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We’re doing things a little differently this week. Instead of a normal episode dropping Tuesday, we have a special bonus ep to get you through until we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming on January 7th.
Which is to say that we followed through on our promise (more like threat, really) to watch Enigma, that three-hour long documentary about Aaron Rodgers on Netflix and to tell you what we thought about it.
We would argue that it’s more like an extended, behind-the-scenes Get Ready With Me than a doc, but you can hear about that on the show.
It’s quite an experience: the footage takes viewers along with Rodgers as he contemplates becoming Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, as he tries to return to the football field with the New York Jets after tearing his Achilles tendon, and as he does Ayahuasca in Costa Rica. Rodgers also touches on his brother Jordon’s appearance on The Bachelorette, where Jordan revealed that Aaron and his family are no longer on speaking terms.
We also figured out the key to Rodgers’ happiness using Astrocartography.
Find us another podcast doing that.
The series itself was pretty boring, but it was fascinating to look at the broader meaning of the whole project. What is a true documentary? Why do we still watch stuff about and care about Aaron Rodgers? Why does this series perpetuate dangerous ideas that don’t get fact-checked? And what does it all say about us as a society?
Anyway, we hope you enjoy this deep dive, and let us know if there are other things you’d like us to review or check out for another special episode.
See you next year!
XOXO,
Sports Gossip Girls
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