Jason In the Ring, Travis in the Desert and Our Live Show Recap | Ep 86

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Speaker 1 What's your go-to deli platter, Jason? I mean, any of them.

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.

Speaker 1 You got cheddar. You got beer cheese.
You got salami. You got kilbasa.
There you go. Don't be all archy with me.
Ritz crackers.

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Speaker 1 I had a beer in my hand and I had to receive the diploma, so I had to get the beer out of my hand someway. It happened to be full.
Don't know how that happened.

Speaker 1 Well, it kind of stayed full, as we saw when you threw it on the ground. If there's anything anybody should have been upset with, it's the fact that you didn't finish that chub.
There was

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Speaker 1 Jason, tell the people what we got coming up, but we got another fantastic episode. Trav, this edition, is going to present...
What took place at our first arena live show. Two nuts.
Pretty special.

Speaker 1 It was an awesome show in cincinnati cincinnati showed up the university showed up it was a fantastic evening so grateful man we're also going to get to uh talking about out of the house uh there's been some photos and uh things leaking on both of our accounts over the last couple weeks so we'll we're going to talk about all that as well as uh maybe eventually talk about you know football you want to talk about football now Haven't talked about it in like four weeks on this show, so I guess we probably, there are still some football fans that watch.

Speaker 1 Is there anything going on right now? There's always something going on. The NFL has got this figured out at all times of the year.
There's contracts being done. There's the draft.
There's OTAs.

Speaker 1 The only dead period in the NFL is that four to six-month time period when everybody takes vacation in the summer. That's about it.
Outside of that, there's something happening at all times.

Speaker 1 Which thank you because it gives us stuff to talk about in the show. All right, now we're going to get to the first segment, as always.

Speaker 1 As always.

Speaker 1 New news.

Speaker 1 New news coming in hot. Still don't have a voice from screaming all day in the University of Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 First bit of new news is he must have heard us talking about him last week on the episode with Lil Dickie. Got a lurker.
Because

Speaker 1 my brother, Cheeto Santino, Andrew Santino is going to be joining us next week on the podcast. I'm so pumped.
If you haven't seen his podcast, Whiskey Ginger, please go watch it.

Speaker 1 Absolutely hilarious. My favorite comedian out right now,

Speaker 1 one of my good friends, man. Have you guys been calling him Cheeto? Yeah, that's his name, Cheeto.
Why Cheeto? He looks like a Cheeto. Because he's got red hair.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I would assume that's the connection. There might be something deeper.
How about this, Jason? We have to find out when he comes on the show. All right, now.
Appreciate you joining us, Cheeto.

Speaker 1 I fucking love you, man. We'll talk about his stand-up, what projects he's been working on,

Speaker 1 and the time I spent on his podcast wearing some very, very, very short short shorts that I haven't worn ever since. How short? I mean, they were definitely

Speaker 1 mid-thigh. They were almost as short as the shorts you were wearing.
Well, those shorts weren't that short. Those are like regular length shorts.
Yeah, good point. All right.

Speaker 1 My nuts were hanging out. All right.
Well, make sure you tune in next week for that one. I promise you, you won't want to miss it, baby.
Next bit of new news, we're going to talk about something

Speaker 1 that isn't, I guess, new news or kind of still news, but we haven't talked about it yet. And that is Travis and Pat Mahomes are getting into the restaurant business together.
That's right.

Speaker 1 All right, now their legendary connection on the field isn't iconic enough. They're now going to connect off the field as partners in the new steakhouse in Kansas City called 1587 Prime.

Speaker 1 Why is it 1587?

Speaker 1 Is that a year that's specific to both of you guys?

Speaker 1 Nope.

Speaker 1 Just

Speaker 1 a couple of random numbers thrown together.

Speaker 1 No, honestly,

Speaker 1 it's always been pretty cool to see the

Speaker 1 support that we get out in Kansas City. So we wanted to make sure we showed that love back.
Doing things in the community is something that we're both heavily, heavily involved in.

Speaker 1 And so this time,

Speaker 1 we wanted to make a restaurant, man.

Speaker 1 Why not have one of the coolest steakhouses and

Speaker 1 one of the

Speaker 1 best hotels in the city, downtown Kansas City at the Lowe's? And

Speaker 1 it's going to be awesome, man. I can't wait to show Kansas City our love for food and

Speaker 1 dining experiences because that's one thing me, Pat, and

Speaker 1 the gang love to do, man. We love to just go out and just pig out at all the best restaurants in the world.
So, we thought we'd have our own rendition in Kansas City, man.

Speaker 1 Shout out to the Noble 33 group that we're teaming up with. A lot of our favorite restaurants have been with them over the years, and it's pretty cool teaming up with them.

Speaker 1 Just

Speaker 1 good vibes, good people, good genuine people, hardworking people on both ends, and just love the mashup.

Speaker 1 Well, this is being called, quote, a modern American steakhouse is the kind of steakhouse it's going to be. It is set to open in 2025, as Travis said, in the Lowe's Kansas City Hotel.

Speaker 1 Are you guys going to be like Todd Herrimans and Brent Sellek when they open their bar in Philly and just

Speaker 1 see Chiefs players eat for free? Probably not.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of things.

Speaker 1 There'll be times where I'll pick up the bill. I'll pick up the bill, guys, every now and then.
Every now and then. You guys might be be able to survive solely on rookie dinners.

Speaker 1 Do you think there's going to be a lot of rookie dinners enjoyed at 1587? I don't know. Jason, I never had a rookie dinner.
They never did that with you, huh? No, not me. Fosano? Come on, Anthony.

Speaker 1 Fosano didn't take you guys

Speaker 1 on a rookie dinner.

Speaker 1 I think we all might have grabbed dinner, but it wasn't like, hey, we're going to dinner and we're going to pig out and we're going to get the most expensive alcohol we can and you're going to pay for it.

Speaker 1 It wasn't a situation like that. I mean, it's a pretty ridiculous tradition that the NFL does with rookies.
I mean, it's absurd, especially the rookies that don't have a lot of money.

Speaker 1 Like, I guess everybody has a lot of money, but I feel like the veterans should be imparting wisdom of saving your money and not spending it frivolously on shots of Louis the 13th or whatever the heck that whiskey is.

Speaker 1 It costs like $200 a shot.

Speaker 1 I'd rather not drink warm gasoline. I'm all right.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 I've never understood the

Speaker 1 whatever. This is for another topic, but what is going to be on the menu at 1587 Prime? I don't know.
Probably have some,

Speaker 1 probably have some Pat's ketchup. I don't know.
Pat has his own ketchup? Well, I mean, he is a big ketchup guy, so I would assume. Is it like fancy ketchup? We know he's a big

Speaker 1 Whataburger guy. Yeah.
Is there going to be fancy ketchup? There might be.

Speaker 1 There might be.

Speaker 1 We're putting together menus and everything right now. It probably won't be up and running until after this upcoming season.
But yeah, we're putting together

Speaker 1 all the fun stuff right now. Does Pat dip his steak in ketchup? Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Everything.

Speaker 1 Dude,

Speaker 1 it's just what he does. It's what he's been doing.
He'll get like a nice bone-in ribeye, cut it up, and dip it in ketchup. I'm pretty sure I've seen it before.
Wow.

Speaker 1 He's reeled back on it a lot from what I remember. But I've just seen that happen.

Speaker 1 steakhouses that has like the wigu

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 steak in it.

Speaker 1 I think every place has

Speaker 1 exactly. I know we want to keep it kind of like centered around

Speaker 1 Kansas City and

Speaker 1 I'm not sure if you

Speaker 1 might be, yeah. I just, I've had it a few times.
A few times? I've had it quite a few times and it is fucking delicious. I can't just have a steak like a like a 12-ounce Wagyu steak.
I can't

Speaker 1 feel like too much. It's sliced up.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's very rich in terms of its like too much for a full straight fattery flavor.
Yeah. But that's why I usually get like a big old ribeye or a big steak.
You put that thing on a taco? Whoa.

Speaker 1 You put that thing on like a burger. Whoa.

Speaker 1 It's too much for a whole steak.

Speaker 1 It just by itself is a lot. I feel like I can just feel my arteries clogging as this stuff is dripping down my gullet.

Speaker 1 I'm not, I just

Speaker 1 dripping down my gullet. You in the gullet is hilarious, man.
Ripped down the gullet. It's a good word.
Yeah, no, I'm not sure what's on the menu.

Speaker 1 I'm not really even sure what's going to be specific to me and Pat in the restaurant, but we're definitely going to put something together. We're excited about it.
Shout out to Noble 33.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Pat and Mahomes. And shout out to Kansas City.

Speaker 1 We've been wanting to keep doing fun stuff for you guys in the community, and hopefully you guys can get excited for this one. There is a question from a 92%er out there on Club 92 from Mad Dog B41.

Speaker 1 Will Jason be providing the cows for Travis' new steakhouse? I can say that before Travis answers. We don't have enough cows to provide a whole steakhouse with meats, but

Speaker 1 we can provide a steak. Maybe one of the steaks is that Jason.
I mean, I don't want to leap to conclusions. It's Travis is your steakhouse, but.
You want one of my cows for a steak? Like a nice.

Speaker 1 Maybe a ground cow. Oh, no.
Let me take a gan. You know, chillies.

Speaker 1 Whatever these cows look like.

Speaker 1 Fair enough. That's a no, ladies and gentlemen.
And we're also been nominated for more awards. That's right.
First up, we've officially been nominated for four Webby Awards.

Speaker 1 How about that? Podcast co-hosts, which I guess would be Travis and I. Podcast Best Video Series, which I don't even know what that means.
Podcast Best Sports Podcast, which again, I think that's us.

Speaker 1 Social content series of sports podcasts. Dude, Jets Jake.
That's a direct shout out to our one and only Jets Jake. That's right.
He can't get a yard in the NFL, but he's up for a Webby. That's right.

Speaker 1 We're proud of him. The lead social producer for New Heights is up for his own Webby.
How about it? I don't know. Is this a votable thing?

Speaker 1 Thank you, most importantly, to the 92% for continuing to tune into the show. You guys are what makes this show fun every single week.
We enjoy doing this.

Speaker 1 We have no idea what we're embarking on each and every week. We have no idea.
But we enjoy bringing literally the two most clueless guys to ever be up for an award.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of support in this room from a lot of people that you don't get to see on camera as often as Travis and I. And they're really what make this show.

Speaker 1 As you can see, I'm always looking over here, and that's because I'm directly reading everything that Brandon has written down.

Speaker 1 None of these thoughts are mine.

Speaker 1 I'm Ron Burgundy. If you wanted to help us sweep all four of these categories, there is still time to vote for the Webby People's Voice Award.

