George Kittle on Tight End Respect, Mike Evans on the 49ers, F*ck Dallas Shirt & TEU Recap | EP 197

32:45It makes everybody a why. so like and it immediately puts you into being an unselfish player immediately you know what you said like your mindset is like what can i do for the team it doesn't matter how many catches i have i'm gonna block my ass off as best i possibly can and if i occasionally get a cool pass hey i'll make the most of it and i'll run i mean we just had a freshman like now i'm terrible with names we had a freshman that went off in the bowl game like 120 yards and a touchdown and it was like his third start of the season so it's just like we just get on and like why i i get ass they're like hey will you you know call this recruit for us and i'm just like sure and hey why should i go to iowa well every tight end since kirk ference has been head coach that started has made at least practice squad so if you want to go to the nfl you're like that's a 99 chance success rate i would just crazy i would just take it isn't that insane it's insane like every time that's ever like played you have at least a shot at a rookie minicamp and i think they have like, what is it?

33:39It was like 15 out of 18 starters. So it's just like, we can get you through the door, man. Yeah. That's your goal. That's a hell of a selling point right there. I think so. And it's like, yeah, Hey, are we up for a national championship every single year? No, but we're usually pretty good. We're usually, you know, up for a big 10 championship and we went a lot of games and you're going to have a little, really fun time. Cause I was a great party town. Great party city. All right, man. All Midwest places are not much else to do. There's not a lot to do. what we do yeah thank you to our presenting sponsor expedia fourth of july weekend is right around the corner that's right america's birthday and we all have that one fourth of july trip we still talk about yes that's true we sure do the one that turned a long weekend into a core memory expedia has you covered this year with last minute hotel deals up to 25 off plus deals on vacation rentals and packages to make great memories this 4th of July.

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37:20You're referring to the offensive line, the D line. We're friends with everybody. So, hey, QB, just a nice little dump off. Come on. We're right here. Right here waiting on you. That's really why Jason wants to play tight end. He wants the ball. For what? He wants – Dude, I picked up a fumble one time and got my legs cut out, so I had no interest in having that ball in my hand. I'm very good. DB was on me so fast. I'm very good just blocking. I know what I'm good at. I'm going to average nine yards a pop in high school, though. That's right. against Northeast LEL's finest. That's right. Oh, man.

37:56Are you more excited to go out to get a pancake and a block or a touchdown on a catch? Let's see. I think at this point in my career, I thoroughly enjoy scoring touchdowns. It's really fun. You don't get tackled. There's no physicality usually. Just catching a touchdown. But I say it's very satisfying to just perfectly flat back a guy and feel his breath exhale. it's a great feeling like it's just it's hard to beat that and like when you hear him like motherfucking himself that he just got pancaked by a tight end uh it's just it's very rewarding i also like have you ever like pancaking a db is satisfying because like one play later they can be knifing your knees out as you're trying to catch it like a ball over the middle and so if i can get my hands on a db i've always thoroughly enjoyed that i used 11 we could fucking cut block anybody anywhere on the field man that shit used to be the fucking best so fun Catch a safety coming downhill trying to catch a bubble screen or something, man.

38:55Oh, man. Used to be my favorite. I say bring those back. Actually, I think football's more dangerous when you can't cut block. I don't need blindside blocks. I don't need that stuff. But the cuts, because you see them coming, you just jump or you juke it. I always felt the same thing. I think a cut block, if you want to actually eliminate head hits and people running as full speed as possible into each other, you should want cut blocks still in the game like if you can't cut them a deep what's stopping a defensive player from trying to run through your head as hard as possible that's how i would try and mitigate it at linebackers like dude if you want to be a dickhead i'll cut your legs out real quick yeah there was nothing like i got a pole next to joe staley and he's cutting the safety and i'm cutting a corner on the same clip like that's just a highlight reel that i'll never forget i'm just like that that's good football like the blue angels like the blue angels at of air show there's a lot of there's a lot of defenses that want to cut that want to stop that cut block going across the ball to like seal the inside run what do you want us to do it's well first of all what do you want to do if you don't have that then it really is just going to be like two rams budding and just destroying each other not safe but outside of that you like you just said they there are very few times that the defensive end doesn't know that block is coming yes if they don't they're fucking so oblivious to like what's happening around them that's what it they know it's coming if you get your knee blowed out I mean dude step to the fucking side I don't know what you want me to do man what are we talking about here just don't eat it like just I'm with you like there's like you're gonna get cut but like 99 % of the times they see it with trying to move their feet lower their shoulder you see it and if you don't see it you shouldn't be in the NFL there's a why off on the other side of the field there's a chance he's gonna slice back and cut your legs I'm staring right at him Dude.

