New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce - Heights Hotline | Ohio’s Worst Drivers, College Advice, and Beard Maintenance

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

92%ers, it's time for another edition of the Heights Hotline! On today’s episode, Jason and Travis debate which city has the worst drivers in Ohio, what advice they would give to a future Cincinnati Bearcat, and reveal the secrets behind their luxurious beards. Call us at 929-399-7260 to be featured in the next installment of the Heights Hotline.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 ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. ...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=LsuQ4a5MRN6wGMcfVcuynwCheck out New Heights on Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR2MJWYS?ref=blogSend something to the New Heights Mailbox. Don’t be weird though. C/O New Heights Productions135 E OLIVE AVE, BURBANK, CA 91502Shop all the New Heights merch at https://kelceclubhouse.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The reason I have a beard is to do less maintenance. I thought you were, like, hiding your face. Well, that's another perk. Is steak and lemonade still there? Oh, my God. That is a deep cut right there, dude. ATVs going all the way through the city and sh- Utes are not the best drivers.

Am I, like, stereotyping this? You are, but I think you might be right here. That's a joke. We're just having fun here, right? I'm going to go ahead and put Jason's phone number in the comments of this episode. You can call him directly about all those. Welcome back to this bonus episode of New Heights.

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On today's a bonus episode, We are going to be checking the Heights hotline to answer your off-topic, off-season questions. Let's get right into it right now. All righty, hotline suggestions. Hey, guys. Oh, hey. Who do you think has the worst drivers here in Ohio? Do you think it's Cincinnati, Columbus, or Cleveland?

And feel free to share any experiences you've had driving. All right. Have a good day. Okay, Brandon, let's do a quick census check. on which city has the highest percentage of females. You're sick. The old Ed Kelsey. This hammering home stereotypes.

All right. We're just kidding, folks. I'm going to go ahead and put Jason's phone number in the comments of this episode. You can call him directly about all those. That's a joke. We're just having fun here, right? I'll be completely honest. Kylie is a much better driver than me.

That was 100% just a joke. Don't go get in your panties in a bunch. All right, here we go. Where are we going to go with Heights Hotline? Okay, so Cleveland, Columbus, or Cincinnati? I feel like Cleveland's good. Cleveland's a very good driving town. They got, you're good.

You're used to very extreme weather conditions. You're used to tail the roads. So you got to be on your piece. Like, there's potholes everywhere. They don't even fix the roads at Cleveland. I came to Philly. I'm like, why is there so much construction? That's like, oh, I went back to Cleveland.

I'm like, they actually just fixed the roads at Philadelphia. And even in Philly, it's terrible compared to both cities. Cleveland, I mean, I love Cleveland to death. It is. So you got you kind of like have to be a good driver in Cleveland. Columbus, a lot of youth, a lot of youths. And typically, youths are not the best drivers. They're taking chances.

Yeah, the majority of my accidents and dumbass driving happened when I was really younger. Yes, yes. Especially in my college years. And then Cincinnati, you got a bunch of, you're getting closer to that Mason Dixon line where you're getting these guys, which tends to be, you're going to have your souped up trucks. They got moonshine in the bag. You're going to have, you're going to have your ATVs going all the way through the city and shit. Like, so I'm kind of, I know, I think it's, I think it's definitely between Columbus and Cincinnati, but I'm going to say Columbus just because there's just more young people.

Yeah, I would say Columbus, yeah. You got young people, you got alcohol all over the place. You got, you know, it's congestion. Yeah, there is. Yeah, two bad combinations right there. Yeah. So I'll go Columbus. Can we look up where, or how many accidents are?

Is this? Yeah, can we... Let's look this up. Let's look this up for how close we were. So what I've got in front of me is the actual city in Ohio for worst drivers is Dayton. Yeah, I mean, we got a limited to Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati. Yeah, you guys got limited, but Dayton is number one, followed by Cleveland and Columbus. Dayton is actually the second worst city in the country.

