dell.

Mr.

Dell.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

That's Chris.

Benny Dell.

Lenny Williams, Benny Dell.

Benny Dell.

Let's go.

This podcast would not be the same with Lenny Williams and Benny Dell.

I'll tell you that right now.

That WWE intro would not sound the same.

But that moment that you were talking about of, oh, shit, I remember seeing it, and it brings us back to one battle was the first time i saw i met sean penny you know he was he was that that young actor that i was always going like i want to have a i want to do movies like he does the type of movies he does and i think was uh for me was sean penny yeah

it'd be cool working with him on on this one man yes yes i mean i didn't get to i've known him and i i've been in part of his films uh when he directed but you know he was that oh shit this is sean penny i'm gonna go mine mine was de De Niro.

Yeah, mine was De Niro.

That audition with De Niro that I had.

That's so fucking cool, man.

Are there any other career milestones that you guys are thinking about?

Like, I mean, we asked this to like Brad Pitt, and ironically enough, he said his the next thing he would want to in his like career is to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, which is just like hilarious that he would, now we're talking to you guys, making a Paul Thomas Anderson film.

But what is like, yeah, are there any bucket list career items that you guys want to knock off?

There's a lot.

Yeah.

There's a lot.

I mean,

I'm getting one soon.

I'm going to get to work with Scorsese again.

And to me, that man is a national treasure.

He's the greatest director.

I just feel so damn lucky to be able to do it.

Yes.

Hey, maybe you can call him for me and say, hey, bring Danny Dell.

I didn't get this up and coming.

Benny Dell from the Bronx.

Benny Dell from the Bronx.

That does sound like a Scorsese actor.

Benny Dell.

Benny Dell.

Well, let's get into this last segment, guys, and get you out of here.

We appreciate you guys.

We got one more segment called

We Gotta Ask.

You don't have to answer.

You can tell us the fuck off, but we gotta ask.

You don't have to answer.

This is a sports podcast, so we gotta ask, what is your greatest athletic achievements?

I mean, you can't compete.

I guess we'll say competition.

I played basketball in high school, and I got, you know,

I played varsity since the freshman.

So I came before

me.

We're the same.

Yeah, yeah.

Let's go.

I have your hands, man.

I don't have your hands.

I have your hands.

I'll be in the NBA.

Freshman on varsity, baby.

Yeah, I never made any varsity anything.

Tried to in basketball, but me and my friends are too short.

I say it wasn't any big,

big achievement, but we went back to play those varsity guys a few years later.

They were destroying us.

This is like, you know, a half court game.

Three pointers in our face over and over again and i just said to my buddy alex i said let's go back with the fundamentals let's be bob coozy and jerry west

we started to whistle the globetrotters theme i was like pick and roll baby pick and roll we did that

and we're doing it so obnoxiously we actually found a way to win this game

yeah let's go we were little

yeah pick and roll

Let's get to the rim, baby.

Is there a greatest sporting event you guys have ever seen in person, a favorite sporting event?

Kobe, Shaq, Trailblazers, The Lob.

I think that was to win the Western Conference Finals.

God, that is unbelievable.

And then I got to be there for Michael Jordan's last shot in Utah Jazz.

That one.

That was incredible.

Those are two fucking bangers, man.

We had Shaq on, and he said that that was his favorite dunk of all time.

I mean, that is.

The whole stadium just shot up into the air.

I remember that.

That was an incredible moment, man.

Did you see anything from you?

You know, I'm thinking, yeah, well, I did go to, I think it was 1980,

and it was the Sixers versus the Lakers.

And it was Magic Johnson was the finals.

I think it was game four.

It's the famous game that Dr.

J does that shot.

No way.

The scoop?

The scoop.

You saw that

live.

The wow is sitting up there.

Yes.

That's another.

Oh, man.

You

It feels like slow motion every time he does it, too, man.

He just floats in the air.

I think it was May 11th, 1980.

Damn, you got the news.

Yeah, I got the day well because I got the picture of the, of the shot.

Yeah, that's pretty cool, man.

That's epic, man.

Damn, those are, those are some bangers.

What's on your guys's Mount Rushmore of movies?

It could be ones you've been in.

It could be one.

Travis put put himself on his own list of Mount Rushmore football players.

What do you mean?

