New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce - Tickling Tonsils, Kiffin Drama & George Clooney on Pranks, Parenting & Jason's Batman | EP 168

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

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You know, we're going to do another oceans. What? You guys are doing another one? But, you know, now we're old. So it's going to be like mostly just trying not to crap yourself. That wasn't really a bucket. That was an offense alignment, duck walk, get the hips in there. I wish it would have been more of the buck in action.

I don't think Dom was ready for it. There wasn't much thrust in there. Get this. He told me to S his D. Did you just hear him? I think that should be a 15-yard penalty, sir. Is there an interim coach? Bring Eli back.

Eli. Jason, I dig you, man. You're a Hall of Famer, Travis. You broke me, man. You take these big beaters you got and you put them into that the chin in the chest. I'm remembering you telling me to put my f***ers in his chest. I'm a basket we've got myself.

This is our greatest episode ever. Welcome back to New Heist. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, a Wondry show brought to you by. Yeti. Oh, Yetty coolers, nice, and everything else

that Getty makes now. Oh, got to love those. Yeah, that was nice. Where are your host? I'm Travis Kelsey and my big brother, Jason Kelsey out of Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, as most of you know.

Cincinnati, ah, football, ah, hasn't been our year these past three games. Really took a turn for the worst, boys. But, yeah, we're both eligible, so go, go ahead. have some fun with the gang and uh whatever bowl you end up in what was your favorite non big bowl game you went to my favorite bowl low key which still to this day you didn't get to

go international bowl it was in toronto canada well yes because he went to fucking toronto we went to toronto i was still not 21 in the legal age for everything there was 18 and we just it's convenient a fucking blast that's real nice it's great what gifts you get at the old international I had a duffel bag that was leather that I had for forever. I still might have it. It was a great duffel bag. Had a nice little maple leaf on the front of it. Ooh, I do remember seeing that one.

That was, what I was a good duffel. It was a good duffel. Let's get back into what we're here for. And that's the podcast. I'm Travis Kelsey. This is my big brother, Jason Kelsey out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, like we already said. And this is my brother being a militia member. That's right.

Jason got up to New England this past Monday. Yeah, they taught me out of fire musket. I don't think I actually got anything to come out of the muzzle. Like, the pan definitely caught, which is where you put the gunpowder in. Yeah. And that clicked. But I didn't see anything come out the end. And the whole time, Michelle was talking about how much recoil these guns had.

And I, like, fired it, and I felt zero recoil. Like, this thing didn't. I don't think it fired. And everybody's like, no, it fired. I'm pretty sure I didn't fire. This is hilarious. I was so excited. I mean, I still was.

You're a little fucking stiff. Jesus. Well, I was trying to be militaristic in my stance. Is that a real word? Yeah, yours didn't fire. Yeah, but if you look where the pan is by my face, like that's where the gunpowder is, it catches the flint. So that ignited, but whatever was in the barrel didn't ignite.

So I don't know what went wrong. I think this is probably pretty common with these older weapons. I think they misfired quite a bit. I would hate to have that happen when you're in the line of fire. No doubt, no doubt. Fucking one of those daggone red coats across from you. And then you're trying to fucking. put one right between his eyes.

I don't know what I'm talking about. Trav, we need to go road bowling. Road bowling. So road bowling is a sport in Ireland. It's old as shit where they take what used to be a cannonball. Now it's a 28-ounce piece of iron ball, and you roll it down the road. And the goal is to go past a line in the road in as few attempts and throws as possible. So kind of like golf.

I'm following. I'm following. And there's a lot of Irish guys that yell things that you don't really fully understand, but it's electric as fuck. And part of the game is betting. Like, that's, you don't play the game unless there's a steak put up. So everybody bets on the two teams that are bowling. I mean, you go out there and you just throw a fucking piece of metal down the road. And then it'll get lost in the leaves and they bring out the magnets and they try and find it with the magnets.

Dude, it was fucking a blast. It was so fun. Were you an overhand thrower, underhand thrower, side armor? Everybody throws underhand. It's probably too hard to throw overhand and do it. You just don't get the same spin. You want the spin to... I think it's more that it's...

You want top spin. You don't want backspin. I think if you saw the heaviness of this thing, you would understand why... Here we go. That was a really shitty throw. I was going to say that looked like it was a hard right. This dude right here, Sean, he was my partner. Fucking awesome dude.

Some of these guys like styles for throwing. Dude, watch this guy, Darren. Watch this. Dude, they get into it, man. Fucking full extension. The crow. hop into the skip bro i might i got to get my form way better it was not impressive that in the least even a fucking athlete jason dude it was it was wet it was slick these guys are impressive you got to

play off the ground that was a better role you got your right hip through that's a big part of it i won one of them and lost another one you won you one of them see i think they kind of rigged the second one the guy they put a guy up against me i was like okay this guys they put a child he might have went to the bar before we came out he's seeing a fork in the road it's like I don't know which way to throw this thing. We went to, my guy, Connie, was down there. Every time you would throw it in, it was a good. I didn't know.

The only way I knew whether it was good or bad was just with how much noise Connie was making. Every time it was a good throw, I'd be like, there you go, Lodi, I was, like, it's fucking hilarious. It was electric, well. I think that was half the reason the sport was fun. I don't even know if I want to go without Connie at this point. Yeah, no, it sounds like you need the environment. And then we went to this amazing pub, the Irish, it was. It was the Red Rose Irish Pub where, I mean, dude, I was getting so many flashbacks to Irish

pubs going into growing up. You could tell this is just like a community staple, great vibe. People are singing in the middle of the bar. And then I got to teach this kid some D-Line moves. Check this out. He has no idea what just happened. The push-pull is a shocking move. He still didn't really have it down.

Because you did it right. When you do it right, the push-pull is like, what the fuck just happened? And that's what you just did to that kid. That kid just happened like, holy shit. Ninja just put his hands on me. Oh, I'm going to send another one. Check out this guy singing. When the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too.

On this dark morn as I walk out, my thoughts will be a view. So gracious, all me in your heart. And let this moment linger They'll take me out to Tom And I will die With all my love I'll place this Wedding ring upon your finger

Now that's a bar God damn that was fun It was a blast Well done Boston I was going back and forth And whether I was going to sing a song The only Irish song that I really know Is one that I sing to the girls

It's from Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Tell me it. You want to hear it? Yeah. As I was a walking down by the lock. Going into a character here. As I was a walking one morning of late. Okay.

Who should I spy but my own dear comrade. Wrapped up in flannel so hard as he's fade. I boldly stepped up to And kindly did ask him Why are you wrapped in Flano so why My body is injured And sadly disorder

I can relate All by a young woman My own heart's delight Oh had she but told me when she disordered me had she but told me of it at the time I might have got salts

or pills of white mercury now I'm cut down in the height of my prime get six pretty maidens to carry my coffin six pretty maidens to bear up my paw and give to each of them bunches of roses so they may not smell me when they go along and then I say good night, Wyatt, and then I won't leave.

That left me speechless, Jason, when the fuck did you? ever learned that. I like singing to the girls at bedtime. I'm a big fan of telling stories. Here's the thing. There are so many fucking kids books. And I'm going to be honest. Tell me it. Tell me your honest opinion of them. Here's the honest opinion. Every rundown schmuck with a fucking typewriter can make a children's book these days. And I don't think that everybody should be having children books. I'm into the Dr. Seuss's, the freaking three little pigs. I like the stories that have survived a long time. And there's a reason for these iterations existing.

I don't need to know about the fucking pink cupcakes. I don't need to fucking, you know, give me the caterpillar book. I like the caterpillar book when I was growing up. What is it, Carl, or whatever? I'm out on a lot of the newer children's books. What you're doing when you're reading kids books is your brain,

you're hardwiring the software upstairs, right? Okay. So when you're telling the boy who cried wolf, you're trying to correlate, hey, lying makes people not trust you, and eventually that's a bad thing to do. And here's a story that correlates why you shouldn't do that. And it ends up really bad for him. He gets all of the sheep eaten because he couldn't fucking, you know, tell the truth.

Yeah. Yeah, right? Get anyone to believe him. Yeah. So a lot of times I just end up telling those stories or I make stories up that are off of those old stories. Ha, ha, that man, if we had a recorder for those ones, man, fuck. Dude, one night, because they'll tell me, sometimes they'll tell me, sometimes the girls

will tell me they want like one of their stuffed animals in the story or like they want to be in the story themselves. Yeah. And I'm like, all right, I'm about to do Pinocchio. And Ellie's like, oh, put, uh, I forget what stuffed animal it was, put, put, put Slothy in the video or put Slothy in the story. I was like, okay, right. One night, Ellie wished upon a star.

Oh, and Slothy came to life. And her eyes went just. And she didn't move. And she was just holding this stuffed animal? And I got through the I had like a Jiminy the cricket figurine. I had a whole conscience thing going on and everything.

