Episode 36: Silencing The Haters & Selling Cigarettes with Pat McAfee

I don't know, We've got to figure that out. My problem is Jared's had a little bit of full well last night, he had a little bit of flegm in his throat and I don't know how in the middle of the night when he sleeps he can still clear his throat. So every five seconds he was like and I was like, I can't do this. So finally I turned on the light. Not loudly or you know, meanly, but I just turned it on and he woke up

and he's like, what's going on? And grab my pillow, I grabbed the charger, I grab my water, and I said, I love you very much, but I am going to the room across the way. I don't want you to wake up and wonder if I'm mad at you or like whatever. But I just need some sleep. And he's like, oh, sorry, no, no, it's fine, I'll take some night. Well, I'm sorry, I'm say no, no, go to bad, We're good, Um, go to sleep. I think I got maybe six hours, which

isn't enough. And then at the dog came in crying that mommy wasn't in the right room and what are you waiting here? So yeah, anyways, and then you played this song let me clear my throatna noa, noa no how and then he came in and he goes sorry, and I know it looked like hell, And I go did you sleep well? And he goes, yes, great, great because I can hear you clearing your throat from the other side of the room. Like me, get this guy, los Ina, how is your weight? Girl? You had Sunday off?

Sunday off? It was great, Um, good time. And now I am about to be on the week from hell. But other than that, it's gonna be great. We have two great games coming up. We have Packers at Arizona undefeated Arizona, and then we have the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New Orleans. So it'll be a really good week. I know, it's very busy, for you, but an incredible week. You're gonna sit down oun with Kyler Murray and Tom Brady. Yeah,

we're excited. I'm trying to lay it all out as we speak here, and just unfortunately breaking news all over the place with first what we thought defensive coordinator Joe Barry out and now poor thing Davantae Adams out. So the ever evolving news cycle here people. Well, I'll tell you about someone that's always reporting the news with a twist. Pat McAfee. He's our guest today on the Calm Down Podcast. Aaron and I both love him because we aspire to be like him. He just says whatever he wants when

he wants, and everyone loves him. He's a guy that you put in the middle of a room and people just gravitate towards. He's the host of the Pat McAfee Show, which is on Serious XM and YouTube Monday through Friday twelve to three, and so we're excited to talk to him. We both went on his show over the last few weeks and he's hysterical, so we'll look forward to that. I want to be him, You want to be him? I do. I like how he can just say whatever he feels and people roll with it. It's perfect, just

like a black tank top and a chain. That's what I want to aspire to be the guy that can perfect on why not? Okay, so your week then we're going to start in Arizona. Y. So you leave. I know I'm always asking to your schedule, but I think that sometimes, you know, our listeners enjoy hearing about this from you, So you will leave for that Tuesday. You leave tomorrow. I don't know. It's just gonna be a

long week on the road. I was kind of hoping to get there on Wednesday morning, but you know, your biggest fear when you sit down with these guys and fly in the day of is that there will be a plane delay or something. So I think I'm gonna have to leave Tuesday night, which is kind of a bummer because I you needed one more night in your own bed. Maybe who if I wasn't kicked out because somebody was coughing? Um? So yeah, So I'll leave Tuesday, then do the game on Thursday night and try to

figure out does anyone have a plane? Does anyone want to fly me from Arizona to Tampa? Terry Bradshaw Yeah, well, I think I'm gonna get on the phone with Bill Richards right after this and try to plan it out because then I gotta do. Yes. I'm fortunate enough to get Mr Brady on Friday and then got to get to New Orleans, so yeah, it'll be busy, but it'll be great. So someone like you who sat down with Brady a number of times, now, are you where your

line of questioning? I know Joel our producer, right, I'm assuming Joel's doing this one with you. So Joel is one of our future producers that sits down and does these amazing interviews with you. But do you know in your head, like the line of questioning that you want or how do you try to differentiate the interviews when you've sat with the same person a few times. I mean, I remember Peter Sugar saying this to me. One of the hardest things about covering Tom Brady right now is

trying to figure out something new to say to him. Um, I don't know. I mean, I just had the chance to be on a podcast with him, and here a bunch of broadcasters ask him questions and he had just awesome answers about his entire career in his life and all that. So I don't know. Joel and I need to talk. We have to sit down Kyler Murray first and then we'll figure out Brady. But yeah, it'll be interesting. I mean what we're at the halfway point of this

season heading in the week eight. Now, I'm having in one six hundred touchdown six hundred and two. It's just potential m v P of the c I mean, this guy is just unbelievable. So I know I need to take his sleeping powder tonight to help me sleep better. He's got a sleeping powder, he does, and it's unbelievable and I've taken it before. The TB twelve brand has it, and I will tell you this, it knocks you out so hard. I was having dreams about my high school boyfriend.

