NFL Schedule Predictions & Colin Jost on SNL Finale, Joke Swaps and Life as the Plus One | Ep 191

Summary

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Episode Overview

New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce (Ep. 191)
Theme: 2026 NFL Schedule Predictions & SNL with Colin Jost
Date: May 13, 2026

In this lively episode, Jason and Travis Kelce preview the upcoming 2026 NFL schedule, discuss NFL games heading overseas, and make their own predictions about primetime Chiefs matchups. They also answer quirky fan questions—including which Pokémon best represents the Eagles and Chiefs—before welcoming special guest Colin Jost (SNL head writer and Weekend Update anchor). The trio dives into SNL behind-the-scenes stories, joke swaps, life as the "plus one" to a super-famous spouse, and memorable encounters with celebrities like Paul McCartney and Jimmy Buffett.

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Key Segments & Time Stamps

1. Opening Banter & Food Chat (00:00–06:28)

• Travis, Jason, and Colin riff on eating habits, travel, and food adventures.
• Memorable segment: Travis defending his food curiosity reputation, recounting opening up to new cuisines like Indian food in London and sushi.
  • "I was at one point [a picky eater]...then I've loved sushi ever since."
    — Travis Kelce (04:59)
• Discussion veers into spicy food endurance, the brothers' history of food-related dares, and the role Taylor Swift plays in expanding Travis’s palate.

2. NFL Schedule Sneak Peek & International Games (06:28–16:07)

• Jason lays out known details and rumors about 2026 international NFL games.
  • Locations: Melbourne (Rams/49ers), Brazil (Cowboys/Ravens), London, Paris (Saints), Madrid (Falcons/Chiefs rumor), Munich (Lions).
  • "Falcons vs. Chiefs, week 9. I'm guaranteeing it in hopes that we do because I want to play in Spain."
    — Travis Kelce (09:56)
• NFL broadcasting changes and streaming exclusives—debate on accessibility for fans.

3. Chiefs Primetime Game Predictions (11:47–16:07)

• Jason and Travis go deep on which Chiefs games could land in primetime (Broncos, 49ers, Bills, Rams, Seahawks, Bengals, Chargers, Patriots).
  • "As long as you got Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, that old Texas gunslinger football TV."
    — Jason Kelce (13:19)
• Fun rivalry talk and personal recollections of "big game" match-ups.

4. Eagles Autism Foundation & Funny Number Change Drama (16:07–21:37)

• Jason celebrates the Eagles Foundation Challenge raising $16 million.
• The brothers dispute whether rookie Mason Thomas changed jersey numbers in response to their joking criticism.
  • "We bullied our Mason Thomas into switching his own [number]... I think there is an accurateness to this statement."
    — Jason Kelce (19:25)

5. Football Jersey Trivia (21:37–25:03)

• They play "who wore #34"—fun, rapid-fire trivia with callbacks to Bo Jackson, Ricky Williams, and Walter Payton.

6. Fan Q&A – “No Dumb Questions” (29:09–36:32)

- Pokémon & Teams (29:26–31:39)

• Eagles: Zapdos (“electric bird with attitude”), Chiefs: Charizard (fire, colorway, "Patty Mahomes throwing fire").
• Disney Movie Worlds (31:59–36:32)
  • Travis: “Heavyweights”—“I just want to live at Camp Hope forever.”
    (32:09)
  • Jason: “Alice in Wonderland”—for the trippiness and unpredictability.

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Interview: Colin Jost (36:47–80:00)

SNL Life, Comedy Advice & “Weekend Update” (36:47–54:12)

• Jason gives Colin an elaborate intro as longest-tenured "Weekend Update" anchor.
• Stand-up advice: "Get ready to suck. When you're starting out, it's just sort of brutal for a while."
  — Colin Jost (37:58)
• Will Ferrell’s SNL legacy (full commitment, element of surprise).
• Nerves at first Weekend Update: "I remember just like drinking bourbon before I went on to calm my nerves."
  — Colin Jost (41:54)
• Discussion on challenges: writing vs. performing, and the “miracle” when SNL live sketches actually land as imagined.

Behind The Scenes: Joke Swaps & SNL Memories (46:38–54:12)

• Colin explains structure of SNL joke swap and how they intentionally keep each other on edge with "wild card" gags.
  • “We have a dress rehearsal, but at the dress rehearsal, we do totally different jokes...to lull the other person into a false sense of security.”
    — Colin Jost (48:12)
• Family reactions to joke swap—genuine anxiety and the “bit” culture at SNL.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Stories

- Paul McCartney Visits SNL (45:02–46:22)

• “He can sense...my parents just missed it...he came up, ‘Hey, how’s it going? I’m Paul,’...spent like five minutes talking to my parents.”
  — Colin Jost

- Hosting Advice for Travis Kelce (62:34–66:44)

• Compliments Travis's episode: "You threw yourself into it. Absolutely committed everything...Hope you come and do it again. It would be fantastic."
• Travis on advice received: “Just be a teammate. Let everybody tell you what to do, how to do it, where to go.”
  (64:54)

- Mick Jagger, Jimmy Buffett, and “Welcome to SNL” Moments (74:45–78:49)

• Colin recalls being summoned to Lorne Michaels’ office—Mick Jagger waiting for joke material.
• Story about Jimmy Buffett saving Colin during a surf mishap in St. Barts:
  • “He had a knife...swam and cut my leash off and got me out and got me back. Then literally, he was like, ‘I think down the beach might be more your speed.’”
    (73:41)
• “One of the [pinch me] moments…in the Staples Center tunnel with Chappelle…‘Do you want to meet Kareem Abdul Jabbar?’”
  — Colin Jost (75:04)

- Life as a Plus One (68:17–69:57)

• “How nice is it to be the less famous person in your relationship?” — Travis
  • Colin: “Huge relief...She’s almost so famous, they don’t believe it’s really her.”
    (68:27)

- Rapid Fire Show & Hosting Notes

• Pop Culture Jeopardy! launching on Netflix (67:00)
• On his writing SNL credentials, first impressions meeting Tina Fey, the hiring process (56:07–61:18)

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Running Gags & Show Tone

• Signature Kelce brother humor—constant ribbing, tales of their upbringing, and food-centric stories.
• “Jason, do not—Just saying that. I don’t know if that’s true. I’ve never been [to Spain].”
  — Travis (09:31)
• Multiple self-deprecating asides about math skills, bike pacing, and sports trivia brain lapses.
• “Fat people are just better.” — Jason on “Heavyweights” and childhood camp camaraderie (32:42)

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Closing Segment Highlights

• Colin Jost plugs the SNL Season 51 finale (May 16, 11:30pm ET, NBC/Peacock) and new Pop Culture Jeopardy! episodes on Netflix.
• Travis and Jason promote their June 15th LA live show.
• Lighthearted return to Shakespeare and their lacking cultural literacy, with Colin’s modest high school acting confessions (81:03).
• Final notes on what it means to be a “plus one” and the brotherly myth of Travis’s chicken finger diet.

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Summary: Why Listen?

This episode delivers everything New Heights fans love—insider football banter, heartfelt charity shoutouts, hilarious sibling energy, and a refreshingly candid, joke-filled interview with Colin Jost. Whether you’re tuning in for NFL scoop, SNL lore, or just want to hear a Super Bowl champ squirm over eating curry, this is a can’t-miss listen.

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Notable Quotes Quick Reference

• “Get ready to suck...when you're starting out [in stand-up], it's just brutal for a while." — Colin Jost (37:58)
• “I want to play in Spain.” — Travis Kelce (09:56)
• “You didn’t get good until you got fat.” — Travis Kelce (32:46)
• "Huge relief...She’s almost so famous, they don’t believe it’s really her.” — Colin Jost, on being the ‘plus one’ to Scarlett Johansson (68:27)
• “One of the [pinch me] moments…in the Staples Center with Chappelle…do you want to meet Kareem Abdul Jabbar?” — Colin Jost (75:04)

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For Full Show Enjoyment

Skip the ads and start at what Travis likes to call “that new news,” but don’t miss the sibling bickering and the SNL deep-dives with Colin. And circle those NFL calendar dates—they might just end up in Spain!

Transcript

[Travis Kelce]

How nice is it to be the less famous person in your relationship?

[Colin Jost]

Huge relief. It was hard as a stand up because I would have jokes about either the idea of dating or the idea of marriage or what that is. I can't be like, she's nagging me about this. Everyone's like, shut the.

[Travis Kelce]

Welcome back to New Heights. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, a wondry show, as you know, brought to you by Adobe Acrobat. We are your hosts. I'm Travis Kelsey is my big brother Jason Kelce out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Shout out to the heights. Shout out to the University of Cincinnati and all the bearcats out there. We miss you guys. Subscribe to YouTube or wherever you get your podcast and follow the show on all social media at new heights show with 1s for funk list throughout the week. Jason, how you doing, you underdog over there? Championship. This guy is laced with apparel right now. Why don't you tell everybody we have coming up?

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, we do have the PGA Championship here in Philadelphia this year at a rotten. We are selling some merch there that is centered around PGA Championship raising money for the foundation. So excited to don some of this gear.

[Colin Jost]

I know.

[Jason Kelce]

All right, 92 percenters, we got another great episode. We're going to look at what we know so far about the 2026 NFL schedule as well as answer some of your no dumb questions, which we'd always love to do. Today's guest is SNL's Colin Joost. That's right. He's in the house. The jost is here.

[Travis Kelce]

The jost is here. I love it, man. Put it on a T shirt, man.

[Jason Kelce]

The jost is here. That sounds good. All right. Anyways, we're going to start off what we always start off with a little bit that new news.

[Colin Jost]

New news.

[Jason Kelce]

New news is brought to you by American Express.

[Colin Jost]

Yes.

[Travis Kelce]

Yes, it is.

[Jason Kelce]

I found out you were in London on the Internet. That was fun.

[Travis Kelce]

London is fun.

[Jason Kelce]

Jason, did you do anything stereotypically British while you were there?

[Travis Kelce]

For the most part. Had some really good food and enjoyed some plays. Saw Sadie sink and I believe Noah Jupe is his name. He's phenomenal as Romeo. Sadie was phenomenal as Juliet as well.

[Jason Kelce]

Okay. Have you ever had Indian food in London?

[Travis Kelce]

I did. I had the best Indian food. Well, I'll say second best because Kumar makes the best Indian food.

[Jason Kelce]

Shout out to Kumar.

[Travis Kelce]

I would say it was one of the most surprising meals that I've ever had. I went to a spot called Gin Khana, which was fucking remarkable. Every dish they brought Out. I didn't ask a single question. I just dove in. The only questions that I had to answer was how, how hot or how spicy? The heat of the. The spice.

[Jason Kelce]

Like, it's like butter chicken. Like standard Indian dishes. There's this like, kind of like another.

[Travis Kelce]

It was its own rendition. I don't think I had really understood what we were ordering. I kind of went with what the table was getting.

[Jason Kelce]

Nice. You would have never ate curry with me.

