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New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

Chiefs' Streak Ends, Mahomes Injury, Rivers Reactions, Eagles Blowout & Playoff Predictions | EP 170

New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

Wondery

Sports, Comedy

4.817.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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92%ers, welcome to another episode of New Heights brought to you by Allstate!  

On today’s episode, Travis gets candid about the end of the Chiefs playoff hopes, the Mahomes injury, and how he’s approaching the last three games of the season.  

We also react to the Eagles blowing out the Raiders, Grandpa Rivers making his first start since 2020, break down the race for the one seed in the NFC, explain why we want NFL Half Time shows to feel dangerous again, argue about the quality of Midwest tacos, and more! 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What other retired player should get back out there? I was thinking about this. Who else would be? Like... I mean, I know a guy is still trying to prove his athleticism and trying to dunk. Travis, I can't bend my elbow right now. I can't even touch my head right now because I got a loose body stuck in my fucking elbow joint. We'll go and get that shit cleaned out, Jason. I'm trying to avoid surgery, Travis. Are we not rehabbing? there's not a rehab.

0:22.8

There's just a piece of cartilage that's floating around The We'll go and get that shit cleaned out, Jason. I'm trying to avoid surgery, Travis. Are we not rehabbing?

0:21.7

There's not a rehab.

0:36.7

There's just a piece of cartilage that's floating around in there and it's stuck in my joint. Oh, well, yeah. Jason, you got to go and get that shit cleaned out. It's like stuck someone. I don't know if it's in the back or in the front, but it isn't leaving. I don't know. Anyways, not going to be me.

0:41.3

Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, a wondery show, brought to you by Allstate.

0:46.3

You're in good hands with Allstate.

0:48.3

We're your host.

0:49.3

I'm Travis Kelsey.

0:50.3

My big brother, Jason Kelsey out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, University of Cincinnati alum. Shout out to the Bearcats. We're in the basketball season now, baby. And doggone it. One of these days, we got to win that cross-town shootout, man. Come on. Subscribe on YouTube 100 plus wherever you get your podcast and follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with 1S for fun clips throughout the week. Jason. Not two percenters, we've got another great episode.

1:12.6

We'll talk about what's next for the Chiefs.

1:15.7

Eagles blowing out the Raiders, the get-back game of everybody's season,

1:19.5

and Old Man Rivers getting in for the Colts.

1:23.1

Before we get into that, we're going to get into some new news.

1:25.7

New news.

1:26.8

New news is brought to you by Reese's Trees. Oh, we're going to get into some new news. New news. New news is brought to you by Reese's trees.

1:30.5

Oh, we're in the holiday season, aren't we?

1:33.2

The Reese's holiday treats are the best.

1:35.9

We've always said it, whether it's pumpkins or trees or, I'm sure they got some type

1:42.1

of bunny thing going on.

1:43.5

It's, uh, oh, the eggsesey's trees, better than Reese's pumpkins. Is that the question you're asking, Brandon? It looks like it. I mean, honestly, I think it's pretty similar. It's definitely similar to the pumpkin and the fact that they both have more peanut butter to chocolate ratio, which I enjoy. So I think it's probably about the same, if I'm being honest. We're going even. I'm going even. Well, we've got a lot of new heights coming your way for the holidays. This Friday, we're going to be dropping our film film review of Home Alone with an incredible special guest. That's right. The one and only kind of Kelsey.

2:18.6

Not going to lie,

2:19.6

as only is in for the Home Alone guest episode.

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