Pin Up Jason, Donna Joins The Traitors and Fatherly "Ed-Vice" with Ed Kelce | EP 144

18 Jun 2025 · 54 min

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Podcast Summary: New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce - EP 144

Episode Title

Pin Up Jason, Donna Joins The Traitors and Fatherly "Ed-Vice"

Episode Description In this episode of *New Heights*, Jason and Travis Kelce discuss the viral "Pin-Up Jason" tattoo, engage with listeners about a film club, review submissions for Beer Bowl III, and share insights on fatherhood with their father, Ed Kelce. The brothers also delve into various light-hearted topics, including pop culture and personal stories.

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Key Discussions

  1. Viral Tattoo - "Pin-Up Jason"
  2. The tattoo features a humorous depiction of Jason Kelce.
  3. Discussion about how the tattoo came to be, involving a bet lost by a Giants fan.
  4. Jason's reactions to the tattoo and fan engagement around it.
  1. Film Club Selection
  2. Jason and Travis attempt to choose a movie for the New Heights Film Club.
  3. They brainstorm genres, including Adam Sandler films and summer blockbusters.
  4. They decide to involve the audience in selecting a film, emphasizing movies that resonate with childhood experiences.
  1. Fatherly Insights with Ed Kelce
  2. Special guest Ed Kelce joins to share his experiences and advice on fatherhood.
  3. Topics include:
  4. Changes in fatherhood dynamics over the years.
  5. The unwritten rules of the Kelce household.
  6. Humorous anecdotes, including a prank involving a shampoo bottle.
  7. The legendary "birds and the bees" talk (or lack thereof) between Ed and his sons.
  1. Father’s Day Reflections
  2. Ed shares his thoughts on Father’s Day, emphasizing celebration and recognition of parental contributions.
  3. The Kelce family’s unique approach to celebrating the holiday.
  1. Fan Interactions and Voicemails
  2. The hosts engage with fan questions, offering humorous takes on parenting and childhood memories.
  3. Discussions touch on unwritten rules in parenting, irrational moments, and fictional father figures that resemble Ed's parenting style.

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Key Takeaways

  • Humor and Family Dynamics: The episode showcases the light-hearted banter between Jason and Travis, highlighting their brotherly relationship while providing insights into family life.
  • Engagement with Fans: Incorporating listener submissions and questions keeps the audience involved and invested in the show.
  • Fatherhood Lessons: Ed Kelce provides a genuine perspective on the evolving nature of being a father, sharing personal anecdotes that resonate with many listeners.
  • Pop Culture References: The discussion of movies, particularly classic films and nostalgic favorites, reflects the Kelce brothers' engagement with pop culture, adding an entertaining layer to the episode.

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Conclusion This episode of *New Heights* offers a blend of fun, family stories, and insightful commentary on fatherhood, all delivered in the engaging style characteristic of the Kelce brothers. Whether discussing a viral tattoo or reminiscing about parenting lessons, Jason and Travis keep listeners entertained and connected to their roots.

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0:00I never got any advice on sex from dad. We never had the birds and the bees talk. No, we didn't. No, we didn't. I did not know how to talk to the girls. You were awkward. You were uncomfortable. Jesus Christ. I wasn't going to say that. I was uncomfortable. You were a little uncomfortable. Yeah. It was AOL Messenger. Who was it? What about it was awkward? Jason, I used to eavesdrop in on your conversations on the phone. You remember when you told me to... No, it's... We got to take that out. We can't do this.

0:35Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. A Wondry show produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment and brought to you by Zillow. Everyone's favorite real estate app. Download the app today. We're your hosts. I'm Travis Kelsey, my big brother, Jason Kelsey. Out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Cincinnati Bearcat alumni. Shout out to the Cincinnati Bearcats opening up a new indoor. Subscribe on YouTube, Wondry Plus, wherever you get your podcasts. and follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with one S. Jason, tell the lovely 92 %ers what we got coming up. We got another great episode for you guys.

1:09First, we're going to try to decide the next movie for New Heights Film Club. We're also going to look at some wild fan mentions as well and get some fatherly advice. Ed-vice. From the one and only Ed Kelsey. That's right, Ed Kelsey's joining us for a little Father's Day special. Yeah, let's get right to it. Let's start with some of that new news. New news. New news is brought to you by Nickelodeon's Kid Choice Awards. What? The party of summer slime. Tune in this Saturday, June 21st at 8, 7 central, live on Nickelodeon. All right, man. How about that? I'm tuned in. You better have the girls watching.

1:50I'm sure they're going to be pumped to see who the next male athlete of the year is. All righty. you can still vote for new heights for favorite podcasts and Travis for a favorite male athlete of the year uh we need that blimp guys I don't know if you're aware I do not have a blimp Travis has many blimps but I would love a blimp blimps are awesome especially when they have the word Nickelodeon tattooed across them in their orange they're gonna be tattooed last new news item weird recording schedule this month Travis will be a mini camp and tight on you I'm gonna be doing stuff down the shore. We got Beer Bowl.

2:25I have a golf inning coming up. We got a bunch of things happening. We got shit going on. It's going to be hard to get together. We do have some recorded guests that we think you guys will really look forward to. Oh, you guys are going to love these guys. That's right. Looking forward to dropping those here in the next coming weeks. And that's it for new news. New news is brought to you by Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Award. The party of summer slime. Tune in this Saturday, June 21st at 8, 7 central, live on Nickelodeon. Yes, sir. Let's move along to some fan mentions. We had some wild, wild mentions this week.