40:44Yeah. Dude. Come on. I remember the first practice I ever went to, collegiate practice I ever went to, was with Jason on a visit to the University of Pittsburgh. Old, what is it? Dave Wanstat and the gang. And I was just going as Jason's little brother, so I got to fucking feel cool and everything. I don't even think I was in high school yet. And the first play I saw in practice out there was, I think it was nine on seven or some run period. And a wide receiver came in in a sprinting motion from outside the numbers. No, no, no, on the snap of the ball, just absolutely sliced the DN. And this is fucking spring ball.

41:31Just absolutely to run a fucking toss his way and just absolutely smoked his own teammate in practice below the knees while he wasn't looking. I was like, oh my God, this is fucking college football. This shit is cutthroat, man. Hey, that happens to you. Hey, that's just horrible. I don't wish that upon anybody. Who thought of that play? I was like, yeah. Holy shit. That just ends careers immediately. Let me ask you this, though. When you made that transition to the tight end room in college, who were the tight ends that you watched? Oh, so let's see. 2012. um i was a big gronk guy i loved gronk i loved antonio gates still some of my favorite film to watch um i watched jason whitten and oh jordan reed i watched a lot of jordan reed because that boy was no one could cover him so fucking shifty he was sick he was so nasty it was in florida right yeah he was so nasty of florida man yeah so i watched a lot of his tape and then And I had CJ Fedorowicz was in my room my freshman year.

42:37He was the big guy who went to Houston. So I thoroughly enjoyed watching him play, too, because he was just – he gets your hands on it, and he was cooked. Did you catch Tony Mowiaki at all? He was gone before you. He left right before, but I knew Tony a little bit. And then Dallas Clark, obviously, I was a huge fan of. But, no, Tony was a monster. I cannot stand two kids that don't wear gloves. the only person that i like get away with is viva because he was so fucking goddamn strong but no i'm all about the gloves the guy that you had at tight end you the uh few years back that i fucking loved watching the most travis loved him too fucking jeremy shockey baby that's my fucking guy he was a great time yes dude jeremy get some actual game film on shockey i only got the highlights i gotta give i gotta see the dated the the play to play he was just angry just an angry person it's awesome it's one way to play the game respect yeah i do too shockey was so sick to watch it's a sport of collisions and violence if you're more violent the other person nine times out of ten i have more success i agree it did it works there was a guy that i played with i've told this story before but there's a guy that i played with who uh would get really pissed off and we went through something with chip where like we're doing this like mental conditioning and the guy and there was like a big thing of like hey like don't let your emotions get too high then you'll start to make uncharacteristic mistakes or whatever and i'm playing football and this guy's getting fucking all worked up and i was like dude you need to calm down like you're you need to freaking get back down to like here so and he's like fuck you i play better mad right and i it was like two years afterwards the guy was already gone and i'm fucking playing a game I get fucking pissed and I go on like a terror for like an entire quarter where I am just feel like I am fucking killing people.

44:34Yes. I don't know what it was. My nervous system was just on fire. And I shot that guy a text later that day and I was like, you're right. I'm way better when I play pissed off. Yes. Did he remember it? He for sure did. Yeah. He was like, I told you, I told you. If you hit that right level of anger, it's like an anger plus flow state. it's really hard to beat a person like that aaron donald constantly lives in that state oh he was always just angry i'm like aaron what the fuck are you mad about i didn't do anything easy big guy we're just having a good time right but there i love you there is absolutely there is absolutely something that happens like from like a chemical standpoint where when you get pissed off like your nerves just fire better like i don't know what it is i'm just like wired You're wired.

45:22But then there is like a down. You can't go too high because then it just crashes hard. It's hard to stay angry for four quarters. Yeah, you got to bottle that thing up. It's basically smelling salts. Yeah. That's what I was going to say. They definitely make some substances. Chase, you made a great point the other day. You were talking about like too many games being played on too many days. Yeah. And between that and then I think you might have mentioned about 18 games. But it was funny because I had to do – I was doing a media thing. And I did an interview like the same day that you did that.