Oh my go insane. The sleeping that sounds like a nightmare. For Barrow his trainer about it. I was like, Alex, this thing is unbelievable. I was having like crazy high school dreams and he was like, oh yeah, it's pretty. That magnesium and it's like a cherry magnesium. It's unbelievable. I'm gonna take it tonight. Oh my gosh. Wait, So if you have a dream like that, do you tell Jared that you have a dream like that? I tell Jared everything. I this is unbelievable. So Thursday night we

had our game where were a Cleveland. I got two hours of sleep then slept on the plane, so I was exhausted. Friday night when I went to bed, I went out with a couple of my girlfriends and we had a good time. I fell asleep hard when I got home, fell asleep hard that I woke up in the middle of, like, you know, my sleep. And I woke up and I thought I was still on the road. And I looked over and I was like, who is this person in better with me? I'm on the world

and I did. I told Jared he goes okay, And I was like, I was so panicked. I was still in a hotel and I'm like, who's in bed with me? I know that you had a good time because I was texting you and you wouldn't text me back. Then I was like, wait, is she okay? Like there's a certain amount of time with certain friends that goes by, and if you haven't heard from them then four hours dinner. Now I'm worried. And I was like, just send me a white flag and let me know that you're okay.

Good for you. By the way, that's a rare Friday night you get to go out in town. I'm trying to be a better friend to my girlfriends here that I lose touch with for like six months that aren't involved in football. Jacqueline Quick, Heather Um, all those girls. So yes, I said, there's nobody I'll put leather pants on and fancy shoes on, two hours sleep and those girls.

So we went. We a four hour dinner. We were going to potentially get me a tattoo of a bear or number we're on my body, or do a second piercing, but thank god, the dinner went so long we didn't even you know, go down that path. You don't have any tattoos, right, not a tattoo. And I don't even have a double piercing in my ear because we know how bad my ears hurt. Also thought of the Calm Down podcast and after this, let's get to Pat McAfee Cleveland.

There was a whipping wind around First Energy Stadium. I had the hair and a ponytail. We've discussed what happens to my ears when it's cold. I thought about the Calm Down podcast. I almost did a freaking ig. My ears hurt so bad, but I didn't want to put on the two. It was miserable. And we're not even like in the cold part of the season. Pat McAfee is coming up next, and you and I are going to talk about piercings and tattoos on our next podcast,

but more starting actually with that macfie when we come back. So, Pat, you were kind enough to have both Aaron and I on your show with the last two weeks while we both had a time. My favorite, though, is that you lead with the intro of mine from Wikipedia page. So here's your intro. You're a businessman, sports analyst, podcaster, professional

wrestler and former football punter. Am I missing anything? I mean there's probably a couple of different titles I could have thrown in there if I really wanted to nit pick, But that was an amazing intro. You crushed it. Well. Look, I mean we don't have time to to list at all, but he is Pat McAfee of the famed Pat McAfee show. No one's a bigger fan of yours than Aaron and I. T I mean she taught me about the Teas and Peace. I was late to the game on it, but I'm

all in now. Hey, we didn't necessarily, I don't think we created Teas and Peace, but we have mastered it. It is teas and Peas answers every single negative, potential awkward situation you want to get yourself out of. When you're talking live on a microphone, it is, Hey, I want the best for whoever these and peace whatever is going on. I mean, obviously that can help there. But I am a massive fan of you guys, So thank

you for coming on the show. Very nice of you to say those things, and thank you for the invite here. My wife massive fan of this show, so this is huge. Where is Samantha right this minute. She's probably in her office. She runs a foundation called Further Brand, which raises money to help families kind of pay for canine cancer treatments. Because our dog Valerie, who's half pitbull, half sharp pay she's she's my baby. Like, I love this dog. This dog is literally my baby. It's the first animal I

