Speaker 1: What do you do in life doesn't go according to plan?
Speaker 1: That moment you lose the job, or a loved one,
Speaker 1: or even a piece of yourself. I'm Brookshields and this
Speaker 1: is now What, a podcast about pivotal moments as told
Speaker 1: by people who lived them. Each week, I s to
Speaker 1: teal with a guest to talk about the times they
Speaker 1: were knocked off course and what they did to move forward.
Speaker 1: Some stories are funny, others are cut wrenching, but all
Speaker 1: are unapologetically human and remind us that every success and
Speaker 1: every setback is accompanied by a choice, and that choice
Speaker 1: answers one question. Now what a friend of mine said
Speaker 1: to me. He looked at my hands, He goes, damn,
Speaker 1: last time I saw hands that big. They had a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring on him and your mom and I
Speaker 1: think even did the hand to hand thing. I was like, mss,
Speaker 1: you were tall tall women. I like, you know another thing.
Speaker 1: We all attracted tall, tall ladies. My mom's five eleven
Speaker 1: or so, and yeah, she's five nine or so. I
Speaker 1: mean it's short as I'll go. Yeah, I was gonna
Speaker 1: say I thought she was taller than that. But I know,
Speaker 1: but I think it's great. I go, I get around
Speaker 1: you guys, and I'm I don't feel like an Amazon anymore.
Speaker 1: That voice you just heard is my good friend, Cooper Manning.
Speaker 1: Cooper is an entrepreneur, He's a TV personality and a
Speaker 1: wonderful husband and father. He hosts The Manning Hour on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports, and if you've watched football recently, you've likely
Speaker 1: seen him steal the show in those hilarious Caesar sports
Speaker 1: book commercials. Cooper is also part of the football famous
Speaker 1: Manning family. His dad, Archie, was a well respected NFL quarterback,
Speaker 1: and brothers Peyton and Eli are widely considered some of
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterbacks to have played the league. As for Cooper,
Speaker 1: he was a talented player in his own right until
Speaker 1: a career ending diagnosis forced him to pivot and create
Speaker 1: a different life for himself. He is one of the
Speaker 1: most positive people I have ever met. He's so funny,
Speaker 1: and I'm so happy that he's agreed to join the
Speaker 1: show and share his incredible story with us. All here
Speaker 1: is Cooper Manning. I'm so happy to be talking to you.
Speaker 1: I miss you. I missed you this summer too. I'm
Speaker 1: playing hard to get Is it working? Yes, it's working.
Speaker 1: In my my my heart is just exploding. When I
Speaker 1: wanted to speak to you for the podcast, my producer
Speaker 1: asked me how we knew each other, And it was
Speaker 1: funny because the first thing that I could think of
Speaker 1: would be was just going out and drinking too much
Speaker 1: tequila with you and Allen. I was like, that's the
Speaker 1: first thing. That's where most great relationships began, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: you know totally. Well. I remember Chris was working in
Speaker 1: New Orleans, my husband, Chris, and I was working in
Speaker 1: New Orleans, and we were walking out of a restaurant
Speaker 1: and I ran into your mom and your dad, and
Speaker 1: I think the giants had just one. It was Marty Gras.
Speaker 1: They invited us immediately over to the house, and the
Speaker 1: minute you and Chris met, it was as if it
Speaker 1: was slow motion and music was playing the two of
Speaker 1: you that your eyes met, and then you found each
Speaker 1: other and and you just hit it off immediately. I
Speaker 1: feel pretty confident that both of us left that day
Speaker 1: going that guy is so much more immature than me.
Speaker 1: Both of the same the same thing about one another. Well,
Speaker 1: I won't we won't get into some of the antics
Speaker 1: that you guys do when you're driving around town. We're
Speaker 1: going to leave that if you won't, certainly those are
Speaker 1: those are highlights of my life. So if you want
Speaker 1: those antics are already in the hip, ready loaded, ready
Speaker 1: to fire. So if you need, they're here. But great, No,
Speaker 1: it's been so funny, you know, and you know about
Speaker 1: anyone Brook It's rare that you make really good friends
Speaker 1: later on in life, and so when you do, you
Speaker 1: cherish it. So it's been Uh, you're right, it's been
Speaker 1: too long since we've hung out, and we're we're overdue.
