Chris Hetherington talks Palisades Fire evacuation and reclaiming his life, his journey to CEO of Fathead, being a Japanese basketball pioneer
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4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, former fullback Chris Hetherington joins Roman and Peanut. Chris explains how he transitioned from a college quarterback to an NFL fullback, why he got his MBA after he retired, and how he ended up running a Japanese basketball team. Chris talks about become the CEO of Fathead, how they’re trying to increase fan engagement, and how he leverages his relationships in the business world. He also shares the story of his family’s evacuation from the Palisades Fire and how they are dealing with the fallout.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | My wife and I were home at 10.30 in the morning when those fires started. |
| 0:09.0 | And we never thought our house was going to burn down. |
| 0:12.5 | And at one point, it was traveling five football fields a minute. |
| 0:23.0 | Thank you for tuning in Ann. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm Peanut Tillman, and this is the NFL players second acts podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | And with me, as always, my guy Roman Harper. |
| 0:31.3 | What's up? |
| 0:31.9 | What's up, man? |
| 0:32.7 | It's been a great day. |
| 0:34.2 | You got all the energy this morning. |
| 0:38.4 | I feel like this is going to be another fantastic podcast sit down just because of our guests, a highly, highly intriguing person that's been very successful in life. |
| 0:43.2 | And I don't think everybody knows as much as they need to know about this, man. Well, that's why |
| 0:47.4 | we got this podcast, and we're going to dive into that. 11 NFL seasons, he's a Yale graduate, worked |
| 0:53.2 | in finance, owned a Japanese basketball team. |
| 0:56.8 | Now he's a current CEO of Fathead. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the pod, Chris Heatherington. |
| 1:03.7 | Thank you guys. Great to be here. Appreciate you having me. |
| 1:06.2 | Appreciate you. I feel like every time I've seen you in an interview, you always got like a hat on your hair. Like that's just like the stoic look. Like it's just, what's up? What's up? Well, that and I'm bald. We wouldn't know because you got the hat. It's a good look for you though. It's a little dope look for you. I like it. Chris, at what point in time you say, you know what? Because everybody has to make that decision as a bald brother you |
| 1:28.4 | know what I mean like when do you let it go it's funny you know I had long hair towards it towards the |
| 1:33.1 | tail end of my career and you can see my hair line was receding a little bit I never forget I was in |
| 1:38.1 | practice one day and eric davis who's my one of my former teammates dback you guys know him |
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