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Football stars and podcasters Travis and Jason Kelce are looking to break a world record held by Quebec comedian Mike Ward.
On the latest episode of their popular and award-winning podcast New Heights, the famous brothers and NFL athletes said they will host a live podcast taping at their alma mater, the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.
The taping will take place on April 11 at Nippert Stadium, where they both played for the Bearcats.
“We also found out that we could be breaking a world record – a Guinness Book World Record here – for selling tickets, women and men,” said Travis Kelce, who plays tight end for the Super Bowl winners, the Kansas City Chiefs. He’s also dating pop star Taylor Swift (as if you didn’t know).
“The current Guinness World Record for most tickets sold for a live podcast belongs to Canadian comedian Mike Ward,” he said. “He had an audience of 20,000 – actually just under 21,000 – in Montreal in July 2022.”
“Let’s see what happens,” responded Jason Kelce, who recently announced his retirement from the NFL after 13 years with the Philadelphia Eagles.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most tickets sold for a podcast recording is 20,986 and was achieved by Mike Ward in Montreal, on July 22, 2022. To celebrate the podcast’s 10th anniversary, Ward gave on live taping from Mike Ward Sous Écoute at the Bell Centre.
New Heights is currently the #21 most popular podcast in the US on Spotify, and has 2.3 million subscribers and more than 700 million video views on YouTube. It also won iHeartRadio’s Podcast of the Year earlier this month.
Mike Ward Sous écoute has 143,000 subscribers on YouTube and according to his website, the podcast has 125 million views or downloads.
Ward was in the middle of a 13-year legal saga that took him all the way to the Supreme Court. The case dealt with issues such as freedom of expression and defamation regarding a joke in his act about a boy with a rare disability. The case was dropped by plaintiff Jeremy Gabriel last year.
