In short
A “Heights Hotline” bonus episode where hosts Travis Kelsey and Jason Kelsey answer off-season voicemails—covering shoe fashion advice, Ohio slogan talk, and reporters’ “dumb questions” plus childhood weird beliefs.
Guests/backgrounds
No separate guests; callers include Grace (Tuscarawas County, OH), Maddie (man?), Bianca (Johnston, RI), and a reporter-question caller (name unclear).
Key claims
Travis says LeBron 13s (“Buzz Lightyear Brown 13s”) are cool if styled subtly (neutral jumpsuit; white/gray; court or rave/festival use). Ohio’s “current slogan” is joked as “high in the middle and round on the outside,” then they settle on “The heart of it all.”
Notable examples
Sharks in swimming pools; fear/anxiety about deep, unseen water; Travis believing his name could be Charles until school/ID reality.
Written by AI. May contain mistakes. Listen to the episode to check what was said.
Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOVoicemail Discussion: Ohio's Current Slogan
0:45 to 7:40
The hosts discuss a voicemail about Ohio's slogan and share humorous takes.
“It's a Wondry Show brought to you today by Planet Fitness.”
Fashion Advice: Buzz Lightyear 13s
7:40 to 10:26
Travis gives insights on wearing LeBron 13s, including occasions and styles.
“I mean, roller coaster capital of the world.”
Fashion Advice: Buzz Lightyear 13s
11:29 to 13:20
Travis gives insights on wearing LeBron 13s, including occasions and styles.
“Now, if I don't stretch, I'm feeling like something's going to pull walking to the fridge.”
Childhood Fears and Beliefs
14:02 to 14:57
Explore childhood fears and the strange beliefs we hold as kids.
“It's so crazy that it's like that though.”
Travis's Name Change Belief
14:58 to 15:30
Travis shares a humorous anecdote about wanting to change his name.
“I just believed my name was supposed to be Charles.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Jason Kelce:We have a voicemail, dumbest question ever asked. We will be the determiners of that. Go ahead, Brandon, please play. They tried to sell me on West Virginia one time. Not gonna lie, it was a beautiful landscape. Was it thallisophobia or something like that? There's some type of fear that I definitely have when it comes to water. Do you know Ohio's current slogan? It's high in the middle and round on the outside. If you're going to a rave, grab the Buzz Lightyear Brown 13s. I found myself listening to more and more Randy Newman. That's another Toy Story reference right there. Ohio, where everything's a solid six.
0:30All white two-piece jumpsuit right here.
0:33Jason Kelce:I mean, white goes with everything, Travis. Now you're just grasping at straws. That's the funniest thing I've ever seen.
0:43Welcome to this month's bonus episode of New Heights. That's right. It's a Wondry Show brought to you today by Planet Fitness. Gosh, man. Gotta love a good Planet Fitness going there. They got everything you need. We're your hosts. I'm Travis Kelsey. It's my big brother, Jason Kelsey, also known as Jason Kelsey in the real world. Subscribe on YouTube wherever you get your podcasts. And follow the show on all social media. And that's at New Heights Show with one S. Go ahead and click the follow on that one. and Jason is now going to tell you what content is going to be given to you in a bonus type of way.
1:26Jason Kelce:Sure. Well, on today's bonus episode, we're going to be diving back into the Heights hotline, answer some of those very off-season voicemails that you guys have been sending. Which one do we want to start with, Trev? I think we want to start with shooting your shot. Shooting your shot. All right. We got a question from the New Heights subreddit. Let's take a look. Okay, let's see it. Let's see it. What is the question? I'm not seeing a question here. Travis, these shoes cool or nah? Travis is our resident decipherer of what is cool and what is not, I will say. I don't know if that's not. I mean, I'll take it, but I don't know if that's smart.
2:08I do a lot of dumb shit that I just like to do because it's dumb.
2:11Jason Kelce:Well, dumb is cool, Triv. yeah well depending on who's it's it's all what is it subjective um objective whatever it is you had it right you had it right nice nice nice it depends on where you're wearing it you know what are you wearing it with you know how do you how do you present yourself with it on well let's start here where would these be cool what would these be cool to wear to i'm not huge on the straps are these lebrons they are they are lebron 13s does that make a difference into what these are cool to wear too i'm typically on top of the bronze series you're a shoe guy i am a shoe guy i collect bronze in jordan specifically um as well as kobe's uh not yet when he when he came over the Nike side.
3:01Yep. I don't think I've ever seen these.
