00:00:28.460the goat of goats tom brady how did you for so long stay so disciplined there was part of me
00:00:35.820that was a psychopath out there even the competition motivated us to be better when
00:00:40.080i played peyton manning i couldn't have an off day that dude was gonna throw for 350 yards and
00:00:44.420when you're getting hit as you know there's a discipline with your physical body that you need
00:00:48.200to take into account is there anyone that you were like afraid to get hit by a lot of guys
00:00:51.720i saw a post i think from ab you were just making sure that he was getting to his psych
00:00:56.040appointments what's your relationship like with antonio um biggest partier from the nfl roberto
00:01:01.120gronkowski do you ever feel like all this is just a social construct to distract us from the fact
00:01:06.340that we live on a spinning rock hurtling through space with no destination in mind you're right i
00:01:09.720think about that a lot in the end 2017 my first super bowl you win the game in what was like one
00:01:15.440of the greatest comebacks ever and definitely in super bowl history i'm always trying to fight
00:01:18.700from behind like i was a late bloomer i just bloomed a little late in that super bowl too
00:01:22.560Do you regret doing the roast of Tom Brady?
00:01:27.120I went out late last night, and I got- Yeah, see, this is now-
00:01:39.120And then I gotta travel this week, and there's only so much you can do.
00:01:43.360I try to get up at 530 and get going, and I come home at three or four.
00:01:48.640I was gonna ask about that, cuz my social battery as well is just horrible.
00:01:52.540yeah i don't really have it actually not yours is yours is depleting i'm a dad now dude are you
00:01:57.580really seven month old daughter like yeah congratulations man thanks yeah it's awesome
00:02:02.080daughters are the best until they're 12. i can't wait and then there's a there's a dip for about
00:02:07.780six years these are on you don't have to you can do whichever one you want we use them just to be
00:02:13.440more professional you guys be professional we could take up micro cues from each other like
00:02:17.320if he goes and i know he's about to say something i'll just read your body language yeah that works0.87
00:02:21.480damn dude he's gonna beat us he's like i don't even need to hear the micro stuff he's like i0.89
00:02:26.240just pick it up off dude i can't believe it i thought this was a joke yeah michael rubin was0.99
00:02:30.700like yeah dude i got you tom tom brady for the podcast i was like no no you didn't no way threw
00:02:35.440us in the group chat i'm like oh my god dude so we're basically we're in a group chat now with
00:02:39.520michael rubin that's awesome we got it worked out yeah thanks for joining us man you guys are in my
00:02:43.420home state you're like 200 yards from my house this is like couldn't get any better oh no way
00:02:47.420try to make things convenient for you tom thank you you did why can't everybody do it like that
00:02:51.540actually i'm putting informal requests going forward everyone needs to be this convenient
00:02:54.900or else i'm not doing it we do want to make it as easy as possible for you you did yeah you i could
00:02:59.320have swam across from my house right there isn't that nice yeah literally i could have swam
00:03:03.540you could throw two rocks that's insane yeah he probably could throw a rock and do it i don't
00:03:07.680know about me you probably could no my arm it's you'd be surprised my coach in high school said
00:03:12.140i was the most athletic unathletic kid he's ever coached really is that a compliment
00:03:17.100yeah if you're the most athletic i some sports i just look really kind of like clunky out there
00:03:22.920oh the throwing specifically yeah it's interesting because always people always measure athleticism
00:03:28.680and they'll be like oh well he's a great athlete and he's and i've always said okay what constitutes
00:03:33.000a great athlete yeah what does you know because i would be considered not a great athlete
00:03:38.440right because in the nfl draft 199 right i didn't run that fast obviously i ran very slow and i
00:03:45.260didn't jump very high but everything else i was actually pretty good at like i could hit a golf
00:03:50.300ball 330 yards i could throw a football 70 yards i could hit a baseball out of a ballpark i could
00:03:56.160hit i could play ping pong pool i could shoot threes i could pickle i just i could play pickle
00:04:00.840i just can't jump or run but everyone who can jump or run is considered a great athlete but
00:04:05.020they can't throw the ball or they can't hit a ball or they can't so it's it's kind of bizarre
00:04:09.740what do you think the core metric really is do you think it's just performance in the discipline
00:04:13.640that you've chosen i think there's um there's a lot to that because you why would you why are
00:04:19.420you looking at me like that i like the way you look no do you have something you want to say
00:04:22.220to me no because we can get this out of the way right now yeah get it out let's hash it out
00:04:24.940seriously i don't i saw your i saw you snarkily like staring at me out of the corner of my eye
00:04:29.880i didn't like it i was i swear to god i wasn't thinking about anything but now that you say
00:04:32.760i am thinking like what the hell do you know about athleticism that's what i that's when i'm
00:04:36.820asking questions i'm not making statements you barely walk about sports tell you what he did
00:04:40.920heroin is that a sport it felt like i don't play that sport i was the goat of that sport
00:04:46.840no well then you're still here you should be thankful i am i am very thankful tom can i ask
00:04:51.240you a question not related to sports um no i don't do heroin that's good and no one else out
