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Speaker 1: Hey guys, another great episode this week. It's Packer Week
Speaker 1: and we got diehard Packer fan Pete Lee to come
Speaker 1: on and talk about his life as a Packers fan.
Speaker 1: He's been on The Tonight Show seven times, He's got
Speaker 1: an insane amount of credits. He's been all over the map.
Speaker 1: His latest special is on Showtime. He's the absolute best.
Speaker 1: I think you guys are gonna love it, enjoy the show.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Tom is here.
Speaker 2: We gotta go there, We gotta go the gontill Tom.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. It is Packer Week we're coming off
Speaker 1: of I don't I get real emotional around big wins,
Speaker 1: so I don't want to say the biggest. I'll use
Speaker 1: too many descriptors here, but we're riding high as fans.
Speaker 1: We're coming in to a matchup against our biggest rival,
Speaker 1: and I get to see one of my oldest friends
Speaker 1: in comedy from the same club as myself. I'm from
Speaker 1: your club. However you want to describe it. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'm terrible at intros ladies and gentlemen. Pete Lee, Hello, a.
Speaker 2: Hey, Oh my god, it's so good to be here.
Speaker 2: It's so good to be here. I remember when you
Speaker 2: first went up at Acme Comedy Club and I got
Speaker 2: to see how funny you were, and you're all tall
Speaker 2: and good looking and confident, and I think my first
Speaker 2: sentence that I uttered about you was like, God, I
Speaker 2: hate this guy. And then like I met you in
Speaker 2: the bar right and I didn't hate you for any
Speaker 2: reason other than like envy, you know, because like nobody's
Speaker 2: that good that first their first time. And then like
Speaker 2: you were tall and good looking and super confident, and
Speaker 2: then you and I hung out in the bar afterwards.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this is awesome. And I think
Speaker 2: I was doing a show there and you were one
Speaker 2: of the openers. And then I was like, like, all
Speaker 2: week long, I watched like every set that you did,
Speaker 2: and I was like, this guy is brilliant.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Pete, that's the nicest thing anybody said
Speaker 1: on this show to me, ever, And I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: have it, okay, don't you it's Packer week, don't you.
Speaker 1: I understand what you're doing. You're the sweetest man alive,
Speaker 1: and I know you mean those things, but you you're
Speaker 1: saying them because you're recording this podcast in your car,
Speaker 1: and you don't want me to mention it. First of all,
Speaker 1: you look great, you sound great. You are recording in
Speaker 1: your car, which feels like the if I had to
Speaker 1: pick a place that a Packer fan would record a
Speaker 1: podcast from, it would be a vehicle. But in in
Speaker 1: true contradictory fashion, it is an electric vehicle. So it's
Speaker 1: a real packer conundrum here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a real packer conundrum. I will say,
Speaker 2: I am so. My wife is doing a zoom call
Speaker 2: right now. Sure, and like many of us, you know,
Speaker 2: like when they're on the call in the office that's
Speaker 2: in the living room, you're basically like, I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm one of her co workers. I actually feel like
Speaker 2: I'm a janitor at her work, because like last week,
Speaker 2: this lady quit and she my wife was talking to
Speaker 2: her boss and they're like, man, we just didn't see
Speaker 2: Pamela quitting. I'm like, I'm like, I saw it coming.
Speaker 2: I'm just mopping in the background. I'm totally the janitor
Speaker 2: at her tech firm.
Speaker 1: I feel that way all the time. I especially when
Speaker 1: there's conflict at my wife's work. I like start pacing
Speaker 1: by the door, like trying to whisper things that I
Speaker 1: think she should say in response. I'm the worst. It's
Speaker 1: that's the problem with being a comedian is you are
Speaker 1: in the home, and if the other person works in
Speaker 1: the home, well, guess what you got the worst cubicle
Speaker 1: mate of all time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I mean, like I used to work in
Speaker 2: advertising when I lived in Minneapolis, and like like I
Speaker 2: always had that guy that like had less to you
Speaker 2: than I did, you know, Like like I was in
Speaker 2: the Internet department, which was booming, and then there was
Speaker 2: this guy in accounting that would just come down to
Speaker 2: my cubicle and he had all day to talk and
Speaker 2: I just had no time to talk. And now I'm
Speaker 2: him in our house because I have all day. I'm
Speaker 2: a comedian. I'm video editing when I want to, and
Speaker 2: like I'm I do video editing, and I also hired
Speaker 2: an editor, so like my wife knows that I have
Speaker 2: nothing to do, and like, if I am going to
Speaker 2: do any editing, it's by my choice. So like I'm
Speaker 2: always popping in, like, hey, you want to take a break,
Speaker 2: you want to go down to the coffee shop and
Speaker 2: grab a donut? You know, Like she's she's doing that
Speaker 2: right now in the house because she's the man of
Speaker 2: the house and I'm relegated to the car well.
Speaker 1: And let's not sell yourself short here, Pete. You're not
Speaker 1: just an editor that had to hire another editor. You're
Speaker 1: also the owner of a sports franchise. Because your fan
Speaker 1: base is filled with people who have a piece of
Speaker 1: paper that told them they own their franchise. Congratulations on
Speaker 1: your ownership.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The ownership was given to me by probably the worst
Speaker 2: girlfriend that I ever have had in my life. And
Speaker 2: I remember when I got that Christmas present from her.