3:02But my favorite mention came with this beautiful tattoo of Jason's bald eagle.

3:11This is wild. I don't really. This is wild. This is, I mean, this is fucking art right here. How does somebody come up with this? the socks the socks and cleats into the elbow pads and gloves what's even do you wear this for kylie at home is there a picture of you like this because this is i mean if they're it if you're ever in this stance i would imagine this is what you look like just so confused on how this is a thing what do you mean okay let's click this link for the backstory because i don't know how one ends up with a tattoo like this here's the backstory uh from ericasmith.educates okay we have an educator here meanwhile i want to know what incredible person got this tattoo hello um and then my little man 07 funny story i'm a giants fan my husband is an eagles fan we made a bet i lost welcome to pin up jason we're not gonna go to joe for this oh my gosh this story makes it even better oh my god from the educator herself erica this is absolutely hilarious so this is pin up jason so a woman lost a bet yep because she's a giants fan that's amazing yeah and she's a woman of her word.

4:40I guess, do we know that it's a woman? How do we know? I thought Kylie told me it was a woman and her name was Lauren. Kylie's got... Kylie's all over this. She was like, what in the fuck is this? Yeah, she wants to see pin up Jason herself. You should just... She does not want to see pin up Jason. One night, you should just... Should I roll into the bedroom like this? Throw on my game socks, my elbow pads, go to the facilities and get my hands and wrist wrist tape put the gloves on oh you know what this is probably a reference to is your uh your espn body mag oh nice i mean i didn't look like this there but you did have the bald eagle over your i did have a bald eagle in that espn body mag i forgot about that yeah how could you forget How could anybody forget the entire starting five?

5:34Yeah, the whole line. Sometimes you block things out that you're not interested in thinking about. Oh, I know. Oh, I know. I mean, listen, I love a good bet. That is a hell of a payoff. Like she has to walk around with that for the rest of her life. Yeah, I mean, I think it's great. I guess it's not that bad. Would you ever get the stat, dude? I mean, if I lost a bet, I would have to. What would be the Travis Kelsey version of this? What? What do you mean? Like if somebody was going to make a provocative Travis Kelsey, you obviously wouldn't have a bird. What would you have? I don't know. Let's leave it to the 92 % because I don't want to talk about that.

6:15Pin up Travis? God damn it, Jason. Why'd you throw me under the bus? I don't know. This is yours. This is your world. If I'm having pictures made of this, if I'm having pictures of me made like this, You need to have a puppy like this. It's not fair. Hey! There we go. There we go. I wish I had shoulders like that. All right. What's his appendage? Is it a dream catcher? Is it a bald eagle? Arrowhead? Sharp and pointy? Do you hear my kids just losing their mind? Of course not. Why would I hear that? I think Elliot needs help. Can I go help Elliot real quick before she loses her mind? Do your thing, man.

7:04Yeah. All right. Now that about does it for the fan mentions of the week. Yeah. Nice pecker, Jason. Moving on to some New Heights Film Club. Hey. Back into the film club. New Heights Film Club is brought to you by Reese's and their new PB &J Cups. Yeah. We're going to have one last installment of the New Heights Film Club before we wrap up this season. And we will have you guys vote on which of these four films we will be reviewing. But first, we need to pick a genre. That's right. We need to figure out what genre we're going to go for. Do we want to do summer blockbusters? Maybe just one of our favorites, Adam Sandler.

7:48Do some Sandler films in honor of Happy Gilmore coming out in July. We can do some summer scaries. You guys want to do some scary movies? Get into some horror films or just some movies that give you fucking nightmares? Like Jaws? Scary movies are fun to revisit because they're absurd. Oh, yeah, especially the older ones? Yeah, like they don't make any sense. Like why? Like just half of them are not even relevant anymore because of technology. Like they'd be so easily solved in like today's age with phones and whatnot. I forget what movie this was, man, but it was about a giant, like, flock of giant mosquitoes.

8:29I know exactly. I forget the name of the movie. Well, the giant mosquitoes was just Jumanji. No, no, no. But there was a movie. This goes way back before Jumanji. Before Jumanji? You're talking about birds? The Alfred Hitchcock movie? It might be. I don't know. because the only other giant insects movie there's another one but it was like a giant spider there was skeeter that's a movie dude that's a mosquito it might be it dude yeah it was literally the biggest fucking mosquitoes ever it used to scare the living shit out of me this is it dude dude that but that's the thing these movies are so fucking ridiculous this shit used to give me fucking nightmares dude i'm kind of in on an obscure film that a lot of people haven't seen i like indie films and like stuff that's just like kind of like off the you ever seen bird box bird box is good yeah sandra completely ridiculous i there was so good like there were two my dog kills is in there man there were two like movies where like the people couldn't seen couldn't see and i just could not bring myself like bird box which was it was a fun watch but Like, it's so ridiculous.

9:43Like, you can't see anything, and you're going to get all this, like, get the fuck out of here. I'm not buying it. And then the one that was even worse, I think it was C. I think it was an Apple TV. Oh, it was still a good watch. It can't be bad. It was horrendous. They're running through the woods, Travis. I challenge you right now. Blindfold yourself and run through the fucking woods. You will not make it further than about 20 feet, all right? No, I'll figure it out. You are going to hit something. No. Somebody thought of this idea like it was good, and I thought it was the worst fucking thing on the planet.

