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Speaker 1: fan of Welcome to the Calm Down Podcast. By the way,
Speaker 1: guys will get that in. You're not a big fan
Speaker 1: of National Lampoons vacation, right, You're more of a Christmas
Speaker 1: vacation kind of gal. Yeah, I'm only vacation and well
Speaker 1: I'll mix in a Wally's world. The reason I was
Speaker 1: looking at this before I introduced everybody, everyone, me and
Speaker 1: all my personalities and you to the podcast, I was
Speaker 1: looking at the height differential. Do we need to lower
Speaker 1: this chair? Why am I so much higher in my
Speaker 1: chair than you? You look great? I don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: just too close. Oh no, it's like it's anyways, who cares? Um? Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I'm Christmas vacation all the way. I need to have
Speaker 1: a night with you, Kendra and I and Steve. Oh,
Speaker 1: anyone that's in town that wants to do um, we
Speaker 1: should watch them all? How many are there? Anyways? I
Speaker 1: don't get past National Lampoons. The reason why I bring
Speaker 1: up National Lampoons that's part of it. The that's a
Speaker 1: scene in it where they start singing in the car
Speaker 1: Jimmy creccorn and I don't care so anyways, but yeah,
Speaker 1: how many are there? I don't know. Our family loves
Speaker 1: National Lampoon's vacation. I don't get into Vegas. I don't
Speaker 1: get into the other ones or the European one. I
Speaker 1: get into that. In Christmas, how are you? More importantly,
Speaker 1: how are you? How is your house in Nashville? And
Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers to everybody that dealt with Ida. Man,
Speaker 1: hurricanes are pain in the ass. I'll I'm glad that
Speaker 1: you said that first and foremost. With the thoughts and
Speaker 1: prayers to everybody that was directly impacted from Ida. I mean,
Speaker 1: my heart just goes out to everyone on the golf cours.
Speaker 1: They I mean, they just I mean over and over again.
Speaker 1: But it just goes to show the resiliency because my
Speaker 1: thought is, oh my gosh, why do we keep rebuilding
Speaker 1: there or why do we go back and live there
Speaker 1: after your house has been you know, and to think
Speaker 1: it was nearly on the you know, the anniversary of
Speaker 1: hurricane get Trina to think about that. Crazy people have
Speaker 1: been through this before and the devastation, but it goes
Speaker 1: back to this resiliency of individuals and that you don't
Speaker 1: want to leave home no matter what. That is your home,
Speaker 1: what your steak in the ground, and even if it
Speaker 1: gets torn up, you keep going back and rebuilding. So
Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers to everybody that was affected by that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for thinking. I'm second way secondary um in Nashville.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just some rain came through and and everything
Speaker 1: is good there. But thank you for asking your father
Speaker 1: who was you know, Aaron put Aaron put her dad
Speaker 1: and I on a text chain together because he is
Speaker 1: I mean, how many years at twenty something, thirty years
Speaker 1: plus maybe thirty. I'm so ignorant for not knowing. But literally,
Speaker 1: my dad moved us to Florida in the middle of
Speaker 1: Hurricane Elena, which was a massive hurricane that hit the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay area, and my poor mom had two little
Speaker 1: kids and my dad was running after a hurricane. But
Speaker 1: he knows so much. I mean, he's gone after you know,
Speaker 1: people that cleanly, insurance holders, he's gone after you know, um,
Speaker 1: you know people that are supposed to help you with
Speaker 1: your houses. So if you have a hurricane question, go
Speaker 1: to step Oh, he's the best with it. I had
Speaker 1: all kinds of questions and he had the greatest responses
Speaker 1: and was so helpful. So thank you Steve for all
Speaker 1: of your knowledge, which, by the way, I do zero
Speaker 1: of research before purchasing a home in any aream Like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean there's inclement weather of the South? Like,
Speaker 1: I've never lived in the South, so you know, living
Speaker 1: on the West Coast my whole life, it's either been
Speaker 1: earthquakes or fires, so it's like, you know, pick your poison.
Speaker 1: But anyways, thank you for asking. All is good buried
Speaker 1: the lead here. Though more importantly, you have been so
Speaker 1: incredibly open and candid with your your incredible article on
Speaker 1: Facebook and and everything that followed after that. What was
Speaker 1: the biggest reaction you got, Aaron, when you really came
Speaker 1: out and just said everything about your journey You've mentioned
Speaker 1: it here of course, but really opening up to the
Speaker 1: public about it. I think the biggest reaction was are
Speaker 1: you going to do interviews the next day with you know,
Speaker 1: so many different networks that called, and we said no,
Speaker 1: We're going to save it for the Calm Down podcast.
