Jason Kelce believes the key sauce to his hit podcast “New Heights” is his “loving relationship” together with his brother, Travis Kelce.
The retired NFL star and his sibling just lately inked a deal price a reported 9 figures to maneuver their podcast to Wondery, and Jason, 36, credit the present’s monumental success during the last two years to his brotherly bond with Travis, 34.
“I believe on the podcast, you get, to start with, an natural, loving relationship between two brothers. We’re trustworthy with one another. And it comes throughout,” Jason shared throughout ESPN’s media day on Wednesday, August 28, per Folks. “And we have now good personalities that I believe usually viewers members admire, and wish to need to watch and hearken to, which I don’t know if I agree absolutely with that, however they’re there.”
Jason and Travis launched “New Heights,” which returned for its third season on Wednesday, again in 2022. Since then, the brothers have loved crossover success, with Jason touchdown a task as an analyst on ESPN’s Monday Evening Countdown and Travis securing numerous movie and tv roles.
“I believe that we’re very, very open folks by nature, and I believe that we share issues, and we clearly live thrilling lives that folks need to observe,” Jason mentioned. “After which all that stuff helps … as a result of the extra folks watch, the extra money advertisers spend.”
Jason and Travis’ new cope with Amazon-owned podcast studio Wondery was introduced on Monday, August 26, and encompasses world distribution rights to the favored podcast, ad-sales illustration, rights to previous episodes, and the fitting to launch worldwide diversifications of the podcast.
“We couldn’t be extra excited to crew up with Wondery for the subsequent section of ‘New Heights,’” the siblings mentioned in an announcement. “We love this present, and the fanbase that has grown with us during the last two seasons. Wondery understands the shared imaginative and prescient and can supply a wealth of expertise and sources to take us to ‘New Heights!’ We’re going to create some groundbreaking moments collectively by way of this partnership. We’re thrilled to start out Season 3 – see you quickly, 92percenters!”
The siblings’ podcast has reached new heights of recognition during the last 12 months thanks partly to Travis’ high-profile relationship with Taylor Swift, which he has usually talked about on the podcast.
Actually, it was on “New Heights” that the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish first revealed in July 2023 that he had hoped to go Swift a friendship bracelet together with his telephone quantity on it at her Eras Tour present on the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis. The couple started relationship someday after the live performance and went public in September 2023.