Travis Returns to The Land, Jason Hypes the Birds and Drone Sweet Drones | Ep 115

27:10I just feel that way right now. I think that they are up there. I think this is a great year. You know, got to stay healthy. I always got to hope that is the case. But I'm confident if I'm a Philadelphia Eagle, very confident. The Eagles iced the game on a drive that was 21 fucking plays, a good old long drive drill with 88 yards and took 10 minutes and 30 seconds. How about that? Off the clock. The longest drive in modern record football books belongs to the Tennessee Oilers, 25 plays in 13 minutes and ended with a 19-yard field goal. Ew. Yeah. Oh, that's daggering. Yeah. For both teams, that's fucking daggering.

27:51No, that's pretty fucking impressive. And shout out to the Birds, man. They're freaking flying around. A big-time win against the Steelers. They're rolling. And like you said, kind of shut all the critics up about the old pass game. I used to not be a fan when guys would say things in the media that would create controversy or stir up things. It kind of just a lot of times can be, you know, divert attention. Well, when it doesn't pan out for him in the end. Well, yeah, if it wouldn't have panned out, it's terrible, right? Like it's bad. It goes the other way. What all these guys did by talking about it openly in the media is forced them all to take ownership in fixing it.

28:28And not just them, the coaches, everybody. I mean, they were all hard at work with what was going on in the media because they knew they all had to go out and have the game that they did against Pittsburgh. and they ended up like answering it in just a magnificent facet. I mean, they all played so well. Yeah. Jalen was on time. AJ was a man on a mission. Devontae was making plays. You know, it was just, it was very fun to watch. You know, when stuff like this comes out, it tends to either galvanize you and bring you closer or it can kind of tear you apart and separate you. And they clearly had the latter.

29:05They clearly were galvanized by this situation this week. So hats off to all those guys and the coaches and everybody from this past week. And, yeah. That's what I'm talking about. I'm proud of those guys for sure. Well, next week the Eagles got the commies, got the commanders over there in Washington. And the Eagles can cleanse the NFC East with a win, which is the playoff berth when you win the division. It's a big game. Big, big, big, big, big game right here. How about that? Yeah, the NFC East got some juggernauts over in the NFC now, man. Huh? Got the Eagles. You got the Lions. You got the Vikings.

29:44The Rams are still the Rams. You got to fight. You're talking about the NFC, not the NFC East. Yeah, not just the NFC East, but the NFC in general. The NFC is loaded. They are. Yeah. It hasn't necessarily been that. You know, Green Bay, they got a fucking great team. Great quarterback, great coach, great defense. Anybody in the NFC North. Yeah, the Vikings are playing as good as anybody. The Lions are still, until somebody beats them, in my opinion, the best team in the NFC. Green Bay is right up there with those guys. They are playing fantastic right now. Dude, sleeper. Don't sleep on Tampa Bay.

30:22Come on now. Dude. Their defense is fantastic with Todd Bowles. They're playing great right now. Before Mike Evans and Godwin went down, This team was on track to be one of the best teams in the NFL. They were record wise. It's only because both those guys went down that they aren't up there with everybody else. So the fact that Mike Evans is back and healthy about to get his 10th consecutive 1 ,000 yard season, it looks like, after missing like four or five games. Ridiculous. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are fantastic. No, they are. So, yeah, there's a lot of great football in the NFC right now. And we got a tough one this week with the commanders to try and clinch the division.

31:00Yeah. Good luck. This is the fun time of year. This is when you love watching football. Starting to play some meaningful football, man. Who had the biggest big guy play of the week? Dude, there were some good ones this week, man. There were some real good ones. And I know my favorite one was from the 330-pound tight end slash offensive tackle Big Dan Scamper for the Detroit Lions. Let's show this clip. This is my favorite one. I don't think it's going to win. I don't think it's the best one. We know which one's the best one. But this is my favorite just because Skip's been there for a long time.

31:31I feel like he's almost like a character of the Detroit Lions. Like, I just love. Did that knee touch? It was close, but it did not. Upon further review, he gets in there before that knee's down. Yeah. But the big skipper gets in there for the score. Shout out to Skipper, man. I mean, just a classic tight end naked. Just a little boot, man. Slam for five steps going left, three steps going right. Yep. Come on back down. they legitimately use him not frequently but like a decent bunch where he's running routes as that second tight end option usually it's the third tight end it puts teams in a tough position man get that beef out there 312 pound Cardinal offensive lineman Jonah Williams scored a fumble recovery touchdown let's take a look at this one great strip get on a big dog get on a big dog does he have it does he have it does he have it he's out of bounds that's controlled that's touchdown i mean that's close that's close that's nice but i'm glad they gave it to him way to get way to way to way to just way to be there way to not just fumble that fucking thing out of the back of the end zone you know what i mean just to have the savvy stout used to say when you go out when you go at the ball you wrap it you don't go you you see you go out with your hands don't be like a koala batting it around with your your forearms i'm like what does that Do koalas bat it, bro?

