A Swift Debrief, Travis’ Preseason Prep and Starting Shedeur | EP 151

92%ers, welcome to another episode of New Heights brought to you by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV! On today’s episode, we break down everything that’s happened since our literal record-breaking episode with Taylor Swift. Jason and Travis react to some of the best comments, debate whether Otters are the best wild animal to befriend, and maybe even share some behind-the-scenes stories. And football is ALMOST back! So naturally we recap everything about the Chiefs preseason, Travis shares what went into his preparation for this season, Jason shares some incredible stories from Eagles training camp, we try to make sense of the Micah Parson’s situation in Dallas, and Travis makes the case for starting Shedeur Sanders. You can also listen to new episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. . . . Download the full podcast here: Wondery: https://wondery.app.link/s9hHTgtXpMb Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-heights/id1643745036 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/1y3SUbFMUSESC1N43tBleK?si=LsuQ4a5MRN6wGMcfVcuynw Follow New Heights on Social Media for all the best moments from the show: https://lnk.to/newheightshow Check out all the New Heights merch at https://homage.com/newheights Support the show: YouTube TV: Sign up for NFL Sunday Ticket now at https://www.youtube.com/NH See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 0:59Speaker 01

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• 1:13Speaker 02

  Thank you to our partner Royal Caribbean.

• 1:16Travis Kelce?

  Dude, have you seen this? Royal Caribbean just dropped The Legend of the Seas. It's the biggest cruise ship on the planet. Like, nothing's even close to being this big. And it's sailing out of Fort Lauderdale, starting this November.

• 1:31Speaker 02

  That's right. This thing is stacked. Seven pools, more places to eat than you can even count. I mean, they have something for everybody.

• 1:40Travis Kelce?

  Like, bring the kids, bring mom and dad, shoot, bring the whole crew. Everybody's got a spot. That's what makes it special.

• 1:47Speaker 02

  And the entertainment, Latin music, ice skating, full-on Broadway shows. It's pretty amazing. Pretty much everything you want in one place. Oh, and did I mention there's a water park?

• 1:57Travis Kelce?

  You didn't, and that's, that'd be the kicker for me.

• 1:59Speaker 02

  I love a water park.

• 2:00Travis Kelce?

  But the crazy one? Crown's Edge, a ropes course off the side of the ship. Not for the faint of heart, brother.

• 2:09Speaker 02

  They've also got Playmaker, sports bar, and arcade. So that means games on every screen. I love a good arcade sports place combination.

• 2:18Travis Kelce?

  All right, count me in. Get the family on the new Legend of the Seas, sailing November 2026 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

• 2:26Speaker 02

  Visit royalcaribbean.com to learn more. What's up, 92%ers? Welcome back to another episode of New Heights. Unfortunately, it probably won't be as good as the last episode of New Heights where we set our own records, we set podcasting records, we set a Guinness Book of World Records. That's right. Thanks to the one and only Taylor Swift for hopping on and deciding to talk with two complete idiots that don't know anything about the music industry. And it was a doozy. So get ready for a much lower bar this week. But before we get to that, there is one gigantic piece of new news that just hit the waves. We did record this podcast on Monday, which was Travis's one day off.

• 3:05Speaker 02

  So he is not here to address this himself, but we felt necessary as a team here at New Heights to get together and send Travis and Taylor a giant congratulations for being engaged.

• 3:24Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 3:26Travis Kelce?

  Let's go.

• 3:30Travis Kelce?

  Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. A wondery show brought to you by the NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. The NFL is back, baby.

• 3:43Travis Kelce?

  Preseason is over. We're your hosts. I'm Travis. Cause my big brother Jason Kelce out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and our UC Bearcats are coming to Arrowhead, baby.

• 3:53Speaker 02

  Come on, baby.

• 3:55Travis Kelce?

  Hopefully I didn't have to know there's a hot mic with her right now. Oh, man, I'm, I'm pumped for these, uh, these cats to come into Arrowhead and, uh, and go to work on Nebraska, man. You know, I, um, I think we got a great team this year. I've been hearing a lot about, uh, Sorsby at QB. I know we got a good offensive line, defensive line, man. We just gotta put a full four quarters together, baby. And I know the boys are busting or sweating. I know they're sweating.

• 4:18Speaker 02

  Nebraska's a good team, too. A lot of people are picking them.

• 4:20Travis Kelce?

  There's a lot of confidence over there. I don't know if it's real confidence. What's that?

• 4:23Speaker 02

  Well, a lot of them picking them to like potentially win the SEC, aren't they?

• 4:31Travis Kelce?

  I did see that. They're in the big 10 though, for anyone that that that believes that news that news is true. Um, let's get back to the show though. Subscribe on YouTube, 100 plus wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on all social media at dual height show with one S for fun clips throughout the week. Jason, why don't you tell everybody what we got coming up?

• 4:47Speaker 02

  90 percenters, we are officially one week away from the start of the NFL season and we got another great episode for you guys. Uh, potentially, actually, I'll just get out of the way. It's not going to be as good as last week's or two weeks ago.

• 5:01Travis Kelce?

  You never know.

• 5:01Speaker 02

  But it's gonna be hard to top that. We do, uh,

• 5:04Travis Kelce?

  We'll try, we'll try our best.

• 5:06Speaker 02

  We are gonna debrief on everything that happened last episode with, uh, somebody that you might have heard of Taylor Swift. We're also gonna break down some of the biggest news and storylines from the NFL preseason.

• 5:16Travis Kelce?

  All right, man.

• 5:16Speaker 02

  Uh, before we get into any of that, we are gonna start with some new news.

• 5:22Travis Kelce?

  New news.

• 5:23Speaker 02

  All righty, first bit of new news that we're gonna let you guys hear about. Friend of the show, Taylor Swift finally made her new heights debut.

• 5:33Travis Kelce?

  Shout out to Tay Tay.

• 5:35Speaker 02

  Shout out to Tay.

• 5:35Travis Kelce?

  I think we're, we're up over, I think like 20 million views on YouTube right now.

• 5:40Speaker 02

  No, it's, it's done really well.

• 5:41Travis Kelce?

  Last I looked.

• 5:42Speaker 02

  Yeah, I mean, listen, and it's all us. I can pretty much guarantee everyone tuned into new heights for our bond and

• 5:54Travis Kelce?

  They tuned in because, uh, Taylor gave the world, uh, two hours that she's never given them before. And, uh, gave everybody a new album to get excited for.

• 6:03Speaker 02

  No doubt. It was, uh, incredibly generous. It was awesome.

• 6:06Travis Kelce?

  I'm gonna go ahead and just like keep poking the bear to, to all the Swifties. I, I keep listening to this album and I know she mentioned that it's gonna be a lot more pop beats and everything, but it's just, it's still so poetic and how she like her melodies and her references and stuff.

• 6:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 6:22Travis Kelce?

  It's just so much fun to listen to, man. I've been, I've been dancing all throughout the house.

• 6:26Speaker 02

  Do you have a favorite? Do we, we asked this before. What's your favorite? Do you have a favorite song yet on the news?

• 6:30Travis Kelce?

  I'm not a politician, Jason. Um, I think, I think Obelide might be my favorite though.

• 6:35Speaker 02

  Obelide.

• 6:36Travis Kelce?

  It's, uh, that at least right now, every time it comes on, I, I always keep, catch myself.

• 6:41Speaker 02

  I, I'm knee deep right now in the Swifty Easter egg hunting.

• 6:47Speaker 02

  I am all over. Yeah. You know, I am because I keep sending you and Tay like stuff I keep reading. Like, I know you guys don't want to read it, but I'm freaking gonna make you guys read it because I'm interested. You guys aren't giving me fucking anything, which is pissing me off even more.

• 7:02Travis Kelce?

  That was, she's good at keeping it at Easter.

• 7:05Speaker 02

  I know. I'm a very untrustworthy person. I get it. And I wouldn't trust me either because I will, I can't keep a secret to save my life. I get excited. So yeah, Poppy Beats, you're, you're, you're getting your groove on, dancing to these things. What, what do you, what are you, in an ideal world, what are you doing while listening to this album?

• 7:24Travis Kelce?

  Um, I mean, you could, it's music, Jason. You can listen to it any time of the day. It's, it's good stuff.

• 7:30Speaker 02

  Can you work out to it?

• 7:31Travis Kelce?

  Yes, you can.

• 7:32Speaker 02

  I've like gone full.

• 7:34Travis Kelce?

  Where, where, what are you, what are you working out to?

• 7:37Speaker 02

  I've been, I've been doing some 1989 to my workouts recently, just like gets me, gets the blood pumping.

• 7:43Travis Kelce?

  There you go. Snacks.

• 7:44Speaker 02

  It's like that or Metallica, which I mean, a lot of, a lot of differences, but.

• 7:47Travis Kelce?

  That's what they do. They make you move. They make you move.

• 7:50Speaker 02

  Upbeat, uptempo.

• 7:52Travis Kelce?

  Yes.

• 7:52Speaker 02

  Get the rhythm. Come, come on the kick drum.

• 7:59Speaker 02

  I don't know. Anyways, um, I don't know that it could have gone any better. And I don't think it could have gone any better.

• 8:05Travis Kelce?

  I mean.

• 8:06Speaker 02

  Because of how open and incredible Taylor was. I mean, I think that's a really, the biggest thing that I saw of the reactions of everybody out there who listened and watched the video in the episode was just, you know, this is the first time they've seen Tay really unload for that long of a period of time. And that like authentic and transparent of a way. And I think that it was incredible for her to feel that comfortable on the show to be able to do that. And it felt like it really resonated with the fans who had. Uh, who watched it?

• 8:39Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, it was just fun to hear everybody's take on, uh, you know, the beginning of, of me and her and then, uh, just all the fun from the football season and, uh, hearing her take on meeting you for the first time. I enjoyed the hell out of it. I don't think I had like expectations of what it was going to be. I knew it was going to get a lot of like eyes and and ears, but at the same time, um, you just never know how the world's going to react. But so many people just, uh, keep coming up to me saying how much fun they had with, uh, their significant other, their kids, their, their, their family and friends watching that thing. And, um, yeah, I know, I know Tay walked away, uh, absolutely ecstatic and excited and, uh, and happy that, uh,

• 9:22Travis Kelce?

  you know, she came on here and, uh, had our first podcast experience with me and you, man.

• 9:28Speaker 02

  Well, the, uh, the one thing, I mean, I took away a lot from the interview that, I mean, she's incredibly brilliant. She's very smart. She's very, uh, funny.

• 9:38Travis Kelce?

  Yes.

• 9:38Speaker 02

  Um, all of these things, but, um, the one thing I really took away and it was highlighted by a lot of people out there. But, um, I try to describe you to people. A lot of the times I'm like, listen, nobody knows Travis Kelce and dislikes him. Like he is the epitome of like a great teammate.

• 9:55Travis Kelce?

  The people definitely dislike me, but I, I

• 9:57Speaker 02

  I don't, not people that truly know you though. Like that's the difference. People dislike you that don't know you and they judge you without having any clue of who you are as a person. Everyone you're on with like a team, like there's just a way about you that you've always been a magnetic human being and you've gotten the best out of people and all this stuff. And when she said, you were a human exclamation point, I'm saying, god damn, like this, she is, she's fucking good with words. Like I'm like, that is such a great way to describe, hey, she was a banger.

• 10:26Travis Kelce?

  That was

• 10:26Speaker 02

  That is a great way to describe Travis Kelce. That's, that might be, that's better than Big Yeti, the human exclamation point. That's, that's my new nickname for Travis Kelce.

• 10:37Speaker 02

  Stealing that one. So I do have to ask you this. I mean, I kind of already know the answer because we've talked in depth, but I feel like this should be a question to you. The most important question from the episode is Taylor happy with the episode?

• 10:51Travis Kelce?

  Oh yeah. She walked away like flying around. She was having so much fun, uh, getting to tell everybody about the, the album and, and obviously drop a few Easter eggs and see if everyone caught on.

• 11:02Speaker 02

  So there are Easter eggs.

• 11:06Travis Kelce?

  This I

• 11:07Speaker 02

  Travis, what's that Pinocchio doing behind you?

• 11:10Travis Kelce?