The only thing after the story, Ellie was just so terrified that she was holding. This is so good. Kylie was furious. She's like, what the fuck is? wrong with you said put her in the story so anyways while i do that i also if i hear it's a tune or a song that i like i uh i like to sing you remember those yeah nice well you're a great dad for that that's

awesome stuff should we start the podcast yet i'm just gonna leave it like this i'm not cutting a goddamn word out it's gonna be we're going free form this week folks is the structure not really subscribe on youtube one dream plus wherever you get your podcast and follow the show on all social media at new heights show with one s for fun clips throughout the week jason why don't you tell everybody what we actually have coming up on the show all righty we've been talking for over an hour and a half already but coming up on this episode 92 percent you're going to hear a little recap from thanksgiving week in the nfl talk about the fat guy fight club that we started at the lincoln oh shit we've also got george fucking cluny on the show today how about that george cluny

You're going to be three bearcats on this podcast later. Oh, little do they know. We claim them. We claim. We claim. Are you kidding? I don't care if it's for a week and he dropped out. I don't even care if he just got accepted, but he never took a class.

He's a bear cat. All right. Before we get to do that, let's start with what we always start with. And that's a little bit of that new news. New news. New news is brought you by Xfinity. Ooh, nice. Xfinity is bringing us new news and the first part of new news.

We got a belly, champion. That's right. We had our first bellybuckin tournament at the link this past Black Friday game in the New Heights tailgate. And no shirt, Dom came out victorious. He almost lost. We were kind of making up the rules as a win. It was a tight ring. Initially, it was like if you just stepped outside the ring. There's got to be bellybuckin rules somewhere online. So the ring was tight. Initially, it was like if you take one step out, we're going to end the match. But it was people were taking steps out all the play we ultimately was like okay if you get two feet out of this thing completely then the round's over man I feel bad for anybody that lost with one foot out nobody

lost with one foot out oh that's what they're it was very apparent from the first one is like okay we can't do that it became apparent who won each time and no shirt dom he had a nice side step at one point it looked like he's gonna lose and he kind of like readjusted and kind of got his belly back into it that boy let me go figure you know a guy that is committed to not wearing a shirt wins the belly bucking competition he's very belly positive individual. We also had Jeffrey Lurie stopping by. Oh. Yeah. Andrew Wittworth

stopping by. That's right. Guy once had a belly, no belly anymore. Well, yeah. He's still barrel chested like a motherfucker though. He's still got that chest on him. Yeah. We signed a copy of somebody's Twilight. That's right. Book.

And yeah, we got some 92%ers to ask some no dumb questions. I think I would redo the no dumb questions, Brandon. For our next iteration of tailgating or really just going out with fans i think we got to bring the no dumb questions to the fans it was hard to get them to think of them on the spot yeah i like the idea of like let's go in there with a pre-determined kind of things we want to put them on the spot where they don't get the thing about this you tell us how many holes of straw heads and i'll tell you why you're a fucking

idiot note taken but the 92 percenters are great wow you actually have a not pad intern brandon There's always one. Everything, I came with a computer. I don't have a notepad. I want a notepad. Oh, I got a computer. There you go. Why would I do a notepad when I have this?

Jason, you got, you got a little bit of a belly bucking in there. You want to tell everybody what the, uh, I was, I'm not going to lie. I did kind of make the belly bucking competition just so there was something that at one point I knew I would eventually get in there and get in a belly action, a little belly on belly, me and no shirt dom. So there's no shirt Dom right here. He was our champion. We decided to have a little.

friendly one. The only thing, that wasn't really a bucket. That was an offense alignment, you know, duck walk, you know, get the hips in there. I wish it would have been more of the bucket action. I don't think Dom was ready for it. There wasn't much thrust in there. But it was fun. I think that helmet was barely, was cutting off the circulation of my brain. Yeah. All right. Well, fun. What did you, what did you think was the technique of the the bucket? What was the best technique you saw? Because in the video that we saw, because in the video that we saw, there was a lot of thrust. There was a lot of thrust.

Was it more just like a bulldozer deal or was, were guys trying to get leverage? Well, that's what I kind of mean. I feel like when you went, if you would have gone back to then thrust and that person stayed into you, when you went back, you were going to go backwards. So it felt more like guys were kind of like getting their hips and belly stuck to each other and then just kind of pushing. You got a buck. I know.

I'm kind of with you. I don't know how to enforce that, though, Travis. I don't know how to enforce that, though, Travis. I don't know how to enforce it. If you're not thrusting, you're Augustine. Got a thrust. Let's see it. Yeah.

Let's see it. Ooh, there's the buck. Hey! Mike get up in there! See, this is why you need to grab... My man, Brandon, was trying this. He was trying to grab those holsters. You got to grab those holsters.

You got to put hands in the pocket. Yep. Yep. I get why the original video showed a lot of that. Yeah, that's a good technique, though, by Dom. That's good. He's using shoulders. That's why I like hands behind the back.

Well, you can still shoulder with your hands behind your back. Yeah, but you can't, like, fucking keep them right here. You can't, like, roll it? Yeah. Yeah, I see what you're saying. It's a good point. Finally, we're teaming up with Amazon as a part of their holiday giving initiative. That's right.

We're in the holiday season. How about it, man? It's December. And we're supporting an organization that is incredibly close to our hearts. That's right. Operation Breakthrough in Kansas City is an organization that I've been a huge fan of and huge supporter of since I've been in Kansas City. That's right.

Amazon is working with an incredible organization. across the country to support local communities by providing essential items, books, toys, and gifts to families who need them during the holidays. And we're honored to be highlighting Operation Breakthrough because of all the work they do every single day in the Kansas City area. For those of you that don't know what Operation Breakthrough is, Operation Breakthrough is kind of like a school teaching these kids, all of these trades and skills and things that they can be ready to go into the workforce for straight out of high school.

Some of them even are entering it while they're in high school. It also supports their families, like there's food. And that's where it originally started. It was originally started for the families and the kids that needed it around the Kansas City community and they help with meals that go home to these families. Not only is it like an actual school, but it has after school care for the kids. And during this after school care, they get opportunities to learn and these extracurricular activities that they get to kind of latch on to. And that's where I've been able to help support it with the foundation that I have on help giving them those skills. like STEM lab skills, science, technology, engineering, math, all these different avenues that

they can go down and really experience and latch onto and see if they love them. And that's what the beauty of this organization is, is it's giving these kids something that they wouldn't have otherwise. And it's awesome to, you know, have Amazon team up with them as well as New Heights. Yeah, I mean, I, Trave, you've been involved with Operation Breakthrough for a long time in Kansas City. I recently just got involved last year. I mean, I've been to like the car show before.

Kelsey Car Jam, which Operation Breakthrough is a part of that as well. But recently they're converting an old pickup truck to electric, the students and the faculty there at Mind Drive and an Operation Breakthrough converting an entire vehicle to electric diesel hybrid, I was going to say it's a hybrid. Yeah, we're going to see if you even do this. So actually, it's going to get more miles to the gallon per se because or the battery because it's going to be able to fuel the battery to recharge itself in a sense, and you'll get longer mileage, which is fucking, it's a lot of bing-bing-bing-bing-bing going on

in my mind. But these kids and the adults that are helping and kind of guiding. Yeah, shout out to Oz. And really everyone over at Operation Breakthrough, but they're doing so much fun stuff over there. And it's really neat that they're doing these extracurricular stuff. But we were just talking about how they help out the families, this holiday season, alone, Operation Breakthrough is going to help support over 3,400 local families that could use some help with the food and just overall support. It really is a fantastic organization.

So really happy that we can potentially help in any way possible for anybody in the Kansas City area or anybody trying to do something similar or looking to support these families, check out Operation Breakthrough. And if you'd like to join us, Amazon has made it easy. Go to Amazon.com slash holiday giving. You'll find a curated list of items that Operation Breakthrough and other charities need. Every single item you purchase ships directly to that charity. Again, that's visit Amazon.com slash holiday giving to learn more and make your contribution. Thank you for being a part of this with us. All right now.

That wraps up new news. Brought to you by Xfinity. All right. Let's get some bold topics to wrap up week 13. Dude, it's week 13 already. Man. There's only five games left, dude. Fly am I. Week 13 in the NFL.

Try out. Let's start with the one game that everybody was tuned into this Thanksgiving. I think it set probably like, it had to set records of viewership numbers, right? I don't, yeah, every holiday game seems to break every past

record. Well, Chiefs 28, Cowboys, 31. It was a great game. It was a great game. It was a fun game to watch. I know it did not turn out in the Chief's favor. Yeah, it was a tough loss. What are your thoughts? What are your thoughts about the game?

You know, I'm sure everyone's sick of us saying it, but we're a few plays away from being a one scene, if I mind. And maybe that's a bit extreme. Maybe it's, you know. I mean, all of the losses are, all the losses are within one score. All the losses are within one score. And there's a handful of plays within those games that are determining the outcome. And it's hard.