Pretty sure. Hang the banner. They also invented the traffic light in Cleveland, Ohio. That's a random bit of factoid that I do know for some reason. What are they using to determine the worst drives? Is it percentage per capita? Is it just overall accidents? It's tickets.

It's DUIs and insurance claims, I believe, are the three factors put in there. Yeah, but there's a lot of people in the Cleveland metropolitan area. And like, whatever. So people are just filing for insurance claims? I mean, come on. let's not go crazy. Some of those are probably legit. And listen, I don't know if you've ever been to Dayton, but...

I have not been to Dayton. Is it nice? A lot of drinking. You're going to do a lot of drinking if you live in Dayton. You know what I mean? There's not much happening. Yeah, just trying to have a good time here. So, wait, which one is the worst?

Shout out the flyers, maybe. Specifically, Cleveland is the worst. That's what we're saying? Amongst those three. Cleveland out of, yeah, Cleveland and Columbus. What is the Metro? It's the biggest city. It's the biggest city.

so most of the most people. I think it's a volume shooter. Well, this is why you need to know the Mexico. Cleveland's actually the smallest of the three major cities in Ohio. If you are just factoring in the city limits. Cleveland has a smaller geographic limit than Columbus and Cincinnati. But if you factor in the metropolitan area of Cleveland, Cleveland is a bigger like metropolitan population.

At least it used to be. Columbus is the big. biggest city in Ohio. It has been for some time. If you are only including the city limits of Columbus in Cincinnati, Cleveland's third. There's no north side. That's why. Actually, oh, wait, I got some math here, Jason. I got you some math. Here's according to fox8.com, Beaver Creek, located east of Dayton was the city with the worst drivers in the state with 28.8 incidents per 1,000 drivers. Shout out to Derek Wolf. That is a no-brainer. The city with the second worst was Delaware for a thousand hours,

and then Lakewood, Hamilton, and Dublin. Lakewood, okay, Hamilton, and Dublin. I mean, we're really just looking for Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus. Okay, in the city with the best drivers in Ohio was Mentor, located east of Cleveland. Makes a lot of sense. They're following rules out there, yeah. So the losers here are Dayton. Yeah.

All righty. Discipline football team right there. They're following the rules. The most reported car was Suzuki's. I don't know. What the fuck are y'all doing in Ohio? They haven't made those in like 20 years. What are you doing?

Ohio's a bit behind the times for the most part. I mean, it's, I wouldn't say it's like, like, it's just, you know. Sounds like an affordable car. And RAM drivers had the worst incident rates among vehicle makes on Ohio roads. Yeah, that's Cincinnati for sure. The more you know, the more you know. I don't know that I saw many Rams in Cleveland growing up. No.

Dodge caravans, not Dodge Rams. All righty. Are we doing another one? I don't know. That was. Yeah, let's do a couple more since we got to cut the one that was. Guys, if you're watching this, there was a phone call that was cut that was too dark for the show. And I'll let you guys just play around your mind with what that was.

Didn't like it. Sorry. Let's do some UC recommendations. UC recommendations. find that real quick. Hi, guys. My name is Sarah, and I will be attending University of Cincinnati in the fall.

Go cats! I am heading there with my best friend for a college visit for a few days, and I was wondering what spots recommend I go to while I'm there. Thanks a lot, guys. Go, Chief. Man, it's so hard

because it's changed so much. Yeah, but one thing hasn't changed, and that's Adriaticos. Great point. I thought you were going to say Uncle Woody's, which has... Well, it kind of has changed. It's changed from the original

Adriaticos, but it is now... Still the same pizza. It's delicious. It's a nicer establishment, but it's still a same pizza, man. God damn, that shit's good. So you can always go to Adriaticos. It's on campus.

You get some pizza, get a good feel of the campus. You get to see Clifton, which has, like, a ridiculous amount of shit on it compared to when we were there. And, yeah, get some good food. I would say, If you're going there in the summer or you're going,

that means you're probably not 21, not going to recommend any bars, but Woody's is probably the best dive bar that you could, you could hit up there. What do you think, Jason? Did she say how old she was? I missed the front end of that. Did she say?

