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So my friend Jim Gray has been doing a podcast with Tom Brady, quarterback of the Bucs, for nine years now, and they're the closest of friends.
I mean, Jim Gray knows every top sports professional athlete, Tiger, Mike Tyson.
You name the sport.
He knows everybody and is well loved by everybody because he's just a nice guy.
And anyway, he talked to Tom Brady on his podcast last night.
Tom had not made up his mind about whether he would retire.
And now we know his answer is that he's retiring from football.
Listen.
So were you surprised when these reports came out when you haven't made a decision that seemingly others say you have?
There's always a good line that, you know, I'm responsible for what I say and do and not responsible for what others say or do.
So again, I think one thing I've learned about sports is, you know, you control what you can control and, you know, what you can't, you leave to others.
All right.
So what's interesting is today he woke up and he made up his mind.
I have always believed that the sport of football is an all-in proposition.
If 100% competitive commitment isn't there, you won't succeed.
And success is what I love so much about our game.
I am not going to make that competitive commitment anymore.
I've loved my NFL career.
It's now time to focus my time and energy on other things that require my attention.
I've done a lot of reflecting the past week and have asked myself difficult questions.
And I'm so proud of what we have achieved.
My teammates, my coaches, fellow competitors, fans, they deserve 100% of me.
But right now, it's best I leave the field of play to the next generation of dedicated and committed athletes.
Wow.
Jim Gray is with us.
How long have you been friends with Tom Brady?
Well, I've known Tom Brady since he came into the National Football League.
And we did our first interview two days on the eve of his first Super Bowl appearance when he won that championship all those 20 years ago in his second year of the season.
Yeah.
And I mean, the amazing thing about you that maybe a lot of people don't know is, I mean, and you wrote this talking to GOATs, which I thought was great.
I mean, you were friends with Tom Brady.
You're friends with Kobe Bryant, and I'm so sorry we lost him.
Mike Tyson, Michael Phelps.
When did you first meet Tiger Woods, for example?
Oh, he was a very little boy with his dad out at the Cypress down just outside of Long Beach getting golf balls with his dad.
And I went down and interviewed him, and he uttered the statement, when I win all the majors, I want to win all the majors and beat all the pros.
It became a very famous Nike commercial when he came out, when he won all the majors and beat all the pros.
And so I've known Tiger a long time.
But you write about in your book that I've read when it first came out, you know, Jack Nicholas gave you a nickname.
I forgot what it was, Scratchy, I think it was.
Jack Nicholson, the actor.
Jack Nicholson, not Jack Nichols.
Yeah, Jack Nicholson.
And you knew other people.
You knew John Madden, who recently passed away.
You've met presidents.
You're friends with presidents.
You know, you rode on a private plane with Floyd Mayweather.
You know, you worried that Gerald Ford, you know, had died in your arms.
You have a whole story to tell there.
Vin Scully, one of the greatest broadcasters of all time, sports broadcasters.
I mean, what a life you've lived.
So with that as a backdrop, you know Tom as well as any of these goats talking to that you talk to.
What do you think when he said that other things require my attention, that caught my attention?
What did he mean by that?
He's got young children, and everybody, John, has sacrificed for him.
It's all been about Tom and his football.
And, you know, for six or seven months out of the year, plus whatever he needs in the offseason, you know, he's been concentrating on how to perfect his craft and how to be the best quarterback he could be and how to be the best teammate and how to win seven championships, which nobody else has done.
So Giselle, who is a superstar in her own right, the top model in the world, has a family.
And Tom has three kids, maybe and Benny, which is an older son, Jack.
And he said something really interesting on the Let's Go podcast, which you can download on Apple and it's available.
We do a Monday night radio show on SiriusXM.
Yeah, you did it last night just before you came on my show.
It was great.
Correct.
And he said something really interesting last week.
He said, it's time for me to be the father that they need me to be.
Time for Giselle to have the husband that he needs.
And it's not all about me and what I want to do.
It's got to be about what we as a family can do.
So he takes into consideration that this has now gone on.
His entire relationship with Giselle, his entire kid's life, he's playing football.
And it's demanding because he's so demanding of himself.
He accepted nothing, nothing short of excellence.
And so when he says there are other things that need his attention, when you have a 14-year-old son, they need a father.
When you have a young son and a young daughter, they need a father.
You can't do that part-time, and he loves his kids.
There's really nothing more he wants to do than to be with them.
So these things tug at his heart.
He's always loved family and football.
And he's 44 years old.
He's playing literally.
He's literally playing with people half his age that are much closer to his oldest son's age than they are his age.
