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So I keep getting these emails from Tom Brady.

Oh, as it happens.

As it happens, your subscriber as well.

I am.

Yeah, to $1.99, his very exclusive mailing list, which we get updates about his trips to Japan. Exactly. How to make a margarita. How to make a margarita. How to refute what Scottie Schaeffler said about fatherhood. You know, that's why I talk about families being my priority because it really is. You know, I'm blessed to be able to come out here and play golf, but if my golf ever started affecting my home life or it ever affected the relationship I have with my wife or with my son, you know, that's going to be the last day that I play out here for a living. You know, this is not the be all, end all. This is not the most important thing in my life. And that's why I wrestle with,

why is this so important to me? Because, you know, I would much rather be a great father than I

would be a great golfer.

So I just need to clarify up top here that you're about to get an episode that was inspired

less by the public vulnerability of Scotty Sheffler,

the reigning number one golfer in the world, and more by the fact that the NFL season is

almost upon us. And I have been preparing for it, in part, by devouring a new book that was

written and reported by my guest today,

Seth Wickersham of ESPN,

who happens to understand the most glamorous job in America at this point,

better than probably any journalist alive.

And so, I think this is a way into it, into American Kings, a biography of the quarterback, which is a delight and as much about not football as it is about football in some ways.

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