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Man, just him talking about his favorite line that he ever, like him talking about he's you take that, you turn it sideways and shove it up your candy.

Shove it right up your candy ass.

No good, man.

That was a good part.

That was a good part.

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I feel like that tree is not as pushed upon as some other ones these days.

That makes Japanese maple so unique, though.

What is why Kylie loves them?

What?

That they're not like a part of the big industry of uh

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i don't even know what it's called but you know what i'm talking about all righty chiefs 30 lions 17 sunday night football

football listen this was a game that i think the entire country was looking forward to watching lions obviously started off the season a little sluggish against the Packers, but they had been really kicking ass and taking names the last few weeks.

Facing off against the Chiefs, who had really started to find the rhythm, even though they lost the previous week.

That offense was turning around.

Give us your thoughts, Travis.

Initial thoughts on the game.

Four quarters of great football, man, all three phases.

It looked like in the second half they were shutting down the run and getting to the quarterback.

And we haven't had, you know, or at least a lot of people have been saying we haven't been able to get to the quarterback my guy charles a menu who gets in there chris jones is getting after him yeah um and it's just the dbs are all you know locked down coverage where they need to be and uh you know when the defense is playing like that and pat mahomes is out here texas gunslinger just

just shooting it all over the field man it's the best man That's the best.

And we were rocking and rolling.

Had a few big plays on special teams that got us going.

And

that's a tough Lions lions team and i felt like we got we got after them in the run game and in the pass game and um and guys were downfield blocking for each other man the energy right now in the building is electric man and uh it's some of the one of the most fun teams i've ever been on yeah that was you know watching it you're talking about all three phases competing and and doing great for all four quarters the defense was i mean they detroit came out running that thing they were they were doing a great job they put together a great first drive but you're right the defense adjusted They kept fighting.

They freaking, nothing really came easy.

And I think a lot of times the Lions get these big, huge, explosive plays.

And the defense tried to make them earn it the entire time.

And they had a couple big fourth-down stops.

They, uh, they, they had a, uh,

the second half, it felt like they neutralized the running game a little bit better than they did in the first half.

Yep.

Nick Bolton mentioned potentially having some tips.

Like, it felt like they kind of had a little.

I don't know if we should mention that.

Should we not mention that?

It sounds like they, they were, yeah, it sounds like they had had a good idea what was happening.

Yeah.

It sounds like they.

And that's the thing.

When you're whispags and you got smart players, man,

you're going to see these

whatever they are, these little ticks or these certain things that an offense is doing where, you know,

if they want to keep doing them, we're going to be able to get ahead of them.

Let's talk about the Chiefs' offense because that was the thing that I think everybody had wanted to talk about through the first, what, three weeks of the season.

And as of the last three weeks, the Chiefs' offense looks back, baby.

You guys are doing everything well.

And the one thing that I think stood out about this game in particular

was the ability to run the football.

It wasn't like a

Rico Dowdle, like unbelievable running

day for the Chiefs, but it was a consistent, efficient threat that you guys imposed your will.

I mean, this is a team we talk about, I mean,

kneecap biting, like,

bully, tough-nosed team, they were hitting, and you guys

took it right at it with them, man.

It was a that first half.

I mean, you guys are both running the ball really efficiently, imposing your will on each other.

It was a physical game.

Like, I think the first half went by like in a flash.

Yeah.

Like, before I know it, the first quarter was over.

Like, it was nuts.

Yeah.

That's got to feel good, right?

Yeah, you get rolling, and especially in the run game, man, it's just, it's like, it just feeds those big guys up front.

It just feeds them.

It gets them going.

It gets them playing a little bit tough.

You know what I mean?

You start working some double teams and they don't feel like they're just sitting on the island pass pro and

you can get these big 300-pounders on the attack and down the hill and moving forward and getting after guys, trying to demoralize them mentally and physically.

And it's just like

we got our interior three playing so physical and so well together right now with Kingsley.

Kingsley's coming in, man.

Yeah, exactly.

And Trey Smith and then on top of that Juwan Taylor's playing fucking outstanding we had we had a huge Jalen Moore steps up Jalen Moore steps up and has a fucking Aiden Hutchinson that's a big task baby and he answered the bell man hell yeah and I just feel like when those guys up front are are are rolling like that, man, it just makes everybody play that much more confident.

You know, Pat's not thinking as much about the line.

You know, he's seeing the field so clear right now and getting the ball out quick.

You stay out of situations that are hard to pick.

Like third and long is hard in the league.

You know what I mean?

Like it was interesting because the previous two weeks, and really three weeks, you guys had started to really hit the big play down the field.

And that's one way to stress a defense.

In this game, I mean, that really didn't happen.

You took a couple shots, but really the way you stressed him was by running right at him.

Yeah.

Right.

And then that got the play action going.

That got

you in good situations where you could do the quick passes.

You got a bunch of them where it was like even before the snap, like Pat knew he was going to catch and deliver it right to you.

Yeah.

And I just, yeah, and I think, I think that's a huge, you know, you got to throw it to Coach Reed and Matt Nagy on the offensive side that are calling these plays and put these plays in to give us an opportunity.

Just go out there and just play quick.

Yeah.

Play fast.

Make them feel the attention to detail and the alertness that we're playing with.

And

I think we're rolling like that and Pat's getting it to everybody right now.

You know, everybody's getting a chance to have the football in their hands, and everybody's satisfied.

And it's going to have to even be more of that now that we're getting Rashi coming back next week.

But

it's just so much fun when everybody's getting a piece of the pie, man.

Yeah, man.

Vibes look like they're pretty darn good for the Chiefs, a hell of a lot better than they were maybe three weeks ago or four weeks ago.

We got some stats, I guess, here.

The Chiefs are one of just two teams to feature four players with 220-plus receiving yards this year: Travis Kelsey, Hollywood Brown, Tyquan Thornton, and Jiu-Ju-Smith-Huster, all over 220 yards.

That's a very specific yardage.

Travis, can you explain

Edge?

It is.

Can you explain the Edge motto?

Everybody got to eat, baby.

E-G-E.

Everybody got to eat.

Okay.

I think Rashid might have started that one.

And it might have been a little sneak preview on what's going to come.

Well, I mean, listen, Pat does it better than everybody.

So I'm watching this Atlanta game on Monday night, and it's pretty much Drake London and B.

John Robinson.

Like, listen, if you got those two guys, I'd probably just give them the ball too.

Like, I don't know what we're doing anything else for, but you look at a Chiefs' snap line, and every week it feels like seven, eight, nine guys are in this reception category.

And it's like, man, Patton is spreading that ball around.

Not a lot of tension.

You know what I mean?

Guys are getting first downs.

Guys,

Noah Gray had a huge first down.

Juju Smith-Schuster's, I think, had our longest play on a naked.

Hollywood Browns running out of touchdown celebrations.

I mean,

my guys say, fuck it.

I'm jumping in the stands.

You already know.

I only played it for one.

Oh, man.

It's so good, man.

Well, let's get to primetime Trav.

We talked about

LeBron stats.

Trav passed a legend, Jason Witten, in primetime receiving yards.

Did you notice you are now second?

You are second all-time in prime time receiving yards.

a very again another very specific category how's it feel to be the second all-time receiving yards for a tight end leader in

that category?

It means a lot because I feel like

I would love to see how many games Jason Witten played on prime time.

I mean, he's played for the Cowboys.

The boys are always on primetime.

They're getting primetime since the beginning of his career, you know, to the end of the year.

Listen, you've had a lot of primetime games too.

You're the fucking Kansas City Chiefs.

You guys are on every, you've played on every day of the week other than Tuesday.

Like, that's the only day you haven't played on.

We're America's team, Jason.

I'm saying you've had some primetime games, so don't act like you guys aren't getting opportunities.

You've had some opportunities.

What, uh,

who am I second behind?

You got to be Tony, right?

That's the only person that makes sense.

But he didn't have a lot of primetime, did he?

What are you trying to say?

He was on the Chiefs when they weren't very good.

The Chiefs,

when Tony was there, not the same as Chiefs of recent.

Oh, no, them boys was Cold and 03.

Who are we second behind?

Do we got that?

I got another brain.

I want to know who he is.

Take a guess.

Take a guess.

Take a guess.

Receiving stats.

Oh, it's only receiving.

It's not tight end.

It's just second.

ends.

Tight ends.

It's just receiving stats.

Who do you think it is?

Oh, Jerry Rice.

Jerry goes back.

Yeah.

Sorry.

I thought it was just tight ends.

All right.

That's an easy answer.

Thank you.

Receiving numbers.

How far behind of you're

miles.

49ers, they were in some prime time games.

You're miles behind Jerry.

Damn it, not miles.

Well, let's get into the game.

Trav, you had a bunch of catches.

One of the better games you've had this year.

Or actually, probably the best game you've had this year.

Six receptions for 78 yards.

I love a lot of these photos, man.

Take a look at this photo where you're being held up by like five different Detroit Lions, four guys.

Just look at your, did you look at your face in this?

There's an age to this face right there in the middle that is just

no, dude.

You know what this is?

You know what this is?

This was the first catch of the game.

And you know how

you're trying to finish.

I kind of, I get hit by one guy.

I kind of slide off of him.

And now I'm just like, I'm getting pinballed, but I'm keeping the feet moving.

And then I get held up.

Fall security?

Then I get held up.

Yeah, exactly.

There's fall security in a situation like that.

And then once I get held up, the stampede is coming.

I think I locked eyes with Trey Smith about to come and clean the pile.

And I was just like, brace yourself.

I'm like, hit me, motherfucker.

I love it.

No, man.

The big boys were finishing downfield, man, and I was just bracing for it.

Andy Reid was asked about your performance.

He said, we've been giving Travis Kelsey a lot of, what is this, Geritol?

Is that like an aging thing?

I don't know, man.

Coach Reed's the best.

He pulled one out from the

this is probably what is geritol.

Yeah, look at that.

It's got to be something with old people.

I don't know.

But it's like from like the 70s or something.

What about this?

How is your head feeling?

You fucking did a headstand in the middle of the game.

He caught me on, he caught me with a Charlie horse.

Caught you in the jump.