Speaker 1 Voting closes tomorrow, April 18th, so you know what to do. 92%ers and Swifties, of course.
We'll put all the links in the episode description. Let's help Jets Jake get his social producer Webby.

Speaker 1 I think that'd be a big one for Jets Jake. He'd be able to wear it proudly.
Let's do it.

Speaker 1 It has also just been announced as we're taping this that we are finalists for best sports podcasts at the Shorty Awards. The other finalists are All the Smoke, Nightcap.
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Speaker 1 Let's get to what everybody has been talking about the last few weeks, and that's our second New Heights Live show.

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh. It was in front of a sold-out crowd of 13,000.
So

Speaker 1 third arena. So electric.
We're also glad that it moved indoors. I was the one who was pushing very hardly for it to be in Nippert.

Speaker 1 For those of you that don't know, Nippert Stadium is Cincinnati's football stadium. Historic Nippert Stadium.
Over 100 years old, folks.

Speaker 1 Travis and I practiced and played games on that stadium every day. Blood, sweat, and tears, boys.
It's also a unique stadium that is part of campus. Like, it's open during the day.

Speaker 1 At any time of the day, you'll see kids eating lunch down there when it's nice out. You'll see people playing Ultimate Frisbee.

Speaker 1 It's very much a part of the university as opposed to, I think, any other college football stadium in the country. I remember students coming to watch practice and just like go over their work.

Speaker 1 Well, that was a big problem. People could just videotape practice from opposing teams, which is why it's no longer there.
One of the reasons, I'm sure. But

Speaker 1 it was completely open at all times other than outside of events and games. But we were definitely looking forward to showcasing the uniqueness that is Nippert Stadium.

Speaker 1 But we moved it indoors because of really weather. And I think it was the right decision on all accounts.
It should have been indoors from the beginning. I screwed that up.
It definitely was.

Speaker 1 The weather made me see what everybody else saw from the beginning, which is it's going to be way more fun in front of a packed-out indoor arena at 5th 3rd. It was amazing.

Speaker 1 And it started right with the entrance for the Great Lambay Games. Oh, my God.
Entran Brandis introduced us. There was smoke.
There was fire. There was an injury risk.

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't know how you felt. Running through that smoke was not,

Speaker 1 we had no idea how to do it. I thought I was going to just run through somebody, just like take out 10 cheerleaders.
It was literally running blind for a good like 10 to 15 feet too.

Speaker 1 It wasn't just like, oh, you're through the wall. It was like,

Speaker 1 dude.

Speaker 1 I was like just making sure I didn't kill somebody. And then there was that blue, the blue tarp for the first Lum Baby Games like event was right there, and I kind of tripped on it.

Speaker 1 I stepped on it in an awkward way.

Speaker 1 Dude, I stepped on it. It has nothing to do with dragging my feet.
You were dragging your feet. It was the fragmenting your toe like you were trying to stay in bounds in the end zone.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Just

Speaker 1 random toe drag. Dude, I stepped on it, though,

Speaker 1 in the mist, and I was like, oh, no.

Speaker 1 But you didn't because you're good. Lesser athlete.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, the intro was electric. electric the fans were in it right from the get-go and

Speaker 1 this was

Speaker 1 I mean the whole night was over four hours long. It was a long

Speaker 1 day. I didn't even realize it was that long.
I just felt like we were in there enjoying the hell out of it. We started at seven and ended after 11 o'clock.
It was a long day.

Speaker 1 There was one intermission, which we needed badly, but the fans at all times were into it. They were cheering.
They were yelling. They were throwing things.
It was a fun, fun evening.

Speaker 1 There's also a great video of us dancing on stage before the game started. One of the 92%ers got this.

Speaker 1 And I think I can pretty much squash any doubt of my dancing abilities with this video right here. I think I finally put the rest

Speaker 1 anybody's opinion that I can't dance because I don't do other people's moves. I'm an original content creator.

Speaker 1 That move is called

Speaker 1 the linebacker jiggle because you need your knees inside your toes as a linebacker to be able to explode in any direction. Everybody knows this.
Everybody knows this.

Speaker 1 But you also need that hip flexibility to be able to make a tackle. So to me, it's demonstrating my linebacker ability with this dance move right here.
That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 With great rhythm and gracefulness, if I might add. Yeah.
You still had the jeans on at this point, so it was a little stiff, but. Well, the jeans were very stretchy.

Speaker 1 Got nice, comfortable Wranglers. Where are those things?

Speaker 1 i don't even know what brand that is but i they're broken i had to toss them after the event because i ripped a hole in them and oh that's what happened well there was there was a bunch of ass sweat and then when i took them off i realized that there was a hole in them as well and i don't know at what point probably ripped it doing this thing yeah right here no i mean this isn't right here wasn't this this is a move that wouldn't rip them but something i did did did did all right well i was uh i was impressed i even gave you your props afterwards okay jason i see you i see you busting it out showing how

Speaker 1 Patricia L.

Speaker 1 Who the hell is this? What happened? Wow, you can really see the difference between

Speaker 1 moves and the short clips. Jason, very jerky, whereas Travis, hips, legs, movement just seemed to flow.
I'm very flowy. I am very.
What the fuck does Patricia L know? What does she know?

Speaker 1 Listen, I was going for jerky. You got to be able to show explosion.
Explosion happens jerky. Thank you for telling Jason that he's not smooth.

Speaker 1 I like showing off jerkiness because it shows that I have impeccable explosion. That's a good point.
I'm not sure. So what is, is she saying, she's not saying any, she's not saying anything bad.

Speaker 1 She's just noticed, she's saying that it's jerky. So it might not even be.
I think you're just reading it in a negative way. You're right.
Patricia, I take back what I said.

Speaker 1 Kaylee 18799

Speaker 1 said, what is Jason doing? Now that seems to be a shot. That was a shot.
No, well, she just didn't know. She's asking.
And then she's crying because she doesn't know.

Speaker 1 Like, those aren't some people put those as laughing tears, but she's literally crying because she wants to know what that incredible dance move that I just pulled off was.

Speaker 1 You have a unique way of reading things. And we've already been over this.
That's the linebacker shuffle. All right.

Speaker 1 Bluey Ediva 289 on Twitter. Doesn't even look as if they're dancing to the same music.
I thought it did. I thought we were.
Yeah, we're both in the same rhythm. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Jason just looks like a Sims character.

Speaker 1 All righty. After the dancing, we got into the Great Lamb Baby Games.
And it couldn't have started off any better

Speaker 1 than I could have imagined. Yeah, it was.
It was fucking

Speaker 1 unbelievable from the gecko. My man Zach.
So

Speaker 1 I guess we'll... The Great Lamb Baby Games as well.

Speaker 1 I love how you got to tell everybody that's your guy now. Like, all right, it was kind of fucked up what I did, but that's my guy.

Speaker 1 dude me and zach became best friends after this and he came in clutch in the team relay at the end uh with the with the final sprint to secure victory for team academic aka team nerds oh man for those of you that have not been following the last few weeks and are just tuning in the great baby games was a competition between uh student athletes and non-student athletes, team academic and team athletic.

Speaker 1 It was a nod to revenge of the nerds and in some ways, like global guts.

Speaker 1 Like it was, it was a a very unique game show that was created for the most part by our incredible team let's give it up for our incredible team at new heights yeah team

Speaker 1 it was it was unbelievable the games that they thought of starting right away so we had eight events the first one was helmet toss helmet toss where we got everybody as we got two competitors dizzy as possible then they had to try and hurl helmets at these cardboard cutouts of Travis and I.

Speaker 1 And if you guys want to see how well that first event went, you can watch this clip right now.

Speaker 1 There's definitely a difference in the speed at which I'm spinning Zach and the speed at which you are spinning.

Speaker 1 This dude is clinging on for dear life. His head almost hit the pole multiple times.
That's exactly why I wasn't spinning that fast.

Speaker 1 Jillian was, she's a, she's like an athlete at University of Cincinnati. If I would have spun her to the point of like hitting her head, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 Zach made it all of He sits the first second, ends up in our guy Larry Shakely's lap, and then finds himself in the first row, second row.

Speaker 1 And by the time he gets up and runs over, the game is done. I got to say, the one thing that, I mean, Zach is clearly the highlight of this video.
I don't want to take away from my man Zach.

Speaker 1 But because everybody keeps focusing on Zach, people are not noticing just the deathly accuracy at which Jillian nailed these new cardboard cutouts with an NFL helmet. Two shots.
Bing, bang.

Speaker 1 Easiest thing I've ever done in my life. Even if you're not dizzy to throw a football helmet, it's not like it's the easiest thing in the world to do with any type of accuracy.

Speaker 1 I hope that she looks back before throwing the first helmet. Like, is something happening? Because the entire crowd is going crazy over Zach.

Speaker 1 Zach just ate it. He took two steps and just fucking ate it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That was the first event which Team Jocks took. It was like there was a magnet that he had no control of, just

Speaker 1 pulling him towards the stage yeah he was he was definitely leaning hard to the right ah yes that's so good man oh my god when i saw his hair flying like a cape while you were spinning him i was like this dude is about to be miserable when he gets up he's holding on like for dear life

Speaker 1 while i'm spinning uh miss hayes over there and she's just yeah i mean not a concern of the the world.

Speaker 1 Well, after that event, the jocks went up, 1-0, and we went right to Jason, lost his ring, where we had a full vat of Skyline Chili. This is actually technically a three-way.

Speaker 1 It's not just Skyline Chili. There's spaghetti in there, cheese, and chicken.
I should do this again. It was, folks, the video does not do justice just how disgusting this was.

Speaker 1 I had to get away from Skyline. I went to the corner, man.
I mean, I went to Skyline. I had to get away from that corner.
I went to Skyline twice over the weekend. I love Skyline Chili.

Speaker 1 This chili had been sitting out for like some time period.

Speaker 1 It smelled so bad in that part of the arena.

Speaker 1 It was disgusting.

Speaker 1 It was just, the pungent odor coming from these

Speaker 1 children's pools filled with Skyline Chili Threeways was absolutely disgusting. Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Mixed into that chili, there were socks with some make-believe rings, and then there was actually only one real ring in there, which was my Super Bowl ring, ring.

Speaker 1 But there was another kind of like replica Super Bowl ring. So there were two Super Bowl-esque rings that they had to try and find, one in each pool.
And here's the clip for that one.

Speaker 1 Jesus, I don't want to watch it. I'll let you guys watch it.
It'll be disgusting. Oh, no.

Speaker 1 What is happening?

Speaker 1 Team Academic went right away with the shenanigans.

Speaker 1 And then Team Jocks did not disappoint. She jumped right into the other chili.
And, I mean, it was a genius strategy to start playing defense, essentially. I thought it was great.

Speaker 1 Like, just like, hey, let's just.

