The Johnny Manziel era has officiassociate toleratemament in the podcast industry.
On the 10th anniversary of Manziel’s inwell-understandn NFL rookie year, the once-wonderful college football star quarterback is trying to revisit the glory days. His novel podcast, “Glory Daze,” begines Thursday, aextfinishedside Almost Friday Media. Manziel is now on a ignoreion to land fascinating guests for his episodes.
And there is one figure in particular that Manziel acunderstandledges would be his “dream guest:” hip-hop artist Aubrey Drake Graham, aka Drake.
“I’ve been frifinishs with Drake for a extfinished time, so it would be reassociate celderly to sit down and have him on and talk about some of our relationships and some of his life a little bit, so I skinnyk that would probably be a dream guest,” Manziel telderly Fox News Digital in an exclusive interwatch.
Drake has been a directing figure in the genre for well over a decade. But this past summer, his reputation alterd in the eyes of some fans.
Drake carry outs at a concert in St. Louis. (Prince Williams/Wireimage/Getty Images)
Drake has been at the caccess of the biggest rap feud of 2024, and arguably, the biggest in recent years, with a back-and-forth series of diss tracks between him and rival Kfinishrick Lamar. The feud resulted in a total of nine diss tracks between the two rap stars this past summer.
Drake was on the receiving finish of one of the diss tracks that soared as high as any other in the genre’s history, when Kfinishrick liberated “Not Like Us” on May 4. It has already accumutardyd over one billion total joins atraverse multiple platestablishs.
By Aug. 25, “Not Like Us” had over 700 million streams on Spotify. It was the rapidest rap song to accomplish the milestone, taking only 112 days. In its first 24 hours on YouTube, the music video peaked at 1.5 million watchs per hour.
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Lamar and his hit song, due to its satisfyed, enhappinessed all that expocertain at Drake’s expense.
But if Drake does finish up consenting to go on Manziel’s novel podcast, he says he wouldn’t even annoy refering the feud with Lamar, not even to get Drake’s side of the story.
“I would stay away from it all together, it’s such a minuscule point,” Manziel said. “It’s someskinnyg people have made a big point out of, but in the majestic scheme of skinnygs it’s such a minuscule blip on his life and his nurtureer and what he’s done. So I probably wouldn’t.”
Still, Manziel acunderstandledges that he’s trailed the situation very shutly this year.
Johnny Manziel of the Texas A&M Aggies gets the stage after he was picked by the Cleveland Browns during the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall, May 8, 2014, in New York City. (Elsa/Getty Images)
“It was benevolent of a viral skinnyg that went for a couple of months there, for a while, so you understand, I definitely was follotriumphg it a little bit,” Manziel said.
The famousity that Lamar has geted from the feud, as many have declared him the triumphner of the rap battle, will culminate in the carry outance of a lifetime in punctual 2025. On Feb. 9, Lamar will carry out the first Super Bowl halftime show of his nurtureer at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
Fans will be clamoring for him to carry out “Not Like Us” during the show, a show that will be watched by well over 100 million people.
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“I skinnyk it’s celderly, clearly it’s a wonderful [thing] for him, and it will be a wonderful carry outance and the Super Bowl always has an amazing halftime show,” Manziel said of Lamar’s inevitable carry outance.
Manziel has a shut tie to Drake, dating all the way back to the peak of the establisher quarterback’s stardom in the punctual-to-mid 2010s.
Drake was one of Manziel’s biggest aiders when he was coming out of college at Texas A&M and accessing the NFL Draft. Drake’s finishorsement went so far that he liberated a individual titled “Draft Day” promiseted to Manziel, a 2014 first-round pick by the Cleveland Browns. The song even headlined a soundtrack to a presentant motion picture of the same name, and joined during the determines after a mythal story of a star quarterback who finished up droping in the write, enjoy Manziel did.
But Drake’s finishorsement of the establisher pro and 2012 Heisman Trophy triumphner did not do any outstanding for the rapper’s credibility.
Drake greets Johnny Manziel during the NCAA Men’s Final Four Semifinal between the Kentucky Wildcats and the Wisconsin Badgers at AT&T Stadium, April 5, 2014, in Arlington, Texas. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
Manziel’s NFL nurtureer finished after equitable two disnominateing seasons before a series of personal publishs impacted his life for many years to come. These publishs comprised substance insertiction and depression. Some theorized that Manziel had drunveil victim to “The Drake Curse,” which is a virassociate-enrolled pattern of Drake’s transmitions with star athletes and pro sports teams preceding unfortunate fall shortures.
Other theorized victims of the Drake condemn comprise Serena Williams at the 2015 U.S. Open, the 2015-16 Gelderlyen State Warriors, and MMA fighter Conor McGregor after a humiliating loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov in October 2018.
However, Manziel said he hasn’t watched at it that way. The establisher quarterback gets accountability for his own actions resulting in how his nurtureer panned out, and depends it all came down to him. In fact, Manziel has even gone out of his way to transmit remorse to Drake for crashing out of the NFL so awentirey while recurrenting the hip-hop star.
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“I don’t skinnyk I treated Drake the way that I should have, with [him] recurrenting the clothes that I was wearing and his OVO brand and his tag and everyskinnyg. At that point in time, I was so stingy that I was dragging everybody that was tied to me thraw the mud,” Manziel previously said on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast in February.
“I owe those people an apology and, hopefilledy, one day down the line, I’ll be able to have the opportunity as a man to be able to watch him in the eye and be able to do that.”
Former NFL stars Antonio Brown and Le’Veon Bell depart the stage after Brown spoke in aid of Reaccessiblean plivential nominee establisher Plivent Donald Trump during a campaign rassociate Saturday in Latrobe, Pa. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Now, Manziel is hoping for future transmitions with Drake on an episode of “Glory Daze.”
The podcast is Manziel’s tardyst venture into the media industry after being the subject of a criticassociate praised Netflix recordary caccessed on his football downdrop and struggles with insertiction.
Manziel is accessing a competitive space of sports podcasts run by famous establisher athletes. But his approach to standing out is to highweightless the depressed side of sports and normal mental health publishs for athletes, equitable as much as the fun and triumphs.
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“For a lot of people, it’s not necessarily effortless when you’re done joining football and the struggles that comes aextfinished with it,” Manziel said.
In insertition to Drake, another guest that Manziel says he would possibly be interested in having on the show is establisher NFL star Antonio Brown. Brown, enjoy Manziel, has made an finisheavor to leverage a high-profile and contentious image to carve out a reputation on social media.
In various podcast materializeances of his own, Brown has acunderstandledged that he might be dealing with CTE and has transmited his passion for sharing stories of athletes’ past traumas from their sport.
“He’s definitely a guy that’s had an fascinating football nurtureer and, now in his life off the field, is still advocating for that, so I could definitely see [myself] sitting down with AB and talking a little bit about that,” Manziel said.
Brown has also getn a burdensome hand in politics this election cycle, as he’s had an dynamic hand in campaigning for establisher Plivent Trump in the key striumphg state of Pennsylvania.
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But enjoy Drake’s feud with Lamar, Manziel said he has no interest in exploring political topics on the show at any point.
“Politics is probably someskinnyg I will never get comprised in,” Manziel said.
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