Speaker 2: When I got that Christmas present from her, I was like,
Speaker 2: I was like, I think this is gonna be the
Speaker 2: best thing to come out of this miserable relationship. Like
Speaker 2: she wound up cheating on me with a TGI Friday's
Speaker 2: bus boy. But you know what, I'm a Packers owner
Speaker 2: because she got me that for Christmas.
Speaker 1: The problem with I think a lot of Viking fans
Speaker 1: love to make fun of the ownership thing. They love
Speaker 1: to poke at it. And I do think that makes
Speaker 1: sense because you guys have a worthless piece of paper.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think there's an envy
Speaker 1: from other fan bases because if you're honest, you go,
Speaker 1: I would absolutely do that if that was my team,
Speaker 1: I would one hundred percent that.
Speaker 2: I know that it's worthless. But I will say this
Speaker 2: about Packers fans. I know dozens of people that do
Speaker 2: not know that that piece of paper is worthless. They're
Speaker 2: they're like, we go around owners meeting every single year
Speaker 2: because they do that.
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell Mark Murphy what I think and
Speaker 1: that's my right as someone who owns stock in this company.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like they let us take a vote. Like
Speaker 2: the last time that I went, we we voted to
Speaker 2: let Brett Favre back on the team officially so we
Speaker 2: could put him in the Hall of Fame. And there
Speaker 2: were people at that meeting that were like, all right, well,
Speaker 2: let's see, let's see how this vote goes. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: how do you think it's gonna go? Man, Like, like
Speaker 2: Brett Farve is, Brett Favre is here, like he should.
Speaker 2: He flew in on a private plane. There we're gonna
Speaker 2: vote him in.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine Brett Favre getting on a plane flying
Speaker 1: to Green Bay under the guys Like, that's got to
Speaker 1: be the most rigged of all time. He's not getting
Speaker 1: on that plane unless Mark Murphy's like, listen here, Brett,
Speaker 1: it could be ten thousand to zero. Nay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: flip it. You don't worry. We got you. There's no
Speaker 1: way that goes the other way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And when they were like like do you vote,
Speaker 2: you know, like all a posed, you know, like and
Speaker 2: then a few people were like and then they're like
Speaker 2: all four and Brett fav literally like like stuck up
Speaker 2: his hands like he was like he was accepting the
Speaker 2: ovation that he was getting. And it was like it
Speaker 2: just was so rigged. But yeah, every year they have
Speaker 2: some sort of a vote where it's like should we
Speaker 2: have caramel corn at the concession stands? And then we
Speaker 2: get to take a vote, and it's like our vote
Speaker 2: really matters. It's so funny.
Speaker 1: That is so stupid. It's crazy, and I'm so jealous,
Speaker 1: like and I'm the sort of psycho too that like
Speaker 1: I talk about this a lot on the show. This
Speaker 1: organization has made the mistake of granting me access. I
Speaker 1: was just at the Niners game, walking around on the
Speaker 1: field at the same time as all the important people,
Speaker 1: and that's an absurd choice on their part. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Let's be very clear about that. But if
Speaker 1: you put me in, do you know how serious I
Speaker 1: would take an ownership meeting? I would be up there, like,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about this caramel coorn. Okay, Like
Speaker 1: every year that vote is something I'm building up to.
Speaker 1: I have a good ability to not let negative results
Speaker 1: from sports ruin my day, but I have no ability
Speaker 1: to not take it, like to become just a lunatic
Speaker 1: about everything.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, I mean that's why they're called fanatics.
Speaker 2: You know, you're literally a fanatic that's been invited into
Speaker 2: the organization. It's yeah, I don't know the NFL is.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a beautiful company. I've worked for him
Speaker 2: a couple of times. I had a pilot for the
Speaker 2: NFL network called After Further You. It was kind of
Speaker 2: like best week ever for sports. What I was doing
Speaker 2: is I was I was on YouTube and I did
Speaker 2: an NFL recap show every single week, and I was
Speaker 2: using like unauthorized video and pictures and then I got
Speaker 2: I got an email from the NFL, like from their lawyers,
Speaker 2: and then I basically told them, like they were like,
Speaker 2: can you take this down? And I was like no.
Speaker 2: And this was before like the NFL could just go
Speaker 2: to YouTube and have them take it down. There just
Speaker 2: wasn't a channel for that, you know, back in those days.
Speaker 2: And so like I said no to them, and like
Speaker 2: if my clips circulated around the office, because they're like,
Speaker 2: can you believe that this jerk like just said no
Speaker 2: to us, We're the NFL. And then enough people saw
Speaker 2: my clips that they're like, maybe we should do something
Speaker 2: with this guy. So the NFL network man reached out
Speaker 2: to me and they were like, hey, do you want
Speaker 2: to do like kind of do your show as a pilot,
Speaker 2: but like you got to take your stuff down from YouTube.
Speaker 2: And so I made that deal with them, and we
Speaker 2: actually like I would go to the NFL headquarter. It
Speaker 2: was on Park Avenue in New York, and I would
Speaker 2: like we we developed the show, we recorded it and
Speaker 2: it was awesome, and Roger Goodell ultimately didn't end up
Speaker 2: letting it go. Maybe it wasn't very good or I
Speaker 2: don't know what it was but like.