No, I just assumed. I just assumed she said she's going there in the fall. She sounded like, it was like a grad school. She sounded older, right? She didn't sound like an 18-year-old. Am I, like, stereotype in this? No, you are, but I think you might be like you. She definitely, she sounded older, but what she said was, so I just assumed that she was younger.

Undergrad. Fair enough. Either way, if you're going bars, we were big Uncle Woody's people. It's not owned by a different group. Like, I don't know who owns it now. It's not Lori anymore. Lori and John. Is steak and lemonade still there?

I kind of would love to go get some steak and lemonade. Team cut right there, dude. Oh, my God. Oh, please steak and lemonade. Please be there. If it's still there. Right now. It has to, bro.

That place fucking crushed. Short vine has changed so much, but like Martino's steak and lemonade. Oh, Martino. Go get you some sparky wings at Martinos. It's one of the best steak salads, dude. Pittsburgh steak salad. They put French fries on it. Very, very good establishment.

Good family. Good family that owns it too. I don't, for some reason, I feel like steak and lemonade isn't there anymore. I think, dude, they've all got pushed out because there's been so much development. No, it hasn't. It is still up and running, baby. Stick and lemonade, dude. We're definitely, we're over hyping it.

We're over hyping it. No, we're not. But it's delicious. Everybody's going to go over there and be like, what the fuck did they just do? But you are going to take one bite out of that chicken. If you like fried chicken. steak. Oh, man.

Everything. It's got it's got all. Fried chicken, cheese steaks. The, uh, the, you, they have, but the real treat, the reason everybody went there is for that they call them lemonade, but it's, it's basically like Kool-Aid, basically. Like, they have, like, the traditional lemonade, but they have all these different flavors. Oh, dude, so good. I fucking love this damn place.

They have these milkshakes where they mix these, like, flavors of the lemonade's in with, like, the milkshake. Do you remember this, Travis? I mean, it's fucking unreal. It'd be like a swirl going down this milkshake. Of course I remember this shit, dude. Are we going get this shit every goddamn day? It's like a straight of fast track to diabetes, but it is so fucking.

It's not what a college athlete should be eating, but it is exactly what a college athlete should be eating. It's like, it's just the perfect mixture of fucking deliciousness. Viral fruit. Oh, that's new fruit cakes. I don't remember that. Do they not have the milkshakes anymore? I've never seen those.

No, they, I don't know if they... Yeah, there they are. Dude, I used to get the strawberry. They had all these flavors, but it wasn't like a standard, like, strawberry milkshake. It, like, had like a swirl in it. It was, I don't know. Whatever. The lemonade's, though.

Oh, the slushies. Still crack. Still crack. Can't beat it, man. So, staking lemonade. Shout out to steak and lemonade for making a group. This is hidden gem. There's also a lot of other very good.

Brogers, Kroger's like a goddamn, it's like super center now, dude. The Kroger over there is crazy. Make sure you hit up the Kroger right there on campus. It's real nice now. It's real nice now. Kroger has stepped up their game. You can also get some garage beers while you're at. Anyways, what's, Martino's Steak and Lemon, Adriaticos, all three bangers.

The Buffalo Wild Wings, we would always go to. They have B-dubs. I'm trying to relate the specific. spots go ahead sorry no i can't remember what the the hall was the dining hall oh you're talking about stadium view stadium view dining hall no the one that was up the hill with the cat with the chick fillet in it they had a chick fillet in a dining hall yeah i don't remember that i mean it's like the main dining hall for everybody canvass oh you're talking about um that that was like a food court that wasn't a dining hall it wasn't like a cafeteria yeah yeah um where the fuck was that oh is

right there in the middle of the campus. It wasn't in the building that the subway was in. You can't remember the hall. There was another spot that I was thinking of, too. Yeah, you can hit that subway right there in the middle of campus across the walkways, the cafeteria where you can get Chick-fil-A and stuff. You just get a good feel of the campus right there in the middle of it by the stadium. I would recommend going down, what's that skyline called right there?

