Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / 8-6: Aaron Rodgers' Revenge: How He Shoved Truth Down ESPN/Fauci's Throats
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Something truly amazing is going on right now in light
- 0:08Speaker 1: of the whole Fauci thing and completing the fifth one
- 0:10Speaker 1: hundred and eleven times and all this other stuff. You
- 0:12Speaker 1: don't have an era where you have public figures now
- 0:16Speaker 1: coming out and saying I told you I was right
- 0:18Speaker 1: and shoving a truth bomb right down a network's throat
- 0:22Speaker 1: like ESPN, like Aaron Rodgers did on their network Live.
- 0:28Speaker 1: It's we shouldn't let this go. We shouldn't let this
- 0:30Speaker 1: just go by the wayside and have another big media
- 0:32Speaker 1: story that's just buried with all the other stuff. We're
- 0:35Speaker 1: in the information age now, where an opportunity to actually
- 0:39Speaker 1: speak the truth is so freaking rare, and to prove
- 0:43Speaker 1: that you were right. And even though he's a public figure,
- 0:46Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw that worder. I'm gonna call him a
- 0:47Speaker 1: hero for what he did to take all And he
- 0:49Speaker 1: wasn't the only one. Wasn't just Aaron Rodgers taking heat
- 0:52Speaker 1: over his vac status, Remember all that, Remember all the
- 0:55Speaker 1: years he took abuse over that. There was also Novak Djokovic,
- 0:59Speaker 1: the tennis player Kyrie Irving will get into him in
- 1:02Speaker 1: a second.
- 1:02Speaker 2: Here.
- 1:02Speaker 1: They were all right, and they were public figures, and
- 1:04Speaker 1: you're thinking, all right, they're public figure, these people are rich.
- 1:07Speaker 2: They can stand that. You know, I took heat too,
- 1:08Speaker 2: but I'm just a regular Joe or regular Jane. No,
- 1:11Speaker 2: I get it.
- 1:12Speaker 1: But also you and I a certain extent don't have
- 1:16Speaker 1: to do that in that kind of a public forum.
- 1:18Speaker 2: And they stuck to their guns.
- 1:20Speaker 1: And now to be able to get this kind of
- 1:21Speaker 1: revenge against ESPN, against Fauci, to shove it down their
- 1:28Speaker 1: throats and to get the truth out there, it's rare,
- 1:31Speaker 1: it's becoming rare.
- 1:32Speaker 2: But it's happening right now.
- 1:33Speaker 1: It's we're going to go through how Aaron Rodgers got
- 1:36Speaker 1: his revenge because this is this is incredible. And another
- 1:40Speaker 1: media figure, Steven A. Smith, who had the guts to
- 1:43Speaker 1: actually apologize for his takes during that whole era, absolutely amazing.
- 1:47Speaker 1: This is good news for all of us. Anyway, we'll
- 1:49Speaker 1: get to it. Thanks for finding me. The Wicked Radio
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- 1:57Speaker 2: Let's get right to it.
- 1:58Speaker 1: So there's a couple of days ago and there repercussions
- 2:01Speaker 1: are coming in now. I just now, I love this
- 2:03Speaker 1: just as a broadcaster, because it was just glorious. Here's
- 2:06Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers quarterback, now older quarterback. This is his final
- 2:11Speaker 1: go around, This is the last hurrahs playing for the Steelers.
- 2:13Speaker 1: Right now, he goes on ESPN Pat McAfee's show. Now
- 2:16Speaker 1: Pat McAfee has a licensing agreement with ESPN, but it's
- 2:19Speaker 1: on ESPN's airwaves.
- 2:21Speaker 2: It's live.
- 2:22Speaker 1: It's a live segment that went to a training camp,
- 2:24Speaker 1: you know, to check in on the Steelers.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Who Aaron Rodgers there? And of course he's.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Gonna of course he's gonna do the interview with it.
