Counting Down the Best 92 'New Heights' Moments of All Time | Part 2

28:32I got there an hour early to warm up because I literally thought a way that I could get ahead in this industry faster would be scoring 30 points in this game. And I've seen so many celeb games where I'm like, these guys suck. And so I was excited to go there and really... and a few things happened. and one, I'm there warming up by myself, and Chris Brown walks in. First time I ever saw Chris Brown. And so I'm like blown away by like just seeing him. He walks right up to me, and he goes, you're a dope rapper. And I was like, and it was so early, I would never expect him to know who I am, and like to have like an icon in the music industry who has like countless, like number, it's just like him saying that to me meant everything.

29:13That was the impetus of Freaky Friday, us meeting there, that's step one. That's like the least important part of the story. Then, then, We play in, the game starts, I'm not in the starting lineup, nowhere close. It's like, you know, it's the people I named. My coach is John Wall. The way he - That's a good coach. Well, not actually, because - The way John Wall went about operating his team was he did five in, five out. So he had starting five, then he just - So complete subs. Yeah, so I'm in the next five. I'm told to get Chris Brown, so I walk up to Chris and I go like, yo, I'm in for you. And he goes, I'm not coming out.

29:51Oh, that's awkward. And then there's 11 guys on the court. Everyone is like matched up. Like I'm clearly the odd man. I look to John Wall. Can you help? It's like coach, coach. And he goes, John Wall goes like. And he brings me back over. First thing I say is like, John, like get a grip and like have some like authority on your team. It's just like humiliating to like send me out there and then pull me back in. It's like so emasculating. This is so good. And then they're playing, and then I get in like the next five or whatever. I get in the game. I get in the game. I get the ball. I drive aggressively.

30:34I go up. I get to the rim. I get fouled so hard by Deontay Wilder, the at the time heavyweight champion of the world. Dude, like everyone went like, like everyone, like the whole gym went like, because I thought I really got hurt. I didn't hurt. I think the, I don't know, it didn't really hurt that much. I took it. In the moment. Oh my gosh. I get up, I miss two free throws, and then I play one more meaningless minute. And then I just didn't even, I moved to the end of the bench and just chose not to even make myself available for the rest of the game. But that was a real, there was several different moments in there that felt like welcome to the industry.

31:11That was the first time I think I ever was on Getty Images. You know what I mean? when there was like watermarked images of like me talking to Snoop. So good. That's amazing. I don't want to like restate the clip too much because it just played, but there are so many funny beats in that from the fact that he got fouled by Deontay Wilder to John Wall not knowing how to coach. Great storyteller. Great episode. Season two. Go back and check that one out. All right. Sticking with a basketball theme, one of our favorite basketball guests we've ever had on the show. So this is Shaq breaking down his favorite dunks of all time at number 60.

31:47There's two of them. And I actually just seen this dude the other day, Chris Dudley. Nice. I took it as a sign of respect when you didn't double me. And I don't even know who was on me. Like, you know, that switch. I'm like, I know this ain't fucking Chris Dudley. So I take one little dribble to double. He's trying to. One dribble. The fuck? I take two dribbles. I even carry on a second. I was like, oh, these motherfuckers not coming. Now I got to take that and then just drop step and then boop. And like he was all on me and I was like, fuck off me. And then my second favorite dunk was game seven.

32:22Portland's kicking ass. So we come to the time on the fourth quarter and Phil Jackson, him used to like mine. All right, guys. Great year. They're kicking your ass. I'll see you next year. Kobe's pissed. He said, I'm pissed. He said, I'm like, man, fuck that. Let's go on a little run. So we're going on a run. Kobe's in Kobe mode. He's getting to the hole. Two people, three people, he don't care. He knows he has to score. And I'm telling him the whole time, hey, man, that fucking lob is over. We made kind of eye contact. I won't say he winked at me, but he looked at me, and he crossed Scotty up at the top of the key.

32:53He crossed Scotty up, and he got in the middle lane, and he threw the motherfucker up too high, and I had to go get it. Throw it up, Kobe. Throw it up, Kobe. Oh!

33:03Yeah, Kobe. Good pass. Yes, sir. That one right there. That place is fucking rocking. I'll say this one gets a little extra love from me because, and I'm going to put this in the audio. This is only for the audio listeners. And do not snitch me out. That was some wild copyright infringement we did in that episode. Shaq was yelling at me to show his highlights, and I didn't want to tell him, like, I don't know if I can, Shaq. Brandon, roll the clip. Yeah, Brandon, roll the clip. I said, that sounds legal to me. I'm rolling it. This episode made you the guy in the green fucking shirt. That is the guy in the green fucking shirt.

33:38Yes, Shaq. Thank you for the nickname. Number 59. This is, I think this is our first clip from the first episode. Like, on this list? Oh, first clip from episode one on this list. On this list. This is the first appearance of episode one, which is a fascinating episode to go back and watch. I did that recently. This is how Jason spent his off season. Highlight of my off season was going to see my cows in Missouri, the show me state. Where they showed me some cows. What got you into that? I think going to a cousin's farm growing up in West Virginia. So I bought 11 cows. We had nine calves, and I went out there for calving and branding.

34:15Guys on horses, lassos, roping them, tying them down, piece of hot iron in the fire. This isn't funny, man. I'm not going to lie. It was intense. Did you? Oh, yeah. You do the branding, and then you also got to castrate the ones that you're not going to keep as bulls. You city slicker, you, man. There's two ways you do it. Either one, you do the banded method, and the band cuts off the blood supply, and the nuts just fall off. I'm out. Where are we even going with this? I don't want to know about how you did this. You asked me what I did this offseason. Have you cut Bull's nuts off? No, I don't think you have.