  What do you mean? No, it's caused.

• 11:12Speaker 02

  Is it still there?

• 11:14Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 11:16Travis Kelce?

  You'll see it down there.

• 11:18Travis Kelce?

  Little Pinocchio and a Jiminy Cricket.

• 11:21Speaker 02

  Who is Jiminy the Cricket in Pinocchio? What does he represent?

• 11:25Travis Kelce?

  Aren't they Disney movies, divs Disney characters?

• 11:28Speaker 02

  It is, yes. All right, let's move on.

• 11:32Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 11:36Speaker 02

  All right, very sad news for the Kelsey household. Kylie has been dethroned. We knew it was going to happen. We knew it was gonna happen. Kai was holding strong with a, I think she had like seven million views, like in her own right was had a tremendous. I mean, we've had a lot of big guests. She was beating out Adam Sandler. She was beaten out LeBron James. She's, I mean, she had a great run.

• 12:00Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, Kai's the best, though. We get it.

• 12:02Speaker 02

  She got dethroned pretty good and it was very quickly. It was quickly.

• 12:05Travis Kelce?

  We just need Kylie. Kylie just has to come out with an album.

• 12:09Speaker 02

  Kylie, listen Kylie can sing now.

• 12:11Travis Kelce?

  I know, I know. She's a western angel.

• 12:14Speaker 02

  She's quite the lyricist or performer that Tay is, but she can sing. Let's get into some stats, Swift stats.

• 12:20Travis Kelce?

  It's here.

• 12:21Speaker 02

  We're calling these. Within the first 72 hours of Taylor's debut on New Heights.

• 12:28Speaker 02

  This is gonna be similar to her intro right here. There were 379 million views on Instagram, including a record breaking IG reel. That's right. The most viewed IG reel of all time. Happened in this timeframe, which is crazy.

• 12:47Travis Kelce?

  That's insane.

• 12:48Speaker 02

  There were 61.6 million views on Twitter, 34.5 million views on Tik Tok, 15 million views on YouTube. This is all within the first 72 hours.

• 12:58Travis Kelce?

  I see you shining, girl.

• 13:00Speaker 02

  1.3 million views that were live on YouTube, which broke the record for the most concurrent live views of a podcast, I believe of all time. New Heights passed 3 million followers on Instagram. We gained 400,000 plus new YouTube subscribers since the episode launched. And we also broke the record for the most concurrent podcast listeners ever. We already kind of said that.

• 13:24Travis Kelce?

  Thank you, Tay.

• 13:24Speaker 02

  So, yeah. It's all downhill from here. I don't know. We'll never touch anything remotely close to this.

• 13:32Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 13:33Speaker 02

  Uh, unless Taylor wants to come out with another album and even then like, people are gonna be tired of listening to us. So, this is.

• 13:43Travis Kelce?

  I don't know. I don't know. Everyone, everyone sees Jason Kelce in a different lens now. I think, uh, I think, you know, you're, uh, well,

• 13:55Travis Kelce?

  that too, which didn't necessarily notice until someone made the reference. So, great job on you on picking the right color.

• 14:04Speaker 02

  This is not the right color. It's way too dark. It looks like it took shoe polish to my face, Travis.

• 14:11Speaker 02

  Do you know how we did this? Cause I told you we were doing this. We took the one box that has your face on it, which I don't know if that's, so your hair is a little bit lighter than mine.

• 14:22Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, just a little bit.

• 14:23Speaker 02

  Right? So, Libby had like the, the idea that we'll take that box, which is like light brown and we'll mix it with the dark brown. And we'll get to like a, somewhere in between, which is more like my. I don't know what she did. She was the one playing chemistry. All right. I didn't touch these things. I came out of the shower. I mean, I don't even, immediately I, I looked like Billy Mays. Like it was the most ridiculous looking thing I had ever seen in my life.

• 14:53Travis Kelce?

  Shamwow.

• 14:54Speaker 02

  So, for those of you that don't know, um, I dyed my beard.

• 14:59Travis Kelce?

  Orange clean.

• 15:00Speaker 02

  I dyed my beard, which many people did mention on the podcast. The dyed beard came from an idea for Garage Beer, where I was gonna do this bit where we go back in time. So I wanted to be younger. Initially, I was gonna shave my beard completely. And then I was like, yeah, I'm not doing that. I hate my face too much. So I'm gonna keep the beard, but I'll dye it to make me look younger, which did work. Objectively, that's gonna come off great. Uh, but yeah, we didn't play chemistry very well. And I ended up coming out a little darker than I was expecting and, um, I missed my grays. I can't wait for this to grow back out. It is kind of growing on me though. I do feel like I look pretty good with the dark beard. I'm not gonna lie.

• 15:43Travis Kelce?

  Black feeling himself.

• 15:44Speaker 02

  I am. Yeah. So yes, I did dye my hair. I didn't, I want to emphasize though, I didn't do it out of a desire to look, well, yes, I did do it out of a desire to look. I didn't do it to try.

• 16:00Speaker 02

  I didn't do it out of vanity. I did it for a bit. That's all I'm saying. I think there's a distinct difference.

• 16:08Travis Kelce?

  It's okay to be a little insecure about your grays.

• 16:11Speaker 02

  That's not why I did it. I like my grays.

• 16:17Travis Kelce?

  Gotta love it. But no, back to the world, seeing you in a new lens. Jason, you, you crushed it. I was over here just, I was so wrapped in what Tay was saying that I forgot we were trying to interview her. Because it's hard to interview someone that you love. You're just kind of like there to make sure that they're enjoying themselves. And the entire time Jason's over here playing Barbara Walters.

• 16:44Travis Kelce?

  Keeping, keeping the podcast on track, keeping the podcast on track. Everyone said you were the MVP. Everyone thought, you know, how, uh, how great of an interviewer you are. And honestly, we both claim that this isn't that. Like this show is very much, we're just here to have a conversation, have some fun, talking about some cool shit. Like Jason actually kept it and asking great questions, kind of dumbing down some of the stuff that, uh, that Tay was saying, not necessarily dumb it down, but just like make it, make it more clear to the people that aren't familiar with the industry. Like you were killing it as a.

• 17:21Speaker 02

  I wasn't being stupid. I was doing it for them.

• 17:23Travis Kelce?

  My favorite was the face. Once they caught you with the face like.

• 17:32Speaker 02

  The whole time, all I said to myself was, Jason, ask the question and don't fucking say another word.

• 17:40Travis Kelce?

  Don't cut her off. Don't cut her off.

• 17:44Speaker 02

  Don't say anything, just listen, you stupid idiot, don't ruin this, don't, don't, nobody's here to get for you. But, um, yeah, that was the key, don't talk and shocker, that's all that I was trying to do. I will say, it was similar, I felt like, I knew that I was gonna have to take the lead of asking the questions, because I felt the same way when we did the Kylie episode. When you're both sitting right next to each other, it's hard to like, stay on track within the, it feels weird interviewing, it feels like it felt better with you taking the lead and asking the questions in that episode. And then, for this one, it felt like that was gonna happen too. So, anyways.

• 18:22Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, well, nobody, nobody called me Barbara Walters, so, um, what else? We got some, we had some other, we got some other good reactions. Mama Kells was at the, uh, the premiere of The Kingdom, which you can check out now on ESPN and Disney. Yeah, she was asked, uh, if she watched it and, uh, what she thought of the pod, she said, "I did watch the podcast, I watched all of their, I watched all of their podcasts, it was eventful, it was authentic, it was just something I think everybody was thrilled to see, it was very loving podcast, it was a very loving podcast."

• 18:57Speaker 02

  I'm gonna say there's at least one line there, there's no way mom watches every episode of this podcast.

• 19:01Travis Kelce?

  I'm, I'm pretty sure she does.

• 19:04Speaker 02

  There's no chance. You think she watches every episode? She's moving and shit, I don't think she watches every episode.

• 19:09Travis Kelce?

  Jason, she 100% watches every, both her and dad might not watch it, but she listens, yeah.

• 19:17Speaker 02

  No, she's not, she's not listening to this.

• 19:19Travis Kelce?

  That's like saying, no, she doesn't watch every game.

• 19:23Speaker 02

  She watches every game. She watches every game. Now it's way different.

• 19:29Travis Kelce?

  You're so ridiculous, dude.

• 19:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's an awesome quote by mama.

• 19:32Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, shout out to mom, shout out to, uh, and shout out to the kingdom, you know, uh, and I, I think, uh, after watching it all and, and seeing, you know, even though it ended, uh, absolutely miserable for me last year, it was a special year. It was a, um, an eventful year and, um, there was a lot of ups,

• 19:52Travis Kelce?

  and a lot of things that happened throughout that year and throughout that documentary that, um, you know, made you feel good, you know, and, um, I, I, I think everybody should go and check that thing out, um, and watch every episode but the last.

• 20:05Speaker 02

  Well done, well done. Yeah, I mean, listen, I know, uh, firsthand what it's like to have a documentary year that you lose a, uh, Super Bowl and neither of the documentaries are being made to try and capture that, I guess. Like it was more, they start from the beginning of the season and that just ends up being what the case was. And yeah, it's a shitty.

• 20:23Travis Kelce?

  The documentary shows a lot about the Chiefs history. It shows a lot about Coach Reed's history and a lot of the players, uh, backgrounds. Um, and it showed, it, it definitely, you know, shines some light on what this organization has been to the city and to the NFL with the Hunt family has been to the NFL. So I think it's a beautiful, uh, documentary and I think, uh, ESPN or, and Disney, I should say, uh, have something special that, uh, everybody can go check out.

• 20:49Speaker 02

  Wonderful. Well, we also, um, we also turned some dudes into Swifties, which.

• 20:55Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, we got, we got a lot of people.

• 20:57Speaker 02

  A bonus, right?

• 20:58Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. Yeah. 100%. I had a few, I had a few players and, uh, and coaches that came across it and gave Tate nothing but praise. I think they, I think a lot of people, uh, saw her from a different, uh, perspective. It was just like mom said, it was very genuine. Um, and it came off so just, uh, real and, uh, especially a lot of the stuff that meant so much to her that's happened throughout her life and especially this past like year has, uh, has kind of unfolded, uh, in her direction. And it was really, it was really cool to see, uh, a lot of, a lot of the guys in, uh, in the building and, and around the city, um, react the way they did.

• 21:36Speaker 02

  I, I heard a bunch of comments even specifically about, uh, Cause you know, obviously navigating uh social media in today's age is like a current player is like is something that takes them getting used to. And I thought her answer of how she navigates the noise was just like so unbelievably well said. And I had multiple people um message reach out about it like, man, she just like, that is such an incredible way to think about how to navigate that and not think of yourself like you're the center of some ecosystem and like, it's not the way it really works. And it just was such a well stated thing. Uh, there's also some really good comments like this one from at life of patrol six. I'm

• 22:20Speaker 02

  going through the comment section on YouTube and it must be the most positive place on the internet right now. This one really got me. And I've read this comment as well uh from at s dread 70. Got some cool shades on driving in probably a truck. I don't know what he's in there, but full disclosure, I was a bit annoyed that the spot that this sports podcast is going to have a pop singer on. I was gonna skip it. I've never been more. I've never been this engrossed in anything for two hours in my entire life. Friends, is it crazy for a 54 year old dude to be Googling? What is a Swifty? And how can I become one? I laughed. I got angry at her not owning her own music and I got choked up. Seeing two people genuinely in love when all we heard all season

• 23:05Speaker 02

  is this relationship isn't real. It's a marketing scheme, etc., etc. Gave me a feeling I did not know I could have. I've always thought the Kelsey brothers were just dudes with dope jobs. Like they could chug beers and they could chug beers with you if you met them. They don't act like famous people. Taylor seems the same. This showed all of their human sides and I loved every minute of it. I thought that was a beautiful statement. And yes, we will chug beers with you if you have them. I'm all in for that. Um, you hand me beer, I'll chug it. Yeah. S D read. So all in on that guy. That was very well stated.

• 23:39Travis Kelce?

  No, like we said, she came off uh just as genuine as she really is, man. And I think it was uh it was cool to see the world react to it, knowing that they hadn't seen her uh in that kind of, you know, light before. Yeah. I I got nothing. That's why I love her.

