Chiefs Schedule Reactions, Taking Back Football Sundays & Mascot Fights | Ep 192

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20:41Nice. Now let's keep this thing moving to some bold topics. Because football is back, ladies and gentlemen.

20:49Jason Kelce:Football's back. Well, sort of. Bold Topics is brought to you by Reese's, our favorite peanut butter chocolate delight. And let's talk some schedules. Let's do it. The 2026 NFL schedule was released last week, so we were unable to talk about it. We did a little preview. Travis was incorrect in thinking that the Chiefs would have an international game, but the Chiefs do have six primetime games. That's right. Primetime, including week one on Monday night. Little Monday night football, baby. Trav, do we get to have Patrick Mahomes on the field Monday night? Is he back week one? Because they said it at Disney Upfronts, and I was like, I don't know if he's back yet, but I like that we're advertising it this week.

21:32Jason Kelce:Is he going to be back? That man's working his ass off. I know that. All right. That's a very corporate answer. And fine, we'll accept it. Monday, September 14th against the Denver Broncos, the Chiefs will be playing on Monday night, ESPN and ABC at 7.15 p.m. I believe that's probably central time. They also will be primetime week two, Sunday night, on NBC against the Indianapolis Colts. Also had an outstanding season last year, back-to-back primetime games. Then you're slotting in for that one o 'clock against the Miami Dolphins, little Las Vegas Raiders. Little Miami in September. Let's fucking go.

22:09Jason Kelce:Well, let's talk about this. I think week five is the earliest buy you can get, right? yeah we're always week five or week 11 i think we yeah so i like i like the late i always like the late buys better but uh how do you feel about the early buy it is what what can you do um you know and it's been a little bit different i actually don't mind the when i get the buys at this point obviously you early on in my career we didn't play as many um primetime games um but this year if you look at later on in this schedule like closer to late november um and december we have some some big prime time games we have a little bit of a of a buy after uh thursday december 3rd so there's there's going to be some opportunities to get some time off the biggest difference of this year's schedule that is kind of blowing my mind is it kind of starts a week late and we play two games in january which is very different i feel like i've only ever played one It's usually just one game.

23:10Jason Kelce:Yeah. It's kind of the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. That is kind of rare. I agree. Usually it's only one game and then you're into the playoffs. The Super Bowl is February 14th, which is – A little Valentine's Day? Yeah, a little Valentine's Day. I don't think I could ever remember it being – I don't know. That late? That late in February. I'm just like – in my mind, I'm like, what's going on? Is it just kind of how the month of September starts here? I feel like we're always like in a single digit for the first game of the year in September. And now we're September 14th. I feel like I remember Valentine's Day being close to the Super Bowl again another year on it because I remember it being big news for men to be watching the Super Bowl on Valentine's Day.

23:52Jason Kelce:I think I remember that. I feel like I always remember Valentine's Day being like the NBA All-Star weekend. Yeah. I mean, the schedule's changed. Now there's 17 games. There's 18 weeks. Eventually, there's going to be 18 games. This whole thing is gearing up for the Super Bowl to be on that President's Day weekend that they keep talking about, which will be the following week, or two weeks after that, if they add in a bye. I don't know, whatever. As of right now, you guys do get a little help with those Thursday games back-to-back later in the season, week 12, week 13. Bills, is that Thanksgiving, November 26th?

24:24Yes. Bills is Thanksgiving night up there in Buffalo in that beautiful new stadium they got. Nice, nice. So that'll be electric. Obviously, Pat Mahomes and Josh Allen is always an instant classic band, so that'll be a fun one on NBC. And then we follow up with our Thursday night game on Amazon out there in Los Angeles.

24:43Jason Kelce:How about that? That'll be a fun one to play Matty Stafford in the Rams. Go from New York to L.A. Yep. And then get a nice little mini-buy is what they call that after the Thursday game and take on your long rivals at this point, the Cincinnati Bengals. Joe Burrow hopefully will be back in full effect. Those four games right there are really five, six, seven. Damn. We got a nice little stretch in November to finish off the season. Playing a lot of big-time games, man. I can see all those games being meaningful. No Christmas Day game this year? You will have Christmas to be able to celebrate with family?