think I've ever actually connected with. Feels like she potentially likes me just as much as she likes her mom too. So it's like one of those things. And she got diagnosed with cancer, and obviously I was like, yeah, we're gonna do whatever. And then they gave me the prices for how much it was. In Sam and I were both like, if this was when we were growing up, her with her parents, me with my parents, we would have never been able to afford this. This is a

whole different story. So she created an entire foundation with a couple of her girls, and that's what she's doing right now, is just trying to continue to build that thing. Whatever you need, we'll promote it. We are dog moms. We don't have kids yet. Are you kidding? There's mine right there, mine's over here. Oh you can't really see how a shepherd and a husky. Aaron got the Ralph Lauren dog. I do Golden Retriever, but he acts like an asshole sometimes, so he had to go to Caesar Milan.

You know. Wait, so yesterday this is Aaron and I spend our Sunday's texting back and forth, whether she's working a game, where I'm doing in game updates. Uh, we're good at multitasking. But yesterday she was sending me some incredible stuff from you. So you're set up to watch games. Wait, what's your pup's name, A Valerie? I have a coredyan named Chuck, but Valerie is the Yeah, so Valerie was in the shop, right, she sits there in her little

bed watching games. I was unbelievable. Okay, you're you've done many things right. You are a natural at the Just give you a subject and you can run with it, and that is not easy to do. When did you know that you were going to be good at this whole TV, hosting, radio, all of it. Well, that's very nice. I'm not a hard center. Sure that there are some days where I sound like an absolute stooge when I'm talking, Hey Aaron, I get myself and I don't know if

this happens to you, guys, because you're so professional. Our show is not. Our show is not blocked up, right. There's ideas and potential things that we can talk about. And the boys that's why the boys are so talented. They can just keep up with whatever, right, And I'm just it's basically just the diaries of almost like a madman while I'm doing the show, and there's sometimes where I get lost. I mean, I'm deep in it's something that how did I get here? How the hell do

I get out of here? But I've just I've always enjoyed conversation. I've always been incredibly curious too. Naturally, I'm a very curious person, and I'm also like one of the most basic humans of all the time. If I like something, there's a really good chance that a lot of people like. If I think something tastes good, there's a really good chance that a lot of people enjoy the taste of it as well. So I'm like incredibly lucky.

I'm incredibly curious. I like to think of myself is not that intelligent, but I'm pretty observant and my memory is pretty solid, so you kind of piece all those things together. I still remember what it's like to be a fan of people that talk and listen and shows and things like that. I feel like I'm trying to talk to my friends whenever I'm on the show, because my friends and I are a dumb group of people,

so you have to explain a lot of things. But it's it's one of those things where I've been very, very lucky for the experiences what I'm potentially good at. And uh yeah, I'm just I'm very, very lucky. But I appreciate that compliment coming from you and you, Aaron, because you guys are two of the goats in this whole thing. You're very sweet. We know we're just old, but it's just let you rip. Tom Brady is made looking old. Damn good. I'm over that old ship. I

don't care anymore. Aaron, you killed us. I thought I gave you a great intro to Chris. I don't know if you heard it gave Aaron doesn't want to be um, you know, under the spotlight. She's good in it, but she doesn't like it. I like it. I'm like, do we have anything else? Do we have any more time for some introws? Hey? By the way, speaking of some stat lines on one another, you're May second, we're May fourth. You need to have it. We need to have a

joint birthday party Sinco de Mayo style. We have the same birthday you're on the second. I think we need to make this happen. Conterwed by Don Julio. Yeah, I'm in on it. Hey, I'm sorry I missed all your guys birthdays. By the way, I've been self writing, mind so hard, like by the time May fourth comes, I'm normally passed out. Happy birthday. I missed a lot of we're going to talk to you about that. Yeah, he's

a great to be born, stubborn assid we're stubbord. I got so mad at my mom well later on in life, when I started drinking heavily that she couldn't hold me in for the fifth because I'm like, how kick ass would it have been to have a Sinko de Mayo birthday. I was born one eleven in the morning on May fourth, so she couldn't hold me in so fast, so quickly her labor everything was I was almost born in the