• 23:54Speaker 02

  There is some other things. We've also been invited to almost every zoo and aquarium in America.

• 24:00Travis Kelce?

  Um, that they must not have heard what I said. I don't want to go to the zoo, although I will. Not that I won't. I don't want to go to the zoo and meet the otters and no, I want to just be canoeing.

• 24:12Speaker 02

  The captive, the captivity otters. You want to meet the wild.

• 24:15Travis Kelce?

  I want to meet, I want to meet one in the wild.

• 24:17Speaker 02

  Nice, nice, nice.

• 24:18Travis Kelce?

  That comes swimming over to me or needs help. Somehow and screams or screeches for me to help it. Oh, two rescued otters. That's, that's halfway there.

• 24:30Speaker 05

  Yeah, they're rescued otters. You could, you could spring them free of the zoo.

• 24:35Speaker 05

  Get them out of there.

• 24:37Travis Kelce?

  Come here, little buddy.

• 24:37Speaker 05

  Yeah, smuggle them out.

• 24:39Travis Kelce?

  Come with me.

• 24:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, you're not, you're not seeing the full plan here, Travis. You smuggle them out of the zoo and then you put them in the wild. It's like a, it's a free willy situation.

• 24:45Travis Kelce?

  The next news headline.

• 24:46Speaker 05

  Free willy situation.

• 24:47Travis Kelce?

  Otters.

• 24:48Speaker 05

  Stolen.

• 24:48Travis Kelce?

  Disappear from the Kansas City Zoo.

• 24:51Speaker 02

  They think they're rescuing them. No, we're gonna rescue them from the rescuers. Yeah.

• 24:58Speaker 05

  Set them free in those.

• 24:59Speaker 02

  Rescuers down under.

• 25:00Speaker 05

  In Kansas City.

• 25:02Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 25:03Travis Kelce?

  You got some creeks. You got some creeks around here.

• 25:05Speaker 02

  Otters would do great in the Ozarks.

• 25:07Travis Kelce?

  Dude, I love the Ozarks.

• 25:09Speaker 02

  So top, what are the top five wild animals you wish you could domesticate? Bear, number one. I would love to domesticate a bear. I would have a bear.

• 25:17Travis Kelce?

  What kind of bear though? What kind of bear? What kind of bear?

• 25:18Speaker 02

  I mean, I'm, I'm a big grizzly guy. I would take, I would take a black bear too.

• 25:22Travis Kelce?

  Big old dancing bear.

• 25:23Speaker 02

  I would take a black bear though. Like if you could fully domesticate a bear, that would be incredible.

• 25:29Travis Kelce?

  That'd be pretty cool.

• 25:30Speaker 02

  What's another one? Tiger?

• 25:33Travis Kelce?

  I've thought about it.

• 25:35Speaker 02

  I just, we're not cat guys. We'll do cats like they're okay.

• 25:38Travis Kelce?

  Tigers because we were the Cleveland Heights Tigers. Like I'm, like if they're, I'm gonna put it on my list. It might not be, I'm gonna put it at five. I'm gonna put it at five.

• 25:47Speaker 02

  Alright.

• 25:48Travis Kelce?

  Just because.

• 25:48Speaker 02

  Number one bear, five tiger. What are, what's the number two animal we would domesticate, if we could domesticate it? I'm gonna go wolf. Having a freaking like big ass dire wolf would be.

• 25:59Travis Kelce?

  Do you already have a wolf, Jason?

• 26:01Speaker 02

  Nah, but these things ain't like a timber. Have you seen a timber wolf? Have you seen how big them fucking things are?

• 26:06Travis Kelce?

  No.

• 26:07Speaker 02

  They're badass animals. You just walk around like John Snow with your fucking tiger, with your fucking dire wolves next to you. Be pretty badass. Bulls are, what are you talking about? Those are definitely domesticated.

• 26:22Speaker 02

  They're so domesticated, they don't exist.

• 26:24Travis Kelce?

  I know what you're doing, Brandon.

• 26:27Speaker 02

  Like, there's not, the stereotypical bull does not exist in the wild. It is only there because it is domesticated as a form of livestock.

• 26:37Speaker 05

  You know what I'm talking, you know, you know what I'm talking about. You know, those bulls are not, those are not pets.

• 26:42Speaker 02

  You're going, this is another.

• 26:44Speaker 05

  Not the videos we send back for, not the videos we send back, those aren't friendly.

• 26:48Travis Kelce?

  Those are pets.

• 26:51Speaker 02

  What else? What are good?

• 26:52Travis Kelce?

  Everyone's thinking like my entire feed's otters. And in reality is.

• 26:57Speaker 02

  So we got, we got one bear, we got five tiger.

• 27:00Travis Kelce?

  It's just bulls putting their horns through people's faces.

• 27:05Speaker 02

  That's a great, I mean, those are fun videos. Little cowboy poker never hurt anybody.

• 27:09Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, I'd never hurt a single soul.

• 27:12Speaker 02

  Well, watching the video doesn't.

• 27:14Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 27:16Speaker 02

  Gorilla, chimpanzee?

• 27:17Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, I'm down with, I'm down with monkey. Like the friend's monkey, like the friend, friend's monkey, or like Ace Ventura monkey?

• 27:23Speaker 02

  Yeah, monkey that doesn't fling poop or try and rip face off would be a great pet.

• 27:28Travis Kelce?

  They're all kind of into that.

• 27:30Speaker 02

  That's what I'm saying. This is if you could domesticate it. So we'll go one bear, two, some type of primate, three.

• 27:37Travis Kelce?

  I'm going otter, dude. I was, I don't know.

• 27:39Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, otter, otter would be fun. They're, they seem like fun animals.

• 27:43Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, land and water, like, are you kidding me?

• 27:46Speaker 02

  Yeah, semi aquatic.

• 27:48Travis Kelce?

  So we need one more. Give me one more. Dolphin? We gotta go aquatic.

• 27:54Speaker 02

  I'm not going aquatic. That's.

• 27:56Travis Kelce?

  Shamu. That's what I'm doing.

• 28:00Speaker 02

  To your point, we can bring SeaWorld back right now.

• 28:04Travis Kelce?

  Let's do this. SeaWorld is a lot more than just Shamu and, and, and Namu or, yeah, Shamu and Nomu.

• 28:13Speaker 02

  Nomu, what the fuck are you talking about? What's Nomu?

• 28:16Travis Kelce?

  Dude, it's, you got a deep dive, dude. Bro, I'm telling you, orcas are like, that's, it goes otters, orcas.

• 28:23Speaker 02

  If it was healthy for the orca to domesticate it, it would be a pretty badass animal to have domesticated.

• 28:28Travis Kelce?

  Free willy.

• 28:29Speaker 02

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 28:30Travis Kelce?

  Free Willy, man.

• 28:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, let it live in the ocean. It just comes back to you.

• 28:34Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. Nice. Well, shout out to Casey Zoo. Shout out to, uh, top five domesticated animals.

• 28:39Speaker 02

  Dude, this photo of you, this photo of you from the GQ shoot with the otter and his hands up is so good. It's just incredible. You kind of look like a, like a, like a person version of an otter. Like you kind of got a little otterish to you.

• 28:55Travis Kelce?

  The hair is definitely helping out.

• 28:58Speaker 02

  We also had a viral TikTok audio. Um, I think we all know that if there's one thing male sports fans want to see in their spaces is more of me on their screens or on their screens is more of me with a bunch of people commenting, Alon Omar, Livy Dune, Mina Kimes, even Kylie Kelsey. Hey, shout out Kai. Uh, not to lie, said, it's so good. I love this audio so much. I love all the women in sports using this trend. Men get used to it, suckers.

• 29:25Travis Kelce?

  Suckers. Kylie is funny as fuck, man.

• 29:28Speaker 02

  Cheers.

• 29:29Travis Kelce?

  They're in charge of our collective sanity. I don't get it.

• 29:33Speaker 02

  Yeah. What's that mean?

• 29:35Speaker 05

  People were really concerned that Jake and I were in charge of this episode.

• 29:39Speaker 02

  Why?

• 29:40Speaker 05

  I don't know. There's a lot of doubters out there.

• 29:42Speaker 02

  Brandon and Jake do a wonderful job each and every week and, uh, they did not drop the baby. They nailed it. Well done, guys.

• 29:49Speaker 05

  Didn't drop the baby. I didn't, I didn't even, man, this is the longest I was ever trusted with a secret.

• 29:57Speaker 05

  The phone call I got from Travis scared the shit out of me.

• 30:02Travis Kelce?

  Well, it's, I was terrified myself. I thought I was writing my death sentence, fucking talking to you.

• 30:09Speaker 05

  Travis called me one day and gave me like a 30 second, hey, um, hey, so, um, she's gonna do it. Uh, somebody will call you with details. Bye. And that was, that was

• 30:21Travis Kelce?

  Also, I didn't talk to you about anything. You don't even know.

• 30:24Speaker 05

  Don't tell him. And I'm like, oh.

• 30:26Travis Kelce?

  Don't even.

• 30:27Speaker 02

  This message will explode in 15 seconds.

• 30:29Speaker 05

  Your phone is being tracked. They will know if you said something.

• 30:36Speaker 05

  So I spent a lot of time lying to people. Jake didn't find out till we were in the car on the way to Travis's house.

• 30:44Speaker 06

  I was just about to say Brandon trusted me for all of 48 hours. He was like, yeah, I need your help setting up Travis's new camera in Kansas City. And then we got in the car and Brandon got a text by someone where I was like, oh, fuck, we're doing that.

• 30:58Speaker 05

  Oh, she, oh, she doesn't work for Pat Mahomes. And I'm like, yeah, I have a line view.

• 31:04Speaker 05

  Yeah, we're not talking to Pat today, buddy. Sorry.

• 31:06Travis Kelce?

  It's like, set up the camera. I only know what to do. It comes.

• 31:09Speaker 06

  I was like, why the fuck do you need my help? He was like, clear your schedule. I need your help.

• 31:14Speaker 05

  I do want to flag this. Jake is very difficult to get him to go places when you don't explain what he's doing. He asks a lot of questions. I'm just, yeah, your ticket for Kansas City is purchased. Get on the plane and shut the fuck up.

• 31:25Travis Kelce?

  You gotta be more willing to get out of the house.

• 31:26Speaker 05

  What are we gonna do there? Are we gonna have dinner? And I'm like, just get in the fucking plane, Jake.

• 31:30Travis Kelce?

  Maybe.

• 31:31Speaker 06

  We did have free.

• 31:31Speaker 02

  Stop asking questions.

• 31:33Speaker 05

  This is, I can't, I have no time for questions with you. Just get in.

• 31:36Speaker 02

  You had to do the town with them.

• 31:39Speaker 05

  Honestly.

• 31:40Speaker 02

  I gotta, we're gonna go someplace. We're gonna beat some dudes up. I need you to not ask questions.

• 31:45Speaker 05

  Very nice lady. And then we were, yeah, okay.

• 31:47Speaker 02

  I need you not to ask questions.

• 31:48Speaker 05

  No questions. You're gonna sign some forms. Don't worry about it.

• 31:51Speaker 02

  The world also got to see Jets Jake in fully stressed out glory. Jake, how did your, was this, was your, I was a little concerned watching these videos myself. Is your heart capable of handling this type of like stress? Like, what is the?

• 32:03Speaker 05

  The, yeah, I mean, I got it fixed to be able to handle this kind of stress.

• 32:08Speaker 02

  Got it, got it.

• 32:09Travis Kelce?

  Nice.

• 32:10Speaker 05

  Look at the little hands.

• 32:12Speaker 02

  Sure.

• 32:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, I didn't realize Emily was just filming me all day. I would have tried to remain a little calmer.

• 32:20Speaker 02

  That's so good.

• 32:22Speaker 05

  Just hold on.

• 32:23Travis Kelce?

  Not now.

• 32:25Speaker 05

  Stop. Please stop. The man has two laptops out. We were just, it felt, to everyone's point, like it felt kind of ridiculous that we were being trusted with this responsibility. And I was for sure, very much in do not fuck this up mode, do not drop the baby. With Taylor's album announcement, which was a very like, very big deal thing that I did not, yeah, I was yelling at my own computer. I just, I'm so glad everything worked out great.

