Sandler Returns, Baker Mayfield's Unfinished Business, NFLPA Debacles & Pretty Woman Review | EP 149

26:20It's one of his signature things that he calls it. I think he learned it from some teaching class or something. At any moment, if he suspects anybody's looking at their phone or they're not paying attention, they're starting to nod off, he'll hit them with a question. But he'll ask the question first and then say the name. That's a very important distinction. He doesn't say, hey, Travis, what does the Y have on such and such and such? He'll be like, all right, what's the Y got on 74 per section, Travis? And it's like, oh, shit. Now, if you hear your name first, then you're locked in. Boom. But if you hear your name after the question, it's like, oh, shit, I better have heard that whole thing.

26:57Catches guys all the time. And then you got to stay locked in. That wouldn't faze me. I'd own that all day. dude my favorite used to be landing over there in the corner don't do landing like this well landed smart as fuck i'm not doing landed like this landed's smart as fuck one of the smartest guys ever played he plays a dumb ass on social media and whatnot like he's a big like goofy son of a bitch that dude is fucking dialed in he knows his assignment you ain't fucking catching him yeah but every once in a while he's looking at lawnmowers in the middle of the meeting before fucking... Gotta get that zero turn.

27:31He's looking at fucking Auto Trader or something like that or whatever the fuck it is. I mean, that's a good fucking magazine right there. And Stout will hit him with a cold call. And he's like, ah, yeah, you got it. He's like, yeah, I got you, motherfucker. It's so good. The cold calling. Surefire way to keep guys locked in. Tommy Tom's going to be cold calling my sorry ass. Dude, I'm... Oh, it's ready to kill him. Come on, Tom. Hit him with the cold calls. Can't get me, Tom. You know you can't. All right, that does it for Training Camp New News, brought to you by American Express. Will this season feel any different without the executive director of the NFL, Lloyd Howell?

28:08I thought it was the PA. Yeah, it's supposed to say PA. Sorry, I copied and pasted something weird. I'll find a picture of him. Yeah, I know who this is. Do you want to talk about it or not? I mean, I do. I think, I mean, it's unfortunate. For those of you that don't know, Lloyd Howell, the NFL PA's executive director, was uh well i guess he resigned technically right is that right brandon brandon is he resigned or was he resigned last night ryan last night as of this recording he resigned thursday night was discovered that he and maybe other employees i don't really know the full parameters of this i don't want to i also don't want to get a lot of things i don't think we should do this dude yeah there was a report i'm not saying it's true or not i have no idea of whether it's true I mean, Jason, it's on ESPN.

28:57There was a report out there that they were spending, they were using the company card of the NFLPA on strip club visits and holding business meetings there. And apparently you can't do that. It's against company policy. How do you feel about that, Jason? Do you think you should be able to? All right, here's the official thing. All right, this is from ESPN, a solid establishment. No, a few people there. Former NFLPA leader Lloyd Howell Jr. resigned after an outside investigator hired by the union. So somebody with inside the union ratted him out. Man, that's fucked up. All right. Received documents this week showing he charged the union for two visits to strip clubs, including a$738.82 car service that took him from the airport to one of the clubs.

29:46That's an expensive car service, right? How much is a car service? He was the guy of limousine. The car's first stop was at a nearby Miami Gardens address. The receipt shows only one other stop nearly eight hours later. So why are you putting this on the company card? What are we doing? The employees Googled the Miami Gardens address and discovered it was Tootsie's Cabaret, which i've not been but i have heard great things of that establishment it's a 76 000 square foot venue that bills itself as the world's largest strip club in quotes full nude number one rated i mean it sounds like a good establishment i mean to be fair i i've i've heard the i've heard the wings are good there like everyone loves the wings there during this year's nflp summit on February 21st, Howell accompanied two union employees to the Magic City Strip Club for an outing that included$2 ,426 in charges, including cash withdrawals ranging from$200 to$525 from a club ATM.

30:55Sources and documents show they used two VIP rooms. Well, I mean, the VIP rooms is where you get me because, listen, this is the only thing I don't know. Was it being used for business expense or not? If it was being used and business was happening, I don't see what the issue is. I mean, they're conducting business, right? What was the business? NFLPA business. I don't know what the business was. It says it right here. The strip club outing was used to. According to the expense report, the purpose of the strip club outing, player engagement event to support and grow our union. I'm going to be honest.

31:23There's not a lot of engagement that happens with the players union. It's hard to get guys to go to meetings and get involved. Having a meeting at Tootsie's is not a bad idea to improve engagement. Yeah. You're probably going to get more players going. Take them to the VIP room. Well, that's where you lose because you can get their attention. Well, you can't have too much business if you're in a one-on-one VIP room. It's a bold idea to create more engagement by Mr. Howell. And it backfired.

32:00You got to use the reference, which you said earlier. Yeah. Applebee's or the strip club. If there, it doesn't matter what you want. I mean, you go to Applebee's, it's a business expense. You go to a strip club and you get wings. I don't see why it's much different. I mean, we're all 21 here, right? But they don't have a VIP room at the Applebee's where you sit there all by yourself.

32:28This can't bode well for our upcoming contract negotiations with the league. It's funny that this is what the players pay for. This is like he's using the NFLPA's money for these expenses. And it's just hilarious that, you know. The Madden checks go there? Yeah. We pay our dues to the union, and this is what it's being used for. Wings. It's being used for wings in a VIP room. I'm just saying, also, player engagement. You saw it right there in the report. There was company morale is a big thing. And improving the PA needs to improve their morale. There's not a lot of excitement when you talk about collective bargaining agreements.

33:17So, I don't know. I mean, you have some wings. They might not have even known Tootsie's was a strip club. Maybe they thought they were going to a restaurant. I don't know. Who knows what they knew. I mean, they knew when they walked in. They knew. They knew before they walked in. yeah it's not good it's not good if they actually were if they actually got work done i mean what if they had like laptops out and like we're like crunching numbers at the fucking table they were crunching numbers and in between the numbers they were going over to the atm excuse me could you put this up on the display bambi if you could please move to the side I just want to show that guaranteed contracts is a potential for the future of the NFL.

34:09Bambi, lower. Don't lower. Lower, Bambi. Lower. Lower. All right. You can see right here from my graph that if we just hold out for two to three weeks, that's X amount of money that the NFL is going to incur in expense. Bambi, move your tits. I'm trying to show my graph.

34:45that word have i gone too far have i gone too far with this

34:52oh gosh

35:00somebody please give bambi 200 get her off the stage and show my grab

35:10we don't know what's going on in that building it's so ridiculous ah it's pretty absurd it's not good oh man i don't really know what else to say I guess now we got to figure out a new executive director. We got to get out of this. What's the next thing we can spend on a corporate card as the NFLPA to be more ridiculous? Well, thank you for that, Jason. Let's get to some fan mentions. Jason, you are shirtless yet again. The irony is so good. Jason, shirtless is now a lawn art. Thank you to Garage Beer. It's pretty sick. It's actually really sick. I don't know. It kind of blows my mind. Like, how?

36:00So it's actually not even, he's not even mowing the lawn. Apparently he like blows it and it like turns in different directions or something like that. I don't really fully understand it. What? He made it seem like there's like a specific machine that helps with this. I don't really fully understand any of it, to be honest with you. I've only seen the outfield at Jacobs Field or Progressive Field where it's cut in angles and stuff like that. Yeah. Oh, this is crazy. Yeah. How does he do this? I don't know. No, he's mowing it. I'm telling you, I've been in contact personally with the guy. He is on a mower right now mowing it.

36:39It's not a mower. It's something that blows the grass in specific ways. I don't fully understand. He's got a computer on this thing that is basically like blowing the grass a certain way as he goes over it. I don't even know. I have no idea what this technology is for all I know. The same technology that built the pyramids. I have no fucking clue what this is or how he did it. It's an epic video that I just watched right there. Yeah. It's pretty remarkable. Yeah. Do you understand how proud I am to be the reason that you did this?

37:14I feel so seen because this is what my dream was always to make human beings do shit like this. Yeah. Just get this fucking hype about my performance. Well, you've been doing it for years. You've been doing it for years, Travis. Thank you. This combined with drinking for an entire six hours of Bill's Mafia before the game got me real excited. There you go. That was a fucking really fun day. No, that's awesome. Also the first time I met your girlfriend. So that was an all-timer. Oh, nice. That was then. All righty. We got an update for Jets Jake Tattoo. How about this? Oh! It's official. There's somebody that is going to be getting a pinup tattoo of Jets Jake.

38:01It's been booked for next Thursday. According to this, hopefully no one else gets it before then. And shout out to the boys and Brandon for confirming they were serious. We'll post a pic as soon as it's done. I cannot wait. next Thursday. This is posted not today, probably yesterday or a couple days ago. So it'll be done by next week. Cannot wait to see what this looks like. Anyone else looking to get a Jets Jake tattoo? You're officially on the clock. It got to Thursday. Jake, how are you feeling about this? What do you think your pinup tattoo is going to be? First off, this is fucking bizarre.

38:38I have some ideas. You have ideas? I hope it includes something with the Jets, of course. naturally and a hobby horse those are my two components that i would love this tattoo comprised of hobby horse would be a nice little touch i'm sure that would make my family a bit more comfortable with this idea i do think it's this is fuck it's weird it's fucking weird i'm sorry i'm just gonna say it's gonna be weird jake don't don't think it's weird you're the one that retweeted the first one that's right i tweeted the first one your hands were the ones that retweeted the first one you did this this is true this is all my fault i will say it's also like it's a it's a little flattering like i am kind of honored that's it's

39:22i'm not gonna let i'm i'm i'm staying with some buddies this week because our friends just got engaged shout out to frankie and josh but everyone is just making fun of me relentlessly for the fact that this is happening so they're keeping me humble but i'm i'm gonna say it's very flattering I feel like there's got to be something with social media on it as well. Like maybe like Twitter bird, Twitter bird. Yeah. Yeah. Twitter bird tattoo. Do you have any Instagram? I have no tattoos. I think I'm not going to get a tattoo of this person. That would be, that's, this is not like a one-to-one trade-off scenario.

