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New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

Kylie's Husband at the Olympics & Chris Stapleton on Anthem Tears, Drinkin' Whiskey, & More | Ep 180

New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

Wondery

Sports, Comedy

4.817.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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

First, Jason recaps his time as a plus one in Italy at the Winter Olympics, we get the guys thoughts on the USA being the hockey capital of the world, Travis responds to Laila Edwards claim as the “best athlete from Cleveland Heights,” and we talk about what went wrong at Travis’ trip to Pebble Beach. 

Finally, we are joined by country music legend, Chris Stapleton! We get Chris’ reaction to making Jason cry at the Super Bowl, learn that Chris was a big football guy in High School, we sip some whiskey that might have been stronger than we thought, Chris shares his thoughts on the songwriting process, reveals how to write the perfect country and western song, and so much more!

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0:00.0

Twinsies.

0:01.3

St. Jersey.

0:03.1

Yeah, baby.

0:04.5

USA!

0:05.8

USA! Where'd you watch the game? What'd you do for the game? Yeah, dude, I was up in New York watching it, man. Just, uh... Nice. Yeah, catching it. Me and Tay watched the entire game, man. And it's just so fucking epic, man. When... From the first drop of the puckman, that game was nonstop action and just had me at the edge of my seat at 8.05 in the morning or 8, 10 in the morning, whatever it was, man. Loved every bit of it, man. It was Big Ed Kelsey's birthday. Shout out to Big Ed. Right. Making another. What a good at his birthday? Hell yeah,. We're more fitting for the big guy on his birthday. And so we gave him a shout and talked to him a little bit during the game. And just fucking exploded when I saw old Jack Hughes fucking put it right between the legs, man. I bought a nice five-hole. Nice little Lloyd Christmas look-alike rendition with the teeth. Oh, dude, he did. Yeah, he had the chipped tooth, man. High stick earlier. Golly. It looked like he had lost that tooth once or twice before. They crushed it. USA was so much fun to watch throughout the entire tournament, man. That semi-final game that you went to, I'm sure we'll get it to in the rundown, but absolutely epic. Yeah. Yeah. And did our Slovakian heritage. We're not Slovakian. We are. Slovenian. What, Croatian? We're Croatian. I think there's some Slovenian on the mountain side, too. Is there? Yeah. Slabs. I didn't know that.

1:27.8

Got a little slavs.

1:28.6

I mean, it's all like Balkan territory, I believe. Yeah. I think there's a little, little Czechy as well. Cheki? I think we're a little Czechic-Savakian. We definitely got some Eastern European Bank fucking heritage. I've seen some like Slavic area people that I'm like yeah they kind of look like

1:44.8

dude you put a babushka on or those fucking furry things on, man. You would fucking fit right in Russia. You got the eyebrows. I got the eyebrows. Are Russians known for thick eyebrows? I think Russians are known. Which Russians are you thinking of? It is a very big country. No, dude, there's an epic game.

2:01.1

Shout out to Canada, too, man.

2:03.0

Obviously, that team is so fucking stacked.

2:17.0

I've never seen that many close calls not go in for a team. Helly Beers, man. It's wild. Helly Beers, my fucking guy. Yeah, he fucking loved Helly Beers. The defenseman, I forget who it was, was in the net, freaking, he was stopping shots.

2:18.4

It was crazy.

2:20.3

Sometimes the force is just with you, man.

2:35.8

There is just something about hockey, whether it's playoff hockey or national hockey. When guys are like going all out, it's just the most fun sport to watch on the planet. Bro, that was a fucking intense game from the start. How much the fucking puck was moving. It was like, there were a few a few passes i was just like how the fuck did he even know the guy was over there you're i mean it was

2:39.8

like the puck was moving so goddamn quick those guys on both teams those guys are like so in sake

2:45.4

man well USA yeah we should probably start this thing huh hockey capital in the world i mean dude we're

2:50.1

men's and women's gold medal best country on the planet in hockey. I don't want to hear any arguments. I know you guys had a lot of shots on goals and put up a hell of performance. Got to get back on defense, man. Most important person, goaltender. Most important person. Hellie beers. If the chief't have Patcher Mahomes, I don't know how many Super Bowls they win, but they have Patcherball. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Are you not playing hypotheticals here? Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, a Wondry show, brought to you by Expedia, the one place you go to go places.

3:29.0

That's right.

3:29.9

The place you go to places.

3:31.9

We are your host.

3:32.6

I'm Travis Kelsey, my big brother, Jason Kelsey, out of the U.S. of a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and University of Cincinnati, 11 sat off to the Bearcats taking down the fucking Jayhawks at Allen Fieldhouse. I've been there a few times. Not an easy place to play. But shout out to the cats, man. Keep making a fucking run, boys. He's making a fucking run, boys. Got about four or five games left in the Big East. And I'm bucking'm dialed in I'm watching every one of them especially got my eye on those BYU you

4:01.1

cougars we got to play coming out to all you cougars that are in the Kansas City

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