[Travis Kelce]

I don't know if that's true. I've had curry before this.

[Jason Kelce]

That's right, Kumar.

[Colin Jost]

Yes.

[Jason Kelce]

There we go. What's your favorite kind of curry?

[Travis Kelce]

I like chicken masala or chicken matika. I think is the other one. Yeah, it was. I believe Kumar's made the matika for me. This one was the chicken butter masala. Damn good with some garlic naan.

[Jason Kelce]

What. What level of heat? So what, they asked you what level of heat?

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah.

[Jason Kelce]

What was the rating system?

[Travis Kelce]

It was a table consensus. We went. We went more on the mild side, but it was still like, Ed Kelsey's sitting over a bucket of chicken wings.

[Jason Kelce]

It was still hot.

[Travis Kelce]

Watching Jeopardy. Yeah. I was fucking leaking.

[Jason Kelce]

That place sounds awesome.

[Travis Kelce]

It is phenomenal. And now that I know that there's one in Vegas, everyone in America needs to go try it.

[Jason Kelce]

I can't wait. I love Indian food. Anything else you want to talk about? On the eating, you were a little bit upset. You. You feel like we're uncharacteristically been referring to you as a picky eater? Is this not accurate?

[Travis Kelce]

No, it's not. It's not accurate at all. But it's fun to play around with because I was. I was at one point. Yes, where, Where? And I will give you credit, you opened up the curiosity of eating. It took me to be probably 22ish. I think it was maybe 21 and absolutely shit faced at a sushi spot, eating half priced sushi for the first time in my life, knowing that I had. I hadn't really, I don't know, thought of sushi to be a appetizer. Yeah, I wasn't very fond of it at that point.

[Jason Kelce]

Raw fish get you excited?

[Travis Kelce]

I got you raw fish and some of the sauces and the toppings. And just like. I was just like, why are we doing this? Just give me the fried rice, I'll be good. And I was hammered. And you told me, dude, just eat this, you're going to love it. And I did. And then I've loved sushi ever since. So she's like, I can't go, like, more than a week without getting sushi now.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, that was cloud. It's called Cloud 9 now. What was it called? I forget what it was called back then.

[Travis Kelce]

What was it? It was dancing wasabi.

[Jason Kelce]

That is what it was. I think.

[Travis Kelce]

So it became one of my favorite spots.

[Jason Kelce]

Well, the funny thing about that part is it was always half price. It was. That was their.

[Travis Kelce]

No, except for dinner hours. Dinner hours. It was not. It was like lunch, 11 to 3, and then 4 to 4 to. I think, like, 10pm was like, like regular price. And then. But for from, like 11 to 3, half price. And then from like 10 to 4am was another, like, half price.

[Jason Kelce]

I guess we were just never. We were always outside of the hot.

[Travis Kelce]

We never went there for dinner.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah. I don't want to do this again, but I'm. You. Taylor has gotten you out of your comfort zone more than I ever did. I remember screaming at you to try Benihana's special sauce, and you would not try it.

[Travis Kelce]

And I still. I'll probably. I could try it now, but I'm just like, I'm not gonna dump it over my entire Benihana. I love Benihana.

[Jason Kelce]

Right.

[Travis Kelce]

I like it just the way it is, just the way they cook it. I don't think it needs a sauce. I'll do a little spicy mayo, a little yum yum.

[Jason Kelce]

You have been on record as you are an anti mayo.

[Travis Kelce]

You do no straight mayo amount, but

[Jason Kelce]

you'll do spicy mayo.

[Travis Kelce]

Not a lot of it. I'm not lathering up a sandwich and doing it. If I want to, like, have it, like, drizzled over some, like, sushi on a. Or, like, over some, like.

[Jason Kelce]

You're in on aioli is basically what

[Travis Kelce]

you're saying, yeah, I'll have a nice little spread. But if it's, like. If it's coming out of a burger and, like, getting on my face, I'm out. I can't do it. It's too much sauce. I don't need that much sauce.

[Jason Kelce]

I'm gonna get a burger now. All right. All right, let's keep moving along here. NFL schedule release is coming out Thursday. As of this recording, that's all we know. We know nothing about the schedule. There's been a few games released. The schedule has leaked. So far, per Adam schefter on Pat McAfee, is as follows. International games. We have one in Melbourne, Australia. The first. First game in Australia ever. That is going to be Rams and 49ers.

[Travis Kelce]

So cool.

[Jason Kelce]

Another Brazil Game this time between the Cowboys and Ravens. Always a slate of London games. We got commanders, we got Jaguars. We don't know who they're playing, but they're going to be there. Paris, France. Have we played in France yet? I don't.

[Travis Kelce]

I don't know.

[Jason Kelce]

Have we? I don't believe I've seen this. The Saints. Lucky guys.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah.

[Jason Kelce]

Who doesn't want to go to Paris?

[Travis Kelce]

I was gonna say Madrid. The. The Falcons. I know the. I know the Chiefs were like. I think Spain might be the only one that we were in on. I don't know if I'm even allowed to be saying this. Is that news?

[Jason Kelce]

I don't know.

[Travis Kelce]

Let me look that up real quick.

[Jason Kelce]

Do you mean in on, like, you're. You're.

[Travis Kelce]

You're a. I think that may be one that we like a candidate to be in. Yeah, that we. Because you, like, put in bids for these games.

[Jason Kelce]

For sure. Well, and you can kind of. Because it takes away a home game. You can actually submit to be one of the, like, home teams or whatever if you want. I think Mexico City, 49ers, Munich. We got the Lions. Munich's going to love the Lions. And Dan Campbell.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, I guess. I guess the Chiefs. I mean, I guess we have been lobbying for it to play in Spain. And the Falcons are, I believe, our, like, 18th game. Like, we don't play the NFC south, but we. There are extra game next year, so

[Jason Kelce]

it could be a little Falcons.

[Travis Kelce]

Kansas City, our 17th game.

[Jason Kelce]

Let's see if Travis is calling it. You. So you think week nine, Falcons versus Chiefs. You're saying it right now in this podcast. Yeah. You have no inside information, so

[Travis Kelce]

easy. I don't. I'm guessing. I know that we play. That's, like, the only team on here that we play outside of the 49ers.

[Jason Kelce]

Okay.

[Travis Kelce]

Mexico City. We played there before.

[Jason Kelce]

Nice.

[Travis Kelce]

I don't think we play the Lions. I think we. Yeah, we play the NFC west this year, so. And then, as I said, the Falcons were our only extra game this year, so I think. I think that's our only chance of playing abroad.

[Jason Kelce]

I mean, Spain, it's pretty nice. I've never been.

[Travis Kelce]

It's pretty nice. Never been. Looks really nice. Scene picks people. Beautiful, beautiful people. Great wine, paella.

[Jason Kelce]

It's about all I know. My friend Alejandro Villanueva's just, like, sitting there, like, yelling at me right now. That's what I know about Spain.

[Travis Kelce]

We're sorry. Yeah.

[Jason Kelce]

Comes off a little too fancy. Spain comes off a little fancy to me. Is that accurate.

[Travis Kelce]

That's very false.

[Jason Kelce]

That's not accurate.

[Travis Kelce]

It. It has its very nice spots and it is a very elegant feel, but fancy.

[Jason Kelce]

It just comes off a little snooty to me.

[Travis Kelce]

No way. Jason, do not.

[Jason Kelce]

Just saying that. I don't. I don't know if that's true. I've never been. I just, when I think of, especially to Madrid, I'm thinking of like, what do you think? They speak French.

[Travis Kelce]

Madrid and Barcelona are the two big cities. That's all I know. This conversation is going absolutely nowhere.

[Jason Kelce]

All right, perfect. So maybe. So Travis is basically guaranteeing that the Falcons are playing the Chiefs Week 9.

[Travis Kelce]

I'm guaranteeing it in hopes that we do because I want to play in Spain.

[Jason Kelce]

Regular season games that have been confirmed, Week 1, the Cowboys vs Giants on Sunday Night Football. There's going to be a Thanksgiving Eve game, so a Wednesday game. They don't know who it's going to be yet, but there will be one that's probably, I'm assuming, one of the games that they sold to Netflix or something like that. Christmas Day, another scheduled game On Netflix Week 18, Saturday games are going to be scheduled. Saturday game will be scheduled on Netflix. This is the topic right now. Is a lot of these games going to networks in platforms that viewers have to pay for? You know, the. The game for a large port of existence was free on basic television. As long as you had the old rabbit ears, you could watch football on

[Travis Kelce]

Sunday, but you can still do that on Sundays. But I think it's. I think it's always been cable has been whatever area you're in is the game that you get. Which is why when we were growing up, we got Browns games, but then when the Browns left, we got Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cincinnati games.

[Jason Kelce]

What's interesting is that still the vast majority of the games you can get with rabbit ears. Like, if you think about it like that, like, you could still. As long as you got some old fucking antennae, you can still watch over 80 some percent of the football games. There is a lot of criticism and I get it because it's changing and I don't know, you have to have all of these different platforms now if you want to watch all of it. But previously before those platforms, you couldn't watch all that. Before YouTube TV came out with Sunday tick. Well, I guess Sunday Ticket came out on DirecTV to start, but even that you couldn't get unless you had DirecTV. Now, it's never been easier to watch football games. You want to watch everything. And if you still don't want to pay for it. You still can watch the vast majority of football.

[Travis Kelce]

Mary would just go to the Paninis down the street. That way you can fucking watch every football game. You could ever ask Buffalo Wild Wings.

[Jason Kelce]

You can get it all. Yeah, yeah. Do we want to try and predict which Chiefs games will be in prime time? I think that's a good fun game.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, okay. Yeah, let's do it.

[Jason Kelce]

All right. If I was commissioner, which games would I be making of the Chiefs?

[Travis Kelce]

How many games do you think we would be on prime?

[Jason Kelce]

This is the problem. Your guys division is getting better. So previously most of your guys primetime games are outside of the division. Right. So like Denver this year. Is that a primetime game?

[Travis Kelce]

We would always have a prime time in division game.

[Jason Kelce]

But now like the Raiders.

[Travis Kelce]

Yes.

[Jason Kelce]

You had prime time against the Raiders.

[Travis Kelce]

What percent I had four touchdowns on the Christmas game. No again, a Christmas game versus the Broncos. Yeah, the divisional games. I feel like those are all, those are a big focus for these like networks to get these rivalry games.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, well you want the divisional games because they mean more for the playoff seatings and especially at the end of the year. They're big.

[Travis Kelce]

Typically get better football when you play in division.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah. All right, well, Broncos game to start the year. I bet that that would be a primetime game. Well, it's not to start the year. It's just the first fucking logo. Sorry. Yeah, Broncos, that virtually one, if not both those games will probably be prime time. Right.

[Travis Kelce]

So in previous years we've had up to five or six primetime games.

[Jason Kelce]

That's coming off of the Super Bowl.

[Travis Kelce]

Yes, exactly this year. So I'm going to guess three to four. I'm going to guess three. High end four.