Speaker 1: No, I think you should stand firm on that. I
Speaker 1: think I think your message should be that the commissioner
Speaker 1: of the NFL voted no on your pilot. I think
Speaker 1: that's a good stance to take.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think yeah, he voted no. The note
Speaker 2: that we got back was that they didn't want to
Speaker 2: build a brand and then erode it through humor, was
Speaker 2: what what I had the feedback that I got. And
Speaker 2: to be fair to Commissioner Goodell, I don't know if
Speaker 2: he didn't want to wrote it through humor or through
Speaker 2: my humor, he could have just felt like, this is
Speaker 2: not funny, and I don't want this to ruin our
Speaker 2: brand by being not funny. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's the best part. Here's the thing. So I've been
Speaker 1: in whatever whatever, this version of comedy sports thing. I've
Speaker 1: been in it for a number of years now. And
Speaker 1: my favorite thing about it. You would think it would
Speaker 1: be like the access and the creativity and the unique path.
Speaker 1: It's always the people who don't believe. I like at
Speaker 1: ESPN that when they were like, hey, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: Sports Center but on your phone with a comic, there
Speaker 1: were people in that building. And then Pete what I
Speaker 1: would do is I would show up like prior to
Speaker 1: my show, and ESPN is like a campus. It's this big,
Speaker 1: beautiful campus. It reminds you of a college town. And
Speaker 1: they have a cafeteria, they have all the studios, all
Speaker 1: the buildings. So I always worked a night shift, but
Speaker 1: I'd want to get there in time to eat and
Speaker 1: see the people that I liked that work during the
Speaker 1: day because there was a day team and a night team,
Speaker 1: and I would always show up in like shorts or
Speaker 1: if I was wearing long paints, it was tights with
Speaker 1: shorts on top of it. And I'd been there like
Speaker 1: two months and I finally had somebody of pretty large
Speaker 1: reputation be like, hey, you should wear some pants, and
Speaker 1: I was like what, and he goes, this is ESPN,
Speaker 1: we wear pants around here. And I literally was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I wear shorts, and I just kept going. So
Speaker 1: I do love I do love being in that realm.
Speaker 1: I think if you're in the world where there are
Speaker 1: people who go I don't know if this works, either
Speaker 1: they're going to be wrong or right. But I think
Speaker 1: it's a fun I think it's a fun conflict.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love naysayers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Fortunately this team. You know, we don't pull the
Speaker 1: curtain back on this show very often, but this podcast
Speaker 1: is the direct result of the leadership at the Vikings
Speaker 1: and their content team being willing to I mean, imagine
Speaker 1: going to an NFL team like I want to get
Speaker 1: Bert Kreischer and Dan Soder and Pete Lee and just
Speaker 1: let's just talk and see what happens. And they were like,
Speaker 1: we love it. So that's that's pretty unusual. Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think the Vikings
Speaker 2: I'm a Packerson, but I think the Vikings are a
Speaker 2: pretty cool organization in general.
Speaker 1: Far less owners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you guys are not owners, but like watching
Speaker 2: that Quarterback show, just seeing that like like they had
Speaker 2: team psychiatrists or psychologists that like Kirk Cousins would go
Speaker 2: talk to. I don't I mean, I don't think the
Speaker 2: Packers have that. I think they're like go to the bar,
Speaker 2: you know, like if you're having trouble, shot a shot
Speaker 2: of Jmo and drink drink a spotted cow.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine how Packers fans And I'm going to
Speaker 1: be very stereotypical here and I will own that. So
Speaker 1: hit me with your messages, Packer fans Can you imagine
Speaker 1: if your quarterback was on that Netflix show and they
Speaker 1: watched him go to a psychologist or a psychiatrist. I
Speaker 1: think psychologists, psychiast. I'm not good on knowing what professions
Speaker 1: are pretty sure psychologist. But if they'd shown a PAS
Speaker 1: quarterback doing that, there'd be guys everywhere like not on
Speaker 1: my watch. Brother, We don't talk about nothing in this state.
Speaker 1: We bury it.
Speaker 2: If Jordan Love went to a psychiatrist every single time
Speaker 2: that he got sacked, they'd be like, yeah, he got
Speaker 2: his feelings hurt. They hit Oh they hit him right
Speaker 2: in the feelings. Oh yeah, Yeah. There's there's just so
Speaker 2: many and not that there's not Minnesota townies, but like
Speaker 2: there's just so many Monday morning, you know, towny quarterbacks
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, and they all know what they what he
Speaker 2: should do, and they're so funny.
Speaker 1: Well that's the unique thing about so we both came
Speaker 1: up at the same club in Minneapolis and then but
Speaker 1: when you start and you're young, you go on the road.
Speaker 1: And a big version of going on the road is
Speaker 1: traveling around Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa doing one night ER's
Speaker 1: in towns like there's people here, yeah that want this
Speaker 1: you people. You're trying to tell me that people in
Speaker 1: this town are gonna come watch me try to make
Speaker 1: them laugh. And the thing that I learned very early
Speaker 1: is there is nothing I am less interested in whilst
Speaker 1: doing small town Midwestern gigs than any football conversation. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that is. Nothing will make you care about football less
Speaker 1: than performing in your rival state and then finding out
Speaker 1: you're from Minnesota. It's awful.
