Travis Returns to The Land, Jason Hypes the Birds and Drone Sweet Drones | Ep 115

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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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You got salami. You got kilbasa.
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Speaker 1 We were returning home, and one of the flight attendants asked Bronx if he wanted to see the flight deck and meet Captain Andrew. I got to sit in the driver's seat.

Speaker 1 I grew up in an aviation family, and seeing Bronx kind of reminded me of myself when I was that age. That's Andrew, a real United pilot.
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Speaker 1 It felt like I was the captain. Allowing my son to see the flight deck will stick with us forever.
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Speaker 1 No one goes crazy. Everyone, keep calm.
They're just drones. What are they doing? We don't know.
It's just somebody's fucking around in their backyard. Do they have weapons? No.
Can they hurt us? No.

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Speaker 1 Cleveland Heights High School alumni and also Cincinnati Bearcat alumni. The University of Cincinnati finally knocks down Xavier after about five years of the cross-down shootout.
God damn it.

Speaker 1 It just feels good when

Speaker 1 you can win one in the city, especially against your rivalry.

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Speaking of the Bearcats, you see those Jordans right there. Oh, dude, those are the Jason Tatums, man.
Okay. Jordan Cincinnati Bearcat Edition.

Speaker 1 Now that the Bearcat basketball team is officially Jordan as well. Jason,

Speaker 1 what do we got coming up? We got a great episode coming up here, guys. We're going to talk about Travis's Cleveland homecoming.
The Eagles' passing game seems to be just fine.

Speaker 1 Nothing to see, nothing to be worried about.

Speaker 1 And we're debuting a brand new segment. Can't wait.
But first, as always. Yes, sir.
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Speaker 1 So be ready on some awkward days because of the crazy, weird schedule that the Chiefs are dealing with,

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Oh, yeah. We've been waiting for this one for a long time.

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Speaker 1 There's a lot of new heights coming up. I don't even know.
Yeah. I would just be ready.

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We're coming in hot. Jets Jake will let you know on the socials.

Speaker 1 He's always on, his Twitter fingers are working quick.

Speaker 1 It's X now. The Bearcats are playing an arrowhead.
That's right. Everybody, Cincinnati Bearcats versus the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
No doubt.

Speaker 1 A matchup that I don't even know if the, I don't know how much history is between these two schools, but I've never seen these two go out. These two teams play? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I have not witnessed that. I've never heard of these two teams play.
So this is going to be big. And I mean, obviously, busting with the boys, Will Compton, Nebraska Kern Husker.

Speaker 1 Did he reach out to you? Because he reached out to me and he's fired up about it. I mean, how can you not be fired up? Yeah, I gotta look at it.
It's like right away.

Speaker 1 It's a little football, baby, in GEHA Arrowhead Stadium. Yeah.
Jiha. Jiha.
Thursday, August 12th. You see, we'll open the 2025 season versus the Cornhuskers.
So it's going to be a fun one.

Speaker 1 The first game of the year, got to love it. Are we going? If I can make it, I'm there.
Typically, Sunday games, we play Sunday games. Saturdays are a pretty busy day for us.

Speaker 1 But, I mean, it is right there. Yeah, if I can get over there at Arrowhead, I guarantee you I will be there.
Yeah, I got nothing else going on, so I'll be there.

Speaker 1 I love it. The Bearcats are playing Minnie Mahomes.
Dude, look at this guy.

Speaker 1 His dad played there as well. I forget his actual name.
Timeout. This guy that looks like Mahomes is...

Speaker 1 Riola, the old like center for the lions son. Son.
I'm pretty sure that's why he went to Nebraska is because his father went there. Dominic Riola, yeah.
Wow, that's pretty cool. Did not know that

Speaker 1 he looks nothing like Dominic. Can we put a photo up of Dominic?

Speaker 1 Show Riola for the Lions. This guy used to be just a pit bull.
Look at that. Look at this.
That's a fucking football player. Damn, chip off the old block.

Speaker 1 I guess he kind of does look like him. I haven't even thought of that.
He's got a little bit for sure. Yeah.
For sure.

Speaker 1 I think I saw Dylan at a Chiefs game not too long ago on the sidelines. Can't miss him.
Can't miss him. Big dude, man.
Big dude. You can see

Speaker 1 he's got the size like Pat does to play the quarterback position. Dylan and Pat, I believe, have the same quarterback coach in the offseason.
Their non-team quarterback coach, Jeff Christensen.

Speaker 1 Shout out to the Christensen family.

Speaker 1 Jake, his son, is a good friend of mine as well. And they play the game very, very similarly.
Obviously, 15, the hair, some of the antics are the same.

Speaker 1 But Dylan's got all the tools, man. He's legit, and the Bearcats are going to have their hands full of first game of the year next year.

Speaker 1 In more Ohio news, we have the Ohio State anti-flag planting law officially put into effect.

Speaker 1 Ohio State Representative Josh Williams introduced the OHIO Sportsmanship Act on Tuesday in an attempt to curb flag planting attempts or also an attempt to be petty as fuck.

Speaker 1 The bill would prohibit planting a flagpole and flag in the the center of the Ohio State football field on the day of a college football game and to name this act the OHIO Sportsmanship Act.

Speaker 1 I don't like it. I had so much.
I'm not going to lie. I had so much, like, there, I just, when I think of Ohio State Buckeyes, I think of just toughness, man.
Yeah. I think of just,

Speaker 1 and I just don't think this is

Speaker 1 a toughness type move. Right?

Speaker 1 I just, you know, I get

Speaker 1 you want to have sportsmanship. You want to have all that, but

Speaker 1 I don't want to shit on anybody. That's for the NCAA to determine, not an Ohio state representative.
What are you guys going to do out of here? Josh, you still

Speaker 1 arrest him?

Speaker 1 Is that what you're saying? You're going to arrest the guy. This is all just posturing, and it's just petty.
And I don't like it. I don't think it's cool.
I think it's stupid.

Speaker 1 Some of the best parts about the rivalries are when dumb things happen like this. Obviously, it was way over the top, and there was full-on fist fights and tear gas and other fist fights.

Speaker 1 Somebody got into trouble

Speaker 1 and this, you know, and talking about that. I'm not a favorite.

Speaker 1 I'm not a favor of of it. At the same time, this is just

Speaker 1 it's it's doing a lot. It's doing a lot.

Speaker 1 But shout out to the Buckeyes and shout out to the Wolverines. Shout out to Jason Avant, who saved the flag from hitting the ground or got it back.
That's what it was. He got it back.
He got it back.

Speaker 1 That's right. Jason Avant, man.
No, I don't know, man. And last piece of new news,

Speaker 1 we got a Bill Murray and myself golf video that just went out on YouTube. That's right.