[Jason Kelce]

I still think the Kansas City Chiefs are a draw that, that the league's paying banking on I think.

[Travis Kelce]

So I'm playing, I'm playing modest though.

[Jason Kelce]

You got as long as you got Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, like

[Travis Kelce]

that old Texas gunslinger football tv.

[Jason Kelce]

So let's say four to five. If it's five to six maybe now it's four to five after a down year. One down year in the past decade. All right, Broncos virtually guaranteed to be one of them. Is going to be a prime time game, right?

[Travis Kelce]

Yes.

[Jason Kelce]

What about non division games which a Buffalo, I mean that's a, that's for sure going to be a primetime game, right? I don't know.

[Travis Kelce]

We, we, we played them mid afternoon like that second wave of games that.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, that's that 4:00 clock slots.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, I think we played them and. And Bengals the same, but both of them could be. I think if we get a home game, I think Patriots are probably the big one that I think people would want to see.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah. Let me say this. If I'm the network, which games do I want to see the Chiefs playing on my network in prime time? I want to see them playing the Broncos. I want to see them playing the 49ers. I want to see them playing the Bills. I want to see them playing the. The Rams. Seahawks. Seahawks. Or just because I know there's a lot of bad blood and rivalry. Is the Bengals, right?

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, there's.

[Jason Kelce]

Those are the six games to me that look the most appetizing if I'm a network.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, I'm with you.

[Jason Kelce]

I guess you could. Chargers, too. Chargers are really good. Last year they tackles got hurt. They're going to be. Well, they lost Jesse Menor. We'll see how they do defensively with the tackles healthy. Justin Herbert in there. They're going to be really good. Harbaugh still at the helm. Is that a good list?

[Travis Kelce]

100%. I think I've kind of.

[Jason Kelce]

I left out the Patriots. I don't know why. I mean, I know they went to the Super Bowl. That's still a. A big one.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, it is, 100%. So is San Fran at home. I think that's also. That's going to be a big one as well.

[Jason Kelce]

The only reason I think I left a Moss because, like, the other teams all have, like, you guys really don't have a lot of. Well, I guess you do from back when Tom was there, like, recency. There hasn't been like, a lot of bad blood between the Chiefs and Patriots.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah.

[Jason Kelce]

Whereas with the 49ers, obviously, you guys just played a Super bowl not too long ago.

[Travis Kelce]

I think it's not as much on field, but there's still that back and forth with the right. With the organizations and the. And the fan histories.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, fair enough.

[Travis Kelce]

A little bit of that.

[Jason Kelce]

All right.

[Travis Kelce]

If I was a betting man, I'd say a Chargers home game. I'll go San Fran at home. And then the Mile High.

[Jason Kelce]

Denver.

[Travis Kelce]

Two away games. That's what I was going to say. Denver away. And I'll say Chargers away. Oh, no charge. Seahawks. Seahawks away.

[Jason Kelce]

Do you already know that? Those are the. Oh, okay. It's already got him home and away. I didn't even notice that. Good job, Travis.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, that's where I'm going with it.

[Jason Kelce]

All right. Shout out to the Eagles. Autism Foundation Challenge. They raised over $16 million this year. That's right.

[Travis Kelce]

Holy smokes.

[Jason Kelce]

It's every year. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Sh to Jeffrey Lurie, the executive director. Ryan Hammond, close family friend, but also Ry has been killing it every single year. It keeps getting better and better. Jeffrey Lurie has put a lot of resources into this, and so far, they've raised over $56 million over the last eight years. Sheesh. Absolutely wild, man. Yes. So it's. It's been highly successful. And on top of that, it's especially. This event is just an awesome event for the community. Right. Everybody comes out, everybody together. You're exercising, you're talking, you're shaking hand ends. I mean, it's a very just fun day, especially when the rain holds off, which it did, thankfully. And I bike 10 miles again. Trav did a little 10 mile bike ride.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, yeah, no chance.

[Jason Kelce]

Did it in right around 42 minutes, which I'm pretty happy with.

[Travis Kelce]

42 minutes.

[Jason Kelce]

Listen, that's not bad pace. That's a decent pace.

[Travis Kelce]

What's that? What? Let's. I. I don't want to do the

[Jason Kelce]

number four pointed by ten.

[Travis Kelce]

I do.

[Jason Kelce]

Oh, how fast are you going?

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, like how on average, how fast do you think you're going?

[Jason Kelce]

Well, you're going 4.2 or you're going so 10 miles, you're going 4.2. Why am I. I'm trying to divide it by 10. This is not working.

[Travis Kelce]

You're not doing it the right way.

[Jason Kelce]

I'm not doing it the right way?

[Travis Kelce]

No. You got to take how long it is and then divide it by.

[Jason Kelce]

We're going 10 miles in 42 minutes.

[Travis Kelce]

That's what I'm saying. I don't want to do however long a mile is times 10. I don't want to. And then divide it by.

[Jason Kelce]

Well, you're going a mile every 4.2 minutes. Every 4.2. Yeah, every 4.2 minutes. So you're. You're going one mile every 4.2 minutes. That's it. So you extrapolate that to so four. So 4.2, 60. There's 60 divided by right around. I mean, let's just call it. You're.

[Travis Kelce]

You're basically 60 divided by 4.2.

[Jason Kelce]

You're almost going 25 miles an hour. You're going a little bit over 20.

[Travis Kelce]

No chance. There is no chance.

[Jason Kelce]

That's not right.

[Travis Kelce]

You would have to be pedaling.

[Jason Kelce]

I'm doing the math.

[Travis Kelce]

Like, you need to be in Tour de France.

[Jason Kelce]

Let me do 4.2 with 60. I did 4.2 with 100. That was what, why I was up 4.2 divided. So four divided by 60 is what? Four divided by 60 is 15. Right. So you're going. And then five divided by 60 is. That's where I'm getting the point two from.

[Travis Kelce]

No, that's not, that's like 12.

[Jason Kelce]

So you're going like six. I was going like 16 point something miles an hour.

[Travis Kelce]

No chance.

[Jason Kelce]

What do you mean? That's. But the math, it's something like that.

[Travis Kelce]

I'll give you maybe 12 miles per hour average.

[Jason Kelce]

Well, there's, I mean I wouldn't have finished with that time if that was the case.

[Travis Kelce]

Exactly.

[Jason Kelce]

Oh, you're just, you have a discrepancy on the time. Finished.

[Travis Kelce]

Yes.

[Jason Kelce]

I mean I, I know for a fact it's 42 minutes.

[Travis Kelce]

Seems a little far fetched, dog.

[Jason Kelce]

I think they gave some of the contestants little chips in their bags. Maybe I had to chip my bag.

[Travis Kelce]

Maybe a little faulty chip.

[Jason Kelce]

Also, we, we bullied our Mason Thomas into switching his own.

[Travis Kelce]

No, we're not doing this. But we didn't bully anybody.

[Jason Kelce]

So he just happened to change his number the same week that we put out a video saying that 34 shouldn't be worn by somebody of his position.

[Travis Kelce]

I'm pretty sure nobody saw that.

[Jason Kelce]

I, I begged to differ. There's a social media clip of it that would beg to differ. How many people saw that social clip, Brandon?

[Travis Kelce]

Nobody. Jake Mason didn't.

[Jason Kelce]

Well, I mean it's very coincidental that he switched it to 51 right after we talked about it.

[Travis Kelce]

You don't know how fast he switched it.

[Jason Kelce]

I do.

[Travis Kelce]

No, you don't. Yes. No, you don't. You're just assuming there was a practice

[Jason Kelce]

where he was 34 and then another practice.

[Travis Kelce]

Well, that was the rookie camp.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah. Okay, so he's 34 at the rookie camp. Then he became 51 after that.

[Travis Kelce]

When has he been in the building to have 51? You haven't even seen him in 51.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, I have. I've seen him in New Jersey in 51.

[Travis Kelce]

Where?

[Jason Kelce]

In a video that they said, they said it was going viral. Can we get some assistance here from people in the rundown? Jesus Christ. I'm trying to get.

[Colin Jost]

Jake, I don't have the answer. I don't do social media.

[Travis Kelce]

How dare you?

[Jason Kelce]

I mean we just, we straight up

[Colin Jost]

just didn't make a social clip of that.

[Travis Kelce]

She just plainly lied.

[Jason Kelce]

Brandon and I are like messaging, like what the is he talking about?

[Colin Jost]

It's in the full episode.

[Jason Kelce]

And a bunch of people. A bunch of people were on us for not remembering 34.

[Colin Jost]

They were more mad about the Walter Payton thing. Yes, but that was all in the full episode. I did not.

[Travis Kelce]

Never scored a touchdown on the Super Bowl. What do you want me to say?

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, come on. Don't do this to Walter. All right. 51, though. Where's the evidence that he switched to 51? Jake, get back in here.

[Travis Kelce]

Where is the evidence? I haven't seen any of this.

[Jason Kelce]

I've seen this.

[Colin Jost]

I think the Chiefs posted, like, updated rookie numbers and they had it, and that was it.

[Travis Kelce]

All right, so.

[Colin Jost]

But it's like a graphic, and none of those are official, technically.

[Travis Kelce]

Why are we doing this?

[Jason Kelce]

Because a bunch of people on the Internet are claiming that we bullied him into changing his number. And I think it's. I think it's accurate. I think there is an accurateness to this statement.

[Travis Kelce]

No, no, no. There's only one way. Our. Mason, we got to get you on the show so you can tell Jason that he didn't get bullied into wearing a different number.

[Jason Kelce]

All right. There's a bunch of people on here pretty pissed off that we didn't remember Walter Payton, AKA Sweetness, wore that number, which. Yeah, I mean, major file on our part. We definitely should have.

[Travis Kelce]

We remember that one. But did we go down the list of people who are 34?

[Jason Kelce]

We. We were trying to remember who.

[Travis Kelce]

You knew it was running backs.

[Jason Kelce]

We did know that. And we were trying to Remember who wore 34. We couldn't do it. We couldn't. For some reason, we didn't think.

[Travis Kelce]

We get hit in the head for a living for sure. Sometimes it just goes right over our head. Deuce Daley.

[Jason Kelce]

Deuce was Deuce.

[Travis Kelce]

Wasn't he, too?

[Jason Kelce]

I'm pretty sure. Who else wore 34? Let's check that out.

[Travis Kelce]

Ooh, 34. 34. 34. I can see a Steelers. Steelers jersey. 34.

[Jason Kelce]

I don't. I don't know. Alrighty. We got some good ones. Okay. Some really good ones.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah.

[Jason Kelce]

All righty.

[Travis Kelce]

Are they all running backs like we thought?

[Jason Kelce]

They are all running mechs.

[Travis Kelce]

I knew it.

[Jason Kelce]

At least four of them. You should know.

[Travis Kelce]

All right. Four of them. All right.

[Jason Kelce]

Sweet.

[Travis Kelce]

Bo Jackson.

[Jason Kelce]

Nice. Well done. How did you get Bo Jackson so fast?

[Travis Kelce]

Because it's Bo Jackson.