25:21Yeah, after we go out and practice, have a nice Friday practice.

25:26Jason Kelce:It'll be Friday. It'll be fast Friday practice. all righty well um how do you feel about the six pride time games a lot of being made of the schedule the streaming services a lot of people with the eagles fan base is upset about um the net rest days have you heard about this net rest days am i saying this right brandon yeah net rest days it's the like difference between you and your opponent in terms of average rest day so some teams on average will be more rested than who they play some teams go ahead that's it thoughts about how much rest anybody gets figure that was the answer there we go well i mean apparently it's it is a big deal though facing teams that have more rest than you do i mean it's been analytics have been shown that they've proven they've been proving it through numbers and stuff nice there you go everyone gets a thursday night game and i believe not everyone gets a monday or sunday night but the thursday games everyone gets one of those which means you have a short week and you have a longer week after that i think that's fair i don't i don't really buy into you know the net rest and all that man the schedule is there obviously the the you know you have to be fortunate in the NFL to stay as healthy as possible.

26:46It is what it is. That's half of the battle. And the fortune that comes in with the NFL season is being able to stay healthy. Or if you do get banged up, get healthy by the next week. And I think it's just a part of the fucking NFL madness. And I don't think anybody's at a disadvantage.

27:04Jason Kelce:That's what I thought, too, until I saw this net rest. What was the number one team that was disadvantaged by this, Brandon? It was shocking how many more days their opponents get than they did for rest. So the Chicago Bears, their opponents are going to be facing opponents this year and have a plus 15-day rest differential, meaning their opponents throughout the season will have 15 more days of rest than they will. I feel like that number feels high. You know what I mean? Other way around. The Bears will be statistically more rested. Yeah, go to the minus. The minus is the Chargers. That was the one.

27:39Jason Kelce:The minus, because I was about to say, the Eagles are high in this category as well. They're minus 15. Eagles are right there. Yeah. That's where I feel like once you start getting, like, to a certain point, it feels like that's probably a little bit much. And then the other thing Eagles fans are upset about is the Christmas Eve game. But like you just said, that's a Thursday game. And it's Christmas. Yeah, the Christmas Eve game, everybody's upset about it in Philly. It's just the way the Thursday game fell this year, right? Why are they upset about a Christmas Eve game? Because it's Christmas Eve.

28:06Jason Kelce:You're supposed to be with family. people don't want to like spend time thinking about the football on christmas eve i get it i do but at the same time this is the way i mean the first i don't know why i don't know why i'm hard pressed to believe that that's not the majority i think chris for some reason christmas eve night birds fans and philadelphians are going to get excited for a game like that i don't know I don't know why I'm like, maybe I'm catching that wrong. I think Christmas Eve, for some reason, at night feels like that is like prime time where you're with the family. You're getting everything ready.

28:47Jason Kelce:The presents are getting ready to be put under the tree by Santa. So I think it's a big. You're at the house watching the game. But there's the Thursdays are sold from Amazon. So it's not like they can move. Somebody is going to be on that Thursday because Amazon is about to write Thursday. And this is where as players you get used to playing on holidays. You just realize that that's part of the gig. Yeah, I don't know why I'm like, you're going to be at home getting ready for Christmas the next day watching the birds play football. I feel like that's like a bonding family experience. I like the holiday games.

29:20Jason Kelce:We've been on record as that. I love the holiday games. I like watching Christmas with the family. You get to watch some football. Thanksgiving, you get to watch the football. All of this is just people are getting frustrated with the league in general. There's more streaming platforms that are costing fans money to watch the games. It's harder to watch every game you want of your team than it's been in a long time or ever. You know, I think there's more international games. We had J.J. Watt talking about, he had this tweet, international game slate is nearing the realm of traveling circus as opposed to occasional showcase.