Speaker 1 Singles matches. Jason, you're playing Bill.
All right. No injuries.
Yes, that's the golf.

Speaker 1 Well, this is a club where they never lose a ball.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. Awesome time.
So fun. Bill was, I mean, just what you would think.
Funny as hell. And a great time.
He's got a smooth swing. Yeah, baby.
You? So

Speaker 1 we got to loosen that thing up, man. We got to unload it.
We got to unwind you just a little bit, man. I'm not, we got to unwind me.
Am I wound up? That thing looks tense.

Speaker 1 You just look tense out there, man. If you guys want to check that out, you can go to, I think it's like at Jake.
I don't even know what that freaking thing's called.

Speaker 1 YouTube slash Jason Kelsey slash at Jason Kelsey on YouTube. There you go.
You'll find it. I think that's my shameless plug for the day.
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Let's get a little Chiefs recap in. Chiefs, 27.
Browns, 7.

Speaker 1 Traff, what was it like to be back in the land? Dude,

Speaker 1 I just love that city, man. Yeah, man.
It was so fun. I felt like something about being back by that lake.

Speaker 1 When we flew in, I felt like a tour guide just telling everybody every single city that we were going past. Yeah, every monument, every building.
Oh, that's where my mom worked right there.

Speaker 1 The big one, the key bank at the tallest. I don't know if you saw it.
It's the biggest building in the city.

Speaker 1 What else? Oh, my God. Everything from the, from, you know, just flying into the city, seeing the skyline.

Speaker 1 I just, I have such a love for

Speaker 1 an appreciation for how we grew up and the fun that we had and,

Speaker 1 you know, all the people that we knew that helped mold me and have the values that I have today. And a lot of them were at the game, man.
And I knew they were at the game. It felt awesome.

Speaker 1 Whether it was my friends being there, my friends' parents being there, you know,

Speaker 1 my childhood friends' kids now watching me

Speaker 1 at like I was a little kid

Speaker 1 watching the Browns, you know, and it's just, it's so crazy to drive to the stadium.

Speaker 1 I mean, I had crazy like flashbacks of going to, you know, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is right there on the same block as well as the Science Center.

Speaker 1 The Science Center was, we went there on like field trips to both of those places as kids, you know, school field trips. And

Speaker 1 silly memories like going to the cafeteria at the science center and spitting spitballs at like random people and getting in trouble for it as a kid.

Speaker 1 Just being just reckless and like getting in trouble with my friends and the memories and all that silly stuff was just like going in and out of my mind.

Speaker 1 And I just, you know, it just, it felt so surreal.

Speaker 1 And I don't know if it's the last time I'll ever play in Cleveland, but it kind of felt like I was like giving it one last hoorah before I'm done because, you know, I've only played there twice in 12 years.

Speaker 1 So unless we get thrown on there in the next couple, I don't really see it ever happening again. And it was just a special day for me personally, man.

Speaker 1 So shout out to everybody from the Heights and everybody from Cleveland that showed up for me and has always supported me in life, not just since I've been in the league.

Speaker 1 It was a great game for the Chiefs, you guys, on defense. Chiefs' defense has been lights out all season long.
They forced six turnovers, including three interceptions against Winston.

Speaker 1 Trent McDuffie, he just got his first career INT. He's been so good for the last couple years, and he's just getting his first INT.
Is that true? It's pretty crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it came off of a play where he was staring at the Jumbotron

Speaker 1 as the ball was being thrown. Tomorrow, as the ball was being thrown, he was looking at the Jumbotron.

Speaker 1 Yeah, sometimes you're not taking a turn. Do they teach that? I don't know if they teach that, but he's a savvy football player.

Speaker 1 I've heard you look at the Jumbotron, like while you're running to the end zone, you're out in the open to see where people are at. I've heard people doing that.
I've never heard of this. All right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, play the clip, Brandon.

Speaker 1 For whatever reason, I somehow glanced up at the Jumbotron because it was a scramble drill and just saw him launch it. And I was like, that's to my size.

Speaker 1 Shut up.

Speaker 1 Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 Like the big screen? Yeah, look behind you in the middle of the one. You can see his eyes go up, too.
Running into the end zone straight ahead. Uh-huh.
Uh-huh. And see him launch it.
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 And the Jumbotron is a little delayed, too. So for him to turn his head around and find the ball, you know, and that it's not like the, yeah, it's crazy.
It's a crazy thing.

Speaker 1 And talking to Trenton about it, man, I'm just happy as hell for him, man. The guy has been one of the best cornerbacks in the league since he's gotten the league since he was drafted here.

Speaker 1 He doesn't necessarily have the interceptions to prove it, but he has the play to prove it. And he's helped us, you know, win the win two Super Bowls in a row, man.
And

Speaker 1 is one of our best players on defense. And it kind of goes, I don't know, unnoticed a little bit because the interceptions just weren't there, man.
But it's good to see him get his first, man.

Speaker 1 What do you think about, yeah, first of all, congrats to McDuffie getting his first interception. What did it feel like offensively?

Speaker 1 You know, it felt like you guys got into a little bit more of a rhythm. You know, still probably not as good as you would want to be.

Speaker 1 I mean, dude, first of all, before we go even any further, shout out to Joe Tooney. Big Tooney.
Are you fucking kidding me? Big Tooney. This dude.
Just an Ohio football guy. Bro.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? This dude going back to his old interview.

Speaker 1 People have no idea. This dude left guard, slid out, and just went up against the best player in the NFL over the last decade.
Like, no big deal. And, like, did a good job.

Speaker 1 Don't get me wrong. Miles got him a couple times.
They're definitely chipping away. This fucking Miles Garrett.
But he didn't get anything. He blocked his ass off.
That was awesome.

Speaker 1 Holy cow, that was great. He's a staple for this team, man.
It killed us that he wasn't able to come out there in the Super Bowl last year, knowing he got,

Speaker 1 I think he tore his pec before the Super Bowl last year. But

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 1 he's such a pleasure to have on the the team because he's such a fucking team guy. He's so unselfish.
One of the toughest guys that I've ever been around.

Speaker 1 I think he's got a crazy stat going right now that I don't want to jinx. But for the season, remind me.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 it's just,

Speaker 1 he's always been that guy that can just fill in whatever you need. He can play center, he can play guard, he can play tackle.
And obviously, guard is his best position.

Speaker 1 But I mean, to be able to maneuver or move around and be wherever the team needs him to be and going up against the best in the league, you know, that's a huge task, man.

Speaker 1 And I couldn't be more proud of the guy, man. What did you think of the offense as a whole?

Speaker 1 We're rolling, man. We're putting up touchdowns.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 1 we got in the red zone before half and didn't come away with any points. But outside of that, man,

Speaker 1 there's a few just

Speaker 1 we're off just a tick on a few of those drives. It's not far off.
It's all correctable stuff. You know, it's all depth and routes.
It's all timing.