- 2:31Speaker 1: And Pat McAfee starts off with the standard questions that
- 2:34Speaker 1: your last go around, hard thing's going. How do you
- 2:36Speaker 1: feel about this? How do you feel about leaving life
- 2:37Speaker 1: in the NFL? Oh no, oh no, no no. Aaron Rodgers
- 2:40Speaker 1: wasn't having that. He used this as an opportunity, and
- 2:43Speaker 1: I'm glad he did. This isn't being petty, this isn't
- 2:46Speaker 1: being rotten. No, this isn't just for ego.
- 2:50Speaker 3: It's not.
- 2:51Speaker 1: If it was, he would have ignored the entire issue.
- 2:54Speaker 1: He got on this interview and he told everybody what
- 2:58Speaker 1: the truth was and said I would, right, wasn't. I
- 3:01Speaker 1: took shots at Fauci, took shots at ESPN again, I
- 3:04Speaker 1: want to repeat this on their network.
- 3:07Speaker 2: This is the glorious thing about it. This is where
- 3:09Speaker 2: the truth comes out. And he was not letting them
- 3:12Speaker 2: get away with it for.
- 3:13Speaker 1: The years years of abuse he took, which we'll get
- 3:16Speaker 1: into here in a second.
- 3:17Speaker 2: So we'll gotta go through this for a second.
- 3:20Speaker 1: It starts off there at the training camp live and
- 3:21Speaker 1: Pat mcafe's just trying to get into football questions. Nope,
- 3:24Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers wasn't having it, and good for him?
- 3:27Speaker 3: Is everything better? Is everything funner?
- 3:30Speaker 1: Right? Like?
- 3:31Speaker 2: How do you kind of view this year verse? Maybe
- 3:32Speaker 2: the years of the past.
- 3:33Speaker 4: Now, I'm gonna plead the fifth Okay, okay, Like.
- 3:39Speaker 1: I love that, obviously referencing Fauci. Impleading the fifth right now,
- 3:44Speaker 1: there's a really important part of this. This is again
- 3:46Speaker 1: something we shouldn't just let go and go by the wayside,
- 3:48Speaker 1: and you know, forget about years later. No, no, no, this
- 3:50Speaker 1: is this is unbelievably important. How things have turned around and.
- 3:54Speaker 2: This is the this is probably the greatest news you'll
- 3:56Speaker 2: ever hear.
- 3:57Speaker 1: When you become a punchline like that, when Fauci has
- 4:00Speaker 1: become a punchline, and over this past week, you've heard
- 4:02Speaker 1: it a lot. I've heard NFL coaches say it. I've
- 4:04Speaker 1: heard comedians say it. I've heard just you know, politicians
- 4:07Speaker 1: or public figures say this in interviews. I'm going to
- 4:09Speaker 1: plead the fifth it's become a punchline referencing Fauci. This
- 4:14Speaker 1: means he's lost all of that, that whole era has
- 4:17Speaker 1: lost in the court of public opinion. I don't know
- 4:18Speaker 1: if he's ever going to pay a price for all
- 4:20Speaker 1: the crap that he put us all through. And it
- 4:22Speaker 1: turns out he was an absolute frickin monster. That's proven now.
- 4:27Speaker 1: But when you become a punchline, that's when you've lost credibility.
- 4:31Speaker 1: The course, there's going to be still people out there
- 4:32Speaker 1: with their little Fauci Auci dolls and all those freaks. No,
- 4:36Speaker 1: but normal people and the majority of people know that
- 4:38Speaker 1: this was garbage. That's proof right there. But then he
- 4:41Speaker 1: goes on, was that enough now? Most people would have
- 4:43Speaker 1: just said, yeah, I got my little licks in whatever,
- 4:46Speaker 1: Now I can talk football questions. No, Aaron Rodgers wasn't
- 4:48Speaker 1: letting it go. And I congratulate him for this. This
- 4:51Speaker 1: is heroic in my eyes to have the balls to
- 4:53Speaker 1: do this again, keep this in mind on ESPN's network,
- 4:57Speaker 1: what he already says about them.
- 4:59Speaker 3: Absolute cow, absolute Yeah are you kidding me? Yeah?