29:57Jason Kelce:I mean, I get what he's saying. And it is the one area still trying to grow the game internationally. I like the international games, and I've always liked playing in them. I love the international games. But as a fan, it's going to take a home game away from somebody. Well, now it's taking away the home game for the 18th. The added eighth game. Yeah, the ninth. Yeah. Yes, thank you. Ninth. Thank you. Either way, I think the international games are a blast. I think the NFL is smart by, you know, visiting new countries, new cities. And building countries that are fans of the game. At this point, there's a bunch of games in London.

30:37Jason Kelce:And they have a big hunger to see the game of football played, right? American football, I guess as they would call it. Yeah. I was over in Dublin last year for the game in Ireland. Awesome experience. Ireland was fucking loving the game and it was at an awesome park oh my gosh it's like a historic stadium that's in Dublin yeah I'm not going to do it any justice anyways and we have a bunch more obviously the first game in Australia is happening in Melbourne another game in Rio de Janeiro Paris Kylie and I love Paris oh my gosh Madrid, Munich who doesn't love going to Germany I've never been. That was one you actually said you didn't like as much.

31:22Jason Kelce:Is that fair to say? Should we not say that? I didn't say that. You said you didn't like the food. It was too many tubular meats. Well, time out. I just don't like sausages. I never said I didn't like the schnitzels. The schnitzels were delicious. The schnitzels are good. Yeah, I've had a bunch of fun out there in Germany. All right, fair enough. And I'll say their Pilsners are very smooth. I do think this is the one thing that I feel like the NFL needs to hold on to that I feel like we're starting to drift away from. What's that? I don't think we're there yet. Sunday is the day of football, right?

31:57Jason Kelce:Outside of going to church in the morning, if you're still religious and you do that, Sunday is like where so many games happen. And that's what you grow up in. You gear your entire week around watching football on Sunday. Yeah. It's an institution at this point, the NFL playing games on Sunday. With every day that we keep adding in there, We're getting away from that just a little bit. And I worry that I think the game got big. One of the reasons it got so popular and big was because all of the game, it was an event. Sunday is the NFL and everybody set their week apart to tune into their games that were happening on Sunday.

32:33Jason Kelce:And you're watching kind of all of them now take place across the, I mean, Sunday ticket, right? I worry that we're getting away from that just a little bit by, by building too many of this. well all the all the uh international games are on sunday except for the first one right correct i'm not this is an international morning i'm more talking about the christmas's the christmas eve game now the the uh the thanksgiving eve there's a wednesday game now before thanksgiving everybody's sitting around what i get it i'm just saying i'm just saying one i don't think that'll that'll ever change i hear i hear what you're saying but i think they're very they're very few far in between outside of the holidays as that is there's not just like a random wednesday game in september i just looked at our schedule we got four games that aren't on sunday and we probably have the higher end of that not playing on sunday for sure right yeah it's it's not there yet but it's close and to some people it probably is there.

33:37I think it's awesome, man. I honestly do. As somebody who's played on Christmas, who's played on Christmas Eve or played on Thanksgiving Eve, Thanksgiving, who's played in a lot of awkward, short, weak moments, I think it's fun, man. And I don't think it's as taxing as it may seem because it's the NFL, man. You're living out your dream. If there's a chance to play on a fucking primetime game, which all these one-off games are that aren't on Sunday, I'm fucking getting so excited for those opportunities, man, because those are the opportunities you really get to show yourself.

34:17Jason Kelce:The schedule is appearing to continue to go in that direction, right? NFL owners are voting Tuesday, that's a day before you guys seeing this, on whether to increase the international slate from 8 to 10 games per year. again i like the international games it is as someone who likes to travel it's fun to go see the games in another country you tie it in as a full trip i get that everybody can't do that i get it takes away a home game but i like it and i liked it as a player but i get it's not for everybody the primetime games are continuing to get up five teams have zero primetime games have you looked at this don't look don't look don't look can you guess no all right i won't look can i guess you look jets arizona jets arizona i knew the jets were on it um I mean, I would say Cleveland, but I don't think that's right.

35:04Jason Kelce:No, it's not. Oh, my gosh. Who else do I not think? Jets.