Speaker 1 It's all hand placement and blocking and in the run game and identifying the defense and where everybody's going. And it's all fixable stuff.
And don't get me wrong, the Browns and

Speaker 1 Schwartz.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Schwartz. Jim Schwartz.
Schwartz did an unbelievable job of making shit tricky. He's a very good coach.
Yeah. He does a great job of making things tricky.

Speaker 1 He kind of specified that game plan against a lot of the stuff that we like to do.

Speaker 1 Played heavy outside leverage with a lot of the man coverage with, you know, help inside

Speaker 1 forces us to go outside with the ball a lot and you know i think um i think that's where uh that's where that game this browns game really helped us improve because we gained a lot of confidence going outside the uh the numbers there with uh d hop and xavier and um it's going to be even more fun getting my guy hollywood brown back uh when's he getting back this week he's back baby he's back he's uh he's flying around

Speaker 1 i didn't know he's gonna be back that fast oh yeah he's back he's we're gonna get get him nice and primed up for

Speaker 1 the big dance. Love that.
Yeah, I think that was a great game for that. Obviously, Pat and Noah have been hitting on all cylinders all year.
And

Speaker 1 Pop, Isaiah Pacheco's running downhill, the two-headed monster we got, really three-headed monster we got with

Speaker 1 him, Kareem Hunt, and Samajay Pirine. Getting them pistons going.

Speaker 1 I'm excited to keep growing. I'm a big fan of all three of those guys.

Speaker 1 I like Pop. I like Pop, right? Kareem played played a huge role when those guys got hurt.
I don't know. I love Piran and the way he plays.
He's just smart. Dude, he's been such a smart.

Speaker 1 He just seems like an awesome dude to have in the locker room. Dude, he's the best, man.
The absolute best.

Speaker 1 He's been the I got you guy, whatever you need, coaches, players, whatever you need. Third down backs.

Speaker 1 You can't. I mean, Kenny Game, we're going to get to the Chiefs or the Eagles in a second, but Samaje Piran makes a lot of plays and does a lot of unnoticed work on that third down.

Speaker 1 Well, speaking of unnoticed, before we get too far, since we're giving everybody shout-outs, we gave Big Tooney a shout-out because he moved the tackle, but somebody had to fill that left guard spot.

Speaker 1 And Mike Caliendo stepped up. Mike Caliendo? Yeah,

Speaker 1 Caliendo

Speaker 1 stepped up. I mean,

Speaker 1 he's another one of those guys who just is always ready.

Speaker 1 He's hanging around, waiting for his opportunity, and couldn't be happier for him to have such a good game as

Speaker 1 first game back in there. And I'll do this.
I do want to touch a little bit. So the reason,

Speaker 1 I guess, sliding out to tackle is so hard for Tooney.

Speaker 1 It's such a different technique. It's more space.
It's a different kick set. You're getting to a different spot.

Speaker 1 A lot of pass setting is getting to the right position between the quarterback, the defender. Getting there requires a lot of reps usually to feel where that proper positioning is.

Speaker 1 Now, I think Tooney played tackle in college, if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 1 So he's done that before, but to go out there mid-season like that and to, I mean, play the way he did, I thought was just so impressive.

Speaker 1 And then he's going in with a new guy playing next to him and Caliendo. Like, there are a lot of moving pieces there.
And I thought Pat looked,

Speaker 1 I mean, outside of the injury that we're going to talk about in a second with his little ankle, his weak ankles. I love you, Pat.
You got the weak ankles.

Speaker 1 He's got the...

Speaker 1 He looked to be the most comfortable, which is not usually the case against a Jim Schwartz style defense and Miles Garrett.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know, I think that there's been a lot of pressure on that left side in particular and throughout the season, and it felt like he felt really confident in the protection this past week, which was great to see.

Speaker 1 Let's talk about the injury. We did, unfortunately, see Pat Mahomes get rolled up on late in the game, diagnosed with a mild high ankle sprain following the tests.

Speaker 1 Still considered week to week. Are we going to see a Carson Wennsylvania Christmas?

Speaker 1 Wensylvania? Wennsylvania?

Speaker 1 Back in Wenzel City? Wenzel City?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I don't know what's going to happen for Christmas, but I know this weekend, I'm pretty sure Pat's been taking all the reps this weekend.

Speaker 1 But what we do know is that Carson is prepped and ready and ready to rock and roll like he always is. One of the pros pro, as they say it in the league, man.

Speaker 1 Just the guy takes his job very serious and is always ready. for the for the opportunity if it presents itself.
But we all know Pat is

Speaker 1 one of the toughest guys in the league. You know, he's going to play, he's going to play through

Speaker 1 anything and everything that he possibly can,

Speaker 1 all while, you know, making sure that

Speaker 1 the team's best interest is there. Yeah, and I'm obviously joking with Pat about the weak angles or whatnot, but he's just spraying those things so much at this point that I feel like

Speaker 1 it's a mild high ankle. He's going to tape it up.
He's going to be just fine.

Speaker 1 And if you think it's going to be that difference, all you got to do is watch the playoffs where he ended up winning a Super Bowl against yours truly. That ain't going to work just fine.

Speaker 1 A lot of people are talking a big, big talk about it. And there's going to be times where he's probably going to pull up lame and it's going to hurt.

Speaker 1 But I got to believe that this thing's going to be all right. We're playing meaningful football games right now.

Speaker 1 So I know Pat wants to be out there for his teammates and his coaches more than anybody, man. He's always been that guy.

Speaker 1 But it was cool to see Carson get in there,

Speaker 1 get his feet wet a little bit, and

Speaker 1 spin the rock, get us a big first down late in the game.

Speaker 1 And yeah,

Speaker 1 it was funny, man.

Speaker 1 You don't realize how much

Speaker 1 hearing a cadence from another quarterback

Speaker 1 is such a big deal, man. The timing

Speaker 1 is to hate it.

Speaker 1 The first thing you got to do when a backup quarterback is going in,

Speaker 1 you have to bring them to the bench where all the offensive linemen are at and like listen to it. Otherwise, somebody's going to get a false start.
Like, somebody is going to get a false start.

Speaker 1 It happened twice.

Speaker 1 went uh we went the you know just a regular cadence on the first one and and we somebody jumped and then finally we went on a hard cadence and i'm not gonna lie he almost got beat he's got a hard cadence now he's got a good cadence

Speaker 1 he's got some good frequency when he comes out i almost preferred when backup quarterbacks went in let's just go on silent cadence silent cadence like we're more used to it let's avoid this issue altogether it's so awkward going into another cadence and the timing of it yeah anyways it can be useful though but um

Speaker 1 that was, it was fun to hear it. I told him, I was just like, dude, you got a hell of a fucking cadence.
I didn't realize it till we're in live bullets. And you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 You got to fucking get off the ball.

