"Peyton Manning"

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So,

Um, yeah, we had two reboots. Both will and I had to reboot this morning, which, which you are the reboot champ of our, of our trio.

Yeah. For some reason, my computer is always the one that's a little, um, you know, it's Adele. Um, I love her. Great musician, bad computers. Yeah.

Um, I want to speaking of great musician, great singers. Can I just say, um, that within, uh, just recently we lost a great friend, the great, uh, Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy Buffett. Yeah. Um, and, uh, and it was just such a huge loss and, and loved the guy and very close friend of yours, close friend of the whole family. Uh, yeah, I knew Jimmy a long time.

I'll second that.

Yeah.

You guys know, Jane, just one of the all time greats.

She's great.

Yeah. Super sad.

Super, super sad.

And a huge, huge loss. What an awesome guy. Apart from being an incredible singer, songwriter, just a big hearted guy.

Yeah. He's one of those guys too, that you hear, after how many friends he had. You're just like, Oh my God, everybody knew him. Everybody loved him.

Yeah. He was, he was the most generous, kind dude. And um, I have so many memories of him being really generous and kind, not just to me, but to my kids, especially the big kids got to spend a lot of time with.

Yeah. Just a great example of a person that, um, uh, I'm sure that, you know, since this was tragically not sudden, uh, he had time to review, I'm sure of how he's used his years and talk about, you know, we're all going, we're all leaving. Yeah. So, like, what do you do while you're here, and how do you help people and help your family and, and, and utilize your uniqueness? You know, there's only one of everybody.

One of the, one of the all time greats. And so, uh, we love you, Jimmy, and, uh, we miss you already, but, um, you are not forgotten, my friend.

I love that.

Yep. Uh, so, right before we get to our guest, Sean, quickly, how are you finding your first week back from the Tabasco theater? I mean, are you enjoying being home in LA, revisiting with your, your, your sheets, your pillows?

Yes. Oh, my God. It's so nice. My body still thinks I need to be somewhere and perform, but, uh, but I'm almost over it. Yeah.

They call me cause I know they wanted to do more. They called me and they said, listen, and I, they said, you know, Sean's leaving, but would you ever consider? And I said, and I said, you mean coming to do Oscar Delevingne? And they said, no, forget it. We got the wrong number.

That sounds just like Oscar Delevingne. No, I'm good. I'm, I'm, I'm happy. You mean Mario, Mario brothers.

You don't take a lot of adjusting to get back into kind of just doing, I do actually, I'm,

I'm pretty, uh, tired. I'm, uh, I'm going to have energy, but you got to the house where your slippers happy.

to see you.

They greeted me with open arms. I put them right on.

How's Ricky? How's Ricky doing?

Good. Everything's good. It is weird. Yeah. What's that?

I was just telling Tracy that that's a dog.

Tracy knows the dog.

Tracy knows the dog. If there's one thing she, she's the aunt.

Yeah.

Um, no, I'm, I'm like, I'm excited. Everything's good. Everything's good. Everything's back to normal. It's like I was gone.

Jason's. Jason's getting ready for his intro. He's still doing some copy. Yeah.

No, I'm doing, I'm in a deep sweat here trying to find, you know, cause of the reboot. listener. Remember, we talked about the reboot, I lost my notes during the reboot, but I just pulled them up out of the bin.

Great.

Guest, you're safe. Okay. Guest. Guest. Here we go.

Wow.

He is the NFL's only five time most valuable player. He's a 14 time pro bowl selection.

It's a Peyton Manning.

He's the first to win a Superbowl with two different teams. He's been inducted to the hall of fame and he has more individual records than we got time to mention. It's Eli's brother. It's charitable and will. his charitable and philanthropic efforts are equally impressive with his own foundation and scholarship fund.

Peyton Manning. I mean, come on.

The sheriff is here. Hi, Peyton.

As soon as you said five time, you said five time.

Yeah. There's like, there's nobody left. Yeah. Wow.

Oh, did you have a guest, Sean? I did. Sean had it.