40:00I would, if we can come up, I shouldn't say this on air. are you about to say you're willing to get a tattoo i if we if we come up with like the right type of bet down the line years from that like this is a season four problem you know well when we come back next season we could workshop some some tattoo ideas but i might have adrian edit this out of the podcast i immediately regret saying that but we'll we'll see no no it's on It's on camera. It's on camera now. Yeah, it's on camera. Yeah, so now we know. Good to know. All righty, well. Yeah, we love the 92 percenters. It's very, that's the best fans in the world.

40:40So I'm honored. Do you think the person willing to get this tattoo is male or female? I believe it's a male, but I would be, I don't know what's worse. Musical airman. Musical airman. They get pinups. That's how pinups were started. It was like a military thing. I mean, listen, he's an airman. He probably likes jets. Maybe this might be the sickest one of all of us, dude. Travis has an accelerator can. I don't even remember what mine is again. What was mine? What was the eagle? You had the eagle, dude. Yeah, you're bald eagle. You're bald eagle. For the Giants fan. Which you brought to life. For the Giants fan.

41:19Do you want a small plane or do you want like a B-52 bomber? Like what kind of plane? Is it 757 down there? I think a modestly sized plane is perfectly fine.

41:38All right. That's enough of this. Thanks, guys. I hope multiple people don't do this. One person is plenty. Shout out to him or her. We'll see if somebody tries to beat him to the punch. Jesus Christ. All right. Thanks, guys. All right. Now, in a bakery slid into our DMs. How about that? Bakes Cakes in Iowa, or I'm sorry, Ottawa, Ottawa, Kansas. There's an Ottawa, Kansas? Oh, yeah. Never heard of it. Cool. Ottawa, Kansas, there's a bakery called Bakes Cakes. Super creative. Turn our favorite energy into a cupcake. That's right. You got to try these out, Trev. Two of my favorite flares. I could use one right now as I'm yawning, man.

42:21I haven't got any down here in Florida since I'm down here right now. Not going to lie, they look very good. Is it, it's in the icing too? I'm not a big icing guy, but if it's got, if it's got caffeine in it. I kind of talked about this on Kylie's podcast, Instagram. I like cream cheese frosting. I'm not a huge fan of a lot of frostings. I like cream cheese frosting and I like Chantilly. Have you ever had the Chantilly berry cake from Whole Foods? No. The frosting on that motherfucker is, it's insane. It's so good. It's light. It's airy. It's not too much. Fantastic cake. It really is. The frosting can get a little thick, but I'm with you.

43:05It's easy to mess that stuff up. I really don't like a lot of times the cakes that are super artistic because many times I find that frosting to be similar to like wax. You know, it's like got to like hold. It's like position. it's not the right texture or taste yeah well this being said i used to eat frosting out of the tube when mom had it so all right i digress shout out to bakes cakes over there in kansas yeah shout out to accelerator god i could use one right now having withdrawals let's keep this thing moving to some new heights film club yeah baby that's right for the season finale of new heights Film Club, we watched the 1990s classic Pretty Woman.

43:50Yes, sir. Oh, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere. Gere, not Greer. The entire time, my entire life, I've been thinking it was Greer, and it's not. Yep, same here. It's not, it's Gere. And they absolutely killed it. I thought it was a fantastic movie. I enjoyed every bit of it. I'm not gonna lie, when we first started, I really didn't know that it was about her being a hooker yeah no that was a surprise right i didn't know julia roberts signed up for that one but i mean it is a very it's a it's a it's a fun movie to follow along with it's the world's oldest profession travis it's uh the tale is oldest time i thought this movie was fantastic i really did i loved it it's got all the themes and things that i hold true and like all wrapped up into one.

44:40Like what? Like what? I really like how it shows the difference in classes and like what people. The stereotype? Well, not even stereotypes, just like people from different worlds and what they know and understand and why like people aren't necessarily better in lower class societies or upper class societies. Like right away you get to the thing where you have this billionaire businessman who has all the power in the world. He has everything he could ever want. He's led you to believe like he's very smart to get to this position, but he can't even drive a car. He struggles to do the stick shift.

45:18He has no idea where he's going, where he's going. He has no idea how to get to where he wants to go. He pulls over the side of the road and he doesn't even know he's talking to a hooker on Hollywood Boulevard. Like clearly there's an emphasis to show that this guy has zero street smarts whatsoever because he's never been on the streets, right? Yeah. And Julia Roberts, right away throughout the film, you see her clever, cunning way of talking to people, unfiltered, not protective of what she is. She says she was laughing so hard she almost pissed herself at the opera. Like, she's very unapologetically who she is.

45:51There's no barrier to try and hide that because she doesn't care what people think of her. And then at the same time, she struggles to know anything that's happening on the other side with the cutlery and she's amazed at the hotels and the hotel room jewelry like she's exposed to a whole nother world and I think throughout the movie they do a good job of basically saying that like neither world is better than the other in a lot of ways they just are different and people come from different ones and people are really all the same and they draw that comparison with them literally saying like I'm not any different than you Edward I fuck people over for money and like yada yada yada whatever that line was right right there's also some really sneaky ways they did this too with like i thought a very subtle one of like showing generational divides like um when they're having dinner with the morris uh dad and son right and she just learned what fork is what and she finds out they're not having a salad so she doesn't know what fork to use the younger son who probably has only known wealth because his father built this entire empire, is almost like laughing and surprised that she doesn't know what fork to use.

47:06But the father who built the entire empire, who probably came from nothing, admits himself that he forgets sometimes what fork to use. I think it's very true that people that grow up in their own worlds don't have frames of reference or know people from these other worlds, and it's easy to judge them. And I think they do a great job of showing people that have been a part of both of those worlds of like high class society and working class or low class society. They treat people differently. Right. And they treat those that are different than them. And you see it in the hotel management. Right.

47:40Like my favorite character in the entire movie is Barney. He kills it. The hotel manager right from the get go. That scene where you are Mr. Edwards. niece

47:58that was just such a fantastic scene right there but how he treats Julia Roberts Vivian throughout the film up until the end really I mean he's the only he's the last person to kind of tell Edward yo you're fucking this up dude yeah like it's hard to let go of something so beautiful isn't it yep by the way by the way he knows where she is Daryl sent her home yesterday wink wink but yeah I think There's some iconic lines throughout the movie, but I really loved how they did that. And it's really, you know, it's very Cinderella-y. You know, you have this prostitute that is in unfortunate circumstances due to partly because of who she is.

48:42And then also a lot of themes of raising kids to believe they can actually achieve in the world. A lot of that came in really at the end when she starts talking about how her mother used to tell her she is drawn to bums and she's always going to be with bums to all of a sudden she's telling Kit, you know, hey, hey, we think you got a lot of potential, kid. And don't let don't let anyone tell you any different. Right. There's. Yeah. And it really ends on the guy walking down the street saying, this is Hollywood where dreams come true, baby. Don't stop dreaming or whatever that line is. And it's such a great way to end the film.

49:22And you'd be surprised on what you'd get out of some of those walking down the street. The line between her and Edward while they're lying there, it's earlier in the film. She says, you know, people put you down enough. you start to believe it. He follows it up with a compliment, you know, reaffirming her, how beautiful she is and how bright she is. And that she can do anything she wants to do. And she follows it up with, well, the bad stuff is easier to believe. So it's just like, there's constantly these themes of high class, low class, and people dreaming to achieve. And I don't know, it's all brought together really, really well, all through the construct of love.

50:05And I thought it was just really well done. I loved it. Absolutely loved it. One of my favorite scenes was the polo scene. Yeah. The polo scene was dope where the younger Morris, he catches her talking to him over on the side, and he's kind of starting to feel like, you know what I mean? Like, that's my lady. Yeah. That's my woman. Why is she over there seemingly having a good time talking to this young, handsome guy? What is that all about? Yeah. What is this? And then he let George Costanza fucking get the better of him. Dude, George Costanza, what a piece of shit. You can't be that fun to watch in Seinfeld and be that shitty of a character in another movie.

50:46Like, that was, I didn't see that one coming. I thought. He did a great job. He nailed the role. Absolutely nailed it, yeah. Jason Alexander killed that role, but. Sorry, Jason, I didn't know your actual name. I called George, too. I mean, it's. It's hard not to. It's too iconic. Yeah, he was a grade A piece of shit in the best way possible. Yeah, I agree. That was a really fun. And then they come back and they have the argument. and then he tells her why he's upset with her is because i saw you talking to this other guy it's like well i mean that's childish and jealousy but that also is letting her know that's like oh he he wants me you know what i mean like he wants to be with me so a little bit of jealousy good thing i mean you start being a little bit too jealous then you got some issues but you gotta have some in your partner getting jealous and getting upset and being mad and telling your best friend that you're a hooker like that's not that's not how far you want to take it we have to control these emotions mr greer here mr gear mr gear i love the ending of it you know she she lays out like she's always had the dream of uh the knight in shining armor climbing the tower old san francisco not being put up in a condo and then all of a sudden at the end of it he's climbing the stairs of the Section 8 housing to save her from the circumstances that she's been dealt because he loves her.

52:04Yeah, he's afraid of heights, yeah. He braves up. Dude, I left Kylie in the ocean because of the sharks. I don't know if I'm as good as Edward is, apparently. I'll tell you what, though. If I actually thought she was in danger, I wouldn't have left her. I promise you. I didn't think she was in danger. I thought I was in danger. No, I was just terrified. I didn't think I was in danger. That's the difference. Well, what's... It's hard to explain. There is a difference. I didn't think I was in danger. I just started getting worried about the sharks. I didn't think she was actually in danger. Otherwise, I would have...

52:33If Kylie fell into shark-infested water, I would jump in. I fucking guarantee. She was 1 ,000 % in shark-infested water. She was away from the shark. The shark was all the way over here, and it wasn't like... It wasn't... All the way? Yeah, it wasn't even being a thing. If you could see a shark... If I saw a fit by Kylie... And you could see Kylie. No. If I saw the fin by Kai, if I would have saw the shark fin next to Kai, I would have went towards. What do you mean? But there was. It has to be right around her? It was in a completely different vicinity of this water. I'm just letting you know.