Speaker 1 I was like, it's some good shit, though. And you know what? It's an honor to fucking get into a huddle with a guy that's, you know, taking snaps, had his hands under your ass.
It's fun.

Speaker 1 Oh, there you go. Speaking of next week, the Chiefs are going to be playing the Texans

Speaker 1 on Saturday. That's right.
A little day early game now that the college season has slowed down. We've gone to these Saturday games.

Speaker 1 And the middle of playing three games in 11 days, including a Netflix Christmas Day game. Yeah, what is this like, man? How are you guys feeling about a Saturday and then a Christmas Day game?

Speaker 1 I'm excited, man. I'm excited.
You know, the body's

Speaker 1 not as excited to get out there and try and run around to get the game plan together during practice, but I'll play whenever, man. I'll play whenever, wherever.

Speaker 1 I don't get, I just know that I'm so fortunate to be able to play this game game that I'm going to cherish every time I get to play on the field.

Speaker 1 So I'm not going to harp on the schedule that was given to us, especially this late in the season.

Speaker 1 It's kind of seems crazy, and it feels crazy, and it feels like it's a challenge set by the NFL to be able to, you know, finish as the one seed and knowing that, you know, we have one two in a row.

Speaker 1 But I think I accept that challenge, man. I think it's going to, you know, make it, make it feel that much better if we can get out of this,

Speaker 1 get out of this little three-game stretch with three wins.

Speaker 1 And it makes us feel a little bit more confident that, you know, we can get after it against some of the best teams in the AFC week to week to week, and especially some of the best defenses.

Speaker 1 Yeah, best of luck to you guys. I can't wait to watch it this week.
Texans are playing a little bit better right now. Stroud and those guys seem to be rolling.
Nico Collins, is he healthy again?

Speaker 1 He's healthy, right? Back and doing his thing.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, it'll be a good one. In Arrowhead, this is a big one.
You guys win this one. You know, you might be getting two bye weeks coming up.

Speaker 1 I don't want to get ahead of ourselves. Don't get ahead of ourselves.
I don't know if there will ever be two bye. Oh, I get you.
Yeah. Don't have to play the last game.
And yeah, I got you.

Speaker 1 That's a little motivation. It's a little motivation.
We control our destiny, man.

Speaker 1 We know if we finish the season off strong, we can get some time to get healthy or at least get our bodies back to get home field advantage. Yeah, get some home field advantage.

Speaker 1 I love playing at Arrowhead, baby. Playoff games at Arrowhead have become my favorite environment in the world.

Speaker 1 It's so quiet in Arrowhead. It is.
It's so peaceful, peaceful, isn't it? And it just, it makes you feel at home. It really does.
Those Chiefs Kingdom really just knows how to

Speaker 1 do it right, man.

Speaker 1 Time. It's always vanishing.
The commute, the errands, the work functions, the meetings, selling your car.

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Speaker 1 All righty, let's hit some of the more big storylines going on out of week 15 in the NFL. I don't know why I need to restate that, but

Speaker 1 you're trying to hype it up, Jason. Sorry.
Hey, let's get to

Speaker 1 some more of the biggest. All right, let's get to three.

Speaker 1 Hey, let's get to all right. Let's get to some more of the biggest stories from coming.
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Speaker 1 All right, let's get to. All right, let's hit three more of the biggest.
This is very hard to read.

Speaker 1 I don't know why. All right, let's hit more of the biggest stories from week 15 in the NFL before we move on to a brand new segment.

Speaker 1 I don't even know what this segment is. Who's the designer? It's so much fun not knowing yet.
That's when you know, like, when interim Brandon has something cool lined up,

Speaker 1 I get excited. Fire us up, but Eagles 27, Steelers 13.
Jason, initial thoughts on the old PA rivalry. How aggressive do I want to be? Do it.
This was huge.

Speaker 1 I I mean, Steelers, one of the best defenses in the league, one of the best teams in the league. Yeah.
Eagles, obviously,

Speaker 1 you know, there was a lot of noise this week on the press conferences last week from Jalen Hurts, from A.J. Brown, more notably, from my man Brandon Graham.

Speaker 1 A lot of stuff swirling around, and most of it's centered around the passing game. Actually, all of it's centered around the passing game.

Speaker 1 I think that this team over the course of the season has turned into this, you know, control-to-line scrimmage, very physical run game.

Speaker 1 Saquon Barkley is obviously having a career year, potentially historic year. The defense, oh my gosh, has just been playing lights out really ever since Tampa Bay.

Speaker 1 They've been one of the best defenses in the NFL up front in the back end.

Speaker 1 Their linebackers are playing better than I've seen potentially ever by an Eagles couple linebackers and Nicoby Dean and Zach Bond. The one question mark was, what has happened to the passing attack?

Speaker 1 We have A.J. Brown, we have Devontae Smith, and we have a franchise quarterback and Jalen Hurts.
Why is this not happening? There are some press conferences that leaked out.

Speaker 1 People clearly frustrated, and they come out and they answer the freaking bell. Like, oh, yeah, we can do that too.

Speaker 1 They answer the bell against a great team that they were going to have to throw the ball.

Speaker 1 As good as this run game is, Cam Hayward, you know, Mike Tomlin, this front, this Pittsburgh Steelers defense, they're not going to let you be one-dimensional and beat them. And

Speaker 1 I just thought it was like, dude, this is the sign that this team is a complete team. If they need to do it continually now, right?

Speaker 1 Now, I kind of do, we'll talk about this in a second, but they showed that they can do this, right? They got great teams, yeah. They still got a great run game.

Speaker 1 And if Jalen is going to play like this, deliver the ball to A.J. Brown, Devontae Smith had a big game.
Yeah, both of them. And Carpenter.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so it's, I just feel like this was such an awesome game if you're an Eagles fan. And I think I'm probably not alone in saying that.
I think a lot of Eagles fans feel that way.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, very happy. Do the Birds have a 2017 vibe going on right now? I mean, barring, you know, some crazy things happening.

Speaker 1 Minnesota right now is peaking. They looked great on Monday night.
Sam Darnold is at lights out. Yes, he did.
You know, Brian Flores is doing some outstanding things on defense.

Speaker 1 But I do think this Eagles team. It's about as complete as you can get.
I mean, you go down the roster. These guys are playing lights out.
They They have great players. They have great coaches.

Speaker 1 I don't, let me put it this way: I don't think there's a team in the league that they aren't competing with or beating a good majority of the time when they play them. I just feel that way right now.