And Tom would taunt some of the guys from and say, I didn't play against your father.
You asked him about me.
You know, he would say that to them on the field, you know, with the trash talking and poking at them and so forth.
And so you're 44 years old.
It doesn't feel good to have Aaron Donald, you know, crashing into you and Von Miller and all of these pretty much.
Oh, come on.
That's fun.
You know, you and I would love that moment.
That's not a problem in our life.
You might love it when you're 25 and you get right up.
When you're 44.
I don't think you'll love it at 25 or 18.
I don't think you love it.
They definitely do not love it at 44.
I can tell you that.
Joe Burrow got hit 63 times this year, bounces right up.
Well, that's a little bit harder when you're 44, but Tom kept bouncing up, and he's not stopping because of anything physically.
It's really emotional attachment.
It's just a little bit to his family.
I mean, I know people that have tried his diet.
Nobody can stay on it.
I mean, it's an insane amount of precision.
Listen, I can relate to this totally, and I've said this.
I've been very open and honest on the air with my audience, is I think I worked too much when my kids were growing up.
And in many ways, I've regretted it.
Thank God I have amazing kids.
I was very involved with them.
Later, you know, when they became teenagers, I was able to configure a situation where I could do the radio show from home and spend that time with them.
And then I was with them all weekends.
They're both athletes, as you know.
And they've turned out to be great kids.
But Having come from nothing, I did not know how to stop myself.
I felt like it was going to end any second from the day I started.
And I just have had that mindset ever since.
And I kind of do have some regrets about it.
So now with what you've accomplished, if you're in Tom's shoes, there's nothing left to accomplish in professional football as a quarterback.
There's the difference between winning a seventh championship, which is unprecedented, and it's never going to be broken.
And they always say, don't say never.
But guess what?
I'll be dead, and you're a younger man than me.
You'll be gone, and those records will be standing.
So there was nothing.
He has every statistical record.
Will some of those be broken?
Yes, because the game is different now, and you can add up yardage in a different way.
But many of these records will not be broken, and his winning records will not be broken.
So there's very little left at age 44 to achieve.
So why not put it in the rearview mirror and not have regret, not have the regret that someone like Sean Hannity that you just displayed has of not being around for your children and do it while they're still young and do it while you can still read the time with them and able to have not only the influence,
but the access to that childhood and to that wonderful naive inner soul that kids have and share that with them as opposed to when they're grown up trying to make up for it then.
You know, if technology hasn't changed and I didn't have the ability to do my radio show remote, I don't know, I don't know if I could have continued, to be very honest, because you're right.
Kids get to an age where they need their dad.
And I was able to thread the needle as best I could.
I wish I could even have done it better.
And I could totally understand his decision.
Now, do you foresee him going into the broadcast booth?
Because you've been doing a podcast with him for nine years.
I would assume he's a pretty good broadcaster by now.
He's terrific, and his stories are terrific.
And if that's what he elected to do, I think he would be excellent at it.
But I can tell you that my opinion is that's nothing he will ever do.
Will he be a guest?
Will he go on and make a guest appearance on the Manning Cast?
Might he go in the booth, you know, up with Jim Nance and Tony Romo or Joe Buck, you know, stop by and say hello and do a quarterback.
All those guys are great.
You know all of them.
You, Jim Vans.
But he's not going to make a living doing that.
I don't want to say anything with 100% certainty, but I'm pretty close to that number that that's not what he wants to do.
But we're going to continue the Let's Go podcast next year.
We announced that last night, so we'll continue doing the radio show and the podcast.
I think that's awesome that you've had an opportunity and you're close to him.
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More with Jim Gray on the other side.
Tom Brady's retirement announcement.
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the lederman continue with jim gray uh talking about tom brady's announcement that he is retiring from the nfl today and And it'll be interesting because I think a lot of people have a hard time.
And I've met many professional athletes, former athletes.
And the adjustment from going from that high adrenaline sport to you almost go from 1,000 to zero.
And a lot of these guys have had a lot of difficulties transitioning.
Tom seems a little bit more disciplined and well-balanced than maybe some of the younger guys that retire after only three or four years in the league, right?
Yeah, I think it's going to be a hard transition, Sean.
He loves professional football and he loves throwing the ball.
And you can't do something for 35 years with a total commitment to excellence and then just one day wake up and say, you know what?
That left me.
Okay, you know him.
How hard was it?
And it's going to be hard because he's so disciplined.
He's so regimented.
He loves working out.
He loved all of that that goes along with pro football.
He was like, Bruce Arion says the week before the game, they lost to the Rams in the playoffs.
And Bruce Arion said he was out doing the quarterback drills with the other three guys.