00:04:58.480there should do it either for the record no no do you ever feel like all this is just a social
00:05:03.240construct to distract us from the fact that we live on a spinning rock hurtling through space
00:05:06.400with no destination in mind that's brilliant right there like life's short and like we may
00:05:10.960take ourselves way too seriously yes and i'm not someone that takes much oh i take death seriously
00:05:17.960certainly but you're right i think about that a lot in the end what really matters actually i
00:05:24.000have a friend and i send a lot of like galaxy stuff and you know and then you're right when
00:05:28.460you realize that's really what's going on why are we taking ourselves that seriously do you do you
00:05:33.420think about death i think um taking ourselves too seriously or or or we're a mud ball just about
00:05:40.280are you are you are you uh is mortality an obstacle in your mind is it something no it's coming for
00:05:46.200all of us but i think like in the context of my life and i think the way that it's changed not
00:05:51.160that i feel like i've changed much but i threw a football for a living and i was pretty good at it
00:05:57.480I didn't cure cancer and when I realized that at a pretty young age of playing it gave me a lot of
00:06:03.900perspective you know that like there's a lot of people out there who are heroes in real life
00:06:08.000doing real life stuff that are really impacting the world in a positive way and we get glorified
00:06:12.420because we do something well in a sport at this time in this era but the reality is what can we
00:06:18.260do to pay it forward and I think like for me going forward it's always about how can I help other
00:06:22.080people maximize their potential people came into my life at the right time when i was really open
00:06:28.480to learning and i was taking in i was very curious about what kind of the world had to offer and they
00:06:34.480took me under their wing and i feel like going forward i'm 47 i'll be 48 this year it's like
00:06:39.120how do i do the same thing for other people as they go through their life and they're looking
00:06:43.120for a mentor and i tried to be that way as a teammate when i played but now that i'm not
00:06:48.400really a formal teammate of everyone really everybody i come across i just want to try to
00:06:53.200add my two cents because a lot of people did that for me and it really
00:06:58.000it really helped curate this incredible dream that i got to live out so humble yeah well i had a lot
00:07:06.720of humble people around me and i think again it's when you realize that in the end it really doesn't
00:07:10.800matter and i have three kids that mean the world to me and like how can i be the best example for
00:07:15.200them to me it's like okay you wake up every day you show everybody respect you know you you try
00:07:20.480your best at everything you do you know you have you always have a great heart you lead with your
00:07:24.800heart you know you approach people you care about them and you know the world needs more people that
00:07:29.380care about each other and that care about you know this social construct of everybody trying to live
00:07:34.820their best life social construct great the question worked out it led to something great
00:07:38.940Do you think about that level of deprecation on this sports or sports entertainment and what it means to the world and sometimes forget how important it is for people to be able to turn off that always important, always impactful part of their lives and Sunday sit down with the family, watch the game?
00:07:58.760Do you ever think that maybe what you did kind of was important to a lot of people?
00:08:02.080important and i think it was there's very few things that transcend the the the social norms
00:08:09.820or transcend all the you know the race the gender the age the socio-economic background
00:08:16.880and sports does that it's those stadiums and it's real life and it plays out and i was saying this
00:08:22.100to a friend last night and i was in the context of football players because there was a few guys
00:08:25.720that i was sitting at dinner last night that i really like and i was like you know i said to my
00:08:29.580friends that football players are the best guys and they're just hard working there's such a
00:08:36.840meritocracy in professional football if you're the best you will play and like you don't feel like
00:08:43.020there's a few guys who are about themselves but for the most part they're about each other
00:08:47.420and and there's nothing like being a locker room full of people that care about you and you care
00:08:51.680about them and i just feel like that's like man how do we get that in a broader society you know
00:08:57.400like the government for example like people that just want to work together no we're not going to
00:09:01.620get political yeah i know good we can't solve the problems of humanity on the show today
00:09:05.980it'll take a few more episodes but you talked about this uh mentorship and how important it
00:09:12.500is for you to mentor other people um man i could go two different ways with this right now who would
00:09:18.300who would you describe as the most important mentor in your life as you as you came up through
00:09:22.200the ranks there's not one okay and i it's like i look at phases of my life and i just they kind
00:09:27.160of added on as I went um my dad was my greatest my dad and mom set the foundation for who I am
00:09:32.920my mom's the you know sweetest most caring loving woman gave me like a great foundation always
00:09:38.640believed in me when no one else did I said I was very slow I couldn't run she said honey you're
00:09:43.340the fastest on the field I'm like mom you know but the moms believe in you so much and they give
00:09:48.140you this sense of confidence even though you really shouldn't have it and my dad was my idol
