Tickling Tonsils, Kiffin Drama & George Clooney on Pranks, Parenting & Jason's Batman | EP 168

28:25I kind of football, especially after a weekend of rest. Yeah. Go out there, fly around on the ice, man. Fuck, man. Take me back, baby. Fly around on the ice. That's what it feels. It feels like we're in the ice rink, man. That's why I love those games more. There's something about being in the cold and sweating that I feel my most athletic self. I don't know why that feels like it's like my sanctuary. I always just felt like I didn't get tired, too, when it was cold. I just could run for days. Yeah. Well, that's because you weren't running that much. you can still get very tired running in the cold yeah it hits those lungs a little different too but it's uh yeah no i'm with you though i'm there's something about the cold that i just it just gets my excitement man for the uh for the game it's the beauty of football man you get to play in all elements in uh especially in arrowhead for sure man yeah even being up in new england this past yesterday monday night game oh yeah i just love the cold man i like seeing my breath it just It feels like football.

29:23Yeah. The cold and your like Peaky Blinders outfit, man. That shit was sweet. It just meshed perfectly. Give a guy a musket. That doesn't work though. Yeah, right. All right. Well, let's get out of here. We'll see you guys up at Arrowhead and hopefully we come away with a fucking win. A must need win against a really good football team. Let's go, baby. The fighting D 'Amico Ryans, man. All righty. Thanks to our presenting sponsor. That's right. Oh, Yeti. Fuck yeah. I love these things. Who doesn't love a good Yeti? Check these things out, dude. I do a podcast with one and a drink out of one. Check these things out right here.

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34:22Taking his shirt off in the locker room. How about it, man? The guys are going fucking nuts. Golly, man. And those guys are fighting for that. That's how you know. Would you get a coach that comes in that just he's relatable to all the guys, gets the guys to fight for him, man? It's a hard thing to fucking do. And there's a special madness to it that you have to be great at. And some guys got it. And right now he does, man. Listen, and we've had it in Philadelphia. Nick Sirianni has had that. That's what's frustrating. I think right now the Eagles are trying to figure this thing out. They're trying to get this offense going.

34:55And it's, you know, playing the Bears who really they're clicking on all cylinders right now. They're playing so well. Their offensive line was rolling. The running backs are running hard. And you can feel that energy and excitement the team has. And the Eagles, I mean, eight and four, right? We've had a great season. And I know that it hasn't lived up to the potential, especially on the offensive side of the ball. The defense has been great for the majority of the season. but you can tell man they they want to get this thing figured out and everybody's frustrated and you know the good thing is we've put ourselves in a situation where being eight and four like all we got to do is just keep fucking working man keep grinding it out keep asking ourselves how we can improve it coaches players everybody i still think they got the pieces there i still think they got the offensive weapons the offensive line is starting to get some continuity and playing together, they're going to be helped.

35:49That's the thing, man. Yeah, that's tough. Lane Johnson coming back will be huge, even though Fred has done well, especially in pass pro. I think the run game is close. I really do. I know it hasn't manifested yet, and it's frustrating watching because you know it can be so much better. I think it's getting closer. I think that with the health that is starting to come, it'll only improve. And that's what makes the run game so hard, man. And when it's clicking and everybody is on the same page, and you got these guys, look out. But right now, it's this guy here, it's that guy here. This guy doesn't come off for the linebacker, and that is a difference in a huge run.

36:26The safety rolls down and is unhatted, and that kind of ruins this one. They're bringing nickel edge. That stalls out a couple runs, and then all of a sudden they run into it and they get a big one. It's just been frustrating, especially as a guy who knows how much time those guys put into it up front, how great Saquon Barkley is, how great Jeff Stoutland is. It's been frustrating to watch, to be honest with you. But I do think it's getting closer. And I think once that thing gets going, if there's a positive to take away, A.J. Brown's starting to get the ball, and the passing game feels like it's getting better.

36:57And you're seeing the routes now move around more than they were earlier in the year. Like, that was a big complaint everybody talked about, the route trees and all this stuff, that I don't, quite frankly, look as much into a lot of the times. But it's very apparent that they're making a concerted effort to get players moving in different areas and not being as stagnant in the area in which these guys are running routes, I guess, if that makes sense. No, it 100 % does. And it makes life on being a receiver so much easier. That's the one thing when you watch the Chiefs play, you see me moving around all the time.

37:34I'm moving from one side of the line to the other side of the line. And it's like what that does for the defense is it changes passing strength. It changes rules on how they're going to pass off routes. It changes rules on how they have to fill gaps. So get the defense thinking fast, and all of a sudden you're snapping the ball while they're still trying to figure out how they need to adjust. And, you know, if you use that to your advantage, that shit's only going to make things way easier as a route runner and as an offense. That was one thing that really stood out with the Bears, I will say.

38:06I mean, Ben Johnson and how he utilizes the motions and guys moving around. He's just so good at it. Yeah. And they got a lot of good tight ends over there, man. And a good run game. And that's where, like, the defense obviously gave up a lot of yards on the ground. The Bears' offensive line played well. Like, I don't want to discredit them. But watching the tape back, like, there was a lot of just, like, you know, we just need to fit this a little bit better, right? Like, we got to handle this motion. If we're in the right spot here, if we squeeze down, don't play the boot as much here. Like it was a lot of that stuff where it felt like this defense is better than the way they played and what the stats looked like at the end of the day.

38:45So I felt good after watching the tape. He's got to improve in some of those areas. But I was impressed. I mean, like, for instance, like they motioned a like double wing right into the boundary. Right. So tight end receiver into the boundary. They did like a jet motion with the receiver. We rock and roll. Right. So Reed's down to the tight end on the motion. The safeties decide to rock and roll, meaning Reed goes back to the middle field, and the other safety goes down to the three-by-side now. And the corner's got to come in now. All of a sudden, now he's fitting the C-gap, and they got a big hit on that one.