Quite the intro.

Peyton. Uh, first of all, I, uh, of all, I've said this a lot, uh, over the years, from the first time I saw you on a sketch program, of which I, I'm not going to mention, uh, it, throughout all the number of commercials you've done and things you've done. I have said, I don't want to embarrass you, Peyton. I think you're the best actor athlete of all time.

Of all time.

Of all time.

Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame. Awesome timing.

And that's, and that, and that's not a thin category.

It's not. It's a big category. So, and I say this not to embarrass you, talk us through a little bit how the Manning cast started. Cause I love that you guys ended up doing it and that you're on TV every week, you and your brother.

Yeah. He's awesome.

How did that come about? What, what was the thing that you guys were like, Oh shit, did somebody come to you? Or were you like, Eli, we should be, we should be sporting our junk on TV every week.

No, well, uh, yeah, it's funny, uh, because you hate to say anything. good, you know, came out of, of the, of the pandemic, but obviously there was a lot of things being done remotely during the pandemic, including broadcasting, certainly. And so I've been in talks, Will, with the, the doing the traditional broadcasting, right? Which I don't think people understand what that really entails, right?

And what's cool to me, I'm supposed to call in. Yeah.

We'd love to have, we'd love to have all of it. I mean, now that Sean's an expert, you know, get a picker for the spread, but, Peyton, I used to play football when I was a kid, which is critical, which is critical to being on it. You have to have played flag as a third grader to get on.

No, no. I was tackle football.

Oh, can you tell us about that, Sean?

Sean, your dad, your dad watched your games. I heard through the rear view mirror, right? As he was driving away,

It's shocking. It's just, I know it's different. And I think people, like I said, I think when the game's good, we're talking about the game and the game's not so good. But nobody wants to hear about the third and one run play and what defense they were playing when it was a one yard game. Who cares?

Sean, do you know who Snoop Dogg is?

Yes, I do. I do know who Snoop Dogg is.

But you know, I mean, it's like, it just brings people together, which I think, which is cool thing about football. And it doesn't matter what your background is or where you came from.

I love football. Liverpool is my favorite team. Oh boy. Yeah. I watch every Saturday.

And this timed out perfectly right, Peyton, because you, staying at home, your kids are your kids. Are your kids 13??

Yeah. They're 12, seventh grade. And yeah.

I mean, boy and girl twins.

Like literally Monday on, my daughter has a volleyball game at four o'clock, mountain time that I'll go to. And then at five, I'll drive over to my buddy Scott's garage, which is where I film it, and do the show at six, 15 and I'm home at nine 30..

So how did Scott wait, how did Scott, how did Scott's house turn into the studio?

Great, quick story. You know, Scott owed me a favor. When you win a football game as a quarterback, you have about 50 texts. after a game. When you lose, you have three.

No.

Now, Peyton, do you just not have the space in your studio apartment that you live in?

Yes. It's tight quarters in there. The equipment, I didn't know this stays there all year. I thought it was like, we're going to pop in and we'll pop out when we come back in a couple of weeks. We only do 10 games, by the way.

Scott's got an extra man cave, right?

He does. He does. Which is not a, not a cool word to use on TV. So we say garage.

Yeah, it's not. Yeah, exactly. Jason. How dare you? There must be some good tax implications for Scott too.

I don't want to know what, what he gets out of it. Um, he wants to come like before the game. I don't let him come. I don't come like twice, two out of the 10 games he gets to come by, he needs to vacate.

his home. Does he have children or pets or anything?

He doesn't live there. Uh, you know, uh, at least that I know he's, it's, it's, you know, he's a car collector, but, uh, that's where it is. But yeah, I think two games is plenty. It's, you know, it's good.

You got to get him on the, you got to get him on.

Oh God. But he liked that. He would like that so much. Uh, he obviously likes football, cause he was watching that Bengals game in the fourth quarter after I'd already thrown four interceptions. So it's clear that he's a fan.

That is so good.

We'll be right back.

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All right, back to the show.