Speaker 1 I think that they are up there. I think this is a great year.
You know, got to stay healthy.

Speaker 1 I always got to hope that is the case, but I'm confident if I'm a Philadelphia Eagle, very confident. The Eagles iced the game on a drive that was 21 fucking plays.

Speaker 1 A good old long drive drill with 88 yards

Speaker 1 and took 10 minutes and 30 seconds

Speaker 1 off the clock. The longest drive in modern record football books belongs to the Tennessee Oilers.
25 plays in 13 minutes and ended with a 19-yard field goal. Ew.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's daggering

Speaker 1 for both teams. That's fucking daggering.
No, that's pretty fucking impressive. And shout out to the Birds, man.
They're freaking flying around. A big-time win against the Steelers.
They're rolling.

Speaker 1 And like you said,

Speaker 1 kind of shut all the critics up about

Speaker 1 the old pass game. I used to not be a fan when guys would say things in the media that would create controversy or stir up things.
It kind of just, a lot of times could be, you know, divert attention.

Speaker 1 Well, when it doesn't pan out for them in the end. Well, this is, well, yeah, if it wouldn't have panned out, it's terrible, right? Like, it's bad.
It goes the other way.

Speaker 1 What all these guys did by talking about it. openly in the media is force them all to take ownership and fixing it.
And not just them, the coaches, everybody.

Speaker 1 I mean, they were all hard at work with what was going on in the media because they knew they all had to go out and have the game that they did against Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 And they ended up like answering it in just a magnificent fashion. I mean, they all played so well.
Yeah. You know, Jalen was on time.
AJ was a man on a mission. Devontae was making plays.

Speaker 1 You know, it was just, it was very fun to watch. You know, when stuff like this comes out, it tends to either galvanize you and bring you closer, or it can kind of tear you apart and separate you.

Speaker 1 And they clearly had the latter.

Speaker 1 They clearly, you know, were galvanized by this situation this week. So, you know, hats off to all those guys and the coaches and everybody from this past week.
And, yeah.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm talking about. I'm proud of those guys for sure.

Speaker 1 Well, next week, the Eagles got the Commies, got the Commanders over there in Washington, and the Eagles can cleanse the NFC East with a win, which is the playoff berth when you win the division.

Speaker 1 It's a big game. Big, big, big, big, big game right here.
How about that? The NFC East got some, they got some juggernauts over in the NFC now, man, huh?

Speaker 1 Got the Eagles, you got the Lions, you got the Vikings, the Rams are still the Rams. You got to fuck, they, that's the

Speaker 1 NFC, not the NFC, yeah, not just the NFC East, but the NFC in general. The NFC is loaded.
They are, yeah. It hasn't, hasn't necessarily been that.

Speaker 1 You know, Green Bay is, they got a fucking great team. Great quarterback, great coach, great defense.

Speaker 1 Anybody in the NFC North. Yeah, you hit the net.
The Vikings are playing as good as anybody. The Lions are still, until somebody beats them, in my opinion, they're the best team in the NFC.

Speaker 1 Green Bay is right up there with those guys. They are playing fantastic right now.
Dude, sleeper,

Speaker 1 don't sleep on Tampa Bay. Come on, man.
Dude,

Speaker 1 defense is fantastic with Todd Bowles. They're playing great right now.
Before Mike Evans and Godwin went down, this team was on track to be one of the best teams in the NFL. They were record-wise.

Speaker 1 It's only because both those guys went down that they aren't up there with everybody else.

Speaker 1 So the fact that Mike Evans is back and healthy, about to get his, what, 10th consecutive 1,000-yard season, it looks like, after missing like four or five games. Ridiculous.

Speaker 1 The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are fantastic. No, they are.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, there's a lot of great football in the NFC right now, and we got a tough one this week with the Commanders to try and clinch the division.

Speaker 1 well good lucky it's fun this is the fun time of year

Speaker 1 you love watching football

Speaker 1 starting to play some meaningful football man who had the biggest big guy play of the week dude there were some good ones this week man there were some real good ones and i know my favorite one was from the 330 pound tight end slash offensive tackle big dan scamper for the detroit lions let's show this clip this is my favorite one i don't think it's going to win i don't think it's the best one we know which one's the best one but this is my favorite just because Skip's been there for a long time.

Speaker 1 I feel like he's almost like a character of the Detroit Lions.

Speaker 1 Like, I just love it. Did that knee touch? It was close, but it did not.
Upon further review, he gets in there before that knee's down. Yeah.
But the big Skipper gets in there for the score.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Skipper, man. I mean, just a classic tight end naked, just a little boot, man.
Slam for five steps going left, three steps going right. Yep, come on back down.

Speaker 1 They legitimately use him, not frequently, but like a decent bunch where he's running routes as that second tight end like option. Yeah.
Or third. Usually it's the third tight end.

Speaker 1 But either way, it forces it puts teams in a tough position, man. I just, yeah, you get that beef out there.
312-pound Cardinal offensive lineman Jonah Williams scored a fumble recovery touchdown.

Speaker 1 Let's take a look at this one. I see it.
I mean, great strip. Good strip.
Good strip. Good strip.
Get on a big dog. Get on a big dog.

Speaker 1 Does he have it? Does he have it? Does he have it?

Speaker 1 he's out of bounds that's controlled that's touchdown i mean that's close that's close that's nice and i'm glad they gave it to him way to get way to way to way to just way to be there way to not just fumble that fucking thing out of the back of the eye

Speaker 1 you know what i mean just stout used to say stout used to say when you go out when you go at the ball you wrap it you don't go you you used to say you go out with your hands don't be like a koala batting it around with your your forearms i'm like what does that even do koalas bat it around i mean i don't even koala this thing for sure he did.

Speaker 1 He definitely

Speaker 1 swallowed that thing up.

Speaker 1 But honestly, the big one, the big one, the biggest favorite. Trevonde Sweat is now the heaviest player, 366 pounds, to ever run with the ball in the NFL.

Speaker 1 Tops Ted Washington's 365. Look at this dude, stiffy.
Come here, set up the block, hit the highway, get outside. Oh, this was electric.
I'm going to need to go back to the beginning.

Speaker 1 This was a juke, dude, that he puts on the left tackle. I'd like this is as good, dude.
This is as good as Colin Saunders. Colin, like, look at him.

Speaker 1 Slide, break off, stiffy. Stiff arm.

Speaker 1 Bro, stiff arm was ferocious. What is happening? They need to get this dude out of the fullback.
He needs to be a fullback on the goalfield. Get him.
Put him the new refrigerator Perry, man.

Speaker 1 Look at this guy. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 A big man rumbling, stumbling, bumbling. Dude, that was electric, man.
You just got to love it. Kilboro doesn't love it, and I completely understand.

