Hour 1: NFL Insider Tom Pelissero Explains Steelers’ Aaron Rodgers Move, plus Kenny Chesney In-Studio

13:42Tom Pelissero:I just want you to have that visual bright and early.

13:44Rich Eisen:Thank you very much, Tom Pelissero, everybody. Well done. Well done. There goes Tommy P. So, um... What else do you want to know?

13:56Rich Eisen:What else do you want to know? I mean, we could have been like, Rogers is not going to be happy about this. Like, it's restricting his movement, and it's restricting his salary, and the Steelers are going to the battle stations. And Tom's like, no, it's not that.

14:15Rich Eisen:Would you prefer the argument and the speculation? Yeah, of course. And the wild speculation than calming facts, reasonable information? Is that what you're saying? Overreaction Monday on a Tuesday? Yeah. Well, that's coming up later anyway. Of course. You know how he feels. Should I add one? No. Steelers are on the outs with Rodgers. He didn't know. Right now, he's sitting in the dark. He's going to get the text. What? Chew, Ron, Bart. Okay. That's what he's doing right now. If I'm Aaron Rodgers, I'm somewhere where I don't even know what day of the week it is. Okay. I'm with you. You know what I mean?

14:49Rich Eisen:Like Kenny Chesney. No shirt, no shirt. He knows what day of the week it is. Otherwise, he wouldn't have made the appointment. That's a good point. He's here. On time. He's here. Let's bring him out. Okay. That's now put aside. Later on, Ty Simpson says he and Sean McVay were hanging out before the draft for a long time. Tomfoolery going on. It's not Tomfoolery. We're going to make sense of that. Tom trickery? Not Tom trickery. It's Ty trickery. Ty foolery? Ty foolery. Much better. Secret meetings. I don't know. There's no secret. Whatever. Secret meetings. That's what he said. We're going to talk about that.

15:23Rich Eisen:Is there a special knock, Brock? I am now. I might need a new hat, Mike. What? Half Yankees, half Phillies. Woo! Dottie baseball! Woo! Information on that. Coming up. I love baseball now. Baseball. Do it. Oh, baby. Baseball still going on? The Phillies, man. I love baseball right now. Oh, it's great. Yeah, the Red Sox have won three in a row. Hey, Louis. Yeah. Somebody over there is wondering how his manager is staying put. my goodness gracious that would be you that would be you let's take a break the author of kenny chesney kenny chesney

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18:39Rich Eisen:Kenny Chesney here on the Rich Eisen Show. Our radio audience has just returned. We're just chopping it up. Heart Life Music is Kenny Chesney's new book. Go get it where all books are sold. It debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Kenny is here in person on the show here in studio. what's the one story you're telling in this book that you kind of forgot and your your co-author holly gleason pulled it out of you like that i forgot yeah that you're like i've kind of forgot that story but i love telling that story oh wow i i don't know it's it's uh or you remembered all of them that's all well no i i think that there was you know especially when you're talking about heroes yeah and when you're looking back there's there's these moments that happen in your life when you're younger, that in the moment that you don't realize, you didn't see them as big deals at all.

19:33But when you get older and you look back and see how it affected your life and maybe set you on a path that you didn't even know you were on at the time. And that was like me as a child going to see concerts. And I didn't really realize at the time that there was this thing inside of me that was burning that I didn't know what it was. And that was called the dream of it all. You know, and look, I wanted to play second base for the Boston Red Sox. I wanted to be Dustin Pedroia. Yes. Right? That's what I wanted. We need you right now. We need you now. Yeah, they got rid of everybody. Yeah, I know.

20:11We need you. So my friend Kevin Millar, I want him to be the next manager of the Boston Red Sox, and I want to be the bench coach. But anyway, what was I talking about?

20:23Rich Eisen:You're talking about a life-changing situation where you felt it in your gut, and then you got on Dustin Pedroia, and here we are. Right, but see, I wanted to play sports. Yes. And I thought when I was a freshman in high school that I was going to do that because I was this size, and I was 15. And then the next year, my sophomore year, I was still this size. Yeah. And then all of a sudden, I knew that whatever you believe in up there had different plans for me. But I didn't know at the time. You know, I talk about this in the book about all these different things that happened to us that set us on a path that we don't even know what that we know is the dream, but we don't know what the dream is.