I got a Charlie horse more than I got anything going on with my neck.

All right.

Listen, landing on your head was interesting.

What the fuck were you you doing reaching for the pie line?

Did you think you were not down?

I'm just feeling stupid that I

the end zone.

So I'm just like, mother fucker, man.

You had been down for like four seconds.

Boom.

God damn it, Travis.

You're on the fucking one-yard line.

Get the goddamn end zone.

Stop jumping, man.

My favorite things of the game was that.

I just love the reach.

It's even worse.

They did it in a slow motion on the broadcast.

It made it look even worse.

You're right there.

Just,

God damn it.

Get in the fucking zone, Travis.

Holy shit, that was funny.

That was fun.

Too funny, man.

Kingsley Sumata took you out after the Hollywood Brown touchdown.

Yeah, that was fun.

Kings is the man, dude.

Everybody was just out there finishing downfield, man.

Listen, when you're in the end zone, it doesn't matter what's going on, man.

I love the way you fall on this, too.

Yeah, I was just like, fuck it.

Let's go.

You get a little, you get a

little extra shove on Kirby right there.

Can we talk about the hurry-up after the catch?

Is this smart football?

I think it is.

And I noticed it on the broadcast.

Well, it's definitely smart football.

And I kind of looked at Pat and I was like, so this is what I wanted to talk about because I saw you give like a very subtle, just like

something with your finger.

Whereas a lot of teams

will do like this big old, like this huge gesture, and that signals right away in the opposing coach, like, hey, they're trying to get this snapped off because he doesn't think he caught it.

A lot of times you'll see a challenge in that instance.

Do you guys talk about this?

Do you try to make it subtle, or is that something that you just did instinctively?

When I caught the ball, I felt the ball hit the ground.

And I'm not sure.

That doesn't mean I didn't have possession of it.

Correct.

You're just like, it's in my hand.

Ball hits the ground.

You know, it's like, okay, this is questionable.

I don't know if they're going to try and like,

like, at least give this a chance.

And now it's in, and now it's out of our hands.

And it's in no question.

You know what I mean?

So I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, it might be smart if we just did a quick, you know what I mean?

It's a first down.

Might be smart if we just get up here and go.

And I think everybody kind of felt the exact same way.

I'm not going to say it was like we did it because I was like, hey, yo, let's do it.

But I was even thinking what the coaches were thinking on that.

Usually the coaching point is if there's any doubt, right?

Like if you have to wonder, like, did I catch that or not?

You tell the guy,

don't even.

Just hurry up, get on the ball, especially if it's a first-down big play like that one was.

It did make me realize, like, how much the rules of a catch have changed over, like, the last 10 to 15 years.

Like, because I think

by the old standards of a catch, this was absolutely not a catch.

Because it used to not be able to touch the ground.

Like, the moment it touched the ground, they would call it like, hey, that's trapping, not a catch.

But now you really don't lose possession.

Like your right hand slips off of it, but your left hand maintains full contact and the ball doesn't enroll.

So like in my heart of hearts, do I think you maintain possession the entire way?

I don't think so.

But based on how we rule a new a catch these days, I don't think this would have been overturned if it was reviewed anyways.

And the official in the booth said the exact same thing.

Yeah.

I think, by the way, we were determined to catch today's standards.

I think that would have been upheld anyways.

But smart decision by you, regardless.

We also got you with the Dream Shake, as you're calling this.

This was your first catch of the game.

It wasn't the other one, right?

I thought you were the first one.

No, this is the first.

This is the first.

Yeah, this one was nice.

Yeah.

Nice.

Forgive us.

I'm talking shit on the sideline to the young guys that I know know nothing about 90s basketball because they weren't born until 2002.

Right.

And

I threw it out there.

It wasn't as Hakeem Elajuan dream shake in the post.

Somebody, you look exactly like it.

It was definitely the guy behind me and give him a little shimmy for sure.

I thought it looked exactly like it was like I was watching Elajuan play football for a second.

Shut the fuck up.

Look at that.

Shout out to Digi.

Kevin Gonzalez.

Is that Travis Kelsey?

Also had a little bit of this shake in his post-up game.

See, that was just me in high school, man.

Give me the ball in the post.

That's what I was saying.

They don't want to see me in the post with my back turn.

I was talking to somebody on Monday night.

I can't remember who it was, but they asked me, how does your brother feel that?

And I'm like, I think he just takes a picture before he turns around, like where those guys are at in his head.

And he knows timing-wise that they're going to be on him when he catches the ball.

And he just takes that little jab step.

Like, what is your thought process?

Like, what causes you?

Because you're not, you obviously can't see them.

What causes you to be able to do that?

Jason, I got eyes in the back of my head.

No, you're not Cam Scatterboo.

You don't have,

you can't see that well.

What?

I know exactly.

I look up at the Jumbotron right before I catch it.

I don't buy it.

I'm not buying that.

Could you imagine if I did?

There are guys that claim that, but I don't buy it.

I've looked up at the Jumbotron one time when I was running in the open field just to get caught.

Yeah, I can see that.

I can see that.

No, you take a mental, like you said, you kind of just feel the game.

I realize that, you know, who are the two closest guys to me?

You know, and

one was directly in front of me, coming down to play me into the flat.

And then there was one guy coming from the inside, inside out.

And how am I going to get this ball?

How am I going to get more yards?

How can I make these guys miss?

Or how can I make one guy over pursuit?

You know, and it's just,

you play around with that in practice.

Sometimes you get fucking smoked and it doesn't work and you got a five-yard gain.

Sometimes you, you know what I mean?

You make a guy miss.

Guys run into each other and you're getting 10 yards.

And

it's just playing and feeling the game.

And

yeah.

Well, it worked in this game.

It was funny.

It was a dirty little move right there.

Le Verry Hakeem Alajuanesko.

We got some records.

With 1,032 catches, Travis now has the 12th most receptions in NFL history.

We're on the LeBron stats right now.

Yeah, what are we doing?

Can we name the other top 11 most catches in NFL history?

Most catches in NFL history.

So let's go tight ends first.

So we got Jason Witten and Tony.

Is Antonio Gates still above you in receptions, or is he not?

I would assume he is, yes.

So let's say those three, those are the three tight ends above you, right?

Yeah.

Then we got receivers.

We got Jerry Rice, Randy Moss.

I'm thinking Randy, right?

It's got to be guys that played forever in the modern era.

So Jerry, Larry Fitzgerald, what's

Larry Fitzgerald?

Julio Jones.

Larry Fitz.

Yeah, Larry.

Not Julio?

It's got to be somebody that played with Peyton.

Marvin or

Reggie.

Reggie Wayne.

Or both of them.

I feel like Marvin was there longer.

Reggie had like the, was

pretty ridiculous, but Marvin was there, I feel like, a long time.

I don't think it's either one of them.

Trell Owens?

T.O.'s got to be up there, right?

He's got to be.

I'm giving you nothing.

You're on this list by yourself at this point.

Antonio Brown.

Tim Brown?

No, not.

Antonio didn't play long enough, I don't think.

I feel like Tim Brown played for a long time, right?

Yeah.

Megatron didn't play a long time, but he might be up there.

Now I just want to know.

Who are we missing, Britain?

Jerry Rice, Larry Fitz, Tony, Mervin Harris.

Yeah, Chris Carnes, one that we definitely should have got.

Tim Brown, we got Tara Owens.

Aquan Bolden.

Damn.

We said Andre Johnson, right?

You said him?

I think you did.

No.

No?

No.

Fuck.

That's one that we definitely should have got.

We definitely should have got Andre Johnson.

Let's go, man.

I got Keenan Allen right there too, man.

Let's fucking get that.

Keenan Allen coming up.

Man, Julio Jones isn't nowhere near that.

I thought he would be.

I didn't think so, yeah.

He played for a long time.

He did.

He did.

Is the plus mean they're a Hall of Famer?

What the fuck does this plus mean?

Yeah.

Yep.

All right.

That answers that.

Wood stats from Chase Snyder on Twitter.

Travis Kelsey before the release of Wood, Wood, four games, 15 catches, 188 yards and a touchdown.

Travis Kelsey after the release of Wood, two games, 139 yards and one touchdown.

That's hilarious.

I don't know why that's significant, but it's funny.

Is this a LeBron stat?

Patrick Mahomes, fastest to 300 combined touchdowns.

Yes.

Whenever you have to put a parameter on like the fastest 2x or like, that means you just made up an arbitrary number just to make make Jim have a stat.

Like, it's, I don't know what the

that's the definition of a LeBron stat.

Like, when you have to make up a statistic, that no, nobody would ever say the fastest of 300 combined TDs.

The only reason this is being made is that for somebody to have a talking point about the greatness of Patrick Mahomes.

We don't need this snap, but congrats, Pat.

Um, let's go.

Anything else from the game that you want to talk about?

Uh, I can't think of anything else, especially

nothing happened after the game of note, right?

No, I can't think of anything.

I'll say this, and you can tell me if you want to take it out or not.

I think that the game is a heated game.

Emotions get flared up.

It's a physical game.

You never want it to get to that level, especially when the game's already over.

But like, you know, at the end of the day, the NFL take care of the fines and suspensions and all that stuff.

Like, it is a game of emotion.

It's a game of physicality.

It's a game of passion.

And I don't want to, I don't really overthink this.

I think Dan Campbell handled it well in his press conference.

You know, I think everybody has handled it well.

I don't think less of anybody.

I damn sure don't.

And, you know, sometimes these things happen in this sport because of how physical and aggressive it is.

It doesn't make it.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

So I don't want to overdo any type of.

statement.

I don't even know if we should put that out there.

But regardless,

next week, the Chiefs have an in-division opponent uh we got little chiefs raiders actually raiders week baby let's go fire me up man

it's return for uh

somebody you guys have been long awaiting and anticipating uh as players and as fans rashi rice will be back in the lineup officially i'm just happy to get my guy back out there man you could put this shit in the fucking past uh rashi is such a good dude man when it when all this happened you know i i gave him a shout and let him know, man, listen, we know who you are as a person.

Don't let the world, you know,

you know, drag you through and make you feel like

you're any less of that.