[Jason Kelce]

No. Did we. Did somebody write that down? How did you just pull out Bo Jackson?

[Travis Kelce]

Bo knows it's the fucking one of the running backs of all time.

[Jason Kelce]

You didn't say Bo Jackson once and then you just Listed it like it

[Travis Kelce]

was a fat 100 somebody.

[Jason Kelce]

All right, whatever.

[Travis Kelce]

34. 34. 34, 34. Wait for it. Wait for. It was. Gosh, I want to say, like Marshall Falk.

[Jason Kelce]

You would be wrong.

[Travis Kelce]

Give me an era. Give me an era.

[Jason Kelce]

One was from our era growing up watching football. I would say the latter half of it, like high school and middle school years. Very iconic running back whose career had ups and downs and whose doesn't. Well, this one was very down when it was down.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, Ricky Williams.

[Jason Kelce]

Ricky Williams. There you go.

[Travis Kelce]

Legend.

[Jason Kelce]

Legend for multiple things. And then the other one is one of the most iconic running backs of an. Of an era before that.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, no, he was 32. Gosh. 32 has got a ton of them. I was going the white running back from Miami. Who do you how. Like how far back he was?

[Jason Kelce]

The same era as Brian Bosworth, matter of fact, has a legendary highlight where Brian Bosworth cannot tackle him.

[Travis Kelce]

Are we talking about Bo Jackson again?

[Jason Kelce]

I don't think it was Bo. I thought it was the other guy. He's from the same era, basically of Bo.

[Travis Kelce]

I think this is so fun. I love this trivia stuff.

[Jason Kelce]

He also ran a sub 5 second 40 at 50 years old more recently.

[Travis Kelce]

Gosh. What do you think about Eric Dickerson? Who are we thinking of?

[Jason Kelce]

I think he might be doing politics now, which maybe I shouldn't even mention. Yeah, there you go. Were those clues accurate?

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, he was. He was a part of the. The big trade that. That evidently they got Bo.

[Jason Kelce]

Right.

[Travis Kelce]

Led to no Emmett Smith.

[Jason Kelce]

Emmett Smith. That's right.

[Travis Kelce]

Cowboys.

[Jason Kelce]

I'm an idiot. He is the one that broke that Brian Brownsworth was trying to tackle and broke the tackle, right? No, that was Bo Jackson.

[Travis Kelce]

That was Bo Jackson. Yeah. That was a funny game. We should do that more often.

[Jason Kelce]

It was Bo Jackson. I mean, listen, they'll cut it up. It'll look better. Finally, tickets still available for our live show in Los Angeles. That's right. That's right.

[Travis Kelce]

You guys are not going to want to miss this one. We're getting fired up for this one. Put things together. I can't wait to shoot Jason right in the face with a T shirt cannon. And he's never going to see it coming.

[Jason Kelce]

Guests are starting to come out and when they do come out, I'm assuming these last few tickets will go quickly. So if you're on the fence, just know that once these guests get announced it. Which we are not 100 sure on. So we're not going to announce them right now. But we. We have some leads? Leads? Yeah, we got the guys over there working in shifts. All right, the link in description to buy is down below this video. If you will be in the LA area around. When are we doing this again? Like June.

[Travis Kelce]

June 15th.

[Jason Kelce]

15th. Yeah, there we go. June 15th.

[Travis Kelce]

All right, that does it for new news brought to you by American Express.

[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

I mean, it's got to be the airport, right?

[Travis Kelce]

Bingo. You could have it all planned out, then find yourself running through the terminal, coat half on phone at 3%. It's chaos.

[Jason Kelce]

But after years of constant travel, I've learned something very important. Travis.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, here we go. Jason, hit him with that veteran wisdom.

[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

Yes, because when you're a card member, you can step away from the chaos and into the comfort of a lounge.

[Jason Kelce]

Ooh, who doesn't love a good lounge?

[Travis Kelce]

I love a good lounge.

[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

You walk in, it's calm, relax, enjoy a top notch meal. Maybe it's a destination before the dest nation. If you're catching what I'm saying.

[Jason Kelce]

I am catching what you're saying. That's right. It makes airports more enjoyable. That's the bottom line. And that's a veteran move.

[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

Learn more@american express.com with platinum. Thank you to our partner.

[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

Learn more@sleep number.com or visit a Sleep Number store near you. And that leads us into no Dumb Questions, which is brought to you by the greatest mattress company ever created.

[Jason Kelce]

Who's that? Travis.

[Travis Kelce]

Sleep number. Very good reminder. You can pre order our no Dumb Questions book right now. At Kelsey Clubhouse, we have a few no Dumb Questions. One is from hls. Ifrt. Hls. Ifrt.

[Jason Kelce]

HL Seifert.

[Travis Kelce]

What Pokemon character best represents the Eagles and the Chief?

[Jason Kelce]

The Eagles and the Chiefs? I'm assuming that's what it means.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah. Hashtag Bulbasaur. I think people just like saying Bulbasaur.

[Jason Kelce]

I feel like Snorlax best represents myself. As for the Eagles, it's got to be a Pokemon with some attitude, a little bit of grit to it. What's a gritty Pokemon?

[Travis Kelce]

What is a gritty Pokemon?

[Jason Kelce]

Like Onyx? I kind of want to look at some Pokemon because I haven't played Pokemon in a while. Definitely have to go with the original, like, 151 or whatever. Charmander. Is that a Chief? Is that what the Chiefs are?

[Travis Kelce]

I think Charmander would be, like a Charizard. I think would be a Chief for sure. Similar kind of colorway.

[Jason Kelce]

Oh, there we go. This helps. Okay. Similar colorway. But is there a team that is more associated with fire? That's weird that there's no teams. Like, you have the Flames in hockey, right? There's no, like, fire teams in the NFL, right? Am I blanking on one?

[Travis Kelce]

I don't know. Zapados. Be a good one.

[Jason Kelce]

Oh, electric. I mean, yeah, it's got to be a bird, right? So you got Zapados. You got.

[Travis Kelce]

Why does it have to be a bird?

[Jason Kelce]

Well, it's Eagle.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, you're talking about you.

[Jason Kelce]

All right, so we got Zapados.

[Travis Kelce]

Little Zapados right here.

[Jason Kelce]

One of the Ice Birds. I think it started with, like, an A. Maybe there's like, an a bird.

[Travis Kelce]

A bird.

[Jason Kelce]

I think I'm I keep coming back to Zapdos. Who we could do be one of the bats. What were the bats called? Those things are fucking annoying. As in the game. It just. They kept fucking showing up. Nick Sirianni's famous flower speech. There's that one flying flower. I kind of feel. What's the goat? What's the haunted one? The ghost one that flies around? That's what I feel like the birds. It's purple. Not the right colorway, but kind of. It's got some menacingness to it.

[Travis Kelce]

I got nothing in my. In the cards. I've already opened.

[Colin Jost]

You thinking of Ghastly?

[Jason Kelce]

There's Ghastly, There's Gengar. Gengar.

[Colin Jost]

Zubat, I believe, is the bat.

[Jason Kelce]

Zubat.

[Colin Jost]

Zubat. Articuno was the.

[Travis Kelce]

A bird.

[Jason Kelce]

You're trying to think of Articuno. I'm gonna go Zapados.

[Travis Kelce]

Zapados. That's the bird.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah.

[Travis Kelce]

Little zappy. I think we're a charizard, man.

[Jason Kelce]

Charizard. Going full evolution.

[Travis Kelce]

Patty Mahomes throwing fire.

[Jason Kelce]

What is. Travis Kelsey.

[Travis Kelce]

I think we already went through this on the. Like, the mime.

[Jason Kelce]

Oh, yeah, we've already done that bit. All right. If you had to live in one Disney movie forever, which would you choose and why? Okay. Kristen O4, man.

[Travis Kelce]

One Disney movie could live in it forever. Damn. That's a good question. Oh, how do you just one Heavyweights.

[Jason Kelce]

You just want to live at the heavyweights camp forever.

[Travis Kelce]

Camp Hope. Get on that blob, man.

[Jason Kelce]

It does look fun.

[Travis Kelce]

Patch that thing back up.

[Jason Kelce]

Come on now.

[Travis Kelce]

Have you ever been on a Blob ever? Man, I've been dreaming about being on a blob since heavyweights came out in the 90s.

[Jason Kelce]

Well, let's make it happen, Travis. All right, let's do it.

[Travis Kelce]

Give me on a blob. I'm saying heavyweights, man. That was so funny.

[Jason Kelce]

I just gotta find out where you get a blob from.

[Travis Kelce]

All the fat kids when we were growing up, they were ended up being the funniest, most enjoyable to be around.

[Jason Kelce]

It's true. Fat people are just better.

[Travis Kelce]

You didn't get good until you got fat.

[Jason Kelce]

I didn't. Yeah. Nobody liked me until I became fat. As I get skinnier, people hate me more and more.

[Travis Kelce]

What's Jason's?

[Jason Kelce]

I kind of want to go Alice in Wonderland just for.

[Travis Kelce]

Just for Ifert or Cipher. I got a little bulbasaur for you. What are you saying? You're going? Which one?

[Jason Kelce]

I'm gonna go Alice in Wonderland. That shit was wild.

[Travis Kelce]

Alice In Wonderland or Alice in Wonderland.

[Jason Kelce]

Alice in Wonderland.

[Travis Kelce]

I could dig that, I guess. Super trippy.

[Jason Kelce]

You're right.

[Travis Kelce]

Kind of scary.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, but I mean, eventually you kind of get used to it, right? I don't know.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, Alice seemed to it

[Jason Kelce]

probably. If I'm going my favorite one, I'm going, going Aladdin. Just have a genie around all day. Can do whatever I want.

[Travis Kelce]

Well, you only get three.

[Jason Kelce]

Well, no, you do, but the first wish you do is you wish for more wishes, and then you set him free, and then he's just your friend, but he still has the power somehow.

[Travis Kelce]

Is that how it works? Did you just make up your own version? Aladdin.

[Jason Kelce]

At the end of Aladdin, they. He sets him free, and then I think he still is, like, around. In the other Aladdins, they make like, multiple.

[Travis Kelce]

No way. They made more than one Aladdin.

[Jason Kelce]

Oh, yeah. I think there's like three. There's at least three of them, I'm pretty sure.

[Travis Kelce]

Where the have I been?

[Jason Kelce]

I. I have not watched them either, to be honest with you. But there are multiple Aladdins. Yes. You cannot ask for more wishes, but you can grant him freedom, and then he becomes your friend. That's the way you get the genie. You grant him freedom, then he's your friend. But he still has power, so he still can kind of around.

[Travis Kelce]

That's the point of him being free, is that he doesn't get put under this spell of only giving three wishes and going back in the.

[Jason Kelce]

I know. But for some reason, when they set him free in multiple iterations, he still had powers, and then he was still helping with his powers.

[Travis Kelce]

Man, I got to watch that again. That doesn't sound like it's right.