I'm trying to remember right on campus. It's like right, you go down, Clifton. Oh my gosh The cliff Started with the M Started with You're talking about the street But there was like a specific name

For that skyline It was the first one ever It's an iconic thing in Cincinnati You'll probably hate it To be honest with you like I mean I love skyline But most people not from Cincinnati Do not like skyline

I would say Is it the Ludlow The Ludlow skyline? No it's What is this little area It's still Clifton For sure Jefferson I have

It is. It's Ludlow. It's Ludlow. That's what it is. The Ludlow skyline, for sure. That's like the first, I believe the first skyline ever. It's like kind of feels like you're in a diner, like very old school vibe. If you are 21 and you're at the bars, it's a great late hours.

You know, it'll definitely taste good at that point. If you're 21. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. There's another good spot right down there in that Clifton area. And I'm trying to think of it.

what was the oh man we're really being put to the test on our there's also so many other spots that it popped up now that we're just not not even hip too we're not hip too this is all this is all pre 2013 like we're on the one side of campus forever so it was always like hey it's either McDonald's dominoes martino's steak and lemonade that was kind of what we subsisted on for seriously three years and then I got food stamps

and I went to crow that's right well there's our recommendations hope you enjoy can't go wrong just make sure keep your whereabouts well no it's good now it's good now

it's completely change yeah all right good call all right where are we at here last one I know it's quick I know this one's quick we get this one all the time though hi

this is Leo and I was just wondering what kind of products you guys use for your beards. They are so spectacular. Wow. And I always seem so nicely groomed and you guys look very nice all the time. Just wondering if y'all use anything special. Hohoba oil, shay butter, the works, like, what's going on? did Leo say hubba oil

something oil hobbo oil hobo oil I've never heard of that all right well Traud I'm in Trave do you want to go I don't I don't I mean the one thing I do to my beard consistently is I trim

I'd use the trimmer to like catch all the like the pieces that are like kind of sticking out yeah the loose ends I do that to kind of keep it a little bit more shaped. And then to make sure I get the mustache line down at top. Love it, love it. Yeah, I mean. But in terms of like washing it and stuff, I'll just wash it with the shampoo.

I don't, the reason I have a beard is to do less maintenance. Like, I don't have a beard. Like, I didn't, you know what I mean? I didn't get a beard to be like, hey, let me tack on more shit to do to my face. Like, the reason I have is just because I'm too lazy to fucking shave every day. Like I'm not then going to go do all this other fucking shit like I thought you were like hiding your face you said one time you I well that's another perk that's another perk for sure I don't have to see my chin but I think I think it's more because I don't want to have to do anything like the thought of having to shave every day is would drive me fucking crazy yeah dude I'm right there with you I think one of the bets that we do should end up being you have to shave okay well we can do that at a later let me lose a little bit more weight before we do that but I will condone that. We got to wait on Jason to lose weight.

Let me get a little more tan. Let me get a little more tan. Well, it's not going to be that much. I can do that in like two weeks. Okay. I will say, though, it does look better when I do do stuff to it. And by me, I mean, when there are wonderful hair and makeup people on set or like at the games that will put like beard oil. Oh, do you know, oh, while you use beard oil, that was wondering why you look so nice on the shit.

I don't. No, you do. If they're putting it on you, you use it. No, they use it. I'm a vehicle for them using it. I don't use it. I've never put it in, but they will, and sometimes, I mean, some of them don't have it. But when some of them do have it, I'm like, hey, actually it looked pretty good.

That's too funny. Well, there you go. We got to get that beard oil because your, your beard is shining on TV. There we go. Well, the problem is I will not put it in because I'm not going to. take the time to do it. But the people want to know what you're using. Not using anything on the podcast for that's for damn sure.

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