3:07Jason Kelce:What's interesting about these is I'm usually into the neon colors, but it feels like these aren't like... It's like kind of like showy, but it doesn't really feel... Are these Buzz Lightyears? Is that a thing? I mean... It's got the green and purple. Makes me think of Buzz Lightyear. Where would it be cool to wear these to, Travis? I mean, they're basketball shoes. You can wear them to a basketball game. You can wear them on the court. I mean, the bronze are my favorite basketball shoes of all time. The 13s were probably 2001, 2003. So he was back in Cleveland when these came out. Yeah, he was back in Cleveland when these came out.
3:50So I am drowning right now in what the fuck to do with these.
3:56Jason Kelce:Maybe let's start here. what would they not be cool to wear to it's there it's it's all how you wear them there's nothing there's no like you can't wear these to a funeral not cool it's not going to be i mean who is it la fmo's funeral like who's like who's funeral you know like there's some there's certain people that you know wouldn't mind a brown 13 in this this colorful way um i think uh I think they're cool. One, because they're bronze. I think it's a very specific look that you have to put together to rock them, though. If you're not going to rock them on the court. What are you wearing with them to pull it off?
4:38To pull this off?
4:40Jason Kelce:MC Hammer pants? Parachute pants? It's an interesting choice. Interesting choice. You'd have to match it with like a parachute shirt, which is a nice baggy shirt, parachute pants and like other kinds of shirts just don't really. You got to have it tucked in, shows off the physique a little bit. And then I probably wouldn't do that with these. Where would you go? I'm thinking jumpsuit. I'm thinking jumpsuit. Yeah, a little top bottle, a two-piece trap. What color is the jumpsuit? I guess you could mix it in with a little neon colorway. Try and match it with this. I think if we go green, it'd probably be a little too much.
5:22You can always go, I think, a nice white, an all-white two-piece jumpsuit right here.
5:27Jason Kelce:I mean, white goes with everything, Travis. Now you're just grasping at straws. Well, when you've got loud shoes, you can just kind of, you know, be more subtle. Let them be the showstoppers. What about a Buzz Lightyear jumpsuit? A nice gray, a nice gray. Grays go with everything as well, gray and white. I mean, we're kind of playing it safe. When the shoes are this loud, you got to – Neutral's on top. Yeah. You can't be too loud all over. You can. And that's the thing. If you're going raving, if you're about to go on a rave, if you're about to go to a festival – Are these good rave shoes? Typically when you're going to a rave, you're going to be walking around.
6:05Yep. Basketball shoes are going to give you good support. Yep. I'm sure when Bron came out with these shoes, he didn't think – That's what he was thinking of? He wasn't thinking he was going to get promoted to go to –
6:16Jason Kelce:A lot of people jump around a lot of raves. They're built for jumping. Good change of direction.
6:26I think there's a wave shoes, yeah. Yeah. If you're going to a rave, grab the Buzz Lightyear Brown 13s.
6:32Jason Kelce:All right. Let's get into some of these voicemails. New Ohio slogan. Let's hear it. Hi, Jason and Travis. My name is Grace, and I'm from Tuscarawas County, Ohio, which is about 40 minutes south of Canton. and my question pertains to Ohio. If the state of Ohio was looking for a new slogan, what would you make it? Thank you. Okay. Do you know Ohio's current slogan? Let's start there. What's Ohio's current slogan? It's high in the middle and round on the outside. That's the funniest thing ever. Do they still do state commercials? I remember growing up and always seeing an Ohio commercial. I don't remember.
7:16I just remember it feeling weird that they're promoting a state. It's like something that you can like a consumer.
7:26Jason Kelce:This is where you want to be. Yeah, this is where you want to be. West Virginia, they tried to sell me on West Virginia one time. Not going to lie, it was a beautiful landscape. They didn't really give me a reason to go there, though. Do you know what Missouri's is? I know what Missouri's slogan is. No. Tell me. The show me state. The show me state. Okay. Okay. Okay. I did know that. I've heard that one before. That's a great one. That's one of my favorite. Show me state's a great one. Ohio slogan. I mean, roller coaster capital of the world. That's it. Yeah. We can't. That's not much of a slogan, though.
8:00No.
8:00Jason Kelce:No. Where home feels home. All right. Where home feels home. That's too sentimental. We got to give us some edge. You got to give us some edge. What's Cleveland's? Cleveland notoriously has been known as the mistake on the lake, and I think that's pretty fucked. I mean, we've had a lot of mistakes, but to say we are just in general a mistake is a bit far, in my opinion. We were once one of the wealthiest cities in the world. So what, our river caught on fire a few times. Listen, it happens when you're producing that much steel. You got all those rigs coming through. It happens. We're not the only one, right?