39:17It was just a lot of stuff like that where it was like they do a great job of manipulating the gaps, manipulating the tight end movement, doing the boots, and really trying to mess around with guys' rules and responsibilities in the run game, especially. All in all, again, similar to the AFC, you think about every team has shown weakness at this point, right? Every team has had their games, ups and downs. And I just think at the end of the day, the Eagles have great coaches and they have great players. And eventually they're going to be peaking at the right time. I got faith in that. And you look at the top eight teams last year, Lions, Commanders, Eagles, and Rams, like Chiefs, Texans, Bills, and Ravens.

39:58Think about all of these teams that we thought were going to be the best teams coming into it. And all of them have shown signs of being really good, and then other weeks have had big letdowns. The two best teams in the league right now consistently have been the Broncos and the Patriots, right? Yeah. The Rams, who I thought were the most consistent team in football, all of a sudden they drop one to Charlotte. Or Charlotte? Yeah. Same team. Carolina is another sneaky one, man. And they can put together a game. It just feels like more than ever, the NFL is wide open. Listen, we're 8-4. We got time to figure this thing out.

40:36It's just going to take some, like, concerted effort from everybody. And I know these guys are going to be hard at work to get this done. I can't wait to see Saquon Barkley running again, man. That's all I want. I know everybody wants to see the passing game. I want to see Saquon Barkley running through the fucking line, untouched, all the way to the end zone. That's what I want to see. using those say quads to just fucking come on if they get that going with the way they're playing defense they will be a very tough team to beat by anybody that's all i know i hear you man while we're on that topic do you want to just jump ahead to that like nfc standings that i put in there later if you look at the top seven teams nfc and just look at the fact that the one seat has nine wins the seventh seat has nine wins i think if chicago loses next week to the packers they drop from one to seven like that's how fucking insane this season is it really is where's that at it was just a little later scrolling down can we just use what you just said you can i don't like to talk too much on here i think it's fun when you jump in i think it's good when you just a little you like the stash i do you like a stash you went to it very bert it's very bertie it's either bert reynolds or mario super mario yeah okay i'll take bert reynolds i think of the two What is this Snapchat DM?

41:53You want to read those? Eagles fans have it. It's actually kind of funny. That's what I was getting into. Eagles fans are breaking up over the Eagles. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, read that. Go ahead. All right. So apparently Eagles fans are breaking up over the Eagles. Yeah. Had a little Snapchat DM here from a couple individuals. Derek says, okay, so I know this is going to sound absolutely crazy, but I was noticing since we started talking daily and went on our date, the Eagles have been shitting to bed. I don't want you to hate me or block me, but I think maybe we just need to not talk until the season is over.

42:22I love the superstitiousness here. Until the season's over? I like you a lot, so don't take this as a dismissal. Just need to turn our luck around for the birds, and I think you'd understand that too. And then, of course, she replied. Yeah, I mean, sure. Or he replied. I mean, sure, for the birds. Way to go, Eagles fans. That's how you freaking date, responsibly. Did Kylie watch all the Eagles game this time? We were at the Eagles game, and we were watching, yes. She's going to have to start turning her back. Kai. You're right. You're right. I'm going to be on it this week. You got to buy in, Kai.

42:55You got to buy in. We need everything we can. Everybody needs everything they can. The table's wide open. Yeah. Well, I'll say we get out of these two games and get to the rest of the league. Let's do it. We got a big week for shit talking. That's right. A lot of shit talking going around the league. That is the nature of the NFL. Some of the best parts of the NFL, if you ask me. Titans-Jags, though, had some. He got a little personal over there, man. Jeffrey Simmons claims that Jaguars rookie running back, LaQuint Allen Jr., told him to suck his dick in the middle of the game. No. Man, Jeffrey.

43:32Seems pretty standard trash talk to me. I feel like I've heard that a bunch. Just saying. No, for sure. Suck my dick, motherfucker. I feel like I hear that every game. I don't think that's what we all of a sudden upset about. Yeah. Jeffrey Simmons is a guy that gets very upset in games. He's an angry football player, which I like angry football players. Yeah. I'm pretty sure at one point I was at the bottom of a pile and he was grinding his knee into my ankle. Yeah. I looked over. I was like, what the fuck? He was like, what? I was like, suck my dick.

44:06I'm kidding. I don't talk like that on the football field. I'm a fine gentleman. I'm a very nice man. Yeah. Tennessee player also claims that Jacksonville punter Logan Cook threatened to kill him. Which might be Tennessee players snitching. What are we doing? Also, Jags players. You guys are fucking doing it right. You guys are in the head. You're in the head of the opponent across. Keep doing it, Jacksonville. Take it up a notch. Take it up a notch. Tell him how you'd kill him. If it gets him out of his game. Because you're not being serious. You're not going to actually kill him. That's the thing.

44:43Sometimes the punters, they look creepy enough and like scrawny and like weird enough to where it's like, damn, he probably would fucking do some weird ass shit. No way. I've never thought that about a punter. No. Logan, a punter saying they're going to kill him. Like I would do nothing to me. I don't fucking break your neck right now. You realize I can kill you with my bare hands. I don't even need a weapon.

45:11McAfee is going to fucking beat your ass i would not want to fight McAfee McAfee's a squirrely son of a bitch you're right McAfee would be one guy who else wouldn't i want to fight um Sebastian Janikowski you don't want to find him because you just want to have a few beers with him yeah but he's going to headbutt me or something he's going to come out of something a left field with something i'm not ready for he's going to steven seagal fucking And imagine if that hit your neck, what that would do to you? Listen, I think that there's a very clear, as long as nothing being said is either racist in nature or attacking somebody's family, that's not playing the game.

45:49I feel like it's all fair game. Yeah. If somebody says I'm going to fucking kill you, I'll fuck kill you. Like, I don't know what it's like. I don't know what the. Not if I kill you first. I've never heard somebody say I'll fucking kill you and be like, this guy just threatened my life. I'm going to report him to HR. I don't know what's... What are we talking about right now? Yeah. Did you just hear him? He's threatening my life. He told me to put his dick in my mouth. I don't know what's happening right now. He told me to put his dick in my mouth. He said, get this. He told me to S his D. I think that should be a 15-yard penalty, sir.

46:29To S his D. I just... I don't know. Maybe in my two years removed from the NFL, talking shit to people is all of a sudden off limits. But I feel like both of those things happened a litany of times. And most of the time, no one is literally saying to suck their dick.