Speaker 1: So the reaction is, if you want a reaction, listen
Speaker 1: to the Calm Down podcast. Okay, people were fantastic. Wow.
Speaker 1: I mean the amount of um, you know, tweets I
Speaker 1: was getting, And the coolest part was from from everyone
Speaker 1: was fantastic. People that I knew, that I had worked with,
Speaker 1: that I didn't know, had gone through things. The amount
Speaker 1: of IVF trials people had done, like I was hearing
Speaker 1: nine to eight, like you know nine, the amount of
Speaker 1: miscarriages people had gone through. Again men, I was showing Jared.
Speaker 1: We were getting tweets from men saying, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for saying this. You know, men don't know how
Speaker 1: to deal with it either, or would they just want
Speaker 1: to be helpful with their women. Here's a picture of
Speaker 1: my IVF baby. And they were sending pictures of like
Speaker 1: their twenty seven year old kid, or them at a
Speaker 1: Cowboys game with their you know, six year old who
Speaker 1: was an IVF baby. It was really really special. The
Speaker 1: support was huge. I had said it the team. It's
Speaker 1: a group of people, it's men, it's women, it's a team.
Speaker 1: Infertility is a huge um discussion and huge problem. It's
Speaker 1: one in eight women that have the issue. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it was cool. I knew it would get a big
Speaker 1: reaction I just I didn't realize that how many people
Speaker 1: had gone through it and that we're just going to
Speaker 1: be so open about it. It It was really really cool. Um,
Speaker 1: I did get some crazy as messages. Do you want
Speaker 1: to help me? You told me to save it for
Speaker 1: the past, he said to me on the phone. This week.
Speaker 1: She was like, I have the craziest Some of these
Speaker 1: reactions are so crazy. And I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: save it. I need I need to know in real time,
Speaker 1: not in real time, save it, save it, save it,
Speaker 1: let's see. One of the things was God, I wish
Speaker 1: I knew I thought. I took a picture of it,
Speaker 1: one of the women wrote me, and I was blown away.
Speaker 1: I told my manager and my my girlfriend and my partner,
Speaker 1: Constant Schwartz Marini about it. This woman tweeted me or
Speaker 1: she DMed me and said, I would love you to
Speaker 1: take a look around the waiting rooms at fertility clinics
Speaker 1: and tell me are y'all too thin? Are you guys
Speaker 1: just all too thin? Put some meat on your bones
Speaker 1: and you'll have a baby. And I was like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't believe it. Yeah, it was pretty unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And then this other woman I had had a couple
Speaker 1: of cocktails when I responded to her, because I was like,
Speaker 1: I responded to one woman who was horrible. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: I had just gotten a reaction from somebody who was
Speaker 1: so lovely that I was friends with and actually my
Speaker 1: husband had played with her husband. And she just was like,
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you, thank you so much. This
Speaker 1: does not get enough attention. And this one woman was
Speaker 1: just like, who cares. Nobody wants to hear about it.
Speaker 1: Be a little bit more discreet with your private life.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to know. Maybe that's why you don't have kids.
Speaker 1: And I had been drinking and I just wrote, you're
Speaker 1: a real treat, and she goes, I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: be me. I'm just being honest. Just out of control.
Speaker 1: My favorite is I'm not trying to be mean. What
Speaker 1: the funk were you trying to be compassionate? Because that
Speaker 1: didn't meet the description good for you? I mean, it
Speaker 1: is what it is. No, it's not is what it is.
Speaker 1: It is what it shouldn't be on some of those things.
Speaker 1: And that's where it's like when people have said terrible
Speaker 1: things to me in a completely different space, like I
Speaker 1: just block them like, I mean, I give it to
Speaker 1: you to like respond back in a really nice way,
Speaker 1: because I would have been arrested with the response that
Speaker 1: I would have been given to that. Oh I know
Speaker 1: she did right. I normally a really nice person. Sorry
Speaker 1: I offended you, and I was just like, God, you're
Speaker 1: a loser, but whatever. I mean. Yeah, people are just
Speaker 1: my favorite on the when people write really really mean things,
Speaker 1: like terrible things, like things that you should mean. That
Speaker 1: is one of them. And then it says like, uh,
Speaker 1: proud father of two children or or a lover of
Speaker 1: Christ or whatever, and I'm like, well, God is not
Speaker 1: happy with you right now because this is not the
Speaker 1: loving way I mean, treat thy neighbor as thyself is
Speaker 1: not applying here, So maybe you should put your phone
Speaker 1: down and go back to church. I do like to
Speaker 1: go after those people a little bit that, yeah, have
Speaker 1: the picture of their kid and all the things, and
Speaker 1: I'm really a great person, and you're like are you?