53:05The shark was already close enough to you to where you got out of it. If it got any closer to you, you would have. She was way behind me. I promise you. Only Kylie has to believe you. Just remember that. Only she has to believe you. A quarter million dollar necklace. Like, what the fuck? Where does you even get? have you ever seen something like that never like what kind of how many stones you got to pile on top of something that'd be especially back then i mean yeah inflation that's like a fucking million dollar necklace nowadays jesus christ um yeah a lot of great uh side care the all these supporting actors uh and actresses did a great job kit was a kit was a great uh uh role in what she was and even though she was holding julie roberts back a terrible friend uh really just in some ways you loved her and appreciated who she was Jason Alexander we already talked about him being a piece of shit great actor piece of shit Barney sorry Barney don't know your actual name I mean he's been a great actor he's been in a lot of those like rom-coms and 90s like this role he really freaking just nails fucking crushes it the shopkeeper the guy that they go to treat yourself right before the pretty woman montage he's in a lot of those movies too he does a great job the bellhop operating the elevator kind of just you know all like I don't know that he has any spoken lines a lot of it is just non-verbal with eyes and stuff does a great job I think out of the other movies that we've we've watched Julia Roberts actually earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in this movie in addition to her first nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

54:54So she, I mean, obviously she kills it, but this was like one of her like first like. Come out roles. Yeah. And she fucking crushed it. I don't know what she did before this, but I say this being a very happily married man. She is a pretty woman in this movie. I mean. And she kills it. The acting is great. She has like the accent. She does a great job during multiple of the scenes delivering the lines. And I don't know. I just really enjoyed it. It's right up there with probably my favorite romance movie I probably have ever seen, which is a short list. Yeah. Like, this isn't even a rom-com. This is just straight romance from start to finish.

55:34Really? You didn't think it was that funny? I think there were funny parts of it. Yeah, but I wouldn't say it's like a rom-com. I don't know. It wasn't supposed to be funny to the extent that I would call this a rom-com. This is just pretty much a romance film to me. I think it's a rom-com, but I also don't think it's a rated R movie. Dude, there's some scenes where he's going down the chest on the piano. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's some lingerie scenes that are a little aggressive for the PG-13. I think he swears in the movie. Maybe it would be PG-13 if it was done today. Yeah, I guess you're right.

56:10I forgot some of those scenes in the room. The tie scene when he's been off of work, comes back, just has the tie on. Listen, that's a hell of a welcome home. Pretty Woman fan mentioned whenever they review Pretty Woman, be sure to mention, get their reaction to the fact that when Julie signed on for the role, the movie was originally a depressing drama where her character was a drug addict and gets left on the street. So... it wasn't a romance movie at all. I want to know what the original script was I don't, I don't want to know I liked it just the way it was I like this where there's the happy ending because it all makes sense and is fits my themes of the way I like hope and positivity to be the running theme of what people should aspire for and keep thinking I'm a glass half full guy that might be a little bit more realistic of an ending to be honest with you but I don't know.

57:12You're a curious guy. You want to see, you want to see what it was before. And Brandon has it right here for you. The original screenplay was titled 3000 and it was written by the then struggling screenwriter, uh, J.F. Lawton originally intended to be a dark cautionary tale about class and prostitution in Los Angeles. Hmm. Sounds terrible. Wow. They turned a complete one 80 on that one. I mean, who knows if it would have been good, but it wasn't going to be this. So basically everything, everything I like about the movie was the exact opposite. Somebody put that in. Yeah. You have no hope. You can't move up in class.

57:54You're not as good as the other ones. You're going to end up like shit. If you end up doing the prostitution, this is reality. This isn't a fairy tale, Jason. All right. Well, I'm glad they didn't do that one. Cause I like, I'm, I'm a sucker for a good endings. film club pff grades all right plot let's get into it plot very unrealistic i'll be honest very unrealistic especially in today's age for sure billionaire ceo falls for the prostitute i mean i mean i think it's unrealistic probably happened who knows probably happened who knows might have just happened with the former executive director of the nflpa who knows It might have just happened.

58:40The CEO, man, the CEO at Coldplay, you know, who knows? Well, that was the HR. That wasn't a prostitute. That was his work wife, which unfortunately wasn't good. All right. They're not shit on people. Yeah, well, I mean, it's kind of deserve it, right? Yeah. Yeah, plot, I will say. unrealistic plot but i loved guiltily all the themes and everything had touched on it i think they did a fantastic job a lot of the lines delivered really hit me um with like optimistic and hopeful values and fighting off people that tell you you're not good enough almost like this rocky balboa type like mindset vivian balboa yeah vivian balboa i'll listen that pretty woman montage might be the only thing better than a balboa montage all right pff grade plot i'm gonna go it's a starting plot it's a starting caliber plot it's not an all pro plot i'm gonna go 85 i'm gonna go 85 85 i'm right there with you 85 acting i thought it was through the roof i didn't see one bad i didn't see one bad scene no i thought at first it was like but a little corny like a little bit like too polished yeah yeah i don't know to be honest i think i just enjoyed the the following along the movie i think for what it is it's really good there's a lot of emotional scenes that the actors all nail it's not the most realistic so it's hard to view acting as premiere when the it's a little kind of like hollywood-y right like the movie's very hollywood-y in nature i think julia killed it yeah she crushed it killed it all the supporting actors killed it i don't think you could go with anything less than like a 90 95 like i'm in that range for this thing i don't think i'll go 95 i'll go 95 95 yeah on screen chemistry this is a new category that i have not seen I thought they were great together.

1:00:44It was good. I thought everybody had good chemistry on there. I thought they... Gear did a good job of playing kind of like the heartless businessman that comes around, and he was like the Grinch throughout the whole film. He finally grew a heart, and he makes the business feel right. He was fucking soulless. He was soulless for a lot of those fucking things. Sometimes it takes a good woman to bring that soul into you. There you go. So I'll go 90. Soul Woman is what it should have been called. All right, 90. Soul Woman.

1:01:1590s fashion i'm not gonna lie seeing the the montage and seeing her put on all those like fun 90s outfits they were really like 80s like 90s outfits that's what i was about to say that was my that's exactly what i was gonna say this movie took place in 1990 which i really liked because there's actually themes from the 80s and 90s like there's a lot of attire that was really wasn't 90s was more 80s there's a lot of attire that was like forefront of where the 90s was going it was a cool like in between of what these stereotypes for both of those genres ended up being i do think it skews more 90s in aesthetic a little more 80s or what i think of 80s when it comes to the fashion yeah the music yeah it had some like more like 80s ballady vibes as opposed to like uh the 90s stuff um nice so 90s fashion if we want to just do fashion we're just doing fashion i'll say i thought the street clothes were more 80s like the the lower tier stuff was more 80s skewing to me and the upscale stuff everything that took place kind of at the hotel that all felt more 90s to me so i'll go i'll go 90s fashion uh 75 nice Feminism.

1:02:39What score do you think it gets on the feminism chart? This is what – so there were a lot of people saying this movie is very misogynistic. I'll be honest. I am not good at this topic. I don't know. I think the only way to gauge it is to flip the script. I think we need to make Pretty Man. Pretty Man. And we need to have a CEO billionaire woman be so high class that she doesn't know where she's going. Travis, she doesn't know how to drive a car. Basically, you're living pretty man right now.

1:03:14You are pretty man. You're living your own Julia Roberts straight now. I'm wearing nothing but a tie when Taylor comes home.

1:03:32Oh my gosh. That was funny. Oh man. You can't beat it, man. That's why me and Julia Roberts, when I met Julia, we were that's it felt like we were we're the same person so cool she spoke to me in this movie holy shit all right now it's all i'm just the nfl stripper that's it just an nfl hooker man i mean i'm the one who's stripping over at the ocean drive i guess feminism i guess there is definitely there's definitely a healthy dose of rich successful businessmen lifting the woman out of poverty and helping her achieve her dreams. There's some really bad parts, but I feel like it comes back to the, I actually think it does a great job of correlating how similar the two people are in the movie, like in actuality of how they operate, like the role of prostitution, the role of what he does from a business standpoint.

1:04:38I'm dead serious. You gave all the grades. You got to give a feminism grade. I'm not giving a feminism grade. this is a trap for all these feminists to get all pissed off at me i don't know brandon you're a piece of shit for that i'm not knowledgeable enough i'm not knowledgeable enough in feminism i had him i had him i had him brandon you can give the feminism score you can get the you have to give it to him because we need a fifth put me nobody wants to hear my opinion everybody wants to hear brandon's opinion i give it a hundred a hundred all right a hundred hundred on the feminism you know what i think the score is whatever whatever the wonderful lady is listening to this, I think it's exactly what you're thinking.

1:05:14Ooh, nice. Flip it. Flip it. All right. Well, now we need to figure out the PFF grade, which we usually just add them and divide. We won't divide by five because we're not doing a feminism score. PFF grade of 86 points. I feel like that's low. Let's take out the fashion grade, too. It can't be under a 90. This movie is fantastic to me. Don't do 90s fashion. Just do fashion. The fashion in this movie was fucking 95. If we're just going fashion, don't just do strictly 90s because there's 80s elements to it too. I'll do 90. I'll go a 90 score. I'll go a 90 score. Yeah, that brings us up to about a 90.

1:05:50Yeah, it's like a 90. Exactly. Well, it's a little bit higher. It's like a 90. It's exactly. You're right. That's it for New Heights Film Club. I wanted to recite lines from it. I had them written down. I just like when there's really good lines. I think you got all of them. All right. Now that does it for New Heights Film Club. Thank you guys for listening to another year of New Heights Film Club. Can't wait for next year. Hey-o. Before we get to Baker, let's hit this Heights Hotline, though. The Heights Hotline is brought to you by Audible. Let's go ahead. Jason, I picked the last one. You can pick one.

1:06:27Can girls propose dating apps, first date ideas? Let's put some feminists off. Can girls propose?