• 32:56Speaker 02

  It is very funny and honestly, it's like shout out to Tay for really coming on the show and deciding to do this with us. Because like, this is something that usually happens meticulously on like tonight's shows and like programs that have like hundreds of people like working and operating them. She decided to come on.

• 33:20Travis Kelce?

  Off season of New Heights.

• 33:22Speaker 02

  A bunch of like dickheads that don't know what the hell we're doing. We've never done or handled anything to this degree. So, yeah.

• 33:30Speaker 05

  No, shout out to Taylor. Taylor's team took good care of me. So they, they made sure I didn't freak out halfway through. It was good. It was good. But my only thing to add is like, I look a lot like Jake stressing before we do things, but I'm glad nobody films me. The, the moment where I relaxed was when I, I asked her before we recorded, it's like, oh, hey, at the end, we have like a section where like, we're gonna like, whatever question you have to ask, like, go for it. And she was like, oh, I gotta ask Jason about that wax. And I was like, oh, we're fucking golden. We're good. Get her on camera right now.

• 33:58Speaker 02

  She gets the vibe.

• 33:59Speaker 05

  She understands exactly what the show is. Fucking nails. Go. So I, that's when I finally relaxed.

• 34:05Speaker 02

  Well, um, yeah, thank you to everyone that tuned in. It was easily our most successful show of all time. And I thank everybody. We have appreciated your comments. We appreciate how much you enjoyed the episode. Shout out to Taylor for coming on the New Heights Podcast.

• 34:23Speaker 02

  Um, uh, but I guess now we talk about sports because this is a sports podcast.

• 34:29Speaker 05

  I don't think that, uh, that wraps up new news.

• 34:32Speaker 02

  New news. Alrighty.

• 34:39Speaker 05

  All right.

• 34:41Speaker 02

  Are we allowed to play this?

• 34:42Speaker 05

  I don't know. She sent it to me. I don't care.

• 34:46Speaker 05

  Shouldn't have sent me a gift that plays music.

• 34:50Speaker 05

  We're going to get to meet her legal team so soon. I can't wait.

• 34:53Travis Kelce?

  Can't wait. Thank you to our sponsor, Colgate Total.

• 34:59Speaker 02

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• 35:03Travis Kelce?

  That's true. Otherwise you're just out there running cardio. Can't get open for a big play.

• 35:10Speaker 02

  But it's not just football. There's a lot of things you need to prevent before they start.

• 35:14Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, like in your mouth.

• 35:16Speaker 02

  My mouth specifically?

• 35:18Travis Kelce?

  I mean, probably yours too, but I'm talking everybody's mouth. There's bacteria in there that can lead to oral health problems like cavities, gingivitis.

• 35:29Speaker 02

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• 35:40Travis Kelce?

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• 35:48Speaker 02

  And it's not just one contributing player either. It's a whole system. Toothpaste, mouthwash, and a special toothbrush.

• 35:55Travis Kelce?

  Now that's the squad you want fighting for your mouth.

• 35:58Speaker 02

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• 36:05Travis Kelce?

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• 36:09Speaker 02

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• 36:12Travis Kelce?

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• 36:16Speaker 02

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• 36:23Travis Kelce?

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• 36:31Speaker 02

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• 36:36Travis Kelce?

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• 36:42Speaker 02

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• 37:19Speaker 02

  That is the recap of the Taylor Swift episode. Let's get to some bold topics. Bold topics brought to you by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. Travis, we got football to talk about. It's back, baby. It's officially fall. Labor Day is Monday and then we're done with the fucking summer. We're on to fucking gridiron football. That's right. We're back. The Eagles are back. The Chiefs are back. Whoever you root for is back. Whoever you hate is back. I mean, that's what's great about football. You get to hate people, you get to love people.

• 37:47Travis Kelce?

  The beauty of it all. You get all the emotions.

• 37:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:51Travis Kelce?

  Teams you don't give a fuck about.

• 37:52Speaker 02

  So let's start with a team that a lot of people that tune into this podcast give a little major shit about, and that's the Chiefs preseason. Travis, you're fresh, fresh out of St. Joe's. You're back in Kansas City. We are two weeks before the opening game of the NFL for the Chiefs in Brazil. What are your thoughts on the Chiefs preseason to date?

• 38:13Travis Kelce?

  Man, it was fun out there in St. Joe. And I think we, you know, the first two games, we, we didn't show a great, great showing in terms of the starters all the way to the, to the fourth quarter and everybody that finished the game. And I think that that last game was a little bit better, man. But the Bears, the Bears figured it out at the end. But you know, at the end of the day, it's all about, you know, that chemistry, that mold, that culture that you're setting in preseason during, during camp, during, you know, the time that you get back from camp, getting ready for the last couple preseason games. And we still got a lot of work to do these next two weeks, getting ready for the Chargers down in, down in Brazil, man, which I'm super pumped about. By the time this episode comes out, I think we'll have the

• 38:58Travis Kelce?

  Fifty three man roster set um and everything but right now uh it's still kind of in question uh with where we're at right now but I I'm I couldn't be happier with you know how the uh the tight end position is how the offenses is is rolling right now um all the excitement Patty Mahomes was out there the other night against the Bears having a grand old time smiling laughing making plays and um and we got to see what that offense uh kind of looks like uh for that first uh that really that first quarter and it's just uh it's an exciting time man I know uh I trust Brett Veach and and Coach Reed and our scouting department to get the right guys uh on this team and um to get the right guys if we if we don't have them right now and it's uh it's gonna be a fun

• 39:41Travis Kelce?

  fun year man and I think uh the Chargers are huge team are great team and uh and and and

• 39:48Speaker 02

  Everybody going into the uh into that first week is healthy and

• 39:54Travis Kelce?

  uh we're gonna get everybody's best shot as usual and I'm just um and I'm I'm fired up for it brother.

• 39:58Speaker 02

  Dude, the Broncos had one of the best defenses in the NFL last year. They're returning Bo Nix going into his second year. The Chargers have been revamped. They look great. The Raiders, Chip Kelly, fast-paced offense. They got Pete Carroll, one of the most successful head coaches of Think about the head coaches in your division. Pete Carroll, Harbaugh, freaking Andy Reid.

• 40:19Travis Kelce?

  Some Hall of Famers, man.

• 40:20Speaker 02

  And freaking uh

• 40:21Travis Kelce?

  Sean Payton.

• 40:22Speaker 02

  I mean, it's an insane conference when you just think about the head coaches that are involved of leading these teams. Um it is potentially the deepest AFC West has been in a long time.

• 40:32Travis Kelce?

  Love, man. I love competition, brother. I'm I'm here for it. I think uh you know, last year it was a competitive division. Um and this year you're gonna see a lot of the same. Uh a lot of teams are making moves. Um I'm I'm interested to see what Gino looks like in uh in uh in Vegas. I'm interested to see you know how that uh the Chargers team looks one more year under Harbaugh where that culture is embedded a little bit more and obviously Sean Payton has done nothing but great things since he's been in the league, let alone in Denver. Um and it's just, you know, a lot of those young guys are gonna keep making strides and it's a huge test to to you know what we have in Kansas City and um how we do things to keep trying to find ways to win and and stay on top of this this division, man.

• 41:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's hard. Was there a renewed sense of hey, we want to improve markedly or do you think that I mean, I guess what I'm trying to ask is like Having lost a Super Bowl, knowing that you guys need to get better to win this year. Like it's just a different dynamic. I feel like.

• 41:32Travis Kelce?

  We won the most games that we that we have since I've been here in the regular season.

• 41:37Speaker 02

  It's a great point.

• 41:38Travis Kelce?

  It was it was far from, you know, a disappointing year in the in terms of like what the expectations were. Obviously, we lost the Super Bowl in a in an ugly fashion, but it was still a very good team last year.

• 41:51Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:51Travis Kelce?

  I think we got a lot of those pieces back, which makes us feel comfortable that we can do what we do. And and take it up a notch. Obviously, you got to get there's things that you got to get better at. There's things that you look back at last year and and I reevaluate myself every single day, every single game. Like like the looking at at the entire work of things last year. That's why I I chose a different, you know, preparation and a different route in terms of prepping for the season. I think everybody, you know, has to have that and I and to be honest, that's what Coach Reed is unbelievable at. He's unbelievable at challenging men in the building to be able to to up one up themselves and and become better at at all aspects of life, let alone the football field.

• 42:35Travis Kelce?

  But definitely when we're in that building, you know, I think he does a great job of challenging everybody to, you know, find that that that next level that you got to unlock.

• 42:45Speaker 02

  Yeah, absolutely. I mean, he's the best in the business and he has been for a long time and he's the man. Let's talk about the new pieces. You brought up you guys got new pieces and there's some exciting ones. We got.

• 42:54Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah.

• 42:55Speaker 02

  Rashi Rice coming back. He might be suspended for a little bit, but he will be back this year. Xavier Worthy has another year under his belt.

• 43:02Travis Kelce?

  She looks great. Xavier Worthy looks great.

• 43:05Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 43:05Travis Kelce?

  We got.

• 43:06Speaker 02

  Checo's back and healthy.

• 43:07Travis Kelce?

  Pop is back, healthy, running around. Kareem gets an off season and a training camp under Andy Reid and is flying around. Looking just as good, if not better than last year.

• 43:17Speaker 02

  But I want to talk about specifically, you lose one big piece. You lose Joe Toon.

• 43:21Travis Kelce?

  Big Toon, which it was awesome to see him on the field against the Bears, man. I fucking love Toon.

• 43:25Speaker 02

  We have new pieces coming in this year. Josh Simmons, we talked about how big of a fan I am of this kid coming out of Ohio State. If that knee is healthy, which Kingsley slides into guard. How have those two played throughout training camp? They look pretty good in that last preseason game. Simmons definitely looks like he's holding it out on the edge. Is this a big step with those new pieces for the Kansas City offensive line?

• 43:50Travis Kelce?

  I got all the confidence in the world in this offensive line, man. These guys, uh, they're, they're in sync and that's what the, that's what getting, you know, the, the preseason and training camp is to get these guys in sync. Uh, Big Creed is up there, another year under his belt as a, as a leader. Trey Smith, another leader, uh, that, that is just, you know, got paid and is worth every single fucking penny, if not more, man.

• 44:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 44:13Travis Kelce?

  There's a lot of confidence and a lot of, uh, a lot of games played, a lot of wins underneath a lot of these guys. And even adding, uh, Juwan Taylor, but you had a guy like Josh Simmons in there who's

• 44:23Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 44:23Travis Kelce?

  one of the most athletic, uh, offensive linemen I've ever seen in my life, just It's insane. in terms of pound for pound, strength and, uh, just how explosive he can be. And, uh, he sees the field well, he's a smart player. And I think all of this, uh, is going to help us out. And then Kingsley moving into guard, I think is going to fit him. Uh, and I can't say is going to fit him. He's been looking great all, all camp. And I think, uh, going into the season, um, he's going to, he's going to be able to play a lot more free, a lot more physical. And just that second year under your belt, you feel more confident, you feel more, uh, you know, you got that reassurance of how you need to go about things and how you're, uh, how you're going to have to play this game, uh, in this offense. And, uh, I got all the faith in this offensive line, man.

• 45:06Speaker 02

  There, there's also the simple fact that guard is easier than tackle. Like, let's face it, left tackle is one of the hardest positions to play in football. And the fact that he was even trying to do that, if he can bend and play inside a, like a tighter phone booth style with good feet, he should be able to translate to guard just fine.

• 45:25Travis Kelce?

  Which he is.

• 45:25Speaker 02

  I'm not trying to throw shade any which way. The left tackle position was an issue for the Chiefs and you saw it affect Pat in multiple ways. He was anti in the pocket. And when that was solidified, when Joe Tooney slid out there, the offense started functioning again and they struggled again with it in the Super Bowl. If Josh Simmons stays healthy and he can protect Pat's blind side and they can function from the pocket better and Pat feels more comfortable, it is going to directly lead to a better Kansas City offense. That's the reality of it. I think it's a big freaking move. If both these guys can play the way they have in the preseason and continue to develop a chemistry together and lock down that left side, it is going to make Pat Mahomes play so much better. And that's encouraging if I'm a Chiefs fan.