Oh, here comes the brothers.

He's a very modest.

He's a very modest man.

I've always wanted to be on Mount Rushmore, okay?

Mount Rushmore of movies.

I got to say, I got to say East of Eden with James Dean.

I saw that when I was 14.

I got to say Taxi Driver with De Niro.

Scorsese.

2001 Space Odyssey.

I don't know.

I feel like we're doing our greatest four of all time.

I'll just go with

the movie that I saw when I was a kid that really impressed me was Papillon.

Papillon was amazing.

Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.

You've seen that?

I know.

I'm going to have to go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

Poppy on the list.

Papillon.

And then I think

you mentioned on the waterfront.

On the waterfront.

Incredible.

Marlon Brando.

Marlon Brando.

Marlon Brando.

Marlon Brando.

Let's go, baby.

We kind kind of heard Leo mention that he saw a movie and wanted to become an actor.

For both you guys,

was there ever a specific moment or a specific movie that you guys watched where you knew that that was like, man, I want to do that one day?

I wanted to be an actor very, very young.

I remember.

I remember being four, five years old, and I'm like.

Found out you could get an agent and like do it professionally.

And I just started begging my parents, take me to auditions, take me auditions.

It was a very strange thing.

I used to imitate my parents' crazy friends that would come over to the house and do imitations of them all day and play characters.

And I was like, you could do this for a job?

I mean, I don't need to go be an accountant or a travel agent.

I can actually do this for a job.

And I was kind of like the pusher.

I was the stage child.

You know, they have like stage parents that are like.

you have to go do this go to this i was like mom get me an audition drive now you knew you knew i knew i was like i got to get out of this neighborhood i gotta go

I love it.

I guess for me, you know, I came into acting a little bit later.

I came to acting when I was a freshman in college.

And I think I remember seeing Raging Bull.

Yeah.

And I grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

And so,

you know, it just reminded me of people I knew, you know, the Italians, you know, the Latin thing.

And I just, that movie really like, it's just like De Niro and Pecci and Kathy Moriarty.

I mean,

everybody in it.

It was so incredible, that movie.

Yeah.

Mine was East of Eden, I think.

I saw that very young.

Rocky was also kind of like, I remember seeing Rocky

and doing the egg thing.

Oh, yeah.

And I was maybe 10, you know, or nine, you know, just doing the egg thing and puking.

Yeah.

Not as good as Rocky.

Not as good.

Not as good.

Not as good.

Yeah.

Leo, once and for all, we got to know who's your team?

Who are we rooting for?

We got all these pictures.

We got all the multiple sports like is there is there a specific one we're going for you know it's funny uh absolutely not no i got no i got no team no loyalty no loyalty to anything i'm a lakers fan that's okay absolutely what i could say but the hats always just were like oh well that's a cool symbol that's a dope hat and i just started doing that my whole life i don't know different college teams different football teams different bass not not a lot of different basketball teams do you have some favorite ones that are just because i'm the same way Like the Oakland Athletics, the hat, I just love the way it looks.

It's just so awesome.

Classic.

Seattle Supersonics, like that, like jersey and color combo.

I used to love that one.

I don't know.

What's your favorite you're going with, you think?

I don't know.

I like the KC one.

I like the Raiders hat.

I like the Raiders' hat back in the day, but now I just wear LA.

There you go.

Yeah.

Can't go wrong.

Well, you had, what do you have?

You had a Bulls.

I had a Bulls hat on the other day.

Yeah.

Like a classic, like an old school Bulls.

Old school Bulls, yeah.

That's what I'm talking about.

I'm all about the old vintage flat brims

from the 90s.

Any 90s hockey, basketball, or baseball logo, I'm all in on it, man.

Kansas City is a good one.

Yeah, Kansas City.

Yeah, that's a good one.

They're not changing that thing anytime soon.

No, they no, I have a vintage one from the 80s of Kansas City.

Yeah.

Football, yeah.

Oh, it's cool.

Come on out to Arrowhead.

Yeah.

Come on out, baby.

I'd love to.

Yes.

Get this thing rocking rocking for you, brother.

Let's go.

What's the best note a director has ever given you guys?

I guess I had a director, I think it was Oliver Stone once.

I was doing a scene and he comes up to me and he goes, penetrate.