So, Peyton, I was curious to what Will was saying before about going from, you know, football to acting or, you know, just kind of all around personality. What was it like to go? What was it like your first time when someone was like, hey, we want you to do this commercial or this thing or whatever? it was, whatever the first thing, and how awkward it must have been not being an actor to kind of look at the camera like, this is bizarre. I don't know if I want this.

Yeah, it's never really something that I, I guess, wanted or thought that I was going to be able to do. You know, you play quarterback and all of a sudden you start getting asked to do a few different things. Right. They want you to come speak to a school. Right.

Yeah. And is that something you have to hone? being able to interview and stuff like that?

Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I mean, you try to, I still say, oh, and you know, too much. And he's always still. to this day, my dad texts me and Eli at halftime with like a full, you know, grade of the film.

I think that kind of helps, but you've got, you've got a, you've got a, an infectious comfort with your, with your own skin, uh, that it doesn't seem like it's something that's new.

But, JB, I think, I think that that is, and Peyton, you said it. I think it is that you, you get the sense that you don't take yourself too seriously, which is great. And having that ability to be able to laugh at yourself is key to it. Uh, especially, obviously, in comedy, not that I'm an expert on comedy, but I think that that is a big part of it. Also, you're not unused to pressure situations.

I mean, the one thing, and like I said, that, you know, football is live and you mentioned a certain show that, you know, that's also live. Uh, and I wasn't necessarily that nervous when I did that, because I screwed up live so many times. I mean, I threw six interceptions against the chargers. one night would have thrown seven easily. Thank God we ran out of time.

And so I just texted you about that. You did.

You remember that game? Yeah.

I just remind, I just want to remind you about my favorites.

Yeah. Thanks for bringing up all my highlights on this show. Uh, and so, you know, I guess, when you're used to doing live and screwing up live, that when you know you can read a lot and have a chance to do it again, uh, in a commercial, if it doesn't go well, uh, I guess that certainly makes it a little less stressful for me, but I'm pretty coachable. I will say when the guy says, here's what I want you to say, uh, you know, my Tennessee education, it goes as far as at least being able to follow those instructions.

Right. Right. And I remember that because I remember when you did that show and I remember my ex, uh, my ex wife, Amy, uh, we talked about, we were like, man, I didn't talk to you. I wasn't famous yet then. So nobody wanted to talk.

Um, yeah, I mean, that was easy. That was easy to be relaxed because I was around some incredibly talented people. I think the favorite part about that particular show was being, I got to go in the huddle with, you know, in a football game, well, you don't get to have a 12th guy in the huddle, right? You don't get to have a shadow for the day. I'm like, Hey, you're in the way, get out of the, you know, running backs, path.

But you, you definitely needed to find a, a confidence, um, and a, and a, and a, and a sense of peace with being the center of, of something, and, and, and being comfortable with basically having the ball, you asked for the ball. Um, so, for the people who don't play football, can you put, put it in at the risk of asking a, a, a, a heavy question early on? Can you, what is like the, the, the most important thing that your, your average person, should reach down and, and grab when they're asked to, to be, to go, to show their excellence? Um, what, what is that part of you that you tap into where your comfort, you're comfortable in a leadership position that you have the confidence to execute? Did that start really young?

Yeah, that's a good question. Cause, I think, look for me, it's, it's, it goes, it goes back to kind of preparation. I mean, you know, in football, I couldn't throw it, you know, 80 yards down the field. Like some of these guys can. now, I mean, I think Josh Allen and my homes can literally throw it 80 yards on their back foot.

Because as a quarterback, you, I mean, I, the games I watch, it's like, they're always like. Jason just said, you're all, you're always the leader. Like you have to have that DNA, that build in order, not just to be a great player, but to, to lead and, and, and, and by example, right. It takes a certain intelligence too. And I'm sure it's rare.

No, I'm biased. It's a hard position. Yeah. I mean, when you play, I think you got to sign up for all of it. You got to accept the blame when you don't win.