• 46:08Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. And obviously, uh,

• 46:12Travis Kelce?

  We uh, we got, we got beat on all four phases or all three phases, I would say in the Super Bowl. I think it was, it was a whole lot more than just our offensive line situation.

• 46:22Speaker 02

  Well, yeah, I'm excited about Josh Simmons. I'm excited about Kingsley at left guard. I think he's going to do much better inside. I think that the right side picked right up where it left off. Let's show this freaking highlight by Trey Smith. I mean, I just, you look at him finding work there and then he's not done. He's still fucking blocking. It is a preseason game. Trey only knows one speed. He's been one of my favorite players to watch since he entered the NFL. I just think he plays the game the right way. He's an enforcer, a great teammate. This made me so excited when I saw it happen because I, I just love guys that play the game this way. Like he's helping the center. He helps the left tackle, the right tackle, and then he catches the guy beating the left tackle late, trying to make a play. I mean,

• 47:07Speaker 02

  it's just, it's such a great clip.

• 47:09Travis Kelce?

  This is literally the, the bull that, that I send you on Instagram, the bull videos, dude. One dude and then another dude.

• 47:19Speaker 02

  Trey Smith is just a domesticated bull. Is that what we're saying right now?

• 47:23Travis Kelce?

  No, they are not domesticated.

• 47:24Speaker 02

  That's right. That's right. All right. All right. Well, either way, Trey Smith is uh, still Trey Smith. Pacheco is still Pacheco, fully back, all gas, no brakes.

• 47:33Travis Kelce?

  Oh my gosh, man. I was in tears once I found out he was okay. I was in tears dying at, laughing at this shit. Look just.

• 47:44Speaker 02

  Oh, god damn dude. I didn't see that.

• 47:46Travis Kelce?

  You gotta go down, dude. Yeah. And I'm, anytime I get hit on the sideline like that, I am falling down immediately. I'm going.

• 47:53Speaker 02

  Head first into the concrete wall? That's how you break your neck. That's like the first thing they tell you in hockey is like, if you're going into the boards, do not go into the boards with your head down. That's a great way to break. Like, check this out.

• 48:07Travis Kelce?

  Oh my God.

• 48:08Speaker 02

  Oh my God, that is.

• 48:10Travis Kelce?

  He was trying to keep his balance and he just couldn't, man. That's too funny. He's all good though, ladies and gentlemen, he's all good. And whenever I go to the sideline like that and I get smoked, I'm, because the chains, the photographers.

• 48:21Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 48:22Travis Kelce?

  There's so many people on the sideline. They're not as, they're, they're.

• 48:25Speaker 02

  Awareness level is low. Yes.

• 48:27Travis Kelce?

  That's what I'm saying. It's like, bro, just go down. Just go down. You're going to save yourself a headache sometimes. But Pop's all good. So we're all good, baby. We also got, it says new wide receiver, but Taquan Thornton has been on the team since last year. But man, it is, it is good to have my guy, man. High energy, fast as all get out. So we got another deep ball threat here in Kansas City, and Pat found him this past week against Chicago, man. And I think that's just a little glimpse of what you're going to see out of him this year.

• 49:01Speaker 02

  And then we've also, we've been given Josh Simmons a lot of love, probably too much love for a rookie, if I'm being honest. Like, you still got to go out there and.

• 49:10Travis Kelce?

  No, he's gonna have his rookie.

• 49:12Speaker 02

  He looks pretty good.

• 49:12Travis Kelce?

  That is what it is.

• 49:13Speaker 02

  I like the way he bends and I like how athletic he is, so I'm going to state it, but.

• 49:17Travis Kelce?

  Show some love.

• 49:18Speaker 02

  The other person that I want to shout out is Ashton Gelati. Like, first of all, the clip of him and Josh Simmons getting into it, I like that. I like when dudes are kind of competitive and coming with like a firiness to it. I thought it was the appropriate amount. Threw a couple of hands, getting in people's faces. You know, he kind of got thrown around.

• 49:38Travis Kelce?

  Nobody's backing down.

• 49:38Speaker 02

  Yeah. And then I saw, I think maybe the next day or two practices later, they showed like one of the one-on-one clips on Twitter, and Ashton got him. Like, and I think, I think that Josh is a very good pass protector, and he caught him leaning, got his hands, and got right around the edge. And then there are a bunch of clips in the last game where the motor is just very apparent. And to me. Half of being like great on defense, especially defensive line is just like never stopping. Like if you play with relentlessness, I mean, nobody blocked him right there. I think Jake might have been able to make that tackle.

• 50:16Travis Kelce?

  Listen, but he, he, he 100% has that though. He 100% has exactly what you're talking about. This guy has a motor, man.

• 50:23Speaker 02

  When you do not stop, you just keep going, keep going, keep going. It makes such a difference whether it's in pursuit, you get a lot of sacks that way. Like, look at these, he's fighting through the left tackle, he's making.

• 50:37Travis Kelce?

  He's gonna play his fucking gap in the run game and he's gonna get to, he's gonna, he's gonna get to the quarterback eventually. And the thing is, when guys, when guys play with motors like this, that does something to the quarterback. The quarterback's watching that on film all day and he's just thinking in his mind, he's coming. I know he's coming. If he isn't here initially, I know it's happening. I know, I know he's on the way. And that, and a guy like this is, uh, I think I saw him flying around on special teams and.

• 51:04Speaker 02

  Back around, he's fighting through, he's fighting through, he's fighting through.

• 51:07Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, he's got a good punch. He plays his gaps very well. He's technically sound. Um, I got a lot of love for him, man.

• 51:14Speaker 02

  If you have 11 guys playing with relentless effort and hustling to the ball, that is a great, that is a very hard thing to function with on offense. And I just saw that right away was apparent to me watching him. And don't lose that, brother. I mean, that is something, and it's noticeable by an offensive lineman too. Like you, you want to play the guy that picks and chooses. And every once in a while, when he knows he's not going to make a play, he's just kind of standing there, get, getting his energy back. Yeah. I want that guy all day. I don't want the Aaron Donald that is like fighting tooth and nail to get to the quarterback. I don't want that at all.

• 51:51Travis Kelce?

  Just get to the ball, man.

• 51:53Speaker 02

  Yeah. Chiefs offense through the first quarter of the preseason final against the Bears. 12 first downs, no penalties, 193 net yards, 10 points scored. Patrick Mahomes averaged over 11 yards per passing attempt, which is huge. There's been a lot of topics being brought up about Mahomes not, and the Chiefs often struggling to make plays down the field. We saw some of that this preseason. Hopefully that can, uh, catch back up for the Chiefs.

• 52:19Speaker 02

  Yeah, I don't know. Do you want to add anything else with?

• 52:22Travis Kelce?

  No, I think it's a fun offense when Pat's out there throwing the ball all over the field, 80 yards downfield, making plays in tight windows in the in the red zone, running around, throwing touchdowns that you don't even extending plays, having fun. That's when we're running the ball well and then the offensive line can get their mojo going, getting after guys in the ground game. It's just it's such a well powered offense and Coach Reed knows how to dial this thing up. And, you know, I'm just I'm fired up to show show the entire league what we've been working on all preseason, man.

• 52:56Speaker 02

  Well, speaking of one of the best offenses in the NFL, Papa Kelsey thinks that this is going to be one of the best seasons for Travis Kelce. I don't know if you saw this quote from Papa,

• 53:08Speaker 02

  from Pops on the red carpet. I think you're going to see one of the best seasons Travis has ever had. He's an incredible Travis is in incredible shape. Travis is ready to go and I'm excited about that.

• 53:20Travis Kelce?

  Okay, Big Ed.

• 53:21Speaker 02

  You in particular referenced the work you've been putting down in Boca. So yeah, Papa Kelsey is calling it now. Big year for the big Yeti. I mean, human exclamation point.

• 53:31Travis Kelce?

  Sorry. It's shout out to big Papa Kelsey, though, man. Hey, look, go ahead. I got you. I'm fixing for a hell of a season, too. In terms of shape, I don't want anybody to think that I don't want I don't want anybody to get that out of context. I'm I'm always I'm always in the best shape that I could possibly be. And I think the difference this year from last year and even the year before that, I think, is just the attention to to the fundamentals that I'm that I'm honing in on. I think I was down in Boca, working with Tony Vellani and working on a lot of running strides, working on explosive movements, working on back end speed, acceleration. I was working

• 54:12Travis Kelce?

  on a lot of things that will translate to how I move on the football field. And that's where I think everyone is seeing the difference is that I'm being more precise with my my fundamentals. I'm being more precise with my movements, which is making me seem and feel more agile and more more explosive. So I think that's one of the biggest things is getting down there. I think Tony does a great job with with helping guys with form and helping guys understand and train that form in a way that's that you really see the results over the course of a month to three months training with them.

• 54:49Speaker 02

  I think a lot of the times in an off season, you're always trying to train and do things to improve on areas of weakness from the season before. And you're trying to train in a way that you're going to be better the following season. And something that happens as you get older is your body changes and you start to have to realize like, hey, I can't do this kind of training or I should start doing more of this because I need to do more of X, right?

• 55:19Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 55:20Speaker 02

  And for me, and for every player, you go through this and you've been in the NFL for a very long time, highly successful. And I think that going and doing this training is you trying to capitalize and move and do things more efficiently and better than you either did them last year or you're trying to hold on to that. Does this make sense?

• 55:38Travis Kelce?

  100%. No, that's what I, I went down there after watching and feeling is how I got off the ball, how I was in and out of breaks, how, what my top end speed was. And I went to Tony, I was like, I need to get my, get off, off the ball a lot more explosive and I need to get my top end speed back to, back to, you know, where guys can respect me going past them. I think that's going to help me out. And then on top of that, just working the fundamentals and, and in terms of stride, and then just going through his regimen on how to, how to get that out of the guys that are in the building with him. So it was 100% of focus on that, knowing that over the past two years, I've come to an understanding that that's what I need to focus on.

• 56:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 56:22Travis Kelce?

  You know, I think, and, and as I'm getting older, you learn and you start to feel things, you know, get away or you start to feel things kind of, kind of go down and feeling that after last year, I was like, man, if I just trained these things and I, and I, and I get that back a little bit more than what I had last year, I think I can, I can play this game at an even higher level.

• 56:44Speaker 02

  And I'll give you like a prime example from my career, like we were in Chip Kelly's offense for three years where really what magnified me as a great player in that offense was my speed, explosion and acceleration. And that's what I trained heavily in the off season. And in the no huddle, you don't have to worry as much about the power of the game because the defense is more fatigued and the no huddle takes care of a lot of that aspect. The first year we went back to a huddle offense with Doug Peterson. It was apparent like, oh no, I need to like work on my technique in stopping a bull rush more. I need to work on that offseason. I like reaffirmed strength in squatting heavier

• 57:24Speaker 02

  and doing things in a different way because the system that I was in mandated that more. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I struggled with certain things the year before. So it's like, of course I'm going to work on those things a little bit harder in that offseason. I feel like as you get older, you lose more of the twitchiness in the quick stuff. So you have to do more to retain that stuff. Retain it. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like when you're younger, you can just walk on the, I can just walk out on the football field, didn't even need to warm up and I can go run full speed right now. As you get older, it's like, oh, I should probably be doing soft tissue stuff. I can't just go out there and do this. And that's something that every player, as you go off in your career, is having to go into those fields more and more and more. So. Yeah. Hundred percent hear you.

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• 59:09Travis Kelce?

  All right, Jason, let's talk about your preseason and you're still very close with the Eagles. So we'll tie you into a lot of what the Eagles have going on. How did you, how did you spend your preseason?

• 59:20Speaker 02

  I've been to a few practices. I always like to go back and go to camp. You'll find this out.

• 59:26Travis Kelce?

  Just loves football, man. This guy just loves some ball.

• 59:28Speaker 02

  You'll see it. You'll see it when you do eventually retire. You miss being in camp. You miss being around the guys. You miss talking football. I was with Joe Thomas this offseason. He said it really well. Like you build up this wealth of knowledge, your whole career, and then all of a sudden it stops and there's not like an outlet to talk about all these things. And going back to camp gets you talking about football again, gets me around stout, gets me around the offensive line, gets me around Nick Sirianni. And I get to talk about something that, you know, I built it like over a decade's worth of experience and knowledge of, and I like to, it's you.

