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🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Recorded: August 26, 2024 | In this Best of the Bus episode, the boys landed a true White Whale of a guest — the one and only Peyton Manning. Peyton invited Will and Taylor to his Knoxville bar, Saloon 16, to sit down for an interview in what could only be described as a “Peyton Manning Museum” of a room. Everywhere you looked on the walls, there was a legendary moment from the two-time Super Bowl champion’s career.
Peyton opened up about growing up as a Manning and the advice and wisdom his father, Archie, passed down to him. He reflected on his decision to attend Tennessee over Ole Miss, how he approached leadership through the lens of his father and other mentors, and what life had been like after stepping away from the game.
The boys also touched on Peyton’s work in the sports media world, with Omaha Productions making huge moves in digital and broadcast content. His hit show, The Manning Cast, which he co-hosts with his brother Eli, had become a Monday night staple, and Peyton was looking to build on that success.
Of course, Will and Taylor kept things light, digging into Peyton’s rumored history of pulling epic team pranks over the years — and even questioning if Eli might be the real “King of Pranks” in the Manning household.
From Knoxville to Denver to Indy, Peyton left every city better than he found it, both with his on-field greatness and his humility off it. Looking back on his stat sheet, awards, and iconic moments, it’s easy to see why so many around the world considered him one of the greatest of all time.
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0:00.0 | And here's Heather with the weather. |
0:01.7 | Well, it's beautiful out there, sunny and 75, almost a little chilly in the shade. |
0:07.1 | Now, let's get a read on the inside of your car. |
0:10.6 | It is hot. |
0:11.9 | You've only been parked a short time, and it's already 99 degrees in there. |
0:16.4 | Let's not leave children in the back seat while running errands. |
0:19.2 | It only takes a few minutes for their |
0:21.1 | body temperatures to rise, and that could be fatal. Cars get hot, fast, and can be deadly. Never leave |
0:27.4 | a child in a car. A message from Nitzin the ad council. Boys, on this best of the bus episode, |
0:32.5 | the sheriff himself, Peyton Manning invited us down to Saloon 16 in Knoxville for an all-timer. We got to talk about what it was like growing up of Manning, why he chose Tennessee over Ole Miss, and how Archie helped shape his view of the leadership. Payton also gave us some insight in his life after football, building Omaha Productions, and turning the Manning cast into a much-watch TV. And yes, if you are wondering, we get into the prank wars between him and his brother, Eli. Boy, this one's special. Tap in, enjoy the ride. Let's have a good day. And while you're here, subscribe on subscriber, resubscribe. One of our biggest guests we've ever had. No question about it. Maybe the biggest, although Dale Earnhardt, Jr. That was a big one. Yeah, that's a big one. |
1:48.1 | Love Jr. But Peyton Manning, welcome to Buston with the Bull. Hey, thank you all. Thank you all for having me. Appreciate that. I honored. Very honored. Just kick us off, brother. Walking in this room, like, honestly, it's a rhetorical question, but I'm going to ask it anyway, did you ever think that you would leave a legacy like this because like you come from a football family like you're growing up you have all the footage where you're playing in the backyard stuff that like when i'm young and i'm watching you get you and your brother get talked about and archie to where you see all the footage and you just know that little kid in you that loves the game so much and making such an impact that you've made on this game like do you ever just sit there and like try to take a moment to take it in i'm very grateful and honored for the teams and organizations |
1:55.6 | that i was a part of but i cherish my four years here at tennessee and no i mean, you have no idea that you're going to have this connection |
2:04.8 | and relationship with the university 30 years after I came here back in 1994. |
2:11.0 | But I love coming back. |
2:12.4 | I stayed four years in college. |
2:14.7 | Will, I think people here in Knoxville and Tennessee probably remember that |
2:19.2 | more than anything, more than a throw or a touchdown that I turned the NFL down for a year to |
2:24.9 | stay one more year in college, which spoke a lot about how much I love the university in the |
2:31.8 | whole school and the whole place in order to stay here. So it's fun to come back. I love coming back to games. And, yeah, this place, after I got drafted by the Colts, I was moving out of my college apartment, my mom came up and basically we moved all of my college stuff. Just put them into a, like a storage unit. And just, it's been sitting here for like 20 years and opened this kind of hotel bar and I said I got a bunch of my mom kind of things is junk it's in this storage unit yeah y'all can dig in there so they went and I said all this stuff is that's what my mom thought of this stuff it was all basically garbage but anyway it's fun to come back that's awesome with choosing Tennessee like your old man obviously went to Ole Miss. What was your recruiting process like way back in 94? Yeah, that was |
3:12.8 | hard. I mean, for years, Taylor, I thought Ole Miss was the only school that ever existed, right? I grew up |
3:17.8 | in New Orleans. Of course, you know, LSU was probably the top school in the state, but |
3:22.9 | Ole Miss were the games we went to on the |
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