Can I ask a question about a certain play? Sorry, Jay. And then I'm, you know, cause I really do love football. I, I've talked to the guys about hot, hot, hot beans.

additional dumb, dumb question.

They're all dumb questions. I'm always so curious. when there's a play where all of the players are, like, you know, stuck together, like the, in the most dense amount of players, you always throw it to that. Corner when there's all these defense people around the, and then you look from on TV, you're like, there's eight other guys wide up. Like, why did you throw it to the crowded part of the, you know what I mean?

Are you talking about in general, or are you actually saying that to pay that?

No, like in general, in general, in general, uh, do you know what I mean? On TV, it always seems like, why don't they just throw it to the 17 players that around the one?

open guy receiver instead of the, um, so, like the offensive lineman, the big guys, they aren't eligible to catch a pass. So that eliminates those five. Right. And so, you know, the left tackle might, well, yeah, he looks open, right. Cause nobody's guarding him because he's not allowed.

I call him. I can see him.

I got it. That's a good idea.

And plus. Sean wants to know, well, he's the largest guy. So why wouldn't you throw it to him? He seems like he'd do well with the ball.

I'm going to text my homes after this and say, uh, Hey, the left guard, I got a feeling is going to be open tonight. He gets the lions.

That's what I'm saying. That's why you need me.

Sean, I don't know how it works. I mean, I'm not as well, but, but like that thing of like, you know, when players come on, they have to, like, literally declare their eligibility, right? Like who? I didn't know that field, I didn't know that, at risk of boring everybody, but you know, I mean, like the ins and outs of the rules.

Yeah. I mean, there's five linemen, that there's a quarterback. So there's at six, there's only five other players that are eligible to catch the pass. There are certain formations that you can line up in where an offensive lineman is eligible, but he has to tell everybody, number 75 is eligible. So the defense hears that and they go, Hmm, maybe we should just run it.

Just run it. Just run it. I love that.

I love old school football. I love that. I love that.

Hey, um, Hey Peyton. Uh, um, so obviously football was, you know, a passion of yours and in your dad, Archie, who shares a great name with my, my son or my son, shares with him.

Uh, but did you name Archie after Archie Manning?

I did not.

So do you name Archie after the cartoon?

Sure. Did it.

So did you name him after all in the family?

No, man, I named him after a Scottish, uh, uh, sure. Woodcrafter. Oh, that's a true story. The guy we used to know, a Scotsman. His name was Archie.

Woodcrafter. I forget what it was. Shut the hell up. Answer your question.

Ask my question, which was, um, so, you know, football has just dominated your life. It's been, or not dominant, but such a big part of your life. But I imagine that you're a fan of other sports. And I joked about football, about soccer, uh, that the rest of the world calls football. I'm a, I love American football.

Alternate broadcast. Mega cast.

Alternate broadcast. Yeah. Mega cast.

For Formula One races?

Yeah.

Oh, nice.

Yeah. With me and, uh, Danny Ricardo. And then he went and took a seat, uh, in a car.

He had such a great experience doing it with Will. He went back into racing a week later, which I thought was very telling.

He changed him back into, out of, out of retirement.

And then he broke his hand. Poor Danny. I actually got to text him back. But what other sport other than Formula One? What are you, do?

I mean, I play golf, you know, certainly, but look, I love sports. I love, you know, I live in Denver, so I mean the Nuggets, you know, uh, the Avalanche. So I keep up with all of our local sports. Grew up playing baseball, but golf would be my one, uh, you know, kind of passion. Uh, me and Bateman are looking for a game.

Is that true?

It's been tough. It's been tough.

Listen, come, I'll, we'll, we'll play. I'll play with y'all. I'm much freer than Jason is.

Now, Peyton, don't you see golf more as a game as opposed to a sport? Do you draw a distinction there between a game and a sport?

Yeah, yeah.

Like baseball, I consider a game, not a sport. Football, I think, is a sport. Basketball, I think, is a sport. Baseball, more of a game. Golf, more of a game.

I've never thought about it that way.

