Chiefs Take a Step Back, Jason Does Disney, Wild NFL Trades, World Series Haters and Midseason Meme Awards | EP 163

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Speaker 1 Dude, anything that combines crackers, meat, cheese, and mustard, it doesn't matter what kind it is. You got Pepper Jack, you got Provolone.

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Speaker 1 Who is your favorite Disney character, Jason? Is it Goofy? I mean, definitely Goofy growing up. I fell for Pluto's charm a little bit.
Who's Pluto again?

Speaker 1 Pluto is the dog, which Goofy's a dog as well, but Pluto's like the one that's actually a dog.

Speaker 1 Like, Goofy's a dog, but maneuvers and talks like a human, albeit a kind of like Craig Parmenter-ish human. Like, not, it's got a little bit of goofiness to him.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Exactly what I mean.

Speaker 1 Pluto is more of just like a dog dog. Pluto doesn't talk.
Goofy is a dog, maneuvers like a dog. Goofy does talk, but is also a dog, maneuvers like a human.
Donald Duck's a good, solid one. Despicable.

Speaker 1 No, you're thinking of Daffy Duck. What's the difference? Well, Daffy Duck is Warner Brothers, which is not Disney-owned.
See,

Speaker 1 yeah, no. Never mind then.

Speaker 1 Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, a wondrous show brought to you by Audible.

Speaker 1 We are your hosts. I'm Travis Kelsey.
This is my big brother, Jason Kelsey, out of University of Cincinnati, and dang nam it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. The Utah Utes got us, man.
I thought we had a good chance. Couldn't get it going.

Speaker 1 Couldn't get it going.

Speaker 1 God damn it. Yeah, defense could stop, man.
I'll tell you what, man, when their offense gets rolling, man, I got to go all the way west coast, play at like midnight, east coast time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was a tough run. Um, but shout out to Utah, um, and shout out to McAfee and uh and ESPN.
Uh, college game day, man. That was a that was a fun one.

Speaker 1 Uh, McAfee and the gang, a lot of them gave us a shout-out over here on New Heights. Let's hear this.
I want to hear what this is. I'd like to reiterate some of your points.

Speaker 1 Like, hey, you got really good wood, too. You know what I mean? But the greatest wood comes from New Heights, and that's a Cincinnati working through and through.
He's like,

Speaker 1 Jason Kelsey, you talk about the absolute dogs from Ohio. How does he fucking do it? It's off the cuff, too.
It's unbelievable. It has to be.
They don't script any of this stuff.

Speaker 1 It's just amazing. He can just go.
Dude, he's the best, man. He's the best.
The guy's got crazy talent, man. But we're moving on, baby.
Good game, Utes. Arizona, you're up next, baby.
Let's go, cats.

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Speaker 1 And follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with 1S for fun clips throughout the week. Jason, tell the people what we got coming up.

Speaker 1 92%ers, we got an amazing episode lined up for you today. We're going to get into a little recap of the Chiefs-Bills game, unfortunately, for Travis.

Speaker 1 And then we're also going to get into a little bit of trade deadline moves.

Speaker 1 midpoint now of the NFL. Maybe hand out some awards that mean nothing to anybody other than people that watch this show.
You 92%ers. This is all for you guys.

Speaker 1 And then we're going to check in on the Heights Hotline. We've been having a lot of guests, which is always fun and interesting to talk to people who have achieved great success in this world,

Speaker 1 far outreaching things that I could ever do. Maybe not, Travis.

Speaker 1 But we're going to listen to some of your voicemails and answer those. And to be honest, that's some of my favorite things we do on the show.

Speaker 1 So before we get into that, though, we're going to get into a little bit of that new news.

Speaker 1 New news.

Speaker 1 All right, now let's get it out of the way. Jason, you're out of the house today.
You're not in Philadelphia. This is correct.
Pennsylvania. You are.

Speaker 1 I'm in Orlando. I'm down by our mother, Travis.
Nice. You're in Florida.
Floridia. Florida.

Speaker 1 Is that the right? Is that the right thing?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was great. No invite for the rest of us.
Thanks, Jason. I mean, Travis, it's difficult for me to maneuver around Disney Road.
I could not fucking imagine you trying to do this right now.

Speaker 1 Dude, I just put on a goofy mask and keep it moving.

Speaker 1 I don't think they have masks. They do have goofy hats.
You're not allowed to wear masks? I mean, I think since COVID, I think anything flies with the masks.

Speaker 1 I did go masked one time to a Phillies game so I could sit in the outfield so I didn't have to sit in a box.

Speaker 1 How'd that go? Didn't last long. I got picked out real quick.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you did. Something about

Speaker 1 the face. It's like the shape of the face.
You could just do

Speaker 1 a shadow of your face and people would be like, Jason. Is that a Japanese maple walking by us?

Speaker 1 I think I've seen that.

Speaker 1 That's lovely, man. What's been the most exciting so far?

Speaker 1 I mean, seeing the girls react to all the characters because they're still young, and why it's starting to get old enough where you can see she's starting to ask questions. Or, like, she meets Ariel.

Speaker 1 She can't wait to meet Ariel. And the entire time, she's just staring at Ariel's fin, and she's kind of like

Speaker 1 she in her head. I think she knows.
And like, she's petting Pluto. And she's like, that doesn't feel like a dog.

Speaker 1 And then going on the ride. Any ride I can talk the girls into going on, which is very hard.
Here's what's hard. Kylie's family is not ride people.
Kylie's not a ride person.

Speaker 1 So the girls, I think, are that rubs off on them a little bit. They're a little bit more skittish

Speaker 1 because mom's not a ride person. So whenever I'm trying to talk them into it, and then I'm an idiot.
So I talk them into it.

Speaker 1 And then it's like immediately like regret, right?

Speaker 1 You get on the teapots and the teapots spin. And I'm like, you want to go in the teapot? I say, no, no, no.
And I was like, and she she was like, I don't like that it spins. I was like, we won't spin.

Speaker 1 Dad, I'll make sure that it doesn't spin. And in my head, of course, I'm like, she'll get going.
Spin on the mouth. She'll spin a little bit and then she'll realize she's having fun.

Speaker 1 Because that was Big Ed. That was our Big Ed's method of everything.

Speaker 1 Talk you into doing it. Lie to you that you're not going to do it.
Then start doing it. Then you're like, you know what? Actually, Dad, this is a good idea.
I like what you're doing here.

Speaker 1 It doesn't work on my kids. My kids immediately.
No. Immediately.
I start spinning that thing and Wyatt starts losing her fucking mind.