35:13Dolphins. Top five picks this year.

35:16Jason Kelce:Yeah, Dolphins. That's right. That's pretty much what it comes down to. Jets, Dolphins, Raiders, Arizona. Yep, and one more. One more? Yep. I can't think. Who is it? Titans. Titans. All righty. Well, the Los Angeles Rams are in the Kansas City Chiefs era with seven primetime games. We've got Green Bay, Casey, Buffalo, and Seattle all tied with six. Philly is going to come in with five as well as Dallas, Chicago, New England, San Fran. Thank you, Joe Partner Sleep Number. All right. Now, have you ever tried something new and immediately thought, yeah, I'm done with that? Yes, definitely. What was the most recent?

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39:42First game. Rank them 1 through 10 as they come up. Falcons at Saints, week four, Monday night football. A lot of people speculating this would be the 20-year Dome coming anniversary game. That would be the 20 years when the Saints came back to the Superdome after Katrina.

39:59Jason Kelce:I'll let Trav rank this one because I feel like I have too much. What is it when you recuse yourself because you have a... Come on. This is going to be electric. Is it? Yeah. Oh, no. I think for rivalry purposes, this will be an electric game. Yes. I think it will be an incredible atmosphere if this is what this is. I'm not going to lie. You were going to put it down for football reasons, which is fine. This is why we play the game. Yeah, I was going to say in terms of excitement for football, I'm not a big fan of like. The Saints ended the year pretty hot. I think there's some excitement to this game, but knowing what's coming later, I don't know.

40:40Jason Kelce:I'm probably going to put this at 10. I was going to say 9 or 10. It's going to go maybe 9 just because maybe there's a game worse than this. You're probably going to have to give me like, and I understand it's Monday Night Football. I might be electric, but that's all right. That's why I play the game. Saints ended the season hot last year. I actually am looking forward to seeing how they progress in Callum Moore's second year. Falcons, I mean, they still have Bichon, so that guy's always fun to watch play. I just don't know if I've ever been so distant from a rivalry in the NFL. Like, I've never, I can't remember getting excited for a Saints-Falcons game.

41:16There's real hatred here. All right.

41:18Jason Kelce:Well, I say we go nine. Let's go nine. Let's go nine. Go nine? Go nine? Okay. Next game, Hackers at Bears, Christmas. Christmas? I mean, Jesus. I'm going to get pretty fucking pumped for this one. There's actual hatred. There's like Ben Johnson and LaFleur hate each other. What goes better like as a backdrop for the most joyous holiday of all time than with pure hatred? I'm going to go. I mean, listen, it's hard for me to not go with an Eagles game as number one or a Chiefs game as number one. I'm very much looking forward to this game. I'm fucking pumped on this. Let's go three. Let's go three.

41:58Just say three.

42:00Jason Kelce:Three. Interesting. Okay. Bears at Lions. Thanksgiving. I mean, it's another good one. Obviously, you got the Ben Johnson, Dan Campbell. I mean, the NFC North has got some freaking bangers. They're going to have a bunch of those. Yeah. I'll say Thanksgiving. I'm going to put it below. I'm more excited for the Packers game, but I am very excited for this game. I'll give it a six. I'll give it a six. Oh, I was looking forward more than that. All right. Lions at Bills week two. This will be the Bills new stadium opening day. It'll be big pop and circumstance, but I don't know about the football. So time out.

42:31Jason Kelce:The last one, did we go six or do we go five or four? What do we do for that one? Sounds like you want to go five. No, no, no. I'm genuinely asking what Brandon put it. Because if you said to put it down for six, I'll put this one at five. You think this one's more exciting? All right. I'm excited about the new stadium, and I'm happy that the Bills kept the stadium outdoor. So I actually am very much looking forward to the new stadium. I'm definitely pumped on the new stadium. That's where we're at right now. We have Packers, Bears, Christmas at three. Bears at Lions, Thanksgiving at six. Falcon Saints at nine.

43:01Okay, we'll go back.