10:10It was the stupid. It was – I couldn't do it. I don't know why. It was awful. It was an awful show. It was really, really bad. I don't even know which one you're talking about. I'm talking about C. Yeah, I don't think that's what I'm talking about. But they couldn't see, but they somehow could still run through the forest. All right, so what do you want to do? Do you want to go down scaries? Do you want to do Sandler films? Do we want to just leave it up to the 92 percenters? This is what I think. Our most successful and fan-appreciated versions of these, just going to put it out there, have been either movies that females typically watch or movies that need to be reimagined in like a grown-up capacity.

10:48Like Sandlot was okay, but we didn't really – it didn't have like a lot of like changes from the last time we've seen it. I think we need to watch something that we haven't – we both have not seen potentially ever in a movie that is really popular that a lot of other people have seen. But we need to watch it where most people saw it as a child and we are now seeing it as fully developed adults. So as long as the movie meets that criteria, I'm in on it. Yeah. Well, good luck meeting all that criteria. Does that make sense, Brandon? No, it makes all the sense in the world. What you're saying definitely makes sense, but I just don't know.

11:23Yeah, I don't have that movie off the top of my head. We're going to have to somehow create a genre. Well, let's look at movies that were big in the 90s. Okay. That Travis and I just haven't seen. 90s rated R blockbusters is like kind of the search here. There you go. That's a start. It's a start. It's a start. Animal House is one. I think that was more 80s, though. I mean, they're throwing us Terminator 2, Matrix, Pretty Woman, The Rock. It's so fucking good. I mean, I don't think I've seen Pretty Woman. Oh, that could be it. I think that one would be big. Pretty Woman would be big for us. People would appreciate that review, I think.

11:59Pretty Woman would be big for us. Pretty Woman. I think I actually saw this not too long ago. I think I have seen it, but I can't remember it. It's been a minute. Goodfellas is a great one. Goodfellas would be a great recap, especially living on the East Coast now. Jerry Maguire, that's kind of interesting as a professional athlete. The Bodyguard, eh. Speed is so good. Speed is ridiculous. Speed is so good. Dude, honestly, we should review Tremors if we're going to go with a movie that's like a horror, but I've already seen them. But Total Recall, great movie. Fantastic movie. Yeah, yeah. But we've seen it.

12:36Doesn't meet the criteria. year. I'm kind of in on Pretty Woman being one of the choices. Alright, so Pretty Woman's one. Pretty Woman's one. Dude, 90s teenage movies. 90s teenage movies. Clueless. Oh, no thank you. I mean, I've seen it. 10 Things I Hate About You. American Pie would be fucking hilarious. American Pie would be funny to go back. Now getting half of the references. Okay. Pretty Woman. She's All That is... I'd go back to that one. I fucking love that movie. Wild Things. Remember sneaking into that one. I need pictures with these. I don't... I'm the worst. God damn it. I don't remember any of these.

13:14Faculty's good. All right, we've got one so far. What about Wild Wild West? Ugh. I mean... I don't... I don't like that people don't like that movie. I fucking love that movie. I think it's secretly a great movie that people have just decided to shit on. But you got to admit it's like such a dud after I think like the two previous Will Smiths were Men in Black and Independence Day. You got to admit that's like a little bit of a drop. Of course. But it's here's my thing. I think you don't shit on Jim Carrey for making the mask and fucking Ace Venturas. This is my only argument. If you remade Wild Wild West.

13:52And then go. If you're going cable guy. If Quentin Tarantino remade Wild Wild West, it'd be a fucking banger of a movie. Quentin Tarantino's Wild Wild West would be so funny. this like it's a bad plot like robots fucking like i i think the whole thing is fucking like it's ridiculous i i know there's a guy with no legs there's a giant spider i i vaguely recall there's like a uh chase in a cornfield and that's i mean it's what i like about movies it's completely ridiculous and i feel like wild wild west to the list i mean i'm kind of feeling there's two it does not meet the criteria i laid out oh my your criteria nobody knows what criteria yeah we're gonna be here for the rest of the night thread this needle i kind of like throwing a bunch of just like randoms in there and like letting the 92 percenters dictate it should we just put the tweet out let's just put the tweet out okay the criteria is travis and i can never have seen it.

14:55How would they know this? They don't. We're going to get replies, though, and there's going to be some that we haven't seen. All right. Jake, are you taking notes? It's got to be a movie that we haven't seen. Haven't seen. It's got to be... What was the other criteria? It had to be, like, from your childhood, so people haven't seen it in a very long time was the other criteria. Yes. It's got to be, like, a movie that is child-centric, that a lot of people have not seen since they were children okay but all right or do you not like that criteria we can throw that criteria out not everybody was a child when we were a child most people don't count those people don't count we don't count them there's movies like brink that were watched by exclusively children at the time like grown-ups were not watching brink brink would probably be a tough watch brink's a great movie it's one of the only disney movies that's held up brink is fantastic okay that's up and such are you kidding me all right should we just do brink no it sounds like you should we just do disney made-for-TV movies from the 90s.

15:57Could do that. That's going to get a lot of people going. Where are we netting out here? I don't know. I don't know. I kind of like the idea of just asking the 92 %ers to submit movies, and the rule is we can't have seen it. That leaves it vague enough. Just give us movies that you think would be funny to have us review. Give us movies. We will decide on this end, and we will let you know which one we pick. Do you like that idea, Travis, or do you not like that idea? Yeah, let's do it. We got Travis in. All right. You guys send us ideas. we'll go through them we'll pick one and we'll let you guys know what the pick is for july film club jason is there any more criteria you want i don't think so i think that makes sense i think the idea of reviewing a movie that was mostly seen as people as kids as adults sounds interesting to me because you watch it under a different lens and most people are going to remember it from their time as children yeah could also just do brink i don't know i kind of like that idea Yeah, Puppin Suds.

