Travis Addresses the Nation, Jason Exposes 'Big Soap' and Kickoffs Are Officially Back

Travis Kelsey
When I walked in, secret service members come up to me and tell me, you know, if you go up to that podium, we're authorized to tase you. How about that? They warned me. Fuck Joe. You bear trapped me, you mother.

Jason Kelsey
That would be funny if that was like President Biden's like, trick. He just, like, invited people up, and then he's like, hey, why don't you put your hand in your pocket? Go, go, go.

Travis Kelsey
Welcome back to new heights, ladies and gentlemen, presented by wavesports and entertainment. Don't you forget it. And brought to you by Crown Royal. That's right. With you.

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Jason, tell the people what we got coming up. Oh, we got a great episode, as always, for you guys lined up right here. As you probably already know, one of us visited the White House last week, and the other one spent their time arguing about Washington. Uh, not washing, uh. What's the word?

Jason Kelsey
I'm like, ethics. Uh, no, not washing. What's the word I'm looking for? Washing your ass. No.

Well, I mean, I didn't discuss this. I definitely was clear that I washed my ass. And then a bunch of people on Twitter chose to take it another step and just blatantly lie. I said hot spots. Yeah, you said hot spots.

Travis Kelsey
You did say hot spots. Apparently, they're the fucking weirdos. Cause they don't know that ass is a hotspot. But, yeah, we'll also get my review on life is beautiful. Try and explain the new NFL kickoff rules.

Jason Kelsey
I don't know that either of us really know them right now. And revisit a big yeti touchdown pass from the past. But first, as always, as always, new news. New news coming in. Beer bowl two, the Deuce, 92 percenters.

We need to talk about your beer bowl submissions. We've already gotten over 120 submissions, which is great. God damn. Yep. It is fantastic.

But I think I need to make it clear that what we're looking for in these video submissions, we've been sent everything from photos of people just holding beers. Photos are not videos. First of all, random videos of you guys just going to chiefs or Eagles games. Someone just sent a clip from always sunny in Philadelphia. And a lot of you did not include a video at all.

So we're going to emphasize what you need to do is beer bowl. Let's remind everybody, this isn't like your grandfather's backyard beer bowl. This is a beer bowl where the winners are gonna get $50,000. All right? You're gonna get $50,000 cash and a golden cup, which is another, I don't know, $5,000 worth of value.

Travis Kelsey
This is fucking big money, folks. All right? This is a real competition, and if you want to be included, it's gonna be narrowed down to a small amount of people. You need to put together a little bit more effort. Just saying, if you wanna get in, if you don't wanna get in, keep sending your weird videos that don't mean anything.

Jason Kelsey
But if you wanna get in, let's show some effort. Yeah. We need to see team theme. Okay? That can be named, that can be outfits, that can be overall just mentality, all of that.

We need to see some demonstration of drinking ability. And we're really looking for the reason we gotta pick you. These videos are being screened, so make yourselves noticeable. Have you ever read Malcolm Gladwell, purple cow? Ooh, I am a big malcolm.

You gotta be the purple cow. Look, Travis is wearing a purple sweatshirt. That's me. He's standing out. Yep.

Look at that. Look at how much he stands out in that room of white and pictures. Purple cow, baby. Gotta be the purple cow. These videos are gonna be screened by our team of interns, so please do not waste their time.

Actually, I don't care. You can waste their time all you want. That's what they get paid for. So waste their time all you want, but, please, if you want to get seen and you want to get into the competition. So let's see some good video submissions.

Travis Kelsey
Come on. 92 percenters, we know you're better than this. Moving on. Jason, you have a very interesting t shirt, and I can't stop thinking about how good the fight would actually be. So I got to ask you, who the fuck are you taking?

Jason Kelsey
Who do you think would win? Who are you taking, dude? I mean, dude, I'm taking Ali. You're taking Ali of a Bruce Lee? What are we talking about?

Ali would beat the fuck out of Bruce Lee. He's like five some foot, something. Like Bruce Lee. He doesn't even have gloves on. He's using his feet.

Yeah, Bruce Lee's gonna walk right into a right straight and be knocked unfucking conscious. What's gonna happen?

Travis Kelsey
Bruce Lee can dodge a bullet. You think he can't dodge Muhammad Ali's hands?

Jason Kelsey
There's a reason there's weight classes. Ali's got the reach. He's floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee. Ooh. Talk to him.

I mean, Bruce Lee was impressive. I'm not trying to take away from Bruce Lee, but I'm zero. Bit of me thinks that Ali's losing that fight. Dude, Bruce Lee can play ping pong with nunchucks. These are all fantastic tricks in fantastic ways to cement your legacy.

I'm just saying. Yeah, there's no chance. No chance. No chance. I mean, yeah, I'm giving it 0%.

Like, I mean, I guess you could always catch somebody. Like, maybe if he catches Ali off guard with, like, a kick. Yeah. But, yeah, I don't think for a second, because it's not like he knows brazilian jiu jitsu. Like, brazilian jiu jitsu is an all time, like, equalizer of.

Travis Kelsey
Oh, it doesn't matter size. Yeah, yeah. Like, you get down on the ground, force the guy to come down to where you're at. What is. What is Bruce Lee?

Jason Kelsey
No, that's a martial art, but it's not. It's not brazilian. He's not a submission guy. He's a. He's a striking guy.

And I just don't think from a striking standpoint he's going to be able out strike the greatest boxer of all time. We need somebody. We just need somebody to just have, like, a fucking mortal kombat. Like, fucking survival to the, like. Yeah, blood sport.

Travis Kelsey
Yeah, dude, we. We need this. That's what this needs to be real life. And I promise you there are people out here that will sign up for this. They will, and I think they do it over in Russia, probably, but I think kuma tay, kuma te, kuma te, kuma te.

All right, well, I'm petitioning for it. I'd buy a ticket for a lot of money to see that go down. You gotta get the other guy tired. I mean, that's essentially what van dam did in Bloodsport. He kind of just outlasted him.

Jason Kelsey
And then, thankfully, his sensei taught him how to fight blind, and he anticipated the pocket sand movie. When's the last time you watched this? I own Bloodsport on my Apple movies, and I watch it whenever I'm feeling down, like it's a great equalizer. Listen, dude, I just think it'd be a little bit closer of a fight. Who?

So you don't. You're not saying that Bruce Lee would win? I'm just saying it'd be a fuss. It'd be a good bout. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't think it would. I don't think it would even be close. Muhammad Ali. I don't know if Muhammad Ali is ready for the lake sweep. I don't know what to say to this.

Travis Kelsey
All right, man, let's keep this thing moving. 92% of us. Let us know what you guys think. Can't wait to see you guys reaction to this. All right, fan mentions of the week.

All right, now let's move on to some fan mentions. Jason, we got to talk about it, man. You went on a rant of just, like, responding to everyone on Twitter. You started shit on the Internet again is just what you do. I'm not even trying to start.

Jason Kelsey
You replied to someone. Everything gets put under a microscope. I'm not even trying to do this stuff. So it started with somebody saying, jason Kelsey looks like he doesn't wash his legs or feet. Yeah, obviously.

Who the fuck washes your legs? Or what kind of psychopath washes your feet? What do you. Travis. Travis, don't act like you.

Travis Kelsey
I'm not washing my feet every time. But after, like, a football practice, like a Saint Joe, where my feet have just been like, yes, I wash my feet. You're not washing. No, yes, I am. You're like everybody else.