1:06:37Let's hear it. we're on a roll today yeah hi guys so my boyfriend and i of three years just decided to get married and we're planning it right now but me and i was supposed to each other so i was wondering if i were to propose to him just like as a funny bit how should i do it and if guys like we propose to all right can you can you go back to the start of that today she said they're already planning the wedding is that what she started i think it's well my boyfriend and i of three years just decided to get married and we're planning it right now but neither of us opposed to each other so i was wondering i don't know how this happened they just decided to yeah just like okay sounds like a one-off situation so you there your rules are different than everyone else's so yeah i don't think it's yeah go ahead i don't think it's uncommon for like a couple to talk about like hey if we ever got married like would you want to do this or this like i think that's normal but it sounds like they're full-on already agreeing to be married and planning which does seem a little bit out of order to what the typical structure yeah the traditional the traditional is the man proposes and then you start to make those kind of decisions.

1:08:00I think you're too far past the proposal step at this point. You just got to leave it there. Yeah, I'll start with this. Can a woman propose? I think a woman can do whatever she wants. I'm not in here to say like, you know, it has to be a certain way. There's all sorts of different relationship things that work for everybody. I do think, though, that there are some. Your girls are going to be going up to random guys. Well, I do think that there are some, I do think by and large, there are some things that are very traditional and they're traditional for reasons. And like, it happens in a certain way because of like commitments.

1:08:39And I think that some of those roles have been in place for such a long time. And they've changed a lot and they changed over time for sure. Well, there's nothing wrong with a lot of them have changed, but I don't think there's anything wrong with the man proposing and that being the standard of two people agreeing to spend the rest of your life together. And I also don't think it's wrong to ask the parents hand. I know that that's out of like what's considered the norm now, maybe. And it used to be just ask the father. I do it. I mean, just ask both parents. But I think there's nothing wrong with that.

1:09:09If that's what you want to do. It sounds like to me, though, this guy might think that they've kind of already done that. Maybe like, you know, I mean, she's asking because she knows he's not going to. I think she's actually, she's like, I think he forgot to do this one step. Like maybe he thinks he kind of did it, but he didn't. I would just drop hints like, oh man, it's like, I can't like, it'll be really interesting to see how you're going to propose whenever that like, just do something like that and kind of see what happens. Like what the response is. Instigate it. It sounds like she feels like she should be proposed to.

1:09:48If this sounds like your wife. go and propose to her. I think that does it. Yeah, we would love to know how this resolves itself. So please call her. Please call us back when you get a final update on said proposal, whether you do it, whether he does it. Yeah. Sorry, we couldn't offer more help. Yeah, we got to know. We got to. We might have helped. This might get the train rolling. There's certain things I think are just like so traditional done a certain way that like if they don't happen that way, A lot of the times I feel like it's a little cause for concern in my end. But I realize everybody's different.

1:10:25Everybody has their own things. It's each his own. I got a sweaty-ass right armpit. Everybody's kind of got their own stuff that they're dealing with. Yeah. And that's it for the New Heights Hotline brought to you by Audible. Now let's get to our convo with the amazing, the hilarious, one of the best personalities in the National Football League, Baker Mayfield. Yeah. Our guest today is a six foot one quarterback out of Austin, Texas. He's the first ever walk on to win a Heisman trophy. The number one overall pick in the 2018 NFL draft, two time pro bowler and the starting quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

1:11:07Yes, sir. 92 percenters. Please welcome Mr. Baker Mayfield. My dog. shake and bake he's here we got him finally watch out bruce buffer that was quite the intro i'm coming oh yeah thanks thanks for fucking joining us dude taking some time off in the offseason brother absolutely let's talk a little 2025 bucks they're already probably in training camp um you know what are you looking forward to this year with tampa bay you know uh i mean we have all of our starters back on offense and we added some depth and a lot of the guys just because of last year had a lot of injuries on offense mike and chris both went down so just all the guys that had to play um stepping up for us there's a we have a lot of depth so we have everybody back that started and then we have everybody back that was playing a lot for us so i'm excited about that and then just the the new guys we added um we needed some help on defense some new faces some young guys so there's there's a lot new energy guys talking shit at practice which is fun oh Oh, yeah.

1:12:07Always good. And Emeka Abuka is an absolute stud. Ooh. Okay. He's a real deal. Yeah. What makes you say that? Okay. You know how you just can't teach guys leaving the ground to catch the ball? He's always grounded when he catches it, keeps moving. There's yak potential out the wazoo there. But he's just so damn smart. I mean, he's willing to block, willing to do everything we ask him to do. But then, I mean, we can plug and play him at any of the three receiver spots right now. It's pretty exciting. Hell yeah. I mean, if he can go up and get a ball, Andy's smart. I don't know what else you want in a receiver.

1:12:39I mean, god damn, that's two good traits right there. Exactly. That was one of Coach Reed's biggest things as I've been like throughout my career as we were like acquiring like skill position guys or just like number one, number two, number three options. He was like, you get that three-headed monster, three guys you can go to in man-to-man specifically, like be able to kind of pick and choose whichever matchup you like the most. That's where the offense really takes off. And it's just, it puts the defense in such a bind. And then you add the two fucking running backs. You guys got, yeah. Oh yeah.

1:13:13Oh, get out in there. You kidding me? Come on. No gloves, baby. Swagless wonder. Swagless wonder. Dude. But, but seriously though, that's, that's one of the biggest thing is keeping everybody healthy, obviously, but you get three, three headed monster like that. you guys are going to put up some fucking big numbers. Yeah, and by the way, it helps when you get all five of your starting linemen back too. My goodness. I wanted to talk about this a little bit. You guys last year, I think if Chris Godwin doesn't get hurt and if Mike doesn't deal with the injuries he had, you guys were so well positioned.

1:13:45Like you were peaking at the right moment. I think early on you guys were one of the best teams, but you just had the injuries. What did you feel about you guys last year? Do you feel the same way? Are you guys almost hungry to finish unfinished business? Does that make sense? Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, obviously you mentioned it. The injuries definitely didn't help us. But I feel like we're built, and we knew we were when we're healthy. We're built to compete against the Eagles, the Lions, what we thought were the top contenders of the NFC. And then obviously Washington kind of came out of nowhere.

1:14:16But we felt really, really good about our matchups. And so, yeah, when you bring all those pieces back, you bring the vets in the locker room, Vida, Antoine, Levante, some of these guys we have on defense that have been staple points for these guys for the last however many years. It's exciting. So, yeah, there's unfinished business. And then you add in Hasan Redick, and he showed up. Everybody made a big deal, but he showed up. He showed up? He's a great guy, too. Did he have the samurai? I love him. Dude, Haas was a big fan of him in Philly. I know it kind of ended sour, and the last year is what it is.

1:14:49But he's a great personality. He's good to have in the room. and I know freaking Bowles is going to be figuring out different ways to utilize a guy with that kind of skill set. So the offensive line was great last year. The running game was great. I loved what you guys were doing offensively. And even just in the Eagles game, watching the different motions, how you guys attacked the flat, how you flooded different zones, I thought what you guys did offensively, what Cohen was doing, was some of the most exciting things in the NFL last year. How are you going to take this now with him leaving? You know, you got new OC, Josh.

1:15:24What is it? Grizzard? Grizzard, yeah. Grizzard in. How are you going to take this next year? Like, what's going to change? Yeah, I mean, there's been very minor changes in terminology, mostly just formation stuff. But, I mean, he was in Miami for seven years, I think. And so his whole background is motioning to get Tyreek and some of these other guys open. how to beat cover two, how to get Mike open, really. It's like it translates to that. Then you add in some of the gap schemes that we've been really good at and what they did in Miami. And we kept our offensive line coaches, so they're doing the run game stuff as well.

1:15:59So it's still the motion base. Like make the defense communicate. Really see if we can make them one-dimensional. If we get a beat on that, can we keep doing it over and over again until they fix it? Yeah, man, it was fun to watch. It really was all year long, except for when you were playing the Eagles. because that was not fun to watch. That was a frustrating game offensively for us to watch. But what has it been about you and Tampa? I mean, you've played well at times everywhere you've been. But in Tampa, it's really gone to that next level. What do you think has led to that? You know, this isn't to shit on the other teams and franchises.

1:16:33No, man, you already know. But when you step in and your GM and your head coach say, hey, just be you, after I've been told at every stop and everywhere I go, hey, you need to tone it down a little bit. You need to be a franchise quarterback. It's just not who I am. Like I wear my emotions on my sleeves. We've hung out. You guys know me. I'm going to talk shit. I'm going to do whatever. But when it's time to turn the lights on and go do something, I'm going to do it. So when I stepped into the building, they all told me to just be myself. And so it's been not to say like comfortable, but it's felt like home since the beginning.

1:17:04And as a quarterback that's been through a little bit of a journey, you can't ask for anything else. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, dude. Well, talk about a guy that's being himself, man. Liam Cohen, he took a little bit of heat over there. Do you all? Took a chance. Took a chance. I've heard through a lot of guys. He's a great dude, man. What was he for your career last year in Tampa? Unbelievable. And, yeah, I love the end of death. I still talk to him probably once every week. But we stay in touch. He was so instrumental. I mean, when I got to L.A., really the next level for me learning the game of football whether it was him, McVay, and Zach Robinson all in that room together, and then obviously getting to spend more time with Liam last year, just the expectations of what the quarterback position demands of you and making sure we're all on the same page and doing all that.

1:17:55So he was unbelievable for me and the trajectory of my career. But, yeah, I just keep losing these offensive coordinators. I keep taking these fucking head coaching jobs. Hey, that's what happens when you're a really good quarterback. They keep stealing those. They think they're the reason. We all know it's Baker. I don't know if Baker's out here dicing it up out there. I'm the problem. They might be the reason. I don't know. No, no, no. You've been through a lot of different coaches, a lot of different OCs. What, in your opinion, is the most important thing when you have a new OC coming in to establish the offense?