Speaker 1 And then I'm trying to just hold it and she's still not having fun. But no, she was, she actually liked the teacups.

Speaker 1 Teacups, she liked any of the stuff where you're just like basically a moving story, whether you're like Peter Pan or what is it, a small world. They could do that all day.

Speaker 1 And then every once in a while, Dad will sneak off and do Space Mountain. We did Tron.
I missed Animal Kingdom yesterday because I was at Monday night football.

Speaker 1 So unfortunately didn't get to see that. I did get to eat a turkey leg while watching the parade go by.
And I was just baby in this arm, turkey leg in this arm,

Speaker 1 waving to the creatures with my turkey leg. I felt like a Neanderthal, like in the most glorious fashion.
So yeah, we've been having a blast. Kids are

Speaker 1 just complete chaos. I'm in a full fight with Wyatt over a fucking waffle.

Speaker 1 Ruins about 30 minutes of our entire day because she wants a whole waffle. And I'm trying to explain to her that there's only four waffles and there's like fucking 15 people.

Speaker 1 So just take a piece of the waffle. And she's like getting furious.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, listen, I am not, I'm putting my foot down on this. You ain't getting another fucking free waffle.
I'm not giving you a whole fucking waffle.

Speaker 1 You can't give her a whole waffle. And then Kylie's like, just give her the waffle.
What are you doing? I'm like, no, I'm not fucking, I'm not raising some spoiled little fucking rotten child.

Speaker 1 She's getting hurt. She's sharing.

Speaker 1 Kylie actually had my back. So it was good.

Speaker 1 We did team up, Kyle. And she cried.
She had a full meltdown. Thankfully.

Speaker 1 Thankfully.

Speaker 1 Snow White came in with a

Speaker 1 it wasn't Snow White. You know who came in and saved the day? Jack Sparrow.
Jack Sparrow came by, saved the fucking day. Whoever was being Jack Sparrow was like the best version of Jack Sparrow.

Speaker 1 In the morning, too? He nailed it. Absolutely killed it.
And then from there, Wyatt was in a better mood. And then she found out that we were getting beignets from Princess Tiana's area.

Speaker 1 And it's like, well, we're going to share the beignets, right? And she's like, yes, I'll share the beignets. So I'm like, you know what? We're back.
We're fucking back.

Speaker 1 You got some bougie-ass kids, man. Not many.
Beignets.

Speaker 1 Travis, it's Disney World. You're experiencing culture.
Have you ever been to Epcot? It's basically the most cultured place on the planet. I was going to say, it's like going around the world.

Speaker 1 Is there alcohol served?

Speaker 1 Not at Magic Kingdom, which is where we've been the last couple of days. Animal Kingdom does have, and I found this out from Dan Orlovsky.
Shout out to Dan Orlovsky.

Speaker 1 The Dawah Bar, the Jungle Juice, is very good.

Speaker 1 And Animal Kingdom, if you're an alcoholic beverage drinker, Epcot is your place. Tons of it.
I think we're going today. Can't wait to partake.

Speaker 1 Magic Kingdom, I think you got to go to like an actual restaurant, sit-down restaurant in the park to get an alcoholic beverage, which I think is probably right.

Speaker 1 Magic Kingdom doesn't need alcohol being served.

Speaker 1 This is like the land of like children.

Speaker 1 Fucking creatures all over the place.

Speaker 1 We don't need drunk dads at Magic Kingdom. Epcot, we can kind of finagle it.
You can finagle it. We don't need adjacent versus.
Don't get too drunk at Epcot, but you can get buzzed.

Speaker 1 We don't need buzz people walking around Magic Kingdom. This is a place of children, sir.
That makes sense. Yeah.
All right. Well, that wraps it up for new news.
Let's move on.

Speaker 1 All righty, bold topics to wrap up week nine in the NFL. Let's start with the one you can't wait to talk about, Trav.
Chiefs, 21 Bills, 28. All right, Trav, four losses.

Speaker 1 Man.

Speaker 1 What are we thinking? What are the initial thoughts from the game? Where are we at? I mean, obviously, it's the bye week, so I'm kind of looking at everything.

Speaker 1 Like, I've taken a step back and kind of looked at the whole scheme of things, and it's frustrating, man.

Speaker 1 I mean, five and four, a little over 500 right now out of the playoffs if the playoffs started right now. We got to get this shit going, man.

Speaker 1 The schedule doesn't get much easier. Our next three opponents are absolutely on fire.

Speaker 1 Two in which are the Broncos who we have coming up after the bye and then the Colts after that.

Speaker 1 We got to get things rolling, man. And we got banged up on the offensive line and

Speaker 1 this and that. But at the same time, man, we got the players that we need, man.
Even if it's the

Speaker 1 next man-up mentality, we still got the guys that can get the job done, man. We just have to keep fucking figuring it out.
This one was a tough one, though, man.

Speaker 1 Going up to Buffalo is not an easy thing, man. That stadium was rocking.
That place was electric. Shout out to all the Bills Mafia that was talking all the shit in the world.
I love it.

Speaker 1 And it's just, you know,

Speaker 1 it's a sacred place to play a football game, man. And I cherish every game that I get an opportunity to go up there.
But that shit sucks

Speaker 1 when you don't come away with a victory out there because they let you have it, man. And

Speaker 1 it's frustrating. It's frustrating, especially when you think that, you know,

Speaker 1 you put it on yourself.

Speaker 1 I'm looking at this score right here, 21-28. And if I find a way to get my head and hands around on the pass that pat threw me.

Speaker 1 in the end zone right before half, I feel like we have a better chance at getting a field goal there late instead of a touchdown. That was going to be a tough catch.
I hear you. Here's the reality.

Speaker 1 That play before half, we got to be able to tush push that thing in. They got two tush push.
We need to get the tush push down, and we need Noah Gray or somebody over there to get the tush push down.

Speaker 1 That's how they scored every time they got to the one-yard line. Josh Allen, tush-push.
The Philadelphia Eagles, that's how we score every time we get to the one-yard line.

Speaker 1 You can't go into halftime only getting three points because you don't fucking got a tush push in the goddamn play. And I get that Pat can't do the tush push because he's got funky knees.

Speaker 1 We got to have somebody doing the tush push. God damn it.
Yeah. Or we just, you know, strike with low leverage, you know, head and hand.
Run that thing in the body.

Speaker 1 Run the feet and give the ball to Kareem Hunt, who's one of the best right now at short-yarded situations. I was going to say, I did actually see that

Speaker 1 Kareem Hunt had a higher rate than the tush push league-wide in short-yarded situations so far this season. I don't know if that's true.