And it's, you know, it's plays like my drop against the Eagles. It's penalties that are keeping us behind the sticks. It's, you know, it's coming away with three points instead of touchdowns in some games. It's, you know, it's crazy that you watch the film and you see what's real. And what's real is that we're fucking this close, man. We're this fucking close. You look at our offense and you look at Pat Mahomes production this year, top in the league. You look at our defense in terms of points allowed.

I know some of the other stats aren't all the way up there, but. At the same time, man, we're holding teams at the right moments in, and, you know, and in other situations, we're just not scoring enough. And it's tough, man. It's tough to be a part of this reality right now because we're six and six and we're fighting for our lives and, you know, find a way into the playoffs. And what's real is that we still have a chance, baby. And that's all the fucking matters to me is that we got a chance.

And I'm going to keep coming into work with the mentality that, in a sense, urgency that we need to have to get this shift fixed and turn those handful of plays that are losing us the game into a handful of plays that win us these games. Yeah, I mean, listen, I think you're saying what everybody else is saying. It's the truth. I mean, you guys have been in all of these games. And I think you're having it, like, one of the most unlucky, like, seasons in recent memory. I know that we never like to say lucky, whatever. Yeah, we like to control all of it. Somebody, I think Gordo with ESPN, shout out to Gordo. I think he said something like, you guys are plus 70 or something like that

and your score differential over the season. You're the first team to not have a winning record with that plus differential. There's only like one other team in the history of the NFL that's done that. It's nuts. I don't know what it is. I'd rather like get the actual number. But it's something outrageous. Like you guys are actually performing really well.

on both sides of the ball. It's just like these crucial mistakes and end-of-game scenarios, which you guys have been so good at for so long, just have not fallen your way this year. Like last year, they all fell your way. This year, they just haven't. And it's been a weird year in the NFL in general,

like, especially the AFC. Like, who is, like, the top of the AFC right now is Denver and the Patriots. I don't know that anybody has shown a ridiculously better, version of football than any of the other teams in the AFC. Like, everybody's had their up games, everybody's had their down games. Who is the complete team? I don't really see one.

And it seems like it's up for grabs. And when it's like that, if you're an AFC team, all you want to do is get into that dance. Because if you get in, you got a chance. And I know it hasn't gone your guys away yet. You're not happy with where you're at. But it all still is in front of you. Like, I mean, this Andy Reid quote is pretty incredible. But Andy Reid was asked earlier this week about you guys, you know, having to win out.

Do you need to win every single game? I forget what the exact question was. And Andy Reid came back with this banger on the confidence this team could win the final five games. He said, we're going to try to tickle your tonsils on every play, every game. That's the attitude that we're coming in with. And then you let the chips fall where they may. And I think that's the attitude you got to come in with. And I just love the tickling of the tonsils, obviously.

that's a nice alliteration there is this a have you heard Andy say tickling tautils before never heard him say that one no that's a new one he's got a bunch of bangers in his pocket though man yeah he's got so many and he's been doing this for so long man he knows which ones really get the people the right one to pull out exactly uh and that's some that's the fun in which you get playing for him i've never heard Andy rip it like that I loved it I'm fired up well the thing is Andy didn't mean it like that Andy was just trying to say shove the ball down the throat, which he will say. And he'll come up a little funny mannerisms, but the double entendre there is...

Talking ass to me to me, coach. Come on. Let's go. This is what I... Now, this is my kind of football, bro. Let's go. This is how the coaches talked in high school, I'd have signed up. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know y'all were doing that out there. There are some very sexual... I know y'all just drinking from the hose. What are we doing? What are other, like, sexual, like, uh...

All of it. metaphors that coaches have used in the past. You take these big ass dick beaters you got and you put them into that the middle of the chest. That's one of my favorite. Dick beaters is a great all-timer. You ever heard that one? Such a long way to just say hands.

Yes. Hey, but sometimes you come up with a little bit, Stout would always call it like a hook. Like you need something that like, you can't just say something. You need to say something that registers something in your head. If you say like, hey, put your hands in his chest, it's like, I don't even, that's already out in my fucking brain. You tell me to put my dick beaters inside of his chest,

I'm remembering you telling me to put my dick beaters in his chest. I'm not going to forget that one. Oh, my hands. How'd you know? I really only have one dick beater. Are you guys using both? They started looking around the room. Time out.

Yeah, definitely. Yeah, beat her. You guys are going lefty? No, no, no. Same time. Same time. Same time. Yeah.

I'm a basketwee've got myself. This is our greatest episode. This is our greatest episode ever. Oh, man. So, yeah, anyways, the Texans are red hot. right now. The defense is unbelievable. D'Amico Ryan, shout out to D'Amico, one of my former teammates. Those dudes are playing on both sides of the ball, but especially on defense. They are very good. You guys are in a situation where every game counts, even more so at this point

because of the record and what it is. Texas four-game Winstreet coming into this one. The last time you played Houston and was in 225 in the divisional round. It's going to be about 20 degrees at kickoff. It's my kind of football, baby. Dude, I love when the cold weather sets in. I kind of football, especially after a weekend of rest. Yeah. Go out there, fly around on the ice, man. Fuck, man. Take me back, baby.

Fly around on the ice. That's what I feel. It feels like we're in the ice rink, man. That's why I love those games more. There's something about being in the cold and sweating that I feel my most athletic self. I don't know why that feels like it's like my like sanctuary. But I was just felt like I didn't get tired too when it was cold. Like I just could run for days.

Yeah. No, well, that's because you weren't running that much. You can still get very tired running in the cold. Fair enough. It hits those lungs a little different too. But it's, yeah, no, I'm with you, though. There's something about the cold that I just, it just gets my excitement, man, for the, for the game. It's the beauty of football, man.

You get to play in all elements, especially in Arrowhead. For sure, man, yeah. Even being up in New England, this past yesterday, Monday night game. Oh, yeah. I just love the cold, man. I like seeing my breath. It just feels like football. Yeah.

The cold and you're like peeking. Blinder's outfit, man. That shit was sweet. It just meshed perfectly. Give a guy musket. That doesn't work, though. Yeah, right. All right, well, let's get out of here.

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The Bears are rocking and rolling, man. Ben Johnson's got those guys fighting and playing good. football and taking a shirt off in the locker room how about it man the guys are going fucking nuts golly man those guys are fighting for that that's how you know would you get a coach that comes in that just he's relatable to all the guys gets the guys to fight for man it's a hard thing to fucking do and there's a special like madness to it that you have to be great at and some guys got it um and right now he does man listen and we've had it in philadelphia nick syriani has had that like oh yeah that's what's frustrating like i think right now

the Eagles are trying to figure this thing out. They're trying to get this offense going. And it's, you know, playing the Bears who really, they're clicking on all cylinders right now. They're playing so well. Their offensive line was rolling. The running backs are running hard. And you can feel that energy and excitement the team has. And the Eagles, I mean, eight and four, right? We've had a great season. And I know that it hasn't lived up to the potential, especially on the offensive side of the ball. The defense has been great for the majority of the season. But you can tell. man they want to get this thing figured out and everybody's frustrated and you know the good thing is

we've put ourselves in a situation where being an eight and four like all we got to do is just keep fucking working man keep grinding it out keep asking ourselves how we can improve it coaches players everybody i still think they got the pieces there i still think they got the offensive weapons the offensive line is starting to get some continuity in playing together they're going to That's tough. Lane Johnson coming back will be huge, even though Fred has done well, especially in past pro. I think the run game is close. I really do. I know it hasn't manifested yet. And it's frustrating watching because you know it can be so much better. I think it's getting closer. I think that with the health that is starting to come, it'll only improve. And that's what

makes the run game so hard, man. And when it's clicking and everybody is on the same page and you got these guys, look out. But right now it's, you know, it's this guy. guy here. It's that guy here. It's, you know, this guy doesn't come off for the linebacker, and that is a difference in a huge run. The safety rolls down and is unhatted, and that kind of ruins this one. They're bringing nickel ledge. That stalls out a couple runs, and then all of a sudden they run into it, and they get a big one. And, you know, it's just been frustrating, especially as a guy who knows how much time those guys put into it up front, how great Sequin Barclay is, how great Jeff Stoughton is. It's been frustrating to watch, to be

honest with you. But I do think it's getting closer. And I think once that thing gets going, if there's a positive to take away, AJ Brown's starting to get the ball and the receipt and the passing game feels like it's getting better. And you're seeing the routes now move around more than they were earlier in the year. Like that was a big complaint. Everybody talked about the route trees and all this stuff that I don't quite frankly look as much into a lot of the times. But it's very apparent that they're making a concerted effort to get players moving in different areas and not being as stagnant in the area in which these guys are running routes, I guess, if that makes sense.