16:51Could do Brink. We mentioned Pretty Woman. That's been on me and Tay's movie list for a while. I'm down to watch that. A movie I think is very underrated, Wild Wild West. I fucking love Wild Wild West and Wild Wild West 2. There's Wild Wild West 2? Yeah. There's not a second Wild Wild West. Fuck yeah. Is this real? You kidding me? I think the second one's got Owen Wilson in it or something. I forget which one is which. Are you thinking of the movie with Jackie Chan where him and Owen Wilson are... Shanghai Nights. Shanghai Nights? I might have been. God damn it. I thought there were two Wild Wild Wests.

17:31Oh, shit, there is. Oh, wait, no. I think that's just Wild Wild Wests. Yeah, you're right. Top question on Reddit. Wasn't there a Wild Wild West 2? Was there not? the literal answer is realized we were thinking of shanghai noon oh gosh oh my gosh that is fucking how many people think shanghai noon is just a sequel to wild wild west dude shanghai noon also a good-ass movie that one i wouldn't mind reviewing shanghai noon i don't remember it as well as i think i remember he pees on his shirt to bend the bars fuck oh man there might have been two shanghai noons you said this shirt you said this shirt doesn't break not piss shirt bend bars how do you remember this i'm a big jackie chan fan dude we could even just do like uh some jackie chan movies if you ever what's the one that's fucking not escape from new york there's another one.

18:36Rush Hour? What do you mean? No, no, no. There's so many good Jackie Chan movies. That is rookie, rookie Jackie Chan. You got Drunken Master. You got, oh my gosh, what is the movie where they're running around New York and it's fucking insane. Oh, it's so ridiculous of a movie. Gosh, you're making me want to, all right, here, let's just get out of this. Big Trouble in Little China? Is that it? Most absurd Jackie Chan movie. That's what you're typing in. I do love Drunken Master Drunken Master is a great one Rumble in the Bronx Alright so basically 92 % There's really no criteria We don't necessarily know exactly What you guys want us to review So we just want a little bit of a reference So we can start to narrow this thing down Send in all your requests We'll peek over them And get back to you guys with which movie The New Heights Film Club will review And that does it for New Heights Film Club Brought to you by Reese's and their new PB and J cups.

19:37All right. Before we get to Papa Kelsey, there's something we need to disclose. He's from a different time and era. People viewer discretion is advised. We don't know what this fucking guy's about to say. I mean, I just got to be honest with you. He's a wild card. He is one of the nicest, most genuine people on the planet. Not a negative bone in his body. It's just. You know what? Anybody with a grandpa knows something. All right, here we go. We're going to get Kelsey out here. Hope you guys enjoy this. All right. Father's Day was this past Sunday. So we're bringing the only man who can help us out with some Heights hotline.

20:16Father's Day. Edvice. Shout out to Twitter user Eva G for coming up with the name Edvice. Eva G on Twitter. Will this be on a regular episode or just a Wondery Plus episode? I would love some Edvice. Nice. advice from ed kelsey live from not gonna lie studios we have ed kelsey joining us dad how we doing we're doing great we're doing great good shirt choice appreciate your studio shout out to kai for getting this nice and set up dad you look great good you got the wings going i should take my hat off and put get my wings showing a little bit jason you just got the You talking about the longer hair?

20:57These are like the wings from the Flying Nun. The Flying Nun. I don't know that reference. That must have been an 80s or 70s reference right there. What's the Flying Nun? More like 65, 64. Sally Field was a nun, and she wore one of those hats with the wings, and the wind would come by and lift her in the air. Oh, wow. Oh! Whoa! The Flying Nun. Now we get it. Wow. There you go. Did she invent the cookies? Is that Sally Fields? What's the cookie I'm thinking of? Famous Amos? No, Mrs. Fields, no. She did not make Mrs. Fields cookies. Okay. All right. Sorry. All right. We've gone down a rabbit hole already.

21:36All right. I guess, where do we start? Dad, what do you think of Father's Day? Let's start off with there. What do I think of it? Yeah. What are your thoughts on Father's Day? My thoughts on Father's Day is a celebration of your kids. Yeah. Oh, all right. All right. And how happy you are. Nice. I'll celebrate to that. And what a great job you did as a dad. Yeah. Or doing, right? There's still this. Do you ever stop being a dad? Do you consider yourself dad still? Oh, yeah. Yeah. How? 100%. Jason, he was just fathering you two seconds ago into getting your ass in there to see a doctor about your sleep apnea.

22:13Yeah, I'm not going to do a doctor. They don't know what they're talking about. How is being a dad different at this stage as opposed to being a dad? You don't know what they're talking about. When we were like Wyatt Bennett's and Elliot's age. And Finn. Sorry, Finn. A lot more relaxing. At this stage, everything's just a lot of fun. Less work. You're not fretting about how they're doing in school, how they're treating teammates, how things are going in the neighborhood with them, how much trouble they got into that can be directly tracked back to you. What do you fret about these days between Travis and I?

22:51Between Travis and you, or not much. Not much? I think you're doing great. Okay. Yes. So you do think that Father's Day is a real holiday. Jason, do you think Father's Day is a real holiday? I think Father's Day is, I think, yes, first of all, it's a real holiday. Anything that celebrates parents and family and raising children in this world should absolutely be celebrated. Okay. I think that Father's Day and Mother's Day is celebrated across every nationality in some way. Actually, there's a really good way that the Germans celebrate. We mentioned this last year on the podcast. I would love to do this with dad one day.