Speaker 1 We didn't differentiate that. You couldn't go into the other person's pool.
I thought that was a brilliant strategy. That's a big, that's a big thing that I was thinking of.

Speaker 1 I'm like, man, if I was in these games, I'd fucking cheat my ass off.

Speaker 1 Well, listen, if you achieve that. Nobody's really.

Speaker 1 We're giving very vague rules on purpose. We want the creative juices

Speaker 1 of how do we cheat or get an advantage, not cheating, because it's not stipulated in the rules. We like creative advantages.
I'm breaking any rules.

Speaker 1 So the first person to find the Super Bowl ring won, and it ended up being Team Academic. But there was an unfortunateness.

Speaker 1 As you guys know, this game existed because I continually lose my Super Bowl ring. And I don't even know if Travis still knows this, but I legitimately lost my Super Bowl ring in this event.

Speaker 1 They could not find it. This is Jets Jake and intern Brandon the next day searching through the chili to try and find the sock that had my Super Bowl ring in it.
We have still yet to find it.

Speaker 1 All of this stuff has been thrown away, so I think we can safely assume that my Super Bowl ring is now in a landfill someplace in the Cincinnati tri-state area. I didn't think that would happen.

Speaker 1 What did you expect to happen? I thought that we would just go in the pool and get the ring afterwards. But there was such a fucking imbecile.
And there was so much

Speaker 1 calamity happening that at some point, the only thing I can think of is at some point the sock got kicked out of the three-way and it made its way out of the pool and that it was thrown away in some shape or form.

Speaker 1 But yes, the Super Bowl ring is officially gone.

Speaker 1 We've already put the insurance claim in, which I think the insurance company might have some things to say about whether they're

Speaker 1 100% they're going to have, especially if you're going to tell the entire world how you lost it. Well, I didn't lose it.
First of all, I knew exactly where it was. No, you didn't.

Speaker 1 it was in that nobody knew where it was it's the same thing as like if i left you saw you saw if i left it in my house and somebody came to my house and took it it's the exact same scenario jason you didn't put that super bowl ring in a sock and put it in the pool you didn't do that doesn't matter where i put it i can put it wherever i want as long as i know where it's at and i knew where it was at somebody at some point somebody at some point messed with my super bowl ring which i'm fine with i mean it's just a hunk of metal i'll just have another one made i think they can do that right i i don't know jason probably.

Speaker 1 I guess we're going to find out.

Speaker 1 We also heard Greg got a metal detector, which I don't know if kids, if you're watching at home, do not do what Jason's doing.

Speaker 1 Don't do this. Greg, the metal detector doesn't work.
He didn't know this, but there's actually metal in Skyline Chili. There's traces of iron within the chili itself.

Speaker 1 So it's an impossible task to try and use a metal detector. That's so good.
There's probably lead as well in there somewhere.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. So upon truly losing

Speaker 1 my Super Bowl ring,

Speaker 1 there was the next event, which was the electric trivia. This event consisted of two contestants trying to answer trivia questions while riding a mechanical bull.

Speaker 1 Shocker, it didn't go well. Neither the Godfather nor the Team Nerds competitor offered much of a valiant effort.
I will say also, incredibly hard questions. Like, it was like inside joke questions.

Speaker 1 Like, they they couldn't just go with regular trivia. Our team had to go with like new heights-related trivia.
Yep, you got to watch the show, guys. If you're going to

Speaker 1 watch the show, apparently, they were not big 92 percenters because

Speaker 1 there were also some questions that I didn't know. There was like

Speaker 1 this, I forgot all about this.

Speaker 1 But either way, uh, we had to resort to the tiebreaker, which uh I like to call common knowledge question.

Speaker 1 Jason is so ridiculous. Travis knows that common knowledge question has always been a part of our repertoire in determining which direction a waterfall goes when you are doing a drinking game.

Speaker 1 Um, but you can watch that at some point that'll be up, and you'll find out how that works. But essentially, just ask a question that you know both people should know the answer to.

Speaker 1 And the first person to blurt out the answer, there's no buzzer, it's just say it as fast as possible. Say it as fast as possible.

Speaker 1 If it sounds like the same time, you just call it a tie and you go to the next question. There's got to be a clear winner.
And the undisputed winner was Dante the Godfather. That's right.

Speaker 1 Hungry Bearcats run faster. Hungry Bearcats run faster.
Traditionally, this was...

Speaker 1 This one? Yeah, this one was pretty tough. I'm not going to lie.
I didn't think this was going to be a great ending. I was actually encouraging the crowd to

Speaker 1 chant puke.

Speaker 1 To just get it over with. I just wanted it.
Yeah. Because it was too.
Did you stipulate that puking would get you disqualified in this event?

Speaker 1 I think it's just a no-just a no-through. I think you said it midway through.
You're like, oh, she's about to puke. If she does puke, she is disqualified.

Speaker 1 I had to

Speaker 1 stipulate that just so everybody knew. I probably forgot to say this at the beginning.
This is the longest fast-eating competition that anybody's ever had, and it's only three hot dogs.

Speaker 1 I'm not exaggerating. I ate three cheese conies that night casually faster than they ate three for speed.
Like, it was alarming the slowness at which both of them were eating.

Speaker 1 I talked to both of them after the race, and neither one of them ate chili.

Speaker 1 Neither one of them had ever had skyline chili, which is rightfully so. You should never actually eat that shit.
All right. Juliet, look at this picture of Juliet.
She was struggling.

Speaker 1 Let me tell you, folks. I was struggling.
She was having major issues getting this chili dog down. And we found out that she's actually in France.
She was a good sport about it, though.

Speaker 1 Upon being a hept athlete, which apparently she's a very good track runner, so the expectation was high for her to do this drill well.

Speaker 1 The American skyline chili was just too much for her French palate to enjoy.

Speaker 1 She was really,

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 I like, I don't even know if you could count how many times she triheaved

Speaker 1 that was happening.

Speaker 1 If it was a hot dog of Faux Guis, yeah, she would have nailed it, she would have fucking rolled through that shit. Yeah, if it was like a croissant with

Speaker 1 brie cheese and

Speaker 1 some duck she would have like it would have been like a wow but with the skyline chili she could just like you could tell she was questioning being in america the entire time she was eating there what the fuck am i doing here yeah no i feel i felt bad for it because i would have probably have done the exact same thing she did and just so everybody knows like they didn't pick their events They just got like randomly thrown into these events.

Speaker 1 Well, I think they got to pick, but they got very vague descriptions of what the events were.

Speaker 1 That is correct. You said it correctly.
So I think they found out that this was like a running competition. They're like, hey, let's put

Speaker 1 the track athlete in this one.

Speaker 1 Little did she know. That's what we told them.
I don't know what they told us. It's going to be, bro.
It's going to be a relay. Yes.
Oh, my gosh. That's so fucking funny.

Speaker 1 That's fucked up, to be honest. That's how you trick them.

Speaker 1 They both went for it, though. And let me tell you, as many times as Juliet dry heaped, she never gave up.
She kept trying to get that shit

Speaker 1 down.

Speaker 1 would as soon as soon as the girl brooke would have ran off and she had like juliet hadn't even like finished half of her cone i would have just been like all right this race is over i'm not guzzling these things down any faster than what i am right now and she's clearly out to a head start and fuck this the the perseverance that juliet showed she probably has chili still somewhere in her in her teeth it was It was inspirational, Juliet.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 the Kelsey computer, I don't know if you can hear it from the clip, but uh the nerds were the best at understanding the family feudness of this event they were in with the crowd because there were people shouting out these answers folks and i know that they were doing it because we were the furthest away in the middle of the stage and we could hear every single people that were shouting it out and they were right every single time all they had to do was say the answer that was being shouted by the entire stadium and the nerds were the only team able to figure that out nerds took kelse computer then we leapt into the tush push which was an event which I don't know why it was called the tush push, probably just a branding thing because there's

Speaker 1 everybody knows what the tush push is, but it was a contraption from our friends over at Party City.

Speaker 1 It had a duck and a jump thing. Here's the clip of that.
This is a clip of me actually in the beginning testing it out. And let me tell you, it's pretty good.
It was hard to

Speaker 1 like, it's broken.

Speaker 1 There's something about a fat guy jumping in Tim's that's just

Speaker 1 impressive. It's almost

Speaker 1 impatiing to the eyes. I don't know if it's fun.
I don't know if it's impressive, but it's fun to watch. I was like smiling the entire time watching you do it.
I'm just like, it's coming.

Speaker 1 One of these times, it's not going to be able to get over.

Speaker 1 Hey, girly.

Speaker 1 You made that?

Speaker 1 Good job.

Speaker 1 Sorry. Wally was showing me a fish you made.
All right, good. Nice.
What kind of fish was it? It was a flounder, goldfish?

Speaker 1 It did have a flounder. It was very flat because it was two-dimensional, which I feel like a flounder.

Speaker 1 It's the only two-dimensional fish out there. Right.
All right. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 But who won Tush Push? Oh, Tush Push was Jocks. Yeah, Jocks.
Which there's not a video of this one.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 1 Sahidi just

Speaker 1 made it. Just catch it.
She made this competition less about jumping.

Speaker 1 And she just decided at some point, she's like, I'm just going to out-muscle these girls. We didn't clarify.
We should have clarified that if you get touched by the

Speaker 1 out. I mean, she had one point.

Speaker 1 No effort.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm saying. Her thighs have got to just have bruises all along that right side of her.
Bruises? It was a pillow. She was getting hit with a pillow, Jason.

Speaker 1 I mean, she was essentially in a UFC fight taking kicks to the

Speaker 1 leg. I mean, it was so funny.
She was just like, there's no way I'm getting over this jump thing. So I'm just going to

Speaker 1 keep just getting whacked in the thighs. She really struggled in that one, but I mean, she almost lasted.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I actually had to call it because the other two girls were actually like jumping over and under. Yeah, they were actually in it.
So you were on her the moment her foot stepped out.

Speaker 1 I was looking for it.

Speaker 1 Nope, that's out. Because she kept putting one foot out.
I'm like, all right, I'm not going to be a stickler and say that's out.

Speaker 1 But if she, if both those feet are off the X, she's off her mark one more time, I'm calling it. Yeah, well, because that would have been just been going forever.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so the athletes won that one, and then Travis Spelling B.

Speaker 1 Because, of course, I can't spell squirrel, I can't spell Schwarzenegger, I can't spell anything. Yeah, why was it called the Travis spelling bee?

Speaker 1 Because I'm pretty sure all of them were words that I should have been able to spell that I didn't. You can spell Gronkowski.

Speaker 1 I should be able to. I think you can get it: G-R-O-N-K, Gronk.
Yep.

Speaker 1 O-W.

Speaker 1 Ski. Yep.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Nice. I fucking love Rob Gonkowski, though, man.