Dotson of my parents car. It was a quick, quick, she's in, she's out delivery that my dad said, if I was a boy, it was either going to be Yas or Dotson. So there's no way she was holding me in. Do you have a good delivery story, because like may babies are crazy. Well, so, by the way, great to hear that that there wasn't a long labor, you know what I mean, as if it had been

you know, seasons long labors out there. I've heard it is tough out there, and hopefully one day my wife and I will be able to have a child, and I'll be blessed with that. My kid will be a nightmare for sure. I am very scared of what my child is potentially going to be a demon out there. Um. The only thing that's ever said about my labor is that my head was just so like I have a very large cranny, extra large helmet in the NFL, big hats, we're talking big. I guess I don't. I don't. I

don't really wear fitts. It's big. It's like seven and something eights whatever it is. Ken who Kevin Mensh with the Rangers back in the day when I worked baseball for espn uh, he was like a seven and a half. It was like one of the biggest heads out there. Yeah. Large cranium on me, and my mom says that it's been this way since birth. So it's never talked about in a glowing like my birth. It's always like when I came into the world. It's always like that was

a painful day and everything changed that day. But it's great. I love my parents. I was born in mcgeese Women's Hospital in Pittsburgh, UK. Is your mom's name, Sally, Yeah, Sally's an angel, man beuty, what a great name like Sally Aaron and I love the movie Steel Magnoias, and I just immediately think of Sally Fields and any woman named Sally is just a sweet little angel. Well Sally and McAfee. I mean, she is a sweet little angel. But she does hold good. I mean she she huh,

just teasing. I said, you want to get into it. What's her biggest grudge she holds against you besides the size of your head? Well against me? I don't know her. Me and my mom are good. We have been good for like the last fifteen years. You know. There was a time there though, where we hated. She hated me. I was very hate herble. I understand that as I was trying to go through my entire high school life

in existence. But were were you like a partier or were you rebelled or you just you know, questioned authority? Why were you bad? Yeah? Me and being the authority not really necessarily the greatest. My peers always seemed to like me. Teachers, principles, cops, you name it. There's always seemed to be a little bit of a disagreement here. Because I would like to talk about why they feel the way they feel and why I feel the way

I feel. I just so happened to be a nine or a tenure who's probably shouldn't be giving my, you know, my opinions on situation. So my mom had to deal with a lot of that. I had a I had a Cigarett sales operation going in fifth grade where I would buy cigarettes for twenty five cents and sell them for fifty cents. And I almost kind of expelled and sent the boarding school for that. I mean, my mom had to answer a lot of questions for me. It

doesn't say businessman on Wikipedia for no reason. You know, how did this plane already it was selling cigarettes at age five? So my mom, I don't know how old you are in fifth grade? Is that? How old is that? Is that? I don't know. I think you're like twelve, because yeah, eleven, twelve, because junior high you start like thirteen fourteen. I don't know what do I know? I wanted extras. I just wanted extras. There's this grape juice that was came in this little uh, I forget what

it was. It tasted grade it was like fifty cents though it was an extra on top of lunch, and uh, my parents didn't make a lot of money obviously, like a lot of people, and I didn't want to ask them for the extras every day because the the lunch price was here's a buck, here's a buck, here's a buck. And I wanted extras everybody's evening. So I started hustling. And uh, I started selling cigarettes for like twenty cents a pop. I get them, I get fifty cents in return.

And my I was selling everybody, seniors in high school all the way down to sixth graders. You know. I was moved even and so much so that I had a full carton. I actually moved all the way up to like a cart and I had a pretty good operation going. And then somebody ratted me out, and uh, but Sally, Sally went in there and said, isn't this a good thing? Though, Like, shouldn't we be shouldn't we be potentially looking at the bright side of this. She had to go to bat for me, but not everybody

felt that way. So I love my mom. She is sweet, but she she will hate people too, which is awesome. That's good. I think I think you should be I think you should be worried about someone that likes everyone. You know, everyone give me. My mom always said this, Hey, chriss it, don't worry if people don't like you, you don't like everyone like well, that's a fair point, Kathy.

So I always say that because people get so upset whenever people say, you know your things on the internet, and I used to kind of get upset as well. But if you don't like me, there's a good chance I'm not gonna like you like so well, this is a good thing. We've kind of encountered each other. We've experienced each other. You don't like me, I don't know you. I hate you. Let's just keep it moving and have a good time. Is it's a great way to you.