No, it 100% does. And it makes life on being a receiver so much easier. That's the one thing. When you watch the Chiefs play, you see me moving around all the time. I'm moving from one side of the line to the other side of the line. And it's like, what that does for the defense is it changes passing strength. It changes rules on how they're going to pass off routes. It changes rules on how they have to fill gaps.

So get the defense thinking fast, and all of a sudden you're snapping the ball while they're still trying to figure out how they need to adjust. And, you know, if you use that to your advantage, that shit's only going to make things way easier as a route runner and as an offense. That was one thing that really stood out with the bears. I will say, I mean, Ben Johnson and how he utilizes the motions and guys moving around, he's just so good at it.

Yeah, and they got a lot of good tight ends over there, man. And a good run game. And that's where, like, I, the defense obviously gave up a lot of yards on the ground. There were, their office, the Bears office line played well. Like, I don't want to discredit them. But watching the tape back, like, there was a lot of just like, you know, we just need to fit this a little bit better, right? Like, we got to handle this motion.

If we're in the right spot here, if we squeeze down, don't play the boot as much here. Like, it was a lot of that stuff where it felt like this defense is better than the way they played and what the stats looked like at the end of the. the day. So I felt good after watching the tape. He's got to improve in some of those areas. But I was impressed. I mean, like, for instance, like they motioned a like double wing right into the boundary, right? So a tight end receiver into the boundary. They did like a jet motion with the receiver. We rock and roll, right? So Reed's down to the tight end on the motion. The safety's decided to rock and roll, meaning Reed goes back to the middle of field and the other safety

goes down to the three-by side now. And the corner's got to come in now of a sudden. Now he's fitting the C gap. And they got a big hit on that one. It was just a lot of stuff like that where it was like, they do a great job of manipulating the gaps, manipulating the tight end movement, doing the boots and like really trying to mess around with guys' rules and responsibilities in the run game, especially. All in all, again, similar to the AFC, you think about every team has shown weakness at this point, right?

Every team has had their games, ups and downs. and I just think at the end of the day the Eagles have great coaches and they have great players and eventually they're going to be peaking at the right time. I got faith in that. And you look at the top eight teams last year. Lions, commanders, Eagles, and Rams.

Like, Chiefs, Texans, Bills, and Raves. Think about all of these teams that we thought were going to be the best teams coming into it. And, like, all of them have shown signs of being really good and then other weeks have had big letdowns. The two best teams in the league right now

consistently have been the Broncos, goes and the Patriots, right? Yeah. The Rams, who I thought were the most consistent team in football, all of a sudden, they lose to, they drop one to Charlotte. So, or Carolina? Yeah. I mean, the same team.

Carolina is another sneaky one, man. They can put together a game. It just feels like more than ever, the NFL is wide open. Listen, we're eight and four. We got time to figure this thing out. It's just going to take some like concerted effort from everybody. and I know these guys are going to be hard at work to get this done. I can't wait to see Seguan-Barkley running again, man.

That's all I want. I know everybody wants to see the passing game, something like. I want to see Sequin Barclay running through the fucking line, untouched, all the way to the end zone. That's what I want to see. Using those Sequods to just fucking... Come on. If they get that going with the way they're playing defense, they will be a very tough team to beat by anybody.

That's all I know. I hear you, man. While we're on that topic, do you want to just jump ahead to that, like, NFC standings that I put in there? later if you look at the top seven teams the NFC and just look at the fact that the one seat has nine wins the seventh seat has nine wins i think if chicago loses next week to the packers they drop from one to seven like that's how fucking insane this season is it really is that at it was just a little later scrolling down can we just use what you just said you can i don't like to

talk too much on here i think it's fun when you jump in i think it's good when you just a little you like the stash i do you like a stash you into it very bert it's very bertie It's either Burt Reynolds or Mario. Super Mario. Yeah. Okay, I'll take Bert Reynolds, I think, of the two. What is this Snapchat DM? You want to read those?

Eagles fans have it. It's actually kind of funny. That's what I was getting to. Eagles fans are breaking up over the Eagles. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, read that. Go ahead.

All right. So apparently Eagles fans are breaking up over the Eagles. Yeah. Had a little Snapchat DM here from a couple individuals. Derek says, okay, so I know this is going to sound. absolutely crazy, but I was noticing, since we started talking daily and went on our date, the Eagles have been shitting to bed. I don't want to hate you to hate me or block me, but I think maybe we just need to not

talk until the season is over. I love the superstitiousness here. Until the season is over? I like you a lot, so don't take this as a dismal, as a dismissal, just need to turn our luck around for the birds. And I think you'd understand that too. And then, of course, she replied. Yeah, I mean, sure.

Or he replied. Lowell, I mean, sure, for the birds. Way to go, Eagles fans. That's how you freaking date responsibly. Did Kylie watch all the Eagles game this time? We were at the Eagles game and we were watching. Yes. She's going to have to start turning her back.

Kai. You're right. You're right. I'm going to be on with this one. You got to buy in, Kai. You got to buy in. We need everything we can. Everybody needs everything they can.

The table's wide open. Yeah. Well, I'll say we get out of these two games and get to the rest of the league. Let's do it. We got a big week for shit talking. That's right. A lot of shit talking going. around the league. That is the nature of the NFL, some of the best parts of the NFL, if you

ask me. Titans Jags, though, had some, it got a little personal over there, man. Jeffrey Simmons claims that Jaguar's rookie running back, LeQuint Allen, Jr., told him to suck his dick in the middle of the game. Oh, no. Yeah, Jeffrey. Seems pretty standard trash talk to me. Like, I feel like I've heard that a bunch. Just saying it. Like, I don't know. No, for sure. dick motherfucker? I feel like I hear that every game. I don't think that's what are we all of a sudden upset about? Yeah. Jeffrey Simmons is a guy that gets very upset in games. He's an angry football player, which I like angry football players. Yeah. I'm pretty sure at one point I was at the

bottom of a pile and he was grinding his knee into my ankle. Yeah. I looked over. I was like, what the fuck? He was like, what? I was like, suck my dick. I'm kidding. I don't talk like that on the football field. I'm a fine gentleman. I'm a very nice man. Yeah. Tennessee player also claims that Jacksonville punner, Logan Cook,

threatened to kill him. Which might be... Tennessee players snitching. What are we doing guys? Also, Jags players, man, you guys are fucking doing it right. You guys are in the head. You're in the head of the opponent across the...

Keep doing it, Jacksonville. Take it up a notch. Take it up a notch. Tell him out you'd kill him. If it gets a... him out of his game because you're not being serious you're not going to actually kill him that's the thing sometimes the punters they look creepy enough and like scrawny and like weird enough to where it's like damn he probably would fucking do some weird ass shit no way i've never thought

that about a punter no logan a punter saying they're going to kill him like i would do nothing to me i don't fucking break your neck right now you realize i can kill you with my bare hands i don't even need a weapon. Maccaphy's going to fucking beat your ass. I would not want to fight McAfee. Maccifie's a squirrely sum of a bitch. You're right. Maccabee would be one guy.

Who else wouldn't I want to fight? Sebastian Janikovsky. I was going to say. You don't want to find him because you just want to have a few beers with him. Yeah. He's going to headbutt me or something. He's going to come out of a left field with something I'm not ready for. He's going to Stephen Seagall fucking.

Imagine. if that hit your neck, what that would do to you? Listen, I think that there's a very clear, as long as nothing being said is either racist in nature or attacking somebody's family that's not playing the game, I feel like it's all fair game. Yeah. If somebody says I'm going to fucking kill you, like, I'll fuck kill you. Like, I don't know what it's like, I don't know what the- Not if I kill you first. I've never heard somebody say, I'll fucking kill you and be like, this guy just threatened my life.

I'm going to report him to HR. I don't know what's-ha. Like, what are we talking about right now? Yeah. Did you just hear him? He's threatening my life. He told me to put his dick in my mouth. He told me to put his dick in my mouth.

He said, get this. He told me to S his D. I think that should be a 15-year penalty, sir. To S his D. I just, I don't know. Maybe maybe the, in my two years. years removed from the NFL talking shit to people is all of a sudden off limits but I feel like both of those things happened a litany of times and most of the time no one is literally saying

to suck their dick like I don't know what's happening I will tickle your tonsles suck my d yeah you'd like to tickle my tonsils wouldn't you maybe the biggest non the NFL football news, taking it to the college ranks. Old Miss Lane Kiffin finally took the head coaching job at LSU after weeks and literally just like one or like a couple days of speculation leaves Old Miss as the team preps to potentially host a college football playoff game, which is, this is tough, man. It's tough on Old Miss. It's tough on the players because Lincoln.