21:04Yes. And that was me growing up in East Tennessee. And that's what I felt like a lot of heart life music was, was about just the dream of it all. And again, not to use a sports analogy again, but to be a part of something bigger than yourself. That is what's happened to me. And that's one of the biggest gifts that's been given to me is the gift of creativity. But to also have people with you and around you and out there on the road with you that truly celebrate what's happened to us. And we're a part of something together. I mean, yes, it's me singing and it's me on the road. It's my name on there.

21:41But I have a group of people that celebrate what happened to us. And I love that.

21:45Rich Eisen:I feel the same way about everybody around here, by the way. Not to say I'm the Kenny Chesney of sports, you know, entertainment and all that sort of radio and TV. But we celebrate what we do here every day, every day. And, you know, this show was almost dead five years ago, six years ago. And we all banded together. And, you know, here we are together. And I feel the same exact way. Yeah, you're a part of something. With them. Yeah. So I totally can relate to what you're saying. also with that when i was you know in not high school but kind of middle school i realized i couldn't hit the curveball yeah i couldn't make the jump shot i couldn't throw one and i better i better start talking about it for a living you know so i can kind of relate to that sensibility too um so when you're when you're i kind of feel it's weird like you've written a have you written a memoir with you know time left to go here is that what this is or you just it's basically a Basically a snapshot of how I did it and where I'm at in my life.

22:46It's not a memoir. It's just postcards from my soul, I like to say. It's my love of music, family, the journey, sports, and just the dream of it all.

22:57Rich Eisen:I love it. That's so cool. We were talking, and I've got Kenny Chesney here on The Rich Heises Show. You'll never guess the name that we were talking about before today's program in the green room about how we have a friend in common. Do you want to drop his name here? Go ahead. John C. McGinley. Oh, whoa. Ladies and gentlemen, Johnny C. was sitting in that chair just three weeks ago. Isn't he great? Oh, my God. He's fantastic. And my follow-up question to Kenny, I'll say it here. Have you been in the hot house? I've been in the hot house. And I did a writer's trip in Malibu. I brought some songwriters out.

23:34And we do this every now and then. And it was two of my really good friends who I write songs with. And at the end of the day, we went over to Johnny's house and got in the hothouse and did the heat and ice. Well, when Johnny's show, Rooster, comes out a couple weeks ago, those guys call me and they see the first episode of Johnny and whoever it was in the hothouse, and they call me and they go, hey, we've been in that hothouse. So, yeah, Johnny has been a dear friend of mine since I met John McGinley in 2007. Dude, you've come across the world. And he and I have become such great friends since then.

24:13And it was one of those friends that, you know, we didn't talk all the time, but when we reconnected, it was like as if no time had passed.

24:23Rich Eisen:Exactly. Those are the best friends. And then since about 2014, he has become a real dear friend. That's pretty cool. Yeah. So you've been in the hothouse and the ice? Oh, yes. I can't imagine that. I know. We do it all the time. Oh, my God. have you ever come up with a song with that idea like if you ever on your next single is I am so friggin hot in here that we know where it was born out of. Well there's been one of those songs who had a song called it's getting hot in here Nelly is he a friend of John McGinley's? I don't know maybe and you tell some stories in your book Sean Payton you've known him forever.

25:00Rich Eisen:I've known Sean since Sean Payton was the quarterback's coach under Jim Fossil at the Giants when I met him. I was friends with Kerry Collins. I didn't even know Sean. Okay. And so Kerry invited me. We were playing in Albany, New York at the arena downtown. And it was August and they were in training camp there. The Giants were. So Kerry invited us to come to practice. And then I invited everybody to come to the show. And I met Sean, but I briefly almost, I don't want to say I dismissed him, But we didn't spend a lot of time together. And Jason Garrett was on. He was playing at the time. And so all those guys came to the show.