And he's one of my favorite people

and one of my favorite teammates I've ever had in the building because of how he attacks the day, how he lives his life, his generosity and his work ethic, and how much fun he has playing this game.

And I'm just, I'm excited for him to get back to what he loves to do the most, and that's play football.

Listen, everybody makes mistakes.

This was a big one, and he served his punishment for it.

Exactly.

And you got to just move on.

That's the only way you can approach it.

You know what I mean?

And

we're about to get the most ferocious version of Rashid Rice, man.

I cannot fucking wait.

This guy has been sitting in meetings, listening to plays being dialed up.

And I just know he's ready to get in on the action with this man.

And he's one of the best

energy guys on the field.

He plays with passion.

He plays with physicality.

You can have him, you know, block in the run game.

You can have him, when he gets the ball in his hands, he's finishing.

He's running through arm tackles.

And it's just, he's such a vital piece to have outside of just being a great receiver, man.

And

I can't wait to get back out there and rocking with him, man.

And it's interesting.

He's coming back.

You know, I think when I was thinking about him coming back like three weeks ago, I was like, how much, you know, he can't just be back.

And I don't think it can just be the Rashee Rice show.

Like, as good as he is, I don't think it can be that.

That's not just going to be the fix.

But now with the way you guys are rolling and some of the players that have emerged between Tyquan Thornton, you're getting the run game going, you know, Juju Smith Schuster adds a lot to the game.

I really do think.

Like in the run game and all these little things, man.

He is an underrated piece.

He really is, man.

I know there's that picture of my guy going around, but it's, listen,

he's an agitator for sure.

And he gets after people in a lot of different phases.

Rashi coming in there is he's coming in at the right time, man.

It feels like a a lot of things are clicking.

Worthy's back.

You got the Razzle Dazzle plays back in the lineup, and now you're going to have this premier guy brought back into the building.

Oh, yeah.

It just feels like everything is clicking right now with the Chiefs.

I can't wait to watch next week and see what it looks like.

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Some of the other big stories around the league, starting with the Eagles, baby.

It's a tough one, man.

Oh, do we have to?

I'm sorry.

I'm just upset that now we have to talk about that Eagles game.

Listen, Jason, we don't.

All right, we're skipping it.

No Eagles talk.

Yeah, they're in fucking timeout.

No, get your shit together.

We'll talk about you on the show.

God damn it.

All right, here we go.

You got scattered booed.

We got darted.

You got darted.

It was hilarious.

All right.

Some of the other big stories from around the league starting with the Eagles, man.

The Eagles had a tough one.

Tough in division game.

Giants 34, Eagles, 17.

Jason, what's going on with the Birds, man?

You know, I think a short week.

They obviously came off a tough loss to Denver.

And a lot of the narrative had been, you know, the offense needs to get it going and get it fixed.

They've been prone to a lot of the three and outs.

I think the league leading percentage of three and outs, and the offense is just, at some times, it's really clicking.

And for halves, we're putting together great halves.

And then other halves, it just feels like it's either all or nothing, it feels like.

You know what I mean?

And it's a frustrating thing to watch.

You know, you need that consistency.

And they know it.

And they're out there trying to fix it.

But yeah, the short week,

you know, I'm not going to lie, going up against New York, you know, they're missing.

Neighbors went down a couple weeks ago with an ACL injury.

Slayton's out for the game.

They're missing their two best

options from a quarterback standpoint.

And I thought the Eagles defense and they would put up a much better performance.

And I could not be more wrong.

I didn't think that the Giants were going to do much offensively.

I did not think Dart was going to be able to throw the ball the way he did.

And I thought being one-dimensional against the Eagles is going to be hard.

And they weren't one-dimensional.

Dart threw the ball very well.

Now, the Eagles were missing Jalen Carter.

Yeah.

You know, Quinn Yan went down early.

And, you know, it's just.

The coverage wasn't great.

They were good at stopping their end the first half, but eventually everything just snowballed.

And

it was a tough game to watch as an Eagles fan and a a guy that is you know you know such a big proponent for for that team and those players in there and you know they they didn't play well that's the reality of it they they got

not only did they not play well but one of the things that was frustrating was just like you know

the energy difference if i'm being honest the the the the giants it's crazy how much that energy means everything how are we showing up to the ballpark today man stout says this a lot execution fuels emotion yeah and i know this as a player and you know this like when it's not going well, it's hard to have to find it, man.

You got to find it.

Exactly.

And that's what I think right now with that game.

And part of it's the way it unfolded, right?

Like the Giants were playing better.

The Eagles were not playing well in a lot of phases and they were getting frustrated as the game went.

So of course the energy is going to be different.

But I just, you know,

you know, Caxton Dart and Cam Scataboo, these guys right now are playing with this like this young, youthful enthusiasm that's excited to be realizing their dream in the nfl they're out there and you can feel the energy and emotion and passion with them and it's rubbing off on the whole team i mean jackson dark goes into the blue tent and people are going in there to try and get him they're like fuck no you're not concussed you can't you can't quit on us and it's just like man it was it was amazing honestly watching that and how many more tests you got to keep running can he count the 10 yes is he seeing double or is he all right is he following the finger?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Does he know we're in New Jersey?

How's his balance on his right leg?

We don't need the left.

We only need the right.

So, I mean,

I think,

and a lot of it comes down to the expectations, right?

Like

the Giants, I think they're one and four coming into this game.

They're starting like a rookie.

They're playing two rookies at two meaningful positions.

Like the expectations for the Giants are not great.

As long as they're performing well, it's like, hey, these guys are balling out.

The expectations for the Eagles are, I mean, it's Super Bowl or nothing.

Like, if we don't go back there, it's a letdown as far as the fan base and people are concerned.

I think that's the reality of it.

It's, and right now, they're, they're, they're falling short, and that is a frustrating thing as a player.

You want it to go well, but still early, but I hear you.

Right now, where the team is.

Well, right now, they're not playing up to what they need to.

And there's a lot of season left, and I got a ton of confidence that these guys are going to come now, especially after having a loss like that with a rejuvenated energy.

I think that, you know, I think the Eagles have got to get back to

playing with that energy, to getting things going.

And I know they've been hard at work.

They've had the mini-buy now to refocus a lot of this.

You're hearing the coaches feel like they are, I feel like the offense, a lot has been made about Kevin Coutullo.

I know that Eagles fans are going to like this.

I feel like it is getting better.

I feel like you're seeing some either more creative things.

I think you're seeing them get the Saquon in a better way, even though it's still not being executed perfectly.

And I anticipate that to continue to improve as the season keeps going.

Defensively, getting Quinn Yon and Jalen Carter back will be huge.

And I got to think Vic Fangio, one of the best coaches in the NFL, is going to get those guys right moving forward.

So, yeah.

It was a frustrating game to watch.

It was a frustrating game to watch as a fan and as a former teammate to a lot of these guys because you know where they've been.

You know what they're going through in these moments.

And it's, it's, you know, but at the same time, you know,

this is where great players are made, man.

It ain't when shit's going right.

It isn't when the whole world's telling you how great you are.

It's, you know, how do you respond when everything's against you?

How do you respond as a teammate when everybody's trying to separate you?

That's the biggest thing, man.

That's the biggest thing.

You can't let people fucking peel you apart, man.

And this is something you know so well.

You guys have just been through this earlier in the season, right?

You've been through it for a whole offseason.

You guys dealt with a bunch of this through the offseason, with the way the Super Bowl went, through the first couple weeks of the season, and now everybody's back on top of the Chiefs bandwagon, right?

This is when great teams, great players, and great leaders are tested when you're going through stuff like this.

And I look forward to seeing how they respond.

That's the reality of it.

Brandon

put a question on here.

I'm assuming Brandon did this.

Yeah, you never know.

Is it easier to play with no expectations?

I feel like

I've always had the most expectations on myself.

That's a great way to put it.

I've always put that Super Bowl or fucking nothing on myself.

I've always put that I have to be the best player in the world for my teammate, or I fucking, I need to find a way to get better.

In terms of the scrutiny of the expectations from the world,

I think it when I, when, when you first get into the league and you're kind of just,

you're, you're,

what is it you're you're living life and you're flying by the seat of your pants i think is the the phrase yeah when you're just when when you're having fun being in the nfl for the first time getting wins being on top of the world getting recognized for that i think that is such a

an easy feel because you don't know what's what's coming because the team the nfl is going to catch on to what you're doing and you're going to have to make adjustments i think there is a bit of yeah it's easy to do it once yeah

in a sense it's not easy to win win in the fucking NFL.

I'm not saying that.

Well, that's the bigger thing.

Yeah.

But yeah, go ahead.

In terms of getting those first wins, I think that's more

the easier task than to continue to stack wins, stack seasons,

and meet those expectations than it is to exceed maybe some expectations that you set for yourself when you haven't been in that boat.

You touched on two things that I think I really love.

One being the best players are internally motivated.

Like, if you're finding motivation from the exterior fan bases, making noise, whatever it is, you're never going to be one of the best players in the world.

That's just not the way it works.

The best players in the world want to be the best players in the world, and they can't live without being the best players.

Like, that's how they fucking operate mentally.

That's just the reality of it.

You're the hardest person on yourself, then anybody else can throw it down on top of you.

But I also think that

is it easier to play with no expectations or is it, I think part of this is a little bit of a fallacy where like it's easy for anybody to put one great season together, right?

It's not easy to have one great season, but it's easier to do one great season than to continually repeat on that great season, whether it's as a team or as a player.

Sustained excellence in the highest level of any profession is incredibly fucking hard.

You have to, it's incredibly hard to

continually find new ways to have success after everybody is trying to beat you in the NFL.

And the expectations only come once you've climbed the mountaintop, once you become a great player.

So, of course, it's harder once those expectations are out there to repeat because it's harder to have sustained excellence than just have a one-off fluke season or a few games.

Yeah.

I don't know that it's a fair question.

Yeah.

Like it's easier when there's no expectations because nobody is saying anything.

You don't have that on top of yourself.

Yes, that's true, but I don't know that it becomes actually harder because of the expectations.

I just think, you know, it's harder to keep rolling the dice and fucking hitting sevens every single time.