[Jason Kelce]

Well, it's. It's a good lesson for kids. If you want something, you know, and you ask, you only get like, three times before somebody's like, this guy's fucking annoying. As. But if you are good to them and you give them freedom, they'll help you out and you do something for them, then they'll help you out in perpetuity.

[Travis Kelce]

All right, which Disney movie are you so out on that you would never even want to live in that movie?

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah. What's my least favorite Disney movie? I don't know. Let me look at. Let me look up. I'm going to go. I'm going to look for help. I don't know. You go first. Can you think of one? I probably say it's hard to do. Like, what do we mean when we're living in them? Are we Becoming like a specific character sounds like.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, like you got to live in that world.

[Jason Kelce]

All right, if we're doing that, then I'm going hunchbacking overdime. I don't want to be that living in a tower and just ringing bells. And I don't even remember what the positive end of that story was.

[Travis Kelce]

Well, he got what was.

[Jason Kelce]

He didn't get the girl, I don't think. I think he just like, they were like friends. I don't think he got her.

[Travis Kelce]

No, he's like she like kissed a frog or something and he became cute.

[Jason Kelce]

No, that's. And that's. The other one is Beauty and the Beast. I feel like that that's the most up story that I feel like there is. And what. Beauty and the Beast? Yeah.

[Travis Kelce]

The beast can't become handsome.

[Jason Kelce]

I mean, it feels like the message is like, hey, no matter how bad and ugly this person is, you can change them.

[Travis Kelce]

Another good one is Shrek. Shrek is a banger.

[Jason Kelce]

That's a great one. That's a very. That's. I don't believe a Disney movie, but that is a banger. I think it's a kids movie. We'll accept it. I don't. That's what Dreamworks or it's one of the ones that's not Disney associated. I'm pretty sure Pixar is Disney. I think it's DreamWorks. One of those animated studios is an offshoot. It's not Disney. I don't. Yeah, I have four kids, Travis. Just trust me.

[Travis Kelce]

I think Pixar was once on its own and then it became.

[Jason Kelce]

You are correct on that. I believe. I don't think it was always a part of Disney, but now it is.

[Travis Kelce]

All right, that does it for no dumb questions. Brought to you by sleep number.

[Jason Kelce]

All right, let's get to our convo with Colin Jost. This conversation is brought to you by Mentos.

[Travis Kelce]

All right, here goes Colin.

[Jason Kelce]

All right. Our guest today is a writer, comedian and ferry boat owner from Harvard University. That's right. He's a two time Emmy winner, winner, five time WGA award winner and a New York Times bestselling author. And the winner of 5250 on the college edition of Weakest LinkedIn. You know his host of pop Culture Jeopardy or from his almost 400 episodes on SNL.

[Travis Kelce]

Damn.

[Jason Kelce]

As the longest tenured anchor of Weekend Update. Please 92 percenters welcome Colin Jones.

[Travis Kelce]

Let's go.

[Jason Kelce]

There we go, baby. Here we go.

[Colin Jost]

I gotta savor the best. That best intro I've Ever gotten in my life. Where were you for every time I did stand up? That. Come on.

[Jason Kelce]

Listen, if you ever need a guy, need an intro, How. How many are you still doing stand up? Time out. Let's get to this.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll still tour a little. I mean, now just with kids, like, less than I used to, but I'll still probably do maybe 50 shows a year, something like that.

[Jason Kelce]

Oh, wow.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, yeah. That's badass.

[Jason Kelce]

Something.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah. Jason's always wanted to do it. I'm terrified of ever doing it for people that want to. That would ever want to do stand up. What's your best advice?

[Colin Jost]

Get ready to suck. I mean, yeah, it's different for you guys. Like, you guys would already have instincts about it that are better, but when you're starting out, it's just. It's. It's sort of brutal for a while because even things you're like, oh, that's good. You get out there and the rhythm's off or something. But, you know, some people are just naturally funny. And so you'd get away. You would already have a head start.

[Travis Kelce]

There's hope.

[Jason Kelce]

Jason, are there a lot of Harvard grads in Stand? Like, obviously, I know Conan, but are there. Is there, like, a pipeline of Harvard to comedian?

[Colin Jost]

There are. Like, there was a guy, Dan Mintz, who was really funny, who was. Who did stand up when I was there. He still does stand up. He's a voice on Bob's Burgers, and he's been, oh, yeah, B.J. novak, who's in the office. He did stand up around that time, too. I think there's more younger people that do it now that. That are there, but there. It wasn't a huge thing. It wasn't like, okay, there wasn't a lot of performers like Conan came from there. He did, but he. I don't think he ever really did stand up. I think he more did.

[Jason Kelce]

Good point.

[Colin Jost]

He was like, sketch stuff and then became. And then did Tonight Show.

[Travis Kelce]

So you didn't go to Harvard to do stand up?

[Jason Kelce]

That didn't help.

[Colin Jost]

They begged me not to.

[Jason Kelce]

Certain image we'd like to uphold at this institution.

[Colin Jost]

I went there weirdly to do economics and then quickly abandoned that pursuit. There was someone at school with me who had written a book called Homeless to Harvard about their journey to Harvard, and I feel like now I have to write a book called Harvard to Ferry. Trying to go the opposite way. Start in economics, end up in ferry.

[Jason Kelce]

There we go. Perfect. Well, speaking of sketch comedy, we do have the SNL final finale coming up this weekend.

[Colin Jost]

Pretty awesome one. Will Ferrell and Paul McCartney.

[Jason Kelce]

Come on, man. It's hard to beat that.

[Colin Jost]

That's not. It's so good. People are like, is this the last episode ever?

[Jason Kelce]

Where do we go from here? I know we had Will on here and we talked about his time on SNL and just comedian in general. But one of the things he said that I still take with me is just full said, he's like, if you want to do and you want to be a great comedian or. And it's probably works for anything in life, but you commit hard. Where do you fall in line with that advice? Like, is that what you've kind of feel like has given you as much success in SNL as well?

[Colin Jost]

Yes, definitely. There was. There was no other plan. There was no, like, plan B. I feel like it was either going to work out or I was just not going to do anything. But he. Will is Will. The other thing about Will that's so great is he always keeps a little bit of an element of surprise, which is so nice on a live show.

[Travis Kelce]

It's insane, man.

[Colin Jost]

He would come in with, like, a different kind of costume, an element you did, like, just adds an ascot or whatever. Like something that you didn't expect. And when he enters the scene, even the people in the scene are like, all right, let's put it. And he. And just the fun. He has a genuine level of fun that he brings. Like, he would come. He. When he was hosting and he used to do this when he was in the cast. He would. He just would come into the writers room and he would wear, like, a scarf and glasses, and he would say he was a writer that they brought in from LA for the week. And he would just sit there and be listening and he'd be like, yeah, maybe that. That one line. Maybe you flip it. I could see if you maybe just flip it. And then he'd, like, order lunch immediately. Long, elaborate lunch order. Just like a guy that likes doing. Doing bits is the best energy.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, my gosh, it's fudgeing. It's so impressive, man. I can't say in a bit to save my fucking life, man. And this dude just does it just every. Every minute of the day. It feels like. When you first. When you first jumped into Weekend Update, the first one that you ever did, were you terrified?

[Colin Jost]

Oh, my God. So. So the problem was, it was even weirder because I had been there as a writer. Like, I had just become head writer. Like, I felt like I was doing well. As a writer and I'd been doing stand up, but I was really doing a ton of SNL writing. And so I, at first I worried like I was going to be so bad that I would lose both jobs. They'd be like, you're so bad on camera. We're also taking away your pen. We're not even letting you write anymore. And I was so nervous. Like, I remember just like drinking bourbon before I went on to calm my nerves and just the adrenaline immediately just burned it off. And it was weird because it was also like I was doing it in front of all my peers who I had been working with, the whole crew who I'd been working with. But then it's suddenly you're in a totally different role and. And you're really self conscious about it.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah.

[Jason Kelce]

I can only imagine now that you've been doing it for a while. Is there one is what's harder, writing or performing?

[Colin Jost]

I think writing is harder. Like it's hard to do. I don't know. I still find writing is hard. Like you. It never gets really easy. But performing is just a whole other skill that, that you don't know if you have until you're doing it. Like, it's really hard to work at. You can get better for sure. Like, you can work at acting. You can work like it's a skill you can develop, but you also kind of need some spark or something that you don't. I don't know what it is, but you need something and it's something that comes across on camera that is a little less, I don't know, definable. I don't know.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, yeah. Especially when it's fucking live.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah. I mean, I think whatever else I do in life will feel easier. Even if I do a movie, I'm like, oh, I can get another take. It's so liberating. Like we never get a second shot. And as a writer too, like, you'll write something and if there's a. Something goes wrong or someone flubs a line or something, there's a technical cue. You never get to do it again.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah.

[Colin Jost]

Which is. And so when something actually goes the way you imagine it, you feel like it's a miracle. Like you pulled it off and, you know, you're so grateful that it came together. So as you, as you know, I'm sure there's, you know, there's. And I'm sure you know too, there's things you think are going to work and then they don't. They, they, you know, and then there's things you're. You're like, I don't know, maybe I'll try it. And then maybe it was something that surprised you when you hosted that worked, you know?

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, not even just on snl. There's stuff in the football world that I'm like, this will guarantee happen. Coach, can we just put this in? And then we try it in practice. And there's like, it gets gloved and nothing. And I'm just sitting there like, coach is right. He's doing. He told me that wouldn't work.

[Colin Jost]

I'm glad to know that happens there too.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah. Yeah. You've been working on the show for 20 plus fucking years now. There's still like some starstruck moments or any hosts or musical guests that are just like, holy shit.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah. I mean, still like. I mean, I feel Paul McCartney is someone that's still. Even though he's been come around a

[Travis Kelce]

bunch and it's just the coolest guy ever. Just a smooth cat.

[Colin Jost]

Super. Yeah, super. Like, just like my. I remember this last year, he was. He was there for the 50th anniversary, you know, he was. He played. Which was one of the most incredible ways you could end an episode of television is to have him play the last three songs from Abbey Road. I mean, that was just seeing everyone from the original cast, from people who were there, like, watching in tears. What a great memory, you know, moment. And there was. He was doing rehearsal, and so I told my parents, who are a huge fan, and they were like. I was like, come down. You gotta see this rehearsal. I'll sneak you in. And he's like, I see him. He's up there playing. And my dad calls and he's like, we're getting in a cab now. And I was like, dad, what are you doing? And just. They walk in comically. Like, right after he had finished rehearsing, I was like, guys, and Paul, like, he can sense this is how great a human he is. He sensed. I think he could almost sense that they had just missed it. And so after he finished playing, he, like, came up and was like, hey, how's it going? I'm Paul.

[Travis Kelce]

Nice. Still gave him a nice low kind memory.

[Colin Jost]

Spent like 5 minutes talking to my parents. And it just immediately made the whole situation, like, even better than if they had seen him play. Like, he just has those instincts, you know?

[Travis Kelce]

Hell, yeah.

