Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to another edition of Renee All Day.
Speaker 1: Joining me today the man that I have been dying
Speaker 1: to interview, Evan mcpheerson. How are you. I'm doing well.
Speaker 1: I have truly been looking forward to this ever since
Speaker 1: we knew that this interview series was going to take place.
Speaker 1: I'm like, when do we get Evan in the hot seat?
Speaker 1: So today's true? Today, that's true? That is true. How
Speaker 1: do you do you like being interviewed? Is it a
Speaker 1: good experience for you or no? Yeah? No, typically it's
Speaker 1: a good experience. I haven't had too many bad interview experiences,
Speaker 1: so hopefully this is Hopefully this stays the course. You're
Speaker 1: a man of many nicknames, Shooter, you know, mc fearless.
Speaker 1: Which one's your favorite? Um? I think I think the
Speaker 1: top two that everybody uses a shooter in money Mac
Speaker 1: Shooter is funny, just based off like the reaction we
Speaker 1: got from Shooter McGavin last year during the playoff. You know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty special, So shooters pretty cool money Mac. I mean,
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, you can call me
Speaker 1: whatever you want. You can call me Evan for all
Speaker 1: I care. Sure a lot of people do. Yeah, as
Speaker 1: they should. Ye fair enough, How do you deal with
Speaker 1: the pressure of being a kicker? I mean that you
Speaker 1: are a pressure cooker situation, young guy, You're walking out
Speaker 1: an entire stadium. I'm sure people, I mean people love
Speaker 1: you as it is, but I'm sure opposing teams maybe
Speaker 1: not so much. How do you deal with that? I
Speaker 1: think it's just like, you know, any anybody in any
Speaker 1: profession has pressure on them while they're at work. And honestly,
Speaker 1: I think we see that as the same way as
Speaker 1: you know, we train for these moments and all the
Speaker 1: many hours on the field by ourselves. In practice, it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's the same uprights, it's the same football.
Speaker 1: The only difference is there's just a couple more people watching.
Speaker 1: So I just feel like with practice and just repetition,
Speaker 1: it really just becomes like a whole like just motion.
Speaker 1: You don't really even do it. Your body just kind
Speaker 1: of reacts right right. Your body's just so trained, it's
Speaker 1: like that muscle memory just kind of kicks in and
Speaker 1: your body does the job it's supposed to do. Plus,
Speaker 1: it's like, I feel like an inherited thing for you,
Speaker 1: considering your brothers all do it. It's just like family business.
Speaker 1: What was that like growing up having having brothers, you
Speaker 1: guys all kind of do the same thing. No, it
Speaker 1: was super cool growing up with two brothers. Obviously, we
Speaker 1: were competing pretty much and everything we did, whether it
Speaker 1: was video games or sports, we were always outside either
Speaker 1: playing basketball it feels basketball season, it feels soccer season,
Speaker 1: we'd be shooting the soccer ball, or it feels football
Speaker 1: season we'd be we'd honestly be playing tackle football in
Speaker 1: the front yard. And then it wasn't until we got
Speaker 1: a little older where we started kicking in general. And
Speaker 1: so but when we got to the like we figured
Speaker 1: out they were the like a good kicker first, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so is my older brother. Yeah, so he was in
Speaker 1: ninth grade and he tried out for the the high
Speaker 1: school football team and he said that he just saw
Speaker 1: the kicker on the other other side of the field
Speaker 1: just kick him by himself. And you know, we grew
Speaker 1: up playing soccer and that's pretty much all we did.
Speaker 1: And so he's like, you know, growing up playing soccer,
Speaker 1: I could kick a football. It can't be that hard.
Speaker 1: So he just went over and tried. It was decent
Speaker 1: at it, and he enjoyed it. Came home, told us
Speaker 1: all about it, and that's just kind of what started
Speaker 1: at all the lore of the kicking story. I feel
Speaker 1: like being a kicker must does it give you like
Speaker 1: a bit of like a lone wolf mentality because it's
Speaker 1: like it's you, Yeah, it's all you do. You feel that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Our actually our Special Teams coach Um Darren Simmons, he actually,
Speaker 1: he likes to say, it's kind of more like a
Speaker 1: sniper mentality. You know, you got one one bullet in
Speaker 1: the chamber and what are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 1: You know, if you if you miss your shot, then
Speaker 1: you're gonna expose yourself. So you got to take advantage
Speaker 1: of every shot you get to take. Hone in on it.
