Hosting SNL, Drunken Parades and Meeting Spielberg | New Heights | Ep 29

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We are your hosts on Travis Kelsey. This is my big bro, Jason Kelsey. As you probably already know, subscribe on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. Follow the show on all social media platforms at New Heights Show with One S. And Jason, first time in a long time, well we are coming up this episode. This is the first time in a long time, but I have a feeling we might be in store for another great episode, guys. We got a good one. We're going to touch on what we've been doing since the Super Bowl, the Kelsey Bowl. We're also going to get to what exactly happened down in Indianapolis with myself. And of course, we're going to talk about the big Yeti in the room going on SNL this past Saturday. That was crazy. I got my shirt. I went down to the NBC store. Do they give that to you when you host? No. No, they just... Do you have to buy that? Yeah, I think. What do you mean you think? You don't know if you've watched? I asked somebody to go down to the store and grab it. I was going to do it myself. I'm going to be playing with this myself. I was a little busy, huh? I'm going to be playing with this thing. I feel like the whole... I just like fun. It's like Bob the Builder. It's like a crane. Coming in out now. Nah. Is it kind of like a Spencer? Nah. That was good. Sorry. That was pretty good. All right. But first, as always, new, new, new. All righty. Coming at you, hat. Even with a short break, we are still top five in all sports podcasts on average. We are still top five in all sports podcasts on Apple and Spotify. And none of them. People are approaching quickly. This will be a two week hiatus when this episode airs. Pretty wild that we haven't done one in that long. Yeah. So, we got to make it a big one. We got to make this pop so we can climb back up these charts. There's also a couple new podcasts coming up on basketball. March Madness is coming up. People are starting to get ready to fill their brackets out. Do we need to touch on... Do we need to turn into basketball? Go ahead and start watching it. Be in a basketball pod in the off season? Yep. That's, I'm with it. I mean, I feel very confident expressing football opinions. But if you want to hear ignorant basketball opinions, just talk to Jason Gillsing. Which is what the people need. I feel that's why podcasts are educated on all these right things. I mean, that's... They need to hear the wrong. Yeah, let's be honest. They differentiate the two. I think that that's the reason people like podcasts. They're tired of hearing polished expert opinions on TV. Let's get to what the people really want. Ignorant, uninformed. Let's give these 92%ers what they want to hear. Sure. So, Jason, we've got some really big news. Probably the newest news to hit the news. What's that? New Heights family got a little bigger brother. Ah, he's on my new knees! New knees! New knees! Alright, yeah. Little Benny. Bennett Llewellyn Kelsey. That's right. Beautiful name. Just rings. Interesting way in spelling Llewellyn. Not going to lie. Yeah, it's a tough one. A tough one. I was already struggling with that one. And then you're just not going to lie. You mind-fuck me. It's a lot of silent doubles. Start with a double and with a double. What other words start to two L's? Loyd. It does. Loyd Christmas. I was going to go llama. No way. Are you being serious right now? No way. Llama? Llama. Definitely has double L. Oookie. Got me. Llama. Llama. What else has a double, double star to it? A-A-ron. A-A-ron does. That one's weird. That one doesn't make any sense. The llama when I get the double A-A-ron makes absolutely no sense. How does the double L make sense? Because there's double L's all the place. It lets you know that it's an old sound as opposed to an L sound. Llama. Larry should be double L. Okay, okay. Larry fucked it up. I don't know. I feel like the double content makes me... That's being it. Double vowel doesn't make any sense. There's no other point in the English language. Are there double fucking vowels? Balloon. Double L. That's not true. God damn it. I'm an idiot. Yeah, new niece. New niece. Yeah, new niece in the house. The well and is actually my grandmother's maiden name. It's a very pretty name. Grandma Mary's maiden name. I wanted to honor Grandma Mary who is now resting in peace. She had a good run. Unbelievable run. Also, Elliot's birthday was this past week. Elliot. Missed the party because you were still recovering from... No, no, no, no, no. I went up to the combine on Tuesday four days after my new child being born and missed Elliot's actual birthday. Thankfully, my wife was kind enough to hold it off until Sunday so that I could at least celebrate it with her. And I'm not going to lie, I feel like those mugs that have worlds best dad on it. I feel like over this past week, I definitely deserve a mug which is like most neglectful father. I've been serious. No, Kylie. I just up and abandoned my wife with a three year old, now a two year old and an eight day old. See what you did, Brandon? This is your fault. This is your fault. Just go talk to Rich Eizen, a bunch of Eagles guys, I could definitely just talk to him Philadelphia. You could only get Rich at the combine. He was mesmerizing. I'm going to tell you. When you see it... Greatest dude. When you see it. From my favorite of all time. He just took over the interview. Yeah, well that's what he does. He takes over every room he's in. The guy literally growing up in the 90s, it was him, Stuart Scott, SVP, those guys fueled my love for sports. Sure. And when I tell you that, only just made everything that much more passionate, that much more fun. I remember listening to those guys every frickin' morning. You were trying to throw on cartoons and I was trying to throw on Rich Eizen. Yeah, I mean I didn't mind watching ESPN, but I think I definitely liked the cartoons too. Yeah, saved by the bills. That's been one of the fun things, see what the bill is great. One of the fun things about having kids is watching all the old cartoons that I watch growing up, hair on old Dexter's laboratory. Gosh, I used to hate both of those. Which one, what cartoons your favorite? Family Guy? You watched Family Guy growing up. I don't think Family Guy was a show when you were a kid. I watched all the things that you watched because it was, you know what I mean? Ed Eddy. He did all of these. What were you like a Rocky and Bullwinkle fan? What cartoon was your favorite? No, I was like a Rugrats guy I guess. Rugrats was great. We definitely re-watched Rugrats. Rugrats was a good one. Rugrats is way different watching it now. The Jetsons, Tom and Jerry. I always watch cartoons at like, Nick at Night. I never watched them with you. You used to watch the frickin' buns ones. Well, you should re-watch them because you'll learn way more watching them now. There are so many things that like, the Rugrats show, apparently the dad was like a toy maker and like, would make kids stuff and I had no idea that I just, I don't even know what the guy did. He was a candy man. No, he wasn't a candy man. Where are we going? I don't like being, I like, you know like in video games how you, yeah like, sit here to get more into the game and be better at it? Yeah, when you're starting to play buns you're like, all right. I gotta sit up. This is what's happening. I'm podcasting like buns right now so I'm gonna fucking fix my chair. All right. Here we go. We got some fan art of the week coming up hot from artist named Mush. That's art at artist named Mush on Instagram and he's made a few pieces. But here we got the sexy big Yeti and the, oh, sexy Batman and big Yeti. The sexy big Yeti. All right. He's always sexy. There we go. Yeah, it's not bad. I like the bad signals. I like the Gobirds. Oh, it's a good one. It's actually a very good, I appreciate this. I'm gonna save this one and put it in my background. He's also got Jason and swoop. Oh yeah. Looking for these for actually the first time. That's a great one. Yeah, that's very comic like. Travis and Andy Reid. I can't wait to see what Andy looks like as a cartoon. Big word. Oh, I'm not gonna lie. This is the worst one. You're gonna fucking shit on the 92 percenters. I like the other ones. It looks just like Andy Reid. Not a fan of it. You're not even looking at it. Oh man, is that me? That's what I'm saying. I think he just took my head and just put your. It's good though. I like it. I like it. We're on the right. We're racing again. If you're only listening to this episode and want to see some of this fan art, make sure to head over to our YouTube page, subscribe, take a gander and you can check out some of these things that are more visual. Sorry to everybody listening on audio. You got nothing out of that. All right. Last piece of new news. The other week our friends at Quip asked the 92 percenters a vote on the New Heights podcast MVP. Whichever brother received the most votes from the promo code J Kelsey or T Kelsey would be crowned the podcast MVP. The New Heights MVP. What would be donating $10 for each qualifying purchase to the winner's charity of choice and the votes are in your 2023 new heights podcast MVP is. Are you botching this on purpose? Oh man, is Jason. His Jason one. He's the best at everything again. Jason, our friends at Quip were so kind and got you this official pod MVP trophy. Got a trophy. Yep, you did. Well, that's a little smaller than the Lombardi trophy. I knew you were going to say that. I feel like our fans about this size. It's about I feel like our fans just voted me MVP because everyone feels incredibly funniest bad for the best storyteller. Travis is hosting SNL going on Jimmy Fallon and just want a Super Bowl. We can't. Whoa. Dude, this is cool. The Golden Mike. I like this. Quips 2023 podcast MVP winner. Zoom in on that sucker. That's pretty good. This is nice. I'm actually really happy. I don't know where I'm going to mount it. I want one. I'm going to do the rest of the show like that. I want one. Thanks. Quip. I mean, I feel really good about this. I feel like it's a nice consolation prize. Yeah, you could put that in like your office if you ever get an office. I mean, it's going to be mounted behind the pod. It's going to be on every podcast for the rest of the time now. At least until we have to do the 2024. The Mountess. Thanks to everyone who voted for Jason. Quip is making a generous donation to Bee Philly, the underdog foundation. That's right. Jason, why don't you talk about the benefits of Bee Philly and where they're going? Yeah, Bee Philly partners with other