Speaker 1 This past week, I guess he did get in there later in the game on the one really short one. It took a couple, but he got in there.

Speaker 1 I honestly think that halftime, only getting three points there, was one of the biggest points in the game.

Speaker 1 Because if you go into halftime, sneaking out a touchdown there to end it, that's such a difference in kind of where you go. I mean, you would have been down 17-14 at that point.

Speaker 1 I know you had a lot of other game left. All I'm thinking of is that last drive.
Like, now we're throwing a Hail Mary instead of trying to kick a field goal to tie it. For sure.

Speaker 1 It changes it completely. And listen, the Bills Bills were really good on offense.

Speaker 1 Uncharacteristic game for the Chiefs' defense in terms of rushing the football, especially. Like, that's one thing that Spaggs is very good at.

Speaker 1 That defense holds their hat on is shutting down the run and making teams one-dimensional. They did a great job against the Detroit Lions, one of the best rushing teams in the NFL.

Speaker 1 The Bills have done a great job the last two weeks. Josh played his tail off.

Speaker 1 He did. He had three incompletions.
Gate had a great game. Yeah.
The Bills played a phenomenal game in all phases. Offensively, they played well.
They ran the ball well.

Speaker 1 Josh played great, threw the ball extremely efficiently.

Speaker 1 And then defensively, McDermott had a good plan coming into it, and their players executed it.

Speaker 1 I mean, they got pressure on Pat. Joey Bosa had a great game.

Speaker 1 They kept running the pops down on the tackles, but it was a unique way where the backer would kind of like come over late so it wouldn't feel like it was a game.

Speaker 1 And then the guard wasn't really getting it on top of the tackle. That got home a couple times.
They got pressure on Pat.

Speaker 1 And then I think whenever teams can get pressure on the quarterback rushing four, it's really hard offensively to have production, especially when you're in third and long situations or, you know, you're in a fourth down, got to have it.

Speaker 1 If they can maximize coverage while only having a rush four,

Speaker 1 it's hard. And they execute in that area.
Yeah, the biggest thing was third and longs. We got to get out of third and longs.

Speaker 1 And, you know, it's all right if you have a few of them, but when you have over a handful of them, if you've got like five or six, third and eight, third and ten plus, like you're making your day way harder.

Speaker 1 I got to give a shout out, too, to Cole Bishop. He made a bunch of like really good plays in that game for Buffalo.

Speaker 1 I feel like when you're in those soft zones, what you've seen Pat a lot of times do is you go to worthy underneath on some of these jet sweep things.

Speaker 1 He does that thing where he catches the ball and it's out of his hand quick.

Speaker 1 And he was playing, they were playing these soft zones, but he was playing aggressive underneath those and really jumping a lot of that, which allowed them to kind of do both, it felt like.

Speaker 1 I thought it was a real ⁇

Speaker 1 you could tell that he was prepared coming into it, made a lot of good plays. And I think 100% to echo what you're saying.
Staying out of third and long makes a big difference.

Speaker 1 And when it is third and long, it's already hard to pass block.

Speaker 1 And then when you guys got, when you got guys like Joey Bosa, and schematic things that I think Buffalo was doing a really good job of up front to create pressure, just makes it hard.

Speaker 1 Trav, speaking of Cole Bishop,

Speaker 1 how you feeling after the hit? It knocked the wind out of me. He caught me.
I got kind of sandwiched in there. I haven't had the wind knocked out of me in a while.
That's a fucking annoying one.

Speaker 1 You know you're okay, but you got to just kind of...

Speaker 1 No, it's coming back. It'll come back.
It'll come back. I can breathe in a second.

Speaker 1 No, I'm good. I'm good.
I'm good.

Speaker 1 God damn it. It's the best.
Go into the blue tent. You got your wind knocked out.
What? Why am I in the tent? You had to go to the blue tent. Why do I go into the...

Speaker 1 No, it was at halftime, and then I got like got evaluated in the locker room? Yeah, I had to get evaluated in the locker room. I'm just sitting, I'm like, why? What is this? Why is this?

Speaker 1 What day is it? Fucking Sunday. What is what?

Speaker 1 It's Saturday. Get me the fuck out of here.

Speaker 1 Before a concussion or after a concussion, I don't know who we played last week. We're in week nine.

Speaker 1 Are you kidding me? This, you're going to make me sit here and fucking.

Speaker 1 Who did we play last week? The Commanders.

Speaker 1 There we did. We played the Commanders.
Oh, gosh. The concussion testing is kind of like funny.
I do enjoy baseline testing because the first time you do it, it's a surprise.

Speaker 1 And they give you the four words at the beginning. And you don't know they're going to come back at the end of the test and recite the same words.

Speaker 1 But then every time after that, that trick doesn't work. Like you go into it.
It's like, yeah, I'm going to need to remember these. All right.
I'm going to think about these the entire test. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then at the end, I'm like, ace that motherfucker. And I'm like, it's going to be really hard to come back from this concussion protocol now.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's the thing. You got to make the baseline test, literally the baseline.
You can't.

Speaker 1 I don't remember.

Speaker 1 You gave me words at the beginning of this test. Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Anyways, Chiefs also are headed into the buy, as you just stated a little bit ago, Trav. I know you guys just lost, but you lost to probably

Speaker 1 one of the other frontrunners in the AFC in a tight game at their place.

Speaker 1 Just a week ago, the Chiefs were everybody's darling again in the NFL.

Speaker 1 Now the Bills win, and it's kind of changed, but I think everybody still is of the opinion that the Chiefs are playing really good football right now.

Speaker 1 I know you're going into buy a little bit sour from the Bills game, but you've got to feel pretty good with where the team's at.

Speaker 1 I feel good about it because I know the characters that we have in the room.

Speaker 1 I know the guys that we have there, and

Speaker 1 we're going to come back recharged and ready to rock and roll. And I can't say that I'm not frustrated more from the entire start of the season than just this Bills game.

Speaker 1 I mean, there's games that I don't think we had any business losing. I feel like we didn't come out with our best punch against Buffalo.
And

Speaker 1 we got to find a way to clean all that up, man. We got to get back to playing passionate Chiefs football,

Speaker 1 dying for each other out there on the field, man. And

Speaker 1 whatever that takes during the week to get yourself ready on Sundays, man, even on a short week, it doesn't matter. No excuses.

Speaker 1 We got a few games ahead of us where

Speaker 1 we're going to have short weeks.