46:52Like, I don't know what's happening. I will tickle your tonsils. Suck my dick, yeah. You'd like to tickle my tonsils, wouldn't you?

47:03Maybe the biggest non-NFL football news, taking it to the college ranks. Ole Miss Lane Kiffin finally took the head coaching job at LSU after weeks and literally just like one or like a couple days of speculation. Leaves Ole Miss as the team preps to potentially host a college football playoff game, which is, this is tough, man. It's tough on Ole Miss. It's tough on the players because Lane Kiffin is going to want to take everyone from his staff that has made him, you know, the head coach that he is today that has helped ingrain in the kids at Ole Miss that, you know, this is the style of football that we need to be playing.

47:49And I get it if you're Lane Kiffin. I mean, there needs to be some sort of rule by the NCAA that you can't start looking for new job opportunities until after the season. Because Ole Miss is going to go into the college football with someone's dad as a fucking, like, helper. You know what I mean? Like, you don't just have extra coaches on the practice squad. You know what I mean? Like, you have GAs and you have guys that aren't going to get invited with Lane to Ole Miss. and you're just going to have to gather up people from around the university or however you need to do it. We were at the fucking Sugar Bowl with, like, guys' dads helping with personnel on the sidelines.

48:32I don't remember that. Really? Dude, what? Who else did we have? We had fucking, like, GAs, like, helping. No, we had everybody other than BK. We had everybody other than BK stayed for the game. Right? There might have been one other person that went with BK. You know what? I'm thinking of when Butch left. Yeah. When Coach Jones left, we had literally guys. Well, that wasn't the Sugar Bowl. That was the old Belt Bowl. And we found a way to find her out there and get it done. But we had like fucking GAs being, you know, the main, the lead coaches and whatnot. It's just, it's a clusterfuck. And it's definitely putting the team and the players at a disadvantage when you don't have, you know, your head coach or like your offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, things like that.

49:20Yeah. I mean, it sucks. We've been through it, obviously, with Brian Kelly and Butch Jones. Well, you went through it with Butch. I went through it with Brian and Mark D 'Antonio, where we played bowl games with interim coaches because those guys took other jobs. And, I mean, listen, it's the way it's been forever. I mean, part of me is mad that it takes Ole Miss happening, too, for all of a sudden everybody to realize how fucked it up it is. Nobody gave a fuck. Like, oh, yeah, of course Brian Kelly went to Notre Dame. He left Cincinnati. Like, of course that happened. All of a sudden, Mike given does it the old miss.

49:49And they're like, Oh, this is an outrage. How could he do this to his place? Like this fucking happened to me twice. And nobody gave a fuck about it. And I couldn't transfer. At least these guys can fucking leave. I was just stuck there twiddling my thumbs. I hope they hire a good fucking guy. That's so. So take your sob story and shove it up your asshole. Miss. I got no fucking pity for you guys, but I just, this is the way it works. I do think that there should be rules in NCAA that prevent coaches from leaving before the bowl games have been played out or before the playoffs have happened. But it's not going to happen because the national signing day is so close.

50:25All of these schools are in the heat of recruiting right now. Like, that's the reality of it. Like, that's why LSU wants Lane Kiffin there, right? That's why all these guys need him to go before the bowl game is because they need to have good players on the team. and they want to be able to sell the program. And, I mean, it just sucks. You wish there was a way that he could accept the job but also still coach the game. You know, I think it sucks for Ole Miss. I'm lying. I do feel bad for Ole Miss because I went through it myself with Brian Kelly at Notre Dame. It just sucks. And it's not fun. You know, you work so hard as a team and as a group of men and kids to get to that point.

51:04And, you know, it's a deflating moment for what should be a joyous time for everyone in that building. Yeah, and at that university right now. And, you know, we were undefeated, our best year that we've ever had at Cincinnati to that date. We were, I think it was two seconds or three seconds away from going to the national championship. Yeah, if Nebraska would have found out a way to beat Texas, and Dominic and Sue, if he would have got to the quarterback one more time, we might have been. It came down to a rollout. We call it a heave-ho in our building. But it's a play where you try and roll out and you try and exhaust the last seconds of the game by throwing it as high and as far out of bounds as possible.

51:47Yeah. And Texas did that at the end of the game. But they were one second away from giving the ball back. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think we ended up the four seed. So I don't know if we would have made it anyway. But either way, we're the fourth-ranked team in the country. And we got our dicks absolutely shoved in by the Florida Gators and Tim Tebow's last game. I was so upset that they didn't keep that in the Florida documentary. I didn't see that. You didn't see the Florida documentary? I didn't watch it, no. It was about Urban Meyer and those couple of years, those handful of years that he was there at the Florida Gators and when Tebow came in and just how amazing those teams were and how they fought and the ups and downs that they went through.

52:31It was cool, but then they ended it with the regular season ending at the SEC. And it's like, that's not how their season ended. Their season ended by Tim Tebow throwing for seven touchdowns of 500 yards against the Cincinnati Bearcats in the Sugar Bowl. We got absolutely fucking killed. We were serious. And to be honest, like, it sucked not having Brian Kelly, but I can tell you very confidently it would not have mattered if Brian Kelly was coaching that game. We were so much less talented than the NFL team. I ran a little wildcat in there. Got my two plays in there. We did. I didn't get into it.

53:08I made Carlos Dunlop's highlight reel on draft day. Did you? Because I gave him a sack. What the fuck were you doing blocking Dunlop? Every time he would line up as a three technique when I was studying tape that week, he kept running a U-stun or a T-E. He would pick the tackle and the end would loop around. So I'm getting ready to punch the shit out of him to try and put him out on Jeff Linkenbach. Yeah. And right when I go to punch, he hit me on an inside spin move so fast. I was like, oh, they aren't doing this in the Big East.

53:44So, yeah, that wasn't good. Tony got crushed on that play. Sorry, Tony Pike. Shout out to Los. Yeah. Anyways, yeah, it sucks. It's the way it has been for a long time in football. It is kind of funny to me that now they're like a bigger program. It's happening to them. I'm supposed to care more than what happened to me and you two and three times. And happens to little small universities all the fucking time. Ole Miss fans had his clothes in the parking lot by the end of the day. Dude, it was hilarious, dude. The fucking fans outside the private jet, dude. Oh, man. It was good. Well, sorry that you're going through it, Ole Miss.