Speaker 1: The walkout song. I love that this happens. I love
Speaker 1: that this exists. I think that everybody should do this.
Speaker 1: What went into you a getting your own walkout song
Speaker 1: and then choosing the song, Well, honestly, I think it
Speaker 1: started all as a joke on the NFL Network interview
Speaker 1: that I did back in training camp, and they just
Speaker 1: kind of jokingly asked like, because I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw have seen the MLB pitcher whenever he comes
Speaker 1: out of the bullpen, the trumpets. Yes, yea, So it
Speaker 1: was kind of in line with that, and he was like,
Speaker 1: if you could have one, what would it be? And
Speaker 1: you know, the eminem song just kind of came to
Speaker 1: my head. And obviously I did not think that they
Speaker 1: would play it during the games, but I think it
Speaker 1: was the maybe the next preseason game they played it
Speaker 1: whenever I was out in the field, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: am I hearing that? Yeah? Am I hearing that? Right?
Speaker 1: And honestly, I just thought it was It was super
Speaker 1: funny and it was, honestly just super cool. And I
Speaker 1: do think it should be a thing because so too pageantry.
Speaker 1: Keep it coming. I love it. Say we're kind of
Speaker 1: like MLB pitchers snipers. Um, you're out there for one play,
Speaker 1: so why not make it fun. It's agreed, agreed, No,
Speaker 1: I love it. I hope that you're like at the
Speaker 1: cusp of like starting this for other people, because I mean,
Speaker 1: the more pageantry the better. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: just for fans too, it's like fun to get into.
Speaker 1: It's fun for you. It's great. Um, with your friend here,
Speaker 1: you're getting slimed? What happened here? What are these pranks
Speaker 1: that are happening? Well? I think what happened was I
Speaker 1: think it might have been in the playoffs last year. Um,
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to get the MVP award the
Speaker 1: rest right, Oh yeah you did, and so notoriously whenever
Speaker 1: your player gets the MVP where they get slimed by
Speaker 1: their teammates and it's just kind of like a surprising,
Speaker 1: but it all kind of like slid under the radar,
Speaker 1: And so I think we might have not been in
Speaker 1: the office that like that next week or something, and
Speaker 1: so I just kind of slid on by, and so obviously,
Speaker 1: so I thought, and so obviously I was not expecting
Speaker 1: that at all, and just coming walking off the field,
Speaker 1: I thought it was just posing with myself for a picture.
Speaker 1: Psych Did you get Clark back for this? Come on,
Speaker 1: you gotta like hold onto those things, and you gotta
Speaker 1: like in your downtime like really conjure up a good
Speaker 1: prank to get him back. We'll think about it, but okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna be pranking Clark. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, fair enough, I'm as he gotten you with
Speaker 1: any other pranks. Like what is your guy's relationship? You
Speaker 1: guys are really tight? Yeah, yeah, no, our whole unit
Speaker 1: was pretty tight, and you know, now we've added a
Speaker 1: new one in Calm. You just kind of joined on in.
Speaker 1: But yeah, our relationship is it's pretty tight. We spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time together, um here in the stadium
Speaker 1: and um just out if we're getting dinner one night
Speaker 1: or um anything like that. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: blow up your spot. But as a remotely new Cincinnati person,
Speaker 1: where are your spots here? Where are you eating? If
Speaker 1: you want to give us those details, I don't know
Speaker 1: you have quite the ravenous fan base, so let us know.
Speaker 1: Um no, I mean we to me, my wife really
Speaker 1: enjoy going to like Rubies. Any location is really great.
Speaker 1: Have you been to the new one. I've not been
Speaker 1: in the new one, but I heard it's real extravagant.