Speaker 1 I think there's a stint around Christmas where we have back-to-back short weeks. Yeah,

Speaker 1 this has been the motto of the Chiefs. When you win a bunch of games, you play games on odd days.
Yeah. But yeah, I think,

Speaker 1 yeah, you guys are rolling right now. You get Josh Simmons back.
That'll be good for the offensive line. Hopefully.
Just get my guy back in the building, man. Yeah.
I miss my guy. Fair point.
Then

Speaker 1 now you guys are two games back of Denver. You have a chance to move closer to that right after the bye week.
Do you guys think at all about home field advantage in the playoffs or any of that stuff?

Speaker 1 Or are you just one week at a time? At this point, it's got to be one week at a time. You can't be thinking about trying to get home field this, home field that.

Speaker 1 Obviously, you set goals out in the beginning of the season to win the division, win the conference, get that home field advantage, make everyone have to come through Arrowhead.

Speaker 1 But right now, it's just not that. And I'm not thinking about that.
I'm thinking about how the fuck are we going to beat the Denver Broncos? And that's going to be on my mind for the next two weeks.

Speaker 1 Well, for the next week, at least take your mind a little bit else. What are you doing anything fun? You're going to get into travel.
What are you doing here? What are you doing over the week?

Speaker 1 Tell us about your personal life. No, no.

Speaker 1 Okay. See you guys.

Speaker 1 Last thing. The Bills are the actual kings of the tush push.

Speaker 1 I hate that you guys put this in there and said that, but one of the things that was fucking crazy to me watching is just like, every time I watch the Eagles play and they do a tush push, it's like a complete meltdown on social media to like the nth degree of like, it shouldn't be allowed.

Speaker 1 It's unfair. They cheat, all this stuff.
I watched the Bills do it.

Speaker 1 It's like celebrated. Everybody's like happy, but I don't see one fucking person talking about the problem with officiating it or anything.
Everybody's just like, oh, what a great play by the Bills.

Speaker 1 Really smart heads-up play by his buddy to push him in there. And it's like, yeah, thanks, guys.
I agree. Yeah, man.
It's, I mean, I feel like

Speaker 1 the Eagles just, they get away with more.

Speaker 1 Everyone else kind of just plays it, plays it fair. Plays it much more fair.
Nobody else is trying to exploit the rules. Jumping off sides.

Speaker 1 The officials, for some reason, just officiate it much better on all the other ones where there's not, nobody even questioned the touchdown.

Speaker 1 Nobody even questioned the touchdown. If Jalen Hurts would have been granted a touchdown when Josh got that one granted, it would have been insane.
People would have been,

Speaker 1 they're just going to give him that touchdown. We got to ban it.
We got to get rid of it. Josh Allen scoring, what, is the most rushing touchdowns ever by a quarterback?

Speaker 1 I mean, that could be celebrated. Yeah, I'm pro-tush-push.
I think everybody should be pro-tush-push, but everybody's not pro-tush-push. I'm not sour about such a business.

Speaker 1 I am sour that the Eagles face a lot of criticism for a play, and I hear this all the time. It's hard to officiate.

Speaker 1 Well, why is it not hard to officiate for the other 31 other teams now that are running a version of this play?

Speaker 1 Everybody in the league is running the tush push in some degree now, other than the Chiefs, which you guys need to. I'm telling you for your own fucking good, you need to.

Speaker 1 It's a cheat code. Do it while they let you.

Speaker 1 I'm good.

Speaker 1 I don't want anything to do with it. Okay, well,

Speaker 1 keep going.

Speaker 1 I'll let my older brother have the honor of

Speaker 1 being the tush-push king.

Speaker 1 Just running our play action rollout with Patty Mahomes.

Speaker 1 It's just overall.

Speaker 1 The false starts and stuff get brought up when the Eagles do it. I watch a Monday night a short yardage play.
The Cardinals run a short yardage play.

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Speaker 1 All right, let's get to the rest of week nine, brother. Let's do it.
Start with little Eagles. Have the greatest bye week of all time.
The Commanders, Cowboys, Packers, Lions, Giants all lost.

Speaker 1 The Eagles won a game without playing a game. They won a week without playing a week.
Now a three-game lead in the NFC East. Well, the NFC East is a debacle right now.
Nobody's good.

Speaker 1 Before the season, I was like, gosh, you know what? That's going to be another fucking tough division. Yeah, well, Washington was in the NFC.
I mean, it was

Speaker 1 the NFC Championship game last year in Jaden Daniels' rookie year, and they've been hurt all over the place. Terry McLaurin's been hurt.
Debo Samuel has been out. Jaden Daniels has been out.

Speaker 1 Now Jaden's out for a long foreseeable future with the elbow dislocation. So it's not looking good.
Their defense is atrocious.

Speaker 1 The Cowboys defense is not good, and I don't know what Jerry Jones' move is today. It hasn't been released yet.

Speaker 1 Apparently, he's doing some type of trade, although he might have canceled it based on the performance last night from the Cowboys. We'll see what happens.
No, they just picked up a linebacker.

Speaker 1 A linebacker. That'll help out.
Who was it?

Speaker 1 Logan Wilson from the Bengal. Nice.
The NFC East might have three of the worst. four or five defenses in the NFL.

Speaker 1 I mean, the Bengals are the only ones competing right now with the Commanders, Cowboys, and Giants. Who else is worse on defense? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Like, I just, it's bad, it's bad defensive ball right now in the NSE.

Speaker 1 Good if you're the Philadelphia Eagles giving a lot of locker room material, but whatever. Yeah.
Well, the Eagles making moves as they always do right before the trade deadline.

Speaker 1 That's right. Got three news.

Speaker 1 Jets, cornerback, Michael Carter, the second. Ravens, cornerback, Jair Alexander, who was formerly a Green Bay Packer.
And

Speaker 1 team back up with his old Green Bay defensive backs coach.

Speaker 1 And Dolphins Edge Rusher, who was a big, he was a hot commodity during the trade deadline.

Speaker 1 Jalen Phillips reunites with Vic Fangio. 92%ers remember him as the guy who called me eyebrows.
That's who called you eyebrows. Yes.

Speaker 1 That's good shit. It was too good to not stop me in my tracks and make me laugh.
So he's going to bring a lot to the defense.

Speaker 1 I mean, the defense, the thing that they've really been missing is the defensive backfield and depth, really, at edge position. I think they have good players there.
Nolan Smith has been hurt.