I'll tell you who likes you, Aaron Rodgers. So you're the envy of many because Aaron opens up to you different than he does most. And I know you guys both have a great relationship with him, and this is a relationship business. Why do you think that he's or how did you guys develop such a report where he feels comfortable enough to open up to you differently than he would with most. I'm not sure I'm welcome. I'm

really I have knowing I'm very lucky. I think I think everybody I talked to knows that they're talking to somebody that is dumber than them, probably done something much worse than them, and also not setting them up. Like I'm not trying to set anybody up, you know. And I think everybody knows that when they're coming to talk to me and my boys, it's like, hey, this is gonna be a good time here if we get into something cool, but I'm not trying to set you up

for any situation. And Aaron, he followed me on Twitter for a while, so as I was in the league, I tweeted it a little bit. And I had done some stuff on the internet here in little with Indianapolis, and he had followed me for a while, And it might have been because of what happened on NFL l AM. I got a chance to go on NFL a M, which is on all the buildings, so I think a lot of people got introduced me quickly, plus my Twitter accounts.

We had followed each other for a couple of years and then we got to meet at this golf outing down in the Bahamas. I was invited to play on his team against the NBA, and we had like a five six hour rain to lay down there and we got a chance to really, you know, have a pretty

good time. So we started drinking a little bit, we started sitting and having conversations, and as that conversations continue to go, I started to realize the depth of this dude has the well thought out, how hilarity the stories. And I told him, I was like, I know nothing about you. I do one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, one of the most famous people on Earth. I know nothing about you except for the stories that have kind of been said about you by a couple

of people. I'm like, how come we don't get out and like say, like, this isn't true. You know, why why can't we do this? And he said I never wanted to answer things because I'd be spending my entire day answering things that weren't right. And I was like, I just think at some point you should prove to people that you aren't this robot that everybody kind of

talks about. And then it kind of just one thing led to another, and then I got the incredible opportunity to chat with him with a j who was one of his best friends and the boys, and I know how lucky. We are, very thankful last year too, what a joke jokes on every week whins the m v P. Very very lucky, very humble. People are looking for him for to talk to him, for answers about what happened this summer, and you get the interview. I before I sit down with him, I'm listening to your podcast to

try to prepare. I don't know if it was this year. I think it was last year that I maybe it was this year. I don't know. We just started talking about you before the interview, and I'm like this guy, Like I just said, I'm so jealous of Pat. I want to be Pat. I want to drop an F bomb on air. I want to Nuffin Wood. I don't because then I lose my job and I never get that plane. Um, whoa hello, And uh no, I just said, he's the Andy Cohen of sports. He gets everybody. And

I told you that Pat to be comfortable. We want to sit down and have cocktails with you, and we want to talk about everything. And I'm just I'm so jealous of that. I want to be like that. And uh That's why I was so nervous about being on your show. I feel like you're a little nervous to have me on th too, Like I felt like you guys didn't know how much you could go there with me, right, love it. Now, we had a legend on Aaron, You're a legend. What are you talking about? We were obviously

nerve for having an absolute legend on the show. Both Um. Everything you just said there was incredibly nice, and I'm very very lucky that it feels like every time somebody comes on, they're like cool, you know, like they're ready to come on. We've had a couple interviews that were terrible. Who okay, So Jerry Rice gave us top five worst conversation about the Really Jerry's great. Why I've heard I bet he is, but it with us and he was trying to push up I bet he is. We'll look

forward to that Verry Rice Roni. He was trying to push Rice Sroni or something like that, and it was you, we want to get the plug in, so uh he and we just didn't have a good connection, you know, and you can normally tell really pun intended. Yeah, yeah, whether we're gonna get in there, um Rondale Moore, who is unbelievable for the Arizona Cardinals. This year, he was what to produce boiler Makers. He came on, it was very evident that he hated us. I mean he hated

he hated the whole thing. It was like a I think it was like forty five seconds, maybe a minute long. I was like, all right, I'm sucking done with this. We're gonna get out of here or whatever. But he's an incredible football player. So we're very very lucky. We're very very lucky. And I appreciate those kind words because all I wanted to do was, you know, get into

the networks. Like that's all I wanted. When I retired, I had a pseudo agent reach out to Fox, ESPN, NBC, CBS, and at that point I had about seven and fifty thousand followers on Twitter. I've already done like a comedy tour, at a show, at a merch business. I'd kind of already done a lot of things, and everybody from the networks that we have zero interest. So you know, after that, I go to barstool, I stay in Indianapolis because I