32:57I mean, he koalas this thing for sure. He did. He definitely did not do it. He swallowed that thing up. But honestly, the best one. The big one. My favorite. Yeah. Trevande Sweat is now the heaviest player, 366 pounds, to ever run with the ball in the NFL. Tops Ted Washington's 365. Look at this dude, Stiffy. Come here. Set up the block. Hit the highway. Get outside. This was electric. I'm going to need to go back to the beginning. Watch the juke he puts on the left tackle. I like. This is as good. Dude, this is as good as Colin Saunders. Colin's like, look at him. Slide, break off, stiffy. Stiff arm.

33:40That stiff arm was ferocious. What is happening? They need to get this dude out on a fullback. He needs to be a fullback on the goal line immediately. Put him in the new refrigerator, Perry, man. Look at this guy. Oh, my God. A big man rumbling, stumbling. bumbling dude that was electric man you just gotta love it joe burrow doesn't love it but and i completely understand but stiffy who set up your block huh get outside it's so good it's so good 360 pound just giants just titans i'm glad i ain't gonna block that guy just setting up their blocks man fuck i'm glad that that didn't happen against me i had to try and tackle that guy that was the offensive lineman he fucking stiff-armed whatever you've done to me i'm going low i don't know what those dudes are thinking trying to go up top take a knee to the face and get a concussion i'm perfectly fine how many you know how many times i've taken knees to the face i used to cut block for a living i'm cutting ah dude open field cuts man yeah yeah the good old days when it was legal shout out to devondre um hell of a hell of a play bub absolutely what is the weirder object flying over New Jersey.

34:51That's right, with all these drones flying around. Another Giants fan playing with a banner demanding John Mara to fire everyone or... Or what? Or else we won't stop until you fire everyone. I'm going to go out on a limb and say Mara can wait this one out if he really wants to. The still unidentified drones that have been spotted over New Jersey or all over the East Coast cities, to be honest. Yeah. The aliens are among us. The Pentagon said it. No, they're not aliens. Dude, what? You heard what the Pentagon said. No, it's not aliens. They didn't say it was aliens. Dude, ask Dad. He's been on the satellites, dude.

35:38He heard them.

35:43uh you still he's got to still have those satellites hooked up to some speaker somewhere it's a little concerning that these things are just hovering i don't know what they're looking for or what they're trying to find but they're they're searching for something you know some say that it's just you know just some people messing around yeah they got some commitment to messing around if that's the case heck yeah i don't know what's going on i guess hopefully we find out someday. Maybe it's just a coastal safety precaution just making sure there's no you know. Alright, let's get out of here. Yeah, I don't even want to talk about it.

36:16I want to get into conspiracies about what the fuck those drones are. They're sniffing around for nuclear activity. They're sniffing around for nuclear activity. Come on now. They think it's among us. They don't want to freak everybody out. Everybody saw the video that Joe Rogan posted. No one go crazy. Everyone keep calm. They're just drones. What are they doing? We don't know. Somebody's fucking around in their backyard. Do they have weapons? No. Can they hurt us? No. Finish! Once again, Bold Topics is brought to you by American Express. Don't leave home without it. All right now, Jason, let's dive into it.

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38:32It's a food court. We'll find out. A long time listeners of the show know that we love a good food debate. Like the time we called candy corn overrated, which I don't know that that's much a debate. I think that's pretty much settled. Jason refusing to gatekeep pizza toppings. Travis's ban on tubular shaped meats and mayonnaise. and the fact that we don't know if Denny's is a diner or not. I do know. That is absolutely – we know that. It is not a diner. It is a diner. 100 % not a diner. It's part diner. It is a diner in disguise. Disguised is a diner. No, you already said it. Fuck. You said it.

39:10All right. We're going to go try this new segment where we attempt to settle some of the biggest all-time food debates in New Heights Food Court. Food Court. This is where we're at. This is what we're doing. The food court? I'm super pumped. We're in the social room. The social room back in Cleveland Heights High School. Oh, my God. Those of you that don't get the reference, Heights High was such a big school that during all the lunch periods, we split up whoever had lunch that period. So you go half in the social room, half in the cafeteria, the bell rings, everybody flops. The social room was exactly what it sounds like.