45:53And I got asked the same question. We said basically the same thing. But then your clip came out and I was like, ah, I'm glad to see somebody smart with most of his brain left is making the same comments. But I know it makes me happy. I don't know that I got much brain left, but yeah, we're, we're, we can tag team that one, baby. Football on Wednesdays and Fridays and Saturdays just doesn't make sense to me anymore. Yeah. You know, we, we've already acknowledged like Monday was grandfathered in years ago thursday it feels like that was another stretch once you start doing it too much it's like dude you can't it loses its special like kind of magic when it's spread out over that many days it feels like just feels weird like before thursday night football came up like the thanksgiving thursday that was like the coolest thursday of the year it was awesome so you had two football games on thursday and you're just like yeah oh my god it was so sick i just remember as a kid like you'd wait all week for sunday and then you get monday night football and it was just such a pleasure but i will say i love thursday night games huge fan especially if you love them it's like if you know the offense you don't have to study very much great time yeah as a rookie terrible horrible nightmares very unprepared as a veteran player absolute chaos yeah just chaos it's like how do you expect this guy to just learn this hundred play install he's not going to he's just not going to we're gonna get into our last segment here uh get you in and out of this thing man we appreciate the time so far but uh we got to get into a little bit of that we gotta ask you can tell us to fuck off and you don't have to answer at all but okay fuck off we gotta ask fuck off no no no no no real quick real quick just what just here just hear one out here one okay okay i thought i was supposed to say fuck off that's on me uh nice uh what was your draft they like did uh shanahan make you do puzzles oh no um i thought i was gonna get drafted by the seahawks because the seahawks had called my agent and they're like hey we're gonna draft george to the next pick and then all of a sudden my phone is ringing from santa clara and it was john lynch and kyle shanahan and i was like sick this is awesome you had a fucking call from a legend on the field and a fucking son of another legend that then became another leg um nice that's pretty fucking sweet that was cool no i um so when kyle was in uh washington the puzzles question came up because his dad had us do like some like weird psychological like puzzle game with i believe with who was the team therapist at the time that's sick but i don't remember things very well back then but i remember doing the fucking puzzle and being like damn this is like kind of like a one-off like none of the other teams are asking me to do this little fucking puzzle i did not do a puzzle No puzzle.

48:39I didn't even meet with the Niners. Like, I was one of those guys at the combine. I flipped over my card, zero in-person meetings. I was like, sick. Perfect. Just a stereotypical tight end from Iowa. They don't need to learn anything about me. It is what it is. We know exactly what we're getting. He's the guy that loves football. You're going to give great energy. That's all you got. So, yeah, we don't need to waste our time with this guy. I had one of my roommates for it. What was his name? D.D. Westbrook, he was a wide receiver from Oklahoma, I think. He had like 32 meetings in the three days I was there.

49:15I was like, I have zero. Have fun, man. I had so much free time, it was sick.

49:24All right, next question. All right, here we go. Next question. What do you got, Zach? Gronk. Gronk puts you on his list of top four tight ends currently in the NFL. Thank you. This is Mount Rushmore. What is the George Kittle, Mount Rushmore of tight ends? currently right now or all time let's just go all time let's go all time okay because i'm gonna get yelled at for not saying mike dicka but i didn't watch mike dicka play so i think that's not very fair i was born in 1993 okay so of everybody you saw that you've personally seen play who is your mount rushmore of tight ends um okay let's go that i've personally seen play who i think are the best to do it um let's see i'm gonna go two of my favorite tight ends i got travis i got gronk and then i'm gonna go um tony g because i thought he was just so fucking sick and slippery and awesome and also i've seen so many of his highlight reels and then for my personal fourth i'm gonna go dallas clark because he's my iowa guy and i was clark and i thought yes because he was i remember he had a playoff stat where him and Peyton Manning had like 54 first downs in a row together or something crazy like that.

50:37And I was like, that's, that makes you a great football player, man. You're reliable when your fucking team needs to be reliable. And I'm also just, I'm a homer for Iowa tight ends. Sorry. Understandable. Understandable. Good job not putting yourself on a... He hasn't seen himself play. I saw Travis do that. It's my move, man. It's my move. Well, when I was a kid, I went and saw what Mount Rushmore looked like, and I thought I wanted to be on Mount Rushmore one day. So I thought, why not put myself on it? Why not put myself on it? As a fellow NFL podcaster, which is harder, hosting a podcast with your brother or your wife?

51:21I think with your brother, because you guys would just talk shit to each other. Like, I will not talk shit to my wife. She will whoop my ass. to be fair jason will whoop my ass but we do most of these remote yeah so yeah but like i'm doing everything i can to make sure she has the best time possible like you guys can chirp each other and you don't get to like you don't get offended too early i'm terrified to say the wrong thing and then once the camera gets off i'm hiding now all about that know all about that what was that you said oh yeah dude your wife beats your ass all the time jason i know that i had a golf outing yesterday and uh like we brought hecklers around to heckle the guys are the hitting balls and the main heckle for me was like your wife has your balls kelsey i'm like you guys have no idea how accurate that is she does she does she has all of them she has everything no argument you got me there man shout out to kiddo things everybody go check out Kindle things on YouTube wherever you get your podcast.

52:25And Jason isn't a fan of made-up holidays, but please let him know. Is National Tight End Day a real holiday? It's everybody's favorite holiday, specifically Jason's wife's. Everyone's favorite. Yeah, and so that means, Jason, you can no longer refute this. Okay. It's National Tight End Day, and then it's the 4th of July. And then Christmas is in here somewhere, too. I love Fourth of July. It's one of my favorites. I don't want to say it's underrated, but it kind of is. Because I think a lot of times you think of like Christmas and you think of other days. Yeah. No. Fourth of July is the holiday.