Like, eventually you're going to fucking hit a, right?

Harder to hit a six.

Yeah.

I was about to say that.

It's harder to roll the dice and continually hit the point, right?

Eventually, you're going to hit a seven, right?

The sustained excellence aspect of the NFL

or any top top of your field is extremely hard.

And it takes a dedicated work ethic and a great team and great leadership to continually come back to the table and win.

And all of you guys out there that just heard Jason give a fucking great speech about don't give up on the craps table, that doesn't mean go out and gamble tonight.

No, go gamble.

Go have some fun.

Just do it responsibly.

Yeah, I mean, it's harder from an outside noise thing with the expectations, but I don't know, man.

Fuck expectations.

I'm just trying to fucking win the win the day.

I'm trying to fucking

block outside zone

right here and fucking reach this nose guard.

That's my expectation.

Yeah.

I ain't focused on this other bullshit.

Literally.

A rough day for Philly last Thursday.

Obviously, the Eagles lost to the Giants, but the Phillies

got knocked out of the playoffs, man.

Extra innings.

Cities in history to have their NHL team lose, NFL team lose, and MLB team lose in the playoffs and be eliminated all on the same day.

Yeah, only been done twice, and it's both times it's been done.

Oh, no, it's both Philly.

Fuck.

Philly last Thursday, and then Philly also on October 16th, 1983.

Only two teams, only two times this happened in history, according to Greg Harvey, which we will take his word as gospel because that's what we do in these days.

What a time to be alive.

Yeah, I mean, there was something else in here.

You guys must have deleted it, but like, was Detroit's day of like the Lions?

What was it, Brandon?

You had it in there: Lions, Lions, Michigan.

Yeah.

And who else?

And Tigers.

And Tigers, which tells me you know nothing about Detroit because Detroit is way more riding with Michigan State.

You fucking dumbass.

No, I'm sorry.

This is definitely a Spartan city.

That's fine.

These fucking wine drinkers from Ann Arbor.

No, fucking Detroit is riding with Michigan State.

I'd like to apologize to the city of Detroit.

I'm sorry.

I'll wear that one.

That's on me.

That's my fault.

Sorry, guys.

Sorry about you, Tigers.

My bad.

Do we want to keep hitting on this game?

I mean, this picture is fucking high.

God.

I mean,

just two fucking lovable idiots.

I just think it's...

That's the best, man.

I fucking love this shit, man.

This is fucking...

God damn it, man.

This shit gives me fucking life, man.

Listen, man, I think...

These dudes just love some ball, man.

That's what it comes to.

They just fucking love some football, man.

And they love each other.

They love the team that they're on.

They play with high vibes, man.

They're playing their tail off.

Jackson Darts doesn't look like the biggest guy.

I mean, on the field with him, he's not a small dude, but

the style of football that he's playing where he's putting his head down and he's trying to run through grown-ass men in the nfl like this guy just fucking wants to get every single yard for his team you know what i mean and i agree i i i think

doing the exact same thing with every fucking rush that he gets he's he's he's looking for contact on runs and it's like what that does to like your team when you have success man it just it makes you it builds you man it just gives you

gives you the juice man when this when this whole first thing started happening i was kind of a i don't know if i was being a hate but yeah, we'll see where this energy is going.

Like, I don't know.

But I got to hand it to him, man.

Can we zoom in on this photo?

Look at this fucking.

You can't deny how the whole team has responded to this energy.

Like, they are all playing, and, like, it's infectious.

And the entire team has been energized.

Look at this fucking.

The face.

The face is so good, man.

This is the type of energy that, like, football, like just guys that love fucking playing ball.

Come on, man.

They're excited to do dumb shit.

Like, I'm going to go run through that fucking brick wall.

Who's man enough to do it?

I'm not.

Who's

I don't give a what front was it?

What uh, what coverage was it?

What did the linebacker do?

Coach, I just fucking ran straight as fast as hard as hard as I could and didn't stop moving my feet.

That's a fucking mentality that a lot of the NFL is missing right now.

And they lost it when they kind of got rid of fullbacks a little bit.

And that's the the kind of attitude this guy's bringing.

There was a great clip of, I think it was DeMario Davis giving this kid flowers and like kind of like, you know, saying like, dude, this guy's for real.

Like he, I fuck with him just because there's no backdown.

There's no quit.

And you need a guy like that.

Every team needs that guy.

Like the replacements.

We talk about it with Keanu.

You know, the fucking middle linebacker, right?

Like.

Everybody needs that guy that's like, yeah, you're going to ask me to do something really stupid.

I don't give a fuck.

I'm willing to go do this dumbass thing just with relentless energy, and I'm going to fucking attack everything in front of me.

Like, that's what fullback was.

That's what

every team needs, like, a guy like that.

And everybody loves that guy, especially when there's an energy.

I don't know why, dude.

This guy reminds me a little bit of Ezekiel Elliott.

Like, there's like an enthusiasm and an energy about him that is just, it's fun to watch.

And

I hope they lose every game as an Eagles fan, but I also kind of love watching it.

You gotta kind of

say it.

It is what it is.

You know, it's gonna do it's gonna make me, you know, when I, when Sunday at noon or

one o'clock Eastern time, like, whenever that time comes around, it's like, man, what let me see what the Giants got going on today.

Yeah, like, they fucking make me want to watch the Giants because how fun they, because of the energy they got, man.

It's a mentality that is oftentimes missed in today's NFL.

It's hard to find high-level, talented players that do not give a fuck if they're about to fucking KO themselves.

Yeah.

They're going to fucking keep coming.

They're going to be so much mental toughness.

Hey, sports science says it's not smart to run full speed into the middle linebacker with your head down.

Yeah.

Well, fucking

watch this, motherfucker.

Take your science.

You want to see something cool?

You can take it.

Take your science, turn it sideways, bend around and shove it right up your candy ass.

Cam Scandaboo's coming right up that thing, baby.

Oh, man, that was gold.

Thank you.

I love everything about it.

I really do.

Oh, zero filter, man.

You got to have a psycho.

You got to have a psycho, man.

You got to have a one or two or three or four.

You got to have a few, man.

Those meathead, just like, don't give a fuck what they're doing.

Like, note and having fun doing it.

Johnny Knoxville with shoulder pads on, just willing to fuck himself up for the team.

Yeah, quotes from teammates are hysterical.

He's genuinely an idiot from Gunner.

I don't even know how to fucking say this Polish ass name.

Gunar Oisłuski.

What the fuck am I doing, Brandon?

I don't know what this fucking name is.

I love how Brandon caught that stray.

We'll put it in here if we can.

He's genuinely an idiot.

Love that.

Jackson Dart, the first time we met, we said three words to each other.

Just head-butted each other.

They're just the Bash Bros.

This is just a reincarnation of the Bashbros.

And that's why the Bash Bros were so, that's why the Ducks were so fucking good.

Zero filter.

First time in a special teams meeting, he asked, what's our job?

Our job is to play with speed, get off the ball, and then this animal just goes, physicality!

And it just made

no sense.

No, it made all the sense.

But it does.

That makes it all the sins.

Don't let all these X's and O's get in the way of the fact that it...

What's Marshawn Lincoln?

Hey,

that's my favorite interview of all time.

Not too many people can take someone run through their face over and over and over and over and over

and over and over.

And after he says that, the guy says, Is there something more symbolic in that?

And he says, Run through a motherfucker face.

Not motherfucker.

There ain't a metaphor.

There's no fucking simile happened.

There ain't a pun.

I'm just fucking me and your goddamn chest.

And I'm putting a hole in that motherfucker.

That's what the fucking science says.

Dude, you're getting me fired up, man.

Oh, goddamn, that shit's cold.

All right.

Rest of the league.

Dolphins suck.

God damn it, man.

They might be cooked, man.

I just, even the, like, the, Mike McDaniels, like, like, press, Mike McDaniel's press conference is just like, he knows they're cooked.

Like, there's, like, zero,

there's, like, zero hope happening right now with the dolphins.

I just don't even know what to take of them.

And it's, you watch the tape and there's still like creative stuff being designed.

Like, it just feels like they are searching, man.

The line is struggling to block a lot of that stuff.

Uh, it's you know, it's I haven't been able to catch them uh

playing as much.

I just see the demeanor after games.

I'm just like, man, that's they're in a tough spot.

The demeanor's bad, and like, even not even just after games, Tua Tugovalova was telling the reporters that Dolphins players have been late and/or skipping players-only meetings in recent weeks.

What's a players-only meeting if the players aren't showing up?

Like, it's just

the janitor's in there and just he's the only one in the players' meeting.

Like, what the fuck are we doing?

How did that even, how does that even happen?

Typically, the players-only meeting happens after like a team meeting or something.

Hey, everybody, we're just going to stay in here and talk.

Like, how many players-only meetings are these guys scheduling?

Do you know what I'm saying?

Like, I'm so confused at like how this is like a thing.

Like, well, we had the players-only meeting Tuesday and everybody showed up.

And then the one on Wednesday, like, yeah, they should have used WhatsApp and got all on the same page.

We got an RSVP in there.

That's the problem.

And what guys were going to come?

It's all about communication, guys.

They're SMSing, and they need to get the WhatsApp.

You can use that across all your devices.

No excuse to miss the WhatsApp.

Players missing the players-only meetings.

It's fucking hilarious to me.

Damn it, man.

I fucking love Tua, man.

He's a good dude, man.

He's a great dude.

And he's pointing it out.

Like, it's like

it's just not good.

Football nightmares.

Trent Williams shared, he has nightmares about about showing up late to games.

I get one frequently, oversleeping a game, pulling up at halftime, waking up in a sweat.

I mean, that's interesting.

Have you ever had a late

to a game nightmare?

Nightmare?

No, just like a real life

dream.

Yeah, I was living that dream, dude.

Reality.

Yeah, my reality is fucking being late and sweating on my way to the fucking stadium.

I can't say I ever had this nightmare.

is it bad like i don't remember my dreams i think it's a kelcey thing is that a kelsey thing like i don't i'm right i couldn't tell you the last dream i remember having do you remember waking up dad how funny is it to wake up we need to get that on camera and show the world what's what it's like to wake up like

every time you catch ed kelsey sleeping and you nudge him he wakes up like he is falling out of the sky

it's like what the fuck is going on in your dream that you can't just wake up gracefully i just don't understand it like he is a deep sleeper.