Speaker 2: It's really funny how offensive it is to people in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: And like I've always I joke about it on stage,
Speaker 2: like people are like, oh, you're from Minnesota. Oh oh no,
Speaker 2: how could you? And it's like it's it's really kind
Speaker 2: of all the same place. And at some point a
Speaker 2: drunk guy drew lines, you know, like like I I'm
Speaker 2: a bit about how the Lions like like this, like
Speaker 2: the states could be like Minnesota could basically be a rectangle,
Speaker 2: but they just drew it all weird. But I mean
Speaker 2: it's pretty much the same place. I think they have
Speaker 2: a lot of the same agricultural interests. They're like, you know,
Speaker 2: like I mean, you know there's that bar that's like
Speaker 2: right on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin. It's like
Speaker 2: and it's like painted half Wisconsin colors and half Minnesota colors,
Speaker 2: and it's it's like literally the same place. But we've
Speaker 2: created these these divisions through the NFL. And it's not
Speaker 2: that there's there's state rivalries. It's how serious they are
Speaker 2: about it and how they don't even have a perception
Speaker 2: that it's semi ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. We also like and produce a fair amount
Speaker 1: of cheese. Yeah, but I will say I do love it.
Speaker 1: I I both cannot take it seriously, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to deal with it. When I'm doing a stand
Speaker 1: up show, I don't like if you put me on
Speaker 1: stage and you introduce me as from Minnesota in Janesville,
Speaker 1: It's it's the worst. Now I've got to convince seventy
Speaker 1: dads that I'm worth listening to for fifty teen minutes
Speaker 1: because they think I might not like their favorite running back.
Speaker 1: And I don't have a ton of time for that.
Speaker 1: But when you go to a like a divisional rivalry tailgate, Oh,
Speaker 1: paint that all over my wall so I can stare
Speaker 1: at it forever. Grown men in cheese hats and grown
Speaker 1: men in horn hats shouting at each other poorly I'll
Speaker 1: watch that over most other sporting events. It's a really
Speaker 1: good time for me.
Speaker 2: I had a friend who is a diehard Eagles fan,
Speaker 2: and the Eagles fan who's just used to the link,
Speaker 2: you know, used to Phillies fans came to Lambeau with
Speaker 2: me to watch Eagles packers, and it was so funny
Speaker 2: because like the way the way Midwesterners like talk trash
Speaker 2: is just way different than the Eagles fans. So, like
Speaker 2: my Eagles fan friend was walking through with the Eagles
Speaker 2: jersey like I'm gonna get jumped, I'm gonna get beat up.
Speaker 2: And they were like, oh, you're.
Speaker 3: An Eagles fan, all right, well have a bloody marian.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you how bad you are. Uh fly
Speaker 3: Eagles fly. Well, you guys aren't even gonna leave the nest,
Speaker 3: That's what I'll tell you. And then they made my
Speaker 3: friend do like three shots with them, and and my
Speaker 3: friend was like they were so nice. They get they
Speaker 3: gave me like three shots. I'm like, yeah, they're poisoning
Speaker 3: you slowly with the poison that they've become accustomed to.
Speaker 3: I'm like, don't do so many shots because we still
Speaker 3: have three blocks to go until the stadium and that's
Speaker 3: how they're gonna that's how they're gonna bring you down.
Speaker 2: And he's like, they gave me a broughtwurst. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: like you're you have diabetes. Now, like we literally that's
Speaker 2: how we get you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna kill you with with sustenance.
Speaker 2: And then the next year, my buddy was like, all right, well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you tickets to the Link. We're gonna
Speaker 2: go out to Philly. And We're driving through the parking
Speaker 2: lot and I have my Aaron Rodgers jersey on and
Speaker 2: people are literally founding on my car because I like,
Speaker 2: I we're in a Packers jersey and they can see
Speaker 2: it in my rental car and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I am in danger. And so I just kept driving
Speaker 2: slowly until I found these two giant dudes. They looked
Speaker 2: like they were like Packers linemen and now they just
Speaker 2: go to all the games. Like these dudes were huge,
Speaker 2: and I parked right next to him and I popped
Speaker 2: up in my trunk and I was like, Hey, I
Speaker 2: have all this food, all this booze, like I'll cook
Speaker 2: for you. I was like, just walk me into the game.
Speaker 2: And these guys were like, yeah, we're actually bodyguards, that's
Speaker 2: what we do for a living. And so I gave
Speaker 2: them two hundred dollars and they actually they walked me
Speaker 2: and my friend out of the game too, so like
Speaker 2: they're like, here's my cell number. But like I was
Speaker 2: in physical danger in Philly. It's like a way different
Speaker 2: thing East Coast to Midwest. But that's why, like, like
Speaker 2: I've been to Packers Vikings games back when is at
Speaker 2: the Metrodome, and like I've been around Minnesota fans and
Speaker 2: they're the same way where they'll they'll they'll really get
Speaker 2: after you and they'll make fun of you for being
Speaker 2: a Packers fan, but they're like they're not going to
Speaker 2: hurt you. That's the key thing.