Speaker 1 They lost Sweat and Brandon Graham in the offseason. They lose Milton Williams.
Now, all of a sudden, BG comes out of retirement. Nolan Smith is going to get healthy eventually here.

Speaker 1 And now we got Jalen Phillips coming in, who's been a proven good rusher in this league, and he's familiar with this system in Vic Fangio. Yeah.
I think it's a no-brainer.

Speaker 1 It feels like it's going to make a big difference to the depth of the defensive line as well as getting pressure on the quarterback. I wanted to ask you.
So Michael Carter gets paid by the Jets.

Speaker 1 He's renowned as one of the best nickelbacks in the NFL. Supposedly, his game has kind of tailed off a little bit because of injury in recent years.

Speaker 1 And then Jaira Langzale, Alexander, who at one point was considered one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL.

Speaker 1 And then all of a sudden this season, people have been crushing him and he just hasn't had the year he's wanted.

Speaker 1 So I want to ask you, someone's gone up against both these guys, what what is the new heights take on these guys as players?

Speaker 1 Did the Eagles win in these moves, in your opinion? I honestly,

Speaker 1 I never played Green Bay to the point where I'd like to

Speaker 1 be guarding. Yeah.
Well, yeah, hopefully we got, this is the reality.

Speaker 1 The backfield from with Quinyon and Cooper is really good. It'll be interesting to see.
how these new pieces fit in. Michael Carter, as we've said, has been a nickel.

Speaker 1 We have one of the best nickels in the NFL in Cooper DeGene. Does he slide out and play outside corner? Does Michael Carter become a starter?

Speaker 1 Do we start with Jair outside at the cornerback position and keep Cooper inside?

Speaker 1 It's going to be interesting to see how Vic utilizes these new pieces, but it does bring a level of competition, talent to players who have been really good in this league before

Speaker 1 in the building, which I think in general hopefully will improve. That's what you want to run on the trade deadline to make a run, though.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 You want guys that are experienced, that understand defense, you know, recognition, can get lined up at least and not be scared of the moment. I think that's what you guys got for sure.
And I think

Speaker 1 not necessarily scared, but don't let the moment get you. It also just re-emphasizes the team's idea on how competitive we are right now.
You don't go out and make all these moves.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it makes them every year. Howie might have been the only person with a busier phone than Adam Scheftert this weekend.
Making three moves at the trade deadline, it's pretty.

Speaker 1 Did you guys lose anybody, or are you guys just trading picks? I think this is all picks. Jalen Phillips was a third-round pick, but I don't think we gave up players, if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 1 He could be even brewing up something else.

Speaker 1 And the rest of the league could be brewing something else. It's only Tuesday morning, like we said.
The trade deadline isn't until later today.

Speaker 1 And I will say, I'm giving the Cowboys' defense a lot of crap. I do think,

Speaker 1 like, Ibra Fluce's scheme, you need to have have really good linebackers if you're going to run this like cover two shell. And that's why they went out and got Wilson.

Speaker 1 If you're going to run, if you want to run cover two, if you want to run, play with two safeties back, you have to have great linebackers and you have to have some guys on the D line that can get after it.

Speaker 1 Like you got to have six guys that can stop the run and get after the passer in the box.

Speaker 1 1,000%.

Speaker 1 Hopefully this guy gets them closer to that for the Cowboys' sake, for the Eagles sake. I hope he doesn't work out at all.
All right. Now, that does it for the trade deadline.

Speaker 1 Jason, let's get into the rest of week whatever it is. Okay, we're officially at the halfway point of the NFL season.
Let's hand out some halfway points, halfway point awards.

Speaker 1 That's a weird way to say that. Halfway point awards.

Speaker 1 We based all the categories on memes. For the player or team that isn't getting talked about enough, we're handing out the I owe you an apology.
I wasn't familiar with your game award.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of people that can win this one. That's the thing about the NFL season, man, is somebody could get hot right now.
Somebody could just, a team could just like mesh.

Speaker 1 And a team could get an injury and then all of a sudden be buns. I mean, look at the Ravens first half of the year.

Speaker 1 Lose two games early on, get decimated with injuries, and all of a sudden they're back to competing. So who do you think is a,

Speaker 1 you know, was not given enough credit? I mean, obviously the Colts are probably the biggest thing. Daniel Jones, I would say.

Speaker 1 But the sneaky. We're going to let down this past week.
But another one's a sneaky one, man. Sam Darnold up there in Seattle.
Seattle's all the way the fuck up there, that Northwest, man.

Speaker 1 And they just don't get talked about enough. They don't get talked about.
That team is fucking physical. They have a number one in that wide receiver room.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That dude, Jack Jackson, and Jengba, bro, what? Yes. That dude is fucking nasty.
He's crazy routes.

Speaker 1 He's pissing everybody off that plays him. He's a fucking problem.

Speaker 1 And then their run game is fucking downhill. It's coming at you.
And that's giving Sam Darnold a lot of time back there, man. Yeah, they're running.
Sammy D.

Speaker 1 They're running that Kubiak system very well.

Speaker 1 Clint Kubiak is, I mean, it feels like the same thing as when I was watching Houston with Arian Foster and all those guys. I mean, the run and play action marries up very well.

Speaker 1 And Darnold is fantastic this year. I mean, it's crazy that one playoff game, everybody had already come back around to Sam Darnold being a good quarterback.

Speaker 1 Then he has one absolutely terrible, like a couple games to the end of the season. And then everybody's like, oh, yeah, I guess Sam Darnold actually does suck.

Speaker 1 And then he's out there again, and he's like, he's like first or second in QBR through the first half of the season. Like he's balling out.

Speaker 1 And yeah, it helps to have JSN this year, just like it helped to have

Speaker 1 freaking

Speaker 1 Justin Jefferson last year, but Sam Darnold is slinging it. Leonard Williams, the guys they got up front on defense,

Speaker 1 they have some players in Seattle.

Speaker 1 NSC West is going to be an interesting one because I think the Rams have also, they could very easily, I mean, you take away a blocked field goal and a fourth down conversion, and they haven't lost a game this year.

Speaker 1 Isn't that crazy? Isn't that crazy? You could just fucking pull out two plays at the end of a game, and it's like, that's how close victory is in this fucking league, man. So I'm with you.

Speaker 1 I think Seattle and Darnold got to be the I owe you an apology. And I think everybody kind of owes Darnold an apology.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 For the veteran that is still balling out, it's the Unk still got it. Oh, I'm not familiar with this meme.
What's this meme? Can you see this one? Uncle Got It.