Dude, we got to catch this on camera because I don't think I've ever caught anybody else waking up like that routinely.

I used to add to it and like try and fucking scream or something when I was a kid.

I was just a torture dad when you sleep on the couch, man.

Fuck.

Like, was he doing it just to try and it felt like he's like trying to scare us?

Like, he was like, yo, don't do that.

Like,

he might have.

That's a that sounds like a deep sleeper.

Jets update, still winless.

Uh,

an amazing stat.

Justin Fields, negative 10 yards passing.

Fewest in franchise history, fewest in the NFL since the Bears had a minus 20 game against the Lions in 1981.

Um,

things got so bad, Kurt Warner started tweeting while he was announcing the game.

Oh, no, he's announcing the game, and he's that's hilarious.

Somebody, please explain that last Jets drive.

Not really sure what I just watched.

I just like he's watching it.

Like,

I need to know.

I got to crowdsource this.

I don't know what to even say anymore.

Jets Jake, can we get some, like, we got to bring you on, Jets Jake?

Our local Jets expert,

Jets Jake, also a social media expert, extraordinaire, Jake.

What's going on with the Jets?

From your expert, NFL perspective, what do you think is happening?

The defense is really bad at first.

Then the defense got better.

Now the offense can't do anything.

It's all really bad.

Garrett Wilson's hurt now.

He was like the only bright spot on the offense.

They've been running the ball pretty good.

Yeah, offensive line was playing pretty good.

They had, I mean, running the ball was the only thing that they could do.

And then people forced them to throw the ball and they got negative 10 passing yards.

So, yeah,

it's not fun.

I was so optimistic.

We cut that out of the episode a few weeks ago, but I was like, they're going to be over 500 by the by.

0-6 right now.

Are you talking about the after the first game where they almost beat the Steelers?

The only good game game they've had?

Yeah, I was super optimistic.

They've been in all of them just like they've been.

They had that one and then the one close game against Arizona.

Against Tampa.

Tampa.

Tampa.

They were close.

Yes.

Yeah.

No, it's been a real fun season to watch.

I'm glad I have your guys' team also root for it, but it's not the same.

Brandon asked me if I still care.

And

I can't not care.

Like, I've invested so much.

Shrieking.

Try it out.

It's great.

No, he's got a Jets tattoo.

He has to.

I don't.

Someone else does who we will have on the show.

Yeah, when do we are we having them on the show?

We promised so.

I know.

We just keep them.

He keeps getting but he got bumped for Leo, Keanu, The Rock.

Like,

he'll have his day.

All right, and that's enough.

That's enough bumping.

And this guy got a fucking tattoo.

We're not bumping him anymore.

I want him on the show.

I want his take on this negative 10-yards passing.

That's what I want.

Are they a Jets fan?

Probably not.

I think they just want to be a bit.

He's a Jets fan.

You just, you just got a tattoo of me.

There he is.

Riding the Jets logo which was a very humbling and honoring anyways either way it's been a fun year i love football football's great thanks for joining us thanks for jumping in and giving us your take appreciate it jake hold on wait one thing one thing get back in here jake i want to do one thing jake just because we've we've wasted time in the jets now i you got to give me something pick the first win oh boy oh wow pick the first win call your shot babe ruth point to outfield call it right now i mean uh do it this is good this is gonna look really bad really quickly if I'm wrong, but like Carolina has been horrible on the road.

I do think the 0-6 Jets could get away.

Like, this is why I care every week.

Call it next week.

I do think the Jets win that game, Carolina coming into Metlight.

So

lock it in.

See you guys next week.

We'll get an update next week.

Thank you.

Truly amazing optimism in the face of such horrid

evidence.

The ability of Jets fans to negate what they're observationally looking at is truly remarkable.

Thank you, Jake, for your input.

Thank you, Jake.

No problem.

We are officially a third of the way through the NFL season.

So let's take a look at where we're at so far.

All right, who's good?

Toughest division.

Toughest division might be the AFC West.

I don't know who else.

NFC North, probably.

Lions, Packers.

Bears got a big win against Washington.

There's a lot of bad.

What's happening in the NFL?

It is a crazy year.

I don't know what's going on.

There's not really any team that feels like they are like the juggernaut.

No.

Feels like it's wide open.

Bills losing last night.

Dude, nobody.

Lions looked like they were starting to get it done.

Then you guys go out there and get it.

I mean, the Chiefs kind of feel that way, but they're 3-3.

I just, I don't.

It's a wild year right now, man.

The Colts, the Colts are 5-1, but they haven't played anybody.

Like, I like the Colts, but I still got to see it.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know, man.

It's just a weird year.

it's wide open who do you think the biggest surprise is damian jones i don't think it's daniel jones man i know surprised i think everybody who who thought that daniel jones is going to go in there and through the first six weeks be the number one quarterback in qbr the colts would be five and one like i thought damian jones got a run around and he went into a great opportunity yeah i mean listen i thought he got a shit end of the stick great wide receivers a studded tight end right now okay but you thought it was going to look like this You thought it was going to look like this.

I don't know.

If you

no, come on.

I don't know.

Nobody thought it was going to be this.

I didn't have a thought.

Fair enough.

But at the same time, it's like it makes sense that he's going out there and he's winning football games.

I thought he was a better quarterback in New York than people gave him credit, but I definitely did not expect this.

He has far exceeded any of my expectations.

And I don't know who else has been the biggest surprise.

Like, I'm trying to think.

I'd say Seattle.

I didn't feel like you didn't think Darnold would be able to repeat Darnold, man?

A new first year coach, Seattle's kind of turned.

Is it second year?

My bad, Seattle?

They traded DK.

I'm like,

what does that team look like with the new quarterback and the second-year coach?

And sure enough, man, they're, I mean, I saw it firsthand in preseason.

I'm like, man,

this team's got juice.

This team can run the fucking football.

They got players, man.

They got dogs, a wide receiver.

They got my guy A.J.

Barner from cleveland ohio ohio football player at tight end baby let's go i mean listen they had a big win this past week i think um

they've been they've definitely been surprising um

trying to think of who else i thought the bucks would be great so that's not a surprise i guess i'm surprised the 49ers have been able to weather all these injuries and somehow be towards the top of the nfl like they've done a great job with that now they just lose fred warner

i mean it's like they get they get my guy george kittle back but that fred Warner.

Patriots got to be up there.

It's tough.

Patriots got to be up there.

I mean, Vrabel got them right quick.

They're playing good ball.

Drake May looks legit, making a lot of plays.

Not just, he makes on-schedule plays, then he scrambles around, makes off-schedule plays.

The poise and like.

That's what it is.

He's the calm and savages of him, man.

He looks like a fucking eight-year, 10-year veteran.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

It's impressive.

Ravens struggling as a surprise, but I think when you go through the injuries, it's not that surprising.

I don't know, man.

The whole year is a surprise.

It's just been wild.

All the teams I thought were going to be the competitive teams coming in.

It just looks like all of them are, you know,

they're losing games.

It's so wide open.

Coach of the year.

Who do we think is a coach of the year through the first quarter?

I mean, I'm a little biased, but.

Ooh, Andy?

Come on now, baby.

Come on.

Don't be a homer for once, Travis.

Andy Reed

is expected.

You guys are expected to go to the Super Bowl in your 3-3.

Do not give me Andy Reid as the coach of the year through the first quarter.

I love Andy Reid.

I love Andy.

He's the coach of my world.

I love Andy Reid.

Who's exceeded their expectations the most?

Vraves.

I think it's Vrabes.

I feel like even with the Colts, it felt like there's pieces in place, and Shane's done a phenomenal job this year.

I think the Patriots being good is the biggest surprise.

I did not think that they would be good this year.

I thought it was going to take longer for them to be good.

So I'll go with Vrabel, plus another Ohio guy to just give an award to.

MVP.

Let's go.

Northeast.

MVP.

I think it's a clear runaway through the first quarter of the season.

Pat Mahomes, baby.

Baker Mayfield.

No question about it.

I love Baker, so I'll allow that.

He's got a lot of great weapons, but he's also, I mean, this last game, like, everybody's hurt.

Mike Evans is down.

Chris Godwin's down.

Booga's down.

Bucky's down.

And he's still balling out.

He's still putting up over 300 yards, basically.

He's tearing it up this year.

Shake and bake, baby.

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Who we going with?

Who are we going with?

Who are we going with?

Who are we going with?

Who are we going with?

Who are we going back?

I'm going with my guy Jalen Moore, man.

Keeping it in the house.

Phil Vinn at left tackled the other day.

Has a brand new baby girl in the house.

I'm sure keeping him up at night.

I was born the day before the game.

Shout out to Jalen's wife.

And shout out to Jalen, man.

One of my favorite teammates right now.

Guy is fucking awesome to be in the building with.

Detroit's finest.

And couldn't be happier that he got his opportunity to shine on a little Monday or a little Sunday night football.

Make sure to ask Jalen if he's a Michigan or a Michigan State fan.

I'm going to say he's a state guy.

I hope he is.

I could.

I don't know.

Kind of losers as a Michigan fan.

Okay, state fans who went tarps off.

Did you see this?

No.

What's this video?

Tarps off.

Apparently, one fan went shirtless in the second half, and it grew to three full sections.

I mean, there's nobody at the fucking game.

Yeah, they're not very good this year, I don't think.

I mean, I can't award.

I love the no-shirts.

And this would be epic if it was packed sections doing this.

I mean, it's packed right there.

It's fucking packed.

There's nobody at the fucking game, Travis.

Bro, it's packed right there.

That section is packed, though.

I'm not giving this any love.

If it would have been bigger, I would have been all on board.

All right, Rico Dowdle.

I keep giving him the Himi.

He had,

again, Rico Dowdle went for more than 230 yards from scrimmage.

He's fucking killed.

What?

Two games in a row.

He's been fucking unbelievable.

Torched his former team, the Dallas Cowboys.

It wasn't even all like big runs either.