He said he was running around like a teenager and he was happy that he won the drill.
So this isn't going to leave.
You know, it's going to be hard to replace professional football, and there's going to be a transition period.
The good news for Tom is the Brady brand was just announced, like the Jordan Jordan brand.
So that just came out.
He's got TB12, where he's going to try and redefine nutrition and health for young people and for adults.
He's got Autograph, which is an NTF company.
He's involved with his production company, 199 Productions.
They did Man in the Arena.
He loves crypto.
Let's go podcast.
He loves FTX and the crypto.
He's a major investor and a shareholder of that.
So he's got a lot of things, and he'll have a lot of opportunities.
But if you talk about what's going to replace football, nothing is going to replace football.
I interviewed Neil Armstrong, okay?
And I asked Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon.
I said, when you look up at that moon every night and you know you were there, what else compares?
What else will compare in your life?
And he looked at me and he said, nothing.
You just don't tell anybody.
Wow.
That's a powerful, that's a powerful statement.
I think we're very much very similar in this respect.
I really can't imagine not doing this every day anymore because it's such a part of my DNA.
And the good news is I have long-term contracts.
So at least for a while, people are stuck with me, whether they like it or not.
More importantly than your DNA.
You love it.
Yeah, no, I never did this for money.
Never thought I'd make any money.
I've worked for free and for very little money.
And I feel blessed beyond measure.
And I never forget that the audience gives me this microphone every night, and they give me that camera.
They give me this microphone every day, the camera every night.
And I can't do it without them, and they can fire me anytime they want.
But you love it.
So you're going to do what you love.
And you're going to do what you love for a long time.
And at some point, you'll say, you know, I've had enough, or you'll do it until you can't do it anymore.
And, you know.
And you'll say a few nice words at my funeral, and it's all over.
Thanks, Jim.
I appreciate it.
Listen to yourself.
Of course I will, but we're not at that point.
I look at your life and talking to goats, and it just is, it's stunning to me the life you live, and I love it.
I live vicariously through you.
Jim Gray, we love having you.
I'm the luckiest guy in the world, Sean.
I feel the same way.
I'm not looking for drinks with anybody, and it's been a wonderful ride, and it's still going on.
Thank you for having me on.
You bet.
And I thank you for your kind words.
It means a lot.
If you haven't gotten his book, Talking to Goats, you got to get it.
It's a great read.
It's just an amazing life that Jim Gray has led and talking to people at the highest levels in their sports and an amazing broadcaster in his own right.
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Anyway, are you following the Senate race there, JC?
I am, and I'm a voter, and I will be there.
I just wanted to start off by saying, thank God you have your microphone.
I'm a longtime listener and watcher, and the public needs to be aware of what you're saying.
And if I could sit them all down in my living room and force them to watch you, I would do it.
You were discussing the Teamster strike going on with Canada.
And my father was a trucker, was a truck driver, was a Teamster.
In the 60s and 70s, he drove for Great Eastern and Eastern Express for many, many years, ended up having to retire at 55, disabled, because back then the trucks aren't what they are today.
And he had hearing problems and serious physical disabilities.
And as you've been saying, what the public needs to be aware of is if this stands in Canada, if this goes through in Canada and this is okay for them to mandate this in Canada, it's not too far from it spreading here.
It'll be a heartbeat before Mr. Biden goes, oh, wait, look, good idea.
And that's not, that's not, that can't possibly fly.
Every single thing that you and I own, every single piece of property that you and I own, has at one time or another been on a tractor trailer in the United States of America.
That's the way the country functions.
So to mandate this for people who got us through the pandemic by working and not eating, because everything was locked down, they couldn't even go to a drive-through because you can't put a tractor trailer through a drive-through and you can't walk up to a drive-thru.
And so what these poor guys, these poor men and women, have actually gone through, and now you're going to mandate that they be vaccinated.
They're the most isolated profession that there could possibly be.
It's the dumbest thing.
And here's the thing.
All right.
So before we had breakthrough cases, meaning fully vaccinated people getting COVID, okay, you could make a different argument that unvaccinated people posed a risk.
Although originally they said if you got the vaccine, you'd never get COVID.
So they've screwed everything up and gotten everything wrong.
But putting all that aside for a second, you can make the case, okay, they might cause other people to get the virus, blah, blah, blah, blah.
That was their argument.
But the science has changed.
And the science now is simple.
Vaccinated, booster, natural immunity, you're all getting COVID.
So there's no need for that.
One more example.
I work for a police department.
I'm considered an essential employee because I'm a 911 dispatcher.
So I worked all through COVID, never got COVID.
