It was the “proposal heard ’round the world,” and Jason Kelce is taking a moment to loudly celebrate his brother, Travis Kelce, and his soon-to-be sister-in-law, Taylor Swift.
Ahead of a new episode of “New Heights,” which premieres at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Jason Kelce released a one-minute video clip on social media to address the engagement that went viral on Tuesday.
“There is one gigantic piece of new news that just hit the waves,” Jason Kelce said.
He explained that the episode was recorded on Monday, which is Travis Kelce’s one day off, so the Chiefs’ tight end would not be on the show to “address this himself.”
Jason Kelce and the team at “New Heights,” however, still felt it was their duty to celebrate the couple’s engagement and “send Travis and Taylor a giant congratulations for being engaged!” the former Philadelphia Eagles center shouted into the microphone on the podcast.
“YEAH!” he continued noisily. “The proposal heard ’round the world! F— yeah!”
Other “New Heights” team members, like famed social media manager Jets Jake, joined Jason Kelce in the clip to cheer on Travis Kelce and Swift excitedly.
The couple announced their engagement after two years of dating with a joint Instagram post on Tuesday, featuring a slideshow of photos from the engagement.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” the couple captioned the post, which has more than 28 million likes as of Wednesday morning.
Ed Kelce, the boys’ father, told ABC News 5 in Cleveland that the engagement took place about two weeks ago at a garden at his home in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
Jason Kelce also addressed the record-breaking episode that aired on Aug. 13 and featured Swift, who sat down for her first podcast interview with the brothers and announced her upcoming album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” on the football podcast.
He conceded that this week’s new episode “probably won’t be as good as the last episode of ‘New Heights,’” which set several podcasting records.
“Thanks to the one and only Taylor Swift for hopping on and deciding to talk with two complete idiots that don’t know anything about the music industry,” Jason Kelce said Wednesday morning. “And it was a doozy! So, get ready for a much lower bar this week.”
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