Kiffin's going to want to take everyone from his staff that has made him, you know, the head coach that he is today that has helped ingrain in the kids at Ole Miss that, you know, this is the style of football that we need to be playing. And I get it if you're Lane Kiffin. I mean, there needs to be some sort of rule by the NCAA that you can't start looking for new job opportunities until after the season because, oh, miss is going to go into the college football with someone's dad as, a fucking like helper you know what I mean like you don't just have extra coaches on the practice

squad you're what I mean like you have GAs and you have guys that aren't going to get invited with Lane to old miss and you're just going to have to gather up people from around the university or however you need to do it we were at the fucking sugar bowl with like guys dad's helping with personnel on the sidelines I don't remember that really what who else did we had we had fucking like g a's like helping no we had everybody other than b k we had everybody other than b k stayed for the game right there might have been one other person than what would b k oh you know what i'm thinking of when buch left yeah when coach jones when yeah when coach jones left we had literally guys well that wasn't the sugar bowl that was the old belt bowl and we found a way

to find her out there but we had like fucking g as being you know you know the main, the lead coaches and whatnot. It's just, it's, it's a cluster fuck. And it's definitely putting the team and the players at a disadvantage when you don't have, you know, your head coach or like your offense of coordinator, defensive coordinator, things like that. Yeah. I mean, it sucks.

We've been through it, obviously, with Brian Kelly, Ambich Jones. Well, you went through with Bush. I went through with Brian with Ann Mark Dantonio where we played bowl games with interim coaches because those guys took other jobs. And I mean, listen, it's the way it's been forever. I mean, it's very, part of me is mad that it takes old miss happening to for all of a sudden everybody to realize how fucked it up. And he's like, nobody gave a fucking, like, oh, yeah, of course Brian Kelly went to Notre Dame. He left Cincinnati.

Like, of course that happened. All of a sudden, like, Lake Given does it to Ole Miss. And they're like, oh, this is an outrage. How could he do this to his place? Like, this fucking happened to me twice and nobody gave a fuck about it. And I couldn't transfer. At least these guys can fucking leave. I was just stuck there, twirling my thunds.

I hope they hire a good fucking guy. That's so crazy, dude. So take your sob story and shove it up your asshole, Ms. I got no fucking pity for you guys. But I just, this is the way it works. I do think that there should be rules in NCAA that prevent coaches from leaving before the bowl games have been played out or before the playoffs have happened. But it's not going to happen because the national signing day is so close. All of these schools are in the heat of recruiting right now.

Like, that's the reality of it. Like, that's why LSU wants Lange-Giff and there, right? that's why all these guys need him to go before the bowl game is because they need to have good players on the team and they want to be able to sell the program and I mean it just sucks you wish there was a way that he could accept the job but also still coach the game you know I think it sucks for old miss I'm kind of I'm lying I do feel bad for old miss because I went through it myself with Kyle in Notre Dame and it's not fun you know you and you work so hard as a team and as a group of men and kids uh to get to that point and

And, you know, it's a deflating moment for what should be a joyous time for everyone in that building. Yeah. And at the university right now. And, you know, we were undefeated, our best year that we've ever had at Cincinnati to that date. We were a, I think it was two seconds or three seconds away from going to the national championship. Yeah, if Nebraska would have found out a way to beat Texas. And Dominic, Sue, if you would have got to the quarterback one more time, we might have been. It came down to a rollout.

We call it a heave-ho in our building, but it's a play where you try and roll out and you try and exhaust the last seconds of the game by throwing it as high and as far out of bounds as possible. Yeah. And Texas did that at the end of a game, but they were one second away from giving the ball back. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, it was we, I think we ended up the four seats. I don't know that we would have made it anyway. But either way, we were the fourth-ranked team in the country. and we got our dicks absolutely shoved in by the Florida Gators and Tim Tebow's last game. I was so upset that they didn't keep that in the Florida documentary. I didn't see that. They didn't see the Florida doc. I didn't watch it, no.

It's about Urban Meyer and those couple of years, those handful of years that he was there at the Florida Gators. And when Tebow came in and. And some dogs. Just how amazing that those teams were and how they fought in the ups and downs that went through and it was cool but then they ended it with the regular season ending at the SEC and it's like that's not how their season ended their season ended by tim tilo thrown for seven touchdowns of 500 yards against the cincinnati bearcats in the sugar bowl we got absolutely fucking killed we were so and to be honest like it's sucked not having

brian kelly but i can tell you very confidently it would not have mattered if bryan kelly was We were so much less talented than that football team. I ran a little wildcat in there, got my two plays in there. We did. I didn't get into it. I made Carlos Dunlop's highlight reel on draft day because I gave him a sack. Yeah. What the fuck were you doing blocking Dunlop?

Every time he would line up as a three technique when I was studying tape that week, he kept running a U-Stunt or a T-E. Yeah. He would pick the tackle and the end would loop around. So I'm getting ready to punch the shit out of him to try and put him out on Jeff Lincolnbach. Yeah. And right when I go to punch, he hit me on an inside spin move so fast. I was like, oh, they aren't doing this in the Big East.

So, yeah, that wasn't good. Tony, Tony got crushed on that play. Sorry, Tony Pike. Shout out the Lowe's. Yeah, anyways. Yeah, it sucks. It's the way it has been for a long time in football. it is kind of funny to me that like now they're like a bigger program it's happening to them

I'm supposed to care more than what it happened to me and you two and three times and happens a little small universities all the fucking time yeah um old miss fans had his clothes in the parking lot by the day it was hilarious dude the fucking fans outside the private jet dude oh man it was good well sorry that you're going through it old miss I know what you're going through it sucks can't wait to see old miss versus LSU next year though baby here we go here we go there's still got some playoff games going yeah but at the same time it's like that's all you want to see I want to see yeah I want to see Lane Kiffin I have to go back to Lashier what if they play better

what if they play better who's he is there an interim coach is he for sure going with lane Kiffin I think they I think their season just ended well now they're going to the playoffs aren't they isn't that why this is a big deal yeah they are you're right we have no idea maybe Pete Golden goods really well and they offer him a bunch of money Their special teams, long snapper's father is actually going to be doing details of signals for them in the playoffs. It would be great. I mean, I think SEC has a little more resources than we had in Cincinnati to handle. Just go get.

Bring Eli back. Eli, go take charge for a college football playoff. That's great. Just get somebody in there that fucking represents a program. All right, let's wrap up football with some of these Stamps of the Week. Stamp of the Week brought to you by Audible. It's an amazing app. It's an amazing platform to learn, be entertained, you name it.

A lot of good stuff on Audible. All right. Nominese for Stamp of the Week. We got Giants Holder Jamie Gillen for making the best out of whatever that was. I mean, he actually, he's the reason that happened. Is this the field goal kick? This is the kicker where he kicked the turf. the snapper was actually the ball slips when he puts it down and he has to readjust it

and I think it's spooked the kicker I do think he also just fucked up though even if you see that why do you do that I think that lead steps just a little too far out in front of that that football he's got to he's got it because when you get too far out in the football now you got to be steep at the ball yeah and I think you got to yeah you got to kick you and then you got to bring that left that left hip out of there he kept it a little too far closed in and now you're really getting down there you're not allowing yourself to get through the ball you want to keep that that lead step right even or a little bit behind us you can get through the ball it's through the ball either way i'm not giving jami a stamp of the week because it wasn't a

great hold uh puka nukua for this insane catch let's check this one out this was insane indeed Oh, a little OBJ action. Puka. Reverse backhanded catch. Very impressive. Man, if we're going to go catch, I'm going tight end Brock Bowers. It's a good one.

It's a good one. He gets by stamp of the week at least twice a year because of how fucking good he is. But this is an insane catch. Oh, wow. That's impressive. Off the fucking turf. That boy just loves ball, man. What a goon, man.

Oh, draped all over them. Snow cones it. Yeah, baby. Snow cones it. I liked it. Just, Brandon, stop putting Archie Manning in this fucking stamp of the week thing.

No. No, I won't. Good for you, Arch. Good for you, Arch. I'm watching you, baby. Hock in. What?

Pantsless Jets fan. Let me see this one. Uh-oh, we got security presence now. I wonder. why that's great i got i would love to give that stamp but i think you got to draw the line no shirt's funny no pants that can go south that can go south real quick um all right i'm going to go with uh the ernest jones pick six i know it's not original it was a great pick uh it was a fucking wild play

sorry to Max Brosner rough first outing I mean he's playing a really good defense it's going to be hard to have a good game against those guys this fucking

this is insane this is insane I just can't do it no can't do it can't do it don't do it don't do it but it wasn't electric play it's an electric play Ernest Jones really didn't have to do much but it's electric play

other than be ready you just got to be ready Sometimes that's half the battle, man. You've got to be ready. Be prepared. Oh, fuck. All right, that does it for a stamp of the week. Brought to you by Audible. And now, Jason Kelsey with a word from our partner, Draft Kings.

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And now it's probably what you've waited this entire episode for. That's right. We're going to talk. And we, I'm sorry. How the fuck did this happen? I don't know how we even got to this point in life, Jason. Yeah. I don't even know how to talk to people of this stature.

Well, because they talk to you. And they're just so much smarter and better as human beings. Why is he so good at just like being a cool person? He does it so effortlessly. I know. You said it best. You said it was like if that's what a movie star is. Jesus.