25:41It was Jeremy Shockey. It was Jason Garrett. It was Kerry. I mean, so many players came. And the next day, Sean calls Jim Fossil and says, he goes, look, we got a problem. He goes, we had 16 guys miss curfew last night. And they're not just, you know, these aren't rookies. These are real guys, you know, that we depend on. And so all of them came to the show and decided they would pay the fine. So that's how I met Sean Payton.

26:19Rich Eisen:You met Sean Payton because your concert caused about a full dozen plus giants to miss curfew. Then Sean went to work for Parcells in Dallas, and that's where we became friends. And then Sean was at my show in Lafayette, Louisiana at the Cajun Dome the day he signed to be the New Orleans Saints head coach. And since then, I bought a suite in the Superdome as an attempt for me and my father to have something to do together and get closer. And that wore us out. I would take all my friends, all dad's friends, and especially a night game in New Orleans. So we would go to New Orleans during the day, have fun, have fun at the game.

26:59and then yeah so when i i'm not going to say when sean left new orleans to go to denver i was happy but it was a sigh of relief let me tell you

27:08Rich Eisen:i know for a fact the loudest i've ever heard an indoor stadium in the nfl is a night game in new orleans during the sean payton drew breeze era the loudest i ever heard it during that era was when they beat the Vikings um to go to the Super Bowl and that was the loudest I've heard almost anything in my life were you there the night I was there were you there the night it reopened after Katrina I was not okay so you hadn't gotten your spot yet no that night when the when Steve Gleason blocked the punt yeah I got goosebumps I'm getting goosebumps thinking about it right now I will there's a reason why there's a statue out there um that moment when katrina um nearly wiped the stadium off the planet they reopen it vic fumbled in the opening drive that led to the punt and for a second the ball was loose that was loud when the friends thought they were going to have a turnover on the first drive yeah it reopened and give the ball to breeze on a short field um that was loud and then it rolled out of bounds And then the punt, blocked, touchdown, over.

28:24Rich Eisen:I've never seen, I've never heard a stadium like that. Yeah, and it was that night when they won the NFC Championship game, you could truly feel, it was almost unsafe, that like you could feel the Superdome shake. It was so loud. It was amazing. Were you there the night that, you were there at the Super Bowl too. Yeah, I played. Well, the night that the Super Bowl, the two weeks later was in Miami. Yes, sir. And so I went down. I took a lot of my friends there and they did the NFL that count down all the pre Super Bowl shows on the networks. Right. On South Beach. Sure. Yeah. So I go and Chris Berman's friend of mine.

29:08So I get up and do Chris's show. Well, he asked me on the spot, because I was still friends with Peyton Manning, and then Sean Peyton was one of my best friends. So he puts me on the spot. Okay, well, who are you pulling for tonight? And I just said, I just want Peyton to win. Nice. So I thought that was a pretty good answer. Very sly. But Sean asked me like four or five days before that if I would play the after party. And I went, well, sure. I mean, he goes, well, how much do you want? I said, I don't want any money. if you can get my band tickets to the Super Bowl, I'll come play for free.

29:43Rich Eisen:Damn, how many tickets is that? It was eight. Okay. And we did that not knowing they were going to win. Of course, sure. So all of a sudden, they win the Super Bowl, and I had by then, because I woke up that morning before I did Berman's show, I'd had a couple Bloody Marys at the hotel bar, right? Yeah, you did. So I go over there, and it was back when Mike Dicka was on the show, and it was Berman. Oh, sure, yeah, yeah. It was back then. Yeah, yeah. So I leave. That's great. This story is actually in the book. We leave, and I have my tour bus, and we leave South Beach. And I thought, well, we're going to go.

