COLIN KAEPERNICK Talks His Failures, Gay Teammates, Jay-Z
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Why does the show open with a joke about the national anthem and “Marsh Madness”?
I have a question for you. Do you think the the uh Sars Spangled Banner is a good song? No. You just think as a song it's whack. Yeah, it's a bad song. Do you th what would be a better song? Just if you were gonna choose a a ma just let's assume America's not being bad anymore. Let's assume it's we're loving it, we're cooking, right? And we you wanna give us our theme.
Hmm.
Marsh Madness. Great is great choice. Yeah, yeah.
You got a legacy position. Quarterback on the Niners. Yes. That's like American royalty. This is Colin Kaepernick, former quarterback for the San Francisco forty Niners. Civil rights leader, and it turns out he's a real sweetie. Who's cooler, uh young or or uh Montana?
They ain't really come around much. Who like has more aura? Uh as a guy. I would say Joe. Joe, yeah. You can't his his legacy is like Yeah. Yeah, I just went out and I won Super Bowls.
Ten years ago he led a protest that became international news. And most recently he's written a book about it called The Perilous Fight. Uh yeah, print the questions. I hate my life, dude. Wow. Wow. Can I think everyone all right. Shut the fuck up, dude. If I was on Sunday you played in the Super Bowl. You started at quarterback in the Super Bowl in your first like what seven
games. Game t game ten of starting was the Super Bowl. So go
Oh my god, and your coach was playing his brother? Yeah. Oh my god. And on the other side of the field there was Ed Reed and Ray Lewis. It's the scariest thing ever. I'm Adam Friedland and welcome back. to the Adam Friedland Show, as Colin Kaepernick put it. Next month I'll be at Comedy Works in Denver, and in November, catch me at the New York Comedy Festival, Town Hall. Tickets are still available. Adamfried dot show.
At that point in time, like Ray, we weren't worried about he was on the tail end of his career. Like I would
worry. I don't know about the game, but I would worry.
No, we're ac we're actually sorry. We were trying to get him in space. Like that was part of the game plan.
Not in Atlanta, hopefully.
Um, but
Space is better than us. Well guys, Colin Kaepernick for TV One. University of of Nevada, Reno, Wolfback, a bullshit school that stinks. Of course we all know that the UNLV Running Rebels, the best the best college f uh the football program is dog shit there. We they've never been good at football. Basketball we cooked.
We we were always excited to play U and L B.
Yeah,
yeah. It was it was gonna be a good game for us.
Uh I also love how much you know about football. I love ball so much. Get can I tell you something? Just this is a good theme for the conversation. In the context of activism, uh just the way sports makes me feel. Uh independent of that. Yeah. It just makes me forget how s shitty life is a lot of the time. And it's like you guys are ready to do so much for us. What's come across in my research, I'll stop talking after this, is the difference between your experience as being someone that does the thing and my experience as being someone that appreciates it. So like for me, I like the fact that if I'm sitting next to some redneck dumbass, right, and we are rooting for the same team, I like the fact that for that three hours, we're like squad.
Right? That's really beautiful to me. But for you, you're a human being that lives in the real world and the expectation of you to not be a human being that lives in the real world is unfair.
Yeah. I mean, I think simply put, like, no one wants to see how the sausage is made.
Yeah. Or
what goes on behind the scenes. Like they just want to see the end product. And the and product is amazing. Like it's entertaining, it's competitive, it's all of those things. And there is that element of, yeah, when you show up and you're you're cheering for the same team, like you have a camaraderie around that city or the team or the players you're cheering for. But there's also the reality of the players of like, yes, that's going on also. As soon as I step off this field. I still have to operate within society.
Obviously you were you just got fucked. Like you you just got you properly just got fucked and in front of everyone and it was we were all like, What the fuck?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why does the show open with a joke about the national anthem and “Marsh Madness”?
0:01–7:44
2
How did Colin Kaepernick’s early years as a backup quarterback shape his career?
7:44–14:43
3
What was the turning point that led Kaepernick to start in the Super Bowl and the NFC Championship?
14:43–21:11
4
How did the 2016 protests and Kaepernick’s activism affect his NFL standing?
21:11–26:40
5
What is the dynamic of locker‑room culture and diversity among NFL players?
26:40–33:17
6
Who are the most influential NFL owners and how do they impact player rights?
33:17–42:11
7
What are Kaepernick’s plans after football – business, education, and media projects?
42:11–49:44
8
Where does Kaepernick see the civil‑rights movement and athlete activism today?
49:44–56:09