- 5:05Speaker 4: You got a pardon and you're in front and you
- 5:07Speaker 4: pleaded over a hundred times.
- 5:09Speaker 3: Yea at the White House? What are you scared of? Tony?
- 5:11Speaker 3: I thought you were the science Yeah, yeah, I thought
- 5:14Speaker 3: you I am science And you get up there and
- 5:15Speaker 3: you can't answer a question. Yeah, what are we doing?
- 5:18Speaker 3: And how much time does that work spend of that?
- 5:20Speaker 4: How much time did they spend on my responses every
- 5:23Speaker 4: week on my vaccination status?
- 5:25Speaker 2: This is where it gets really good. Now here's the thing.
- 5:27Speaker 1: No again, I gotta say this just as as somebody
- 5:30Speaker 1: that's been in broadcasting almost my I guess my entire
- 5:33Speaker 1: adult life. I just love this from a broadcasting standard.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Can we just take a moment to appreciate that the tension.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Pat McAfee is not afraid of much. He'll ask anybody anything,
- 5:43Speaker 1: and he's he's pushed back against ESPN the network plenty
- 5:46Speaker 1: of times. One of those times, we're even having Aaron
- 5:50Speaker 1: Rodgers as a paid guest and they're all upset about that.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Apparently that fight is still going on.
- 5:54Speaker 2: But you can ten. You can feel the tension, can't you.
- 5:56Speaker 1: It's like, this is not where they thought this was
- 5:59Speaker 1: gonna go. A live on their air, you a little
- 6:01Speaker 1: bit tense. You know, there's a producer in their in
- 6:03Speaker 1: their headset saying, all right, move on football questions, pat
- 6:06Speaker 1: football questions. So that's just I just enjoy that. But
- 6:09Speaker 1: how about that what he just said right there? How
- 6:11Speaker 1: many times did your how many times did your network
- 6:13Speaker 1: criticize me or take shots at me from my vacstad
- 6:16Speaker 1: and they did? I mean it was he was the
- 6:19Speaker 1: punching bag for all this because he dared say he
- 6:21Speaker 1: was immunized and he wouldn't go remember all that. But anyway,
- 6:24Speaker 1: he goes on and somehow, some way it gets even
- 6:28Speaker 1: better from here for him to have the balls to.
- 6:30Speaker 4: Do this Taylor at Travis's wedding, They did they do
- 6:37Speaker 4: even a minute? Did they do even a minute on
- 6:39Speaker 4: Tony Fauci?
- 6:40Speaker 3: I don't think I've heard. I bet they didn't.
- 6:42Speaker 4: But one and there was another scandalous offseason too involved
- 6:45Speaker 4: in a voter for m VP for Coach of the Year.
- 6:48Speaker 3: How much time.
- 6:49Speaker 4: Do you did your network span? Where's did your network
- 6:53Speaker 4: spend on that network?
- 6:59Speaker 3: This is awesome.
- 7:00Speaker 4: Go back to Fauci, Yeah, go back to the cow
- 7:02Speaker 4: where Tony Fauchi you're spending the entire time writing in
- 7:07Speaker 4: his diary about how fun it is to be famous.
- 7:09Speaker 3: Wow, you gotta be kidding me. Okay, So on that note,
- 7:12Speaker 3: what are you gonna say about me? Now? What are
- 7:14Speaker 3: gonna say about right now? I got no debate here?
- 7:16Speaker 3: You had a five house. Seriously, what are you gonna
- 7:17Speaker 3: say about me now? Now?
- 7:18Speaker 4: Now that you can't talk about the COVID stuff because
- 7:20Speaker 4: obviously it was it was made you know, in a
- 7:23Speaker 4: lab in China, that's like not even a questionable anymore.
- 7:26Speaker 4: Tony Fauci is an absolute criminal.