Like, it was a lot of like seven-yard, eight-yard, like, just like Man Mountain Dean coming downhill.

I love this.

He warned his former Dallas Cowboys teammates last week, they'd better get ready and buckle up.

And then after the game, they wasn't buckled up.

I wasn't buckled up.

That's okay.

No, they weren't.

Tess Johnson, one 45-yard touchdown reception and thought the crowd was chanting MVP for him.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, that's a funny one.

It's a funny one.

I'm thinking they're talking about me.

So I asked Shep, and he was like, yeah, I was like, I ain't do nothing this year.

And he was like, They talking about Baker.

No, he's not getting a stamp for that.

Texas AM

Police Twitter account.

What's this, Brandon?

You haven't heard about this?

No.

This is the Texas AM Police Twitter account that you need to follow on Saturdays because they just tweet out the various students being arrested at games.

So you get things like public intoxication, PA 102, unable to walk, given an opportunity to call a sober friend, but he locked himself out of his phone.

Arrested.

The best is the third one.

You got to read the third one.

Public intoxication.

Aggie Park contacted subject eating a sandwich with a water jug of whiskey.

The BAC was, you heard this right, 0.337.

My God.

Released to the EMA.

Jesus Christ.

Is that real?

I like this.

Yes.

The second one.

I had to look it up.

Anything above 0.30 is like alcohol poisoning.

100%.

And he still had the jug of whiskey in his hand.

He was carving up for the second half.

I'm not gonna lie, I don't like any of these.

Oh my god, Jason.

Arch standing then.

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I'm gonna do it because

I think they earned it.

I'm gonna give it to Cam Scataboo, the fucking reincarnation of like a human dog, if I've ever seen one.

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I just love the

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There's something so refreshing about the mentality.

Yeah.

There's something so refreshing about that.

Those are stamps.

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It's time for the conversation you probably have been waiting for this entire time.

Ladies and gentlemen, Keanu Reeves.

Our guest today is six foot one actor from Toronto, Canada.

New York Times ranks him as the fourth greatest actor of the 21st century, but he's number one in your heart.

You know him from The Matrix, John Wick, point break, speed,

adventure the replacements and many more and coming soon now his new movie good fortune

please welcome kianu riz

thank you thank you this is awesome dude keato you're a legend brother congrats on everything uh as of late and congrats on good fortune man thank you thank you it's a fun film I had a great

time making it um oh yeah it's a fun watch man it's a fun watch

How about it, my guy?

Oh, yeah, of course.

You got the streamers.

Oh, yeah.

I'm in.

Yeah.

You played a hell of an angel, man.

Tacos, baby.

Who doesn't love tacos?

Tell me about what it was like working with Aziz Ansari as a director.

He was really lovely.

He had a vision.

He invited me to the vision and then

was really collaborative.

You know, I'd go to his house, we'd work on script,

did some rehearsals, some read-throughs, worked with he and

Seth Rogan.

Legends.

And so then just, he just kept working on the script, trying to make it better and better, get his kind of the tone and what he wanted the film to be about.

And I really appreciated him inviting me into that process through the character Gabriel.

Do you want to tell us a little bit in your words about the film?

I mean, I know, obviously, you're an angel.

There's, it feels like a very, like,

the trope has very much been done before: of like, you know, does money solve happiness?

But I feel like you guys did it in a little bit different way, and you shed a more truthful light on it, I guess.

Yeah, I mean, it's like an angel comes down trying to do better.

He uh, he swaps Aziz's character who's kind of having hard times and he's sleeping in his car,

and um, with Seth Rogan, who's kind of venture capitalist, doing pretty well off.

And in the typical kind of body swatch switch movie, the you know, the guy, you know, kind of see.

I'm like, I expect Gabriel expects him to see how the other half lives, and that money doesn't mean anything, and he's really about something else.

And in this film, it's like, well, no, actually, money can help,

dude.

It actually does make a difference.

Yeah,

it's a difference.

Why would I go back?

He actually says, Why, dude, can you make me go back?

And I'm like, technically, no.

And I'm like, but you're not that kind of guy.

You know, you're taking someone else's life.

And he's like, yeah, yeah, well, then let me just do it for a couple of weeks.

Yeah.

But through that journey, because then, of course, I'm kind of screwing up.

I'm not supposed to switch these lives.

And then when he doesn't want to go back, then I basically get fired.

And then I have to become human.

And then I go on this journey of kind of seeing how they they both are that's some of my favorite parts of the movie is you having to now be human and realizing you what

food tastes like yeah food you know i mean all the breading a hamburger chicken nutties

and that was fun i i found it pretty funny because i feel like of all the celebrities of a-list celebrities when i think of them you seem the most like down to earth like figuratively and literally like i see you go and take in public transport you're walking down the streets like you are with the people there's nothing that like you push that, like, you are not connected to the human experience.

Yeah.

Like, was there something that spoke to you in particular about what this the message this film was trying to put across in that regard?

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, I thought that it handled the kind of

allegory or, you know, taking on a

kind of tough subject of people, you know, having to work multiple jobs.

And

he kind of, Aziz kind of takes on the perception of the American dream.

And, you know, that can be not funny.

And I thought he was really sensitive to representing that struggle at a certain level and coming to a place that's

not just about hope, but practical things

in the sense of just

it's about friendship, it's about connection, it's about laughter, it's about heart.

And yes, these other things are happening,

But take that,

take what we have, what we can do.

Take each other, reach out, be connected.

It's really just kind of backbone.

And the riches of being alive.

Beautifully said.

Beautifully said, as always.

Beautifully said, man.

Well, I got to ask you: would Kiana Reeves be a good angel or a bad angel in real life?

How do you think you'd nail that?

That's my job.

Well, if I put my mind to it, I think I would be okay.

I'd be okay.

My angel, Gabriel, he's just in charge of like texting and driving.

So if someone

separates, like they separate the angel duties, like, no, that's not your.

You're in this department over here.

I'll handle that.

You know, I think there's a lot of shoulder.

And kind of like, you know, I look up to another angel, Azrael, who's like, you know, saving lost souls.

I don't know.

Could try.

Well,

I have a feeling you'd nail it.

What you haven't done a comedy in a minute.

What sparked you to kind of go back into that genre?

Well, I mean, John Wick's got some humor.

Oh, yeah.

But it's not a comedy.

Yes.

I mean, I love it.

I love it.

And I hadn't done it for a while.

I had done another sequel with Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Now it's winter a couple of years ago.

But really since then,

no, I hadn't done any.

And it was great to work with Aziz and Seth Rogen, who's a genius, and Sandra O and Kiki Palmer's in it.

And I just,

you know, it's fun.

Come on.

Hey, there we go, man.

Just have fun.

I mean, there's a lot of craft to it, but it's pretty fun.

That group that you just mentioned right there, man, that sounds like one of the funnest hangouts you could put together.

It sounds like everybody's having a good old time.

For us, like

non-like

professionals in the movie world and the film world, you were talking about how you and Aziz got together beforehand in terms of the script and to build these characters or build his vision on it.

Like, how far in advance does that happen before you guys even start to film?

Or is it just like a non-stop, like ongoing?

I don't know.

I got the script a few months before before we started filming.

And then I would say probably

the

four weeks leading up to four or five weeks leading up to just meet a couple of times

just before filming a little more intensely.

You know, because I was going a certain path with the character, and he really wanted me to bring back some of the energy and

lightness of previous roles.

So he wanted a little bit of Bill and Ted in there.

Did you ever see a film called Parenthood?

Of course.

He played a character in that, and

he wanted some of that guy.

So he wanted a little bit of, and I liked that.

I mean, I liked this old soul with a bit of innocence to him.

Yeah.

But he really directed that.

And he gave me that note about three weeks before we started filming.

Wow.

And you can just channel it all.

I mean, obviously, you're one of the best to ever do it, but you could just channel it all right then and there and really start to like get ingrained in it from there.

I had to bring bring a little bit back, you know.

Here we go.

There we go.

Here we go.

I had to knock the cob's webs off a little bit.

Yeah, 60 years old, man.

I'm like,

just I, but it gave me light, it gave me energy, you know, and that, and it gave the character a kind of like presentness, you know, a way to see things that I think the viewer can take on his point of view, which was um, which was great.

That's awesome.

Well, we got one last question with the related.

If you could swap bodies or lives with anyone, who would you swap with?

Oh, my gosh.

I'm just trying to make it work in this one.

That's fair.

That's a fair one, yeah.

I don't know.

I mean,

well, you guys are involved in athletics.

So let's do, let's go.

If I was like, what would be a moment?

Like, you know, we hear about those moments in sports where

people go into the zone.

You know, like

we're almost unconscious and you're just instinctive, and you're doing that.

And then I always, I love the Olympics.

Yeah.

I love that someone, the dead

skin, and like

four years in a lifetime coming up.

It's crazy.

That

one moment, right?

And soon guys, it's like the whistle, right?

Like,

you know, and like, and now it's time.

You know, everything you've worked for is going to happen right now.

You better fucking get this bobsled moving, buddy.

So, like, imagine being like, I don't know, Hussain Bolt breaking the world record.

The fastest man in the world is a big little game.

That's right.

Spots with that.

I mean, you did like a perfect dive.

Yeah.

I mean, go America, like hockey.

I grew up playing hockey.

Heck yeah, baby.

Hell yes.

You grew up on the ice, baby.

That's what I'm talking about.

Toronto, Canada.

You have to.

It's like you're not allowed to grow up in Toronto without playing ice.

Exactly.

What'd you play?

What position?

What position did you play?

I was a goaltender.

Goaltender.

Goalie too?

What?

Played net.

Let's go, man.

I think being in someone's body, but being in an athletic body, achieving that one moment, like

whatever that was.

Yeah.

Heck yeah.

That's cool.

Well, I'm not going to lie.

We've talked about it before.

For me, winning the Super Bowl was kind of like that.

And you feel like the people that make these movies man they fucking nail it like how did they do this it's crazy like i i still remember uh super bowl 52 the last play of the game tom brady goes back

we're gonna win the game we know that this is gonna get completed he throws the ball up and

a i mean a stadium full of 65 000 people it you don't hear a thing It is completely silent.