53:04Dude, being outside celebrating America, drinking and barbecuing. The weather is great. It's an all-timer. It is so good. Yeah. We always do. We call it, what is it? Zinja Warrior Challenge. That's what we have at my buddy Rob Tunyon's house. Oh, what's this? I'm very intrigued. All right. So it's an obstacle course. It's an obstacle course. The pool is probably like 20 foot by 10 foot rectangle with a basketball hoop. It starts off with flip cup. So you have a partner too. So it'd be like you and Travis versus me and Rob. You start with flip cup, one person. So we flip cup. And as soon as you hit it, you have to hit a shot and the hoop's on the other corner.

53:46So it's like a three point shot. As soon as you hit the shot, you dive in and you have to swim to the other side, grab a different basketball and dunk it as soon as you dunk it your partner is sitting there in the frisbee golf and he has to flip cup and then toss a frisbee golf in while you after you made your shot you're going to get up and run to another station as soon as he hits his frisbee golf you do another flip cup and then you have like one of those plastic golf ball things that hit me like the little red baskets so you have to hit you chip until you hit and as soon as you hit then your guy does another flip cup you got a different station and you're doing a one-shot beer pong with one cup remaining and you shoot till you hit and as soon as you hit it you have to this is intense you have to dive into the pool and whoever touches the water first wins and it has been we've done it for two years in a row and it is me and robin one back-to-back years but it is amazing we have so much fun that sounds awesome jason jason we might have to get in on this dude yeah birdie played last year uh he so we do like a round robin to then do seedings and birdie was the number one seed and we beat him in the second round idiot

54:49Loser. So yeah, 4th of July holidays, National Titans Day, as you asked, is a holiday. Fuck you, Jason. All right. Fair enough. God damn it. All right. Do you still have the fuck Dallas t-shirt? More importantly, I wore for my photo shoot yesterday for media day. Fuck you. Still got it. It's in my locker every day. Every day. It's in my locker. What was the inspiration behind the fuck Dallas? Just to rub it in? No, it was. So like, since I was like, since I got drafted to 49ers. Like they, when Shanahan and Lynch first got there, they were big on like, they wanted people to understand like the history of the Niners and like what the Niners were before that.

55:25Cause they were pretty bad for like several years before we got there. And so we were just like, so like I learned the history of the Niners and like one of the images that was shown to us was Gary Plummer. He was a linebacker and he's wearing this fucked house t-shirt pregame of a game versus Dallas. And I was like, at some point in my career, I want to do that. And so I like, I've had the phone, the photo saved on my phone for like i think nine years and then and then i finally just got the balls to do it and i so i bought it one for the entire time in the room i think it was 2020 i think it was 2023 season and i bought for the whole tight end room i was the only one who wore it but um you know what i was like fuck it i'm gonna pull this bad boy out tonight and it worked and i'm really glad i did it um it was really fun but like it's just like the photo of gary plumber doing it too he just like your old school classic white linebacker like from the 90s just yoked out of his mind thick neck probably a little juiced up yeah yeah but uh yeah so gary he was my inspiration and then i'm pretty sure it was totally random i ran into his daughter like on an elevator yep there it is let's go yeah that's a good photo is that a great photo the mustache oh yeah so i saw that i was like i'm gonna do that someday look at those fucking pads holy fuck do you imagine hit by that guy horrible yeah but so he inspired me we got another uh picture of you of one of the uh the best pictures i've ever seen in football is you uh diving for a touchdown that won the 2025 photo of the air of the year for the nfl um have you framed this photo yet uh so what's cool is our team photographer he does these big black and white like glass photos that have a light switch behind them and when you turn them on like only the color red pops up so whether it's your jersey blood like whatever but it's only like the color of your fans in the background that's the only that pops up and so i have one of those it's at my barn they're my workout facility so i got that one made yeah that one's sick it's so badass i thoroughly enjoyed that one what's more masculine pancake blocking a defender or killing a spider for your wife spider for your wife easy right easy did you know you were gonna go viral when you tweeted that out you know it was i don't know what it was all right do you guys remember uh okay when andrew luck played there was a twitter account that came out called like captain andrew luck and he like wrote he talked in like letters to his mom during the civil war do you guys remember this twitter account it's it's i was obsessed with this thing this is hilarious but like anytime he'd be like dearest mother the panthers tried to invade and we held them off as i attacked and threw for 300 yards and two touchdowns i will see you come christmas and it's like i don't know what i was singing about that in the morning on my drive to work and i was like i'm gonna try to do something like this and so then i just kind of wrote a fun little tweet and and then i got a care package from pita say don't kill spiders and their CEO roasted me, but I was like, ah, I'm going to choose my wife's, my wife's love over that.