Speaker 1: Are you? And say horrific things and I'm like, would
Speaker 1: you say that to your daughter that's in that picture
Speaker 1: with you? So no, I don't think, so so good
Speaker 1: for you for coming back. I actually give you a
Speaker 1: lot of credit for saying it in a very mild
Speaker 1: PG way. I know, I'm shocked I did, actually, but
Speaker 1: there I go. What maybe I'm turning a corner? You know. Well, look,
Speaker 1: NASCAR driver, you are not, but turning corners are now
Speaker 1: your thing. I'm proud of you. I love your having
Speaker 1: a huge community. And so for those small outliers that
Speaker 1: are just looking for attention or a reaction, they, you
Speaker 1: know what, can just go crawl under a different rock
Speaker 1: wherever they came from. It. Yeah, I love you and
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. Now let's turn our attention to
Speaker 1: the thing that I love more than national lampoons, more
Speaker 1: than a cocktail, and sometimes more than each other. Football
Speaker 1: is back, baby, college football, and there are no more
Speaker 1: preseason games in the NFL. We're only a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks away from you heading out to the row. She's
Speaker 1: holding up her Gator shirt For those of you that
Speaker 1: are listening to us, Um, here we go. Look, you
Speaker 1: went to Florida. There's Gator Trump and everything. Grab the
Speaker 1: dazzler pom poms. I went to school in Santa Barbara
Speaker 1: that is not a college football school at all. My
Speaker 1: boyfriend in college went to school at SC and that
Speaker 1: was during the mat Reggie Bush situation. So that was
Speaker 1: my adopted school. But I need your best, Florida. You
Speaker 1: have to narrow it down because I'm sure there are
Speaker 1: a lot your best experience. Football games set the stage
Speaker 1: for people that are not familiar with what a game
Speaker 1: in Gainesville would be, like crazy, I mean back in
Speaker 1: the day. And you know, I don't come from a
Speaker 1: small town, but I had never been to a big
Speaker 1: time college football game. I hadn't until I enrolled in
Speaker 1: the University of Florida and Florida Actually, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't mean they won the national championship my freshman year,
Speaker 1: you know, so Danny Wharful angel face. Um, it was
Speaker 1: a time, man, and I'm so young, and you go
Speaker 1: as a sorority and you get dressed up as a
Speaker 1: sorority and I did the tattoos on my face and
Speaker 1: my little gator hat. But see, the experience was different
Speaker 1: for me because I was into it, Like I was
Speaker 1: into the storylines, like like I was covering a game right,
Speaker 1: like I was freaking into it. Also, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: it's a hundred and fifty degrees outside at this swamp,
Speaker 1: like you are swassing your way to the swamp. Literally,
Speaker 1: why did they call it the swamp? Because you feel
Speaker 1: like you're at the swamp. It is hot, everybody's on
Speaker 1: top of each other. You've been drinking for hours. I'm
Speaker 1: a little freshman, I'm out of fraternity. I don't even
Speaker 1: really drink that much at the time. And kegstands you
Speaker 1: put your mouth on this ice luge thing and the
Speaker 1: stuff comes down. I mean, I like, what are we doing?
Speaker 1: We got Tennessee, Peyton Manning's here, like, let's go, Danny Warfall,
Speaker 1: Fred Taylor, freaking Javan curse Rita your killing to them,
Speaker 1: jockues Green. So that's where I was versus like going
Speaker 1: to the Pike House and like getting all crunk and
Speaker 1: then walking to the swamp. I didn't care. I was
Speaker 1: like into the matchup, like, are we gonna hand it
Speaker 1: to Peyton Manning again? And I think one of my
Speaker 1: best experiences was as a freshman. I think that's the game,
Speaker 1: Like was it? Tennessee was leading and then it just
Speaker 1: started pouring rain and it was like ship here comes
Speaker 1: up freaking Gators and it was like, let's go. Like
Speaker 1: it was awesome, and they came back and I remember
Speaker 1: I was wearing these really fancy short shorts white you know,
Speaker 1: do you remember it was? It was at seven? What
Speaker 1: was the brand? When fancy? I don't even think. I
Speaker 1: think they were wet seal what slut, you know? And
Speaker 1: I we seal with like white cut off shorts. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know my Gator. I was the other wearing
Speaker 1: an orange Gator short or like a blue Gator short
Speaker 1: like where and now from where by Aaronaders and um,
Speaker 1: it started to pour and my shorts didn't get see through.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm going for here. I wore this
Speaker 1: cute little brown braided belt. It just bled all over
Speaker 1: my shorts because that thing wasn't leather, you know. But
Speaker 1: whatever Gators came out with a wind. I had some
Speaker 1: brown stained white shorts. It was belt from Abercrombie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: another time, I will tell you. One of these are
Speaker 1: things like I can't imagine being a parent and allowing
Speaker 1: your kid to go to the Florida Georgia Game, which
Speaker 1: was the largest cocktail party in the world in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I got stories. So when you go, you go with
Speaker 1: your sorority sisters, and you also go with fraternity guys.