- 7:28Speaker 1: You gotta just take a second and appreciate how far
- 7:31Speaker 1: we've come. Okay, Aaron Rodgers, foot football player on a
- 7:36Speaker 1: sports show on their network, criticizing the network. Remember I
- 7:39Speaker 1: always tell you sports media is the worst media. It
- 7:41Speaker 1: was That's where we saw the worst of the worst
- 7:43Speaker 1: come out on that network.
- 7:45Speaker 2: But for Aaron Rodgers to come.
- 7:46Speaker 1: Out about what we all know now about COVID coming
- 7:49Speaker 1: from that lab, you were it wasn't that long ago. Guys,
- 7:53Speaker 1: you were You were chastised, you were ostracized, you were
- 7:56Speaker 1: definitely censored. You were never allowed again to speak in
- 7:59Speaker 1: public if you ever said that. Now, look what's happening again.
- 8:02Speaker 1: This goes back to I plead the fifth being a punchline.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Lab leak theory is confirmed in the court of public opinion.
- 8:09Speaker 1: Everybody knows there was a long period of time where
- 8:12Speaker 1: we never thought we'd get here where the truth would
- 8:14Speaker 1: be happening. I personally never thought we'd get here where
- 8:17Speaker 1: a guy that was so heavily criticized by that network,
- 8:20Speaker 1: by that network would go on the network one day
- 8:23Speaker 1: and shove it right back in their faces and take
- 8:26Speaker 1: shots at Fouchi.
- 8:27Speaker 2: At the same time. Fantastic. All right, So you may
- 8:29Speaker 2: be asking, oh, where he's yet to cry bait? Why
- 8:32Speaker 2: did Aaron Rodgers? How was he criticized?
- 8:34Speaker 3: Oh?
- 8:34Speaker 1: Across all media forms, And like I said, he wasn't
- 8:37Speaker 1: the only one. There were public public figures who took
- 8:39Speaker 1: a lot of criticism for this. Novak Djokovic, the tennis player,
- 8:42Speaker 1: there's some golfers. Kyrie Irving will get to here in
- 8:44Speaker 1: a second, but let me just bring up for you,
- 8:46Speaker 1: just as a reminder what Aaron Rodgers went through, Okay,
- 8:50Speaker 1: in the in the in the criticism of the public eye,
- 8:53Speaker 1: Terry Bradshaw said, Aaron Rodgers specifically lied to everyone, and
- 8:59Speaker 1: then the nfl'say crew members, his co host Strahan and
- 9:02Speaker 1: Howie Long and Jimmy Johnson, they were making fun of him,
- 9:05Speaker 1: saying he was immunized because he couldn't say he was
- 9:07Speaker 1: vaccinated because he didn't want to.
- 9:08Speaker 2: Howard Stern.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Stern said on his show that if there was any
- 9:13Speaker 1: decency in this world, that's the quote, Aaron Rodgers should
- 9:16Speaker 1: be thrown out of the NFL in band.
- 9:19Speaker 2: This wasn't that long ago.
- 9:21Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel, Oh, one of my favorites right called Rogers
- 9:25Speaker 1: a Karen for not getting vaccinized. Kareem medgul Jabbar, great
- 9:28Speaker 1: NBA player, said, Rogers directly and deliberately lied to fans.
- 9:34Speaker 1: Think of how insane that entire era was, simply because
- 9:38Speaker 1: he didn't believe in this vaccination, didn't believe it was
- 9:43Speaker 1: going to do anything good for his body. In fact,
- 9:45Speaker 1: it would just do damage. And that's the kind of
- 9:47Speaker 1: criticism he took. But again, you gotta celebrate How great
- 9:52Speaker 1: of an era this is right now where he can
- 9:54Speaker 1: somebody like that can now take that and get your
- 9:57Speaker 1: revenge and shove it right in their faces. How great
- 10:00Speaker 1: is that? But I gotta be a credit to another
- 10:02Speaker 1: media figure here. And this guy actually is employed by ESPN,
- 10:05Speaker 1: Steven A.
- 10:05Speaker 2: Smith. I'm sure you've heard him.