58:27Sorry. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. All right. Last, we got a last one here. Last one. Okay. Welcome, welcome to the NFL moment. You want my off the field one or on the field one? We can do both. We can do both. You can cut this if it's not PG enough. All right. So my rookie year during OTAs, um my rookie year notice is on thursdays because like you know your rookie year like you're not busy at all so you're there for every weekend like you're not doing shit so like i was there every weekend and our equipment managers shout out for our equipment staff they're my favorite people but they were a part of a softball league and so they played every thursday night and so like there'd be anywhere from five of us to 15 of us would go to every single softball game on thursday nights but the best part was was joe staley went to every single one and he's like the 13th the 10-year vet like the guy he's awesome and like i had i had like three interactions with jose at this point so i was just trying not to piss him off because he was terrifying to me and as soon as the softball game ended we go to this bar called cartoons and they had karaoke on thursday nights and so then we'd go straight from there with all sounds fucking with all the equipment staff and we'd go to cartoons and we would be belting karaoke and i was like no Joe Staley is a 10 out of 10 karaoke star.

59:44He knows every song. Really? Oh, he's incredible. They sold it as a package that you could buy. It was like him singing karaoke with Joe Staley. It's amazing. Joe, okay. That's an awesome. Absolute monster. I didn't know this. Oh, yeah. He can sing. It's awesome. He's a performer. He gets the whole crowd into it. He knows what he's doing. Anyway, so we're at this bar. We're having a good time. I go to the bathroom. And it's one of those older college bar vibes. And so the bathroom, it's exactly what you think it looks like. like a rusty door that doesn't really close all that stuff. So like I'm peeing in the toilet in the stall and there's like another rookie in there in like in the other stall.

1:00:18And I just hear the door gets kicked open. And then Joe Staley just goes, what do you guys got to lose? I got to go. And I'm like, well, and he, he literally, he just takes the door off into my stall and he goes, he's either he was killed, get out or move over. And I said, I'll move over Mr. Joe Staley. and so that was my i was like oh i think he likes towards action so that was it's a totally normal thing as a guy for everybody listening that's a totally normal thing no one's so i was terrified that was like my second week on the niners and so i was pretty happy about that one on the field my first game ever as a rookie was against the panthers when they had cam newton greg olson chris mccaffrey's a rookie and julius peppers and so like i go off my first warm-up ever in Levi's Stadium and Cam Newton's just standing in our end zone, like in our fucking tunnel.

1:01:10And he's 6 '6", 250. I'm just like, I'm like, buddy. That motherfucker's enormous impasse, dude. I'm like, dude, I'm supposed to block for guys like you and you could just kill me. And so that freaked me out. And then my first, I think one of my first three plays out of one-on-one pass bro against Julius Peppers. and all I was trying to do was not piss him off because he had like the visor, everything. Oh, yeah. Very intimidating. My eye sensor. Oh, I was just sitting there. He had a deep voice. Julius Peppers. Dude, he was so scary. I had my first play against him, I had to cut him off and he like just grabbed me and threw me to the ground.

1:01:51I was like, okay, all right, sure. And then I had a one-on-one pass throw from him and I blocked him actually. And as like the play is going on, I'm just like, I played with you in Madden 2006. This is insane. And I'm just sitting there just trying not to shit my pants. I couldn't believe I was playing in the NFL. But that was pretty fun. Those are some good ones. Those are some great ones. Some of my favorite ones, dude. God damn, that's hilarious. I think you guys should ask for an off the field. Welcome to the NFL moment. I like the off the field because you're right. It's very unique. I think most rookie wide receivers would tell you that it's their rookie dinner because that's always outrageously expensive.

1:02:29but you know i think other guys would have some pretty good stories dude thank you so much for the time the stories thank you for being the people's tight end and and being the front runner for the position dog we fucking love you bro and uh good luck this year dog keep getting healthy and we'll see you out on the gridiron brother i'm just happy i finally got to be a part of the podcast it's only been like three years oh man it's been far too long man fuck i'm the worst i'm sending that it's an honor it's like oh embarrasses ask my friends i you're not Yeah, we all love you. It's okay. You're very lovable.

1:03:00You guys are fantastic. I'll see you guys soon. All righty. Thank you to George Kittle once again. Did not disappoint. He peep. Jorge, dude. I'll tell you what. The guy's just fucking electric, man. He really is. You can tell the story with the best of them. He remembers every fucking thing that happens, which is a talent with how much that guy fucking blocks in the NFL. It is. I really enjoyed. you can tell he's just genuinely a fan of football and he comes he comes across that way in the way he plays the game he comes across that way in the energy and excitement he goes about everything with but just you know bringing up the like uh i can't remember the guy's name that had the Dallas shirt on beginning how big of a fan he was a guys when he first came into the league with his welcome to the nfl moment you could tell he just loves football and dude it's just something about talking to football guys that love the sport love being around other football guys and george is one of the best football players of our generation undeniably and a guy that loves the game so very much enjoyed talking to you george once again that conversation is brought to you by mento's gum thank you to our sponsor colgate total remember when we were younger and thought uh stretching was optional yeah now if i don't stretch i'm feeling like something's gonna pull walking to the fridge.