Jason Kelsey
When you look down, if there's visible dirt on them, I'll scrub the dirt off. I don't even touch my feet. Why the fuck would I wash my feet? I'm not touching my feet unless I'm clipping my toenails. That's the only time I touch my feet.

Travis Kelsey
Yeah, no, I'll do it. I'll do it after training camp practices, I've dealt with some. Some, like, blisters and shit to where I, like, I gotta wash my feet now. People are like, oh, you're gonna get. This guy's got athletes foot.

Jason Kelsey
People don't even know how athletes footworks has nothing to do with washing your feet in the fucking shower. It has to do wearing fucking soggy ass shoes over and over again. That's where fucking mold and fungus fucking grows. Yeah, but if you wash your feet, you do help. Not getting it.

You wear sandals, you ain't getting funk. You're not gonna get athletes feet. You gotta be in a shoe or in something soggy and damp. You don't get athletes foot anymore. I get athletes foot.

When I was in high school wearing ice skates, prime example, ice skates. Not getting sitting in a bag, accumulating mold. That's how you get athletes foot. Well, you got into it, man. It all started with the, what kind of weirdos wash their feet?

Travis Kelsey
And then you also replied, all of you have been fed diabolical lies.

Every crevice of your bodies hair all the time is somehow better or healthier. They have been. They have been. People are absurd. Any dermatologist not in bed with big soap will agree.

Jason Kelsey
Yep. Big soap was obviously the. It's the people feeding diabolical lies that you need to wash every ounce of your body. There you go. Hotspots are all that is necessary and actually needed to a cleaner and healthier skin.

Travis Kelsey
All right. Um, yeah, no, not really. Kind of. You can say, yeah, no, this is a fact I don't need to even dispute. Like, people that wash their entire bodies have.

Jason Kelsey
It's been proven. People that washed their entire bodies with soap have been proven to have unhealthier skin. Okay, where is this stat?

We need to get a dermatologist. I don't know what you want me to say. Look up any dermatologist. They would tell you, you only wash hotspots. Some people will say feet.

Like, outside of that. That's about it.

Travis Kelsey
My favorite response of the day, though. Let's get to that. Kyle, Oyford county said, christ talking about Jesus Christ washed feet because he is the greatest king ever. And you reply, Christ watched his feet because he was walking through a dusty ass desert in sandals. I washed my feet.

If that were the case too. Yeah, there's something after that. I just thoroughly enjoyed that response. Yeah, I mean, listen, if I was walking around a base path with sandals on, I'd fucking wash my feet. Well done, man.

Well done. If my feet don't have visible dirt, like, I look at the bottom of them and it doesn't look dirty, if they just look like feet, I'm not taking any type of scrubbing. They're getting the soap on the bottom of the shower that rinses off my balls, my butt, in my armpits, and that's it. I haven't washed my hair in, like, months. I can't even tell you last time I washed my hair.

Jason Kelsey
It's unnecessary. It's completely unnecessary. All right. And I don't stink. That's the thing.

Have you trapped you? Be honest now. Don't you lie. Do I stink? The only time I smell you is when your pits smell and you say you wash your pits.

Travis Kelsey
So that might be me. Well, that's. You might need to stop washing your pits. I mean, it might be true. Yeah, maybe all that washing is just making your body have a reaction.

Jason Kelsey
I just need to wear deodorant. That's it. Wear deodorant then the pits are great. Nice. If I don't wear deodorant.

And really, I think that that's probably, that is probably one of the reasons I stink. Yeah, you're right though. You're not a smelly dude, so I can't say you are. Deep scrub. Yeah.

Travis Kelsey
Hot spots. Nice. Well, thank you to our mentions. Our mentions were also full of people telling us we goofed last week. Apparently the water boy isn't quite the same level of cinematic achievement as life as beautiful.

Well, I mean, I had a feeling. This is an opinion. It wasn't.

Just want to point out, we saw all of your comments, but here's just a few. At slush 714, the whole life is beautiful segment before you guys realized was pure your gold. I appreciate it. That was, I mean, yeah, that was, it was definitely an interesting way to figure out how what the movie really was at Costler. I really want Jason Travis to watch life is beautiful and come back so apologetic next week.

And Jason actually watched it because he's a man of his word. I did. One more time though, us at Stephanie 7659. Jason, be ready to shed some tears when watching life is beautiful. I watched it as a kid and cried so much my nosebleed.

Interesting. Jason, you watched the movie? I did. You are one of the best movie critics that I've ever met in my life. Oh, wow.

Jason Kelsey
Thank you. I give this to you as a proud brother. I give you that title. Can you please give us your honest opinion of the movie? Yeah.

Travis Kelsey
Not feeling bad because, oh, you, Travis, you know me. I'm not gonna bullshit. If I didn't think the movie was worth the shit, I would tell you. Honest review. Yes, it's fantastic.

Jason Kelsey
I mean, I cannot overstate how much. Congratulations again. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. The lead character's name is Guido. Which italian movie with the lead character named Guido?

I don't know that you can get away with that in modern times, but it works for this one. Yeah. Nothing goes right for this guy. The whole movie, it's just, it's just a constant. Life is trying to get the best of Guido.

But he doesn't fucking let it, not once it opens up. Opening scene, he's traveling to a city to try and make a life for himself and to have success. Breaks her off in the car, and he's going downhill, out of control, fearing for his life. Winds up crashing, falling into a farm where he sees a woman named Dora for the first time. And he falls in love instantly.

And the first half of the movie really is a rom.com where, let me tell you, this dude Guido is, I mean, hilarious, smooth operator, go suave. He knows what he wants and he goes and gets it. Dude, listen to, I mean, he's like this happy go lucky, just loving life character. And he's, I would say, poor. You know, he's trying to make a name for himself.

He agrees to wait tables in the city in order to raise enough money to someday try and open a bookstore in the city. He goes to work for his uncle's hotel, where he's waiting tables. And he just, he's cunning, he's smart, he's funny, and he knows what he wants, and he's going out to get it. He knows he wants the woman. The woman's engaged to be married to a rich man, a rich asshole.

Travis Kelsey
Hate to see. And he wins her over. He gets her. Oh, he does. He finds a way to woo her.

Nice. One of the most romantic. I'm not kidding. The first half of this movie. It is impressive how great of a job this dude as is at getting Dora to fall in love with him.

Jason Kelsey
Just as everything is going right, just as he's raised, he's gotten the bookstore just as he's fallen in love with Dora. And they have a son. And it seems like he's finally realized his dreams. He has a family that he, that he has worked so hard to have this life. The Nazis come and get him and throw him into a concentration camp, which, by the way, I always thought that, like, the jewish people that were sent to concentration camps were, like, from Germany, Austria, France, like, the places that Germany kind of, like, conquered and was, like, occupying.

But apparently Italy obviously was in bed with, uh, the Germans in World War two. They just sent their Germans, or they just sent their jewish people up there. Uh, and they bought into the whole master racing, which was an underlying tone of this whole movie. Is this propaganda of master race of, you know, all the other nazi propaganda. And Roberto Benigni just satirizes and makes fun of it beautifully throughout the film.

They get shipped over to the concentration camps, and Dora, who's not jewish. Goes to the concentration camps anyway because she can't stand to not be with her husband, Guido, who she loves that much. From there, you see Guido do everything he can to protect the innocence of his son despite the atrocities that are going on at the concentration camp. So he decides to like, kind of make it like a game to his son. So that his son doesn't know that all of these men are here in these work camps and being killed.