54:22I know what you're going through. It sucks. Can't wait to see Ole Miss versus LSU next year, though, baby. Here we go. Here we go. They've still got some playoff games going. Yeah, but at the same time. That's all you want to see? I want to see, yeah. I want to see Lane Kiffin. I have to go back down this year. What if they play better? What if they play better? Is there an interim coach? Is he for sure going with Lane Kiffin? I think their season just ended. Well, now they're going to the playoffs, aren't they? Isn't that why this is a big deal? Yeah, they are. You're right. We have no idea. Maybe Pete Golden does really well, and they offer him a bunch of money.

54:52Their special teams long snapper's father is actually going to be doing details of signals for them in the playoffs. It'll be great. I mean, I think SEC has a little more resources than we had in Cincinnati to handle. Bring Eli back. Eli, go take charge for a college football playoff. That's great. Just get somebody in there that fucking represents the program. All right, let's wrap up football with some of these Stamps of the Week. Stamp of the Week brought to you by Audible. It's an amazing app. It's an amazing platform to learn, be entertained, you name it. A lot of good stuff on Audible. All right.

55:37Nice. Nominees for Stamp of the Week. We got Giants holder Jamie Gillen for making the best out of whatever that was. I mean, he actually, he's the reason that it happened. Is this the field goal kick? This is the kicker where he kicked the turf. The snapper was actually, the ball slips when he puts it down and he has to readjust it. And I think it spooked the kicker. i do think he also uh just fucked up though even if you see that why do you do that i think that lead steps just a little too far out in front of that that football he's got it he's got it because when you get too far out in the football now you got to be steep at the ball yeah and i think i think you gotta yeah you gotta get you and then you gotta bring that left that left hip out of there he kept it a little too far closed in and now you're really getting down there you're You're not allowing yourself to get through the ball.

56:26You want to keep that lead step right even or a little bit behind us so you can get through the ball. Get through the ball. Either way, I'm not giving Jamie a stamp of the week because it wasn't a great hold. Puka Nakua for this insane catch. Let's check this one out. This was insane indeed. Oh, a little OBJ action. Puka. reverse backhanded catch very impressive man if we're gonna go catch i'm going tight end brock bowers it's a good one it's a good one he gets by stamp of the week at least twice a year because of how fucking good he is but this is an insane catch oh wow that's impressive off the very turf that boy just loves ball man what a goon man oh draped all over him snow cones it yeah baby snow cones it i liked it just brandon stop putting archie manning in this fucking stamp of the week thing no no i won't good for you good for you i'm watching you baby lock in what pantsless jets fan let me see this one oh we got security presence now I wonder why.

57:51That's great. I would love to give that stamp, but I think you got to draw the line. No shirt's funny. No pants. That can go south. That can go south real quick. All right. I'm going to go with the Ernest Jones pick six. I know it's not original. It was a great pick. It was a fucking wild play. Yes, sir. Sorry to Max Brosner. Rough first outing. I mean, he's playing really good defense. It's going to be hard to have a good game against those guys. Yeah. This is insane, though. This is insane. I just can't do it. No. Can't do it. Can't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Can't do it. But it was an electric play.

58:34It's an electric play. Ernest Jones really didn't have to do much, but it's an electric play. Other than be ready. You just got to be ready. Sometimes that's half the battle, man. You got to be ready. Be prepared.

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1:01:41Ooh, so 92 percenters, don't stress or be blue. Gillette's got the perfect gift for you. Head to Amazon.com slash Gillette NFL and make your holiday bright. Happy game day to all and to all a smooth night. And now it's probably what you've waited this entire episode for. That's right. We're going to talk. How the fuck did this happen? I don't know how we even got to this point in life, Jason. Yeah. I don't even know how to talk to people of this stature. Well, because they talk to you. They're just so much smarter and better as human beings. Why is he so good at just being a cool person? He does it so effortlessly.

1:02:24I know. You said it best. You said it was like, if that's what a movie star is, if that's what a superstar is, I'm fucked. Yeah. Because I don't have that. No. Just sitting there, you know he's a superstar. He doesn't even need to say anything. And then he starts talking. And he's like way better at conversing. Yeah. I was like, this is what I do for a living. You're already like, can you not be great at everything, George? Jesus Christ. You guys are going to see George Clooney take over this podcast. So are we on? You going? All right. I want to start off. Oh, God. I'm going to start off. I'm going to start off.

1:03:03Not you guys. I'm going to start off. Jason, I dig you, man. Oh, wow. You know, you're NFC. You're a Hall of Famer. You know, I can show some love for you. Thank you. Thank you, George. Travis, you broke me, man.

1:03:23I'm a Bengals fan, dude. I grew up in Cincinnati. You've broken me so many times in your pretty face on GQ. And I have to, you know how many times I've thrown like a hoagie at my TV at your face? You've broken me. You guys had your run. You guys broke me. You guys broke me. I'll tell you what, the Bengals broke me coming out. They took a tight end ahead of me in the draft and I felt heartbroken. I was a Cincinnati Bearcat. I was sitting in their backyard. That's right. You were a bear cat, man. Yeah. You were literally in the backyard. I was. I was. Off a straight street, off the back of Cincinnati.

1:04:02I used to live on Straight Street. How about it? Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had this in the rundown, but why don't you brought it up? We have conflicting reports. We always, at least if you go to the University of Cincinnati, you're told as a student that George Clooney went to UC. Is that true? Yeah, for a minute. Yeah. That counts, right? It counts. It counts. I lived on straight street on the, on the hill, you know, where if it's snowed and you parked the cars would all end up at the bottom of the hill. If you lived at the bottom of that hill, when it snowed, you ain't making it to fucking practice.