Speaker 1: I've said this before. I was at the Randy Moss
Speaker 1: Moon game. H I did feel in the third quarter
Speaker 1: because that was a blowout and nobody expected it. And
Speaker 1: I remember cheering after a touchdown at some point in
Speaker 1: the second half and being like, oh, let's put our
Speaker 1: jackets on. Like I felt that because that was the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But even then, the worst we got was like some
Speaker 1: bad looks And that's always been my experience on the
Speaker 1: way out to that game. It was my nephew Seth
Speaker 1: and I. I've got a big Hillbilly family. So I
Speaker 1: was nineteen with my nearly adult nephew and he was
Speaker 1: a senior in high school and we were driving out
Speaker 1: to that game, and we stopped at a truck stop
Speaker 1: and I locked my keys in the car, and so
Speaker 1: we were We eventually called someone to come open it
Speaker 1: for us, but for a minute there we were in
Speaker 1: the heart of Wisconsin, at a Wisconsin truck stop on
Speaker 1: the day of a Packer playoff game, trying to break
Speaker 1: wearing Vikings gear, trying to break into my own car
Speaker 1: with a coat hanger, and people were helping us. If
Speaker 1: that happened in Philadelphia, just leave your car and go
Speaker 1: back to your home city, because nothing. If you're not
Speaker 1: in that car in thirty seconds, it's not gonna end awesome.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like people would be heckling you, because number one,
Speaker 2: if you're in Philly, they're better at breaking into cars
Speaker 2: than you, and they're they were like, hey, pal, nice try.
Speaker 1: You don't even got one of those magnets.
Speaker 2: Why don't you got a magnet? One time I was outside,
Speaker 2: I was outside of one of the Philly cheese steak places.
Speaker 2: I won't say, all right, it was Gino's. I'm friends
Speaker 2: with Geno from Geno's Cheese Steaks. And I was just
Speaker 2: trying to parallel park my rental car and this guy
Speaker 2: didn't like the way I was parallel parking, and then
Speaker 2: he wanted to fight me when I got out of it.
Speaker 1: It's total Norman.
Speaker 2: I was like, this town is psycho, like like Philly
Speaker 2: is psycho. It's absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: That's how you can tell where the walls fall down
Speaker 1: between Packers and Vikings fans because and I think Bears
Speaker 1: fans are a little bit outside that, because Bear's Chicago
Speaker 1: has a different attitude, right, I don't find their attitude
Speaker 1: to be as similar to our two team and fan
Speaker 1: base's attitudes. But it never becomes more apparent how similar
Speaker 1: we are than we're like, hey, let's talk about that
Speaker 1: team that has a that used to have a jail
Speaker 1: underneath their stadium. Should we talk about them for a minute,
Speaker 1: And we're just like, yeah, let's all hug and go
Speaker 1: to the game together. We like each other. It's a
Speaker 1: very very different vibe. And I you know, obviously Viking fans,
Speaker 1: with how poorly things have gone for us in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: the last few years. Will will lap up all of
Speaker 1: your Philly disdain Pete for sure?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah. Last night, so I'm we have a
Speaker 2: house in Arizona, and so we're down here for the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks win. And we went to a bar and there
Speaker 2: were these Phillies fans that were there and they're like
Speaker 2: a kid believe we're losing at home. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's not an advantage for the Phillies to be at home,
Speaker 2: because if the Phillies start losing, it's not like your
Speaker 2: fans are going to be supportive. Like the fans were
Speaker 2: booing their team when they're down two to four in
Speaker 2: the NLCS last night. I'm like, it's a disadvantage for
Speaker 2: them to be at home.
Speaker 1: Home field advantage turns to a non one really quick
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia if you're not playing as well as the
Speaker 1: fans want you to.
Speaker 2: Being a Philadelphia sportsperson and losing at home is like
Speaker 2: if you're at home with your wife that told you
Speaker 2: that you should hire a plumber, and you're underneath the
Speaker 2: sink and you start, you break the pipe and it's
Speaker 2: eight thirty pm and now you can't even go to
Speaker 2: the hardware store to get a replacement thing, and she's
Speaker 2: heckling you, going, we should have called a plumber now
Speaker 2: now our waters show off. I can't even shower before
Speaker 2: work tomorrow, Like like you're a disappointment at home. That's
Speaker 2: what being a Philadelphia sportsperson must be like, playing at
Speaker 2: home when you're losing.
Speaker 1: Speaking of being at home, because I will gloss over this.
Speaker 1: It just popped into my brain and I will gloss
Speaker 1: over it and forget to mention it and be mad
Speaker 1: at myself. I like knowing how people watch games. You know,
Speaker 1: do you like at home? Do you like the stays?
Speaker 1: But very specifically, I would like you to discuss when
Speaker 1: you watch a game, when the game starts, tell me
Speaker 1: what happens in your home? Pete.
Speaker 2: All right, So we have a little shelf and the
Speaker 2: it's a shelf in the pantry, and there's a special
Speaker 2: spot at the bottom of the pantry right next to
Speaker 2: my dog's food. And my dog has his packers callar,
Speaker 2: which is a caller that's like way too big for him,
Speaker 2: Like it's almost like a packer's necklace. Because when my
Speaker 2: wife went and bought it for him to surprise me,
Speaker 2: she just didn't size the dog's neck for it or whatever.
Speaker 2: So he wears his normal collar and then over it
Speaker 2: it's almost like he's got like a fabric wrapper chain.
Speaker 2: And as soon as the game starts, and my dog
Speaker 2: knows that, like all the packer snacks are out and
Speaker 2: all the like, you know, there's like a cheese play with.