And his uncle was killed and all the things that are. At one point you see a mountain of bodies and he's doing everything he can to shield his son from what's happening in the realities and the atrocities that are going there. And it leads up to the final scene where Guido is trying to find Dora the concert. The Germans are losing the war, so they're trying to get rid of all the evidence and kill all the jewish people before the allies get there. And he's trying to find Dora to get her to safety despite risking his life.

And it ultimately ends up costing it is. It's a beautiful movie. You laugh, you cry, it makes you ponder what is life about? You know, so many times in, like, modern filmmaking, life is about the ambition of like, you know, money or materials or fame or achieving all of this stuff. And all Guido cares about is being a good husband and a good father is about providing and doing everything he can for the woman that he loves and his son and protecting them.

Travis Kelsey
Yeah. And it's just a beautiful film that despite everything, nothing can get the best of Guido. He's always himself, he's always uplifting. He's always inspiring hope. He's always being a man.

Jason Kelsey
Like this film. This is the epitome of, like, what manhood should be is what Guido was throughout it to his family. And it's a beautiful film of fatherhood. It's a beautiful film of what people should put importance on in their life and how they go about protecting and providing for those that they care about. And I could not, and I'm being very honest, have loved this film more.

I mean, I might have loved it more if it was in English so I wouldn't have had to read all the subtitles. But outside of that. Yeah, outside of that, it was just. It was simply wonderful. Like out of this world.

Fantastic. I thought. And I thought it was done masterfully by Roberto Benigni. I thought his acting job was spectacular. Roberto and I feel very good in saying that.

I agree with the academy that he deserved the Oscar that year. It was. It's truly a wonderful film. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend you watch it. I feel like I just watched it.

Travis Kelsey
You did a great job. No, I watched it. I will not do it justice. I did. I cried, I laughed.

Jason Kelsey
You cannot, dude. If you have any. Any empathetic bone in your body, you will not be able to hold it back. It's. It's really, really beautiful.

Life is beautiful. Was a fantastic film. Well, sorry, Roberto, for even questioning your performance. I did it ignorantly and unknowing that you had such an amazing movie performance and everything. Jason, well done.

Travis Kelsey
Well done. I felt like I watched the movie, and you've made that. Made that very clear that you appreciated it. So I commend you for actually following through with what you said and you were going to watch it. Nice.

Jason Kelsey
Listen, I watched it. I did it with a critical eye. And you got engulfed in it. Yeah, man, it's just. It's so good.

Travis Kelsey
Nice. It's so good. It really is. I love it. Well, Kylie and I made it.

Jason Kelsey
Our first movie night film. Kylie fell asleep. She didn't like it as much as I did, but. Well, she might have just been tired. It was late.

Travis Kelsey
She might have just been tired. She's. Yeah, don't do that. To carry. Don't do it.

Jason Kelsey
Yeah, don't do that to Kylie. But, dude, the brands have a great movie night rule list. Josie and Eric Brant. Yeah, I know exactly what you're saying. I was kind of looking at you like.

Travis Kelsey
You gonna tell us? You want to hear it? Oh, these are the rule night. These are the rules of movie night. And I love it.

Jason Kelsey
I'm going to share these. I hope Josie and Eric are okay with me sharing their movie night rules. Rule number one, no cell phones. It's an important rule. I think that's a great mount.

Yeah, well, I mean, you gotta be dedicated to it. What do you mean? Rule number two, host gets to pick the movie, no questions asked. Rule number three, no quoting the movie. I don't.

That's a tough one to fall. What? Rule number four, no mansplaining. Which, I'm not gonna lie, I don't know what that is, so I just. We can skip that.

Rule number five, no pausing unless severe bathroom emergency. Rule number six, a movie picked for family movie night cannot be used again for family movie night for three years. You got to take a break for three years from that film on movie night. I don't make the rules. Josie and Eric Brant make the rules.

Travis Kelsey
All right. Rule number seven. Movie choices alternate amongst family members who live in the house. So now, the next movie night, it would be Kylie's. That's a fair.

That's a fair rule. Rule number eight. If a guest is attending, they must abide by all rules. It's a standard rule. Rule number nine.

Jason Kelsey
No questions during the movie, no questions during the movie. No questions. This is so bogus. Rule number ten. A movie must be declared a movie night movie prior to watching a movie that has already been watched cannot retroactively be a movie night movie.

So it has to be something new. Does that make sense? No, it doesn't make sense because earlier in the rules, you said if you watch the movie once, you can't watch it again for three years. So that. But if you haven't watched it first.

What? There's. If you're just watching a movie, like, if I just go up with the kids and I'm watching a movie, but it's not a movie night. It's not like, declared a movie night movie, it's just watching a movie. Like, I'm not gonna watch Moana once every three years.

We're gonna watch that once a week because that's how Moana works in this household. But movie Night movies are different. Moana could only be watched once every three years for movie night movie. Rule number eleven. How many fucking rules are there?

There's. I'm almost done. Rule number eleven. A movie with a three plus hour runtime must be started before 08:00 p.m. p.

M. I like that rule. I don't gotta be in bed early. Rule number twelve. Anyone who breaks an aforementioned rule forfeits their next movie night.

So you get. If you don't follow the rules, then you lose a choice of what movie you want to watch next for a movie night. Doesn't bother me one bit. I think it's a good list. I'm not a big rule guy.

Travis Kelsey
I'm not gonna lie. Well, I thought the majority of those were bogus. Rules are made to be broken. Yeah. You just lose your next movie night.

Yeah. Yeah. Or you gotta find a way. Maybe like Jeopardy. Or you just stand on business and fucking say, we're watching this movie.

Jason Kelsey
What are ways to gain that system? You can't ask questions, but you just make statements with, like, upward inflection. Yeah, just like, that guy's a bad guy, huh? You gotta answer it. Like Jeopardy.

This guy's a bad guy. I did ask a question. I'm also just a big fan of no self. Because if I have my cell phone, I'm not gonna. I need to set the cell phone down to watch life is beautiful because it's got subtitles.

I'm gonna get caught on my phone arguing with people about shower etiquette, and I'm gonna miss, like, half the film because I'm gonna be like all these fucking idiots that are washing their feet. Like it matters. But that's what I'm talking about. That's where you ask the question of what just happened. We can't ask questions?

Travis Kelsey
See, that's what I'm saying is bullshit. No, see, you gotta be glued to it. You gotta be in it. You gotta be committed. Committed to the movie night.

What do you mean? No, you're not. This isn't fucking competition here. This is a fucking. Watching a movie.

I think it was. Bonus more power to him. Josie and Eric, you guys are the best. You guys are two of my favorites. And I miss you guys.

Have. Can't wait to pick rr the next time. Kylie and I. I have the next choice of movie night. Make her watch rr.

Jason Kelsey
Remember that indian movie that I told you? I know. Exactly.

I love that movie so much. Scene is progressive, it's aggressive, it is entertaining, though. Bollywood, baby. There was something else I was gonna say about life is beautiful, and I can't remember. Yeah.

I mean, this is not takeaway from Bobby Boucher's Adam Sandler's masterpiece. And portraying Bob Shay, this is simply just Roberto Benigni. Listen, I respect Roberto Benigni. He also wrote and directed it. Like, this was unreal.

This dude wrote, directed, and starred as the leading character in his own film. Yeah, so did Adam Sandler. It's complaint.

And you know what?

I don't know which one's been more culturally significant. I didn't even hear a life is beautiful until we went through this. More is not an important film. God damn it. All right, let me retract.

