As if you couldn’t tell by, oh, the last year or so, Travis Kelce is big-time into Taylor Swift. But just in case you had any doubts, Kelce appeared on a podcast where he went on for 10 minutes about how proud he is of “my girl. That’s my lady.”

In the latest episode of Bussin’ With the Boys, a podcast hosted by former NFL players Will Compton and Taylor Lewan, published Tuesday, Kelce did his best heart eyes emoji impression while discussing his very famous girlfriend. (He also talked about football, but let’s be real here.) The interview was taped on June 19, according to the show notes, so before his surprise top-and-tails Eras Tour performance.

Of special note is Kelce’s account of “why I really started to really fall for her.” He talked about Swift’s awareness of her high profile while being aware of keeping people comfortable and not pulling focus from others’ big moments, like the Chiefs’ Super Bowl win.

“She’s very self-aware but at the same time it’s like…she understands situations like that,” Kelce said of Swift. “And I think that’s why I really started to really fall for her because of how genuine she is around friends, family. It can get crazy for somebody with that much attention and she just keeps it so chill and so cool, and I can admire it for sure.”

Kelce’s comments are just the latest form of PDA for the couple. In the past five days alone, they’ve immortalized their relationship in selfie form with three heirs to the throne, Taylor wore a “TNT” ring while performing, Travis carried Taylor on stage in front of thousands of screaming fans including Sir Paul McCartney (and don’t forget that not-so-subtle kiss she blew Travis before he and his enormous Louboutins left the stage), Taylor shared photos of said body-carrying on Instagram and told her 283 million followers that she’s “still cracking up/swooning over @𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁atrav’s Eras Tour debut 🥰,” a custom Super Bowl-style ring gifted to Taylor by Gigi Hadid featuring several of the singer’s “favorite things,” including a portrait of one of her cats (Benjamin Button, you are the chosen one) and Travis’s jersey number, 87.

We’ve come a long way since that first Bears game and Kelce’s November 2023 comment explaining that he tries to keep tight-lipped to “make sure I don’t say anything that would push Taylor away.”

“Obviously I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them…. I’ve never dealt with it,” he said at the time. “But at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it…. The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she’s just living, enjoying life. When she acts like that I better not be the one acting all strange.”

Now, he’s still not the one acting all strange, as he put it, but he’s not making a secret of how he feels about the singer.

“It’s like, you want to keep things private but at the same time, I’m not here to hide anything,” he said on the podcast. “That’s my girl. That’s my lady. I’m proud of that. So I’m not sitting here trying to juggle how can I keep this under wraps. You just don’t want to let everybody into your personal life and be able to comment on it, knowing that everything she does is getting a headline.”

Swift’s ability to keep things normal, he said, earns her “beaucoup points” from Kelce. “Like damn, she’s in the madness, she wants to be a part of it. She wants to support me and do things like that, I was like man, she really won me over with that.”

And he’s supporting her too, grinning as he told the hosts about Swift’s “electric” concerts and “seeing her in her element, 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁ing it up there on stage.”

When asked to rank his favorite three Swift tracks, he didn’t hold back, either. “Love Story,” characterized by Kelce as a “forever banger” (and by fans as a forever “did that lip sync between the two of them really just happen?!” moment) didn’t quite make the cut, but one song with “a little big of sentimental meaning, I guess,” did.

That’s right: “So High School,” an ode to hanging out on the couch and playing video games and making gooey eyes at each other. A PDA anthem.

“You know what I’m saying?” Kelce added. “You know how to ball, I know Aristotle, man.”

A representative for Taylor Swift did not immediately respond to Vanity Fair’s request for comment.