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The Viall Files

E1001 – Going Deeper with Jessie James and Eric Decker

The Viall Files

Nick Viall

Society & Culture, Relationships, After Shows, Tv & Film

424.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Welcome back to The Viall Files: Going Deeper edition. 

You know them, you like them, and after this interview, you'll love them. Jessie James and Eric Decker join the show for a deep dive into their relationship, parenting, having children in the public eye, their time on Special Forces, and more! You won't want to miss it. 

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You're crazy.

2:00.8

You're crazy. I don't text your ex, happy birthday. Written by yours truly. Oh wow. You need to copy that. Yeah, yeah. You texting your exes a lot? We don't have any. That's not safe. Do you even have any? I feel like I've been together ever so long. He really doesn't. Well, Jesse, Eric, welcome to the show. Yeah, that's great to have you guys. Yeah, I'm excited to have you both. Ever since I had this show, certainly have known about you both as a couple, as individuals. I'm a huge football fan. So certainly I've followed your career, Eric. And Jesse, obviously, is a member of pop culture. Certainly, many of our audience members are huge fans of you guys. And so we're just excited to have you, you know, just kind of get to know you guys a little bit better. You guys were on special forces as a couple. Yes. And obviously like with this show, Nali and I, you know, I work with my wife. I brought around in the show, you know, once we got together. I'm always just like excited and interested to talk to like couples like you who, you know,

2:05.8

publicly facing, you know, present such a united front.

2:09.2

You know, you guys present as a team and seemingly work as a team.

2:12.7

And I think, especially nowadays, I think it's just really important to highlight all the people who make that effort in their relationship,

2:21.8

knowing just how much, I don't know much about your guys' relationship, what you guys do behind closed doors,

2:27.6

but I do know that if you guys are making it work, you guys bust your ass to make your relationship work,

2:32.5

because I feel like that's how, that's what it takes.

2:35.6

And so, yeah, just excited to have you guys and just get to get, have my audience get to know you guys a little bit better. But so welcome. Thank you. Yeah. I liked that intro. It was so deep to begin with. It was so deep. Yeah, well, it's called going deeper, you know. I love it. When you said behind closed doors, I was thinking, just making babies going to get.

2:51.9

You did.

2:52.8

You would go there.

2:54.0

You would go there.

2:54.6

Oh, good. I love it. I love it. When you said behind closed doors, I was thinking, just making babies go. You did. You would go there. You would go there. Well, you know. That's part of it. That is part of it. A big part. I mean, I was thinking about that last night, like thinking about you guys. You know, I'm a new father. I'm 44. A river is only 19 months. I've always wanted to be a dad my whole life,

3:09.0

but obviously it wasn't until I got married, met Natalie, that it felt like the right time.

3:14.1

I got to say, you know, as someone who's always wanted to be a dad, what being a dad meant to me

3:19.1

is this like, or being a husband is having something in your life that, quite honestly, like you love more than

3:26.3

yourself. Like, you know, there's that selfless energy where you wake up and, you know,

3:30.6

you wake up with a purpose outside of like, what do I need to do for me today? You know, like,

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