Speaker 1 Stiffy,

Speaker 1 set up your block, huh? Get outside.

Speaker 1 It's so good. It's so good.

Speaker 1 Such a weird 360-pound, just giants, just Titans. Yeah, I'm glad I ain't got to block that guy.
Just setting up their blocks, man. Fuck.
I'm glad that that didn't happen against me.

Speaker 1 I had to try and tackle that guy. That was an offensive lineman.
He fucking stiff-armed. Whatever he'd have done to me.
I'm going low. I don't know what those dudes are thinking trying to go off.

Speaker 1 I'm going Take a knee to the face and get a concussion. I'm perfectly fine.

Speaker 1 You know how many times I've taken knees to the face? I used to cup lock for a living. I'm cutting.
Ah, dude. Open field cuts, man.
Yeah. Yeah, the good old days.
Back when it was legal.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Devondre.

Speaker 1 Hell of a play, Bub. Absolutely.
What is the weirder object flying over New Jersey? That's right, with all these drones flying around.

Speaker 1 Another Giants fan playing with a banner demanding John Mara to fire everyone or

Speaker 1 what? Or else we won't stop until you fire everyone.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go out on a limb and say Mara can wait this one out if he really wants to.

Speaker 1 The still unidentified drones that have been spotted over New Jersey or all over the East Coast cities, to be honest. Yeah.
The aliens are among us. The Pentagon said it.
Nah, they're not aliens.

Speaker 1 Dude, what?

Speaker 1 You heard what the Pentagon said.

Speaker 1 No, it's not aliens. They didn't say it was aliens.

Speaker 1 Dude, ask Dad. He's been on the.

Speaker 1 He's been on the satellites, dude. He heard them.

Speaker 1 He's got to still have those satellites hooked up to some speaker somewhere. It's a little concerning that these things are just hovering.

Speaker 1 I don't know what they're looking for or what they're trying to find, but they're searching for something. You know, some say that it's just, you know, just some people messing around.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 They got some commitment to messing around, if that's the case. Heck yeah.
I don't know what's going on. I guess hopefully we find out someday.

Speaker 1 Maybe it's just a coastal safety precaution, just making sure there's no, you know.

Speaker 1 All right, let's get out of here. Yeah, I don't even want to get into conspiracies about what the fuck those drones are.
They're sniffing around on nuclear activity.

Speaker 1 They're sniffing around for nuclear activity. There's a nucleobomb mixed mission from Ukraine.
Everybody saw that video. Don't want to freak everybody out.
Everybody saw the video that Joe Rogan.

Speaker 1 No one

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They're just drones.

Speaker 1 What are they doing? We don't know.

Speaker 1 Somebody's fucking around in their backyard. Do they have weapons? No.

Speaker 1 Can they hurt us? No.

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Speaker 1 All righty, time to get to the new segment we've been waiting to get to. Oh, that's a new heights food court.
That's right,

Speaker 1 Who doesn't love a good food court? It's a food court. We'll find out.
Longtime listeners of the show know that we love a good food debate.

Speaker 1 Like the time we called Candy Corn Overrate It, which I don't know that that's much a debate. I think that's pretty much a settled fact.

Speaker 1 Jason refusing to gatekeep pizza toppings, Travis's ban on tubular-shaped meats and mayonnaise, and the fact that we don't know if Denny's is a diner or not.

Speaker 1 I do know that is absolutely, we know that it is

Speaker 1 a diner. It is 100% not a diner part diner it is a uh diner in disguise uh is disguised

Speaker 1 you said it all right we're gonna go try this new segment where we attempt to settle some of the biggest all-time food debates in new heights food court food court this is where we're at this is what we're doing the food court i'm so in the social room the social room to the social room oh my god those of you that don't get the reference size high was such a big school that during all the lunch periods, we split up whoever had lunch that period.

Speaker 1 So you go half in the social room, half in the cafeteria. The bell rings.
Everybody flops. The social room was exactly what it sounds like.
Everybody's just fucking around and

Speaker 1 hanging out for the remainder of the lunch period. Today's food court topic is exotic meats.
All right. Inspired by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

Speaker 1 On 1053, the fan, when asked if he's ever had raccoon after it was recently mentioned by Panthers wide receiver Xavier Legette, Jones said, and I quote,

Speaker 1 I've eaten a lot of raccoon. I love that it's a lot of, like, not I've eaten raccoon before.
I've eaten a lot of raccoon. The answer is yes.
It's not uncommon at all. One of my favorites is squirrel.

Speaker 1 I don't know what the fuck. We were on raccoon.
I don't know where we went and turned left, the squirrel.

Speaker 1 It's wonderful. We all had our favorite pieces.
My mom and I would even ask for the brain of the squirrel. Nice, Jerry.
Delicious. Seriously.
All right, this explains a lot, I think.

Speaker 1 This explains so much, Jerry. Is squirrel meat a meat? Well, yeah, of course it's a meat.

Speaker 1 That's the question. That's not it.

Speaker 1 What else would it be for?

Speaker 1 Yeah, 100%. It's any animal that's.
What else would it be? It's not a vegetable. It's damn sure not a vegetable.
That's PETA.

Speaker 1 Is it a meat you eat? I'll, I'm not going to lie, I will try any meat pretty much. Good for you, man.

Speaker 1 I mean, as long as it's not like roadkill or something that's like rotten, I'm going to give it a chance. I mean, squirrel and raccoon are both technically roadkill, but so is deer.

Speaker 1 And I've seen you eat jerky. I would, I would try some squirrel.
I've had rabbit. It's not, it can't be that much different than rabbit.
I'm not fucking eating any of this.

Speaker 1 What about, I don't know about raccoon. What the heck is what kind of is a raccoon a rodent? I'm not eating rabies, dude.

Speaker 1 I'm just not doing it. Can we get a origin of species for a raccoon? What is what kind of what family are we in with the raccoon? I'm pretty sure it's the rodent family.
That's what I think.

Speaker 1 You would think it's rodent. It's 100% rodent.
They got like hands. I need to.
Can we get something? Can we get some answers here? Procionid family? Is that procyonid? Procyonid.

Speaker 1 What else is in this fucking family of animals? Raccoon, there's something that feels weird about eating a raccoon, more so than a squirrel. Like, I'd eat a chipmunk before a raccoon.
No.

Speaker 1 Raccoon, what is its closest family?

Speaker 1 It's right there.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to figure out what other animals are in this thing. I'm pretty sure the lamest term is rodent.
They're in the rodent family. No, no, no.
Rodent is rodentia. I know that.

Speaker 1 Dude, I'm not eating fucking raccoon. I'm not eating squirrel.
I'm not eating bugs. I'm not eating snake, kangaroo, deer.
Let's be honest. Let's be honest.