34:48A little behind-the-scenes story for this now that we've pulled this foot. Give him some BTS. First episode we ever recorded the show. Didn't know what the show was going to be. No idea. Didn't really understand how the process would work. We were recording this around or over Labor Day weekend. We hit record and we put it out. What do you mean you didn't understand? We were on vacation for celebrating my wife's birthday. And I was so like, the show came up, it came up quick. I was like, I'm so sorry. I have to work during our vacation. We were in like a tiny little Airbnb. And she came back because she had like gone out to like a farmer's market or something.

35:22She came back and I'm cackling at my computer. And she was like, what is, what are you watching? What is going on? And I was like, I think we're going to have a pretty funny show. This was a moment where Brandon and I were like texting each other. Like, I think this is what the show is. I'll be honest. You know, we, we kind of put some stuff in the first ever, like rundown. That was just like, you know, we knew Travis had done like cool celebrity stuff. We wanted to talk about that and watching Jason get visibly over it and being like, Hey, so I had my hand up a bull's ass. Right. And we're like, Oh, here we go.

35:51This is, this is, this is, he is cutting off a cool golf story with wanting to talk about castrating bulls or whatever the fuck he was doing. went god damn it jason there's the banded method and it it also was just perfect because you had jake like not only was jason telling this graphic story in full detail you have the foil of travis just trying to like slow his brother down but also being endlessly entertained by him that this was there was also debate when we first did this episode um like you know we always kind of decide what to make into social clips and i remember the the first meeting after the episode like well we got to do the bull thing first and everybody went what are you fucking talking i'm like this is the fun you've ever seen like imagine if we open this football show with a clip about bull testicles and that got voted down so i think it became the third second or third clip ever made but i want i thought that was the best moment of the episode was like what better way to define what this show is than it's two brothers fighting about castrating bulls i don't know what else you expecting sticking with season one we've got a couple season one clubs back to back here uh but coming in at number 58, maybe the most contentious debate we've ever had on the show, is Waffle House a diner?

37:07Trevor Lawrence celebrated his big win in Jacksonville by going to Waffle House. I went to Waffle House last week. Dude, Waffle House is tremendous. What do you get at the Waffle House? What's your go-to? Patty Mill with the Hass Browns. I'm All-American Breakfast. Sausage over easy. I'm getting two waffles regardless. The waffles are unbelievable. I don't like fast food that's trying to be something that it's not. Waffle House isn't fast food. Well, it's the fast food of breakfast. What? What would you call it? It's a diner. It's different than a diner. It's a diner, but it's not a diner. It's literally modeled after a diner.

37:37I would not classify it as a diner. I would classify it as a Waffle House. You're calling it fast food and it's not fast food. Have you ever been to a diner? Yes. It looks exactly like it. Diners are unique. Like you're at Marty's Diner. Let's have that as a fan vote. Is Waffle House a diner? I don't think it's a diner 100 a diner is ihop a diner no it's a full-on restaurant that's a loose term for a restaurant if you ask me brandon where do you land on this debate waffle house is waffle house it does not fit into any sort of uh category is a place outside of time and space it has its own legal system it has its own uh justice department it has its own you know if you've been to a waffle house you understand you walk in there you are sort of like in unincorporated territory you are in the Wild West.

38:22You've adopted a whole new constitution while walking in there. I do not consider it a diner. I don't consider it a restaurant. So it's not fast food. It's not a diner. It is a place that producer Aaron Loric still has to go to because he owes us like a shit ton of waffles from the March Madness thing. We have a waffle bet that we've not forgotten about. We haven't forgotten, Aaron. Just didn't have time to do it. Anyways. Brandon, take us to number 57. Season one, our first live show in Kansas City. What a throwback. This is the moment we revealed Pat Mahomes to the audience. What? Is that the Texas Red State?

39:01Or is that the Texas Gunsletter? Right now, Texas Red State! Oh! Oh! Very good.

39:17Woo!

39:29Wow.

39:36Mic check. Ladies and gentlemen, your Super Bowl winning quarterbacks.

39:45Yeah, you were in a big throw the football into the crowd. mood. You threw the first ball into the crowd, threw the second ball into the crowd. And you were telling me before we got going on the show today that you were a little bit upset you threw the second touchdown into the crowd. Fuck! Because that was Chad Henney's first playoff touchdown pass. I checked the stats. I think it is his first touchdown pass in the playoffs. And he's been in the league since 2008. So I think that might be one that he would want to hold on to. obviously wasn't thinking that when I scored, just got excited and said, woo-hoo!

40:24Yeah. Yeah. So we asked the Kansas City fan if you could please return that ball so I could gift it to my guy. That's a retirement gift. And I'll tell you what, they are here today. Come on. Get out of here. The 92 % has got it done. Let's go. Where are you at? I know we're here. Who's got the ball? Where are you? Show yourself. Oh, yeah, baby. You got a Chad Henne and you got a Travis Kelsey back onto the stage. In a true quarterback fashion, we need you to throw this ball. And you already know. We'll compensate you. I can't say anything. Throw it to Travis. Let's see this for him. Throw it to Travis.

41:08All right. He's going right-handed. Right-handed. Chuck it. Chuck it. Oh. Oh. Oh! He's always got our back. He's always got our back, man. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. That's awesome. Thank you. Yeah! Thank you. That's awesome. Appreciate it. Ladies and gentlemen, Chad Haney and Pat Mahone. Woo!

