Pat McAfee regrets Aaron Rodgers tying Jimmy Kimmel to Jeffrey Epstein

Pat McAfee gets it. Not everyone will love having their name sharing space with a plane called “The Lolita Express,” especially when they’re a talk show host on your sister network. Yesterday was a nightmare scenario for McAfee, the host of ESPN’s The Pat McAfee sports talk show. As is his wont, McAfee invited famed conspiracy theorist and Super Bowl champion Aaron Rodgers onto his show for a “freewheeling” conversation about the recently deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, a guy everyone loves to be associated with these days. Rodgers did his part by insinuating that Jimmy Kimmel would be listed on the flight logs from Epstein’s private jet. After the clip hit the internet, Kimmel threatened to sue Rodgers.

But The Pat McAfee Show is “an uplifting one,” or so McAfee’s apology tweet insists. The Pat McAfee Show is a place where the boys can “talk shit and try to make light of everything,” including, we guess, the Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking saga and the dozens of women’s lives ruined by him. McAfee, who throughout the COVID-19 pandemic gave Rodgers a soapbox to promote ivermectin, insists that he doesn’t like being associated with “anything negative ever” and that he regrets besmirching the good name of, arguably, his parent company’s most important star. One can only assume that as soon as Rodgers brought up Jeffrey Epstein, McAfee believed the conversation was headed in a positive direction and decided to let the normally mild-mannered Rodgers rap for a little while.

Nevertheless, despite donning sleeves for the occasion of this very important apology, McAfee “can’t wait to hear what Aaron has to say about it,” hoping that Rodgers and Kimmel will “just be able to settle this” and learn to “chit chat” and “move along.” Yes, we all look forward to Kimmel and Rodgers continuing this very illuminating and necessary conversation.