1:04:39You're calling it up. You went down to the King quick at the bottom and you just got Doritos and a beer and you just sat there. Oh yeah. That's all you can do, man. Over the Ryan, baby. That's some good shit. Over the Ryan. You remember that area? That was like tricky. Oh, yeah. Now it's clean. No, now it's a lot better. It's a lot better. There's still pockets. Pockets. That's a great way to put it. I was back in Cincinnati a couple of weeks ago, and it was funny. I went back, and the owner of the Cincinnati Reds came out. I was speaking in front of a couple thousand people. The owner of the Cincinnati Reds came out, and I had a couple of tryouts for the Reds when I was younger, and he came up and read my scouting report, and it was the most humiliating thing you ever heard.

1:05:24That's too good. He's got no arm. He's got no speed. I'll tell you what, though. He puts a jersey on, man. The guy looks like a ball player. I look like – I had a hat. Dude, I look good. I look good. Oh, hell yeah. I believe it. I believe it. I got to see those photos. That's too good. Was it just like high school tryouts or like – Yeah, it was, you know, they had a thing where they were taking people out of high school for, you know, anybody who was playing well in high school. And they took you out and brought you in and let you try out for it. Like a little combine or a showcase. Yeah. Yeah, it was fun.

1:05:59But boy, it was pretty humiliating in front of all those people. That's too funny that he had it in there. He still had the detailed report, man. That's too funny. Well, nice. Now we can get it out there. Were you in the DAP program at Cincinnati for a little bit? No. none of that well once a bearcat always a bearcat of my book dude i also you know i was a uk kid too i loved uk so you know i had a we had you know i would side with the uk for basketball because you know you kind of wanted to have a winner and you're hell yeah and i'd been a bengal's fan for a long time and you know we'd lost an awful lot of games There was a lot of losing.

1:06:42For a while, I think the losing is franchise in football, and then we kind of got a little better. Back in the day, it was Kenny Anderson was the quarterback. How about it? How about it, man? I'm going to get this intro going, and we'll get this thing officially started. Bring it, man. All right, here we go. Our guest today is a Hollywood legend from Lexington, Kentucky, A four-time Golden Globe winner, a four-time Screen Actors Guild award winner, a Tony award winner, and a two-time Academy award winner. You know him from his roles in ER, Syriana, Out of Sight, Old Brother, Where Art Thou, Perfect Storm from Dust, Michael Clayton, Burnt After Reading, and Ocean's 11th, 12th, and 13th.

1:07:26And there's probably more coming. He's the star of the upcoming film, Jay Kelly. And unlike myself, he actually won Sexiest Man Alive twice. Twice. 92 %ers, please welcome Mr. George Clooney. No fucking world. Oh, my gosh. Oh, man, guys. That is a hell of a laundry list. I never won a Tony, but, you know, I'm glad you said it anyway. We can get it out there and people will think I won, and that's even more fun. You did now. Gosh, dang it. Just say it. I appreciate the honesty. Did we miss anything? Did we miss any? Did we give you one? Many. We missed a bunch, I'm sure. Yeah. It's okay. I'm fine.

1:08:10I'll be okay. Hi, guys. How's it going, man? We're doing great. Thank you so much for taking the time to hop on, George. Thank you so much. This is an incredible honor for us. It's fun to be here. It is. I still can't believe that we're getting guests of your stature on this thing. It's insane. This is incredible. I have stature now. See, I get gray and I have stature. well i mean no you you get uh what's it what's distinguished dang it distinguished i know it's coming from a guy that's that's that's turning gray as well and i'll tell you what he embraces the grayness he embraces he can't wait till he goes full white i'm right damn right dude it's coming it happens fast okay perfect i'm looking forward to it i'm full santa claus here in a couple years man it's gonna be epic your wife will be so happy yeah she'll be thrilled she'll be thrilled.

1:08:56All right. Let's talk about Jay Kelly. How about that? All right. Bring it on. Initial thoughts. First of all, incredible film. Loved every second of it. And I know you've already, I'm sure you've been asked this by anybody else talking to you about this film. Did this film feel extra personal to you being about a blockbuster actor and everything happening behind the scenes? There had to be some type of personal connection to you in this film. Well, I mean, look, you know, we're the same height and the same hair. So good. The guy's kind of, you know, he's kind of a mess. And I hope at my age that I'm not quite in that much of a crisis mode.

1:09:41But, you know, look, there's a guy whose kids hate him and, you know, dad doesn't like him. So, yeah, I got eight year olds and they still dig me, you know. Perfect. that's going to change as you know teenage years are coming how old are your kids do they're all they're all young i got six four two and a brand new one so we're in the early one nice it's coming man and i'm telling you dude it's like even at eight i've got like my daughter rolling her eyes now which is a new thing okay like i'd say like hey you know you know your dad's a big star and She just rolls her eye. Yeah. Sure, dad. Super.

1:10:21How do you handle that? Let me ask you that. Are you a, like, do you, are you a strict or do you get on? Like, what's your parenting style? I'm probably, I'm a little strict. I'm not like, you know, I'm not a nut bag about it. My kids are pretty good. My kids are really well behaved. But, you know, I have to say it's a pretty funny adventure raising kids, you know, because they're, you know, you don't realize, you know, how much they're listening to you. Like I was in the car driving to school the other day and, you know, I like some guy, you know, cut me off and I was like, fucking asshole. And I'm driving and like about five minutes later in the backseat, I hear fucking asshole.

1:11:07Same delivery. And you know, they're going to say that and my wife's going to hear it. And then I'm dead. Yes, exactly. There's no way I could drive. So you're learning as you go. That's amazing. All right, well, to summarize the movie for everybody that needs to go watch this thing, George Kuhn plays a famous actor, Jay Kelly, alongside, and this is an awesome moment, his manager, Adam Sandler, the Sandman. The Sandman, baby. And you guys go to Europe to kind of, as a sabbatical almost, to kind of find out, you know, what are we doing here? And a little midlife crisis kind of moment. I thought it was fantastic.