41:38Thank you, Katie. Love y 'all. I'm out. Don't forget this guy. Don't forget my beard. This is our first ever live show, which was insane. Doing it in Kansas City around the draft after the Chiefs have won the Super Bowl just could not have been a more perfectly timed thing. But the reason this moment in particular, I think, makes the list for me, because I think we have another moment from this live show later on on the list. Spoiler alert. But the reason that this one for me is because, you know, I interact with a lot of our fans on social media and being able to come full circle from talking on the show about how Travis chucked Chad Henney's only ever playoff touchdown throw into the stands to four months later, having those fans show up to our live show, get him the ball back, get them a signed ball.

42:35Like, you know, that's just like building community is like a really cool thing. And like that is the quintessential example of why you want to do it. It's because you get to unite fans with players like this and do not only a cool thing for the fan where they get to be a part of the show. But like I know for a fact Chad Hedy appreciated the shit out of that. And so that was a really, really cool moment for for all of us. Number 56 from everyone's favorite episode. Are you doing all of the ones? Are you just doing all of it? No, no, no, no. Oh, are you putting that in there now? Fuck you. Jesus.

43:10So Jake, you're setting up all your clips. Interesting. It was just something I'm noticing. Noticing. You did two clips in a row earlier, which threw off her order. So you were technically supposed to be doing this one, but that's fine. I will do it. With that short temper, I don't know. I mean, fatherhood, I don't know. It's going to be tough on you, buddy. I got to go to OBGYN soon. Well, keep moving. Number 56 from Everyone's Favorite Episode. So this is Taylor Swift dropping some ball knowledge. Jason, on our first date, I legitimately asked him what it was like when the Chiefs played the Eagles in the Super Bowl.

43:45And he looked across the field, across the line of scrimmage and saw his brother standing on the other five feet in front of him on the field. And he was like, he was and he didn't even he didn't even look at me. I now know what an insane question that was. He was like, actually, I'm on the offense and my brother's on the offense and I'm only on the field at the same time as defense. I thought everyone was on there at the same time. I thought I thought that the quarterback. I mean, that's how you played it on the on the playground growing up. So I understand if you hadn't like. No, you don't understand.

44:19I thought it was like Jared Goff is here and Josh Allen's here. And they're going to be like they blow a whistle and then they they go at each other and they're like. who's gonna win that's actually i would love to see jared goff play some defense let's see i've got some ideas i've got some thoughts yeah i didn't know what a first down was i didn't know what the chains were i didn't know what a tight end was i am forever thankful for you diving into the football world wholeheartedly oh my god i fell in love with it i became obsessed with it i became like a person who was running through the halls of my house screaming we drafted xavier worthy and my friends are like what is who body snatched you this is this is that what do you mean we drafted xavier worthy i forget where i was but you were the first person to tell me that no i was screeching i couldn't believe it i was freaking out we're talking about like i'm like wait does she she right i got to look this up i'm like she she get the wrong information here but yeah we traded up yeah we're talking about cover two cover four cover zero man cover we're talking we're we're learning i think i continue to learn maybe somebody else that even knows what those coverages are yeah i'm not ready to be an analyst right now but give me 16 months you're gonna pick up on it i'm telling you i thought you would ask some of the best questions when we were up in the booth and there's like your desire to learn more but your genuine excitement around it as well as like your competitiveness she's not fucking around nope oh my god to be honest i had the same reaction to the chiefs driving xavier worthy i said it's my guy it's my guy i said hook him i said hook him that became like a whole thing they showed that clip to xavier like they made it they did they did that's awesome now we should i mean listen if she's got time official draft correspondent is a cool title to have we'll happily you know anytime um number 55 charles barkley eating his way out of philly charles one of the best guests uh by all means chuck take it away i was about 300 pounds in college i think most people know that yeah between two round 295 basically so the sixes basketball player.

46:42The pitchers had bought me in for a visit. And the owner says, hey, everybody's concerned about your weight. Why don't you stop back here the day before the draft before we went to New York. We want you to weigh 285. And I said, okay. So I get down about 285, 83, somewhere in there. And then my agent says to me, they have a hard cap in the NBA. hey, so if you get drafted by the Sixers, you're going to have to play your first year for$75 ,000. Oh, my gosh. Shit, I didn't leave college for$75 ,000. I could have got that much in college.

47:26I said, well, I don't want the Sixers to draft me. We went on an eating binge. No way. Oh, yeah. We went to, like, Benning's in the morning, you know, to get the Grand Slam breakfast and everything. Yeah. All three days, all three days. I was 283. I got like 299 right in there. And the owner called me every name in the book, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Said, can't believe your fat ass, blah, blah, blah. I leave, and I'm thinking like, woo, we dodged a bullet. And if you go back and look at that tape, there's this look on my face when they said, put the fifth overall pick in the draft, the Philadelphia 76ers select Charles Barkley out of Auburn.

48:07I got this look on my face like, what the? How did this happen? So my first contract ended up being four years, two million dollars. But I tried to eat my way out of Philadelphia. True story. Fun behind the scenes moment of this one. Very surreal moment for me personally was trying to help Charles Barkley fix the camera orientation on his iPhone. And we never fixed it. It stayed vertical. the entire time and we said fuck it we'll figure it out chuck go ahead i believe this is one of our longer episodes too because go re-watch this episode it's incredible it's season one fucking blast season one fucking blast have chuck on one of the best to ever do it full circle from we started season one telling stories about how travis used to call himself charles after charles barkley a few months later charles is a guest on the pod which is incredible he was the best all All right.