If that's what a superstar is, I'm fucked. Yeah. Because I don't have that. No. Just sitting there, you know he's a superstar. He doesn't even just say anything. And he starts talking. And he's like, way better.

conversing. I was like, this is what I do for a living. You're already, like, can you not be great at everything, George? Jesus Christ. You guys are going to see George Clooney take over this podcast. So, are we on? You're going? All right. I want to start

off. Oh, God. I'm going to start off. I'm going to start off. Not you guys. I'm going to start off. Jason, I dig you, man. Oh, wow. Thank you, George. You're NFC. You're a Hall of Famer. You know, I can, I can I can show some love for you.

Thank you. Thank you, George. Travis, you broke me, man. I'm a Bengals fan, dude. I grew up in Cincinnati. You've broken me so many times and your pretty face on GQ and I have to, you know how many times I've thrown like a hoagie at my TV at your face? You've broken me. You got, you guys had your run.

You guys broke me. You guys broke me. I'll tell you what, the Bengals broke me coming out. They took a tight end ahead of me in the draft, and I felt heartbroken. I was a Cincinnati bear cat. I was sitting in the backyard. That's right. You were a bear cat, man.

Yeah. You were literally in the backyard. I was, I was. On a straight street off the back of Cincinnati. I used to live on straight street. How about it? Really? Yeah, yeah.

We had this thing around now, but why you brought it up? We have conflicting reports. We always, at least if you go to the University of Cincinnati, you're told as a student, that George Clooney went to UC. Is that true? Yeah, for a minute. Yeah. That counts, right?

It counts. It counts. I lived on straight street on the hill, you know, where if it's snowed and you parked, the cars would all end up at the bottom of the hill. That's exactly what you were talking about. Hell yeah. If you lived at the bottom of that hill. If you lived at the bottom of that hill when it snowed,

you ain't making it the fucking practice. You're calling it up. You went down to the king quick at the bottom and you just got Doritos and a beer. and you just sat there until it's all you can do, man. Over the Rhine, baby. That's some good shit. Over the Rhine. You remember that area?

That was, like, tricky, remember? Oh, yeah. Now it's clean. No, now it's a lot better. It's a lot better than clean that place out. There's still pockets. Pockets. That's a great way to put it.

I was back in Cincinnati a couple weeks ago, and it was funny. I went back, and the owner of the Cincinnati Reds came out. I was speaking of them from a couple thousand people. Owner of Cincinnati Reds came out. And, you know, I had a couple of tryouts for the Reds when I was younger, and he came up and read like my scouting report, and it was the most humiliating thing. That's too good.

He's got no arm. He's got no speed. Tell you what, though. He puts a jersey on, man. The guy looks like a ball player. I look like I had a hat. Dude, I look good. I look at.

I believe it. I believe it. I got to see those. That's too good. Was it just like high school tryouts or like a... Yeah, it was, you know, they had a thing where they were taking people out of high school for, you know, anybody who was playing well in high school and they took you out and brought you in and let you try out for... Like a little combine or showcase, yeah. Yeah, it was fun.

But boy, it was pretty humiliating in front of all those people. That's too funny that he had it in there. You still had the detailed report, man. That's too funny. Well, nice. Now we can get it out there. Were you in the DAP program at Cincinnati for a little bit? No.

None of that. Well, once a bear cat, always a bear cat of my book. Dude. I also, you know, I was a UK kid, too. I loved UK. So, you know, I would side with the UK for basketball because, you know, you kind of wanted to have a winner. And I'd been a Bengals fan for a long time. And, you know, we'd lost an awful lot of games.

A lot of losing. There was a lot of losing. For a while, I think the losing is franchise in football. And then we kind of got a little better, you know. Back of the day, it was Kenny Anderson was the quarterback. How about it? How about it, man. I'm going to get this intro going and we'll get this thing officially started.

I know. Great, man. All right, here we go. Our guest today is a Hollywood legend from Lexington, Kentucky. A four-time Golden Globe winner, a four-time screen. Guild Award winner, a Tony Award winner, and a two-time Academy Award winner. You know him from his roles in ER, Siriana, Out of Sight, Oh, Brother Arethel, Perfect Storm from Dustville Dawn, Michael Clayton,

Byrd after reading, and Ocean's 11, 12th, and 13, and there's probably more common. He's the star of the upcoming film, Jay Kelly, and unlike myself, he actually won Sexiest Man Alive twice. Twice. Ninety Drew Cedars, please welcome. Mr. George Clooney. No fucking one. Oh, my gosh.

Oh, man, guys. That is a head of a laundry list. I never won a Tony, but, you know, I'm glad you said it anyway. We can get it out there than people will think I want, and that's even more fun. You did now. Gosh, dang it. Just say it. I appreciate the honesty.

We gave you. Did we miss anything? Did we miss any? Yeah. Do we give you one? Many. We missed a bunch, I'm sure. Yeah.

It's okay. I'm fine. I'll be okay well guys how's it going man we're doing great thank you so much for taking the time to hop on George this is incredible honor for us it is still can't believe that we're getting

guests of your stature on this thing this is I'm a stature now see I get gray and I have stature well I mean no you get you get distinguished you walk himself into that one

dang it distinguished I know it's coming from a guy that's that's turning gray as well and I'll tell you what? He embraces the grayness. He can't wait until he goes full white. Damn right. Damn right. Dude, dude, it's coming. It happens fast. Okay, perfect. I'm looking forward to it. I'm full Santa Claus here in a couple of years, man. It's going to be epic. Your wife will be so happy. Yes, she'll be thrilled. All right. Let's talk about Jay Kelly. How about that?

All right. Bring it on. Initial thoughts. First of all, incredible film. Loved every second of it. And I know you've already, I'm sure you've been asked this by anybody, anybody. else talking to you about this film. Did this film feel extra personal to you being about a blockbuster actor and everything happening behind the scenes? There had to be some type of personal connection to you in this film. Well, I mean, look, you know, we're the same height and the same hair. So good. The guy's kind of, you know, he's kind of a mess. And I hope at my age that I'm not quite in that much of a crisis mode but you know listen i look this is a guy who's kids hate him and you know dad doesn't like him i got so yeah i got eight-year-olds and they still dig me you know

perfect that's going to change as you know teenage years are coming how old are your kids dude they're all they're all young i got six four two and a brand new one so we're in the I know. It's coming, man. And I'm telling you, dude, it's like, even at eight, I've got, like, my daughter rolling her eyes now, which is a new thing. Oh, gosh. Okay. Like, I'd say, like, hey, you know, your dad's a big star.

And she just rolls her eye. Yeah. Sure, dad. Not great. How do you handle that? Let me ask you that. Are you a, like, do you, are you a strict or do you get on? Like, what's your parenting style?

I'm probably, I'm a little strict. I'm not like, you know. I'm not a nutbag about it. My kids are pretty good. My kids are really well behaved. But, you know, I have to say it's a pretty funny adventure raising kids, you know, because they're, you know, you don't realize, you know, how much they're listening to you. Like, I was in the car driving to school the other day.

And, you know, I like, some guy, you know, cut me off. And I was like, fuck an asshole. And I'm driving. And like about five minutes later in the backseat, I hear, fucking asshole. from my eight-year-old. Same tone, same delivery. Oh, my gosh. And you know they're going to say that

and my wife's going to hear it. Yeah. And then I'm dead. Yes, exactly. There's no way I can drive. So you're learning as you go. That's amazing. All right.

Well, to summarize the movie for everybody that needs to go watch this thing, George Goulde plays a famous actor Jay Kelly alongside side. This is an awesome moment. His manager, Adam Sandler, the Sandman. And you guys go to Europe to kind of, as a sabbatical almost, to kind of re-find out, you know, what are we doing here?

And a little midlife crisis kind of moment. I thought it was fantastic. It's so much fun. Do you guys know Adam and all? Have you ever met him? Well, Trav. Yeah, Trave was in Happy Gilmore, too. I had the pleasure of being on set with the big guy.

Yeah, that's right. You were in the movie. By the way, he didn't ask me. He didn't ask you. He didn't ask you. in the movie. That's a missed opportunity, Adam. That's a missed opportunity. I told him, man. I work cheap.

Not, you know, not like Travis. I'm doing this thing for free. Just let me be on set, man. He's such a good egg. You know, he's such a fun cat and fun to, you know, work with it. He and I've been playing basketball together for about 30 years. And, you know, just a chance to get a chance to work with him. What a blast. What a fun thing to be able to do, you know.

Just the best, man. that was such a good dude man I was I'm still forever thankful that he he even sent the ass to allow me to be the waiter but honestly looking back on it if he would have asked you and you would have been that waiter god damn that I think the movie might have

10 times better man fuck dude I I play a great waiter you have no idea I'm such a good moment seeing you go ready roll seeing you a chest bump Xander Shafley so wait now is this going to be

is this going to be the thing now, you know, when you retire, I know you're not going to retire. When you retire, is this going to, are you going to go into some show business? Are you going to act more? Listen, as long as I'm getting asked by guys like Adam Sandler, you know, my heroes growing up, man, I'm going to be there in a heartbeat, man.

