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Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Why'd you ask him? Just give us one tease.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Alonzo Mourning, not really a laugher. Well, he doesn't associate with sad either. Kind of in the middle there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
A little if their careers ended today. Oh, I like that. I like this spin on this game. I'm with Dan on this one, Greg.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
How about Russell Wilson? If career ended today. Because he played his way in and then out. But now he's had another good season. What do you think, Dan?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
You guys watch that yet, or what?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Dan, you like documentaries. We know this. I find myself falling for the traps of the documentaries. So I texted two people. I saw that the Aaron Rodgers one came out yesterday, and I was like, well, this is going to be a talking point. I should probably watch this. But it's three parts, and I started watching at 9.30 at night, which is usually when I fall asleep.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
So I knew it was going to be a task to watch all three episodes last night, but I texted two different people. When I started, I go... I'm mentally preparing myself to like Aaron Rodgers when this is done. Because that's how these documentaries always go. You always end up thinking like, oh, you know, Joe Exotic is really not that bad a guy. And it's like, well, he kind of is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
So like all these documentaries make you sympathetic towards the person and then like somewhat liking them at the end. So I went in there saying, I'm probably going to like Aaron Rodgers when this is done. Not that I dislike him now. I'm just like, I feel like it's going to be very pro Aaron Rodgers. Kind of feel bad for him. What? Like watching it. The family stuff?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
It just, and you guys can watch it and I'm not going to give you too much information. It's incredible access. And I also realize no one is living life without a camera crew around them anymore in 2024. Because this starts pre-Jets injury. Like he already had the camera crew there. He was already doing stuff before he got injured.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
And then you're kind of are then following him as he got injured through his recovery. Then you're kind of going back in time, learning about how he kind of came up through the ranks, had to play at a junior college, all that stuff. So the project started when he joined the Jets? It started, like, right before he joined the Jets, I think.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
So I don't think this necessarily was supposed to be how it went, but it became this other thing. And then it's broken up into, like, three different episodes, and each episode is, like, a different story that they're telling about Aaron Rodgers. So far, two episodes in, like, two and a quarter in because I fell asleep in the third. I feel bad for him, and it's not the way that you think.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
I feel bad for him in that, like, He doesn't seem happy. It seems like he spent his entire life wanting one thing, and that was to get to Division I school, then it was to get to the NFL, then it was to win the Super Bowl. And he did all of that, and then there just seemed to be an emptiness in him. And now he's just spent the rest of his life trying to fill that feeling and chase meaning, really.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
So it's kind of sad because he's accomplished all this stuff and seems to still think he's not enough. And he's not really doesn't have this meaning in his life. And he's just kind of seeking it out and searching it in all these different areas.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
It's not really like a football documentary, though. His rehab is covered, and you're kind of seeing how he's trying to get back. But it tells his football story, but it's really more like who Aaron Rodgers is and how he got here is kind of what it is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
It goes back to his very Christian upbringing and then the fact that he went to more of a liberal college and how it had him start questioning things because he kind of got out of the bubble that he was in, and then he started –
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
really having more questions in life, and then as he had more success and he wasn't finding happiness, he then started looking for happiness and reading books and finding happiness in different places that then take him down these different paths. It's kind of interesting, but you do feel bad for him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
The one thing that I would say is that some of this stuff, and it's not meant to be judgmental, but
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
some of the stuff that he's like well i didn't really want any of this and it's like yes and no like yes you wanted to be a great football player but like also he said that he kind of lost like once he won the super bowl everything changed he became a public figure he was never seeking that out of the fame or whatever and it's like maybe not but like you also decided to be the state farm guy that kind of really elevated you into like a household name everywhere so like there's things like that that were decisions that were made you know he even alluded to some of the
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
the people that he's dated. He even talks about the family stuff to an extent. So like there's a lot in there and you kind of see how he got to where he got to, whether you agree with what he's doing or not. But like at the end of the day, judgment aside, like I just kind of, I kind of hope he just finds happiness. You know what I mean?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
And like find some sort of meaning and fulfillment in his life. Cause that's really what he seems to be searching for just in places that are not necessarily where you and I would. The Jets. Well, yeah, that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Well, that started earlier than we think, too, if you watch it, because I think he's gone to like four or five retreats now. And I think it goes back deeper than the initial one that like we the big one, like a year and a half ago or whatever, that he had already done that a couple of different times.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
I don't know that I would call it a crisis, watching it. His behavior is not what I think most people would do, but I see how and why he's doing it. I don't necessarily need to agree with it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
I just kind of feel bad that he's going through it, and he just feels as though, seemingly, as someone who's just watching a documentary that he produced, he's going through seemingly not, I guess, being truly happy and accepting of himself.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
crazy access to like there was cameras with him when he had a conversation with rfk they didn't show it but spoiler alert they didn't show it but like they showed him in the car driving back after going on a hike with rfk he's like yeah he just asked me to be vice president so like that wasn't a rumor that was like he asked him that day to be his vice president which is kind of wild then they have the camera crew grow go with him to costa rica to these ayahuasca retreats oh boy he's high really he's oh boy he's i mean he's playing a little little drum there and he's singing and dancing like i love
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
But, I mean, that's his group. That group of people he finds to be, you know, it's giving him what he's searching for. Then he goes to, like, this charity game days after this retreat. Man, Josh Allen comes out so nice. What a nice, loving guy. He's like, hey, buddy, how's it going? Great to see you. What a happy guy that guy is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
I'll let you know how episode three of the tease was, the whole vaccination situation.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Well, the thing is, they're each like an hour and six minutes long. I start watching it. I have to pause, let the dogs out, do this whole thing. And then I come back, I'm dozing. I could have tightened it up slightly, a little bit, a little bit. But, you know, it's interesting. I would say if you really want to, and you don't have to, reserve judgment while you're watching it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
And then maybe it's a more enjoyable experience or you can get something out of it. If you go in there and you just want to hate Aaron Rodgers, you'll probably find things to hate him for.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Well, I mean, if you're to believe the documentary and the way that it sets it up.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
winning the super bowl is really kind of what set this all off because he reached the pinnacle of what he thought would be happiness and realized i'm not happy well but this is like i did absolutely everything that i wanted to do professionally and i thought that would bring me the happiness and then once i got there is when things really started feeling like this is not what i wanted so this is what i will tell you from there and this one's super interesting too tyson fury
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Save the sports, Somerset. Even though influencers were there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Don Levitard. We didn't get to your guys' Against the Spread. You're right, you're right, you're right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
You need an Ian in your life.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Aaron Rodgers Documentary
Defense wins championships, baby. That's show business.