- 10:06Speaker 1: I mean, he's always yelling about a whole bunch of
- 10:08Speaker 1: different things. Another player, Kyrie Irving, NBA player, faced an
- 10:15Speaker 1: actual financial loss because of this, because of New York's
- 10:19Speaker 1: he was playing with the Knicks at the time. New
- 10:21Speaker 1: York's insane COVID laws. If you're not vaccinated, you can't
- 10:24Speaker 1: work right, you know. And again he's a famous NBA
- 10:27Speaker 1: player and he lost some money. He's still a millionaire
- 10:29Speaker 1: many times over, and to worry about that, and there
- 10:31Speaker 1: were everyday working people who couldn't work because they wouldn't
- 10:35Speaker 1: get vaccinated if you happen to be unlucky enough to
- 10:37Speaker 1: live in a blue state or a blue city. But
- 10:40Speaker 1: I tell you what it says in the network standpoint,
- 10:43Speaker 1: But this is Steven A. Smith going on his show
- 10:45Speaker 1: and apologizing directly to Kyrie Irving because Stephen A. Smith
- 10:48Speaker 1: blasted him for it, butte.
- 10:50Speaker 2: I give Stephen A. Smith the credit too.
- 10:52Speaker 1: And this is an amazing time where you have big
- 10:54Speaker 1: media figures coming out and re admitting they were wrong.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Here's another one. Let's give Stephen A. Smith credit for
- 10:59Speaker 1: now saying and he did physically. He literally apologized to
- 11:03Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, but he went more than that, and he said,
- 11:07Speaker 1: I think he's intimating here he was right all along.
- 11:09Speaker 2: Credit to him too.
- 11:10Speaker 3: He refused the vaccine.
- 11:12Speaker 5: New York City's mandate made him ineligible for home games,
- 11:16Speaker 5: and he inc and he linked his stance to people
- 11:18Speaker 5: losing jobs over vaccine mandates. In my opinion, particularly hindsight wise,
- 11:26Speaker 5: it didn't make him stubborn or selfish. It made him
- 11:30Speaker 5: brave for his willingness to stand up and say, no,
- 11:37Speaker 5: I'm not doing that.
- 11:38Speaker 2: How about that? This is why I give Stephen A.
- 11:41Speaker 2: Smith credit.
- 11:41Speaker 1: He's got the cajones to stand up on his show,
- 11:46Speaker 1: in his public platform to say he was wrong too.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Not a lot of people like that. Definitely not Fauci. Again,
- 11:52Speaker 1: it's become a public it's become a punchline. I plead
- 11:55Speaker 1: the fifth one hundred and eleven. How many times do
- 11:57Speaker 1: you see one hundred and eleven. You know, trending. When
- 12:00Speaker 1: you've become a punchline, you've lost the perception and the
- 12:04Speaker 1: credibility in the court of public opinion. And that's a
- 12:07Speaker 1: great thing. But this is there's not a lot of
- 12:09Speaker 1: people like Aaron Rodgers stephen A. Smith coming out there
- 12:12Speaker 1: and telling the truth. But there's more and more, and
- 12:14Speaker 1: I bet you there's more.
- 12:15Speaker 2: Comings that takes balls.
- 12:18Speaker 1: And I know what you're thinking, and I know it's like, well,
- 12:20Speaker 1: regular every day people had to suffer this and they
- 12:22Speaker 1: don't get this chance to go on a network and
- 12:23Speaker 1: tell the truth.
- 12:24Speaker 2: No, I get it. But again, these are the people
- 12:27Speaker 2: with the.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Platform, and it's starting and it's starting to realize. They're
- 12:32Speaker 1: starting to realize that they have an opportunity to do
- 12:34Speaker 1: this and to either in Aaron Rodgers case, to get
- 12:36Speaker 1: out there and get some revenge for everything that they
- 12:40Speaker 1: said and did to him, and Stephen A. Smith an
- 12:42Speaker 1: opportunity to get on there and say he was wrong
- 12:45Speaker 1: about his opinions on it and he was misled too. Well,
- 12:49Speaker 1: here's why it's important. The more this happens, and more
- 12:53Speaker 1: big media figures have the guts to stand up and
- 12:56Speaker 1: say and stand up against this kind of stuff. The
- 12:58Speaker 1: less of a chance we're going to live through this again.