1:18:27You know, obviously you guys have been in this for a while. The egos, putting your ego to the side. How do I drop that? What does he really want to get done? And what do I feel comfortable with schematically-wise? What do I know I want to have in there? But then also, can I learn and get really good at what he wants to do? And so there's always meeting in the middle. And it's, you know, there's old school coaching. And then there's new guys that might be pushovers. There's somewhere in the middle there that, you know, transition for me the last couple of years has been great, whether it was Dave Canales, Liam, and now Grizz.

1:19:02So there's somewhere in the middle where they get to know me. They understand that at a certain point, I'm not going to be like, I need this play, but I'm going to, I'm going to try and find a way to make it work. And so, yeah, it's, it's meeting in the middle, dropping the ego. Yeah. There's always that in between. It feels like with the play caller trying to do what he thinks is open or what he likes. And then at the same time of like, at the end of the day, the players have to execute it and they're the ones that have to feel comfortable. And that's definitely a two way street to navigate. And the best ones figure it out.

1:19:33They know how to get the best out of the quarterback and how to get and attack the areas that they see for sure. And I think just having answers at the line of scrimmage. And I think that's something, you know, Tom Moore, bless his soul, he's still coaching with us. I mean, he's going on year 47, I think, 46 or 47, coaching in the NFL. He tells stories about Peyton Manning always being like, OK, well, what if they do this? And he would always quiz them about having answers. And so I think that's another thing. the coordinator trusting the quarterback enough to give them answers and allow them at the line of scrimmage to make adjustments and that's a big deal but then talking through it with the rest of the group so they're not completely caught off guard like hey guys if we get this i'm going to check to this yeah i had an offensive coordinator once to describe play calling should be like if then statements where it's like if the defense does this then we do this and when you have a quarter the trick is having a quarterback that can read and identify and know what they want to get into that are familiar, especially in the run game, like those decisions that have to be made, not all the time.

1:20:32The quarterbacks are in tune with that. How much freedom do you get in Tampa? Like, what is, are you changing route concepts, protections, run play? Are you doing all of it? Or is there like kind of like a, a system within you and what is it, Barton, the center or the other coaches on game day? How does that work? Yeah. So, I mean, the system we're in normally always comes in with the two calls. And so obviously taking the best look, best advantage, whether it's run to run, run to pass, pass to run. So whatever it is, making sure we have that. But then Grizz will give me command to be able to check to a screen.

1:21:09Yeah. Or just get out of it. We always have cover zero answers, all that stuff built into the plan. But a big part of that, when you asked about it, Graham Barton and I just watching film, all the blitz pickup meetings that QBs and centers, the O-line has to do throughout the week. but just making sure that we're on the same page. And that's, like you said, the players have to make it work. And so if he sees something before me, he'll turn around and say, hey, do you want to get to this? And then if not, then I'll be able to move it around. But, yeah, it's making sure we're on the same page. Love it.

1:21:36Oh, yeah. Going up against a guy like Todd Bowles and Levante David, man, the guy just understands offensive schemes. They're always well planned. They always have, like, that extra, you know, tick of, like, what we're trying to do. How crazy is it going up against those two in like a practice or a training camp? The competition has to be through the roof. Are you and Levante, are you guys talking shit to each other the whole time or what? I mean, Tay doesn't say anything, so I would love to. But when we practice against our defense, I'm like, this is absolute bullshit. They're showing a single high look with a safety in between the hashes.

1:22:12They're bringing double cat and rolling that safety. I'm like, you guys will never do that in a game. What are you doing? I can tell you they do do it. They do do that. I must be MFing my iPad or Surface on the sideline when they're doing it. We played an entire playoff game, maybe two of them, where it felt like goal line defense, just the entire snap. Like, how the hell are we defending the pass and the run right now, Todd? I don't know what you're doing to get both of these accomplished. He's a genius, man. Vita in the middle, too. No, Vita's easy. You know, he's just, what, 400 pounds and moves like a fucking linebacker?

1:22:47No, it's great. But how much more comfortable on you on game day, having seen all that? And I feel the same way with Vic, to a certain extent, in Philly. When you play a team that you never see a six-man front on first down on, and it messes with so many of your concepts, you guys get to see it every day. You're going to see the dime-od mugs. You're going to see the five-man fronts, the six-man fronts. You're going to see Nickel with five big guys. You're going to see all of it. So on game day, how does that feel knowing you've already had reps against all of it? Yeah. It's good when it comes to preparation, seeing like, okay, I've seen this look before this front where everybody's lined up.

1:23:25But what I have to revert back to is like, okay, in practice, they'll completely show it one way and then roll the safety down. Troy Paul and Malustel, roll them back to the middle of the field. So sometimes on game day, I have to dumb it down a little bit. What I see is what I get. I'm not trying to play the chess game. I'm just, okay, I see this. All right, let's make this move. I used to do the same. So Jim Schwartz used to do this all the time in training camp. I don't even know if he ever did it in a game. There'd be like six guys into the boundary. That would tell you, like, it has to be four to a side.

1:23:55And then he blitzed the nickel. Like, nobody capping him. So, like, it took me like two training camps to figure out that every time they did this, it was a nickel blitz. So then I started picking it up. And Jim's like, there's no way you see that in a game. I'm like, there's no way you're calling that in a game. Like, what are you talking about? You should have left the slot wide ass open. What are we talking about? Man, we're taking chances. Come on, Schwartz. We're taking chances, you know? It's the same thing. You get into a game, it's like, oh, wait, no, now that it's actually is coming from the Boucher.

1:24:18It's the Jim Schwartz. But you already know, Spags is another one where he'll throw something wild at you and he'll disguise it really well. And what it really trains is those instinctual, the quick wit and instinctual decisions to not fucking panic, not be like, oh, shit, that's not it. What is it? And now you're like two steps behind in terms of your rhythm and the concept of the play. but he trains those like those instincts to be able to just always have that plan in place and man it's a it's a fucking luxury going up against uh good dcs and camps but spags does his timing is unreal it is when he brings the pressure that's the difference he knows exactly when to bring it he keeps that joker in the back pocket sets it up he keeps on the holster damn it spags i fucking love that guy so tush push is still in effect have you guys been working on quarterback sneaks and tush pushes this season more yeah tell us your playbook uh no we haven't been practicing the tush push but daddy can squat the fucking house let's go just yeah go ahead buck you're a shot just go get one dude the season that guy had did you see it coming you know there's certain guys in camp and certain guys in the off season where you're just like, we need to start dialing some shit up for that guy right there.

1:25:43Yeah. Was he one of them or did it kind of like grow as he got comfortable? It definitely grew. Obviously when you're not, when you're in practice, not in a game, you're not getting tackled to the ground. So it was hard to see how many tackles he's going to miss or make miss. And he's just so elusive. He's a, he's a phone booth guy. You can be right in front of him and he's slippery as hell. And he just keeps fighting at low center of gravity, good balance. And so, yeah, Yeah, just having him and Rashad just like – obviously I thought Rashad was looking really, really good before the season last year.

1:26:13And I was like, oh, Rashad's still our workhorse. Bucky's going to be great. Get him in there for some screen game and whatnot. Yeah. Well, then all of a sudden Bucky was our run guy and Rashad was great in pass pro and in the screen game too. It's just like they play off of each other and they're good buddies, so that works. Hell yeah, man. There's some guys – like I remember when Tyree Hill came in and you saw that speed. It was like the first seven on seven that we had. He caught the ball and just hit the highway. And I was like, what the fuck was that? And then there's guys like a Kareem Hunt where he would get the ball in like an offseason run or in the flat or something.

1:26:57And you see him running, you'd be like, all right, man. All right, we'll see. And then the game happens and he is just like, no, no, keep feeding him. Keep feeding him. Keep giving that dude the fucking ball. He's a sicko. It's so crazy how in the offseason you just never know until that game starts or until you put those pads on. Is there anybody you ever played with in the offseason where you immediately were like, yep, that's the guy? Yeah, I mean, there's been a few. I mean, Jarvis Landry was one of them. that some of the catches he would make with his great hands that are unbelievable, man.

1:27:31Some of the catches he could do. I'm like, what is that? Josh Gordon was dude. An absolute monster. It's such a shame that his career got derailed the way it did. None of that would have happened in today's NFL, right? Like, no, no, it's, I don't know, man. It sucks. He was such an electric player for Cleveland. Seemed like a great dude, too. Great dude. We had him in KC for a while. He's a great dude. Yeah. Let me ask you this. Before we get to the career rewind, how can we fix the quarterback situation in Cleveland? What is going on, Baker? I mean, the jersey is now a list of 25 people. Is it a curse?

1:28:12Like, why can we not get this right? We draft you the best quarterback in college history overall. What's going on? What's happening? Listen, I plead the fifth, but I don't know. When I was healthy, I was starting to get pretty damn good there. There you go. Not my problem anymore. All right, now. All right, now. Well, let's take a little career rewind and take it back to college, man. You walked on at Texas Tech and were – everybody knows this now – was you hosted Pat Mahomes on his official visit out there. He had a good time. You had a good time out there in Lubbock, Texas. what uh what what made you want to go to texas tech well i was honestly in-state tuition yeah there you go i had a couple i had a couple scholarships but i wanted to play big d1 ball cliff kingsbury had recruited me when he was at houston uh and then eric morris who was the offensive coordinator when i got to tech was with mike leach at washington state and they had offered me so there was a couple familiar faces the quarterback that was before me in high school was also at tech so i was like okay familiar people system's gonna be easy to pick up i'll I'll be all right.

1:29:20I just took a chance, and I was going to go play baseball, too. How about it, man? What can't he do? I can't play basketball. Basketball is not good. Not good. What position were you on the diamond? I played anywhere, honestly, in the infield. But I just like to hit. Swing lefty. Quick first step to first base. On base guy. You swing at the first pitch guy, or you kind of like take the first pitch, kind of wait to see what you're looking at? Come on, now. You don't take the first pitch. It's an old school mentality. Come out, swing it. I'm fucking hammering the first pitch. Fastball, know what's coming.