Penetrate.

Yeah, you're staying on the three-point line.

Penetrate.

Bring it in.

Get in there.

Yeah.

And

I thought that was cool.

You got to get into the paint, baby.

Yeah, get into the paint.

Get dirty, baby.

Yeah, I think when we're talking about, I guess I told a whole bunch of negative, oh wow moments, right?

No, no, no, but my big oh wow moment was being able to do a film with De Niro called This Boy's Life.

I was 16 years old.

That was like my, I can't believe I'm on set from coming from television doing this great show called Growing Pains, but then damn it, you're on a set with Robert De Niro, you know?

Yeah,

the seriousness, the focus, just the whole, the way I remember walking, the whole set went quiet.

I'm like, what's everyone so nervous about?

I mean, Jesus Christ, let's joke around here.

I was like, you know, and then to watch this guy's focus.

And I remember I had like a scene with him where I needed to like step up.

And I remember the director saying, watch him.

He goes, pain is temporary.

Film is forever.

Pain is temporary.

Film is forever.

I was like, got it.

That was like the note that I was, that

hit me the hardest.

Leo, I got to ask one of my favorite movies of all time.

You've been asked this a thousand times, but I got to ask.

One of my favorite movies of all time is Shutter Island.

Oh, cool.

Do you absolutely,

does he know?

Does he know what's happening at the end?

You know, I think Score says he wanted that to be open-ended.

Open-ended.

I got my answer.

Yeah.

I got my answer.

I'll tell you what my answer is.

My answer is he couldn't deal with the pain of what had happened to him, and he decides to go in and sort of end the pain.

You know, he couldn't deal with it.

He has that look back at the end of it where it's like, yeah, he knows what's happening.

That was my answer.

But, you know, these directors don't like to

keep it obscure.

Speaking of open course, we got one last question for you guys.

We get asked all the time.

Jason was a former linebacker, turned offensive center.

I was an ex-quarterback, turned tight end.

We get asked all the time what it would have been like if we would have switched positions or if we didn't switch positions.

So we wanted to ask you guys if you could act in one role

that the other person had starred in.

Who would you want to be, you think?

Damn.

That's a good question.

Yeah.

I mean, Sicaria was that would have been a cool thing.

Okay.

Traffic was amazing, but Sicario, that guy was vacuous.

You see him?

Vegas.

I was going to watch that.

I like to watch that.

Kill him in front of his family.

Ah, shit.

I would say, I would say, Wolf of Wall Street.

Oh, yeah.

There we go.

Good answers.

Good answers.

The breakdance is finally coming.

Gosh, that's amazing.

Dudes, thank you so much for this.

This was a fucking blast, man.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you guys for blessing us with this movie.

This movie is so badass.

Cannot wait to see how the world reacts to this thing.

But I got to go see it in the theaters, too.

You got to tell me to go see it in the theaters, man.

Oh, yeah.

In theaters, don't wait for this thing to come out and watch it from your living room.

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So, but you go watching the theaters.

Be a fucking, come on.

Support the movies.

Support your local theater.

Hell yeah, man.

It's a fun.

It's the best, dude.

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Get some cavities.

Where are you going to get cavities if you don't go to the movie theater?

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Yeah, baby.

Are you freaking out?

You're freaking out.

I don't know.

I don't know what it is.

Those guys were fucking amazing.

They're cool, man.

I fucking love cool.

They thought you were cool.

They said we were cool.

They said it.

They said it.

I think they're just pros.

I think they're just pros.

They do not know.

They get good reviews.

They get, oh, if we say they're cool, they're going to be like, oh my God, I thought it was cool.

But they're going to like us, but they don't know that I already love him.

They didn't know that.

I was talking to some incredible actors that I have no business talking to.

No, no fucking stuff.

I just feel like every time I'm interviewing somebody like Leo or Brad or

yeah, I just feel like Chris Farley in those like SNL scenes where I like

so remember,

and I want to bring up all of these like career achievements while we're talking to them.

We're also trying to be, I mean, the movie that's coming out Friday is going to be spectacular, but I also want to ask about like all these other movies and things.

And it's like, how do I do this without sounding just like the biggest fanboy of all time?

And dude, it's difficult.

Sometimes you just got to fanboy it up, man.