Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce are giving because of Taylor Swift followers after their “New Heights” podcast gained the highest prize on the 2024 iHeartPodcast Awards.
“That is an unbelievable honor particularly for 2 jabronies like us,” Jason, 36, stated when accepting the award for Podcast of the Yr on Monday, March 11. “To obtain an award like that is past humbling and we’d be remiss if we didn’t instantly thank all of the 92 percenters on the market – AKA Swifties – who voted for us to win this award.”
Travis echoed the sentiment by calling “New Heights” listeners “the very best fanbase in the complete world.”
“You guys make this present what it’s,” the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish, 34, continued. “We actually respect it. Thanks once more to [the] iHeartPodcast Awards. To the 92 percenters, thanks guys as properly.”
Each week on their podcast, Jason and Travis debate thrilling matters, give next-level NFL entry and share loads of enjoyable tidbits about their private lives.
In latest months, followers have additionally been in a position to get a perspective on Travis’ relationship with Swift, 34, that won’t have been attainable with out the podcast.
After attending Swift’s Eras tour cease in July 2023, Travis complained throughout a “New Heights” episode that he didn’t get an opportunity to satisfy the singer and provides her a friendship bracelet along with his cellphone quantity.
The pair went public with their relationship simply two months later, with Swift admitting that the transfer bought her consideration.
“This all began when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I assumed was metallic as hell,” she stated in her December 2023 TIME profile. “We truly had a major period of time that nobody knew, which I’m grateful for, as a result of we bought to get to know one another.”
As Travis’ relationship with Swift stays sturdy, so does his bond along with his brother.
In a latest interview, Jason expressed how particular it’s to spend high quality time with Travis away from the soccer subject.
“Earlier than this, we might go months on our personal deal with out speaking,” he stated on the February 9 episode of the “Inexperienced Mild with Chris Lengthy” podcast. “We might textual content, you’ll ship a humorous video or one thing like that. However actually sit down and speak with him? It could be a very long time. Doing this as soon as every week, we’re gonna sit down and speak, and we’re gonna have very significant conversations, enjoyable conversations and actually know the place every of us are at of their lives. That’s essentially the most enjoyable half about it.”
The truth that listeners from all all over the world get pleasure from it’s simply the cherry on prime.
“We completely love making this podcast every week,” Jason stated throughout his acceptance speech, “and it’s past rewarding once we get to search out out that it resonates with so many individuals on the market they usually get pleasure out of it as a result of we certain put lots of that into it.”