Travis Kelsey
I don't mean really to hurt anyone's feelings. You're not gonna hurt anybody. Listen, it's a holocaust movie, but it's not like it's more of a love story. It's more about. It's more.

Jason Kelsey
More about being a father. That's really. The life is beautiful. That's why I loved it. It was.

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Jason Kelsey
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As you are aware, we've teamed up with Crown Royal to recognize the 92 percenters taking their communities to new heights. We're talking teachers, coaches, first responders, nurses, sanitation workers, basically anybody over the age of 21 who you think is taking their community to new heights. We will actually be crowning our first winner at the end of this episode. That's right. If you still want to submit a nomination, just send their name and photo to new height showmail.com with why they should be nominated.

Make sure to include their date of birth, social account, and mailing address. They must be 21 plus tender. Help us raise a glass to all those royal 92 percenters helping take their communities to new heights, because Crown Royal believes that when you live generously, life will treat you royally. All right, now, 92 percenters, you know we love them in the locker room during the season, but what you probably didn't know is that uncrustables actually keeps us going in the offseason as well. That's right.

And, trav, let me tell you, there's no off season for parents. I've never been busier, but if you're like me, you know that uncrustables are the perfect no prep, no mess lunch solution for families. All summer, you've been keeping the kids going with uncrustables. You got the little ones eating those things or what? That's right.

Love that they don't tell you when you become a parent. But absolutely, you have to feed kids every day, at least for the first 18 years. You figured it out after that. Best of luck, girls. But when I need something quick and easy that I know won't cause a huge mess, I go with uncrustables.

Travis Kelsey
That's because uncrustables are the best part of the sandwich, Jason. And crustibles are round crimped sandwiches with soft, pillowy bread filled with the perfect ratio of peanut butter and jelly. All you busy parents can find them in the freezer section at your local grocery store. Out of the house. Let's move.

Jason Kelsey
Out of the house. And probably the greatest thing that I saw on social media this weekend. Travis, out of the house. At the White House. That's right.

The chiefs last Friday made what feels their annual White House visit. Travis finally got the chance to address the nation. To address the nation. Travis, come here.

Travis Kelsey
It's all yours, pal. My fellow Americans, it's nice to see you all yet again. I'm not gonna lie. President Biden, they told me if I came up here, I'd get tased. So I'm gonna go back to my spot.

All right. Titty was so good. State of the union. My fellow Americans. Trav, you nailed it.

Yeah. No, and that's real. They did tell you. Yeah. The Secret Service, that's all over the White House, they weren't too happy with me.

They weren't too happy with me on my second time visiting. Stop. No, not just for that, but for the whole, like, you remember I was talking about how I had an expired id and I got in the White House. Yeah. No, I caught shit for that.

And I made sure that beforehand. I made sure because of what happened last time and how embarrassed I was for going to the White House with an expired id. I made sure that I brought my passport this time so that it showed that I was a citizen in Missouri. And. Yeah.

And I was official and I was legit, and I was doing things the right way because everyone has to do that at the White House. And I made. And when I walked in, we had about four or five secret service members come up to me and tell me, you know, if you go up to that podium, we're authorized to tase you. How about that? Yeah.

Yeah. So just when you think you're being slick. We are authorized. It is completely within our rights to tase the shit. It is actually order for us to tase you.

Jason Kelsey
Oh, wow. So it wasn't even like, hey, we might do this. It was like, you're gonna. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen if you touch that fucking podium, son.

Travis Kelsey
So that's all that was going through my head. I had no idea President Biden was gonna ask me to come up and get. Let me have my moment. He. I had no idea.

Jason Kelsey
That's awesome. Well, you nailed it. And he walked right up and the first thing he said is, give me the floor. And I felt Taser aimed at me when I was up there the whole time. That's why I was up there.

Travis Kelsey
Don't make any quick movements. Listen, if the president invites you up, be cool. That's. You're not gonna be a taser. But still.

Still, if I would have did something real quick, real fast, or, like, real quick or, like, did something, I'm like, dude, I'm about to get fucking tased. They warned me. Fuck, Joe. You bear trapped me, you mother.

Dude, I swear I was thinking about it. So that was the first thing that came to my head. What if that would be funny if that was like, President Biden's just, like, invited people up and then he's like, hey, why don't you put your hand in your pocket?

Jason Kelsey
He just loves seeing people get tased. That shit never gets old. Ah, man, I thought it was awesome. And I thought it was. Thank you, dude.

It was cool that. It's obviously unreal that the president invited you up to talk. Yeah. And then you just nailed it. One with the.

My fellow Americans. I mean, you gotta address, baby. I'm so jealous. That's so unreal. You nailed it.

Travis Kelsey
I appreciate it, man. That shit was fun. Why don't you explain. Apparently, you in the Secret Service just made, like, best friends. Why don't you explain this?

Jason Kelsey
This badge that you were gifted. You were an honorary Secret Service member. Yeah. What? What?

Travis Kelsey
What do you mean, what? This bet. Oh, nice. Yeah, that badge, I didn't even. That's like a pin.

Yeah. Yeah. You know. Do you know about challenge coins? Do you know what challenge coins are?

Jason Kelsey
Coins. Challenge from the military. Yeah. That pin was gifted to me with a challenge coin is where is why I'm getting this. Yeah.

So they basically treated you like Gerald Gardner on the flight over to heavyweights camp with the wings you just got.

Oh, here you go, buddy.

Travis Kelsey
That is so good.

Jason Kelsey
Did everybody just cough? Did everybody just call you captain the rest of the day?

Travis Kelsey
That's some good shit right there. That's awesome. Bravo. This is cool shit. It really is, man.

It really is. I saved all those coins and made sure that I put the Secret Service pin somewhere where I don't, I don't lose it. That was a fun one, though, man. Fun one. It's always an honor to go to the White House, man.

I kind of mentioned it the last time. Any time that I get a chance to get recognized by the president of the United States and get to go with my teammates and a group of men and women that I had success with to the point where we get to get acknowledged, man. I'm doing it every single time. No matter who's up there at the helm, no matter what's going on in this world. I think it's just such a cool opportunity.

I think representing the chiefs up there, I wanted to do that for the Hunt family and, and all of our coaches that were going. I wanted to make sure I remembered that and got all those pictures and memories in the bank with them. That's awesome. And it looked incredible. And the White House wasn't the only thing you did this last weekend.

Jason Kelsey
You headed back to KC for the 15th annual big Slick celebrity weekend, dude. Where you helped raise 3.9 million for children's mercy hospital. Unbelievable, man. Unbelievable. For those that don't know what this event is, can you describe it?

Because. And I think I'm in, in that. So you can just describe it to me. I don't really fully understand. I thought big Slick was like a country music festival.

Apparently I was way off completely. It's like nothing like there's some music involved. There's some music involved. For the most part. It's just a huge.

Travis Kelsey
It's a way to bring a fun entertainment night to Kansas City. In spirits of raising money for children, Mercy hospital. They one have a softball game and then they go to the children Mercy's hospital the next day, during the day and make sure they say hello to the kids. And then on top of that, the end of that day, the second day, they throw a huge gala, a huge show, star studded performance. You see this picture right here?

Me and weird Al Yankovic, one of our childhood favorites. You know damn well I was a big weird Al fan. Gosh, I'm so jealous of this, man. It's so. I might be freaking out if I saw weird Al in person.

Got to come to it next year. Hopefully. Hopefully Al comes up again. Did he do any songs? He's awesome.

