New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce - A New Heights Father’s Day ft. Best Fictional Dads & Bonus Dad Stories From Our Guests | Bonus EP

Episode Date: June 26, 2026

92%ers, Happy Father’s Day and welcome to another Bonus Episode of New Heights brought to you by Expedia. To celebrate, Jason reveals the fictional father he aspires to be, and we’re looking back at some of our favorite dad moments from the show.We revisit some unforgettable stories and advice from Johnny Knoxville, Nate Bargatze, Zach Ertz, and more. Shop our new merch at https://kelceclubhouse.com Watch and listen to new episodes of New Heights every Wednesday during the NFL season and follow us on Social Media for all the best moments from the show: https://lnk.to/newheightshowYou can also listen to new episodes on Wondery, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. ...Download the full podcast here:Wondery: https://wondery.app.link/s9hHTgtXpMbApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-heights/id1643745036Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/1y3SUbFMUSESC1N43tBleK?si=LsuQ4a5MRN6wGMcfVcuynwSupport the show: EXPEDIA: The one place you go to go placesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On today's bonus episode, we're going to be diving back into the Heights hotline. Ooh, Fred Flintstone, the real version, not the cartoon version. We're not competing over who's changed the most diapers on the day. Thank you very much for the call. I kind of don't understand what she's asking. We did see this billboard you put up for your daughter, though. Yeah, that was too good of an idea not to happen. You know, which I mean, where she's 13, so, you know, legally she still has to live here.

Cats are poisonous. It's Kylie's world, and I'm just the John Goodman. The old plus one, man. Hey, hey, hey, 92 percenters. That's right. Welcome to this month's bonus episode of New Heights. Gotta love it when we get to get you some bonus shit. This is a Wondry show.

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On today's bonus episode, we're going to be diving back into the Heights hotline, one of our favorites. To answer some more of your voicemails about fatherhood. Ooh, nice. That's right. That's right. We've also got some great dad stories from Nate Bargetseye and Johnny Knoxville. Oh, man.

Let's see what these voicemails are talking about. Oh, let's hear. Let's hear. Give me a little fictional fathers. Give me some of those. All right. All right. All right.

All right. Hi. This is Lacey from Missouri. And I was just wondering, since Father's Day is coming up, Jason. What fictional father would you say closely, most closely resembles your parents. I think that's it actually. That's a good. That's a good question.

Shout out to all the ladies out there in Missouri, the good old state of Missouri, the show me state of Missouri. Dude, this is a question for Jason. Jason, what do you got for me? What fictional father resembles Jason Kelsey's way of fathering the most? Who do I want to be? I want to be Al Bundy, but I'm too, like I'm not courageous enough. Yeah.

Care free. Yeah, I don't have. I give a fuck too much. I want to be Al Bundy, but I just can't. So good. Trying to think of what other. Christmas vacant, Clark Griswold? I mean, Clark is a great one.

That is a very good. And I, and I fuck shit up and try to, like, do special things. and just don't execute on them well. So it is, it's not a bad, it's not a bad one. I don't have as dysfunctional of an uncle as, as Clark does in that movie. Shedersful. Trying to think of who's, who are some other great fictional dads. I was thinking of some of your favorite shows growing up.

Peter Griffin? I'll tell you what, the guy that I want to be like is Bandit from Bluey. That's who I want to be like. Bandit from Bluey is like one of the all-time. That show, obviously no kids over here. Whenever I watch that show with the girls, it is easy TV, man. You can kind of just have that thing on. It's kind of a pleasant little ride that take you on.

Yeah, no, it's great. Oh, Fred Flintstone. But like the real version, not the cartoon version. Fred Flintstone's great. You remember who played Fred? I always thought this dude looked like dad. You're talking about Goodman. Yeah.

Oh, my God God damn. What the fuck is wrong? My brain is not working right now. Yeah. White's got a little bit of Bam Bam in her. John Goodman, another kind of dad role in Roseanne, right? Ooh, yeah. Yeah.

Roseanne's really the star. I mean, that really does fit. I mean, it's Kylie's world and I'm just the John Goodman. The O plus one, man. Get you every time. Who else is there? There's Uncle Phil. Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince.

Classic, man. I'm not as put together as Uncle Phil was. Uncle Phil. He was like a judge. Yeah. I was like, yeah. I'm not litigious enough to fucking be an Uncle Phil. Yeah.