1:04:19That's right. Whether it's stretching before a big game or, you know, just hitting the golf course or... Stretching is huge for preventing injuries. Exactly. You do a little up front, you save yourself a big problem later. You know who else is big on prevention? Who? Colgate Toto. Did you just go from, like, stretching and being an athlete to toothpaste? I did. I did. Yes, I did. And it's not just toothpaste, Travis. It's a whole system. Toothpaste, mouthwash, even a special toothbrush. Yeah, full dental hygiene sounds like a whole game plan for your mouth. And the system prevents stuff like cavities.

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1:05:35I could save you hundreds. You're in good hands with Allstate. Potential savings vary. Subject to terms, conditions, and availability. Allstate North America Insurance Co. and affiliates Northbrook, Illinois. Now that that is in the books, though, we will get to perhaps the next generation's greatest tight end. Let's get into some of the tight end you recap. And we're going to see what the interns did down in Nashville for tight end you. Let's see what the boys got up to down there in Nash, Vegas. This tight end you recap is brought to you by Reese's. That's right, boys. We tight end you'd. We tight end you'd.

1:06:12and I came back with the shiny shirt that I will ever own. We tied in to you. Thank you to our friends at Reese's. We tied in to you. Jake, how was it? How would you describe? It was our first time there. How would you describe your first time at tight in you? Tight in you is awesome, man. It's sick. It is so much sick. Don't let anybody lie to you. It is a blast. I totally understand why they do it. I get it. And why making it bigger and bigger every year. I understand why it grows every year. I understand why people keep going. I get it now. I've been people have asked me like how was it and I keep describing it as like have you ever seen when they have like golden retriever beach days and they just put like it's just unleashed they're like ball ball water ball sand dig hole like that is every dude's personality there and it's so much fun to hang out with them.

1:06:57It was so cool. And as two of the least tight end people on the planet to let's I'm a glue guy. I'm a glue guy. No, no, no. The physical traits are not. Yes. In terms of just physically size. Mentality wise, I'm there, but no, I'm not. We're tight ends at heart, but we're not tight ends on the field to be included in something like that was like so insanely special. uh and it was just it was it was awesome from from day one should we go through day by day okay so yeah let's go let's go chronologically chronologically chronologically how do the guys usually podcast for this long jesus christ this is hard it's crazy i hate talking we got there we got invited to a gifting suite which just like that sentence coming out of my mouth is unbelievable we don't belong at a gifting suite let me be very clear to you i've never heard those words before they're like do you want to see the reese's wall and i'm like hell yeah i want to see the Reese's wall.

1:07:50Absolutely. More Reese's than I've ever seen in my entire life. Every variety. And you have to like pick the amount that doesn't make you seem insane. So we took like a tasteful amount of Reese's off the Reese's wall, which I still have a lot of them, but. Dude, I am flying through the Reese's. It is the, the family back home is, is doing well with the Reese's. I'm saving them. I ran out of sticks already and I'm kind of pissed at myself, but that was a decision. I made it like 2am. The take fives did not make it off the plane. We did the Reese's gifting suite on the first day second day was on the field with everybody which it's like one thing to watch an nfl game it's another to be like field level with these like giants as they run and cut and move and jump and you realize oh they're like different than us you get it like you're like oh these guys are all freaks and we did promise that we would try and do the gauntlet we didn't get the opportunity to do the gauntlet but as some of you may have seen on the internet already we did try several drills reaction reaction reaction which uh is way harder than it looks it's so hard don't love a lot of the feedback we got on that be very clear don't love a lot of comments we can knock that off that's bullying don't love that i'm sorry i don't have an eight foot wingspan yeah sorry i'm not kyle pitts like i'm sorry if i was do you think i'd be a podcast intern no thank you i think we did above average well we did it later with jason and kylie down at the shore and they did worse than us so exactly there you go especially kylie sorry kylie especially kylie sorry uh she she went i can't believe you posted that you're kind of a dick it's just me doing my job watching them do stuff on the field was great watching them do drills watching them talk through things like footwork and hip placement the little minute details that i don't think you kind of grasp when you watch an nfl game it's very fun to hear them all talk about that in person i will say dallas clark might have a lot of reps left in him dallas clark could get out there that That was eye-opening.

1:09:39He could probably start for at least 10 teams right now. He looked great, and I was having a blast watching him. It took us a little while to figure out who he was. He was that really in shape guy. Yeah, he's just – who's the guy leading all the drills? Yeah, who's the fastest guy out there? That's Dallas Clark. Excuse me, he's retired for how long? Jake, who was your favorite dude? It was a dude-heavy event. Who was your favorite dude at Titan U? So, I mean, it was really cool getting to, like you said, see all these guys on the field. I'll work up to it, but it would feel weird not to start with some of the tight ends.