The ball feels like it's taking forever.

Finally, it falls.

Somehow, while it's in the air, there's violins playing.

I didn't hear that.

I remember running on the field, and I still,

I'm like running on the field.

Is this game over?

And you still don't, your senses are so in the moment of like what's happening up here that they're blocked out.

Like, you don't, I, I, until I saw everybody else celebrating, then it almost like the, the sensation like rushes in all at once.

It's, it was, it's, it's insane.

And Trav talks about being in the zone a lot.

He talks about it being blacked out.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I'm blacked out.

It takes me a second to actually have to process: wait, what just even that just happened right there?

Like, how did I just get hit that fast?

And why are we 10 yards downfield?

Do you guys find this too?

I mean,

I did it.

I mean, I went to a pretty high level in hockey as a junior.

I mean, I didn't do maybe junior A or anything like that.

But to me, it was like, even when you were like unconscious, it's so interesting.

And this happens on stage too, how much you can also think.

Yeah.

Oh,

yeah.

So you have all those built-up.

It almost like frees up your thinking.

Like you're not like bogged down overthinking it.

Yeah.

It just feels like you just process it.

You have all those built-up instincts that

you've just been channeling and fixing and just making it to where when you need to pull out that answer to whatever is going on, that instinct just hits so fast.

And it's like...

The body knows.

I'm sure you're looking at people.

People people are looking at your hips and where you're gonna turn and how do you they don't want to look at the hips

where you don't want to look at the hips baby

whatever it is and i know you know i gotta ask you more questions about being a goalie first of all nine times out of ten for anybody watching whoever's the goalie is usually the craziest person on the team like it's it's almost always that way

it's the best kind the best kind of crazy no doubt what what was your what was your style in that were we butterfly like were you did you have a weakness what was your strength Um, so I grew up in an era.

Um,

in the, I guess, I mean, I started playing street hockey and ice hockey in the 70s.

And then, I guess my hockey was like 80, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85.

So, it was like,

and high school hockey.

I had a tryout for a junior B team and then had a possible tryout for major junior A.

But

so I was kind of like a crossover style.

So I, my 70s styles were more stand upright.

Yeah.

You know, but I was like Jerry Cheever's from Boston and she really kind of brought around the butterfly style.

Yeah.

But early days.

And then there was like 70s Russian hockey, which was like Trechiak, who kind of did the butterfly a little bit.

Okay.

And I was doing Jacques Plant,

Bernie Perrant.

I was about to say Bernie.

Rest in peace.

Just passed away.

Legendary flyer.

I was going to, you beat me to it.

Yeah.

And he was kind of upright.

So I was like, I would get told I went down too much.

Okay.

All right.

So I was like a stand-up goalie with a little, I was stand-up goalie first.

So like in ice hockey, but in a butterfly position, you kind of kick out like here.

Yes.

Yeah.

In an old stand-up style, if you were going to do a skate save, you would turn out.

Oh, wow.

That doesn't make any sense, man.

Right.

So if you were to get there.

No, but like if the shot's going low to my glove side, right?

Yeah.

We would go butterfly and stop it here, right?

Got it.

Got it.

We would go out.

Yes.

Anyway, I've seen that maneuver now watching

old school hockey.

That's good.

I did some celebrity games, and I remember some of the players were playing, like, you know, you're in a celebrity game, and it's like, oh, you can play hockey.

I'm like, yeah, I'm okay.

And then they're like,

wow, you're like, they would say to me, it was like, wow, playing against you is like when we played like in high school, like old-time gold.

So good.

Dude, I love it.

I had a good glove hand, really fast reflexes, and I was positionally sound.

Oh, it's at a good angle.

I love it, man.

We grew up playing hockey.

I don't know if you know that, Keanu.

We played growing up, too.

I recently got back out on the ice.

I'm just like rented a pair of skates.

Haven't been out there in like 10 years.

There was like a, I just happened to stumble across this.

I was trying to watch football games in Jacksonville, and for some reason, the sports bar was in an ice rink, and there were beer leaks happening all around me.

And one of the guys, like, hey, do you want to hop on the ice?

I'm like, hell yeah, we're gonna hop on this ice.

Let's go, baby.

And I mean, I was like a deer,

like a baby deer trying to skate.

I couldn't do it.

I don't know.

I'm blaming it on the skates.

I'm hoping I still got it, but it just made me fall in love.

With, I just love being in an ice rink, the smell, like everything about it.

Yeah, it's like stale.

yeah, yeah, man.

I'm telling you, I hate playing in the heat in football.

When it gets to like

right now, to November and December and January, where it feels like I'm just breathing in an ice rink.

Oh, man, fire.

I could go all day.

Mr.

Nostrils go.

All right.

We do want to ask some more questions.

Is there a Mount Rushmore, in your opinion, of Kiana Reeves' quotes?

Like, what are your favorite quotes that you get throwing at you routinely from your career?

Okay, well, I'll just say some of that hit come on the street, like you know, um, Gary Busey saying, you know, Utah, two, give me two.

Yeah, okay, okay, there we go.

It's not my line, but yeah, yeah, that's a good one.

I did a film in the 80s called River's Edge, where uh, my character calls another character motherfucker food eater.

You just

mother eater, clearly, motherfucker food eater.

Uh, I guess I've been known for saying, Whoa, you know, yeah, yeah, Whoa.

Nick Bill and Ted's be excellent.

Dude, that was the one I immediately think of.

It's just such a great way to go about life, man.

Summed up perfectly.

Be excellent to each other and party on, baby.

Party on.

So sweet.

Be excellent to each other.

I don't know.

Does John Wick have any?

I mean, he's just a dog.

He wasn't just a dog.

Yeah.

I don't know.

He doesn't.

I don't know.

He's more of a quiet, calm, centered person.

Dude, throughout the whole thing, I think of

just this maniacally.

Yeah, that was crazy.

He just came through the screen, man.

That was awesome.

Maybe that's what it makes you think.

Oh, man.

Dude, after good fortune, you're going to be having cigarettes and tacos thrown at you, man.

It's so good.

It's not a bad day.

There you go.

It's one of the things we love as humans.

We'll get to our last segment, big dog, and get you out of here, man.

Our last segment is called We Gotta Ask, but you don't have to answer.

You can tell us the fuck off.

But

we would love to hear your input on a few of these, man.

First one, famously played Neo from The Matrix, as we were just talking about.

Are you upset we apparently learned nothing from those movies?

Like, AI is...

How far are we out from just The Matrix being real, brother?

Do you think about this?

You got to think about this a lot, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

yeah,

yep.

It doesn't seem like uh, we're like moths to the flame, it's like we can't help ourselves.

You know, if we can do it, we'll do it.

And

we're doing it, and we don't know actually what we're doing.

Sometimes, yeah, that's what it feels like.

What are the ramifications?

What are what could go south here?

How far does this go?

Are we already there?

Are we already in a simulation?

I get, I have to go back and forth, man.

I choose to to believe no.

I choose to believe no, but yeah, I don't know.

Maybe I've just watched The Matrix too many times.

There you go.

Yeah.

Yes, I mean, May, The Matrix kind of is like gives a lot of,

especially in the first

three films, a lot of weight to reality.

What is real?

What is real?

And a lot of

power to that question.

And I remember a few years ago, I was at a dinner, and

the host had a couple of kids, like 15, 12, 13, 15.

And someone, and one of them asked me to explain the plot of the Matrix.

And I was like, well, I play this character and, you know, basically trying to fight for what's real against, you know, a simulation.

And this young person goes, well, like, who cares if it's real?

No way.

Man, it's.

And I was like, oh,

okay.

All right.

Yeah.

That's one way to look at it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's where it's headed.

That's where it's headed.

You know, and it's, so it's like, how are we going to value those that matter and who will care?

Well, it's crazy.

I'm on the side of real.

It's crazy, isn't it?

Anyway, sir, number one.

I'm on the real.

I'm on the real side, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

In point, lighter, lighter note.

Okay.

In point break, Patrick Swayze does a lot of his own skydiving.

Are you known as your own stunts kind of guy?

And like John Wick, obviously, we've seen all the action movies.

Like, do you do a lot of your own stunts?

Yeah, I like to say, because it's true, that I don't do stunts.

Okay.

Fair enough.

All right.

My son, Donald Double Jackson, Spide L got hit by a lot of cars.

I didn't get hit by any

cars, and Jackson was getting hit by cars.

Okay.

So if I'm there, if I'm doing something, like I,

you know, I really learned actually with Point Break and a wonderful stunt coordinator named Glenn Wilder was, and in a film called Speed with a stunt coordinator named Gary Hines.

How can we put the actor into the action?

Because then you don't have to cut away from the story and the character.

And so you create a really good connection with the audience.

And I really liked that and believed in that.

And that's something that the

Wachowskis on the Matrix believed in and wanted to do as well.

So I'll do as much as I can do, but

if I'm there, it's not a stunt.

And if I'm not there, it's a stunt because it's dangerous.

And, you know, so.

Well, this brings up another thing we wanted to ask you.

You've done all these iconic action movies where you're moving and fighting and running.

Is it true that you got hurt doing this last film more than you got hurt in all these other ones?

Like you're an angel tapping people on the back or a text to drive, and all of a sudden you hurt your knee.

Is that accurate?

Yep.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Well, I was chewing a scene, and uh, and then I was going back to the dressing room, which was at a residence, and they had a carpet laid down to protect the

owner's carpet.

And then there was a little section, and then I caught my foot and I started to fall, and then I spiked my left knee.

My

just spiked it, and my left propeller went like this.

Oh,

my knee cap.

I had a vertical break.

It didn't break the top and bottom.

A vertical break?

I've never heard of this.

I've never heard of this.

So

it just snapped right in the middle of it.

It would be better than a horizontal break.

Well, that's good.

At least it's better than a horizontal break.

But that still sounds pretty messed up.

Terrible.

Did it heal?

Like,

do you need surgery for this or it all just heals on its own?

No, but with the vertical, they just said, you know, I was immobilized and wore a brace for basically 10 weeks.

But I filmed while I had that.

But until they pulled the blood out of the capsule,

the pain was banana cakes.

