The most shocking things we learned from the Aaron Rodgers documentary
The Sports Gossip Show
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4.8 • 740 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Madeline and Charlotte watched Enigma, that three-hour long documentary about Aaron Rodgers on Netflix and are telling you what they thought about it.
It’s quite an experience: the footage takes viewers along with Rodgers as he contemplates becoming Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, as he tries to return to the football field with the New York Jets after tearing his Achilles tendon, and as he does Ayahuasca in Costa Rica. Rodgers also touches on his brother Jordon’s appearance on The Bachelorette, where Jordan revealed that Aaron and his family are no longer on speaking terms.
The gals also figured out the key to Rodgers’ happiness using astrocartography. Find another podcast doing that.
The series itself was pretty boring, but it was fascinating to look at the broader meaning of the whole project. What is a true documentary? Why do we still watch stuff about and care about Aaron Rodgers? Why does this series perpetuate dangerous ideas that don’t get fact-checked? And what does it all say about us as a society?
All that and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Look a little. Oh, I'm too tall right now, aren't I? I look like a drowned rat a little bit. There we go. But like a smart ground rat. You look like a beautiful drowned rat. Thank you so much. I don't think you look like one at all. You just look like you're a woman on vacation. On a Friday. On a Friday who's going to get groceries at an overpriced grocery store for her country home. |
| 0:23.5 | That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. |
| 0:24.8 | You really are looking like that. |
| 0:47.7 | We're back. we are back a bonus episode a bonus episode uh which is going to be our biggest longest erin rogers update of all time unfortunately or fortunately depending on who you are. |
| 0:54.3 | Who you are. |
| 0:57.6 | So we watched the Netflix doc. |
| 1:00.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.1 | Doc in air quotes. |
| 1:03.1 | Emphasis on the air quotes. |
| 1:04.4 | Enigma. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.0 | Produced by Religion of Sports, directed by Gotham Tropic and Liam Hughes. |
| 1:10.6 | Yep. About Aaron Rogers we did it's |
| 1:13.7 | three episodes why I don't know we'll get into it there's so much happened in this documentary |
| 1:23.0 | and nothing happened that is what blew my mind yeah because as you're watching it you'll sort of be like, oh, whoa, that's wild. And then you think about it after. And I just want to give you credit, Madeline, because before when we talked about this doc on our regular weekly episode, you said, I just don't think I'm going to learn anything new. Yeah. And I don't think we learned anything new. |
| 1:45.6 | No, no. |
| 1:46.8 | I don't think I learned anything new. |
| 1:48.8 | We'll get into our takeaways at the end. |
| 1:50.6 | I have takeaways from it. |
| 1:53.3 | But it more just confirmed what I kind of already suspected. |
| 1:56.7 | And I guess maybe a depth, maybe like, I think the new thing that I came away from it feeling was like kind of sorry for Aaron Rogers. Yeah. It made me sad about him where it's easier to think of him as like, look at this wacko guy saying crazy stuff. Yeah. But you spend that much time with him and you're like, oh, this is kind of a bummer. It's a bummer. Like it doesn't excuse any of the things he said or done. No. but you are like yeah you're like oh this is kind of a bummer it's a bummer like it doesn't excuse any of the things he said or done no but you are like yeah you're like but |
| 2:23.0 | there were also some very funny details yeah should we get into yeah let's do it so let's |
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