Chiefs & Eagles Preseason, Travis GoT&T Married, Wide Deceivers & Aaron Donald Returns | EP 199

New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

In the season premiere of New Heights, Jason and Travis Kelce kick off Season 5 with a lively recap of the NFL offseason, including Jason's induction into the Cincinnati

Key takeaways

• Jason Kelce's Hall of Fame induction highlights his legacy beyond football, emphasizing his connection to Cincinnati and college success despite being a walk-on.
• Travis Kelce embraces new roles as a global ambassador while humorously reflecting on personal growth since marriage and fatherhood.

Main topics

• Jason Kelce Hall of Fame induction
• Travis Kelce's Tommy Hilfiger ambassadorship debut

Notable quotes

"I'm a representative of the university. Exactly, exactly. It's not one little..." - Jason Kelce on Hall of Fame honor

Conclusion

The episode sets a high-energy tone for Season 5 of New Heights, blending heartfelt

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) well then let's get down to well done you got a great voice for it i don't have a great voice for like my like modern music but if you want to throw me in a fucking a disney movie i could fucking rock you're basically a disney prince yay what is it let's get down to business to hoop pod Oh, okay. I was like, where are you going with this? Bring your sons and daughters. Okay. Don't repeat the language. Nice. Broadcaster. Out of you. Speaker 1 (0:46) Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. We've missed you. Yeah. Over here on New Heights, a wonder show brought to you by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. Football is back. Yeah. God, man, I've been at training camp for three weeks, four weeks. Gosh, I can't even count how long it's been. And it's good to see you guys. And we're excited to get this thing rolling for season five, six, seven. How many years have we been doing this? Apparently, this is the fifth. And we're your hosts here at New Heights. That's right. Jason Kelsey, my big brother. And I'm Travis Kelsey, his little brother. Subscribe on YouTube wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with 1S for fun clips throughout the week. I'm sure we'll have a bunch of those this week. Speaker 1 (1:32) I haven't talked to Jason in forever. Jason, tell the people what we got coming up. 90% is we are fucking back in season five. We're going to recap all we've been in this offseason. We're going to get into everything from training camps. We've also got Aaron Donald. He's back. Shit. And Travis also. I don't know if you got into anything this offseason you want to mention, but if you do, now would be the time. We're getting into just a little bit of that. New news. New news coming in. All right. Speaker 1 (2:01) Our first bit of new news, though, arguably the most important bit of new news that we have. Jason has been selected for the Cincinnati Athletics 50th Anniversary Hall of Fame class. That's right. Jason's a Hall of Famer. Let's go, Cats! How does it feel to be in the Hall of Fame, Jason? This is your second Hall of Fame that you've been inducted in, correct? Well, Cleveland Heights. I'm trying to think. Have I been in another one? Are you in another one? Ohio Music Hall of Fame? Are you in that one? No, not in that one. Are you in the Ohio Swim Cadets? No. Hall of Fame? No, not in that one. I don't think that one exists yet. Well, either way, how does it feel? It feels like Cincinnati wants some money. Time out. Time out. Time out. Let's take that. Speaker 1 (2:50) Let's rewind that back. Let's keep it PG for our listeners. I mean, listen, that was a two-time All-Big East. Come on now, baby. Big East. Back when the Big East was popping. No, you were first team. No, I was not. I was the second team All-Conference twice, and I'm in the Hall of Fame. So it does feel like a bit of this has been from my post-career at Cincinnati. 100%. 100%. It's an incredible honor. I'm going in with my. Speaker 1 (3:19) Our former college teammate, my former pro teammate, Connor Barwin, is also going to the Hall of Fame. Nice. CB, congrats. Congrats to Connor, man. You know the third member going in this year? Oh, I do know. I do know who it is. The old ball coach. That's right. Bob Huggins. Big hug. Huggy Bear. Huggy Bear is going in. Coach Huggs, congrats, man. That's awesome. So part of an awesome class. Obviously, incredibly honored that Cincinnati would adorn me with this honor into the Hall of Fame class. But. You know, again, it feels a little odd knowing that I was a walk-on, like two-time conference second team selection. But we did have a lot of success. It was a fun time. I love Cincinnati. I still love going back. We're going back to a game this week, actually. Connor, me, and Brent Selick, we're going to roll down. Speaker 1 (4:11) So looking forward to that. Yeah, they got Boston College, baby. Let's go, man. Let's go. Can't start off the year on the