organizations that are designed to improve the education of public school kids in Philadelphia. They all the reason we partner with other organizations is I'm an expert football player. I'm a podcaster. I would say I'm probably an intermediate level podcaster. There are people in the city that have dedicated their lives to understanding the issues and the things that these kids face on a daily basis. So we're just trying to bring awareness and support, obviously financially, to these great people that do awesome work in our city for our youth. I've got to love it, man. I've got to love it. Let us know in the comments section who you voted for and why you voted for them because I'm interested and which Quip product you purchased to help contribute to this great cause. Two gush. We got some gum from Quip. There's a water flosser. You just press down on it. Oh my gosh. Chill out. Oh, chill out. This water flosser packs some punch. And how did he get ahold of the water flosser? You think you're going to touch the seal? Just a water guy. Jason, Jason, the sizzin bar. This is in the air. This is not our place. We can't just put it in here. If you got any anything stuck in your teeth, this thing's getting it out. That's a powerful. One take. One take. There's two paste. If you got anything caught in your teeth, you can rocket launch it out the back of your fucking gums. How do you do this? Oh my God. Oh, once it's on, it's on. We're good. We're good. We're even. Jesus. Brandon's computer's all fucking messed up now. No, Apple makes everything waterproof. Greg Philly's going to never allow us back. Sorry. It makes it waterproof. I'll tell you what. That's a water gun. That's what that is. That's a full-blown water gun. That's a squirtle. The sky doesn't look like it. You might think about that for your kids. If you missed the contest, no worries. Just go to getquip.com slash new heights and you're still able to get 20% off any quip product, including the water cannon, the toothbrush or the whip gun. No water, kid. The flosser. Go to getquip.com slash new heights right now and get 20% off any quip. Water flosser, quip toothbrush or quip, gum starter kit. That's 20% off any water flosser toothbrush or gum starter kit at g-e-t-q-u-i-p.com slash new heights. Quip the good habits company. Good habits. We're just teaching good habits. Thank you, Quip, for keeping the podcast MVP's teeth nice and clean. Just call them something MVP. I didn't call myself the MVP. You did? That's trophy did. Now, let's see of 12 bold topics to recap what just happened. What the hell have we been doing lately? 12-ish because we never know how many topics will actually hit. Jason, why don't you start us off, man? Well, we're going to start off with what everybody wants to hear. You just went Saturday night live. That was pretty crazy, right? It's more than wild, man. I mean, how many people have hosted that show? Yeah, no, I have. I have thought about that. You went and played in a Super Bowl. It's like the season 48, I think? Season 48. They got like 20 to 25 episodes every season. You are now part of a group that is rarer than playing in the Super Bowl. You wouldn't play the Super Bowl. Yeah. Then you went on Jimmy Fallon. This has been an insane run for you. It is the nuts. It's probably the best run of your life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's exactly what it is. Well, it's... Did I miss it? Is there anything else that we miss? It feels like I just got a rocket attached to my backpack right now. Rocket man? Yeah. Do you... Do we miss anything? Is there anything else outside of winning a Super Bowl, having an unbelievable parade, then going on Jimmy Fallon... Was Jimmy Fallon before the parade? No, it was right after. Jimmy Fallon, and then going on SNL. Yeah. What else can we pile on top of this? It's two weeks of just achievement after life achievement after life achievement. Well I went to... New nays? Can't forget the new nays? New nays? Got a new nays? But you didn't meet her yet because you decided to be hung over in New... Damn it, Jason. We just let me live in this moment. Sorry. Yeah, good. Why'd you go give her a big old hug in like an hour? Oh, I went and saw one of my best friends get married. Reggie King. That's right. Reggie King. Reggie and... That's not a life achievement for you though, so we won't... We're not adding that. We've partied in Las Vegas. Al-Nurangas. Did you win a bunch of money? No, but I won something. Not an achievement then. Damn it. All right, well... Unless you come out positive in Vegas, we don't talk about it. That's all we got. All righty. Let's sit on the parade. First we got to hit on the video that is now made the round which is crazy. Yeah. That my home just gave the Lombardi trophy to a random fan. Yeah. And said, you know what? You got it. Pass it around. What do you think the guy said to him to get him the hand of the trophy? Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know. I'm going to have to ask Pat now. Do you think you... Bribed him? You think he threw money? He just handed like bag for Lombardi just like here. You take this stuff of bag, give me that of the body. I'm asking. I don't know. I'm going to be pretty fucking sweet. I'd hand it over. How much? Cash. Cold hard cash is hard to come by now. It is. It is. So is a Lombardi trophy though. I know from experience. Man, in the moment right there... Yeah. You're doing it. Take me like 10 grand, 20 grand cash. Cash, okay. You can have that. Two dollar bill. Ooh. I've never seen a two dollar bill. I've seen a few. Yeah. I mean, let's be honest. He just was really drunk and clearly forgot. He wasn't that mode. Somebody else will grab this from this gentleman. He was in the clear mode where you're meeting fans and you're just shaking hands and you're just an autopilot. Are you guys talking about being an autopilot on the field? He was auto fanning right there. He's just shaking hands, taking pictures. All right, I'm going to hand you back your thing and move on. Oh no, I just handed away the Lombardi trophy. Somebody's got us. Go back and get that, right? This is two years in a row of quarterback scan or I guess there was... I didn't see Matthew do anything. But the year before, obviously, Tom Brady throws it in the ocean. Throws it in the ocean and Gronk also put a dent in it. I don't know if it actually made it in the ocean, but there's a chance. Gronk put a dent in it hitting a baseball with. I think they went to a baseball game and Gronk used it as a bat to like, bunt the ball or get the ball. And it's still dented. It's pretty nice. Gronk, you're forever cemented on the Marty. Forever. Yeah. Did you dent it? You should do something to it. I should just fucking throw through a window or something. We can't dent it. You got to make it sound like you got to like scratch it. Key the Lombardi trophy. Yeah. He came out in his chills and he was the part of the chills. Oh gosh. Engrave my... The artist's daughter is now going to come after us for being disgraceful. The Lombardi. Who asked your opinion? No, the parade was fun. The parade was a good time. And Kansas City showed up. It was better than the first parade. The first parade we had back in 19. It was ice and like it was freezing. It was hard for like people to get down there because I was snowy and everything bad the weather was. And this one was way better. And you could tell that everybody was able to get there and show out. That's pretty cool. How was it better? I don't understand. Usually, I mean, I think when you're... More electric. Evaluating parades, I think the number one determining factor is how many people show up. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That makes sense. That's it. I thought your speech wasn't as good as the first time around. No. Not going to lie. No. I went into it like, yo, I'm just getting into things. I'm not trying to... I'm not trying to... The Chiefs came out. Yeah. That's where I really... I would... In terms of like a speech speech, I was like, dude, I'm... I'm not going to... I'm way too drunk to be trying to give a speech right now. I've been prepping for Fallon and Saturday Night Live. I can't designate time to write a whole speech. It's before I agreed to do either one of those. Is this? 100%. That's funny. But no, I went up there and Pat hit him with Steve Austin. Yeah. Let me get a hail, yeah. Yeah. And halfway through... Yeah, I went up there and did a few hail, yeah. And in the middle of it, I was just like, man, I just want to say, oh... Yeah, the Master P. No, no, no, no. And the crowd was in. They were down. I mean, I'm pretty sure you get... If you went anywhere in the United States, if you could just... You're walking down the street, you said, let me say... I'm 99% sure somebody in the vicinity would say... And now the night! Just for like three blocks down. Yeah, that's got to be... That's iconic. How drunk was everybody at the parade? I mean, I'm not going to lie. We had a few guys get carted off. I saw you catch the fireball shooter. Yeah, that was crazy. And everybody... Did everybody know the new news? Everybody that ever goes to a parade? You guys got to watch out just throwing beers at people on buses. You want to... Alright, it's like, you know... My mom was standing next to me. We got mud-like cans flying over our heads. I'm like, man, watch out! There was a moment where it felt like you were getting attacked. You just got to wear in your football helmet when you're out of the parade. Seriously, yeah. Seriously, you got to wear protection gear. Yeah. And one of the they gave you goggles. I had just like videotaped everybody. Like the parade trying to get some documentation of, you know, what the fuck was going on. And as soon as I pressed and put the phone in my pocket, I saw something flying at me from the corner of my eye and it just stuck right in my hand. I was just like, well, that was way too perfect for me. You didn't lock eyes with the person before? No. That thing frickin flew into my vision and right into like where my hand was. Did you catch it? Did you just hear like a new news? And bow. Fireball. Did you see the video of the kid on TikTok that thought he was you? Nah, nah, nah. You got to love those videos. Have you ever been that out of it? Never. That I'm aware of. Yeah, nobody's recorded me at least. I'm sure. I'm sure over the trunk. I'm sure over the trunk. I'm in a trunk like that, but I'm never coming out of like surgery. You're over the 10 surgeries that I've had. You did 10? What have you had surgery on? Me? Me? Three shoulders on my right. You've had three shoulders? I've had two laborems on my knees. All on the same shoulder? Yeah. Oh man, that shoulder is going to feel great. Are you kidding me? If you see how it feels right now, then another one over here for a fourth. Okay. The bad shoulders got it. That shoulder is two abdominal surgeries. That's seven ankle. That is not seven. Two. Two. Three. Eight. Seven. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two and then ankle. And then ankle. That's a lot of surgeries. I know, right? I've had ankle, knee, hand, two elbows, two abdominals. We got weak abdominals. Two abdominals. Since we stopped playing high- And appendix. That doesn't count as a football injury. Still count, did you go into the knife? You go surgery? Yeah. That's what happens. Take it out. Okay, that's good. I feel like I'm missing one, but that's all I can look at right now. Anyways, we got to that point because I probably been in that mode before and just didn't know it at some point. A lot of anesthesia. All righty. Well, immediately after the parade, you go on Jimmy Fallon. Now you know Fallon. I met Fallon through Justin Timberlake's charity golf outing. Dropper. I met Jimmy Fallon through a charity golf outing. Well, how'd you meet Jimmy Justin Timberlake? Oh, I met Justin Timberlake because I was out with the rock party. Then we hung out with Lauren Michaels and then Jim D'Amalushi showed up. He rose from the dead. I'm sorry, you were telling the story? Yeah, so I met him at a charity golf outing and played golf with him. Funny as golf outing, I think I've ever been in. It was absolutely hysterical. Didn't he throw your wedge or something like that? Your putter? What did he do? We hit to the 17th hole. So we got one more left and we needed a putt, like a big time putt. I was probably about four feet away and just kicked it like a foot right of the pin. So it was atrocious. I hadn't had, I hadn't sunk a putt in probably ten holes and was just like talking to my putter after every single hole. You're stupid. You need to be better. And finally I just kicked the last one right and Jimmy and I was just like, damn it. Pat made a big deal about it because I was on his team. We were playing team golf and then Jimmy just comes up to me and says, let me see that. It's just like, okay, here you go. He grabs it and just like 50 feet into a pond. Into a pond. Yeah. So it was just like, all right, well, there goes my putter. You didn't get it. What did you want me to dive into the lake and go get it? So you and Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Fallon through your putter and it's still sitting at the bottom of a pond. It's like a lake. Look, of course. This is the wind golf course in Las Vegas. Nice. So anybody that plays. Anybody that's a big Travis Kelsey or Jimmy Fallon fan, if you guys want to take a drink. There's a pretty good piece of. Anybody needs a what is it? Timing Cameron. I don't even know what they're called. Scotty. Scotty. Scotty Cameron putter. It's sitting in the bottom of that lake on 17. And then I put it with my driver on 18. Did you make it? No. But I'll tell you what Jimmy did. He told me he was going to give me a new putter. So I'm going to hold you to that. Mr. Fallon. He's probably already reached out 100 times to try and give me. I just don't read emails. Well, if you really wanted to give it to you, you just wanted to give it to you when you went on a show. So how was the show? The show was awesome. Yeah. When I first get there, I'm wearing this greenish teal true colors, two-piece. I actually wore it during my have my homes. Yeah, my homes. And I walk in and the first people I meet are the roots. Philadelphia's fun. I love this. Yeah. And I can just feel it. Feel the tension of we know we have to play this music for you. Yeah. But I do not want to play this music for you. So did you know before you met them that you guys were going to do fight for your right to party? No. Well, as I'm going there, they're kind of giving me the rundown on what they think is cool for the show. Yeah. And they were like, would you be down to do some karaoke? Because that's what I mean. Fallon is like karaoke. Yeah, I see. You know what I mean? He's the best. So we come up with that and I'm like, yeah, let's do it. But I didn't realize that I knew none of the words. I didn't even know the words. I didn't even know the melody of how the joint started. You just know the words. All I knew was fine for your right to party. So like I'm trying to like jump in and this isn't like your karaoke where they throw the words up on the, you know what I mean? On the screens? Yeah. Like, yeah. Like, they're like, what other kind of karaoke is there? No, it's just cards. It's 30 rocks. So they just had. Oh, that's right. Cue cards. They're still using cue cards. Yeah, it's the best. So it's not the best. It's completely outdated, but it's fine. Well, cue cards can't freeze. I mean, they can catch on fire. What are we? What? We're just saying random things that could happen to stuff. Somebody can spill their coffee on the cue card. There's all fucking ruined. Where was I? Oh, so basically long story short, the roots played a song about 10 times. Like in the rehearsal and I'm like, I can't catch the beat. I can't catch the rhythm. I can't catch anything. Hey, if you can catch that. So I completely botched it. And I find I kind of get it right after they like stopped and like walked me through like the words and everything. Yeah. So I kind of got it and then and then we go back to like our dressing rooms to like get ready for the show and they're like, do you even want to do that? Do you feel comfortable doing that? Like, yeah. They're basically saying they're awful at it. We should cut it and we want to make sure you're okay. Give me a chance. Just give me a chance. And yeah, it didn't go and it didn't go bad. Great. What are you talking about? You nailed it. Well, shout out to the roots, baby. See, knowing that you failed that much in the rehearsal and then nailed it on the spot is crazy to me because it was the same thing for Saturday. It was what that was the percent the same thing for SNL. You're just a gamer. Listen. How about that? Turn the camera on. I'm going to have some fun. There you go. But yeah, shout out to the roots for getting me through that. And that was a memorable experience. So I promise you that it was so cool kicking it with Jimmy up there and talking about how I broke the news of being the host on Saturday Night Live, which is pretty cool, man. Yep. And so you're at 30 Rec. Did you Jimmy found you go back a week later to do a Saturday Night Live at 30 Rec. Yeah. Do you have an office at 30 Rec now? They just give you a spot. Are you employed by NBC at this point? No. They just put me with the janitors. I'm kicking it. Cool. That's what I meant. All right. Well, I'm with it. Listen there. Let's get to it. You're hosting Saturday Night Live. SNL, baby. I mean, it's the most iconic show on cable television. It's so wild, man. That is such a well-oiled machine, man. Yeah. And it's so fun. The first day you get there and there's like a you meet everyone. Everyone comes into one room and they just go around the room and just it's like a big icebreaker. Yeah. It's the most awkward if you're the one hosting because you really don't know anyone, but everyone's kind of like, yeah, all eyes are on you. Yeah. So it's extremely awkward, but it kind of like just shatters the any like kind of like there's just names. Is it just names? Are we doing like, all right, say your name where you're from. Honestly. Favorite color. It was like they all pitched me an idea like a during. Yeah. Like a skit. Like a skit. Yeah. The. They're the writers. It was everyone. So the whole crew's in there in there. So it's not. They didn't say their names. What are you talking about? That's what I'm saying, but it was it's not an introduction then. Yeah. They're just giving you this is just an idea. You're making eye contact and you're speaking to someone is the first time you have a conversation with someone that's an introduction doesn't have to be a hey, I worry or any hammer or hammer. I think you're you're thinking of an interaction an introduction, I think for sure requires you to tell somebody your name. Anyways, whatever, whatever. Okay. So you're you're essentially doing a brainstorming session of skits. Yeah, that I don't even know it went by so fast and I was so like overwhelmed with what was going on. Yeah. That I don't remember a single like I don't think any of those were used in this show. I don't know. At least I don't remember any of them being used in the show. Well, let's get let's get to that. How do you get to the point of the show and like what you're doing? What skits you doing? And what how's the week work? Let's just go from Monday to Saturday. So Monday you have the the one meeting and then you kind of interaction meeting. interaction meeting. Then you meet with the writers about your monologue, which was probably the biggest part was making sure that monologue is like true to you, but at the same time still entertaining. Yeah. Yeah. And I oh my gosh, they made that monologue show me that I could just run with it. And I could have fun with it. And I was comfortable with everything that didn't make me nervous about anything that I was saying. I could just sit up there and just make fun of myself in front of everyone. That's the best. Yeah. Or your brother. What? I'm honored. Tuesday comes around and you start to meet with every writer there. You just go office to office meeting with all of the writers and the team of writers that they kind of have implemented like and then you just hear pitches and you hear kind of what sticks, what's fun. Yeah. And Peyton Manning gave me one word of advice going into it, which was the best advice that I could get. And he said, dude, just go all in. Just be open minded. Just go all in. Be on time. He knew he must have knew somebody told him that just terrible with time. I think he just he could just figure it out. He played football long enough. And he sees the type of player you are. This guy. You're a fly by your seat or pancyper. You don't know what this guy could break out in a second. He can make up around in any second. Those types of people are usually not the most. So what am I looking for? What is time? Yeah. So he just I mean he basically gave me just said just be open like the show is meant to be absolutely hysterical. It's like kind of like the people that don't have great shows are probably the ones that go up guarded and don't want to just. Unsecure maybe they want to make they want to control everything maybe. Yeah. Like like like what do I know about writing a skit? What do I know about you know what I mean? What do you know about acting writing being funny? I'm just. I know how to laugh. You know what I mean? That's about as funny as I get right there. So it's like I was just like, yo, I'm here. I told every single one of the writers like, yo, I'm here to make this thing the best show possible. Whatever skit you guys feel best for me. I'm here for it. Obviously there were some that I was like, yo, that would be fucking hilarious. But then at the end of the day it has the writing has to make sense. And it's like, yeah, I'm the host, but they have unbelievable cast members that they've been writing these things for forever that right. I mean, like not every single skit is going to make it onto the show. Yes. You know what I mean? So every week onto the show. How many let's say how many skits did you guys run through before you got down to the final? How many were in the final show 10? I don't even think there were that many. We did the three prerecorded ones, but the one the actual live ones we missed, I think three or four live ones that we had did during the dress rehearsal. That was on Friday. Yeah. No, that was right before the show. How many skits do you guys run through throughout the week? That was the final amount. All right. So we do we go Tuesday and you meet with all the writers. All the figure out. How many writers? I'm going to say there's probably close to 20. I went in about 10 rooms and eat 10 to 15 rooms and you sit in there for about 30 minutes and hear about three to four pitches or three to four skits. Three to four ideas. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. It was so you're looking at somewhere like probably between like 40 and 50 different ideas during Monday, Tuesday, and then between that, you're picking or there or I like to pick anything. I am not in charge of this. At least I was like, yo, this is whatever you think. Lauren Michaels, whatever you think is the best. Like, you know what I mean? Or whoever the writer was that we're going to have. How broad is the idea like it is specific? They already have stuff written. They already. Oh, for sure. So that happens Tuesday, then Wednesday you meet and that's the table read. So now I'm at a table with all of the cast members, the writers, the producers, everybody that has to do anything with the show is like kind of like in the auditorium sitting in big as a table. Big as hell. Big as we ever seen. Damn. I mean, yeah. Yeah. All right. That's a big as table. There's a bunch of tables connected or this is one. Yeah. One now the tables are connected. It's enormous oak tree. How did you talk to him? I was a SNL. Where was film? Yeah. 30, right? Yeah, they just take everything out. We were just in there just going over reads. All right. And we went over 40 of them. So you read 40 scripts, three scripts. How many were you in? My eyes, every one of them. My eyes heard so fucked. I haven't read or looked at a piece of paper that long ever in my life. This is a, I mean, you essentially read a book and find a sat down for essentially two, maybe three or four hours. When is the, and just was going to end it? Don't be be wrong. I had an idea of which ones were which because I got pitched the, or I got both the skits the day before when I met with the writers. But it doesn't like prepare you for like what's actually wrote. Sure. You know what I mean? Like, and I'm not a fast enough reader to get through all of that before the reading. Like the actual like, how much reading did you do before the table reading? Gosh, I maybe got through like five or six of them. I was given like three hours. It was, it was a struggle. So you essentially read a book in front of how many people? I mean, the entire production cast everybody. When's the last time before Saturday, the next time I read it loud? Just read a book. When's the last time Travis Kussie has read a book? Audio books don't count. I used to read like by the chapter earlier on in my career. Like when I felt like, oh, I really did not think. I'm going to be older and professional. There was a, there was a second there that I got into like Malcolm Gladwell books, like Outliers. Outliers. Outliers. I like to say ears. L-I-E-R. Oh my God. Outliers. This is great. Outliers. And then, there was another one that was a good one. I had a good sense. You are, you are an outlier. You know that? God damn. If you pronounce outlier, outlier, you're a fucking outlier. It just all depends on where you are on the country. All right. So, I'm from Ohio. Okay. We see outlier. How many, how many, I feel like you're, or in third grade right now and I'm making fun of you reading in front of the class. This is the first time. How many, how many kids were discouraged forever from reading because they just didn't nail that out. Discouraged. I didn't give a rat's, I didn't give a rat's ass. That's probably, that might be. Trying to read out the how in front of people, that might be the only way I can describe how nervous I felt actually trying to go out there and act in front of people. That's what I felt like. You get nervous when you read in front of people? Not now, but like the first in third grade when you had to read a whole paragraph in front of your peers and I was hooked on fonics kid. I was not like a, I was not a profession. I was not a proficient reader at that point. That's so funny man. Yeah. I remember, I remember those. Yeah. I had to go to the principal's office one time because of those. Yeah, I don't think we were, Kelsey's not good readers. We are. We're average readers. I think our eyebrows get in the way. Remember Ms. Raki? Roxbury, a middle school? Of course. Ms. Raki. Awesome, awesome English teacher. I'm sorry I'm gonna throw this out there. So in Ms. Raki's class you would go. Classic move. You're awesome. But this was me being an asshole in middle school. So we used to go by the row. We used to go like first row, second row. You used to read by the paragraph. Yeah. So it gets close to you. So you knew what you were gonna read. We're reading like Hamlet or something like this. See this is bad teaching, Ms. Raki. No. You're not paying attention to anything that's happening before that I thought. Oh my God. You don't attack Ms. Raki. Just saying. Jeff Stoutlin knows better. You cold call it. You don't cold call it middle. When you get to the paragraph you ask the person to read it. Well not the way they have to be paying. That way they have to read out loud Jason. Can I get to my story? I go ahead. Jesus. Sorry. I was just trying to. If you're ever a coach don't let the player know before you ask the question then they have to listen to the question. They know they're about to answer it. They're not paying attention to stuff they know they're not answering. This is why you still say out. So I know what I'm calling. So I know what I'm reading and there's a quote in there. I forget what the actual quote was but when I read it word for word until it got to the quote and I thought it'd be funny if I just if I freelanced the quote. Freelanced the quote. There's one thing you shouldn't freelance it quotes. So I'm like blah blah blah blah blah blah and then Hamlet said Devonta should stop eating cheeseburgers with his fat ass and like kind of waited to see him. What? I was in the back of the room and I'm like waiting to see every like here. Everybody laughing. No, no, no, no. I don't even know if you know him. I say this and I'm just waiting for everybody to just bust out laughing. It's a banger man. Yeah, I nailed this. Crickets. Absolutely nothing. I look back at Devonta. He's just like. Yo, what? What is right? He's trying out. What? Like seventh grade. Eighth grade, maybe. You guys were still reading out. And seventh and eighth grade. Well, Jason, I wasn't in a fucking AP class. What do you expect? You don't have to make me feel even worse about this. Immediately Miss Raki just goes Travis. Can you please just go to the principal's office? You said it's a book. That's a book. Dick Madison. Yes, I will. The class just like, okay, that was stupid. And then they gave you two tickets to the cash. He's got one. Let that go. He will never let that go, man. Happened like fifth grade, Jason. I used to get suspended every time I went to the principal's office by Mrs. B. Mrs. B. Mrs. B. Me and Mrs. B did not see you on an eye. Whenever I got in a fight, I was very animated that I was right in having fought the kid. And apparently that's not the way you want to answer that question to a principal. Yeah, not the principal. You can say that to dad and mom. You can't say that to the principal. Yeah. So then I would get home and be suspended. Travis, Mrs. Mrs. B loved Travis so much. Loved Travis so much. I was in the office just as much as it was to go to a fight. Went into the office because he got in a fight or something. And he got calves tickets to the game. This is such a bug. They said Travis, take the day off. It wasn't even called a suspension. It was called a day off. And then they gave him tickets to go to a game on his day off. I'm going to clear this up right now. I entered a contest where kids were able to, in our class, we were able to put or make a portrait that was going to enter a contest to be in the back of Lee Road Library, the back like the back parking lot, big wall. It was supposed to be a mural. So they had all the middle schools do or how all the elementary schools do it. And I was one of the two. I was one of the two. It was a great way to get free artwork. That made the contest from Fairfax. Got it. It was me and Tess Young. And we... Tess Young is a legitimately... Yeah, no, I had no business being in this. No. They were probably like it was one of those kid arts that was just like, this is so bad. This is the kid's art. So by entering the contest and winning like at Fairfax, they gave me two free tickets. It also happened to be the same day I get in the fight and Jason gets in a fight. So we both go to the office. My dad comes in. He said, you first points to Jason. Jason goes in. I hear a whole lot of, put this, put that in. I was right. He punched me first. And he comes walking out. Dad's just like pissed. Jason's not... You might not be crying, but you could tell he's like, you're still a sore bear. Two days suspension from school. You come here. I walk in. Sorry, Mrs. McBride. I know I shouldn't have punched him in the face after he called me an idiot. I shouldn't have did it. I should have never do it again. And I get one day removal from school. And she says, oh yeah, you won the contest. Here's two free calf tickets. So I walked out of that room like... I get the fucking sit home and watch the prices right and family feud. And then go to the calves game while Jason... It's totally suspended. 