Speaker 2: My dog loves cheese. He knows that if he goes
Speaker 2: and he gets his collar and he brings it to me,
Speaker 2: I'll put it on him and he'll get a piece
Speaker 2: of cheese and then we can watch the game. But
Speaker 2: I'm not a superstitious person. My wife is superstitious, but
Speaker 2: she's like, have you ever noticed that if Diesel's not
Speaker 2: wearing his collar for the game, the Packers lose? And
Speaker 2: so like for the Packers Bears game, Diesel was wearing
Speaker 2: his collar. And then for this season, we've been traveling
Speaker 2: a bunch, so Diesel has we haven't had his collar
Speaker 2: to even be with him, and so the Packers have
Speaker 2: been losing. And then you know, a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: they you know, they won and it's because he had
Speaker 2: his collar. And so I just want to say, as
Speaker 2: an owner, I've been really letting our franchise down. Like
Speaker 2: the thing that we should really vote on in the
Speaker 2: in the Packers meetings is like should Diesel always travel
Speaker 2: with his caller? That's that's the key piece.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. That's a tough thing to admit. Like, Hi, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'm Pete, I'm an owner. I just want to say
Speaker 1: sorry for last year we didn't bring Diesel's collar with
Speaker 1: him on weeks that we weren't gonna be home. Just boh,
Speaker 1: the booze pour down, but transition alert.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you.
Speaker 1: This is something else I wouldn't handle. Well. You live
Speaker 1: down the street from future Hall of Famer slash former
Speaker 1: Packers great slash current New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Do you what? How as a Packer fan, how do
Speaker 1: you handle that? Have you been pretty chill about it?
Speaker 2: Ah? No. I first of all, I've never met Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 2: but I've driven past his house slowly, which he I
Speaker 2: won't say the street that he lives on in in
Speaker 2: California or the road or whatever. But when he announced
Speaker 2: that he was going to the Jets, I almost went
Speaker 2: down to his house and I did a bit about
Speaker 2: it because I just I just started talking about it
Speaker 2: on stage. I was I was on stage in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: I just started talking about it. I'm like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: almost went down to his house. And but then my
Speaker 2: my wife was like, Pete, you're gonna get arrested. And
Speaker 2: I was like, I'll just wear an Aaron Rodgers jersey
Speaker 2: and people would be like, who's who. And then my
Speaker 2: wife added, she goes, she goes, well, they'll know that
Speaker 2: you're the real Aaron Rodgers if you just kind of
Speaker 2: walk with a calf cramp. And this was before his injury,
Speaker 2: so I'm not trying to make a tasteless insult or whatever,
Speaker 2: but like he always had that calf cramp like he
Speaker 2: would he would, you know, limp, and his calf was
Speaker 2: always hurting him. And so yeah, that I didn't end
Speaker 2: up going down there. I still love him even though
Speaker 2: he left the team.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's interesting. You have such a storied history,
Speaker 1: so you can make a case for a lot of
Speaker 1: different guys, you know, but there's a pretty good case
Speaker 1: to be made that he's the greatest packer of all time.
Speaker 1: He's in that like some that's that sentence is going
Speaker 1: to hit a lot of different people, a lot of
Speaker 1: different ways, but I think there's a conversation there. And
Speaker 1: to have somebody like that so close living to you, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can understand how somebody get a little weird about that.
Speaker 1: You could put Matthew Hatchet on my street and I'd
Speaker 1: be weird about that. And Pete, I guarantee you've never
Speaker 1: even heard that name. I think he was the fourth
Speaker 1: wide receiver back in the late nineties early two thousands,
Speaker 1: So that's you could do that and I'd just be
Speaker 1: watching walking by, Like I wonder if hatches outside today.
Speaker 1: So I'm impressed. I'm impressed by your ability to not
Speaker 1: be like I bet Aaron and I are going to
Speaker 1: get real close here as friends and neighbors.
Speaker 2: I mean I shouldn't say this, but like he doesn't
Speaker 2: even have a git on his house like I think
Speaker 2: nowadays with all the cameras and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: like like you're you're so safe digitally, you know, and
Speaker 2: also like if somebody wants to get into your lawn,
Speaker 2: you know, most of the gates in California are like
Speaker 2: four feet tall, like you could just hop over that
Speaker 2: or whatever. It's but like I don't know, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean he and he probably has security and all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. Can you tell I've thought about it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is like listening to a guy
Speaker 1: going through his checklist of reasons it wouldn't work. But
Speaker 1: you don't know. Pete is like those were his bodyguards
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. They were just on vacation for the week.
Speaker 2: Yeah they were. They like, yeah, I mean he was
Speaker 2: playing in that game, so maybe they just didn't need
Speaker 2: to while he's on the field, you know, they can't
Speaker 2: guard him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just get their tickets. They're like, well, we're
Speaker 1: normally we protect this really impressive guy. Let's help this
Speaker 1: boy into the stadium. He seems scared, and let's help
Speaker 1: him all the way through.
Speaker 2: It was funny, you know, like Aaron Rodgers is friends
Speaker 2: with a lot of comedians, Like you know, I'm I'm
Speaker 2: tight with Bert and you know, he's tight with Burt,
Speaker 2: and he's tight with Rogan and all those guys. And
Speaker 2: he's really tight with Nick Schwartzen, who's our friend. And
Speaker 2: so it's it's interesting because I think one of the
Speaker 2: things that stopped me from just walking down there and
Speaker 2: knocking on his door to introduce myself is that like
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm gonna meet him under cooler circumstances.