I mean, stuff, stuff that's a little bit slower, that's a little bit more sort of, you got to deal a little bit more in a long-term strategy as opposed to quick turnaround on plays, scoring opportunities.

Tennis is a sport. That's.

Yeah.

I think I don't want to play with Jason now, after hearing that.

Oh, dude.

Can I get out of this?

I hear you're, uh, I hear you're pretty formidable. Dude, he's so, he, he's so intense.

We're, we're in, we're after this.

Sounds like a long. pre-shot routine is what it sounds like.

Oh, dude, dude, you have no idea. Why'd you do it?

You know what it's called? He even admits it's called the process.

Oh, the process of a pre-shot.

Let's put it this way. I walk ahead of the group so I can start my process and not suck up any extra time.

You've never seen anybody stand over a ball longer before they actually hit. And you think, and as a sportsman, you're going to say, how the fuck can you even make con? He plays very well, by the way.

It's gotten better. Has it not gotten better?

It's gotten better. It has gotten better.

I think I'd rather watch football with Sean and complain about them not throwing to the linemen than play golf with Bateman.

That's what I'm saying.

I need a shot clock in golf. I think I do well with that.

Sounds like it.

You have gotten, you have gotten much better, though. I will say that. You have gotten much better.

You know, could you, I, you know, I hear Peyton with, if you, the, the, if you're a four handicap, you have four swing thoughts. If you're a 20 handicap, you got 20 swing thoughts. So I think I'd be, I've become a little bit better in golf. And so my checklist is, is smaller.

Jason, what are you, what are you playing at right now, Jay?

My handicap.

Yeah.

Uh, I'm like, uh, uh, what am I on 11 from the blues at our place? So it's like a seven index.

Yeah. 25 words or less. What's, what's the handicap?

It's unbelievable, isn't it?

It's unbelievable. Jason, Jay, you know how he was saying sport and a sport and a game. Jason's questions are a game.

I know I'm not a sport. I just love the sound of my voice. so much. You guys.

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I would love being a quarterback, just so I could yell and everyone in the stadium's listening to me. Speaking of which, I bet you've answered this question a million times. One of the relevance of Omaha as your audible call. And then also, I want to hear what just an average play sounds like in the huddle. Okay.

What it means.

Let's go with the huddle call first.

Perfect. All right, here we go. Let's go explode to gun, double right flip, zebra, scat, left, wide drag, F hook, F trail, alert, 52 spring draw, easy, on two, on two. Ready? Break.

Before the snap.

Before the snap, right? We're going to shift, right? Gun, shotgun, right? Double means we are going to be in a two guys on each side formation. Double, right?

He's going to go in motion.

Zebra is going to tell him to go on motion. Zebra is going to tell the Z to go in and back out. There's zebra motion, right? A little eye candy for the defense, right? Scat.

That'll show you what the defense is based on how they react to the motion.

That's exactly right. If the cornerback runs with the motion, that tells you it's man to man. If they just kind of bump over, that tells you it's zone. It's called a pre-snap indicator. Scat left is the pass protection.

And so that's when the snap comes. And then what if you call what? And then what if you yell Omaha at the line that, that says an audible? and how do they know what that new play is?

Exactly. So, Omaha was really the word that meant we had changed the play. When you audible, Jason, it's usually with like six seconds left, right? Because the defense is disguising. They're showing blitz.

That's fascinating.

And you called the second play in that huddle as well.

We called the second play in that huddle and we did, that's all we did. So I was saying Omaha, every single play. So that's how it kind of got connected with me. The microphones got turned up louder and you start a production company, uh, you know, out of that because of an audible. So it was a chain reaction about yelling Ozark.

I think that that would have, that would have popped through a little bit better.

It's funny. It's funny you say that because it's a good way to get your, you know, your, your show, your business, viral marketing. If you can get it into a quarterback snap cap, three syllables is kind of what it needs to be. It's rhythmic, right? Ozark would be jerky, right?

It is what was filled with jerks. It was filled with jerks.

You know, Will Arnett has got a good little, you know, flow to it.

What about an Audi e-tron? Audi e-tron.