Speaker 1 It's impressive that Unk ever had that. Ah, that boy going crazy.
Unk still got it.

Speaker 1 How do you even find out that you could do that? Unk is traditionally an older player.

Speaker 1 Still got it. Got to be an older player balling out.
Yep. I feel like Stafford is the obvious obvious choice because he's,

Speaker 1 I mean, he might be, he's definitely up there in contention for MVP through the first half of the season. But I feel like nobody thought Stafford didn't have it.

Speaker 1 Like, everybody kind of knew Stafford's a great quarterback. Yeah, Stafford's unbelievable.
So for Uncle's still got it. I feel like it's got to be.

Speaker 1 It's got to be one of the oldest players in the league. It's got to be Flacco, right? It's got to be Flacco.

Speaker 1 Nobody expected him to go out there and throw for 470 on a team that

Speaker 1 he's only been on for like two weeks. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The most by a 40-plus-year-old quarterback in the regular season. The only 40-year-old quarterback who was thrown for more was Tom Brady in Super Bowl 52.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I remember that one. That was a wild one.
That was a fun game.

Speaker 1 For the team that is getting healthy at the right time, we're calling this the call the ambulance, but not for me.

Speaker 1 I don't know this one either. Am I just not plugged in on these memes? No, I don't know this one.
I knew the last one, but I don't know this one. Hopefully the younger audience gets this one.

Speaker 1 All right, we got Ravens, Tampa Bay 49ers.

Speaker 1 The thing with the 49ers is are they even getting healthy? I feel like a lot of the guys they've lost are freaking out. Yeah, that shit sucks.
I think they got Kittle back last week or two weeks ago.

Speaker 1 I guess

Speaker 1 do they even want Brock Purri to come back at this point? Mac Jones has been balling. The way Mac Jones has been balling, man, that's a tough decision because you paid Purdy a lot of money.

Speaker 1 And I think Purdy was playing bad. It's just Mac Jones has really played well in his time.
That's tough, man. It's tough.
I mean, I still feel like Tampa Bay is the real deal.

Speaker 1 And once they get healthy, I think they're going to be competitive. I think Baker is one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

Speaker 1 They've kind of been injured to this point, and they're still one of the top teams in the NFC.

Speaker 1 Ravens,

Speaker 1 I mean, those are two good options. All three of these are really good options.
I'm going to go to Tampa Bay. I'm going to keep on the Baker love train.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Keep it in the NFC.
Yeah. For the team or player, We can't really explain, but it gets the kids going.

Speaker 1 The 6-7 award, nice. That's a good one.
That's a good one. You know about this one? It's just supposed to mean like it's okay, but then at the same time, nobody really knows.

Speaker 1 Everybody just kind of says it now whenever it's just like a

Speaker 1 6-7. Yeah, all right, whatever.

Speaker 1 I feel like the 6-7.

Speaker 1 It's got to be Jackson Dart, right? He's gone in and played really well. I love the energy and effort and excitement that he's had on the game day, but it doesn't feel like it's like

Speaker 1 it's not all there yet. There's still a few pieces away up there in New York.
And that's the perfect for the team or player we can't really explain, but gets the kids going.

Speaker 1 And this, I mean, he gets every

Speaker 1 Jackson Dark Scataboo. Really, Scataboo was the

Speaker 1 Scataboo. Is it there still? Ah, man.
Broncos are another good choice. I don't know how you feel about that, but the Broncos defense is lights out.

Speaker 1 Bo Nicks is only good when his team is losing for some reason bro the guy when it when it comes down to it listen the guy just he's brawler he needs pressure he needs to be like oh shit's hitting the fan i gotta make a play exactly and he does it's crazy and he does every time yeah i've seen it firsthand last year he tried to pull off like a second half like downfield lateral yeah i don't know if you remember this bro and i was like bro he's out there doing this

Speaker 1 with the fucking game on the line man. Fuck.

Speaker 1 Do you want to name the Broncos the 6'7 award or is that feeling? No,

Speaker 1 I think it's either Drake May or Scatabo. I just feel like Drake May.

Speaker 1 Drake May's a 10. You can't give him a 6'7 award.
This dude is bawling out right now. 6'7 to me is not bawling out.

Speaker 1 6'7 is like you're having a moment, you're playing well, but you're not like the best person. I thought it just kind of got the kids going for some reason.
I saw a video of

Speaker 1 Drake May and his tackle.

Speaker 1 They're at the Boston Celtics game, and they put Drake May up on

Speaker 1 the screen on the floor, and everybody's going crazy. And there's a Boston Celtics kid,

Speaker 1 like a fan in the stands that had a I Love Drake May shirt on, and he was going fucking nuts. I mean, it definitely gets the kids going.
I just don't think that that's what 6ix7 is. I don't.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Drake May, sure. Yeah, you fucking crushed it, Jason.
Thanks for selling that shit.

Speaker 1 You leaned in. Thank you so much.
You didn't just leave that out to dry. Fuck.

Speaker 1 That was great. Sold it.

Speaker 1 Do you think I know what 6F means? I don't fucking know.

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Speaker 1 NBA League pass auto renews until canceled additional terms at dkng.co slash audio limited time offer all right now let's move on to stamp of the week stamp of the week is brought to you by starbucks nice man god i could use some starbucks right now your new protein coffee destination i could use some protein and some caffeine are there other protein coffee options i think i'm that's the only one never heard of never heard of it very good protein coffee all right nominees yeah who you going with big eye well we got nominees nominees the owl that attacked brian schohnheimer I did not see this.

Speaker 1 He was attacked.

Speaker 1 So that's not Photoshop. There was actually an owl in his house.
Josh, do you remember when there was a bat in our house growing up? A bat? There was a bat one year, and then there was a bird.

Speaker 1 I just remember the bird. I don't remember the bat.
We had a bat one year and a bird another year. Those didn't fare too well over at the Kelsey household.
Well, Flash. Flash was a badass.

Speaker 1 She had rid of a lot of that stuff. She wasn't funny.

Speaker 1 We found dead birds all the time. Dead birds, mice.
Yep. You name it.
Like little gifts. All right.
Arch Manning.

Speaker 1 Little gifts. Clearly,

Speaker 1 intern Brandon put that in there. Baseball.
We're going to stamp baseball for what?

Speaker 1 Listen, just because the Phillies didn't make it doesn't mean the World Series wasn't absolutely epic. That was an awesome seven games of fucking baseball, man.
It was back and forth.

Speaker 1 Every team was...

Speaker 1 Both teams had their shining moments. Blue Jays are up all game going into the eighth inning.