Speaker 1 If you fried that thing upright and put some General Sau's sauce all over it, it's going to be just fine.

Speaker 1 I'm not. I'm out on all that.
I'm out on guinea pig. I'm out on duck.
What's the strangest meat you've ever had? What's the strangest meat you've ever had? Probably duck.

Speaker 1 I don't know that duck qualifies as strange. That feels like it's pretty much established.
I'm not fucking with duck.

Speaker 1 I had it one time that we didn't love it. You're out on duck.

Speaker 1 I guess alligator, the alligator nuggets.

Speaker 1 Alligator nuggets tastes like chicken yeah i had it again at uh eagle's tailgate uh it tasted like lobster more more like lobster it wasn't fried i will say survival of the fittest or survival i'll eat fucking meat you know i mean i'll fuck it i'll yeah if you're starving to death yeah you'll eat whatever you can that's how that's how beating alive there's i mean there's that story of those rugby players that got trapped up in like alaska or something like that when the plane crashed and they were full on eating themselves each other i mean you know you gotta you gotta do what you gotta do we're not talking about that that level.

Speaker 1 Jerry Jones is not trapped in Alaska, and all he finds is a raccoon. Jerry Jones is a billionaire, and he eats a lot of it, apparently.

Speaker 1 Jesus, Jerry. I love that he stayed true to who he is.
That's my, I actually am a fan of this. Jerry, you ever had, Jerry, you ever had?

Speaker 1 Let's see. Weirdest things I've ever had.
I've had alligator. I've had bull testicles.

Speaker 1 I've had bison. I've had elk.
I've had, I've had, I don't think I've had guinea pig,

Speaker 1 quail. One I want to have, I want to have bear.
I've heard blueberry bears in particular. I'm good.
It's got some good flavor to it. I feel like I had something

Speaker 1 unique when I was in Africa. I've had rabbit.
I had a, not a, a scorpion in Thailand right there on the street.

Speaker 1 Out. I'm not going to lie, don't do that one.
It was absolutely terrible.

Speaker 1 Should we attend the world champion squirrel cook-off in Arkansas? Maybe we get Bobby Boucher to go with us. Look at this shit, dude.
That guy looks like somebody who eats squirrel. I'm in, dude.

Speaker 1 I'm going. I'm already convinced.
Even if Travis isn't, I'm going and I'm eating some squirrel. What kind of squirrels?

Speaker 1 Are these like domesticated squirrels or are these like they put traps out and they're like getting these things?

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? Are these flying squirrels? They regular squirrels? Are they corn feeding these squirrels? I think these are just squirrels they find in the house. These grain-fed, yeah, right?

Speaker 1 Listen, I only eat non-GMO organic certified squirrel meat. I don't mess around with the hormone-laced squirrel meat.
You can't go wild. You can't go wild.

Speaker 1 You got to go tame because then you're just biting into rabies. All right, final verdict.
Is squirrel meat a meat you eat? I will, I'll try squirrel. I don't know that there's much I won't try.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to lie. I'll let you try it and then hear what you got to say about it.
I respect your opinion. You know the one I want to have because I saw it on chef's table? Moose lips.

Speaker 1 Apparently, they ate that stuff over in Russia. I don't know if they want to go to Russia anytime soon.
Yeah. But moose lips, I'd be into eating some moose lips.
Yeah, you would. Probably schmackin'.

Speaker 1 I love a good schmackin' meal, but I'm gonna say that that's probably not schmackin'.

Speaker 1 All righty, let's get to some voicemails. Let's do it.
We're gonna answer some not dumb questions that came into the Heights Hotline. Notum of questions is brought to you by Mint Mobile.

Speaker 1 All right, man.

Speaker 2 Hey, Travis. Hey, Jason.
This is Coach Drinkwitz in the University of Missouri.

Speaker 1 What's up, Coach?

Speaker 2 Question for both of you. What is your favorite

Speaker 2 post-game meal?

Speaker 1 Post-game meal.

Speaker 2 And he's frozen custard. Could be Bronze.
Could be KFC.

Speaker 1 How about it? Thank you very much. And

Speaker 2 Coach Hastings, the Missouri Tigers.

Speaker 1 Love it. Love it, Coach.

Speaker 1 ZZOU,

Speaker 1 Missouri Tigers. We actually got a Cleveland Heights Tiger that just signed his letter of intent to go to

Speaker 1 the University of Missouri. Shout out to Marquise Davis, running back out of Cleveland Heights.
I'm sure he'll play running back there. He's one of the best players in the state of Ohio this year.

Speaker 1 I'm pretty sure I saw a stad line that had him rushing like 24 rushes for

Speaker 1 400 yards

Speaker 1 and eight touchdowns in one game. Gosh.
What game?

Speaker 1 There's no way. Dude, I swear to God.
There's no chance. Dude's a fucking absolute beast.
Yeah, shout out to Mizzou, baby, over there in Columbia, Missouri. Post-game meal.

Speaker 1 What is your favorite post-game meal? You said a few of my favorites off the rip. Andy's frozen custard slide over there and get you a 87

Speaker 1 ultimate cookie custard, man.

Speaker 1 God, this shit's delicious. Got to stop over at Andy.
Shout out to Andy. I'm down.
I just love to pig out on some pizza, man. Yeah, pizza's hard to beat.

Speaker 1 I love just getting just boxes of it and just fucking just going one at it one by one.

Speaker 1 Just

Speaker 1 pizza might be my favorite food altogether, though. So I'll be honest, I'm not a huge post-game meal guy.
A lot of times I don't eat. Why?

Speaker 1 Especially the food that they provide for the teams after the games. It's usually just been sitting around and it's terrible after the games.

Speaker 1 Dude, we had a good one up there in Cleveland, Ohio City burrito. Yeah, not bad.
Man, I usually go protein shake,

Speaker 1 a little creatine, and then I'm straight.

Speaker 1 If I'm being honest,

Speaker 1 I'll go pizza. Pizza is a solid choice.
Go over there, chicky and pizza, get some fries. I'm doing

Speaker 1 some high school garages. You know what I mean? That's my post-game meal.
There you go. I'm with that.
I used to love the Jimmy Johns in the locker.

Speaker 1 Was that Jimmy Johns? That was Cincinnati? Cincinnati at Jersey Mike's, and it was fucking terrible. Man, I love it.
It It was so soggy. It would be sitting around.
And Jersey Mike's is good.

Speaker 1 I didn't find out until years later, Jersey Mike's actually makes good subs until

Speaker 1 because, I mean, the ones that were there for post-game were like...

Speaker 1 The fact that you won't eat squirrel, but you ate those Jersey Mike's subs that were sitting around for hours and just soaking up all the hot salami and ham juices. Hot.