He didn't do any this year. He's done. He did one in the past, but yeah, there's a, there's comedian stand up comedians. Heidi Gardner, a good friend of ours that we were on SNL with, brought the entire SNL cast out or as many people that could make it. Oh, wow.

Yeah. And on top of that, I got to do a SNL skit with the legends themselves. Dude, I saw this. It was so freaking cool, man. Everybody that remembers that, we're huge Chris Farley fans.

Yeah. So Heidi brought out the SNL cast. A few familiar faces there. And then on top of that, three legends, obviously, Jason Sudeikis being one of the greatest SNL writers performers of all time. And then you add George Wendt, who is, who's at the event year in, year out.

He's typically been the, the blue, the ump behind the plate during the softball games. Oh, yeah. Dude, when I tell you, that guy reminds me of dad so fucking much. I don't know. He looks like him.

Jason Kelsey
He definitely has dad's look to him. He, I could just envision it being the ump from, uh. Oh, my gosh, naked gun. You remember when. Dude, that was his era.

Leslie Nielsen's on the, doing the ump. Yeah.

I love that. So it was sudeikis. George went and Robert Smigel, who was awesome, is the first time I got to meet Robert. And he was kind of running us through this skit. And the famous skit with, with Chris Farley was them kind of making a heart of.

Travis Kelsey
Yeah. As well as them kind of making fun of Bears fans and how loyal they are to Mike Dicka and Mike Singletary and all the Bears legends. Dude, when I tell you, it was so funny. It was so good. I.

Everybody can go on the big, slick Instagram page and see the skit. But it was so cool to be because we grew up watching that skit. Yeah, absolutely. And I kind of grew up like, man, the Bears just have, like, the fucking best fans in the world, you know, like, they got a skit on SNL. It's a New York, like, fucking show.

And they're talking about Bears fans either way. That, and Farley was one of our favorites, man. Him doing the heart attack and then coming back to life because he's chowing down is so good, man. And Sudeikis filled in for Farley. It was the first time that George and Robert had done the SNL skit since Farley passed.

Jason Kelsey
Oh, no way. Yes. And I think maybe, maybe it was the first time outside of either New York or Chicago or, you know, but it was, it was one of the first times they ever did it. They've done it in a long, long time. And I was so honored that they let me and pat go in there and, you know, just be a part of the skit.

Travis Kelsey
It was funny as hell, and they will. It looked like you guys had a lot of fun, and it looked like the standard dub air skit. It also looked like you might have struggled to get the game worn jersey on. Well, dude, you know how those things are, man. It's not good when they use the game, Warren, because people don't realize those things.

Jason Kelsey
Those things are tight. Oh, yeah, they're tight. They're hard to get on. They go over the pads, and it's for a reason. But, yeah, you're.

You're struggling right there. Yeah. I mean, helping you out. Yeah, we got Paul Rudd, we got Rob riggle helping me out. We got J.

Travis Kelsey
Eric Stone street behind me, helping me out, got the whole cast, got the whole crew helping me put that thing on. And then they help me take it off because it's even harder to get off than it is to put that thing on. But I will say this. Kansas City always shows up and shows out. Last year, it was, like, $2.1 million raised at this venue, at this function, and or this foundation event slash entertainment night.

I don't even know what to really even call it other than just a fucking amazing night in Kansas City. Yeah. It's the coolest thing that Kansas City has to offer. Bare none. And, like, they just bring in so many familiar faces and so many cool comedians, and everybody gets a chance to really go up there and have their set and talk.

Talk it out. Jeff Ross opened up the night by just roasting everybody. Of course, my guy, George Carloftis, was brave enough to volunteer to go on stage. Oh, no, it was just. It was.

It was an unbelievable night. Last year, they raised, like, 2.1, and this year they get, like, so close to $4 million raised. It's so cool to see Kansas City support opportunities like this, knowing that the money's going to helping sick kids, people that are just don't have just a healthy life right now and the people that need it. And it's just. It's awesome that Kansas City is always willing to go above and beyond to help people out and to support their own and to support, you know, the opportunities that they get.

Like, having a bunch of really, really talented people from their city come back and want to give back to the city like this. No doubt. No doubt. Yeah. It looks like an incredible event.

Jason Kelsey
Obviously goes for a good cause so well done, Trav, for partaking in. Dude, I'm. I'm there every year I possibly can get there, man. They do such a cool job. Such a cool job.

Travis Kelsey
You gotta go next year, man. I gotta get you there. You'll. You. This is.

This is an event you'd love from. The sound of it. I think you're right. Alrighty. And last, we both got out of the house this last week we were in LA, and.

Jason Kelsey
Yeah, we were working on something special with our friends from General Mills. We didn't plan to release this, but some pictures got leaked and. Yeah, we can't tell you exactly what's happening, but I guess here are the pictures that got leaked. Yeah, we got a bunch of cereal in our hands, so expect some. Some really fun stuff.

Travis Kelsey
This is, like, full circle for us. This is another thing where, like, we're watching, like, the bears skin growing up. Like, we were. We were watching general mills cereal commercials growing up, so. No doubt.

Jason Kelsey
Dude, I haven't eaten that much cereal in, like, such a long time. And I loved every fucking bite. It was unbelievable. I loved every fucking bite. Dude, that shit is like crack.

Travis Kelsey
I get why I used to go through an entire box, dude. I loved it, man, I can't wait. To see what this looks like. It's gonna be great. Dude.

I cannot wait. You killed it too, man. That shit was awesome. I was playing second the whole time. That shit was the best.

Jason Kelsey
Stop it. Stop it. All righty. All right. I'm officially done with getting out of the house.

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Let's move on to some NFL news. We don't have a lot of NFL news for you, but we have arguably the biggest piece of NFL news this offseason, exactly one day after six two. That's right. June 2, which we know is officially Jason Kelsey day. You are officially retired.

How about that? There's no official Jason Kelsey day. Eagles stars D Line, Fletcher Cox and Jason Kelsey were officially placed on the reserved retired list today. It's true, man. Dude, it's unfortunate because I think if they would have waited, like, two more days, I would have got 30 million guaranteed.

Jason Kelsey
Fuck. God damn it. Usually you hope that they miss those kind of things, you know, it's weird. I had to, like, submit an email saying that I was retired, and I was like, is the whole video of me crying for 45 minutes not enough? Like, I need an email?

Nope. It's got paper. Yeah, you gotta email it. That's how it works. Nice.

Travis Kelsey
Well, how does it feel? It's official. You're officially official. I feel I've been officially official, so it doesn't feel an ounce bit different. This is just bureaucracy at its finest.

I don't even know what that word means. Did you see Stout talk about you in the press conference? In what press conference? Yep. You didn't.

All right, well, neither did I, so let's just keep it moving. I'm assuming he probably said some nice things about now. I want to know because I like when stout talks about me. Hopefully it was good. Oh, perfect.

He only gave you 35 seconds. Jason, it's cold. It's fine. I dedicated 45 minutes to him. Sorry.

Jason Kelsey
I was very happy for him, but also very sad because I feel like I lost a very close friend and. And a partner in this whole process, but very happy for him because it was perfect timing, and he maximized that guy. Holy smokes. You talk about not leaving anything on the table. He gave it.

He gave everything he had mentally, physically. I don't know what else you can, player. That's all anybody in Philly wants. Beautiful. I think we all knew you maximized everything, man.

Travis Kelsey
You're a wholehearted person. You don't go half hearted on anything in life. And that was awesome to hear from stout, though, man. A guy that's in the building every single day and has been an unbelievable mentor, coach, teammate, in a sense, or just somebody you love going to work with, man. It's cool to see.