right foot, baby. Let's go. Yeah, so back to you getting into the Hall of Fame, though, man. I hear what you're saying, but at the same time, man, your football career, it deserves. I'm a representative of the university. Exactly, exactly. It's not one little. And it was as much as you loved being there and you love talking about being there and you are you are in a big way an advocate for the university. I think a lot of that is by all means a part of this. And I think I think, you know, you saying that, you know, you went there, you loved it there, you grew there, you became an even better football player there. And then you went on to do unbelievable things that a lot of. Speaker 1 (5:02) centers in the entire world that have ever played this game have never done. I think that has a lot to do with you getting this, this acknowledgement. So I appreciate it, Travis. Thank you. I'm very honored to be there. Can't wait to go back to Cincinnati. I love being there. Can't wait to watch the Bearcats. Come on, baby. Get up old Nippert stadium, man. Sitting one of those nice high rise suites. They got there, man. Ooh, there are some, there's some sweet seats right above the, the tunnel that the cats walk out on. Now I saw him. Speaker 1 (5:30) Selling those tickets. Those things look sweet, man. The best seat I ever had was in the student section at the basketball game. That was. Dude, you got that. Sounds like you got to find your way over to the student section, baby. I mean, listen. See the band come flying down those steps in the beginning. I got a pretty. I got a pretty iconic photo from like one of my first couple years out in the student section cheering on the basketball team. Yeah. You didn't see Gates and the boys. Let's go. Do we want to look at these college photos? Yeah, let's go. Let's go ahead and throw out those college photos. I think that's Cincinnati posted, right? Gosh, looking at old photos, especially the college years, man. I got some fucking gnarly photos. Holy shit, Jason, you won the Heisman? I did. Oh, what a ball player, man. Man. Dude, you got to bring back the stash, man. I so fight. Speaker 1 (6:22) I just hate the way my face looks without a beard. No way. Yeah, no chance. You're a handsome young man, Jason. Look at that. Look at that dude right there. Freshman year. That's a Mike linebacker right there. That was when I was still a linebacker, for sure. That's a man filling the A-gap, baby. Let's go. Oh, look at John Goble. Johnny Goves, baby. Pit sweat is intense. Look at him. This guy's had a mic in his hand his entire life. He was made for this. Who the fuck is that guy? Oh! Oh, what is this? Oh man. New Heights in the beginning. Is this the beginning of new Heights? It'll cam higher ground. That's right. Speaker 1 (7:02) Camp Higher Ground. You probably were a freshman that year. Winning the Keg of Nails against Louisville. Louisville, yeah. Yeah, baby. Look at that, man. The one at the bottom is hilarious, man. That is Travis's senior night, so that would have been my second year. I got a torn ACL. Well, I freshly prepared ACL at that point. That a boy. A little Derek Wolf action. Wolfie in the picture. Gobs. A little shot of gobs. How about it, man? That's a very random photo to include. Speaker 1 (7:29) Not my finest? Interesting angle, interesting shot. Oh, yeah. This is what Jason's teammates remember, being at the fucking front of the fight, the commander-in-chief, always leading everybody into battle, baby. Is that what I look like when I'm yelling? Is that how it always looks? You don't really see it as that because it happens so fast, but I think that is you in the flesh. That's not AI. Okay, perfect. That was back when I used to just... take a rate like i would just take my razor and that's how i trim my eyebrows i would just go straight across my eyebrows so they end up being super thin and not having any shape i'll go right here i'll go right here dude i would go right here and then i would and then i would razor across that's a pretty good line i would if you didn't say that i would have never guessed but they are definitely way thinner than what they are now Speaker 1 (8:22) oh yeah that's funny as hell man college is so funny man i remember one year i actually tried to shave my chest in college and then it grew back so fast that i tried really quick yeah i tried to wax it after that and i showed up like 50 year old virgin where it's like bloody and patchy and i have scabs on my chest yeah So I just gave up on that whole idea real quick in about two weeks. I was like, yeah, I'll probably never do that again. Gosh, college. Just trying to figure things out, man. Well, now that we've been able to embarrass me through a bunch of photos, let's embarrass Travis. Travis made his debut as a global ambassador for Tommy Hilfiger. Can't embarrass me. I mean, you look a lot better than I do. I love what you're doing with your... Speaker 1 (9:06) You take a photo. Are they