49:00Number 54. We're going overseas for this episode in season two. And it's the guys talking about meeting future New Heights guest, Prince William. We met royalty. There was royalty at the show. Got to meet Prince William. How about that? Your Royal Highness. Last episode, I think I was quoted as saying royalty. He was so cool. He's a good dude. Obviously we're backstage meeting him. He was there with little George in Charlotte. They were an absolute delight to meet. Wasn't sure if I was supposed to like bow to them, curtsy, just be an American idiot and shake their hand. They specified because we weren't at like an official royal event, we didn't need to bow or curtsy, but I did still address them as your Royal Highness.

49:44Yeah, no, 100%. And I've never, I've never felt emasculated. And I did. That was the closest I've ever been. I've never seen you give that someone that much respect. You put your beer like 10 feet away from you. I didn't have it in my teeth when I met him. I gotta say Prince William was fantastic meeting him, but the highlight was Princess Charlotte. She was so f***ing adorable. I don't know, maybe it's because I have three girls now. She had fire to her. She was asking questions. Thank you, Your Royal Highness. It was awesome meeting you. And Charlotte and George. Fun fact about this episode, it was recorded at three o 'clock in the morning Pacific time.

50:15Yep. I remember I went to bed at, fuck, I think I went to bed at like 10 and set an alarm for like one to wake up to record this because both guys were in London. We were in LA. Great episode. One of the dumbest things we've ever done, which was, do you mind being on London time for an evening? And I said, sure, that's fine. Oh, also, we need a full tea set. I said, that's fine. Sure, of course you do. Why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you need a full tea set? You know what's not on this list that came out of this episode? Huh? Alice in Wonderland. Alice in Wonderland. All right, well, maybe we can delete something else up ahead.

50:50Whatever. 53, Jake. A segment we haven't done in a little while, but was a classic in the early seasons of this show, in part because of this version of it, and it's players as Harry Potter. Jason, can you please sort NFL players into Hogwarts houses? Do you want to go down the list of players? Start throwing names at me. Let's see how it happens. Where's Jason Kelsey? I mean, I'm going to put myself in Gryffindor. Come on, baby. Do I get in Gryffindor? I'd put you in Gryffindor. You're in Gryffindor for sure. Jalen Hurts. Gryffindor. We can't put everyone in Gryffindor, Jason. You're asking me all my friends.

51:22Who doesn't Jason know? All right. What about Russell Wilson? I think he's in Slytherin. Slytherin? I was thinking he was like a Hufflepuff. You know what? I'll do that. I'll go Hufflepuff. Ask me a coach. Bill Belichick. Oh, Slytherin all day. What about a guy like Tony Romo? Slytherin. I mean, anybody on the Cowboys is Slytherin. So is Jerry Jones like, is he like the head of Slytherin? He's Lord Voldemort. He's probably got horcruxes scattered all through the United States. Jason Garrett being one of them. What's a horcrux? Well, a horcrux is when somebody separates their soul and they put their soul into another object or person you see what i'm saying you see where we're going in this it makes sense now right yeah it started out as more of like just doing the sorting hat for players um like players that's kind of like came out of this eventually but yeah sorting players in what house is harry in harry's house as a harry potter nerd who like absolutely grew up loving the books and movies and a diehard football fan like that was just such an intersection of my interest that I will forever love this clip.

52:24Keeping it moving, number 52, the Jason Helmetta story from the first Beer Bowl. All right, let's just, let's go to the clip and we'll do some backstory on there at the end of it. Do you have a welcome to the NFL moment as a coach? What was your welcome to the NFL moment? You really want to go here? Yeah! Do I? Now that you just replied with that, yes. Well, the way the Novocare is set up, there's two fields and we rotate and after we wear them out a little bit. Yeah. They kind of cross. You remember all that. So we were, the fields were perpendicular to the Broad Street. And something happened crazy.

53:07I don't even remember what happened. But Jason got very upset and ripped his helmet off. Noticing a trend. And let it go. Just sitting on the field. He threw his helmet? I've got one of these stories, too. Which instance of this? I feel like I've had 10 since I've been here. No, no, no, no, no, no. You've never seen anything like this. This was, wow. This is going to be interesting. Makes you think he could be in the Olympics for shot put or something. A little discus. There we go. There was a spin on it, too. I've seen that helmet fly 50 yards onto the sideline. You almost hit Ferrari that one day, John Ferrari.

53:43That was an impressive one. It just kept going and going. I haven't actually seen that. Something about a helmet throw. It's just electric. Gets the people going. Was it warranted or was he being a big baby? I don't even remember what the reason it was. I swear, I don't remember. There's been too many instances. They're all just running together. It's a great story. And the first beer bowl is kind of like a defining moment for the show because it's genuinely, and I mean this respectfully, our dumbest idea. This first one was incredibly stupid. it and I'll give you the quick play by play the night before for real new heights head the night before Jake and I and and our and our boy Greg our boy Greg were in Philadelphia recording the we're telling this story finally thank God we recorded the Alejandro Villain Wave episode and I'm not pointing fingers somebody was hours late to that recording I'm not saying who I'll let you guys guess in the comments I say somebody was hours late to where we did not leave Philadelphia for Sea Isle until midnight.