Speaker 1: So we love the precinct just because it's more kind
Speaker 1: of low key and it's hard to get into the precinct.
Speaker 1: You got a guy. You must have a guy there
Speaker 1: that gets you in because I try to book online
Speaker 1: and they're like, no, ma'am, I'm sorry, we're booked. Can
Speaker 1: we tag along in? My husband and I like, tag
Speaker 1: along with you guys. I've hurt it here. We confirmed it.
Speaker 1: It's happening. Great. Um, okay, so before we'll get into
Speaker 1: stuff with your wife, you're married. Congratulations. But side note,
Speaker 1: we all know that everybody loves Joe Burrow, but there's
Speaker 1: also this other fan base. People are like, they love you.
Speaker 1: Everyone loves you specifically, I think a little bit of
Speaker 1: the women love you. Do you feel this like heartthrob
Speaker 1: thing happening? Do you feel this swell of affection towards you?
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like, yeah, I feel obviously super
Speaker 1: blessed that the fan base loves me as much as
Speaker 1: they do, and that really encourages me and pushes me
Speaker 1: to to really perform, not only for myself but for them. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, I do feel it when we're out
Speaker 1: at Target or at dinner and some people just come
Speaker 1: up and you know, they say hey, or they're big fans,
Speaker 1: or that I'm doing a great job. Just keep it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does mean a lot whenever you're out like that
Speaker 1: and just people encourage you. One, Um, does your does
Speaker 1: your wife? What does your wife think? She's married to
Speaker 1: this this heartthrob that everyone's collamoring for. What's her reaction to?
Speaker 1: She's fine with it, She's actually she's normally the one
Speaker 1: that takes the picture if somebody ever asked for picture.
Speaker 1: So yeah, she loves it. Hell yeah, it's good. That's great. Um,
Speaker 1: so you are married? Um what what? How's married life?
Speaker 1: You're newly married? Yeah, July's right, July. So it's been good,
Speaker 1: so good? Yeah it now, it's been amazing. Um, we've
Speaker 1: been probably having the time of our life. We have
Speaker 1: two four month old puppies. Oh what kind of puppies
Speaker 1: did you get? We have an English Setter and a
Speaker 1: Springer Spaniel. Okay, um, two puppies. That was a bold move.
Speaker 1: It was definitely early in the marriage kind of. But
Speaker 1: we absolutely love them and they make our life a
Speaker 1: lot of fun for sure. Good good, good, I love that. Well. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: very very cool. Um the halftime show, we've got to
Speaker 1: talk about this, of course, it's the hot button subject.
Speaker 1: Everyone wants to talk about that. My big question about
Speaker 1: this though, was, yeah, you stayed out there was a
Speaker 1: hell of a halftime performance. How much appreciation did you
Speaker 1: have for the guys that were out there? Because you're
Speaker 1: a young guy, were you a big fan of all
Speaker 1: the performers there? The Snoop Dogs, the eminem the mary J. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, so I will admit Mary J, I'm not
Speaker 1: really familiar with to be fair, kind of me too,
Speaker 1: and I'm old enough to know, so it's okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: Mary J. We're gonna get blasted for that, by the way,
Speaker 1: probably yes. But like with obviously I know of like
Speaker 1: fifty cents Snoop Dogg, and Eminem is by far my
Speaker 1: favorite musical artists. Sure, And if there was any chance
Speaker 1: that I was going to get a pitch with him
Speaker 1: or even get to meet him while we were in
Speaker 1: el that why you were staying out there was your
Speaker 1: like maybe he'll look over here and well you can
Speaker 1: have our moment. Yeah, but after this show he just
Speaker 1: kind of get escort at all. So he's a big deal.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've not seen we've not seen Marshall Mathers
Speaker 1: in quite some time. And he looked great. He looked amazing,
Speaker 1: performed amazing, He rocked everyone's world. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, look at this guy. It's not aged.
Speaker 1: That did not happen. So hats off to you. What
Speaker 1: are your top five concerts you've ever been to? I
Speaker 1: haven't really been the mini Okay, what concerts do you
Speaker 1: want to go that was number one. Stop that so far?