• 1:00:08Speaker 02

  It's hard to not do that. So I really enjoy. I'm very thankful for the Eagles for letting me go back and get that.

• 1:00:16Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah. Well, they'd be silly not to let a fucking perennial All-Star, future Hall of Famer, not come back into the building and spit some wisdom, man. Everyone saw you spend a couple of days at Eagles camp with a big stout, man. How's our, how's our guy, Coach Stoutland doing, man?

• 1:00:30Speaker 02

  I mean, he's the same old guy. Can't fall asleep, like relentless energy. You want to talk about, we just talked about Ashton Gelati's like relentlessness on a defensive line.

• 1:00:39Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:00:39Speaker 02

  I feel the same way about coaches and that's like the one thing that has always stood out to me about stout is like he just is relentless. He's never going to stop coaching you. He's never going to let you fall asleep in the meeting. He's always, it's like it's so repetitive. He doesn't get bored of it. He loves doing it and he's passionate and intense about it.

• 1:00:58Travis Kelce?

  Were you ever asleep in the meetings kind of guy?

• 1:01:00Speaker 02

  I, I'm not going to say it's never happened, but it was really hard for me to fall asleep in meetings. I'll be on my phone sometimes. If we're going over something I've been over a million times, I might doze off into that. But no, I was pretty locked in. I was pretty locked in.

• 1:01:15Travis Kelce?

  You catch me in class, I am fucking snoring. You get you get me in a football meeting though, I am fucking, I'm right here with you, coach. I love talking some ball, baby.

• 1:01:26Speaker 02

  Center has to be dialed in, you know, I mean, they're in charge of a lot of the calls, in charge of setting everything up. So it's a position that you can't really afford to be disinterested in the meeting, but.

• 1:01:36Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, I just, I just love hearing Coach Reed and some of these coaches talk about their positions.

• 1:01:41Speaker 02

  I do miss Coach Talk. That's one thing I miss in retirement is listening to a coach install plays, motivate you for a day. Like I miss Jeff Statlin's motive. We should have a, we should have a, a weekly segment on New Heights, Coach Talk and just have like a video play of like a prominent coach, fire us the fuck up for the week. Cause that will.

• 1:02:01Travis Kelce?

  Those are my favorite parts. Those are my favorite parts of like Hard Knocks. Of these like, dude, you get a coach in there, start telling guys to stop being fucking soft. Man, that's some of my favorite shit.

• 1:02:11Speaker 02

  I need that stuff. I need that. I'm soft as shit without coaches telling me to do that. But I, you know, listen, the offensive line is in great shape. We got Jordan. That's one of the things that's fun about, for me going back is watching guys that I was there with now in elevated roles and being older guys like Jordan Malat is developed into such like a great personality and leader in that building and on that team. Landon Dickerson continues to develop into that role. Cam Jergens in his second year. Tyler Steen had a great camp. He's a guy that's always had the physical attributes to play and play well at guard. And you've just been waiting for it to click on a more consistent basis. He did that this year against Jalen Carter, one of the best defensive tackles

• 1:02:54Speaker 02

  in the NFL on a weekly basis. And then my highlight of camp, the highlight of me being there, joint practice with the Cleveland Browns. Dude, I got to watch in practice, Lane Johnson and Myles Garrett go up against, I got to watch two of the best of this decade, just casually doing one on ones and doing team drills.

• 1:03:15Travis Kelce?

  Two of the best offensive lines in the National Football League, you know, deal with the other side of the ball like.

• 1:03:20Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:03:21Travis Kelce?

  Betonio, like everybody, like you had some specimens out there. Just a big old, yeah, a bunch of guys drinking beer, beer drinking gas.

• 1:03:31Speaker 02

  Oh yeah. Landon, Landon was, so when we went up to Cleveland, Wyatt Teller and those guys had beer waiting after practice. So I think Landon was returning the favor, even though his knee was hurt. He was unable to be out there.

• 1:03:44Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:45Speaker 02

  It was.

• 1:03:45Travis Kelce?

  Drinking beers all practice.

• 1:03:46Speaker 02

  Yeah, I mean, listen, there's one way to rehab a knee issue. It's to drink beers. I think we all know that.

• 1:03:52Travis Kelce?

  Everybody knows that. Garage beers to help you.

• 1:03:54Speaker 02

  But no, I mean,

• 1:03:56Travis Kelce?

  It'll give you life.

• 1:03:56Speaker 02

  There was a moment in that practice where I was, I'm like sitting here and Miles is usually over on the left side. Right? He's not over on the right side and we line up for one on ones and my,

• 1:04:07Travis Kelce?

  The offensive, offensive.

• 1:04:09Speaker 02

  I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I always speak from the offensive perspective.

• 1:04:12Travis Kelce?

  Right.

• 1:04:13Speaker 02

  But I go out there for one on ones and I would see Miles Garrett lines up on the right side and in my head, I'm like, dude, I'm about to watch like, these two dudes go at it. This is fucking insane that this is happening right now. And Lane tried this tricky little set that he's been working on and got beat clean inside.

• 1:04:31Travis Kelce?

  See, that's the thing, but that is also.

• 1:04:33Speaker 02

  Bold strategy by Lane to whip this out in a one on one. I'm like,

• 1:04:36Travis Kelce?

  Well, are you kidding?

• 1:04:39Speaker 02

  He's like, I'm gonna fully test this.

• 1:04:40Travis Kelce?

  You whip it out right there? Joint practice? You whip that shit out on fucking Sunday?

• 1:04:44Speaker 02

  I'm gonna fully test this out right now.

• 1:04:46Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, fuck yeah. That's a, that's a clear vet right there. But that's the thing about a lot of people don't realize in these, not even just the joint practices, one on ones in general.

• 1:04:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:04:57Travis Kelce?

  Guys are testing things out. So you don't necessarily get your full like, oh, he beat him. He's better than him. Like, no, there's some guys are working specific techniques. You know what I mean? At the end of the day, yeah, that's the goal. I want to beat this guy in one on one. That's the, that's the fucking, that's where you, the love of football is like, you get to beat a guy, the, the guy that chooses you, man to man across from you. You know what I mean? Like, that's the, that's the love of it. But at the same time, like, don't get wrapped up in this guy's, you know, a better player than the, the guy that he just beat just because, you know, you saw a one on one rep. At the end of the day, there's, the field is, is based off of 11 one on one reps.

• 1:05:37Travis Kelce?

  But what you really need to focus on is how they work together as a team. But obviously, uh, when you get a guy like Lane Johnson and, and Miles Garrett going one on one, man, that's,

• 1:05:46Speaker 02

  It's true. I think, I think.

• 1:05:48Travis Kelce?

  Fun action.

• 1:05:49Speaker 02

  I think Miles and, and he wanted to go see what it felt like to go up against Lane because he had been on the left side a couple, uh, years ago to do a practice.

• 1:05:56Travis Kelce?

  That's why you see him go to that side. Hell yeah.

• 1:05:58Speaker 02

  And watching that, and it was a lot during the practice and watching them, those two go at it. I was just like, I don't know, man. I haven't been that giddy about something at like a practice in a long time. And it was just so cool to witness that take place, to be honest with you. I was like, man, I'm really lucky to watch these two dudes freaking do this right now. Like this is fucking awesome. And then there's also, you know, they still got Saquon Barkley, they still got Jalen Hurts, they still got A.J. Brown, they still got Slim Reaper. Dallas Goddard shook somebody so bad in like a tag off drill. I mean, I just

• 1:06:34Travis Kelce?

  Sneaky elusive. I say sneaky because he's six, he's 6'6", 250, 260. Sneaky elusive.

• 1:06:41Speaker 02

  I agree. Hundred percent. Yeah. And then watching everything that Vic and I just have so much respect for what he did last year with that defense and how he rebuilt that thing. All those coaches on that side. Obviously, the players still had to go out there and play. But I think between Vic and Clint Hurd on the defensive line and Bobby King is the linebacker, they are all, they coached their positions so well. They can be so multiple. They'll whip zero out of nowhere. They'll play a six man front, then play max like a four man rush and play coverage behind it. They'll play a five man front, they'll play a four man front. They do, they do it all. And they somehow get it well coached to the point that everybody's dialed in and knows what their assignment is. And

• 1:07:24Speaker 02

  that is something that is not easy to do. So just, it's really fun to see in practice, the offense have to rep all of these different things and know that when the game comes, they're going to have seen all of these scenarios already. And I think it really helps the offense be ready for when those things come up in the game.

• 1:07:46Travis Kelce?

  You know, man, practice makes fucking perfect, man. And you guys got great coaches, great players all coming back, man. But that's just like we got, man, you guys got a fucking tough division out there. And, and DC, DC is

• 1:07:59Speaker 02

  Giants, D-line. Happy Carter and freaking Dexter Lawrence, obviously, the Cowboys.

• 1:08:08Speaker 02

  You know, obviously new head coach, defense going back to Matt Eberflus, back to when he was with Dallas. I think that's what it's probably going to feel like. He's a little Rod Marinelli disciple, four down, they're going to move the front a lot, I bet. I'm excited to see how they transition to that for the first game of the year.

• 1:08:36Speaker 02

  And then Washington, I mean, they just, I mean, I was hoping they weren't going to get.

• 1:08:39Travis Kelce?

  Washington.

• 1:08:40Speaker 02

  Washington. Smart job, Josh. Way to get McCorn signed. That's a big one.

• 1:08:46Travis Kelce?

  Electric, electric skill players on top of veteran team. You got Bobby Wagner, you got Zach Ertz, you got, you know, two of my favorite teammates of all time. Then Andrew Wiley and Nick Allegretti, and I mean, just so many more guys on that team that are, that are just, you know, I think you're going to take that team to the next level, man. And they were, they were fun to fucking watch last year, man.

• 1:09:12Speaker 02

  They were flying.

• 1:09:12Travis Kelce?

  Tough team to beat. I know we, we got, I mean, we got a Monday night, man. And that's going to be a fucking, it's going to be cool to see Jaden in person, man.

• 1:09:21Speaker 02

  They were beating the brakes off of the Cincinnati Bengals in the preseason game, which Cincinnati's defense, we'll see how they do, but it's also just a preseason game.

• 1:09:31Travis Kelce?

  Yeah.

• 1:09:31Speaker 02

  They had a Laramie Tunsil, which I think they're investing in everything they can do to capitalize on this quarterback while he's on this rookie contract, which is why I was so surprised that it took so long to get Terry signed. It's like, listen, guys, you got a small window here while Jaden is cheap. Like you need to strike now and they finally shored that up. That's a big part of their offense and their ability to stretch the field vertically. Then they have all the RPOs and the reads and the quick screens underneath that really get freed up. So it's a, it's a fun offense to watch. It's a fun team to watch and everything being a second year.

• 1:10:13Speaker 02

  In all of those systems, you'd think that they'd be far improved. So I'm looking forward to the NFC East this year. I still think it's Philadelphia's division. I think that they're the most talented team.

• 1:10:23Travis Kelce?

  No doubt.

• 1:10:24Speaker 02

  And, uh, yeah, man. I was thoroughly enjoyed going to camp.

• 1:10:30Travis Kelce?

  Oh, let's get into some other stuff that you had going on in the preseason, man. You can see this T-shirt I got going on. You had the debut of Brumate too.

• 1:10:39Speaker 02

  Hi.

• 1:10:39Travis Kelce?

  With Chuck Liddell.

• 1:10:41Speaker 02

  Dude, how about that? I got knocked out by Chuck Liddell. Not many people can say that.

• 1:10:44Travis Kelce?

  Dude, how cool was that meeting Chuck?

• 1:10:46Speaker 02

  It was incredible meeting him, but it was terrifying doing this scene with him. Like, I'm like looking at him. I'm like, dude, you could just see that this dude is like, he could knock me out in a fucking second. Like this dude is a badass motherfucker who lived it. You know, like you can see it just in his eyes. And I'm like, dude, I am like in this right now. Uh, this could go sideways in a second.

• 1:11:13Travis Kelce?

  Chuck Liddell, eye to eye, as if you were gonna fight him. That's funny as fuck.