Speaker 1 So you're telling me I'm supposed to get excited about a Canadian baseball team and a team that just spends more money than everybody else. Who the fuck cares about I? Both of them.

Speaker 1 Both of them spend more money than everybody. It's the baseball.
Well, yeah, that's why baseball sucks. It's why baseball says you just buy World Series championships.

Speaker 1 It's the dumbest thing in the world. It's exciting.
It's exciting that the team that spent the most money and everybody knew was going to win the World Series won the World Series.

Speaker 1 It was an unexpected person that won it for the first time.

Speaker 1 Everybody knew this was going to happen for the season. We just had a bunch of meaningless shit happen before it, and then it happened.
And on top of that,

Speaker 1 you still got to go do it. I'm not.
Yeah, well, they did. Yeah, they did it.
So, yeah, no, baseball not getting my stamp.

Speaker 1 Baseball will get a stamp if it adds a salary cap and starts making people actually have to win championships on merit rather than just spending a bunch of money on Japanese phenoms.

Speaker 1 But it is fun when one of those teams with merit find a way to get the win, you know? They don't have merit, Travis. They have merit

Speaker 1 because they're not going to be afraid.

Speaker 1 One of the teams that don't pay for it finds a way. They did pay for it.

Speaker 1 Blue Jays are high in the payroll as well.

Speaker 1 None of this.

Speaker 1 Well, no, I'm saying this year wasn't it. When has it been it? When the guards went to the World Series? Did they win?

Speaker 1 Unfortunately, no. Yeah.
Oklahoma kicker Tate Sandel. As a coach, get off the field, son.
Go put pants on or you're not playing for me. I don't think this should be allowed.

Speaker 1 Kicking is already too easy. Why the fuck is this dude's...
Why am I seeing VMOs? I see his goddamn quad muscle. I don't want to see this.
I don't want to see Daisy Dukes on the football field.

Speaker 1 Just put the fucking pads on. His fucking VMOs.

Speaker 1 Helmet that looks like he's from the Little Giants.

Speaker 1 Cam Little sets the record for a field goal. I mean, it's impressive.
He fucking kicked a field goal that was snapped at the 50-yard line. That's fucking insane.
Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go with my guy, Brock Bowers, man. I love giving tight ends the love.
And Brock has been injured. He's been banged up all year.

Speaker 1 He comes back, and man, alive, two fucking great touchdown grabs as well as 133

Speaker 1 through the air, man. Actually, three touchdown grabs, I should say, but two of them were absolutely electric.

Speaker 1 One, an option route that he broke off the defender, and fucking, man, the guy can fucking roll. I want to know how fast that guy was going

Speaker 1 on his long touchdown. And then the back shoulder, one-handed grab where he landed on his back in the end zone, man.
Brocky B. Brocky B.
You're my stamp of the week, brother. Stamp of of them.

Speaker 1 It is a bad stamp of them. I already gave my Himi award on Monday night to

Speaker 1 Sam Darnold. I'll give it to the kicker, not the one with fucking shorts.
I'll give it to the one that made a 68-yard field goal

Speaker 1 in the NFL. I think that's pretty remarkable.
I routinely am known to shit on kickers, so I'm going to do the honorable thing. and give the award to somebody who set a record.

Speaker 1 Chicken Little kicked a 68-yard field goal. Brand new record.
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Speaker 2 So me and my fiancé, Cindy B, husband, are thinking of getting another puppy. We have a dog who's three right now.

Speaker 1 But with this like

Speaker 2 95 job, we're just wondering, is there really any good time to get?

Speaker 2 like a puppy like do we just kind of pull the trigger with it because they're they're a lot to handle so if you could just give your advice on if you think that there's really any good time of the year to get a puppy, any good time of the year?

Speaker 1 I mean, it depends on your setup.

Speaker 1 I'll say this: it's not a good time to get a puppy if you're having kids because that is having a puppy, trying to potty train that thing while also trying to potty train a human being is a difficult thing to freaking handles.

Speaker 1 The dog is now pissing in the European shit happening all over the place. The dog is now pissing outside.
Yeah, it's not ideal. You don't want that.
that.

Speaker 1 I would say winter, depending on your climate, but winter, typically you want to let the dog outside if it needs to go to the bathroom. And

Speaker 1 going outside for a walk or just letting the dog outside, depending on your setup at your house, is difficult sometimes when it's cold out there.

Speaker 1 Summer, you want to be out of the house and doing stuff. You don't want to be weighed down by a puppy.
So I would say, I think fall,

Speaker 1 spring. Spring's a good time.
If you want to get a fucking puppy,

Speaker 1 you're going to make the decision to take care of the dog no matter when you get it. And that's going to have at least some inconvenience to your life.

Speaker 1 You know, it's going to switch up your daily routines and shit like that. So it's like the best time is whenever you're up for switching that routine.
Soon-to-be husband's a good time to get one, too.

Speaker 1 You can find out a lot about the nurturing habits of your soon-to-be husband. If he's shit with a puppy, I mean

Speaker 1 you might not want that guy around. It's a good, it's a good test.
Dogs are a good test for parents as human, as for humans as parents, which I do not pass usually. Don't listen to him.
Good lord.

Speaker 1 No, you get one of these things. Do we know what breed it is? No.
Do we know where it's from exactly? Also, no. You get one of these little creatures.
It just hangs out with you all day.

Speaker 1 That's a cute. Whatever it's doing with its ears, I like that.
Let's be honest, the breed matters a lot.

Speaker 1 The breed does make a big difference when you're adopting. And could not possibly tell you what breed this is.
His DNA test came back like a fucking. But you can see its face that it's a harmless dog.

Speaker 1 Look at that face. Look at that So get you one of those.
That's somebody that just wants to be loved. See? Yeah, I would adopt like an old bloodhound.

Speaker 1 I would just get like an old bloodhound that just can't even move and just sits on the front porch. And it's the rules and

Speaker 1 its lips and ears are just like matted down onto the carpet. What's the next question? My name is Ruth.

Speaker 3 My question is, was there any kind of pet that either of you wanted as a kid that your parents absolutely wouldn't have allowed?

Speaker 3 Like, for instance, my mom would have been cool with just about anything, including snakes, which I am pretty sure that's not the norm.

Speaker 3 But like, is there anything that Mama Kelsey or Papa Kelsey would have immediately vetoed? Also, my cat, Autumn Willow, she watches the show with me every week.

Speaker 1 She's so tired. Okay, Autumn.
All right, Autumn. Nice.
Shout out to Autumn. I don't think we would have been allowed to get anything other than a dog and a cat.