8:33Jason Kelce:I don't. Can't be. shout out to rainy newman man he made that into a beautiful song randy is i mean i i found myself listening to more and more that's another toy story reference right there ohio a little something for everybody i feel like ohio does have like a very big like there's a big difference going from northeast ohio in cleveland area to like southern southwestern ohio and cincinnati in the middle is just like farmland around and they got a big-ass university in the middle of it oh yeah we like to hold on to our history ohio where the beer loves you it's a good one ohio where everything's a solid six
9:23ohio we guarantee you'll never be too high or too low yeah what's the biggest thing ohio's
9:29Jason Kelce:known for you think i mean probably at this point ohio state you know proctor and gamble in cincinnati like ohio like buckeyes is obviously state emblem of the state basically yeah ohio when there's nothing quite good enough for people to reference so they always just talk about how great clevelanders are whatever you say from ohio it's like hey everybody in ohio is so nice that's the only thing i ever hear about ohio do you guys know what the current slogan is sure what's the current We were hoping you were going to write it down. I was letting you down the vine there a little bit. Nice. The heart of it all.
10:05The heart of it all.
10:05Jason Kelce:I like that. I think we don't need to come up with a new one at all. That's a great one. Why are we trying to find a new one? It's in the heartland. I mean, it sums it up very well. Kind of the shape of a heart. Ohio is full of heart. Yep. The heart of it all, baby. Well, there you go. We just did that for no fucking reason. All right, cool. It's this whole show, Travis. thank you to our sponsor planet fitness can we talk about gym equipment for a second no come on okay all right because planet fitness doesn't mess around no they sure don't they've got plate-loaded strength equipment functional training areas cardio machines freeways basically everything you need to get your mind and body right to crush your fitness goals whatever those look like for you.
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12:29Jason Kelce:That's right. And that's exactly what Colgate Total does. Get Colgate Total on Amazon today. All right. We have a voicemail. Dumbest question ever asked. We will be the determiners of that. Go ahead, Brandon. Please play. hey guys my name is maddie i'm a huge man hey my question is what's the dumbest question you've ever been asked by a reporter even though there's no dumb questions and how do you deal with like personal stupid questions from them thanks nothing stands out to me do you have any question that stands out to you i mean yeah like uh what are the keys to the game just generic questions just the most generic questions ever i've been fortunate i haven't been asked too wild a questions i don't think um i had some wild answers but i don't think i've ever been asked a question where i was like that's fucking dumb i'm not answering that weird thing you believed as a kid i like this one more let's hear it hey jason hey travis it's Bianca from Johnston, Rhode Island, land of the forget-to-use-your-blankers, and endless pursuit.
13:40Jason Kelce:Anyway, my question is, what is the weirdest thing you believed as a kid? Thank you. Yeah, I didn't really get a lot of what she said at the beginning. I'm sorry I didn't get your name or where you're from. That was hard to understand. Yeah, it was tough. Weirdest thing I believed as a kid. There's a couple. One was, I believe that there were sharks in swimming pools. I knew that was going to be it. i don't know why i thought they could get in you still feel it i still like when i'm swimming and i'm not able to see underwater in the deep end i still honestly am a little nervous i don't know why like it like if like when i'm in a big lap pool and i'm swimming and i'm just there's all this water around me i still have this like anxiety and i don't fully comprehend why that's fucking gold man was it thallus a phobia or something like that is i forget what it's called but there's some type of fear that i definitely have when it comes to water yeah i thought that they could like somehow get through those like openings in the side of the pool that are just like helping filter the water i i just doesn't make a lot of logical sense um it's that's definitely the weirdest one.
14:53It's so crazy that it's like that though.
14:55Jason Kelce:Yeah. What's the weirdest thing you've ever believed, Travis? I just believed my name was supposed to be Charles. Yeah, I remember that. I had a feeling you were going to that. That's the only thing I can really like, I just believed I could tell people my name was Charles and that was now my name. And no, that's not how that works. You have to like go to school and like have a government ID and I'm like, no, your name's Travis because your parents named you Travis, not because you wanted your name to be something else. So there you go. It was quite a kick. It was a kick until I embarrassed my mom at a block party.
15:35Jason Kelce:That was a very funny moment. Yes. All righty, that wraps up another bonus episode of New Heights. Next month, we'll be doing a Father's Day voicemail bonus content video. So call into the Heights hotline at 929-399-7260. All right. Now, once again, New Heights is a wondrous show brought to you by Planet Fitness. Follow the show on all social media. I had New Heights show with one S for fun clips throughout the week. Thanks to our production and crew. And thank you again to all those 92 percenters for tuning into this bonus episode. You never know what you're going to get here. Huh? You know what I mean?
16:09Never know. Never know.
16:17But you
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