1:11:46It's so much fun. Do you guys know Adam at all? Have you ever met him? Well, Trav. Yeah, Trav was in Happy Gilmore 2. I had the pleasure of being on set with the big guy. Yeah, that's right. You were in the movie. By the way, he didn't ask me. He didn't ask you? He didn't ask me in the movie. That's a missed opportunity, Adam. That's a missed opportunity. Yeah. I told him, man, I work cheap. Not, you know, not like Travis. I'm doing this thing for free. just let me be on set man he's such a good egg you know he's such a fun cat and fun to fun to you know work with he and i've been playing basketball together for about 30 years and you know just a chance to get a chance to work with him was what a blast what a fun thing to be able to do you know just the best man i'm such a good dude man i was i was i'm still forever thankful that he he even sent the ass to allow me to be the waiter but honestly looking back on it If he would have asked you and you would have been that waiter, God damn that.

1:12:42I think the movie might've been 10 times better, man. Fuck. Dude. I, I, I play a great waiter. You have no idea. Seeing you, seeing you a chest bump Xander Shoffley. So wait, now is this going to be, is this going to be the thing now? Well, you know, when you retire, I know you're not going to retire when you retire. Is this going to, are you going to go into some show business? Are you going to act more? Listen, As long as I'm getting asked by guys like Adam Sandler, you know, my heroes growing up, man, I'm going to be there in a heartbeat, man. I don't know how much skill I have, but I'll be the best teammate on set and have some fun with you if you hire me.

1:13:24That's for damn sure. That's exciting, man. That's going to be fun. By the way, Travis, you were in Lake Como, weren't you? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Me and Tay danced around Lake Como for a little while, man. I loved it out there. That's my, you know, I got a place there out there. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They love they love to point it out whenever you're doing the whenever you're on the lake. I'm part of the tour. Yeah, it's a funny thing. And now you look at your left. You see a Georgia Clooney house. I'll tell you what, it sits perfectly on that water, man. It's a beautiful place and a beautiful area.

1:13:56Everybody out there is so lovely, man. I was every morning I was throwing my shoes on, running up and down the water. And we had gloomy days. We had beautiful days. And it was just every single day was just a new epic, like, realization what's really around the world. And I had never even imagined that place, you know, in my dreams. Had you spent time in Italy at all? No, that was my first time. Because, you know, what you'll see is there's a version of life that they lived is pretty interesting. You know, they really celebrate dinner. You know, it's two hours and you're eating with a 10-year-old and you're eating with your grandparents.

1:14:31And it's a, you know, they do it right there. There's so many little spots that are just so fun to go to dinner to, man. It's like you're going to a place that has like 10 seats in a corner of a cove. And it's just the best posse you could ever imagine. And just the best. It's such a cool place. I recommend that place for everybody. Love it. Love it. Yeah, it's good. Well, one of the things in the movie here, George, is that the entourage of Jay's character is immense. Right? Not just Adam, like everybody that is at the beck and call of this movie star. Hairstylist. Yeah. You know, like Travis does.

1:15:13That's very similar. How accurate is this portrayal? Is this an accurate Hollywood trope? Well, I know some actors who have pretty big crowd around them. It doesn't seem like it would be all that fun, but I do know a few that have it. It seems like a lot of work to me. I hear you. But, you know, most of the gang that I know are pretty, actually live a pretty normal life, believe it or not. I mean, it's sort of surprising. But, you know, most of the guys, all the gang from Oceans that I, you know, Brad and Matt and Julia, they actually have fairly normal lives considering sort of who they are. Yeah.

1:15:53Not me. I have like 40 people. there's someone sitting directly behind me holding my face back oh man that was a banger george did you have to do some sort of like uh like long distance training you're running in like the entire second half of the movie you're just sprinting across fields okay so here's the thing first of all we were trying to run like a big goofball but you know i'm i'm i'm 64 years old and we do like it's like a couple hundred yards sprinting oh yeah and i do it like 30 like 30 takes you know oh my gosh at one point i go to the director i go you know i'm i'm 64 and he goes well i'd just like to see you run faster no way no way and here's something i learned from jason rather than running faster i just pumped my arms faster That's right.

1:16:51That's right. There you go. There you go. That's something Jason's talking about. We're smarter, not harder. Oh, yeah.

1:17:00Oh, gosh. So, wait. Where are you guys? You're in KC, right? Yep. And Jason, where are you? I'm in Philly, man. I live here. We settled here. My wife is from five minutes away from where we live. So, we got a lot of support with the kids and everything. So, there really wasn't another option. I don't know if we'd be able to do what we do. Do you guys battle it out over who's got the coolest podcast? Do you get into that? Do you fight? For sure. It's everything. You already know. You got to. You got to go after every bit of like bragging rights at the dinner table during Thanksgiving, man. It never stops.

1:17:35Let me ask you this. As a Cincinnati fan, Burroughs coming back. Like, does that inspire you or is it just like this defense is so bad it doesn't matter who's playing quarterback? Well, I worry. I mean, you know, it's not like Flacco wasn't putting up good numbers. So what do you do? Listen, it's been, it's, it's an interesting time. Yeah. No, it's an interesting thing to be a Cincinnati fan in general. You know, I grew up when I was growing up in Cincinnati, we were in Kentucky, but across the river, I was, you know, so in 1975, I was 14 years old and we had the big red machine, you know, and it was like, I didn't think, I thought we were always going to be the Cincinnati is going to be the epicenter of great sports.

1:18:18I didn't realize that that was sort of going to be our swan song. Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, that freaking Joe Morgan, Kent Griffey. Oh, yeah. I mean, think about the I mean, we had a team. Yeah, man. Absolutely. Have you met Joey Burrow, the smooth guy at Ohio Native? No. Haven't ran into him yet? No, and I'm a big fan. I know that you guys like to harm him. I know that. Listen, he's harmed us. He won, I think, the first three games ever played against us. I remember it. I remember it. Rename the stadium. Burrow. Duck, I'm chasing. Between Burrow and our, you know, we have some amazing receivers and chasing those guys where, you know, we really do have a, you know, it's fun to watch again.

1:19:11That part's fun. It's just heartbreaking to, you know, try to stop a run.

1:19:19are you guys gonna win it all this year that's the uh that's the plan big guy we got some things to clean up that's for sure so i won't i won't just go ahead and say that we're we're going to but when you've won super bowls is it every team that comes in is is gunning for you guys then is that how it feels for sure that's that's the that's the honor that you get though when you win it you know what i mean like i i'm a competitor where i want everybody's fucking best i want to i I get excited about those games when the moments are huge. And you know what I mean? It's a close game and you need to be your greatest.