Speaker 1: We were, We're definitely overdo and we'll fix that. The
Speaker 1: now what audience might be a slightly new audience for you.
Speaker 1: So if you were to introduce yourself to them, how
Speaker 1: would you how would you want to introduce yourself? Who?
Speaker 1: Who is? Who is Cooper Manning to this possibly new audience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm probably known more for being the brothers of two
Speaker 1: other famous people than being independently known. Um. I have
Speaker 1: a little, little, fun, little show on Fox before football
Speaker 1: games on Sunday and called The Coop Manning Our Minus
Speaker 1: fifty eight minutes. I play a character that thinks he's
Speaker 1: really important. He's very cocky, he thinks he's the star
Speaker 1: of the show. And that is far from the truth.
Speaker 1: And I get to interview fun NFL players, show old
Speaker 1: side of them that's not on the field, whether it's
Speaker 1: I mean getting a couple's massot massage or getting a
Speaker 1: manicure to pedicure with another player, or wrestling or you
Speaker 1: know whatever, showing another side of them that that's lighthearted,
Speaker 1: not football related at all. And so that's been fun.
Speaker 1: It's my eighth year of doing that. And then my
Speaker 1: wife has always wanted to be married to a game
Speaker 1: show host, and so now hey, don't have a game show.
Speaker 1: So it's I'm really just racking up the points as
Speaker 1: far as uh. But I mean, you know, you brought
Speaker 1: up something, you know, someone who's been talked about mostly
Speaker 1: in relation to other entities. How does that feel to
Speaker 1: sort of just to really on your own terms carve
Speaker 1: out something that's new and fun for yourself. It's fun,
Speaker 1: you know. I'm not I would say, I'm probably not
Speaker 1: trying too hard. Things just kind of come away and
Speaker 1: I do it, and I just I'm kind of content
Speaker 1: with my life and I do a few fun things
Speaker 1: on the side that I think let people laugh and
Speaker 1: have a little fun. But I think it's been fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't trade my role in the whole
Speaker 1: scheme of things. I've got to do all kind of
Speaker 1: great fun things. And Peyton Eli are great football players
Speaker 1: and now they're great, they're on TV and doing well,
Speaker 1: and then we all get along. Well it's it's it's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm I like my role and I'm content. Well, it's
Speaker 1: also your family is such a you know what, I
Speaker 1: was amazed at, how what a what a really beautifully
Speaker 1: close knit family you were, you know, and that and
Speaker 1: that's a tribute to your mom and your dad and
Speaker 1: I mean, were you guys always always such a very
Speaker 1: close knit family and really in each other's corner. I
Speaker 1: would say, So, my parents are great. I'm pretty lucky
Speaker 1: to have a template to watch how it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be done because they love each other, but they put
Speaker 1: their children first and and and we certainly felt that.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that this morning on I didn't
Speaker 1: know what you were going to ask you, but I
Speaker 1: was kind of thinking about I'm the oldest of three,
Speaker 1: and then I'm also the first grandchild, so my aunts
Speaker 1: and uncles and I was the first one, the oldest one,
Speaker 1: so I remember being kind of the star of the
Speaker 1: show from the gid go, like, you know, everybody was
Speaker 1: making a big deal out of me. Um, well before
Speaker 1: I deserve to be a big deal, you know at
Speaker 1: two and three, and like when you walk in the
Speaker 1: room and everybody stops and you kind of have the
Speaker 1: floor and it's like entertain me. My mom was like
Speaker 1: maybe laugh, you know, and you kind of had that
Speaker 1: role and that was certainly, um, I think a part
Speaker 1: of why I'm wired the way I am. But um, yeah, everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody gets along pretty well. Do you grow up with
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure? I think, Um, my parents were
Speaker 1: not big on complaining. You're not allowed to complain, So
Speaker 1: we were all I think independently driven. Um wanted to
Speaker 1: do well, wanted to succeed, and you know, fortunately athletics
Speaker 1: or a big part of how my dad interacted us
Speaker 1: with us. He always liked, hey, let's go out in
Speaker 1: the yard. Let's go, let's go throw I'll throw you
Speaker 1: back in practice, let's go hit tennis ball, let's go
Speaker 1: you know, catch pop flies, whatever it may be. And
Speaker 1: that was a great way of of having constant interaction.