39:44Everybody's just fucking around and hanging out for the remainder of the lunch period. Today's food court topic is exotic meats. All right. Inspired by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on 1053 The Fan when asked if he's ever had raccoon after it was recently mentioned by Panthers wide receiver Xavier Leggett. Jones said, and I quote, I've eaten a lot of raccoon. I love that it's a lot of like not I've eaten raccoon before. I've eaten a lot of raccoon. The answer is yes. Yes, it's not uncommon at all. One of my favorites is squirrel. I don't know what the fuck. We were on raccoon. I don't know where we went and turned left the squirrel.

40:27It's wonderful. We all had our favorite pieces. My mom and I would even ask for the brain of the squirrel. Nice, Jerry. Delicious. Seriously. All right. This explains a lot, I think. This explains so much, Jerry. Is squirrel meat a meat? Well, yeah, of course it's a meat. It's definitely a meat. That's not it. What else would it be? Yeah, 100%. It's any animal that's cooked. It's not a vegetable. It's damn sure not a vegetable. That's PETA. Is it a meat you eat? I'm not going to lie. I will try any meat pretty much. Good for you, man. I mean, as long as it's not like roadkill or something that's like rotten, I'm going to give it a chance.

41:11I mean, squirrel and raccoon are both technically roadkill, but so is deer, and I've seen you eat jerky. I would try some squirrel. I've had rabbit. It can't be that much different than rabbit. I'm not fucking eating any of this. I don't know about raccoon. What the heck? What kind of... Is a raccoon a rodent? I'm not eating rabies, dude. I'm just not doing it. Can we get a origin of species for a raccoon? What family are we in with the raccoon? I'm pretty sure it's the rodent family. That's what I think. You would think it's rodent. It's 100 % rodent. They got like hands. I need to... Can we get some answers here?

41:48Procyonid family? Is that prosionid? Procyonid. What else is in this fucking family of animals? Raccoon. There's something that feels weird about eating a raccoon, more so than a squirrel. Like, I'd eat a chipmunk before a raccoon. No. Raccoon. What is its closest family? It's right there. I'm trying to figure out what other animals are in this thing. I'm pretty sure the lamest term is rodent. They're in the rodent family. No, no, no. Rodent is rodentia. I know that. Dude, I'm not eating fucking raccoon. I'm not eating squirrel. I'm not eating bugs. I'm not eating snake, kangaroo, deer. Let's be honest.

42:29Let's be honest. If you fried that thing upright and put some general sauce all over it, it's going to be just fine. I'm out. I'm out on all that. I'm out on guinea pig. I'm out on duck. What's the strangest meat you've ever had? What's the strangest meat you've ever had? Probably duck. I don't know that duck qualifies as strange. That feels like it's pretty much established. I'm not fucking with duck. I had it one time and we didn't love it. You're out on duck. I guess alligator, the alligator nuggets. Alligator nuggets. Tastes like chicken. Yeah. I had it again at Eagle's Tailgate. It tasted like lobster more.

43:06More like lobster. It wasn't fried. I will say survival of the fittest or survival. I'll eat fucking meat. You know what I mean? I'll fuck it. Yeah. If you're starving to death, yeah, you'll eat whatever you can. That's how being alive. I mean, there's that story of those rugby players that got trapped up in, like, Alaska or something like that when the plane crashed. And they were full on eating each other. I mean, you got to do what you got to do. We're not talking about that level. Jerry Jones is not trapped in Alaska, and all he finds is a raccoon. Jerry Jones is a billionaire, and he eats a lot of it, apparently.

43:40Jesus, Jerry. I love that he stayed true to who he is. I actually am a fan of this. Jerry, you ever had – let's see. Weirdest things I've ever had. I've had alligator. I've had bull testicles. I've had bison. I've had elk. I've had – I don't think I've had guinea pig, quail. One I want to have. I want to have bear. I've heard blueberry bears in particular. I'm good. It's got some good flavor to it. I feel like I had something unique when I was in Africa. I've had rabbit. I had a scorpion in Thailand right there on the street. Out. I'm not going to lie. Don't do that one. It was absolutely terrible.

44:27Should we attend the world champion squirrel cook-off in Arkansas? Maybe we get Bobby Boucher to go with this. Look at this shit, dude. That guy looks like somebody who eats squirrel. I'm in, dude. I'm going. I'm already convinced. Even if Travis says, and I'm going, and I'm eating some squirrel. What kind of squirrels? Are these like domesticated squirrels, or are these like they put traps out, and they're like getting these things? You know what I mean? Are these flying squirrels? Are they regular squirrels? Are they corn feeding these squirrels? I think these are just squirrels they find in the house.