Speaker 1: Well they all had boyfriends. I didn't have a boyfriend.
Speaker 1: So your room at the hill boyfriend? Well, I did,
Speaker 1: but not my freshman year when I went um and yeah,
Speaker 1: I had one all like sophomore through senior year. So um,
Speaker 1: where's that guy? Greg stolt Um? He played you heard me?
Speaker 1: He was a three point shooter for the Gator basketball team.
Speaker 1: Ryan will look this up. He had like, I think,
Speaker 1: like twelve threes in the SEC tournament against L. S
Speaker 1: U his senior year. Downtown. Anyways, So okay, so everybody
Speaker 1: had their boyfriend there. It's ten people to a room.
Speaker 1: By the time you get to take a shower, it's
Speaker 1: already clogged. Who cares, We're going to the game. We
Speaker 1: go to the game and we end up it's pouring
Speaker 1: again with the rain Florida. We end up being underneath
Speaker 1: like kind of a highway area like like Interstate, you know, classy,
Speaker 1: and these guys had this big smoker and they were
Speaker 1: smoking everything like like chicken sparriffs. So we're all eating
Speaker 1: it drunk. But worst part about it was the smoke smell,
Speaker 1: barbecue smell, all got into our clothes and they're all
Speaker 1: wet from the game. We go back to change because
Speaker 1: you know, you've got to be putting on those hot
Speaker 1: black pants with that little tube top that you got
Speaker 1: from wet outdoor cocktail party to celebrate the wind over
Speaker 1: the dogs. You heard me, Kelly Stafford. And uh, then
Speaker 1: you come back into that Hilton room and your room
Speaker 1: just reeks of chicken, barbecue ribs and wet clothes. But
Speaker 1: that damn college football is fine. Yeah, that's my experience. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean we were all out of time. Um,
Speaker 1: I am so jealous that I never had that. I
Speaker 1: really didn't. But I mean, my white, small, little experienced
Speaker 1: quick story and then we'll go to break. I have
Speaker 1: this scar as you can see on this finger right
Speaker 1: here for those of you listening. It's like almost like
Speaker 1: a blister. I need to pop. It's from when I
Speaker 1: threw my my hand up. My mom and I actually
Speaker 1: were at a bar in Manhattan Beach. What's what's it
Speaker 1: called Hennessy's right there on the right from the cattle.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's there anymore. Well, it's not
Speaker 1: what we were there. It was an Irish pub because
Speaker 1: we went because it was Michigan Era and Michigan. It
Speaker 1: was USC Notre Dame, and USC was on the road
Speaker 1: and so I why, I don't why why my mom
Speaker 1: was down? It doesn't matter. We're cheering on the Trojans
Speaker 1: because it was my designated college football team. I threw
Speaker 1: my hand up, it went through a chandelier thing that
Speaker 1: hold my hand out, blood gushing everywhere for the famous
Speaker 1: bush push, and yeah, yeah it was sexy. It was hot.
Speaker 1: I had a huge crush on Matt Liner. Um. I
Speaker 1: remember I used to like go to this like taco
Speaker 1: place that he would always go on Tuesday's. My boyfriend's like,
Speaker 1: why are you always going to l CLO? And I
Speaker 1: was like, no reason at three o'clock on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1: But that was That was a good time too, because
Speaker 1: that was when they were in their heyday and winning
Speaker 1: national championships. But anyway, did you tell him at that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course I tell Matt that every time I see
Speaker 1: him and he's like, you're a mess, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know, but remember when I had I was like
Speaker 1: I was there every Tuesday and he's like, no, you
Speaker 1: were not. I'm like I was. It's the creepy person
Speaker 1: sitting in the corner. But it doesn't matter who, you know,
Speaker 1: who else was on that baseball team with my college
Speaker 1: boyfriend at the time, Matt Castle, and his hot wife
Speaker 1: was on the volleyball team, and she always, yeah, she
Speaker 1: always drove the brown sedan or whatever that he had
Speaker 1: to come pick him up, and he just ruled Matt Castle.