1:19:51Like, I fucking love those moments. Those are my favorite games to be a part of. It's exciting. And definitely when you play in good quarterbacks like Burrow and Josh Allen and those guys, like, it's every game. You know what I mean? Like, you know, you got to play in your top or else you're going to get smoked. I got a question. George, do you guys ever – do actors get competitive like athletes? Oh, it's funny. Like everybody's gunning for the Chiefs and the Eagles for the Super Bowl. Like, do you get competitive with some of these other guys? Like my film's going to outdo yours? How does that work?

1:20:22No, I don't think so because we're kind of, you know, there's not a, you know, I don't have to beat out somebody or they don't have to beat me out. So I, you know, to sort of succeed, you know, in a weird way. But so there isn't really that kind of competition. You know, I mean, I do enjoy like, you know, I'll give those guys shit. I love giving Matt Damon shit. You know, that's good to not. He deserves it, by the way. Absolutely. By the way, he's a Patriots fan, and the Patriots are playing well. I can't live with it right now. It's bad. It's bad. How did this happen? I hear about it. They let an Ohio guy get at their realm, man.

1:20:59I'm just saying, Ohio ball player, man. Crazy how much coach can make a difference. Yeah, it's huge, though. And Pitt's a Kansas City fan, so you guys got Pitt. Oh, yeah. So, you know, the whole Oceans team is breaking me, man. It's just too much. You know, we're going to do another Oceans. What? You guys are doing another one? Yeah, we're going to do another one. But, you know, now we're old. So it's going to be like mostly just trying not to crap yourself.

1:21:27Dude, I can't fucking wait, though. It's like every sneeze is a gamble now, you know. Is this already, like, are you guys getting ready to film it? How does this work? No, we're scouting locations. Everything's been agreed to? Yeah, the main thing is just finding the time in the schedule to figure out when we can all do it. But, yeah, we've got a really good script, and it's going to be fun. Fun to work, get those guys back in the room. It'll be fun. Oh, hell yeah. Well, it's been pretty damn good so far. Yeah, yeah. Do you think you'll ever get back on screen with the Coen brothers? I got to say, oh, brother, we're out now.

1:21:58Hail Caesar. Man. Burn after reading. Come on now. Oh, my gosh. Love it. Yeah, that was a pretty funny thing. You know, I remember when I was doing Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? You know, they came to me. My aunt was this famous singer named Rosemary Clooney, great singer, and back in the 50s. And they kind of assumed because I had an aunt who could sing, I think they assumed I could sing. Okay, all right. Quite the assumption. I assumed I could sing too, by the way. And then I got down. They took me down to Nashville, and they had me singing Man of Constant Sorrow. in the literally in a recording studio.

1:22:37Yeah. And I sing it like all out, you know, and I finished and I look up and no one will look me in the eye. You know, they're all looking down like, Oh, we're going to have to. And they come and go, let's play it back for you, George. They're hoping. And it just sounded like a cat caught in the wheel well of a car. It was so bad. So humiliating. So then they brought another guy and they dubbed me. But, you know, those guys, I mean, some of their movies are just some of the best films. I mean, Raising Arizona, you know, from early on, they were just good filmmakers. Talented. I don't know. They haven't been working together as much right now, but if they get something back together, I'll do it.

1:23:16You know, if they call, I'll go. I've never – I think I've done five films with them. They're fun to work with. Yeah, absolutely. We got one last segment here for you, George, man. We know you're on a tight schedule, brother. Hey, baby, I'm ready. Come on. We appreciate the time, but this is our last segment. We got to ask, but you don't have to answer. You can tell us to kick rocks or you can have some fun with us in the question. Ask him away, man. Whatever you got. You claim that you and your wife haven't gotten in a fight in 10 years. That's right. Are you lying? No, I'm not lying. Travis, shall we ask you the same questions?

1:23:51Well, it's only been two and a half years and you're right. I haven't gotten in an argument. All right. Never once. Honestly, you know, neither of us are going to win the argument. So why get in it? There you go. That's a smart man right there. What's the secret? Just not just staying out of the argument altogether. Dude, I'm 64 years old. And what am I going to argue about at this point? You know, I'm like, yeah, you know, I've met this incredible woman that, you know, is, you know, she she's beautiful and smart. And she stands for all the most important things that I believe in in the world.

1:24:26And I I can't believe how lucky I am. So what am I going to fight about? You know, I like. That's a great answer. God damn, that's a good one. Too late to do it. Yeah, you can use that if you want. I'm stealing it for sure. I'm just taking notes this whole time, big guy. You don't even know. Exactly. Come on, bring me another one. What else you got? Come on, Trev. As Batman, where do you rank Jason as Fat Batman? Do we have the picture for him? Let's see that. Oh, nice. I think I remember that picture coming out. Oh, gosh. You know, I think you could be one of the bad guys in the film. By the way, you and I, both of you and I know that I was the best Batman.

1:25:10You know that, right? Absolutely. I mean, there's no argument. I'm the best. I mean, Ben Affleck? Come on. I mean, I put, you know, I was the only one that had. There it is, yeah. That's where that competitiveness comes in, yeah. You know, I'm the only one who had rubber nipples. You have rubber nipples? Rubber nipples. That's commitment right there. That is commitment. You didn't come through enough on the suit? Yeah. Yeah. When it got colder, it was like two Dunlap tires going out.

1:25:45All right. Bad look. Is it true that you once stole Bill Clinton's stationery and wrote a fake note to actors saying how much President... All right. Go ahead. Jimmy Kimmel gave me a stack of stationery with a presidential seal and Bill Clinton's name on it. And I would send notes to all these actors from Bill Clinton. I'd sign it. And I'd find a movie that wasn't a great film of theirs. And I'd be like, I love you in this film. And I'd write these notes. And I'd send them to like 30 different actors. I guarantee you some of them are framed on some of their own. Oh, my gosh. They don't even know.