didn't wan to move to New York. I got a chance to learn from them about how the internet goes, and I kind of break off and do my own thing. And it's like, I'm very fortunate, very very fortunate. But it all could have been very different if like one network would have said, yeah, yeah, we'll put you in game six or something like that. So I'm very very lucky for the journey, the ride, my boys, and now we're getting a chance and maybe enjoy it a little bit,

but it's all come crashing down with our dumbasses. Whenever I was just gonna say, like in the world of cancel culture, you know, and Aaron and I talked about this all the time, when it's like we're very open and candid about our lives that it's like, how much do you want to say without somebody getting offended? Because everyone gets offended nowadays. But it's like we can't authentically be ourselves. Do you worry about that? No? I feel

really comfortable, especially in the world. Everybody knows everything about me at this point, basically, you know, I've I've been very fortunate that my background has allowed me to experience a lot of different people's cultures and viewpoints. So I mean, when I went to West Virginia, University out of Plumb

High School to be a kicker. I got a chance to be teammates with guys from Compton, South Florida, and then deep in the hills of West Virginia, and then like a billionaire son was playing on the team, and I happen to get along with basically everybody. So I was invited back to cook out some barbecues and things like that. So I got a chance to really see an experience why a lot of people might feel the way they feel about things. So I think I'm naturally

more okay with people's opinions. So whenever you hear me talk about something that's serious or something that's in the real world as opposed to just a sports world, you almost I've almost been forced to say, I understand why you blah blah blah feels the way they feel. But in my eyes, this is kind of why it is.

So I feel like I'm not really scared about anything that I say because I'm very comfortable with where it's coming from, which is a pretty open, understanding person that has got a very very very lucky opportunity to experience a lot of things that not a lot of people have got to experience, so I don't know. I think

that's why I go in there. I mean, I'll smoke vitamins, you know, every once in a while, I'll go in there and I'll just have a good time because I know that where it's coming from isn't from a place of like if it was to get down to it and somebody was to start coming after me for something

I said. I'm very comfortable with why I say what I say, how I feel the way I feel, and uh, I feel it hasn't happened, But I'm I'm pretty cool with Like, I understand some people aren't gonna like me, but at least people will understand why I feel the way I feel. Yeah, who's the one person you want on to interview that you haven't had yet? Elon must really I think he's an alien and if you want, if you want it, No, I don't know, Aaron Andrews.

I assume you and Paris are but best friends with Elon musk Okay, But little all me out here, all right, little on me out here in Indianapolis, I see a human allegedly that has today. By the way, by the way, I was asked to do this read on my show with Public the Public app, which is a social network for investing in stocks and things. People can follow who they can follow me as I make my choices for who I'm investing in, and it's not an investment advice,

but you can see who I'm investing in. And I'm not a stock market guy. I'm betting on me ten times out of ten before I send into anything else like that in the world. But I made a rule for the public dot com run that I will just invest in aliens. So I was invest in Elon Musk. Okay, I'm gonna invest in h Tesla. I invest in Rogan. He's an alien, all right, So I'm gonna invest in

Spotify and Vince McMahon. There's another alien. I'm gonna invest in w w E. So I just think there are some humans that are capable of doing ship that nobody else is that I'm gonna invest him. But you on is the guy at the top that I'd like to chit chat about, because what would you ask him? He changed the world. I mean, Steve Jobs passed away. I got his quotes all over the place, and now, granted terrible day, I'm wearing his outfit in memory of him

or Elizabeth Holmes. We're not sure. You know, it's up for debate. Am I working at fair? Nos Am I not working at fair? Nos Am I an alien? I don't know. We'll get to that later. Might be a from Rodeo from the Rodeo to Fox NFL Sunday about when I had to how about when I actually said on your show, I was like bare back saddle, bronken bull writing, and I was like, just pull that quote out,

and that's gonna be a problem. I'm gonna have to, you know, defend you know, our cowboy Hey, we got a lot of cowboys listening, so we'll get Our demographic is absurd. It's insane. The people that listen to our show. The range of people from political standpoints, ages, back browns, everything is very big. It's nice to be hopefully a spot that people can feel as if rolling this together, We're gonna listen to this stooge speak to people or whatever.