Speaker 1: And my mom probably deep down wanted some daughters brook
Speaker 1: but she got three boys. And she, uh, she likes
Speaker 1: her granddaughters and she likes these gals that we all married,
Speaker 1: so it works out fine for her. There's some great,
Speaker 1: great women that married into that family. But there must
Speaker 1: have been something in the water or something in the
Speaker 1: genetics of your mom and dad, because one are the
Speaker 1: chances of having two NFL stars. I mean, and you're
Speaker 1: a big family. Everybody's just a tall, handsome person. I'm
Speaker 1: calling this show anytime you want. Um, I don't that
Speaker 1: was not like the goal. We looked up to our dad.
Speaker 1: He had played and uh, I don't think there was
Speaker 1: any secret that that he was our hero and he
Speaker 1: did things the way we we kind of wanted to
Speaker 1: emulate ourselves, and so unfortunately we were You know, my
Speaker 1: mom's side of the family is very athletic as well,
Speaker 1: and they're competitive and it's kind of part of the
Speaker 1: part of the culture. I can imagine that type of
Speaker 1: competition is contagious. I mean your kids are all athletes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my oldest I have a daughter who's who's in her
Speaker 1: second year in college at Virginia. She was she was
Speaker 1: very good high school. The one state championship, she was
Speaker 1: m VP, and she wrote off into the sunset now
Speaker 1: is having fun as a it's just a college college gal.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, my oldest son, Arch is a senior
Speaker 1: in high school and he's he's a quarterback and he's
Speaker 1: going off to the University of Texas next year to
Speaker 1: play play football. And then I have another son, Hide,
Speaker 1: who's um a junior who's who starts. He's an offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: a little bigger, a little more booty to him, booty
Speaker 1: and attitude and a funny, funny boy. I think we met,
Speaker 1: didn't we meet all of them? Or they were like
Speaker 1: a little bowling ball, the greening other big bowling balls.
Speaker 1: My my girls were looking at the boys, like, Mom,
Speaker 1: I wonder what it's like to have brothers. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: here it is there. They're a wired differently, I assure you.
Speaker 1: I think back to what you talked about, Broke. I
Speaker 1: think that the sports are such a good life lesson
Speaker 1: because things go wrong and you lose, and you compete
Speaker 1: and you do everything right, and then you don't get
Speaker 1: the results you want. And so I thought, I've always
Speaker 1: been really gravitated toward team sports because you have to
Speaker 1: put up with people who care about it less than
Speaker 1: you do. Or that aren't as good as you, or
Speaker 1: that are better than you, And how do you deal
Speaker 1: with all those to get to where you want to be?
Speaker 1: And the pressure. I'm sure of living up to the
Speaker 1: Manning name. I mean, do any of your children not
Speaker 1: want to go into the family business so to speak? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think we ever talked about the pressure.
Speaker 1: I thought, I just really emphasize working hard and enjoying it. Um,
Speaker 1: if you want to be really good, you're going to
Speaker 1: have to do things above and beyond what the coaches
Speaker 1: are asking you to do. You gotta you know, lift
Speaker 1: in in the morning and get runs in at night,
Speaker 1: and do extra sit ups and throw when no one's looking,
Speaker 1: and you know, practice practice, practice, because that's we're not
Speaker 1: gifted enough to just up. And yeah, you gotta know
Speaker 1: that's you know, going back to Peyton Eli's uncles, those
Speaker 1: guys are not by any way being stretched the most
Speaker 1: talented guys in the field, and they're not faster or stronger.
Speaker 1: Some people would probably disagree. Yeah, I mean, but you know,
Speaker 1: but you get you get guys that are so gifted
Speaker 1: that sometimes don't work. I have, um, a couple that
Speaker 1: are just grinders. You know, they will outwork you, they
Speaker 1: will stay up till four o'clock and do the work,
Speaker 1: they'll run extra and then you have one that has
Speaker 1: tons of ability and likes to work. And if you
Speaker 1: look around in the history of anything, if you have
Speaker 1: people that are just gifted and work, those are the
Speaker 1: ones that the people talk about. This show is called
Speaker 1: now What um and it really struck me as sort
Speaker 1: of the now what moments in our lives that really
Speaker 1: do define how we respond to these these issues that
Speaker 1: really defines how we go forward in the world. And
Speaker 1: I feel I've had now what moments probably my whole life.