23:30You know how Germans celebrate Father's Day, Pop? No. Tell me. The family drops them off at like a woods, and they have a wagon that is filled with beer and different types of meats and sausages. and the dads just wander up into the mountains with a bunch of beer and sausages and they hang out together for a day. And then they come back to meet their families afterwards. I'll tell you what. That sounds pretty fun. We can wander back to the pool and do the same thing. There we go. Perfect. There we go. We've got to go to the way. We'll just get a wagon and ceremony and walk out backyard. Dad, mom's in traders.

24:06What? No, we can't say this. Oh, it's already. It's public. It's public. Rumored. Rumored. Rumored. What? It's public now? It's public. Allegedly. I was lectured by your mother not to talk about it. Okay. Well, can we record something for when we can say this? What do you think are mom's chances? Chances of what? Of winning. Winning what? Do you understand? I have no idea what she's doing. So this is the premise of this. It's a game show. It takes place in Scotland. Basically, there's a group of people, and there's two people in that group, or a select amount of people are traders, which are people that can eliminate other people week by week.

24:45And the group of individuals that aren't the traders need to try and devise who the traders are before the traders eliminate all of the non-trader contestants. What? I'm sorry. All right. Perfect. So what do you think mom's chances are of winning such game show? Haven't got a fucking clue. Don't know? Okay. I don't know. I'm not a reality TV show type person. That's not true. You used to love, what's that? What were the history ones? What was the one where they used to bid on the freaking - Oh, Storage Wars. Storage Wars? You were big Storage Wars. Never saw that in my life. I never saw, I mean, I've seen it on TV, but I haven't sat down and watched it.

25:33Storage Wars. I used to sit there and watch, what's the - No, we watched the two guys. We watched the two guys that went around hunting for junk. Yep, the American Pickers. Then you used to watch the Vegas one with the Chumlee. What's the – Oh, the Vegas. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So don't give me this. Don't give me this. You're not a reality TV guy. Pawn stars. Don't act like you're above reality TV. You used to sit down and watch Jackass with us. Yeah. What? As I recall, I was pretty much adamantly opposed to jackass. Yeah, no, I think that's accurate. I'm pretty sure. Oh, man. But you were missing out.

26:14Yeah. Oh, yeah. Your loss. I want to get Ed Caisley's reaction to this photo. All right. Brandon, you know exactly what photo I'm talking about. I have no idea what photo, so you're going to get my reaction, too.

26:34did somebody actually do that this is this is tattooed on a woman i think her name is lauren's arm uh yeah no this is a bet that somebody lost and they have this tattooed permanently under there permanently that's not a henna i mean i think you could take take them off these days But no, I think that's an actual tattoo. Oh, what do you think? Immediate reactions. Immediate reaction? Yeah. Fucking loony. You know, what else can I say? This is provocative. I saw that on social media, and that's a cringeworthy. Cringe? Even without it being on somebody's arm, just the picture itself. I've never heard the word, you use the word cringe.

27:19So this is a new territory. I think it's pretty accurate. I've never seen anything that. It's made you feel like that, huh? Yeah, that's right. I don't think I look half bad, if I'm being honest. I think it's a pretty, they did me a solid. This might be the best you've ever looked. You can take that off the screen now. Fair enough. I have to ask Kai that one, though. All right, let's get to some Heights Hotline, man. Let's get to the fun stuff, baby. We're going to listen to some voicemails, Dad, that our viewers and listeners have sent us asking for parent advice. And normally Travis and I answer them, but we always wish you were here to do this because we know you would answer them far better than we can.

28:03Yeah. This one is titled Unwritten Rules with Dad. Hey, Jason. Hey, Travis. Huge fan of the show. So my question, my no-dumb question is, what was, like, an unwritten rule you had with your dad growing up? One of my unwritten rules I had always with my dad was when I'd be in the car with him, it would be nothing but his music he loved, 70s, 80s rock, 90s rock. Sounds like a good dad. And we always watched football games together. And that was like our big, like two big unwritten rules was that. I hope you have a good day. Go Steelers. Oh, there we go. Go Steelers. The Yins are action. We didn't have any written rules.

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28:58They were all unwritten. I only remember one, but it was literally a rule that he told me was, but he only told me once, it was, you got to be home before the streetlights come on. That was the only like unwritten rule. That's a rule that dates back to the 60s, at least. Since streetlights were a thing. Did you write down any rules? I don't remember any written rules. Oh, I don't know about any written. No, no. I think they were all unwritten, but there are tons of rules. Yeah. Don't talk back to your mom. Finish your food at the table. Finish what you're eating. Yep. There's starving kids in China.

29:31Don't hit your brother in the face. No punches to the head. Can we still use their starving children in China? Is that still an acceptable way to get children to eat food? I think that's to each his own, Jason. I don't know. I kind of gave up on that one. I mean, that's to each his own. That's what the matter is. I waited all these years for you and Travis to come back with Aunt Judy's retort. What was Aunt Judy's? Well, if they were here, they could have my food.

30:03That's not listening. Leave it to Ed Judy. All right. What were some other Ed Kelsey rules? If you run, it's only going to be worse. I remember that one.