That's the fans field. But Elan is a guy who's changed the world, like Steve Steve Jobs, you know, single handedly changed the way the entire world operates. I think Elon Muski is another guy that has done that. I wish I could talk to Steve, but Ellen's probably the guy in the sports world. Give me Jerry Jones ten times out of ten. Oh my god, I would love you to talk to him. We've got to make that happen. Hey, Aaron, by the time that this ours airs, I'm sure that

Good English ours airs. Uh. I'm sure Tom's will be out before the compilation. But if it's not, we'll just pull this part. But tell how what you guys just did. And then, um, the question the Peyton Manning thing I think is so interesting. Oh yeah, so I just got asked. And before you got on, I told Chris, I wish you had been on it because I feel like you would have. He would have just gotten a huge kick out of you and loved it. I'm gonna tell on

his podcast, Let's Go. They invited a bunch of broadcasters anchors. I got on it, um, and I took a lot. I'm in notes. I'm a geek. I take a lot of notes. I love this ship. So one thing he said, which fuck, I just loved it, and I just died for interceptions ruins his night. He could throw for eight touchdowns, but just one interception. Ruins his whole night. But what was the one thing? And then I'll get to the page. It was the bandmitting that he went back and watched games.

I know, I know, I know, but hold on, I love the whole thing. What drives and we're live, okay, dead air Hello. Pursuit of perfection, he calls it. What drives him still, the pursuit of perfection. It's a sickness. He's just he said, it's a little maddening. But um, Steve Young came on and that was amazing and he talked about how that was his hero and all that. But he said he was just so interested in how

people go about their craft. And he said every year at the end of the season he would go back and watch every single Indianapolis Colts game and say to himself, what Peyton doing that I'm not doing? I just love it. It's crazy, isn't it. And then you hear the stories. Uh and by the way, let's go also on Serious Sextum generally to Mad Dog Sports Radio, I believe, which is a company that licensed our show as well, which is pretty sweet. I mean, that's a that's a good time.

Jim Gray, right, Jims that There's been a lot of great quotes that have come out of that. Then you hear the stories about Tom and Peyton hanging out together, just those two together like in Tennessee and then having like basically a QB summit of Hey, we're on a different level than everybody. Nobody can really talk to us except for each other about the ship that we see and then becoming like friends behind the scenes is insane.

I was lucky to watch Peyton work, even though it's very very different position in both life and on the football field, watching him go about his craft and then how he would handle, you know that being a teammate while also knowing that he was the GM at the same time if you really wanted to cut somebody, and then running the practice as a coach, but that would also be in a cool guy you want to drink

a beer with. Watching him kind of handle life. Being Peyton Manning was it's much different than what Tom and him talk about, but for me it was it has done huge for me long haul. Uh. There's there's some people that are incredibly impressive that I try to be a sponge around, and Peyton was one of them. And the fact that he enjoyed how fast I could chug a beer. So I got a chance to fly with him to certain places. Was obviously awesome. That was obviously

friends with planes is always awesome. I know that you have a lot of stuff to do, so we'll get you out of here in one second. But I love the story that you're thank you so sweet. The story that you told on Monday night football with him and Eli about the party that he that Peyton has at his house and you went into the bathroom and on the napkins, I mean teas and peas him. Tell the story again in case anyone missed it. Yeah, teas and peas,

so always napkins. So there was a Thanksgiving dinner that was if people weren't going back home or if they didn't have family, lean found and I was young and I didn't that family. I was just living in an apartment basically. And at that point he had I think he'd become a fan of me, potentially off the field, which is cool, you know, having a guy that is a living legend. Enjoy you. And I got to be

in some rooms that I should not have been. It, I mean, I I got to be I got a chance to hang out with Pat Some, Bruce Pearl, Peyton Manning, the mayor of Knoxville, the governor of Tennessee, all in a suite while watching a volunteer game be Memphis. UM was at one versus to Memphis versus Tennessee Derrick Ros versus Tennessee. When Bruce Pearl did that to me in the interview, No, no, this was a long time. It

was a football game. But I do appreciate what. I don't remember what happened because I I wait, hold on what it happened? Aaron real quickly? What did he do in versus to uh Memphis Caliparry and Derrick Grows versus volunteers. It was in Memphis. I remember Justin was there, and they did a job. They did a great job in the first half shutting down Derrick Rose. And I got Bruce Pearl going off and uh, I just said, hey, what have you done to Derrick Rose. He's just he

hasn't done anything in this game. He goes, we're holding him, getting to him kind of like this, and he grabbed me, pretending he was guarding me. And I was like, okay, And it really for YouTube similar to fifty cents experience with Okay, that's saying I couldn't even imagine your guy's life. By the way, I couldn't have the time. My reaction

doesn't help the situation. It wasn't that bad. I just wasn't expected to be like him doing it like a tutorial on how they're guarding Derrick Rose and holding it, you know what I mean? Anyway back to your rooms. No, no, no, no, I was about to say, because you also got the I mean you've been yelled at on the grandest day. I mean, you are we alluding to Richard Sherman. I believe we are that. I just when you saw that happen?