Speaker 1 Gonkowski, I fucking love Gonkowski. How could I get that one wrong? They got that one wrong, which I was surprised.
That's one of the easier ones to get.

Speaker 1 I fucking would have not been able to get Schwarzenegger, though, and I love him too. I don't know that anybody's getting Schwarzenegger, including Arnold himself.

Speaker 1 Can you imagine being Arnold on a scantron trying to fill out that freaking name?

Speaker 1 Fuck.

Speaker 1 On a scant. All right, it is time for my fourth-grade proficiency test.
For your first question, input your name, Arnold. Fuck.

Speaker 1 Arnold, I'm sorry. There's not enough bubbles.

Speaker 1 You passed with flying colors, but you incorrectly put your name on the Skangatron, and we can't accept this.

Speaker 1 There just wasn't enough of a bubbles to put my name in. I don't know how I just made Arnold sound somewhat Italian.

Speaker 1 All right, anyways, we also had Bearcat Basketball, player and son of Edgar and James, Jizzle James, compete in the spelling bee with a huge moment at the end when the last word to decide the spelling B

Speaker 1 was one that you guys are going to enjoy. Check out this clip.

Speaker 1 The double R will get you.

Speaker 1 Nailed it. It'll get you.
You either know it or you don't. It's one of those things.
Only question Jizzle got right the entire competition, but he passed it with flying colors for his team.

Speaker 1 And the Jocks take the Travis Kelsey spelling B. It's impressive.

Speaker 1 That's one of those when you're looking at it, you think the relay race, jocks are going to win that one. Spelling B, nerds are going to win that one.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Not the case in the little baby games. That's right.
Not in the case in the little baby games. And then out of nowhere, we just decided that the last game was for all the points.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So everybody got going.

Speaker 1 We knew that in order to make the last game the most exciting, however the first seven events went, it was going to be worth the necessary amount of points to put either team over on the other one.

Speaker 1 So it was always going to come down to the sports pod relay race. So ridiculous.
And team academics crushed it. Team athletes really got stuck finding the jeans for Jason.
Was there ever jeans?

Speaker 1 There was. They found it eventually.
As soon as I see her high tail it, nobody's checking if she fucking saw your name on those jeans. I'm just grabbing a pair and I'm hitting it.

Speaker 1 I'm running right over there. Nobody checks.
Of course they didn't check. They just assume my ocean.
There's no punishment. Like, just grab a a pair of jeans

Speaker 1 and just act like it.

Speaker 1 Make it till you make it, kid. Like, come on now.
Get called out before you leave. Oh, no, no.
That's not the right ones. Oh, okay, fine.
I'll go back and look. I didn't even know.
I didn't even know.

Speaker 1 Oh, I thought it said, oh, it's a jeans. I thought it said Jason.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's Levi? That's Levi? I thought that said Jason.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 either way, Jocks with a come from behind victory. Sahidi again struggled with the squirt squad game.
She really just could not get that water into the bucket.

Speaker 1 Finally gets over to the jeans, but the nerds really took the lead on the jeans section and officially became the winners of the first ever Great Lumbey games. Let's give it up to the nerds.

Speaker 1 Let's give it up for you. Congratulations, Team Academic.
Just out here doing nerd work,

Speaker 1 finding a way to win in every phase of life. I love it.
The Lumbey games will be available exclusively on New Heights social channels starting April 29th.

Speaker 1 And that is because there's a lot of cutting up. There's a lot of camera angles.
There's a lot of things that our team has to do. And we're a podcast.

Speaker 1 We're not ESPN. We got to figure that out.
So it's going to take a little bit. It's going to take a little bit of time.
It's going to take a little bit. It was a good first run, Trav.

Speaker 1 Dude, it was unbelievable. It was interesting to try that out.
I didn't know how it was going to go. Luckily, the University of Cincinnati really came through.
As well as Party City.

Speaker 1 So fucking cool, man. And of course, our own team at New Heights.
Somehow they made this shindig happen. And we got to thank them.
They not only just made it happen, they made it outside.

Speaker 1 All of the jocks, all of the nerds, all of you guys really made this a special and the entire that like

Speaker 1 fan base off of. So well done.

Speaker 1 Thank you, guys. Absolutely.
Well done.

Speaker 1 And then after this, of course, we had to get to the regular part of the show,

Speaker 1 which we got to after the Vince Lamb Baby games. Yeah, let's talk about the actual live show.
Again, we're going to be putting all these videos up on YouTube eventually.

Speaker 1 We kicked off the live show with a message from the Jabroni mayor himself. That's right, Cincinnati's

Speaker 1 no longer Jabroni. Pervol.
Don't be Jabroni. Know your role and make some noise and let's welcome New Heights Live.
He was awesome, actually. Purville.

Speaker 1 Dude, he was awesome. I think it's I appreciated him for showing up.
We could

Speaker 1 shake his hand and just tell him we appreciate what he's doing for the university, what he's doing for the city of Cincinnati, because that place has changed a lot. It's doing great.

Speaker 1 Since me and Jason were there, and it's really cool to see how much they've not only cleaned up the city, but how much more

Speaker 1 fun it looks like the city is. Yeah, it just looks like it's an electric city and it's thriving from the time that we were there.

Speaker 1 Not that it wasn't when we were there, but you can tell they've really put a lot of effort in

Speaker 1 getting it to where it is today.

Speaker 1 I remember not even being able to walk on short on vine. I mean, Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 I remember living down by Cincinnati Taft and there wasn't a soccer stadium over there. Exactly.
You know, and it was.

Speaker 1 They've been doing some really good. Even down by the river, down by the down on the river, they got that thing up and running and it's thriving down by Bank of America Ballpark.

Speaker 1 I think that's what it's called. Great American Ballpark.
Bank of America. Great American Ballpark.
Marioft Tab and the city of Cincinnati is thriving right now.

Speaker 1 And that was evident in our visit there this past week.

Speaker 1 It was a lot of fun. It was cool seeing all the changes that have happened around campus, downtown.
They've gone above and beyond to really take Cincinnati to the next level.

Speaker 1 And I can't wait to see how that future continues to unfold. Yeah.
And it was an awesome gesture by the mayor to introduce us.

Speaker 1 It really brought things full circle with the trash talk that ensued a couple years ago to all of a sudden we're all in this for Cincinnati right now. It was a great moment

Speaker 1 to come back to the fact that we all care about the 513, right? And we were joined by some awesome guests, man. We had Desmond Ritter came out first,

Speaker 1 gave the Bearcats a familiar face to be able to cheer on and listen to.

Speaker 1 And I'll tell you what, man, Des, every time I hang out with him, man, it's just more and more I'm impressed by who he is and how he carries himself. Couldn't be happier for

Speaker 1 how his career ended at the university of cincinnati you know obviously losing in the college football playoffs but he um he carried this program to to places that we hadn't been before new heights all right now he really he really did man he really did he took uh he took the program to new heights with fickle and um sure enough um he gave a lot of us uh alumni a lot of the uh ex-players something prideful to to watch and uh talk about so absolutely and then to just see him do his thing in the NFL and be able to, you know, stand on

Speaker 1 being a solid quarterback, being a great guy, being family-oriented, and just doing things the right way, man. I'm happy as hell for him.
And sure, I mean, it was just an awesome interview.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. Great person, great Bearcat.
Can't wait to see what he does this year in Arizona. A little bit fresh start, which sometimes is the best thing you need.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, what Des did at Cincinnati speaks for itself. He's the most successful quarterback in the history of Bearcamp football, as much as Zach Claire.

Speaker 1 So probably be upset that we're announcing that. Our former teammate, who we love, Antoni Pike.
Uh, you just can't dispute what Ritter was able to do. And don't get us wrong, Zach appreciates Des.

Speaker 1 Like, he gives Des all the love.

Speaker 1 We just love Zach Halaris.

Speaker 1 We do, we do.

Speaker 1 I also love

Speaker 1 Des, especially after interviewing him on the show. It was, you could just tell what an unbelievable teammate, leader, and uh, just overall, how important it is to him.

Speaker 1 And, uh, you know, a little bit upset that he didn't have a great Uncle Woody story. He was so straight-laced that he didn't have something that was ridiculous.

Speaker 1 But I think that that's what you want in your star quarterback. Yeah.
Either that or he just knows what he's doing and he ain't letting the cat out of the bag.

Speaker 1 Then we had

Speaker 1 former chief turned Cincinnati bangle Orlando Brown, one of my favorite teammates of all time, man. That's right.
Talking about his dad's water boy moment to get him how to.

Speaker 1 Sometimes you just got to tap in.

Speaker 1 You just got to go somewhere that nobody else

Speaker 1 knows how to get there, man.

Speaker 1 And it's so cool hearing some of the stories that Orlando shared, not only with his time in Baltimore, Kansas City, but obviously now that he's a Bengal in front of that crowd, it was pretty cool to see.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And lastly, I think the crowd was crazy all evening, but there was one moment when it got easily the loudest that it could possibly get in that building.
And right.

Speaker 1 And that's the moment Joe Burrow came out of that tunnel. I mean,

Speaker 1 Joey. Everybody lost it.

Speaker 1 One big point. No, he was

Speaker 1 such a good dude, man. Such a good dude.
Such a competitor. He shared great stories.
He's obviously a known big alien guy.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's what we share, baby. We're big, big on aliens.
We don't want to spoil too much of our conversation with Joe,

Speaker 1 but he was more than open about a lot of things

Speaker 1 that have taken place throughout his career

Speaker 1 and kind of what's happening currently and also with who is the spicier white boy, Travis or Joe.

Speaker 1 It was

Speaker 1 awesome to see him.

Speaker 1 Incredibly nice of him to agree to come on the show, as was Orlando Brown and Des Ritter. All of these conversations were a joy for us, and I can't thank you guys enough for coming on, man.

Speaker 1 Forever grateful, man. Appreciate you guys.
Lastly, we ended the night in a truly epic fashion since neither of us got a chance to walk um

Speaker 1 during uh during a graduation ceremony um we both have already got our degrees i got mine maybe a few years after uh jason did but um

Speaker 1 we still we had our degrees going into it so all of you that are thinking this was a graduation ceremony because we just finished our degrees and

Speaker 1 It was a very like serious thing. We appreciate Cincinnati's president and athletic director for doing this.
But it was kind of just a fun way to close out the night.

Speaker 1 Hopefully, you guys can understand

Speaker 1 that me chugging the beer was because I had a beer in my hand and I had to receive the diploma. So I had to get the beer out of my hand some way.

Speaker 1 Might as well just finish it. It happened to be full.
Don't know how that happened. Well, it kind of stayed full, as we saw when you threw it on the ground and there was still beer pouring out of it.

Speaker 1 Pouring out of it. That was

Speaker 1 more like

Speaker 1 foam. It was foam because I couldn't get the airflow.
There was so much foam in the can transfer. I couldn't.
Yeah, there is when you can't get the airflow and it's just like dumping out.