43:02Jason Kelce:You could have just said we put the game at six, and we would be further. I was finding out myself. Lions at Bills week two. Five, you just said, right? Okay. Patriots at Seahawks week one. I mean, I know it's the Super Bowl rematch. They're doing that week one. They've done this before where week one is a Super Bowl rematch. I don't know why. I mean, I'm not as excited about this game, even though it's a Super Bowl rematch. Yeah, I feel like Seahawks lost a lot of key pieces. The Pats, I don't know why. They're obviously a fucking great team, but it's not exciting. exciting i don't feel like the patriots and seahawks are like a huge rivalry that's what it comes down to like i don't and i guess the lions bills isn't either but the lions bills at least there's like a stadium happening this is a super bowl rematch but like i mean the seahawks dominated the game it's not like we're seeing like some like barn burner like redone this is like mike tyson knocking somebody out in the first round and we're gonna see that run back again i mean i don't know yeah i mean i can see the pats winning it i'm probably do you want to go eight I feel like it's a Super Bowl rematch.

44:08Jason Kelce:This feels a little disrespectful to Pets and Seahawks fans. I'm just not that geared up about it. I don't know. All right. You want to go eight? Yeah, eight sounds good. I don't want to go ten. Eight sounds good. Chiefs at Bills Thanksgiving. Come on, baby. New stadium. This is one or two for me. All right, nah. The nightcap on a, what, tripleheader Thanksgiving? I don't know Philly's schedule, but I'm going to say this is number one for me, baby. Because you are still playing in the actual game, Travis, I will defer to you and we can put this as one. All right, put it as one. Ooh, our number one.

44:42Cowboys and Eagles Thanksgiving.

44:44Jason Kelce:Now I feel like, can we revert? Can I have takes backsies? Can I have takesie backsies? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, listen, I'm really geared up about this. I think the Cowboys are unfortunately a very good team. They've made a lot of adjustments. Offensively, they're really good. Defensively, they're getting better. This is such a funny phrase. You're unfortunately a good team. so i'll go i'll go two i'll go two yeah i mean yeah one two one of the biggest rivalries the biggest it's gonna be so good i yeah nfl did such a great job of thanksgiving this year um all right yep rams at seahawks week 16 christmas see this is what's weird i'm more excited about this game than i am for the patriots seahawks game right yeah i'm with you like these games were so close last year either of these teams could have won in that nfc championship and I think they probably...

45:31Jason Kelce:And it's Christmas. Don't forget about Christmas. I kind of want to go four. Too high? Too soon? I mean, it's our only... It's either seven or four. Seven, four. We have four, seven, and ten. I know. Seven would still put it above the Super Bowl rematch. Do you want to go seven? Yeah, I think seven's nice. All right, seven. Back to Seahawks at Rams Week 18. You're such an asshole. A little trick. I do like... Come on. Come on. I do like that we put the Rams at Seahawks at 7 so that we can put the Seahawks at Rams at 10 because the better game is definitely in Seattle. And on Christmas. All right, cool.

46:15I don't know, but Week 18 could be a massive playoff. I think they did this on purpose, and I think Week 18, this could settle one division and maybe a conference. I agree. I agree, but I'm not putting it at four. It's always going to be a divisional game, so they made it worth our while for sure. I love that they did this to them too.

46:35Jason Kelce:You might have just talked me into it. Do we go four? Stop. Ravens at Steelers week 15. First meeting since the Ravens missed a field goal to give the Pitt the North title. I don't know, man. AFC North, man, I fucking like this. Steelers, Ravens are up there with fucking Eagles. First of all, I don't know about that. The Ravens haven't been a team long enough to declare that, but they are a big rivalry. The AFC North, I love AFC North football. Week 15, late in the season, playoff implications will be there. I mean, there's only one more spot. They have to be four, right? Yeah, they're four, and I like this.

47:12I like this a lot.

47:13Jason Kelce:I wish we went lower. Did we get 10? Did I fuck up and not put 10 on here? No, we got 10. No, it was 100%. Okay, there we go. This is our final rankings.