So I work for a police department.
Now, these guys have to be masked in headquarters and out on the road when they deal with the public.
They have to be masked, okay?
Now they're all walking around with their surgical masks.
There was guys in my department.
I'm not lying to you, Sean.
I did not see their faces for over a year.
And you want to know what?
They got COVID.
It's amazing.
I'm seeing this everywhere.
I mean, this is the ironic part for all the people wanting, oh, we're not going to give you medical care if you didn't get the shot or didn't get the shot in the booster and et cetera, et cetera.
And I'm like, okay, well, people fully vaccinated with the booster can still give everybody in the hospital COVID if they don't, you know, if they're infected with it.
So it's at this point not a valid argument anymore.
Anyway, JC, thank you, my friend.
Peggy is in Pittsburgh.
Peggy, you following that race for the Senate?
My buddy Dr. Oz is running.
I think he'd be a great senator for the great state of Pennsylvania.
Are you following it?
I am.
He has to be better than Toomey.
Oh, he's better than Toomey.
Trust me.
Listen, it's funny, and some people don't like, and there are other good people running, and I'm not getting involved in the intramural squabbles that people have, which are inevitable in any primary.
But I've known him for years.
He's gutsy.
And just like I would vouch for Donald Trump and get the crap beat out of me about fellow conservatives, I don't care.
I know what I know.
And my job is to be honest with my audience.
And I know who he is, where he stands, and how he'll represent your state.
And I think you'll be very happy with him.
I hope so.
You know, there's been enough politicians that disappoint us, right?
For sure, especially here in Pennsylvania.
Oh, it's awful.
It just gets so.
Look, Orland Spector before Toomey.
I mean, it just, let me tell you, Dr. Oz is neither.
Yeah, I follow him.
I follow him.
Just ask him where he stands on the issues.
Go through every issue.
He's doing town halls all over the state.
Just ask him.
And he'll give you very direct, specific answers like he's been giving us.
Good.
I'll have to pay a little more attention to him.
You got time.
Don't worry about it.
What's going on?
So, anyways, I know how you feel about I'm not really an unvaxer.
I believe in vaccination.
I was a Trump supporter.
And even when Trump came out with this MRNA, whatever vaccine, my husband and I just didn't feel good about it.
So we made the decision that we weren't going to do the shots.
And the truth is, more and more information is coming out about this vaccine, which has no, it's not doing much of anything at this point.
But I'm a firm believer that we're going to pay the price years down the road for this massive vaccination rollout.
Okay.
Two's fine, three, now four.
Where do we draw the line?
So I've been isolated for the last right after Christmas.
I went down on lockdowns, full lockdowns, but I, and I mean, I didn't go grocery shopping or anything.
So I end up on the 17th with a sore throat, didn't think much of it.
On the 18th, I had a little bit of a runny nose and a cough.
And let's put it this way: by Wednesday, I thought, oh my God, I think I have Omicron because I have never had such a cold like this one.
I just happened to be sitting in a red light and they had COVID testing, so I decided to pull in, and sure enough, I tested positive.
So I called my doctor immediately and asked what therapies they were prescribing.
None, none.
No ivermectin, no hydrochloroquine.
And I'm like, so what am I supposed to do?
And she's like, just stay home and take some Tylenol for a fever and mucinex.
And I'm like, okay.
So by day six, though, things started to get really bad for me.
I actually, how many times have I said, I'm not worried how you feel on day one, two, three, four, or five?
I'm not.
Right.
It's what's going on on day six, seven, eight, and nine.
And that's when if you're going to have this COVID pneumonia or COVID lung, that's when it's going to hit.
And the danger of having reactive medicine and reactive is, oh, go home.
If you get a fever, take two Tylenol, get your fever down and check your oxygen levels.
And if it goes to 90 or below, you probably should go to the emergency room.
Here's the problem.
By day seven or six or eight, when that happens and your oxygen level goes from 95 to 90 to 85 to 80 in record time, it's too late.
The damage has been done.
That's why I'm such a strong believer in proactive medicine.
And to me, what has worked the best that I have seen over and over and over and over again are monoclonal antibodies.
Now, if Regeneron and Eli Lilly are not best for Omicron and this now super variant of Omicron, that's another variant coming.
And the GSK Citrovimab is the better monoclonal antibody.
That's great.
Why don't we not reproduce it?
For the first time yesterday, Peggy, I finally talked to somebody who got Pfizer's new antiviral.
I think you take X number of pills for five days, and it's shown incredible results for 90% of people.
Another therapeutic that should be mass-produced, that isn't being mass-produced.
Tell me the rest of your story.