1:26:23They still don't know. That's so good. That is amazing. Now they know. Now they know. Oh, my gosh. Holy crap. By the way, I do that a lot. Like I had Brad Pitt Stationery. And I sent, you know, I told a couple of people this before, but Brad Pitt Stationery that Kimmel gave me again. And I sent, somebody had sent me this book of dialects, like CDs where you could do an Irish accent or you could do a French accent. It was a guy who teaches it. And I had this big book. I don't know why I had somebody send it to me. And so I take a note with Brad Pitt and I send it to Meryl Streep. And I go, dear Meryl from Brad.

1:27:06Yeah. I go, this guy helped me in my accent in the movie Troy. And I thought maybe you could use it. And I sent her this book of accents from Brad Pitt.

1:27:24It's so awful. It's so awful. Like four years later, I see her and I tell the story. Yeah, he knows it now. Four years later, I see Meryl and I tell her the story and she's like, oh my God, I was wondering why the fuck he's saving me.

1:27:46So awful. That is epic. We've done a lot of terrible things to each other. He's done terrible things to me, man. So it all comes out. It all evens out. That's so good, man. Speaking of Brad, he told us a story when he was on New Heights not too long ago about how he ate so many beans during a scene, right before a scene that he, or during the scene, I'm sorry. He ended up clearing the set. He cleared the set. Yeah, he cleared the set for what he said. What's your worst moment on set? I think right now. Just the exact moment. I don't think I can sink to a new or low.

1:28:26I can think, you know, I'll tell you some of my worst moments. I said, I remember when we, so like, you know, when you're a younger actor, you get a movie and you think it's going to be great. And I remember being on the set of, uh, of Batman and Robin, which is famously one of the worst films of all time. And I'm terrible in it. And, uh, I remember there was like, uh, the director with, you know, I'm laying in a, you're in a rubber cowl and you can't move because it weighs like 75 pounds. And you're like tucked down and you're on a board laying down like this. And you're waiting for action. And the director, Will Schumacher's like going, okay, here we go.

1:29:05And your parents are dead. You have nothing to live for. And action. And then they drop me off. And I go, I'm Batman. And they go, cut. And they drop you back down. And I remember thinking, you know, I was so excited to get the part. And then I realized I was the worst thing in the movie. So it was a pretty humiliating. Oh, my goodness. It was humiliating. Greatest Batman of all time. Can't tell me any different. Dude, I'm telling you, best Batman ever. Come on. Michael Keaton's got nothing on that.

1:29:44Well, speaking off of that moment, do you have a welcome to Hollywood moment? We ask a lot of our guests, it could be good or bad. Like you're kind of like first moment where you're like, man, I'm in it. I'm in Hollywood. Oh, I don't know. I have to think about that. Like, yeah, I mean, like I remember meeting Paul Newman, you know, and it's like, you know, I'd grown up with him, right? I'd seen him at the drive-in theater in Maysville, Kentucky and like, you know, Butch Cassie, the Sundance Kid and all this stuff. And then, like, I remember being on the lot at Warner Brothers, driving, going by in a golf cart.

1:30:20And there was Paul Newman. I stopped. I go, hey. And he goes, hey, man. And he came over and he had a beer and a cigarette. And he goes, you want a beer? And I was like, yeah. I'm not turning that down. And I was still working, by the way. And I was like, yeah, I'll take a beer. And I just wanted to drink a beer with Paul Newman. And I sat there for like an hour and a half outside the soundstage with him just talking. And I remember going home thinking, dude, I just hung with Paul Newman, man. I remember that being like, you know, there was that era of actual proper movie stars. You know, Gregory Peck and I became friends.

1:30:59There's like that thing where you go, these guys are, they are actually bigger than life. And it was, it was a real thrill. You know, his eyes are bluer in person than they were on screen. you know it's really something well that's you now man i appreciate you for being the fucking coolest guy in the goddamn world man we had a fucking whole lot of fun reaching your new low on new heights and uh we we can't say enough good about you and everybody go and see jay kelly uh coming out on netflix here soon and um man can't thank you enough for your time brother You're the fucking best. And good luck.

1:31:38Good luck Bengals defense. Yeah, you already know. Oh, you hurt me one last shot to the chest.

1:31:50All right, that does it for George Clooney. I hope you guys enjoyed it. We sure did. We still have. We were way out of our league. Yeah, way out of our league. In many ways. In many ways. We recorded that a while ago, And I'm still thinking about how I could have, you know, came off cooler to George or came and like tried to do something to bring something to that conversation. But George just took it away. I mean, I was in shock the whole time. So good looking and charismatic. It was glowing. Why did they have better lighting than us? Why was he glowing like that? I think it's his aura. He just walks around with a glow.

1:32:30I think whatever his spirit is inside of him, it's manifesting in ways that mine just doesn't have the ability to do. Yeah. Well, if you want to see him glow, go ahead and watch Jay Kelly. You'll see him glow the whole movie. It's an outstanding movie, really, is. Adam Sandler and him. Just the dynamic between those two is fantastic. It's a great movie. It's very good. Highly recommend it. Check it out. That wraps up this episode of New Heights. Thank you. Thank you to George Clooney. Make sure you subscribe to the New Heights channel on YouTube and follow New Heights in the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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1:33:44I still remember that purple minivan. Me and Ben Bloom would lower all the windows and open the sliding door in the trunk and cruise around the parking lot playing al fats i didn't came down and as loud as the stock speakers could come on thinking they're like anybody else could hear this barely hear it yeah the chrysler they heard you guys in there laughing more than they heard the actual music honey came down honey came down hot and hot and hot and hot and it came down Hey, man, now. So good. Had to skip a couple words of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got to be selective. Got to be selective. From Superior, they be coming down.

1:34:28That song made it into Madden. It did. You're right. That is such an obscure song to make it into Madden. Yeah. Well, LeBron showed up at Al Fats is what they ended up calling it. But Fat Al's - Well, he was Fat Al initially, and now he's Al Fats. Yeah, he got big enough to where copyrights came in and said, hey, Al, now. There was another song that was really popular that year. My neck, my back. It wasn't that one. That didn't start to. That's the one I thought you were. I didn't have the confidence for that one yet. That's more of a Jason Kelsey movie. You know how little confidence I had with women.

1:35:02That came around more in college, didn't you? That was more once I kind of built up more bigger self-esteem.