Speaker 1: Oh that was your number one of them. I thought
Speaker 1: you meant that was the number one. That you've been
Speaker 1: like only one you've been to. I mean so on
Speaker 1: high school we went to um some like some like
Speaker 1: worship music concerts, some Christian bands and those were a
Speaker 1: lot of fun bonsa like. I haven't been like the
Speaker 1: biggest concert goer. I've been to Riverbend in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I know there's Riverbend here, but there's also River Been
Speaker 1: close to my hometown and we went there, okay, and
Speaker 1: I can't remember we saw pit Bull was there? Okay,
Speaker 1: pit Bull? We'll take a little pit Bull shout out.
Speaker 1: Who would you want to see? What I want to see? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What it sound like? Heavy rotation for you right now?
Speaker 1: Heavy rotation. I've been getting back into my country roots.
Speaker 1: I've been listening to a lot of Luke Brian lately. Okay.
Speaker 1: I'll played on in the locker room every now and then.
Speaker 1: Does it go over in the locker room. The guys
Speaker 1: are down with it, Okay, everybody loves it. Okay. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit like a good mix, okay from what
Speaker 1: we normally get. UM but other than that, like, I'm
Speaker 1: big into country music and worship music, so Maverick City
Speaker 1: music is a big one for me too. All Right,
Speaker 1: good to know what else happens in the locker room.
Speaker 1: You obviously get to spend a good amount of time
Speaker 1: in there. What else is happening? I know there's ping
Speaker 1: ping pong tables here. You're pretty good at ping pong.
Speaker 1: You got that hand eye coordination down, pat. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I've claimed the like the I think I'm the
Speaker 1: seventh best, seventh best in the locker room. Okay, in
Speaker 1: that way, did you guys keep like are we keeping
Speaker 1: this like rank? Oh that's just kind of like a
Speaker 1: mental thing, and that that came from Joe. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I feel like whatever he says kind of goes. So
Speaker 1: I'll definitely take the seventh place, um sure in the
Speaker 1: locker room that we'll take it. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: feel like we could raise you up a few. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just got to compete for it for sure. Who's
Speaker 1: number one? Either it's gotta be Trent Taylor probably, Okay,
Speaker 1: either him or like is really good. Yeah, Joe's really good.
Speaker 1: Mitch Wilcox is also really good. What else do you
Speaker 1: get competitive about. What do I get competitive about? Um?
Speaker 1: Ping pong? Definitely other than that. Honestly, I'm pretty like,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty chill when it comes to just like laid
Speaker 1: back things like video games or cards or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I don't have to win. I like to win, but
Speaker 1: I don't have to know. Interesting. I find that funny
Speaker 1: with athletes, because yeah, you're either like it's exhausting to
Speaker 1: be super competitive about everything all the time. Who's got
Speaker 1: time for that? Like output, it's too much? Um? What
Speaker 1: else are you doing in your downtime? So, I mean
Speaker 1: I do a lot. Um, we watched a lot of TV.
Speaker 1: What are you watching? So we're rewatching um Blacklist? Oh okay,
Speaker 1: so that's a pretty good one. And I might get
Speaker 1: slammed for this one too, but I'll just go ahead
Speaker 1: and say it. Thursday nights are are our our Kardashian nights. Hey,
Speaker 1: can we talk about the New Kardashian series because it
Speaker 1: is great? You're watching the Hulu one? Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: great television. I've also I'm watching I was just talking
Speaker 1: to somebody about this. I'm like, you know what this
Speaker 1: New Kardashian series. We're there addressing the cameras there, we're
Speaker 1: getting into the nitty gritty. I mean, can we talk
Speaker 1: about how dirty Chloe was done by Kristen No, that
Speaker 1: was just disgusting, honestly, And how my wife explains it
Speaker 1: is their old reality show. They were being told what
Speaker 1: to do and now they're producing this one, and so
Speaker 1: now they're being able to show like who they really are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like raw it you get like that really good look. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for the Kardashians. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you don't see many people going to get peacocks for pets.