30:14Yeah. Come here. If you run, it's only going to be worse. I don't know. I'm drawing a blank here. Yeah, that's pretty good. I think it was more situational. The rules came up where there was a situation that demanded it. There was the golden rule, which kind of everything else fit within the golden rule. Then there was respect your teachers, your – Yeah, the elders in the room. Yeah, but there was another level for like either teachers, educators, or people that were older than you, which I felt like if we ever – Your elders, respect your elders, yeah. Yeah, if we ever came back and one of the older parents or anybody was saying something, you were like, all right, that's enough of that.

31:00I feel like that was a big one. And that wasn't always easy to say. And the reason I mentioned it is how many of those parents or elders were just full of shit. Yeah, I know. But you're just trying to keep your kid quiet and get out of there. Yeah, but the chances are your kid is full of more shit than the elders are, right? No? I don't know. Sadly, no.

31:24And that's something you'll come to realize. All right. Fair enough. As the girls get older. All right. Your time is not so much keeping your kids in line as it is deflecting criticism and, you know, rolling your eyes in front of the frigging idiots. Okay. All right. Wonderfully said. Love that. What were your rules as far as like sports went? No I in team. Yep. you're never as good as they say you're also never as bad as they say yeah ignore the ignore what people say uh yeah hard work and hustle beats talent always has always will i don't know if you did it on purpose or if it was just the athletes that you genuinely appreciated most but you would always point out the athletes that were uh besides the ones that were really good and had personalities i remember you love charles barkley we've been on that multiple times always been a big fan of Chuck.

32:23You'd always point out the guys that ran hard or hustled like Pete Rose and different games. It was always athletes that either were intense or gave above and beyond effort. I remember that was one thing. Define the odds. Never stop tracking that ball. Things like that, sure. I think we can hit the next one. Irrational Mad Dad Moment is this title. Hey guys, this is Zach. I wanted to talk to you about Father's Day and it coming up soon. And it made me think of times that my dad got irrationally mad at us. And I wanted to know if there was any time Papa Kelsey got irrationally mad over something little.

33:11Like I remember our big one at home was dad got mad at us because the toothpaste was in the downstairs bathroom, not the upstairs bathroom. We got like a five-minute lecture about it. He's yelling and screaming. Anyway. That does feel a little bit irrational. You guys had a similar experience with your dad. Or maybe, Jason, can you admit you having yourself an irrational mad dad moment? Oh, absolutely. All right, thanks. Bye. I don't ever remember dad being irrational. I'm pretty sure he was rationally mad. You should have been there when Travis put the hand lotion in the shampoo bottle. I mean that's pretty rationally bad though you put some hand lotion on your hair when you came down the steps and your hair looked like it was glued together like you had just washed your hair looked like Cameron Diaz out of what is that movie it was fucking ridiculous I looked at you and I was like oh shit what did I do Travis looked at me and boom he's out of there yeah looked like Cameron Diaz from Something About Mary I'm surprised he didn't go right through the screen door when he ran away.

34:19I was like, oh, I didn't realize that. And you were late to go to work or you were trying to hurry up and get out the door. Yeah, that was a rational. I feel like most of the times I remember it was pretty rational. Rationally mad was a big one for Ed Kelsey. There was a reason for him to be upset. I'm trying to think of an irrational one. I can't really. Nothing comes to mind off my head. What do you think, Pop? Do you remember any? No, I'm drawing a blank. I remember you irrationally. You remember when we were on this, we were sledding down the hill that this was back when we lived in North Ridgeville.

34:56It was me, you and oh my gosh, the one neighbor. Oh, what was his name? I think it's me and you or us two and you were on one sled and we were headed for a rock. And I You ended up jumping in front of us on the sled and the rock broke your ribs. So you're sitting there. I broke a couple of ribs. That was. You're screaming in pain. I tried to hang on. I remember his name just because I remember this irrational moment from you. We're driving in the car and Billy says. Billy, that's right. Billy says something to you about driving. And you're like, shut the fuck up, Billy. He asked me if I'm okay.

35:38He saw me wincing in pain. He asked me, can you drive? He said, shut the fuck up.

35:47That was one of those things where we, I was trying to avoid the rock and we all went over. And to keep from hurting one of you guys, I tucked my elbows in so I would roll over. And that's how I broke the ribs. Why didn't you just grab us and roll the other way? I'm trying to envision how this rock was so. Okay, well, God damn it, that's hilarious. Well, you have one of those moments you can ask yourself, why didn't I go the other way? Fair enough. Fair enough. I get irrationally mad. The problem with children is they're irrational. So that causes you to be irrational sometimes. There's a lot of irrational things happening when you're dealing with little kids.

36:27All right. Fictional father. Let's go with that one. Oh, shut the fuck up. Fictional fathers. Okay. This should be good. Hi, this is Lacey from Missouri, and I was just wondering, Jason, what fictional father would you say most closely resembles your parenting style? And I think that's it, actually. Have a good day. Okay, Lacey, nice. I'll say this. I think my parenting style probably mostly resembles a non-fictional character in my own dad. I think that I definitely am very – I find myself being more and more similar to dad in the way I talk and do things with my children. And I think dad – I'm trying to think, like, who's the best fictional character that dad is represented by?

37:23Is it Red from that 70s show? I feel like he's got a little bit of that. but maybe not as like curmudgeon he's more supportive of his children yeah who's a like who's a rough around the edges but very supportive father al bundy oh my gosh that is low-key i mean he's not supportive of his kids at all he's but it's al bundy's good he's got yeah it's you got to go with a hodgepodge it's got the sense of humor of al bundy combined with like combined with the fatherly like nurturing of like a huxtable what's uh like bill cods like we can't mention bill cosby unfortunately but the character was phenomenal on the show mr huxtables yeah so i think you know that's pretty good i would say it's kind of like that what do you think that's I mean, that's damn good.