1:29:59I love it. Especially when we were younger. So you walked on at Texas Tech? Yep, walked on at Tech. When you said you had other offers, were they division like 1AA, division 2, or these other 1A? Washington State, Jason. Washington State? Washington State. My first one was Rice to play baseball and football. Okay. And I think Army, New Mexico, shout out Lobos. Yeah. Washington State and Florida Atlantic. So, yeah, you were similar to me, except for all of my division offers were Division II. But anyways, so you – I think you're doing all right. If the NIL thing would have been different when you were coming out, would you have changed anything?

1:30:37Would you have maybe gone with like – because now you can transfer. If you play well at like one of these lower tiered like schools that aren't in one of the bigger conferences, you can – Jason, he did transfer. Well, yeah, but I mean, that wasn't – there was a different – I had to sit out of here, though. Exactly. It was different rules. Good point. Good point. Talking about transfer. Different rules. I don't think he would have changed my mentality. I still wanted to play a big-time ball. And I'm pretty damn happy I don't have the NIL thing. I might be dead if that money was coming in when I was in college.

1:31:04Are you kidding me? If I would have got anywhere – some of these dudes – we're talking to some of these guys at tight end U. Some of these guys are getting$100 ,000,$200 ,000 worth of NIL. If I was getting that much money – Travis, that's nothing compared to what Baker Mayfield would have been getting. What are you talking about? That's what I'm saying. You would have been getting millions of dollars. That's what I'm saying. I'm talking about in the tight end world. That alone, six figures at that age. It's wild. Yeah. Oh, my fucking God. What do you think a young Baker Mayfield would have got at Oklahoma?

1:31:34Oh, yeah. Not money-wise. Like, what would you have bought? What would you have done with that money? I would have gotten a nice football house for the fellas. Fuck. Oh, yeah. Yeah. This is why. Why has anybody tried to change you? Why has anybody tried to change Baker Mayfield? Not necessarily as far into the Blue Mountain State spectrum, but like a football house. Classic. For the boys. You got to go full Blue Mountain State. Fuck that. We got a football house in Cincinnati every time. And it was Blue Mountain State. Well, the first one I got, we found like this huge house on the wrong side of Clifton's campus, which has since been, it's a much nicer side.

1:32:11The rent was dirt cheaper. We're like, oh, man, this is a steal. We're getting this ginormous house for dirt cheap. And we beat the crap out of it. I mean, we had six guys in there, bunch of parties. And then we did the same thing over at our offensive lineman, our teammate. His parents built a house. Shout out to the Davises. The Davises. But, yeah, big fan of the football houses. I mean, you're not – I feel like in recruiting, if you see a great player who also lived at a football house, I'm getting that guy every day of the week. I want that guy on my team. Team guy. Team guy. And always wants to be around the team.

1:32:47I don't want the valedictorian that went the class over. Like, he had, like, 15 different classes. I want the guy that did the minimum amount of work and thinking was, yeah, what are we talking about? I want the guy that I know he threw in for beer money. That's right. That's right. Did a beer run every now and then. Put one on for the fellas. Come on now. Yeah, do you still hold grudges from being a walkout? Do you think about the quarterbacks that did get these big school offers that you felt like you were better than? Do you keep names? Is there a list somewhere? I used to keep a list. It's a lot of anger to pin down.

1:33:27You said 6 '1 when you gave me the intro. I'm just trying to get to 6 '1 if I stretch. It's a lot of anger to keep in this Napoleon complex body, you know what I mean? Can't do that. But, yeah, I know exactly who was ranked ahead of me. A lot of them aren't. Well, they're not playing anymore. Pretty much all of them aren't playing. Yeah. There you go. There you go. It's all right. We got to talk about 2016, Texas Tech versus OU. So when you transferred, was it like you just wanted to go to a different situation or you got out of there for, you know, a coaching reason? Or what made you transfer to OU?

1:34:03The first five games I started at Texas Tech, we were 5-0. So fifth game or sixth game, I can't remember at this point. We were playing Kansas. I sprained my MCL. Minor sprain, though. I was going to be back in three weeks. And one of them was a bye week. So I was like, okay, I'm going to miss two games, come back, get my job back. And when I came back, they had other plans. Davis Webb was playing, starting, and they just said they were going to roll with him. And I was like, okay, well, I'll just sit here and wait it out. We started out 7-0. So Davis won two games, bye week, and I was healthy to come back the next one.

1:34:37and then we lost I think four or five in a row and I was like at that point I went in and talked to Cliff and it's like hey like I don't know what I don't know what's going on um regardless do you think there's a plan to have me on scholarship next off season or like in the spring he's like no we don't have one then and I don't like bring it up stories like that because Cliff and I are good now we've talked about it yeah sure and he was like no we don't have one in the spring and we're still working on one for the fall I was like what I thought I was your fucking starting quarterback you don't have a scholarship yeah five and oh what are we talking Are you talking 5-0 in the Big 12?

1:35:09What are we doing? Yeah, at that point, I was like, you know what? My heart was never ended at Texas Tech. I just went there because it was convenient. And I grew up an OU fan. So I was like, okay, at this point, I know I can play with the big dogs in D1. Hell yeah. You proved it. I'm going to take my chance and go transfer to OU. And then my transfer got blocked by Tech. And so I had to sit out a year, which honestly was probably the best thing for me. I got to go through a season of, you know, just doing scout team workouts and enjoying that. And so I had a blast and it wound up working out exactly how it should have.

1:35:40Hell yeah, man. Ended up where I wanted to be. It's crazy how sometimes the things that where you feel like it's, it's, it's things that are ruining your career end up being like the best things that have ever happened. Right. Like, it's just, yeah. So yeah, I can assimilate very much. Oh yeah. You know, you're preaching to the choir over here, brother. I still think I could be an NFL quarterback. Oh man. I don't know. You're over too, right? You and your laterals. The lateral king. Is Travis frozen? What's going on here? He's frozen on mine, yeah. Oh, no. Brandon, you want to run a technical support system right here?

1:36:20Everything I got was like, charge it, make sure it's fully charged, if not have it plugged in. I don't think Travis has read an email in a very long time. You might be a West Coast, but the problem is your fucking shirt. What are you wearing? Hey, let's talk about it. What do you mean? What do you mean? So he lives on the West Coast. This is Brandon is intern. Brandon is from Texas. So it's not a right. Where are you from? That's just outside of Dallas. Frisco. Oh, Scotty Scheffler guy. Dallas. Scotty Scheffler guy. Oh, yeah. Whatever. You're not my problem. Talk to over. All right. Travis, welcome back.

1:37:01Oh, sorry, boys. Got that laptop plugged in. I love you. He's already... Oh, he's frozen again. God damn it. Fucking God. Are you serious? We had a good run there. Can we get him some new Wi-Fi? Every season of this show, it's just a limp to the end. We're getting there. We're going to make it. We're going to make it. This fucking episode's electric so far, so I feel great about it. I mean, keep going. 2016 Texas Tech OU. the most legendary offensive football game known to man uh patty mahomes versus baker mayfield uh you gotta tell us what was that game like while you were in while you were actually in it so like my first time back to lubbock as a player um was crazy and you know like the fans were chanting f you baker and like there's probably at the jones you can probably hold 68 70 000 Okay.

1:38:01I bet 45 ,000 of them were chanting F.U. Baker. You can hear it on the TV copy. It was good. It was electric. It's got to get you fired up, though. Nipples could cut glass on those. No, I loved it. But, I mean, the fact that I feel like it was Oklahoma versus Pat. We had to score a touchdown every single drive in the second half just to win the game. I'm like, what the hell is this? He had over, I think, like 813 or 819 yards total. 819. Dude, that's insane. The official stat lines for both of these freaking unbelievable legends. Mahomes, 52 of 88. That's a lot of pass attempts. Fucking 88 pass attempts?

1:38:43How does arm not fall off? 734 yards, 819 total yards, 5 touchdowns. Shaken Baker, 27 of 36. Much more normal stat line. Jesus Christ. guys 545 yards not so normal 564 total seven touchdowns dude what the this is like a basketball score the 66 to 59 it was wild what did you say to the what was what was being said to your guys defense on the sideline like guys can we get any stop just give us one one just one just one please uh no it honestly was a matter of who had the ball last i mean that's that's the type of game it was i mean it was crazy atmosphere is unbelievable and i caught there was a couple easy completions there that joe mixon took to the house some things some things that team game yeah team game the team guy football house kind of guy uh no but we had we had a beat on some kind of guy yeah paint your back porch anything you want uh no but it was it was unreal But, yeah, it was just like, hey, guys, just give us one.

1:39:54Give us one and we're good. Crazy, man. This has got to be the greatest quarterback duo of all time in college football. All time. Oh, and the Texas Tech, they throw the tortillas down on the field. What kind of tortillas? Yeah, you got to tell us. I don't know about this. Pat hasn't told you guys about this? I feel like I heard it from one of my guys. It's like an old tradition. It's like an old tradition. They'll bring tortillas in, and, like, on the kickoff, they'll throw them in on the field. Like we're talking soft shell or hard shell? Soft shell tortillas? Soft shell. Soft shell flour. No corn.

1:40:21too flimsy wind will get it. So flowers are getting thrown and they're, they're pretty damn stale. And there's also no telling how, cause they tried to ban it, but the kids will sneak them in anyway. There's no telling where they hide these things. They threw one down there on the field. I looked up, saw the guy who threw it, took a bite out of it. That's a ball and move. Yeah. Didn't get sick. No, but you sent a message. Yeah. Yeah. I will eat you for lunch. oh my gosh you think of them you think i'm scared of a tatilla you think i'm scared of a tatilla fuck out of here yo let's ask some about some of your ou teammates though man i'm uh big fans of one of my guys that i'm still playing with today creed humphrey yeah you got to give me what was creed like in college he's a football house guy right football house guy football house guy nice beer run kind of guy nice he has to make two when the first one is for himself because he He could drink a case of beer by himself.

1:41:20And then the second one was for the fellas. Absolute monster. All-state wrestler. Absolute stud coming in. I didn't know centers could be left-handed. I thought that was just completely banned. I mean, we didn't have anything under center at Oklahoma, but we had taken a knee or a goal line play. And so when Creed would have to go in, we'd be like, hey, Creed, you have to snap it with your right hand. So we tried to teach him under center how to snap it with his right hand. I couldn't do it. I can't go both ways, man. No chance. I can't. In no capacity. In no capacity. Could you snap left-handed, Jason?