See him kind of speak some words about you, man. Yeah, it's incredible. And it's true. I mean, listen, I'm still getting used to it. It feels weird not going into the building, and, man, I don't.

Jason Kelsey
Just the little conversations you have, you'll realize that travel, it's gone. I'm never doing it. But many like that speech, dude. I. You know, there's so many, like, you know, discussions that happen, and you.

And you're. You're talking about the game, and you're talking about practice. You're talking about improving a play. You're talking about a guy on the team. You're talking about ways to like everyone to get better.

And it's just. It's. It's weird not having that anymore. I'll be honest with you. It's very weird.

You got to kind of try and redirect it. But, you know, stout and I've, you know, that's been our relationship for over a decade, so it's. Yeah, I don't know. You do. You do know he's a big Bruce Lee fan, so I think he might say Bruce Lee could beat up Ali.

You know that Bruce Lee's in our meeting room. No. What's the. What's the logic behind that? He's got a quote that he likes.

I fear not the man that has practiced 10,000 kicks one time. I feel the man. I fear the man that has practiced one kick 10,000 times, which I think is just the. Thomas Edison said that.

Bruce Lee taking quotes from Thomas Edison. 99 ways on how not to make a light bulb. It is just different ways to say the same thing, ain't it?

Travis Kelsey
Yeah, man. Dude, the rule of 10,000, dude. You better fucking get to work, boys. You better get to fucking work. I'm on 10,000.

I'm fucking. I'm like, at a hundred thousand. Catch up, boys. Once you get to that level, it's just doing it in your sleep, my sensei. Let's keep this thing moving.

Shout out to stout fucking love, man. Always, always showing. Showing love to Jason. Let's move on to some no dumb questions. Time for some no dumb questions because there's no such thing as dumb questions questions.

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No dumb question about the chief special teams coordinator, Dave Tobe. Shout out to Dave Tobe. Coach Tobe. Looks like Jeff Quinn, kinda. It's our assistant head coach right there.

Fucking love that guy. Dave Tobe commenting on the new NFL kickoff rule, which is. It's interesting. A very interesting kickoff rule. That we necessarily, I think initially we were like, we don't love this.

This is taking away from the ceremonial kickoff and, like, the feeling in the beginning of the game. But, I mean, if it's gonna be better for the game, less injuries and stuff like that, I guess I'm kind of in on it. I just, I know. I like, kind of like the old school game that I grew up watching and playing, I guess. I don't know.

Jason Kelsey
But did we say we didn't like it? I did, basically. Coach toe mentioned that the Chiefs have considered not using Harrison Bucker for all kickoffs. Obviously, it's not because Harrison can't do it. He's one of the best guys in the league at doing it.

Travis Kelsey
He has got one of the best legs in the game, typically kicks it into the like, stands through the end zone when he does kickoff. But Coach Tobe said that the new kickoff rules has kickers more involved in tackles and they don't want, necessarily want Bucker to be put in those types of situations. Interesting. I think he's considering this because we have a guy, a guy being Justin Reed, who's kicked a field goal before, made a field goal. He has a great leg, and he just so happens to be one of our best tacklers on the team.

So I think he's considering letting Justin Reid do it. Isn't that rugby Zemmet? Isn't he doing it, too? Maybe. Yeah.

Jason Kelsey
I don't know. I haven't, I haven't really been peeking over at the summit or whatever. Yeah, Louise, I haven't been Louis, I believe. I don't think it's Louise. We keep thinking it's pronounced Reese.

I think it's. Is it Reese? Louis is like, I don't know. I can't, I can't remember. Yeah, Louis.

Travis Kelsey
So, yeah, they both might be doing it, but I know that Justin Reed would be considered as the guy as of right now because he's a defensive player and he's, he tackles, so. All right. The new kickoff rules are as follows. The kickoff remains at the 35 yard line, but the remaining ten players on the kickoff unit start on the opposing 40 yard line. They are 5ft away, five yards away from the front line of the opposing return team, or at least seven players are in that setup zone, a five yard area.

Jason Kelsey
So, yeah, all of this is aimed at a way of actually making kickoffs meaningful, which I am a big fan of. I think football is better when special teams matter. The reality is the old kickoff was not a kickoff, it was a ceremonial you know, boot through the end zone and nobody ever returned anything. I like seeing special teams make an impact in the game. You think this is going to get people to return the football more?

Yeah, that's why they put it in effect. Absolutely. I thought they just put it in effect so that it would reduce the collisions that happen. Well, I think that's part of it. That's how they're, that's how they're finding a way to get the ball to be returned in a safer manner.

So part of it is they want to make it safer for the people so they're not letting them have 40 yard head starts running at each other. It's fucking electric. Electric. One day we're gonna dig into some of this. We got the teach tape, now we got to dig up some old school wedge.

Freaking content. Lock it in, boys. Go. No longer as the barbaric nature, the barbaric nature of kickoff is now done. But that's why I like football, because it is barbaric.

Gosh, I agree. But we're listening, man. Times are changing. We're moving on to safer things.

We got kickers that need to make tackles now in this new one, which I'm a fan of, make kickers tackle again is my new rule. I think.

I think so. They want everybody. I can't wait to see Jake have to fill the fucking three and four if. Listen, Jake, let's not make Jake tackle. Stop.

Travis Kelsey
Let's go, Bo peep. Jake's good at a lot of things. Tackling is not one of them. Let's not make Jake tackle. Come on, Jake.

Got a stick of face in the fan, bub. Yeah. Part of a big reason this rule got put in was one, to reduce the dangerous nature of those frontline players and the kickoff return kickoff in general. But two, it was also to put it, put in something in place where they are returned more often. Yes.

Jason Kelsey
There should be more kickoff returns with these rules. Oh, wow. All right, so here's some, here's some cool rules, though. This is actually interesting. These rules right here are going to be why teams are going to have to return the ball.

Travis Kelsey
So kickoffs that hit in the landing zone, so not in the end zone before the goal line must be returned. That's always been in play. Kickoffs that hit in the landing zone and then go into the end zone must be returned or downed by the receiving team. If downed, the receiving team would get the ball on its own 20 yard line. Right now, if you.

If the ball goes through the end zone or a guy catches the ball in the end zone, it goes to. The 25, it's back to the original touchback rule. But you can only do it if it goes directly into the end zone or if it bounces and rolls into the end zone. Yeah. Which was always the rule.

Yeah. So that's crazy. Kickoffs that go into the end zone and stay inbounds that are downed would give the receiving team the ball at their own 30 yard line. Oh, wow. That's wild.

Kickoffs that go out of the back of the end zone in the air. So that's what's on the bounces, would also be a touchback at the receiving team's 30 yard line. So. So if the ball goes into the end zone on the fly 30, 30 yard line, that's wild, whether it's downed or through the back, which is. That's a, that's a hell of a starting point.

Jason Kelsey
So teams are going to not be kicking it into the end zone. No. I can see teams maybe even squibbing it. Yeah. Just squibbling that thing.

Travis Kelsey
Dude, just let that thing bounce around the ball isn't. The ball is shaped awkward. That thing bouncing around is like. Maybe that's why they're letting you know, Justin, Reed and Zemmet try this out because it's like, hey, just, just kick that sucker on the ground. Yeah.

Let that thing. Make him feel it. Yeah, make him make a field. All right. I'm interested.

Jason Kelsey
One of the things that's, that's interesting is that I. You have to declare if you're doing an onside kick. Yeah, well, that's the only. Yeah, that's the only time, you know, you get to say you're. No, but usually on a kickoff, like, it's a question.