telling you to put your elbow like that? Sometimes you'll get so you listen. Photographers, they they have some good direction. You know, I always think of the scene in Austin Powers is like, I need a tiger. I need a yes, yes, no, no, no. Yes. But yeah, I don't remember whether I did this or not, but it is a bit it is a bit. Chippendale-y for sure. It looks good. I mean, you're definitely like suggestive a little bit with that right hand. Speaker 1 (9:38) It's a good photo. It's a good photo. Nice, man. Oh, there's more. Okay, there we go. There we go. Oh, I didn't know that Wendy was out of the bag. Yes, Wendy is. That's been released? Yes. Wendy is officially. She is officially a picture dog. That's a great picture. We got to get her the line and her size. Unfortunately, she's just got her fur on right now. So we've got to work with Tommy on getting her some good clothes. No, it was fun. You know, we were going to use a dog in the shoot. And the entire team was mentioning, you know, we were going to use a dog. And am I okay with dogs? I'm like, I have a dog. I'm like, oh, you want to bring your dog in? I'm just like, let me talk it over with. Speaker 1 (10:27) My fiance at the time, let me talk it over with Tay and figure out, you know, what's the best way to go about this? And she was all for it. And it's kind of crazy how perfect she looks in a Tommy Hilfiger world. You know what I mean? Like she matches the brand and the shoot. And it was pretty easy to get her to jump on the couch and have some fun with us. But yeah, Wendy's now a model. Yep, she's a model dog. She looks great. She's killing it. Little old Wendy's. Speaker 1 (10:55) A little over a year old now. Yep, we've had her for quite a while. Try to keep it under wraps. Got sniped. He got sniped at the airport. Well, it also doesn't work when you put Tommy Hilfiger's shoot with her, but yeah. Yeah, good call. Good call. Speaking of other things out of the bag, we do have probably the most interesting bit of the offseason that happened to both of us, but certainly to you, is that you're finally married. We have not done a podcast since you are. Speaker 1 (11:24) husband and wife has not happened a married man what do we want to talk about i mean we've already talked about this on other podcasts and so forth guests have shared things what do we what what do we feel like sharing and discussing travis i'll leave the floor to you because i don't i don't know at this point we're what over a month out it's uh it's been so much fun first of all the night was a night out it was insane it's a night i'll we'll never forget um Me and Taylor are so thankful for everybody that showed up, you know, from the vows to, you know, just seeing everyone to how much fun we had throughout the entire evening and hearing that. Speaker 1 (12:05) uh kind of be relayed through everybody's stories of the night and it was just so magical man and i wish it could have lasted even longer than it did it felt like it just happened they kicked us out well they stopped once the drinks stopped being served uh everyone kind of just starts to you know mosey out but um you know thank you to everyone at msg that allowed us to do this we we wanted to do it somewhere where we could have a very uh intimate and genuine setting without uh without a lot of distractions and we we needed it to be a private feel so and then and msg went above and beyond to give us that and i can't thank everybody enough about that that showed up but also uh that helped uh put the show on uh and it was uh it was a very magical magical night and uh i can't i can't say thank you to everyone without to give a special thank you to the adam sandler oh my gosh um Speaker 1 (13:01) He has been just the fucking best person on this planet. And for him to be up for getting ordained in the state of New York and marrying me and Taylor in the way he did it, in the very Sandman style and giving us more than we could have ever imagined in that moment, knowing that it was the biggest night of both of our lives. It was absolutely insane, man. Yeah. When you said Adam was... going to be officiating the wedding. I initially, I was like, man, that's, he's going to be hilarious. But it wasn't until like right before the wedding that I realized, oh my God, he's going to like crush this because there's no, well, I mean, obviously he's an entertainer and he's very, he's hilarious, but there's a sweetness in everything Adam does, like all of his movies. And like, like there's a degree of it that I think really resonates with officiating a wedding. I mean, obviously. Speaker 1 (13:58) to be a wedding singer too. I guess he is officially a wedding singer now, but I mean, it was, he was absolutely fantastic. And the other thing was the ceremony was beautiful. Adam killed it. Both you and Tay were incredible in your vows. The thing I really liked about this wedding in particular, and the way you guys structured it was like, after all that