00:09:53.100like I had three older sisters I wanted to play football and he was like there every step of the
00:09:58.200way with me dad I want to go to this camp he drove me to the camp you know and I wasn't even at a
00:10:03.480football school I didn't even realize this would really be my career path but like he was always
00:10:08.180there after every game you know I show up win or lose he was there to like embrace me and love me
00:10:13.520and I think that family gave me the best foundation I had three great sisters that were like show up
00:10:19.280to my games at Michigan just the three of them ready to fight people in the stands that they0.52
00:10:22.740were talking shit about their brother you know and then you know i get drafted i there was a
00:10:26.960sports psychologist i had at michigan who taught me how to like see things through a different0.98
00:10:32.520perspective when i felt sorry for myself or i wasn't getting the opportunities he would say0.97
00:10:37.120like man fuck that like stop worrying about all the things that don't go your way and start focusing0.99
00:10:42.080on the things that are going your way and do better with those and like quit worrying quit1.00
00:10:46.480looking at the guy next to you and saying well he's getting more he's getting this like just do
00:10:51.180the best with what you got and then i had a guy who taught me how to throw football tom martinez
00:10:55.600he passed away uh around 2011 taught me literally like from the time i was in high school in 1990
00:11:03.6201995 he was always you know 1993 i started working with him as a as a to work on my
00:11:11.440throwing mechanics and then i get drafted by bill belichick and he's a mentor and then alex
00:11:16.760Guerrero comes into my life in 2022 and I can't throw a football because my arm's killing me
00:11:21.360and he takes me under his wing and we become best friends and I learned so much about health and
00:11:26.400wellness in my body and there's no way I could accomplish what I did in my career without him
00:11:31.100so I just look at this as like so many people coming along that like how lucky am I to have
00:11:37.540these people come into my life and say and then there's a lot of other people along the journey
00:11:41.460to Josh McDaniels one of my great coaches and business mentors people that I looked up to and
00:11:46.320psychologists that came into my life and and helped me in so many ways so i i don't know we
00:11:51.600should all be really open to learning like there's a great line that this i heard from this guy said
00:11:56.240guru said what we know yeah he's amazing he's amazing you know what we know is limited what we
00:12:01.940what we don't know is limitless and like okay like let's learn let's be open let's go into things
00:12:08.340with you know our ears open to listen and learn and i think that's a great part about it i want
00:12:13.720to uh actually draw a comparison between you uh and another goat who happens to be my boss triple
00:12:20.220h he uh he just got inducted into the wwe hall of fame and in his speech he's saying a lot of
00:12:25.660things that you're actually saying right now he was just so thankful for everyone who helped him
00:12:30.140along the way and he didn't attribute his greatness to really himself that much it was it was the
00:12:36.240people around him and the people that helped push him in the right direction and i think uh the
00:12:40.420humility that you both uh exhibit is is super inspiring but that's one thing about you that's
00:12:45.900always separated you from other people who are at the top of their game dude your mindset your
00:12:51.140mindset is unbelievable and and and um i'm someone who has a lot of drive and and i want to uh do
00:12:57.200great things in this life and hopefully entertain in a way that can help people detach like we spoke
00:13:02.980about earlier which i think is is is really useful for a lot of people because man life's hard but
00:13:07.400to be able to you know watch a wrestling match and see a move and get a dopamine spike at home
00:13:13.160or to me that's that that feels like my current journey but how did you for so long stay so
00:13:21.900disciplined in your sport because the longevity of your career and performing at the level you did
00:13:27.440and even having like a second wind at the tail end of your career is just one of the most
00:13:30.980astounding things I think that anyone's ever seen in sports yeah I was just I was blessed to to to
00:13:37.000love what I did for a job just like you're doing now you know it's like you really have to love it
00:13:41.840because I think that's what when you wake up in the morning you bounce out of bed that's that's
00:13:47.560the way to do it it's like okay what do I got going today what purpose do I have to to jump up
00:13:51.440out of bed and I think football you could look at as a sport but to me it was all about like
00:13:56.360relationships and teammates so you know even mentors you know I talk about some people who
00:14:01.200I would say were more my teachers then I have like my teammates who are my motivators and I
00:14:06.600didn't want to let those guys down and there was a lot of those you know rodney harrison and ty law
00:14:11.260and and kevin falk and wes welker and randy moss and mike evans and chris godwin and gronk and
00:14:18.400julian like you just don't when you know they're putting a lot on the line their body their family
00:14:24.480their time you don't want to let them down and so you there's there's an accountability to sports
00:14:30.340like you get in the ring with someone who's a great wrestler you want your best well for the
00:14:36.620crowd certainly and for yourself but that guy's putting a lot on the line too so you're like i
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