Retired NFL star Jason Kelce anticipates a busy Thanksgiving holiday. On the November 26th episode of the New Heights podcast, the 38-year-old admitted that hosting the holiday with his wife, Kylie, and managing their four children will be “a long day.”
“Are you ready to host the crew?” Jason’s brother and co-host, Travis Kelce, asked him.
“We got Kylie’s family, we have four kids. So I’m going to have to be wrestling these kids. I don’t know,” Jason shared, referencing his daughters Wyatt, 6, Elliotte, 4, Bennett, 2, and 7-month-old Finnley.
“There we go. That’s what I’m talking about,” 36-year-old Travis joked. “All fours. Get on all fours. Just start wrestling.”
“Dude, it’s gonna be a long day,” Jason replied, to which Travis advised, “Just start wearing them down.”
Later in the conversation, Jason confessed he is “useless” when it comes to helping with the cooking on Thanksgiving.
“I’m just a huge inconvenience on Thanksgiving because Kylie and her mom are making everything,” he admitted. “And instead of just, like, watching the kids, I go next door and fry a turkey with [my dad] Ed. So for an hour of the day, I’m just completely useless and making an extra turkey that we don’t need.”
Pre-Holiday Fasting and Retirement Decisions
Elsewhere on the episode, Jason revealed he was currently 36 hours into a 48-hour fast leading up to the holiday, a challenge he agreed to take on with former Dallas Cowboys player Marcus Spears.
When Travis questioned why he would undertake such a task, Jason lamented, “This is what happens when you retire. You f—ing do stupid s— like this.”
The former Philadelphia Eagles center clarified that his fast would conclude by Thanksgiving morning, quipping, “I might eat a whole turkey by myself by that point.”
Jason explained the motivation for the fast stemmed from his recent indulgent eating: “I’m not gonna do it for Thanksgiving. I’m gonna eat my face off on Thanksgiving. I just feel bad about myself because I was at Disney World and ate a bunch of freaking egg rolls and a bunch of other things that probably aren’t the best…”
“Then I went to Wisconsin and shoved the prime rib and an ice cream drink down my face and wings, and the weight’s been going up. So, yeah, we’re going on a fast,” he concluded.
This latest fast follows Jason’s recent public health journey, during which he appeared to have lost weight.