was done, like there wasn't like the sit down formal stuff. There wasn't like a bunch of the speeches. It was just time to party and have fun. And that's what made it so fun to. Speaker 1 (14:26) for like for me to be there you're seeing all these a-list celebrities and then i said this on somebody else but like you see mrs i haven't seen mrs clark in forever see him that was like the highlight yeah i saw brad pitt hugging conan o'brien i see paul mccarney and then all of a sudden i see fuck mrs clark and i'm like what in the world and like it's this you know we yeah that was that was it was so cool to see how everybody interacted and you know with no phones comes Speaker 1 (14:54) you know, not people not having to be on guard and like feel that, you know, something, you know, whatever, whatever that feeling is for everyone. It makes, it makes everyone be in the moment and be present. And it was, it was so cool seeing everyone from my childhood, not only mesh with Taylor and her childhood and her family and friends and, and people that she works with to, to who we've, you know, come encounter with over our career and who we just admire as people. And. Speaker 1 (15:22) have become good friends with now and it's it's just been so cool to see that world come together and hear through person by person you know after the wedding just how awesome of a time everyone had there and then that's what we wanted it to be we wanted it to be you know a beautiful ceremony and it was so but we also wanted to make sure that everybody left there having some fun yeah and and it was a it was a magical nightmare yeah and I mean, that's what I mean. Like, you know, Paul McCartney, Brad Pitt, like there's, there's the, but then also people that you guys grew up with and still have relationships with today, like seeing that ensemble and cast of people all sharing one room to, to celebrate and like, you know, experience a day with you guys, like as someone is so just associated with a piece of that, it was, it was just like, it was so special and so awesome. Forever grateful. Speaker 1 (16:15) For everybody that showed up and supported it, man. Also, 92%ers, for those of you that are unaware, our own Jet Jake is officially a father. Nice, Jake. He has taken on perhaps the most important role he will ever take on in his life. And he is now hardwiring a bunch of information into a child's brain that will either be a success or lead to the next. Ted Bundy. We don't know which one will happen yet. Oh, no, you can't do that. Time will tell what his job is. And that's fatherhood. And for those of you wondering why he is not coming on today, he is on paternity leave, which I have already started giving him shit. I mean, let's be honest. You're not doing much, Jake. You can tweet with your hand and hold your baby. You're not going into the mill, right? You're not. Speaker 1 (17:14) forge an iron and then having you can do both of these at the same time i'm just saying i'm with jake on this man you gotta get when you need some time off you gotta get some time off man he's got plenty of time off he's just had a month off yeah answer some of the 92 percent is there's not that much time that's all i'm saying the baby's gonna be asleep for half of it all it's doing is eat sleep and shitting and that's pretty much what the infant does for these first three months i get maternity i'm always listening to everything jake's saying listen Speaker 1 (17:42) I'm all about fatherhood. I'm all about being a great dad. But, like, we all know, like, you're only so much you can fucking do. Like, you know, they aren't latching onto your tits. You can bottle feed. Listen, my baby needs me, man. Yeah, your baby needs you. You can be there. I'm just saying. There's not much. All right, look. I think Kai just beat up. Q Kylie just walked in. Kai, it's three months too long for Jets Jake Paternity Leave. I need a woman's perspective because I feel like I'm going to be shunned if I don't. Yeah, paternity. No, Jake is on paternity leave. Yes, that is too long. It's too long? What's an appropriate time of paternity leave? You're asking the wrong person. Someone who had a husband who went back to work. Well, yeah, we were football players. We had to work. They don't give you a paternity leave in the NFL. Speaker 1 (18:47) I'm getting crushed right now. You're getting crushed. We don't want any of this. That's it for new news. We're probably cutting that. Once again, congrats to our good friend Jake and his wife Emily. Very happy for both of you. I hope you guys do a good job. It sounds like you already are, Jake. You are taking your full paternity leave. Well, and we'll shoot to a quick ad read, and then we're going to talk some actual football. So we'll see you guys in a second. Let's see who's sponsoring the show. Speaker 1 (19:14) New season. All right. Thank you to our partner, NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. All right. So we got to talk