What happened on day six, seven, and eight?
Well, the night before, I actually broke a blood vessel in my eye.
I was coughing so bad.
I couldn't walk up my basement steps anymore, and I do 10 miles on my bike every day.
And I'm like, this isn't good.
Something, this is not good, honey.
I need to do something.
So I went to a site and filled out their form.
And I qualified for monoclonal.
And I'm like, oh, great.
So this is Sunday.
This is the last day they were giving out monoclonal therapy.
I get there.
I don't know if I should say this or not.
But she said, how did you qualify?
And I'm like, what do you mean?
She says, well, you're not 65.
And I said, we're going to split hairs for three months.
I'll be 65 in three months.
I'm in distress.
I'm starting to fear for my well-being.
So she went through all the more comorbidity lists with me.
And I'm like, no, no, no.
Med, none.
And I'm just looking at her with desperation in my eyes.
She could see it.
So she went through the list with me again.
I said, put me down for chronic bronchitis.
She said, that's what I wanted to hear.
I got the therapy, and within 24 hours.
So that lady was helping you by saying, you have some condition, right?
Right?
Right?
Yeah, I got it.
By the way, that nurse, let me tell you where that was coming from.
That was coming from somebody that every single day was giving out this impusion and saw the success and wanted you to have, wanted you to get well.
That's what that nurse did for you.
Now, that's what I have seen.
And, you know, I'm really, you know, that's why I'm bringing, you know, I keep bringing in Dr. Oz to ask him about what's the latest, what's the latest.
I know he's running for the Senate, but I can't help lean on his medical knowledge because it's very, very up-to-date.
And like so many of the other doctors that join us on this program.
But anyway, I'm glad you're better.
And I'm glad that you learned a lesson.
Now, I have sent older people comorbidities.
They test positive, unvaccinated.
They get within 24, 48 hours, getting it early, monoclonal antibodies, and they're all fine without an exception.
And Joe Biden has done this.
This one-size-fits-all, unscientific mindset has literally now hurting the American people.
They're not adapting to the fact that there are breakthrough cases, fully vaccinated and boosted, and natural immunity people are getting it.
So the next logical scientific step is that you need some therapeutics.
I'm glad you're better, Peggy.
Matt in Alabama.
What's up, Matt?
How are you?
Sean, how are you today?
I'm good, my friend.
What's going on?
Well, I'm a third-generation owner-operator driver.
I've been doing it for 22 years.
And there's a couple things that people need to know about the driving out here that you don't hear anybody reporting.
First of all, our hands have been tied with the self-inflicting wound of the regulations that they put on us.
First of all, they regulate our trucks down to 62 miles an hour so we can't travel nowhere near as far as we could.
Second of all, they put this e-log in our trucks that's federally mandated that eventually becomes a countdown timer that you race against.
So it makes it completely unsafe to do our job because you have drivers out here that are running 62 miles an hour through school zones, construction zones, through the middle of town, just to try and beat this clock that they put in here that you can't adjust, you can't fix, you can't do anything to.
And when you're out of time, you're done.
The other half of the argument that I would like to talk about with you is everybody keeps saying that the shelves are running dry, the shelves are running empty, the stuff on the shelves.
It's so much more than that.
It's not just the stuff on the shelves, it's the shelves.
It's the building that it's in.
It's the home that you have.
It's the couch you're sitting on.
The microphone you're talking into.
The power station itself was brought to where it is with trucks.
Give you a good example.
The phone that everybody's using that they have in their hand, from the point of raw materials through the process of making all the parts, putting it all together and shipping it to where it was bought at the store by you, it's been on a truck at least 10 medium, 10 times.
And I don't think people understand that.
I've been trying to point it out to them, Matt, and with a tip of the hat to all you guys, because every store that we go to, everything we buy, everything we need isn't there without the trucking industry.
That's how pivotal you are to the country and the economy.
And I applaud you for it because it's a hard job.
Anyway, my friend, thank you for all you do.
And you're appreciated.
This gives us an opportunity to say thank you to all the truckers out there that do all the trucking.
And by the way, we can mention the farmers and the cattle ranchers and those that raise hogs and raise chickens and all these companies and the people that pack the trucks and deliver them.
You know what?
Because you're sustaining all of our lives by being such an integral part of our economy.
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They'll go at it.
Laura Trump, Kevin McCarthy, Ari Fleischer, Leo 2.0 Terrell, and Miranda Devine.
Also, we're going to point out: we have videotape of all these people rioting in 2020, in the summer of 2020.
Did they get a pardon because they were never prosecuted?
And we actually have video of them committing crimes.