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Tuesday is nothing but just like meeting with the like, there's so much more that goes on on Tuesday. So Monday show up. You have the interaction meeting Tuesday shows up. Writers meet with all the writers. You find ideas. Just mean writers Wednesday. Table read. Yes. Flush out ideas and you start actually working on them Wednesday night. Yeah. Like actually. Thursday night, Thursday night. Well, I was there Thursday night. You were recording Thursday night. So that was the first thing I did on camera with any of the cast. Nice. That was the first thing I did, which was fucking hilarious. It was great. That was the first one on Thursday night when I got there. You were recording. A straight male friend. The prerecorded straight male friend with Bowen Yang. Man, that guy is a all star. His facial free. That was one of the craziest things. He's just watching the like different way he was moving his face and his reactions to each clip. Like that was fun to watch. Absolutely. Stair go. Yeah. Great to. But this is what I'm saying. They write these skits so that the start like the the host can just walk in and just it be flawless. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like the hinge skit that we did live on Saturday was with Bowen and Heidi. And that is them to just being absolute all stars and me just like making sure I don't fuck it up. What do you mean? Like I mean I had a few lines but I wasn't like like that was their skit. You know what I mean? Like like I mean you're in the skits. You had lines and said stuff. Yeah but like I wasn't doing any of the actual funny parts. Gotcha. You know what I mean? Like everything was kind of based off of what you were just a hot guy that she was sleeping with. If you want to call me hot I'll take it. Let's go. I was just the guy she was that was in the bed. You know what I'm saying? All right. Long story short. It was one thing to like feel like everything was like wrote around me. Is it written or wrote? I think they both can work depending on how you say it. Damn it. That doesn't help. It's not like they were all written for me. The monologue was written for me. I don't know neither. We're both hooked on phonics. What are you asking me for? All right. So they have a whole all star cast that they're like these parts are bomb parts. And how can I come in and help this skit or how can I make this skit work? Gotcha. And that's how kind of like it ran down like a lot of the ones that didn't make it. I had more of a part in. Okay. But I'm not. I'm not. So it's like yeah, do we put in you know, Chloe Feynman being absolutely fucking hysterical in the dating show on the two hot to handle. Oh my gosh. Do you mind? I've had an ear infection. I think from how much I've been flying and it just released and nice. So now it's really loud. It's very loud. Got a boy. Sorry. Sorry. But it's like either very talented. You know what I mean? Very talented and unbelievable role for she fucking kills it. And she helped me out like figure out what I was supposed to be doing. My terrible British accent. She fucking said just go for it. I've been so right before we actually started doing this podcast. I thought he's doing an Australian accent the whole time. I was like, did you nail that Australian accent? He's like, he was supposed to be British. What do we do? But that's SNL for you. And you just got to send it, man. You just got to send it. What up? So that all. So you started actually recording on Thursday night, which is when I showed up, which I made sure I don't know if you know this. So you got advice from Peyton Manning. You also got advice from Charles Barkley. Chuck. Chuck, what show he put this out there? I don't know who saw it. It was his podcast with Ernie. That's their podcast. I'm going to have to start listening to Chuck and Ernie's podcast. No, we're in. That thing's you already know. Yeah. Do you remember what his advice was? Make sure you wear draws. Which for me was good advice. Very good advice. Yeah. A lot of changing back and forth. When I tell you, they'll just throw you in like a corner and just kind of muddle huddle and just start ripping clothes off you. I made sure that I packed my drawers for the show. What's Friday? Friday is when you start actually like they start finding the sets for everything. They start finding the costumes. Wardrobe. Yeah, wardrobe, which you're going to look like and start kind of narrowing down how long the skits are going to be, what the camera angles are, stuff like that. So now you're actually on set with the entire cast. Who's going to be in it? And you can still see the writers and the cast members creating everything. Yeah. You know what I mean? Which is fun. It's a very fun experience. And to finally see it all come together like that Friday was, I was like through the roof. It felt so cool just being like in the madness. Now you're busy. Friday is when you were really busy. Yeah. Friday was a long state. Thursday and Friday felt like it looked like they were the hardest stage for you. Just watch them from afar. Yeah. Thursday, Thursday wasn't too bad for Friday was the one. Friday was the one because you didn't. Because you went to bed Thursday night like 2 a.m. Yeah. And then up at it at 7 and then we were there till midnight one o'clock. But that's what that's what Peyton was saying. He was like, dude, just do it. Yeah. Like you know what I mean? Just be on time. Be prompt. Don't fucking feel bad. I love you. Keep emphasizing beyond time. Dude, I was so on time. I was so on time. I was only like 15 minutes late every time. Like dude, that is the most on time I've ever been. Oh my gosh. All right. Friday happens. Everything is set up Saturday. Saturday comes. And out of nowhere, the entire place is just like plugged in. Yeah. The atmosphere, the energy, everybody's saying happy Saturday. And I'm just like, oh shit, people are really fucking pumped about this shit today. Yeah, man. It's game day. It's game day. And that's what it felt like. Everything was so much fun. We kind of went through a lot of the stuff. Just I don't want to say a run through, but like it was just to get camera angles, everything like that before the dress rehearsal. And then when the dress rehearsal hit, it was like game time. Right. Everybody was locked in. Everybody was making sure they hit their lines and just being absolutely hysterical. And the dress rehearsal was so much fun. So Saturday, you had a little bit beforehand, but the dress rehearsal was the main first thing, right? Yeah, essentially. I mean, don't be wrong. It's still pretty big to try to figure out your lines and exactly how to portray the characters. You're not just around doing nothing. You're getting ready. Yeah. Dress rehearsal. I probably a lot of people do know this. I didn't know anything going into like how this whole thing functions. And the dress rehearsal happens. You run through the entire thing, everything you're wearing. Live crowd. I mean, it's a dress rehearsal. Yeah. But you have a whole crowd and you're trying to figure out which sketches are going to make it into the show. But you do all the sketches. Yep. You do every single sketch. So there was three sketches. You're actually seeing more if you go to the dressers. And it even changes from... It's evolving the whole time. Like, I was watching a lot of it on the TV in the dress room. I was in and you're... They're changing... Scripps. Scripps. They're changing people. Like, different people are in different areas, cast members that is. That is evolving up until the last possible second when the show's going on, which is crazy to me. Yeah. It's awesome. And there's things that people did in the live performance that they didn't do the entire week. Yeah. Yep. And because they have to condense it down to what can fit with commercials with... I mean, you can time it with a stopwatch that is from the beginning to skit to the end. But the comedic timing of how the crowd laughs, you don't want to always talk over the crowd because there could be another punchline. So it's like the timing of one skit could change 20 to 30 seconds. And that's a lot of time over the course of a show. Yeah. And then put in all the sketches. So it's like, it's interesting. Obviously, I wish the world would have seen all the skits. Yeah. Because there were a bunch that I was like finally starting to like really feel like I was like... I'm looking forward to this one. Yeah. And then, oh yeah, we just cut that. Yeah, no, it didn't have time. But what was cool is that all the pre-recorded stuff got... Well, one didn't. No. It's all right. I really feel bad for Creed. Creed flew all the way. Creed on free. He is the hero of the entire weekend. He needed a third. He did. He did a third NFL offensive lineman or a third NFL player. Yeah. And we reached out to Creed and he was like, yeah, I'm in man. And he literally had to jump on a flight in like four hours. I hit him up at like midnight. Yeah. He jumped on a flight that morning, that AM. At like five o'clock in the morning. Comes all the way out to New York City from Oklahoma City. Does the bit and he's gone immediately back. Because he had a parade. It was Creed Humphrey parade in downtown city. Yeah. So he had to get back. He did that. And... Creed, I love you for this man. Did all of this. And he absolutely killed it, man. And it didn't even get cut. They were trying to air it and just ran out of time. Which is... They have... So obviously the old thing is live. So depending on how all this stuff goes, they have one or two sketches like, hey, if we got good time, we're gonna be ready. We could lump this one in at any second. And my job would be like, well, what? Like this isn't even on the thing. You just gotta be, hey, we're running camp for you and we're going now. Stop. Get in there, pal. On it. And every year it was the one they cut. But if they were like, be ready, it might still go. That's what I'm saying. Like even the one, there's like, they for sure cut one or two of them I think. The craziest part is that even if they put a skit in, it could, like an entire part, like a tire conversation back and forth conversation could be snipped from it. Yeah. So it's like... You're reading cards. Yeah. Oh, this is where I say this part. When you're looking at the card like that is not what it says. So you like pause and you like stare at it for a second. You're like, where are we in this thing? In my dress rehearsal, they actually had the cards reversed on me. Mm. I was like, oh, that... I know that