I don't know how much skill I have, but I'll be the best teammate on set and have some fun with you if you hire me. That's a damn sure. That's exciting, man. That's going to be fun. By the way, Travis, you were in a, Lake Como, weren't you? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Me and Taye danced around Lake Como for a little while, man. I loved it out there. That's my, you know, I got a place there out there. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They love to point it out whenever you're doing the, whenever you're on the lake. I'm part of the tour. Yeah, it's a funny thing. And now you look into your left, you see a Georgia Clooney house. I'll tell you what. It sits perfectly on that water, man. It's a beautiful place and a beautiful area. Everybody out there is so lovely, man. I was every morning.

And I was throwing my shoes on running up and down the water. And we had gloomy days. We had beautiful days. And it was just every single day, it was just a new epic, like, realization, what's really around the world. And I had never even imagined that place, you know, in my dreams. Had you spent time in Italy at all? No, that was my first time.

Because, you know, what you'll see is there's a version of life that they lived is pretty interesting. You know, they really celebrate dinner. You know, it's two hours. And you're eating with you're eating with a 10-year-old. and you're eating with your grandparents and it's a you know they they do it right there there's so many little spots that are just so fun to go to dinner too man it's like it's like you're you're going to a place that has like 10 seats in a in a corner of a cove and it's just

the best posse you could ever imagine and just the best it's such a cool place I remember I recommend that place for everybody love it love it yeah it's good well one of the things in the movie here George is that there's the entourage of Jay's character is immense, right? Not just Adam, like everybody that is, like, that is at the beck and call of this movie star. Hair stylists. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, like Travis does. That's right. It's very similar. Make up there. How accurate is this portrayal? Is this an accurate Hollywood trope? Well, I know some actors who have pretty big, you know, pretty big crowd around them. It doesn't seem like

it be all that fun, but I do know a few that have it. It does it seem like a lot of worked. I mean, yeah. I hear you. But I, you know, most of the gang that I know are pretty, actually live a pretty normal life, believe or not. I mean, it's, it's sort of surprising. But, you know, most of the guys, like all the gang from oceans that I, you know, Brad and Matt and Julia, they actually have fairly normal lives considering sort of who they are. Yeah. Not me. I have like 40 people. There's someone sitting directly behind me.

Holding my face back at all times. Oh, man, that was a banger. George, did you have to do some sort of like long distance training? You're running in like the entire second half of the movie. You're just sprinting across fields. Okay, so here's the thing. First of all, we were trying to run like a big goofball. But, you know, I'm 64 years old.

And we do like, it's like a couple hundred yards sprinting. Oh, yeah. And I do it like 30, like 30 takes, you know. Oh, my. At one point, I got the director, I go, you know, I'm six and four, I do. And he goes, well, I'd just like to see you run faster. No way. No way.

And here's something I learned from Jason. Rather than running faster, I just pumped my arms fast. That's right. That's right. There you go. That's something Jason's talking. We're smarter, not hard. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, gosh. So wait, where are you guys? You're in KC, right? Yep. And Jason, where are you? I'm in Philly, man. I live here.

We settled here. My wife is from five minutes away from where we live. So we got a lot of support with the kids and everything. So there wasn't another option. I don't know if we'd be able to do what we do. Do you guys battle it out over who's got the coolest podcast? Do you get into that? Do you fight?

For sure. It's everything. You already know. You got to. You got to go after every bit of, like, bragging rights at the dinner table during Thanksgiving, man. It's never stops. Let me ask you this. As a Cincinnati fan, Burroughs coming back.

Like, does that inspire you or is it just like this defense is so bad? It doesn't matter who's playing quarterback. Well, I worry. I mean, you know, it's not like Flacko wasn't putting up good numbers. So what do you do? Listen, it's been, it's an interesting time. Yeah. No, it's an interesting thing to be a Cincinnati fan in general.

You know, I grew up, when I was growing up in Cincinnati, we were in Kentucky, but across the river, I was, you know, so in 1975, I was 14 years old and we had the big red machine, you know, And it was like, I didn't think, I thought we were always going to be the, you know, Cincinnati is going to be the epicenter of great sports, you know, I didn't realize that that was sort of going to be our, our swan song, you know, in general. Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, those are that freaking Joe Morgan, Kent Griffey. Oh, yeah. I mean, think about the Jeff. I mean, we had a team, man. Absolutely.

Have you met Joey Burrow, the smooth guy at Ohio Native? No. Haven't ran into him yet? No. And I, you know, and I'm a big fan. I know that you guys like to harm him. I know that. Listen, he's harmed us.

He won, I think, the first three games ever playing. I remember it. I remember it. Renamed the stadium. Burrow. Between Burrow and our, you know, we have some amazing receivers and Chase and those guys where, you know, we really do have a, you know, it's fun to watch again. That part's fun.

It's just heartbreaking to, you know, try to stop a run. Yeah. It's just like, are you guys going to win it all this year? That's the, that's the plan, big guy. We got some things to clean up, that's for sure. So I won't just go ahead and say that we're going to. But when you've won Super Bowls, is it every team that comes in is gunning for you guys? Then is that how it feels?

For sure. That's the pride. That's the honor that you get, though, when you win it. You know what I mean? Like, I'm a competitor where I want everybody's fucking best. I get excited about those games when the moments are huge and, you know what I mean? It's a close game and you need to be your greatest. Like, I fucking love those moments.

Those are my favorite games. to be a part of it. It's exciting. And it definitely when you play in good quarterbacks like Burrow and Josh Allen and those guys, like it's every game. Oh man. You know what I mean? Like you know you got to play in your top or else you're going to get smoked. I got a question. George, do

you guys ever, do actors get competitive like athletes? Oh, it's funny. Like everybody's gunning for the Chiefs and the Eagles for the Super Bowl. Like do you get competitive with some of these other guys like my film's going to outdo yours or how does that work? No, I don't think so because we're kind of, you know, there's not

you know, I don't have to beat out somebody or they don't have to beat me out. So I, you know, to sort of succeed, you know, in a weird way. But so there isn't really that kind of competition. You know, I mean, I do enjoy like, you know, I'll give those guys shit. I love giving Matt Damon shit. You know, that's good. You know, he deserves it, by the way. Absolutely.

By the way, he's a Patriots fan and the Patriots are playing well. I can't live with it right now. It's bad. How did this happen? Brable. They let up Ohio guy get at the realm, man. I'm just saying Ohio Bowl player, man. Crazy how much you can make a difference.

Yeah, it's huge, though. And Pitt's a Kansas City fan, so you guys got Pitt. Oh, yeah. So, you know, the whole oceans, the whole oceans team is breaking me, man. It's just too much. You know, we're going to do another oceans. What? You guys are doing another one?

Yeah, we're going to do another one. Oh, but, you know, now we're old. So it's going to be like, Mostly just trying not to crap yourself. Dude, I can't fucking, I can't fucking wait, though. It's like every sneeze is a gamble now, you know. Is this already, like, are you guys getting ready to film it? How does this work?

No, we're scouting locations. Everything's been agreed to? Yeah, the only, the main thing is just finding the time for the, in the schedule to figure out when we can all do it. But yeah, we've got a really good script. And it's going to be fun, fun to work, get those guys back in the room. It would be fun. Oh, hell yeah. Well, it's been pretty damn good so far.

Yeah, yeah. Do you think you'll ever get back on screen with the Cohen brothers? I got to say, Oh, Brother, We're Out Thou, Hail Caesar. Burn after reading. Come on now. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that was a pretty funny thing. You know, I remember when I was doing, Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?

You know, they came to me. My aunt was this famous singer named Rosemary Clooney, great singer. And back in the 50s, and they kind of assumed because I had an aunt who could sing. I think they assumed I could sing. Okay. All right. Quite the assumption. I assumed I could sing too, by the way.

And then I got down, they took me down to Nashville, and they had me singing Man of Constanaro in the, literally in the recording studio. Such a great tune. Yeah. And I sing it like all out, you know, and I finish and I look up and no one will look me in the eye. You know, they're all looking down like, ooh. Oh, we're going to have to. And they come, like, let's play it back for you, George.

They're hoping. And it just sounded like a cat caught. in the wheel well of a car. It was so bad. So humiliating. So then they brought another guy and they dubbed me. But, you know, those guys, I mean, some of their movies are just some of the best films.

I mean, raising Arizona, you know, from early on, they were just good filmmakers. I don't know. They kind of, they're not, they haven't been working together as much right now. But if they get something back together, I'll do it. You know, if they call, I'll go. I've never, I think I've done five films with them. They're fun to work with. Yeah, absolutely.