Your personality is always showing. It was a special moment when you got to see Uncle Phil's personality come out. I think you've fucking crushed it. Yeah. I think we got to. one which one was your favorite of the ones we threw out there the rosan actually fucking cracks i'm not going to lie and it's just you're the look and the like demeanor and i just i i think any anything where we could relate john goodman to you because you're you're i do see a lot of dad

in you whenever i see you around the girls it's fun yeah well hopefully not too much just the perfect amount. Just the good amount, yeah. Yeah, all right. Let's get to another one. Hey, Jason. Hey, Travis. This is Bree from Casey.

I've been watching since. Shout out to Bree. I'm excited a bowl on this episode, episode one. And my dumb question is, what something your dad told you when you were younger that you were like, nah, I'm not playing that. I'm not doing that. And now that you're a dad specifically, Jason, what are you like, no, I believe my dad now. That's it. That's the advice. Um, anyways, my dad has two girls. And so I just love to know

what advice did you take from your parents. And, um, yeah, happy father's day to one of you. And Travis, maybe you someday. Okay, shout out to new heights. Thank you very much for the call. I kind of don't understand what she's asking. Like, what's one thing that like dad said, like, when you were a kid, you were like, I don't know if that checks out. Like that doesn't fucking make sense. I'm trying to remember like things that dad told me that I like was like, nah. Like I just, I don't know.

Growing up, I thought dad knew everything. Cats are poisonous. Well, dad never said that. Dad never said that. No, he did that.

That's your style. That's my style. That's your style of parent. That's my style. I do find myself aligning more with dad on things. The older I get, I'm like, dad does actually like.

He's kind of spot on with this one. Yeah, I don't want to get into too much of that. I will say as a dad, it is so frustrating when kids won't eat food. And like you want to give them healthy food. You want to try and get it. And it is very difficult to get kids to eat healthy food, to get them to eat, period, when it's just not garbage. That's a major task. I'm trying to, like, nothing is like immediate.

comment to the top of my head. Maybe do a different one. Yeah, let's do a different one. Hi, Jason and Travis. This is Joseph Corone calling from Bartow, Florida. Okay, Bartow. My question for you is

if you could do anything with your dad on Father's Day, what would you do and why would you do it? For example, my favorite thing is to go play golf. with my dad on Father's Day, and I got to play the course he played as a kid on the original 18 holes.

Nice. That's awesome. It's tough because, I mean, doing some physical activity would be great with dad, but he just isn't in a place to be able to do physical activity. Well, in terms of the sport, you know what I mean, in terms of like moving or being athletic, I think so.

I think dad's, he's done a great job of getting his weight down, so those new knees can actually work for him. He has, he has. But I would say the thing is, I've done so many like cool fucking things with dad, you know? It's like. I like what Joe said in the call,

which is like go and do something that was like meaningful from like childhood. That does, I've never really thought of doing that with dad, but I like that idea. Like going back to like Forest Hills and having dad throw a ball and hit it with a baseball bat would be pretty fucking awesome. No, just have them go in the backyard.

throw the plastic golf balls. We used to play with those like squishy things in the backyard and you would hit it with your hand. And if it hit the house, it was a home run or a certain part of the house it was a home run. If it made a certain other distance, it was like a double. And then outside of that, it was basically dodgeball running around. That was a fun game. I don't even remember the rules, but that would be a fun game to read. We made up our own rules of that one.

One of the coolest things I ever did with dad was obviously he did. I think he took you to a World Series game, so he got tickets to be able to take me to the All-Star game. No, no, no. It was the other way I didn't go to the World Series. You went to the World Series. You know what it was? You went to the All-Star game. I went to the All-Star.

I went to Home Run Derby. You went to the Home Run Derby. I don't think I went to any of it, but yes. I ended up taking them to the All-Star game in Cleveland not too long ago. And it was kind of fun paying that back to the big guy. I mean, All-Star game is in Philadelphia. this year. Ooh.

Wouldn't be the same as Jacobs Field. But there is something about going to a ball, like just a baseball game with your dad. And it's electric, man. Especially a guy that loves the game. Yeah. You know, somebody that, you know, was close to the game growing up and kind of introduced us to that. Tailgate with pop and his wing sauce that he used to make, make some chicken wings. Hell yeah.