30:24We went and had lunch, and then we're going to go early to the stadium. Well, I get a text from Sean in the bus, and he goes, look out your left window. and I look out and it's the Saints team bus and they're right beside us and we just pull it you know they're um they got uh police escort and everything sure Sean goes we're just pulling pulling behind us we took our bus and we just pulled right in beside right in behind the Saints team buses and rolled right into the Super Bowl with a police escort and so and so that got us really fired up me and the band so you know i'd started i had a few cocktails sure during the game and then all of a sudden it's it's the game's over and i'd had several by then and then i went oh my god i gotta play so we didn't go on stage till like 1 30 in the morning and it was a long night but my god that was so to celebrate that and to experience something like that with one of your really good friends yeah is such a life moment and it's one if you know i i don't know how i'm going to live if i live to be 120 i will not forget that moment and what that felt like i bet

31:32Rich Eisen:what a great story kenny and i'd gotten to know sean in the early stages of nfl network which was born in 2003 and you know he he had gotten the job in 06 with with the saints and we we'd gotten know each other and hang out at combines in indianapolis when the coaches meetings were over and we were off the air and just having a blast and him just telling stories he's one of the a plus storytellers of planet earth and he's got loads of them which is obviously why you and and he get along and he's really a master motivator i mean he really is and he's a like a um i mean running out of adjectives but i mean he's really great a great offensive mind but the the way he's these subtle things that he does to um inspire grown men and to mess with them not mess with them but to I don't know, mentally make them think a different way.

32:27I've seen it firsthand and it's really brilliant.

32:29Rich Eisen:Well, he joined the NFL Network postgame show on the field in Miami after winning it. And he and I had known each other for a few years, but he goes way back with Marshall Falk. He was Marshall's position coach, running backs coach at San Diego State. So he's known Marshall forever and marshall's on the set and he's just so fired up to see everybody i'm the first guy he greets and he slapped my like put my hand out to to shake it but he slapped it so hard kenny he gave me a stinger i had to go to the left hand for the microphone the entire interview i did not feel my right arm during the entire interview because he was so excited fired up yeah i love that guy uh you were with the crafts at the super bowl this year i was okay that that was a difficult room I'm sure when you're with NFL.

33:20I've been in rooms at the Super Bowl with them where it was great. But it was great to be there with them.

33:27Rich Eisen:So is that just a New England love? Or you said you wanted to be Pedroia, so you just loved him. Yeah, and also I've loved the Patriots since I was a kid. There was a guy that played at Tennessee. You may remember him. His name was Stanley Morgan. Of course. Stanley Morgan was drafted by the Patriots, and he was one of my favorite players. so that's how I this was way before you know obviously social media when you could really follow but as a kid that's where the love of New England started and also when I was a kid there was this show on the networks every week called This Week in Baseball with Joe Garzola and I loved that show here's the Twib Notes from around the national and they would the networks would 9 times out of 10 play the play you know would air the games of the of the teams that were doing the best and so uh that specific year the red sox you know we're we're we're doing great and i love them so even so much so as in little league i wanted to be on the red sox team right so it's it's that's the only thing when i was a kid that but when i started playing music for some reason that area there was just this groundswell of connection even way before i started playing gillette stadium in foxborough There was this groundswell of a connection that was really unique.

34:46And then once I played Foxborough a couple times, I'd still, the second time I played Gillette, I had lunch with Robert and Jonathan Craft up in Robert's office. And that was in 2006-ish, I think. And that's been an unbelievable tradition every year that I go up there and play. Now we do two nights to end the tour every year. but Robert and Jonathan have become you know truly family and we've gotten to know each other and I have um sat in Super Bowls with them where they got beat and I've sat in Super Bowls with them where they came back and Tom Brady and they won 28 you know they were down you were you were sitting with the crafts against Atlanta in Houston yes and at halftime that was a tough room to be in I bet and so it really was but at the end so yeah i've i've um i've become really good friends with them and and and over the years you know it was just uh they've become family in ways that's amazing

35:44Rich Eisen:is there a stadium a room i can you're going back to the sphere um so you're the first country act to appear in the sphere you're and uh june and july dates are there right now um is there a room or stadium you haven't played that you're like, I want to play. I have never done it. Well, we played the Rose Bowl. I wanted to do that because, as you know, me and my dad watched a lot of football and watched a lot of January 1st football, which used to mean more now than it does now because that was truly the end of the college football season was January 1st. When you saw Keith Jackson call the Rose Bowl, that was it.

36:25So me and my dad watched that a lot. And so when I got the opportunity and got into a place in my life and career, they came to me to play the Rose Bowl. And I was like, oh, wow, this is different.