- 13:00Speaker 1: It's less of a chance now than in our lifetime.
- 13:02Speaker 1: They're gonna try this again, where they're gonna try the
- 13:04Speaker 1: lockdowns and the insane crap and a lunatic like Fauci
- 13:08Speaker 1: saying I am the science. Less of a chance of that,
- 13:11Speaker 1: they'll try it again. You know, power, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- 13:15Speaker 1: Truer words have never been spoken. They'll try it, probably
- 13:17Speaker 1: in our kids' lifetime, but less of a chance in
- 13:19Speaker 1: our lifetime. But if we don't forget that this kind
- 13:23Speaker 1: of stuff is happening right now, that the truth is
- 13:25Speaker 1: coming out right now, it's less of a chance this
- 13:27Speaker 1: will ever ever happen again. And I give them credit
- 13:30Speaker 1: for that's I think it's fantastic. And there are others,
- 13:32Speaker 1: you know, and this is why it's important for public
- 13:34Speaker 1: figures to come out and say that too. Novak Djokovic,
- 13:37Speaker 1: he's been another one coming out, say he's a famous
- 13:39Speaker 1: tennis player. He got banned from I think it was
- 13:42Speaker 1: the Australian Open from playing that because he wasn't he
- 13:44Speaker 1: wouldn't say he was vaccinated. Might have been a European
- 13:48Speaker 1: might have been the French open too. I'm not too sure,
- 13:49Speaker 1: but he did it too, and that takes guts. But
- 13:52Speaker 1: here's what else takes even more guts. Now he's coming
- 13:54Speaker 1: out saying I was right. I was right the entire time.
- 13:56Speaker 1: It's really important that we don't let that go by
- 13:58Speaker 1: the wayside, really important because it's and I'm telling you,
- 14:02Speaker 1: if you have a chance to just take the time
- 14:04Speaker 1: and go back, this should live forever. This is another
- 14:06Speaker 1: reason why you should watch it. Go back and watch
- 14:08Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers segment on the Pat McAfee show on ESPN,
- 14:13Speaker 1: because that'll keep it in the algorithm forever. We should
- 14:16Speaker 1: ever forget that. That should be the pinnacle point. That
- 14:19Speaker 1: should be the inflection point where finally the truth was
- 14:21Speaker 1: told and somebody got some revenge. And you're saying, oh,
- 14:24Speaker 1: that's just rotten and.
- 14:25Speaker 2: Petty, all right, I'll give you that. But that's what
- 14:28Speaker 2: we need.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Isn't it time for everybody that had that, that was
- 14:32Speaker 1: faced with all of this insanity to be rotten and petty.
- 14:35Speaker 1: We need we need more people like that to stand up.
- 14:37Speaker 1: We absolutely do so that this so.
- 14:40Speaker 2: That this crap doesn't never happen again.
- 14:42Speaker 1: But watch now that you're aware of it, though, I'll
- 14:44Speaker 1: leave you this one takeaway. Watch how many times you
- 14:47Speaker 1: hear it in casual conversation now amongst your friends. You
- 14:49Speaker 1: might overhear it at a bar, are definitely in sports
- 14:53Speaker 1: media interviews and entertainment interviews or stand up specials. How
- 14:56Speaker 1: many people you hear use as a punchline?
- 14:59Speaker 2: I plead the fifth Fox, She's become a punchline.
- 15:02Speaker 1: This is the greatest victory of all because we're all
- 15:06Speaker 1: looking back now and saying that guy was an absolute clown.
- 15:09Speaker 1: All right, thanks for hanging out with me. I appreciate
- 15:11Speaker 1: you so much, almost into the weekend. One more day
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- 15:30Speaker 1: wicked awesome Thursday.
- 15:32Speaker 2: I plead the fifth talk to you tomorrow.