Speaker 1: Who's your favorite Kardashian It's great, it's a great question. Um,
Speaker 1: I didn't know the interview was going to go this way,
Speaker 1: but I'm all for it. I honestly, I know she's
Speaker 1: a I love Chris. Chris is great. We all need
Speaker 1: a Chris in our life exactly. We all need a
Speaker 1: Chris that cares as much as she does about her girls.
Speaker 1: We need a moment definitely. But other than that, I
Speaker 1: mean Chloe and Kim, Yeah, they're definitely good ones. And
Speaker 1: then Kendall's really funny. Kendall's great. Kendall's kind of like reserve,
Speaker 1: She's kind of doing her own thing. I feel like
Speaker 1: she's word on, like she's an outlier to the rest
Speaker 1: of the family a little bit. Definitely seems like that.
Speaker 1: But man, the Chloe stuff crazy. They got a lot
Speaker 1: of people in that family. Anyways, Kardashian fans here we are.
Speaker 1: Let us know. If you need us to do anything, Chris,
Speaker 1: call us up. Do you have any superstitions? Um, honestly,
Speaker 1: not really. Okay, I call my wife before every game,
Speaker 1: so I guess that's kind of like a superstition. Does
Speaker 1: she give you like a pep talk? What goes into
Speaker 1: those conversations. She's just it's just pretty much like she's
Speaker 1: got there and enjoy it and just have fun and
Speaker 1: we'll see you after. I can't get in a word
Speaker 1: edgewise with my husband's a professional wrestler. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: get a word edgewise with him. Usually before a match.
Speaker 1: It's like afterwards. So hats off, this young man is
Speaker 1: doing it right. Call your wife. She will give you
Speaker 1: the good energy before a game. Kickers, the kickers deserve
Speaker 1: a little more love. I feel like kickers deserve to
Speaker 1: have like way more star treatment put on them. Um. So,
Speaker 1: I mean I think kickers are definitely on the up
Speaker 1: and coming. I think we're becoming more of a I guess,
Speaker 1: more of a factor in games nowadays. And I saw
Speaker 1: a stat whenever we were watching the Monday night game
Speaker 1: that I think maybe eight of the last like nine
Speaker 1: or ten games that day or the previous Sunday, we're
Speaker 1: within one score. And so that really comes down to,
Speaker 1: you know, the last place of the game, and to
Speaker 1: have a good kicker, it's definitely, I guess, a big
Speaker 1: plus for the team. And you know, we've seen games
Speaker 1: are getting closer and closer, so to have a really
Speaker 1: good kicker is a big advantage for a team. You're
Speaker 1: a very calm, cool, collected. Everyone just says Evans, so nice,
Speaker 1: what a nice guy. What gets under your skin? What
Speaker 1: pisses Evan McPherson off? Um, Definitely whenever my dogs are
Speaker 1: acting crazy, if they're buying me too much. Like the
Speaker 1: other the other day, I told him, I was telling
Speaker 1: him that Gracey's coming home, like she's on the phone
Speaker 1: and she's talking to him. They're going absolutely crazy, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they just jump on top of me,
Speaker 1: start buying my head, start buying my arms. That made
Speaker 1: me really mad. Whenever they act crazy, it kind of
Speaker 1: makes me mad. But other than them, if you ask
Speaker 1: people around me, not much really makes me too mad.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty like and I wish it was like a
Speaker 1: secret pet peeve, something that's just like so random, Like
Speaker 1: do you get like road rage or anything. No, no,
Speaker 1: he doesn't. We'll work on it throughout the season. Find
Speaker 1: out what makes Evan McPherson mad. That will be It's
Speaker 1: not my goal for the season. I actually don't do.
Speaker 1: I want to see that. I want to see it
Speaker 1: from like a distance. It's probably pretty common coal. Well, Evan,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Nice to finally get to meet you,
Speaker 1: to have you here on the show. You are a great,
Speaker 1: big fan of all your work. We all love Evan McPherson,
Speaker 1: so best of luck in the rest of the season
Speaker 1: for you, well, thank you. I appreciate it for sure,