That sounds so forced.

We are professional grade.

We are professional grade.

You know what? The other thing you could have just said. JK, JK, like just kidding about the first JK, JK, JK.

Wait, I would kill. First of all, I would kill to write the new lingo for the, for the huddle. I would kill to write those words.

Hey, do you hear about Sean's new gig? Okay.

Ready?

Do you guys hear about Sean's new gig? Yeah.

I write, I write lingo for the huddle.

It also be, it start with, okay, guess what?

Here it goes. We've got two jobs in a cup on the side with a lemon.

And instead of hut, hut, hut, it would be five, six, seven, eight. And then they would snap it.

Okay. So wait, that's, that blows my mind. All that. Chin, chin, chin, chin, chin, chin, chin, chin.

That, that Sean has basically drained.

I got a charge charge card at, I got a, I got a free gift card in there. If you guys want to go.

Um, so wait, I haven't asked one question yet. Go ahead, Sean.

I know. So, so I think that's all fascinating to me. Is it? obviously different teams have different lingo, right?

They're, they don't use similar, different languages, different, that's fine. And quarterbacks change teams. Uh, it's hard to learn the new vocabulary. Aaron Rogers is going to the jets this year, but he's. God is calling the plays came from green Bay.

What would you do if another quarterback started yelling Omaha as they're, as they're audible, uh, barking.

I'd send him my address. I'd expect a check, you know, like a letter from a lawyer, a patent on that.

Yes, exactly.

I've always wondered about this, because, because we do it a little bit, we're, we're, we're kind of carnies, uh, uh, doing what we do and that we move around a bunch and, and, you know, sometimes it sort of. Coincides with the school year or whatever, and kids and all that stuff. You start out, you're a single young man, right out of college, you go pro, you have very successful career, then you get married and then you have kids. What is that life? Like, as you're sort of the latter half of your career and your kids are growing up and you're on the road and stuff at the risk of getting too personal, just what was that dynamic like?

Yeah. It's funny. You know, football is pretty good on travel, right? And I think people completely different than basketball or baseball, football, you travel Saturday, eight times a year, right? Just eight row games.

Yeah. Interesting. So like when you, cause you, and you're used to it, cause, obviously, again, your dad played for 14 years in the NFL. So you kind of, you've seen it from both sides.

Yeah. No, and my dad was a great, uh, included us, you know, me and my brother Cooper got to go to the practices on Saturdays. Um, you know, got to go down to the locker room after games. And so, you know, I think you see more quarterbacks, including their young kids and people in their lives, right. Kirk cousins, uh, in this quarterback show, we did, you know, had his kids in the locker room.

What was the, what was the tension? Like when, uh, when, when you, uh, were getting close to saying yes to, uh, to Tennessee and not going to old mess, did you try for old mess? Uh, you know, cause Peyton's dad went to Ole. miss was a big deal there. And then you were no slouch coming up.

Yeah, they were interested. I was interested. That's kind of where I wanted to go. Jason, that's where I always thought I would go. It's where I only college.

But, uh, what happened with the first, the first time you played old miss?

That was awkward for my, uh, for my, for my parents. Uh, it's funny. when my, when the coach for Tennessee came to recruit me, that was my mom's number one question. Do y'all play Ole miss in the next four years? And he says, no, we don't.

So how'd you do in those games?

Uh, we won both, uh, probably helpful. Uh, but yeah, I mean, it was tough. My dad kind of sat on his hands and, you know, wore neutral clothes and, uh, you know, Eli went to Ole, miss, everybody was happy. Everybody's at peace now.

But like watching, you know, watching your dad play football when you were growing up, obviously the question is, do you, would you have gone into football? Like, do you just think that's, well, that's what my dad did. That's what I'm going to do.

That's a great question. I think people think my dad like raised quarterbacks. That was his master plan. It was actually the complete opposite. He like just raised kids.

You think you would have been drawn to it anyway?