54:50So we were driving through the night to Sea Isle. I think we got to the hotel at 1, 1.30 in the morning, hit the bed, were back up at the OD by 6 a.m. to start setting up drinking games? Yes. Can I back up really quickly to include the best part of this story? Go ahead. We are driving to Sea Isle. It's me, Brandon, and Greg. Greg is driving. I am working on some social stuff in the back seat. Brandon is working on the episode in the front seat. We are in a one-way highway with two lanes. I look up. We're on the left side. Cool. Go back down, doing my notes, look up again. We're still on the left side.

55:29The road has changed to a two-way road. And at 1230 in the morning, I say, hey, Greg, are you on the wrong side of the road? He goes, oh, my bad, and gets into the right lane. We were driving Europe style for about 12, 20 miles there. It was not great. Everybody's fine. It's fine. It's one of those fun stories that you get to tell people. Hey, we lived through it. It's fine. Great episode, though. Go watch it. First appearance of Statlin on the show. Number 51, maybe one of the most tweeted at phrases I get tossed our way, is the Squirt Squad. I mean, just a great example of why I know dumb questions is arguably the best segment.

56:11and how, yeah, we do kind of always evolve into a dick joke, don't we? At Joe D. Fran on Twitter, at New Heights, why don't players squirt their own water? No, don't question. That is such a good question. I mean, honestly, somebody comes up to me with it already, like right here, and all they got to do is just, they just go around from person to person and just like, do you want one? I can shoot you real quick. And it's like, it's way easier than handing the bottle and handing it. I don't know. It's maybe not that much easier, but it is convenient. I will say that. Yeah, I think this typically happens in like a TV timeout or something like that, where you're trying to be efficient and get water to as many guys as possible before the timeouts up.

57:01So you kind of just know when somebody reaches up to squirt you to open up your mouth, and then you just get squirted. Squirt, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but you don't always like they don't have to do the squirting. You can do the squirting sometimes. But, you know, when you develop a relationship, you just know when you're about to get squirted on and you develop your mouth to make sure that you get. Yeah. You got to have a good relationship with the person squirting. Yeah. You don't want to just be letting randos squirt on you. Yeah. You got to make sure you know who you're dealing with. Then it doesn't feel as a trusted like trainer, coach.

57:37individual teammate i'll let a teammate squirt me sometimes but that's just a good teammate i'm trainer i'll squirt i'll squirt you guys if you need one trainer trav i train to try have that in my fucking i got that fucking i got that thing right on the hip just need one yeah i got you there's something that feels good about giving somebody a squirt like it's like it Feels like you're doing them a solid. Like, I'll give you a squirt. You want some? I'll give you a squirt. Dude, have you ever trusted someone to squirt you and they just fucking miss your mouth? Yeah, it's the worst. Dude, my pet peeve.

58:15So these Gatorade water bottles are fantastic, but sometimes they don't screw the lids on all the way. It pisses me off when they just write down. Come on, guys. We embarked on this avenue of trust. I opened my mouth to accept your squirt. And you dumped it all down my chest. Oh, man. Squirt me where I wanted to be squirted. Yeah. Have you seen honorary now new Squirt Squad member Luke Keekly, who drinks like he has a football helmet on? I did see Luke Keekly drink as well. I don't know. I have a lot of fun. Yeah. Incredible. Congrats on the haul, Luke. I had the show on the LA live show. People are demanding that shirt.

58:54I will talk to somebody about maybe limited run of Squirt Squad T-shirts. No, fucking stupid question. Even better answer. Moving number 50. Oh, man. Season one, episode two. Maybe, maybe honestly, one of my personal favorite moments was talking about the wedge unit. Really early moment where not only were the guys laughed, like everyone on the recording was dying laughing in part because of how much these guys were laughing. Just I think just a perfect example of what the heart of the show is. It's like football talk that'll make you die laughing. That was back when there was still a wedge unit on kickoff return.

59:34Can you believe that that used to be a thing? I was a part of it. I don't, I wish it would never happen. Yeah, the wedge unit. This is what your job on the wedge unit was. Back before the NFL decided to outlaw this barbaric behavior. Oh my gosh. You would run back till you were 10 yards from the returner. Lake arms, boys. Interlock arms like a human wall and there'd be one guy's job to look back and say, Go!

1:00:11And you would proceed and your one job.

1:00:19Who came up with this shit, man? It worked like a charm. That's why they did it. I like when we get to delve into the absurdities that is football. Yes. Lock arms, boys. Like that is just what it's the dumbest, smartest sport ever invented. That's why it's the best. Number 49, maybe. And I think we're doing I think we're doing her version of this because Jason told the story without her first. No, we got to give her version. Maybe Kylie's most iconic story on the show. And that's the shark story. How did it feel that Jason left you out of the infested waters and on the mountain? Yeah. In defense, she was nowhere near the shark.

1:00:58So I didn't really leave her in a compromise. What does nowhere near the shark mean? I was in the same water he was. Yeah, but you were significantly more inland. You could see Kylie and you could see the shark. It was hard to see Kylie. That's how far away she was. This man was in and out of the water because he couldn't stay up on his board. If the shark would have been anywhere near you, I would have jumped in and attacked him. It is the fastest I've ever seen the big man move when he would fall in the water and then have to get back up on his board. Quick feet. Gotta get out. Your boy, he was not staying in that water.