Speaker 1: My most recent one, I was in the hospital for
Speaker 1: a month I broke my femur. And I'm always fascinated
Speaker 1: with people's now what moments because we have multiples. It's
Speaker 1: either it's a positive opportunity or or a difficult one,
Speaker 1: or a tragedy or something that we have to face.
Speaker 1: What would you say that you're biggest now what moment
Speaker 1: has been in your life? For me, probably it was,
Speaker 1: you know, as I mentioned, grew up in a very
Speaker 1: athletic oriented family and playing football was very important to me.
Speaker 1: And then go to go off to college to play football,
Speaker 1: Little Miss, and then um, kind of before it even starts.
Speaker 1: I mean literally, um, week two or three of the
Speaker 1: of the first season, doctors come in and say something,
Speaker 1: we don't see something right here your hands or numb.
Speaker 1: Something's up. We need to go sending to the Mayo
Speaker 1: clinic and go pop round season doctors. And you find
Speaker 1: out surely thereafter that I have like a little stenosis
Speaker 1: in my spinal cord. And says, you know, football is
Speaker 1: no longer. So you're eighteen, you're going after college, college scholarship.
Speaker 1: He played for All Miss b a wide receiver. Have
Speaker 1: fun kind of fu fail your dreams going back to
Speaker 1: where your parents played school and then they say, bam,
Speaker 1: it's over. And so that was probably that was a tough,
Speaker 1: a tough moment for for an eighteen year old, even
Speaker 1: even for me. He was kind of happy, go lucky.
Speaker 1: What is what is this to? Basically, most people have
Speaker 1: a spinal cord and you have a spinal column which
Speaker 1: kind of you know, kind of protects it, so you
Speaker 1: just kind of and they have like the space around it.
Speaker 1: And mine was like I think gets happened. It kind
Speaker 1: of bangs up against the wall and it can cause problems.
Speaker 1: So you're not You're fine. You can live your whole life.
Speaker 1: People can go on and play and never know. But
Speaker 1: football is probably the one football water, skiing, car rex,
Speaker 1: those kind of things or things they say, probably not
Speaker 1: a good idea. And so, um, did you have surgery
Speaker 1: with our surgery? Yeah, I had to have surgery the
Speaker 1: kind of make a little more room around it, give
Speaker 1: you a little protection, and then had um a fusion.
Speaker 1: Um a couple of years later was the how was
Speaker 1: the recovery process and the physical therapy for well, I
Speaker 1: had a Yeah, it was a pain because I had
Speaker 1: a blood clot and so I woke up and like, um,
Speaker 1: wasn't the same Like as a matter of fact, I
Speaker 1: had they woke up and I was like paralyzed and
Speaker 1: they had to go back in and they fixed some things.
Speaker 1: And it's over my head as far as medical jargon,
Speaker 1: but um, you know I had to learn how to
Speaker 1: walk again. My right leg lost its strength and my
Speaker 1: left leg lost its feeling. And so you were like
Speaker 1: and you felt like you were, you know, walking with
Speaker 1: two different people's limbs right there. And so but you're
Speaker 1: young and youthful, and I want to get back to
Speaker 1: normal and and did my physical therapy and got back
Speaker 1: and it's always I'll never be the athlete that I was,
Speaker 1: But I also can you know I can do just
Speaker 1: about everything I want to do as well. What do
Speaker 1: you tell what would you tell some on I mean,
Speaker 1: when I was in the hospital, the only thing I
Speaker 1: could do was learned how to walk, and I asked
Speaker 1: to get physical therapy twice a day. And the learning
Speaker 1: how to walk with such a strange, terrifying feeling. What
Speaker 1: is what would your advice to somebody who's got to
Speaker 1: go through something like that to keep yourself strong emotionally
Speaker 1: and mentally well. I think the the little steps for
Speaker 1: like even like, hey, okay, you know now I'm walking
Speaker 1: without holding onto the side of the rails. That's progress,
Speaker 1: you know. I think you've gotta baby steps are good steps.
Speaker 1: And um, I just wanted to get back to normal.
Speaker 1: That was my goal, Like, look, I just want to
Speaker 1: get back where I can do the daily things that
Speaker 1: everyone else can do. And so I was. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I really don't look back and kind of feel sorry
Speaker 1: for myself. I'm really like the task at hand and
Speaker 1: say I'm gonna go get this. I'm hungry I'm motivated
Speaker 1: and I'll do whatever it takes to get there. And
Speaker 1: that's that was kind of my kind of my attitude.