Speaker 1 I think that's where mom and dad drew the line. I remember bringing it up that I wanted a ferret.
I thought they were the coolest animals ever. I very much remember that.

Speaker 1 Then learned that they're not very

Speaker 1 like my college roommate had a ferret. Who had a ferret? And I got to Isaiah Pede.
Isaiah Pede had a ferret? Dude, yes. I forget the name of it, but it was living in our dorm room illegally.

Speaker 1 Yeah, of course. Frowned upon because you can't have pets in the dorm rooms.
That was the same thing with Marcus Barnett. Marcus Barnett had an alligator in the dorms.

Speaker 1 Bones Barnett, man.

Speaker 1 God damn it. What a legend.
Yeah. So a ferret is a very, it's a, I mean, you got to be ready for the room to smell like absolute shit.
Um, it's going to be a fucking mess.

Speaker 1 Those things are not like as cute and friendly as you would hope they were. Um, I feel like we talked about definitely remember you wanting a ferret.
Like, yeah, my dad looked

Speaker 1 mentioned that when I told him, I was like, yeah, my roommate has a ferret and it is the fucking worst. And he's like, yeah, you remember when you wanted that yet, Rodent? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Dad got fired up. He was like, thank God

Speaker 1 we didn't fucking lean into that. I feel like we almost got a hamster.

Speaker 1 The rodents were definitely a thing for a little bit. Then there was like a rabbit.
Cause I, did the porn horse have somebody had a rabbit or a bunny? One of our friends.

Speaker 1 And we talked about that for a little bit. No chance our parents were letting us get a snake or anything like that.
We'd have done something done with it. I do remember you wanted a pygmy marmoset.

Speaker 1 This is when you're a full-grown adult.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't be surprised if you still want want.

Speaker 1 You remember those little finger monkeys that? Oh, yeah, we were fucking around with that. Those things look fucking cool.
I just saw them flying around, jumping on the fingers.

Speaker 1 I just wanted to put my finger in the air and see it jump from one side of the room onto my finger.

Speaker 1 I did have a buddy that had a monkey growing up, and I remember going there and seeing the cage for this thing and just being like, What the fuck?

Speaker 1 I was like a kid, and I was like, Why the fuck do you guys have a monkey?

Speaker 1 Dude, you know, the one the pet that I kind of want now, I saw one online where

Speaker 1 somebody had like a

Speaker 1 full-on,

Speaker 1 not a sea turtle, but like those old, the tortoises that grow to be like 100 years.

Speaker 1 No, no. They're like just like a, it's just a big tortoise, a giant tortoise or whatever it's called.
Yeah, I know. I know.

Speaker 1 I had him in Chicago and it was like had a garage beer on its back and it was just walking down the street. I was like, God dang,

Speaker 1 a tortoise like that would be so fucking sick. But then it's like, all right, where do I keep this? Just because it's 100 years, it outlives you?

Speaker 1 Like, pass it on Yeah, it's Bill. He's older than everybody in the family.
You're stuck with him now. It is now your inconvenience.
Good luck caring for him in the winter in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 Do you recommend exotic pets for kids, Jason? I don't remember exotic pets for anybody. I think exotic pets should stay exotic.
Wild animals. Dogs and cats are kind of the big ones.

Speaker 1 Do you, I mean, you know the one that's kind of getting interesting? Donkeys? Like a miniature donkey, I think. That's an exotic pet.

Speaker 1 That's an exotic pet to me hi my name is eleanor and i'm calling regarding pet parenting advice um i have a five-year-old 1950s name right there

Speaker 1 and i'm getting ready to adopt a younger brother for him

Speaker 1 and i just need to find a perfect name so my question is what should i name my new male kitten perfect perfect name that's a tough task what did they say what did she say the older cat's name was franklin that was franklin

Speaker 1 i like franklin i'm i'm a big fan of human names for pets and pet names for humans. Franklin is a great name.
Franklin. Franklin's a good one.
I like that. So she's kind of into this territory.

Speaker 1 What's a good pet name for a male cat that's a younger sibling to Franklin? I mean, if you're going Franklin, why not keep it in the childhood cartoon, like kids? You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 You're like, hey, it's Franklin.

Speaker 1 You can go Arthur. Arthur, that's it.
That's it. I mean, I think that's

Speaker 1 Franklin and Arthur.

Speaker 1 Frank and Art? Frank and Artie, yeah. I think we just did it.
That's the perfect perfect name. She's not going to think, and Eleanor is not going to get a better one than Art.

Speaker 1 What are some other options we got? Arthur? Arthur's great. Doug? Doug, funny.
Doug doesn't feel like a cat. I'm not getting that.
Unless it's like a cat that just fucking sits around.

Speaker 1 Doug kind of, does Doug, I don't know why. Doug kind of feels like a fuck-up for a name.
Yeah, I think it's Arthur. Arthur's the perfect name.
As we've said, we like people names for pets.

Speaker 1 I think it's always fun. All right.
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Speaker 1 Robin Williams is the genie and Aladdin is the best. It's the greatest.
Nobody's done a better voice acting role in anything ever, I don't think. I don't know.
Shrek was pretty good.

Speaker 1 Not even fucking close to the comedic timing and ability that Robin Williams executed with the genie from Aladdin. I mean, it's the only reason the movie is like redeemable.

Speaker 1 They tried to redo it with Will Smith and it was a fucking disaster. Like nobody liked it.
I thought it was a disaster. I thought it was pretty good.

Speaker 1 I mean, you are so out of your fucking mind if you thought that movie was even remotely good.

Speaker 1 I thought it was good. And it was bad because everybody expected the genie to still be Robin Williams.
It was not like an indictment indictment on Will Smith. Anybody in that role was going to fail.

Speaker 1 I remember the songs in Aladdin a lot. They're great.
It's my favorite Disney flick. Of all the old school ones, that's the ones I watch.
I like the messaging behind it.

Speaker 1 And like, I think it's a great film. It's a fantastic film.
And then of the new ones, I'm kind of into... Coco, which really isn't even a movie for kids.

Speaker 1 Like a child watching Coco gets nothing out of it. But if you're an adult, you're in tears at the end of it.
It is fucking an intense movie.

Speaker 1 I'm just telling you. Dude, you're fucking knee-deep in it.
Some of the new movies are a little bit too straightforward with what they're trying to message. They're too descriptive.

Speaker 1 The songs are more straightforward, like there's no interpretation. It's all just like, this is what this movie's about.

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