Alex Rodriguez (A‑Rod)

My cool throne this week could be – some could interpret this as cool.

Yeah, I'm Dan.

Look, I've known you a while, and thanks for having me on your show.

Obviously, I'm a huge fan of your show.

You guys are killing it.

And you guys kind of wrote the book on just being authentic, right?

And I think I've been overwhelmed with how positive, honestly, the response was.

I got a little PTSD that everything I do, I think you're going to get slammed, and this has been the exact opposite.

But...

I thought it was important to do this now because my daughters are now, you know, 21 and 17.

I wanted them to make sure they were okay with it.

And not only were they okay with it, they were excited about it.

And my young daughter Ella said to me,

who you've met she said alex uh i mean dad if you're gonna do this we're gonna do this we're gonna be raw we're gonna be real and we don't want to see any more apology tours we this is our story and that's it and uh i thought reflecting back on it as i think about you know the next generation of young athletes young women young men uh really anyone in between the the ability to talk about mental health is a really important topic and i hopefully can inspire and save some people's

you know, future.

I think, yeah, it's a great question.

I think everything, really.

I mean, when you let it eat like that, I mean, some of my teammates called me and go, dude, what the hell?

I didn't know about your father.

I'm like, nobody knows about my father, right?