Speaker 1: You always have a positive way to to look at
Speaker 1: a situation, And do you think that's innate? Do you
Speaker 1: think that it's just innate? And who you are? You know?
Speaker 1: I do, and I'm I'm probably I'm not good at
Speaker 1: some things that required Like I have a couple of
Speaker 1: buddies who are always can look at the other way,
Speaker 1: and I gotta get them around me sometimes, like when
Speaker 1: you're looking at a business deal, I'm like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is great. I like this, this is good okay, And
Speaker 1: I just kind of helped the person who's pitching it, like, man,
Speaker 1: you've really done a nice job. And then I get
Speaker 1: my guy and he's like, well, they didn't look at this,
Speaker 1: they didn't look at that, you know, And I just
Speaker 1: I'm kind of a rosy grass is green right where
Speaker 1: I am. I don't particularly enjoy the company of real
Speaker 1: serious people, and they probably think I'm, you know, just
Speaker 1: rose colored glasses, and you know, well yeah, but I
Speaker 1: think also to see the way that you've supported your brothers,
Speaker 1: it's really such a beautiful thing to be able to say,
Speaker 1: I celebrate your successes and I'm right here with you,
Speaker 1: and I love you and the sports so much that
Speaker 1: I can actually enjoy this too. I think, um, truly
Speaker 1: being happy for people that are having success is a
Speaker 1: is a great quality. And and I've been warned of
Speaker 1: that before. In the business world. You'll say, someone will say,
Speaker 1: you've got to be careful. Some people that don't want
Speaker 1: anyone else to succeed, they get mad when other people
Speaker 1: do well. That's that's a bad quality. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's an eight or that's fixed or taught. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, can be healed. But when someone does something great,
Speaker 1: Uh man, I'm I'm proud of them. I don't I
Speaker 1: think that that's a healthy way. I think it's hard
Speaker 1: for people. I mean, I think we regret. It's a
Speaker 1: hard thing. How do you not have regret? You know?
Speaker 1: Some people talk about I was telling Ellen the other night,
Speaker 1: we have two kids playing high school football. It's but
Speaker 1: it's great that my parents were lucky enough to have
Speaker 1: Peyton and I were playing high school football together. They
Speaker 1: were going to the games and their friends are there,
Speaker 1: and this is a fantastic time of our life. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is really neat. I mean just high school sports
Speaker 1: are so pure and clean. No one really talks bad
Speaker 1: about you if you don't do well, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's pure and fun. And I talked to people that
Speaker 1: have their kids have graduated and moved on, and they're going,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I miss it so much. And I said,
Speaker 1: as much as I love it, I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: ever gonna I'm gonna have loved it, but I don't
Speaker 1: think I will be looking back and going that was
Speaker 1: the best time. Now this is not. I look forward
Speaker 1: to all the new next chapters and next steps. I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I loved, you know, when they were playing
Speaker 1: a little league, but I don't miss them playing a
Speaker 1: little league anymore. I look forward to seeing how they
Speaker 1: grow up and see how it turns out. I don't.
Speaker 1: I kind of look forward to tomorrow every day. Are
Speaker 1: you excited for Arch to play? Are you scared about
Speaker 1: I'm really excited. You know, he loves it so much
Speaker 1: that it makes it It makes it easy, and he
Speaker 1: works hard and he's um, you know, who knows how
Speaker 1: it all works out, but he's know, he's chasing a
Speaker 1: dream and uh and a passion that he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's excited about and that's all you want. I mean,
Speaker 1: Ellen's nervous, isn't you know? You can see these how
Speaker 1: many people are going to the games, and see how
Speaker 1: big and fast everybody is. He's trying to kill him.
Speaker 1: She's a nervous freck and she don't even knows what
Speaker 1: he's getting into. But you know, I think you'd feel.
Speaker 1: I think you'd feel every impact. I think you just
Speaker 1: feel every everything. My mother has been to more football
Speaker 1: games than any woman in the world, and big, big
Speaker 1: games that she's so calm and cool. I don't know
Speaker 1: how she does it. How did you end up in
Speaker 1: the business world? Like what was that trajectory like for you?