Speaker 1: That's the rationale I wanted Pete. That's the lunacy that
Speaker 1: I can get on board with. Right there, when Sigura
Speaker 1: was in I think somewhere in the area, Mike Cronin,
Speaker 1: our friend, was opening for him, and so he and
Speaker 1: Sigura got to meet a lot of the packers and
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was there, and Cronin was just talking about
Speaker 1: how great and like easy going of a guy he was,
Speaker 1: and I just couldn't hear it. I just I was like,
Speaker 1: give this to anybody else. I don't want this, and
Speaker 1: this was I don't need this, I don't care about this. Oh,
Speaker 1: is he the best? Is he a nice fun hangout?
Speaker 1: Take it somewhere else. I don't care at all. I'm
Speaker 1: glad he's great. I just have that energy where I
Speaker 1: used to live in the Topanga Topanga Canyon when I
Speaker 1: lived in LA and I was in a Vaughn's grocery
Speaker 1: store and I turned around a corner and Clay Matthews
Speaker 1: was there. And I think most normal football fans, and
Speaker 1: this is at the height of Clay Matthews, would have
Speaker 1: been like Clay Matthews and all I could say to
Speaker 1: him is like I don't like you at all, and
Speaker 1: he's like Viking fan and I was like yep, and
Speaker 1: he goes cool and then we just parted ways. You know.
Speaker 1: I did it like kind of in a funny way,
Speaker 1: so he didn't think that I was being a dick,
Speaker 1: but I just I don't want to hear it. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing, this is how petty I am. I want
Speaker 1: you in two years to come back on the show
Speaker 1: and be like, you're never gonna believe it. I met
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and all he did was make fun of
Speaker 1: my ownership of the team. I'd be like, well, now
Speaker 1: that's good. That's the story. That's the story. He made
Speaker 1: fun of our meetings. I would love that. That's the
Speaker 1: story I need.
Speaker 2: I wonder if the players ever have to go to
Speaker 2: those ownership meetings and then they're walking through the tunnel
Speaker 2: and they're like losers.
Speaker 1: I've been really lucky to be around a bunch of
Speaker 1: the players with the Vikings. And I do think, as
Speaker 1: with any profession, like you're gonna run into some accountants
Speaker 1: who are apples, right. There's just there's always going to
Speaker 1: be people in every profession that just aren't super kind.
Speaker 1: But I have been beyond impressed with the way the
Speaker 1: players that I've met and spend time with, with the
Speaker 1: way they wear the fans' passion. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: like if that's part of the modern era. You know,
Speaker 1: for so long there was this disconnect between the fans
Speaker 1: and the players. And now with podcasts and social media,
Speaker 1: like Draymond Green has, all these players have complete access
Speaker 1: to the fans and the fans have access to them.
Speaker 1: And although I think there's been negatives on both sides,
Speaker 1: like fans who take it too far and players who don't,
Speaker 1: more often than not I think there is this love
Speaker 1: and appreciation from players that is like, oh, I we
Speaker 1: know why you're so upset or you're so happy, and
Speaker 1: we really like the ability to be in front of you.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a new school thing, but I feel that
Speaker 1: vibe all the time when I'm around players.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the East Coast fans versus the Midwestern fans.
Speaker 2: I bet Vikings players are like, man, this community means
Speaker 2: everything to me. I bet Packers fans are like, man,
Speaker 2: this community is so awesome. Our fans they love us
Speaker 2: even when we lose. But Man, to be a Giants,
Speaker 2: like a New York Giant, you know, a Philadelphia Eagle.
Speaker 2: That has to be hard sometimes when you get booed
Speaker 2: at home to deal with that. I mean, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I remember when I lived out in New York City.
Speaker 2: Derek Jeter hit his three thousandth hit, which if you
Speaker 2: remember that, it was a home run, and then at
Speaker 2: the next at bat he struck out and the fans
Speaker 2: boot him. It was like the most New York thing
Speaker 2: that I've ever seen in my life. And he just
Speaker 2: kind of like went to the dugout like like okay,
Speaker 2: you know, like like yep, I couldn't done. I mean,
Speaker 2: people came to the game to try to get video
Speaker 2: on their dumb phones of his three thousandth hit and
Speaker 2: it wound up being a home run and then they
Speaker 2: boot him. It was like, I don't know how you
Speaker 2: couldn't have some sort of sense of humor about your
Speaker 2: own fans if you're a New York sports person, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, but you got you gotta say. I love
Speaker 2: the fans, but I feel like if I was an
Speaker 2: Eagles player or a New York sports person, I would
Speaker 2: go home and like my wife and I call it
Speaker 2: couch time, you know. Where like we can just say
Speaker 2: things that like you can't say to anybody else, you know,
Speaker 2: you don't want to put it on Twitter. We can
Speaker 2: just have couch time. If I was an Eagles or
Speaker 2: a Giants player, I'd go home and be like, Babe,
Speaker 2: couch time. Oh my god, they buddh us at home
Speaker 2: like I dropped the ball, and yeah they were right,
Speaker 2: but like, oh my god, like these people, like some
Speaker 2: of them, I just got booed by some of the
Speaker 2: most unathletic people on the planet.