38:16That's pretty good. If you want to go, what's Ed what? What's the guy's name from Married with Children? Ed what? Al Bundy. No, that was his real name. Oh, you're talking about Modern Family. No, I'm thinking what's his real name? Ed O 'Neill from Youngstown, Ohio, baby. Yeah, played for the Steelers. He played for the Steelers? Yeah, he did. I think it was only one or two years. If I'm not mistaken, he was a linebacker. I'm not sure. Are you thinking of Jack Lambert? Look it up, dude. Try me. All right. Listen. Brandon, look it up right now. Had a brief stint with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Holy shit.

39:00Well, well done, Dad. Ed O 'Neal, baby. And he's from Youngstown? Four touchdowns. One game. He's from Youngstown? No, that was Al Bundy's big game. Polk high. But he did a movie where he went to his girlfriend's house to get her kid who had been disappointed by his real father. Yes. And he had to get him across town. Or not across town, across the country. Drive to meet his mother. I forget the name of that movie, but I just remember the kid was having such a fit. He tied the kid's feet and legs around a hockey stick and carried them out like a suitcase.

39:42That's a good one. Ed O 'Neill, really in any dad, because he's the grandpa and the dad in Modern Family, and he's very much a similar temperament to him. I didn't know he's from Youngstown, but that makes a ton of sense. That's a lot of ties right there. Maybe that's why we got so much of that. One of my favorite things ever in the house, and all my friends still say this to this day, is there was never like any like, come downstairs, talk to the guys, let them know you can't do that. It was just a scream from the second floor office. Hey! Hey! Shut the fuck up. Yeah. And immediately everyone froze.

40:23It was like, yeah, we can't do that anymore. All right. Yeah, we're done. Yeah. I do remember one time we were at the rink and Travis and a bunch of kids were playing hockey outside the rink while you were skating. Yep. And you know they used to do that in the one corner? Oh, yeah. Of the rink. And some people, some grandparents were trying to get by to go up the stairs. And I was on the other side of the rink and I yelled, yo, there's like seven kids dropped the hockey sticks right away. dude it it translates it translates to me we were at the phillies game this week and we took the girls and some some family friends brought their kids and one of the other i don't even realize this is like a thing that just our family does but one of the other kids was standing like you don't want to sweet how like the front she was like climbing on the front of it and i was like yo and immediately she like gets startled and then starts crying and i'm like oh fuck i just fucked this up like this kid isn't normally used to getting this kind of treatment.

41:29I'll tell you one of the coolest things is, and this was maybe two or three, one of the last few years that Jason played, were in the downstairs in the family room in that lounge. And, you know, they've come by four or five times trying to get people to leave. And I walk over by the door and the security guy was being, the security guys were very cool about it. They weren't rushing you, but people were getting antsy. so I just told the guy I said watch this and I just yelled yo all of a sudden everybody starts walking out it's a powerful like Kylie's family has the whistle Ed can do that loud like I'm jealous of that so am I I don't know that there's like the yo is undefeated you just whip out a yo in the middle of a crowd you can say yo right now in the middle of a sea of people I'm like oh shit that Kelsey's here laughter let's get to one more that was a that was a dadism if i'd ever heard one let's uh let's let's listen to one more of these things nj from la here i'd like to know what is the best piece of advice your dad gave you about dating sex marriage and parenting and also what is the worst piece of advice he's ever given you thank you and love the show okay thank you that's an awesome question i never got any advice on sex from dad we never had the burrs and the bees no we didn't no we didn't yeah he left that to the cleveland heights uh public school school i lives without it you can too mr hoon mr hoon and robo lowski coach robo coach robo taught us about sex and coach jones mike jones was and coach jones that's right what were the other ones uh Dating.

43:15I remember I was trying to figure out how to get a girl to, you know, think I was funny or cool. And in like early middle school, like maybe like sixth, seventh grade, might even been younger than that. This funny way of like, hey, you know, just be her friend. Just be cool with her. Just be, you know, she doesn't like you. Pretty girls all hang around pretty girls. Yeah, that's right. Yes, yes. I was like, all right, yeah, there you go. Just be friends with him. That's right. I do remember a brief discussion Jason and I had when he was at UC. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. He was telling me how good I was with the women.

43:58Yeah. I see these girls, but I really don't want to. He said, I really don't know what to talk about. And I told you that, and it's true for every guy, any guy listening. You know, I know I play football. I know everybody likes to talk about that. But tell me about you. Oh, wow. All you got to do is shut up and get them to talk about themselves. And you ain't got to say another word. Nod your head. Oh, wow. Yeah. Cool. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. You know, they add the little comments in there to make her feel good and just. Perfect. You don't have to say nothing. You know what I mean? There you go. No, this is good.

44:37This is why you remind us of that. This is why you remind us of that. Also why I live alone. Hey, I actually don't think he's listening to me. He's just acting like he wants to live.

44:53They figured you out. I was on AOL Instant Messenger, and you definitely encouraged me to just talk to girls, because you could tell that I was just, I did not know how to talk to girls. You were awkward. You were uncomfortable. Jesus Christ, I wasn't going to say that. I was uncomfortable? You were a little uncomfortable. Yeah. Who wasn't, man? And we were fucking, it was AOL Messenger. Who was it? What about it was awkward? You just said you're real at ease talking to girls. Jason, I used to eavesdrop in on your conversations on the phone. You remember when you told me to. No, we can't. You got to take that out.