Speaker 1: Who's better than Matt Castle? That guy nobody Matt Castle
Speaker 1: is the best. I just think it's funny you're talking
Speaker 1: about a scar on your finger. At the largest outdoor
Speaker 1: cocktail party in Jacksonville, they literally pass out these like
Speaker 1: life size football plastic footballs, and they're just I call
Speaker 1: it throw up juice, their hurricanes, and they're just filled
Speaker 1: with that whatever you make for like a hurricane, and
Speaker 1: you've got a big straw, and you walk around in
Speaker 1: your little black skirt and your tube top, and then
Speaker 1: by the time you're halfway through it, you are falling over.
Speaker 1: I have scars and chunks out of my knees from
Speaker 1: eating it in Jacksonville, so drunk and disgusting. My parents
Speaker 1: should be so proud. It's the gift that keeps on
Speaker 1: getting Gators. Also, another thing that happens at the outdoor
Speaker 1: cocktail party is that the Georgia fans say to the
Speaker 1: Gator fans gators where jean shorts gators where jean shorts? Yeah,
Speaker 1: white ones with brown stains. You heard. Why do they
Speaker 1: say that? Because they're fancy and we're you know, oh
Speaker 1: drunk are very expensive. Ask what we'll be back after
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Speaker 1: earlier in the podcast about our experience when we went
Speaker 1: to school with college football. You mentioned it college football fans.
Speaker 1: I still maintain. Look, I love the NFL, it pays
Speaker 1: my bills, but covering college football, those are your real,
Speaker 1: real die hard fans because the turnover it's less of
Speaker 1: a business. I mean it will become more of one
Speaker 1: now with the changing landscape. But man, you if you're
Speaker 1: a fan of freaking you know, for me, I grew
Speaker 1: up in Seattle and like that house divided between Washington
Speaker 1: State Cougars and the Huskies. Like there's some real pride
Speaker 1: that comes into that. And so covering college football for
Speaker 1: me was one of the best times on a sideline.
Speaker 1: I mean they jump around Camp Randall, fourth quarter, the
Speaker 1: Big House, the Horseshoe, all of that. Do you have
Speaker 1: a specific I mean you covered college for how long?
Speaker 1: I mean so many years? Gosh, yeah, eight ten years?
Speaker 1: Crazy you have? And you mostly covered the SEC, A,
Speaker 1: C C everyone, right, I mean I guess we heard
Speaker 1: everybody on ESPN. Yeah, for Thursday Night football and college
Speaker 1: you know, we went to any campus for college game Day,
Speaker 1: which was truly an experience. It tell me a little
Speaker 1: bit about that the biggest side show. Give me, give
Speaker 1: me um a college Gate, give me a typical Saturday
Speaker 1: for Aaron Andrews, when you were like college game Day
Speaker 1: then to the night game, like the whole story. Well,
Speaker 1: and I was coming in from doing Thursday Night football too,
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like what I do now. I
Speaker 1: was coming in and you know, we're there on a Friday.
Speaker 1: They're setting up this huge set. It's so great because
Speaker 1: they do go to the biggest game in town, obvious
Speaker 1: slee and it was fun. I mean, I think the
Speaker 1: coolest one I ever got to do was there was
Speaker 1: a couple. It was when Ohio State was number one
Speaker 1: and we went to Camp Randall. We went to Madison, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and Wisconsin ended up upsetting um what was it, Trrell Prior,
Speaker 1: I think that was right. And the Ohio State buck Eyes.
Speaker 1: That was huge. Everybody rushed in the field. We also
Speaker 1: did number one Alabama at number two, oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: number two, LSU at number one Alabama in Tuscaloosa. I
Speaker 1: remember riding, you know, driving to Tuscaloosa with David Pollock
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden our phone service went out.
Speaker 1: And that was on a Thursday. Because people were just
Speaker 1: foaming at the mouth to get there. Um. I still say,
Speaker 1: there's Alabama. Sorry, that just like that's that's a that's
Speaker 1: like Brady Rogers, that's like as as Yankees. Yeah, do Carolina,
Speaker 1: It's like hot. I mean, my husband's never been to
Speaker 1: an SEC football game before and my dream. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you Alabama is my favorite. I mean, my my love
Speaker 1: affair that I have for coach Saban. I could go
Speaker 1: on and on for it. It's just a winner. I
Speaker 1: mean I saw this is me in college football and
Speaker 1: how much I love it. I saw his picture today
Speaker 1: of Mac Jones, Jalen Hurts and to Ah like together
Speaker 1: in their Alabama you know, unis and they're like qb
Speaker 1: Ones and I was like, God, damn. Like coach Saban
Speaker 1: is a winner. Like he's just a winner. Hold, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the running back pedigree. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: running backs that come out of Alabama. Show Stationary. He
Speaker 1: sends out that I have on my bulletin board. You know,
Speaker 1: the guy is just he makes winners. And I thought's
Speaker 1: just the man with bulletin board material, which is different.