45:03These grain fed? Yeah, right? Listen, I only eat non-GMO organic certified squirrel meat. I don't mess around with the hormone-laced squirrel meat. You can't go wild. You can't go wild. You got to go tame because then you're just biting into rabies. All right. Final verdict. Is squirrel meat a meat you eat? I will. I'll try squirrel. I don't know if there's much I won't try. I'm not going to lie. I'll let you try it and then hear what you got to say about it. I respect your opinion. You know the one I want to have because I saw it on Chef's Table? Moose lips. Apparently, they ate that stuff over in Russia.

45:38I don't know if they want to go to Russia. Nice. soon. But moose lips, I'd be in to eating some moose lips. Yeah, you would. Probably schmacking. I love a good schmacking meal, but I'm going to say that that's probably not schmacking. All right. Let's get some voicemails. Let do it. We're going to answer some not-dumb questions that came into the Heights Hotline. Notive Questions is brought to you by Mint Mobile. All right, man. Hey, Travis. Hey, Jason. This is Coach Drinkwitz in the University of Missouri. What's up, Coach? I have a question for both of you. What is your favorite post-game meal?

46:17Post-game meal. Andy's frozen custard. Could be bronze. Could be KFC. How about it, baby? Thank you very much. And the Missouri Tigers. Love it, Coach. M-I-Z-Z-O-U. Missouri Tigers. We actually got a Cleveland Heights Tiger that just signed his letter of intent to go to the University of Missouri. Shout out to Marquise Davis, running back out of Cleveland Heights. I'm sure he'll play running back there. He's one of the best players in the state of Ohio this year. I'm pretty sure I saw a stat line that had him rushing like 24 rushes for 400 yards and eight touchdowns in one game. Gosh. One game?

47:01There's no way. Dude, I swear to God. There's no chance. Dude's a fucking absolute beast. Yeah, shout out to Mizzou, baby, over there in Columbia, Missouri. Post-game meal. What is your favorite post-game meal? He said a few of my favorites off the rip. Andy's frozen custard. Slide over there and get you an 87 ultimate cookie custard, man. Ooh, okay. This shit's delicious. Got to stop over at Andy. Shout out to Andy. I'm down. I just love to pig out on some pizza, man. Yeah, pizza's hard to beat. I love just getting just boxes of it and just fucking just going one by one. Just pizza might be my favorite food altogether, though.

47:41So I'll be honest. I'm not a huge postgame meal guy. A lot of times I don't eat. Why? Especially the food that they provide for the teams after the games. It's usually just been sitting around and it's terrible after the games. Dude, we had a good one up there in Cleveland, Ohio City Burrito. Yeah, not bad. Man. I usually go protein shake. a little creatine. And then I'm straight, if I'm being honest, I'll go pizza. Pizza's a solid choice. Go over there, Chicken and Pizza, get some fries? I'm doing some ice cold garages. You know what I mean? That's my post-game meal. There you go. I'm with that.

48:18I used to love the Jimmy Johns in the locker. Was that Mike's? I like Jimmy Johns. That was - Cincinnati? Cincinnati had Jersey Mike's, and it was fucking terrible. Man, I loved it. It was so soggy. It would be sitting around. And Jersey Mike's is good. I didn't find out until years later. Jersey Mike's actually makes good subs until – because, I mean, the ones that were there for postgame were like – the fact that you won't eat squirrel, but you ate those Jersey Mike subs that were sitting around for hours and just soaking up all the hot salami and ham juices. Hot? Like, I don't know how you got that.

48:53That was the Italian dressing on those fuckers. Dude, it was disgusting. Those sandwiches sucked. You took too long of showers. You got to get them while they're hot. Let me tell you, they weren't hot ever. They were bad sandwiches. And then somebody was like, hey, you know what's really good, Jersey Mike? I was like, no, it is fucking not. And they're like, no, let's go. I'll show you. You get this. And I went there. I was like, oh, yeah, it is good. When the bread isn't soggy as fuck, I've never liked post-game meals. They're always bad. Well, thanks for calling in. Coach, thanks for calling in.

49:25I will say I'm more of a Popeye's man myself. if there was something I would do post-game, I'd get some Popeye's chicken. Ooh, is it going spicy or original? I go dark meat, spicy. Gotta go. Dark meat only. Red beans and rice on the side. Apple pie. Ooh! I don't even fuck with apple pie, but I'm in with you. Hey, those apple pies on Popeye's, they're good. There you go. Well, now you got it, Coach Drinkwitz. Get your guys some apple pies from Popeye's. That's the next call-up. Yep. On the New Heights hotline. Let's hear it. Hey, guys, I was just wondering how you felt about being dethroned as the top trending pet name in sports.