Speaker 1 If there's anything anybody should have been upset with, it's the fact that you didn't finish that chug. That's my mind.

Speaker 1 That's why I was upset. Is that there was way for this village to consider that a successful chug? Jason, you were scared to race me.

Speaker 1 You were scared. I was

Speaker 1 terrifying.

Speaker 1 You were terrified. All right.
We'll get to this. You don't want the misery that's coming.
Yeah, sorry for everybody that got upset about this. We, I mean, it just wasn't that kind of event.

Speaker 1 It wasn't that serious. There were two women wrestling in a vat of chili before this.

Speaker 1 That's the athletic director posing with me.

Speaker 1 And I don't, I've never been to a commencement because I skipped mine, but I'm pretty sure the athletic director isn't the person that hands you your diploma.

Speaker 1 He isn't. But I loved receiving this diploma from John Cunningham.
I'd prefer it from nobody else. It was an absolutely fun night, littered with all sorts of shenanigans.

Speaker 1 And, you know, in the words of the great Charles Barkley, I don't think Travis or I should be anybody's role model. That's probably

Speaker 1 fair to say.

Speaker 1 We love Chuck.

Speaker 1 We do love the kids, and we love Chuck. I think if you would have finished your beer, I think people would have been way less upset with you.
I think that was the main thing that got people upset.

Speaker 1 It was a tall boy. I had already had a few.
I was showing that there was beer in the can by doing the water. Yeah, you go away from the mouth to show that it's actually going,

Speaker 1 it's making its entrance. Yes, and I'm not just faking it.

Speaker 1 There's foam when you do that, Jason, if you don't have the correct airflow. Transfer.
Which I couldn't fucking

Speaker 1 break if you can open and chug it. I was like, I was a little bit of acceptable foam in a beer can chug.
It was beyond the threshold of an acceptable.

Speaker 1 Like if we chugged off and you slammed that on the ground, I would for sure be calling for a well if we were chugging a beer, I wouldn't do it out of a can where there was no airflow.

Speaker 1 It would be a shotgun and I would have airflow.

Speaker 1 That way, it wouldn't foam up. All I'm saying, people chug out of beer cans all the time.

Speaker 1 If there's that much foam coming out of the can, I think universally we can accept that that is not a complete chug.

Speaker 1 That's all I'm saying. Nope.
I chugged faster than you. Well, I guess we'll let Twitter decide.
Twitter decide, please.

Speaker 1 Please, please make sure you tell Travis that he did not finish his chug and that was the most unacceptable moment of that

Speaker 1 I don't know how we're going to top this at our next live event. Cincinnati truly made it a special evening.

Speaker 1 Not only the people there, which were into it the entire time, but the entire Cincinnati staff on hand at Fifth Third Arena.

Speaker 1 It was remarkable how well this thing went off without a hitch, especially considering Travis and I had nothing to do with any of it.

Speaker 1 These guys just made it such a wonderful evening, as well as our own New Heights team. We're going to continue to thank these guys out.

Speaker 1 The creativity and thought process that went into this was spectacular. The guests that showed up, the president of the university,

Speaker 1 it was an amazing night in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 And I don't know that we'll ever be able to top what just occurred. So

Speaker 1 really, really big shout out to everyone involved and everyone who attended and all the 90 Jupiter Centers,

Speaker 1 Bearcats, and of course, Swifties that were

Speaker 1 at the event. Thank you very much.
Thank you guys. Oh, we also got a sweet video from Operation Breakthrough.
Nice, OB. Which, of course, Travis and 87 and Running has participated with in the past.

Speaker 1 They sent over this clip of your graduation. Congratulations! You did it! I want to be dislike to you.
Yeah, inspiration. Yeah, it's a big inspiration because it makes me want to finish school and

Speaker 1 to tell myself to keep going and not to stop. We love your trust, Kelsey.
Happy job.

Speaker 1 Yep, just when you think you're not a role model,

Speaker 1 they send you a video. Did you see what Travis did? You want to be

Speaker 1 how awesome would have been if they all chugged apple juice. Dude, this is awesome.

Speaker 1 I love it. The Operation Breakthrough kids are just the sweetest, man.
I still got to get my truck over to Operation Breakthrough if they're going to turn that thing electric.

Speaker 1 My old school Chevy,

Speaker 1 get these kids on there. Get it in line because after what we saw them do, the

Speaker 1 Chevelle that they turned electric, I'm pretty sure everybody in the city wants to get their old school turned electric as it was on display at the Kelsey Car Jam.

Speaker 1 Hopefully we have another one of those this year where we can showcase

Speaker 1 the Bronco that they're actually doing a Bronco now at this moment. Yeah, they're converting an old school Bronco into electric.

Speaker 1 The team is working on getting all that live show videos out to you guys, ASAP, but please

Speaker 1 be patient with it. It'll be worth it at the end when we get that thing perfect.

Speaker 1 Please follow the show on all social media and subscribe on the YouTube channel so you don't miss when those videos drop. We're going to keep doing this live show thing.

Speaker 1 I believe it was something me and Jason both had a fucking blast with. And we'll definitely keep everyone in the loop on when we're doing another one.

Speaker 1 The arena deal was pretty fun, but Jason is pretty set on doing a stadium at some point.

Speaker 1 I really want to do the link. I'm just going to throw this out there.
I think doing

Speaker 1 an episode in the link, I know that being inside made it happen way better, but gosh, I just feel like the link would be so special. Well, the link is the fucking link.

Speaker 1 And if you have an event in the link, it'd be unbelievable. But the link also holds 80,000, Jason.

Speaker 1 Well, hey.

Speaker 1 You have to get some good guess. I don't know.
Are you questioning Philadelphia fans? I don't think you question Philadelphia fans. I'm questioning me, Jason.
That's what I'm questioning.

Speaker 1 I'm questioning who is going to show up. But yeah, shout out to Cincinnati.
Appreciate you guys. Love you guys.
Everybody involved was, it was

Speaker 1 unbelievable. Hey, just want to say how grateful we are for the experience and the time that everybody put in.
Absolutely. All right, now it's time to get out of the house.

Speaker 1 Getting out of the the house, Jason.

Speaker 1 You were literally

Speaker 1 Mr. Out of the House this week.
I love it when you get out of the house because it's so unexpected of shit that you do outside of the house. Yeah, I've been out of the house for too long.

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Jason, you made a WrestleMania appearance. I did.
It happened.

Speaker 1 Dude, pretty awesome. Talk about the link.

Speaker 1 There's 80,000 people in here packed for WrestleMania. Jason got out of the house and went down to the link for WrestleMania 40

Speaker 1 right in Philly. And damn, you and Lane did not disappoint.
You guys look like a tag team nobody wants to fuck with. Not gonna lie, Jason.
Biceps are looking good. Look at that.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 how much did you guys lift before you guys went out there? We were using a lot of bands, and Kylie kept making fun of me because I was really obsessed with how my biceps looked. I'm proud of you.

Speaker 1 That's just the honest answer. I'm not going to hide.

Speaker 1 Not ashamed? They look like my thighs. Going in there with the cutoff.
I'm going to get them things popping. Dude, there's nothing more electric

Speaker 1 than

Speaker 1 cutoff, jeans, and Tims.

Speaker 1 It just shows that he's a hard-working man, and you don't fuck with that. Yeah.
You just don't fuck with that. And then you jumped over the rope.

Speaker 1 The double jump over the rope was one of the most athletic things I think I've seen you do. I feel like people think it's that hard.
That's a steel cable that is like, has some elasticity to it. And

Speaker 1 I just vaulted. You can tell you've ran from the cops and jumped the fence.

Speaker 1 That's what I saw. I'm like, dude, he just got out of there.
You had the Luchador mask on. Were people screaming

Speaker 1 it was you when you walked up, when you got yourself? everyone knew it was being everyone knew immediately

Speaker 1 well who was close to us there were people from i've seen some social clips of people further away that like who's that that couldn't tell but anybody that was up close and personal um

Speaker 1 knew right away it was lane and i knew it was lane johnson and jay mysterio

Speaker 1 see what i did there yeah

Speaker 1 dude ray mysterio was one of our fucking favorites he was like one of the he was one of the guys that could he was an acrobat he was just aerial at all times just doing flips and just cool-ass shit.

Speaker 1 What was that Nintendo 64 game with right? It was like WCW versus NWO.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. You want to talk to me? Ray was the one that, like, it was the most fun to play with him because he could do all the different acrobats and finishing movies.

Speaker 1 All the cool shit. It was awesome.
God damn, that just took me back to all the fucking sleepovers when we were 10 years old. It's a great game.
A very solid game.

Speaker 1 When did you find out what you were exactly going to do at WrestleMania?

Speaker 1 We knew that we were going to be involved with these masks, but we didn't really find out the full extent until pretty much like two hours right before the show.

Speaker 1 There's like a little backstage area that you're kind of like figuring things out.

Speaker 1 Nice. So they're like, it's like a new heights production.
You just find out like five minutes before you go out there what's going on.

Speaker 1 Pretty much, yeah. And the whole time I thought we were kind of like behind the eight ball here, but it looks like.

Speaker 1 Looks like we're pretty spot on with the best productions in the world.

Speaker 1 We knew we were were on ray's team which they didn't have to tell us that so um from there it was just you know operation get it done yeah also i thought ray mysterio was going to be way smaller you and ray mysterio are the exact same size we are we are the same size you can tell just by that photo alone don't look at the next one oh yeah

Speaker 1 I didn't see the biceps not looking as good in that one. So at one point, Lane, I think Lane wanted to take his shirt off.
He's like, hey, you want to take your shirt off?

Speaker 1 So, then I ripped mine off like the bulkster. And

Speaker 1 then I proceeded to look like you know, I was trying to keep my shirt on because I'm really developing this Burt Kreiser.

Speaker 1 I feel like I'm still in Burt Kreiser's freaking bit, and I don't want to steal your bit, Bert, but I feel like this was a big bear. This is an acceptable time to have that shirt off.

Speaker 1 You're just a big bear. That shit's hilarious.
I can say

Speaker 1 that it was fun as hell watching you up there, knowing that we used to fuck around around as WWF, WWE fucking Jabronis as kids, man. It was cool to see you up there having some fun.
Oh, dude.

Speaker 1 You also got to meet The Rock backstage, dude. How electric was that? Well, I've met him before, actually.
He came to the Eagles facilities, trained him before

Speaker 1 one of the WWE events earlier in my career. He probably doesn't remember that, but I remember it because I think everybody remembers when you meet The Rock for the first time.
All right, now.

Speaker 1 But it was awesome to see him again, obviously under different pretenses this time.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I'm just happy he's back involved with WWE in like a more, in a very meaningful way. Like he's been such an explosive personality for the wrestling world.