• 1:11:19Speaker 02

  But yeah, that it was a, it was a very fun moment. Uh, not only to film that with Chuck, but yeah, we've, we've done some great things with Garage Beer and all the whole team that embraces these stupid ideas to just have fun, embrace some nostalgia and, uh, yeah, just, I don't know, do things in a creative, different way than everybody else is doing. It was just a blast. So shout out to everybody, Jordan, Phoenix. Uh, I don't, there's too many people to name.

• 1:11:48Travis Kelce?

  You should gotta give a shout out to Honey Bobo.

• 1:11:50Speaker 02

  Honey Bobo, that's right. Bo Allen has been a, a big theme. I think we're just gonna try and kill him off in every single thing we do now. Like he's the Kenny. Like he just dies and everything. I don't know. We'll figure it out.

• 1:12:01Travis Kelce?

  Hilarious.

• 1:12:01Speaker 02

  Uh, anyways, we've, uh, we've had some fun. It's been a good off season, but I'm ready for football to get ramped up. Uh, Eagles versus Cowboys to start the NFL season. The banner will come down. And I mean, in front of, it's just like whoever schedules the stuff, Roger, great job. That is a great scheduled home opener for the Philadelphia fan base.

• 1:12:25Travis Kelce?

  I can't, I mean, is one of the biggest rivalries in the National Football League, if not the biggest. And it's, you know, they just came out with America's Team, the documentary of the Cowboys in their heyday, even though there's a lot of controversy around what's going on right now with the Cowboys.

• 1:12:42Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:12:42Travis Kelce?

  That's never an indication of what's actually going on. Yeah, but at the same time, what's going on right now in the media with Jerry Jones is it's never an indication of what's actually going on in that building.

• 1:12:54Speaker 02

  Well, listen, since you, since you brought it up, it is on the topic. For those of you who have been living under a rock, Jerry Jones and Micah Parsons, their star player on the defensive line have been, I don't know, they've been at it, man. Micah wants to get paid and things have culminated into not the best scenario. Jerry Jones claims Micah Parsons' agent spiked negotiations, told us to stick it up our ass. Harsh words, which his agent has told, which his agent has told multiple reports, it's told multiple outlets.

• 1:13:30Travis Kelce?

  Is there a video of Jerry Jones saying he told us to stick it up our ass?

• 1:13:35Speaker 02

  I don't know, but apparently.

• 1:13:36Travis Kelce?

  If there is, I gotta fucking hear Jerry Jones say that.

• 1:13:40Speaker 02

  Micah's agent is told multiple outlets, these claims are false. He did not say that. It just, this whole situation, I just like, it feels so weird to me. You know, I don't know. I get that, you know, you might not want to pay a guy what he's owed.

• 1:13:55Travis Kelce?

  I mean, he's one of the best defensive players in the league.

• 1:13:58Speaker 02

  Actually, I don't get that. Yeah. I don't know. I maybe I don't get that.

• 1:14:01Travis Kelce?

  I don't know what there is. I don't know what the controversy is. You would think that. One of the team's best players would get the, you know, the backing of the organization, man. I only know one way. I've seen it happen here in Kansas City with a lot of our players. And I feel like that, that negotiation was always understood that, you know, I mean, the team wants you there. If you're, if you've worked your ass off and you've done it in a way that has, you know, represented the team in the right, in the right way.

• 1:14:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, you're, you're, you're a good leader. You are respectful of your teammates, all this stuff. Yeah.

• 1:14:36Travis Kelce?

  Exactly. All that good stuff, man. And I, I just don't know, there's gotta be more to what's going on than, than we know.

• 1:14:44Speaker 02

  It just feels like this, there's one common denominator here, right? And that's Jerry, right? Like Jerry is kind of the issue of a lot of things that people have brought up for a long time in Dallas. And, you know, there's part of me that like really likes Jerry Jones. I, I, I respect.

• 1:15:01Travis Kelce?

  He likes his acting.

• 1:15:03Speaker 02

  I do. And Landman, that freaking scene in Landman is fucking, he nailed that. I do love that scene. It was so good. And there's like an old schoolness to him that I appreciate, but like, I just, you, you have to find a way to work this out. I feel like if you're the owner with Micah Parsons, and it just feels like it's not going in the right direction.

• 1:15:24Travis Kelce?

  There's so many variables. I just feel like there's no right or wrong way to handle these kinds of things. It's just, it's tough. It's, the best you can do, still be a great teammate, still be somebody in the building, because those relationships, if you do sign that contract to get back in, you, you don't want those to be tarnished. And I'm not saying that this is what Mike is doing. I'm just saying how I would handle this kind of stuff is that you always just want to be known as a great teammate, a great player to be around. And, um, and hopefully they figure something out, man. He's one of the best players in the league and you would hope that he gets paid.

• 1:15:57Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:15:58Travis Kelce?

  Has he said how much he wants?

• 1:16:00Speaker 02

  Uh, that is another great question.

• 1:16:03Travis Kelce?

  Like, did he say, I want to be the highest paid? Has he said, like? I mean.

• 1:16:09Speaker 02

  So Parsons in the final year of his rookie contract, he's set there in $24 million. Goddamn rookie first round pick. Those rookie contracts are still substantial.

• 1:16:17Travis Kelce?

  I'm 100% they are, but at the same time, him being the highest paid that you get double that.

• 1:16:22Speaker 02

  He's seeking a deal exceeding 40 million, which I think puts him in the TJ Watt, Miles Garrett, like all of those.

• 1:16:29Travis Kelce?

  Those two are the only two making 40 a year. Yeah.

• 1:16:31Speaker 02

  Yeah. Uh, it would potentially make him the highest paid non-quarterback in the NFL is what he's looking for, which yeah, that's a lot of money. Who knows what Jerry has offered him. This feels like more than just the numbers at this point. Take the Trey Hendricks thing, Hendrickson thing in Cincinnati. They're not agreeing on the numbers, but it doesn't feel like there's like a personal affront. Whereas with the Micah situation in Dallas with Jerry right now, it just feels like not only are they off on the numbers, but there's.

• 1:17:01Travis Kelce?

  They're in, they're in the media voicing their opinion. Yeah.

• 1:17:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, there's some type of like breakdown of like relationship almost. I don't know if he's going to play. We want, I mean, he's not said he hasn't going to play, which is a strong indication that I think he probably will play. And I hope he does because as a fan, I just want to watch him play.

• 1:17:16Travis Kelce?

  He's one of the fuck. Yeah, exactly. He's one of the best players in the league. Love watching him play and I'll always be on the player's side. So hopefully Dallas can pay him what he's worth.

• 1:17:24Speaker 02

  No doubt.

• 1:17:24Travis Kelce?

  Let's get to uh, some other preseason news. Jason, how about the, let's talk about the Browns quarterback room? A little bit more controversy, huh? Old Cleveland at 216, where we grew up, they're still ever since they came back, they've been trying to find that quarterback that takes them to the promised land and turns the uh, Browns into a winning franchise.

• 1:17:50Speaker 02

  They had Baker Mayfield, who seems to be doing pretty good in Tampa Bay.

• 1:17:53Travis Kelce?

  Took them to the playoffs. I played him in the playoffs. Really good player, really good team. But uh, now they got a guy, a few guys. Looks like as of today, they got three QBs on the roster. Joe Flacco, Dylan Gabriel and uh, Shador Sanders.

• 1:18:08Speaker 02

  Alrighty. Yeah. I mean, listen, shout out to Joe. First of all, I was teammates with Joe in Philadelphia for a brief moment. He can sling the pill and he had a really good year in Cleveland a couple of years back. Um, so you know, I think the spectacle that has been made around this seems excessive and I get it. Shador is a uh,

• 1:18:29Speaker 02

  The whole story with the draft and him sliding and then the way this has unfolded. It has led to a lot of noise in the media, downright conspiracies, which has been a very fun thing to read and watch.

• 1:18:45Speaker 02

  But, um, you know, I think that my analysis of this is usually the most logical answer is correct. And usually the simplest answer is correct and.

• 1:18:58Travis Kelce?

  Give the people what they want.

• 1:19:00Speaker 02

  Well, I'm not going to give the people what they want. What they want is an outlandish take that everybody else is giving them. But what I'm going to give them is, you know, Stefanski and the Browns are trying to do the thing that they feel gives them the best chance to win football games. Otherwise they're getting fired and they're going to lose all their jobs. And at the end of the day, I think.

• 1:19:16Travis Kelce?

  I was going to say, give the people what they want in terms of the Browns fans.

• 1:19:20Speaker 02

  Oh, gotcha.

• 1:19:21Travis Kelce?

  Start Shedeur.

• 1:19:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, for sure. I mean, listen, what do I want to watch? I want to watch Shador Sanders.

• 1:19:29Travis Kelce?

  But. Yeah. Give the people what they want. The world wants to see him go out there and not only play, but have success. At this point, guys are rooting for him. This isn't against anything against Dylan. This isn't anything against Joe. I'm just saying the excitement is there for him to go out there. He's going to put eyes on the screen. He is going to bring people to the game. It is what it is, man. Why, I would at least, I would love to fucking see it, man. I would love to fucking see it.

• 1:19:57Speaker 02

  Well, we're not going to see it. We're going to see Joe Flacco and, um, I think.

• 1:20:01Travis Kelce?

  I mean, the last time we saw Joe in a, in a Browns game, he was, he was ripping.

• 1:20:05Speaker 02

  Pretty good.

• 1:20:06Travis Kelce?

  He was ripping. He took him to the playoffs.

• 1:20:08Speaker 02

  I can't emphasize this enough. I think that at the end of the day, the reason Joe is starting is because Stefanski and them have the most amount of trust that he's going to go out there and. It's not even, it's like, there are a lot of times guys look great in practice. There's a lot of times rookies come in and there's a lot of excitement about them. Coaches oftentimes feel comfortable playing guys that they trust more and they feel more confident. They can expect a certain amount of performance out of them. And I think right now, they have that more with Joe Flacco than either Dylan Gabriel or Shador Sanders. And people might disagree with that, and that's fine, but that's clearly the way the Browns feel. If,

• 1:20:52Speaker 02

  rest assured, if the Browns and Kevin Stefanski felt that their best option and the most confident option they had to win games with Shador Sanders, they would be playing him. Like, that is not, they're not going to go out there and not do that. I don't believe that. I just don't, you can't tell me that-

• 1:21:10Travis Kelce?

  I'm with you. I 100% I agree with you. That, and they are doing probably the right thing. But I want to see the, I want to see 12 go out there and sling it. I want to see-

• 1:21:22Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 1:21:22Travis Kelce?

  Exactly. It's, it's the most exciting. It's, it's, it's the attention. It's like, I think he's shown that he can be NFL quarterback in the preseason. I think he's done, he's done a good job since he's been in there.

• 1:21:34Speaker 02

  Listen, I'm not going to say that he's, yeah, of course. Yeah.

• 1:21:38Travis Kelce?

  If I'm evaluating, I'm like, yeah, he can play in the NFL.

• 1:21:40Speaker 02

  So because that he should be the starter?

• 1:21:44Travis Kelce?

  From a fan's perspective.

• 1:21:45Speaker 02

  No, don't give me this nonsense.

• 1:21:47Travis Kelce?

  Fellow Clevelander. I'm trying to see him shake.

• 1:21:52Speaker 02

  Just because you're trying to see him shake.

• 1:21:53Travis Kelce?

  That'll get me the most excited to, to watch the game for sure.

• 1:21:57Speaker 02

  Okay. As a head coach, okay, what is your job? Is your job to make the fans happy and to give them who can shake? Or is your job to try and play the person that you think is going to give you the team the best opportunity to win games?

• 1:22:12Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, you're on to something.

• 1:22:14Speaker 02

  I am right there with you. I want to see Shador Sanders play as well. All I'm saying is, I don't think the dialogue happening right now is good for Shador Sanders. I don't think it's good for anybody. Just let the kid develop and have faith that the Browns as an organization are, know what they're doing at the quarterback position, right?

• 1:22:34Speaker 02

  All right. That's fine.

• 1:22:35Travis Kelce?

  I love Joe Flacco. That wasn't a shot at Joe.