Speaker 1: That is a good bulletin board material right there. Yeah, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: Alabama is where it's at. But I will tell you
Speaker 1: a fun place to go is l SU for a
Speaker 1: night game, an eight o'clock tilt against a Florida and Alabama.
Speaker 1: Those fans have been just marinating in the parking lots
Speaker 1: for the last couple of days. They are ready to go. Um.
Speaker 1: That was a fun experience for me. When I first
Speaker 1: started covering college football, they kind of put me out
Speaker 1: to do a tail gate. Now was you know, just
Speaker 1: see there's gators hanging from the trees. They're making eight
Speaker 1: to fa like. It was just insane and that super fun.
Speaker 1: Ducks games back in the day when Chip was there,
Speaker 1: They're rocking. They've all got their crazy uniforms on the
Speaker 1: ducks running around. That was taking over in the ducks game.
Speaker 1: That offense, Oh my god, I mean it's like putting
Speaker 1: up points. Did we want to have any defensive fair
Speaker 1: I worked this one Thursday night game that I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: It was Boston College at Virginia Tech. It was the
Speaker 1: Thursday night football game. It was pouring rain. Virginia Tech
Speaker 1: was really good, um, and they have the enter Sandman
Speaker 1: that they do when they run on the field. And
Speaker 1: it's always fun doing a Thursday night game. Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: was the quarterback and they were down and he led
Speaker 1: him back. Well, first of all, it was two minutes
Speaker 1: left in the game. They were down. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we have this shot on the field. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he was sick. He must have been sick. I
Speaker 1: don't think he was nervous. He just takes off his
Speaker 1: helmet and he just barfs, like barfs on the sideline.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, boy, goes out there, leads him
Speaker 1: down the field, they win the game, and I'm like
Speaker 1: interviewing him and he just puked his brains out. It
Speaker 1: was just like awesome, the rains coming down sideways. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I got swimmers here. Um, it's just so much fun.
Speaker 1: I did r G three the night he beat Oklahoma
Speaker 1: that I got in away and Gatorade got dumped on me.
Speaker 1: That was super fun. I did the Oklahoma USC blowout
Speaker 1: for the National Championships. That wasn't very fun. Um, what else?
Speaker 1: What didn't you do? Stuff? What didn't you do stuff?
Speaker 1: You're what time are you on the set for Game Day? Well,
Speaker 1: you're you're on early, especially if you do a West
Speaker 1: Coast game Day, like we always loved going to the
Speaker 1: West Coast, But that's a four am start, because is
Speaker 1: game Day comes on at what nine am? I believe
Speaker 1: you back in the day when I worked obviously, now
Speaker 1: you know we support our big Noons show on Fox,
Speaker 1: but yeah, game Day at that time I believe was
Speaker 1: a nine or ten um, So what would you what
Speaker 1: would you do in that? What you mean like between
Speaker 1: when you were on game games and then the same
Speaker 1: Like I always felt like an eternity, like are we
Speaker 1: taking a nap? Like? What are we doing in between? Oh?
Speaker 1: I mean I can't take a nap on there's games on.
Speaker 1: So you go in the game day bus. You don't
Speaker 1: move to Nope, and you sit there and it's cool
Speaker 1: the way you know they have it. I can only
Speaker 1: imagine what it's like now. It's been so long, but
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of TVs and you're sitting there watching it.
Speaker 1: It's like super fine, and fans are coming and like,
Speaker 1: you know, another great experience about college football is all
Speaker 1: the food and some of your favorite spots. I was
Speaker 1: telling one of my friends, are going to Camp Randle
Speaker 1: this weekend. That's where foxes games and yeah, and Penn
Speaker 1: States in town to take on the Badges. But there's
Speaker 1: a there's a milk bar or a dairy here where
Speaker 1: they have in Yeah. I know, JJ used to go
Speaker 1: there and I I sent my husband there. He actually
Speaker 1: was going to watch the hockey team. And I was like,
Speaker 1: you got to go to this milk bar dairy bar.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. The offensive line would go there all the time.