If you get. If the ball goes past ten yards, like it's live, like, if you squib this and it goes. If you guys somehow, if the offensive team somehow recovers it, do they get possession? You know what I'm saying? No, it definitely.

Travis Kelsey
There has to be a rule of. It has to go past, like, your players. If you don't, if you're not doing an onside kick. Have they stipulated that yet? Yeah, it has to be.

There's no way there. That's. I would, I would assume that's implied. That's like, the ten yard rule. The ten yard rule is just further down the field.

Jason Kelsey
When are the frontline guys allowed to initiate? Like, start when the ball is past them or once it's kicked? Once it's touched. I believe you mean kicked or like, touched is in, like, the offensive team touching it. Once the receiving team touches the football, that's when it starts.

Then they can go, yeah. Oh, wow, dude, this is going to be electric. I'm not going to lie. I'm kind of into it. I can't wait to watch.

I think it's a great, I think it's a good rule change. I think it's a good rule change. NFL. I think it gives us a cool, like, look at, like, returns and. But at the same time, I just love that 40 yard head start.

Travis Kelsey
You could get your head fucking taken off, dude. It's the best. We're going to miss fullbacks on the wedge getting decapitated and decapitating. We're going to miss those ambush blocks where guys running for. I do think it's a net positive in the NFL when special teams is more important.

Jason Kelsey
There's a whole dynamic of the game that teams now have to account for when making roster decisions. Yeah, there used to be guys where like, you know, all they were on the team for was because they were great at special teams and they could offer value in that category. They were fearless in a situation like this. And it feels like more and more special teams just was getting more and more devalued. And this is something that hopefully will bring back the mentality and the ability of some guys that might not fit on offense and defense, but are great football players because of special teams.

Maybe they'll start to get that value increased more because of stuff like this. Which I like to all the NFL fans. It'll be something fun to watch in the preseason as it gets going. I'm sure it'll be implemented in the season, but I know they're, they're testing it out right now in the, in the preseason. And if you want to check it out, the XFL is doing it right now.

Travis Kelsey
There we go, going throw on one of those games. Those are always exciting games to watch. And I'm not joking. That wasn't. I do love watching XFL games.

All right, that does it for no dumb questions. Brought to you by uncrustables. How about that? Hey, uncrustable is the best part of the series. Sandwich.

Fuck crust. Hey. All right, Jason, just keep this thing moving. All righty. It's time for another edition of teach tape.

Jason Kelsey
This week, we are breaking down one of Travis's playoff touchdown passes. Is it one of how many touchdown passes? I only have one. This is the only one. Okay, so this is Travis's only playoff.

Travis Kelsey
Touchdown pass and you can eliminate. You can eliminate playoff two. It's just my only touchdown pass. Travis's only touchdown pass. T shape is brought to you by accelerator active energy drink, please.

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Verse Pittsburgh be Pringle. All right, let's take a look at this clip, huh? Kelsey going to take the snap, homes, becomes a detoid. So we can, we can start it off from here, man. I, um.

Yeah, little explode action. Explode to wishbone. Yeah, here we go. Gun. Wishbone.

Travis Kelsey
All right, so we jump it off, start in a, in a, like a double two by two formation on the goal line. One of our goal line plays in the past has been moved me to wildcat quarterback and basically just try and get my big ass two yards, three yards in the end zone. We've run different versions of this play. For the most part, it's always been me reading a defensive line on whether I should give the ball to the really fast guy on the outside or keep the ball and run it right up the middle. So you see me, we try and throw a little window dressing on it.

That's right, a little window dressing. Yeah, just throw a little something at you to kind of, I don't know, confuse the defense. Confusion makes it look nice and gets the defense thinking. When you move guys around like this, they got to communicate and point and see who's got who and, and what they're going to do. It sometimes switches up gap assignment anyways.

So we do a little window dressing, guys got to communicate. I go back to quarterback, Pat goes behind me, and now it's me, Tyreek, and my guy jet McKinnon in the backfield. I thought they aligned to it pretty well as a defense the whole time. I know it's a pass, right. We had done this run for my entire career, and for the first time, coach Reed let me, trusted me to throw the ball and.

Yeah, so if you want to roll the. It's the. I act as if I'm reading the defensive end on the right here. Give it a few steps up into the, into the line to make it think like or make it feel like it's a run. B.

Pringle is just lulling that defensive back to sleep over there on the left. If you see him, you'll see them lined up. If you want to go back to the, to the beginning of the play you'll see 13 lined up, singled up. Up top your screen here and it's man to man coverage. Typically, when you go to a wildcat look like this, a lot of teams will check cover zero.

They'll just be like zero. They're not passing. And if they are, we got man to man coverage. We're going to make that guy that's not a quarterback throw a good ball. And Pringle did a great job of running his route.

He came off acting like he was blocking shedded him. And sure enough, yeah, it was an easy little five to ten yard pitch and catch for a playoff touchdown. And Arrowhead, baby. Yeah. I mean, I love it.

Jason Kelsey
I love the explode to gun wishbone. So the reason this formation is particularly tricky is all of these defensive backfield players, they're trying to match people. They're trying to figure out who's going to be number two to my side. Are we banjoing like, are we going to switch? If they do a, like a crosser, like they do like a scissors action, are we going to switch those two off or are we going to play man to man?

This eliminates that communication from being able to happen. You explode to an unusual formation. Guys are going out of the backfield in all sorts of different directions and you have to try and account for that. Yeah. And what Travis is saying in window dressing is all you're trying to do is to create this confusion and to force guys into out of their position, get them to somehow not be where they're supposed to be or be, be playing the player they are supposed to be playing.

Travis Kelsey
Yeah. So I thought it was. I think it's a great play. You'll see pat here. Go on like a little swing into.

The left flat, which he was open. He was open. He is open. But, but you see the confusion. This defender right here that's on like kind of the line of scrimmage almost.

Yeah. Between inside of the corner. Right. That nickel or safety, whoever that is. Yeah.

Jason Kelsey
He doesn't know whether he's supposed to run with Pat to the flat, players it off with the corner. And all of this creates the confusion where he all of a sudden runs out of there. The corner doesn't know if he has inside help anymore. And my man be Pringle is wide open because it's everybody else gets sucked up with the run action. I think the rules on this, when they go cover zero like this, the safety you were just pointing at has first of the flat.

Travis Kelsey
He has first of the flat. But you're thinking it's a wildcat deal where I'm not passing the ball. Right. Right. So I think that's why he's kind of questioning whether or not he should go guard pat in the flat, like.

But you'll see in this play action like movement that we run a lot in terms of, like, what I've done at quarterback and a wide receiver. You'll see everybody go with Jet McKinnon and Tyreek Hill on this play fake. Everybody flies out there. Right. And what that does is it opens up the middle of the field for pringle to come flying in there.

Jason Kelsey
I mean, you could have run this one in. Yeah, there's a bunch of lanes. There's a bunch of lanes in there. But yeah, yeah, they're all confused. I gave it a few pump fakes to see if I could get some D lineman's hands up and figure out where they were.

Travis Kelsey
And then I just kind of sidearm slung it in there. I don't have the arm that I used to, but I still got a, got a good enough arm to put it right on the money ten yards away. Such a fun play, man. So they, they went zero because of Wildcat. Yeah.

And goal line. Goal line situation. Pretty standard. Check. Yeah.