47:25how do we feel looking at it i love it i think listen i think raven steels is too high i think it's neither of those teams at 10 is so that's what i'm saying neither of those teams what

47:37Jason Kelce:neither of those teams were that competitive last year so like yeah i i like watching those two teams play the ravens and seahawks were not the ravens and uh and stealers like i like them I love the fan bases. I love all that. But to say that's number four, until they prove that they can get, like, Lamar back, I like Jesse Minner. Like, I'm excited to watch the game. But to say it's the fourth game I'm excited about, I don't love that. I would have – I'm much more truthfully excited about the Seahawks and Rams games.

48:10Jason Kelce:I'm probably also – The AFC Northerner in me is saying I'm more excited for that rivalry. I don't know why. I know. Well, I get it. We grew up AFC North. Yeah. I also think Bears and Lions should be above it. This is blind ranking. This is why we blind rank. It makes it fun. Us having the 10th game of Seattle against the Rams week 18 in this blind ranking. People are going to give us some shit about it. We're going to get some comments. We're going to get a week 18 big matchup there. And it's going to be like, yeah, turns out this is the game of the fucking year with all the balls. People are going to remember this list and come back to it.

48:42All right. We'll stamp it. Let's stamp it and see how we end up doing at the end of the year. We'll get stamped. And that does it for bold topics brought to you by Reese's. You got to love those peanut butter cups, chocolate peanut butter cups.

48:54Jason Kelce:All right, it's time for No Dumb Questions. No Dumb Questions is brought to you by Sleep Number. Let's hear what David Pitner has to say over on X. Despite NFL efforts to avoid it, teams occasionally play a regular season opponent in preseason. This year, the Chiefs play the Rams and the Seahawks. two marquee matchups preseason and regular season how does this affect preseason game planning and play i'll tell you what i've never had this happen and this kind of ironic that's happened i really not that i can remember maybe once we played like green bay i think in the play in the preseason but to have two games like this is blowing my mind right now so um but we play both of them in the preseason and these are like two of the best teams in the league and i'd like to think that the chiefs is one of the best teams in the league so i think these are like essentially four games where we're gonna see these guys so i always thought the preseason games were kind of one-offs games that you don't really see the other opponent during the season definitely the way it usually is for sure um and i don't know why this year i get two of the best teams in the league in preseason i would assume that it will kind of change the game planning but more so the the guys won't play in every single game i feel like when we did this before i think we did this with the steelers one year maybe the jets another year because the steelers and jets were like just two teams we always played in the preseason we always played like our last preseason game almost every time against the jets and then we would always have a steelers game usually and a couple of times we did play them in the regular season and you just end up i mean you're not showing anything in these preseason games anyways like you're doing a very rundown vanilla offense you're not doing specific plays that you would try to run against these guys in the regular season you're just kind of doing generic things yeah you don't get me wrong you're still trying to win the game but more so you're still you're just trying to get your fundamentals in you're trying to you know get lined up see what see how the other team's presenting itself and getting in sync with the guys in a live situation it does seem like teams are doing more in pre like defensive coordinators i see running like zero blitz in preseason games now and i see like them doing more chaotic stuff which you used to like towards the end of the game when you like i remember marty morning with wanting to fight a defensive coordinator one time in the preseason because he did a blitz zero it's like an unspoken rule that you aren't going to do a lot of that stuff well i've never heard of that rule i think it's not a rule anymore i feel like i've seen it more so towards the end of games if the game means like the game is coming down to the wire with the young guys in there because you you sense i want to see how a quarterback reacts i want to see how players go up and make plays in that situation to get them ready for a live you know in season moment when the bullets are really flying so in terms of planning um and play i just think it's uh it's obviously going to be different just because it's the preseason the The other thing is if you have a joint practice, usually you won't do a joint practice with the team that you're playing.

