Overview

• On Aug. 13, Taylor Swift made her first guest appearance on the Kelce brothers’ New Heights podcast to announce her upcoming 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, due Oct. 3.
• The episode drew over 1 million live YouTube viewers within 15 minutes and reached about 1.3 million by the hour mark before a technical cutout disrupted the finale.
• Swift and Travis Kelce shared their methods for handling intense media scrutiny, with Swift describing her decade-long practice of disabling online comments and Kelce crediting her for teaching him to tune out internet feedback.
• Kelce acknowledged that his on-field production slipped over the past two seasons partly due to off-field ventures and has emphasized his offseason weight loss and speed training ahead of his 13th NFL season.
• Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes called the podcast “super exciting” and coach Andy Reid praised the relationship as “something special,” underscoring the team’s embrace of the crossover moment.