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After the glowing success of the most recent episode of the 'New Heights' podcast, the show gave a behind-the-scenes look at the Kelce Brothers and Taylor Swift doing vocal warmups.
There is no episode to be released this week, but fans of the show are still reveling in the success of Swift's appearance from last Wednesday night.
In a clip posted one week after, Jason and Travis Kelce were seen doing spoken vocal warmups.
Jason was seen loudly repeating 'Ow Now Brown Cow' while Travis responded with 'Unique New York' over and over.
Swift, who might just have a bit more experience in this department than the other two, then did her own warmup by buzzing her lips and humming through part of her vocal range.
Swifties ate it all up, leaving comments joking about the brother's attempts while still gushing over last week's episode.
A clip of Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift, and Jason Kelce (not pictured) doing vocal warmups before last week's monumental episode of the 'New Heights' podcast has gone viral
The episode is where Swift announced her forthcoming 12th album 'The Life of a Showgirl'
'Taylor's like excuse me while I do this correctly,' one post on X read.
Another said, 'Taylor doing it right and the boys just doing random stuff...'
'She said "lemme show yall a real vocal warm up",' another Swiftie posted.
One comment read, 'I love how Taylor is actually warming up, Jason is repeating brown cow, and Travis is just yelling things [laughing emoji].'
Teasers leading up to the episode revealed that Swift would be unveiling the cover and release date for her highly-anticipated 12th album, 'The Life of a Showgirl'.
Swifties flocked in droves to listen to the episode live - breaking the record for the most-watched live-streamed podcast in YouTube's history at 1.3million viewers.
It shattered the previous mark - held by 'The Joe Rogan Experience' when the eponymous host brought on then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The stream was so popular that Swifties ended up crashing the YouTube stream at the 1 hour, 44 minute mark.
Swift's appearance on the episode set the record for most-watched podcast livestream
The episode surpassed a mark previously set when Donald Trump went on Joe Rogan's show
'Shoutout all the 92%ers and Swifties for actually helping us break the internet,' the New Heights X account said after the stream had concluded.
Jason Kelce, the former Philadelphia Eagles center and co-host, referenced Swift's love of the number 13 by tweeting, '1.3million views is the epitome of numerology.'
Not only that, but the New Heights YouTube channel saw a spike in subscriber numbers.
The channel began at 2.85million subs before the episode began. By the next morning, the subscriber count sat at 2.97million. Currently, the channel has 3.06million subs.
While it did break the live-viewership record, it did not catch up to the 24-hour viewer count that the Trump episode of Rogan had.
In the first 24-hours of that episode, Rogan's channel had 26million views. A little over seven days after the 'New Heights' episode aired, it sits at 20.2million views.
But breaking one record held by Trump is sure to be a feather in Swift's cap after she endorsed Democrat nominee and former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Trump has gone on the offensive against Swift in the past, calling her 'no longer hot' after the endorsement of Harris and mocking her for being booed at Super Bowl LIX.
While Taylor and Travis have that record, it's still a ways off the 26million views that then-candidate Trump got when going on 'The Joe Rogan Experience' last year
Not only does this two-hour conversation mark a major moment for the show, it also is a perfect full-circle moment for Travis and Taylor.
Travis previously mentioned in July 2023 how he'd like to have Swift on the show and how he tried giving her a friendship bracelet at a concert in Kansas City, but that he wasn't able to meet her.
Cut to now. Travis and Taylor have been the definitive storyline in the NFL over the last two years, with the sport seeing a massive spike in female audience in that time.
On the episode, Swift mentioned how important that July 2023 episode was to their eventual meeting.
'This kind of felt more like I was in an '80s John Hughes movie,' Swift said. 'He was just like standing outside of my window with a boom box just being like, "I want to date you. Do you want to go on a date with me? I made you a friendship bracelet. Do you want to date me?"'
She continued, 'This is sort of what I've been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager.'
Kelce added, 'And I was sitting there at the Eras tour listening to every single one of those songs, like, I know what she wants me to do!'
He continued, 'I'm the luckiest man in the world,' while Swift said her man is 'a vibe booster in everyone's life that he's in. He's like a human exclamation point.'
On the pod, Swift revealed the cover and reveal date for her 12th album 'The Life of a Showgirl'
Swift's album announcement was the biggest draw for the show - with the 'Cruel Summer' singer confirming the October 3 release for 'The Life of a Showgirl'.
She added that there will not be any extra songs on the album - which is being produced by Swedish hitmaker Max Martin and his collaborator Shellback.
The pair helped make some of Swift's biggest hits - including 'Style', 'Shake It Off' and 'Blank Space' of her multi-Grammy winning 2014 album '1989'.
Unlike previous albums, Swift said there would not be any hidden tracks for 'Showgirl'.
However, fans are sure to be entertained - with the tracklist released and revealing that fellow pop star Sabrina Carpenter will feature on the title track.
