Offseason Plans, Wildcard Preview & Matt Damon on Brady, Affleck Bromance & Career Odyssey | EP 174

New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

Wondery

Sports, Comedy

4.8 • 17.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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92%ers, welcome to another episode of New Heights brought to you by Intuit Turbo Tax. Today, we are joined by Hollywood legend Matt Damon!

But first, we wrap up the end of the NFL regular season, Travis shares his thoughts on what comes next for the Chiefs and where his mind is at going into the offseason, Jason explains why the Eagles were still right to rest their starters, and we look ahead to Wildcard Weekend with our picks for hottest team, biggest possible upset, and our dark horse Super Bowl contenders.

Later, Matt Damon joins the show and we talk about his new movie “The Rip,” find out the dumbest thing he’s ever talked Ben Affleck into, get some info on “The Odyssey,” his thoughts on the Drake Maye/Tom Brady comparisons, his favorite Boston sports memory, get his advice for fellow girl dads, a breakdown of his football skills from “School Ties,” the one thing Michael Jordan demanded on “Air,” the best advice from Tom Hanks, and so much more!

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0:00.0	How do you think the Patriots will do in the playoffs?
0:01.9	Are you guys so spoiled that it's like if they don't win the Super Bowl?
0:05.2	You guys are going to be upset?
0:06.5	No, no, not at all.
0:08.2	I mean, this is a new, this is a new team, right?
0:10.4	And I think I think this is like found money for us, right?
0:13.7	Like, I feel like it's from the rip.
0:15.6	You guys busted open the wall and you found a quarterback.
0:18.7	20 million dollar quarterback sitting in the wall.
0:21.7	He broke in and took the sledgehammer and there would drink May.
0:30.8	Welcome back to New Heights.
0:33.0	Ladies and gentlemen,
0:34.0	boys and girls,
0:34.6	92% are from all over a Wondry show. Brought to you by Intuit TurboTax. Oh, it's starting to get the tax season, baby. Don't forget to pay your taxes. Unfortunately, they will knock on the door, and you do need to pay them. I'm Travis Kelsey. This is my big brother, Jason Kelsey, out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Shout out to the Tigers and shout out to those bearcats, baby. Subscribe on YouTube, 133 Plus, wherever you get your podcast and follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with one. That's for fun clips throughout the week. I am officially jobless, Jason. Actually, this is my only job. Well, no, you're still employed unless you stop playing. Have you announced you're stopped playing? This is the only company that employs me right now. 90% you've got a great episode coming up. We're going to recap everything that happened in the final week of the regular season, as well as dive into these upcoming wild card weekend games. Hey, who's not excited for some playoffs. Playoffs. You know what I'm excited for?
1:28.9	Tell us. Fucking Damon. That's right. He's coming at the back. That's right. We got him. We got Will. We got Jason Bourd. We got one of the most iconic actors of this generation. He's going to come. We're going to make you wait for it. He'll be after we talked a little bit of football, but you're going to, you're going to get through it with us.
1:47.2	All right.
1:47.6	We can just. He's going to come. We're going to make you wait for it. He'll be after we talked a little bit of football, but you're going to get through it with us, all right? Just so you know we can't wait for Matt either. All right. Here we go. Let's start off. What we always start off with, Lumenet, new news. New news. New news is brought to you by American Express. Okay, update from the Amazon holiday giving initiative.
2:02.7	This holiday season, over 3,000 Operation Breakthrough families and KC were provided
2:07.6	with gifts and essential needs.
2:09.2	That's right.
2:10.2	How about that?
2:10.9	Well done.
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