Speaker 1: They have incredible breakfast is like great milk shakes and stuff,
Speaker 1: and they you know, we would tell them we would
Speaker 1: love them, and then they would bring milkshakes over to
Speaker 1: the truck or the bus. It was really fun. That
Speaker 1: was a time, Kurt, and yeah, that's the whole isn't
Speaker 1: it fun to things more? So yep Um with his
Speaker 1: always he'd always wear like a different mascot head for
Speaker 1: whatever team he was going to pick. My college football
Speaker 1: experience in covering college football is different than yours because
Speaker 1: it was strictly the Big Ten. So I mean, my
Speaker 1: you know, I got to know those teams in and out.
Speaker 1: But my first ever people will ask you like, oh,
Speaker 1: what was your you know, favorite game that you ever
Speaker 1: covered in college football? And I'm always like, the first
Speaker 1: game I covered, not because it was the first time
Speaker 1: I covered amazing story, but because it was Michigan app States.
Speaker 1: So Michigan at the time was you know, rejected to
Speaker 1: be one of the best, you know, one two teams
Speaker 1: in the country. They were supposed to, you know, at
Speaker 1: least make a run to the national Championship game. And
Speaker 1: you know, like early scheduled games or your D three schools,
Speaker 1: your sort of fluff schedule get you in the thing
Speaker 1: of things before conference play starts. So utter Day was
Speaker 1: a D three school. Their quarterback at the time was
Speaker 1: actually like way ahead of his time. Really, I mean
Speaker 1: it was that like, you know, dual threat quarterback very
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson kind of style. And sorry if it got
Speaker 1: his name. I can't remember my my own name sometimes.
Speaker 1: But anyways, so Michigan app state Lloyd Carr, like you
Speaker 1: know that whole like run to, you know, find the coach.
Speaker 1: At halftime, I was peeing my pants. I'm twenties six
Speaker 1: years old. I've never covered a college. Maybe I was
Speaker 1: younger was regardless, i was terrified. I've never done this before.
Speaker 1: And I'm like I'm running, like, where's the coach? So
Speaker 1: I find Lloyd card this you know, legendary coach at Michigan,
Speaker 1: and he does not want to talk to me. His
Speaker 1: team's down at half and they're thinking, how the heck
Speaker 1: are we down to a D three school? Anyways, blows
Speaker 1: me off, and I'm like, oh, like I'm failing at
Speaker 1: this job already. Anyways, fast forward, it was this dramatic
Speaker 1: finish of like they kicked, they kicked the field goal,
Speaker 1: and basically Michigan, uh, you know, loses, an app State
Speaker 1: wins in one of the biggest upsets in college football history.
Speaker 1: And I remember standing there on the field and being like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, like like I'm witnessing in real time, like
Speaker 1: something that will go down and InformATE sadly for Michigan fans.
Speaker 1: And so then I interviewed the app State coach afterwards
Speaker 1: and he was so not like, oh my god. I
Speaker 1: just remember he was because my opening hit I still
Speaker 1: remember it. You could rob a bank in Boon Town
Speaker 1: today because everyone's watching the game. I didn't say it
Speaker 1: like that, but I just want to give a little
Speaker 1: app State twine to it, because that was a tiny
Speaker 1: little town and they were I'm sure just going nuts
Speaker 1: watching that. But yeah, the coach was elated and it
Speaker 1: was so fun to watch. And that ended up being
Speaker 1: the year that then they went onto play Oregon. They
Speaker 1: lost Oregon Week two and then they just like fell apart.
Speaker 1: But anyways, it was a really cool first game experience,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, I would say so, I don't remember
Speaker 1: what game I was working. I was with Mike Tariko
Speaker 1: that game. Oh I have I have a couple of goods.
Speaker 1: I'm of course I'm writing all down as we go.
Speaker 1: But I was working a game with Mike Tarriko that
Speaker 1: day that you covered that game, and we were driving
Speaker 1: to the airport and we were listening to the play
Speaker 1: by play and I just remember those announcers being like screaming,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, into Rico were just cracking up. It
Speaker 1: was so much fun. That was a good time in
Speaker 1: ann Arbor Arbor. Yes, yes, yes, yes, but yeah, that's
Speaker 1: so much fun. I remember we were walking to the
Speaker 1: car after the game and it was Charles Davis and
Speaker 1: Tom Brennaman and they had just come off of working
Speaker 1: the Boise State, Oklahoma the Statue of Liberty game in
Speaker 1: the Fiesta Bowl, you know, the one that the proposal
Speaker 1: the whole Statue of Libertal Christmas's ruining in. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: getting proposed to get ready, Um, I actually had to.