• 1:22:38Speaker 02

  Some Browns fans are upset with the lack of reps given to Sanders. I just don't know, like, what was the expectation? That's what's confusing to me. Like every quarterback drafted where he's drafted is, no, but this is my thing. Every quarterback that's drafted where he's drafted at, they're practicing with the twos and threes. Like, yes, I am frustrated that I didn't get to see him like dominate and get a ton of reps with the ones. I would have loved to see that too. But I don't know why there was like this expectation that he wasn't going to go through the same process that every fourth and fifth round pick goes through in the NFL, which is, hey, you got to dominate on the second and third string first, and then you start getting reps.

• 1:23:18Travis Kelce?

  I'm, listen, I say, I say all this as a fellow Clevelander and I hear with the chatter around Cleveland and how everybody just, you get, you get Deon's son in the building. He enjoys being in the limelight. He enjoys being on that football field. He's got an excitement. He's the showman when he plays. It's just, it's, it's so fun to, to want to root for that. It's, it's fun to imagine what it would look like if they let 12 go out there and shake it, man.

• 1:23:44Speaker 02

  Yeah. I mean, that is the fan's perspective. The way these battles usually work is it's a competition, but the teams have in their head who they think is going to win the competition leading into it. That's almost the way all of these competitions and position battles take place. And if one person shows above and beyond that they are outperforming the other guy, they usually win the competition. If that doesn't take place, the team usually resorts back to giving it to the person that they expected and have confidence in leading into the competition. I think that that pretty much is how this all took place. I don't think it was some outrageous conspiracy. I don't think that it was a major disservice.

• 1:24:28Speaker 02

  I just think that this is the way it unfolded and it's not the last opportunity should or Sanders is going to get. He's going to get plenty of opportunities to prove he is the guy. It's not over for him. This is just the way this season is starting. And hopefully all of us fans get to see him play because I think selfishly, we all want to see it.

• 1:24:45Travis Kelce?

  Get the people what they want. Let them, just let them do it. Give them the keys, give them the keys.

• 1:24:52Speaker 02

  All right, I'm gonna try and channel my inner Taylor Swift. Last thing before the season kicks off. There's one thing NFL fans aren't getting tired of seeing is getting another edition of your NFL Sunday Ticket commercial starring Jason Kelce.

• 1:25:09Travis Kelce?

  Jason Kelce.

• 1:25:15Travis Kelce?

  Dude, they are fucking good though, man. Let's see this one.

• 1:25:18Speaker 11

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• 1:25:27Speaker 11

  But how much NFL in one place can he handle?

• 1:25:32Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:25:42Speaker 11

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• 1:25:48Travis Kelce?

  Jason getting fired up for some football, baby. What's better than that?

• 1:25:52Speaker 02

  Listen, I'll say this. First of all, it's a joy to do those commercials. YouTube TV keeps it fun. I cannot emphasize as a fan, and I'm not getting into anything other than user experience. It was so goddamn frustrating not being able to get the NFL Sunday Ticket without having DirecTV for all these years. And that is not, I'm not trying to throw shade at DirecTV, but the fact that I can now have YouTube TV downloaded on my phone, on my iPad, on my television. I don't need, I can get all of the games outside of the ones that are on streaming channels, which is a little frustrating if I'm not, I'm not gonna lie. But I am so fucking happy to be able to watch football, no matter what I'm doing.

• 1:26:37Speaker 02

  You were watching TV, you were watching football games at a tennis match last year.

• 1:26:43Travis Kelce?

  Yes, yes, I was.

• 1:26:44Speaker 02

  Like, I, I just really appreciate that the Sunday Ticket is with YouTube TV. I think the ease at which it is to navigate and watch football has made me a whole lot happier. Young people will never know how frustrating it was to try and watch every game in the NFL. They won't. You used to have to go to a bar. Like, if I didn't have DirecTV, I had to go to Buffalo Wild Wings, or I had to go down to some bar to watch all the games. Now, I just fucking have any iPad I want. I don't have to have some ridiculous satellite on the side of my house. I just need a fucking wifi. I don't even need wifi. I can just have LTE streaming shit while I'm mowing the grass. I can be watching NFL games. It's the fucking best thing in the world. All right?

• 1:27:29Speaker 02

  It is easily one of the most happy products I've ever had to advertise, if you can't tell, because it's great. It's a great product.

• 1:27:36Travis Kelce?

  Yeah, dude, I'm right there with you, man. I can't stress it enough, man. It makes it so fucking easy to watch these games. Shout out to YouTube for figuring it out for all us NFL fans, man. We appreciate you guys.

• 1:27:47Speaker 02

  All right, and that wraps up preseason bowl topics, once again, brought to you by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV.

• 1:27:52Travis Kelce?

  The greatest invention since sliced bread.

• 1:27:55Speaker 02

  All right, well, speaking of plugging some things, Trav, you have some things going on off the field.

• 1:28:02Travis Kelce?

  I got so much shit going on. Kelsey Car Jam is back for a third year in a row, baby. That's right. Kansas City, get ready to show up and show out for another car show. We do it every single year for the Foundation 87 and Running, and this year it will be held Friday, September 26th, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Knuckleheads here in Kansas City. So make sure you get your tickets at 87running.org. That's www.87running.org. It's one of my favorite events to do, man, and the entire city shows up every single time. I love Kansas City for always showing up. My Foundation 87 and Running has helped support the underserved youth in Kansas City, in Cleveland,

• 1:28:47Travis Kelce?

  where we're from, in the Heights, and specifically Operation Breakthrough here in Kansas City. Which has been an organization around for a long, long time that's helped out the Kansas City youth and it has really raised a lot of just a lot of kids, man. Get put them through school, help them get educations, help them eat throughout the week when their families couldn't necessarily provide, man. And it's such a beautiful organization, but a lot of the people that are familiar with eighty seven are running my foundation, what we've done at Operation Breakthrough. They know about the ignition lab and all the STEM programs that we've helped create for these kids that they wouldn't have so otherwise. And it's, it's pretty cool and it's unique to, to anything else I've,

• 1:29:29Travis Kelce?

  I've ever seen in, in foundation work. And I did, I'm, I'm, I'm very honored to be a part of it. By all means, there are so many people that I, I should be able to give a shout out to that, that have, you know, made this thing what it is and have helped these kids really learn these STEM programs. And one of the things that they, they've done that I love shining light on is, um, they took an old school Bronco and turned it into a modern electric car, which is going to be onsite at the Kelsey Car Jam. And it's, uh, it's just, it's cool to see what these kids have been able to do over the past, you know, three to four years since the ignition lab has

• 1:30:13Travis Kelce?

  been up. And a lot of it will be on display. They, they, they had an old school Chevy that they had on display last year that everyone got to see. I actually got to drive it to a game last year. Yeah, the, the, the old school Chevelle. And, um, you know, it's, it's year in, year out. One of my favorite events, like I said, because you get to see kind of, you know, the city come out and support its own, man. And it's such a beautiful thing.

• 1:30:37Speaker 02

  And I'll, I'll vouch for this as well, guys. I went to it for the first time last year and had a blast. There's something about seeing all these classic cars and these muscle cars.

• 1:30:44Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah. I forgot to say, I forgot to mention that. It's a car jam. Maybe it's a car show.

• 1:30:48Speaker 02

  It is so freaking cool. And people bring them all over, uh, from all over the state, all of the country. Uh, it's just a really fun night. And then obviously, everything that they're doing over at Operation Breakthrough with the Ignition Lab, these kids are learning so many valuable skills and techniques and knowledge with Operation Breakthrough and with Mind Drive. And it's just, it's incredible what they all do down there. And the car jam kind of displays a small portion of it, which is awesome.

• 1:31:21Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. And an ultimate nod to the kids, man.

• 1:31:24Speaker 02

  Oh, no doubt.

• 1:31:25Travis Kelce?

  It's absolutely insane. If you're interested in hearing about it, I'm sure everybody from the Ignition Lab and the mechanic shop that's doing all these fun things with these cars, they'll be there to talk about it. There'll be cars from all over. Last year, we had a dope monster truck.

• 1:31:42Speaker 02

  If you don't like electric cars, they got dope ass diesel and gas powered and like.

• 1:31:48Travis Kelce?

  We got a lot. And I'll have, I'll probably have my Chevy down there. I might even drive that thing right up to the lot and have a few other cars on display as well. So we always, we always get a really good show in Kansas City, always knows how to do it. And obviously, here out here in the Midwest, man, everybody loves their old schools. So you'll see, you'll see a lot of people showing up and showing out and there'll be food and drinks for everybody. So it'll be, it'll be a good opportunity to bring the entire fam on down. But that is not everything that I have going on.

• 1:32:18Speaker 02

  That's right. That's right.

• 1:32:19Travis Kelce?

  Yeah. So as of today, we will have dropped the collaboration between True Colors and American Eagle. And I am the creative director for it. It was so much fun collaborating with American Eagle. They are so professional. They have the ability to really bring everything to life that you can imagine. I wanted to make something fun, kind of like a very flowy line that that that kind of just drapes on you with all these cool fabrics and these, these really like just great colors. I'm wearing one of the hats right now, as you can see, it's kind of a suede and corduroy hat with the True Colors logo and American Eagle collaboration on the side. It's just, American Eagle is just, I can't say enough

• 1:33:03Travis Kelce?

  about how fun they've been to work with. So one of the biggest things that I wanted to do is I Wanted to, you know, collaborate with a lot of the up and coming. But most importantly, as creative director, I wanted to bring some amazing athletes and friends who are, you know, just real stars into the campaign and really help push this, uh, this brand and this collaboration. So we got a bunch of, uh, of huge upcoming athletes like Anna Frey, young and upcoming tennis player, Drew Allar from a fellow Clevelander quarterback at Penn State.

• 1:33:37Speaker 02

  Hell, yeah.

• 1:33:38Travis Kelce?

  Kyan Anthony, Carmella Anthony's son, absolute stud on the, on the court over at Syracuse. Jeremiah Smith, who is the national champion, best wide receiver in the country over at Ohio State right now. We got AZ Fudd, national champion out of UConn, one of the best basketball players in the country. And then Suni Lee, uh, gold medalist, uh, Olympian. Yes. And so it's, uh, it's, it's, it's a crazy lineup of, uh, of, of athletes and, uh, and it's just, it's been so fun, man, meeting every single one of them and hearing their story. I just can't wait for everybody to not only see the line, but see how cool, uh, these athletes make it look.

• 1:34:22Speaker 02

  I can't wait to check it out, Trav. Sounds like it's gonna be awesome.

• 1:34:24Travis Kelce?

  Oh, yeah. I'd be silly if I didn't give everybody on the True Colors team, uh, a bunch of love. Uh, our brother, Harry Clark, um, helped me a lot in terms of, uh, AC the Great, baby. He's one of the best people you ever meet and, uh, he did a great job and, and helping, uh, kind of channel the direction of, of what we wanted in this. And Chris Pearson helped get, uh, the star-studded athletes that we have. Uh, so it was a real family, uh, environment. And one more last shout out, Dani Salzado does so much for me off the field. Um, and she does so much for True Colors and she was unbelievable at, uh, connecting all the dots. She absolutely crushes it in the, uh, in the fashion world, um, and, uh, and in the creative world.

• 1:35:09Travis Kelce?

  So I can't thank everybody enough for, uh, for really getting this thing rocking and rolling for me, man.

• 1:35:12Speaker 02

  Well done, Trav. Excited for that.

• 1:35:14Travis Kelce?

  So that being said, everybody, True Colors and American Eagle collab, uh, the first line drops today. That's right. Uh, August 27th.

• 1:35:23Speaker 02

  Nice. Alrighty, 92 percenters, that wraps up another episode of New Heights. Make sure you subscribe to the New Heights channel on YouTube and follow New Heights on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes of New Heights early and ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.

• 1:35:43Travis Kelce?

  Once again, New Heights, a Wondery show, brought to you by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. All right, now, follow the show on all social media, add New Heights Show with one S for fun clips throughout the week. Thanks to our New Heights production team, and again, thank you to the 92 percenters, as always, for tuning in. Can't wait to see you guys next week. We're back, baby.

• 1:36:06Speaker 02

  Football's back. Yeah.