All gaffes, gap, gaps filled. You get your extra hat in the box. So for those of you that don't know, Wildcat is when anybody that isn't a quarterback lines up at quarterback. Teams don't view that as though that person is going to throw the ball. Typically, because there's now a running player quarterback, there's.

Jason Kelsey
You need another hat to make the numbers right from a defensive perspective. Right. Because typically the quarterback is not running with the football. So whenever the quarterback is a running threat, especially in goal line situations, teams will try and go to zero to get the numbers back in their favor in the box. That is correct.

Travis Kelsey
But, yeah, an all time banger. And this was the game, if you guys remember. I'm sure Jason doesn't love me bringing this up, but Mama Kelse became a superstar this game because she, she went to two NFL games in one day in the playoffs just to see her boys play. Jason was playing the day game in Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay. And my mom was on Twitter trying to get to the second half of the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Chiefs night game.

And it was fun seeing everybody on the plane with her, everybody following along on Twitter, cheering her on, hoping that she gets to both of her boys games in one day. And she got to see her son live his lifelong dream of throwing a pass, a touchdown pass at the NFL that he told her when he was, like, ten years old, he would do one day. So just saying, dreams come true. You got to speak it into existence, baby. Even if it was just like a little ten yard, rinky dank pass.

Thanks, coach Reed, for giving me the trust. I don't know who drew it up or who in the offer, but it was. It was definitely a coaches deal. Like, coaches drew this play up and said, it's in this week for sure. I had nothing to do with this.

I stopped asking. I never. I never asked coach Reid to throw the ball because the first time he ever asked me to throw the ball, I threw a 50 yard pick to the guy wasn't even in the play. Well, that's another question I actually had on this play, was, is this play going to pringle? All the way?

All the way. Going to pringle to dish it to pat? There's always a read, Jason. You know that. There's always a read.

That's why I'm appreciative, because Coach Reed knows that there's always a progression in my mind. I gotta have a plan b. If there's no plan b, what are we doing? I can't just go into something gung ho just with one, you know, one thing on my mind. I gotta go.

Jason Kelsey
I gotta have a process. You know, the checkdowns. You gotta get the ball out to your checkdowns. No, it was in my mind, and I might have done this in practice one time and just slung it to pat, but there was in my. In my mind, though, I was like, if there's.

Travis Kelsey
If it's man to man coverage, I'm probably throwing this thing to Pringle. But never say never, boys. Stay alive.

Jason Kelsey
How long was this play in? Was this just in this week, or is this something you guys have been marinating on for a while? I can't remember. It was. I think it was just in that week.

Yeah. I like the. The wishbone deal. Throws off people. Cause they especially, like, you get.

You think one guy's going to be number two, then all of a sudden he goes there and another guy swings out. Like, I don't know, ultimate confusion behind. The line of scrimmage. You get a bunch of big fatties kind of playing. Especially.

You gap it out. The way this protection is the gap, it's all just a big wall. Yeah. And guys like, where's. Where am I going?

Yeah, it's good stuff. Who knows? Maybe we'll run it again, coach Reed. Oh, yeah. Nobody will see it coming now.

Travis Kelsey
All right, let's keep this thing moving. That does it for teach tape brought to you by accelerator. Active energy. Let's raise a glass. What you talking about?

Jason Kelsey
Finally, we mentioned a few weeks ago we were partnering with Crown Royal to shine a light on the most generous 92 percenters. Because Crown Royal believes that when you live generously, life will treat you royally. That's right. We've had so many submissions and we're really blown away by the incredible people out there that listen to this show. But it's time to raise a glass to this week's Royal 92 percenter.

This week's winner is. Elias Medina, nominated by Molly Stewart. Molly writes, I want to nominate Elias with Stu Stephenville. Stephenville Boxing Club. Elias is a full time social worker, but after 05:00 p.m.

he works as the coach for Stephenville Boxing Club. In the three short years he has been in business, coach Elias and his team have eleven golden glove champions. Damn. Won three golden glove team trophies. Damn.

And have one nationally ranked fighter. Wow. God damn. Coach Elias is someone who gives his heart and soul to the kids coming to this gym. He makes a difference in kids lives both in the gym and his role as a social worker.

His fighters know that when they step into the gym, they're going to be greeted with a big smile, a unique nickname, and treated like family. Oh, man, that's awesome. This guy sounds incredible. Yeah, it sounds fucking great. He has improved the lives of so many kids in Stephenville and created a fantastic boxing legacy.

In the short time he has been in business outside of the gym, he is the first in his family to graduate from college. And then he took it to new heights getting his master's degree. He is a one of kind and true real world underdog, Elias. Hell yeah, baby. I love it.

Travis Kelsey
I love stuff like this, man. Golly, that's awesome. That is a lot of success to have in the golden glove world. Are you kidding me? Especially in only three years.

Jason Kelsey
Holy cow. This is unbelievable, man. Yeah, you love hearing stuff like that. I think coaches oftentimes get viewed as just coaching the sport. And I think that you really realize growing up, especially in the heights, the coaches end up being much more than that.

Especially when they're involved with the kids outside of the ring or outside of the field. Right. A lot of the coaches end up being in some way, shape or form, somewhat of like father figures to these kids or support personnel to the what kids are going through and allow us to see not only that he's a social worker, but that he also has given up a lot of his time to coaching and mentoring young kids. Yeah, man, this is. These are the stories that we love hearing.

These are the stories that are important in this country and around the world. It's the best, man. It's absolute best. I'm with you on what you just said about coaches. I think is there's so many that just get under acknowledged, man.

Travis Kelsey
So it's awesome to see one of them have the success, do it the right way and get some acknowledgement to it. So, Elias. Elias. Be on the lookout for a swag bag from our proud partners over at Crown Royal. So let's raise the glass to Elias and everyone over at Stephenville Boxing Club.

Jason Kelsey
I just really like Elias. Yeah, he sounds fucking awesome. Yeah, I bet he would. Side with me on the Ali versus Bruce Lee. Alright, if you'd like to join Crown Royal and raise a glass to a generous 92 percenter over the age of 21 in your community, send an email to newhighjowmail.com.

include the nominee's date of birth, social account, and mailing address. Must be 21 plus to enter. There you go. Alrighty. And that wraps up another episode of new Heights.

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Travis Kelsey
When you live generously, life will treat you royally. Don't forget to raise a glass. Follow the show on all social media at new Heights. Show with one s. And thanks to our production and crew, we love you guys for always cutting out all the shit that'll get us canceled.

And thank you to all the 92 percenters for tuning in. See you guys next week.

Jason Kelsey
Should I go get to class? Is that what this is for? Yeah, do it. Oh, my gosh. You shouldn't even have asked.

I want to go to sleep. I don't want you to. I don't want you to do it. I haven't looked at it once. I tried to, but my neck didn't turn far enough.

I don't. I feel like this whole segment doesn't make any sense if we don't raise a class. I don't know. I mean, I'm not raising a glass. Let's raise a glass.

Travis Kelsey
Jason, I think you're looking way too deep into this. None of this makes sense if we don't raise a glass. Yes, it does. What do you mean? It's not the literal sense of raising a glass.

It's just the overall, like, why you would raise a glass. It's to, like, oh. To honor someone, to cheer someone, to say, yeah, it's like commemorating somebody. How about this? I won't raise a glass, and then everybody's gonna crush the segment in the YouTube show, which I'm fine with.

I was about to say they do it every week.

Travis Addresses the Nation, Jason Exposes 'Big Soap' and Kickoffs Are Officially Back | Ep 93

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