45:29We can't do this. And that's all the Ed advice we got for you. I'll tell you advice I gave you that you didn't, that you didn't pay attention to. Oh gosh, what's that? Katie would say that she sees you and she says hi to you, but you say nothing back. Oh, really? I tried to tell you, you see Katie, talk to her. Not that you have to go out and that you're going to start dating her. She's a little older than you, yada, yada. I did not know how to talk to girls. But every girl in school is watching you talk to this hot older chick. This hot older chick. There you go. All right. All right. And that's it for Ed Weiss with Ed Kelsey.

46:05Happy Father's Day, everybody. Dad, I'll see you for Father's Day, maybe. Love you, big guy. Thanks for coming on here and having some fun with us. Anytime. You know what? Love you, Pop. Love you. All righty, folks. That's our dad. That's Ed Kelsey. That's Dad. With some great fatherly advice. Love you, Dad. We got to incorporate Dad more in the show. He's a wealth of just like entertainment. Come on. This is my favorite human being, man. Beer Bowl submissions are also closing tonight. We will notify the teams that make it by this Friday, June 20th. Send to at new hud show with one S and use beer bowl.

46:44We've had a lot of good submissions this year and we're narrowing it down. Right. We're going to shout out Drew Garrison. Drew Garrison from Cincinnati, I believe. If I, hopefully that's the right one. Let's take a look at this link from one of the submissions.

47:10Yeah.

47:16Oh, wow.

47:21Okay.

47:24Play a little beer bowl, little beer bowl. Oh, it's a little team action. Make beers go bye-bye. Oh, no. Bad pass. takes the serious though profanity that's how you know he's serious oh no oh gosh this is they have a lot of good

47:48impressive teamwork on the beer bowl I will say this is a very long match it's got to be multiple matches

48:09I mean, extra points for all the garage beer merch. Drew Garrison out of Cincinnati. That was fun. That was good content. That was good. Good content. Nice. They're also playing my favorite game, which is beer ball. Beer ball is my favorite beer drinking game. It requires teamwork, athleticism, and beer drinking ability all combined into one sport. He had the no-look pass down. Shout out to Drew Garrison. Sibling Swagger.

48:38I like this intro already. This intro is amazing. Oh, they know. Yeah, baby. I'm all about this. Legend of the Hidden Temple. Fuck yes. Welcome to New Heights. intro is epic i'm getting so excited right now the nostalgia right now is so sought the legendary treasure hidden deep within not gold nor jewels but their mother's famed thanksgiving dinner rolls legends spoke of their walls my gosh coveted by all this is so ridiculous this is ai how did they get this strength and agility his movements like a jaguar prowling This is great. How fucking long is this? Do they at any point show themselves?

49:29That is correct. What color was the light? Hold up. Go back to his correct answer. Go back to his correct answer. Oh my god. This is amazing. Next question. how did the legend describe the dinner rolls blue bear

49:56this is incorrect god damn it they have to be in this is this is legendary uh warm and fluffy that is correct what color was the labyrinth blue barracudas that is not one of our choices

50:19that is correct

50:25dog they have this is great they're in just for the creativity god damn it my face hurts man that was fucking gold i think about taking away points for ai because i'm pretty sure olmac was ai'd out the ass but i don't care that was so good you got to keep it in wonderful job that was she was epic The standing there with the beer. Sibling swagger is in. That was great. That was outstanding. I'm also trying to obtain Korean announcers for Beer Bowl. So if there's anybody that has experience being an announcer in the language of Korean, we would love to have you be the host for this year's Beer Bowl.

51:06Think about how electrical it would be. You're going to write a book on how to get canceled. It would. they would you're gonna write a book on how to get canceled i don't do that i mean listen they're better than u.s announcers i'm just saying announcers in english is kind of electric fucking korean announcers there's just something about it it's fucking gets the party fucking going it's gonna be absurd it's gonna be incredible people are gonna be into this fucking thing you're gonna have they have to have translators talking to the teammates no that's yeah i mean it's the way they do it in baseball they do it with shohei otani and major league baseball New Heights Beer Bowl brought to you and presented in Korean.

51:44All right. Dude, I think it'd be electric. I'm just saying. I think it'd be pretty fucking awesome. We're going to find out, I guess. Well, we might not. I don't know that we're going to be able to find any Korean announcer. Over there on the Jersey Shore? I think they might be in Korea. Just a hunch. Yeah, that makes sense. South Korea, probably. Keep sending in those beer bowl submissions, guys. That was fucking electric. All right. That wraps up another episode of New Heights. Thank you to Papa Kelsey for joining us on the show. Next week, Chiefs fans, you're going to be loving the episode we got for you.

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53:09did kylie show you the pinup first yeah actually she beat me to it yeah i think she saw it on tiktok she did see it on tiktok because i then couldn't find it and i was like where the hell is that yeah i'm pretty sure it was like already a thing on tiktok was pinned up jason i like that we're calling it pinup jason it's pinup jason what do you want to call it it's so fucking you're a little perverted? No, it's artistic. Yeah, Jason. You got to celebrate. You're just showing. A lot of the comments made me laugh. One of my favorites was, it's got a good pecker on him. The old pecker.

53:49The old woodpecker. Good looking pecker on that guy. Well done. Let's get that thing off our screen. Yeah, let's move on.

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