Speaker 1 And obviously he's gone on to, I don't want to say bigger and better things, but I mean, to become the superstar he is outside of the wrestling world. I think.

Speaker 1 Selfishly, everybody in the wrestling community is happy to see The Rock back, even if he's talking shit to Jalen, pissed off all of Philadelphia. Yeah, he's the villain right now.
I know.

Speaker 1 He's, well, they call him the heel. And in wrestling, the villain is called the heel.

Speaker 1 Found that one out this week. There you go.
There you go. Awesome seeing The Rock.

Speaker 1 I don't know if there's a more iconic individual in America

Speaker 1 right now than The Rock.

Speaker 1 Oh, if there's one more thing I want to say about WrestleMania, and I mentioned this there, I think they should figure out a way to get the commentators in the live performance because the live performance is incredible.

Speaker 1 You're hearing the pounding of the ring. It really echoes and it makes you feel like you're a part of it.

Speaker 1 There's really an element that I think you get from McAfee or whoever's doing the commentating when they're like, from the top rope, oh my gosh, how is he ever going to do it, ladies and gentlemen?

Speaker 1 Like that adds this excitement to it that

Speaker 1 I really think it would have taken it to the next level.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I hear you on that. Yeah, it's probably not great audio quality.

Speaker 1 I'm sure there's a reason they don't do it. I guarantee you they've thought about this.
Yes. Yeah.
Yeah, you're probably right. Okay.
Well,

Speaker 1 other out-of-the-house news, we have Travis at Coachella. That's right.
After the live show, Travis didn't stop being out of the house. He took a plane over to California and went to Coachella.

Speaker 1 Music Festival. Not your first time there, Travis.
You and I have both been numerous times.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's a fun weekend.
of festivities.

Speaker 1 I love live music, man. I absolutely love live music.

Speaker 1 I don't get enough of it in my life. I really enjoy any event.
Like, I just like going to events, going places where people are

Speaker 1 seeing

Speaker 1 talents

Speaker 1 that all these talented people in the world. Like, I just like to experience that type of shit.
Like, I love experiencing new cultures.

Speaker 1 That's the one thing that I really enjoy about Coachella is that it's not just one genre of music. One genre.
I agree. It's everything.
It's everything. I mean, that's where I first saw Chromio.

Speaker 1 Dude, the funk lords.

Speaker 1 Man, I fucking love the funk lords. They really do have every genre you can think of, Echocell.
I mean, not a lot of countries. Every single one.

Speaker 1 A couple years ago,

Speaker 1 Danny Ellsman, like composer, he had like a symphony playing in the desert. It was unbelievable.
They got everything.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's always

Speaker 1 creative, good artists, like great artists. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I always appreciated it, man. And it was fun.
It was fun getting out there and seeing

Speaker 1 a few new bands that I really wasn't

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 familiar with and just became an absolute lover of their music because of how they perform and how they captivated the crowd and got everybody into it.

Speaker 1 The bleachers, like I jacked Atsenoff, absolutely ripped it. And I had so much fun seeing him go nuts with the guitar and

Speaker 1 all his

Speaker 1 boys. He had two sacks players, two drummers, two guitars, and they just ripped it.
And it was so much fun. Everybody kind of of had their own time on the keyboard.

Speaker 1 That was fun as hell to watch. One of my favorite bands out right now, Jungle,

Speaker 1 they absolutely killed it.

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 1 Played one of my favorite songs called Cassio.

Speaker 1 And I was out there moving to that joint. Yeah.
Cassio.

Speaker 1 Playing on my heart.

Speaker 1 Gosh, who else did I say? Oh, how can I forget my guy, Dom Dalla? Dom Dolla. One of my favorite DJs out here, man.
Dom Dalla. Damdala, yeah.

Speaker 1 He absolutely kills it every single time. And sure enough, it was his own set at Coachella.
He did two sets.

Speaker 1 He's also in a combined DJ group with John Summit. And

Speaker 1 they did one the day before. So I didn't get to see that one because I was still working.
But Saturday was such a fun, fun day, man. And yeah, I love going to Coachella, man.

Speaker 1 Hopefully I can keep going. But obviously, you know, the schedules always fill the fuck up real quick in the offseason.

Speaker 1 Dude, the one thing you got to be ready for at Coachella, you got to take your auntie. It is some walking and dancing.
Like, you're moving at Coachella. There's like seven different stages.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I guess who'd you, we know who you went with. We saw the pictures.
All right. We know who you went with.

Speaker 1 She's supporting the New Heights. Difference, big new heights supporter.
Yeah. Sold out of the green hat real quick.

Speaker 1 It's a good color green. How was Coachella different? Because I expected you guys to be backstage like mostly with the musicians, right? But it seemed like you guys are in the crowd.

Speaker 1 I like to see it front from

Speaker 1 the fans' perspective, like the people that actually like, because I am. I'm a fan of the music.
I'm a fan of live shows. I want to see it from the front of the stage.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We probably could have finessed it that way, but I think it's just that much more of an experience if

Speaker 1 you're in the pit, man, if you're in

Speaker 1 the madness with all the fans.

Speaker 1 Are your feet, though? From all the walking?

Speaker 1 No. Gosh.
That's the one thing I regret every year is how much walking it is.

Speaker 1 It's amazing every year, but it's a lot of walking. It's really not.
Oh, you're out of your mind. Dude, we barely, dude, we were walking through the station.
You're walking from stage to stage.

Speaker 1 You're walking to the bathroom, which is like a

Speaker 1 terrain, Jason. You know how to get to each stage quickly and efficiently.
It's a lot. It's a lot.
And then especially like

Speaker 1 a walk afterwards where we're like walking to whatever house we're staying at.

Speaker 1 I got a cheat code. I know where to stay where it's just like a quick block walk once you're out.
No, no, no, no, no. I thought I had that too.
I know exactly where those houses are, and it's still.

Speaker 1 No, you don't. No, you don't.

Speaker 1 You're insane.

Speaker 1 It's a lot of walking. Listen, Coachelle is great.
Just get ready to walk. Not a sandals event.
Not a sandals event. No, it is not.
And if you wore sandals, that's what you fucking get, Jason.

Speaker 1 I think we restocked the green hat, though. So everybody head over to homage.com slash new heist to get the green hat.
Those are going to be gone pretty quickly now that we just informed everyone.

Speaker 1 I know I'm going to buy a few. I fucking love that green hat.
That's a really, really good shade of green. Coachella is always fun.
Shout out to all the performers.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Accelerator Active Energy for bringing this segment to you out of the house. All right, now.
All right, let's get to some no-dumb questions. That's right.

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If you could choose any two sports to combine together, a la basketball, which two sports would you choose and why? It's pretty good.

Speaker 1 Reading this before, I immediately thought of one of my favorite movie sports scenes of all time, which is

Speaker 1 Happy Gilmore when Bob Barker beats the shit out of Happy. It's a great one.
It's a great movie. Solid movie.
Seeing that in real life would be unbelievable. So I'm going to say boxing and golf.

Speaker 1 I feel like we kind of did.

Speaker 1 I would combine.

Speaker 1 We did do something. NASCAR and gymnastics.
It was fighting.

Speaker 1 What sport would we allow fighting in? I think we were just changing the rules and we made NASCAR that you could drink and drive or something like that. It was something like that.
Ah, yeah.

Speaker 1 drinking, drinking and sports. That's what it was.
We're going to make this very clear. No,

Speaker 1 do not do that.

Speaker 1 Unless NASCAR does it, you guys do not do it. No, don't do it.
Even in NASCAR. Let's avoid that.
We don't want to, we want to be good rolling. No, it's a big pillow nowadays.
Everybody's in that car.

Speaker 1 Like it was.

Speaker 1 Yeah, NASCAR and gymnastics. NASCAR and gymnastics? This has just become evil can evil or some shit.

Speaker 1 They got to do like the floor mat while like a NASCAR, you got to jump over the car while it's moving full speed. This just sounds like Nitro Circus.
You got to do and you got to land it.

Speaker 1 You got to stick the landing. The car does like a bunch of flips and sticks it.
They'd have this actually with monster trucks. It sounds like monster trucks.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to lie, but with regular cars. And it's probably some of the things that these monster trucks are doing when they are in the monster trucks are cooler.
They are unbelievable.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're right. It already exists.
It's called monster trucks. All right.

Speaker 1 I saw a clip of somebody playing hockey and football. It was like football rules on the ice.
Ooh, I did see that. That was a great.
I mean, it was nice. It's incredibly dangerous.

Speaker 1 I mean, didn't a hockey player just have a neck slit? Can you imagine trying to tackle somebody and drag somebody down with skates attached to their feet?

Speaker 1 I don't think they had skates on. I think it was just football on ice.
Oh, they were just running? Equipment. Oh, good point.

Speaker 1 Well, either way, terrible idea because I don't know if people know this, but ice is harder than concrete. Hard as it sucks getting hit down on ice.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 How about

Speaker 1 swimming and sharpshooting?

Speaker 1 So what would be the weapon? It would just be like

Speaker 1 a bow, like a crossbow. You gotta tread water while you're shooting sporting clays or something like that? Like archery? Okay.
What's the good thing to combine with swimming?

Speaker 1 Have you seen the torpedoes? The little torpedo, like soccer game that they play underwater? No, that sounds exciting, though.

Speaker 1 Remember the little torpedo, the rubber torpedoes they used to throw underwater and you would see it like a submarine, just like you could pass it underneath water to your friend. But it sounds great.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to lie. All right.
What is it? I used to play this all the time. Oh, you're talking about just like the little ones that you would throw under there.

Speaker 1 They turned that into an actual game where you could fucking tackle people and hold them underwater. And it sounds like my kind of game.
It is. It is your kind of game.

Speaker 1 What about, oh, this is a good one. La Crosse and Polo.

Speaker 1 Because it doesn't make sense that those guys on horseback are hitting that ball all the way on the ground. Just play lacrosse on horseback.
Ooh.

Speaker 1 I think that'd be

Speaker 1 a legit game. That would be legit.
Did you know you have to have like four horses per person? Per person? Why do you have to have four per person? I don't know. I just heard that.

Speaker 1 So I thought I'd throw it out there and see if you want to call bullshit on it. I'm calling bullshit on it.
I don't really know why you would need that. Four per person? Yeah, I don't think that's it.

Speaker 1 Endurance, maybe?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Oh, maybe that's it.
They got a sub, the horse in and up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's my kind of sport. Let's let the horse get tired.
I'll just sit on top and have all the fun.

Speaker 1 That's a good point. I kind of like that.
I kind of want to play it just once. La Crosse horseback riding? Yeah, me and horses just don't.

Speaker 1 Dude, do you remember Whirlyball? Whirlyball, yes.