[Jason Kelce]

Absolutely.

[Colin Jost]

It was great too, seeing him try to get through. Crowded into the building with. And he's just wearing a hood. And someone's like, sir, you can't just walk in here and he just, like, puts the hood up a little, like, right this way. Oh, you could do whatever you need, sir.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah. Are you and Michael Shea going to do a joke swap at the finale, please?

[Colin Jost]

Oh, my God. That's two weeks away. So it's like the farthest thing from. We haven't planned. I couldn't tell you anything yet about it, but, I mean, we'll see. I'm sure we'll try to brainstorm some version of it, see if we can come up with something that would feel. Feel satisfying. It's hard to keep. And also, I'm. I don't know if you noticed that a little bit of a structural disadvantage,

[Travis Kelce]

you know, Shane plays into it perfectly.

[Colin Jost]

Oh, God. It was the time I felt like I got him the most nervous because he's. He's such a Kendrick Lamar fan. When I started getting him talking, weighing in on the feud, like talking directly to Kendrick, I could tell he was really, really, genuinely worried about what I

[Travis Kelce]

was going to make him say.

[Jason Kelce]

Now I got him. Now you know what it's like for me every.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah. But I'm open up ideas if you guys got any pitches.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, we are the last, like you said, writing. Exactly.

[Travis Kelce]

I can't even put a sentence together. Actually.

[Jason Kelce]

I. I am curious. So for that, like, for that bit that's been one of the most, like, longest tenured bits at this point. Right within.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah.

[Jason Kelce]

Like, what is the process for that? Do you guys have any idea going into it? I know they do the rehearsal, like, right before the show, but, like, how much of a wild card are you truly, like, on the hook of, like, what is. What am I about to get?

[Colin Jost]

Oh, well, so we have people ask about it. Well, it's, you know, there's. We have a dress rehearsal, but at the dress rehearsal, we do totally different jokes.

[Jason Kelce]

Yes.

[Colin Jost]

Sometimes. Sometimes they're more tame, sort of to lull the other person into a false sense of security. You know, like, ah, this one's actually. This one's not that bad.

[Jason Kelce]

You'll have an easy night here.

[Colin Jost]

And then sometimes they're actually a little harsher because you can, you know, you can make him say one thing that's not gonna air. There's really been ones where I've. Where I said, he made me say a joke. And the host that week came up to me after and was like, are you okay?

[Jason Kelce]

Touched my shoulder.

[Colin Jost]

It was like, he can't do that to you. Like, that kind of vibe. It evolved because it started where we just wanted another Chance to do jokes that the censor had stopped. So we. We originally did it as just jokes that we weren't able to tell early in the year. And then I perhaps foolishly suggested, wouldn't it be fun if we didn't know what was coming? And so it was like, oh, that made sense to give it to each other. And I remember Che being like, okay, all right, sure. And I was like, yeah, I really brought it on myself.

[Travis Kelce]

Well, thank you for doing it because it's one of the entire, like, fans of SNL's favorite bits, man.

[Colin Jost]

It is thrilling to do, even though it is also terrifying. And my family every year is very worried for me. I remember my mom saying, like, a Rosa Parks graphic came up, and my mom was like, I was just. I thought our whole family was gonna end. We were gonna have to just shut down.

[Jason Kelce]

Are we using the word bit correctly? This is another thing. There's like, yeah, like.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah, I think so. I would say that, too.

[Jason Kelce]

All right.

[Colin Jost]

I feel like there's. They're a little bit interchangeable. Like, I would say this. I would describe that as a bit nice.

[Jason Kelce]

Okay. Yes.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah. Yes.

[Jason Kelce]

Boom.

[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

Absolutely, I can. I got my.

[Colin Jost]

My water and my little.

[Travis Kelce]

My little mixing right here.

[Colin Jost]

We got the Liquid iv.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, yes.

[Jason Kelce]

Oh, let's try it out.

[Colin Jost]

Look at Jake's fancy cup.

[Jason Kelce]

It's a nice cup. Only the best for Liquid iv.

[Travis Kelce]

We're pouring.

[Colin Jost]

It's actually so good. That is dangerous.

[Jason Kelce]

It sounds very good.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah. Honestly, when you see the flavors Ring Pop and you go, what does that taste like?

[Travis Kelce]

And you taste, you go, no, that's Ring Pop.

[Colin Jost]

It really does taste like a Ring Pop Cherry. Brings me back to like being at the town pool as a kid. Yeah, hammering Ring Pops. Brandon, you needed some electrolytes, huh?

[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

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[Travis Kelce]

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[Jason Kelce]

Potential savings vary subject to terms, conditions and availability. Allstate North American Insurance Company and Affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois. I did want to ask you one other thing which I don't even know if we're putting this do for Weekend Update. Is it harder now with how much the news cycle changes? Like you guys start writing this stuff usually like that week earlier in it? Yes.

[Colin Jost]

I mean it all gets thrown out now. Like you could have a joke you love on Monday and it's completely irrelevant. So we, we do most of it now on Friday and Saturday. Like Friday and Saturday now is just wall to wall because it's all, it all, it's all different now. It's like that's completely changed since when I started. And even the cold opens like we used to have cold opens that we wrote for the table read on Wednesday and they would still make sense as this the top story now. Like the top story is never the same between Wednesday and Saturday. So most of the cold opens now. We write on Friday and Saturday too.

[Travis Kelce]

The times is changing.

[Jason Kelce]

They are changing.

[Travis Kelce]

That's awesome though, man. Before we go anywhere though, we got to take a, take a peek at this, this 2005 card we have here. A little NBC Universal baby.

[Colin Jost]

Oh, my God.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah. Wow.

[Colin Jost]

I feel like the sideburns. The sideburns are so long they may go underneath and connect under my chin.

[Travis Kelce]

I was gonna say you do a little Abe Lincoln. You just had it just straight along

[Jason Kelce]

the cheeks right there.

[Colin Jost]

It also looks, I'm wearing like a, like a, such a flesh colored T shirt that it almost looks like I came shirtless to work.

[Jason Kelce]

Hey, your Bert Kreischer here. A young Bert Kreischer.

[Colin Jost]

This is still, this is still my id. So that photo still comes up for the security guard and you could tell every time he's like, wait a second,

[Jason Kelce]

this is still your photo.

[Travis Kelce]

You brush that hair forward real quick for me. This is still what I. Yeah, I'm kidding. I'm.

[Jason Kelce]

No, that's hilarious.

[Colin Jost]

It doesn't go. It doesn't go forward anymore.

[Travis Kelce]

Thank you for showing. Yep, you're clear. You're good.

[Colin Jost]

It was just a different. I was just at a different place in my life, you know, the Burns man.

[Jason Kelce]

What was the hiring process besides this wonderful photo?

[Colin Jost]

I just walked up with that badge and I was like, people don't know. It's just a sign up sheet.

[Jason Kelce]

That's it. Yeah,

[Colin Jost]

the process was. I wrote, I wrote a packet of like six sketches and people, we still, you know, when I was head writer, like, we still read hundreds of submission packets every summer. Everyone goes through. So it really. People's stuff gets ready who submit to the show. And we still hire people from, just from packs. If something makes you laugh, it's kind of. It's a rare thing. Like if you read a packet and, and you still. And something really genuinely just makes you laugh reading it, that's a really good sign because that's, that's just hard. Rare to do.

[Jason Kelce]

Sure.

[Colin Jost]

But I submitted a. I submitted a packet one year before I got hired at the wrong time. Like, I didn't even know when to send it in. And so I sent it in and then. And clearly no one ever read it because it was not a time they were looking for writers. And then I submitted in the summer and Tina was one of the head writers there. Harper Steele was another head writer there. And they liked some of the sketches that I wrote. I was very, very lucky. And so I came in and interviewed with them. And then I had to interview with Lorne the same day, which luckily I didn't even know I was going to have to do.

[Travis Kelce]

Why do you say luckily?

[Colin Jost]

Well, because I would have been so Nervous. I had less time to worry about it because they were like, and we're just going to have you go interview with Lauren. I was like, oh, sure. Cool.

[Jason Kelce]

Got it. Yeah, let's do it.

[Colin Jost]

Because you're so nervous. I mean, actually, Will Ferrell, I don't know if you know this story, but he went to interview with Lauren, and he, as a bit, like, came with a huge suitcase full of money. And so he was like, I'm going to go in and be like, lauren, if you're on the fence, maybe this would change your mind, and open the suitcase. And then he said he went in to meet with Lauren, carries in the suitcase in Lauren's office, and is instantly so nervous that he never does the bit. And so then they have the whole interview, and then he's just like. And it seems like he's, like, gonna get the job. So he's like, it was great to meet you, Mr. Michaels.

[Jason Kelce]

Thank you.

[Colin Jost]

Just stands up with a suitcase and leaves. So it's like. It was in a way even crazier that he thought I brought a suitcase to a comedy interview and never did the bit. So I interviewed Lauren, and then one of the producers was like, stick around for a while. And I was like, okay. So I didn't know what that meant. And then he just put me in a writer's office to just sit there and wait to see. I didn't know for what. I didn't know what it meant. And so I'm in this office for, like, an hour or two, hanging out, just, like, alone. And then the phone rings in the office. Like, this random writer's office. And so instinctively, I was like, I guess I'll answer it. Why? I mean, it's his office. I just pick up the phone, and the one of the producers who's there also in the building tells me that I got hired. But I'm sitting there. It was so awesome.

[Jason Kelce]

I was sitting.

[Colin Jost]

He called me from another office, and I just answered a random telephone and was told I got hired.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah. Tina Fey, Philadelphia legend. What was it like being in there? First year, going into a. A room like that?

[Colin Jost]

Very intimidating. I mean, and she was such a. She had written so many sketches that I love. I didn't even know until I was there. Like, she had written all these. Like, there was one where Christopher Walken is the census taker. I don't know if you've ever seen that one back in the day. It's like him and Tim Meadows. You got to watch it. It's just. It's just like pure random nonsense, basically. And which is the kind of sketch I love, you know, I love. I love. And it's so. Well, every line is a joke in it. Christopher Walken, who's one of the best. It was so good in it, but she had written so many great sketches too. So it's a very intimidating head writer to put, you know, to submit sketches to. And there was a lot happening that year because a lot of people, like I started with Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader and Andy Samberg, we were all new together, which is just an insane. Truly one of the best groups of people that come in to the show and all. And that was it. They were the four actors that came in, and then two writers who worked with Andy, with the Lonely island, who came in, and Brian Tucker, who had worked at Chappelle's Show. And that was our group that we started with. And there were all these cast members that were kind of in their last year. So it was a big transition year. It was the year like Tina was leaving, Maya Rudolph was leaving, Rachel Dratch was leaving a lot of people who had been there, and Tina was starting 30 Rock. So that was like that process was happening that year. We saw all that, like, the show starting up. And so we as a group, like all these new people, we started figuring out, getting our stuff on onto the show, like how we could sneak in. And there were some incredible. I was looking back at the episodes from that year, and there's just crazy pairings. Like Steve Martin and Prince was a show.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, shit.