line comes after that one. I swear to God, I was like, oh my God. Is this the way these cute categories are? I'm freaking just off the cuff. It's because they were trying to walk, they overdid it on the front end of it. And they're like, here's your cards. And then I think when you put it back in, it was out of order. It was only two cards I had fucking two lines. Alright, whatever. What? And then we do the show and immediately after the show is the after party. Well, not the... You're... You're... The thing that I... It really did feel like a game. Not only for the cast members, but there's all... There's this entire support staff and crew... I mean, the amount of people necessary to make that thing happen was insane to me. I know there's a documentary on it. I have not seen that. I didn't know what to expect. I made sure I watched that. I'm sure you did. I did not want to go into that thing blind. But... I was watching everyone's monologue. It was so impressive how dialed in that thing is from the top down. It starts with Lauren with still how active he is in the whole thing. And... Yeah. You want to stage crew like, I don't know, after the show, you're shaking hands, you're saying thanks to everybody, all the people that you're there with you're getting pictures with and kind of commemorating it. Oh, yeah. I was doing shots behind the stage with all the stage crew guys. Nice. There were a lot of Eagles guys. Yeah, there was a bunch of Eagles fans. There was a lot of Eagles guys and we're a lot of giant... Eagles guys. There were a lot of Cleveland people. Well, Cleveland is the biggest, I think, Broadway spot outside of Broadway in New York City, I believe. Kane Park? I don't think it's in Kane Park. Anyways, I think there's a lot of live theater people that get poached from Cleveland to go to the team. There were definitely some Ohio connections to the outs, so that was fun. The other thing that I thought was interesting was everybody's like a NASCAR. Everybody's got their own pit crew. So you had on you, you got the person that's running you around. Did she do anything other than just grab your hand? Is Donna? Is Donna? Oh, Ms. Donna was helping, yank the shirts off, yanking the wigs off. Yep. Like moving, coming in and just running you through the freaking place and getting ready for the next pitch. She told me that one of the best compliments she ever got was Tom Brady said you could block for me any day. Seriously. I literally have seen her almost mow down cast members. I'm like, no, you cannot hurt. You can't put Sarah on the way like that. I'm sorry. You're running around. You got Donna leading the way, then you also have Donna's makeup too, right? No, Donna is... Just rubbing. Yeah, wardrobe. Or just like stage manager, I think. Then you also have your makeup person, then you also have your hair person. So you have a team of four or three people, right? Yeah, there were four people. And they're your pit crew. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, and everybody, all the cast members kind of had their group depending on what the sku... You're getting done with American Girl, the creepiest skid of the day, which is my favorite. I loved you being a big old creep. Grab your other hand, run into the deal, rip your clothes off, snatch your eye back. It was good. It was so much fun, man. It was great to watch. So much fun. Speaking of the actual sketches, which was your favorite that you did. I would say American Girl, it was probably my favorite because it was so off the cuff. It was just nobody... Nobody saw that one coming. When you said Isabel just had her period, I about fucking... I was like, can you say that? I don't know why. It felt like you can't say... Isabel, she's a woman now. I did not think... I was like, man, they are really over the top of this one. This is the next level creepy. It was that one and then the funeral one. The funeral one was my favorite. My favorite is one of my favorites. Because Keenan called me something that none of my friends... Because this is what me and my friends do. And me and my friends just sit around and call each other everything and make fun of each other all the time. I've been called Vanilla Ice by fucking everybody in the world. Everybody, like Vanilla, on the playground, to school, to... You know what I mean? Vanilla Ice, there's Vanilla Ice. Nobody has ever called me Vanilla Sores Ress. I thought that was the funniest shit I had ever heard, man. I was like sitting there. And when he said that the first time I just bust out laughing, I broke character, man. She was so fucking funny. And yeah, to even be doing a skit with Keenan Thompson is legendary. We're talking about cartoons, we watch where we're growing up. What skit were you most nervous about? Too hot to handle because of the accent. And they knew that but they knew that Chloe was just going to overpower the entire me not having an accent. Chloe and Besher Mill. Yeah. And then gave me another banger of a name. Rodney, Sucre Walodarski, and Kurt Leitney. Kurt Leitney? God, that might have been my favorite. Kurt Leitney. That pre-recorded self-defense class. Yeah. That was so funny. The three dudes that wrote that thing were so freaking funny, man. The pre-recorded skits were so fun to do because it was kind of like you had a safety net. You knew that the production and everybody that was recording them were so good at what they do. Yeah. That it's hard to screw up those because there's so many different angles and there's just multiple cameras and then at the end of the day they can edit it to make it look great. Right, yeah. So those were a bunch of fun, man. Do you have any takeaways after having done the show? I guess we were still not done going over the week because after you do the performance, you have the, I guess, one of the more iconic things that I also didn't know about until Rich Eisen told me. Yeah. Which is the after party. SNL after party. Rich Eisen was kind enough to tell me, make sure you sleep in all Saturday as late as possible because you will see the sunrise the next day and he did not lie. He did not lie. It was a dark environment too because we went to the after party and then we went to the after party, which that's where we stayed up till the sun rose. Yeah. And yeah. Not just us. I mean, everywhere. Yeah. I'm like, you got to do this every Saturday. It's legendary. It's great. I had absolute blast, man. Said he does a sleep. The cast and the writers and everybody involved made it everything that I was ever expecting and hoping it to be can't say enough about Heidi Gardner and who she is, how she, you know what I mean, really pushed the envelope of getting a Kansas City football guy in that building to host or just to be a part of the show. And then she actually kills it as always the scene with you. Oh, I couldn't keep it together because it did not do that. And then like the dress rehearsal, it didn't do that. That was the best version of that. We first did it and then shot out of her. I was like, Oh my gosh. They're clearly running through the first time. She was. Oh my gosh. She was drowning. Yeah. There's more water than any other one version we did. How are you keeping it together right now? She did not break character and I'm over here laughing my ass off at her. I'm like, okay, keep it together. But yeah. Heidi also, her professional, her entire channel, a bunch of family members. She's from Kansas City. Yes. And they all had a tailgate. So we tailgated the Saturday Night Live performance with her family. Aidsome BBQ. It was awesome. It was awesome. The gardeners. Do you have any takeaways from doing the whole thing? I mean, you've already announced a bunch of them. Do you have any final things you want to say? Favorite moment of the week? Takeaways. Oh man. Ah man. I mean, I just, I'm just so appreciative that I even got to do it. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. The takeaway is just that, you know what I mean? I get to have the memory of being one of the selected few athletes that they get to jump into one of the coolest environments ever. Yeah. And that thing is a well oiled machine and it's so cool to just see how, see from, you know, a personal level exactly what it takes to make one Saturday Night Live. And it's crazy man, but damn, there was so much fun. And I do any of that in a heartbeat. I've got to say, man, I- In a heartbeat. I say this as somebody who you know would 100% crush you if you did terrible. You fucking killed it. You did a great job, man. And I did not know what they expect. I knew you're good in front of the camera. You've always, there's never been a camera you've seen that you're not good in front of and you did not disappoint. I appreciate it brother. All right now. All right. Let's look at some reactions. Let's see what other people thought. Well, the paint man thing, I guess, was ahead of time. But Travis, good luck hosting Saturday Night Live. I know you will crush it. One piece of advice, don't peg kids in the face with the football. You're a tight end. You should stiff arm or run them over instead. That would have been a good sketch. You should have got it. When I went into it, I was like, man, let me get some ideas. So I started writing in my notes, like ideas of like sketches and stuff like that. I'm like, these guys have professional writers here. I'm going to come in like, hey, there's, we should do a sketch about a big Yeti playing basketball with homeless little kids and I'm just dunking on them. They already have like shit for you when you walk in the door. So it's like, and not just like an idea, like an entire like written sketch. So like, I don't know. I didn't even like go bark up that tree. I was like, yo, I'm not presenting any ideas. I'll give some input on some stuff if they shoot in my way. But I'm just going to let these professionals handle everything and I'm just going to buckle my seat belt and enjoy the ride, man. Well, somebody who appreciated your American girl cafe sketch was me to kind. She tweeted, not going to lie. You crushed it, which you were the biggest creep I've ever met. Yeah. You're really good at acting like those dolls are real people. And Mikey Day was like kind of walking me through like, dude, I wouldn't turn the heads and like put the hands up and just wave them. I was just like, all right. Literally, I know that was going to be one of the funniest parts of it. It was so good. Pat McAfee tweeted proud of you, man. You killed it TKLS. And then he gave me a shout out and you two big handsome at JKLS. Yeah. Everybody likes to see you in that choker. Dude, you some I kind of say, you know, whenever somebody