Jon Runyan: From Congress, to Uber, to Executive
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
It’s a lively debut episode! Former Pro Bowl offensive lineman Jon Runyan joins co-hosts Peanut Tillman and Roman Harper to discuss his many second acts, including his run as a two-term congressperson in New Jersey (1:30), and what he’s most proud of during his time in Washington, DC (11:37). Jon also revealed why, of all the jobs he could have, he decided to do a stint as an Uber driver (17:01), and a hint…it wasn’t because he needed money. He also talked about his path to his current role with the NFL (21:10). Peanut and Roman have fun with Jon and find out what his splurge purchase was when he was drafted (26:01), his favorite playing moment in the NFL (26:14) who’s on his personal Mount Rushmore (27:11), and why he calls his life “awesome” (28:36). Jon also shares his daily affirmations, and how they’ve guided his positive outlook since his NFL playing days ended (31:21).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. All right. Peter, you can get us going in a minute once I get out of here. No music, so you can just start the top. Yeah, because that music intro was a disaster for me last time. I was like, huh? He had no rhythm. No rhythm. I do have. No flow. I got rhythm. |
| 0:21.4 | I got rhythm. |
| 0:22.6 | I just, I didn't hear him right. |
| 0:24.7 | When the beat drop, I was like, all right. |
| 0:26.6 | Whatever. |
| 0:27.6 | All right. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm going to hit it in five, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:37.3 | Welcome to the NFL player second acts podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Peanut Tillman and I got my guy Roman Harper with me. |
| 0:44.3 | What's going on Rome? |
| 0:45.3 | Oh man, I'm living my dream up here in Chicago. |
| 0:48.3 | My wife has a marathon coming up. |
| 0:50.3 | Our first as a family. |
| 0:52.3 | So we're not subbing in. |
| 0:53.3 | She's doing all of it by herself. So I'm looking forward to cheering her own, brother. It's going to be a great time. And I got work in between. It's good, though. All right, it's cool. Yeah. So this show was about players and their post-NFL careers and what they're doing right now. And today, we have a very special guest. This guy played 13 years in NFL, played in two |
| 1:14.4 | Super Bowls. He's a former all-pro left tackle. And in 2021, he was inducted to the Philadelphia |
| 1:21.6 | Eagles ring of honor. Y'all show some love for John Runya. John's going on. |
| 1:29.5 | It's all good. |
| 1:31.8 | Another day in the grind, you know what I mean? |
| 1:33.9 | Another day in the grind. |
| 1:35.0 | So you're an interesting player because you retired back in 2009. |
| 1:42.2 | And unlike Roman and myself, you kind of got into something like really, really, |
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