Speaker 1 It was bumper carts.

Speaker 1 It was bumper carts. Yes.
And lacrosse. That was a great game.
Great game.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm talking about. It's in Columbus, Ohio, for those of you that are around the Columbus area.
Whirly ball. Make sure you you guys go to it.
Have they been to that?

Speaker 1 I mean, I know it's in that area, but it's

Speaker 1 been trying to, I've been trying to find it everywhere else, and I can't find it anywhere. Dude, what are we doing? Let's open up some whirlyball spots.
Dude, they're so fucking fun.

Speaker 1 I went there not too long ago. I went there like four or five years ago.
Do you think 1587 Prime could have a back side of the building that has a whirlyball court? No,

Speaker 1 this is not that kind of establishment, Jason. This is not that kind of establishment.
No. It's not? Okay.
It should be.

Speaker 1 How about skydiving? Is skydiving skydiving a sport? We can make it skydiving and slam dunk contests. That'd be a pretty incredible.

Speaker 1 I don't know what, how, like, are the hoops in the air or where are they? I mean, it's to be determined. Depends on how many points you want.

Speaker 1 You can go all the way to the ground, but it's a lot harder to get it in there. You get hoops at different levels.
What about skydiving and like track? Like, who can get to the who can get by?

Speaker 1 Who can get to land track? Now you're thinking. Now you're thinking who can get to land track.

Speaker 1 Who's to the the ground? Who's going to pull their parachute?

Speaker 1 You're basically playing chicken. I mean, you're essentially skydowning chicken.
What you're describing.

Speaker 1 I think it's a fantastic idea. It'd be very funny.
It's a fantastic idea. You remember the great outdoor games when they would climb the pole and then

Speaker 1 descend as fast as possible? And I'm like,

Speaker 1 what are we doing here, guys? Yeah. This is electric is what it is.
More on the line.

Speaker 1 Way more speed. Travis Pestrano would be dead.

Speaker 1 No, you can't kill that guy. There's no way he's backing down.
He'd figure it out, though. He'd figure it out.
It'd be somebody.

Speaker 1 Travis Pestrano doesn't die. All right.
Yeah, knock on one. Shout out to all the cool Travises out there that made my name cool.
The only person in the world with more lives than a cat.

Speaker 1 Travis Pestrano.

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Time to round up some NFL news. That's right.

Speaker 1 Let's talk about football since this is still a football/slash sports podcast. I suppose.
Starting with some Eagles updates, Devontae Smith and Jordan Mulata,

Speaker 1 two of our favorites here on the show, man, got paid big time. It was announced on Monday that the Eagles wide receiver Devontae Smith agreed to three years, $75 million,

Speaker 1 an extension that was well worth it. Smith's deal includes 51 guaranteed.
God damn. Is

Speaker 1 Smitty an underrated part of this offense? Do you think he doesn't get enough credit? I mean, he's definitely not underrated by anybody on the team.

Speaker 1 I think, listen, he's playing next to the best receiver in the NFL and A.J. Brown.
So it's easy to see that maybe he gets less credit than has probably deserved because of the greatness that A.J.

Speaker 1 Brown has displayed. But I can tell you anybody in the Eagles, I mean, the route-running ability of Devontae Smith is insane to watch in person.
Like, he's just,

Speaker 1 you talk about, like,

Speaker 1 my dance moves versus your dance moves. This is the smoothest motherfucker I know.
Like, he is a smooth cat. It is insane.
He's a smooth player right now.

Speaker 1 The way he moves and gets out of breaks and the level at which he entered the NFL and how good he is. He's silky.

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh. Silky smoothie.
You see some of the things he's wearing. He is got some fashion.
He's smooth. No matter what.
And he talks smooth.

Speaker 1 He's also just, he's one of those guys that in his head, he is one of the most mentally tough, like, just like killers that I've played with in the best possible way. Like, I mean, in

Speaker 1 only complimentary fashion. Like, this is a guy you want to play football with.
He embodies the mindset.

Speaker 1 Don't let his skinny stature fool you. This guy has every bit of a football player's mindset.

Speaker 1 I cannot say enough good things about Devontae Smith as a player, as a person, as a personality, outstanding young man, who just got three years and $75 million. So

Speaker 1 shout out to my man, Smitty. That's a whole lot of money.

Speaker 1 It's a whole lot of bread.

Speaker 1 And former guest on the show, Jordan Mulata, is also getting paid this offseason.

Speaker 1 Jordan and the Eagles agree to a three-year, $66 million contract extension, which includes $48 million guaranteed and $20 million in the signing bonus.

Speaker 1 He just got $20 million richer by putting his John Hancock on a paper. That's pretty good.
How about that? How about that? That'll get you a whole lot of real estate over there in Australia.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah. You can go over there and get all that delicious candy, that good old rich chocolate.
You can order at least 15 million blooming onions at Outback with that. Like, it is a lot.

Speaker 1 Baby, it's the only onion I'll eat. Fried.
Yeah. I mean, it's probably not buying you that much.
I think they overcharge for the bloomin' onion, but whatever. It's damn good, though, man.

Speaker 1 It's damn good. Yeah, it includes $48 million guaranteed and a $20 million signing bonus per Adam Schifter.
Yeah, man, it's Howie's season. This is what Howie does better than I think.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm biased, but anybody else

Speaker 1 at finagling the situation of the cap,

Speaker 1 what

Speaker 1 players are,

Speaker 1 first of all, do in real life, but then also what is going to be their cap hit. The Eagles are so good

Speaker 1 at

Speaker 1 moving that around and avoiding the salary cap from really ever being an issue. I can't think of one time

Speaker 1 in my tenure with the Eagles that

Speaker 1 there has been this issue with, you know, the cap is too high or too low, or the Eagles don't have room to sign somebody that they want to.

Speaker 1 I feel like at all times, they know how to move things around to get accomplished, what they want to accomplish. And I mean, you see it from other teams.

Speaker 1 They just don't move with that type of fluidity. They get hamstrung with either guys who are really high on the books or

Speaker 1 players that are unhappy with their pay. It feels like the Eagles, I mean, we saw that last year with Hassan, right? Hassan Rick is now gone.
He wanted more money last year.

Speaker 1 I just feel like the Eagles deal with that less than anybody else. They really are.
This is one of the things they do so well is they know how to allocate these resources.

Speaker 1 They know how to move money around.

Speaker 1 I think in part, that's a credit to Howie and his understanding of all of the ins and outs of the salary cap and the full ways to take advantage of the structures of these contracts.

Speaker 1 I think it's also a point of emphasis on Jeffrey Lurie. I mean,

Speaker 1 they have the cash to do all these things because it's one thing to be able to maneuver the cap, but it's also one thing that the owner has to be willing to shell out cash at different points to make these things happen

Speaker 1 and give the resources possible to the GM to do as much as this and to allow Howie to operate with this type of freedom. I think that both of them combined, as well as other people in the building,

Speaker 1 you know, Jake Bryce, like there's a lot of people in the building that go into making

Speaker 1 this one of the Eagles' strengths.

Speaker 1 But Howie, for sure, gets the credit, and he should.

Speaker 1 They know how to extend players, when to extend players. They know how to move money around.
These numbers might look astronomical, but they know that the cap's only going up.

Speaker 1 And by doing these deals earlier, these numbers change as that cap goes up to be more in line with, or actually more of a, not in line, they're already in line, more of a deal for the Eagles long term, if they believe in these guys, which they clearly do.

Speaker 1 So for good reason. Listen, I think it's certainly been a strength of the Eagles, and they have not shied away from

Speaker 1 exploiting all of the rules and

Speaker 1 not carve-outs, but all of the rules and different tools that are possible within the guidelines of the salary cap.

Speaker 1 They know how to finagle all that, and it's been one of their strengths, quite frankly. So shout out to both Jordan and Devontae Smith.
Both of these guys are

Speaker 1 more than deserving of these numbers. There's a lot of guys around the league league looking right now to get better contracts from their teams or to be paid what they think they're owed.

Speaker 1 And some of these teams are handcuffed, and that's based on deals and structures that they've already done beforehand. And you're seeing it right now.
Well, I'm happy those two guys got paid.

Speaker 1 They're fucking deserving of it. Both, not only two of the best NFL players in the National Football League,

Speaker 1 but just two of the best teammates and guys you could have around. So you love to see the good guys get paid and broke off accordingly, man.
Especially when they're doing the shit the right way.

Speaker 1 Packers deface Eagles in the league's first ever game in Brazil. That's right.
Eagles, Packers in the Corinthians arena down there. Week one, too.
First game of the year.

Speaker 1 Breaking it out down there in Brazil. It's probably going to be hotter than hell, boys.
So make sure you hydrate. Brazil is known to be right there on the equator.
And we know because science.

Speaker 1 Well, no,

Speaker 1 it'll be winter for Brazil. It'll be winter for them down there at the equator.
Does that have anything anything to do?

Speaker 1 It's going to be snowing. I think it's going to be at the equator.
I don't think it really matters. I think it's just, yeah.
What is it going to be 80 instead of 105? I think that's a big difference.

Speaker 1 Let's be honest.

Speaker 1 You got me there. I got myself there, I guess.

Speaker 1 The Corinthians Arena is the home of Brazil's soccer team,

Speaker 1 SC Corinthians. It was also announced that the first game in 50 years, a game will be played on Friday night of the opening weekend in the NFL.
So, in history.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they won't jump off the season, but they'll be

Speaker 1 the first game that's played on Friday night. Yeah, the second game of the year will be this Friday night game.

Speaker 1 Listen, I know a lot of people have mixed feelings about this, especially Philadelphia fans.

Speaker 1 Big travel

Speaker 1 ramifications for this home opener. I'm excited about it.
We've talked about this before. You and I are big fans of the international games.

Speaker 1 I think it's really cool playing in these unique situations and stadiums. I've been to Brazil.

Speaker 1 I actually went to the Brazil for the World Cup in 2016 with some fellow teammates, and it was outstanding. Obviously, this is a different sport.
That was

Speaker 1 the country's national sport of soccer that I was participating with. But I went to Corinthians Arena.
We got to see a game live there. How much walking did you do?

Speaker 1 Not as much as Coachella, but it was quite a bit of walking. Yeah, it's going to be an incredible experience.
I fully anticipate that. And Brazil is just, it's got a wonderful culture.

Speaker 1 It's got great food,

Speaker 1 great people,

Speaker 1 a culture that likes to party. So they're going to be geared up for this.
They like sports. They like physical fitness.
Sports, physical fitness, partying sounds like a perfect mix for the NFL.

Speaker 1 Listen, I think the NFL is going to enjoy this game. Who do you think has more fans down there, the Eagles or the Packers? That's a real question.
I think it's going to be.