Have you guys ever had, like, I'm sure your knees aren't in great shape.

I have, I've had that exact same fall, but usually it happens on grass or whatever.

You don't break your patella.

What happens is you rupture your bursa sac.

So your knee just fills with insane fluid.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It just balloons up.

I remember I burst a bursa sac one time, and for some reason, when all the fluid in there was pushing on a nerve and just

intense paint.

I was yeah man

when you went to drain it it was like

oh see that's yeah the drain get the CCs out of there.

Oh I think I had over 50 CCs.

It was just like

yeah it's like that can't be good.

Oh man.

Yeah, it's the worst.

Anyway, so comedy is hard.

Pick those knees up, baby.

You played the voice of one of our favorite TV shows,

Severance.

You played the voice of the Lumen Building in Severance.

What was it like almost losing out on the roll to Barack Obama?

Oh, I didn't know.

Did you hear this?

Oh, my gosh.

Are we breaking news?

We're breaking this news to you.

I didn't know.

Did Ben Stiller told you that?

Ben told us that.

Yeah, he said he was thinking about Barack Obama.

It was one part.

Well, then Barack must have said no.

And I was like,

I was, oh, my God.

I was the second choice.

That's okay, as long as I got the gig.

There you go.

There you go.

I don't care if I'm not the first.

If you weren't an actor, what would Keanu Reeves be doing?

I don't know.

We get asked that question a lot, too.

Playing in the NHL or what?

Hey.

You know, I was, I probably, I mean, I was good, but I probably wasn't good enough.

I always, when I, when I thought about professional hockey, I always thought of just doing the Olympic hockey team, the Canadian hockey team.

That's so cool.

Might have been able, but probably not.

But anyway, what would I be doing?

I don't know.

We get asked that same question.

And

I don't know either.

I feel like once you've been going along with something for so long, it's like, it's hard to imagine what would have manifested without you doing that.

I know it is for us when they're like, what would you do if you weren't a football player?

I was like, I don't know.

coach.

The only thing I can think of is what I wouldn't be, and it wouldn't be a landscaper because my dad always used to look at me when I did the yard work and be like, boy, you better get paid by the hour.

You ain't getting shit done.

Yeah, slow rake.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Taking my good old time.

Out of nowhere.

The rake is on the floor and the football is being thrown in the air to myself.

What is the best piece of life advice that Keanu Reeves has ever got?

I haven't had a lot of advice.

No?

You've just been out here.

I like it, though, man.

Just

living and learning.

Lots of living and learning.

We're trying to, a lot of living, but trying to learn.

And

advice, advice, advice.

What would be the best advice you would give somebody?

Oh, I'm, you know, I think, you know, I've been told

the best advice was like rest um

okay

before just get some rest

i'm with you man i love it i'm with you dude listen

there's nothing better than putting your feet up after you after you've been working your ass off man dude if you're looking for advice taking putting your head down going to sleep is sometimes some of the best things you can do i mean i guess maybe that's not good it is good advice but i think it's great advice yeah especially if somebody's looking for advice because then they're they've they've been thinking about it, right?

It's like, man, how can I solve this?

What can I do?

And nine times out of ten, once you're in that state, it's like, all right, let's take a second and rest.

Take a rest.

Get a clear mind.

Get a clear mind.

Let's come back to this.

You can run to that brain.

I didn't get the clear the mind part.

All right.

Last question.

And

it can be good, bad, whatever you choose.

Do you have a welcome to Hollywood moment?

Oh, welcome to Hollywood moment.

We ask a lot of our guests who are athletes, welcome to the NFL moment, whatever.

Do you have a welcome to the industry?

Welcome to Hollywood, welcome to acting.

Like, is there anything that stands out where you're like, man, this is either what I want to do or, yeah, go ahead.

Sorry.

I got paid when I was like 16.

So I was a professional actor around 16, 17.

Okay.

Wow.

In Toronto, Canada.

And then I got a manager who lived in Los Angeles.

And I ended up doing a movie of the week in Canada, Toronto, that got me an agent in LA.

Okay.

So at 20 years old, I drove in my car to Los Angeles, got out of my car, and my manager said,

we want to change your name.

And so that's like, oh, welcome to Hollywood.

No way.

Did they have a name in their back pocket?

Or like, did they say?

No.

So you didn't even let it get to that point.

You're like,

and I remember I was like, on the, I was on the beat.

I was walking on the beach and I was just like, my name, what have I changed my name?

Yeah.

No, it ended up, my middle name is Charles.

So I was like

Chuck and I grew up on a street called Spadina, Chuck Spadina.

And then I was like something Templeton.

But then I was just like,

so then I became Casey Reeves.

Oh my God.

Casey Reeves?

Casey Reeves?

Credited as Casey Reeves.

In your first film?

I think so.

Maybe.

Wow.

Maybe.

I think there is.

And then, and then I couldn't do it.

So then I would be in auditions and they'd go Casey Reeves, and I would be like, I wouldn't even answer.

I was like,

somebody's got to call you, you got to respond.

I think, like, six months later, I was like, I'm not doing this.

Yeah, there you go.

Yeah, but that's a Hollywood moment.

Yeah,

welcome to Hollywood, baby.

Well, Kiana, we cannot thank you enough.

Who's going to win the Super Bowl?

I think the Kansas City Chiefs are rolling right now, big guy.

That's all that's.

Yeah, baby.

Don't sleep on those Eagles.

Jason.

Don't sleep on those birds, baby.

We're getting rolling here.

Do you have a squad?

Do you have a team you favor?

Well, I mean, I've been, I've so enjoyed watching you, your success.

And like,

I've never became a Patriots hater.

I always kind of was like, okay, I mean, they are what they are.

But emotionally, I never got Patriots, but I still like appreciate.

They had so many great players.

Oh, you sure did.

I appreciate the excellent players.

When I was a kid, it was the Steelers.

Ooh.

And then Lynn Swan.

Swan, yeah, this is so graceful.

Sounds just like his name.

It looks just like his name.

And then

I liked Joe Montana.

Joe Montana, baby, that guy.

I liked him.

He was a chief at one point.

Yeah, the night, baby.

I mean, I like that.

And so now

I guess my childhood heart heart is with the Steelers and that experiment that's going on.

Dude, it's, I mean, they're rolling right now.

They're rolling right now.

It's the experiment.

There's something.

Yeah, baby.

They're leading the North right now, baby.

We did a poll a few years back, and I've been on record as this.

I think the Steelers is the best name in football.

Like, I just, it's like such a football.

It's a strong name.

It represents the community so well.

Like, it's an embodiment of the people that built, like, literally built the city and a lot of the United States.

I just think it's a fantastic

ethos to a city.

And then, like, all the sports teams in Pittsburgh match with the black and yellow.

Like, it's a very cool sports town.

And the team always feels like it's represented, like, that's what it represents, like, the toughness and like this, the steel.

You never lose sight of that.

Yeah.

And then they go out and get the biggest, strongest, fastest wide receiver in the NFL.

It's like,

all right, that's a Steelers' move right there.

I got to say, Keanu, I can't thank you enough for coming on, man.

Everyone, check out Good Fortune, but I got to say more than that, not only do I love you as an actor and what you've embodied in your films, you're tremendous.

I just love your entire ethos, man.

I know I don't know you, know you, but just observing from afar, I appreciate what you stand for.

Hell yeah.

You know, the way you go about life and everything, brother.

So thank you for hopping on this sports podcast.

My girlfriend would love to say hello, Alexandra.

She loves

your partner.

There we go.

your journeys that are going on.

She's like, God, big love for all of that.

And so,

we'll send the love right back, brother.

You already know.

You just knew he.

I mean, from what everybody says, you just knew he was about to be the smoothest cat that we've talked to yet.

He's such a good dude, man.

And now I really, really want him to come out to a Kansas City Chiefs game so I can hang with him.

Yeah.

Did not disappoint.

Fantastic human being, unbelievable actor, unbelievable football player.

Shane Falco.

Can't tell me.

AKA Garden.

He couldn't have won a Super Bowl with that that Ravens team.

I mean, listen, I got full faith.

Full faith.

Ex-hockey goalie, tough.

I mean, just handed off.

Was it Jamal Lewis just handed off to Jamal Lewis?

How fascinating was that for to hear him talk about the style of goaltending?

Stand-up versus butterfly versus the in from the 70s to the 80s.

When he was saying it, I was like, that sounds like Bernie Prown.

I feel like he's speaking about Bernie Proud right now.

He said it.

I wanted to get a Patrick Waugh reference in there, but.

Well, that's a way different style.

Yeah.

Do you remember, Dad?

We would, I remember one time I'm watching the Avalanche because that was the team I liked because we didn't have a team in Cleveland.

I was a huge Peter Forsberg fan.

And I remember

Dad kept calling Patrick Waugh Patrick Roy.

Yeah.

I was like, Dad, it's Waugh.

And he's like, man, I'm American.

That's Roy.

He's such a prick.

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Yeah, baby.

Did you take any actual hits or was this mostly like body doubles and things?

No.

They were like, well,

a couple, like when we would run plays at full speed,

you know, they would come in and basically they were all like, like don't hit the guy for the reason that we're all have a job yeah exactly it's a good reason i mean very good reason that's very much like the nfl it's very much like if you touch that's exactly what it is in practice

you are you're probably yeah talking yourself right out of the yeah don't hit the guy

who's helping us get paid that's right that's how it works golden rule baby i think you were you were one of the most convincing film quarterbacks of all time yeah that's one of my favorite movies to watch.

Is it true that the Ravens wanted to give you a tryout after this?

That's absolutely nonsense.

I don't know.

My release would have obviously been lefty.

I don't know why, but we tend to have a lower release.

Okay.

And

my getting that ball was a little slow, but I could hit like...

I mean, it wasn't on a rope, but like, I could do like 50-yard corner.

I could, you know, I could hit like

a hell of a thrower.

Then long seven and go.

But,

you know, don't start believing you can really do it.

Well, listen, I don't know if you saw those 2,000 Ravens, but you didn't need to be that good.

I mean, I think the opposing teams averaged like 11 points a game or something like that.

It was nine.

Yeah.