Speaker 1: You know that was kind of a pivot also when
Speaker 1: when football ended and you're like, Okay, now I gotta
Speaker 1: figure out what I want to do. And I always
Speaker 1: liked interacting with people. And I was told as a
Speaker 1: young kid, like you're gonna go you're in sales. You've
Speaker 1: gotta be a sales I don't know what they help man,
Speaker 1: you know you're twelve, Oh, you're gonna be a salesman.
Speaker 1: Like whatever that means. Because we're all we're all sales
Speaker 1: in in some fashion sales people. But um, I was
Speaker 1: really lucky. Um. Out of college, I went to work
Speaker 1: for this uh um, and I want to do something
Speaker 1: that I didn't It was not tied to my name
Speaker 1: or tied to sports. I kind of wanted to go
Speaker 1: off and do my little deal. And there was a
Speaker 1: in the in the energy business, in the oil service business.
Speaker 1: There was a family there that was hiring people. And
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know anything about this, and they
Speaker 1: took a shot on me, and it was it was great.
Speaker 1: I worked there, I learned I didn't know anything. And
Speaker 1: then three years later, another investment banking firm said, you know,
Speaker 1: we're looking for some young institutional salesman. It was this
Speaker 1: cool thing. And I had a little history and then
Speaker 1: in energy business and they were energy related and I
Speaker 1: didn't have a great financial background, but I was good
Speaker 1: at it. I was good at talking to people. I
Speaker 1: was good at get people on the phone and get
Speaker 1: people to trust me, and and wound up being really
Speaker 1: good at at you know, on Wall Street. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: got lucky on some timing of things. Continue to learn
Speaker 1: and continue to meet new incredible people that are so
Speaker 1: intelligent and driven that uh, and surround ourselves with smart
Speaker 1: people and it's maybe look good. What are you most
Speaker 1: proud of? Do you think? I think I'm proud of
Speaker 1: the fact that if someone called and said, hey, I
Speaker 1: got a call from Coop remaining about doing this deal?
Speaker 1: Do you know him? Should I look at it? Is
Speaker 1: he a good guy? I think you I get pretty
Speaker 1: good grades. I know you would. Um. Do you think
Speaker 1: that there's people that there are misconceptions that people have
Speaker 1: of your family? Probably? I think they probably think we're
Speaker 1: just there's never a cross word or just everybody's just singing,
Speaker 1: you know in harmony, as we have perfect table manners
Speaker 1: and you know, go to bed at ten thirty at night.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that's true. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they do or not. I think we've done
Speaker 1: a pretty good job of letting people know that we
Speaker 1: have a ton of flaws, and we're wrong a lot,
Speaker 1: and we're far from perfect. But I think we try
Speaker 1: to do the right thing, and we're we um surround
Speaker 1: ourselves with smart people and good people, and and like
Speaker 1: to poke fund on ourselves. I'm sure you've experienced it more.
Speaker 1: But people will come up and say things and they don't.
Speaker 1: They don't mean it. I don't think they say really
Speaker 1: dumb things and they're trying to be kind. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, somewhat kind. Like they'll say, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: a boy Peyton was terrible last night and in the
Speaker 1: Monday night game, and I'm like, oh, that's so thank
Speaker 1: you for okay, great, thank you for sharing that. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry you you know, like you don't say that, but
Speaker 1: they don't know, and so you just kind of have
Speaker 1: to put on a happy face. And I did a
Speaker 1: speaking engagement yesterday and Michigan, and a woman came up
Speaker 1: to me at the end and she said, I was
Speaker 1: really not anticipating liking your talk, but I did very much.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, thank you for sharing the up. Yeah. Really,
Speaker 1: what do they think they're gonna do? You're gonna go
Speaker 1: there and juggle and just tell bad jokes. I mean,
Speaker 1: but it's like it's like every time I've been on Broadway,
Speaker 1: someone's come up to me and said, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought you were gonna suck, but you're you're good like people.
Speaker 1: I'm glad the bar is so low that I can
Speaker 1: just succeed. You know. I do have one thing I
Speaker 1: want to do in my life that I'm scared to do,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of you're you're bringing it out of
Speaker 1: me Brook And I would love to try to do
Speaker 1: a stand up comedy bit. I don't know where you
Speaker 1: do it? Do it local and do you know do
Speaker 1: five ten fifteen shows. I love listening to Jerry Seinfeld
Speaker 1: talking two different comedians and they when things go terrible,
Speaker 1: like bombing this night, you know, and it's like a
Speaker 1: badge of hotter. You you gotta get booed or throw
Speaker 1: just absolute no hitters to to kind of get there.