1:01:27It's lava. Every time he fell in, full panic to get his ass back up on that board. Going around, paddling. And I turn around and this man is - Scurrying. The fastest I've ever seen this man move. All I said to him was, are you done? And he was like, mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's what you gave her? It was hard to hear what she said because she was so far away from the shark. Ridiculous. Travis, he had to paddle past me to get into the shore and he didn't say anything. But I was, I was out there. I was with the shark. Have you ever heard how you get away from a bear? You just have to be faster than the slowest person.

1:01:58I was his slowest person. He was like every man for himself. You were so far away from the shark and you're having so much fun. I didn't want to ruin the entire experience for you. You just got to be faster than the slowest person, Kylie. That's what he said. Kylie's slower than me. I'm going to just scoot on past her and then I'm safe. I love that we have Jason tell his version and then we get Kylie's version later. Typically, Kylie's feels a little more close to the truth, but that's maybe a bias on my end. Keeping moving to number 48. Man, a lot of you are going to want this one to be a lot, a lot higher in this list, but it is number 48.

1:02:33This is Taylor on Travis's love for otters. All I really use the Internet for is sourdough. And when Travis shows me videos of otters on his Instagram algorithm. I want a wild otter so bad. I just want to find these little creatures and be friends with them. Why a wild one? Aren't they all wild? Oh, no. There's domestic. There's domestic otters. He wants one specifically whose life he saved, who knows that he saved his life. It's a really specific type of otter he's looking for. The videos that I watch are somebody just in a canoe. Yeah, he doesn't want to like go up to an otter and take it from its mother.

1:03:15He wants to see an otter. And the otter's like, my paws caught in a shell. And he's like, I got you. And then the otter's like, thank you forever with its little paws. And then it swims up. And then it's, and you're kayaking. And it's like doing this to you. Like, that's what he wants. And I want it to, honestly. Who doesn't? I mean, who doesn't? Yeah. Right. Yeah. So. I mean, do otters eat bread? Can we get a sourdough eating out? We're going to figure that. I don't know if they do. They're probably. But yeah, we had discussed maybe like carrying around cans of sardines just in case we run into one.

1:03:54Nice. It's better in principle than it is in practice. Easier to conceptualize. It seems pretty easy though. You just got to go canoeing. Which is also easier in principle than it is in practice for us in terms of just the weight balance on the water. I'm on the hunt for a friend. Yeah. Stuff you didn't know you needed to know, right, Jason? I mean, I love otters. This is what Life After Errors tour is, though, Jason. You got to, it's so crazy. Travis, I'm retired. I am all in on this. I mean, we had so many zoos reach out to us after this clip. My DMs are mostly zoos at this point, and I will get to all of you, and I will see your otters.

1:04:33I promise you. I will be on an otter tour at some point. um yeah i also you know people made a lot of fan art of this i believe we've been mailed plushy otters so we're ottered up but it's generally one of the best stories and uh did not see that coming in the record the official uh animal mascot of new heights and otter probably number 47 uh an episode uh you know that one of the episodes we were dying to make yeah and we i mean we need to this guy back on the show again at this point it's been too long anytime but anytime open invite it's andy reed talking about drafting both kelsey brothers edition of 12 bold topics with my head coach jason why don't you lead us off yeah the biggest and the most important question of them all so we got the draft coming up so we think we'd start with the draft you obviously drafted both of us and i don't know if i've ever told you this story but i was in the pro bowl one year and and John Gruden was sitting there.

1:05:30I think you guys had done a production meeting, and he said, you know, I saw Andy before one of the games, and I said, so you drafted Jason and you drafted Travis. And he said, your response was, I drafted Jason, I drafted Travis, and if there's any other Kelseys out there, I'll draft them too. So I'm asking you right now on the spot, why my daughter is three years old. If you're still coaching in 18 years, can we get another Kelsey drafting? Absolutely. Yeah! Yeah! Absolutely. You got a Y. You got a baby girl. Do you remember what led to me getting drafted? Yours was real easy. So you were a great player.

1:06:07Okay. A little bit undersized. Yeah. But had tremendous toughness, speed. You were smart and dirty tough. And so that was an easy decision. Yeah. And we needed a center. Yeah. And so you fit in. We just got rid of all that linebacker stuff in you. Gave you the hard mud and cut you loose. This guy, I saw a play against Temple. And my son kept telling me this tight end is unbelievable. Kelsey's brother is like incredible. I mean, you know, he's 265 pounds. He's a beast. And then I get him. He's in scouting. I know. Then I get him. He's like 240. But that's okay. I remember this. I'm going to bring back a memory for you.

1:06:49Game's over. They just destroyed Temple. And I come over to the locker room. You're there. Yep. with your boss, yeah. And he comes walking, be popping out and just giving me the business. Yeah. Like we're long lost friends. And I'm going, deep down I'm going, if I get my hands on that son of a buck, I am going to rip his heart. But I played along with it. Yeah. Cocky, cocky. Jamie is cocky. Yeah. But listen, I knew the roots. I knew the roots. Yeah. So for the first five years, it's been, it was a war. The last five years have been unbelievable. You know, you traveled the country to 50 states and 50 girls.

1:07:35I knew this show would be easy. Catchy Kelsey, yeah. This show would be easy. Yeah, this is nothing compared to that. We've made plays after it. We've had our fun. And that play has been a hell of a play for us, Coach. No, it has. It has. Constant seven. Not that show, though. Not that show. Not that show. We won't rerun that show. we did record this in the chief's facility and you just aren't expecting the aura of andy reed and then andy reed shows up and you go oh yes i will do whatever this guy asked me to do i yes coach like i immediately was saying yes coach i think this is the most nervous i've ever seen jason be for an episode we were all nervous that's that's coach gave us way more time than he should have um right around the draft and can't thank him enough but yeah andy reed one of the best.