1:41:52There's no chance. I can't do the simplest of tasks that I do every night. I couldn't do it at all left-handed. I'm not great at it. Dude, it is honestly comical, the level of uncoordination I have with my left hand. There's guys that will go in there and shoot basketballs left-handed or throw left-handed. I don't know what it is. I can't do it. You got nothing? The only thing I could do was when I played lacrosse, I got to the point that I could shoot a lacrosse ball left-handed and stick in a left-handed. But outside of that, no chance. And we did the same thing. We had a left-handed center in Philly that we tried to teach right-handed, and he somehow got it down.

1:42:30But it is something that – it's a great point. How much of a difference is it to the point that they teach guys literally to do it with their offhand? Because why would you ever do that unless it actually made that big of a difference? I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's the angle of what it comes up, but it just felt weird. Yeah. I don't know. Does it feel weird in shotgun 2 or only underneath? Well, I mean, Creed snaps it like you, hard as fuck. Nice. I mean, it's honestly. Respect. When you're looking at it, it looks weird, but it's fine. Okay. You're so used to the spin coming a certain way, and then all of a sudden it's coming a different way.

1:43:08You're like, whoa. There we go. Cuts the wind a little different. What was it like playing with Mark Andrews? Marky Andrews, baby. Oh, Mark. What a guy. You want to talk about anger problems. Mark's got some anger problems. I've only talked to him a couple times, and I feel like he's mad at me about something. I don't even know. I feel like I didn't do anything wrong to him. What did I do? I mean, one of my best friends, but he will not talk to me during football season. Will not. He was in our wedding and won't talk to me during football season. I'm used to play him twice a year. I'd sit in the game and be like, hey, how you doing?

1:43:46I'm like, don't come up to me like we've never talked before. I've drank way too many Red Bull vodkas with you at Logan's and Norman for you to act like that in front of me. Oh, my gosh. I love him to death. Vodka's all about ball, man. Is this like you'll text him and he just doesn't respond? Or is this just, oh, my gosh. Come on, Mark. I'll reach out to his brother. My guy's locked in. My guy's locked in. I mean, there's locked in. There's been a psycho. My goodness. Sometimes there's only one way to do things. I love that dude, man. All ball for sure. Talk about a guy who had to persevere through some things last year with the injuries and everything, man.

1:44:25Still comes up fucking huge late in the season for Baltimore, man. The two-headed monster they got in the tight end room, really three-headed monster. And then you add the fucking rhinoceros they have at fullback. That offense is fucking insane, man. Yeah. It's unbelievable. When I was in Cleveland, just watching them, I'm like, oh, man, we're not getting the ball back. They're just going to run. They're about to milk this shit. They're in 15 personnel. It's not even possible. Right. Yeah. What do we do? It's not easy. Let's work it back to the 2018 draft. As we said earlier in this episode, number one overall pick to our beloved Cleveland Browns.

1:45:04When did you know you were going to go one overall? Not until that phone call. really so fucking cool wow i because i feel like a lot of the time hardly hear that i feel like you hardly hear that yeah no i and like now knowing john dorsey john dorsey baby the legend himself he's the best now knowing him i could probably have said okay i'm gonna i'm gonna go into cleveland but before that i wouldn't have known i mean just it was a standard standard meeting uh and i say that because Dorsey at the Combine. I got arrested before my senior year in 2017. Fayetteville, Arkansas. A little dose of public intoxication.

1:45:52Restaurants are in public. You should be able to drink. Would you have a few too many at Arby's? Applebee's? Fuck. I don't know where I was, man. Listen, if you have a few too many at Arby's, that is a red flag. If you're drinking at Arby's... Can you even drink at Arby's? No, you can't. That's why it's a red flag. Yeah. I'm at Arby's. My bad. Yeah, I did. But when I walked in at the combine train station interview, and I mean, everybody's in that tiny little room jam-packed. I walk in. First thing I hear is, you like food trucks, because I got arrested right after going to a food truck in Arkansas, and it was Dorsey.

1:46:28And so now knowing that, he was probably just seeing how I would react. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. Of course I love food trucks. What do you mean? Yeah, I love them. What are you talking about? Yeah, street meat can get a little dicey. Come on, Travis. You don't do food trucks? Street meat can get a little dicey. You know, it depends on if I'm publicly intoxicated or not. Dude, I'm not going to lie. I would go up to damn near any food vendor. All right, other first-round quarterbacks drafted in that draft. Dude, hell of a draft. Are you kidding me? Sam Darnold, number three. Josh Allen, number seven.

1:46:58Josh Rosen, number 10. Lamar Jackson, number 32. That's a hell of a fucking draft class for QBs. Squad. Isn't it funny to think about they were going to fucking try. Everybody was trying to convince Lamar to not play quarterback. Isn't that fucking hilarious? Wild. I mean, holy shit. I can't, I can't imagine like what? I mean, he keeps getting better every single year. I can understand if they were trying to make an excuse just because of how athletic he was, but his arm talent is fucking arguably just as good as his ability to fucking move around. It's insane. He can sling it. He does get better every year.

1:47:34And like, he's always had the arm strength. And also, when you can't tackle him, you throw it wherever you want. There you go. It's just gotten better. He has made people look straight stupid. R.I.P. to Josh Rosen, just telling everybody there's nine mistakes ahead of him. Dude, I feel like one of the last times I saw fucking Johnny D, he was working Josh Rosen out at UCLA. And guess who was running routes for him? Terrell Owens. oh wow T.O. was out there running routes for Josh Rosen during his like pro day yeah which T.O. could still run some routes he could still listen to the goal ball how give him the goal all day he could still hawk down a goal ball I promise you man I'll see him in passing here and there because we got the same trainer out in LA and he'll he'll let me know like hey man make sure you let the big red know I can still run routes I'm just like I will dude I've seen it dude it's like a lot of these old guys will say that like i'm good for one game and then to is like full on like no i could play a whole season guaranteed you were claimed off of waivers by the carolina panthers then played a game in 48 hours for the los angeles rams dude that game was so electric not only played one no not just one 98 i was about to say yeah leading a fourth quarter company dude Dude, that shit was so fucking epic.

1:49:01I was at the house jumping through the fucking roof like, get a bank, get a bank. Throwing fucking dimes all over the field. I think, what was it, Jefferson, I think was your – Van Jefferson, yeah. Dude, had a fucking great game. You guys were connecting all the time. How crazy was that, though, to come in fucking midweek? Wild. Insane. What are you even doing in two minutes, bro? Because two minutes is all like signals and like on the line communication. How does that even happen? How did you communicate the play? Did you remember the play? Were they, they were like giving it. Jason, he's a professional.

1:49:35Of course he remembered the play. It's 48 hours though, Travis. Like, I don't understand. All right, good. Sorry. We'll stop talking. You're good. But it's wild having a rush to the airport because I got a call from lesson, less need Sean McVay. Like, Hey, we'd love to get you out here earlier to see if you can possibly play Thursday. And I was like, fuck. So I rushed to the airport, catch the last flight I possibly can. I mean, I just cleared waivers and got picked up. Get on the flight. Get out there. I'm on – get to West Coast. I get to the facility at 10 p.m. So it's me, Liam Cohen, and Zach Robinson, and Sean McVay going through what they have offensively.

1:50:12Luckily, protection-wise, I was good. Bill Callahan's system, like I was good on protection-wise. Terminology, all that. Perfect. If you're going to eliminate that, eliminate's a big part of it. Hell fucking yeah. Did that. After that, I was cramming for a fucking SAT or ACT. Just a lot of memorization. just just know that these are two by two formations these are three by one these are one by three i was like okay cool like other than that like those guys will get lined up so other than like i'm having to memorize concepts and whatnot and i mean they were like okay what you really need to memorize is our like no huddle stuff because we think you can do that you need to memorize that and then i'll be damn had to had to learn it for the last uh under two minutes right into it dude for a fucking game winner sean mcveigh though i'd say it all the time man i was He was one of my favorite coaches I got a pleasure to meet with coming out when he was over as a tight end coach at D.C.

1:51:05How fucking crazy was it jumping into like a short week like that? Like he already talks fast. I can only imagine when the time is crutched, how fucking fast he's ripping those fucking like concepts and reads and all that shit. And I still give him shit because he talks fast. And they were like, Sean, we're going to have to make Baker a wristband for the game. So they had like 76 plays on there, which was a lot for me to learn in 24 hours. He didn't call a single fucking playoff that wristband. And I'll still give him hell about it. But, I mean, just an unbelievable guy. What you see is what you get.

1:51:42He's always that energy. Always. And it's just he's a great dude. Great dude, man. That's a completely different system. I know that you said the offensive line terminology was the same. were the concepts were like everything that they were doing was it completely foreign or was there at least somewhat of a crossover where was it at it was like it was memorizing the past concepts because you can't exactly reinvent the wheel on it but i had a good idea for it but i mean some of these play calls i was like i've never said that many words in my life not even in a speech how many words can you possibly put before you say can how do you feel about the long verbiage i couldn't stand it when i was in the huddle whenever the quarterback sounded like he was saying a short story i'd be like dude we can we shorten this down to like a one-worder like we know if it's got that many motions just call it fucking shenanigans i don't want to hear we would no you can you can i don't want to hear this it would drive me crazy like the first play they taught me was like z-moto south right close up short i got all right we got 16 waffles ski can it with 17 tiff and i was like what the fuck is that

1:52:52perfect perfect all right jot that one down what's the next one all right we got 72 more to go got it all up here in the noggin guys safety rotation understood oh man we got one more um one more segment we call it we gotta ask but you don't have to answer you can just tell us fuck off dude so uh we'll just be a little rapid firing him at you dude first one i got for you after you got signed by the bucks to follow the the goat tom brady uh did you get any advice from tom no solid you're a savvy vet you don't need anything you know hey tom where's the uh best spot to eat in town i don't think we eat the same things yeah there we go you know him for talking on the field what did you say to nick bosa when You stiff-armed him while throwing for a fourth down conversion.