52:03Jason Kelce:Like I've almost, I don't think I've ever seen that. Maybe I'm wrong. I thought that's what you do. You go, oh, you're talking about joint practice with somebody you play during the season. Correct. Nice. That's one that I feel like is because you are showing, usually that's why the coaches like the joint practices is they feel a little bit more willing to do some of the things that they've been working on. And you're going to show a little bit more because it's not nationally broadcast in the practice. Although coaches do talk. They do be talking. I do think – I feel like that would be something I would avoid for sure if I was playing the team in the regular season.

52:43Jason Kelce:All right. Do we want to do one more? Yeah, let's do it. All right. This one is what are your top three favorite schedule release videos? I'm not going to lie. I do not watch schedule release videos. I don't watch them either. Did hear that mom was a part of Kansas City, so shout out mom. Oh, shout out mom. Mascots. Which NFL team's mascot would survive the longest? Wait, if mascots had to play one down of real football, which NFL team's mascot would survive the longest? What does that fucking mean? And which one would instantly regret its life choices? So which one would dominate the most and which one would get killed?

53:18That's what I'm taking away. Shout out to Tyler Garman for the tweet. Right off the bat, the one that's the most reckless with the peewee games is the Colts.

53:30Jason Kelce:Oh, dude. I'm all in on Big Blue. I think him, doesn't the Jaguars guy zipline in? He does some gnarly shit. The Jaguars mascot does do some very cool stuff. Casey Wolfe is a goofball, and I fucking love him. Yeah. I'll throw him up there. I don't know. Not necessarily intimidating, but definitely not. He's not going to be a little bitch. Same with Swoop. I'll go Swoop on that as well. You know who I think is going to get just, I don't know. Part of this just is like the animal that it represents. I feel like the Cardinal is just going to get absolutely obliterated. I mean, this thing is. I don't know, man.

54:07It's a little baby bird. The one that's going to last the longest is Big Blue. He's shown the most recklessness of all the mascots.

54:16Jason Kelce:There we go. Oh, yeah. Look at this highlight. Dude. Just really, that's a hell of a... Oh! You're on the flag! This kid's just... Oh, nice. Get him. Get him. Team fight. Team fight.

54:33Jason Kelce:Look at the Viking coming in. Gosh, I would have had so much fun if this was a real thing.

54:42He's got to get his jersey back.

54:43Jason Kelce:Did he take his jersey off? Where's his jersey? I think one of the little kids might have ripped it off. Ripped it off? Or did he take it off? Oh, I got ripped off. Nice. That's a good move. I like it. That's a good move by two. That does it for No Dumb Questions, brought to you by Sleep Number. Reminder, you can pre-order our No Dumb Questions book on Kelsey Clubhouse right now. Right now. And that wraps up another episode of New Heights. Reminder, there are still tickets available to New Heights live show in LA on June 15th. Check out the link in the description and make sure you subscribe to the New Heights channel on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.

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55:50Jason Kelce:all right let's move on that's enough schedule talk well we've okay sorry to be a dick here but we kind of covered a lot of these um yeah fuck we already kind of answered all these questions well i mean it is what it is that's because you're looking at two dumbasses brandon we think we think of the dumb questions Well, to be fair, the questions weren't like that wild. Let's ask AI a dumb question. No. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced 1D1? What? Why isn't the number 11 pronounced 1D1? 22, 33. Brandon, are you understanding what he's saying? Oh, God damn it. I get it now. Yeah, that did not connect.

56:41That fucking boomerang drowned the room for a minute. Jesus, I got it.

56:46Jason Kelce:If you're in a boat in the middle of a lake and you throw an anchor overboard, does the lake get deeper?

56:59Yeah. Right? No. It has to. Well, I mean, yeah, but by an imperceptible amount. Yeah, it's got to go up. Like you're adding something to the volume of the lake.

57:11Jason Kelce:Wait, but no, it doesn't because the anchor is already factored into the buoyancy in the boat. Right. That weight is already in the boat. So it's already displaced. So the boat's already pushing down on the top of the water, moving the water out. And the anchor was in the boat. And when you move the anchor from the boat in, it just kind of nets out. Right. I think that's how that works. I wish I wasn't stupid. That's actually a pretty good one. That's a pretty good one.