1:10:16Go ahead. First off, Greg and George, like Greg is just the nicest dude on the planet. The nicest human being. And the thing Greg kept doing was showing up places where we needed help and Greg would just appear out of nowhere. Like first day, he's like, you guys looking for the gifting suite? And we're like, yes, Greg Olson, we are. If you needed a direction, Greg Olson had you. He's like, it's up on the eighth floor. Enjoy yourselves. And we're like, thanks, Greg. And then the next day we were like wandering around trying to find where we go at the concert. And he's like, are you guys looking for the front of the stage?

1:10:46What you want to do is head to those double doors, hang a left. When you see the bar, go right. And it's going to be past another little gate on your other right. And we're like, Jesus, Greg, can you be around me at all times? He was so awesome. He's one of my MVPs of the week. Yeah. George, another MVP. George. Life of the party everywhere. You guys all just watched the George interview. So George, he's just like that at all times. He is at a 12, and you can't help but be there with him. It's the best energy. George, awesome MVP. My dude of the week, and it's weird it's not a tight end, but it's Mac Jones.

1:11:20Mac Jones. Dude of the week, Mac Jones. Mac Jones was having the most fun out of anyone anywhere. I think he had the most fun at tight end you. You've seen the videos. That man is having a blast just throwing the ball to these guys. He was just out there living his best life, hanging out with the boys. Like, you know, when when I saw Mac Jones, it made me realize like, oh, the dude with the cigar at Alabama, like he is just a guy's guy. And like you should it should have been obvious, but it became more obvious once we got to like see him in his element. He was awesome. I get it. I get it now, Mac Jones.

1:11:59I totally get it now. Mac Jones rules. Yeah. Mac Jones due to the week. Probably like also. Well, OK, Travis was cool. It's cool seeing Travis. That's our work friend. We see him all the time. Mac Jones was a delight, an absolute delight. Infectious energy on Mac Jones. If we're going to talk about Travis, the coolest thing about this year's tight end you was it was the first year of like open practice where the public could come out. And, you know, obviously there's a lot of support for George. He's, you know, got family in Nashville and all that stuff. But the 92 percenters showed it out. A lot of 92 percenters and Chiefs fans there.

1:12:31Heavily represented. That one lady had his rookie card to sign. That one lady got him to sign the rookie card. She was like, this is all I want. She was like, can he sign nope on this? And I think he just signed it. But she was like, is it OK if I ask? I'm like, you can ask. I have no idea how it's going to happen. Historically, that card has not been beloved on this podcast. But go for it. It was really cool to see all the 92 percenters out there who were like, yes, saying hi to us, which is always like insane. I got a fresh crop of bracelets. I got a fresh crop. Thank you. Everybody who handed me one, I took them.

1:13:00They're home with me. I'll figure out what I'm doing with them, but always nice to get a fresh supply of friendship bracelets. And also like seeing Travis in his element, you mentioned this earlier, but we got to see him do like the breakdown where he was talking about. His thing was like, you know, there was the film room clip that came out later, which we didn't get to see because that was like when they were all in the classroom. We got to go on the field. We got to get in the film. We got to break down some tape. But seeing him on the field talk about the intricacies of like where how he needs to like lead with this foot and where he's watching the shoulders and all.

1:13:33It's it's a savant like it's a savant at work. And seeing that is really cool. It was really cool seeing them talk about such a specific position and how they all operate doing doing the same thing, but differently. Also, Travis was signing autographs and looked over just as I started catching reaction things. so that was perfectly timed he didn't see at all how bad i did so that's i'm fine with that he did not notice it's fine we don't need to show that clip at all he thinks i'm a star athlete now so that's great no tight end you sick and if you have the opportunity or in the nashville area the open practices are a lot of fun should we get to what everyone everyone wants us to talk about what else happened there i tied in you is there anything else well it was nashville so we got to see some live music we know anybody it was awesome it was yeah no it's sick i don't i don't know if you fucking hate us i get it like i get it i get this whole segment you probably are like just drawing x's on our eyes and i totally understand it we we are we deserve that uh no it was sick we saw taylor perform sick jake almost i was this is a little behind the scenes story jake almost missed it to go to the bathroom i really almost missed it yeah i like as as the concert was like wrapping up i didn't quite realize that it was wrapping up to be like well we think something's happening and then and then lanny wilson kind of like starts wrapping it up and jake's like i gotta go pee i gotta get out of here he's like 20 feet away when she's like starting to wind up on on taylor coming out and i like there's this huge roar of people and then i see just like sprinting on his heels and come sprinting back i'm like did you make it didn't even make it to the bathroom had to hold it the whole time which is why i was oh the whole three-minute song i think you did okay I think you did okay.