1:08:21Number 46, again, a number like this is this is another moment that came out of nowhere that has now become a defining question we get all the time that I'm glad we've ruined Jason's life with. This is Jason Kelsey, hotspots guy. A dermatologist has officially weighed in. What do you say? Jason Kelsey statements, true or false? Should we only be washing hotspots or are our feet part of a routine? As I was showering this morning, I looked down and I thought, am I going to wash my feet this morning. And yes, I absolutely did wash my feet. God damn it, doctor. Kelsey, you are actually correct. You don't always have to wash every part of your body.

1:09:02Focusing on hot spots is actually a thing. And no, I'm not actually supported or funded by big soap, Jason, as well. I'm with you. First of all, I don't believe that Dr. Forber washed his feet. I don't believe him. I think he just said that because he was on national television and he's afraid of being shame i do believe that he admitted that i'm correct i want to say verbatim at one point he said jason kelsey is correct he did i think that happened in the video i didn't hear anything other than that that's what i heard doctors were weighing in about where you should and shouldn't wash your body and i love that you guys you can change the man's mind it's not happening this spawned uh jason's tweet about dermatologists being in bed with big soap big soap big soap big soap got called out just an all-time debate and an all-time clip i've done a few hot spots showers recently he's not wrong um you want to go number 45 number 45 from season one one of my favorite football plays in the last five years since we've been doing this show uh it is uh mac jones versus the raiders the the lateral fumble tackle i don't even know how we want to phrase it the guys reacting in This clip is so good.

1:10:14Give it a listen. You guys tried a lateral play to end the game going into overtime? And Jacoby Myers throwing it backwards. I mean, how far back? He threw it like 20 yards backwards to the slowest guy in the field. That's behind everyone. Who's the worst person that can have the ball right now? Mac Jones. Okay, where's he at? He's 30 yards behind everybody. I could only imagine the situation Mac is in. He looked like he had no idea what was going on. What do you think Chandler Jones is thinking? He's like, could you imagine being Chandler Jones? Is that the ball? Why? Why is it coming? Bro. And then he catches it and Mac Jones is just one-on-one with Kevin Garnett.

1:10:52And he's stuck under the rim. Just absolutely stiffied. Mac, I know we're not a defensive player. We got to put up a better effort than that, buddy. I'm the worst tackler ever, man. It looked like he tried to take a charge. He thought he was playing basketball. He tried to get a ruff in the passer. Maybe I get a ruffing the passer. Ah! When football goes wrong, I feel like everybody can enjoy it. And Mac Jones, having met him recently, one of the best guys. So Mac, I'm sorry we laughed at this so hard. I think even he would laugh at it knowing him. It is genuinely one of the funnier football follies of the last like five years.

1:11:28Moving on to number 44. Man, this was a guest that we were all pumped about. George Clooney, just like, you know, he's on the list of people that I cannot imagine that I'm speaking to because that is – he comes on camera and you go, holy shit, that's a movie star. And one of the nicest guys. This is George Clooney on his favorite prank. Jimmy Kimmel gave me a stack of stationery with a presidential seal and Bill Clinton's name on it. All right. And I would send notes to all these actors from Bill Clinton. and I'd sign it. And I'd find a movie that wasn't a great film of theirs. And I'd be like, I love you in this film.

1:12:07And I'd write these notes. And I'd send to like 30 different actors. I guarantee you some of them are framed in some of their own. Oh, my gosh. They don't even know. They still don't know. That is amazing. Now they know. Now they know. Oh, my gosh. Holy crap. By the way, I do that a lot. Like I had Brad Pitt stationary. somebody had sent me this this book of of of dialects like cds where you could do an irish accent or you could do a french accent there's a guy who teaches it and i had this big book i don't know why i had somebody send it to me and so i take a note with brad pitt and i send it to meryl street and i go dear meryl from brad yeah i go this guy helped me in my accent in the movie troy and i thought maybe you could use it and i sent her this book of accents

1:13:09it's so awful

1:13:14like four years later i see her and i tell the story yeah he knows it now four years later i I see Meryl and I tell her the story and she's like, oh my God, I was wondering why the fuck he's sending me.

1:13:32So awful. That is epic. I mean, talk about a guy coming on and just commanding the interview. He had instant charisma. Just, you get it. You get it. You go, yeah, I get why people want to film you. I understand now. Makes total sense. All right. Coming in at number 43, we got the goat, Tom Brady. I hate from a Jets fan. Yeah. So Jets, Jake says, Tom Brady's the goat. Officially she's fans. You can reach him at AJ chat. Forgot that this was being recorded. Go ahead. Number 43. Number 43. We have a quarterback who played in the NFL for a decent period of time. Tom Brady talking about his buddy Gronk.