50:05I just noticed that on Grover.com, according to their 2024 top pet names report, Jalen Brunson is now the number one trending sports name and now Kelsey is number two. Way to go, Jalen. And I just wondered, because last year I saw that you were number one, so I just wondered how you felt. Just wanted to get your reaction on being dethroned by an NBA player. so please let us know on the pod Jason do you have any idea who Jalen Brunson is hey plays for the New York Knicks actually went to Villanova look at this guy I've met Jalen Brunson I'm proud of you man you've met a lot of people I think Jalen Brunson is also just a good name let's be honest that's a great name Brunson that's a good dog name I just like the full name Jalen Brunson there's something with it that just runs well together it rings it definitely rings I'm pretty happy to be dethroned, if I'm being honest with you.

50:58I'm honored on the people that did name their pets after us. I was about to say, we named a pet after a famous athlete that we loved. Yeah, Bell. Yeah, Albert Bell. Albert Bell. I don't know that we should brag about that, but we did. But we definitely, we can relate because we've done this. For sure. It's awesome. So I'm honored if Jason doesn't want to be honored. I said I was honored. I'm not upset that that trend is dissipating. I don't like being the popular pick. I don't like being. It's not my style. Bell was cool because there aren't many, many people that named the dog Bell after Albert Bell.

51:34And it was a girl dog, B-E-L-L-E. It's so fitting. It was so fitting. For sure. Other sports names for dogs include Wemby for Victor Wembayana. Witt, W-I-T-T for my guy over in the KC Royals. uh bobby witt jr okay okay purdy for uh brock purdy mr irrelevant and 49ers starting qb bronny for uh lebron james jr nice and then digs stefan digs digs is a good one messy lino messy there's a bunch you you can't go wrong um new this year include uh sweet simone for simone biles i would assume caitlin clark shohei is a solid name for for any pet um luca or a dog chick dog chick instead of dog chick i see what they did there don't love it but i see it i respect it i respect the effort i'm just really into human names for dogs like just straight up just yeah the older i get these are all human names but yeah but like these are like they're like too creative who's that over there that's greg that's my kind of dog name right there you have you've had three dogs how do you think i'm naming these dogs travis i have no say in what these dogs names or anybody's name is i'm picking the path of least resistance to just get this fucking name there's no way i know you way too well the only one i kind of did was blue because we we did we did winnie and then that became winnie the poo and then we were like oh what's another bear and i was like oh i like baloo from the jungle book so we got we got baloo as blue but the other nessie that was chosen by the breeder if it was up to me it'd be like hey that's bob i'm kind of with you on these i mean i'm in on this yes i am in on this right i like bernadette bernadette what the fuck that's just my that's my style i like human names for dogs and dog names for humans i've never met anybody named bernadette that's what i'm saying i have one of my teammates uh girlfriends was named bernadette she was she was a great person she was great call her bernie It's a great nickname.

53:45Yeah. I just, I'm a fan of dog names for people and people names for dogs. I want to see, like, I want to see a guy named Red or Spot. A guy named Spot? A guy named Red. I know a fuck ton of Reds. Red is a strong human name and a good dog name. What's another, like, classic dog name? Spike. Spike. I mean, come on now. There ain't not one of those top pet classic names that aren't going to do well for a person. I don't know if that's true. Spot Duke. Duke is, shout out to Nick Foles, named his son Duke. Nice. Nice. Rex. Rex Ryan. Hates the Chiefs. I'm going for days. I'm telling you. Fido? Dude, you mean to tell me you met a dude named Fido?

54:32That dude ain't a dog? I don't know. I don't even know what a guy named Fido even looks like. You know he's bringing some good attitude to the situation. You know he's going to be fun to hang out with. You meet a motherfucker named Fido. That dude's going to be a good time. Yeah. And that does it for No Dumb Questions. Brought to you by Mint Mobile. Shout out to Mint Mobile. Get your wireless done right. All right. That wraps up this episode of New Heights. Make sure you're subscribed on YouTube to the New Heights channel and follow New Heights on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcast.

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56:05Oh, beer. Oh, beer. Oh, beer. Oh, beer. Oh, beer. Oh, beer. Oh, beer. Travis. Travis, we already filmed it. We already filmed it, Trav. It's over. I lose track of the day sometimes.