Andy Reid reacts to Taylor Swift joining Travis Kelce on New Heights podcast: ‘My grandkids will be all over it’

Global superstar Taylor Swift appears primed to reset every podcast listening record with Wednesday night’s release of the lastest “New Heights” episode co-hosted by her boyfriend and Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce and his brother Jason. Just don’t expect Chiefs head coach Andy Reid to be contributing to the listener count.

During a press conference following Wednesday morning’s training camp practice, the 67-year-old Reid — who likes to brag he helped set up his star tight end with Swift — joked he’s too old to be among the millions of listeners expected to partake in Wednesday night’s “New Heights” podcast show. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be Reids represented among the likely record-breaking downloads.

“Listen, I’m like really old. My grandkids will be all over it,” Reid said Wednesday. “But I’m happy for them. Both of them like each other, and what a plus that is. They care about each other, and I think that’s the most important thing. The older you get, you want these guys to have somebody they can settle down with, that whole deal. I think it’s a neat deal for them — both of them.”

Wednesday will be Swift’s highly-anticipated first podcast appearance on “New Heights,” which coincides with Tuesday’s announcement of the upcoming release of her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” This will be her first album since “The Tortured Poets Department,” which was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys.

How to watch New Heights with Taylor Swift

Time: Wednesday 8/13 | 7 p.m. ET
Link: New Heights YouTube
Stream: Apple Podcasts, Spotify

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce began dating in 2023. Since then, she’s become a fixture at Kansas City Chiefs games. Unsurprisingly, as is often the case with her fans, many of them have followed her to the NFL to try and keep up with the star. In February of 2024, Swift was credited with adding $331M to NFL value and elevating viewership among teenage girls by 53 percent.

Recently, Travis Kelce has opened up about the relationship that he has with Taylor Swift. That included dealing with the amount of attention that they’ve received as a proverbial power couple.

“When there is not a camera on us, we’re just two people that are in love,” Kelce told GQ. “It can be perceived as something else because of how much it is talked about and how much we are tracked whenever we do go out, but I would say that it’s as normal of…. It happened very organically even though from a media standpoint it was being tracked. It still happened very organically.”

The couple that podcasts together stays together. At least, that’s what Swift fans likely hope amid the excitement of her next album coming out.

— On3’s Dan Morrison contributed to this report.