1:15:12For a while, but it was incredible. It was really like, I get it, you know? Like, it's unbelievable. It's great. It was a lot of fun. The roar of that crowd, like, it was, I've never heard anything like it. Like, it's not that big of a venue. I don't know, it's a couple thousand people, right? Maybe, if not less. But, like, it was like a jet took off behind me. And I was like, holy shit. But it was a lot of fun. I'll say this. I don't know if we cut this or not. But I did my favorite thing to do with Travis sometimes is like come up to him very seriously and be like, I don't know, man. So I saw him afterwards and I was like, you know, I think if she sticks with it, she might have something with this music.

1:15:52And he told me to shut the fuck up, which is fair. Totally fair. It was awesome. I did get a black cowboy hat, which I think I left at the Cain Brown bar. So if anyone sees that, please get it back to me. but I did feel a little bit like we had in Nashville, Tennessee at the cane. It's mine. It belongs to Jets, Jake, and he'd like it back. I did feel a little bit like the study abroad student who goes away and like comes back with an accent. Like I was very much in my, quick and I was like, I don't know, Jake. That was in my country element, but it was, you look good in it though. I'll say that you pulled it off.

1:16:27I thought I was a little skeptical when you first walked over to that table and then you came back with it and I was jealous, but then I also realized I had no room for it in my bags. So I, I didn't either. I will cowboy hat another time. It's like that scene from Mean Girls where it's like Katie wear army pants and flip-flops. So I got like I saw Travis have a cowboy hat. Both of us couldn't. You and I can't. We have to coordinate. We match too much already. It's really sickening when we do. We're even more obnoxious when we dress in the same New Heights merch. So I was like the cowboy hat can be your thing for this weekend.

1:16:54I'll go. I'll go baseball cap. That's fine. Titan. You was a blast. Shout out Reese's twist our arms. We'll go back next year. Guys. Anytime. Any. I mean, it'll be. I'll check with my people. if I have room in my schedule now as a certified influencer, I guess. But it was a lot of fun. And if you have the opportunity to attend any of their open practices, I would highly recommend it next year. Shout out to George. Claire does a lot of work. I know Claire did a lot of work. Greg, Travis, thank you guys for putting on this event. And Reese's, thank you for being like, I don't know, send those two idiots.

1:17:29We had a blast. We had a blast. Thank you guys so much. Let's shout out. No, we also – I don't know. Everybody knows we went down to the shore afterwards. So I do want to shout out Kylie and everybody at Eagles Autism. I think they raised like$1.25 million this year. So it's cool to do those events back-to-back. It was like two Christmases. It was very fun for us. It's the best week of the year for us by far and, you know, historically – like really. Historically, you know, we haven't been able to make it to tight end you. And so being able to go this year just – It was sick. It was incredible.

1:18:01It was a marathon, but we're going to do it again next year. It was a marathon. Brandon literally reenacted the Popeye's worker meme by the end of, uh, we were, we were wiped, but I mean, both of them are just, you see the community come out to support a really cool thing in, in both aspects. That's, that's honestly the best part of all this stuff is like getting to meet people in person. It's just such a different like vibe and reaction than seeing tweets or comments, whatever. Those are all very lovely and nice, but like meeting people in person like we we love seeing people we love seeing 92 percenters out there and you know we're still getting used to like hearing people yell at us uh if i i always react like a fucking squirrel caught in the street so please don't be alarmed if i don't know why you're screaming at me but a lot of fun love seeing you guys i guess that's it we can toss it back to the guys do we do we want to hint at what's coming up for the rest of the season of new heights i feel like we but we we should say because obviously we're we'll peek behind the curtain we're taping this after we had taped the first part of this episode.

1:19:01It's true. We might have a big surprise for you guys. We might have gotten a chance to talk to somebody that we have absolutely no business. Like absolutely zero business talking to this person. Incredible. They found time for us. We also have incredible guests for the finale. Yeah. Incredible guests for the finale. I've been trying to get this guy on for a while. Finally got him. We have a lot of good stuff ready for you guys. So just wait. Just wait. Let you know. what you know and now what toss it back to you back to jason and travis back to jason and travis thank you reese's once again that tight end you recap was brought to you by reese's man i hope you guys enjoyed that one and brandon and jake i hope you guys enjoyed a little bit of that tight end you action uh i know i always have fun and um hopefully you guys do too uh just like the tight ends are the ultimate combo of blocking and catching reese's is the perfect combination of peanut butter and chocolate.

1:19:58That's right. The tight end of candies. Very well done. Very well done. All right. That wraps up another episode of New Heights. Thank you to George Kittle, the one and only people's tight end. And thank you to everyone at tight end, you for putting up with Jake and Brandon. We will be back next week with the season finale of season four of New Heights. Once again, New Heights, a wondrous show brought to you by Expedia, the place you go to go places, people. Thanks to the New Heights production team for always making us look way better than what we are. Don't forget to follow the show on all social media at new heights show with one S for fun clips throughout the week.

1:20:34But you 92 %ers, you know that because you are fans of the show and we love you for being fans of the show and we love you for tuning in. We'll see you guys next week. Peace.