Speaker 1: That's I was talking about this with a buddy recently.
Speaker 1: The wild thing about sports is so Kirk Cousins, you said,
Speaker 1: you know, with the it's been really interesting with the
Speaker 1: Quarterback documentary to give everybody a glimpse of his inner world.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's as he's always been a hot topic,
Speaker 1: you know, in Washington and now in Minnesota. But I
Speaker 1: was talking with a buddy and I was like, imagine,
Speaker 1: I'm just imagining this for a second. So let's say
Speaker 1: I don't I don't like rankings. I'm not interested in rankings,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna give a ranking for the sake of it.
Speaker 1: Let's say you think Kirk Cousins is the eighth best
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league or the tenth or the twelfth,
Speaker 1: I don't care. Just pick one for the sake of
Speaker 1: the conversation and you go, okay, well, that means he's
Speaker 1: the tenth best in the whole world of a thing
Speaker 1: and not a thing like anything else. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people who don't want to be like, if you're
Speaker 1: one of the ten best accountants in the world, most
Speaker 1: of us would go like, cool accounting. But football is
Speaker 1: the thing that everybody wants, and he's that good, and
Speaker 1: there are still a lot of people who are like, nah,
Speaker 1: uh uh, this guy doesn't have it. It's that is
Speaker 1: wild to me that that is how it works.
Speaker 2: He is a quarterback that has so much precision, like
Speaker 2: I mean, he's like a surgeon, and you know, every
Speaker 2: once in a while play will go wrong or like
Speaker 2: maybe you don't see the field. There are always those
Speaker 2: things like if you see a quarterback trending on Twitter,
Speaker 2: chances are there's gonna be one play out of the
Speaker 2: whole game where a guy was wide open and then
Speaker 2: they threw it to the sidelines or they threw the interception,
Speaker 2: and then that's gonna be the thing that all these
Speaker 2: armchair quarterbacks or all these armchair coaches.
Speaker 1: Or armchair owners, armchair.
Speaker 2: Owners are going to make their case for that's why
Speaker 2: that guy's the worst quarterback ever. And it was just
Speaker 2: a lapse, you know. It was like a, Hey, I
Speaker 2: don't know any decision that I could make quickly when
Speaker 2: I have three giant guys running at me. And Kirk
Speaker 2: Cousin does that all the time.
Speaker 1: If somebody said, Pete, pick a joke, and then three
Speaker 1: adult men started running at you, there's no way you
Speaker 1: choose a joke before you get hit. And that's just
Speaker 1: thinking of something you've done a million times, let alone
Speaker 1: processing a play, executing the play. The amount of things
Speaker 1: I could do with a grown successfully, with a grown
Speaker 1: man running at me is between zero and zero. I
Speaker 1: couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and especially when the plays aren't even called what
Speaker 2: the plays are called, Like the coach is like, all right,
Speaker 2: we want zero mountain shakeshack and you're like, okay, you
Speaker 2: gotta translate that language into whatever play it is, and
Speaker 2: then you know, get your guys all on the same page.
Speaker 2: And then maybe let's say, let's say the wide receiver
Speaker 2: that was open didn't run the route that you had
Speaker 2: scripted in your brain or whatever. It was, like, there's
Speaker 2: so many reasons for it. But yeah, Kirk Cousins, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm a Packers fan, and I think he's an amazing man.
Speaker 2: I think he's a great quarterback. I watched him beat
Speaker 2: the Minnesota golfers. You know, I went to the I
Speaker 2: went to the University of Minnesota. I watched him dismantle
Speaker 2: our team for years when he was at Michigan State.
Speaker 2: Like we would always play Michigan State for our homecoming
Speaker 2: because they were like our best chance at winning a
Speaker 2: game in those seasons, and then Kirk Cousins would come
Speaker 2: in and just be amazing, and so yeah, I have
Speaker 2: a great appreciation for him, even as a Packers fan.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean the guy in that Quarterback show,
Speaker 2: like he would have like bruised ribs and then he
Speaker 2: would like still go and volunteer on Mondays and like
Speaker 2: just great, great dude.
Speaker 1: It's wild Pete. I love you a bunch, and I
Speaker 1: really appreciate you doing this. Thank you. I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: what we make. You're not gonna like it. I make
Speaker 1: everybody do it. I do need before we let you go.
Speaker 1: A prediction for this week's game.
Speaker 2: I hate to say it as a Packers fan, but
Speaker 2: I don't think we're gonna beat you again.
Speaker 1: But I'd like to hear Daddy give it to me. Daddy.
Speaker 2: I like that, like I love the Packers, I believe
Speaker 2: in Jordan. Love is what I have to say as
Speaker 2: an owner. But I don't think that things are clicking
Speaker 2: right now with the Packers. I think that the Vikings
Speaker 2: are going to I think the Vikings are going to
Speaker 2: beat us, like thirty eight to six. I don't think
Speaker 2: that we're even going to score a touchdown.
Speaker 1: That is a bold prediction that it feels like reverse psychology.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm going to go with Packers. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna get more than six. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: fourteen and I think Vikings one hundred and thirty eight. Pete,
Speaker 1: you're the best of the best, buddy. Thank you for
Speaker 1: doing this, dude, Thank you so much for having me.
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