Speaker 1 Brazil strikes me as more of an eagles crowd not the lie but yeah big fan of brazil uh went down there for the world cup stayed for a full week saw i think it went to five games went to rio sao paulo and brazil who was your favorite who's your favorite individual player you saw at the uh rio games i mean the one that i was the most excited to see because of his standing in the world at the time was messy we did not go to an argentina game uh we went to a brazil game though and the other guy that was right up there with him was Neymar.

Speaker 1 So got to see Neymar play in person.

Speaker 1 Brazil won against Chile in penalty kicks. It was a fantastic game.
But we got to party on the Rio Beach with a bunch of other Americans. They had like a whole like.

Speaker 1 Jason, you're not supposed to go down there and party with Americans. You're supposed to party with the culture.
Listen, you know us. We find each other.
We find each other.

Speaker 1 It's easy to spot just by what you're wearing. You know, right away.
That's an American right there. Cargo shorts.

Speaker 1 I'll tell you what though,

Speaker 1 Messi played in Kansas City this past weekend. Nice.

Speaker 1 He played in Arrowhead, actually. It's not the same.
He played an arrowhead. It's not the same being in the MLS.

Speaker 1 Why is it not? I'm just saying. Because it's the MLS? I don't shit on the MLS.
I'm not shitting on the MLS. I'm saying it's not international soccer.

Speaker 1 When you think of soccer, I know there's all these wonderful clubs overseas. There's the MLS.
I think of the World Cup. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 It's international play, and then everything else is for me.

Speaker 1 It's all about the Premier League, dude. I know a lot of people love the Premier League.
A lot of people love Barcelona and Milan. To me, it's all about international play for soccer.

Speaker 1 That's all I care about. I mean, I get it.
Would you ever watch the UFL?

Speaker 1 Which one was the UFL?

Speaker 1 Would you ever watch the XFL?

Speaker 1 I would. You would watch the XFL, but you won't watch the MLS.
I didn't say I won't watch it.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying it wasn't the same level as seeing it wouldn't like seeing Messi play for Miami is not the same as when he played in Barcelona or when he was at the world stage of the World Cup.

Speaker 1 That's all I'm saying. That's not the same.
He just won the World Cup

Speaker 1 like less than a year ago. Seeing

Speaker 1 for a Miami golf course is not the same as seeing Michael Jordan in a bullshit uniform. All right.

Speaker 1 Jason.

Speaker 1 Just being honest. Why not?

Speaker 1 You're seeing one person

Speaker 1 on the biggest stage. What do you mean? You're seeing one person on the biggest stage possible with the biggest team in the history.

Speaker 1 This is the best soccer player ever at the World Cup. That's different than seeing Lionel Messi tearing it up in Kansas City.
Just saying to me, dude, this is the same. It's Lionel Messi.

Speaker 1 It's not the same. It's not the same.
Dude, it was the same when Ibrahimovich went fucking crazy in L.A. It's great.
It's electric.

Speaker 1 He made the MLS fun to watch last year. I'm not saying it's not good for MLS.
I'm not saying it's not great. I'm saying it's not as good.
I'm not saying that it sucks that he plays in Miami.

Speaker 1 That's That's awesome for the MLS, and I think it's great for American soccer.

Speaker 1 I just think it's nowhere near when he scores a goal for Argentina and the entire country is erupting in cheers because it means more to Argentina than any other sport on the planet.

Speaker 1 That's all I'm saying. All right.
Well, that's fair. I didn't think you were saying it like that at first, but I get it now.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, shout out to Messi.
Shout out to Rio. And big shout out to the NFL.
Expanding the game, getting into more countries.

Speaker 1 Hopefully Brazil brings the juice, baby. I want to see

Speaker 1 how their crowd reacts to a little American football, man.

Speaker 1 Dude, one of the things that was the coolest thing in Brazil, first of all, every time their national team plays, they consider it a national holiday. So they just say the entire country shuts down.

Speaker 1 Then,

Speaker 1 whenever you weren't, so some of the games are happening in Brazil at other places while you're just out and about.

Speaker 1 And they're so into soccer that the entire country would erupt to the point that you could hear a cheer happening from everybody

Speaker 1 in the city of Rio. That's cool.
De Janeiro. You could hear that erupt the moment Brazil scored while you're just walking down the street.
That's so fucking dope. Yeah, it was dope.
It was cool.

Speaker 1 Because you're walking outside the stadium at all times. Nope, Brazil just scored.

Speaker 1 There was a... Oh, yeah.
I also saw Christ the Redeemer. Nice.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That was pretty cool. Pretty cool.
Probably the coolest Christ statue.

Speaker 1 I I think it takes the Christ cake of statues. Yeah.
It's the biggest one.

Speaker 1 We also got a couple updates on the Chiefs roster front. Defensive end.
Mike Dana has just re-signed with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 1 Dana McTroy is financially best in sacks and tackles for lost last season. I think it's a big signing for you guys.
Very unheralded player,

Speaker 1 I think, nationally. He's just tough as nails, just comes to work every single day with his fucking lunch pail, man.

Speaker 1 He's got a little, like, I'm trying to figure out how to describe this to fans, but so when you're, when you're, when you have like a third-down package out there, you typically have

Speaker 1 players that are certain roles. Mike Dana fills that role of like, he can run a game with anybody.
He can drop out into coverage.

Speaker 1 He can win one-on-one matchups at a surprising rate over a guard because he's got a level of athleticism that's unique when you're rushing over a guard.

Speaker 1 I think that he is a big part of allowing Coach Spaggs to be creative in these blitz packages. You'll see him do a lot of different things with Mike Dana.

Speaker 1 He's a guy that I was always assessing where he was at because you would try and, okay,

Speaker 1 because it was 51, right? Yeah, 51. He's like that chess piece that a lot of it stems off of.
Correct. So some defenses call it like, yep, some defenses call him like the adjuster.

Speaker 1 So like if he's over here, it's like, okay, I'm pretty confident either they're running a game over here. There's something that's coming over here.

Speaker 1 Or it could just be straight up. Like Spaggs is smart enough that he knows how to hide that.

Speaker 1 But that's the type of headache that a guy like that causes teams because you consider him a three technique.

Speaker 1 But he's really like a DN outside linebacker playing three technique because he's a little bit bigger and he can win that matchup on the guard as well as run games as well as drop off into coverage.

Speaker 1 These are guys that, in my opinion, don't really get the credit they deserve, but they're big pieces within the defensive structure.

Speaker 1 So I actually think this is a really good signing and happy to see that he's back in Kansas City. Shout out to Mike

Speaker 1 for being back in KC. You might.

Speaker 1 And something we didn't get a chance to talk about on the show over the past couple weeks, the Chiefs have also signed former European Rugby League star Luis Rees Zamet.

Speaker 1 Reese Zamet, I have no idea if I'm pronouncing this right. Yep.
I don't even know. I have no idea either.
I've talked to him, though, and he's pumped. Is he French? No, he's Welsh.
He's from Wales.

Speaker 1 Look at this debonair dude, man. He's just got the big wings.
He's an attractive guy, I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 1 His favorite movie is The Titanic. He loves music from Beyoncé and Adele.
The guy is just as suave as it gets. When I think of Welsh, I think of just, I think British people call him posh.

Speaker 1 I think of like these rich, upper-class, just beautiful white people.

Speaker 1 And he is like just the running stereotype of what I would think of with a Welsh person.

Speaker 1 I don't know if that's an accurate stereotype that I have in my head, but that's certainly what I think of. And he's helping continue that trend in my mind.
Well, there you go.

Speaker 1 I'm excited to see what this guy does. I don't know about you.
I'm pumped too. And he said he's ready for the lateral whenever, when we were texting.
Oh, nice. Nice.

Speaker 1 Well, listen, he played rugby, so he's going to be ready for that thing. Came in as the same program as Jordan Malada, the International Player Pathway program.

Speaker 1 So it won't cost you guys a roster spot unless you play. I think he even went to IMG, too.
I'm pretty sure he went to IMG.

Speaker 1 Well, it's very similar. One of the good things about this pathway is that it allows teams to take chances on guys without having to incur a roster spot.
So the only way

Speaker 1 Luis will count against the Chiefs is if he makes a 53. I think that's how that works.

Speaker 1 Outside of that, I think they're basically

Speaker 1 two or three years to get him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They're basically guaranteeing him a shot at potentially playing in the NFL, which

Speaker 1 I really hope this is a smashing success. The more international players that you see get the chance means the more international game's growing.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And you start to see kids from those areas or kids from all over start playing the game a little bit more because

Speaker 1 one of their, you know, their own. from their backyard found a way to be on top of a sport and be a be a part of a very small percentage of players that make it.
And it's cool to see.

Speaker 1 I really just enjoyed the guy's energy so far. He's super excited about the opportunity that he's been given, knowing that not everybody gets these opportunities.

Speaker 1 And he was an absolute star in the European league that he was in, the European rugby league that he was in.

Speaker 1 So for him to make the jump and

Speaker 1 try and go from

Speaker 1 Wales to Kansas City, man,

Speaker 1 it's a pretty ballsy move and pretty cool move to be making, man. Lewis has wasted no time.
He just got done working out with Pat and some of the guys down in Texas this past weekend.

Speaker 1 Travis, you said he talked to you.

Speaker 1 When did you get the chance to talk to him? And have you heard Pat say whether he's good or not? No, I haven't talked to Pat about him yet.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Lewis is down there working hard, man. And

Speaker 1 it's going to be

Speaker 1 a humbling experience. Yeah, it's going to be a humbling experience at first.

Speaker 1 It's not easy to just make that jump. They're two completely different games, but he is an athlete, and that's what the Chiefs saw.
He's a smart kid, he's a smart player.

Speaker 1 So he's going to be able to pick up the offense eventually, but it's going to be a tough few months for him here while he's getting acclimated to the NFL.

Speaker 1 We've been doing this since we were kids, and we've been playing this game. So we're just going to have just those little instincts that

Speaker 1 we've built over the years that he has to start to catch up with.

Speaker 1 So the biggest advice I gave him was just try not to let

Speaker 1 it overwhelm you as much as it can.

Speaker 1 And just know that everybody believes that

Speaker 1 you have the potential to be able to play.

Speaker 1 So just absorb as much as you can, learn as much as you can in the short time that you'll have before the season. Listen, I'm excited.
I know there's going to be a learning curve.

Speaker 1 I hope this guy takes the world by fucking storm. Me too, man.
Will be electric. And, I mean,

Speaker 1 with a smile like that, this guy is, if he works out, he's going to be the most marketable player of all time. Look at that face.

Speaker 1 Golly. Got to love a debonair young man.
All righty, and that wraps up another episode of New Heights, everyone. That's right.
Yes, it does. Man, it's good to be back.
I love just, I love the guests.

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