Uh, there's no doubt that I had a real passion for it. Cause I got to grow up around it. Right. That I, he was my hero, my dad, favorite quarterback, all of that. But it was never a plan.

And it wasn't forced upon you.

Absolutely not.

Um, and, and, and dumb question, worst injury ever.

Uh, I've had neck problems, you know, uh, during my time, uh, with the Colts and had several surgeries. that, uh. Oh, really?

That must've been scary.

Yeah. Because it takes everything.

Right. I remember that.

I kind of, you know, the doctors that I went to, I basically like, challenged them to tell me like, Hey, tell me I can't play anymore. And that's the end of it. Like, I will walk away today. I'm not going to, I want to be healthy for the rest of my life. And I mean, they just wouldn't say it.

By the way, by the way, it should be noted. Sorry, just to stay on the neck thing. I'm not kidding. Chappy, Mark Chappell, who's my, my, uh, my buddy and writing partner in England, who's a friend of the show. He literally texts me during, uh, 10 minutes ago out of the blue.

I love you.

He says in the end, I decided. in the end, I decided to have surgery on my problematic muscle in my neck. Oh, wow. Dot, dot, dot. I never looked back.

Very nice. That's a joke. Thank you.

Yeah. I mean, we didn't know how it was going to turn out because there was no kind of baseline for what we were doing. And, uh, uh, I knew doing it with Eli, Jason was, was the only way to do it. Right. You talk about chemistry amongst broadcast partners.

I appreciate it's infectious, man. Keep it up.

Keep going. Thank you for your time today.

I can't wait. I can't wait. Thanks for having me guys.

All right, Peyton.

Thanks for coming. Very kind of you. All right.

Bye buddy.

Bye.

How great is Peyton Manning?

I mean, JB, JB, great one.

Great guest.

Well, I mean, listen, it's, uh, this is, this is, this is the greatest thing about this podcast is you get to sit there and you get to talk to these, these, these, these heroes. He's like people. I mean, I fan out on everybody we have on this show.

I consider myself your hero.

Well, but I mean, present company, definitely excluded. Oh, um, it's, you know, you get, when are we going to have a chance to talk to Peyton Manning and, and, and be like a little, little, little boy asking them all these questions.

Now that I'm older, I'm actually a fan.

I was, I was always, always a fan of his. Always, always. I just, I love the way he, A, I thought he was really funny. Um, but B, I love the way he played football. And then C, when he did get injured and came back from it and won a super bowl, that was fucking rad.

Was that the neck? Well, the neck injury?

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. And people were worried. He talked about it.

And he really gets hit. Does that, is that it? You know?

And it just, Sean, it kind of goes to what you were talking about. Like having that, whatever that thing is of being a leader. Yeah. Like, he's got so much confidence in his own ability to bounce back and not to just walk around, but to bounce back and win a super, win, a super bowl.

Yeah.

You know.

I know exactly how that feels. Yeah.

I guess you do. Hey, you know the song, I like short shorts. Does it apply to, I guess. Oh God. Do you like short shorts?

Is that underwear?

Is that what we're wearing today?

These are my little golf shorts, my little gray one.

So Will and I.

Want me to wear darker ones today? Yes. Or just shades? good, Jamie?

Or just longer ones.

Will and I hosted a couple of friends of ours that are members at another golf course here in Los Angeles.

One of whom's a big, a big friend of the show, has done two episodes, a live episode and in studio.

And, and so Will had the idea that yesterday that we should show up and intimidate them by wearing matching outfits. And so we did. We just had blue, blue pants and a white shirt, white shoes, white hat.

Can you say who it is or no?

Um, unimportant. Um, but now we're going to their course. today. Their course allows shorts. So yes, it's that guy.

So these are the light gray. I also have a bit of a darker gray short.

Do you have any that are, that are your size?

No, they're, they all came in a, in a boy's medium.

So why don't we rethink this? No, sit back down. We got it. Yep.

There it is. And the granimals is that you'd match the top.

I tell you what, Sean, we're going to go. We're going to play, and don't worry. Afterwards. I'm going to give you the full play. Bye.

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