Speaker 1: And I've always loved stand up comedians and watching them
Speaker 1: and and seeing different styles and see how they work.
Speaker 1: But I would one day when I'm bored, I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just hit the room. Well I know, I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: you got Chris Huntie, so I mean, at least that's
Speaker 1: one guy who will be in the audience to be
Speaker 1: in the audience, and he definitely help you. I know
Speaker 1: he would do it. But I don't. They have sort
Speaker 1: of open mic nights and comedy comedy clubs. There's no reason.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been and I have a son who
Speaker 1: I tell I said, you know, when you think of things,
Speaker 1: just just put a little note card, just write them down,
Speaker 1: because I don't love rehearsing and like having the same thing,
Speaker 1: Like I'd love to do it, but i'd want to
Speaker 1: do it once and I want new material. I need
Speaker 1: to be better at. You know, when something pops up
Speaker 1: in my head, that's funny, right, being able to get
Speaker 1: it out in the right in the right way, because
Speaker 1: it's a tonal thing, and then it's a it's an
Speaker 1: economy of words, you know what I mean. It's very interesting.
Speaker 1: I tried it once. I had to host something, and
Speaker 1: I am not good at it. I'm really not good
Speaker 1: at I can tell stories that are funny sort of
Speaker 1: on a talk show, or I can be funny and
Speaker 1: slip in things, but when it comes to just the
Speaker 1: stand up horrible. Chris tried it too and said he
Speaker 1: just wasn't very good at it, and so he would
Speaker 1: sell jokes to other comedians like he sold Jim Carrey.
Speaker 1: I think my young Jim Carrey like a fifty joke
Speaker 1: in the eighties. I wonder what it's worth now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love um. One of my favorite things to do
Speaker 1: is to give a toast at a rehearsal dinner. And
Speaker 1: I particularly love it when I'm barely invited to that event,
Speaker 1: like I'm not you know, I'm a fringe. Last minute
Speaker 1: someone canceled on cooking them are up here, they came
Speaker 1: to the wedding, Go ahead and invite them. And then
Speaker 1: I get up and no one even knows who I
Speaker 1: am when I get up and just take over the room.
Speaker 1: I was at a wedding one time in Memphis and
Speaker 1: we had no business being invited, and the toasts were
Speaker 1: not going well, and they were they were downright bad.
Speaker 1: And my dad was at the table and I said, Dad,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna make a toast and he's like, no,
Speaker 1: you're not, no, you know, I said Dad. And the
Speaker 1: toast kept on going and they were not good, and
Speaker 1: I said Dad, I'm gonna do it, and he goes,
Speaker 1: you don't have the balls to do it, and I
Speaker 1: went okay, and I just like I got Mike, please,
Speaker 1: and I went on, do you ever get questions you hate? Like,
Speaker 1: what's the question? You? You just want to like punch
Speaker 1: somebody for asking you? Oh goodness, um oh, people ask
Speaker 1: me when when you know Eli and Peyton have a
Speaker 1: Monday night they do the Monday night football game and
Speaker 1: they have guests and they go, when are you going
Speaker 1: to be a guest on Monday Football? And I'm just
Speaker 1: not going to be And so I don't know why
Speaker 1: I might they think I'm getting like my feelings hurt
Speaker 1: or rejected or something. I always say I'm the guests
Speaker 1: when it go to overtime, and that's so much thinking
Speaker 1: over time, waiting, Like it's like I'm waiting there in
Speaker 1: the studio, like please go to overtime to me be it.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's so fun, Like what a That's
Speaker 1: such a silly thing to ask you because it's it's
Speaker 1: not really I mean, the question would be do you
Speaker 1: have any desire to be on said show? But this
Speaker 1: sort of like when are you going to do it?