1:53:44Let's throw this clip up there. They feel the vades in trouble. Stiff arm throws. Stop it. That was serious. Best part is I wouldn't even throw it to Rashad.

1:53:59I was throwing it to Sterling Shepard right behind him. Some of the best plays I've seen all year. That's one of the best plays I've ever seen a quarterback make. Exactly what he was trying to do. You got it. Just how I drew it up, man. On fourth, I got to have it just how I drew it up. Sometimes you just got to give it a chance. We're in two-minute mode, so I didn't say anything. Or else I would have tried to talk some shit to Nick. There you go. Do you have a go-to, like, shit-talking phrases? Like, what is your – are you Cursor? Are you – Are you a big fuck you guy? Are you – Do you attack them as people?

1:54:32See me on the next play. See me on the next play. No, I took this one from Arian Foster a long time ago. I watched a mic, that clip of him. Okay. He told somebody to turn around. What's the name on the back of that jersey? I don't know who you are. Fuck off. Oh! That one can sting. That one can sting. That one can sting. That would hurt. That would hurt. I can't take credit for it, but yeah, it's a good one. I'm Jason. I'm Jason. Jason.

1:54:59Last season, you dialed up a play to get Mike Evans his 11th consecutive thousand-yard season. God, this was an awesome fucking moment. If that play didn't work, I mean, you got to keep coming back to him though, right? For sure, right? Well, here's the thing. We had the game sealed. We should have been taking a knee. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We threw the ball in a must-knee situation with the playoffs on the line. Ooh, yeah. That makes it dicey. Say this gets tipped, pick six. Oh, gosh. Yeah. I'm seeing this now. I'm seeing this now. That's an aggressive move. I wish you – like, it doesn't do it justice with the fan reaction, the sideline reaction, that video.

1:55:37Unbelievable. But how much it meant for Mike, how much Mike means the community, the coaching staff, the organization, like that says it all. To throw the ball when you're going to the playoffs already, to throw the ball and risk something, to get somebody an achievement, a tie, Jerry Rice, I mean, that guy is an absolute stud. Absolute stud, man. Mike, I've only had the fortune of playing with him in Pro Bowls, but you can even tell just in those settings, freaking great teammate, man. And that guy has great energy, awesome personality, a guy that you would love playing with, and you could see it in those reactions.

1:56:11Like everybody was so juiced about it. So that's awesome, man. Hell yeah. Yep. All right. Who's the better dancer? You or Travis? Come on, man. What? I mean, Travis has more practice now with the background choreographers. Yes! T-Swift. Yes! If we're talking natural abilities, I got him. You do. You do. now rehearsals and stuff he might have the upper hand i don't know yeah he's rehearsals he's he's had professional work practice that's what i'm talking about practice come on now i'll just go out there and wing it you have a little rhythm come on now the best one is is the the the on the like the one that showed everybody you could dance back at oklahoma um how often had you guys done that in like at oklahoma just fucking around with the boys they knew i could dance a little bit but then that was like we went to disney we're in the it's the year i sat out so we're playing clemson i'm doing nothing i'm just on a free trip to

1:57:19not legally at that time uh but the kids were doing a little dance circle and both teams were around and all of a sudden it escalated pretty quickly uh they threw the little white guy in there and you know what hey hey shake it up that's right hey that's it what's tougher though being an nfl quarterback or being the father of a one-year-old father one-year-old's easier than being an nfl quarterback now when she gets to a certain age that answer is going to quickly change oh yeah yeah i'm not looking forward to that i got four girls and they're gonna be in high school pretty much at the same time.

1:57:55I might just... Good luck, buddy. I'm going to unretire. I'm going to unretire. At 60, 50-something years old, Jason Scalzi's trying to make an NFL comeback. We'll get you about 250 now, so you can't go back to center. We're going to get you over here playing some tight end, bud. Come on over to tight end you. We'll teach you everything. Exactly. Wait until they start turning two and then they don't listen. Freaking itch. Yeah, it'll be fun. No, it's great. And then they don't listen. You have disobedient kids, Jason? No, they're not disobedient. I know it's not Kylie's fault. Yeah, well, it's definitely not Kylie's fault.

1:58:33All right, you started the Baker and Emily Mayfield Foundation, where one of the things you do is give out walk-ons, scholarships, which, fuck yes. Awesome, man. What makes a Baker Mayfield walk-on? You know, we obviously, when we send the thing out for applicants, read through all the letters. and seeing the stories of resilience, what people had to go through, whether it was upbringing or in a tragic event they had to go through to get to where they're at, and just following their dream. And that's the biggest thing. So our motto is to try and level the playing field. Obviously, college landscape nowadays is different with NIL, but for some of these walk-ons that are true walk-ons in other sports and everything, just to try and find the person that deserves it the most.

1:59:17And then also when we get the finalists, trying to reach out to people and see if, is their story true? Just to make sure, verify it. That's probably smart, yeah. Yeah, and just to be sure of that. And so trying to level playing field for people that really deserve it. Dude, I think my favorite video is every year in college, and we were fortunate to be a part of one with Drew Brees of Cincinnati where we awarded one of the Bearcats a scholarship. But, dude, seeing those videos of a guy that's been busting his tail, especially like an older guy that's kind of put in a few years, or, I mean, anybody who's getting a scholarship, you could see the whole team erupt because of how much everybody's behind it.

1:59:56It's not unsimilar to what happens with Mike Evans when you get these kids. And those are my favorite videos every year. So great, great job to you. Great job to your wife. That's tremendous, man. Good shit. I appreciate it. Yeah, love it. What is... you're welcome to the nfl moment actually against you boys in the preseason yeah Bro, Fletch. Oh, damn. That ain't right. Fletch, for some reason, would do that with young guys. Why was he playing in the preseason? That's my biggest question. You got to ask Jim. I don't know what Schwartzy was doing with that one. But, dude, he – so I tell people this a lot.

2:00:46I've noticed two people's grip strengths, like, when they've grabbed me in my entire career. One of them was Clay Matthews. For some reason, he grabbed me. He was, like, head up in, like, a goal line play, and he grabbed my shoulder. I was like, why the fuck are this guy's hands so strong? because he wasn't even that big of a guy. And then all of a sudden, Fletcher Cox, we draft him, he comes in, and he would grab me with his hands, and it felt like the most emasculated I've ever felt like. This guy could do whatever he wants with me right now. You can have your way. Yeah. Clay was just used to putting that thing in a ponytail.

2:01:18He had the grip strength to put the band up. That's what he worked it on. Oh, my gosh. Dude, I got another one. hold on real quick baker's baker's frozen oh he's back was he frozen no you're frozen brandon you're frozen brandon shit i'm no no you got west coast god damn it yeah hold your ass what is a baker mayfield taco what's your what's your favorite go-to kind of taco because i know you're a taco guy oh i am are you food truck are you are you kind of like the upscale like kind of trendy taco spot are you like they they better not even be speaking english in there What kind of tacos are you getting?

2:01:58I hope they don't speak English. Right. I want the greasiest of greasy. I want to taste all the flavors they've had on this cast iron they got going back there. The flat top. I want to see all of it. Yes. You better not have any food allergies in the food trucks I'm going to. Cross-contamination out the ass. I want all of it. Corn tortilla, flour tortilla, it doesn't matter. Will you eat all of it? Well, my body's a temple, so I'm corn tortillas right now, but flour is preference. the older we get oh my gosh I used to be able to eat anything it's bullshit 92 % is Baker Mayfield appreciate you appreciate you coming on man and giving us some time to stories brother and can't wait to see you guys out of Tahoe man it's gonna be a fucking blast over under over under 30 beers a day dude it's gonna be over 30 at the Lucky Beaver alone what are you talking about there we go alright brother we'll let you get out of here I appreciate it guys And that does it for our interview with Baker Mayfield.

2:02:58Man, shake it, Bay. Can't wait to see what he does this year in Tampa Bay. It's been awesome seeing his career get rejuvenated down there in Florida. Yeah, and everybody's healthy down there in Tampa, man. Everybody's healthy at the start of the year. They had a very good team before guys started going down last year. If they can stay healthy, they can cause a lot of problems in the NFC. That also wraps up this season of New Heights. How about that? Year three, baby. It's insane to think we've done this for three years now. Quick shout out to Adam Sandler and Baker Mayfield for joining us on this episode.

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2:04:14Thanks to our production and crew. Could not do this without you guys. We love you guys. Year three in the books. Shout out to you guys for helping this show get to where it is today. We We love you guys. All the guests that hopped on with us this season. Thank you so much. Thank you for the time, the stories. And thanks again to all you 92 percenters. We love you guys for tuning in. And I can't wait to jump off another season of new heights. Yeah, baby. See you guys next year or in like a couple of weeks. Yeah, it's not going to be that long. Don't forget about us. Please. Please. Please.

2:04:59what's the next thing we can spend on a corporate card is the nflpa to be more ridiculous that's one of my favorite segments now can we use any of that we need a woman's voice what can we can we use any of that dude this is like the one recording carly's not on and we fucking immediately go that she would be worse about it she's a degenerate she would any waywards about it. Carly would be pro this conversation. Carly's not the voice of reason you think she is. From what I understand about Carly. No. She would not be helpful in this situation. Okay, Maggie said it's not that bad for a woman's POV.

2:05:34Okay, Maggie said not that bad. We'll take it. Please send all those tweets. I think we'll take it. If you do think it's bad, please send tweets to Jay Chatsky on Twitter. Not me. I don't want to hear about this one. What does McKenna say? McKenna, what's the ruling? There we go. All right. I think that's a thumbs up. There we go. Is Bambi even a good name for a stripper? I don't even know if that's good or not. Dude, it was perfect. Also, it's a good fake stripper name. It's like, right? What people, like, it's imaginary. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. It plays as that you think that's what their names are.

2:06:08Yeah, it plays innocent enough. If you named, like, a real one, I went, uh-oh. Damn it, Jason. That shit was fucking gold, man. Move your tits. I'm trying to spill a grass here. What if they have their laptops out? The orange numbers.