[Colin Jost]

My first episode was Steve Carell and Kanye, which was just a walk in Kanye. First episode. Tom Hanks and the Red Hot Chili Peppers was a show which was pretty awesome.

[Jason Kelce]

Love it, Love it.

[Colin Jost]

Jack Black and Neil Pretty Jesus. And then it was like all these great shows. And then the last episode I just saw, the season finale was Kevin Spacey and Nelly Furtado. I was like, I'm sure Nelly Furtado is so happy to have that ticket for. They're like, what'd you do SNL with this guy, Kevin? What a great. What a great scene. But it was really. It was pretty cool. And so many those people were like, my idols.

[Travis Kelce]

Was it always SNL for you? Was that always like, the gig once you dropped out of economics or.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah, everyone. If you leave economics, you turn.

[Travis Kelce]

That's the way to go.

[Colin Jost]

We have a ton of just former bankers. Mostly we. I do. I would have worked anywhere. I mean, I would have worked. You know, I applied Everywhere I applied and just didn't, you know, I applied to Letterman, I applied to, you know, Conan, I applied to the Daily Show. I wrote specs, I wrote a spec script of Arrested Development when it was on. I wrote a spec script of Scrubs, like shows that were on at that time and just didn't get, didn't get traction anywhere. But I would have, of course, loved to work at snl, I think. I didn't let myself believe I could.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah.

[Colin Jost]

And so then when it worked out, it was like, I, I, you know, holy. It was incredible. And it was luckily, because I did drop out of any sort of normal job. I think it made it easier on my parents that it was a show they had heard of instead of, you know, going somewhere where they would be still very worried about me.

[Travis Kelce]

So it was good.

[Jason Kelce]

Well, I gotta know, you've mentioned all of these ridiculous guests, hosts, musical artists. What was it like having Travis Kelce, honest take on Travis Kelce as a host?

[Colin Jost]

Fantastic. I hope you know. I hope you know. First of all, I thought it was a great show.

[Travis Kelce]

I mean, my first blast. I don't know how, how it compared to others, man, but I. The entire week I was like, over the fucking moon, dude. It was insane.

[Colin Jost]

No, you had the, you had a perfect approach to it. Obviously, you know, the show, you. And you threw yourself into it. Absolutely committed everything. And I mean, I hope you come and do it again. It would be fantastic.

[Jason Kelce]

Do you, you do. Are there any, is there any coaching maybe for his next.

[Travis Kelce]

Coach me up. Coach me up.

[Colin Jost]

I, I've got. No, I'll look through the game

[Jason Kelce]

room.

[Colin Jost]

I'll mark a couple things up. Late entrance here, little dead weight inflections wrong here. I'll get in there. I'll go, I'll do a full dissection.

[Jason Kelce]

Went from Australian to British halfway through.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah, I'm sure the notes would all be for our own, on our own side. Like, we should have written a better joke here. There were some standouts too. Having the meal in the American Girl store.

[Travis Kelce]

That was really good. Oh, my God.

[Jason Kelce]

I still go back and watch that. I mean, it's absolutely hilarious.

[Travis Kelce]

I had so much fun doing that one. I was like, oh, be a creep.

[Jason Kelce]

You were a little too good at it, to be honest with you. It was a little, I think it was.

[Colin Jost]

You had spent like months at that just doing research.

[Travis Kelce]

How was that?

[Colin Jost]

Yeah, it was a method approach getting

[Travis Kelce]

porter houses the entire time there. Yeah.

[Colin Jost]

And then you spent like months after you hosted there too, and you were kind of really trying to get people to notice, like,

[Jason Kelce]

oh, he's really trying

[Travis Kelce]

to get my name out there.

[Colin Jost]

You still get like 10% off food there, right? Like any time, like a lifetime.

[Travis Kelce]

Only the steaks, the really high price, high priced steaks. And they still card me, Colin. They still card me every time I go in. And I don't understand, I'm not ordering alcohol or anything that I get of age.

[Colin Jost]

Nikki Glaser hosted and I did a sketch with her that was like, American Girl, they make a larger version of the American Girl dolls. And then instantly it's just like guys coming in, like, yeah, I'll get one of the.

[Travis Kelce]

That's a banger.

[Colin Jost]

How did it compare for you? Like, what you thought going in? Because it's such a blur once you're going. It must be such a blur that day.

[Travis Kelce]

That's the thing. I, I went into it you, like, with zero expectations. I was like the, the one thing I wanted to do was like, just be a teammate. Let everybody, like, tell you what, like, what to do, how to do it, where to go. Don't try and put your twists on any the like writing or anything like that. Just go in there and like be present and enjoy the ride. And I think it was the coolest experience I've ever had in my life. Like, it was snl. I got a, I got a text from Peyton Manning giving me advice on. He was like, dude, just buckle up and, and enjoy the, the roller coaster and, and just dive in. Just be all in on everything that they're telling you. And that was the best thing I could have heard at that moment because I was going into it blind, not knowing how everybody was so goddamn funny on snl. But then I quickly realized after jumping into all the little writing rooms and, and hearing everybody trying, not necessarily pitch me apart, but get me to understand apart just how talented everyone is up there and how much of like a family and unity it is up there. So. So I just went in. I just went in with zero expectations and hoping that I didn't fuck it up on Saturday.

[Colin Jost]

No, no, not at all. I mean, the thing you realize too is the writers are also nervous and also trying to figure it out. They don't necessarily know what's going to work and they're trying to figure out what's fun for you to do or what would be a good look for you in a scene or world for a scene, which is where if I

[Travis Kelce]

did it again, I would actually be able to tell them, oh, I can do this. This kind of accent. I can do this. Like I just went in there and somebody asked me, all right, do you have any accents you can do? I'm just like,

[Jason Kelce]

we don't want to take up too much more your time. We got a last section.

[Colin Jost]

We got friends, nowhere to go.

[Travis Kelce]

I have nothing.

[Jason Kelce]

Never mind then. We will be here.

[Colin Jost]

I don't want to see my kids. Whatever. You.

[Jason Kelce]

You are starting season two of pop Culture Jeopardy.

[Colin Jost]

Oh yeah.

[Jason Kelce]

On Netflix.

[Colin Jost]

That's right.

[Jason Kelce]

You are an extra economic Harvard. Well, yeah, she didn't graduate with economy, but economics.

[Colin Jost]

I graduated in pop culture.

[Travis Kelce]

There we go.

[Jason Kelce]

Would you be. Would you be better at regular Jeopardy. Or pop Culture Jeopardy.

[Colin Jost]

Oh, a hundred. A hundred percent regular.

[Jason Kelce]

Really?

[Colin Jost]

Yes. And I'm not. I don't think I'd be very good at Jeopardy. Like, I'm not. I'm not really a good trivia. The thing I realized I said it almost is like a Yogi Berra phrase. I literally told someone I'm good at trivia if I know the answer. Like, uh huh. Right. But it's like there's certain things I know well, but I don't have a. There's. I have huge blind spots in regular. In anything but Jeopardy. The. The level of knowledge and. And the breadth of knowledge that people have as Jeopardy. Contestants is so impressive, it's crazy. Pop culture is even. Is even crazier to me because it changes so much and there's so many eras of pop culture and this is definitely weighted more recent, you know, which is sad because when there's a category about the 90s, that's the one I feel like I could get.

[Jason Kelce]

I'm on this.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah, yeah. And then. But. And weirdly, sometimes that's a category where no one will get an answer now. And that just makes me feel very sad and old as two guys who

[Travis Kelce]

are also of the plus one fraternity and have the same experience. How nice is it to be the less famous person in your relationship?

[Colin Jost]

Huge relief. It's really funny because I feel like it's. I think I'm probably almost approached more because she's less approachable. So you know what I mean? It's like I feel like because I'm on tv, I have like a lesser people are just like, I'm in their living room. So they're just like, hey, what's up man? How's it going? She's actually almost like so famous that they don't re. They don't believe it. A lot of times too. Like, we've been traveling and we've Been standing at the passport check and the person's looking at her passport and he'll be like, has anyone ever told you you look like Scarlett Johansson? Genuinely, like, genuinely asking and not real. Even though he's looking at her because he's like, it would be weirder if it was her and just give it back to her and not think it's a really. Kind of awesome.

[Jason Kelce]

That's amazing.

[Travis Kelce]

Shout out to the plus ones out there.

[Colin Jost]

The other thing I've noticed, too, is that if we're ever ordering food, you know the order is not going to be right. Because if we, like, go to, like, go buy a sandwich or something, she'll order and the person will recognize her. And then doesn't write down nothing about the sandwich is completely distracted. All the ingredients are wrong. We'll open the sandwich and nothing is.

[Jason Kelce]

What did she say?

[Colin Jost]

Yeah, it's really funny. It's like bread and just like a pickle. Yeah, it's a good. It's good. I feel like it's.

[Travis Kelce]

We can.

[Colin Jost]

We can, you know, commiserate.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, that's right.

[Travis Kelce]

I'm on the team.

[Colin Jost]

So hard.

[Travis Kelce]

I'm here for it.

[Colin Jost]

You also. It was hard as a stand, As a heart, as a stand up. Because I would have jokes about either someone the idea of dating or the idea of marriage or what that is. I just can't. There's nothing that will. I. I can't be like, she's nagging me about this. Everyone's like, shut the up. It eliminated that part of stand up.

[Jason Kelce]

All right, well, can you please tell us our next question? Can you please tell us about the time Jimmy Buffett saved your life?

[Colin Jost]

Oh, my God. With pleasure. It was really pretty. I mean, RIP, What a great dude. Like, really. I was randomly seated next to him at a dinner at, like, I was there with. I was dating a girl at the time who was there with friends who were working at Vice magazine. And. And I was just randomly seated next to him, and I had never met him before and I didn't know it was him. And so it was like over the course of dinner, and he was like, talk. I. I was. I surf. And he heard that and he was like, oh, he just wanted to talk about surfing because he loves. He loves surfing. And only after a while, I sort of noticed little subtle hints that it might be Jimmy Buffett. Like, he would say something like, whenever I open a new Margaritaville, I like to go and find somewhere to surf near where the Margaritaville is. I was like, this might be Jimmy Buffett.

[Jason Kelce]

Interesting.

[Colin Jost]

And then he was really gracious and knew I liked to surf. So he's like, I'm gonna go surf tomorrow morning out in like, I think it's like the west coast of Saint Barts, like, more remote area. Why don't you come surf? And I was like, oh, my God, of course. Fantastic. So I went to meet him and I got there and I kind of immediately thought, realized that maybe it was a thing where he said, like, oh, you should come by sometime, but mean it, you know what I mean? And he's like, yeah, come hang. And I was like, great, I will. I'll be there tomorrow morning. And suddenly I was like, am I psychotic that I just took him up on this? And it was just like him and his. Him and his family. And then there was like a surf instructor that was out there that was just kind of helping them. And he lent me a board and we went out and I kind of was hanging back. And they all caught waves, like in a row at this. And again, no one was there. It was kind of amazing. Like, no one was at this break. It was like a nice sort of five, six foot wave rolling in. And. And then I finally was like, I'm going to catch a wave. And I caught a wave. And I remember when we were going out, swimming out, Jimmy was like, be careful when you get into shallower water because there's a lot of rocks. Like, don't. Don't ride it all the way in.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, yeah.