We got one last segment here for you, George, man. We know you're on a tight schedule, brother. Hey, baby. I'm ready. Come on. We appreciate the time, but this is our last segment. We got to ask, but you don't have to answer. You can tell us to kick rocks, or you can have some fun with us in the question.

Ask them away, man. Whatever you got. You claim that you and your wife haven't gotten in a fight in 10 years. That's right. Are you lying? No, I'm not lying. Travis. Joey asked you the same questions.

Well, it's only been two and a lot. a half years and you're right. I haven't gotten an argument. It's too. All right. Never once. Honestly, you know, neither of us are going to win the arguments or why get in it? There we go. There you go. That's a smart man right there. What's the secret? Just not just staying out of the argument altogether. Dude, I'm 64 years old. And what am I going to argue about at this point? You know, I'm like, you know, I've met this incredible woman that, you know, is, you know, she's beautiful and smart and she stands for all the most important things that I believe in in the world and I can't believe how lucky I am.

So what am I going to fight about? It's a great answer. God damn, that's a good one. Too late to do it. Yeah, you can use that if you want. I'm stealing it for sure. I'm just taking notes this whole time, big guy. You don't even know.

Exactly. Come on. Bring me another one. What else you got? Come on, Trev. As Batman, where do you rank Jason as? as fat Batman. Do we have the picture for him?

Let's see that. Oh, nice. I think they remember that picture coming out. Oh, gosh. You know, I think you could be one of the, one of the bad guys in the film. By the way, you and I, both of you and I know that I was the best Batman. You know that, right?

Absolutely. I mean, there's no argument. Absolutely best. I mean, Ben Affleck, come on. I mean. I put, this is where that competitiveness comes in. There it is, yeah.

That's where that competitiveness comes in. Yeah. You know, I'm the only one who had rubber nipples. You have rubber nipples. Rubber nipples. That's commitment right there. That is commitment.

You didn't come through enough on the suit. Yeah. Yeah. When it got colder, it was like two Dunlap tires going out. Is it true that you once? stole Bill Clinton's stationery and wrote a fake note to actors saying how much president love.

All right. Go ahead. Jimmy Kimmel gave me a stack of stationary with a presidential seal and Bill Clinton's name on it. All right. And I would send notes to all these actors from Bill Clinton. I'd sign it like, and I'd find a movie that wasn't a great film on theirs. And I'd like, you know, I'd love you in this film.

And I'd write these notes. And I'd send them, I'd send them to like 30 different actors. I guarantee you some of them. are framed on some of their own. Oh, my gosh. They don't even know. They still don't know. That is amazing.

Now they know. Now they know. Oh, my gosh. Holy crap. Anyway, I did that. I do that a lot. Like, I have, I had Brad Pitt stationary. Yeah.

And I sent, you know, I told a couple of people's before, but I, I, I, I, Brad Pitt stationary that Kimmel gave me again. And I sent, somebody had sent me this, this, this. book of dialects, like CDs where you could do an Irish accent or you could do a French accent. It was a guy who teaches it. And I had this big book. I don't know why I had. Somebody sent it to me.

And so I take a note with Brad Pitt and I send it to Merrill Street. And I go, Dear Merrill from Brad. Yeah. I go, this guy helped me in my accent in the movie Troy. And I thought maybe you could use it. And I send

her this book of accents. Some Brad Pitt. It's so awful. Like four years later, I see her, and I tell the story, yeah, he knows it now. Four years later, I see Merrill, and I tell her the story, and she's like, oh, my God, I was wondering why the fuck he's saving me. So awful. That is epic.

is epic we've done a lot of terrible things to each other he's done terrible things to me man so it all evens out that's so good man speaking of brad he told us the story when he was uh on new heights not too long ago about how he um he ate so many beans during a scene right before a scene that he um or during the scene i'm sorry he ended up yeah clearing the set he cleared the set yeah he cleared the set for what's your like worst moment on set uh i think right now just exact moment right here I don't think I can sink to a new or low. I can think, you know, I'll tell you, some of my worst moments I said, I remember when we, so like, you know, when you're younger actor, you get a movie and you think it's going to be great. And I remember being on the set of Batman and Robin, which is famously one of the worst films of all time.

and I'm terrible in it. And I remember there was like the director with, you know, I'm laying in a, you're in a rubber cowl and you can't move because it weighs like 75 pounds. And you're like tucked down into, you're on a board laying down like this. And you're waiting for action. And the director,

Will Schumacher's like going, okay, here we go. And your parents are dead. You have nothing to live for. And action. And then they brought me up. I go, I'm bad man. and they go cut and they drop you back down and i remember thinking you know i was so excited to get

the part and then i realized i was the worst thing in the movie so it was uh it was a pretty humiliating oh my goodness it was humiliated greatest bad man of all time can't tell me any different dude i'm telling you that's batman ever yeah come on i'm with you michael keaton got nothing Come on. Well, you, talking about speaking out for that moment, do you have a welcome to Hollywood moment? We ask a lot of our guests, it could be good or bad. Like, you're kind of like first moment where you're like, man, I'm in it. I'm in Hollywood.

Oh, I don't know. I have to think about that. Like, yeah, I mean, like, I remember meeting Paul Newman, you know? Yeah, man. It's like, you know, I'd grown up with him, right? I'd seen him in the drive-in theater. in Maysville, Kentucky, and, like, you know, Butch Cassie, the Sundance Kid.

Holy stuff. And then, like, I remember being on the lot at Warner Brothers, driving, going by in a golf cart, and there was Paul Newman. And I stopped. And I go, hey. And he goes, hey, man. And he came over and he had a beer and a cigarette. And he goes, you want a beer?

And I was like, yeah. I'm not turning that down. And I was still working, by the way. And I was like, yeah, I'll take a bit. And I just wanted this. drink a beer with Paul Newman. And I sat there for like an hour and a half outside the soundstage with him just talking. And I remember going on and thinking, dude, I just hung with Paul Newman, man.

I remember that being like, you know, there was that era of actual proper movie stars. You know, Gregory Peck and I became friends. There was like that thing where you go, these guys are, they are actually bigger than life. And it was a real thrill, you know, his eyes were bluer in person. they were on screen, you know. It's really something. Well, that's you now, brother. Yeah, man.

I'd say the same thing. That's you now, man. I appreciate you for being the fucking coolest guy on the goddamn world, man. We had a fucking whole lot of fun reaching your new low on new heights. And we can't say enough good about you. And everybody go and see Jay Kelly coming out on Netflix here soon. And man, can't thank you enough for your time, brother. You're the fucking best.

And good luck. Good luck, Bengals' defense. Yeah, you already know. Oh, you hurt me. One last shot to the chest. All right, and that does it for George Clooney. I hope you guys enjoyed it. We sure did.

We still have. We were way out of our league. Yeah, way out of our league. In many ways, in many ways. We recorded that a while ago, and I'm still thinking about how I could have, you know, came off cooler to George or came of, like, tried to. to do something, to bring something to that conversation. But George just took it away.

I was in shock the whole time. So good looking and charismatic. It was glowing. It's, why did they, does they have better lighting than us? Why is he, why was he glowing like that? I think he's just, it's his aura. He just walks around with a glow. I think whatever his spirit is inside of him, it's manifesting in ways that mine just doesn't

have the ability to do. Yeah. Well, if you want to see him glow, go ahead and watch Jay Kelly. You'll see him glow the whole movie. It's an outstanding movie, really is. Adam Sandler and him. Just the dynamic between those two is fantastic. It's a great movie.

It's very good. Highly recommend it. Check it out. That wraps up this episode, New Heights. Thank you to George Clooney. Make sure you subscribe to New Heights channel on YouTube and follow New Heights and the one we have for wherever you get your podcast. You can listen to new episodes of New Heights, ad-free.

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We'll see you guys soon. I still remember that purple minivan, me and a Ben Bloom would lower all the windows and open the sliding door in the trunk and cruise around the parking lot, playing Al-FATS, Ida came down. As loud as the stock speakers can come on thinking that like anybody else can hear this. Barely to hear it, yeah. The Chrysler stock. They heard you guys in there laughing more than they heard the actual music. Harding came down. Hot and hot and hot and hot and the hot and came down.

Hey me now. So good. I had to skip a couple words in that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we got to be selective. From superior, they be coming down. That song made it into Madden. It did. You're right.

That is such an obscure song to make it into Madden. Yeah. Well, LeBron showed up. that Al Fats is what they ended up calling, but Fat Al's, uh... Well, he was Fat Al initially, and now he's Al Fats. Yeah, he got big enough to where copyrights came in and said, hey, I'll know. There was another song that was really popular that year. My neck.

My back. It wasn't, it wasn't that one. That didn't start to. When I thought you were, you were, because that's more of it. That's more of a Jason Kelsey. You know, you know how little confidence I had with women. Yeah, came around more in college, didn't? That was more once I kind of built up a more bigger self-esteem.

Yeah.