What did you think, pat Well? I just I was like, wow, like this is uh, this is real life right now exactly. And then I knew I lived on the internet. I knew, you know, like as soon as so something like that happens, I thought you crushed them as you always. But didn't you think like it was awesome to see a guy just he clearly didn't like Michael Crabtree just freaking go off. I thought it was awesome. Yeah. It's kind of why Aaron talks about being able to do the show every Tuesday.

It's like all the key and stage robotic. And this is no offense to you too, because you two are networks superstar as you should know, you're not robotic, your network superstars. But the networks used to pick and shoot what stories are being told, how people are being depicted, who's going to be a star, who's not going to be a star, what's gonna be said, what's not gonna be said? Now it's just completely different old where we don't even have to you can just go right to

the source. And Tom Brady is somebody that very much understands that he utilizes his social media better than a lot of people that have ever played in sports. You look across the NBA, it's obviously a real thing. Aaron Rodgers getting a chance, I mean it is. It's a new world. And to be clear, I don't think that is because of you know, the fact of how you guys go about doing business. I just think it's the

modern world. At this point, you to your point, you get a chance to bring out some of these real moments with people because I'll be I'll comfortable everybody is with old Aaron Andrews, with Ald it was it was, oh, well, it was the there's no d on the end of that. Wait, I interrupted your story talking about air No, no, no, I ask about because we're gonna talk to him tomorrow Wednesday whenever that is Aaron Wednesdays with more Tuesdays with Marie,

whatever you call it. I want to ask, please, did you give him a hard time? Is that the first thing on your mind when someone's flicking you off? I still own you. I still That's the first thing mine would be, like sucking, I still own you. Oh I love it. I think um. I think he was probably told. I didn't ask him about the whole thing, you know, I mean we're talking, We talked about it, we did the whole thing, and he said that he kind of

just blacked out and went into a thing. I assume he was told about his stats in this game and what the record is, because whenever you talk to us about it, he said before far Vy is how he gets into it. Before far Vy. The Bears dominated this series, and this is a legendary series that goes back like a hundred years. It's one of the only real rivalries left. So I like the fact that Aaron still cherishes the

rivalry because that's kind of like years. Yeah, it's kind of but it's kind of old school, you know, because players are getting signed on Wednesday and Thursday, playing in this game on Sunday, and they're like, hey, this is a big rivalry game, and a lot of guys are like, hey, I'm just trying to get paid from is trying to

do my job. The fact that Aaron still views that rivalry, yeah, and what is passionate is what I loved it personally, But I don't know if I'd ever be able to say it to anybody or anything except for maybe No. I wouldn't even say it to my dogs because they owned mee us. So I'm just happy I'm not in a situation where I would ever have to say that.

Speaking of your pups one more time, can you let us know what Sam's charity is so we can make sure that we participate and plug that for the brand F you are T G, B R, A N D. It's a what's that called? It's a full thing, it's a natural thing. There's a there's a category of foundation. She's she's done all the paper where she's gone through the entire I mean, she is all in on this and I'm so incredibly happy for proud of her, and

I think it's really gonna do good ship. Well. We are huge fans of yours and now of hers for the work that she's doing, but also being married to you. What a prize, Pat McAfee. Of you that don't know Pat McAfee show Monday through Friday, twelve to three Serious x M as well as YouTube. You are a gentleman and a scholar, and we appreciate your candidness as a scholar. That's what it says on Wikipedia scholar. No no no, So that's where that would me, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein

in a West All college dropouts. But I learned from incredible people in this business like YouTube. Thank you so much for you, Oh a, Pat. We appreciate you. We could talk for our friend. I still own you, Pat. I'm a good one. Thank you. Saring love you, thank you, thank you. Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. No