Speaker 1: It just sounds like it's like a needlingk. I don't
Speaker 1: hate questions like that, right, definitely, No, it's fun. I mean, um,
Speaker 1: if I really want to be on it, I call
Speaker 1: either one of them saying hey, can I get on
Speaker 1: the show? Dear goodness? What the heck? Okay? All right,
Speaker 1: so quick fire. These are questions like even growing up
Speaker 1: or even now, but between you and your brothers, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say two things and then or I'm going
Speaker 1: to say one thing and then you tell me what
Speaker 1: The first thing it comes to your mind is who's
Speaker 1: the messiest? We are so neat all of you anal
Speaker 1: over the top, anal retentive. My dad would made us
Speaker 1: lay out our clothes every night in lower school before
Speaker 1: we're gonna wear you know. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I'll tell Peyton and I would get in a fight
Speaker 1: every now and then in middle school what have you?
Speaker 1: And uh, I would go into his room and mess
Speaker 1: up his room, like literally, take his chair and just
Speaker 1: put it down, take some papers and you know, place
Speaker 1: place him neatly but on the floor, take his you
Speaker 1: know yeah, make up his unmake his bed. I mean
Speaker 1: it was like that was that was that was that
Speaker 1: was gonna say, must have been crazy. Did he retaliate?
Speaker 1: He would retaliate by doing the same thing to me.
Speaker 1: It was pretty It's pretty high level fighting, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: who is the biggest whiner? Peyton's a tough customer, you know,
Speaker 1: so now I you know, he just like he would
Speaker 1: like to. He likes to give you a hard time
Speaker 1: about your selection of things, like, hey, where we're going
Speaker 1: dinner night, and that's how we're going here. And he
Speaker 1: get there and he'd be like, you know, so now
Speaker 1: I say, I don't know. I don't know wherever you
Speaker 1: want to go, so therefore no one can can complain.
Speaker 1: Eli is the least complaining person whining up. He's never
Speaker 1: had a Eli doesn't even know how to complain. I mean,
Speaker 1: he could go to a restaurant, I said, and order
Speaker 1: a steak and they bring him a flounder. He wouldn't
Speaker 1: even tell the waitress. He would just eat it and
Speaker 1: never know, would ever know he didn't order it. It's
Speaker 1: amazing some people. Yeah, he's he's he's a contempt to
Speaker 1: give his life for me. Whose mom's favorite helies number one?
Speaker 1: And then I'd say Peyton and I are tied for
Speaker 1: the last. Why because he's so sweet and nice and thoughtful,
Speaker 1: and I just I sometimes out on those little qualities.
Speaker 1: But I'm always broke. But I will say I'm always like,
Speaker 1: if there's an event or a party, I'm number one
Speaker 1: request to make it fun. Can's down the most fun.
Speaker 1: So's that's a trade I gotta take if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be last, you know, loved, at least I'll be first
Speaker 1: when it's a good quality to have. Um, who is
Speaker 1: most likely to be late? Another thing? We are very
Speaker 1: neat and we were very punctual. We were early earlier.
Speaker 1: I think I know the answered to this one. But
Speaker 1: who's the best salesperson? Yeah? Yeah, Um, Payton is not bad.
Speaker 1: Eli is not a very good salesman. I don't think
Speaker 1: I think I could. You could take Peyton. You get
Speaker 1: Peyton and a room together. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're
Speaker 1: gonna move some paper. Um okay, it's a family event
Speaker 1: and you're picking quarterback. Who gets picked first? And he
Speaker 1: gets the bench? Oh shoot, um, mom has great hands.
Speaker 1: Peyton Eili are just gonna play, you know, one on
Speaker 1: one and my dad and I are gonna over there
Speaker 1: and have an old fashioned and a cigar and just
Speaker 1: watch everybody run around. I can do some cheerleading with Chris.
Speaker 1: I was a cheerleader for football and basketball. Is that Yes,
Speaker 1: We've never really talked about it, but it's a high school.
Speaker 1: I think that's a whole Another podcast. Another podcast that
Speaker 1: was the hilarious Cooper Manning and my husband getting into
Speaker 1: a lot of trouble together. So I think it's time
Speaker 1: we hang out again. If you want to hear more
Speaker 1: from him, check out The Manning Hour on Fox Sports.
Speaker 1: That's it for us today, Talk to you next week Now.
Speaker 1: What is produced by the wonderful Julia Weaver with help
Speaker 1: from Darby Masters. Our executive producer is Christina Everett. The
Speaker 1: show is mixed by Bahid Fraser and Christian Bowman. A
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