Speaker 1: I was just knowing Jared this with Hurricane Katrina and
Speaker 1: the anniversary of it, I got sent to Baton Rouge
Speaker 1: days after Katrina hit because l s U actually set
Speaker 1: up a triage at their gym to take care of Obviously,
Speaker 1: people and and and give medical attention, and the college
Speaker 1: football game was I think somebody got I know, the
Speaker 1: announcing crew got put on a cruise ship or something
Speaker 1: to get them out of there. UM, very vague the details,
Speaker 1: but I got sent to do hits for Sports Center
Speaker 1: in Baton Rouge. We didn't have a hotel room, we
Speaker 1: didn't have a car. I was twenties six years old
Speaker 1: there with another female producer I think Shaq has an
Speaker 1: alumni haul there and they got us a room and
Speaker 1: it was nuts. But just yeah, I remember the things
Speaker 1: that we saw and the people that we talked to,
Speaker 1: and me trying to put together, you know, thirty seconds
Speaker 1: on Sports Center that I'm hearing Baton Rouge and Hurricane
Speaker 1: Katrina and like just crazy. I remember calling my parents
Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, what are you doing. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going about reason. My dad's like you're doing what
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, I'm doing hits for Sports
Speaker 1: Center during Hurricane Katrina. My Dad's like, UM, okay, check
Speaker 1: in with me. But we didn't know if there's gonna
Speaker 1: be sell service or like wh're walking into really crazy.
Speaker 1: Well that's why when I watched people like Al roke
Speaker 1: Er covering you know, the hurricane Hurricane Ida right now,
Speaker 1: and he's like out there and like literally as like
Speaker 1: the waves are crashing and like the wind is blowing,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like I look it out and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I just want to hug you or any of those
Speaker 1: reporters who are just in the mix. I mean every
Speaker 1: now and then, obviously they send you to do something
Speaker 1: like that, but like we're safe for the most part
Speaker 1: in our reporting or hosting or whatever, and like those
Speaker 1: people that go into the mix, like your father and
Speaker 1: those frontline reporters, like, kudos to you, guys, because can
Speaker 1: I be honest, I think that's what I would have
Speaker 1: done if I wouldn't do sports with the Weather Channel.
Speaker 1: I love the Weather Channel. I between the you know,
Speaker 1: we were just all dialed into the hurricane coverage. That's
Speaker 1: what you do when you live in Florida. You constantly
Speaker 1: have the Weather Channel on. You know about the pressure
Speaker 1: falling and how big that makes the hurricane. You know
Speaker 1: about the eye, you know about the outer eye. I'm
Speaker 1: obsased with it. Like literally, Jim Cantory like standing there
Speaker 1: behind a dumpster, bracing himself, like that's the ship I'd
Speaker 1: be doing if I wasn't doing Packers Saints Week one,
Speaker 1: I really would. I love talking about the system. Good
Speaker 1: for you. When I made a little video with my
Speaker 1: friend Amy when I was eleven years old, because I
Speaker 1: wanted to make a little news broadcast, and we took
Speaker 1: my parents VHS camera and we turned it around and
Speaker 1: had it like on the ledge, and we've had these
Speaker 1: little cut out things like graphic boxes that we put
Speaker 1: on the ceiling and we pulled down the string and
Speaker 1: it like came next to our head like we were
Speaker 1: reporting on the news. So then we would edit it
Speaker 1: where it would be like us reporting, and then go
Speaker 1: out to the middle of our yard and I'd go,
Speaker 1: like this the wind. It's very windy out here. There's
Speaker 1: no trees moving, but I pretended like I was also
Speaker 1: then the weather fir. Then we turned on my parents
Speaker 1: hot tub and to get the whole jets going, and
Speaker 1: we filmed it. We're like we're in the middle the
Speaker 1: eye of the store, like we found all of these
Speaker 1: ways to do a weather report. Hey, maybe maybe when
Speaker 1: Fox is done with us, maybe you and I can
Speaker 1: hit up the Weather Channel for a job, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I'll definitely try Like the other day
Speaker 1: we were watching and you know, they were giving notes
Speaker 1: to people like turn your conditioners down, turn your refrigerators down,
Speaker 1: keep it cold because you don't know when the power
Speaker 1: is going to come back on. Fill your bathtubs out
Speaker 1: in here. It's like, why do you feel your bathtupup?
Speaker 1: I was like, for the water. You need water. You
Speaker 1: need to fill all the bathtubs up. God, there's so
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