Aaron Rodgers Is Done at the 'Pat McAfee' Show, and Pat McAfee Is 'Pumped'

By Dustin Rowles | TV | January 10, 2024 |

By Dustin Rowles | TV | January 10, 2024 |

The Pat McAfee Show has been around for a few years, and honestly, the only time I ever hear about it is when Aaron Rodgers is on it. I don’t know how instrumental Rodgers has been to its success, but I suspect he’s at least responsible for generating a lot of new viewers, many of whom decided to stick around.

But after this past week, Aaron Rodgers has been a bigger headache to The Pat McAfee Show than he has been a boon. Rodgers, who has been using the show to spread COVID misinformation for years, used his platform last week to joke that Jimmy Kimmel was on the Epstein list (despite what Aaron Rodgers would have you believe). That set off a week’s worth of headlines, and Pat McAfee contributed to them by calling out an ESPN executive who he believed was trying to sabotage his show.

Yesterday, Rodgers appeared for what will be the last time, at least for this season. He did not apologize to Jimmy Kimmel, but he did paint himself as a victim of cancel culture, as he so often does. He complained again that the mainstream media was out to get him while being paid $1 million to appear on a show that ESPN paid $85 million for the right to air on its network.

On today’s The Pat McAfee Show, McAfee announced that Rodgers would not appear again this season (I cannot imagine he’ll appear next season, either, considering the pain in the ass he’s created). Surprisingly, however, no one is happier than McAfee, who doesn’t like to generate national headlines on the regular or routinely pissing off people.

“We are very lucky to get a chance to chat with him and learn from him. Some of his thoughts and opinions, though, do piss off a lot of people, and I’m pumped that that is no longer gonna be every single Wednesday of my life, which it has been for the last few weeks.”

Unlike Joe Rogan, McAfee is not a shit-stirrer, and he doesn’t like the fact that Aaron Rodgers gave people an excuse to dislike his show. “Over the last week we have certainly given them all a lot of stuff to get mad about and become loud about, we’ve messed up in that particular aspect,” McAfee said.

What I appreciate most, however, is that McAfee also appears to understand what “freedom of speech” actually entails, unlike Mr. “The Mainstream Media is Trying to Cancel Me.”

“We’re a conversation show,” McAfee stated. “People are having conversations, we live in a country that has freedom of speech. But also you’re gonna have to deal with the consequences of your freedom of speech.”

Indeed. Stick to sports, Pat.

via THR