Podbit · New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
A concussion at the end of filming Jackass Forever sent Johnny Knoxville offline for 6 months. His doctor said he was done. He went home, talked to his wife and kids, and agreed. He says had it not happened, he'd probably still be doing stunts today.
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The closing segment has Jason and Travis thank both guest groups — the Ertzes and Knoxville — and direct listeners to follow the show @NewH1GHTSShow, check out Jackass: Best and Last in theaters June 26th, and subscribe to Julie Ertz's Style of Play podcast with Kealia Watt on Spotify. Travis offers a heartfelt note about the 92 percenters tuning in every week and credits the production team. The episode's final comedic beat comes courtesy of Knoxville himself, who sticks around long enough to roast Jason's shirt — comparing it to whorehouse drapes — which Jason gamely defends as 'the seasons getting brighter.' It's a light, fond close to a dense, three-segment episode.
Zach Ertz is approximately 5-6 months out from surgery and training daily, with Julie by his side and three young boys keeping things chaotic at home.
Soccer predates American football by centuries and actually involves consistent use of feet — both Ertzes concede the point. Zach tries to defend American football but admits it's a tough argument in Europe.
Julie Ertz revealed her father was a kicker at LSU and used to train kids to kick and punt, giving her an early awareness of kicking mechanics.
Jason Kelce explains that saving 2 penalty kicks in a shootout puts a goalkeeper's team's chances of winning through the roof.
Jason Kelce notes that 1 in 5 World Cup elimination-round games are decided by penalty kicks, making it a surprisingly common tiebreaker.
Self-help fails because people are sold one universal cure by the hyper-responders who had a transformative result from it. The real problem is context: every method works for the right person at the right time, which is almost never you just because the author says so.
Spencer Greenberg was once so socially anxious his heart pounded just approaching a stranger. His therapist gave him homework: go to a bar alone, talk to 5 strangers. Starting with asking for the time, he worked up to asking men for hugs — and his anxiety fell dramatically in 6 months.
A person who flies regularly but obsessively checks weather forecasts before every flight is not doing exposure therapy — they're teaching their brain that flying is only safe with the ritual. Safety behaviors prevent the brain from ever learning that the feared thing is actually fine.
The worry-time technique assigns all worries to one scheduled slot (e.g. 5 PM). Every time a worry surfaces, you write it down and ban yourself from engaging with it until that time. When 5 PM arrives, most worries feel trivial and the act of batch-worrying exposes how little it actually accomplishes.
In a randomized study of 20 habit techniques, 'habit reflection' stood out: recall a past habit you successfully built, write down what helped you succeed, then apply those same strategies to your new habit. It works because it's self-adapting — it uses whatever worked for YOU.
The tiny habits technique — always having a minimal version of your habit you can do when life gets in the way — keeps the mental machinery of habit formation from breaking. Paradoxically, people given a tiny-habit fallback option were MORE successful at the full habit, not less.
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Most downtime defaults are things you regret immediately after — phone scrolling, binge TV. 'Glad you did it' activities meet the same need for rest but leave you feeling like you spent your time well. The switch from a bad screen to a documentary, a book, or a walk costs almost no extra effort but compounds into identity over time.
You rarely control your first reactive thought. But you can train your second thought — the response to the trigger — by asking whether your initial reaction is the most helpful one and replacing it with something equally true but more constructive. Over time, that second thought becomes automatic.
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