calls you handsome in a tweet, you're not handsome. Can't give this guy a compliment in any way. Has anybody tweeted out? Good job. Handsome Travis Kelsey. No, that's a it's probably one out there. The inner lives key SNL with Kelsey is tremendous so far. So you got, I mean, so far. Yeah, he was waiting and there was no ending. He was going to make sure he time stamp that just again. Smart man, smart man. Did you know that Steven Spielberg was in the audience? But I'm just finding out Steven Spielberg was in the audience. You say Steven Spielberg was in the audience because I'm fucking all yours there. Yeah, Paul Rudd. I saw Paul. I was watching half of it with Paul Rudd. Paul is the best and he was a dude. It was really nice that I was sitting down having a beer with Paul Rudd in that little bar afterwards. Yeah. I think I shook Steven Spielberg's hand when I saw you guys sprint through like guy. Steven Spielberg was sitting next to me. He didn't say hi. He big timed you. I mean, it's appropriate to get big timed by Steven Spielberg. I'm fine with that. Yeah. Dude, you know, being Paul Rudd. I only heard word of mouth. I believe I shook his hand. It was a dark room. So it was in passing. You got Miss Donna came in hot. You were near home. Yeah, I was sitting back there with Lauren, Michael, Paul Rudd. We were having a beer and we were talking about the show. That was a nice part about me. It's after my sketch was like three in. I didn't have anything until good night. I started drinking beers today. I got called people. I started drinking beers like noon. You did? Yeah, I was like, dude, I got to be loose. I cannot be up tight about this. I'm the opposite. I went the opposite way. That's interesting. There's no way I could do that. It's over. Yeah, there's no way. I got to be at least a little bit. A little bit fucking, you know what I mean? Just enough. Just enough. Fuck it. Not even enough to know. I'm not fucking up. Feel it, but you just just. Mm. I don't really care about this. Yeah. All right. I cared a lot. Yeah. What did you do? So that was the only thing you said to Steven Spielberg? I just shook his hand. I didn't know. I thought I was like, I think there's no way. Hey, how are you? Nice to see you. You got to go. So you just wanted the only reason you wanted to put that in the show is just the name drop. Steven's going to go into how this even came relevant today. When did you become such a name-dropper? I guess it's when you host Saturday Night Live and a bunch of celebrities reach out to you in the span of. And Miss Radke's class when I called out. That's when I. Oh, gosh. Well, you know what the crazy was you. Were you in every sketch other than weekend update? Yeah. Is that I think that's I mean that's standard when you host. Yeah. I don't think so. Man, when I watch it, I don't very rare as the host do all of them. I feel like now they do all of them 100% they have to. I don't think so, man. There's no way because when you do the table reads, you're in every single table read. Like all 40 sketches. Are you sure? All right. 1000% sure. I'm not sure if that happens with everyone. Either way, I know we're not going to get to the bottom line of this. But we are going to get to the bottom line of a dumb question because it's time right now for no dumb questions. I love this segment just dumb people. No dumb questions. SNL style. Our favorite segment is going to adapt to the times. There's no football anymore. All right. But there's still dumb questions that need to be answered. So, but we're the dumbest answer. Yeah, that's right. Shoot them our way. What do we got? This week, the no dumb questions is brought to you from Coco Del Loco on Twitter. What past SNL skit would you like to remake? That is a great question. There's so many. There's so many. I mean, it's been an iconic show for a long time. You said it right before we went out there like, dude, see if we could do like the Patrick's. Yeah, the night is the rocks, and then the Patrick's Wayzi Chris Farley. I think that would have been good too. Chippendales sizes. I could have been the Chris Farley. You could have been the Patrick's Wayzi. I can't imagine you shirtless with a fucking bow tie on. The problem is the only reason that thing is good is because of how unbelievably. No, it's not. I'm in the Al Shaton. The fatness definitely helped Chris Farley on that, but it's everything about Chris Farley. He's just a one-to-one character. He can't replace that. I thought we could have done Night of the Rock's Parade. There are two brothers. It would have been a classic movie too. What else was there? Little Matt Foley. Anything Chris Farley related, I would have been honored to try and recreate or do a spoof of. Those are favorite growing up with Chris Farley. We had a lot of favorites of SNL characters. But when your favorite movie growing up is Beverly Hills and Ninja, I think you're a little biased to the actor because... Sally Jones! Sam Haru, that's how we were. A great one. And it's still good. I still watch that movie. You're getting Chris Farley. And enjoy every second of that. Chris Farley, man. Yeah, any of those skits would have been hilarious. Al Bel. Yeah, but yeah, that would have been a great one for you. Will Ferrell Cowbell. And then the cheerleader. Will Ferrell cheerleader. Will Ferrell cheerleader. Oh my gosh! Yeah, I forget the actual name of the skit. Yeah, I know exactly what skit you're talking about though. That would have been so good. Well, it was good. We should just remake that one on our show. That's the thing. Let's just redo the cheerleader skit. Do you want to have a new Heights SNL? Just our own SNL. Do you want me to sketch? All right, guys, you feel good writing these sketches? All right, the producers are in. They're in. All right, is her in. Let's just go for it. I will say Superstar. I mean, yeah. That's no dumb questions. That is no dumb questions. Please keep sending us all your no dumb questions. We'd love to see them. And we'd love to answer them. If you have any dumb questions, even regarding SNL, I would say, I would say, I would say, live. Now the football season is over. I think no dumb questions can be opened up to any dumb topic we want to talk about. Oh, please. Let it rain. Let it rain of just stupidity. May the best dumb question be answered. All right. Well, that's enough of me. Jason, we got to get caught up on what you've been up to lately. Okay. I've been lying in the weeds. One man show here. I'm flanking you. While I was playing around with dolls on live TV, you were going to work, man. I was. He was going to work. He went to the NFL combine in Indianapolis, Indiana. I did. And how was it, my friend? It was fun. It was great. I didn't watch any of the combine when I was there because the on field drills really hadn't started yet. They started the night that we left, I think. I was really just there. Met and talked to a bunch of people on the show. And then outside of that, you get to see a side of the combine. That was my first time ever going there outside of participating in the combine. And you know, here's stories that, you know, how many deals happen, like in the hotel bar, restaurant, everybody's in one spot, man. Everybody's just be like, Hey, you want to come grab the case? Actually, the case, this year, there were more teams that didn't send anybody that before the Rams, I think Packers me, like there were three plus teams that sent no coaches, only like scouts and stuff like that. Which is crazy. Well, we'll see how they said they can just see it on video. It's like the NFL, there are organizations that have bought into the zoom meetings pretty hard. They're interviewing potential first round draft picks on zoom. I mean, I'm not going to lie, if I don't got to be there, I got to be there. No, some guys just like this, you know, the old eye test. Yeah, there are a lot of guys that talked about, you know, you get to look at a kid, you see him even more just like watching him, how he interacts in the in the lines. You see like who's like a leader just interacting with guys out there on the field? Who's the guy not paying attention to that? Oh, man, might be projecting a bit. Yeah, no, I think it was awesome. Got to talk to them. There's also a lot of guys that go there that don't have jobs. There's a lot of guys that are like free agents as like coaches or like in the realm of NFL. Yeah, just in that world. Yeah. And they just go there to like keep interacting with them. I mean, there are a lot of guys there that I don't think worked for any team and had no reason to be there other than just drink beers and shoot the shit and hope that you get hired. Yeah, there's a lot of shooting the shit. There is a lot of shooting the shit up there in India. Yeah. So that was fun. We went to some steak houses, had some good meals, talked to some people and yeah, it's a great time. Who's your favorite that you saw in passing? Not anybody that you interviewed. Andy Reid. You saw big red and passing. You saw big red and passing. I love that guy, man. How's he doing? He's doing great. He was in a good mood for some reason. He's probably was. It was awesome. I was seeing Andy a new tight end. I mean, there's a lot of good ones in this draft class. I'll tell you what. Yeah, no, he was doing great. It was awesome to see him still didn't have the courage to ask him on our podcast. So coach, I was really wondering what are you busy and would you be willing to hop on a podcast? Would you come on the. Yeah, no, he didn't hop on. Jason really wants you. But it was awesome seeing big red. It was awesome seeing. I mean, it's awesome. Coach Raebel. Brave. Oh, hi, guys. Oh, hi, oh, baby. Well, he's northwest Ohio, right? Northeast. I thought he went to Walsh. Yeah, but that's still up in the northeast area of Ohio. Is it? Yes. I thought it was removed from the Northeast a little bit. Is it? I don't know. I thought he was close to Toledo. No, no, no. Fuck. I'm way off. I'm watching you off right now, but I think you are way off. You're much better with Cleveland geography than I am. I got lost two streets down from our house growing up. I remember that. And a walk into a neighbor's house and call. I knew my phone number. That a boy? But I didn't know where Essex Street was. Survival tactics, kids. Make sure you know your home phone number. If you have a home phone number. No, I mean, now that I have a phone, now that I have a phone, the only phone number. No, you have a phone? We have one. That's not even connected. It's like part of the package that we said, hey, let's get a number of Wi-Fi and a K. This is how cable companies get you. They boned it all