Speaker 1 Like, I don't know how you got that. That was the dress.
That was the Italian dressing on the subscribe. I don't know.
Dude, it was disgusting. Those sandwiches sucked.

Speaker 1 You just, you took too long of showers. You got to get them while they're hot.
Let me tell you, they weren't hot ever.

Speaker 1 They were bad sandwiches. And then somebody's like, hey, you know what's really good, Jersey Mike's? I was like, no, it is fucking not.
And they're like, no, let's go. I'll show you.
You get this.

Speaker 1 And I went there. I was like, oh, yeah, it is good.
When the bread isn't soggy as fuck.

Speaker 1 I've never liked post-game meals. They're always bad.
Well, thanks for calling in. Coach, thanks for calling in.
I will say I'm more of a Popeyes man myself.

Speaker 1 If there was something I would do post-game, I'd get some Popeyes chicken. Ooh, you're going spicy or original?

Speaker 1 I go dark meat, spicy. Got it.
Dark meat only. Red beans and rice on the side.
Apple pie.

Speaker 1 I don't even fuck with apple pie, but I'm in with you. Hey, those apple pies on that Popeyes you fuck with, they good.
There you go. Well, now you got it, Coach.

Speaker 1 Drink Wits. Get your guys some apple pies from Popeyes.
That's the next caller on the New Heights Highline. Let's hear it.

Speaker 3 Hey, guys. I was just wondering how you felt about being dethroned as the top trending pet name in sports.

Speaker 1 I just noticed that on

Speaker 3 Rover.com, according to their 2024 top pet names report, Jalen Brunson is now the number one trending sports name, and now Kelsey.

Speaker 1 There you go, Jalen.

Speaker 3 And I just wondered, because last year I saw that you were number one. So I just wondered how you felt.
Just wanted to get your reaction on being dethroned by an NBA player.

Speaker 3 So please let us know on the pods.

Speaker 2 Thanks.

Speaker 1 Jason, do you have any idea who Jalen Brunson is? Hey, plays for the New York Knicks. Actually went to Villanova.

Speaker 1 Look at this guy. I've met Jalen Brunson.

Speaker 1 I'm proud of you, man. You've met a lot of people.

Speaker 1 I think Jalen Brunson is also just a good name. Like, let's be honest, that's a great name.
Brunson? That's a good dog name. I like just the full name, Jalen Brunson.

Speaker 1 Like, there's something with it that it just runs well together. It rings.
It definitely rings. I'm pretty happy to be dethroned, if I'm being honest with you.

Speaker 1 I don't, like, I'm honored on the people that did name their pets after i was gonna say we named a pet after a famous athlete that we loved yeah bell yeah albert bell albert bell i don't know that we should brag about that but we did

Speaker 1 but we definitely we can relate because we've done

Speaker 1 it's it's awesome um so i'm honored if jason doesn't want to be honored i said i was honored i just like i'm not like i'm upset that that trend is dissipated. I don't like being the popular pick.

Speaker 1 I don't like being.

Speaker 1 It's not my style. Bell was cool because there aren't many, many people that named the dog Bell after Albert Bell.
And it was a girl dog, B-E-L-L-E. It's just, it's so fitting.
It was so fitting.

Speaker 1 For sure. Other sports names for dogs include Wemby for Victor Wembayana.

Speaker 1 Witt,

Speaker 1 W-I-T-T for my guy over in the KC Royals, Bobby Witt Jr. Okay, okay.
Purdy for Brock Purdy, Mr. Irrelevant and 49ers starting QB.
Bronnie for LeBron James Jr.

Speaker 1 Nice. And then Diggs, Stephon Diggs, Diggs is a good one.
Messi, Lionel Messi. There's a bunch.
You can't go wrong.

Speaker 1 New this year include Sweet Simone for Simone Biles, I would assume. Caitlin Clark, Shohay is a solid name for any pet.
Luca or Dog Chick. Dog chick instead of dog chick.
Dog chick.

Speaker 1 I see what they did there. Don't love it, but I see it.
I respect it. I respect the effort.
I'm just really into human names for dogs.

Speaker 1 Like, just straight up, just yeah, the older I get, these are all human names, but yeah, but like these are like

Speaker 1 they're like too creative.

Speaker 1 Who's that over there? That's Greg. That's my kind of dog name right there.

Speaker 1 You have, you've had three dogs. Do you think I'm naming these dogs, Travis? I have no say in what these dogs' names or anybody's name is.

Speaker 1 I'm picking the path of least resistance to just get this fucking name. There's no way.
I know you way too well. The only one I kind of did was Baloo because

Speaker 1 we did Winnie and then that became Winnie the Pooh. And then we were like, oh, what's another bear? And I was like, oh, I like Baloo from the jungle book.
So

Speaker 1 we got Baloo as Baloo. But the other, Nessie, that was chosen by the breeder.
If it was up to me, it'd be like, hey, that's Bob. I'm kind of with you on these.
I'm in on this. Yes, I am in on this.

Speaker 1 Right? I like Bernadette. Bernadette? What the fuck?

Speaker 1 That's my style.

Speaker 1 I like human names for dogs and dog names for humans. I've never met anybody named Bernadette.
That's what I'm saying. I have.

Speaker 1 One of my teammates' girlfriends was named Bernadette.

Speaker 1 She was a great person. She was great.
Call her Bernie. It's a great nickname.
Yeah. Bernie.

Speaker 1 I'm a fan of dog names for people

Speaker 1 and people names for dogs.

Speaker 1 I want to see a guy named Red or Spot. A guy named Spot?

Speaker 1 A guy named Red.

Speaker 1 I know a fuck ton of Reds. Red is a strong human name and a good dog name.
What's another like classic dog name? Spike.

Speaker 1 Spike? I mean, go on now. There ain't not one of those top pet like classic names that aren't going to do well for a person.

Speaker 1 I don't know if that's true. Spot Duke.
Duke is. Shout out to Nick Foles.
Name his son Duke. Nice.
Nice. Rex.
Rex Ryan. Hates the Chiefs.
I'm going for days. I'm telling you.
Fido, dude.

Speaker 1 You mean to tell me you met a dude named Fido? That dude ain't a dog? I don't know. I don't even know what a guy named Fido even looks like.

Speaker 1 You know, he's bringing some good attitude to the situation.

Speaker 1 You know, he's going to be fun to hang out with. You meet a motherfucker named Fido.
That dude's going to be a good time. Yeah.

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Speaker 1 old beer,

Speaker 1 oh beer,

Speaker 1 oh beer

Speaker 1 Hobiro

Speaker 1 beer. Travis,

Speaker 1 Travis, we already filmed it. We already filmed it, Trev.
It's over.

Speaker 1 I lose track of the days sometimes.