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See Cipher details. Expedia, the one place you go to go places. All right, here's some bonus Father's Day moments from Nate Bargettsey, Johnny Knoxville, and some more. All right now. What's the toughest part about being a girl dead in the movie and in real life? You know, it's, I don't know. You're your little girl. I'd imagine it's like, you know, I don't have a boy, so I don't know for sure.

but I think senior little girl get older is probably hard. I would imagine with a boy, not that, you know, you're kind of like setting them up and you're setting your boy to become older in a way. And your little girl, you kind of want to just like hold back and, you know, and you're like, ah, just hanging out with me and like, you know, and just all that. So I think that's the hardest part is probably letting go and, you know, which I mean, she's 13, so, you know, legally she still has to live here. so we're good right now

but it's it's you know I think that will be the hardest part I mean because you know the girls just know they know how to work their dads and

oh yeah you just get they can they can I mean they can do they can give you some looks where you're like I'll give you whatever you want you know they just can

100% yeah no you're you're on it brother I so it was just Travis and I grown up we didn't have any other sisters and knew I was having my first daughter Wyatt

And I, like, I was like, I'm just going to raise her the same I would as like a boy. And like, I'm not going to like, I'm going to, like, she'd be tough and all these things. And like the moment she comes out, it's like, oh, this is way different. And then, like, they start looking at you certain ways. And then they can start talking and like, they, they learn early that they can manipulate dad for anything. So it's, yeah, it's, that's hard. And Uncle Travee. No doubt.

No doubt. Me in every time I'm around him too. Oh, yeah. I bet. Yeah. Yeah, they can really get everybody. Do you enjoy pranking your kids like your dad did for you? Oh, my dad would, I'd be sleeping and he would, I'd get a glass full of water on my face in the morning.

And he just wanted me up so he could start telling jokes. You know, he would throw it on my face and then he'd go, la la, la, la. I remember in high school, I would be sleeping on the couch, you know, like junior, senior year. and he went and got a hot dog and put it in the microwave for about 20 seconds, 25 seconds. And then as I was sleeping, he drug it through my lips and then acted like he was zipping up his pants. But the answer is no, I don't prank my kids because I have a problem with it kind of gets away from me. if I start pranking someone and suddenly I'm I can't stop and I've done that to a friend of mine who wasn't in jackass and it really I really got over my skis and it hurt his feelings.

I'm like, oh, okay, I can't go after people like I go after everyone on jackass. And that was like a big moment for me that I can't be a monster all the time. We did see this billboard you put up for your daughter, though. Oh, right. Oh, yeah. Madison. She's a realtor in Austin. And the clap you want.

Kathy Guthrie. Yeah, that was too good of an idea not to happen. Our friend Kathy Guthrie said something about the clap you want. And, oh, that should be a billboard. And then next thing you know. The first billboard comes. Company, Nosson said, we're not going to put that up. That is naughty. We're not going. Then I called another company. And they're like, yeah, we'll put it up.

Like, put it up next month. Give you a discounted price. Yeah. Well, they didn't do that, Travis. But it was worth it. Yeah, but my daughter was so happy about it. That was fucking classic. I didn't even know what clap was like in middle school, you know. I didn't realize it was a social disease until high school. So by then it's on the back of my Letterman's jacket.

you know. All right. Last question. You guys have said you are very competitive with each other. You have a tally card wins in a book. Who is up right now? I mean, I've been on pause since the twins came around.

I mean, back pre-kids, it was, you know, card games at night, you're bored, board games. Now it's,

we're not competing over who's changed the most diapers on the day. Because we know who that is. It's not a competition. Like, we know who do is that is. Yeah. There's some things that don't need to be said, even though Julie's a phenomenal diaper changer.

But, yeah, the book is no longer in the rotation, but it's definitely a different season of life, but it's an amazing season in life. Yeah. I lied. This is, that isn't the last question. I'd ask one more.

What's harder being a professional athlete or having twins? Twin infants. Like, that has got to be. the most crazy thing imaginable. Yeah, I'm going to go with twins. Like, absolutely. Like, when he goes to, like, go train and work out, I'm like, I feel like that's a vacation now. Like, I'm like, like, how lucky that you get out and, you know, work out.

But no, it's like insane. Like sometimes, like the first year or so, like, we had them during football season, which was like so hard. And I was like, I was like in hibernation for like a year. I was like, like literally when they turned one year old, I was. I was like, wait, what does the sun look like? I'm so tired. Yeah. So I would go twins.

Yeah. Seeing twins on the ultrasound for the first time was like, I don't know if we talked for the rest of the day. Just how shocked we were, but it's insane. Like sometimes you look at them. They have completely different personalities. They look different. And it's just a fun season.

I mean, obviously twins and we have a kid that's two years older than the twins. So it's not like it's just the twins in and of itself. So yeah, it's been a blessing for sure. That wraps up another bonus episode, New Heights. Thank you so much for tuning in. You guys are the best, baby. All right now. Once again, New Heights and Wonder's Show brought to you by Expedia.

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