together. And we are paying for a phone number. We don't have an actual landline. Nice. We said it would be a good idea. We'll get the landline. We never got the landline. And I wish I did. So I didn't give my cell phone out to everybody. I purposely keep my voicemail box full. Do you at least look so? I'm not listening to voicemails now. I want to listen to a voicemail that he has. I used to save the good ones. Probably from 10 years ago. I used to save the good ones. I used to have a really, really, really good voicemail from Butch Jones. Oh, did you? Oh, that is so good. What was it? Well, I want to know where you are and what you're doing right now. And if you're not in my office in two hours, I'm done with you. I'm just going to spend this. I told you, if you screwed up again, you are out of here. At least you're consistent. I mean, I'm not going to lie outside of the car. Nobody knew that Butch Jones was your former head coach. That'd be the creepiest voicemail. Yeah, he was a head coach. I don't know where you are, but I want you in my office with nothing but a speedo on underneath your pants. Nah, Butch isn't that kind of guy. So anybody that tries to get Jason's phone number from here on out, just know he's really not trying to give you his number. I'm okay giving my number to people. I'm talking about people that get my number and not even just spamming. Like the spamming thing is ridiculous at this point. Like if there's one thing like I am for we need to start incarcerating these spammers. Throw them in prison. I'm fucking over it, man. Which spammer like everybody could spam you? Anybody if you I am for a law being written. If you call somebody unsolicited and trying to sell them some shit or trying to get them to click a fucking link, you're fucking behind bars. Do not pass go. Get your ass in there. I'm fucking over it. It's ridiculous. The amount of like disturbance talking about spammers or scammers. Spammers, scammers, skin, stand please. I don't give a fuck what you're called. If you're texting and calling people and fucking trying to sell some shit or that they did not ask to see and I'm not talking about fill out a fucking survey and you have to put a number down to read an article that's got fucking ridiculous. My number is that more people's list. You got to get your number out. My only recourse is to change my fucking number and tell everybody that I want to have their number what the new number is. And that's a whole other fucking hassle. You're not you're not the only one that feels this way. There's a lot of American. I can guarantee 100% of Americans feel how I'm feeling right now. You know what's funny is that you usually get those kind of calls because online shopping. When we were you fill out a fucking profile, you put a number down because you really want this item and you want to make sure that item gets to you. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you got to come. That's why you have a landline. It's the way all these online companies works. You have fucking landline in. You have to fill out a number. Yeah, I know. If I had a landline, I could just put that number in. Okay. I get it. But I don't. I'm tired of having to put a number down just to get to see something or an email email I'm fine with because I'm not reading fucking emails. I'm not talking about that. That's a good thing. I'm not reading. Fuck email. I'm not reading emails or voicemails. I called people. Go call them. That's right. Travis, go see the surveyor. I used to cold call them about Obamacare. People like taking surveys. Did they? Especially like 70 years old. Did they? How did those calls go Travis? They're telling about Obama. I was calling. What was your region? Because depending on your region of Ohio, Southeast Indiana, Southern Ohio. And Northern Kentucky. I can guarantee without even being a part of these surveys how the Southern Ohio calls surveying Obamacare when. So I mean, yeah, you interviewed a lot of the Eagle staff. Some people in passing like a rich eyes and. Yeah. You want me to just tell you who we talked to? Yeah. Why don't you roll it down? Yeah. So we talked to Howie Rosman, Nick Siriani. What? We did a recap of the season. Talked. I mean, we just had great conversations. I can't wait to watch this. We talked to Daniel Jeremiah, Rich Ison. We're obviously the combine experts. Yeah. And then we talked to Shane Stegen, the new head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. We're going to find out how to release it. What's the best way to do this? But we're going to release these interviews over the next few weeks. All of them went great. Shocker. When you talked to smart, good people. Not a shot. You can have good. Because you're like you being an interviewer. I know it felt weird without you being there. I don't think there is some level of charm that we have off of each other that people like I think. And we weren't able to do that. And it felt weird not being able to do that during these interviews. But I think they're good because the people that we interview were great. How he rose and could legitimately have his own podcast. I'm dead serious. I can't wait. It was insane how good this guy was. I wish I was there for howies. I would have just I would have just I would have. Yeah. What did you see as a actor you didn't see? Yeah. Why did you like Zachary? Why do you love Zachary's more than me? And what did you see in Dallas? He definitely would have blamed it on Jimmy. Smart man. Yeah. Smart man. Some tells me that had a lot more to do with it than what was what he saw. I knew how he was very involved. Neither were. That draft was he was still in that part of the building. I cannot wait to hear him. I wish you got I wish you would have caught for a bit fun. Yeah. I mean he said he'd come on. But I figured that'd be one that we both need to be out. There are a lot of people that we would have loved to interview down there. But we didn't think would be good without you there. Doug Peterson. Dougie. Braze. Like anybody that you have a connection with it makes sense to have you there for it. So that's why we ended up doing most a lot of Eagles guys rich eyes would have been good for you to be there. But Shocker rich eyes and is good no matter who he's talking about. He completely took over the interview by the way. I'm fucking loving it. I'm not messing with it. Like it was like I don't know if he's like. Like what do they call that when you hypnotizer? They hit me just he just yeah. Dude, I'm not kidding. You're right. I walked. He'd pass you on around. Before he said a word just walking past him. I was like I was like a mountain. It was like a cat and mouse. Like he was just pawing at me. The whole interview. I'm dead serious. I was I have never been more rattled talking to somebody in my adult. I was right. I didn't know what to say. He was he led the entire conversation. I was just a pawn in his game. That's how you know you're a good interviewer of Combine. Slipping at the town would be the town. He'd catch it. He is damn he's good. I love it man. But we want to give you guys a little look at what we got. What he's trying to say is I think we're going to air a clip of the Holly Roseman episode right now. So enjoy. What was my scouting report? What made you guys draft me? I think we can't tell this story without really telling the story of Howard Mudd you know and we had you in the fourth round. You know? The fourth round. Yeah. So why did I go in the sit? Why didn't you guys draft me in the fourth round? Well honestly I'm embarrassed that we had you in the fourth round because you're thinking the first bow at Hall of Fame or we had you in the fourth round so we were wrong about that. And we had it because at the time like we talked about before like nobody at that time really looked like you. Right. Nobody. And you were converted linebacker right? If I remember you played freshman year as a linebacker. Yep. Defence a scouting player of the year. Yep. Howard had this way about, very charming. I'm fucking telling you how I just fucking get them. You know like they're strong. There's power. I'm telling you. We were totally excited to get you and draft you there. I can picture where I am at certain times. We were two weeks into practice and he grabs me and he's like, he's starting and I was like yeah great you know. It's like what are you thinking? You know like week three because we have two road games we're playing at St. Louis at Atlanta and he's like don't even start with me. He's starting week one and this guy I remember it man so clearly he's like this guy is going to be the captain of your team and your best player. I went, I went, that's awesome. But does he have to start on the road and the don't right away. The rest of the episode is extremely good too. So I'm looking forward to that one airing. I'm looking forward to all of them honestly. They're all really good. Just seeing that clip I am going to enjoy the hell out of this dude. I cannot wait to see it. That's it. Somehow we found a way, how long have we been talking for? Two hours. Somehow we found a way to talk for two hours on all this stuff. And it was fun to recap. I was a little nervous on how we were going to do episodes in the off season without having games to talk about. Yeah. Twelve bold topics that was. It turns out we still couldn't. It turns out we can still go down. We might have touched twelve though. If you count in like all the reading and the. So the last book you read we touched was outlier. What outside of outlier? What was it? It wasn't that. It was a stoic book. It was about stoicism. Yeah. I know a book you're talking about. That's not that old. That came out a couple years ago. Anyways, you do a bi-chapter. It kind of takes you through day by day. Nice. You read 365 chapters. You read one a day. Any kind of. 365. This guy went all in on the themes. It's a lot of chapters. I don't even know if that's it. All right. I'm getting the word that people are done listening to us. So we're going to do the close now. All righty. That about wraps up our post-SNL episode of New Heights. Make sure you're subscribed on YouTube to the New Heights channel so you know when new episodes are coming out and whenever we launch something YouTube specific. So listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and make sure you check out our merch store over at amage.com slash new heights. I still don't know if that's actually how you say it. Once again, New Heights is a Jukes original presented by Wave Sports and Entertainment and brought to you by our friends at Fireball. Fireball. Fireball. 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