36:36Rich Eisen:That made me want to move to Southern California as a kid in Staten Island, New York, watching it on TV in my basement, watching the Rose Bowl. I'm with you, too. So imagine waking up and getting out of the bus like you've done in so many different places. But this time you get out and you're looking at the Rose Bowl. There's your bus parked outside the Rose Bowl. 100 ,000 people. So it was crazy. That was one that stood out a lot. You know, there's places that we play regularly now that we're used to, but I don't know. I mean, there's, I don't know. I look forward to a lot of the places that we play, especially the older stadiums, because the older stadiums hold sound better.

37:21Yeah, like if you go into Denver or Kansas City, Seattle, philly is really loud gillette is really loud you know a lot of the newer stadiums are built for suites interesting it's it's it's it's it's yeah but it's still it's the crowds are great but when you get into a like these older stadiums like pittsburgh yeah like it's really loud in there

37:43Rich Eisen:is this your humble way of saying you've played every stadium you've wanted to play i didn't really answer your question no it's okay that's fine hey listen been there done that that could be the name of your next book i don't know i mean that's that's that's cool what about a lyric a lyric of yours that you have written in your career that you're like that's oh one yeah one lyric yeah oh that's on the spot now yeah man i've been writing songs a long time i'm aware of that one lyric there's a book called you know heart life music oh wow The Kenny Chesney lyric where you're like, yeah, that's it.

38:22Rich Eisen:That's the one. Yeah. Well, just because I love music so much, and I wrote a song called I Go Back by myself. And it's all about how music and songs stamp your life and take you to a specific place in your life. You know, that song means a lot to me, and those lyrics mean a lot to me because it was truly autobiographical in how I grew up and the songs. and I don't know if it's one lyric. I don't think I answered your question. That's okay. That's all right. You have a lot of them. I mean, I understand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's that. There would be, you know, I wrote Beer in Mexico and everybody thought that that song was a party song, but it wasn't.

39:07It was a true reflection of my soul. And I was 36 when I wrote it. I was playing Sammy Hagar's Birthday Party in Cabo. and the band and I we played for almost almost four hours at his at his party and then we went to a bar called squid row right next to it and Sammy had us a house and I don't know I felt this I felt like there was this this unfamiliar feeling inside of me you know and I didn't really know what it was and I didn't know it was a song I didn't know it was I just I just knew I had to go start writing something down. So I left the bar. I went back to the house that Sammy got us. And I started writing on a notepad and pulled my guitar out of the case.

39:51And I think what I was thinking about in the bar, I was looking at all my friends and people that were working with me and for me, and they all had families and they all had kids. And here I was 36 and I was, you know, I didn't have that stuff, but I was building what I was building. And so I went, wow, maybe I don't have to figure it all out right now. It's okay enough to be playing Sammy Hagar's birthday party. I don't have to figure all that stuff out at the moment. But I went back to the house and wrote that night, Beer in Mexico. And I thank Sammy for that. So that was a true autobiographical song.

40:35Rich Eisen:I think I speak for everybody in this room and everybody within the sound of our your voice and our voices that I would love to start a sentence in my life. If I was playing Sammy Hagar birthday party in Mexico, like to start a sentence that way is great. If I say it, somebody's like, what are you talking about? You say it's like, oh, please tell me more. That's why your book is a bestseller. Right. As soon as it debuts on the New York Times bestseller list. So this summer, you're back at the sphere, June and July. Yes. Right. and then your new single called Carry On is going to drop on May 8th new music is great new music means new energy I'm fired up for it we played Sphere last year we did 12, 13 shows how'd you like it?

41:19Rich Eisen:I know we were talking about it before going in you're saying that you were spending so much time planning the visuals and everything the last time I talked to you we were ready to do it we're changing some of it keeping some of it and it's just an amazing thing to be a part of For people that have lived with this music for a while, when they get into that space, they experience the music in a completely different way. That's unreal. So we're going back. We're doing another, I think, 11 shows this summer. Awesome. Starting pretty soon. Kenny, you are the man. Thank you so much for coming on here.