[Colin Jost]

And again, because it's him and I'm talking to him and I'm excited. I didn't pay any of the advice, completely ignored it, and then rode the wave all the way in and went to turn around on my board and paddle back. And I, like, couldn't paddle forward. And I was like, I don't know. I don't know why. And then I realized that my leash had been stuck under one of the famous rocks he had told me about. And I couldn't get out and the waves were coming and so I couldn't get. Reach down and get. I was like trying to tug it out, which probably was making it worse, and I was stuck. And he was like, are you okay in there? And again I was like trying to play it cool. So I was like, oh, yeah, this water I'm swallowing, I'm doing great. And then I started getting, like, kind of nervous because I couldn't get loose of this rock. And so he sort of sensed it and had. Or his. The instructor there had like a knife.

[Jason Kelce]

Knife. Yeah.

[Colin Jost]

That he just. Probably for this reason, like, to. If someone got, like, the way you would in scuba diving, like, have a little knife. And so he swam and cut my leash off and got me out and got me back. And then literally, he was like, I think that down the beach might be more your speed. Like, that might. You might like it over there. And so. And then I was. And then, of course, I was like, oh, no. I destroyed Jimmy's leash. And so, like, the next morning, I went to. I found, like, a surf shop in Saint Barts where a leash costs, like, $2,000. Leash?

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah.

[Colin Jost]

And then bought it and brought it all the way back to. Because I was like, I can't leave him with this broken leash. And of course, like. Like, he wasn't there. And the guy who was there was like, you did not need to do this. He has, like, 100 lead. It's fine. But I was like, I should do this. And then. And that's the last time that I got to serve with him.

[Travis Kelce]

RIP the legend, man.

[Jason Kelce]

Very cool.

[Colin Jost]

Incredible.

[Travis Kelce]

God damn, that's good.

[Jason Kelce]

Lastly, what's your welcome to SNL moment?

[Colin Jost]

Like, what do you mean? Like, when I was welcome there, like, or. Or if I welcome someone there.

[Jason Kelce]

It's more like, we asked this to, like, NFL players, anybody in their field. Like, when. When was it where you were like, oh, my God, I'm.

[Travis Kelce]

I'm doing it.

[Jason Kelce]

Doing this. Like, I'm at a show.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, like a welcome to Hollywood moment. Welcome to the NFL moment.

[Colin Jost]

Oh, yeah, that.

[Jason Kelce]

Yeah, yeah.

[Colin Jost]

One of them was. I was, like, getting. Like. I was doing pretty well as a writer, and I remember Lorne saying, can you come into my office? And I went into his office, and Mick Jagger was there, and he was like, mick Jagger is doing a show in Indianapolis tomorrow. Do you have any jokes he could do?

[Jason Kelce]

Oh, no.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, man.

[Jason Kelce]

What?

[Colin Jost]

Yeah. And I was like, what? You know, I'm thinking, like, of all things Mick Jagger needs. It's not jokes. He doesn't need. He could say anything, and people are going to scream. And on the spot, I was like, just trying to think about what. I was like, does he want to joke about Indianapolis? What kind of jokes? I was like, what jokes do you do normally, Mr. Jagger? That was. That was definitely a. I don't even know what I said. I feel like I. Because I also wasn't even. Didn't even know he was going to be in there. That was like. That was a real welcome to Hollywood moment. And then, God, I'm trying to think of like, what another. What another one is for me, like, there's just like, I don't know through the. I think the one of the ones still even more recent, which was just like a. Keeping. It's like keeping it in mind as I go through it, because I still have ones that are of course, shocking when I put them in context. And I remember doing opening for Chappelle at Radio City, which was like a couple dreams come true. That's like, that was really awesome. And then I was going to LA and he was going to la and he was like, come do. Let's go to a Lakers game. And so like, we went to a Lakers game together and we're in like the player. They just immediately. Wherever he goes, they're like, wherever you want to go in the stadium, you're welcome. So like we're in the players tunnel and he's like, we should. You want to smoke? And I'm like, sure, I never smoke. But I was like, I. I need dish. You want to smoke a cereal? I'm sure. I'm like, sure, no problem. I would love that. I'll look totally natural doing it. So we're like smoking. We're smoking in. In, you know, in Lakers arena there and in the Staples center, and. And then someone's like, do you want to meet Kareem Abdul Jabbar? He's coming over here. He's like, there's a little lounge. It's like Kareem. It's just like a couple people hanging out. Like Kareem Abdul Jabbar. That was a moment where I just was thinking, this is a great, like, what a wonderful combination of fun folks to be in a little, little lounge.

[Travis Kelce]

Yeah, that's a pinch me moment. That sounds like a fucking dream.

[Colin Jost]

Yeah. And it's very nice when you get to it. Work with people that you, that you love. Especially, you know, it's an athlete, yourself included. Like LeBron. Like LeBron coming to host. Peyton coming to host. Like that. Those are really. Those are moments that you kind of can't believe that you get to do that because you writing for people that you love, like Larry David or Julia Dreyfus or people who are comedians is already. But then when it's an athlete, it's like a double thing of you never thought you'd get to do it. Or a musician, like writing something for Nicki Minaj or writing something that's totally, totally a thing, you know, different, different out of your world. It's. It's the best. It's so cool. That's why the job is just. Who else gets to work with those combinations of people over those years? It's pretty amazing. I feel very. I feel very lucky.

[Travis Kelce]

Well, you should, dude. I appreciate the stories, man. Thank you for. Thank you for the time, the stories, all the above. Thank you for all the laughs on SNL. The. The Season 51 finale airs May 16 at 11:30 Eastern, as everyone knows, and we cannot wait to watch it on NBC. Peacock with host Will Ferrell and musical guest Paul Sir Paul McCartney. Enjoy it, dude. Can't wait to fucking see it, man.

[Colin Jost]

Pleasure. Thank you guys for having me on. I appreciate it.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, and also, starting May 11, new episodes of Pop Culture Jeopardy. Will premiere on Netflix. So every weekend.

[Colin Jost]

Oh, yeah.

[Travis Kelce]

Enjoy it.

[Colin Jost]

Ladies and gentlemen, I will say, if you're a Jeopardy. Fan and a pop culture fan, there are some episodes that are incredible television. Like the gameplay, you will blow your mind. Like, there's a semi finals and the finals were, like, shockingly dramatic and cool. So, yeah, it has nothing to do with me. The actual people playing the games are like, you're. You're gonna. Your mind's gonna be blown if you're a Jeopardy. Fan. That's pretty awesome.

[Travis Kelce]

Nice.

[Jason Kelce]

Oh, yeah.

[Travis Kelce]

Well, yeah, dog. Appreciate you, dude.

[Jason Kelce]

Alrighty. Thank you to Colin Jost. And that conversation was brought to you by Mentos. And that is the end of this episode. That's right. Thank you to Colin. Joe's reminder. There are still tickets available for our New Heights live show in LA on June 15. Check out the link in this description and make sure you subscribe to the New Heights channel on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.

[Travis Kelce]

Once again, New Heights is a wonder show brought to you by Adobe Acrobat. You're going to want to download it if you want to be organized and make life easier in your business world. Follow the show on all social media at New Heights show with 1s for fun clips throughout the week. And thank you to our New Heights production team. We love you. And to the 92 percenters, we love you too. We'll see you guys next week. Ooh, we're gonna get some. Some NFL scheduling next week.

[Jason Kelce]

We'll see how accurate we were in the Chiefs.

[Travis Kelce]

I might not read, but I enjoy the arts. Okay, I'm not doing this anymore. Okay.

[Colin Jost]

Doing what?

[Travis Kelce]

This whole Travis only likes chicken fingers. All right, I'm. I'm not doing this anymore. I'm.

[Jason Kelce]

Who said that that was the case?

[Travis Kelce]

You and you did. No, both used to. No, we never said that you didn't

[Jason Kelce]

like food before you started dating with Taylor. That's all I'm saying.

[Travis Kelce]

It's bogus. And you. You flew out of the country to prove a point. You flew out of the country to prove me wrong personally. And I say you're welcome.

[Colin Jost]

I got you out there, okay?

[Travis Kelce]

Because I don't eat mayonnaise out of a jar and because I don't fucking eat at a restaurant that I just blindly go to and don't really enjoy.

[Jason Kelce]

Go blindly go to. Says the guy who made the reservation. I blindly went there. You took me there.

[Travis Kelce]

It was.

[Jason Kelce]

It was funny.

[Travis Kelce]

Goat is in the title. I was looking at restaurants around the area and that happened to have a good star rating, but goat is it.

[Colin Jost]

Goat is like third word in that title.

[Travis Kelce]

You knew it was coming. Yeah, so is lady. Does that mean I'm gonna eat a lady? No, it doesn't.

[Colin Jost]

I don't know.

[Jason Kelce]

Can we refocus on Shakespeare? I gotta admit, I've never. I'll. I've seen like, Romeo or Romeo. Where art Thou Wrote like. I've seen, like, bits. I don't think I've ever seen the full Romeo and Juliet. Yeah, I have no idea. I know. The premise of it essentially is like, now we gotta get you out. Forbidden love.

[Colin Jost]

Yep.

[Jason Kelce]

I think we had to read Midsummer Night's Dream in high school. That's the only.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, yeah.

[Jason Kelce]

That's the only Shakespeare play that I've really actually read. I think culture. We gotta get close. We did.

[Travis Kelce]

We did Hamlet. Oh, but I don't remember. I don't remember much. To be.

[Colin Jost]

It's like the prince. It didn't work. I. I played it in high school.

[Jason Kelce]

I know there's war. Right. So from what. What other people tell me, Hamlet is like the. If you're a dude, you're going to be into Hamlet is what I've been told.

[Colin Jost]

Hamlet will probably.

[Jason Kelce]

I don't know how accurate.

[Travis Kelce]

That's probably very dude heavy too.

[Jason Kelce]

I actually saw Much to Do about that. That's a. That's a movie.

[Colin Jost]

Another play I did in high school.

[Jason Kelce]

I think I've seen Much to do about nothing as well.

[Colin Jost]

Big Shakespeare guy, High school. Don't laugh me.

[Travis Kelce]

Travis, would you play Brandon? What was your character?

[Colin Jost]

I was Benedict. That's the lead, by the way.

[Travis Kelce]

Oh, Benedict.

[Jason Kelce]

Starting quarterback.

[Travis Kelce]

There we go.

[Colin Jost]

Your boy right here also played Hamlet. Come at me.

[Travis Kelce]

Travis clearly went to a very small school with not a lot of stars.

[Jason Kelce]

Son of a Kelsey.