1:14:14Gronk didn't ever work. You know, like a lot of receivers, tight ends work on catching drills. Yeah. So like, you know, afterwards hit the jugs machine, you know, a hundred catches and all the receivers did it. Julian would come at like six in the morning and throw tennis balls off the wall and do one hand drills. I never saw Gronk ever do any catching drill ever. And I would throw the ball and every ball I throw to Gronk, like he'd have these big white gloves, right? And we put his hands up like this. It looked like the top of a trash can that I would try to hit. And he would I'd run across the field and he would go, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

1:14:46With like, so he had like a smile on his face. And I'd throw it and it went, the ball would just, the ball would just stick to his hands. Right? So it was like unbelievable. So one day it's like his, it's like third year in the league. All right. And we're at practice and I throw him a ball and it like hits like the palm of his hands and like falls on the ground. And Gronk looks at me and is like, what what was that like what just happened so he goes tommy throw me throw me the ball again and i cooked the ball and i fired at him and he fought it and he it was like he gained his confidence

1:15:32and by the way for the rest of the career i never saw him do a catching drill There was a five second loss of confidence in a receiver's career. And it was like, I'll never forget it. He was just like so lovable. And you're like, come here, man. You're fucking unbelievable. The laughing while he's running full speed is the most grunk thing I've ever felt. Absolutely. He's just having fun going fast. You know what I mean? It's like, whee. I know. I know. What a dude, man. I mean, the grunk noises make that. Gronk noises. Gronk noises, I need to have that as like a, I need to have that on my phone.

1:16:09When our wonderful editing team was editing that clip, the editor who was cutting it reached out to me. It was like, hey, like, what do I put for the captions? And I wrote, just write Gronk noises and everyone will get it. We've been trying to get Tom on for a while and I'm glad we finally got him. Did not disappoint. That episode could have been five hours long. but keeping it moving to number 42 season three, Jason Kelsey out in the wild. One of his earlier spots on, on Monday night countdown. This is Jason Kelsey's dance moves. We also got to look at some new moves. Jason showing off some moves at one move.

1:16:54That's actually new to me. I've only seen you hit one of these two moves before. I told this to Kylie. I said, that's a new move. That is 100 % a new move. I haven't seen that one yet. Kylie said it's the same as the stomp. She said it's just a different variation of your stomp. Yeah, which means it's a new move, this stomp, though. The running man, it wasn't my best running man. I've been better at running. Those knees are getting up. What happened is we were supposed to be on that stage to start countdown, and I walked over there way too early. I had to kill 30 minutes before the show started, and I'm just up there with these DJs just standing there.

1:17:27I'm like, I got to do something up here. I can't just stand here like a jamote. I got to bring the energy. It's golden. You have the greatest running man of all time, dude. I was so proud. Everyone thinks I'm the dancer. Dude, you are the most electric dancer I've ever met in my life. We didn't know how you transition to TV. And I don't know why we had any doubt. Just let the man dance in a tracksuit and let Travis watch it. Just incredible. And this, I mean, you know, spoiler for more moments later, but there had been a lot of discussion on the show about how Jason only has three dance moves.

1:18:04This was a brand new dance, brand new one broke out. I'm just going to tee up the next clip. We'll let it play. And then I'll give some backstory. This is Apollo Ono, the beetle Trav. What the hell is your life doing right now? Dude, I have no idea. Yeah. A lot of false media being tossed out there, but I'll tell you what wasn't false. And it was when I landed in Australia and seeing all the cameras. Yeah, you're like the Beatles. Yeah. I went into the FBL. Like Yoko Ono. I'm like the Beatles.

1:18:41Yoko Ono. Was that Speed Skater?

1:18:48That's Apollo. Are you thinking of Apollo like Anton Ono? Yeah. Oh, my God. That's fucking hilarious. is oh god that's good uh yoko oh no oh god uh no i don't even know the full story of yoko i know that she was with john lennon and that's about the extent that i know but yeah she might have been a figure skater actually i mean who knows speed skater speed skater speed skater sorry Okay, go ahead. Backstory time. Well, so the thing that made this clip so great too was this was such an emotional episode. Like Jason had just retired. We were out in Philly. The guys were together. We had recorded like 20 minutes already of like tears and emotional.

1:19:40Heavy episode. Heavy episode. And then when Jason goes, you're like Yoko Ono. Travis goes the speed skater everyone in the room was like they're recording we're trying we're trying to not make noise but holy shit it everybody looked if you ever seen a dog's head when you like crinkle a bag and their head kind of tilts that was everybody in the room kind of going wait wait wait it was legitimately like the perfect way to transition it from like heavy emotional episode to, oh, we're back to a funny new heights episode. I can't, like, I know they've asked Apollo Ono about this, but it's still, if I see Apollo Ono, I start giggling.

1:20:22I will giggle seeing Apollo Ono because I'm just, yeah, the speed skater. Last clip of this episode, number 40, Shannon Sharp on the show at season one. This is Shannon Sharp answering the question, could Skip get a yard in the NFL? Previously on this show, we asked, could an average person rush for one yard in the NFL? So we're asking you right here, right now, could Skip Bayless get a single yard in the National Football League? No. I'm not saying because he's average. Ain't no way they're going to let him get a yard. They're going to go out of their way. And I'm not so sure the offensive line is going to block for him to get that yard.

1:21:05That's what's going to happen with that one. Brandon and I were coming up with questions for Shannon, and I was like, we should ask him about Skip. and I'm so glad we did. I'm very glad we did. I knew - He knew the answer we were looking for and he gave it to us. Sometimes great producing is just putting the ball on the tee. It's not, don't overthink it. Just don't overthink it. Let the club do the work. Wow, so you think you're a great producer.

1:21:33And that wraps up the second episode. Tune in next time when Jake puts four more of his own moments on this list. Oh, fuck you. Go ahead. Wrap us out. That wraps up the second installment of our top 92 moments. We will be back with another episode counting down moments from 39 to 14. So another 25 moments coming off the list. Thank you guys so much for listening. Once again, subscribe to new heights on all social media platforms at new height show with one S for clips throughout the week, follow on YouTube and we will be back with season five on September 2nd. Music

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