41:50Rich Eisen:Thanks, guys. So you're going to have to sign this book, obviously. I would be honored. Life Music. It's going to be right here in our studio. And you've got to sign our Rose Bowl seats, too. Yeah, buddy. No question. Yeah, man. You and Troy Aikman and Mark Sanchez and Chris Fowler and Joel McHale, who didn't play, and Jim Harbaugh and everybody who's been here. Charles Woodson, great to see you, sir. Thank you. Kenny Chesney, everybody, go get this man's book right now. All books are sold. Go see him in The Spear in Vegas this summer. And get ready for Carry On, dropping on May 8th. The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast.

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43:30Rich Eisen:back on our simulcast with our radio audience all together right here that was so great with kenny chesney he just signed he's the first musician to sign our recording artist yes yeah performer to sign the uh rose bowl seats behind chris brockman those rose bowl seats are those are great maybe my favorite thing and those are great our buddy deed and brozino got sent us that and ever since he sent us that for our studio, anybody who's ever played there or broadcast from there, Fowler signed that, signed that. Or didn't play there like Joel McHale. Yeah. We should have asked Al Michaels to sign that because I'm sure he's called a game at the Rose Bowl.

44:06Rich Eisen:Oh, yeah. Has to have. The Super Bowl, I'm sure. Yeah. He's had to have. Yeah. Or Jerry Maguire was at the Rose Bowl. That's right. Well, if Tom Cruise ever comes in here, we'll have him sign those things. listen Mike I know I've given you a lot of crap for your dumb ass Yankee Met hat I mean Yankee Dodger justified to the point where who made it their new era made it their April 1st they saw the show I'm convinced I feel the same but I now need a Yankee Phillies Oh, come on. This is gross. Why is it gross? This is gross. Why is it gross? Because it's the Phillies. I understand it's the Phillies, but one of the greatest human beings ever placed on planet Earth, Don Mattingly, Donald Arthur Mattingly, Donald Donnie Baseball, has been named the interim manager of the Philadelphia Phillies.

45:09Rich Eisen:that has happened because the phillies have fallen and they cannot get up and they're they're only being held up by the new york metropolitans it's a long season well it's insane so we got time there are letters there are letters and google it what it means oh there's an actually there's a new show i believe on uh on hbo called DFL New York. Or DFL Queens. It's not New York. Put it up on the screen. Let's take a look. Okay. I don't know if these have been updated. Oh, okay. These are recent. That's 10 under. 10 under. The Red Sox have won three in a row. Two in a row since they bounced their manager.

45:58Rich Eisen:Maybe the Phillies will have that with Donnie Baseball. Oh, the Yankees have won again 19 and 10. I mean there's 134 games. We decided sir you can keep saying that. I will. We decided we were going to talk about this baseball season as if it was a football season where every game is life or death and is indicative of somebody's success or failure for the entire season. We said we were going to do it. We're doing it. We all agreed and we're going to do it. And in that respect, the Yankees' number three prospect, Elmer Rodriguez, has just been called up to pitch on Wednesday. And the Martian. And Garrett Cole's coming back.

46:41Rich Eisen:And Carlos Radon is coming back. And Max Freed, if it wasn't for Jose Soriano, would be the Major League Baseball pitcher for the month of April in the American League. And there's Schlittler. And Aaron Judge hit his 11th. And Ben Rice hit his 10th. And together, if you want to do the math, help me out here. 10 plus 11. It's 21. Is that one more than 20? 21. Which is the grand total number of home runs hit by the New York Metropolitans as of right now.

47:15Tom Pelissero:Blackjack.

47:16Rich Eisen:So two Yankees together have more than the entire Mets team. 100. Electively. And Don Mattingly is managing a baseball team in Philadelphia. And let's just keep an eye on all of that. that you're going to pretend to root for now. What do you mean pretend? Why is it okay for you to do it, but I can't do it? Even last year when he was on the Blue Jays, it was killing me to root against them when the Yankees were playing him. Just saying. It's a little hypocritical. My daughter's middle name is Mattingly. That's all right. My middle name is Sixer. Actually, right now, mud. Right now, it's mud. Soto.

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